Current events and reforms are leading us towards "Global governance".

I don't have much time to make any large or well done posts so I will just provide links and quotes. I have been keeping up with Glenn Beck's show and he is stating that everything is heading towards global governance.

Tonight, I'm going to show you where we are headed — attention liberal bloggers in basements everywhere: Please put down World of Warcraft 11 and sharpen your pencils — this all heads towards global governance.[...] So you have all of these countries going down in domino effect. We're starting to see now people are freaking out — wait a minute, wait a minute, what is happening in Europe? Apparently, their economies are all tied together. It's almost like we're all interdependent on each other. Here's the headline from Monday's Washington Post: 'One false move in Europe could set off global chain reaction.' OK, they've got part of it; there have already been about a hundred 'false moves,' but at least they are catching on that trouble is coming. I've been warning you about this and how Greece and other countries that fail will be pushed into a global framework. Well, the IMF is telling Greece, now that you've been bailed out, here's what you can and cannot spend. The IMF hasn't even bailed out Spain yet, but they are pressuring them for far-reaching and comprehensive reform of the country. Europe, I hope you enjoyed sovereignty while you had it.[ emphases mine]

America and the whole world are headed towards economic failure.

And according to Beck this Financial bill will give the government control over 60% of the U.S. economy. And he points to the fact that many of these reforms taking place won't be repealed. This financial bill gives a lot of new powers to the government and with combined with other recent reforms will give the government control over 60% of the economy.

We've got another major reform about to get jammed down our throats![...] The United Nations in their Human Development Report says: 'Governance is not government — it is the framework of rules, institutions and practices that set limits on behavior of individuals, organizations and companies.[...] We're making the same mistakes we make in the 1930s, except the first time we made these mistakes, the American people didn't know what progressives were really about and there was no global structure in place. When FDR died in office, we could still reverse many of the things he tried to do. But this time, we won't be able to, because your representatives won't have any control.[...] Again, I ask you to call your representative at the IMF and complain if you don't like that fact that America spent $50 billion in tax money to bail out Greece. Call your representative at the U.N. and say you won't vote for him next time. Contact the World Bank and let them know that you'll close your bank account with them if you have to.[emphases mine]

A global structure makes the current time different from that of the past.

These two links are interesting. Looking at current events with understanding of history, the nature of government, and human nature, directed me into agreeing with this point of view and it has been confirmed in the various books I have read over the past year and a half.

The current direction the world is heading--IF things don't change-- shows that decades down the road the world could united and under the thumb of some one world political system.

Things have only headed more towards this direction in the past year and made it less likely to not happen.

Scott Brown: a real "game changer" who is leading us down the same road that the left is.

It was not that long ago that we were touting Scott Brown's victory as a big move to the right on the part of voters and an indication of America's turn back towards the right. He voted with the Democrats on the Jobs Bill which was a smaller stimulus bill. We now know that the first stimulus had no affect on job growth, just look at the current unemployment numbers and the recent increase in first time application for jobless benefits. Scott Brown was the deciding vote in the passing of the democrat's financial reform bill. Brown caved into Harry Reid with assurances that Brown's previous concerns that Massachusetts banks would not be adversely affected and voted, along with good company namely Snowe, for this huge government intervention into the financial sector. This new government intervention in the financial sector is a perfect illustration of the "crises of intervention" as stated by Mises which basically states that one government intervention in the economy creates a problem and leads to more government intervention to solve the problem. (I won't provide much details about the reform because from the little I have read about it I summed it up fairly well above: more government.)

Well what does this show us? People are certainly fed up with the government's attempts to take over the private sector, just like the people in Massachusetts soundly rejected Obama care, and it looks like there will possibly be a big conservative victory in November; but if Scott Brown is any indication of the type of Republicans that we can hope for, then it does not look like a true fundamental change will occur. Brown is from a liberal state, but voting for these two bills is even a little far for a left-leaning conservative. The bottom line with Brown is that he is taking us down the same road that the democrats are regardless of the reasoning behind it. Palin is looking like a flop along with Brown. Mitt Romney name is out there to run on the Republican Presidential ticket and he is the one who created a smaller version of Obama care up there in Massachusetts. Aside for Chris Christie and Maybe Paul Ryan, I don't see any real conservatives out there. This goes to show that there is little difference between the left and the right in our Country: they both are taking us down the same path to bigger government. But I am just sure that conservatives will win big in the coming elections and in the long term turn the direction that our Country and the world is headed, I say this in a jesting manner. I don't know maybe a real conservative will come out of nowhere and save the day, but I am running out of excuses to not believe that there will be no real change in the direction that our Country is headed in the long term.

A few good links: "A global socialist vehicle" and an in-your-face conservative.

I found these two videos interesting. According to Glenn Beck the global economy will collapse and some global cabal of governments will come along and promise to fix things by taking us in a new-global-socialist direction, or something to that effect. Glenn Beck in the link below makes this point. The world's economy--the EU, America, and China to name a few--has some serious fundamental-structural weaknesses that are leading to a major world-wide economic downturn. The fact is that the world is interconnected--globalization--and this economic downturn will lead to a united-global effort to deal with the downturn, and this global effort will lead to more socialism or what ever you want to call it. The more I read, the more I am convinced that this will be the case.

Merkel said over the weekend that with the rescue package 'we have done nothing more than to buy time until we have brought order to these competitive differences and to the budget deficits of individual euro countries.'

Buying time for what, exactly?

The worst is not behind us. This is a trillion-dollar stall tactic.

It'd be like if your car broke down and it would cost double the value of the car to save it. Would you do it? Of course not. Unless, the dealer promised you a trade in a few weeks down the road. That's what they are doing — except they haven't told you what the trade in will be. I'll spare you the suspense: It's going to be a Yugo. A global socialist vehicle that's nothing like what we have. It's coming and quickly.

I was watching something on the history channel about the little ice age that was between 1300-1850--how could the climate change without man burning fossil fuels?--and it was interesting that people refused to adapt by planting and eating potatoes that were suited to the colder climate because of the belief that it was evil and a lot of people starved because of this. They did not decide to plant this below-ground crop on a large scale until invaders came and started burning their above ground cereal crops. The point being that people refuse to change and adapt in face of great change. This is a large scale example of the 10-80-10 rule.

Here is Governor Chris Christie answering a question with frankness and candor--well worth the two and a half minutes. There need to be more politicians like this.

Russian Navy Shows How to Negotiate with Pirates

In 2003, the US showed the world that it's quite a folly to have a large army if it can't accomplish anything, as a relatively small US military force routed what was at the time probably one of the top five militaries in the world (on paper at least). 

One wonders what we are getting for our $1 Gazillion, when the Russian Navy can accomplish far more than us with far less:

Following high level complaints about “imperfections” in international law, Russia announced Tuesday that captured Somali pirates “have all died.”
…
The official told Russian news agencies the pirates’ boat disappeared from Russian radar about an hour after their release.

“They could not reach the coast and, apparently, have all died,” the official said.

Totally Awesome.  Why can't they be on our side?

The Russians have just solved the piracy problem, at least as far as their own ships are concerned, with probably a fraction the effort that we and our allies are putting into it.

Is America bailing out Greece?

According to this Rush Limbaugh, this is true, the links are good at the end of this article. Greece is being bailed out by the EU and the IMF. President Obama gave 100 billion dollars to the IMF last year. According to this article, it looks like the Federal Reserve is loaning money to the European Central Bank,

European leaders negotiated into the early hours of Monday before reaching a deal in which governments that use the euro would join the EU and International Monetary Fund in putting up euro750 billion in loans available to prop up troubled governments. The European Central bank will buy government and private debt to keep debt markets working and lower borrowing costs, a crisis measure dubbed the 'nuclear option,' while the U.S. Federal Reserve joined with other central banks in the effort, reactivating a currency swap program used during the earlier stages of the financial crisis to ship dollars overseas to be pumped into banking systems as short-term credit. [emphases mine]

And according to Rush's take on this fact,

I want to talk about money first, the fact that nobody has any. We have just bailed out Greece and the European Union. The borrowing window at the Federal Reserve is open, almost $1 trillion. Now, you might be saying, "What do you mean, we? I read that the European Union..." The European Union showed up at Ben Bernanke's borrowing window, and guess what? We're loaning them a trillion dollars, but it's unsecured. There's no collateral. If they go belly up, guess who's paying for it, folks? You and me. Now, we haven't even gotten to bailing out California yet, and they're in worse shape than Greece. They're printing Euros to handle all this. Nobody has any money. We are witnessing right before our very eyes what happens with unchecked, uncontrolled socialism and worse.

The IMF is fulfilling its purpose, but it appears that America is bailing out Greece. Just an interesting point. This article makes an interesting observation about the consequences of America's level of debt.

GO TORIES!!!

Looking good so far, the Lib Dem's vaulted surge has failed to materialize, one of their top MP's just lost his seat, and they're failing on some of the most contentious seats.

Too many seats to go, but here's hoping for a Tory surge tonight!

Good link to watch the seat by seat coverage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/results/

Republican Wave to Continue?

The second steal from Hot Air: We'll soon get a chance to see if the wave against President Hope 'n' Change is rolling on or not.  Two Special House Elections in Dem territories are happening in May.  In deep blue Hawaii's urban Honalulu district, Republican Charles Djou is leading two Democrats, 36% to 28% to 22%.  This is a winner-take-all election, and according to the article, the Democrats are hammering each other as hard as they are hammering Djou, so this could be a fluke win in an odd election arrangement.  But still, a Republican hasn't represented Hawaii at the national level since 1991, so a win would still be a definite message in Obama's alleged home state.

The second race is for deceased EX-Marine scumbag John Murtha's seat in Pennsylvania.  Murtha was Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District's representative from 1974 until his death earlier this year(!) who famously accused Marines of being cold-blooded killers in the Haditha massacre controversy in 2006.  Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-to-1 in this district, but according to the KOS poll on May 1, Republican Tim Burns was leading Democrat Mark Critz 46%-40%.  A win here would be another slap in the face to Democratic leadership, and a sign that the awakening of fiscally responsible conservatives has not yet passed. 

Go Guys!

Get Your Greek Updates Right Here at RTP&GG!

H/T Hot Air - First of two quick steals from Hot Air: Man, we have been ON this issue! 

Anyway, Greece announced its $145 billion rescue plan from the EU and IMF, which is supposed to stave off bankruptcy and stop investors from further panic with other European nations on the edge of disaster: Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Ireland.  In return for the $145 billion bailout (as Hot Air notes, this is 1/6 of Obama's Porkulus package), the Greeks are being severely hobbled:

The agreement is a financial lifeline for a country staggered by repeated budget deficits and economic malaise. In exchange for the loan, Greek government officials have promised to continue an array of reform measures that, among other things, already have cut pensions and raised taxes.

These aren't just little hardships:

The proposed cuts in Greece include a new round of reductions in salaries for state workers, more flexibility to fire them, an increase in the value-added tax from 21 percent to 23 percent, and higher taxes on fuel, tobacco and alcohol. More state-run industries are expected to be privatized, and military spending will be slashed.

There are two questions: 1) will the Greek people stand for their financial disciplining? & 2) will it turn things around even if they can stand it?  Read the Hot Air and Washington Post links to learn more.  Hot Air's summarizing paragraph makes an interesting point:

American voters might be interested to see the scope of this bailout. It’s about a sixth the size of Porkulus, the Obama administration’s efforts to stimulate our economy, and just a little over a tenth the size of our annual budget deficit — and yet the EU and IMF have just about exhausted themselves to provide it. If we don’t fix our own problem, no one will be coming to our rescue.

Sam Adams Sucks (this has multiple meanings)

Recently Arizona enacted a bill that increases anti-illegal immigration policies in one of the worst illegal immigrant states. Senate Bill 1070 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB1070).

The bill makes it a state misdemeanor crime for an alien to be in Arizona without carrying legal documents, steps up state and local law enforcement of Federal immigration laws, and cracks down on those sheltering, hiring and transporting illegal immigrants

The reason why Sam Adams sucks, among other reasons, is that he is supporting a ban of city employees to travel to Arizona. He is joining a movement with his gay friend Gavin Newsom (mayor of San Francisco). The movement's main idea is that this new bill will violate civil rights.
(http://blogs.wweek.com/news/2010/05/03/sam-adams-supports-arizona-boycott/)

Illegal immigration is obviously a problem in this country. If nothing is done soon then illegals will be demanding more voting power and eventually veto any move to stop immigration. It will be interesting to see what happens with this bill. Hopefully California, Texas, and Florida do the same. It could cost more money but its a price I'm willing to pay.