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New World Order (conspiracy)

New World Order (Novus Ordo Mundi) refers to a conspiracy theory in which a powerful and secretive group (Illuminati, Freemasons, etc.) has created a secret plan to eventually rule the world via a unitary (as opposed to federal) world government.

The Basics

Supporters of this theory can say to a certain degree who is part of it. Nobody can determine who isn't part of the NWO. Most prominent families such as the Rothschild Family, Rockefeller Family, Morgans, Kissingers, Schroders, and DuPonts, as well as European monarchs, are said to be big players. The theory claims that virtually all important persons of the international world of banking, commerce and mass media are in on it.

International organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, European Union, the United Nations and NATO are often listed as core NWO organizations. Presidents and prime ministers of nations are routinely included in this huge conspiracy. A slightly different version of the NWO conspiracy theory goes as far as saying that these families and persons are all part of the same bloodline. Though there are many internet sites and books that present these ideas as factual, evidence to support this does not exist. This fuels NWO conspiracy theory because conspiracists see this lack of evidence as proof of organized "truth supression".

Signs

According to the theorists there are many signs that will confirm these claims. For example, the strange murals in the Denver International Airport, the Illuminati seal on the $1 bill, Masonic signs on buildings (namely in Washington DC), pentagrams worked into city plans, and apparently, the number 666 hidden in most barcodes.

The belief may stem — at least partly — from the political phrase "New World Order", which has been used in politics for much of the twentieth century. The phrase New World Order has its roots in the Latin phrases Annuit Cœptis, meaning "He has approved our beginnings," and Novus Ordo Seclorum meaning "A New Order of the Ages."

Alternate names for the New World Order are Illuminati Bankers, High Cabal, Fourth Reich, Synarchist International, the Cryptocracy and the Power elite.

Ideologies

There are a number of different ideologies related to this belief:

Some ideologies include a prominent religious element, based in the belief that the agents of Satan are involved. These beliefs often include explicit millenarianism. Other ideologies do not have a religious component, and view the concept of "serving Satan" metaphorically.

The understanding of some believers is that the New World Order will be created by a military coup, using UN and American troops, against all the nations of the world to bring about a singular world government. Some conspiracists believed this process would be set in motion by the predicted Y2K computer crisis causing widespread social disorder.

Other believers say the New World Order is being implemented gradually, citing the foundation of the United Nations, the formation of the European Union,African Union and the September 11th attacks as major milestones.

Another related set of believers maintains that the United States is itself to be taken over, by troops nominally loyal to the United Nations but in fact controlled by a trans-national group (sometimes referred to as Faction One). The takeover is to include the detention of 'patriots' and those hostile to the conspiracy in secret internment camps in remote parts of the country, to which elements of the population will be taken for processing before being released as "work-units."

Other components of the conspiracy may include the dispersal of chemicals into the atmosphere via aircraft in the Chemtrail theory, the semi-famous CIA mind control experiments performed under the code name MK-ULTRA, and involvement by extraterrestials, as in the Dulce Base conspiracy theories.

Connections between theory and nationalism

There are many theories which feature a plan to create a one-world government. Most believers see this as being done against the self interest of the particular nation they happen to live in. Sociologists draw a connection between these theories and a more general sentiment of nationalism or isolationism. For example, prior to the rise of Neoconservatism in the United States, conservative or Republican talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh would criticize different politicians for internationalist positions they felt were not in the best interest of the United States. Commentators would allege unethical or conspiratorial conduct on by disfavored politicians in support of this criticism. These allegations might be similar to new world order conspiracy theories. New world order theories do not surmise that the believer's nation is working for world control, but rather that others, perhaps including powerful officials, are working to control that country and all countries.

Historical manipulations

The conspirators thought to be responsible for the new world order are also suspected of staging many historical events such as World Wars and UFO sightings. New world order conspiracy theorists say that world leaders throughout history have successfully manipulated their people into wars. To support their assertion that the take-over they fear is possible, they cite what they consider to be previous examples of such manipulations:
The Nazis capitalized on the Reichstag fire by blaming the Communists for it, thus eliminating support for the Communist party in Germany, and leading to Nazi domination of the legislature.

The United States knew in advance of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, and President Roosevelt used the attacks as a "legitimate" reason for entering World War II.

Operation Northwoods, a proposed series of false flag operations to be used as a pretext for an invasion of Cuba, was rejected by President Kennedy shortly before his assassination.

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident led President Johnson to escalate U.S. hostilities in Vietnam

The September 11, 2001 attacks, engineered by elements of the conspiracy, was a sacrifice the United States government deemed acceptable, since it allowed them to declare war on Afganistan, and Iraq, a large source of oil. This in turn would let the United States take their oil under the façade of anti-terrorism measures, giving the conspirators even more power.

Other new world order theorists see the conspiracy at work in globalization and the various intellectual movements evolved from Marxism, such as Social democracy and Socialism. These are thought to be intended to homogenize cultures and values by political normalization, as in the European Union and African Union's gradual "communitarian construction" scheme of a common economic and legal framework.

Predicted socio-political changes

New world order conspiracy theorists predict changes that will occur under the NWO:

Important American documents such as the Constitution being rewritten along pro-UN lines;
The abolition of private property rights and gun ownership;

Interdiction of politically incorrect opinions by UN laws and charters, such as statements deemed discriminatory, critical of minorities, anti-feminist, anti-homosexual or illiberal;
Loss of the Freedom of speech;

Homeschooling will be illegal and there will be a UN-approved public-school curriculum;
Only approved religions will be permitted, or alternatively mandatory secularism with all religions made illegal;

World-wide equalization under UN control;

All national and local elections controlled by the UN;

The US constitution replaced by the UN charter.

All cash money to be eliminated; payments must be done using either microchips in one's body or advanced creditcards.

Population reduction: proponents of the NWO theory claim that, in order for the NWO become a reality, billions of citizens must die (up to 80%, see Georgia Guidestones for example) by NWO created diseases (avian flu, AIDS, some even say cancer) and WW3 going nuclear. Supporters say the United States are pushing for a nuclear war with Iran, to initiate the population reduction.

Other theories

Although the UN is often the central figure in these theories, conspiracy theory in the twenty-first century allows for the addition of many ideas that in the past might have been thought mutually exclusive. Extra-terrestrials (either the "Reptilians" or the "Greys"), the Trilateral Commission, the Illuminati, and other groups may be included in the conspiracy, in more or less dominant roles. Some theorists say a secret annual conference of the Bilderberg Group plans world events to establish the New World Order. Conspiracy theorists may explicitly disavow and denounce anti-semitism, or may place "the Jews" at the center of the conspiracy. Religious eschatology, often featuring the anti-Christ, is central to some theories, and irrelevant to others.

NWO conspiracy theory is often presented by political conservatives and Liberals alike, especially those who fear the loss of their ideological freedom and favorite policies. And further, there has been a growing number of those in the fringes on both right and left who believe in the NWO conspiracy, and, more importantly, that the left/right paradigm is a subversive creation of an NWO-controlled media, intended as disinformation to divert people from their common enemy. This has been called "Fusion Paranoia" by Michael Kelly.

Annuit Cœptis Novus Ordo Seclorum

Some of those who believe that the Freemasons are conspiring to control the world claim that the motto is inspired by Freemasonry, and is one of the clues to the True Masters of the World. By circumscribing the 6 pointed Star of David over the pyramid, 5 of the 6 apices (the 6th being the 'All-seeing eye'), point near letters spelling S-M-O-N-A, which can be rearranged to spell Mason (also monas and moans, out of 120 combinations of letters). As any American dollar bill will show, the directions are not exact, and four of the apices point to empty space; the letters are at the ends of the nearest words.

The advocates of the theory also cite the 13 steps to ascend the pyramid, and the 72 visible blocks on the front. More conventional thinkers regard the thirteen steps as referring to the thirteen colonies. If the blocks are correctly counted and their number intended, 72 has other mystical meanings: it was sacred to the Egyptians, as Plutarch says; and both Jews and Christians use it as the number of nations on the Earth.

Links:

The New World Order (NWO) An Overview

NEW WORLD ORDER homepage

A "Crisis" in America

Official Term of the New World Order

'Toward a New World Order'