The Final Push for World Government
Rudd Meets Kissinger to Discuss Asia Pacific Union
March 27, 2008abc.net.au - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has discussed his proposal for an Asia Pacific community with the former Nixon administration’s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger.
Mr Rudd talked to the former diplomat and national security adviser during his visit to New York, ahead of the G20 leaders’ meeting in London.
A spokesman for Mr Rudd says they discussed the evolving strategic and economic landscape in the Asia Pacific region and Mr Rudd’s long term goal of developing a new regional grouping, the Asia Pacific community...
UN ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy
March 27, 2009Fox News - A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy...
IMF Director Warns of War
March 25, 2009World Socialist Web Site - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned on Monday that the global economic situation is "dire" and could lead to social upheaval and war. The statement is the latest in a series of worried pronouncements from leading international figures in the financial and political establishment.
The IMF is projecting a 1 percent decline in the global economy this year, which Strauss-Kahn noted would be "the first setback of the world economy in over 50 years." The IMF chief was speaking before a meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
The economic crisis, Strauss-Kahn said, would affect "dramatically unemployment for many countries. It will be at the roots of social unrest, some threats to democracy and maybe for some cases, it can also end in war." Without citing specific countries, Strauss-Kahn also warned of regions of the world where "the financial collapse risk does exist..."
Global Investors Ponder Implications of U.S. Dollar Collapse
March 26, 2009World Socialist Web Site - ...The administration's printing or borrowing of trillions of dollars that it hands out to Wall Street and major U.S. banks has undermined confidence in the dollar, the currency in which most international trade is conducted. Administration claims that the dollar is strong are a glaring falsehood: the U.S. dollar is already below historic benchmarks against other major currencies...
Geithner Assures CFR Puppet Masters He’s 'Open' To Global Currency
March 26, 2009Prison Planet - As we reported yesterday, Obama, Geithner and Bernanke on Tuesday publicly defended the dollar and denounced proposals by China and Russia to supplant the greenback with a new global currency, and yet the very policies of the Obama administration, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve are creating the perfect storm for the dollar’s death and its replacement with a new international reserve currency.
“Would you categorically renounce the United States moving away from the dollar and going to a global currency as suggested by China?” a lawmaker asked Treasury Secretary Geithner on Tuesday.However, just a day later, Geithner told the CFR in a speech that he was “open” to the Chinese proposal to replace the dollar with a new international reserve system.
Geithner immediately responded, “I would.”
“I haven’t read the governor’s proposal. He’s a very thoughtful, very careful distinguished central banker. I generally find him sensible on every issue,” said Geithner, before adding, “We’re actually quite open to that suggestion – you should see it as rather evolutionary rather building on the current architecture rather than moving us to global monetary union.”However, any move away from the dollar and towards an international reserve system, including the use of “special drawing rights” – a synthetic multinational currency maintained by the IMF, cannot be defined as anything other than a move towards a global monetary union.
The continued use of the dollar as a reserve currency, he added, “depends... on how effective we are in the United States… at getting our fiscal system back to the point where people judge it as sustainable over time...”
Obama Denounces Global Currency While Creating the Very Means for Its Introduction
March 25, 2009Prison Planet - The endgame... can mean little else but the creation of a global currency that can be tightly regulated and controlled by international bodies such as the IMF and World Bank, therefore Bernanke’s public denouncement of a “global currency” is nothing more than a two faced stunt.
In addition, as Ron Paul has warned, Bernanke’s policies are leading to the destruction of the dollar and the creation of a vacuum that would create the perfect pretext for the introduction of a global currency.
Trillions upon trillions of freshly printed federal reserve notes that are being used to throw good money after bad, pay corrupt banker’s bonuses and bailout failed, inept and incompetent banks and corporations at the expense of the taxpayer are going to create a hyperinflationary holocaust that will plunge the dollar into a crisis never before experienced and will undoubtedly put massive pressure on China and Japan to liquidate their holdings of U.S. debt and replace it with a new form of international reserve currency...
China and Russia Voice Support for New Global Currency to Replace Dollar
March 23, 2009Prison Planet - China has expressed support for Russia’s proposal to hand the IMF the power to create a new supra-national global currency in response to the call for an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency. Last week the Kremlin called for the “creation of a supranational reserve currency to be issued by international institutions as part of a reform of the global financial system.”
The Russian proposal stated that the IMF should take the lead in establishing a “superreserve currency accepted by the whole of the international community.” China today expressed support for the initiative and said it was ready to discuss the proposal at the upcoming G20 meeting in London on April 2...
Qaddafi Named Chairman of African Union
Originally Reported on February 2, 2009Newser – Muammar Qaddafi vowed to pursue his dream of creating a united, pan-African government after being named chairman of the African Union today, Reuters reports. Elected by African heads of state for a 1-year term, the Libyan leader said the organization must consider his proposal for a “United States of Africa” at the next summit in July.
Qaddafi said only opposition from a majority of African countries would stop his proposal. “If we don’t have a quorum for rejection, that means we have accepted it,” Qaddafi said. While all members of the AU say they support the creation of an African state in theory, Qaddafi’s plan is likely to meet opposition from many nations, including South Africa.
South American Union Will Also Have Common Currency
Originally Reported on June 21, 2008NaturalNews - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recently revealed that the South American countries are planning for a common currency as part of the integration of the individual countries into the Union of South American Nations. This integration is patterned after the formation of the European Union, and parallels the plan for the North American Union...
43-Nation Mediterranean Union Created
Originally Reported July 13, 2008AP — French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged the disparate and conflicted countries around the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday to make peace as European rivals did in the 20th century, as he launched an unprecedented Union for the Mediterranean...
"The European and the Mediterranean dreams are inseparable," Sarkozy told leaders from more than 40 nations in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. "We will succeed together; we will fail together."
The union Sarkozy championed as a pillar of his presidency brought together around one table for the first time dignitaries such rival nations as Israel and Syria, Algeria and Morocco, Turkey and Greece.
Coping with age-old enmities involving their peoples and others along the Mediterranean shores will be a central challenge to the new union encompassing some 800 million people.
"We will build peace in the Mediterranean together, like yesterday we built peace in Europe," Sarkozy said. He insisted the new body would not be "north against south, not Europe against the rest ... but united."
Sarkozy went to special efforts to bring Syria into the international fold for the summit: Assad met Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, separately, both for the first time. And he met Sarkozy, after years of chill between their countries.
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, co-presiding the summit with Sarkozy, said: "We are linked by a common destiny." He said the union has better chances of success than a previous cooperation process launched in Barcelona in 1995 because the new body focuses on practical projects parallel to efforts toward Mideast peace.
Mubarak called on the new union to tackle reducing the wealth "gap" between north and south, and cited other southern Mediterranean "challenges" as education, food safety, health and social welfare. "The success of the Union will depend on ... reforms and durable development," Mubarak said.
A draft declaration obtained by The Associated Press shows that summit participants will announce "objectives of achieving peace, stability and security" in the region. The six firm measures it names include a region-wide solar energy project, a cross-Mediterranean student exchange program and a plan to clean up the polluted sea.
The draft declaration says the Union for the Mediterranean is to be operational by the end of this year, and unlike any previous body, it will be jointly run by all its members. It will have a dual presidency, held jointly for rotating terms by one country within the European Union and one country on the Mediterranean shore.
The draft also speaks of democratic principles, human rights and fundamental freedoms--values Western critics have accused such union members as Syria of violating.
Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said he hoped the union would make it easier for North Africans to receive visas for Europe. "Our common Sea should bring us closer together, not separate us," the president said in an interview with official Algerian news agency APS. He also questioned whether the union would have enough money to get things done and whether "the EU really wants to contribute to bringing southern Mediterranean countries up to speed."
Germany's Merkel said, though, that the project would have about US$20.6 billion that has not yet been spent by the Barcelona Process--the forerunner of the Mediterranean union. Merkel, who pushed to expand Sarkozy's idea to include all 27 EU nations, called Sunday's meeting "a very good start" and said it could help the Middle East conflict.
The Union for the Mediterranean is Sarkozy's brainchild and was timed to coincide with the French presidency of the European Union. Paris holds the rotating post until the end of this year. But Sarkozy's ambitious plan overlapped with EU projects already in progress, and it was melded into EU efforts and expanded to include 27 members of the European Union, not just those on the Mediterranean coast.
Sunday's meeting was seen as more significant for the bodies gathered than for any immediate progress it is expected to achieve.
Israel's Olmert said: "We are closer than ever to a possible (peace) agreement today" with the Palestinians--and said he hoped for direct contacts "soon" with enemy Syria.
Earlier Sunday, France's foreign minister urged the countries to unite to deal with global warming, growing migration and shrinking water and energy resources. "To do nothing would be a risk. We are fragile. Our world is fragile. Latent tensions and growing disparities are too dangerous for this unstable epoch. We have everything to gain by reinforcing our ties," Bernard Kouchner said.
On Sunday morning, Sarkozy met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had shown reticence about coming to the summit. The leadership of the mostly Muslim country fears that the Mediterranean grouping is designed to keep Turkey out of the full EU membership that it seeks.
The Mediterranean gathering will be capped Monday with more than dozen leaders attending France's national Bastille Day military parade as special guests.
The new union is to include at least 43 nations, nearly all of which sent a president or prime minister to the summit. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi objected to the whole idea and refused to come.
Central American Nations Agree on New Currency
Originally Reported on December 5, 2008Panal Legal – The leaders of the Central American nations met for the 33rd Summit of the Central American Integration System. They issued statements in response to the world financial crisis. One of the measures they intend to implement is the start of a new currency. We assume this is to be called the Central American Dollar and will be tied to a basket of other currencies to avoid fluctuations that a single currency is subject to...
An Emerging Block of Arab Nations
March 12, 2009COGwriter - Today, the Saudis took another step towards Islamic unity without Iranian dominance... It is interesting to see how much the Arabs hope that President Obama will be able to help them with their plans.
Surpluses Will Drive Gulf Cooperation Council Growth
March 14, 2009Arab News - ...“The fall in oil prices, decline in asset prices and a limited access to global credit are main reasons behind the volatility in the Middle East markets,” said Sheikh Mohammed, who addressed the Wharton Global Alumni Forum held in Dubai. He said the crisis in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region was “not structural,” and the surpluses of the Gulf economies would drive its recovery...
Caribbean Community Leaders Converge on Belize for Inter-Sessional Meeting
March 13, 2009Caribbean Net News - "The economic and financial woes of the last ten months or so have left no country unscathed and even the most optimistic observer see no early emergence from this predicament." (Edwin Carrington, CARICOM Secretary General)
With that sobering outlook, the Twentieth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government opened in Belize on Thursday morning.
With a packed agenda, CARICOM Leaders from the Bahamas in the north, to Guyana in the south are meeting to discuss key issues confronting the region, chief among them the global financial crisis...
Asean Leaders Call for EU-Style Union
March 2, 2009Southeast Asian leaders called Sunday for urgent cooperation and reform to tackle the global financial crisis, as they pushed on with their dream of forming an EU-style community by 2015.
Leaders from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) issued a joint statement on the meltdown on the final day of a summit dominated by concerns about their export-driven economies. In the statement, they called for “bold and urgent reform of the international financial system” to tackle the worsening crisis, while agreeing to “stand firm against protectionism”...
Germany Does Not Have a Financial Crisis
March 9, 2009Bob Thiel, COGWriter - Since early Fall of 2008, I have reported a lot about the financial crisis and its effects on many nations around the world. As I stated then, the problems seem to be allowing for the formation of the German-led European Union to take over the premier leadership in the world economy from the USA and its Anglo-allies– who have had it for about a century or so.
While there are some economic concerns in Germany, Germany appears to be highly determined to be in a solid position to take on the economic leadership role. Unlike the USA and UK which seem to wish to increase debt as quickly as possible, Germany appears confident that its more limited, more patient, economic approach is best at this time...
South America Integrating Defense
March 9, 2009Prensa Latina - Defense ministers from 12 Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are to analyze cooperation issues here on Monday and Tuesday in the first South American Defense Council (SADC).
According to organizers of the meeting, the SADC is an integration mechanism aimed at discussing realities and defense needs of the country members, reducing conflicts and distrust and paving the way for the future formulation of a common policy...
Gordon Brown Appeals to U.S. Congress for Help to Save the World
March 5, 2009Telegraph - In becoming only the fifth Prime Minister to address a joint session of Congress, he lavished praise on America, hailing it as the “indispensable nation.” But he also laid down a challenge to the U.S. not to retreat into protectionism and to help to protect the world’s poor, calling on America’s politicians to join him in forging a global agreement to solve the financial crisis...
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