statism watch

Whatever you may think of ‘Lord’ Monckton and his connections to the Heartland Institute, he has a valid point. The text of Copenhagen as it currently stands would create an unelected body in charge of redistributing taxpayer dollars among nation states. This represents a supranational economic governing body, which historically, as in the case of the EEC and the EU, means that sovereignty on the national level is necessarily compromised. This is an economic treaty under guise of an environmental treaty, and what it implements is a global tax – a step towards world government that the UN’s environment head publically called for.

From the, ‘Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action under the Convention’, page 18, we find the following text:

38. The scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention will be based on three basic pillars: government; facilitative mechanism; and financial mechanism, and the basic organization of which will include the following:
a) The government will be ruled by the COP with the support of a new subsidiary body on adaptation, and of an Executive Board responsible for the management of the new funds and the related facilitative processes and bodies. The current Convention secretariat will operate as such, as appropriate.

COP stands for the ‘Conference of Parties‘ to the treaty, the governing body. Point b) deals with management of a ‘climate change fund’ to compensate developing countries for the climate debt they’re allegedly owed, and c) introduces language on work programmes for ‘adaption and mitigation’ as well as an international enforcement registry. (As an aside, the only misstep Monckton makes is identifying this treaty with communism. While it’s one thing to pander to your audience’s ideology, it’s quite another to miss the boat in identifying that fact that it’s the big banks and business interests that are backing this. Yes, it walks and talks like something we call ‘communism’ and shares its council-based structure, but the point here is that communism was never for the people to begin with.) Now, does anyone actually think this is going to benefit the third world? In fact, qui bono is the question we must ask ourselves. Who will be handling the money?

Flashback: UN plans ’shock therapy’ for world leaders at Copenhagen summit | German Scientists Call for ‘World Climate Bank’ | G8 Summit: Rich nations to pay green tab | Ontario unveils cap-and-trade legislation | Economic stabilization may rely on carbon economy, economist says | Climate panel presses for federal cap-and-trade system | Obama, Gore, tied to Chicago carbon exchange | U.N. ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy | U.N. Environment Head Wants Global Warming Tax | Time to emulate Roosevelt’s New Deal and create green jobs | EU calls for global carbon trading system to fight climate change

Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily
October 17, 2009

A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world government.

“At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed,” Lord Christopher Monckton told a Minnesota Free Market Institute audience on Thursday at Bethel University in St. Paul.

“Your president will sign it. Most of the Third World countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regimes from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it,” he told the audience of some 700 attendees.

“I read that treaty and what it says is this: that a world government is going to be created. The word ‘government’ actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity.

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Flashback: Embryonic EU security office set up in secret talks under Lisbon Treaty | Ireland votes yes to Lisbon EU constitution | Blair to be named EU President ‘within weeks’ if Irish ratify Lisbon Treaty | New Czech move to block ratification of EU constitution | Icelandic parliament rolls over, votes for EU membership | Ireland to hold second referendum on Lisbon Treaty | EU leaders reassure Irish in latest attempt to revive Lisbon treaty | Secret report details Nazi plan to create a European Union | Leaked 1955 Bilderberg Docs Outline Plan For Single European Currency | Bilderberg chairman: ‘Bilderberg helped create the Euro’ | Iceland to be fast-tracked into the EU | Irish to vote on EU treaty again as experts warn Britain could be signed up within a year | You’re not doing it right: New Irish vote on EU integration ‘legal’ | Harper, Sarkozy vow to work toward Canada-EU deal | Irish ‘need new EU treaty vote’ | Lisbon treaty: Pressure on Ireland for second vote | EU tries to isolate Irish after treaty rejection | EU grapples with Irish ‘No’ vote, members consider ratification options | Defiant Ireland set to quash Europe-wide constitutional moves | Ireland Set To Vote On EU Dictatorship | Ireland Only Country to Hold Referendum on Contentious EU Constitution | European Parliament Members Revolt Over Treaty of Lisbon

Michael Winfrey, Reuters India
October 17, 2009

PRAGUE (Reuters) – The European Union’s Lisbon reform treaty has progressed too far to stop, Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the bloc’s sole remaining leader to sign the document, said in a newspaper interview on Saturday.

The staunch eurosceptic stunned the 27-member bloc this month when he demanded an opt-out clause to shield the Czech Republic from property claims from ethnic Germans expelled from the country after World War Two.

But on Saturday, he told Lidove Noviny that, despite his continued opposition to the charter, it was too late to stop it.

“I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic,” Klaus told Lidove Noviny.

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As the article states, these hypothetical reports are ‘rarely publicized’. Yet Britain and the US are leaking similar reports. An alternate explanation for why scare reports are being released to the public is that it’s predictive conditioning, designed to prepare you for a militaristic police state. When all of the cultural twisting and propaganda eventually results in the sort of dystopia described, it will have a certain air of inevitability.

Flashback: Maximum Alert: U.S. Troops Now Occupying America | CF-18s join B.C. Olympic security drill | Military helicopters over downtown Montreal for exercise | British Army to Police Medicine Hat During Urban Warfare Drills | Urban warfare drills coming to Medicine Hat | Military readies reservists for threats to ‘domestic front’ | Military may patrol bar zone in Barrie | British Secret Service, Army Alert on Bank Riots | US Urban Warfare Drills Linked To Coming Economic Rage | Predator drones patrolling border irk Manitoba MLA | Military and police practice integration during Olympic security exercises | Canadian military getting 1,300 new heavily armoured trucks for ‘domestic use’ | Army ‘Strategic Shock’ Report Says Troops May Be Needed To Quell U.S. Civil Unrest | Troops in the Streets: Army Brigades Standing By to Assist in Disasters, Help Quell Dissent | Canada, U.S. agree to use each other’s troops in civil emergencies | Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future

Allan Woods, Toronto Star
October 17, 2009

In the worst-case scenarios, oil prices quadruple, drones patrol the skies, global wars spill into cities

OTTAWA–The war between India and Pakistan spills over into Toronto’s immigrant suburbs. A terrorist sleeper cell poisons Montreal’s water system. Mandatory military service is enacted for young and new Canadians.

While the country’s politicians debate what Canada’s engagement in Afghanistan will look like after the current mission ends in 2011, the military has already peered far past that date to determine its training and equipment needs and the worst-case scenarios it must prepare to face.

While the Armed Forces constantly project scenarios for which to train, these hypothetical situations are rarely publicized. Although they appear far-fetched, the military is obliged to prepare for the worst, or risk being unready in the event of a catastrophe.

A 10-year forecast completed for the air force lays out likely trends in areas such as oil prices and aviation technologies, but also a series of “strategic shocks” – unpredictable events that could throw the best-laid plans off course.

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As Canadian journalist Eric Margolis astutely pointed out in an interview yesterday, there is no longer any real organization called the ‘Taliban’. What exists are Pashtun tribes opposed to the policies of Pakistan’s central government. Among the policies that are inflaming sentiment in Pakistan is the fact the state is accepting billions in military aid from the US – with, you know, just a few strings attached – such as control over hiring and firing and promotion within the Pakistan armed forces and intelligence agencies. It’s another example of how language can be used as a weapon, to label and categorize people into an outgroup for the convenient application of policy propaganda.

Flashback: Militants attack Pakistani cities | Pakistan launches air strikes before offensive | Pakistan hit by another deadly bomb blast | Bloody siege in Pakistan ends with 20 dead | Links to ‘Al-Qaeda’, Pakistani training camps linger after ‘Toronto 18′ member imprisoned | Pakistani militant leader dead: Taliban | Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated | Pakistani president Asif Zardari admits creating terrorist groups | Western Governments Funding Taliban & Al-Qaeda To Kill U.S. Troops, Destabilize Countries | The Main Result of the “War on Terror”: The Destabilization of Pakistan | Not very cricket: Witnesses report Pakistani security abandoned convoy prior to attack | Report: CIA runs secret bases in Pakistan | Key Benazir Bhutto assassination witness shot dead | CIA, Pakistani ISI have long, complicated relationship | US Allowed Taliban, Al-Qaeda Airlift Evacuation

Ishtiaq Mahsud, Nahal Toosi, Associated Press
October 17, 2009