At a follow up meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, the organising office distributed a document to attendees. Hunt got a copy. He included it in his video letter and, later, made physical copies available to anyone who wrote to him. The letterhead claimed to come from a body called the Secretariat for World Order. The substance was an open declaration of inheritance.
It identified the meeting's sponsors as the living continuators of Cecil Rhodes's will of 1877. Rhodes, the diamond magnate who had financed the British takeover of southern Africa, had used his estate to set up a fund whose published purpose was the extension of British rule throughout the world, the colonisation of the entire continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the valley of the Euphrates, Cyprus, Candia, the whole of South America, the islands of the Pacific, the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, and the ultimate recovery of the United States as an integral part of the British Empire.
That is not a paraphrase. That is the published Rhodes will. The Des Moines document quoted it directly and then aligned itself with Lord Milner's credo, the credo of the Round Table group that grew out of the Rhodes fortune. We too, the credo runs, are British race patriots. Our patriotism is the speech, the traditions, the principles and the aspirations of the British race. The document then asks the meeting whether it fears to take this stand at the very last moment when the purpose can be realised. It warns against being pulled down by what it calls the billions of Lilliputians of lesser race who care little or nothing for the Anglo-Saxon system.
Two facts to hold simultaneously. One. This is, in 2026 vocabulary, openly racist colonial supremacism, the thing every elite institution in the western world spent the last thirty years claiming it had renounced. Two. It was being handed out as the working philosophy of the people convening the meetings that produced Rio.
If you ever wondered why the global environment apparatus seems to discipline poor countries, lock up their resources, and route the proceeds back through institutions in London, Geneva and New York, the Des Moines handout is your answer. The men running the apparatus told their own delegates, in writing, that this was the project. The Earth Summit was the next move in the Rhodes will.
The Earth Summit was the next move in the Rhodes will.