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Related: Bilderberg Seeks Bank Centralization Agenda

Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
May 6, 2009

Elitists divided on whether to quickly sink economy and replace it with new world order, or set in motion long, agonizing depression

On the eve of the 2009 Bilderberg Group conference, which is due to be held May 14-17 at the 5 star Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece, investigative reporter Daniel Estulin has uncovered shocking details of what the elitists plan to do with the economy over the course of the next year.

The Bilderberg Group meeting is an annual confab of around 150 of the world’s most influential powerbrokers in government, industry, banking, media, academia and the military-industrial complex. The secretive group operates under “Chatham House rules,” meaning that no details of what is discussed can ever be leaked to the media, despite editors of the world’s biggest newspapers, the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Financial Times, being present at the meeting.

According to Estulin’s sources, which have been proven highly accurate in the past, Bilderberg is divided on whether to put into motion, “Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty … or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”

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Robert Fisk, long time middle eastern war correspondent for the Independent, has said pretty much all that needs be said about this breach of human decency.

Flashback: NATO denies air strike killed Afghan civilians

Jon Boone, Ewen MacAskill, Mark Tran, The Guardian
May 6, 2009

Local officials fear death toll may be over 100, US says bombings requested by Afghan army

US-led air strikes have killed dozens of Afghan people, the Red Cross said today as the Pentagon launched a joint investigation into what appeared one of the deadliest incidents and heaviest civilian losses so far at the hands of coalition forces.

Rohul Amin, the governor of Farah province in west Afghanistan, where the bombing took place during a battle on Monday and Tuesday, said he feared 100 civilians had been killed.

The provincial police chief, Abdul ­Ghafar Watandar, who accused the Taliban of using the civilians as human shields, said the death toll could be even higher, with some local officials claiming it could be up to 200.

If confirmed, those figures could make the strike the worst single most deadliest for Afghan civilians since the start of the campaign to topple the Taliban in 2001.

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CBC News
May 6, 2009

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, left, surrounded by his guards, enters the military base where a brief mutiny broke out, in Mukhrovani, about 30 kilometres from Tbilisi. (Irakli Gedenidze/Associated Press)

Russia and NATO sought to limit damage to their relationship Wednesday, amid a flurry of diplomatic expulsions and pointed Russian criticism of military exercises in the Republic of Georgia.

Starting Wednesday, some 15 countries are taking part in a series of military exercises in the former Soviet satellite state. Participants are holding meetings until at least May 11, after which battlefield manoeuvres will begin, Georgian Defence Ministry spokesman David Dzhokhadze said.

NATO has encouraged Russia to join the war games and says they pose no threat, but Russia has dismissed the idea of taking part, saying it is inappropriate to hold the month-long military exercises in a country that recently fought and lost a war.

The war games amount to Western meddling in its sphere of influence, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in televised comments Tuesday.

He took pains to emphasize that Moscow wanted normal relations with the Western alliance, despite objections over NATO expansion into former Soviet republics.

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…and that implies a kickback, of course. But it is unlikely the court will broach this topic.

Flashback: Former Mulroney aide says he can’t recall writing letters about Airbus | Mulroney wanted Schreiber deal kept quiet, inquiry told | Mulroney, Kohl may have discussed Airbus: inquiry document | Schreiber says he paid Mulroney because he’d need him ‘sooner or later’ | Moores linked to Airbus before Mulroney came to power, memo reveals | Schreiber Inquiry: Premier’s wife testifies bank account was to be hers, not Mulroney’s | Mulroney-Schreiber inquiry steers clear of ‘Airbus affair’ on first day | Mulroney-Schreiber probe has no jurisdiction to find liability | Mulroney confidant knew about Airbus commissions: CBC News investigation | The Mulroney Affair: Why politicians seek out the rich | The Fifth Estate: Money, Truth, and Spin

CBC News
May 6, 2009

Lead inquiry says no evidence former PM Mulroney knew source of funds

A forensic accountant called in to investigate the business dealings between Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber testified Wednesday that there’s a “strong inference” the money alleged to have been paid to the former prime minister came from Airbus funds.

Steven Whitla, an accountant with Navigant Consulting, said the account known as Britan, which Schreiber has claimed he used to pay Mulroney $300,000 in cash payments, was funded by a Frankfurt account.

In regard to the source of funds for the Frankfurt account, Whitla said: “Our analysis of the facts support a strong inference that the original source of monies withdrawn by Mr. Schreiber from the ‘Britan’ account came in large part from funds received from Airbus.”

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“No, wait, I’m guilty actually.” Note that the other two charges will be dropped, so this is a pretty transparent plea-bargain. As to the identity of the alleged bomb-maker, it has already been reported on that he was a police mole. See here also, and here for ample illustration that the RCMP were all but openly running the ‘terror cell’. So where’s the case? Oh, that’s right – it’s a tissue of lies and manufactured incidents, and the whole flimsy thing has a veneer of legality only because of the new interpretation of ‘terror’ introduced by anti-terrorism legislation.

Isabel Teotonio, Toronto Star
May 6, 2009

A young Mississauga man has pleaded guilty to intending to cause an explosion, the first time a member of the so-called Toronto 18 group has admitted the existence of a bomb plot.

At a trial last year of a co-accused, prosecutors alleged some of the group’s members were planning to bomb sites such as the Toronto Stock Exchange, RCMP headquarters in Ottawa, the Pickering nuclear power plant and the Toronto offices of Canada’s spy agency, located next to the CN Tower.

In an unexpected move, Saad Khalid, 22, entered his plea on Monday.

But Justice Bruce Durno banned publication of the plea until late yesterday, when it was lifted after submissions by three media groups, including the Toronto Star.

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