Despite failing Euro

On September 11, NewsMax reported that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher accused current Prime Minister Tony Blair "of seeking to abolish Britain. Blair and his Labor Party have been heavily promoting a referendum that would join Britain to the Euro as the single currency of Europe, thereby dropping the pound. The prime minister and his government know that on this they must win. "For unless they abolish sterling they will never attain their wider goal of abolishing Britain as a distinct, self-confident, independent nation," Thatcher said. The heavy promotion of the euro by the Blair administration represents yet another in a recent switch in policies that place Britain more firmly in the European Union (EU) camp and distance between Britain and the US.

Until recently, Prime Minister Blair has long proposed that the EU be a group of loosely federated states led by a strong United Nations, while the EU heavies like Germany and France have been steadily and systematically working towards a superstate that will dominate world affairs. The first indication of this intent for a superstate came on February 29 when the EU agreed to create a 200,000 man European Army that would have up to 60,000 men ready to deploy at any one time.

By June 22, 2000 the London Telegraph reported that "Germany and France delivered a blunt warning to Tony Blair, during sharp exchanges at the EU summit which ended in Portugal yesterday, that he could not stop the development of a two-speed Europe that could leave Britain behind.... the founding members of the EU made clear that they were determined to press ahead with closer integration." ...Gerhard Schröder, the German Chancellor, bluntly reminded Blair that Europe already functioned at two speeds, "as you can see from the single currency and the Shengen agreement on open borders".

Schröder said that provided closer cooperation by a core of nations did not contravene EU treaties, "nobody can stop those member states that want to pursue a more co-ordinated [sic] policy from doing so".... Jacques Chirac, the French President, was even more explicit. "Yesterday's deal should finally break the "mind set" that at every EU summit it was always "Britain versus the rest of Europe," Chirac said.

On July 7, 2000 the London Herald reported Germany's foreign minister Joschka Fischer revealed he wanted to see a directly elected EU Commission president at the head of a European government within the next decade. He sketched out a system of government for a European Union with up to 30 members which bore a strong resemblance to political structures in place in the United States. A strong Commission president would become "a directly elected president of the Union who would have appropriate powers," said Joschka. The president would choose his government from national ministers and they would have to be confirmed in office by the European Parliament. The Parliament itself would be made up of two chambers. The lower one would consist of directly elected Euro MPs as at present. They would have powers over legislation, the budget, and confirmation of senior appointments. They would be joined by a Senate-style second chamber of directly elected national parliamentarians.

The handwriting was on the wall to Blair. It was obvious that European leaders promoting the superstate concept had broken the restraints which have been imposed by Britain that have kept the EU from becoming a superstate before now. By July 27 the London Sun reported that Blair had made up his mind to abandon the pound and join Germany and France in their fast track to accept the euro as Britain's standard. Blair seems determined to not be in the backwaters when the European nation is born.

This action puts Blair and Britain at odds with president Clinton, who does not want to see a European superstate that could compete head to head with the US. The crowning blow to the US position came on August 22, when the Guardian Unlimited reported that "The British government will formally break ranks with the US on Friday by supporting the creation of an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for genocide and other crimes against humanity."

Clinton is deathly afraid that such a court would find him and American military commanders guilty of crimes against humanity." Clinton is deathly afraid that such a court would find him and American military commanders guilty of crimes against humanity in his willingness to arbitrarily use military force against real or imagined enemies every time he gets into political trouble at home.

Nonetheless, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the most dangerous institution ever conceived by the mind of would-be tyrants. It is nothing less than a legalized Star Chamber where totally unaccountable judges can charge anyone (not just the president and military personnel as alluded to by Clinton) for "crimes against humanity," which in turn, can mean anything they want it to mean. The judges can then arrest the person who is charged without the knowledge or consent of the national government under which the person is a citizen, and bring him to trial during which he is stripped of all human rights and is guilty until proven innocent. And, the person has to prove himself innocent with meager funds and no help from the UN or his national government. Once the person is found guilty the ICC then can sentence him. And, the person can only appeal to the same court that found him guilty. The ICC is the hammer that will terrorize every citizen into obedience to the UN.

The growing schism between Europe and the US seems insurmountable. But that may be changing. Stratfor Intelligence reported on September 12 that the euro is plummeting, falling to 87 cents to the US dollar on September 7. "As the European Central Bank simultaneously battles inflation by raising interest rates, there are signs that the continent's economy will slow significantly over the next several months," says Stratfor. "After years of driving toward economic unity," warns Stratfor, "governments will seek divergent strategies in reaction to these events. In the next few years, Europe will be increasingly divided over everything from the role of the euro to the now fading hope of standardizing the continent's complex tax regime." This every-man-for-himself mentality is the opposite of what the union set out to do in 1992.

Will the EU come apart at the seams? It is doubtful. However, complete reunification will take decades rather than years as France and Germany had hoped. Britain may lose confidence in Blair and demand an election to reverse Britain's plunge into joining the European superstate. It appears that the Clinton-backed plan to make the UN the world government now has a clear shot at that goal.

While many Bible scholars still believe the EU to be the Ten Nation (Horn) confederacy spoken of by Daniel and John (in Revelation), that is rapidly becoming unlikely. There are plans to expand the EU from the 15 current members, not contract it. Other possibilities exist, but it is more likely that ten economic-military regions will emerge over the world that is based on the EU as a model. Nonetheless, the EU will have a prominent role in the new world government. According to the UN Commission on Global Governance and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the EU is the template for emerging regional governance bodies that will form the first level of governance in the world government. UN documents repeatedly state that the EU model should be applied across the world to create greater trade and military equity, as well as improve social stability. V mc