Europe loses seat at top table
In Washington they're not sure who's in charge. In Brussels they're squabbling. Ian Traynor reports on the EU's crisis of confidence
Ian Traynor
guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 23.50 GMT
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Europe will find that the only way they can effectively get things done is to surrender their sovereignty to one, a virtual dictatorship by consent, rather than diffuse their power and weaken their positions by constant squabbles and abuses of democracy. Are they willing to take that risk?
Europe has flirted with intoxicating ideas of becoming an empire with its own emperor - the final revival of the unholy Roman Empire of the German Nation - but are shy in going all the way. Will Germany and the Vatican offer Europe attractive incentives to seduce them to let them have their way or threaten them if they continue to hesitate?
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Are America's Superpower Days Numbered?
Are America's Superpower Days Numbered
Great powers come and go. For more than six decades the United States has been the world's dominant power. Seventy years ago, Great Britain—with its vast empire—was the world's greatest power. Is the United States following Britain's path to decline, to be replaced by another power? Are we seeing the first stages?
by Melvin Rhodes
One of the consequences of the financial upheaval of the past 18 months is that Europe is now richer than North America. The accumulated national wealth of North Americans has dropped by 21.8 percent while Europe's fell by only 5.8 percent, "down to 22.2 trillion euros—a quarter of the globe's total wealth" ("Europe Now Richer Than North America," BusinessWeek, Sept. 16, 2009).
Since great wealth is necessary for global power, could Europe be on the verge of taking over from the United States?
Bible prophecy shows that a new, European centered superpower will exist immediately before Jesus Christ's return. It will be a great commercial system whose trade dominates the world.
It's no coincidence that all 27 member countries of the European Union have signed the Lisbon Treaty, uniting Europe more than ever before with its own president and foreign minister collectively representing all member nations.
Its currency, the euro, is now valued at 1½ times the U.S. dollar and is used by more people. With more than 500 million citizens, the EU is the world's biggest single market and by far the world's greatest trading power. Having now surpassed the United States in economic power, could it soon replace America as the world's foremost political and military power?
Few people alive today can remember a time when the world was dominated by the British, but that's the way things were before World War II. After fighting alone against the Third Reich for two years (assisted only by forces from Commonwealth countries), the British were joined by the Soviets when Germany attacked them in June 1941. Another six months would pass before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which brought America into the war.
Americans expected that their boys would all return home after the war, just as they had done after World War I. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt told British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that American troops would leave Europe two years after the war's end. No one expected U.S. forces to stay longer. But American troops still remain in Europe 65 years later!
What change led to American troops remaining in Europe? Quite simply, Britain was broke! London was not able to return to the role it had held for two centuries, the task of policing the world. Such a role requires great wealth. After fighting two world wars in just over three decades, the British did not have the funds for foreign commitments and could no longer support their allies around the globe.
This wasn't apparent immediately after the war ended in 1945. The British Empire remained intact. Some British possessions in the Far East had been conquered by Japan, but all voluntarily returned to British rule.
In his 2008 book Picking Up the Reins, which describes the transition of superpower status from Great Britain to the United States, historian Norman Moss states: "British atlases showed a quarter of the earth either ruled by Britain or linked to it in the Commonwealth. Britain ruled directly much of Asia and most of Africa and it was the dominant power in the Arab world" (p. 27).
Other European powers did not fare so well. The Dutch soon lost Indonesia, and the French had to fight a prolonged war in Indochina.
At the end of the book, he wrote the following warning to his fellow Americans: "The possible overthrow of the British Empire would be a catastrophe scarcely thinkable. Not only would it leave a vacuum over a quarter of the globe into which all the wild winds of anarchy, despotism and spiritual oppression would rush, but the strongest bulwark outside ourselves for our own safety and freedom would have been destroyed" (p. 358).
It certainly seemed that the preservation of the Empire intact was in the best interests of the United States and other nations.
One year after the war, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff similarly advised: "The defeat or disintegration of the British Empire would eliminate from Eurasia the last bulwark of resistance between the US and Soviet expansion...Our present position as a world power is of necessity closely interwoven with that of Britain" (quoted by Moss, p. 64).
On top of financing their empire—which included a quarter of the world's people—the British were also soon embroiled in a war against communists in Greece, where Britain stationed 9,000 troops to support the anticommunist forces and had given 40 million pounds in financial assistance in the months following World War II.
But by February 1947, in the middle of the harshest winter on record, the British could no longer afford to support Greece. A cabinet meeting on Feb. 18 led to London asking Washington to take over, announcing that aid to Greece "would stop on March 31. It was accompanied by another note saying Turkey also needed help and Britain could not provide it" (p. 62).
Although few comprehended it at the time, this change was truly momentous. "For two centuries Britain had been the dominant power in the eastern Mediterranean. Now it seemed to be surrendering that role in two key countries.
"It is often said that Americans lack a historical sense that Europeans have, but on this occasion it was the Americans who saw the historical significance of that moment. To British ministers, battling from day to day to keep the country's head above water, this seemed to be just a temporary retrenchment in one area. None of them appeared to see any larger implications in the decision.
"The American view was put in grandiloquent terms by Joseph M. Jones, who was in the State Department at the time: ‘Reading the messages, [it was] realized...that Great Britain had within the hour handed the job of world leadership, with all its burdens and all its glory, to the United States" (p. 64, emphasis added throughout).
The date was Feb. 21, 1947—the day the United States effectively replaced Great Britain as the world's global superpower.
Ephraim, the younger brother, was foretold to be greater than Manasseh (verse 19). Without any knowledge of the biblical significance of the moment, Dean Acheson, then undersecretary at the U.S. Department of State, said that "Britain was so weakened financially that there were now only two great powers in the world. Not since Rome and Carthage, he said, had there been such a polarization of power, and it was between democracy and dictatorship" (Moss, p. 68).
Rome and Carthage were major rivals before the time of Christ. Will Clayton, assistant secretary of State, in May 1947 summed up the situation with these words: "The reins of world leadership are slipping from Britain's competent but now very weak hands. These reins will be picked up either by the United States or Russia."
Both men realized that the United States already had a major rival in the Russian-dominated Soviet Union, something the British had not had to contend with.
Britain had enjoyed unrivalled global power during the time of the "Pax Britannica"— between the fall of Napoleon and World War I a century later. In relative terms, the United States was to be less dominant, as Bible prophecy had foretold.
It wasn't until the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist allies in Europe more than 40 years later that the United States would enjoy unrivalled power. But even then it was brief. Now facing mounting financial problems, Washington has to contend with the rising power of China and may soon have to deal with a resurgent Europe.
Just as global power passed from Britain to America, could power now pass from America to Europe?
In the same chapter, Daniel asked God to help him interpret the cryptic dream of King Nebuchadnezzar. In verse 19 God revealed its meaning to him. Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of Babylon, the world's greatest power at the time, came to understand that after Babylon would come another great power, then another and another. Eventually, the last of these powers would be replaced by the Kingdom of God, a world government directly ruled by God that will put an end to the present misrule of man.
Daniel himself had a similar vision in chapter 7 giving more detail. Babylon, where Daniel lived for almost seven decades as a Jewish exile following the invasion of his own country, would lose its preeminence to Persia. In turn, Persia would lose its position to Greece, and then Greece would lose its to Rome. The prophecies revealed to Daniel in the sixth century before Christ were fulfilled in the centuries that followed.
The supremacy of Britain with its empire and then the United States of America was prophesied for "the last days" (Genesis 49:1). However, at the time immediately before the end, preceding the second coming of Jesus Christ, there is to rise a revived and renewed Roman Empire—the new world superpower mentioned earlier.
Just as the British Empire collapsed due to debt and an overstretched military, so the United States faces the same problems today. It cannot field enough troops for all its military commitments, and debt is a crucial and growing problem. No nation in the history of the world has ever accumulated debts as great as those of the United States—and certainly not in so short a time!
As The Economist recently observed: "For years America's fiscal problems had a surreal quality. No one disputed that an aging population and health-care inflation could bust the budget, but that prospect was decades away and procrastination seemed painless.
"No longer. A giant hole has opened in the budget because of stimulus, bailouts and a recession that has savaged economic growth and tax revenue. On current policies the publicly held federal debt, 41% of GDP last year, will double in the next decade. Total government debt will move well above the G20 average" ("Dealing With America's Fiscal Hole," Nov. 21, 2009).
Only a generation ago the United States was in such sound financial condition that it was the world's greatest lender. No longer. Due to its profligate spending, now it is the most indebted nation in history!
Massive problems loom in financing Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as tens of millions of baby boomers retire in the coming years. Some economic experts estimate that, when these unfunded liabilities are factored in, America's true national debt is greater than $50 trillion—approximately half a million dollars for every U.S. household!
Inevitably, defense spending will be impacted by America's enormous debt load, just as it was with Great Britain six decades ago. As another Economist article titled "Stemming the Tide" reports, "Defence and discretionary items represent just a third of spending, and Mr Obama has already planned to shrink both in nominal dollars by 2014, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (with luck) wind down and the stimulus expires" (Nov. 21, 2009).
The initial estimated cost was minor compared to the eventual (and still rising) cost. By 1956, a crucial year in the country's decline and fall from global power, "a new generation was finding its voice, people who were prouder of the National Health Service than of the British Empire" (p. 199).
The Economist article "Stemming the Tide" hints at the increased financial burden that will come on the United States as it, too, embraces universal health care. "Mr Obama had long planned that his health reform would not just cover the uninsured but also stop the long-term growth in health costs. In the bills currently in Congress, that second goal may be out of reach. Although Mr Obama insists that the reform will not raise the deficit, it will still absorb some of the revenue that could have been used to reduce it."
A Nov. 14, 2009, article in The New York Times reported China's concerns about U.S. government health-care plans. It's not that the Chinese are concerned about the medical care of Americans. Rather, they are concerned about the burgeoning U.S. deficit, as they are the ones financing most of it.
The article described Obama's visit to China as "assuming the role of profligate spender coming to pay his respects to his banker" and indicated that American domestic policies may have to first gain Chinese approval. "Like any banker," the article notes, the Chinese want "evidence that the United States [has] a plan to pay them back."
It reports that "in a July meeting, Chinese officials asked their American counterparts detailed questions about the health care legislation making its way through Congress...They wanted to know, in painstaking detail, how the health care plan would affect the deficit" (Helene Cooper, Michael Wines and David Sanger, "China's Role as Lender Alters Dynamics for United States").
Commenting on this trip, a Nov. 16, 2009, Canada Free Press article warned: "Obama's socialist spending spree does not simply come at the expense of America[n] freedoms, it explicitly puts China in charge of American policy. The price for universal health care will not simply be paid by Americans, it will be paid for by American allies in Asia" (Daniel Greenfield, "Obama in China and Twilight for America").
Just as Britain was unable to send any more financial and military support to Greece in 1947, so it appears the United States will be unable to help traditional allies around the world. And the American military empire will inevitably follow the British Empire into history.
Historian Niall Ferguson recently wrote: "This is how empires decline. It begins with a debt explosion. It ends with an inexorable reduction in the resources available for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Which is why voters are right to worry about America's debt crisis. According to a recent Rasmussen report, 42 percent of Americans now say that cutting the deficit in half by the end of the president's first term should be the administration's most important task—significantly more than the 24 percent who see health-care reform as the No. 1 priority.
"But cutting the deficit in half is simply not enough. If the United States doesn't come up soon with a credible plan to restore the federal budget to balance over the next five to 10 years, the danger is very real that a debt crisis could lead to a major weakening of American power" ("An Empire at Risk," Newsweek, Nov. 28, 2009).
Revelation 17:12 tells us that the leaders who will unite and surrender their national sovereignty to this new geopolitical force will "receive authority for one hour." An hour is symbolic of a short period of time.
The Bible also prophesies a great power rising in the Far East when it writes of massive military forces coming against the revived European power from beyond the Euphrates River (Revelation 9:14-16; 16:12). This could very well include China, perhaps in alliance with other regional powers.
China is a great power and is set to become even more powerful. However, its economy is closely tied to the United States and could be negatively affected by developments in America.
At the same time, there are serious concerns about its own banking system. "The current expansion in lending...risks creating China's own home grown banking crisis with a rise in non-performing bank loans...Chinese bank regulators are concerned that new lending is being used to finance real estate and stock market speculation rather than productive purposes" (Satyajit Das, "China: A Future That Was," eurointelligence.com, Nov. 20, 2009). Putting it simply, China is repeating America's mistakes!
In comparing the European Union and China, we should also note that, as an article in the Nov. 15, 2009, Sunday Times points out, the European Union's gross domestic product "is just behind that of the United States and China combined" (Matthew Campbell and Bojan Pancevski, "Europe Rises as the Modest Superpower").
The article continues: "Europe, however, also seems more secure and united than at any point in its blood-soaked history and the financial crisis may have served to strengthen that cohesion. The more regulated brand of capitalism favoured from France to Finland is now the preferred model for the rest of the world—including America—and countries are queuing up to gain admission to the protective fold of the EU.
"With 71,000 troops stationed beyond its borders, the EU can claim a military presence overseas second only to America's. It has led to Europe being hailed as ‘the modest superpower' by Newsweek magazine. Its rise can be seen in the increase in membership from 12 to 27 countries since 1989 and in the fading of tensions between old and young members. It is also evident in the way Europe has beaten America out of recession, led by the usual Franco-German motor."
Its first president is Herman van Rompuy, who was prime minister of Belgium. Its first foreign minister is British Baroness Catherine Ashton. According to Wolfgang Munchau, writing in the Nov. 23, 2009, Financial Times, these two are just what the EU needs as it deals with "three fundamental problems": "an inability to set precise policy goals; poor follow-through; and perhaps most importantly, poor co-ordination and crisis management" ("Van Rompuy Is the Right Man for the Job").
In other words, these two will streamline the EU, making it more efficient and more effective and thereby more powerful.
To be clear, however, the EU is not the prophesied end-time power in its final, biblical form. Bible prophecy clearly states that 10 "kings"—we might call them presidents, premiers or prime ministers—will give their power and authority to a final supreme leader who rules over them all. What the EU has achieved is a powerful commercial and political system that places Europe in a position of global leadership. The final European power will likely emerge from this. Exactly how remains to be seen.
But Europe has come a long way, even in the five-plus years since T.R. Reid, former Washington Post London bureau chief, wrote his book The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy.
"At the dawn of the twenty-first century," he wrote on the book's first page, "a geopolitical revolution of historic dimensions is under way across the Atlantic: the unification of Europe. Twenty-five nations [now 27] have joined together—with another dozen or so on the waiting list—to build a common economy, government, and culture. Europe is a more integrated place today than at any time since the Roman Empire" (2004).
Continuing, Mr. Reid wrote: "The new United States of Europe—to use Winston Churchill's phrase—has more people, more wealth, and more trade than the United States of America. The New Europe cannot match American military strength (and doesn't want to, for that matter). But it has more votes in every international organization than the United States, and it gives away far more money in development aid.
"The result is global economic and political clout that makes the European Union exactly what its leaders want it to be: a second superpower that can stand on equal footing with the United States."
There's a great irony here. Great Britain established the 13 colonies that eventually became the United States, which, less than two centuries later, took over London's leadership role in the world. In a similar way, America forced the creation of a united Europe in its early stages through the Marshall Plan, a U.S. government aid project to get Europe moving again after World War II.
"The Marshall Plan...was a joint European-American program for restructuring the economies of western European countries and joining them more closely together, to set them on their feet, give them social and political stability, and make them once again trading partners on equal terms with the rest of the world. It achieved all of this. It also, with American pressure, sowed the seeds of the European Union" (Moss, p. 100).
Washington did not want to have to deal with 16 individual European countries all needing help, so it encouraged them to cooperate and work together economically. This fledgling project led to "an ever closer union" and today's European Union, now set to rival the United States—and will, just as Washington took over from London, eventually lead to Europe taking over Washington's leadership role in the world. GN
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Great powers come and go. For more than six decades the United States has been the world's dominant power. Seventy years ago, Great Britain—with its vast empire—was the world's greatest power. Is the United States following Britain's path to decline, to be replaced by another power? Are we seeing the first stages?
by Melvin Rhodes
One of the consequences of the financial upheaval of the past 18 months is that Europe is now richer than North America. The accumulated national wealth of North Americans has dropped by 21.8 percent while Europe's fell by only 5.8 percent, "down to 22.2 trillion euros—a quarter of the globe's total wealth" ("Europe Now Richer Than North America," BusinessWeek, Sept. 16, 2009).
Since great wealth is necessary for global power, could Europe be on the verge of taking over from the United States?
Bible prophecy shows that a new, European centered superpower will exist immediately before Jesus Christ's return. It will be a great commercial system whose trade dominates the world.
It's no coincidence that all 27 member countries of the European Union have signed the Lisbon Treaty, uniting Europe more than ever before with its own president and foreign minister collectively representing all member nations.
Its currency, the euro, is now valued at 1½ times the U.S. dollar and is used by more people. With more than 500 million citizens, the EU is the world's biggest single market and by far the world's greatest trading power. Having now surpassed the United States in economic power, could it soon replace America as the world's foremost political and military power?
Lessons from a fallen empire
There's a lesson for the United States in the memory of some still living.Few people alive today can remember a time when the world was dominated by the British, but that's the way things were before World War II. After fighting alone against the Third Reich for two years (assisted only by forces from Commonwealth countries), the British were joined by the Soviets when Germany attacked them in June 1941. Another six months would pass before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which brought America into the war.
Americans expected that their boys would all return home after the war, just as they had done after World War I. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt told British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that American troops would leave Europe two years after the war's end. No one expected U.S. forces to stay longer. But American troops still remain in Europe 65 years later!
What change led to American troops remaining in Europe? Quite simply, Britain was broke! London was not able to return to the role it had held for two centuries, the task of policing the world. Such a role requires great wealth. After fighting two world wars in just over three decades, the British did not have the funds for foreign commitments and could no longer support their allies around the globe.
This wasn't apparent immediately after the war ended in 1945. The British Empire remained intact. Some British possessions in the Far East had been conquered by Japan, but all voluntarily returned to British rule.
In his 2008 book Picking Up the Reins, which describes the transition of superpower status from Great Britain to the United States, historian Norman Moss states: "British atlases showed a quarter of the earth either ruled by Britain or linked to it in the Commonwealth. Britain ruled directly much of Asia and most of Africa and it was the dominant power in the Arab world" (p. 27).
Other European powers did not fare so well. The Dutch soon lost Indonesia, and the French had to fight a prolonged war in Indochina.
"A catastrophe scarcely thinkable"
One of America's most respected historians, James Truslow Adams, wrote a book titled The British Empire 1784-1939 in 1940—the crucial year of the Battle of Britain, an airborne struggle for survival, when the future of the world depended on Britain holding out against an attempted Nazi invasion.At the end of the book, he wrote the following warning to his fellow Americans: "The possible overthrow of the British Empire would be a catastrophe scarcely thinkable. Not only would it leave a vacuum over a quarter of the globe into which all the wild winds of anarchy, despotism and spiritual oppression would rush, but the strongest bulwark outside ourselves for our own safety and freedom would have been destroyed" (p. 358).
It certainly seemed that the preservation of the Empire intact was in the best interests of the United States and other nations.
One year after the war, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff similarly advised: "The defeat or disintegration of the British Empire would eliminate from Eurasia the last bulwark of resistance between the US and Soviet expansion...Our present position as a world power is of necessity closely interwoven with that of Britain" (quoted by Moss, p. 64).
On top of financing their empire—which included a quarter of the world's people—the British were also soon embroiled in a war against communists in Greece, where Britain stationed 9,000 troops to support the anticommunist forces and had given 40 million pounds in financial assistance in the months following World War II.
But by February 1947, in the middle of the harshest winter on record, the British could no longer afford to support Greece. A cabinet meeting on Feb. 18 led to London asking Washington to take over, announcing that aid to Greece "would stop on March 31. It was accompanied by another note saying Turkey also needed help and Britain could not provide it" (p. 62).
Although few comprehended it at the time, this change was truly momentous. "For two centuries Britain had been the dominant power in the eastern Mediterranean. Now it seemed to be surrendering that role in two key countries.
"It is often said that Americans lack a historical sense that Europeans have, but on this occasion it was the Americans who saw the historical significance of that moment. To British ministers, battling from day to day to keep the country's head above water, this seemed to be just a temporary retrenchment in one area. None of them appeared to see any larger implications in the decision.
"The American view was put in grandiloquent terms by Joseph M. Jones, who was in the State Department at the time: ‘Reading the messages, [it was] realized...that Great Britain had within the hour handed the job of world leadership, with all its burdens and all its glory, to the United States" (p. 64, emphasis added throughout).
The date was Feb. 21, 1947—the day the United States effectively replaced Great Britain as the world's global superpower.
Changing roles prophesied
"And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh," reads Genesis 48:20. In this passage of Scripture, the patriarch Jacob, whom God had renamed Israel, prophesied that the descendants of his two grandsons, the sons of Joseph, would "become a multitude of nations" and a great nation. This prophecy was fulfilled in the British Empire and Commonwealth (the multitude of nations) and in the United States (the great single nation), which broke away from the empire. Ephraim, the multitude of nations, was to be great before Manasseh.Ephraim, the younger brother, was foretold to be greater than Manasseh (verse 19). Without any knowledge of the biblical significance of the moment, Dean Acheson, then undersecretary at the U.S. Department of State, said that "Britain was so weakened financially that there were now only two great powers in the world. Not since Rome and Carthage, he said, had there been such a polarization of power, and it was between democracy and dictatorship" (Moss, p. 68).
Rome and Carthage were major rivals before the time of Christ. Will Clayton, assistant secretary of State, in May 1947 summed up the situation with these words: "The reins of world leadership are slipping from Britain's competent but now very weak hands. These reins will be picked up either by the United States or Russia."
Both men realized that the United States already had a major rival in the Russian-dominated Soviet Union, something the British had not had to contend with.
Britain had enjoyed unrivalled global power during the time of the "Pax Britannica"— between the fall of Napoleon and World War I a century later. In relative terms, the United States was to be less dominant, as Bible prophecy had foretold.
It wasn't until the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist allies in Europe more than 40 years later that the United States would enjoy unrivalled power. But even then it was brief. Now facing mounting financial problems, Washington has to contend with the rising power of China and may soon have to deal with a resurgent Europe.
Just as global power passed from Britain to America, could power now pass from America to Europe?
God controls the rise and fall of nations
The Bible tells us that God intervenes to bring about the rise and fall of nations. In Daniel 2:21 we read that "He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings."In the same chapter, Daniel asked God to help him interpret the cryptic dream of King Nebuchadnezzar. In verse 19 God revealed its meaning to him. Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of Babylon, the world's greatest power at the time, came to understand that after Babylon would come another great power, then another and another. Eventually, the last of these powers would be replaced by the Kingdom of God, a world government directly ruled by God that will put an end to the present misrule of man.
Daniel himself had a similar vision in chapter 7 giving more detail. Babylon, where Daniel lived for almost seven decades as a Jewish exile following the invasion of his own country, would lose its preeminence to Persia. In turn, Persia would lose its position to Greece, and then Greece would lose its to Rome. The prophecies revealed to Daniel in the sixth century before Christ were fulfilled in the centuries that followed.
The supremacy of Britain with its empire and then the United States of America was prophesied for "the last days" (Genesis 49:1). However, at the time immediately before the end, preceding the second coming of Jesus Christ, there is to rise a revived and renewed Roman Empire—the new world superpower mentioned earlier.
How could the United States lose its power?
British historian Paul Kennedy, who now lectures at Yale, wrote his monumental book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in 1987. In it, looking back to the year 1500, he showed that the qualities that lead to nations' rising to power and the reasons for their decline and fall have certain commonalities —debt and imperial overreach.Just as the British Empire collapsed due to debt and an overstretched military, so the United States faces the same problems today. It cannot field enough troops for all its military commitments, and debt is a crucial and growing problem. No nation in the history of the world has ever accumulated debts as great as those of the United States—and certainly not in so short a time!
As The Economist recently observed: "For years America's fiscal problems had a surreal quality. No one disputed that an aging population and health-care inflation could bust the budget, but that prospect was decades away and procrastination seemed painless.
"No longer. A giant hole has opened in the budget because of stimulus, bailouts and a recession that has savaged economic growth and tax revenue. On current policies the publicly held federal debt, 41% of GDP last year, will double in the next decade. Total government debt will move well above the G20 average" ("Dealing With America's Fiscal Hole," Nov. 21, 2009).
Only a generation ago the United States was in such sound financial condition that it was the world's greatest lender. No longer. Due to its profligate spending, now it is the most indebted nation in history!
Massive problems loom in financing Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as tens of millions of baby boomers retire in the coming years. Some economic experts estimate that, when these unfunded liabilities are factored in, America's true national debt is greater than $50 trillion—approximately half a million dollars for every U.S. household!
Inevitably, defense spending will be impacted by America's enormous debt load, just as it was with Great Britain six decades ago. As another Economist article titled "Stemming the Tide" reports, "Defence and discretionary items represent just a third of spending, and Mr Obama has already planned to shrink both in nominal dollars by 2014, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (with luck) wind down and the stimulus expires" (Nov. 21, 2009).
Rising costs for health care
Interestingly, even the administration's plans for a government-run health-care system parallel the United Kingdom after World War II. At the very time when the country was exhausted and broke after fighting two global conflicts, "the British Government was determined to soldier on and not be deflected from its course by Britain's straitened [limited] economic circumstances. In April 1948 it introduced the National Health Service, despite Opposition arguments that the country could not afford it. This was at the center of its welfare program" (Moss, pp. 159-160).The initial estimated cost was minor compared to the eventual (and still rising) cost. By 1956, a crucial year in the country's decline and fall from global power, "a new generation was finding its voice, people who were prouder of the National Health Service than of the British Empire" (p. 199).
The Economist article "Stemming the Tide" hints at the increased financial burden that will come on the United States as it, too, embraces universal health care. "Mr Obama had long planned that his health reform would not just cover the uninsured but also stop the long-term growth in health costs. In the bills currently in Congress, that second goal may be out of reach. Although Mr Obama insists that the reform will not raise the deficit, it will still absorb some of the revenue that could have been used to reduce it."
A Nov. 14, 2009, article in The New York Times reported China's concerns about U.S. government health-care plans. It's not that the Chinese are concerned about the medical care of Americans. Rather, they are concerned about the burgeoning U.S. deficit, as they are the ones financing most of it.
The article described Obama's visit to China as "assuming the role of profligate spender coming to pay his respects to his banker" and indicated that American domestic policies may have to first gain Chinese approval. "Like any banker," the article notes, the Chinese want "evidence that the United States [has] a plan to pay them back."
It reports that "in a July meeting, Chinese officials asked their American counterparts detailed questions about the health care legislation making its way through Congress...They wanted to know, in painstaking detail, how the health care plan would affect the deficit" (Helene Cooper, Michael Wines and David Sanger, "China's Role as Lender Alters Dynamics for United States").
Commenting on this trip, a Nov. 16, 2009, Canada Free Press article warned: "Obama's socialist spending spree does not simply come at the expense of America[n] freedoms, it explicitly puts China in charge of American policy. The price for universal health care will not simply be paid by Americans, it will be paid for by American allies in Asia" (Daniel Greenfield, "Obama in China and Twilight for America").
Just as Britain was unable to send any more financial and military support to Greece in 1947, so it appears the United States will be unable to help traditional allies around the world. And the American military empire will inevitably follow the British Empire into history.
Historian Niall Ferguson recently wrote: "This is how empires decline. It begins with a debt explosion. It ends with an inexorable reduction in the resources available for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Which is why voters are right to worry about America's debt crisis. According to a recent Rasmussen report, 42 percent of Americans now say that cutting the deficit in half by the end of the president's first term should be the administration's most important task—significantly more than the 24 percent who see health-care reform as the No. 1 priority.
"But cutting the deficit in half is simply not enough. If the United States doesn't come up soon with a credible plan to restore the federal budget to balance over the next five to 10 years, the danger is very real that a debt crisis could lead to a major weakening of American power" ("An Empire at Risk," Newsweek, Nov. 28, 2009).
Why Europe and not Asia?
While many are warning that China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power, Bible prophecy shows otherwise—though it should be emphasized that the Scriptures strongly suggest that the revived European-centered Roman Empire will not last long.Revelation 17:12 tells us that the leaders who will unite and surrender their national sovereignty to this new geopolitical force will "receive authority for one hour." An hour is symbolic of a short period of time.
The Bible also prophesies a great power rising in the Far East when it writes of massive military forces coming against the revived European power from beyond the Euphrates River (Revelation 9:14-16; 16:12). This could very well include China, perhaps in alliance with other regional powers.
China is a great power and is set to become even more powerful. However, its economy is closely tied to the United States and could be negatively affected by developments in America.
At the same time, there are serious concerns about its own banking system. "The current expansion in lending...risks creating China's own home grown banking crisis with a rise in non-performing bank loans...Chinese bank regulators are concerned that new lending is being used to finance real estate and stock market speculation rather than productive purposes" (Satyajit Das, "China: A Future That Was," eurointelligence.com, Nov. 20, 2009). Putting it simply, China is repeating America's mistakes!
In comparing the European Union and China, we should also note that, as an article in the Nov. 15, 2009, Sunday Times points out, the European Union's gross domestic product "is just behind that of the United States and China combined" (Matthew Campbell and Bojan Pancevski, "Europe Rises as the Modest Superpower").
The article continues: "Europe, however, also seems more secure and united than at any point in its blood-soaked history and the financial crisis may have served to strengthen that cohesion. The more regulated brand of capitalism favoured from France to Finland is now the preferred model for the rest of the world—including America—and countries are queuing up to gain admission to the protective fold of the EU.
"With 71,000 troops stationed beyond its borders, the EU can claim a military presence overseas second only to America's. It has led to Europe being hailed as ‘the modest superpower' by Newsweek magazine. Its rise can be seen in the increase in membership from 12 to 27 countries since 1989 and in the fading of tensions between old and young members. It is also evident in the way Europe has beaten America out of recession, led by the usual Franco-German motor."
Europe's long-term goal in sight
The European Union was formed by the Treaty of Rome in 1957. Its six founding members pledged themselves to form "an ever closer union." The Lisbon Treaty is the latest phase, creating a single political entity that overnight rivals the United States and China.Its first president is Herman van Rompuy, who was prime minister of Belgium. Its first foreign minister is British Baroness Catherine Ashton. According to Wolfgang Munchau, writing in the Nov. 23, 2009, Financial Times, these two are just what the EU needs as it deals with "three fundamental problems": "an inability to set precise policy goals; poor follow-through; and perhaps most importantly, poor co-ordination and crisis management" ("Van Rompuy Is the Right Man for the Job").
In other words, these two will streamline the EU, making it more efficient and more effective and thereby more powerful.
To be clear, however, the EU is not the prophesied end-time power in its final, biblical form. Bible prophecy clearly states that 10 "kings"—we might call them presidents, premiers or prime ministers—will give their power and authority to a final supreme leader who rules over them all. What the EU has achieved is a powerful commercial and political system that places Europe in a position of global leadership. The final European power will likely emerge from this. Exactly how remains to be seen.
But Europe has come a long way, even in the five-plus years since T.R. Reid, former Washington Post London bureau chief, wrote his book The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy.
"At the dawn of the twenty-first century," he wrote on the book's first page, "a geopolitical revolution of historic dimensions is under way across the Atlantic: the unification of Europe. Twenty-five nations [now 27] have joined together—with another dozen or so on the waiting list—to build a common economy, government, and culture. Europe is a more integrated place today than at any time since the Roman Empire" (2004).
Continuing, Mr. Reid wrote: "The new United States of Europe—to use Winston Churchill's phrase—has more people, more wealth, and more trade than the United States of America. The New Europe cannot match American military strength (and doesn't want to, for that matter). But it has more votes in every international organization than the United States, and it gives away far more money in development aid.
"The result is global economic and political clout that makes the European Union exactly what its leaders want it to be: a second superpower that can stand on equal footing with the United States."
Waiting to take the lead from Washington
Since Reid's book came out, we've gone through the early stages of the international financial crisis, a transitional period that has seen Europe become richer relative to the United States. Whereas America has accumulated a record debt burden, Europe is solvent!There's a great irony here. Great Britain established the 13 colonies that eventually became the United States, which, less than two centuries later, took over London's leadership role in the world. In a similar way, America forced the creation of a united Europe in its early stages through the Marshall Plan, a U.S. government aid project to get Europe moving again after World War II.
"The Marshall Plan...was a joint European-American program for restructuring the economies of western European countries and joining them more closely together, to set them on their feet, give them social and political stability, and make them once again trading partners on equal terms with the rest of the world. It achieved all of this. It also, with American pressure, sowed the seeds of the European Union" (Moss, p. 100).
Washington did not want to have to deal with 16 individual European countries all needing help, so it encouraged them to cooperate and work together economically. This fledgling project led to "an ever closer union" and today's European Union, now set to rival the United States—and will, just as Washington took over from London, eventually lead to Europe taking over Washington's leadership role in the world. GN
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Germany Behind the Mask
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Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall warns of the United States' decline and sudden death due to a brutal betrayal by a German-Jesuit dominated Europe.
http://www.davidbenariel.org/
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
British vassals then slaves?
Ten reasons to leave the EU
By Daniel Hannan
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We don't want to be useful idiots for Germany and the Jesuits who are clearly forging Germany's Fourth Reich - the final revival of the unholy Roman Empire - that threatens national sovereignty and world peace, as Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall warns.
The British-Israelites will finally leave the decadent EU or be thrown out. Which will it be?
Berlin, Rome and Britain—an Unworkable Combination
http://www.davidbenariel.org/
By Daniel Hannan
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We don't want to be useful idiots for Germany and the Jesuits who are clearly forging Germany's Fourth Reich - the final revival of the unholy Roman Empire - that threatens national sovereignty and world peace, as Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall warns.
The British-Israelites will finally leave the decadent EU or be thrown out. Which will it be?
Berlin, Rome and Britain—an Unworkable Combination
http://www.davidbenariel.org/
Monday, March 09, 2009
The EU's Document of Death to Israel
To get a glaring glimpse of the increasingly murderous hatred, bigotry and disgusting bias against Jews and Israelis regarding the biblical city of Jerusalem (the fact Jerusalem is mentioned over 600 times in the Jewish Bible and not even once in the Koran speaks volumes), woeful ignorance at best, read this putrid portion of the EUOBSERVER document on Jerusalem:
EU heads of mission report on East Jerusalem
As a Christian who was forcibly denied my religious rights upon the Temple Mount by Nazi Muslims aided and abetted by Israeli authorities, who was denied my religious right to pray upon the Temple Mount on our holy Sabbath day and biblical festival by Nazi Muslims aided and abetted by Israeli authorities, and was denied my religious right to read the Bible upon the sacred site of the holy temples of the God of Israel by Nazi Muslims aided and abetted by Israeli authorities, as the Jewish Bible and Greek New Testament testify graced Jerusalem (contrary to Nazi Muslim lies), I take great umbrage at the EU's distorted version and partial view of this issue of religious freedom! Let them read A House of Prayer for All Peoples? and be ashamed.
Apparently it hasn't occurred to the EU that those Arab males under 45 who are "seldom" enabled to visit the Temple Mount seldom do so without rioting and inciting violence and murder against Jews, Israelis and Americans.
Why does the EU express concern for Muslim religious rights, when Judaism's holiest site, the Temple Mount, allegedly Islam's third holiest site (although Jerusalem is never mentioned once in the Koran), is off-limits to religious Jews to pray or worship upon, even on the biblical Jewish festivals? This is especially grievous in light of the fact that the Bible reveals the God of Israel commands Jews and Israelites to ascend His holy hill and worship Him there on His holy days, as well as righteous Gentiles.
The EU's miserable failure to truly respect biblical Christian and Jewish religious rights upon the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, as well as their vain attempts to ignore or dismiss Jewish biblical claims to the Promised Land of Israel - while advocating and pontificating for "Palestinians" - raises legitimate concerns that their document of destruction is akin to Fatah and Hamas and other terrorist organization's charters that seek Israel's phased destruction.
The EU's document of death to Israel is simply another political attempt to drive a stake into the heart of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, Europe's New Crusade, a concerted effort by those obsessed with an agenda to drive out the Jews from East Jerusalem, and invoke UN Resolution 181 as the FINAL SOLUTION, leaving the German-Jesuit EU in control of the coveted holy city.
For Zion's Sake,
David Ben-Ariel
EU heads of mission report on East Jerusalem
VII. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
46. As described above, Christians and Muslims living east of the Separation Barrier/ wall are increasingly unable to reach their holy sites in East Jerusalem. Permits are only granted in limited numbers on the occasion of great celebrations. In addition, males under the age of 45, even if they can get into Jerusalem, are seldom allowed onto the Haram Al-Sharif compound in the old city (a site considered the third holiest in Islam). Indeed, Israel effectively exercises a veto on who enters the compound. Cameras have been placed at the entrance of the other gates to the Haram Al-Sharif, pointing inwards towards the compound, and Israeli Security personnel are stationed at the entrance to all of the gates determining who is granted access. In addition, by their control of the Mughrabi gate, Israel imposes an unregulated influx of tourists on the Haram without prior negotiation with the Waqf, the Jordanian Islamic authority with jurisdiction over the compound.
As a Christian who was forcibly denied my religious rights upon the Temple Mount by Nazi Muslims aided and abetted by Israeli authorities, who was denied my religious right to pray upon the Temple Mount on our holy Sabbath day and biblical festival by Nazi Muslims aided and abetted by Israeli authorities, and was denied my religious right to read the Bible upon the sacred site of the holy temples of the God of Israel by Nazi Muslims aided and abetted by Israeli authorities, as the Jewish Bible and Greek New Testament testify graced Jerusalem (contrary to Nazi Muslim lies), I take great umbrage at the EU's distorted version and partial view of this issue of religious freedom! Let them read A House of Prayer for All Peoples? and be ashamed.
Apparently it hasn't occurred to the EU that those Arab males under 45 who are "seldom" enabled to visit the Temple Mount seldom do so without rioting and inciting violence and murder against Jews, Israelis and Americans.
Why does the EU express concern for Muslim religious rights, when Judaism's holiest site, the Temple Mount, allegedly Islam's third holiest site (although Jerusalem is never mentioned once in the Koran), is off-limits to religious Jews to pray or worship upon, even on the biblical Jewish festivals? This is especially grievous in light of the fact that the Bible reveals the God of Israel commands Jews and Israelites to ascend His holy hill and worship Him there on His holy days, as well as righteous Gentiles.
The EU's miserable failure to truly respect biblical Christian and Jewish religious rights upon the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, as well as their vain attempts to ignore or dismiss Jewish biblical claims to the Promised Land of Israel - while advocating and pontificating for "Palestinians" - raises legitimate concerns that their document of destruction is akin to Fatah and Hamas and other terrorist organization's charters that seek Israel's phased destruction.
The EU's document of death to Israel is simply another political attempt to drive a stake into the heart of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, Europe's New Crusade, a concerted effort by those obsessed with an agenda to drive out the Jews from East Jerusalem, and invoke UN Resolution 181 as the FINAL SOLUTION, leaving the German-Jesuit EU in control of the coveted holy city.
For Zion's Sake,
David Ben-Ariel
Thursday, October 23, 2008
News & Analysis of the European Union
News
Jim McConalogue in The European Journal: EU October Meeting - attempted 'power grab' and more regulation
Roger Helmer MEP in The European Journal: Financial crisis: Market failure? Or policy and regulatory failure?
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: The data retention directive cannot be stopped!
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: An EU Directive facilitating cross-border enforcement in the field of road safety would imply further administrative burdens for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and UK police forces
Jim McConalogue in The European Journal: Sarkozy’s rescue package will cost every French household €15126 (£11758) and Germany’s rescue package will cost every German household €12,755 [£9,913]
Jim McConalogue in The European Journal: EU regulations on pesticides: the path of poorer countries to hunger and disease
Articles & essays
David Heathcoat-Amory MP in The European Journal: The EU: Not fit for purpose
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: EU makes compulsory low-beam daytime headlights in UK
Bill Cash MP in The European Journal: The real politics of Europe versus Russia - an avoidable danger for the United Kingdom
Professor Tim Congdon in The European Journal: The Northern Rock fiasco: how the EU has damaged Britain's ability to govern itself
Carl Thomson in The European Journal: Labour's strange bedfellows in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Roger Helmer MEP in The European Journal: What Conservatives want in their euro-manifesto
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: Georgia: EU observers can't get in and Sarkozy gets his dates wrong
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: Georgia: EU mission begins with observers bearing 12-gold-star EU insignia arm bands
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: Georgia: Did NATO recognise EU authority?
Jim McConalogue in The European Journal: EU October Meeting - attempted 'power grab' and more regulation
Roger Helmer MEP in The European Journal: Financial crisis: Market failure? Or policy and regulatory failure?
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: The data retention directive cannot be stopped!
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: An EU Directive facilitating cross-border enforcement in the field of road safety would imply further administrative burdens for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and UK police forces
Jim McConalogue in The European Journal: Sarkozy’s rescue package will cost every French household €15126 (£11758) and Germany’s rescue package will cost every German household €12,755 [£9,913]
Jim McConalogue in The European Journal: EU regulations on pesticides: the path of poorer countries to hunger and disease
Articles & essays
David Heathcoat-Amory MP in The European Journal: The EU: Not fit for purpose
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: EU makes compulsory low-beam daytime headlights in UK
Bill Cash MP in The European Journal: The real politics of Europe versus Russia - an avoidable danger for the United Kingdom
Professor Tim Congdon in The European Journal: The Northern Rock fiasco: how the EU has damaged Britain's ability to govern itself
Carl Thomson in The European Journal: Labour's strange bedfellows in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Roger Helmer MEP in The European Journal: What Conservatives want in their euro-manifesto
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: Georgia: EU observers can't get in and Sarkozy gets his dates wrong
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: Georgia: EU mission begins with observers bearing 12-gold-star EU insignia arm bands
Margarida Vasoncelos in The European Journal: Georgia: Did NATO recognise EU authority?
Monday, July 28, 2008
Stop The North American Union!
How the Plutocratic Oligarchy Rules in the EU . . .
If you still do not understand that the evolution of a World Totalitarian Police State is underway then you need to watch ALL the videos on this page to learn what is going on in your own backyard, town, city, state and federal government.
In the EU, the Dutch and the French said 'NO' to the EU Constitution, after which Tony Blair said, 'no problem' we will just circumvent the REQUIRED and AGREED UPON re-negotiation of the Constitution by adding an addendum to the already signed treaties. To keep 'blowback' to a minimum, the EU oligarchy created a new treaty leaving, called the Lisbon Treaty and left OUT the word 'Constitution' then eliminated the people from the ratification process.
To understand HOW the EU's unelected and unaccountable plutocratic oligarchy runs the EU, you MUST watch this video on the Lisbon Treaty: Treaty Completes the EU Takeover ~ Ending ALL European Nations: http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/videos/EU-LisbonTreaty.html. (82 minutes)
The MEP's rowdy revolt in the EU Parliament after the EU voted to quash the right of the people to have the right to a referendum vote as was promised when the Constitution was drawn up and signed in 2005: http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/videos/MEPsRevolt.html. (4 minutes)
EU reprisal for dissenters: Creeping EU Totalitarianism shows MEP Nigel Farage challenging the reprisals being meted out to the dissenters: http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/videos/EUTotalitarianism.html. (9+ minutes)
This is an Irish MEPs opposition to the Lisbon Treaty's totalitarian suppression of the right of the people to vote on a referendum. Our last chance, Ireland, Say NO to Lisbon Treaty: http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/videos/IrelandSayNo.html. (10 Minutes)
June 12, 2008 . . . The Irish vote NO!
This is a debate in the EU Parliament about ending the Lisbon Treaty process in light of the Irish 'NO' vote: http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/videos/IrelandVotesNo.html. (10+ minutes)
Daneen Peterson
Founder and Author
http://www.StopTheNorthAmericanUnion.com
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
German-dominated EU - a league of former democracies
This mini-league of nations would cause only division
The EU is a German Ruse
Is Germany in Danger of Backsliding?
Is a World Dictator About to Appear?
Will The Atlantic Times address the German threat?
Germany Behind the Mask
The Secret Nazis
Germany's Fourth Reich Spreads Its Wings Over the World
The Intelligence Summit Misses the Mark: the German-Jesuit Threat to World Peace
Shashi Tharoor: John McCain wants to create a new alliance to circumvent the UN. We mustn't let this idea gain consensus in Washington
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The UN should be history, and its present site reclaimed and transformed into an inspiring theme park celebrating these United States of America: everything from our accomplishments to models of our awesome sites.
The world would be wise to beware the German-dominated EU - a league of former democracies - since it aims to wrest control of the coveted position of leader of the Free World (they intend to enslave).
The EU is a German Ruse
Is Germany in Danger of Backsliding?
Is a World Dictator About to Appear?
Will The Atlantic Times address the German threat?
Germany Behind the Mask
The Secret Nazis
Germany's Fourth Reich Spreads Its Wings Over the World
The Intelligence Summit Misses the Mark: the German-Jesuit Threat to World Peace
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Immigration, Asylum And the Revived EU Constitution
For Immediate Release
Immigration, Asylum And the Revived EU Constitution
New EU Constitution Threat to UK Border Control
More breaches of the Government’s Red Lines
The Bruges Group has uncovered that the revived and renamed EU Constitution will blow a hole wide open in Britain’s borders allowing the EU to take full control over Britain’s asylum and immigration policies.
For further information contact:
Robert Oulds
Director
The Bruges Group
227 Linen Hall, 162-168 Regent Street, London W1B 5TB
UK
Tel: +44(0) 20 7287 4414
Mobile: 07740 029787
E-mail: info@brugesgroup.com
www.brugesgroup.com
Immigration, Asylum And the Revived EU Constitution
New EU Constitution Threat to UK Border Control
More breaches of the Government’s Red Lines
The Bruges Group has uncovered that the revived and renamed EU Constitution will blow a hole wide open in Britain’s borders allowing the EU to take full control over Britain’s asylum and immigration policies.
For further information contact:
Robert Oulds
Director
The Bruges Group
227 Linen Hall, 162-168 Regent Street, London W1B 5TB
UK
Tel: +44(0) 20 7287 4414
Mobile: 07740 029787
E-mail: info@brugesgroup.com
www.brugesgroup.com
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
A Certain Contradiction (German-foreign-policy.com)
Newsletter 2007/10/08 - A Certain Contradiction
PRETORIA/BERLIN (Own report) - The German government is using the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa, to strengthen its influence over the South African police and military. During her stay in Pretoria last weekend, the German Chancellor acknowledged that not only German firms are hoping to profit from the billions in investments for this major event. German police have already begun instructing South African security forces for this huge sports spectacle. The Air Force is also involved, sharing with South African officers their "experience" from the 2006 soccer world championships in Germany. At the time, the German defense minister initiated preparations for fighter planes of the German Air Force (Bundeswehr) to illegally shoot down hijacked passenger liners. The exertion of influence on the police and military is part of a long term effort to set up Pretoria as a stabilizing factor for western interests in Africa - if necessary also militarily. This is why, Germany and the EU have been delivering military equipment to South Africa for years, causing the South African disarmament efforts of the 1990s to end in failure.
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Saturday, July 14, 2007
The Conversion of the Jews
Jews to Receive Jesus as Israel's King!
Is there strong indication in the Bible that Israel will have a change of heart and accept Yeshua because of the preaching of two prophets in Jerusalem, the Two Witnesses announced in Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11? Will the Jews grasp Jesus is the Anointed One, the Lamb and Lion of God, and finally convert?
Yes! There is definite proof of such as Yeshua clearly said He wouldn't return to Jerusalem, Judah or the Jews until they have a change of heart and welcome Him. The Two Witnesses, in the power and spirit of Elijah (who is dead and buried and awaits the First Resurrection), will prepare the way by preparing our people to receive our King!
Matthew 23:39
39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'
Zechariah the prophet foresees such a long-awaited repentance and recognition! The Jews in Jerusalem will perceive that the Pierced One is the Firstborn of Judah and the Firstborn of God -- our King Messiah!
Zechariah 12:10-15
10 "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. 11 In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 And the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David [political establishment] by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; 13 the family of the house of Levi [religious establishment] by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14 all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.
Yeshua, first and foremost, is the King of the Jews, the King of Israel (all Twelve Tribes of Israel). Yeshua is coming back specifically to keep alive God's physical promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and our Israelite forefathers who left Egypt: the iron-clad promise that the Fathers will always have some survivors, some physical remnant, beyond any shadow of a doubt.
The cities of Judah will hear this message loud and clear:
Matthew 24:22
22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
Romans 11:28
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
Leviticus 26:44-45
44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
We are the physical elect, the physical Chosen People -- primarily the British-Israelites and Jews, Joseph and Judah -- for whose sakes' those days will be cut short by divine intervention or we would all be history and Satan could say God is a liar. But God's Word is good and true and He will prepare our people by a baptism of repentance by the Two Witnesses, speaking to our captive audience from Jerusalem (having been conquered by the German-Jesuit EU), giving us the GOOD NEWS that our personal lord and NATIONAL SAVIOR, our NATIONAL DELIVERER, is coming soon to save us.
It is this glorious GOOD NEWS that I share within the first chapter of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall, appropriately called: "Survival Guaranteed!"
David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out the Beyond Babylon blog.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
The EU is a German Ruse
Bill Cash, MP, questions The German Question [The European Journal, April 2007] "of what and where is Europe?" when "Germany has not even established her own national identity, which remains strikingly unstable even after reunification... let alone found a directing principle which can hold the ramshackle European Union together...".
Mr. Cash proceeds to warn: "Without radical change, the evolution of the EU would lead to a German Europe." He then proposes, challenging German ambitions: "The institutions and treaties reasoned under the terms of the Franco–German partnership need to be unravelled and renegotiated to support a simpler and freer association of nation states with national referendums on all existing treaties. A democratic answer to the German Question at last."
The Germans have created and tolerated the charade of the EU. They have never intended to share power with untermenschen nations but have planned to methodically impose Germany's will, however slowly but surely, upon the continent by stealth.
Even as the irascible Nazi-Muslims, the "Palestinians" - German agents of genocide against the Jews by proxy - patiently pursue their phased destruction of Israel (with collaboration from its purchased oligarchy), Germany will dispense of democracy as soon as it has served its purpose, outlived its exploitation, even as Adolf Hitler did once he consolidated power to himself. The world is in for a rude awakening: The EU is a German ruse.
What will enable Germany to reveal their true colors? To exercise complete dominance over Europe? To gain the consent of the continent to be placed under total German control? An unprecedented crisis of sorts. Will Iran offer Germany this opportunity?
Will Germany find itself fulfilled in its mission from God to save Europe by restoring the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation"? Will the Vatican offer Germany this meaning and purpose and direction it presently lacks - at least publicly? Will the pope strongly promote Germany to rescue the world from Islam, by any means necessary, and get the masses eating out of his hand? Will The Atlantic Times address the German threat or leave it to others to lead?
The German question demands a German answer, and such an answer is destined to take the world by surprise. The United States as world leader is history. Providence has so decreed Germany rules. Will Germany get it right this time? Or will the German-Jesuits require humbling by Asian instruments? And will all mankind demand divine deliverance?
Saturday, March 31, 2007
The British look to Germany to save them from Iran
Tony Blair conceded defeat some time ago for any proper British-Israelite response to Nazi-Muslim provocations. It appears the British, like the foolish Israelis, look to the German-EU to save them and then stab them in the back.
Europe to Take Out Iran for Jerusalem
God Save Us From Islam and Europe!
Ehud Olmert Playing with German Fire
Death to the American, British & Jewish Peoples?
EU to Conquer Anglo-Saxons and Jews
Europe to Take Out Iran for Jerusalem
God Save Us From Islam and Europe!
Ehud Olmert Playing with German Fire
Death to the American, British & Jewish Peoples?
EU to Conquer Anglo-Saxons and Jews
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Right on Rosemary Righter!
Righter: The EU needs to drop "its childishly defensive attitude to the US"
Rosemary Righter argues in the Times that the EU "is America 's pampered godchild," and that the EU could not have been realised without "America 's unflinching strategic and financial support for European recovery, and for the idea of European unity." Righter goes on, "At the age of 50, the EU should at last be able to shed its childishly defensive attitude to the US. So, even, should France . For only by pooling the skills and talents of Europe and America, will the European Union achieve its true international potential."
Germany's Fourth Reich aka "the European Union" will only acknowledge Americans as useful idiots.
Herbert W. Armstrong was right: a German-dominated Europe (under strong Jesuit influence) will wreak havoc on the world playing God.
God save us all!
Europe's Bitter Roots
Germany to Take the EU Bull by the Horns
Is Germany in Danger of Backsliding?
Herbert W. Armstrong Was Ahead of His Time!
The Intelligence Summit Misses the Mark: the German-Jesuit Threat to World Peace
EU to Conquer Anglo-Saxons and Jews
Will the Atlantic Times Address the German threat?
Bavarian Pope to Pump Life into EU Body
Europe Swings Both Ways
Bible Prophecy States EU to Form Core Group
Is a World Dictator About to Appear?
Bavarian Pope to Sweep Europe Off Its Feet?
Europe to Take Out Iran for Jerusalem
Europe Misses the Mark - Will It Return as the Sign of the Cross?
Germany's Fourth Reich Spreads Its Wings Over the World
Catholic Europe in Vogue?
Bavarian Pope Entrusts Germany To Lead Europe, Others Wary Of The Grand Inquisitor
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Landmark dates for the European Union
Landmark dates for the European Union
21.03.2007 - 09:23 CETAfter World War II – French economist Jean Monnet develops his plans to ease tensions between France and Germany as they square up over control of the steel-and coal-rich Ruhr region.
1950 – French foreign minister Robert Schuman makes his seminal declaration on France and Germany setting up a common coal and steel community, harnessing them together economically so that another war would become "not merely unthinkable but materially impossible."
1951 – The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) is established by the Treaty of Paris. Six countries – Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg – are members.
1955 – The Messina declaration by the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in 1955 was a statement of intention to create the European economic community. It paved the way for the signing of the Treaty of Rome.
1957 – The six members of the ECSC sign the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).
1958 – The principles of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are set by the Stresa conference and come into force in 1962.
1963 – "Non!" French President Charles De Gaulle vetoes British membership, saying he believes the country is not committed enough to European integration.
1967 – ECSC, EEC and Euratom merge to form the European Community (EC).
1973 – The UK, Ireland and Denmark join the European Community. Norway votes against joining.
1979 – Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) is formed, linking the German mark, French and Belgian francs, Dutch guilder, Danish crown, Irish punt and Italian lira within narrow bands.
1981 – Greece joins the European Community (10th member).
1985 – Jacques Delors becomes president of the European Commission. His close ties with the leaders of France and Germany made it one of the most dynamic times for the bloc.
1986 – Spain and Portugal join the European Community. The European Flag – blue background with 12 golden stars – is unveiled.
1987 – Single European Act comes into force. It set 1992 as the goal for achieving a common market.
1990 – After the fall of the Berlin Wall and end of communist rule, the new democracies of central and eastern Europe express a wish to join the European Community.
1991 – The Maastricht treaty on Economic and Monetary Union is signed. The European Community becomes the European Union. It paves the way to monetary union, introduces the idea of European citizenship, allowing voting in municipal elections in any member state. It also introduces the so-called three pillars of the European Union (the European Communities pillar, the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Justice and Home Affairs pillar).
1993 – The Maastricht Treaty comes into force – having been only narrowly approved in France and only after a second referendum in Denmark which secured a monetary union opt-out.
1995 – Austria, Sweden and Finland join the EU. Norway again votes no to joining the bloc (1994). France, Spain, Germany, Portugal and the Benelux countries are the first to drop internal border controls as part of the Schengen Agreement. Ireland and the UK remain outside the open borders agreement.
1997 – EU leaders agree to open entry talks with six candidates: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia and Cyprus. Five other ex-communist states - Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria and Romania - are told they must make more progress before opening negotiations.
1997 – Amsterdam Treaty creates the post of EU High Representative for foreign and security policy, opens the way to more co-operation in justice and home affairs as well as the possibility, under strict conditions, for member states to go ahead and cooperate further if they want.
1999 – The EU agrees to start accession talks with Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Malta. It also agrees to recognise Turkey as an applicant country.
2000 – An acrimonious summit in France agrees the Nice Treaty on institutional reforms to prepare the bloc for enlargement – but even before the ink was dry, it was generally agreed that it would only be a stopgap treaty with further EU reform needed. It goes into force in 2003 after having first been rejected, then accepted, by Ireland.
2002 – The euro becomes the currency in 12 countries – Denmark, Sweden and the UK keep their national currencies.
2004 – Ten new member states – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Malta and Cyprus – join the EU. The EU constitution is signed, it introduces an EU foreign minister, gives the European Parliament more power and changes the EU decision-making system.
2005 – The EU constitution is rejected by French and Dutch voters in referendums – putting the document into political limbo.
2005 – The EU opens membership talks with both Croatia – expected to join in 2009/10 - and Turkey - not expected to join for a decade.
2007 – Bulgaria and Romania join the EU. Slovenia becomes the 13th member state to take on the single currency.
2007 and beyond – negotiations on a new-look EU treaty are still under way. The name 'constitution' is likely to be dropped however, proving too much to swallow for several countries.
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The Intelligence Summit Misses the Mark: the German-Jesuit Threat to World Peace
Europe's Bitter Roots
Germany to Take the EU Bull by the Horns
Is Germany in Danger of Backsliding?
Herbert W. Armstrong Was Ahead of His Time!
EU to Conquer Anglo-Saxons and Jews
Will the Atlantic Times Address the German threat?
Bavarian Pope to Pump Life into EU Body
Europe Swings Both Ways
Bible Prophecy States EU to Form Core Group
Is a World Dictator About to Appear?
Bavarian Pope to Sweep Europe Off Its Feet?
Europe to Take Out Iran for Jerusalem
Europe Misses the Mark - Will It Return as the Sign of the Cross?
Germany's Fourth Reich Spreads Its Wings Over the World
Catholic Europe in Vogue?
Bavarian Pope Entrusts Germany To Lead Europe, Others Wary Of The Grand Inquisitor
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Why Israel does not win the war
WHY ISRAEL DOES NOT WIN THE WAR
copyright (c) 2007 by Mr. Joel Bainerman
www.joelbainerman.com
"Why Israel doesn't win the war"
by Joel Bainerman
ISRAEL INSIDER
January 11, 2007
http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/10321.htm
Mr. Reuven Koret
Editor and Publisher
INSRAEL INSIDER
www.israelinsider.com
Excerpt: "It would not be possible for Hamas to exist if the Israeli national leadership did not allow it to exist. It does exist because having Hamas and Hezbollah around allows the foreign elements to intervene freely in the affairs of the region -- through the national puppetships of Olmert, Abbas, and Seniora -- from all sides. That is how the foreign elements force their way into the domestic affairs of the countries -- and pressure national leaders to do the bidding of foreign masters".
YERUSHALIYIM, Israelite Tribal Territories of Judah and Benjamin, Kingdom of David and Solomon, United Israelite Kingdom of Judah and Joseph, Fourth Day, Eleventh Month ("Shvat"), 5767; Yom Shlishi (Third Day of Week/"Tues"-day, January 23, 2007) Root & Branch Information Services [mailto:rb@rb.org.il] [www.rb.org.il]:
When the expulsion from Gaza was taking place, I tried to tell anyone who would listen: "There is a reason these actions are taking place and it is not because all of a sudden Sharon became a lefty".
Today, I am trying to tell people that Ehud Olmert is not telling the Palestinians "You have won: We will give you everything" because he has "gone mad" or because he is being "naive".
Olmert and Sharon before him, and Rabin before him, are doing exactly what they are told: Creating the conditions for future conflict.
Here is how the game works:
Jews were forced to leave Gaza "for their own good". A low-intensity war was planned (the one taking place right now) between Israel and Hamas. The new plan was to introduce a whole new batch of instability into the area. Just as has been the "program" for the past 80 years in this region.
As a result, the Jews could not be allowed to remain in their homes.
Why not? Because if you want to have a manageable battlefield, you can not have Israeli citizens in the middle of it. Hamas needed space to set up their operations -- training grounds and firing zones. They could not do that in crowded Gaza streets. So Jewish settlements were torn down and Hamas training facilities and rocket launch sites were erected in their place.
Israel could destroy Hamas tomorrow, just as it could have destroyed Hezbullah in less than three days had the army been allowed to. Every Israeli knows this. So how come that did not and does not happen?
It is not because the Israeli national leadership is worried about "world public opinion". The citizens of the U.S. and the rest of the civilized world would not have a problem ending the continued existence of Hamas. Yet Israel does not do this.
Israel does not exterminate Hamas for the same reason America never caught Bin Laden.
The reason why the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October, 2001, was "because the Taliban did not hand over Bin Laden". But five years later -- the Americans still cannot say for sure whether he is even alive or not. With all the might and power of the U.S. army and armies throughout the Western World, and intelligence agencies throughout the world, this one guy cannot be apprehended.
He is either superhuman, or the Western World is incompetent. Or: The West lets him get away.
Same thing with Israel: Can the I.D.F. not know exactly where the rocket launchers are in Gaza -- and knock them out from the air? Of course they can. So why are Israeli leaders not doing this? Because doing so would dramatically improve Israel's position and strength, and those from abroad who are pulling the strings do not want a strong and committed Jewish State. They thrive on Israel being divided and weak.
It would not be possible for Hamas to exist if the Israeli national leadership did not allow it to exist. It does exist because having Hamas and Hezbollah around allows the foreign elements to intervene freely in the affairs of the region -- through the national puppetships of Olmert, Abbas, and Seniora -- from all sides. That is how the foreign elements force their way into the domestic affairs of the countries -- and pressure national leaders to do the bidding of foreign masters.
Why do they do this? Take your pick: To control the events. To keep the region in a state of permanent conflict. To sell arms. To keep the price of oil high.
The "why" may be less important than the fact -- not appreciated by all -- that this is just the way it is. And always has been. Hamas and Hezbollah and Bin-Laden, by being allowed to survive, serve a common purposes of the elite masters of war: Intimidate, divide and rule. Not just the Middle East. The "democracies" of the West as well.
Shalom and Chodesh Tov from Zichron Ya'akov,
Mr. Joel Bainerman
About Joel Bainerman:
Joel Bainerman is a writer on Israeli and Middle East affairs, who has been researching Middle East political and economic subjects since 1983. His research reports and published archive may be viewed at [www.joelbainerman.com].
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copyright (c) 2007 by Mr. Joel Bainerman
www.joelbainerman.com
"Why Israel doesn't win the war"
by Joel Bainerman
ISRAEL INSIDER
January 11, 2007
http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/10321.htm
Mr. Reuven Koret
Editor and Publisher
INSRAEL INSIDER
www.israelinsider.com
YERUSHALIYIM, Israelite Tribal Territories of Judah and Benjamin, Kingdom of David and Solomon, United Israelite Kingdom of Judah and Joseph, Fourth Day, Eleventh Month ("Shvat"), 5767; Yom Shlishi (Third Day of Week/"Tues"-day, January 23, 2007) Root & Branch Information Services [mailto:rb@rb.org.il] [www.rb.org.il]:
When the expulsion from Gaza was taking place, I tried to tell anyone who would listen: "There is a reason these actions are taking place and it is not because all of a sudden Sharon became a lefty".
Today, I am trying to tell people that Ehud Olmert is not telling the Palestinians "You have won: We will give you everything" because he has "gone mad" or because he is being "naive".
Olmert and Sharon before him, and Rabin before him, are doing exactly what they are told: Creating the conditions for future conflict.
Here is how the game works:
Jews were forced to leave Gaza "for their own good". A low-intensity war was planned (the one taking place right now) between Israel and Hamas. The new plan was to introduce a whole new batch of instability into the area. Just as has been the "program" for the past 80 years in this region.
As a result, the Jews could not be allowed to remain in their homes.
Why not? Because if you want to have a manageable battlefield, you can not have Israeli citizens in the middle of it. Hamas needed space to set up their operations -- training grounds and firing zones. They could not do that in crowded Gaza streets. So Jewish settlements were torn down and Hamas training facilities and rocket launch sites were erected in their place.
Israel could destroy Hamas tomorrow, just as it could have destroyed Hezbullah in less than three days had the army been allowed to. Every Israeli knows this. So how come that did not and does not happen?
It is not because the Israeli national leadership is worried about "world public opinion". The citizens of the U.S. and the rest of the civilized world would not have a problem ending the continued existence of Hamas. Yet Israel does not do this.
Israel does not exterminate Hamas for the same reason America never caught Bin Laden.
The reason why the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October, 2001, was "because the Taliban did not hand over Bin Laden". But five years later -- the Americans still cannot say for sure whether he is even alive or not. With all the might and power of the U.S. army and armies throughout the Western World, and intelligence agencies throughout the world, this one guy cannot be apprehended.
He is either superhuman, or the Western World is incompetent. Or: The West lets him get away.
Same thing with Israel: Can the I.D.F. not know exactly where the rocket launchers are in Gaza -- and knock them out from the air? Of course they can. So why are Israeli leaders not doing this? Because doing so would dramatically improve Israel's position and strength, and those from abroad who are pulling the strings do not want a strong and committed Jewish State. They thrive on Israel being divided and weak.
It would not be possible for Hamas to exist if the Israeli national leadership did not allow it to exist. It does exist because having Hamas and Hezbollah around allows the foreign elements to intervene freely in the affairs of the region -- through the national puppetships of Olmert, Abbas, and Seniora -- from all sides. That is how the foreign elements force their way into the domestic affairs of the countries -- and pressure national leaders to do the bidding of foreign masters.
Why do they do this? Take your pick: To control the events. To keep the region in a state of permanent conflict. To sell arms. To keep the price of oil high.
The "why" may be less important than the fact -- not appreciated by all -- that this is just the way it is. And always has been. Hamas and Hezbollah and Bin-Laden, by being allowed to survive, serve a common purposes of the elite masters of war: Intimidate, divide and rule. Not just the Middle East. The "democracies" of the West as well.
Shalom and Chodesh Tov from Zichron Ya'akov,
Mr. Joel Bainerman
About Joel Bainerman:
Joel Bainerman is a writer on Israeli and Middle East affairs, who has been researching Middle East political and economic subjects since 1983. His research reports and published archive may be viewed at [www.joelbainerman.com].
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I wouldn’t doubt the Israeli “leaders” will collaborate with the Europeans to permit and ENABLE the Islamofascists to inflict further damage to Israel, beating Israel down psychologically and physically, so that the Israelis will feel it “necessary” for foreign intervention and welcome them as “saviors” when Bible believers know a brutal betray is in store once the fox is in the chicken coop. Watch for UN Resolution 181 to be offered as the “final solution.”
Woe to Ariel! (Jerusalem to suffer EU occupation)
Ehud Olmert Playing with German Fire
God Save Us From Islam and Europe!
Monday, January 22, 2007
The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11
The Two Witnesses will offer hope and comfort to our captive audience, the Jewish and Israelite peoples under the German-Jesuit jackboot. The Two Witnesses will help prepare Judah for the prophesied repentance that will welcome Yeshua to return and liberate Jerusalem from the European Beast and European False Prophet who will pollute the holy Temple upon the Temple Mount.
Israel and Judah Must Get House in Order Before King Messiah Arrives
The Great Mideast Commission: Reaching the Cities of Judah
Israel and Judah Must Get House in Order Before King Messiah Arrives
The Great Mideast Commission: Reaching the Cities of Judah
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