While
much of the Christian and post-Christian worlds were busy rushing about in
last-minute preparations for Christmas celebrations, an important event took
place in Brussels, Belgium, that went largely unnoticed and unreported. Leaders
of the European Union and Russia met in Brussels on December 20 and 21 for
the 30th EU-Russia Summit, continuing a process of convergence and
interdependence that is leading toward political, economic, and social
merger.
In
his remarks at the conclusion of the summit, Herman Van Rompuy, president of the
European Council, made repeated reference to progress toward the goal of “global
governance,” which has always been code in globalist circles for world
government. Van Rompuy
stated:
By
working together, the EU and Russia can make a decisive contribution to global
governance and regional conflict resolution, to global economic governance in
the G 8 and G 20, and to a broad range of international and regional issues. I
would like to congratulate President Putin for taking over the presidency of G
20.
As
we have reported in this magazine many times, the term “global governance” is an
intentionally deceptive term, used by political ruling elites because it is more
vague and mushy and sounds less threatening than “global government” or “world
government.” Hence, there will be less political opposition mounted to “global
governance” than “world government.”
“Global governance” came into vogue in the late 1990s,
following the publication in 1995 of Our
Global Neighborhood, a report of the UN-appointed Commission on Global
Governance. That report attempted emphatically to assure readers that they had
nothing to fear; they were not proposing world government. It
claimed:
Global
governance is not global government. No misunderstanding should arise from the
similarity of the terms. We are not proposing movement towards world
government.
United
Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan practiced the same semantic sleight-of-hand
and false assurance at the UN Millennium Summit in New York City in 2000. In his
report We
the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century, Annan
called for “new forms of global governance,” “a new ethic of global
stewardship,” “global norms,” and “global rules” — all of which assume a role
for the UN as global legislator.
Many of the political elites who formerly dismissed
concerns that “global governance” is a ruse for “global government,” now
matter-of-factly admit that they are one and the same. Jacques Attali, an ardent
globalist and an adviser to former President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, for
instance, has said: “Global governance is just a euphemism for global
government.”
This
is how Denis Healey described a Bilderberg person to me: "To say we were
striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair. Those
of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn't go on forever fighting one another for
nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a
single community throughout the world would be a good
thing."
He
said, "Bilderberg is a way of bringing together politicians, industrialists,
financiers and journalists. Politics should involve people who aren't
politicians. We make a point of getting along younger politicians who are
obviously rising, to bring them together with financiers and industrialists who
offer them wise words.
It
increases the chance of having a sensible global policy."
David
Rockefeller, a longtime leader at Bilderberg conclaves, was even more explicit
when addressing the 1991 meeting of the Bilderberg group. Rockefeller
stated:
We
are grateful to the Washington
Post, The
New York Times, Time
Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our
meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It
would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had
been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.
But
the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world
government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world
bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in
past centuries.
What seemed outlandish to many people at the time, and
was frequently dismissed as kooky "conspiracy theory," is being confirmed daily
in unfolding events — and admissions from those who are causing the events to
happen.
The world is changing dramatically, and the 'world order'
is therefore changing too. The western powers of the United States and Europe
are in decline, whilst China and Asia in general are on the rise. Many
'developing' countries, such as the BRIC
nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China, are becoming more wealthy and
more powerful than the established 'developed' economies of the west. Whereas
the old international order saw the vast majority of power wielded by western
powers, with America as the undisputed global superpower, a new multi-polar
world is now emerging, with Asia as its power centre. This new order will indeed
see the importance of international organisations increase. The imposition of
Western rules and systems will be replaced by negotiated solutions reflecting
the needs and desires of a much wider range of countries. Led by countries such
as China, which has always opposed western interventionism, this new way is
likely to emphasise national sovereignty and non-interference in other country's
affairs. There is one group who has the most to lose from this change – the
corporate and banking elite. – World News Curator
There
is, from our perspective, an effort to create global
governance and the only sensible conclusion to reach is that those who
control central
banks are behind it. Creating such a scenario demands not just consensus but
the manufacturing of consensus on a worldwide level. That takes unfathomable
financial resources.
The methodology is what we call directed
history and like you we have been successful at predicting certain
evolutions because we apply our understanding of current events to the evolution
of power
elite trends.
The development and application of such insights is
useful in terms of understanding the world around us and also for practical
purposes such as investment. Once one understands the central banking economy
all sorts of possibilities emerge
Another prediction we made for a long time was that
the Muslim
Brotherhood was being deliberately empowered in the Middle East in order to
create religious tension
between East and West. This then allows for the further implementation of
anti-terrorist legislation that is extremely invasive and drains freedom from
the West. That's happening, too.
The idea is to generate increasing
levels of control throughout society. The mechanism is mercantilism,
which allows those at the very top to gain and keep virtually unlimited power,
as they are exempt from the laws and regulations being inflicted on everyone
else.
Another meme that the article promotes is that China and
the BRICs generally are rising up and diminishing Western power. But this is by
design, in our view.
Europe and the US, from what we can tell, are
being brought down while Asia and certain developing countries like Brazil are
being raised up. The tool in use is the central bank that can create both booms
and busts almost at will.
The West's topmost elites, the ones
that control central banking, are as firmly entrenched as ever, in our view.
Those who will be inconvenienced by the efflorescence of global government will
be a secondary tier of political, banking, military and industrial types – those
who may believe they are among the "untouchables" but actually are not. They may
find this out over time to their dismay.
As
for the emergence of China and other powers to challenge Western "dominance" ...
well, this also seems perfectly predictable and we don't believe that such an
emergence is in any way an unforeseen or untoward
development.
It is all part of what may be called directed
history.
The creation of global governance demands all sorts of
stresses and strains. Only from fear and chaos can a new global society emerge.
Enemies are necessary. The Soviet Union is no more, so new enemies have to be
identified.
Terrorists are one such enemy. The war
on terror is very useful because it is an amorphous one that can be used in
any of a number of ways.
A terrorist, after all, is someone who has been branded
as such by government officials. In the 21st century, many people who believe in
freer, smaller societies will be labeled (ironically) as terrorists. And many
bankers and industrialists will be labeled as part of the world's controlling
"elite."
The link above is actually a long video/audio clip from Infowars/Prison
Planet and it is worth listening to. It is highly consistent with everything we
are reading from other wide-spread sources.
Why is our administration arming Israel's enemies?
Congressman Ted Poe, R-Texas, says it is irresponsible
for Barack Obama to be “arming” a country that may be aiming for the destruction
of Israel with a shipment of 20 F-16 fighter
jets.
“It
is reckless and unwise for the U.S. to give F-16s to Egypt and its new
president/dictator, controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood,” he told WND. “This
extremist group is notoriously anti-American and anti-Israel. The United States
should not be arming a country ruled by a group that has the destruction of
Israel in its charter.”
Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan said, “American tax dollars
must not be used to aid and abet any dictatorial regime that stands with
terrorists,” and Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said, “We should also be cautious
about the arms we provide.”
Obama
is proceeding with his plan to gift Egypt with 20 brand new F-16 fighter jets as
part of a $450 million aid package promised to Egypt in 2010 when it was led by
the U.S.-friendly Hosni Mubarak regime.
Now
Egypt is governed by the openly hostile Muslim Brotherhood, which has called for
the destruction of America and Israel. The new President Mohammed Morsi, head of
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, recently joined in a public prayer to the
effect of “Oh Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, disperse
them, rend them asunder.”
There
are also the more philosophical issues that are thought by some to represent an
inherent anti-American default position on the part of the president. The Muslim
Prayer Day in 2009 is one such example.
Imams
were permitted by Obama to hold a Muslim Prayer Day near White House premises in
2009, the same year Obama prohibited a similar Christian “Day of Prayer” despite
the longstanding precedent for such
gatherings. One of the speakers at
the event is on record saying, “We are going to the White House, so that Islam
will be victorious, Allah willing, and the White House will become … Muslim
house.”
The hypocrisy of it all is
stunning. While screaming, “GUNS ARE BAD!” to American farmers, ranchers and
citizens, the government is buying up billions of dollars worth of guns and ammo
itself. This isn’t ammo to be used in a foreign theater of war, by the way, it’s
ammo that can only be used domestically,
against the American people. (The hollow point ammo violates international war
treaties and so cannot be used in international war actions.)
To help us all visualize the
hypocrisy in the government’s gun control schemes, I came up with our latest
Counterthink cartoon.
In addition to purchasing 450
million rounds of hollow point .40 caliber ammo, the U.S. government has also
purchased:
• Over one million rounds of
hollow-point .223 rifle ammo
• Over half a million
rounds of non-hollow-point .223 rifle ammo
•
220,000 rounds of 12 gauge shotgun #7 ammo (target ammo)
• Over 200,000 rounds of 12 gauge shotgun #00
buckshot ammo (tactical anti-personnel ammo)
•
66,000 rounds of 12 gauge shotgun slugs (tactical anti-personnel, anti-vehicle
rounds)
• Over two million rounds of hollow-point
.357 Sig JPH (hollow-point) pistol ammo (anti-personnel)
• Over four million rounds of .40 S&W JPH
(hollow-point) pistol ammo (anti-personnel)
• Over
60,000 rounds of .308 match grade anti-personnel sniper rounds (BTHP)
• Plus, hundreds of thousands of additional rounds of
.38 special, .45 auto, 9mm, 7.62×39 (AK rifle) ammo, and
others.
The
political and media side show that is the so-called “fiscal cliff” will soon be
overshadowed by the appalling and rapidly deteriorating situation regarding the
U.S. national debt.
Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner has alerted Congress that the nation will once again
hit the debt ceiling on Monday, but that his department can take “extraordinary
measures” to keep paying the bills for another few months.
Incredibly,
the debt ceiling was raised from $14.294 trillion in August 2011, to its current
level of $16.394 trillion. Thus in the span of only sixteen months, the Obama
administration has added a whopping $2.1 trillion to the national
debt.
U.S.
unfunded liabilities are now estimated at between $50 trillion and $100 trillion
and by the end of the decade (in less than just 7 years), runaway entitlement
spending will require shutting down the military or crippling many other vital
domestic spending programs to head off massive deficits that will likely lead to
a dollar crisis and significant inflation.
No matter
what deal is eventually agreed, whether before or after the new year, it will at
best nibble at the edges of the trillion dollar annual deficits that are being
piled up.
The
question we face in this era is: Will America be a nation essentially organized
around traditional families, largely free of government restraint, where
individuals generally seek to order their lives according to the inalterable
moral norms of the Judeo-Christian tradition? Or will it be a nation where the
traditional family is essentially extinct, where people are largely dependent on
government for some of their most basic needs and where the inalterable moral
norms of the Judeo-Christian tradition are generally flouted and sometimes even
criminalized?
Whether that crisis results in America descending deeper
into socialism and moral decay or a rebirth of traditional morality and limited
government will depend greatly on whether there now emerge national leaders who
understand what has happened to us and have the moral courage to speak it
plainly.
We have to end today's news on a positive note:
Here it is, in full - couldn't have said it better myself:
Every
year the week before Christmas, St. Peter's Church in Purcellville, VA hosts a
"Blue Christmas" service. The aim is to offer a message of hope and comfort to
those who might not be feeling so holly jolly during the
holidays.
Heaven
knows, there are many reasons to feel blue this Christmas. From the senseless,
tragic loss of innocent life in New Town, CT, to the seemingly intractable
political divide paralyzing our nation's capital, to the escalating tensions in
the Middle East. It would be easy to give in to feelings of hopelessness, to
let the long and dark December nights lull us into a mood of depression and
despair.
Joseph and Mary no doubt felt this way as they found themselves
preparing for the birth of their son in a cold barn on the road to Jerusalem.
Those were dark days. But with the birth of one tiny child, hope was restored
to a broken world.
Fr.
Tom Simmons, rector of St. Peter's, explained why the birth of Jesus changed
everything on a cold winter's night two millennia ago, and why it changes
everything for us today:
"Jesus
was in Isaiah's words, 'despised and rejected, a man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief.' We cannot gather at the manger with the grimy shepherds and see
this tiny baby without acknowledging that over Jesus' manger lies the shadow of
the cross.
It's
NOT the most wonderful time of the year in all the ways we measure wonderful,
and yet in a strange way it is! It is the most wonderful time of the year not
because you have to be cheery and happy and merry, but because you
don't.
You
can have heavy hearts, and shattered dreams, broken spirits and deep wounds.
And that's right where God comes to meet you. To comfort you, to restore you,
to strengthen you, to give you peace. To die for you. To walk out of the grave
for you, to hold you in the communion of the saints with those you have loved
and lost. To offer you life that lasts forever. It's the most wonderful time
of the year, for Christ is born! Light and love have come. God is with
us!"
Immanuel, the Lord is with us indeed. No matter what life
throws at us, God's love is unfailing and never-changing. So to all who are in
danger, sorrow, or any kind of trouble this Christmas season, to the sick, the
friendless, and the needy, may the peace of the Lord be always with you. Amen.
