I know I said I would be doing light posting this week, leading up to Christmas, but as I also said, unless it would be "brief and/or rather important..." Well, in my book, this ranks pretty high on my list of things that are "rather important."
This is almost exactly what I was talking about in this older post titled "The Perfect Storm Approacheth…"
There'll be nowhere to run from the new world government
By Janet Daley
The UK Telegraph
Published: 7:24PM GMT 19 Dec 2009
There is scope for debate – and innumerable newspaper quizzes – about who was the most influential public figure of the year, or which the most significant event. But there can be little doubt which word won the prize for most important adjective. 2009 was the year in which "global" swept the rest of the political lexicon into obscurity. There were "global crises" and "global challenges", the only possible resolution to which lay in "global solutions" necessitating "global agreements". Gordon Brown actually suggested something called a "global alliance" in response to climate change. (Would this be an alliance against the Axis of Extra-Terrestrials?)
Some of this was sheer hokum: when uttered by Gordon Brown, the word "global", as in "global economic crisis", meant: "It's not my fault". To the extent that the word had intelligible meaning, it also had political ramifications that were scarcely examined by those who bandied it about with such ponderous self-importance. The mere utterance of it was assumed to sweep away any consideration of what was once assumed to be the most basic principle of modern democracy: that elected national governments are responsible to their own people – that the right to govern derives from the consent of the electorate.
The dangerous idea that the democratic accountability of national governments should simply be dispensed with in favour of "global agreements" reached after closed negotiations between world leaders never, so far as I recall, entered into the arena of public discussion. Except in the United States, where it became a very contentious talking point, the US still holding firmly to the 18th-century idea that power should lie with the will of the people.*snip*
The Apocalypse of Saint John
the Apostle [Ch 13, Vrs 1-10]
1 And he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a
beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten
horns: and upon his horns, ten diadems: and upon his heads,
names of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like to a leopard: and his
feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of
a lion. And the dragon gave him his own strength and great
power.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death:
and his death’s wound was healed. And all the earth was in
admiration after the beast.
4 And they adored the dragon which gave power to the
beast. And they adored the beast, saying: Who is like to the
beast? And who shall be able to fight with him?
5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do,
two and forty months.
6 And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against
God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them
that dwell in heaven.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints
and to overcome them. And power was given him over every
tribe and people and tongue and nation.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose
names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which
was slain from the beginning of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that shall lead into captivity shall go into captivity:
he that shall kill by the sword must be killed by the sword.
Here is the patience and the faith of the saints...
-The Holy Bible (Douay-Rheims 1899)
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