With breaking news we will sometimes see the word "developing." The reason, of course, is the reporter hasn't had time to digest the information enough to file a report. However, if you are a regular at FP, you know I do things different. Instead of waiting until I have everything together, I share the information even while I'm still forming my own understanding. And, naturally, sometimes I get things a bit wrong.

A member of our discussion board informed me that he read the Alliance of Civilizations (AOC) document differently than I did. He said the 12 months to prepare started now, not as I was saying in 2009. So, the 2010 date that I referred to in my commentary wasn't there. My response to him was I thought he was the one reading it wrong. And, I repeated my reasons as said in my commentary. Let's take a look at what I said:

The key to understanding the above words is knowing the term of the UN's Decade for a Culture of Peace (DCP), since the start of the AOC is to "overlap" the DCP by one year and allow an additional 12 months to prepare. It turns our the DCP is from 2001 to 2010 Read about it here. That means the AOC is to be fully operational in 2010. Evidently, the 2007 date is for presenting the necessary resolution to the Security Council Commentary here. 

But, wouldn't you know it? The poster didn't give up. This morning I found him saying the same thing. After I recovered from my frustration, I decide to take another careful look at the document and what he was saying. Surprise, surprise! He was right! I was the one who was wrong. Thanks to this member's persistence, I came to a better understand of the document. But, the funny thing is, it didn't change the two most important elements. To show what I mean, let's take another look at the wordage on page 46. But, this time I'll highlight them a little differently.
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1. Time frame: 2009- 2019, starting and ending on 21 September, the International Day of Peace. That launching date would give 12 months to prepare and promote a final proposal and to win political support from member states, in order to present the corresponding project of resolution to the General Assembly in its 62nd session (September 2007), with another 24 months for formal preparatory activities. The Decade would then overlap by only one year with the ongoing Decade for a Culture of Peace, and could learn from that experience AOC Report (pdf).
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As the poster correctly points out, the work on preparing a proposal for a UN resolution is already underway and is to be ready to present to the Security Council in 2007. And, if I have it right this time, the final resolution itself is to be approved by the member states in 2009 -- making the AOC's official launch date the same year. So, as I read it before, the AOC is still to be fully operational in 2010 -- the middle of the coming seven-year period.

This brings us to the document's other important element -- the year 2007. The document says this is when the AOC's resolution proposal will first be presented to the Security Council. As I explained yesterday, the year 2007 may be very significant. If you recall, this is the same year that the EU's European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) is to kick in. And, the purpose of the ENPI is to breathe new life, or confirm, Javier Solana's Euro-Mediterranean Partnership for Peace for a period of seven-years.

Another issue we've been discussing is the so-called "CIMIC concept." Some are struggling with what it means and how I lifted CIMIC from Recommendation 666 and applied it to the AOC. In order to explain, I will have to start with the Club of Rome.

After discovering that Solana was a member of the Spanish chapter of the Club of Rome, I naturally did a little research into the activities of the organization. What I found is the Club of Rome is made up of former heads of state and other important international players who are seeking ways to establish what they call, "global governance." Unlike what so many are expecting, they're not attempting to create a world government. What the Club of Rome means by governance is -- by first establishing a new global ethic -- convincing existing governments, NGOs and other internationals institutions to willingly unite into a new world order. And, in the AOC, what we're seeing is the Club of Rome's dream of global governance finally coming true.

This brings us to Javier Solana and his Recommendation 666. If you have read my book, you may remember me saying that I suspected that Solana was including in his foreign policy for the EU the policies and agenda of the Club of Rome. The CIMIC concept that his Recommendation 666 introduced to the EU comes from the Club of Rome's play book -- the idea of combining both governmental elements of the 25 member states and civilian elements under one powerful EU agency. And, if you look at the AOC, that's exactly what it calls for too. The only difference is, instead of implementing the CIMIC concept into the EU, it's now being implemented into the UN on a global scale.

There is another thing about CIMIC that should concern us. Jesus tells us, in the time of the end, many will hate and betray each other (Matt. 24:10). Friends, that's what something like CIMIC and the AOC may ultimately do. You see, once the CIMIC concept is fully deployed in our cities and neighborhoods, there will be no place we can go without the watching eyes of the AOC's thought police.

Fortunately, it's still just developing.