time for acciona?

Acciona's CEO Senior Entrecanales (the man right behind Ban ki-Moon - he was the one who presented the "Copenhagen Climate Communique2" to the UN)  (pictures:acciona, LINK)

In my article from October 17 (Link) I showed how much Javier Solana has prepared the groundwork for the Copenhagen Climate Summit and wrote that this may be the basis of a new world order post for him. Recently in Jerusalem he spoke at a conference for sustainable energy.

Now the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported on Nov 6 that the president of the business group Acciona, José Manuel Entrecanales (Bilderberg attendee 2009), would be closing negotiations with Solana to become its international adviser. Link Officially Solana wants to contribute to the companies expansion in markets like the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Southeast Asia. But him standing so much behind the Copenhagen summit this seems like a bad joke - I guess he will connect ALL the global efforts for Climate Change world governance.

Hispanidad writes: "The social challenges at the international division of Acciona are very right. In the money, no ideology. Solana is a key that opens doors. He knows it. Entrecanales knows it too. Agreement closed." Link

So Acciona working to have the advice of the EU representative is one thing. But it seems that they will not be alone in seeking the services of a figure of much prestige value like Solana. 

Sources around Solana told ahead of this newspaper report that "he will be busy a professional activity" when he leaves his post in Brussels. The academic world and research institutes are one of the fields where he had devoted much of his time before, with special emphasis on building bridges between Spain and the U.S.. He also intends to work with Foundations and Centers of International Crisis Management. Sources close to the European head of diplomacy said on Friday that Solana has expressed publicly its objectives and that, for now,  he is focused on doing his job until the end of his term. Therefore, he does not want to comment further about his future after 14 years in Brussels. 

ACCIONA Energia is a world leader in the renewables sector. The company has taken on the mission of demonstrating the technical and economic viability of a new energy model on the basis of criteria of sustainability. ACCIONA Energia is present in the main clean energies, in line with their different levels of maturity and profitability. It is also present in other electric power generation technologies based on renewable energy sources -biomass, small hydro and solar-, and also in the manufacture of wind turbines (designed in-house) and the production and marketing of biofuels. It also has assets in the field of cogeneration. Link

As of 2007, Acciona Energy is the largest developer, owner and operator of wind farms in the world, with 164 wind farms in nine countries representing over 4,500 megawatts (MW) of wind power installed or under construction. Acciona Energy is also the developer, owner and operator of Nevada Solar One, the world's first solar thermal plant built in more than 16 years, and the third largest facility of its kind. They have also to plants in Israel. Link

"Army to Build Out 500 MW of Solar in the Mojave - I recently pointed out where the world’s solar hotspots are. No surprise to find the Mojave is among them. So, as Reuters reports here, the US Army is going to build a combined PV and CSP facility, working with Acciona. This is in line with the federal government’s recent mandate to radically lower GHG emissions at its facilities". Link

"ACCIONA has been a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development since 2005; this demonstrates the company’s commitment to the design and implementation of programs with other companies and public bodies in the quest for multilateral solutions aimed at driving sustainable development.

As part of this effort, in June ACCIONA became a member of The Corporate Leaders Group (CLG), an association of thirty UK and European companies whose goal is to voice proposals from the business community in the fight against climate change. The CLG was created under the auspices of HRH Charles, Prince of Wales, as part of the University of Cambridge’s Programme for Industry.

Last month, Acciona chef José Manuel Entrecanales presented UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, with the "Copenhagen Communiqué2, a CLG document on climate change that puts forward specific measures for discussion by political leaders in next December’s COP 15 summit in the Danish capital". LINK

At the same time in November Prince Philip wants to have presented a "Seven Year Plan" for Climate Change under the auspieces of THE ALLIANCE OF RELIGIONS AND CONSERVATION with support fromUnited Nations Development Programme:

http://www.arcworld.org/downloads/UNARC%20-%20guide%20to%20creating%20your%20seven%20year%20plan.pdf

stay tuned!

farmer

Ties that bind

videopic from Prince Charles' "Green Forest Project", Link

Following is part of the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech, as prepared for delivery, to a Summit of Religious and Secular Leaders on Climate Change, in London Nov.3:

"Together, we must unite to face a momentous global challenge –- minimizing dangerous climate change and making peace with the planet.

I have long believed that when Governments and civil society work toward a common goal, transformational change is possible.

Faiths and religions are a central part of that equation.

Indeed, the world’s faith communities occupy a unique position in discussions on the fate of our planet and the accelerating impacts of climate change. 

As a secular organization, the United Nations has no common religion. But, like all the major faiths, we too work on behalf of the disadvantaged and the vulnerable. 

We share the same ethical foundation: a belief in the inherent dignity of all individuals.

That is why we work in partnership with Governments, corporations, civil society and faith-based groups.

That is why we support the Alliance of Civilizations, which is fighting extremism and working to improve understanding and cooperation among nations and peoples.

...

You can -- and do -- inspire people to change.

As we take the final steps on our journey to Copenhagen, that inspiration is critical.

I ask each of your faiths and religions to pray for a fair, balanced and effective way forward."

(sic!)

Read the whole adress here: LINK 

, ...which is including the praise of Ban Ki-moon for Prince Philip, father of the sustainable Prince Charles, who is also big behind the Alliance of Civilizations, see here:

"ESSAYS ON THE ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS
AND INTERFAITH RECONCILIATION
Inaugural Paper
Religion—The Ties that Bind
by
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales"
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/pdf/TiesThatBind.pdf

Besides using the same connections between Religion, AoC and Nature Cult he talks about using Ancient Wisdom to unite tradition and modernism in search for the Divine Harmony. In the same year (2006) Prince Charles gave a written lecture at University of Alberta, were he shows how much he get his ideas from Kabbalah:

"This dilemma is captured in ancient notions of balance and harmony; notions that are, for example, expressed in many guises in that wonderful Kabbalistic diagram of the Tree of Life. As the Temenos Fellow, Warren Kenton, so beautifully explains in his lectures to the students of the Academy, the teaching of the Tree of Life is that the “active” and the “passive” aspects of life, which on their own may lead to imbalance and disharmony, must be, can only be, brought together in harmony by the influx into our lives of the Divine and the Sacred. Whether or not we interpret this image as an explanation of an outer or an inner orientation, it is in this way, and only in this way, that the forces, or characteristics, of expansion and constraint can be brought into balance.
But, of course, in both the inner and outer dimensions of our lives, many of us, at present, experience the very imbalance and disharmony that this mystical framework, and, indeed, the teachings of mystics of all times, show to be harmful or, to use a contemporary term, “unsustainable”"
 http://www.sacredweb.com/conference06/conference_introduction.html

More on the sustainable prince in a great free online book from John D. Christian:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16363580/Ecofascism-and-Charles-Prince-of-Wales

stay tuned!

farmer

the EUs New Age opens and nothing to add

 

Solana, Obama, Barroso, Swed.PM Reinfeldt, sources: afp, ap

"US President Barack Obama Tuesday welcomed the ratification of the European Union's reform treaty. "I congratulated them on the conclusion of the Lisbon Treaty, which will further move Europe in the direction of integration not only on economic policy but also on a number of security issues," Obama said after a White House summit with EU leaders.

"I believe that a strengthened and renewed EU will be an even better transatlantic partner with the United States."

Obama met earlier with EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency" LINK

Solana: "I am very pleased that President Vaclav Klaus has signed the Lisbon Treaty today. All obstacles have now been lifted for the prompt entry into force of a treaty that will open a new era for the European Union. The Lisbon Treaty will enable us to work in a much more coherent and efficient way and give us a stronger voice on the international scene." LINK

"President Barack Obama says he and European leaders agree it is imperative that they redouble efforts to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen in December." LINK

After a CBS report"...Obama was taken aback when each of the leaders had plenty to say – except one:

"Obviously we'll have to give you more training," Mr. Obama said to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who said he had "nothing to add" after the president and two EU leaders made substantial statements to reporters. 

The president made it clear that's not the way it's done on this side of the Atlantic. 

"You should understand that the rule in Washington is: even if you don't have anything to say – you should take a long time to say it," said the president to Solana, with tongue-in-cheek." LINK

stay tuned!

farmer

Erdoğan calls for new world order for sustainable peace

source: todays zaman, Link

While Javier Solana said on Monday that the future Palestinian state should be established along the 1967 borders (Link),

"Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged countries around the globe to work for a new order for the settlement of long-persisting problems on Monday.  The gathering was held by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) in cooperation with the Center for Strategic Communication (Stratim) and the German Marshall Fund of the United States to shed broad insight on possible ways to ensure security in the Middle East...

The main theme of yesterday's gathering at the Four Seasons Hotel was “The Middle East in World Politics: Searching for Security in a Troubled Region.” Erdoğan delivered a speech at the event in which he called for a new understanding, a new approach and a new global order for the settlement of the world's problems. “This new order should embrace everyone in a fair way which regards all diversity as a source of richness,” he noted...

One of the major issues Erdoğan addressed during his speech was his unrest about conspiracy theories on the Middle East..." Link

He also said: "Peace cannot be established in the Middle East when the suffering of the Palestinians continues and the Gaza Strip remains a wreck." Link

stay tuned!

farmer

Solana: conquering the world with the pale horse - Copenhagen his global strike?

Turning crisis into opportunity...

Is the coming Copenhagen Climate Summit the place where the new World Government will be signed?

This is at least what Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned on Wednesday evening at the Minnesota Free Market Institute hosted event at Bethel University in St. Paul.

At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it. I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement. (Link)

The "treaty" was prepared in Bangkok and is to be finished in Barcelona:

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/un-fccc-copenhagen-2009.pdf

Will it create a new World Government post for Javier Solana?

Timing is right.

Guess what: It is all based on Javier Solanas recommendations from:

                - European Security Strategy (ESS - Thessaloniki Dec. 2003, which was followed by the Barcelona based 7 year ENP-treaty with many)

and

                        -his recommendations (after the EU begged him to do so) on CLIMATE CHANGE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY (March 2008)

as well as his

- Report on the Implementation of the European Security Strategy(Dec. 2008) plus

-Climate Change and Security:
Recommendations of the High Representative
on follow-up to
the High Representative and Commission report
on Climate Change and International Security (Dec.2008)

(see also here: "Climate change and energy security(...) are new threats identified in the renewed European security strategy"  LINK)

Suddenly one understands what Solana has to do with Climate and what his doing in Israel next week in this relation:

"Israeli President Shimon Peres has been keeping busy lately with all of his environmental advocacy. Last year he launched Tel Aviv’s Earth Hour by powering down the lights in the Tel Aviv City Hall and Azrieli towers, then he inaugurated Israel’s first “green city” – Kfar Saba, this year he unplugged Jerusalem for Earth Day 2009, and just last month he launched an Israeli Clean Energy Forum. And he’s not tired yet. In his Presidential Conference taking place this week in Jerusalem (October 20-22), a portion of the discussions will be devoted to various aspects of the global environmental crisis. Looking at Tomorrow - Turning Crises into Opportunities: This session will examine whether some of the current global environmental crises can be transformed into opportunities and starting points for a better future. The panelists (which include Professor Ruth Gabizon, Bernard Henri Levy, Dr. Javier Solana, and Raymond Kurzweill) will provide a general outlook about the various crises." Link plus more at my post from yesterday...

Let's see some pieces from Dr. Solana's:

"REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY - PROVIDING SECURITY IN A CHANGING WORLD -

Approved by the European Council held in Brussels on 11 and 12 December 2008 and drafted under the responsibilities of the EU High Representative Javier SOLANA":

"Globalisation has brought new opportunities...

Europe will rise to these new challenges, as we have done in the past". (p1)

"The European Council adopted the European Security Strategy (ESS) in December 2003.

This report does not replace the ESS, but reinforces it." (p2)

"In 2003, the ESS already identified the security implications of climate change. Five
years on, this has taken on a new urgency. In March 2008, the High Representative and
Commission presented a report to the European Council which described climate change is a "threat multiplier". (p5)

"It is in our interest that the countries on our borders are well-governed. The European
Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), launched in 2004, supports this process."(p6)

"The Mediterranean, an area of major importance and opportunity for Europe, still poses
complex challenges, such as insufficient political reform and illegal migration. The EU
and several Mediterranean partners, notably Israel and Morocco, are working towards
deepening their bilateral relations. The ENP has reinforced reforms originally started
under the Barcelona process in 1995, but regional conflict, combined with rising
radicalism, continues to sow instability." (p7)

"The ENP has strengthened individual bilateral relationships with the EU. This process
now needs to build regional integration. "(p10)

"The EU is leading negotiations for a new international agreement on the former, and must use all its levers to achieve an ambitious outcome at Copenhagen in 2009". (p12)

from: Report on the Implementation of the European Security Strategy
- Providing Security in a Changing World -11 December 2008

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/EN/reports/104630.pdf

"Building on initiatives undertaken within the framework of the Union for the Mediterranean and the European Neighbourhood Policy, our response should focus on the following:
-Enhanced dialogue. Work with the Euro-Mediterranean Climate Change Network to
promote the mainstreaming of climate change and the development of adaptation strategies that take social factors and the risk of conflict into consideration..." (p3)

"The EU is at the forefront of efforts to achieve a global and comprehensive new international agreement at Copenhagen in December 2009. Neither reducing emissions nor addressing the security dimension can be done by the EU alone. It needs a multilateral effort. At national and EU level, action is needed across different parts of government, parliaments, media and civil society. During 2009, the EU should focus on the following:

• Key global partners, such as the US, China, India, and Russia. The EU will work closely
with these, sharing assessments and exploring potential for more cooperation on climate change and security. Early engagement with the US will be crucial.
• Regions at particular risk. The EU has already built close relations on climate change
and security with organisations representing regions at particular risk, such as the Alliance
of Small Island States, the Arab League, and the African Union. We should use these to
gather support ahead of Copenhagen, while also working to enhance resilience to cope
with the security aspects of climate change.
• Key international organisations (e.g. UN, AU and OSCE). Climate change is a global challenge. Building on work to date, the EU is committed to engaging further with these organisations..." (p6)

5. Conclusion
As the joint High Representative and Commission report on Climate Change and International
Security emphasised, the security implications of climate change are potentially vast. Our
response needs to combine global actions with detailed understanding of the consequences at a local level. Knowledge and awareness will both be key...Progress on the issue of climate change and security as well as implementation of these
recommendations should be reviewed by the Council in the second half of 2009."(p6)

from:
-Climate Change and Security:Recommendations of the High Representative
on follow-up tothe High Representative and Commission report
on Climate Change and International Security (Dec.2008)

stay tuned!

farmer 

Solana to attend "facing tomorrow" in Jerusalem

Mr. Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel is pleased to welcome illustrious guests to the 2. Israeli Presidential Conference: Facing Tomorrow 2009, October 20-22 in Jerusalem. About 1,500 people from abroad are expected to join 2,500 Israelis. Notable attendees or speakers are to include:

American futurist Raymond Kurzweil

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana  (confirmed here and here).

Skype Ltd. President Josh Silverman

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice

French economist Dr. Jacques Attali

banker Baron David de Rothschild

Chinese Information Minister Chen Wang

President and CEO of Sesame Workshop Garry Knell 

US Investment Strategist for Goldman Sachs Abby Joseph Cohen 

Author of “Inside Jihad: Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam” Tawfik Hamid 

Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer

Neuroscientist Henry Markram

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL Tim Armstrong 

President Shimon Peres

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov

Croatian President Stjepan Mesic

Indian guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

(source:artofliving)

After Wikipedia, the guru has a mediation relief program that has been successfully run in Kosovo, for the war ravaged population and the Public Health System , University and UN personnel. The organization also started an operation in Iraq in 2003, aimed at relieving the war-ravaged Iraqi population of stress. A Program was implemented in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2006 teaching to war victims, UN and ngo personnel. In 2007, Sri Sri visited Iraq at the invitation of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, and also met with Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish leaders. He visited Pakistan in 2004 and met with some political and religious leaders there as a part of his efforts to promote global peace. There also was a International Leadership and Spirituality Symposium 2008 in Brussels organized by the International Association of Human Values under the leadership of "His Holiness"Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and EU Parliament. Link He also was invited at the UNESCO's "3rdWorld Congress ofImams and Rabbis for Peace" Link. Ravi Shankar has been also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (Link).

Still His "Art of Living"-foundation should not be mixed with the "Art of Living" book by Claire Elizabeth  Terry, which is a AoC manifesto with the usual AoC crowd plus New Age contributors:

Link

In Jerusalem conference discussions and deliberations will address topics as diverse as: 
The Global Economic Crisis - Building a Functioning World Economic System
Geopolitical Challenges of the 21st Century
A Greener Planet for Tomorrow
Culture and the Arts – Adjusting to the New World
Islam: Between Moderation and Extremism
The Role of the New Media in Shaping our Future 
The Individual in an Era of Crises and Change
Geopolitical Developments and their Impact on the Jewish People
Will we see Peace in our Region?
The Influence of the Global Economic Crisis on the Jewish World 
Jewish Peoplehood – Unity versus Pluralism
The Future of Capitalism
The Future of Artificial Intelligence
How should Education and Learning be adjusted to reflect Tomorrow’s Challenges?
What is the Scientific Community Striving to Discover?
The Human Brain and Tomorrow's Challenges
The Challenges of Jewish Continuity in a Changing World
The Future of the Trilateral Relationship: Jerusalem – Washington – U.S Jewish Community
The Young take Initiative"...
read more here: LINK

stay tuned!

farmer

behind the scenes

“NeoConOpticon: The EU Security Industrial Complex” is a major new 80 page report published by the Transnational Institute and Statewatch in September 2009. A must read.

"Despite the often benign intent behind collaborative European ‘research’ into integrated land, air, maritime, space and cyber-surveillance systems, the EU’s security and R&Dpolicy is coalescing around a high-tech blueprint for a new kind of security.

It envisages a future world of red zones and green zones; external borders controlled by military force and internally by a sprawling network of physical and virtual security checkpoints; public spaces, micro-states and ‘mega events’ policed by high-tech surveillance systems and rapid reaction forces; ‘peacekeeping’ and ‘crisis management’ missions that make no operational distinction between the suburbs of Basra or the Banlieue; and the increasing integration of defence and national security functions at home and abroad.

It is not just a case of “sleepwalking into” or“waking up to” a “surveillance society”, as the
Britain’s Information Commissioner famouslywarned, it feels more like turning a blind eye
to the start of a new kind of arms race, one in which all the weapons are pointing inwards.

Welcome to the Neo-ConOpticon."

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE:

http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/neoconopticon-report.pdf

BLOG: http://neoconopticon.wordpress.com/

stay tuned! farmer

propably extension until end of December!

Today not just somebody but the Brookings Institution published an article about the cuurent and coming situation with the EU posts. Interesting what they have to say about Solana's  posts as High Representative and Secretray General of the WEU:

"The situation is complex. José Manuel Barroso was rewarded for the unimpressive work of the past five years with confirmation – he will thus chair the Commission for the next 5 years. The Commission’s mandate will expire on October 30th, so there is an urgent need to renew the rest of the team. ...Yet, the most probable outcome will be the extension of the current Commission until the end of December. Javier Solana is also probably to be extended as high representative. 

Solana’s term as Western European Union (WEU) secretary general will also expire on November 24th and the only sensible decision would be to dismiss what remains of such an inglorious organization. With the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the only reasons for the WEU to be kept alive – mutual support against external aggression – will cease to exist. Yet, the WEU parliamentary assembly is unwilling to be dissolved. In the name of democratic deficit (!), it claims that it needs to stay absorbed in the EU (and, of course, nobody wants to deny the MPs the possibility to enlighten themselves in Paris twice a year... ). Keeping the WEU, would also mean having one extra post to assign in the redistributive game of chairs. Because no presidency gets wasted, all is duly weighted in Old Europe."

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/1012_lisbon_treaty_bindi.aspx

stay tuned! 

farmer