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U.N. Calling for Global "Governance"
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday stressed the need for "global leadership" as he pressed world leaders not to pursue narrow national interests in the face of hard economic times.
"I see a danger of nations looking more inward, rather than toward a shared future," he said at the opening of the UN General Assembly's annual debate.
He spoke of a "challenge of global leadership" to tackle the world's worsening financial, energy and food crises.
"We see new centers of power and leadership -- in Asia, Latin America and across the newly developed world," Ban told more than 120 heads of state or government, including Presidents George W. Bush of the United States and Nicolas Sarkozy of France.
"In this new world, our challenges are increasingly those of collaboration rather than confrontation," he added.
"Nations can no longer protect their interests, or advance the well-being of their people, without the partnership of the rest."
On the world's current financial crisis, the UN secretary general stressed the need to "restore order to the international financial markets".
"We need a new understanding on business ethics and governance, with more compassion and less uncritical faith in the 'magic' of markets," the UN boss said. UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday stressed the need for "global leadership" as he pressed world leaders not to pursue narrow n... more -
Obama threatening to send troops into Pakistan!
Tom Baldwin in Washington
Barack Obama, a leading Democrat candidate in the US presidential race, provoked anger yesterday by threatening to send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists — even without permission from that country’s Government.
Standing in front of a Stars and Stripes flag, Mr Obama said: “There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again . . . If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
The speech to the Woodrow Wilson Centre was designed to shore up his credentials as a potential commander-in-chief by backing a pre-emptive military action that even President Bush has so far refused to order.
Pakistan, a key ally of the US in the war on terrorism, reacted angrily, advising all American politicians to refrain from inflammatory remarks. “These are serious matters and should not be used for point-scoring,” Tasnim Aslam, a spokeswoman for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, said. “Political candidates and commentators should show responsibility.”
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Mr Obama’s outburst followed repeated clashes with Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, who in an opinion poll published yesterday leads Mr Obama 43 points to 22.
In a presidential debate last week Mr Obama said that he was willing to meet the anti-American leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea during his first year in office without any preconditions.
Mrs Clinton reacted by saying that she would not make any such promise because it might be exploited as a “propaganda tool”. She later described Mr Obama’s comments as irresponsible and naive.
Mr Obama hit back by describing her refusal to meet dictators as “Bush/Cheney-lite”, prompting another withering response from Mrs Clinton: “I’ve been called a lot of things in my life, but I’ve never been called George Bush or Dick Cheney.”
Much of Mr Obama’s speech yesterday appeared to be aimed directly at Mrs Clinton — without mentioning her by name. Mr Obama once again highlighted his opposition to the Iraq war in 2002 — when she voted to authorise military action — while also implicitly attacking her view that America was safer than it had been before September 11, 2001.
“Because of a war in Iraq that should never have been authorised and should never have been waged, we are now less safe than we were before 9/11. It is time to turn the page. It is time to write a new chapter in our response to 9/11,” he said. Tom Baldwin in Washington ... more -
100% mainstream media blackout on Bilderberg 2008: World leaders meet secretly in ...
About 200 of the world's richest and powerful individuals are gathering, in relative secret as we speak in Chantilly, VA and being guarded by the world's intelligence agencies, military, the police, private security and armed guards.
There has been a 100% corporate media blackout on Bilderberg 2008.
Here's the official Bilderberg 2008 attendees list that was just leaked this morning:
DEU "Ackermann, Josef" "Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG"
CAN "Adams, John" Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence and Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada
USA "Ajami, Fouad" "Director, Middle East Studies Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University"
USA "Alexander, Keith B." "Director, National Security Agency"
INT "Almunia, Joaquín " "Commissioner, European Commission"
GRC "Alogoskoufis, George" Minister of Economy and Finance
USA "Altman, Roger C." "Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc."
TUR "Babacan, Ali " Minister of Foreign Affairs
NLD "Balkenende, Jan Peter" Prime Minister
PRT "Balsemão, Francisco Pinto" "Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister"
FRA "Baverez, Nicolas" "Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP"
ITA "Bernabè, Franco" "CEO, Telecom Italia Spa"
USA "Bernanke, Ben S." "Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System"
SWE "Bildt, Carl" Minister of Foreign Affairs
FIN "Blåfield, Antti " "Senior Editorial Writer, Helsingin Sanomat"
DNK "Bosse, Stine" "CEO, TrygVesta"
CAN "Brodie, Ian " "Chief of Staff, Prime Minister’s Office"
AUT "Bronner, Oscar" "Publisher and Editor, Der Standard"
FRA "Castries, Henri de " "Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA"
ESP "Cebrián, Juan Luis" "CEO, PRISA"
CAN "Clark, Edmund" "President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group"
GBR "Clarke, Kenneth" Member of Parliament
NOR "Clemet, Kristin" "Managing Director, Civita"
USA "Collins, Timothy C." "Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC"
FRA "Collomb, Bertrand" "Honorary Chairman, Lafarge"
PRT "Costa, António" Mayor of Lisbon
USA "Crocker, Chester A." James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies
USA "Daschle, Thomas A." Former US Senator and Senate Majority Leader
CAN "Desmarais, Jr., Paul " "Chairman and co-CEO, Power Corporation of Canada"
GRC "Diamantopoulou, Anna" Member of Parliament
USA "Donilon, Thomas E." "Partner, O’Melveny & Myers"
ITA "Draghi, Mario" "Governor, Banca d’Italia"
AUT "Ederer, Brigitte" "CEO, Siemens AG Österreich"
CAN "Edwards, N. Murray " "Vice Chairman, Candian Natural Resources Limited"
DNK "Eldrup, Anders " "President, DONG A/S"
ITA "Elkann, John" "Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A."
USA "Farah, Martha J." "Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania"
USA "Feldstein, Martin S." "President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research"
DEU "Fischer, Joschka" Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
USA "Ford, Jr., Harold E." "Vice Chairman, Merill Lynch & Co., Inc."
CHE "Forstmoser, Peter" "Professor for Civil, Corporation and Capital Markets Law, University of Zürich" About 200 of the world's richest and powerful individuals are gathering, in relative secret as we speak in Chantilly, VA and bein... more -
Illuminati Mystery Babylon
The Illuminati leaders of Mystery Babylon have put their stooges in the highest offices. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, is one of them. So is Russian President Vladimir Putin, France's President Jacque Chiraq, and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair.
In a tremendous new video/DVD exposé, Texe Marrs unmasks this Luciferian sect that has used its cunning, treachery, and massive wealth to such unbelievable advantage. Virtually every major nation on earth has by now fallen into its hands.
The awful, staggering truth must get out. We are no longer a free people. Illuminati Mystery Babylon is reaching the zenith of its power, and our very lives are now at risk. The Illuminati leaders of Mystery Babylon have put their stooges in the highest offices. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reser... more -
The Capitalist Conspiracy: An Inside view of International Banking
This is an adaptation of a documentary filmstrip tracing the history of a small group of people who control the money systems of the world. It shows how this group is protected by governments and how its wealth is derived by creating money out of nothing. We see how this group wields power through government, foundations, education, and the mass media. It has aided such regimes as Russia and China, not because it is pro-Communist, but because a visible enemy and the threat of war have been useful in persuading the masses to embrace the group's ultimate goal: a world government which they expect to control from behind the scenes. They are now working to replace fear of nuclear war with fear of global pollution as the motivation for world government. It is clear that the plan revealed in this program continues to unfold.
Monopoly is not an outgrowth of capitalism. Monopolists lobby for laws that give them advantages in the market place. Monopoloy is not based on free-enterprise competition, but the escape from it. It is not the product of capitalism but the bedfellow of socialism. This is an adaptation of a documentary filmstrip tracing the history of a small group of people who control the money systems of the w... more
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