Islam - A Distraction?
By: Hubert Crowell
Islam has become a distraction to what is really going on in the world. If you want to get something done, then create a distraction. While we are mopping up the terrorist around the world big things are taking place that were predicted thousands of years ago.
Daniel predicted a fourth divided kingdom with some strength made up of a mixture of people that will not remain united. This kingdom will be followed a kingdom that will never be destroyed.
The fourth kingdom is explained in Daniel 7:24-25, Ten kings will come from this kingdom and after them another king will arise and subdue three kings. He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints for three and a half years.
Revelation 13:5, talks about this king or beast who is given authority for forty-two months.
Daniel was given an explanation of his dream of the beast with ten horns in Daniel 7:23-25.
The beast was the fourth kingdom. The Babylon empire was the first kingdom and they ruled the world. They were followed by the Medo/Persia and then the Roman empire. Although there were other empires only five are mentioned here and the fourth was the beast. There will be ten kings then the last king of this kingdom is the Anti-Christ. He will be destroyed after three and a half years.
Some have believed that the United Nations was this fourth kingdom and they may be a part of it.
On 13 December 2007, EU leaders signed the Treaty of Lisbon, thus bringing to an end several years of negotiation about institutional issues.
The Treaty of Lisbon amends the current EU and EC treaties, without replacing them. It will provide the Union with the legal framework and tools necessary to meet future challenges and to respond to citizens' demands.
Some believe that the EU is this new government. However it does not control the world! There could be agreements in the works that the EU, US and all other major powers would sign and relinquish power to one governing body. If the problem could be made to sound bad enough they would all give in.
The EU is more a model of the US and will become one government.
Exact wording of the two and a half year President's term from the Treaty of Lisbon.
Article 9 B
5. The European Council shall elect its President, by a qualified majority, for a term of two and a half years, renewable once. In the event of an impediment or serious misconduct, the European Council can end the President's term of office in accordance with the same procedure.
Article 9 D
5. As from 1 November 2014, the Commission shall consist of a number of members, including its President and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, corresponding to two thirds of the number of Member States, unless the European Council, acting unanimously, decides to alter this number.
The new World government will need a global disaster to be formed. Something that cannot be resolved by a single nation or group of nations. This global disaster will have to be so great that it will require the cooperation of all but the smallest of nations.
The Copenhagen Conference, scheduled for Dec. 7-18, 2009, is aimed at setting the mid-term emission reduction targets for developed countries under Kyoto Protocol, and making substantial arrangements for the implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Is this the global disaster that will bring all the nations together?
AP - November 03, 2009
Gore 'Certain' Obama Will Attend December Climate Talks in Copenhagen
WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Al Gore said he believes President Obama will attend the December climate talks in Copenhagen to emphasize his administration's commitment to safeguarding the environment.
In an interview Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Gore said that while he had not spoken to Obama about the global talks, "I feel certain he will" attend.
The Copenhagen talks are aimed at negotiating a follow-on agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, which required 37 industrial nations to cut carbon emissions by an average 5 percent from 1990 levels by 2012, when the accord expires. The U.S. rejected Kyoto as unfair and harmful to the U.S. economy, even though Gore was one of the negotiators.
Dark clouds gathering over Copenhagen
Science
Written by Sanjay Suri / Inter Press Service
Sunday, 08 November 2009 18:48
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland--It has been a bad week for the climate change, which summit is set in Copenhagen next month. Last week--the last meeting in the formal round of pre-Copenhagen talks--collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that failure by failing to agree to a financial package.
The G20 is clearly a platform, not a group. And inevitably, the developed nations as they are labelled, and the emerging economies, stuck to their positions, that have conflict and differences built into them.
It is in the nature of these summits that--after all this--everyone still announces an agreement.
"We committed to take action to tackle the threat of climate change and work toward an ambitious outcome in Copenhagen, within the objective, provisions and principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]," the G20 ministers declared.
"We discussed climate-change financing options and recognized the need to increase significantly and urgently the scale and predictability of finance to implement an ambitious international agreement.
"To deliver this financing, coordinated equitable, transparent and effective institutional arrangements will be needed. Coordination of support for country-led plans and reporting of this support should be ensured across all financing channels, multilateral, regional and bilateral. We discussed a range of options and, recognizing that finance will play an important role in the delivery of the outcome at Copenhagen, we commit to take forward further work on climate-change finance, to define financing options and institutional arrangements," announced the ministers.
The bureaucracy attached to these things is clearly not new to the business of producing language to defy facts.
The meeting in St. Andrews, in fact, "turned out to be a mostly irrelevant sideshow on the way to the talks in Copenhagen," says Richard Dixon, director of WWF Scotland. "This is a group that can throw money at collapsing banks but cannot find adequate figures for the far-worse challenge to the global economy of a collapsing climate system."
The collapse came after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stepped into the meeting to make what many considered a bold, if carefully worded, suggestion.
Brown spoke sharply against the culture of banks, saying, "It cannot be acceptable that the benefits of success in this sector are reaped by the few, but the costs of its failure are borne by all of us."
He then mentioned a financial-transactions tax as a possibility that would also tax banks.
"I believe we should discuss whether we need a better economic and social contract to reflect the global responsibilities of financial institutions to society. There have been proposals for an insurance fee to reflect systemic risk, or a resolution fund, or contingent-capital arrangements, or a global financial-transactions levy."
The fact that he mentioned the last of these is significant, arising as it does from ideas of the Tobin tax. Proposed by economist James Tobin, this would be a tax on all currency trade across borders. Brown spoke beyond that of a "global financial-transactions levy."
The yield could be massive. A tax of 0.05 percent on financial transactions could produce $700 billion a year, Oxfam estimates. This would be enough to pay for climate-change mitigation and adaptation actions, and a good deal of development work besides.
It is as significant that the proposal came from Britain, which has long wrapped that kind of suggestion in cold silence. Oxfam estimates that 60 percent of the kind of financial transactions Brown spoke of takes place in Britain, where the City of London--the financial district of the capital--is a global center for bank and currency transactions.
Brown's proposal did not get anywhere during the meeting.
"Talk of a financial transaction tax has the potential to raise hundreds of billions in new funding every year, but turned out to be a red herring without solid political support," Dixon stressed.
Germany and France have supported such a tax. But, with financial powerhouse Britain now indicating that it should be considered, this opens up a new division between major European economies on one side, and the US principally on the other--the US very clearly is not supportive of this family of tax proposals.
This was not the only possibility raised, and dumped. At the London G20 summit in April the developed countries spoke of action against tax havens, to enable developing nations to use money saved for development. The communiqué from St. Andrews, ActionAid points out, speaks only of "the possible use of a multilateral instrument" to that end.
The possibilities here are huge, Martin Hearson from ActionAid told Inter Press Service. "What is needed is for developed countries to set up a system and to force tax havens to participate. At the moment information is available to developed countries bilaterally, but developing countries often lack information or the means to protect their money."
The implications for development, including action on climate change, can be huge, Hearson says.
"We believe that potentially 160 billion dollars a year can be saved for developing countries through action on tax havens, and that money can be used for development and for actions over climate change. It's a sum of money that dwarfs aid budgets."
Campaigners are now looking more for such collaborative actions, and for actions on suggestions such as Gordon Brown's, rather than hoping for governments to dish out money directly.
Several campaigners believe these proposals will bear fruit later, even if they did not find instant agreement during the course of a day.
"Gordon Brown today signaled that payback time for banks could be just round the corner," said Max Lawson, Oxfam senior policy adviser. "A tax on banks would be a major step toward clearing up the mess caused by their greed."
November 12th, 2009
Ben Rhodes comments on Climate Change during the Presidental trip to Asia. What is the real goal behing the trip?
For Christians, we should not be discouraged because we know about the last kingdom and the King, Jesus Christ. "This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." Acts 1:11
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