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responded: “I never left politics.” They also reported that Gorbachev was “creating a national
task force on U.S. base closing.” They wrote:
Friday he [Gorbachev] inaugurated the Gorbachev Foundation USA,
which is moving into new headquarters in the Presidio in San Francisco.
Gorbachev announced that the foundation is creating a national task force on U.S.
base closing. It will be co-chaired by former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery and
former Democratic Rep. Mel Levine of Southern California.
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State of the World Forum
One of the Gorbachev Foundations biggest accomplishments is the establishment of the
State of the World Forum in 1995. The State of the World Forum was co-founded with
American, Jim Garrison. In 1995, in an interview with a local San Francisco newspaper, the SF
Weekly, Garrison stated: “Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world
government… It's inevitable.”
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The first State of the World Forum was held in 1995 in San Francisco at the luxurious
Fairmont Hotel, the historic site where the United Nations Charter was negotiated in 1945. The
Forum meets yearly. The 1995 Forum set the tone for all future Forums. Jim Garrison chaired the
Forum meetings with former U.S. Secretaries of State James Baker and George Shultz as two of
the many co-chairs.
The mission statement composed by the Forums organizers made it clear that the topic of
the Forum was a one-world government: “The State of the World Forum will focus on the
fundamental challenges and opportunities as we enter the next phase of human development. It is
being held in the belief that at this momentous juncture in history, we are giving birth to the first
global civilization.”
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In Hope of the Wicked, Ted Flynn, points out that the Forum purposely substituted the
phrase “global governance” for New World Order because the opponents of a one-world
government had become well aware of what the term New World Order signified. Flynn writes:
“Conversation centers around the oneness of mankind and the coming global government.
However, the term “global governance” is used in place of “new world order” since the latter has
become a lightning rod for opponents of global government.”
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The State of the World Forum could not take place without substantial funding. It is
American funding sources that make the Forum possible. Funding derives “from a galaxy of
Establishment corporations and foundations, ranging from Archer Daniels Midland, CNN,
Hewlett-Packard, and Occidental Petroleum to the Carnegie Corporation, the Kellogg
Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.”
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The Forum attracts nearly 1000 VIPs yearly.
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In attendance at the State of the World
Forum in 1995 were 400 renowned individuals from 50 countries. These included: present and
former world leaders, presidents, monarchs, princes, business men, New Age occult leaders,
other individuals interested in the agenda of the Forum and those interested in reporting on what
was happening. William Jasper reported in the New American that the attendees included “a
veritable Who's Who of Wall Street, the Trilateral Commission, the World Economic Forum, the
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