At the lake today, I watched two kids playing in a raft. They were horsing around like most would, so it wasn't a surprise when the boat flipped over. I'd derived earlier that they were brother and sister. They laughed and splashed for a while, but within minutes, they attempted to climb back into the raft. They tried balancing on each side, but no luck. The girl even tried to put her feet in at the same time as her head! The raft plopped her out.
As I watched her try again, I realized she and her brother would never get in that way. I yelled to the girl.
"Hey! Hey! Can you hear me?"
After half a minute passed, I saw her turn towards me.
"Turn around!" I yelled. "Try putting your hands on the sides and jumping on it like a curb."
The word running through my head was stage, but she got the message, attempted and plopped again. This time on her back into the raft.
"Thank you!" She yelled back.
"No problem. I thought it might help."
As I sat down again on my blanket, something struck me about the way she had succeeded. She had some fun, fell out, then wanted back in. Going forward didn't help her, matter how balanced she was. She had to go backwards because her center of gravity was literally behind her.
Perhaps in life, going forward with weightless arms and legs, and even a head, does us no good. It is our weighted center behind us that gives us stability and pushes us forward. You have to turn backwards to the past to move towards your goals. Your center could be called many things. Family, mission, vision, a call from God, or a duty or debt you owe the world to help make it better.
I've got a lot of goals in life, just like I have pictures on my wall. They show all the places I want to go. How? My secret is out in the open, but most don't notice it. High above my desk are the words,
"Study as if the future of the world depends on you. It does."
Only God and I know what that really means.
Are you having fun or are you falling out?
Are your ears clear?

~Manike~

George Wythe College mentors me...www.gwc.edu Comanity funds me...www.comanity.com

Power Money: They’ve Got It

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is an inter-governmental organization with a Permanent Delegation to the United Nations. As the second largest international organization after the United Nations, it has the power to rule the world.

It coadjutes 57 nations, most of which are Islamic in the Middle East, North, West and Southern Africa, Central Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia, South Asia and South America. The OIC politely keeps its power from the spotlight.
Like the UN, the OIC has trouble enforcing its resolutions. It has substantial legislative powers, but no executive or judicial power. This form dooms it to dependence on committees supported by the members, but who are not obligated by law. The most the OIC can do is politely ask them to do something.
The OIC does not have any armed forces of its own. None of its committees are designed to control, support or operate military of any kind. However, they may be capable of creating that structure, but they are still dependent on loyal member states to protect them.
The different organizations within the OIC are powerful on paper, but weak on foot. In order to execute all its powers, it would have to force strong members to obey until they were comfortable with the loss of control.
The exceptions would be countries that already had weak governments, and found it easier to delegate powers to higher government.
The OIC does this because it needs to stay diplomatic. For now, it stays dependent on its member governments. It doesn’t want to scare anyone off by unsheathing its sword.
Over the years, committees overseen by the annual and tri-annual conferences have build institutions to work towards idealistic dreams. Their universities have risen in prestige. Research and training centers for culture, economy, technology, and education have preserved the antiquity of the member states while helping them develop. The OIC also supports an Islamic Development Bank, Solidarity Fund and Broadcasting & News Agency
The idealistic dreams of the OIC are: eliminate racial prejudice; eradicate colonialism; safeguard the Holy Land; support international peace, the Palestinians and all Muslim people with a view to preserving their dignity, independence and national rights.
In 2006, OIC made an interesting move. They joined the UN in a cooperation agreement. Causes that seek the support of either get support from both. The OIC now has most of the nations in the world supporting it without admitting them all, and the UN has the support of the OIC.
The importance of this is not seen or written. What makes the OIC so strong is it has a strong religious purpose that refutes reason and the support of OPEC.
In the Islamic world, different classes are in different sects of Islam The ruling class including all the heads of state is in the highest. These are the people with primary control of the OIC. Their dream of a peaceful world where the correct image of Islam is always projected, prejudices are eliminated, and Muslims are always supported and protected is a call from Allah. Trying to convince them that any other opinion is correct is futile. Reason can never refute revelation.
OPEC stands for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries It was founded in 1960, and it’s current members are:Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Venezuela. Behold the wealth, brains and brawn of the OIC.
And why is that? You already know the answer. OIL. Oil is the currency of power right now, and since OPEC is the source of it and the heart of OIC, the OIC has the monopoly over power of the world since its creation.
Someone is probably making the argument that the US isn’t dependent on oil. It has its own reserves; it have alternative energy sources. so why is everyone there still paying $3.10 a gallon for gasoline? Because that person knows it will take decades of hard work to switch completely over to self reliant energy. The United States prefers to take the easier drive to give the OIC power and be slapped with dependence.
President Bush was pretty smart to invade Iraq directly. It would have been easier to just launch missiles from Saudi Arabia, our ally. Why didn’t he? Because by invading Iraq, he hits the bulls-eye of world power that he’s trying to claim for the United States to stop his country from declining. He can target almost any other country in OPEC or the OIC from Iraq. The outer circles are marked by the boundaries of OPEC and OIC. This bulls-eye controls the entire world by alliance, submission or trade dependence.
The world knows the super-populated countries of Russia, China, India and Indonesia as the producer nations of the world. All four are observer states in the OIC. The US hasn’t wised up yet. Observer states have the right to attend, comment, and give suggestions—everything but the power to vote on decisions. Is it too far-fetched to assume that some of the OIC policies are made to respect the opinions of the world producers that respectfully attend conferences? The observers are watchdogs, but only watchdogs on a chain. Because after all, even if the OIC does something they don’t like, how would they manage without oil? Even the producer nations have become snapping Dobermans without teeth.
The OIC will be the center of the world’s power until someone changes the money. It will not be by invasion of one or many of the member states, and not just for energy. Oil is something much more. It is the power money.
What is power money? It is the sole thing of value for which nations will trade everything else they have. Power money interprets values into the material world, and shapes what type of government you are living under. Let’s take a look at world history for a moment.

YEAR	GOAL	HEGEMONY	CURRENCY	PERSONALITY	PRINCIPLE
1500	World Exploration and Protestant Reformation	Freedom Independence “Let us think”	GOLD	Abundance “More than enough	Free
1600	Countries acquire new land.	Mercantilism “Let us trade”	GOLD	Scarcity “Let’s get it all”	Fear
1700	New of people colonized land.	Self-governing Independence “Let us work together”	SILVER	Abundance “More than enough”	Free
1800	Rise of Emperors & Capitalists	Colonization Monopoly “Let us own”	ENERGY	Scarcity “Let’s get it all for ourselves”	Fear
1940	American Supremacy	Military “Let’s hide under our desks”	BOMBS	Scarcity “Let’s protect everything we have”	Fear
1970	OIC & Islamic Supremacy	Corporations Dependence “Let corporations take care of us	OIL	Scarcity “Let’s get it all for ourselves”	Fear
2003	America Challenge	Military “Let’s drop bombs first.”	BOMBS	Scarcity “Let’s stay on top”	Fear
2007	OIC vs. Producer Nations Awaiting Upset	Corporations Production “Corporations will take care of us because government can’t”	MONEY	Scarcity Abundance “Who’s going to win next?”	Fear
20??	Social Entrepreneurs	Institutions Interdependence “Let corporates take care of them”	ENERGY	Abundance “More than enough”	Free

This is the past, present and future of the world. This is what we can expect. The future is already happening now, and the strength of energy is in the event horizon. It is the strongest now. The days of the OIC are numbered because oil is not the best way to power an iPod. The future will be effective energy and those that control it.

Member States of the Organization of the Islamic Conference

~Manike~

George Wythe College mentors me...www.gwc.edu

Comanity funds me...www.comanity.com

More information...www.oic-oci.org

Life of a Statesman

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Can you hear me?...a day at the Lake

Wednesday, June 25, 2008