Only a few short years ago, maybe even less than two, the New World Order was a phrase usually reserved for discussions on Usenet groups, amongst right-wing radicals, and by high profile individuals with a penchant for speaking circuits and radio shows. Whichever the medium, the audience was generally, and unapologetically, considered by the mainstream public as conspiracy crackpots on the fringe of society … Read full editorial
Yahoo Finance – Hasbro has unveiled the design of the new 75th anniversary edition of their classic board game, Monopoly, set to hit stores in fall of 2010. “Monopoly: Revolution Edition” is slick and round instead of dull and square, with debit cards and an ATM instead of paper money and a banker, clear plastic representations of the classic tokens (bye-bye, little boot!), and clips of popular songs (like Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day,” and Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love”) that play after certain actions. Read Article
Ed – Conditioning the young to the coming cashless society, a bank friendly future which has very significant civil liberties implications.
Herald Sun – THE world’s top central bankers began arriving in Australia yesterday as renewed fears about the strength of the global economic recovery gripped world share markets. Representatives from 24 central banks and monetary authorities including the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank landed in Sydney to meet tomorrow at a secret location, the Herald Sun reports. Organised by the Bank for International Settlements last year, the two-day talks are shrouded in secrecy with high-level security believed to have been invoked by law enforcement agencies. Read Article
Reuters – Europe’s deepening debt crisis leapt to the top of the agenda of a meeting of G7 finance leaders in the Canadian Arctic on Friday amid fears that Greece’s fiscal sickness was already infecting its peers. Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, host of the top-level meeting, said officials from the seven rich industrialized countries had already started talking about Europe’s problems, and there was particular concern about the situation in Greece. Read Article
Ed- The reality of the Greek debt situation is this; the Euro will not collapse, rather using the principles of Problem, Reaction, Solution, the Euro-zone will be further centralised thus reducing the ability of national governments to run their own financial affairs so to ‘avoid this kind of thing happening again’ and so the New World Order will have come just another tiny step closer
BBC – A diplomatic row has broken out at the African Union over attempts to extend Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s chairmanship of the organisation. The role rotates every year on a regional basis and southern Africa has picked Malawi as its candidate. Read article
Sydney Morning Herald – Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Wednesday said there was “no way” the debt-struck country would leave the euro or seek aid from the International Monetary Fund. “There is no way we will leave the euro or seek recourse to the IMF. We do not need to,” Papandreou told a nationally televised news conference to mark his administration’s first 100 days in power. Hours earlier, a team of IMF experts had begun a week-long mission at Athens’s invitation to mentor the Greek government on how to plug a multi-billion-euro hole in its public finances. Recession-mired Greece has a public spending deficit that rose to 12.7 percent of output last year, far above the 3.0 percent ceiling permitted to countries sharing the euro currency. It is also burdened by a debt constituting 113 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Read Article
Sydney Morning Herald – ICELAND, the tiny nation of just 350,000 people, has been threatened with pariah status in Europe if it fails to honour a 3.5 billion euros ($A5.5 billion) debt to Britain and the Netherlands. The loan, offered at the height of the financial crisis when Iceland was teetering on the precipice of bankruptcy, was designed to guarantee repayment of funds to more than 400,000 people who had deposits with the doomed Landsbanki bank and its so-called Icesave savings accounts. Read Article
Ed – The decision is whether to default on a debt of Eu100,000 for every single citizen and keep their sovereignty, or not. Quite a simple choice really.
Daily Telegraph – The G20 should effectively merge with the International Monetary Fund, under a radical proposal to overhaul management of the international economy issued by the Bank of England Governor. Read Article
New American – The RAND Corporation is the establishment’s go-to think tank for the pseudo-scientific justification for both the planned and perfidious expansion of government and the corresponding contraction of liberty. The latest RAND report, prepared at the behest (and on the dime) of the United States Army, is over 200 impenetrable pages long and proclaims loudly the urgent need for a “Stability Police Force (SPF).” It should shock no one that the RAND Corporation’s suggestions include relieving the Army of its police role. The Army’s budget is tight (to the point of reportedly sending troops into harm’s way outfitted with troop transports that are little more than assembly-line jeeps), the global deployments in furtherance of the spread of American hegemony and empire have stretched thin the available corps of soldiers, and the consistent policy of subsequent presidential administrations is to steadily send surge after surge to the front lines of the “war on terror.” Read Article
Ed – Perhaps they could call it Team America – World Police?
Asia Times – Merely two years before the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the post-Cold-War world economic order found itself facing its most serious crisis under the weight of unsustainable deregulated debt capitalism created by dollar hegemony. There are clear signs that out of this current crisis a new world economic order will emerge. China is in a promising position to influence this development toward a sustainable, balanced and cooperative world order of global fairness and universal justice. The root cause of the current crisis can be traced to the dismantlement of the Bretton Woods international finance architecture by the US in 1971 Read Article
The Register – A UN watchdog has called for a new international agreement on privacy following a review of the expanding global array of surveillance measures and databases advanced by governments in the cause of counter-terrorism. The special rapporteur on human rights, Martin Scheinin, said the UN should create a “a global declaration on data protection and data privacy” in response. Read article
Canadian Press – The World Trade Organization opened an investigation Tuesday into U.S. import taxes on Chinese tires, fees Washington says are needed to slow China’s rapid export growth and protect American jobs. The dispute focuses on a three-year tariff approved in September by President Barack Obama and is the latest in a string of trade battles between the U.S., the world’s biggest importer, and China, the top exporter. The two countries are also arguing over regulations affecting commerce in steel, poultry, patents and Hollywood films. Read article
Wall Street Journal – The Group of 20’s grand scheme of crafting a more balanced global economy is under way, with governments scheduled to submit their policy proposals and economic projections to the International Monetary Fund by the end of the month. The mutual assessment process, first agreed to by G-20 leaders in Pittsburgh in September, will be overseen by the IMF, which will highlight inconsistencies between policies and goals and make policy suggestions, according to documents released Friday by the fund. Read article
AFP – The governor of the Bank of England called Tuesday for a radical overhaul of the system of global financial governance in a bid to prevent a repeat of the firestorm that tore the world economy apart. Mervyn King proposed the Group of 20 industrialised nations should join forces with the International Monetary Fund to stop imbalances developing in the world economy. Read article
Yahoo – The Saudi billionaire whose investment firm is one of the biggest stakeholders in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. said he is looking to expand his alliances with the media giant, in the latest indication that his appetite for growth remains robust even as his company retrenches. Read article
The euro will become the world’s favorite reserve currency because Europe has a better growth strategy than the US, David Roche, global strategist at Independent Strategy told CNBC. “We’ll actually produce a much stronger fiscal balance, a much better debt-to-GDP ratio within the eurozone”, Roche said. Read article
Telegraph – The EU’s Commissioners are still occupying their posts illegally, says Christopher Booker. So we are not to have a new Government until February 26. Furthermore, until that time all but one member of that Government is occupying their position illegally. Of course, I am here referring not to the silly little joustings between Messrs Brown and Cameron, as they fight for the right to run our provincial government here in Britain. Our real government, in that it now makes most of our laws, resides in Brussels, and on January 1, following the coming into force of the European Constitution (aka the Lisbon Treaty), we were due to get a new set of European Commissioners. But with the exception of its president, José Manuel Barroso, none of the appointees can take up their posts until hearings have been completed in the European Parliament. Read article
The Nation – After the economic bubble burst, the US government is now scrambling to clean up the mess. The US Federal Reserve has already committed $8.2 trillion to bail out the financial system, as well as corporate debts. The US’s annual gross domestic product is about $14.2 trillion. Sprott Asset Management, a Toronto-based hedge fund, has recently cast doubt that the US government is coming clean on its bail-out. In fiscal year 2009, the US added another $1.88 trillion to its public debt, which had to be financed by the US Treasury issuing securities. The foreign and international buyers purchased $697.5 billion of US treasuries; the Federal Reserve, which is pursuing an aggressive money printing policy, $286 billion; and the household sector $704 billion. But Sprott Asset suspects that something fishy is going on. For the household sector was loosely defined, and it does not seem that any parties, under the current economic conditions, have $704 billion to buy into US treasuries. It concluded that the real buyer behind the household sector was none other than the US Federal Reserve itself. Read Article
Ed – Sooner or later this second, debt fuelled, bubble will burst. And when it does the US economy and dollar will free-fall. Out of the chaos will be calls for the creation of a North American Union out of what is now NAFTA, and from that will arise the Amero to replace the now worthless dollar.
Daily Telegraph – Americans must prepare themselves for a massive collapse in the dollar as investors around the world dump their US assets, a former Bank of England policymaker has warned. MPC founder member Willem Buiter. Photo: CHRISTOPHER COX The long-held assumption that US assets – particularly government bonds – are a safe haven will soon be overturned as investors lose their patience with the world’s biggest economy, according to Willem Buiter. Professor Buiter, a former Monetary Policy Committee member who is now at the London School of Economics, said this increasing disenchantment would result in an exodus of foreign cash from the US. Read Article
Ed – And out of the ashes will arise the Amero to “rescue” the NAFTA countries
The Times – Britain warned Iceland that it would be frozen out of the European Union after its President abruptly vetoed the repayment of a £3.6 billion loan. The Treasury expected Reykjavik to rubberstamp the terms of repayment for the loan extended by Britain and the Netherlands at the height of the financial crisis. The loan meant that 400,000 savers with deposits in Icesave did not lose their money. President Ólafur Grimsson stunned the world’s financial community by refusing to sign the repayment schedule into law. Instead, he said that the matter would be decided in a referendum Read Article
The Guardian – The ease with which the plane bomber could operate exposes the vacuity and recklessness at the heart of the US response to 9/11. So there was no ticking time bomb. No urgent need ever arose to torture anybody who was withholding crucial details, so that civilisation as we know it could be saved in the nick of time. No wires had to be tapped, special prisons erected or international accords violated. No innocent people had to be grabbed off the street in their home country, transported across the globe and waterboarded. Drones, daisy-cutters, invasions, occupations were, it has transpired, not necessary. Read Article
Filmed in 2007 this hard hitting documentary by Alex Jones explains how the pieces of the New World Order are falling together & puts current events into a historical context. It is especially relevant bearing in mind the events that have happened since it was filmed.
Daily Telegraph – Government officials secretly voted against proposals for compulsory country-of-origin labelling on food. Documents obtained by the Conservatives show how UK negotiators opposed mandatory labelling in talks held with European Union member states. The Tories claim the leaked papers show the Government has made ‘cynical’ promises to UK farmers and suppliers to promote home-grown produce while privately scuppering a deal. Read Article
Korea Times – It is encouraging news that 13 Asian countries have signed a $120-billion currency swap deal to better cope with short-term liquidity volatility arising from external shocks. On Monday, finance ministers and central bank governors of 10 states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus South Korea, China and Japan announced the signing of the regional cooperation pact. The agreement calls for a multilateral financial support program that is scheduled to make its debut on March 24. It is based on the Chiang Mai Initiative in which Korea, China, Japan and five ASEAN countries agreed in 2000 to support each other with dollar liquidity on a bilateral basis in times of crisis. The eight countries agreed on the $78-billion currency swap deal after the outbreak of the 1997-98 Asian financial turmoil. Read Article
Alex Jones’ highly anticipated documentary lifts the lid and unveils the fraud behind Brand Obama and how the globalists are using their newest, and slickest ever puppet to destroy the last vestiges of America’s freedom, Constitution and economy, all while helping the bankers loot the country clean.
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