I thought this worth story recording here, as it's the sort of thing that is unlikely to get mainstream attention and might otherwise go unnoticed. In time it'll probably affect us all to some degree.

Basically, according to the article Gordon Brown is preparing the ground for an expansion of the UN Security Council to help consolidate the "new world order" and "global society". Objectively this simply means that the UNSC will expand its current membership (Britain, France, United States, Russia and China) to include Germany, Brazil, India, and Japan and "one or two" African countries - but of course, there's more to it than that.

The reason this story is important is that currently, UNSC members each hold a veto vote, which means that nothing much gets done in the name of the UNSC without unanimity. The article uses the word "adamant" to reassure readers that the British veto will not be negotiated away and yet, notice that this powerful word IS NOT attributed to Gordon Brown; merely "his aides". To make it worse, we are given a rotten apple in the next sentence to prevent us thinking, as the article goes on to suggest that new members won't be given a veto vote, at least initially. You see, even there they have to attach a caveat, but it's all a lie folks, because it's OBVIOUS where this leads.

You only have to look at the history of the EU to see how the veto vote becomes the primary bone of contention in these situations - and eventually, as the membership enlarges, the pressure to remove veto powers becomes overwhelming. See almost any of the major EU treaties (including the current one) to see how member states have slowly lost the power of veto in more and more areas of competence over time. In its place Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) is ushered in, which in the case of the EU tends to mean a rigged voting system where the bigger members can gang up on the smaller ones to get their own way. In the EU it leads to all sorts of horse-trading (which in their case tends to mean bribes and stuff, allegedly).

The fact is, not only is this overblown bureaucracy costing YOU money, but when the chips are down it'll still be a complete waste of time. Remember how Blair said we should get a second UNSC resolution before invading Iraq and Colin Powell responded the next day by saying "We don't NEED a second resolution"?

I trust we can all see the irony there.

PS: If it does turn out to be one African country that joins the UNSC, then that'll make ten. Christians will no doubt recall Revelation 17:12, 13 & 14

And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings:
and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

Better to be a lamb than a sheep...

This is a very worrying development, and one which - as you correctly predicted - didn't receive much coverage elsewhere. Thank you also for your excellent summary of the article, I certainly didn't pick up the deeper meaning from the other papers at the time.

There's a weird thing going on with the Guardian's links too - I had to search again for the article, although the URL you gave is correct. The fully resolved link to the article is here.

No big surprise that South Africa is proposed to be the African country at the end of the article - the round-table interests of the Anglo-American alliance will no doubt remain well-served with so many ex-Commonwealth countries involved. I found the NZ Herald's spin on this subject last week quite revealing...

Even although the Herald portrays the situation as Blair pulling in one direction and Brown in the other, the end result is still that the increase in permanent Security Council membership filled largely by British former colonies would make for an even stronger majority in this unholy alliance than existed previously. All neatly manufactured while hidden under a false pretence of discord and tension.

Your observations about the ten kings that empower the beast of global governance leads me also to mention Tony Blair's seemingly strange role in this, bearring in mind his recent conversion to Catholicism:

Revelation 17:1 -9 succinctly describes the Catholic Church in Rome (built upon 7 hills) as the woman the beast carries on its back. She's bedecked in purple and scarlet, concerned with the procurement of power & riches, world politics, and murderously opposed to anyone that would try to harm the power of the Catholic Church (e.g. their brutal treatment of Christians, "witches", and "heretics" during the inquisitions).

Dave Hunt & Chuck Missler speak very eloquently on these subjects - amongst others, Hunt's "The Woman that Rides the Beast" and Missler's "Europa Rising - Rebuilding the Empire" & "Mystery of Babylon" are well worth a look. I'll try to get these up on the tracker this evening.