There is a system already in operation which exercises constitutional-level authority but bypasses democratic processes. There are no checks and balances or democratic accountability over this system, yet it determines who may participate in markets, compete for opportunities and earn livelihoods through commercial activity. It is a system of standards, best practices and technical guidance that embeds itself in sources used by governments worldwide. Through technical coordination mechanisms that operate outside diplomatic processes and sovereignty constraints, this system achieves more effective global governance than formal international institutions.1
The system sits above the law in the most literal sense: it shapes economic behaviour more powerfully than legislation. It achieves binding authority not through popular mandate but through systematic embedding of compliance requirements in the essential infrastructure that modern economic life depends upon.
This technically driven world governance system is controlled by a triangle of coordinating institutions: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”), the International Organisation for Standardisation (“ISO”) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (“IIASA”). They enforce compliance through six “enforcement rails”: accreditation, financial systems, digital identity frameworks, mandatory due diligence laws, access-and-benefit-sharing regimes and government procurement platforms.
All three institutions are associated with or receive funding from cult associates such as the Club of Rome, Bill Gates and/or the World Bank amongst many others. They use these institutions to support other strategies such as climate change and tactics such as the exclusion of competing interests through hidden administrative foci. This fits in with a number of cult principles, to wit:2
- Preach “Liberalism” to usurp political power. (Political freedom is an idea, not a fact. In order to usurp political power all that was necessary was to preach ‘Liberalism’ so that the electorate, for the sake of an idea, would yield some of their power and prerogatives which the plotters could then gather into their own hands.) [adopt issues of inequality or manufactured fear]
- Dismantle “existing forces of order and regulation. Reconstruct all existing institutions.” (He asserted that ‘Our right lies in force. The word RIGHT is an abstract thought and proves nothing. I find a new RIGHT… to attack by the Right of the Strong, to reconstruct all existing institutions, and to become the sovereign Lord of all those who left to us the Rights to their powers by laying them down to us in their liberalism.) [own the regulators]
- Remain invisible until the very moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning or force can undermine it. (The power of our resources must remain invisible until the very moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning or force can undermine it.) [hide the funding and control]
- Use systematic deception, high-sounding phrases and popular slogans. “The opposite of what has been promised can always be done afterwards… That is of no consequence. [promote benefits of compliance]
- Masquerade as political, financial and economic advisers to carry out our mandates with Diplomacy and without fear of exposing “the secret power behind national and international affairs. [the unnamed power behind the throne]
- Twist national and international laws into a contradiction which first masks the law and afterwards hides it altogether. Substitute arbitration for law. [regulation]