Remember the plan by one of President Obama’s “czars” — climate czar Todd Stern, to be precise — to create an E8, to ‘manage’ the global environment the way the G-8 does the global economy? It would appear that Mr. Stern’s proposal was, in the end, not radical enough for the Leader. In a refreshing burst of honesty, a FoxNews.com article (“Obama to Usher in New World Order at G-20”) reports:

In a surprising late-night twist on the eve of the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, FOX News has learned President Obama will announce Friday morning a significant expansion of the consortium of countries that tackles global economic and climate change issues.

Obama will tell reporters that the G-20, comprised of 19 industrial and emerging-market countries plus the European Union, will supplant the smaller Group of Eight nations, G-8, as the go-to group for solving the world's economic ills.

"This decision brings to the table the countries needed to build a stronger, more balanced global economy, reform the financial system, and lift the lives of the poorest," the White House said in a statement.

The G8 will retain its national security focus, but be replaced by the broader G-20 on the issues of climate change, financial regulatory reform and global imbalances.

In a stunning burst of efficiency, the proposed G-20 fulfills the globalists’ dream, wrapping national security, the global economy and controlling the global environment in one neat little package and placing into the hands of fewer than two dozen “world leaders.” One may acknowledge that the puffery about ‘lifting the lives of the poorest’ certainly sounds less strident that the old ‘power to the people’ schtick and is in keeping with Mr. Obama’s recurrent “I am my brother’s keeper (i.e., warden)” theme. But, when one ponders for a brief moment the smoke being blown here, one may ask a series of uncomfortable questions, such as: “What do you mean by a ‘more balanced economy’? What do you deem to be ‘out of balance,’ and how do you intend to ‘correct’ the balance? And when you say ‘reform the financial system,’ do you mean expanding your ‘pork for the bankers’ scheme to a global scale?”

Presuming that Stern’s proposed E8 is inspiration driving Obama’s G-20 proposal, it is worth considering, once again, what the climate czar is promoting:

While an E8 would be small enough to facilitate productive dialogue, it would have such a formidable footprint that its actions would be consequential in their own right and could set the terms of the policy debate more broadly, whether within existing environmental conventions or outside of them. Of course, other shareholders must have a voice and they would — in the broad multinational forums that will continue to exist, just as the World Bank, the GATT and the IMF continued to exist after the creation of the G7. But there has to be a way for critical players to talk regularly to each other about these issues without a lot of static, and at the highest level.

The G-20 would certainly eliminate “a lot of static” — if one considers actually allowing elected representatives to debate national policies within the context of federal and state laws to be “static.” The G-20 could easily shape up to be the latest "end-run" on national sovereignty. But the American people do not elect a president to serve as our representative to a globalist clique, but to serve our nation according to the duties defined in the Constitution of these United States, according to the oath which he has sworn: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Nothing more or less than what has been sworn, and the Constitution requires, is wanted — or permitted. If Mr. Obama wants to "lift the lives of the poorest" of China, India or Brazil, he may feel free to donate his time to a charity or religious order after leaving office. Right now, he's "on the clock" for the American people, and how he uses his time and the scope of his agenda are determined by the U.S. Constitution and federal law.

With less than a term as a U.S. Senator, and less than a year as President, Obama’s sweeping proposals for altering the relationship between our nation and the rest of the world ought to be laughable. Given a record of economic prognostication and legislative initiatives which could best be the collective title of “train wreck,” now Mr. Obama wants to (in the words of FoxNews) “usher in the New World Order”?

What have they been feeding his teleprompter?

Rt. Rev. James Heiser has served as Pastor of Salem Lutheran Church in Malone, Texas, while maintaining his responsibilities as publisher of Repristination Press, which he established in 1993 to publish academic and popular theological books to serve the Lutheran Church. Heiser has also served since 2005 as the Dean of Missions for The Augustana Ministerium and in 2006 was called to serve as Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA). An advocate of manned space exploration, Heiser serves on the Steering Committee of the Mars Society. His publications include two books; The Office of the Ministry in N. Hunnius' Epitome Credendorum (1996) and A Shining City on a Higher Hill: Christianity and the Next New World (2006), as well as dozens of journal articles and book reviews.

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Bonnie

September 27, 2009

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What Obama SHOULD have said...

In Pittsburgh, the world’s central bankers agreed to continue their effort to make people dependant upon government. We committed ourselves to economic stagnation that is balanced and sustained — so that we continue the booms and busts of the past. We reached an historic agreement to destroy the global financial system — to promote abuse and prevent responsibility so that we may face a crisis like this again. And we reformed our international economic architecture, so that we can better control our effort to meet the needs of the New World Order.

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