Chapter 3, Part I: The United Nations

The World Book Encyclopedia defines the United Nations (U.N.) as an organization of nations that works for world peace and security and the betterment of humanity–It seeks the causes of war and tries to find ways to eliminate them.
However, topics chosen by the U.N. for its world conferences paints a broader and disconcerting picture. The U.N. supports a one world government, world core curriculum, global economy, biodiversity, and sustainable development which includes coercive family planning tactics. (See this book’s chapter titled “Are You ‘Nuts’ If You Think It’s About Population Control?”.) Time and again the U.N. has associated itself with tyranny.

According to the May 1996 issue of the Readersí Digest Cuban President Fidel Castro, an admitted Marxist-Leninist, received thunderous applause from the diplomats gathered inside the U.N. General Assembly. “–Castro was invited to dine at the Rockefeller family estate–by Peggy Rockefeller Dulany, daughter of David Rockefeller, retired chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank.” This made Cuban-Americans furious so the “get-together was promptly switched to the private Council on Foreign Relations–in Manhattan.”

“(A) high-ranking defector–of the DGI, the Cuban Intelligence service, claims that Castro wanted to flood the United States with drugs to hasten the social decay here.” 1

“(T)he U.N. appears willing to starve people to advance its beliefs. Catherine Bertini, executive director of the U.N.’s World Food Program, said in a speech in Beijing that her organization would use the problem of hunger in developing nations to its advantage. ‘Food is power’ she said. ‘We use it to change behavior. Some may call that bribery. We do not apologize.’” 2

“The one-child family [comes] not out of Draconian thinking, but out of well-being thinking,’ claims Sai. Sai is president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) His comments on China’s one-child-per-family policy were delivered in September at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing–The United Nations and IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation) share a simple belief: The world would be better off with fewer people in it. Both agencies help finance China’s cruel ‘family planning’ policies that are often carried out through forced abortions and sterilizations.’” 3

The United Nations has long been involved in population control measures throughout the world. It has not been above linking food, village wells, and funding to compliance with their desired population “outcomes.” Less coercive measures include encouraging expanded female education, increasing female employment and integrating health, nutrition and family planning services. 4

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child mandates that “States–ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right to–health care services. To develop preventive health care, guidance for parents and family planning education and services.” 5 This U.N. mandate is reflected in Goals 2000: Educate America Act that mandates state and local school improvement plans to adopt strategies to provide comprehensive health. Comprehensive health is defined to include “reproductive health care” (i.e. Contraception and population control).

U.N. and federal mandates embodied in national comprehensive health standards is passed on to the states through the New Standards Project operated in tandem by the National Center on Education and the Economy (Marc Tucker) and the Learning Center at the University of Pittsburgh (Lauren Resnick). States implement the standards at the local level through education, health, mental health and social service programs in schools and communities.

Many have difficulty seeing the tangible impact of the United Nations in the classroom, and on federal mandates to restructure education. One tangible consequence is school-based and school/community-linked services. Another tangible but less obvious consequence is biased classroom resources.

It’s interesting to note that the bundles of CDs containing 3D Atlas by Electronic Arts, and the U.N.’s bias against large families, was distributed to schools as an Apple Computer package. Apple Computer, Inc. was one of the partners associated with the National Center on Education and the Economy which presented a proposal to the New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) called “The National Alliance For Restructuring Education.” (Marc Tucker, President of the National Center on Education and the Economy, signed an education reform agreement with Missouri Education Commissioner Bartman). Apple Computer donated the “bundles” of educational computer CDs to elementary and secondary schools. The bibliography of The Teacher’s Guide lists resources from “World Resources Institute in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Program and United Nations Development Program”. Other sources include national organizations who authored national standards for Social Studies, History, Civics, Geography, Economics and Mathematics.

The Teacher’s Guide provides a description of suggested uses of information contained on the CD. One such suggestion is to “Check the relationship between such statistics as Female-Education Levels and the Population Growth Rate.” (Is the purpose to demonstrate that expanded female education results in lower birth rates?)

When a student chooses “contents” and then “statistics” from the menu, and changes the “Y Axis” to “people,” the student is provided a list of the various forms of birth control and abortion along with the percentage of the population in that nation which has access. NOT listed are abstinence and natural family planning.

When a child chooses “contents” from the menu and then “stories-population,” the multi-media program brainwashes the student with the tired and untrue myth of overpopulation. Information the program does NOT provide is the mathematical fact that each and every man, woman, and child in the world (5,613,064,000) can be given 1,300 square feet of property, and fit into the state of Texas (7,301,743,257,600 square feet), with room to spare for an additional 3,661,582 people. While the world may have political and distribution problems, the world is NOT overpopulated.

The Teacher’s Guide also provides opening questions and extension questions such as “What impact does population growth have on an environment?” The applicable subject areas listed for the topic titled “Human Time Bomb?” are math, geography and economics.

The curriculum standards listed in The Teacher’s Guide include constructs and draws inferences from charts, tables, and graphs that summarize data from real-world situations; recognizes equivalent representations of the same concept; knows and understands the characteristics and distribution of human populations on Earth’s surface; knows and understands patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth’s surface.”

The Teacher’s Guide credits excerpts in 3D Atlas to World Resources and World Resources Institute, which include “BioDiversity: Teaching Strategy to Identify Trends on Deforestation and Population” and “Population, Poverty, and Land Degradation: How Many Children.”

Politically correct CDs such as this may not be as accessible to parents for review as are school textbooks. The United Nations has managed to visit your child’s school and influence his/her education to meet U.N. goals without the slightest bit of parental objection-because parents didn’t receive the slightest bit of notice.

Robert Muller a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, is the author of The Robert Muller School World Core Curriculum Manual. The curriculum is religiously humanistic, and has been available through the United Nations Book Store for $20. It plants false fears of overpopulation, and espouses the ideologies of a warm and fuzzy global education, world environmentalism, world managers and caretakers, the provision of comprehensive health through schools, numerous references to New Age studies, life-long learning and etc. 7

“America is great because America is good. If America ceases to be good,
it will cease to be great.”

- Alexis De Tocqueville
A French statesman & political philosopher.
Author of Democracy In America (1835-1840)

[1] “Fawning Over Fidel,” Readers’ Digest, May 1996, pp. 148-152.
[2] “Postcard from Beijing,” Focus on the Family, Nov. 20, 1995, Vol. 9, No.11, pp. 1-2.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Jacqueline Kasun, The War Against Population, pp. 81-82.
[5] United Nations General Assembly; Forty-Fourth Session Agenda Item 108; Distr. General A/RES/44/25; 5 December 1989.
[6] Resolution adopted by the General Assembly 44/25; Convention on the Rights of the Child Article 24;2. (f).
The World Almanac and Book of Facts-1995.
[7] Robert Muller, The Robert Muller School World Core Curriculum Manual, 1986, pp. 6-8, 12-13, 15-16, appendix. (Self) Evaluation of The Robert Muller School, October 1984, pp. 5-9, 16-18.