Huckabee to USA: Give Up Your Sovereignty!

http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/840.html

Mike Huckabee recently named Richard Haas (the President of the CFR) as his advisor on foreign policy. CNN's WOLF BLITZER asked "Who are your principal foreign policy advisers, Governor?" Mike Huckabee responded: "Well, I have a number of people from whom I get policy. I'm talking to Frank Gaffney, I talk to Richard Haas.."

So what does Richard Haas believe in? Here's an article below which was written by Haas for the Tapei Times. It basically states the Bill of Rights and Constitution should be given up in favor of a cooperative world body run by elite consensus. Who needs individual rights in the techno-futuristic world police state? And you thought liberty was in jeopardy now? Just wait till you see what your children will have to deal with. Get activated folks, These police state freaks want to shape your future into a control grid enforced through the fear based reaction to state sponsored false flag terror.

State Sovereignty Must be Altered in Globalized Era

In the age of globalization, states should give up some sovereignty to world bodies in order to protect their own interests

By Richard Haass

Taipei Times - For 350 years, sovereignty -- the notion that states are the central actors on the world stage and that governments are essentially free to do what they want within their own territory but not within the territory of other states -- has provided the organizing principle of international relations. The time has come to rethink this notion.

The world's 190-plus states now co-exist with a larger number of powerful non-sovereign and at least partly (and often largely) independent actors, ranging from corporations to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), from terrorist groups to drug cartels, from regional and global institutions to banks and private equity funds. The sovereign state is influenced by them (for better and for worse) as much as it is able to influence them. The near monopoly of power once enjoyed by sovereign entities is being eroded.

As a result, new mechanisms are needed for regional and global governance that include actors other than states. This is not to argue that Microsoft, Amnesty International, or Goldman Sachs be given seats in the UN General Assembly, but it does mean including representatives of such organizations in regional and global deliberations when they have the capacity to affect whether and how regional and global challenges are met.

Less is more

Moreover, states must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world bodies if the international system is to function. This is already taking place in the trade realm. Governments agree to accept the rulings of the WTO because on balance they benefit from an international trading order even if a particular decision requires that they alter a practice that is their sovereign right to carry out.

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change. Under one such arrangement, the Kyoto Protocol, which runs through 2012, signatories agree to cap specific emissions. What is needed now is a successor arrangement in which a larger number of governments, including the US, China, and India, accept emissions limits or adopt common standards because they recognize that they would be worse off if no country did.

All of this suggests that sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalization. At its core, globalization entails the increasing volume, velocity, and importance of flows -- within and across borders -- of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, dollars, drugs, viruses, e-mails, weapons and a good deal else, challenging one of sovereignty's fundamental principles: the ability to control what crosses borders in either direction. Sovereign states increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another, but to forces beyond their control.

Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker. States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves, because they cannot insulate themselves from what goes on elsewhere. Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary.

This was demonstrated by the American and world reaction to terrorism. Afghanistan's Taliban government, which provided access and support to al-Qaeda, was removed from power. Similarly, the US' preventive war against an Iraq that ignored the UN and was thought to possess weapons of mass destruction showed that sovereignty no longer provides absolute protection.

Imagine how the world would react if some government were known to be planning to use or transfer a nuclear device or had already done so. Many would argue -- correctly -- that sovereignty provides no protection for that state.

Necessity may also lead to reducing or even eliminating sovereignty when a government, whether from a lack of capacity or conscious policy, is unable to provide for the basic needs of its citizens. This reflects not simply scruples, but a view that state failure and genocide can lead to destabilizing refugee flows and create openings for terrorists to take root.

The NATO intervention in Kosovo was an example where a number of governments chose to violate the sovereignty of another government (Serbia) to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide. By contrast, the mass killing in Rwanda a decade ago and now in Darfur, Sudan, demonstrate the high price of judging sovereignty to be supreme and thus doing little to prevent the slaughter of innocents.

Conditions needed

Our notion of sovereignty must therefore be conditional, even contractual, rather than absolute. If a state fails to live up to its side of the bargain by sponsoring terrorism, either transferring or using weapons of mass destruction, or conducting genocide, then it forfeits the normal benefits of sovereignty and opens itself up to attack, removal or occupation.

The diplomatic challenge for this era is to gain widespread support for principles of state conduct and a procedure for determining remedies when these principles are violated.

The goal should be to redefine sovereignty for the era of globalization, to find a balance between a world of fully sovereign states and an international system of either world government or anarchy.

The basic idea of sovereignty, which still provides a useful constraint on violence between states, needs to be preserved. But the concept needs to be adapted to a world in which the main challenges to order come from what global forces do to states and what governments do to their citizens rather than from what states do to one another.

Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course.

Classic Colbert-Paul 'meeting of the minds'

I know this is old but I think it's great.

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Merry Christmas!

God bless you. Jesus came to Earth just for you.

Church, do we really want Mike Huckabee as President?

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No.

This televangelist ought to support Ron Paul!

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Rod Parsley may as well support Ron Paul. His sermon regarding the Federal Reserve is absolutely true. They must be eliminated and there is only one candidate who can do it.

Guess who?

Yes, Ron Paul.

Some Christians believe NAFTA Superhighway is a good thing and Scriptural

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/12/19/tuchman.i.35.to.heaven.cnn?iref=videosearch

Amazing.

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Call me a conspiracy nut... BUT IS THIS APPROPRIATE TO SCROLL UNDERNEATH A RON PAUL INTERVIEW???

Veiled threat from a Neo-Con?

HOUSTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Tuesday defended his Christmas ad amid suggestions that the ordained Baptist minister had gone too far mixing religion and politics.

The ad, which is airing in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, shows Huckabee in front of a Christmas tree as he says, "Are you about worn out by all the television commercials you've been seeing, mostly about politics? Well, I don't blame you. At this time of year sometimes it's nice to pull aside from all of that and just remember that what really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ and being with our family and friends."

Huckabee is courting evangelical voters and other religious conservatives in his bid to win the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3. In Texas for a fundraiser, he said the ad was a harmless holiday greeting even though it excludes other religions.

"If we are so politically correct in this country that a person can't say enough of the nonsense with the political attack ads could we pause for a few days and say Merry Christmas to each other then we're really, really in trouble as a country," Huckabee said.

Catholic League president Bill Donahue said Huckabee went beyond wishing people a joyous holiday. Donahue said he was especially disturbed by the cross-like image created by a white bookcase in the background of the ad, saying he believed it was a subliminal message.

"What he's trying to say to the evangelicals in western Iowa (is): I'm the real thing," Donahue said Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends. "You know what, sell yourself on your issues, not on what your religion is."

Huckabee said the bookshelf is just a bookshelf and shrugged off the controversy: "I will confess this: If you play the spot backwards it says, 'Paul is dead. Paul is dead.'"

He was joking about the Beatles' recording of "The White Album" and the urban legend that if a portion of the album is played backwards, the words "Paul is dead" is heard, a reference to the very much alive Paul McCartney.

Comment: In light of this being a reply to Ron Paul's statements and also, keeping in mind Huckabee's status as a Neocon (just what are the odds that both frontrunners would have a connection to Arkansas?), could this have been a veiled threat? The media was quick to explain it but it's out there for everyone to see.

Bruce (BruceDCollins.com)

Tea Party '07 leads to 6 million for Ron Paul!!!!

What a day for Ron Paul (www.RonPaul2008.com). A RECORD DAY (surpassing John Kerry's haul of 5.7 million, which was the previous record). This opens up so many possibilities for him now. In fact, they are going to be airing a half hour 'infomercial' on Ron Paul in Iowa next weekend- this, undoubtedly, will transfer to increased support for Ron Paul.

This race is getting very, very interesting.

Tomorrow night, Dr. Paul will be a guest on Glenn Beck for the full hour (check times/listings on CNN Headline News).

Alex Jones predicted 9/11

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With every layer of onion removed comes a more pungent smell...

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Tomorrow, will history be made for Ron Paul??? Can't wait!

Tonight, I'm doing a bit of an impromptu show to further explore BlogTalkRadio- most of the program will be a re-broadcast of a great interview I did with David Lowe- plus we'll be counting down to the Ron Paul Tea Party as we pass thru the midnight hour on the West Coast!!!

Join us if you can....

Lots o' stuff coming out about Huckabee

Huckabee Used Group to Supplement His Income - New York Times
Huck's gift-givers ended up in state posts - Kenneth P. Vogel - Politico.com
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Sorry for tonight's blogtalkradio broadcast. It was mostly a test run to see how easy the equipment is to use. It's 'so-so' in my opinion. For some reason, I had quite a time with the switchboard reverting back to the main page so it made things a bit difficult.

I will have more info coming soon about The Big Finale in '08. Thanks for your support and listenership. A guest list will be coming soon to the main page.

Take care, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...

Bruce

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and for those who care, remember the money bomb this Sunday- www.RonPaul2008.com

God bless!