statism watch

Carney’s been out rubbing elbows with his bosses and shilling for a Canadian ‘harmonization’ with the Fed’s planned economic takeover.

Flashback: Geithner lambastes US economic watchdogs resistant to planned transfer of powers to Federal Reserve | Former NY governor Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi scheme, an inside job’ | Hands off the Fed, Bernanke warns Congress | US Senate Blocks Bill To Audit The Fed As Government Prepares For Second Round Of Looting | Congressman Ron Paul Slams Federal Reserve’s New Dictatorial Powers | Federal Reserve To Be Given Sweeping New Powers | HR 1207: Battle To Audit The Fed Has Only Just Begun | Geithner Said to Have Prevailed on the Bailout | Banks won’t say where U.S. bailout money going | Paulson, Bernanke defend change of plan: $700-billion now to be given directly to banks | Congress Accuses Federal Reserve Bagman Of Bailout “Bait and Switch” During Angry Hearing | U.S. government won’t use bailout fund to buy troubled assets | The Bush gang’s parting gift: a final, frantic looting of public wealth | Why Paulson’s Plan is a Fraud | Congressman Ron Paul: Bailout Will Destroy Dollar, World Economy | Congressman Ron Paul Schools Fed Chairman Bernanke on the Bailout Plan | Private Federal Reserve Makes Power Grab as Bush, McCain Urge Congress to Approve Plan

CBC News
August 22, 2009

Canada would benefit from central bank’s ability to rein in financial markets, governor says

Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, left, and William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, arrive at the morning session of the annual conference of the Federal Reserve in Jackson, Wyo., on Saturday. (Reed Saxon/Associated Press)

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney wants an expanded mandate to prevent future financial meltdowns, and not just continue to act as the country’s inflation cop, he hinted on Saturday.

In comments to a symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo. [Ed. Note: That's the Federal Reserve's annual conference], the G7’s youngest central banker warned that the bank’s mandate of strictly targeting inflation, while useful, may not be enough to prevent future meltdowns.

“Price stability should be retained as the central objective of monetary policy, although its definition may have to change,” he said in the prepared text of his remarks released by the Bank of Canada to the media.

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Flashback: Selective enforcement: Charkaoui barred from US airspace on flight from Fredericton to Montreal | CSIS reviews security certificate cases in wake of criticism | Tories aim to bring back anti-terrorism provisions | High court reprimands CSIS policy of destroying secret evidence in security case | More secrecy added to already secret process | Charkaoui set to fight new security certificate law | New security certificates issued | The New Security Certificate: Rushing injustice through the Senate | Court puts security certificates in limbo

CBC News
August 22, 2009

A Montreal man accused of terrorist ties has asked the federal court to throw out the national security case filed against him by the federal government.

Adil Charkaoui said he can’t explain the government’s recent actions to try to withdraw evidence from his case.

“It’s crazy,” he told CBC News. “We have the judge who [has] seen the evidence before they have withdraw those evidence, and she said they have no case against [me]. She said it publicly.”

It was revealed on Thursday that three weeks ago, the government responded to a court order to disclose evidence by instead announcing it was withdrawing its most important evidence from the file.

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As ‘Banaman’ states in the comments section of the original article, “[this article doesn't] mention the fact that this massacre was covered up by the US government for more than a year and half until journalist Seymonr Hersh reported this on Nov.12th/1969 in the New Yorker. And I can bet you a thousand bucks there were many My Lai villages that did not get reported.” And it’s still going on today only it’s a little less hands-on, with drone strikes and private mercenaries.

Flashback: Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Implicated in Murder | US air strikes kill dozens of Afghan civilians | Blackwater Guards facing Charges in Case of 17 Dead Iraqi Citizens | US Counterinsurgency Manual Leaked, Calls for False Flag Operations, Suspension of Human Rights | What Ottawa doesn’t want you to know: Government was told detainees faced ‘extrajudicial executions, disappearances, torture and detention without trial’

The Associated Press
August 22, 2009

‘I am very sorry’: Forty years after slayings of 500 men, women and children, William Calley speaks publicly for the first time