But it was the U.S. not the Russians that insisted on the veto.

What if the Russians had joined the U.N. and while we kept the agreement not to invade another country, without U.N. permission, they went ahead and invaded somewhere in our hemisphere as close as southern Mexico, or in Panama, in complete violation of the U.N. Charter to which they had agreed. Would Americans in that case feel that the Russians were a threat and were pushing.

This is exactly the Kosovo situation from the Russian point of view?

What if the U.S. was in a major depression? Its soldiers were behind in their pay. Housing conditions were terrible. Training was falling apart, and Russia was greatly increasing its military spending invading countries nearby to the U.S., "accidentally" bombing U.S. embassies, refusing to abide by treaties and the U.N. Charter, and there were in Russia conservative leaders crying that everything is falling apart in the Russian Military, and that they need to be spending much, much more for arms development.

However, it is just the reverse, in that it is Russia falling apart economically, Russia which cannot really afford more arms, or to keep up the arms that it has - although yes, they have launched Peter the Great, new nuclear submarines, are struggling to keep Mir in space, when it should be coming down, have a new fighter plane, and so forth, (but the U.S. is FAR, FAR better equipped), and yet the U.S. conservatives are yelling for more and more arms, and demanding that the U.S. not be obedient to the World Court, or follow U.N. decrees.

If the shoe were on the other foot, and it was Russia doing the things above that the U.S. has done, would Americans think the Russians were being bad international citizens and a threat to their safety?

Do the Americans really need all this screaming for more and more arms? What will it accomplish? Both sides already have more than enough to destroy the world. Both sides are already sufficiently angry with each other to start such a conflict. What will be the end result? Does it not appear inevitable? Should we not be thinking beyond this?

It will not help insight to respond to the above examples with counter examples of wrong doing on the other side, because the above questions were not about fact, but rather about feeling and perception. It is feeling and perception, the creating of emotion that will lead to the great catastrophe

Before we are too hard on the U.S. we must remember that the "Flag of World Unity" was first raised in San Francisco as the League of Nations, and that New York City was the "City of the Covenant" where the United Nations, the beginning of the NWO was established. That covenant will eventually, after World War Three, be extended and made firm, so as to assure that all aggressors are immediately dealt with and no further wide conflicts can occur.

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The effect of the NWO: Great GOOD and Great EVIL

Some people look upon the NWO as being unmatched evil, others look to it for unparalleled good. In reality it will be neither, but a mixture of the two. The great evil of the NWO is that it is incapable of bringing deep, lasting spiritual peace and unity to mankind. This deficiency is so great that eventually there will again be universal disturbance, although not so great and terrible as the one that will prompt its establishment. That future disturbance will, however, be so disturbing to a much more enlightened humanity that it will finally establish a universal system that will lead to a much more perfect peace and spiritual unity. These matters, however, are seen as being far into the future, at the end of a period of time called the millenium, or a thousand years, and are represented variously in a variety of Jewish, Christian, Moslem, Hindu and other philosophies, (for example such as the Nazi thousand year Reich).

It may strike some strange, to take such a long view of history, but there have been long periods of social structure before, such as the medieval period or the Chinese Dynasties. However, for those who do not see the Divine Destiny and Purpose of society these concepts will be but idle speculation. Indeed, for many, the very purpose behind the NWO, or for that matter life itself, is veiled in a total mystery.

The purpose of the NWO, in the Divine Destiny, is to allow a further period for the maturing of the human race. It is sort of a summer school for a humanity that has failed to pass the grade. Since humanity has not yet attained unto the maturity of which it is capable it needs to continue to develop its social and spiritual skills. It is this lack of social and spiritual skills that will create many of the evils.

At the present humanity continues to wallow in the problems of racism, nationalism, religionism, and materialism. The problems of selfishness and immorality are universal and rampant. The catastrophe that will usher in the NWO may cause many to re-examine their personal priorities and philosophies but most of the attitudes and problems will remain to be matured out of over a long period (probably centuries) of time.

The two major problems or threats to modern society that will be ameliorated by the NWO are international political and economic warfare. This will of course be at the expense of national independence and it will have a degree of impact on some individuals as to cultural practices, private property ownership, and various social freedoms. These are always the costs of organized society over anarchy but usually the reduction in the freedoms and benefits of the few increases the freedoms and benefits of the many. The privileged wealthy may have their assets confiscated in order to reduce the poverty of the masses. At least that would be the ideal of communism. However, the NWO will not be communistic. Private incentive and greed have now been shown through numerous large social experiments in Russia, China and elsewhere to be greater producers of wealth than communism. But still there remained masses of economically disenfranchised masses in India, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America and elsewhere. Whether or not, and how soon the NWO will find a universal solution to these serious problems is in itself problematical.

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The Government of the Anti-Christ: Not what many think

Many people are upset about the expected Government of the Anti-Christ. What is offered here is a generic explanation. There are many religions and religious groups that look forward to the establishment of a Theocratic Government over the entire earth. In Christian terms this would be called the Government of Christ. Any alternate world government would be the government of the Anti-Christ.

Numerous graphic descriptions of the Government of the Anti-Christ, are to be found in both the Bible and numerous books by Christian writers. It is an understatement to say that the general interpretation is that it is not a good thing. Nevertheless, most of the interpretations are that it is an inevitable thing, and if this is indeed true then one should consider what is the proper role to play in regards to the secular NWO (the Government of the Anti-Christ).

The relationship to secular governments, of those who wish to follow Theocratic or Divine governments, has been an age-old question. Jesus advice to "Render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar" is probably as good today as ever.

The NWO may well permit theocratic "shadow" governments such as now exist in some cultural communities in many parts of the world. However, resistance or antagonism against the secular government will be anti-social behavior that will require remediation. Those who are separatist or non-conforming will have to undoubtedly be willing to accept whatever penalties or deprivations that may entail.

We must remember that the very reason that the world will be under the rule of a secular government is that it has not progressed spiritually to the point where it can live under a theocratic government. Those who wish to see progress made in that direction need to take a positive and active role in the affairs of the secular government rather than withdrawing or being antagonistic and thus leaving the field open to those with philosophies that they find distasteful.

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When the NWO will be established: A work in progress.

The NWO has been a work in progress for many decades. To human sense it will appear to be a system that grows like Topsy, however there will be others who feel that there is a Divine Destiny in the affairs of man. A middle view might be that while there is an overall scheme or destiny, that there are also contingent incidences that provide for a degree of variety and the action of human free will. Such it appears to be in most of the affairs of men. From the day that we are born, we have no choice but to grow into human adults, but we do have a range of choice in being educated or ignorant, moral or immoral, athletic or non-athletic, and so forth.

As it is individually with humanity, so is it also collectively. Unfortunately, as observed by Admiral Rickover, humanity has chosen to become an intellectual and technological giant but a moral and spiritual pygmy. Nevertheless, world society, as immature as it may be has grown to adulthood and that adulthood requires and involves it having a world government. Since it cannot, because of mankind's spiritual immaturity, be a spiritual or Theocratic government, establishing a system of universal spiritual peace (seen by Christians as being the Kingdom of Christ on earth) it must then be a secular government, referred to in prophetic literature as being the government of the anti-Christ, or the NWO.

This development of the NWO was not a sudden event, nor will it be a sudden event. The spiritual decay of humanity, at the very time when it should have been a time of its spiritual maturing, has been a century long process. If we were to compare the human collective to that of a single individual we would say that it is emerging from a decadent teenage, ill-prepared and ill-equipped to assume the responsibilities of adulthood, as it now must.

The human immaturity, as evidenced by two world-wide conflicts, of increasing devastation, and that it is about to engage in a third more catastrophic than all those before. As evidenced by the fact that in a world gifted by God of immense resources, that it continues to spend atrocious amounts on armaments while much of humanity remains ill-fed, ill-housed and ill-educated. This list of the misdirection of its God given resources, spiritual, natural and intellectual could be much extended, but once again it must be emphasized that it did not happen suddenly and that its destiny has been decades in the making.

As a human individual matures their physical requirements change whether their intellectual and spiritual growth keeps pace with their physical growth or not. They require larger sizes of clothing, more calories of food, social mechanisms to control their activities and regulate emerging forces such as sexual drives. The same is true of the human collective. In small numbers it can live in isolated tribes, and in slightly larger numbers as city-states, but eventually nations emerge and as world-enveloping technology develops a world unifying social order becomes a necessity. Whether or not that social order will be secular or spiritual depends upon the maturity of the inhabitants of the planet. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of this planet have chosen spiritual immaturity, hence the NWO as we shall come to know it.

The future mechanisms of the NWO will grow out of those of the present. Namely the United Nations, the IMF, the World Court, national entities, various forms of human government consisting of democracies, kings and despots, collectives of cultures and all the present diversity of races, religions and philosophies. The previous and present spiritual inadequacies and social ill adaptations of these institutions will be but slowly modified. Nevertheless, it is a task upon which the leaders of thought among mankind, must embark. The present inadequacies result from the previous deficiencies and the future inadequacies will result from the present deficiencies. We must make every effort that we can, to remedy the present deficiencies. The responsibility, morally and spiritually, is ours.

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Peace in the NWO: Not perfect

In Jewish and Christian scriptures there is a time of peace described such that "the lion will lie down with the lamb". Whether or not one looks upon this as a literal expectation, it is representative of expectations of a time of Great Peace. Literalist theologians also have expectations of sudden establishment of peace, an expectation shared by various "new age" groups whereby it will be attained through external intervention from other space dwellers or through some mystical passing of humanity into a new awareness, awakening, or enlightenment.

What we are describing here will be a more conventional series of events. A primary premise of this writer is that there will be a World Nuclear War that will have a motivational effect upon the world's inhabitants to further form the NWO. The first step will be as universal a conclave of the nations and principalities as can be called. Just as the United Nations was formed in San Francisco which was where its predecessor the League of Nations had been established, so also shall the successor to the United Nations (even if it retains the same name) meet in the vicinity of New York, if the devastation so permits. It may however eventually establish a world center and enclave in Jerusalem, a recognized World Center, by four of the World's Religions, and a recognized Holy Place by many cultures and groups. The reason for this is that there will be no other easy and practical way to eliminate the conflict that continually arises over that area and that it avoids catering to national interests and arguments that would arise from locating it elsewhere, aside from choosing some island in the sea.

Conflicts will still continue to arise, however, between cultural majorities and minorities within countries. The resolution of those conflicts will not be simple, even before a world court, and many of them may be traumatic. The standards of governments within countries will quite differ. Some will have less than benevolent despots, but in order to retain a degree of autonomy for all countries and to avoid the problems of over-centralization, there will be a method of recognizing and certifying the "legitimate" governments of each country, and other contenders will be considered revolutionaries which the "legitimate" governments will have the right to suppress, if they can. This in itself will lead to decades of limited, but often severe and tragic conflicts.

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Freedom in the NWO: The Golden Mean

The great bug-a-boo with many people about the NWO is that they fear that there will be a loss of freedom. In actuality, for most people, their freedom will be increased by the NWO. The greatest and most important freedom, that of the practice of religion and one's relationship to God, will, over time, be greatly increased. Initially, because of the anarchy, resulting from the Great Catastrophe, there will be a removal of the current restraints on persecution and some minority communities in some cultures and nations will be subjected to genocide by the dominant communities, but the more gross incidences will be eliminated in a matter of decades as an International Standard of Freedoms and Rights is established and gradually adhered to. Some cultures, based on a predominant religion that has a lesser traditional degree of tolerance will continue to be more oppressive than others.

Many freedoms are tied to economic independence. In the past money has talked. In the future money will talk. Freedom from poverty gives access to health, education, travel and communication. A man without means is really not very free, except to sit and starve.

Freedom, on the other hand, is very much limited by many institutions other than government. Ask any married man (or woman). Also any employed person. Society may permit you to sleep in on Monday morning, but your employer may take a dim view of your doing so. It is your employer who is limiting this and many other freedoms. Indeed, the more institutions of which one is a member the more their freedoms are limited. Some religious organizations limit their members from smoking and drinking. Neighborhood institutions place many requirements on how one maintains their home. This list goes on and on.

The larger, more complicated and interrelated society becomes the more freedoms are restricted in one sense. To take just one example. No one cares what side of the road one drives down a backwoods path but it becomes very critical on a four-lane highway. In a sense that is a loss of freedom, this inability to drive on whichever side of the road that you wish. On the other hand, an intracontinental network of four lane highways can give one much more freedom to travel than one of backwoods paths. This example too can be many times multiplied. Law, order, and rule restrict freedom on the one hand and greatly increase it on the other.

Too much freedom (anarchy) or too many rules (restrictive bureaucracy) can be equally deleterious. The search must always be for the Golden Mean.

Aside from yelling fire in a crowded theatre, most libertarians would tell you that there should be no restrictions on freedom of speech. Experience has begun to bring even this into question in the minds of many as they hear unlimited profanity pounding their ears from every quarter of the entertainment industry, expect copycat murders following one sensationalized by the media, observe hate crimes proliferated and motivated by hate literature, and hear of nefarious tools of destruction such as pipe bombs explained about on the Internet. Still, the freedom for the exchange of ideas is so important that many fear to draw any line between purity and pornography.

For the last century, technology has been the answer to extending (and perhaps over-extending) freedom, and not just in transportation and communication. Note for example the sexual revolution and also freedoms from disease and injuries as the consequences of accident and war that have been obtained through the advances in medicine and surgery.

There have always been greater freedoms for the wealthy. This will undoubtedly continue to be the case. But as a greater degree of wealth can be extended to a greater number of people on the planet, so can a greater degree of freedom, in every form that we have discussed.

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Prosperity in the NWO: Life is a struggle

Some persons will pin their hopes on the NWO as a panacea for all of mankind's ills. But it is not. The human condition will remain. Life will continue to be a struggle. The Divine Purpose for human life is the development of the soul and for this purpose struggle and tests are necessary.

The NWO will eventually achieve a level of prosperity, for the descendants of the survivors of most of the world's masses, considerably beyond what they have attained now. Certainly far beyond what presently exists for the impoverished masses in the sub-Sahara of North Africa, population centers of Bangladesh, or the rice paddies of China and South East Asia. However, the general level of the world's consumption will probably never match the level of the generally affluent middle classes in the present United States in which many barbaric teenage males drive around in large machines consuming annually great quantities of non-renewable energy, and can spend most of their time in idle preoccupations of games, sports, and various forms of audio visual entertainment and diversion.

The present wasteful consumption of resources, as symptomized above, is rampant throughout North American society, as also evidenced by the number of ounces of clothing possessed by the average member of the population, the annual expenditure on cosmetics, the national per capita expenditure on armaments and weaponry for war. Those who take pleasure in such a standard of living, will find that they have lived in the best of times, never to return again, while those who have lived in the deprivation described earlier will be able to point back to these as the worst of times. All will find the circumstances immediately following the Great Catastrophe as being the absolute worst of times.

But what does the future hold? There will continue to be limited although abundant resources of energy, minerals, water, land and so forth. The ratio of capital assets, even with the massive destruction that will have taken place, will be the greatest to have ever existed in history, simply because of the sudden depletion of population. Initially, in the restoration of civilization, the first priority will have to be given to agriculture, and after that distribution. But soon the importance of communication and technology will return to the fore in the fortunes of any nation.

The question will then remain as to who has the power, influence and control over the means of large-scale production, distribution, and communication. No single answer presents itself. The NWO Government will supervise the control of the world currency but this begs the question, as to who will actually be in control. Strangely, even in Western Democracies, at the present, while the government prints the currencies it is privately involved interests who control them through institutions such the Federal Reserve Bank, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and so forth.

While there will be a Supreme World Tribunal, the NWO will not be a single monolithic organization. Other institutions, similar to those we have just named, will have their influence. In addition to the World Government, national, provincial and local governments will all have their spheres of influence. There will continue (or be re-established) all sorts of other licensing, regulating, authorizing authorities such as we have now. There will be boundaries (some not very clear cut) of interaction between these various entities. Not that much different than from what it is today.

The scourge, and heavy world burden of cost, for both armed and economic warfare will be reduced. The former immediately and the latter more and more over time, but the quality of life in any one area will be dependent upon the resources, industriousness, education, and initiative of the inhabitants of that area. One of the key words there is initiative, because it has been shown time and again that while there are certainly many efficiencies in economics of scale, still centralized control is inefficient and that which is most productive is motivated individual initiative. Some balance must always be struck between the polarity of those two factors. The carrot and the stick will remain the greatest providers of initiative.

It is in regards to questions like this that the question of economic social justice is most clouded. Those with the least economic or social power to control policy will remain on the whiplash end of policy decisions that decide the availability of capital, the application of interest rates and taxes, the degree of economic activity as determined by the level of employment. The motivating factor behind those who presently set such policies is one of greed. Whether or not, and particularly how soon, this can be tempered in the future by some other sense of social justice is presently completely undecided. At this point in time, to describe possible paths and potential programs is but utopian dreaming.

The individual then, under the NWO, will, as the individual now, have to make choices regarding honesty, integrity, morality, compassion, generosity, and a whole range of other spiritual values. The focus of their life, whether it be spiritual or material or any range of balances between the two, will be of their own choosing and they will continue to bear the eternal consequences for the responsibilities of their actions.

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Morality in the NWO: A New Victorian Age

In the eyes of many, the very cause of the Great Catastrophe will have been God's just retribution upon the immorality of mankind. In a sense this is also the cause of the establishment of the NWO. In truth the retribution will not be only for mass failure in individual morality but also for failure in collective social morality as evidenced by rampant racism, wide areas of world poverty, lack of literacy, and a litany of other ills foremost among which must be named the insane building of weapons of mass destruction, narcissistic nationalism, and rabidly dogmatic religions of almost every stripe and fever.

The collective social morality will be harder to correct, but there will be a return to Puritanism beside which the Victorian variety will pale. One would have no need to be surprised by the burning of libraries, the destruction of theatres, the searching out of film storage facilities, and a general purging and exhibition of repugnance at the emblems of what has become an evil immoral world.

The anger about what has been wrought upon the earth, by what is seen as God's retribution, may not extend only to the physical by-products but to various classes of people who have advocated immoral practices. Whether or not these might also include the military, bankers, lawyers, politicians, or any other group will depend upon the temper of the times.

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Spirituality in the NWO: The continuing path

The complete establishment of the NWO, being preceded as it will be by the Great Catastrophe, will be accompanied by a thorough re-evaluation by many of the purpose of life. The problem being so immense, many will flee from it in different ways. Some into cloistered monasteries that separate them from the struggles of the world, others into chemical evasions. The only proper response is the development of the spiritual capacities in relationship to the life in this world, as was the intention of the Creator. For the masses of humanity to travel that path, physically, mentally, intellectually, morally, and spiritually will require centuries to attain unto that Most Great Peace which is the intention of its Creator.

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