[color=#000099]DEAD herring in the moonlight is beautiful because it gleams like silver, evil because it stinks in the decay of death. The herring in question has now made itself invisible and generally imperceptible by donning the masquerade of a beautiful bride called ‘E-Banking’ (electronic banking), and has now arrived in Nigeria. One does not need to be a banker or an economist to understand that the world has now entered the final furlong towards the establishment of a cashless economy.

But such an end development cannot materialise on a global scale without the creation of a monetary system that caters for the use of just one currency as a survival process. No marks for guessing which currency will be adopted: the euro – uniquely enjoying as it does the sovereign patronage of 16 European nations. This would also amount to a subtle declaration of ‘Aryan’ (European/Caucasian) supremacy over all the other races of the world. Just recently China was successfully lobbied by the EU into advocating the creation of a global super-currency to replace the ailing Dollar, stopping just short of actual pronouncement of the obvious proposed alternative.

A 1987 report, Unfinished Bumeans in effect a New World Order that will jettison the democratic culture as we know it. It would mean the end of healthy competition (assuming it was ever healthy at all), the end of multi-party politics and the entire electoral system, with a central global authority whose policies will be incontrovertible – in the spirit of a true Global Village. Pat Robertson, a well-known American TV journalist, discloses that the New World Order “will be the most hideous example of dictatorial power that the world has ever known.”

While it is clear that global peace will be the motive behind this totalitarian dictatorship, it is even clearer that such an ambition will remain a distinct dream without an official endorsement of sin as a natural way of life in the affairs of men. Vatican priest Father Don Stefan Gobbi lamented the existence of just such a scenario. “… Today theoretical and practical atheism, diffused on a world-wide scale, has constructed a new atheistic and materialistic civilization, bringing about a general justification of sin, which is no longer looked upon as a moral evil, but extolled through the media of social communication as a positive value and a good. Thus there is spread about the general practice of living in sin, of no longer confessing it…”

Such a sin-loving utopia as visualised can only become a reality in the wake of a hydra-headed peak from the ongoing disasters being currently visited on the globe, leaving a beleaguered world public anxious for the emergence of some towering hero with grandiose ideas for radical peaceful change. With this end in mind, the Middle East – with specific reference to Israel and the Palestinian question – is the area to watch with regard to the timing of this imminent change. As far back as 4,000 years ago Jacob, a revered Jewish sage with a flair for prophetic teachings, predicted the second mounting on to Israel’s leadership saddle by hard-line right-wing politician Benjamin Netanyahu: “Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.”

And sure enough, on the March 31, 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Israel’s new Prime Minister after his first outing two decades ago!

It is easy to draw an inference that while Israel’s military spanking will tame Arab aggression against the Jewish state once and for all, it will throw most of the world into bloody mayhem. From the ashes a New World Order is expected to be forged. In 1991 American researcher Peter Lalonde described the proposed utopia in these terms, “One powerful world government will rule over various regional groupings and allianc