When I was a young man the World Government Conspiracy was quite popular (or should I say unpopular?) in the conservative church circles in which I moved for a while. The basic idea was that various powerful forces were working in secret to create a single world government, perhaps with the United Nations as its initial vehicle. This government would appear benign and desirable initially, but once firmly established would show its true Satanic character in fulfillment of various prophecies in the Book of Revelation. There were a number of usual suspects in this conspiracy - Freemasons, the Illuminati, the Club of Rome, Jewish bankers (or Jews in general) and Communists. Many elements were imported from earlier conspiracy theories. For instance, the Jewish aspect of the conspiracy was imported directly from Nazi propaganda. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - a clumsy forgery created by the Russian secret service which purported to describe a Je...
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson