Rv:14:8: And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

“In a speech in London.” That’s how the BBC characterised Gordon Brown’s Mansion House Speech last night. Contrary to the BBC’s misrepresentation, this is not just another speech. It is at this event that Brown traditionally delivers his call to arms for the New World Order.

In last year’s speech, just prior to the financial collapse, he said, “… and I believe what will also be said of this age, the first decade of the 21st Century, that out of what will be seen as the greatest restructuring of the global economy, perhaps one even greater than at the time of the industrial revolution, a new world order was created …”

This year, apparently, following the election of Barak Obama, the time is now right to create a “truly global society” - a term he used several times during the speech. We should now “seize the moment” offered by the greatest restructuring of the global economy to forge a “new multilateralism.”

“Uniquely in this global age, it is now in our power to come together so that 2008 is remembered not just for the failure of a financial crash that engulfed the world but for the resilience and optimism with which we faced the storm, endured it and prevailed. And remembered too for how in doing so we discovered and refashioned the global power of nations working together.

“And having shown the power of coordinated global action to recapitalise our banks and cut interest rates for homeowners and businesses, this weekend in Washington we will seek to go further, launching the process of rebuilding the international financial system.

“So while I see a world that is facing financial crisis and still diminished by conflict and injustice I also see the chance to forge a new multilateralism that is both hard headed and progressive. And if we learn from our experience of turning unity of purpose into unity of action, we can together seize this moment of change in our world to create a truly global society.”

He went on … “As America stands at its own dawn of hope, so let that hope be fulfilled through a pact with the wider world to lead and shape the twenty first century as the century of a truly global society. And I believe the whole of Europe can work closely with America to meet the great challenges which will test our resolution and illuminate our convictions.”

He concluded with an appeal to world leaders, “My message is that we must be internationalist, not protectionist; interventionist not neutral; progressive not reactive; and forward looking, not frozen by events. We can seize the moment and in doing so build a truly global society.”

Rev17:1: And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

3: So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4: And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

5: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Gal:4:24: Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

Gal:4:25: For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Mt:23:37: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Matthew 24:15: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16: Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19: And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20: But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21: For then

such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22: And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Amitai Etzioni

Obama: the Second Half

Posted May 21, 2008 | 01:28 PM (EST)

In the my wildest dreams, during eighteen years of championing communitarianism, I did not expect a presidential candidate to be as strongly identified with this political philosophy as Obama is. It is hence particularly important that he will not limit his message to "we are not from red states, not from blue states, but from the United States"--but will add: "Ask not what your country...."; that he will go beyond we-are-all-in this-together kumbaya--to we all will have to put our shoulders to the wheel to get this train back on the tracks; from feel-good politics, sprinkled liberally with the holy water of hope that has no cost-- to political leadership which seeks a mandate for change that will require sacrifices for the common good. In short, follow the communitarianism of responsibility above and beyond that of community-building, which is by far the less taxing part.

In The Audacity of Hope, written before Obama declared his bid for the presidency, the author showed, even more then President Kennedy, he understood that we should "ground our politics in the notion of a common good." Obama was well versed not only in the language of rights and entitlements but also that of obligations. In those far away days, in 2005, he wrote, "We value the imperatives of family and the cross-generational obligations that family implies...We value patriotism and the obligations of citizenship, a sense of duty and sacrifice on behalf of our nation."

Better yet, Obama used to stress that "in the end a sense of mutual understanding isn't enough. After all, talk is cheap; like any value, empathy must be acted upon." He recounted with pride that when he was a community organizer "[he] would often challenge neighborhood leaders by asking them where they put their time, energy and money." In those days, he put it better than any other communitarian when he stated: " If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all."

On the campaign trail many of these profound insights have faded. We now hear painless declarations such as "Our prosperity can and must be the tide that lifts every boat; that we rise or fall as one nation." And such undemanding observations as "...too often, we lose our sense of common destiny; the] understanding that we are all tied together."

The Noahide Borg Collective, no individualism

True, occasionally we still hear echoes of the old Obama; but now the recognition that sacrifice we must appears as a sort of after thought. On the campaign trail Obama typically declares that now we "...require a new spirit of cooperation, innovation, and shared sacrifice."

The nation is upon hard times. Its coffers are empty; creditors are at the gate; the military is exhausted and depleted; the regard with which America is held overseas is at all time low, and major economic and security challenges pile up like that many storm clouds. The nation demands a prolonged period of restoration, one in which merely replenishing all that was squandered will entail raising taxes and keeping new expenditures under a tight leash. In plain English--sacrifices. If the next president will enter office without a mandate for such give rather than take, especially for imposing a hefty tax on oil, we are likely to sink deeper into the ditch in which we have been cast rather than to start to climb out.

Granted, being straight with the American people is to engage in risky politics. Walter Mondale got his head handed to him when he candidly addressed the need for raising taxes (although his main problem was not his candor but that he seems to look forward with glee to higher taxes rather than bemoan their inevitably). Jimmy Cater got into similar trouble when he tried to impose a tiny tax (50 cents) on gasoline. And John F Kennedy did not get to "Ask Not" until his inauguration. In contrast, Ronald Regan sailed into White House on wave of hope of a new morning in America, which required no more than being there at dawn.

Maybe the best one can hope for is not a Churchillian call for 'blood, sweat, and tears," but for Obama as the presidential candidate to quote the author of Audacity of Hope. For him to lay out the full communitarian message-- that community building does not mean merely embracing one another and laying to rest our divisions, but also serving the common good. That our rights are sacred but so are our responsibilities.

Better, Obama can employ a communitarian device and ask the people what they believe. Do Americans see a need for sacrifices? How would they free us from our dependency on imported oil? What are they willing to do to get the nation out of debt? How far do they hold that nation should go in protecting itself from terrorism?

Each page of the ACL (Anti-Communitarian League) website was created to explore topics that directly related to the communitarian synthesis. Today I know the synthesis includes EVERY idea, religion, theory, etc. that ever existed. Naturally, I would not have attempted to even begin the ACL if I had known how HUGE and unmanageable it would eventually become. Early in the formation of this website, when it was just an idea to expose the local Seattle Agenda 21 Plan, Nordica compiled a list of all the topics relative to communitarianism, and told me to fill them in. That's when I first realized the significant importance of our limited understanding of the history of the world, it's religion, and it's religious laws.

We also found ourselves faced with several emotional dilemmas. The first was the whole issue of using the Talmud to balance U.S. law into a Judaic interpretation. The founder of American Communitarian "thinking" studied the Kabbalah and there's also a little-known Sanhendrin Court that enforces something called the Seven Noahide Laws. There are several U.S. Congessional Acts that establish days and honors for The Seven Laws of Noah and Gaia-Mother Earth. This whole communitarian plan is peppered with religions I never heard of in my life. (When I started the ACL I didn't know what the Talmud or Gaia was; today the ACL Talmudic Law page is near the top of every search for "judaic law.") The second was the Catholic pope and priests being the first writings we found that explicitly defined political communitarianism as the synthesis in the Hegelian-Marxist dialectic.

My overeducated, and sweet, loving son has been in a Catholic private school for ten years (he lives with his Irish Catholic father). I thought they were doing a wonderful job of raising him, and the last thing I ever wanted to do was look closely at the Catholic Church. The third and most confusing area for me was finding the Protestant support for communitarian Zionism. I found myself so far over my head in areas I had never studied that the religious aspects remain the most neglected area of ACL research.

From the beginning, I tried to keep my personal spiritual beliefs out of my anti-communitarian argument. This was probably not the wisest decision, since Hegel's whole theory included the idea of humanity "achieving spirit" and dialectical philosophy is devoted to this idea. Plus there's the fact that the emerging supra-national world order includes a "new world religion" that endorses a little bit of every religion in the world. As the ACL moves deeper into the religious roots for the coming synthesis of all ideas (including all religions), I am already getting emails that question my religious beliefs. I've decided these are valid questions, as I could easily be another phony front for a blatant Satanic "light" worshipping organization (like 1000 Points of Light).

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