In the 1970s and early ’80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to poor in history. Why not them? So in grand U.N. declarations and conferences, they began calling for a "New International Economic Order."

The NIEO’s essential demand was simple: to transfer fantastic chunks of wealth from the industrialized West to the Third World.

On what grounds? In the name of equality — wealth redistribution via global socialism — with a dose of post-colonial reparations thrown in.

The idea of essentially taxing hard-working citizens of the democracies to fill the treasuries of Third World kleptocracies went nowhere, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher (and the debt crisis of the early ’80s). They put a stake through the enterprise.

But such dreams never die. The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.

One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in the tristes tropiques.

Politically it’s an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man’s guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt.

But the idea of shaking down the industrial democracies in the name of the environment thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts of Copenhagen. It thrives on the national scale too.

On the day Copenhagen opened, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claimed jurisdiction over the regulation of carbon emissions by declaring them an "endangerment" to human health.

Since we operate an overwhelmingly carbon-based economy, the EPA will be regulating practically everything. No institution that emits more than 250 tons of CO2 a year will fall outside EPA control. This means over a million building complexes, hospitals, plants, schools, businesses and similar enterprises.

(The EPA proposes regulating emissions only above 25,000 tons, but it has no such authority.)

Not since the creation of the Internal Revenue Service has a federal agency been given more intrusive power over every aspect of economic life.

This naked assertion of vast executive power in the name of the environment is the perfect fulfillment of the prediction of Czech President (and economist) Vaclav Klaus that environmentalism is becoming the new socialism, i.e., the totemic ideal in the name of which government seizes the commanding heights of the economy and society.

Socialism having failed so spectacularly, the left was adrift until it struck upon a brilliant gambit: metamorphosis from red to green. The cultural elites went straight from the memorial service for socialism to the altar of the environment.

The objective is the same: highly centralized power given to the best and the brightest, the new class of experts, managers and technocrats. This time, however, the alleged justification is not abolishing oppression and inequality but saving the planet.

Not everyone is pleased with the coming New Carbon-Free International Order. When the Obama administration signaled (in a gesture to Copenhagen) a U.S. commitment to major cuts in carbon emissions, Democratic Sen. Jim Webb wrote the president protesting that he lacks the authority to do so unilaterally. That requires congressional concurrence by legislation or treaty.

With the Senate blocking President Obama’s cap-and-trade carbon legislation, the EPA coup d’etat served as the administration’s loud response to Webb: The hell we can’t. With this EPA "endangerment" finding, we can do as we wish with carbon. Either the Senate passes cap-and-trade, or the EPA will impose even more draconian measures: all cap, no trade.

Forget for a moment the economic effects of severe carbon chastity.

There’s the matter of constitutional decency. If you want to revolutionize society — as will drastic carbon regulation and taxation in an energy economy that is 85% carbon-based — you do it through Congress reflecting popular will. Not by administrative fiat of EPA bureaucrats.

Congress should not just resist this executive overreaching, but trump it: Amend existing clean air laws and restore their original intent by excluding CO2 from EPA control and reserving that power for Congress and future legislation.

Do it now. Do it soon. Because Big Brother isn’t lurking in CIA cloak. He’s knocking on your door, smiling under an EPA cap.

However slight, there are some admonitions for the Prophet in the Qur’an.

No one, especially if that one claims Prophethood, mentions a grave slander against his wife in the book he writes by himself. Whereas, the Qur’an gives an important place to the slander hypocrites uttered against ‘A’isha, the Prophet’s wife.

In order to show practically that Islam does not allow any racial discrimination and that superiority is only by piety and righteousness, not by birth, color, race, wealth or position, the Prophet married Zaynab, a noble woman from the Hashimites, to Zayd, an emancipated black slave. However, verses revealed later ordered that, in order to put an end to an established false tradition-namely, neither adoption nor any other way of declaring someone a son can create a legal relationship comparable to the relationship of children and natural parents, and there is no difficulty and sin for believers in marriage with the divorced wives of those whom they once adopted as sons-the Prophet should marry Zaynab. This marriage was very difficult for God’s Messenger to enter into, but since it was ordered by God, he had no way out other than fulfilling it. As ‘A’isha would later say, if the Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, would have concealed something of the Qur’an, he would have concealed this order and would not have married Zaynab. Also, if he had written the Qur’an by himself, he would never have mentioned this incident.

Abu Talib, the Prophet’s uncle to whose safeguarding ‘Abd al-Muttalib entrusted him, undertook the Prophet’s maintenance when he was yet eight years old and, after his declaration of Prophethood, protected him against the Quraysh for ten years. The Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, loved his uncle very deeply and desired his conversion very much. However, a verse came and admonished the Prophet against this desire of his which nearly drove him to death: You guide not whom you love, but God guides whom He wills. He is best aware of those who are guided (al-Qasas, 28.56). What would have prevented the Prophet, if he were the author of the Qur’an, from falsely declaring that his uncle had accepted Islam?

It is another argument for the Divine authorship of the Quran that it refers to certain facts of creation recently established by modern scientific methods

It is another argument for the Divine authorship of the Quran that it refers to certain facts of creation recently established by modern scientific methods. How, except on account of its Divine authorship, is it possible for the Quran to be literally true on matters of which people had not the least inkling at the time when it was revealed? For example, if the Quran were not a Divine Revelation, would it have been possible for it to contain such a verse as this: Do not the unbelievers realize that the heavens and the earth were one unit of creation before we split them asunder? (al-Anbiya’, 21.20).

Whether the Quran really does refer, explicitly or implicitly, to the kinds of facts the sciences deal with, and the relationship between the Quran and modern sciences, are matters of considerable controversy among Muslim intellectuals. We should therefore treat the subject at length.
There are answers to many such questions in the Quran that one who does not have an all-encompassing knowledge could not have answered them.

There are many verses in the Quran beginning with ‘They ask you’ and continue with ‘Say (in answer)’. These verses were revealed to answer the questions put to the Prophet by Muslims and non-Muslims, including especially the Jews of Madina. The questions asked were about lawful or unlawful things, the distribution of war spoils, the mansions of the moon, the Judgment Day, Dhu’l-Qarnayn (one of the ancient kings who made great conquests in Asia and Africa), the spirit and so on. One who does not have an all-encompassing knowledge cannot answer such questions. But the answers given by the unlettered Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, satisfied everybody and no one could object to him. This shows that he was taught by God, the All-Knowing
Is Mohammad a false prophet?

Is religion just a delusion created by man to try and escape mortality?
We would all love to believe that when we die we go to a place of eternal bliss, but there is just no proof at all that we do. If there is no God then we are here by chance and for no purpose. Throughout my life I have attempted to justify a God but it seems too illogical.

Storys of a women eaten from a forbidden tree and talking snakes are obviously fiction not reality. The world is far older than the bible states which throws the bible down the toilet. It is the work of man not of God.

I would love to believe in God, but it makes no sense.

HIS REPLY:

maybe you are truly willing to learn.
there are few scientist (darwin finally believe in GOD, enstein, ect)
in the beginning of the bible time clock, that we are living in now.
are the creation of sons and daughters of THE GOD kind of race.
before "IN THE BEGINNING" as a race of man likeness, died with the dinosaurs
"SUDDENLY" THE WORLD WAS TURN UPSIDE DOWN, QUICK FLOOD, the wooly mamath found was chewing green food, and suddenly in water and froze in TIME. before THIS TIME CLOCK STARTED.

if the solar system and everything on earth is an accidently creation.
WHY did the accidental creation STOP?

explain ghost, demons, angels, supernatural miracle healing, or dead being raised (32 of them raised between april to july 09).
SO truly, you are not informed of what going on..because you are looking at the wrong place, like here. you have to watch christian tv shows of prophets
who are TOLD of what GOD gonna do NEXT.
GOD always let us KNOW, what he going to do next…the problem is, 80-90% of christians IN USA ONLY..don’t listen, or believe the prophets, while OUTSIDE OF USA, folks honor and listen to prophets.
and they prosper, in life, in health and in wealth.
WE the PEOPLE of USA are NOW, going to experience many things, good, and sad.
but in the end of the cycle.(few years logically).the church will come out
smarter.
the bible said..BLESSED IS HE WHO BELIEVE
without SEEING.
So..belieivng is a FAITH move.
SO..it your MOVE..to believe, JUST BECAUSE it is Logical
for we did not come from chimp.
for where are their libary? their ruins cites, where are the talking chimp?
where are the redhead and blond head chimp?
you will never find them..because, they never existed…for we found cave man, dinosaurs, ruins cities, idols, ect.
but where are the ape cites, chimp cities?

Guess what cons, the lazy unproductive people already are getting wealth redistributed to them. They are called capitalists. They perform functions unnecessary or only fractionally important to the creation of the goods and services that we use, but take for themselves the vast majority of the profits. If we got rid of this form of wealth redistribution then only wealth anybody would have is what they themselves worked for.
Shovel Ready: What does Warren Buffet do? Does he make anything? Does he build anything? Did he invent anything? No, all he does is move capital around.
GoGo Girls: Wrong, the socialist mottoes are "He who does not work, neither shall he eat" and "To each according to his contribution."
Charles M: I won’t deny that some people can through hard work amass enough capital to then let others create wealth for them. But that isn’t a defense of the system. Before the Civil War, sometimes slaves acquired freedom and sometimes they even acquired their own slaves but that is no reason to defend slavery.
Fear The Boom And Bust: The workers have to suffer the risks too. But the difference is they don’t get to play the cards. Their chips get put into play but they just get to watch, and if they lose, then they are back on the street while a rich person is better able to land on a cushion.
Justine 2: If you make a widget then you have to go to the bank or capitalist and beg them for capital to build it, and once it gets built the profits don’t go to you, they go to them.

Few people understand the true nature of money and finance, and for that very reason, few people are able to gain or maintain wealth today. Instead, the average American lives in a state of servitude to a mortgage, taxes, and a job. At any moment, everything can be taken away if a constant cash flow is not paid. The middle class’ current situation is not very different from historical serfs or indentured servants. How did this happen and who is the beneficiary?

The creation of controlled inflation has proven immeasurably valuable to the banking industry and Federal Government at the expense of the American people. The Federal Reserve grants interest-free (all interest is returned to US Treasury) loans to the government while the citizens have to pay interest due to inflation. What to do?
Why are bankers so rich and building skyscrappers when they are not working hard or producing any real product?

Think about this:
•If there is a creation, there must be a Creator.
•If there is a Creator, He must be the Sustainer
•The Creator Cannot Create Himself
•If He is the sole Creator/Sustainer — He must be ONE

God must be one.Otherwise we would see great differences and competition between the gods if there were one — Alone.
Do we agree that this is a creation? Or do we accept that nothing came out of nothing to form this entire universe?
This is a very clear message from Allah, in the Quran. Something does not come out of nothing. So, there must be something in existence already which created all that we know to exist. And that "something" needs to be called upon in times of need and thanksgiving.
As Allah has said in His Book: "I only created you all to worship Me Alone."
He also says that we are all being tested by Him with regard to our wealth, families, children and social status.

Scientists’ Comments on Scientific Miracles in the Quran:

The following are some comments of scientists1 on the scientific miracles in the Holy Quran. All of these comments have been taken from the videotape entitled This is the Truth.
1) Dr. T. V. N. Persaud is Professor of Anatomy, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. There, he was the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy for 16 years. He is well-known in his field. He is the author or editor of 22 textbooks and has published over 181 scientific papers. In 1991, he received the most distinguished award presented in the field of anatomy in Canada, the J.C.B. Grant Award from the Canadian Association of Anatomists. When he was asked about the scientific miracles in the Quran which he has researched, he stated the following:
“The way it was explained to me is that Muhammad was a very ordinary man. He could not read, didn’t know [how] to write. In fact, he was an illiterate. And we’re talking about twelve [actually about fourteen] hundred years ago. You have someone illiterate making profound pronouncements and statements and that are amazingly accurate about scientific nature. And I personally can’t see how this could be a mere chance. There are too many accuracies and, like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which led him to these statements.”

Professor Persaud has included some Quranic verses and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad in some of his books. He has also presented these verses and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad at several conferences.
2) Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson is the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. Formerly, he was Professor of Ob-Gyn and the Chairman of the Department of Ob-Gyn at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was also the President of the American Fertility Society. He has received many awards, including the Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology Public Recognition Award in 1992. Professor Simpson studied the following two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad :

{In every one of you, all components of your creation are collected together in your mother’s womb by forty days…}

{If forty-two nights have passed over the embryo, God sends an angel to it, who shapes it and creates its hearing, vision, skin, flesh, and bones….}

He studied these two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad extensively, noting that the first forty days constitute a clearly distinguishable stage of embryo-genesis. He was particularly impressed by the absolute precision and accuracy of those sayings of the Prophet Muhammad . Then, during one conference, he gave the following opinion:

“So that the two hadeeths (the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad ) that have been noted provide us with a specific time table for the main embryological development before forty days.Again, the point has been made, I think, repeatedly by other speakers this morning: these hadeeths could not have been obtained on the basis of the scientific knowledge that was available [at] the time of their writing . . . . It follows, I think, that not only there is no conflict between genetics and religion but, in fact, religion can guide science by adding rev

If you have no rich people left….you can’t re-distribute wealth b/c there is no wealth left to redistribute……socialist countries always wind up w/ stagflation, higher unemployment, slow jop creation….etc.

Hostility towards the free markets is dumb beyond description. You will find out the hard way as it looks like Obama supporters are gleefully voting for the guy who promises them the world.

A)had little impact on either England or North America apart from deposing the Stuarts and barring Roman Catholics from the English throne.

B)contributed significantly to the creation of a new empire based on commerce, with a curb on royal monopolies, encouragement of enterprising merchants, and development of the American colonies as a source of wealth.

C)created democratic governments in Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland, but not in England.

D) represented a major step toward democracy in both England and the North American colonies.