On our way home from Watchman Speaks I was informed that our luggage was a bit overweight and had to be lightened. I ended up having to carry some of my books in a plastic bag. In order to make my load a bit easier, I gave one book to the lady who told us our luggage was over weight and one to the person sitting next to us on the plane. Not liking the movie and having nothing else to do, I decided -- since I hadn't done it in such a long time -- to once again read my book. You know what? I was amazed that -- after this long a time -- the book was still so timely. 

For example, today it's being reported the US wants to turn NATO into a global security organization. The report says:

The United States set out an ambitious agenda on Monday for transforming NATO into a global security organization at a summit next month but acknowledged that some European allies have misgivings Read about it here.

The following is from page 83 of Recommendation 666.

So Solana was given quite a job as the new head of NATO. Not only did he have to win the war in Bosnia, but he also had to restructure NATO for the post-Cold War era. With this restructuring, the Western leaders wanted to make possible their dreams for a new pan-European security arrangement that, if properly shaped, could possibly go global. This was no small task. Yet I couldn't help but wonder: Why would we Americans want to make NATO resources available to our European allies for their independent use? I realized that something big was happening in Europe that the American people didn't know about. The balance of military power that had existed for the last 50 years in America's favor was going to change. Europe was on its way to once again becoming a military power. And they were going to do it with our equipment and help. Again I ask, why would American want this to happen – let alone help it happen? Perhaps the best man in the Clinton administration to answer that question was the Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. In July 1992, he wrote an essay for Time magazine titled, "The Birth of the Global Nation," where he revealed that he believed global government is inevitable. The following year after the essay was published, he took his post as Deputy Secretary of State under the Clinton administration and helped shape the Clinton foreign policy from the very beginning. In the same essay, Talbott said about federalism, “If that model does indeed work globally, it would be the logical extension of the Founding Fathers’ wisdom, therefore a special source of pride for a world government's American constituents.” To me it seems likely that Talbott’s views on federalism may have greatly influenced President Clinton and contributed to the idea of NATO expansion as a model for the New World Order. So the Western leaders got together and decided to make NATO a model for their new post-Cold War security scheme. As I thought about this, I realized that NATO expansion was, in reality, an attempt to create a new pan-European security arrangement and, if possible, a New World Order Read it here.

If you recall, recently I reported that Henry Kissinger is calling for a NATO free trade zone and Germany's Angela Merkel will be pushing the idea when Germany takes over the EU's rotating presidency in the first half of 2007. 

Friends, the beat still goes on Read about it here.