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The article below was written by Dr. Dennis L. Cuddy, from Raleigh, NC. Dr. Cuddy is an outstanding author and investigator, and has done a great service to America by uncovering critical information concerning the direction this nation is being taken by the "elite." At the end of this article you will find his credentials. THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF AMERICA By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D. October 20, 2008 NewsWithViews.com [NOTE: Charlie Rose on his September 16, 2008 PBS program interviewed Bob Woodward regarding his new book THE WAR WITHIN. In researching for the book, Woodward interviewed President Bush and was surprised Bush deliberately avoided words like “victory” or “win” regarding the Iraq war, but rather said we need to “succeed.” Woodward was also surprised that when asking about the decision to change strategies in Iraq, Bush said “there’s no hurry.” Can you imagine a general in World War II deciding to change a failed strategy saying “there’s no hurry”? What Woodward apparently doesn’t realize is that the goal in attacking Iraq was to establish a permanent military presence in the region. With that in mind, saying “succeed” rather than “victory” or “win,” and saying “there’s no hurry” actually makes perfect sense. Shortly after the war began, many Iraqis became suspicious of our motives since we could fire a long-range cruise missile with great precision, but for some reason we couldn’t seem to provide the Iraqis with basic services like electricity. Many people around the world also have a negative attitude toward Americans. We say ours is a government of and by the people, and then we elect leaders who have supported dictators who violently oppress their own people. Why should the oppressed people in those nations like us? Our “success” in Iraq in large part is due to the Sunni “Awakening,” which is actually our paying (bribing) Sunni militia about $300 a month per man to act as police rather than kill American soldiers. Do you think such an “Awakening” in Afghanistan might reduce opium production? After all, haven’t we paid American farmers billions of dollars not to plant certain crops. Relevant to media bias in the presidential campaign, it was clear from ABC’s George Stephanopoulos (Rhodes scholar) who at the end of the October 7 debate proclaimed Obama as exhibiting Commander-in-Chief qualities, when Obama obviously didn’t understand the need to distinguish between how one deals with adversaries (Obama mentioned Iraq, North Korea and Iran) and a nation one still hopes will be an ally (the question involved uninvited military action in Pakistan). Also regarding the media in the last presidential debate on October 15, moderator Bob Schieffer sat silent as Obama said “all” of McCain’s ads were negative. This was another clear lie that was not identified as such at the time by Schieffer or even McCain himself. If Obama wins the election in early November, don’t be surprised if Israel attacks Iran between then and the date Obama takes office, because Israel may believe it would receive more support for its actions from Bush than from Obama.] Most people seem confused about the current global economic crisis. How did it happen? Who is to blame? Actually there are people who know exactly what’s going on as well as why and how it happened. At the front of my book SECRET RECORDS REVEALED (1998), I wrote that on June 28, 1998 THE WASHINGTON POST published an article about the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) titled “At Secret Meetings in Switzerland, 13 People Shape the World’s Economy,” which described these individuals as “this economic cabal… this secretive group… the financial barons who control the world’s supply of money.” After financial consultant and journalist Joan Veon attended the business meeting of the BIS in June 1998, she wrote in her newsletter that “… the Bank for International Settlements designed the present borderless flow of monies between countries when it pushed for the deregulation (1980) of monetary laws of the major North American, European and Asian countries. By tearing down national financial borders, they created the ability for $1.2 trillion daily to flow around the world (uncontrolled stateless money) looking for the highest interest or fastest currency play.” On ABC television’s “Nightline” (July 1, 1998), David Turecamo stated concerning certain international investors, that they can “topple politicians with the click of a mouse… who can move huge amounts of money into and out of markets in a nanosecond…. Money knows no allegiance. There is no patriotism.” Host Ted Koppel’s response to that was, “Wouldn’t you know it, when we’re the last remaining superpower, it doesn’t count anymore. Is that what you’re saying?” And Turecamo replied: “That’s it. That’s exactly it.” That’s what I explained 10 years ago, and over these last years, I’ve warned that the Power Elite (PE) would use an economic (and military) crisis to bring about a World Socialist Government. For example, whether now or five years from now, the PE can hold entire nations’ economies hostage by having huge hedge funds work in concert, driving any commodity or stock price down by selling short in ping-pong fashion (back and forth before the 30-day limit within which one actually has to hold stock in a company). The World Socialist Government will be a synthesis of Western Capitalism and Eastern Communism, and a useful example of this would be to explain how America and China are becoming more and more alike. In 1949, the Communists took control of China, and regarding the years 1950 to 1960 Stewart Fraser compiled and edited CHINESE COMMUNIST EDUCATION: RECORDS OF THE FIRST DECADE, in which one finds “Education Must Be Combined With Productive Labor” by Lu Ting-yi who stated: “Now this combination of schooling with productive labor has given rise to the campaign to reform school curricula and the efforts to change school systems…. Our education is… Socialist education…. Education must serve politics, must be combined with productive labor…. The combination of education with productive labor is required by our country’s Socialist revolution and Socialist construction by the great goal of building a Communist society…. The purpose of the training is unified, that is, to train Socialist-minded, educated workers.” Including the 1950s and 1960s, Theodore Chen in COMMUNIST CHINA, 1949-1969, explained: “The primary concern of education is not the acquisition of knowledge, but the remolding of behavior, attitudes, emotions and thoughts.” And regarding the years 1969 to 1976, Jonathan Unger in EDUCATION UNDER MAO related that “schools were to teach concepts that were relevant to industrial and agricultural work.” The next year (1977), the top federal education official for the U.S., Mary Berry, toured China and delivered a speech titled “The Chinese Experience in Education: What America Stands To Learn” on November 17 at the University of Illinois, stating that she saw “nearly complete unity between education and labor – so complete that activities came to seem a basic, natural part of life, as they should be.” She continued to reveal that the U.S. Office of Education was developing Lifelong Learning programs modeled after the Chinese Communist programs, and she expected these programs to meet the “needs for intellectual fulfillment and social growth. It is here that the Chinese have set the pattern for the world to follow, and it’s here that American higher education may have it its last, best opportunity for growth.” With the beginning of the 1980s, American business was becoming increasingly concerned that it would not have enough skilled workers to compete in the “global economy” it was promoting. Thus, there began a significant promotion of School-to-Work (STW) which I described in an earlier article. The STW promotion was largely led by the Carnegie-supported National Center on Education and the Economy, with board members like Hillary Clinton and David Rockefeller, Jr. Relevant to this effort, in 1983 Howard Gardner wrote FRAMES OF MIND: THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES, in which he concluded: “Ultimately, the educational plans that are pursued need to be orchestrated across various interest groups of the society so they can, taken together, help the society to achieve its larger goals. Individual profiles must be considered in the light of goals pursued by the wider society; and sometimes, in fact, individuals with gifts in certain directions must nonetheless be guided along other, less favored paths, simply because the needs of the culture are particularly urgent in that realm at that time.” In China, each person has such a profile called a “dangan” and in the U.S. students have academic profiles as well. In China, its Communist dictators can literally force people into certain occupations desired by its rulers. In the U.S. under STW, a girl in Las Vegas schools who wanted to be a veterinarian was advised that she should be educated for a career in a casino because that’s what Las Vegas needed! That China was used as a model for American education not only was displayed by Mary Berry’s 1977 remarks, but in 1989 Howard Gardner authored TO OPEN MINDS: CHINESE CLUES TO THE DILEMNA OF CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION. In the decade of the 1990s, the first annual China-U.S. Conference on Education was held in Beijing in July 1997 with featured keynote speakers including Mary Futrell (former NEA president) and Carolyn Warner (former superintendent of Arizona’s Department of Public Instruction and on the 1990s GOALS 2000 National Skill Standards Board), who has opined that “those who educate are more to be honored than those who bear the children. The latter gave them only life, the former teach them the arts of living.” The annual China-U.S. conferences continued July 14-18, 1998 with the theme “Four Qualities for the New Millennium.” At the same time, the Beijing Institute of Education and Global Interactions (Phoenix, Arizona) promoted school partnerships between the U.S. and China. The conferences continued into the 21st century with topics covering educational leaders, the community colleges, and women’s issues. In 2005, a conference picked up on Howard Gardner’s theme of “multiple intelligences,” and in 2007 the conference was on literacy. The Power Elite’s synthesis of America and China has American students increasingly being trained for productive labor (part of Marx’s COMMUNIST MANIFESTO), while China is adopting certain free market principles (Shanghai is looking more and more Western) and its cities and schools are increasingly emphasizing the American concept of specialization (Shengzhou produces half the world’s neckties). There is no way American students taking perhaps two or three specialized courses (e.g., Welding I, II, III) in high school can hope to compete with Chinese students who have many more years of specialized education, and who work for much lower wages after they graduate. This is perhaps why a city like Shenzhen with 12.4 million people already has 100,000 factories producing a majority of the world’s laptops, cell phones, jeans, etc. There is no way Americans can compete with this, that is, unless we become more and more like the Chinese, living in what will become “The People’s Republic of America.” And once all the nations of the world are synthesized like this, the Power Elite will have achieved its goal of a World Socialist Government. The process has worked like this. First, Fascist elements were introduced with government and corporations working in tandem. This was done so that corporations could become transnational, investing heavily (and transferring jobs) elsewhere. Once the global economic system was in place, the current economic crisis could drive corporations’ stocks down and devalue currencies resulting in a demand (reported October 10, 2008) for a “global solution” to the problem. Remember in my March 24, 2008 NewsWithViews column, I wrote about “the Power Elite’s plan to create a global economic crisis (greatly devalued currencies, stocks, bonds, etc.)… This will result in the world’s population submitting to the Power Elite’s ‘International Planning’ (for International Socialism) whereby they will manage the world’s (and each nation’s) economy. The political structure they will form to do that will be a World Socialist Government.” The “global solution” could also involve the introduction of a global currency (the Phoenix) pictured on the cover of THE ECONOMIST twenty years ago (January 9, 1988). The Phoenix was forecast for A.D. 2018, but remember that H.G. Wells in EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1934) said the “planned world-state” would be an “Open Conspiracy” in the form of “liberal socialism,” and that when “finally precipitated, its coming is likely to happen very quickly.” Five years before this, the stock market crashed in 1929 in part due to “large-scale corporate thimble-rigging” (corporations holding securities in other corporations in a pyramidal manner), according to John Kenneth Galbraith who identified Goldman Sachs (GS) as one of the participants in the 1920s. Relevant to the current crisis, it’s interesting to note that current Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was CEO of GS, and President Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was co-chairman of GS. Also, formerly with GS are current White House Chief of State Joshua Bolton, Treasury Undersecretary Ken Wilson, former Bush administration Treasury Undersecretary Robert Steel (who in July 2008 became Wachovia’s CEO until it collapsed), and Bush’s second cousin George Herbert Walker IV (global head of investment management at Lehman Brothers when it recently collapsed). In addition to dozens of Rhodes scholars having been with GS, so was the current World Bank president Robert Zoellick. As head of the World Bank, he is at strategic position regarding the global financial crisis we have today. In case you think this is purely coincidental, note the following strategic positions Zoellick “just happened” to hold over the past quarter century. In the 1980s, he led the NAFTA negotiations and was President Reagan’s Deputy Chief of Staff 1985-1988. Toward the end of President George H.W. Bush’s term, Zoellick was White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to Treasury Secretary James Baker. From 1993 to 1997, he was Executive Vice-President of Fannie Mae (supervising the affordable housing division). Zoellick then became Senior International Advisor to GS. From 2001 to 2005 he was U.S. Trade Representative, and in 2005 he became Deputy Secretary of State where he was the architect of the administration’s China policy. In 2006-2007, he was Vice-Chairman of GS. Today, governments have nationalized banks and have taken over mortgage giants like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as transnational giants like American International Group. This is the movement from Fascism to Socialism. As the headline on the London DAILY TELEGRAPH (October 9, 2008) stated, “Financial Crisis: We’re All Socialists Now, Comrade.” Remember that the movement toward American Socialism was described in Robert Hugh Benson’s LORD OF THE WORLD published in 1907, and it foretold “the final scheme of Western Free Trade” would begin after 1989 as part of that movement. Senator McCain’s participation in this “final scheme” can be seen by his repeated opposition to “buy American” requirements in federal law as being “gross examples of protective trade policies.” ? The reason the Power Elite ultimately wants a Socialist World Government rather than a Fascist one is that the Power Elite wants complete control rather than sharing power with corporate heads. And the person best able to lead America into its Socialist future is Senator Obama. Perhaps that’s why Senator McCain on October 10, 2008 shocked a crowd of supporters urging him to fight on when he told them Obama is a decent person whom they don’t have to be afraid of as President. Why would McCain say that about someone who is pro-abortion rights and who has dangerous economic and foreign policy positions? Maybe McCain secretly has decided that, with the current seemingly intractable economic crisis, the next president will have a disastrous four years and McCain would rather that be Obama than himself! One might even imagine a Saturday Night Live opening skit where each candidate, faced with the prospect of interminable problems as president, tries to persuade the public to vote for his opponent! ? Of course, the Power Elite actually controls events and who will be elected President. And if it’s Obama, that would explain why McCain doesn’t even use what could be a winning issue – abortion funding! While polls show the public is divided on whether to make all abortions illegal, the public overwhelmingly opposes government funding of elective abortions which Obama supports. Just like Obama says government shouldn’t impose any particular morality on women concerning their choice for abortions, the public overwhelmingly believes Obama shouldn’t impose his abortion-funding morality upon taxpayers religiously opposed to this killing of innocent babies. Why do you think McCain never uses this as an issue? Think about it. © 2008 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved Dennis Laurence Cuddy, historian and political analyst, received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (major in American History, minor in political science). Dr. Cuddy has taught at the university level, has been a political and economic risk analyst for an international consulting firm, and has been a Senior Associate with the U.S. Department of Education. Cuddy has also testified before members of Congress on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Cuddy has authored or edited twenty books and booklets, and has written hundreds of articles appearing in newspapers around the nation, including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He has been a guest on numerous radio talk shows in various parts of the country, such as ABC Radio in New York City, and he has also been a guest on the national television programs USA Today and CBS's Nightwatch.

NORTH CAROLINA MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR NORTH CAROLINA BEING DRAWN INTO WORLD GOVERNMENT Robert Lee Humber (1898-1970) — of Greenville, Pitt County, N.C. Born in Greenville, Pitt County, N.C., May 30, 1898. Son of Robert Lee Humber and Lena Clyde (Davis) Humber; married, October 16, 1929, to Lucie Berthier. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Rhodes scholar; lawyer; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1956; member of North Carolina state senate 5th District, 1959-64. Baptist. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi; Sigma Phi Epsilon; United World Federalists; American Legion; Rotary; American Bar Association; American Judicature Society; American Academy of Political and Social Science; Farm Bureau; National Trust for Historic Preservation. Died November 10, 1970. Interment at Cherry Hill Cemetery, Greenville, N.C. ************************************************************************ THE NORTH CAROLINA RESOLUTION OF 1941 In November 1791 - after deliberating carefully and getting assurances that the US Constitution would be amended by a Bill of Rights - citizens of the newly independent State of North Carolina ratified it and joined the US federation, some 16 months after citizens of eleven of the thirteen original American states had brought the American Federation into existence by transferring some powers to the new federal government 150 years later, in 1941, thanks to the farsighted Robert Humber, Dean of the University of North Carolina Law School, the state House of Representatives unanimously and the Senate by a 45-5 vote passed the following Joint Resolution for a Declaration of the Federation of the World. Man, the source of all political authority, is a manifold political being. He is a citizen of several communities: the city, the state, the nation and the world. To each of these communities he owes inalienable obligations and from each he receives enduring benefits. Communities may exist for a time without being incorporated, but under stress of adversity, they disintegrate unless legally organized. Slowly but purposefully over the centuries, civilization has united the world...This [international] community has no government, and communitites without a government perish... The ceaseless changes wrought in human society by science, industry and economics, as well as by spiritual, social and intellectual forces which impregnate all cultures, make political and geographical isolation of nations hereafter impossible. The organic life of the human race is at last indissolubly unified and can never be severed, but it must be politically ordained and made subject to law. Only a governmentcapable of discharging all the functions of sovereignty in the executive, legislative and judicial spheres can accomplish such a task. Civilization now requires laws, in the place of treaties, as instruments to regulate commerce between peoples... History has revealed but one principle by which free peoples, inhabiting extensive territories, can unite under one government without imparing their local autonomy. That principle is federation, whose virtue preserves the whole without destroying its parts and strengthens its parts without jeopardizing the whole. Federation vitalizes all nations by endowing them with security and freedom to develop their respective cultures without menace of foreign domination...[Federation] renders unnecessary the further paralyzing expenditure of wealth for belligerent activity, and cancels through the ages the mortgages of war against the fortunes and services of men...It apprehends the entire human race as one family, human beings everywhere as brothers and all nations as component parts of an indivisible community. There is no alternative to the federation of all nations except endless war. No substitute to the Federation of the World can organize the international community on the basis of freedom and permanent peace. According to the Center for Defense Information there were 38 major conflicts ongoing throughout the world at the beginning of the year 2000] North Carolina's "Humber Resolution" was the first of a series of similar resolutions passed by 40 of the American states between 1941 and 1951. (See Joseph Baratta What Happened to One World: A History of the Idea of World Federal Government , Westport, CT: Praeger Press, forthcoming.) For the California Resolution passed by the legislature after a campaign led by Alan Cranston of the United World Federalists of California in 1949, see the Spring 1999 TDWF.

This is a very important article that was sent to me. Is our dollar on it's way out? According to the Bible it is. A number system is coming in line with Revelation 13: 16,17. THE COMING ONE-WORLD CURRENCY IRAN SAYS CAPITALISM ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE YnetNews.com reports: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told regional leaders meeting in Tehran to discuss the global economic crisis that the capitalist system was close to collapse. Opening a one-day summit of the 10-nation Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) including Turkey, Pakistan and other neighbors, he also suggested a ‘single currency’ should be used in trade between the group's members. ‘After the collapse of the closed socialist economy, the capitalist economy is also on the verge of collapse,’ Ahmadinejad said in his televised speech. ‘The liberal economy and the free market have failed,’ said Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West. Iran, Turkey and Pakistan are the founding members of the organization, which was set up in 1985 and now includes seven other regional nations, Afghanistan among them... Ahmadinejad made a series of recommendations, including the creation of an ECO development and trade bank and currency cooperation. ‘The process of obtaining one single currency in the trade and exchanges among members, and in the next stages with other countries and neighbors, should be designed,’ he said..." (The New World Order is on the way as prophesied in Revelation 13:1, 7. It’s medium of financial exchange will soon take place --- the micro chipping of all of the world’s inhabitants - Revelation 13: 16 - 18. Recently, the Bilderbergs, the most secretive organization today outlined plans in a conference in Virginia for such a move in the immediate days ahead. See the next four articles for further confirmation of upcoming discontent and future plan for a new system.) CHINA 'WORRIED' ABOUT SAFETY OF U.S. TREASURIES The International Herald Tribune reports: "China, the world's biggest holder of United States government debt, expressed concern about the safety of those assets as American deficits have ballooned with costly stimulus and bailout packages aimed at rescuing the economy. The Chinese Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, said the country was ‘worried’ about its holdings of U.S. Treasuries and called on the United States to provide assurances that the investments were safe, and that China was watching United States economic developments very closely. ‘President Obama and his new government have adopted a series of measures to deal with the financial crisis. We have expectations as to the effects of these measures,’ Wen said at a news conference in Beijing after the final session of the National People's Congress, the Chinese legislature. ‘We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.’ China has the world's largest reserves of foreign exchange thanks to years of double-digit growth in the years that preceded the financial crisis that began in the United States in 2007. Beijing has been deploying much of its reserves in increased purchases of U.S. Treasuries and the financing of major investment projects designed to prop up flagging growth at home. Analysts estimate that nearly half of China's $2 trillion in currency reserves are invested in U.S. Treasuries and notes issued by other government-affiliated agencies. Those Chinese investments have helped assure the stability of the U.S. Treasury market despite the economic convulsions of the last year, and some economists have warned of alarming consequences should the Chinese investments stop propping up the market for American public-sector debt..." CHINA CALLS FOR NEW RESERVE CURRENCY The Financial Times reports: "China’s central bank proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund. In an essay posted on the People’s Bank of China’s website, Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank’s governor, said the goal would be to create a reserve currency ‘that is disconnected from individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run, thus removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies’. Analysts said the proposal was an indication of Beijing’s fears that actions being taken to save the domestic US economy would have a negative impact on China. ‘This is a clear sign that China, as the largest holder of US dollar financial assets, is concerned about the potential inflationary risk of the US Federal Reserve printing money,’ said Qu Hongbin, chief China economist for HSBC. Although Mr. Zhou did not mention the US dollar, the essay gave a pointed critique of the current dollar-dominated monetary system. ‘The outbreak of the [current] crisis and its spillover to the entire world reflected the inherent vulnerabilities and systemic risks in the existing international monetary system,’ Mr. Zhou wrote. China has little choice but to hold the bulk of its $2,000bn of foreign exchange reserves in US dollars, and this is unlikely to change in the near future. To replace the current system, Mr. Zhou suggested expanding the role of special drawing rights, which were introduced by the IMF in 1969 to support the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate regime but became less relevant once that collapsed in the 1970s. Today, the value of SDRs is based on a basket of four currencies - the US dollar, yen, euro and sterling - and they are used largely as a unit of account by the IMF and some other international organizations. China’s proposal would expand the basket of currencies forming the basis of SDR valuation to all major economies and set up a settlement system between SDRs and other currencies so they could be used in international trade and financial transactions. Countries would entrust a portion of their SDR reserves to the IMF to manage collectively on their behalf and SDRs would gradually replace existing reserve currencies..." AT G20, KREMLIN TO PITCH NEW CURRENCY The Moscow Times reports: "The Kremlin published its priorities for a meeting of the G20, calling for the creation of a supranational reserve currency to be issued by international institutions as part of a reform of the global financial system. The International Monetary Fund should investigate the possible creation of a new reserve currency, widening the list of reserve currencies or using its already existing Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, as a ‘super reserve currency accepted by the whole of the international community,’ the Kremlin said in a statement issued on its web site. The SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement the existing official reserves of member countries. The Kremlin has persistently criticized the dollar's status as the dominant global reserve currency and has lowered its own dollar holdings in the last few years. Both President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have repeatedly called for the ruble to be used as a regional reserve currency, although the idea has received little support outside of Russia. Analysts said the new Kremlin proposal would elicit little excitement among the G20 members. ‘This is all in the realm of fantasy,’ said Sergei Perminov, chief strategist at Rye, Man and Gore. ‘There was a situation that resembled what they are talking about. It was called the gold standard, and it ended very badly. ‘Alternatives to the dollar are still hard to find,’ he said. The Kremlin's call for a common currency is not the first. Speaking at an economic conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed a global currency called the ‘acmetal’ -- a conflation of the words ‘acme’ and ‘capital.’ He also suggested that the Eurasian Economic Community, a loose group of five former Soviet republics including Kazakhstan and Russia, adopt a single noncash currency -- the yevraz -- to insulate itself from the global economic crisis. The suggestions received a lukewarm response from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Nazarbayev's proposal did, however, garner support from at least one prominent source -- Columbia University professor Robert Mundell, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1999 for his role in creating the euro..." U.N. PANEL SAYS WORLD SHOULD DITCH DOLLAR Reuters reports: "A U.N. panel will recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies...adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Persaud, chairman of consultants Intelligence Capital and a former currency chief at JPMorgan, said the recommendation would be one of a number delivered to the United Nations on March 25 by the U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform. ‘It is a good moment to move to a shared reserve currency,’ he said. Central banks hold their reserves in a variety of currencies and gold, but the dollar has dominated as the most convincing store of value -- though its rate has wavered in recent years as the United States ran up huge twin budget and external deficits. Some analysts said news of the U.N. panel's recommendation extended dollar losses because it fed into concerns about the future of the greenback as the main global reserve currency, raising the chances of central bank sales of dollar holdings. ‘Speculation that major central banks would begin rebalancing their FX reserves has risen since the intensification of the dollar's slide between 2002 and mid-2008,’ CMC Markets said in a note..." EU PRESIDENT BLASTS U.S. ECONOMIC STIMULUS The International Herald Tribune reports: "Trans-Atlantic tension over the handling of the global economic crisis intensified when the prime minister of the Czech Republic, which holds the European Union presidency, described the U.S. stimulus measures as the ‘way to hell.’ Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek argued that the Obama administration's fiscal package and financial bailout ‘will undermine the stability of the global financial market.’ Mr. Topolanek's comments, only a day after he offered his government's resignation following a no confidence vote, took European officials by surprise. The rotating E.U. presidency lasts for six months and the country that holds it is supposed to speak on behalf of the entire 27-nation bloc. The statement came just a week before a meeting of the Group of 20 leaders of the world's biggest economies in London which aims to forge an international consensus on the economic crisis. His comments also underlined potential ideological strains between Washington and Europe as President Barack Obama prepares to travel to Prague in less than two weeks for a summit intended to bolster transatlantic relations and show that the United States and Europe are united over economic policy..." (President Obama has made the trip at this point of time and has defended his plan. In 1983, in my book 11:59 & Counting, I predicted an upcoming economic crisis. 26 years later I have lived to see my prediction fulfilled - based upon James 5:1-3; Revelation 18:10, 17, 19; Ezekiel 7:19. Revelation 13:15-18 is coming sooner than most of us think. This sign occurs after Christ calls His bride and church home at the Rapture.)