statism watch

Just in case you haven’t been paying attention, the Telegraph spells it out for you. And, naturally, a global currency is necessary in order to construct a world state (or, as internationalists like to couch it, of facilitating ‘international governance’.) Creating a world currency subject to constant regulatory manipulation will deliver the one ring, the unity of power into the hands of the global bankers. We will all be bound together by its reach and extent – which is why it is so important to resist this. The shovels are already in the ground – Timothy Geithner is urging a new international monetary reserve accord, and Canada and Britain have recently boosted their contributions to international banks. (Yes – nations give away money, your money, to finance these institutions.)

Flashback: G20 agrees to continue economic stimulus measures; Geithner shops international reserve accord | China Set to Buy $50 Billion in IMF Notes | Medvedev Unveils “World Currency” Coin At G8 | China calls anew for super-sovereign currency | No one talking about dumping dollar: China minister | China explores buying $50bn in IMF bonds | Chinese economists deem huge holding of US bonds “risky” as Geithner visits | A Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF | UK PM reveals G20 plan to boost IMF by $1 trillion, hails new world order (again) | UN & IMF Back Agenda For Global Financial Dictatorship | U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar | IMF poised to print billions of dollars in ‘global quantitative easing’ | Gordon Brown seeks sweeping reforms to give IMF global ’surveillance role’ | IMF may need to “print money”, act as “world’s central bank” as crisis spreads | Globalists Exploit Financial Meltdown In Move Towards One World Currency | World needs new Bretton Woods, says Brown | IMF prescribes state regulation of ‘global financial order’ | Bilderberg Seeks Bank Centralization Agenda | Banks face “new world order,” consolidation: report

Edmund Conway, The Telegraph
September 7, 2009

The dollar should be replaced with a global currency, the United Nations has said, proposing the biggest overhaul of the world’s monetary system since the Second World War.

In a radical report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said the system of currencies and capital rules which binds the world economy is not working properly, and was largely responsible for the financial and economic crises. [Ed. Note: Granted, if you're talking about Keynesian economics. But, no, they want more of the same.]

It added that the present system, under which the dollar acts as the world’s reserve currency , should be subject to a wholesale reconsideration.

Although a number of countries, including China and Russia, have suggested replacing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, the UNCTAD report is the first time a major multinational institution has posited such a suggestion.

In essence, the report calls for a new Bretton Woods-style system of managed international exchange rates, meaning central banks would be forced to intervene and either support or push down their currencies depending on how the rest of the world economy is behaving.

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This case was retried in order to get this conviction – the previous jury found no evidence to support the notion planes were targeted. So at the risk of beating a dead horse: Rashid Rauf’s testimony was obtained by torture, it’s not possible to cook up a bomb in an airport washroom, indeed the men had no viable bomb, and even the former British ambassador has described this case as propaganda.

Flashback: Prosecuters fail to secure airborne liquid bomb convictions, conspiracy charges stick | 3 men plead guilty to lesser charges in ‘liquid bomb’ airline plot | Truth or Terrorism? The Real Story Behind Five Years of High Alerts | Canada to launch no-fly list in June | Mass murder in the skies: Are portable liquid explosives feasible? | Former British Ambassador Says Liquid Bomb Terror Alert Is “Propaganda” | British ‘Terror Suspects’ Were in Contact With MI5

CBC News
September 7, 2009

A London jury convicted three British Muslims Monday of conspiring to blow up at least seven airliners bound for the U.S. and Canada in what was intended to be the largest such attack since Sept. 11, 2001.

Their alleged plan was to kill thousands of people by blowing up commercial passenger planes in mid-air with liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.

Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir Hussain, 28, were all found guilty of conspiring to murder crew and passengers on transatlantic flights by detonating explosives on aircraft.

Four other alleged conspirators were acquitted while the jury could not reach a verdict on an eighth man.

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When you require a license or a certificate for something, it’s because it has, in effect, been made illegal. You need permission from the state to undertake this activity now. You are acting by permission, rather than by right. Expect this training certificate thing to become increasingly more onerous as the years go by. Remember, you never used to need a license to drive your car, an action the statists bray ‘is a privilege, not a right’. In the US this, too, was introduced as a seemingly innocuous registration initiative – one sent 50 cents in the mail for one’s permit, and even this initiative only existed in a smattering of states at first. (Have any links to the Canadian history of driving and licensing? Please drop a comment below.)

Flashback: Changes to law could affect navigation of Canadian waters, critics say

CBC News
September 7, 2009

Anyone operating a boat or a pleasure craft fitted with a motor will be required to get a certificate proving their competency, according to a new Transport Canada rule that begins next week.

Boaters will need a pleasure craft operator card by Sept. 15 and must carry it on board at all times.

Once certified, the card is good for life, and the new requirement applies in areas outside the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, the department said.

Sarah-Jane Raine and her husband, Norman, have a lifetime of experience on the water, and said that until now, anyone could buy a boat and start boating.

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