As of 1999, federal military personnel, by presidential executive orders, are routinely empowered to intervene in civilian police operations (Insight, October 25, 1999). Similar centralized policing operations (and financial policies) are being established at the international level, now known as the "New World Order," engineered by multinational corporations, the secretive Trilateral Commission and the U.N. (Chronicles, November, 1999, p.26).