It is a well-known fact that many of the global elite have long believed that a global economic crisis could be a major step toward the establishment of a New World Order (one-world government).

For example, as far back as 1994, David Rockefeller said, “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.” He didn’t identify what this needed “major crisis” would be—but others have indicated that they think a major economic crisis would work.

In 2008, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of England said, “The international financial crisis has given world leaders a unique opportunity to create a truly global society.” Think about it! The Prime Minister of England thought the devastating financial crisis that started in 2008 was a unique opportunity to create a world government.

That is similar to Rham’s Rule (named after Rham Emanuel Pres. Obama’s former Chief of Staff). Simply put: Politicians should use crises to push through unpopular legislation or programs that people wouldn’t accept under normal circumstances. They should use a crisis to do their will instead of the will of the people.

In 2012, Nigel Farage, a member of the EU Parliament said:

It is very, very difficult to ignore those voices, who have been telling me for twenty years that behind all of this [the economic crisis] there are a group of people that want to create “a one world government.” I’ve tried to ignore those arguments and say, “Look, let’s not be too conspiratorial about this.” But goodness me its [a one world government ] beginning to stare us in the face.

It really started staring us in the face in November 2014. That is when the world’s so-called, too-big-to-fail banks (J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley) got the G-20 to pass legislation that shifts the liability for bank failures from the banks to the bank depositors.

If that kind of legislation at that level is not a clear indication that the world’s largest banks are expecting a global economic crisis, I don’t know what is. The heads of those banks want their depositors and not themselves to be held liable for future bank failures.

About that same time, the price of oil was dropping and the economies of Russia, Iran, Venezuela and several African nations were feeling the impact. In many ways, the lower price of gasoline was a good thing for American citizens. But now we are hearing that the economies of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and North Dakota could be in trouble.

Falling oil prices are cutting into the profits of American companies. Some are losing money because they can’t get oil out of the ground as cheaply as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq and others. Some have stopped purchasing oil permits for new wells. Some are considering large layoffs. Some are having trouble paying the interest on borrowed money. Some won’t have profits to pay stockholders.

And this is spilling over into other sectors of the American economy. American companies need less pipe, fewer pumps, fewer motors, etc. The companies that make these things need fewer employees. And on and on the downward cycle goes.

This is the point: There are powerful people who want a world government and believe a crisis—perhaps an economic crisis— is needed to force through public acceptance. The so-called, too-big-to-fail banks have pushed through legislation to shift the liability for major bank failures. The price of oil has dropped sharply, and although not all agree, some think an economic crisis could be looming.

Finally, the U.S. President is one of those Globalists who wants a world government. Some, such as Henry Kissinger, are even hoping that Pres. Obama will head it up. And if something doesn’t happen to change the situation, Pres. Obama will be out of office in the next two years. We are living in interesting times.

Minsk (AFP) - Peace talks aimed at halting rising bloodshed in eastern Ukraine ended in failure Saturday, with Kiev's envoy saying pro-Russian separatists wrecked a deal by refusing to discuss an immediate ceasefire.

The delayed talks in Minsk were "thwarted" after top rebel leaders stayed away and their negotiators also refused to discuss withdrawing heavy weapons, former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma told Interfax Ukraine news agency.

Kuchma also accused the insurgents' representatives of putting forward "ultimatums" at the four-hour talks in the Belarussian capital without giving any more details.

The negotiator for the rebel Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, however, blamed Kiev for causing the collapse of the talks and said insurgent leaders would only agree a deal if Kiev's forces halt fire first.

Pushilin said the rebels also insisted the demarcation line include territory taken since the previous line was agreed in September, said by analysts to be around 500 square kilometres (200 square miles).

Mediators from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had hoped to thrash out a "binding" truce to revive a shattered peace plan despite Kiev suffering one of its bloodiest days yet in the nine-month conflict with 15 Ukrainian troops killed.

The OSCE as well as Russian officials attended the talks in Minsk after a nominal September ceasefire collapsed under the latest wave of violence.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel talked to each other by phone on Saturday, urging the warring factions to agree a truce in fighting that has left at least 5,100 people dead.

The insurgents last week pulled out of peace talks and announced the start of an offensive designed to expand their control over a much broader swathe of the industrial southeast.

They said Friday they would push their offensive "until the entire Donetsk and Lugansk regions are freed" of Ukrainian troops should the talks fail.

OSCE officials had said they hoped a deal would also provide for the "unrestricted supply of basic goods and humanitarian assistance" as the civilian death toll mounts in rebel regions Donetsk and Lugansk.

- Key town 'surrounded' -

Fighting is raging around the strategic Ukrainian-controlled transport hub of Debaltseve, some 50 kilometres (35 miles) northeast of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk.

The town of 25,000 people was built around a railroad connecting the two rebel centres of the Russian-speaking southeast.

Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak for the first time said that separatist forces had taken "partial" control of Debaltseve, where rebels claim to have surrounded some 8,000 Ukrainian troops.

The rebels on Friday said that they had taken the town of Vuglegirsk -- some 10 kilometres from Debaltseve -- although Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said fighting there was ongoing.

Both towns are without water, electricity or heating, said regional police chief Vyacheslav Abroskin.

The latest violence has alarmed Ukraine's Western allies, with US Secretary of State John Kerry announcing plans to express his support for the war-torn nation during talks in Kiev on Thursday with President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Kerry will then meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich, the State Department said.

Western governments and Ukraine accuse Russia of arming and training the rebels, who are deploying extensive weaponry including tanks and multiple rocket launchers. Russia denies claims it has sent regular troops and arms to bolster the rebels, who claim to get all their weaponry from captured Ukrainian supplies.

The 28-nation EU on Thursday extended through September a first wave of targeted sanctions it had slapped on Moscow and Crimean leaders in the wake of Russia's March seizure of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine.

Russia accuses the West of manipulating the Ukrainian government, which came to power in elections after the ouster in huge street demonstrations last year of a Kremlin-backed leader.

Ngouboua (Chad) (AFP) - Thousands of Nigerian civilians who fled the armed Islamists of Boko Haram have become a headache for Chadian authorities after seeking safety on a multitude of scattered islands in Lake Chad.

"We waded through the water for several days and suffered so much," recalled former taxi driver Adamou Bouba, who snatched up his toddlers, aged two and three, when Boko Haram fighters raided his village, Kiguili, and killed his wife.

After the deadly raid six months ago, Bouba, his children and their companions trekked north in fear of the jihadists to the dusty, windswept Lake Chad basin in the far northeast of Nigeria and bordering on western Chad.

Here, after miles of negotiating the waterways, they settled on Chad's Ngouboua peninsula, a strip of dry land three hours from the nearest town by a bad road.

"There were 77 of us, but several people died on the way," he said.

With Boko Haram trying to establish an Islamic caliphate across northeast Nigeria and even abroad, thousands of people steered clear of the road and took to the water any way they could in search of safety.

The luckier ones managed to grab places on overloaded canoes, but their only option was to reach the arid islands in Chadian territory, a few kilometres (miles) across the lake.

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Bouba said that "we took five days to get here" without food and with no drinking water. When his family made dry land, Chadian soldiers "came to meet us".

- Aid 'extremely difficult' -

The waters extend into Cameroon and Niger in this remote frontier territory, but the lake has shrunk drastically since the 1960s, because of factors including overuse of resources and drought induced by global warming.

Scattered over tiny isles, families who frequently lost loved ones during the arduous trip now fend for themselves. Of some 17,000 Nigerians estimated to have fled to Chad, only 7,000 have been taken in to an established refugee camp, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Working out what to do with the bulk of the recent arrivals is a big puzzle for authorities in Chad's capital N'Djamena, after an unsuccessful initial bid to gather the refugees together at Ngouboua.

"Providing humanitarian assistance is extremely difficult in these conditions. How can we load food for several thousand people on small canoes?" asked Ahamat Asselek of the Chadian Red Cross.

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In the shade of a tree, refugee Aminata was picking up driftwood. "Nobody gives us food, nor is there soap to wash our clothes," she said, grateful for help from local people in a region where increasingly scarce resources can spark communal conflicts.

"Since we arrived, villagers have taken care of us. We women went to beg and they took pity on us, giving us rice, maize meal and oil," added the young woman with silver eyeshadow beneath her black veil.

Some early Nigerian arrivals have integrated themselves into the community, sometimes sharing the language of the locals, and they get by with fishing and agriculture.

But plans are afoot to move everybody. Since January 23, relief workers have been transferring refugees to Baga Sola, where a new camp has been erected. It already houses almost 2,500 people.

The Chadian government decided on the move for "security reasons", said Mamadou Dian Balde, deputy representative of the UNHCR in Chad.

"Ngouboua is only 18 kilometres (11 miles) from the border" and people who remain there face renewed Boko Haram threats, he added.

- 'Many rumours' -

Some residents fear that the armed extremists will launch attacks inside Chad. Monitoring comings and goings on hundreds of islands and countless channels in the lake is a virtually impossible task.

"There are many rumours. People say that they have already attacked some lake villages close to Nigeria. In any event, they surely want revenge," Balde said.

Chad's army has started to deploy troops along the border to repel potential attacks by Boko Haram, whose insurgency has claimed more than 13,000 lives since 2009.

"It's true that we can't monitor everything, but the positions (of patrols and forward posts) at the frontier won't let Boko Haram fighters through," said the local representative of Chad's national commission to help refugees, Mahamat Ali Tchari.

"The only risk of infiltration arises if they come disguised as refugees," he added.

Several sources in humanitarian circles stated that a number of arrests have already been made at the Ngouboua, after suspects were denounced by refugees.

"Is it really a matter of Boko Haram members and accomplices, or just former neighbours settling old scores?" one of the sources asked. "It's hard to say."

TOKYO (AP) — Whether in tsunami-stricken northeastern Japan or conflict-ridden Sierra Leone, the stories of the vulnerable, the children and the poor drove the work of journalist Kenji Goto.

The news of his purported killing by Islamic State militants sent Japan into shock and mourning early Sunday morning, days after his plight as a hostage in Syria united many people in praying for his release.

"I want to cuddle with the people. That's the best way to express my approach," Goto, 47, said about his work. "By cuddling with them, I can talk with the people. I can hear their views — their pain and their hopes."

A pony-tailed man with a friendly, carefree laugh, Goto was a veteran freelance reporter, working often with other filmmakers and Japanese TV producers. His comments were sometimes featured on Japanese mainstream media.

The 2005 book he wrote about the suffering of children in Sierra Leone was titled "We Want Peace, Not Diamonds."

But Goto had always stressed he was not a war reporter. He had insisted he was instead devoted to telling the story of regular people, one step removed from the war zone.

That took him to refugee camps and orphanages. He told the stories of children suffering violence, hunger and nightmares.

In a testament to his charm and integrity, people responded with an outpouring of support to try to win his release.

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A Facebook page, set up immediately after the first video released by militants last month, quickly drew tens of thousands of "Likes" and photo postings that showed people, from not just Japan but around the world, holding up hand-written signs that said: "I am Kenji."

"Kenji lives on — in all our hearts. In our daily work. Every time you smile with those around you, you will be sure to remember that big smile Kenji always gave us," wrote Taku Nishimae, a filmmaker living in New York and the page's creator.

An online petition demanding the government do more to save Goto collected thousands of signatures. Crowds have gathered outside the prime minister's office, holding up "Free Kenji" and "I am Kenji" signs.

Those who knew Goto said he was a gentle and honest man. On the streets of Tokyo on Sunday, many people were clutching the Yomiuri newspaper extra with the latest news, expressing disbelief that his captors went as far as to kill a reporter. U.S. reporter James Foley and American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff were among several Westerns who had been killed by the militants last year.

"Kenji has left us on a journey," said Junko Ishido, 78, Goto's mother. "It is my only hope that we can carry on with Kenji's mission to save the children from war and poverty."

Goto had been captured at least once before by militants in the Middle East, but had convinced them to let him go by showing that he was a reporter.

According to Goto's wife Rinko Jogo and others who had spoken with him, Goto had gone to Syria late last year to try to save the other Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa, 42. Yukawa was shown as killed in an earlier video purportedly released by the militants.

Yukawa's father, Shoichi Yukawa, could not hold back his tears at the news of Goto's killing.

"He was kind. And he was brave," he told reporters.

Goto went to Syria just three months after his second daughter was born. Before his last trip, he made a video recording.

"No matter what happens to me, I will always love the people of Syria," he said calmly, looking straight into the camera.

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Mom of 3-Year-Old Measles Patient Calls Diagnosis 'Shocking'

The mother of a measles-infected child said she was shocked and scared when doctors gave her the diagnosis.

Kellie Krueger's son Uriah is one of the at least 84 confirmed measles cases in a multi-state outbreak that started in December at Disneyland amusement park in California.

Krueger said she was surprised when doctors told her that her son had measles. Uriah was given one dose of the MMR vaccine that helps protect against the measles virus, but was too young to get the recommended second dose that would help further his protection.

"It was such a weird, old fashion thing like, 'Who gets measles?'" Krueger said. "He had his vaccination, so it was a little bit shocking to find out that he had still gotten the measles."

Krueger said the measles rash eventually covered Uriah's face and body.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children receive two doses of the MMR vaccine, one between 12 to 15 months and one between the ages of 4 and 6. A fully-vaccinated person is 99 percent protected from contracting the disease, according to the CDC.

Krueger said her son's ordeal seemed to start out with a persistent cough and fever. However when their pediatrician saw the tell-tale rash, the family was immediately sent to the hospital for treatment.

"We spent the next few days in the hospital," Krueger said. "He was severely dehydrated. He hadn't eaten in a few days. So really there's not a lot they can do for him apart from helping him recover.

"It was pretty traumatic for him," Krueger said of Uriah's time in the hospital. "He got poked a lot, a lot of needles and IV... It was a pretty traumatic experience and even afterward when you talk to them about it often he gets a little upset."

Krueger said she believes her son contracted the disease from another child while visiting a Children's Museum. She told ABC News that even after her son's illness she feels that every parent has the right to make their own decisions about vaccinations.

"I can agree to disagree with them all I want but it's still their choice what they choose to put in their body and do that type of thing," she said. "If they feel strongly about it, then that's their decision."

Measles is one of the most contagious viruses in existence, with symptoms including cough, fever, and rash. In rare cases the disease can cause pneumonia, encephalitis or swelling of the brain or death.

The airborne disease will infect 90 percent of non-immune people who become exposed to the virus.