statism watch

Let’s see how accurate Estulin is on this – his reporting from Bilderberg has been spot on in the past. In any case, the calls for a global currency have reached a fever pitch. So, heads up.

Flashback: Dollar Reaches Breaking Point as Central Banks Shift Reserves | Fisk: Nations to hasten demise of dollar in new world order | US dollar set to be eclipsed, World Bank president predicts | Bilderberg Wants Global Currency Now | Dollar to fall under scrutiny at G20 summit | UN wants new global currency to replace dollar | 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 | 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

Steve Watson, Infowars.net
November 4, 2009

Researcher says consolidation of world’s monetary system, global currency on elite’s agenda this weekend

Researcher and author Daniel Estulin, best known for his exposé of the ultra secretive Bilderberg Group, says inside sources have informed him that the core focus of the G20 meeting this weekend will be to discuss ditching the Dollar and implementing a global centralized monetary system.

A press release detailing Estulin’s statements says that G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland, will debate actions to sink the U.S. Dollar, thereby crashing the present world financial system.

The instability and chaos resulting out of such a breakdown would act as a pretext to launch a consolidating new economic world order.

“Estulin says that the success or failure of this callous plan hinges on the ability of the US and UK representatives to convince the Russian, the Chinese and other national governments to go along with their scheme.” The release states.

Estulin first reported on this agenda at this year’s Bilderberg conference held in Greece back in May. According to the author, the elite group has termed the move “demand destruction”.

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What’s happened to the traditional Conservative invective against political correctness? Presumably the allure of the cultural control method so favoured by the Soviets is hard to resist for those with a totalitarian streak.

Flashback: Fund me or axe me, parliamentary budget officer says | Budget officer ‘can’t tell’ if stimulus plan working

Heather Scoffield, Canadian Press
November 4, 2009

‘It smells a little bit,’ expert says of essay question on Harper budget that is now part of recruitment process for elite civil-service program

An elite federal program to recruit the cream of new graduates suddenly wants to know the applicants’ views on the government’s vaunted Economic Action Plan before they get a job interview.

The Accelerated Economist Training Program invites highly educated people to develop careers in the federal public service, starting at a senior level.

Successful candidates go through two years of training at four departments. They start at about $50,000 a year and after two years can earn over $80,000.

Spaces are in high demand among university graduates.

But this year, for the first time, candidates need to provide more than a list of qualifications and good marks. They also must to write 1,000 words on the federal government’s last budget, promoted widely as the Economic Action Plan.

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You’re a disgrace to the rule of law, Selkirk.

Flashback: Ban stun gun use on young people, Ontario child advocate urges | RCMP Investigates, Clears Self of Wrongdoing in Case of TASERed Inuvik Girl | Probe into tasering of teenaged girl reopened | Mounties pinned me down in cell and tasered me, Manitoba girl says

CBC News
November 4, 2009

Force used was ‘justified, and necessary’ to subdue teenager

A Manitoba teen girl’s scars, which she says are a result of being struck with a Taser by police. (Winnipeg Free Press)

A Selkirk, Man., RCMP officer denies any wrongdoing in the case of a teenage girl who says she was injured with a Taser while in police custody two years ago.

The incident, and a resulting lawsuit by the girl against the RCMP, the City of Selkirk, the province and the federal justice minister, have raised concerns about the use of Tasers by police on minors.

In a statement of defence obtained by CBC News on Wednesday, Const. Roger Gavel asks Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench to throw out the lawsuit, saying the use of the stun gun on the girl was legitimate.

“The actions of the RCMP members … were justified, and necessary, in the circumstances,” the documents said.

Gavel’s defence — written by a lawyer from the federal Department of Justice — was filed on Oct. 14.

The girl, who was 16 when taken to the Selkirk RCMP detachment on Nov. 3, 2007, is seeking an unspecified amount of financial damages for physical and emotional trauma. She cannot be named because of provisions in the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The teenager was taken into custody after she and some friends were found drunk in her parents’ van, which her mother had reported stolen.

In her statement of claim, the girl says she was put in a cell by several officers, and after punching or shoving one of them, was allegedly shoved onto the floor, knelt on by four officers, and hit with a stun gun in her thighs three times.

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Flashback: Ottawa was warned Afghan detainees might be tortured | Military commission suspends torture hearings, gags witness | Torture probe delayed; Tories deny gagging witness | Federal court limits Afghan detainee torture probe | Watchdog rejects government bid to delay Afghan detainee inquiry | Ottawa moves to block Afghanistan detainee torture hearings again | Bid to Block Afghan Detainee Inquiry Slammed | What Ottawa doesn’t want you to know: Government was told detainees faced ‘extrajudicial executions, disappearances, torture and detention without trial’

CBC News
November 4, 2009

Irony: Williams says international fish deal erodes Canadian sovereignty

CBC News
November 4, 2009

The British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled that a group of Vancouver Island First Nations has the right to harvest and sell all species of fish found within its territories.

The decision, handed down on Tuesday in Vancouver, involves several bands, collectively known as the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations, which have territory on the west coast of the island near Tofino and Clayoquot Sound.

“This decision confirms what we’ve known all along,” Cliff Atleo, president of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations, said in a statement.

“We have been stewards of our ocean resources for hundreds of generations, and the government of Canada was wrong to push us aside in their attempts to prohibit our access to the sea resources our people depend upon.”

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Flashback: Tens of thousands march in Iran | Israel ‘will attack Iran this year’ if West does not cripple Tehran with sanctions | Prominent protesters stand trial in Iran | Global protests condemn new Iran crackdown | Protesters defy Iranian protest ban, violent clashes ensue | Iranian doctor on protests: Regime covering up deaths, using foreign militants | Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated “Color Revolution?” | Violence on the streets of Tehran as police beat back protesters | Iran protests: Fifth day of unrest as regime cracks down on critics | Twitter emerges as news source during Iran media crackdown | Gunfire breaks out at massive Tehran protest | Iranian protesters trash Tehran | Blast at Iranian mosque raises tensions in run-up to presidential election | Netanyahu: We may be forced to attack Iran | Neo-cons still preparing for Iran attack | US scales up covert destabilization efforts in Iran, continues funding ‘al-Qaeda’ | Israelis ‘rehearse Iran attack’ | Bush ‘plans Iran air strike by August’ | U.S. Navy starts exercises in Gulf waters | U.S. National Intelligence Estimate: Iran stopped nuclear weapons work in 2003 | Cheney Orders Media To Sell Attack On Iran | Former CIA Officer – US Plans Nuclear Attack On Iran | U.S. sending third aircraft carrier to the Middle East | US aircraft carriers in Persian Gulf | Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh: US Indirectly Funding Al-Qaeda Linked Sunni Groups in Move to Counter Iran

CBC News
November 4, 2009

Iranian security forces wielding batons and firing tear gas clashed with crowds in Tehran on Wednesday in an effort to break up anti-government protests organized on the same day as state-sanctioned rallies celebrating the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover.

The rally of opposition demonstrators was the first show of force since a mid-September protest that coincided with a state-sponsored rally against Israel.

The protestors again turned out to display opposition to the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose win in a disputed June election sparked the biggest political turmoil since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Witnesses said paramilitary units from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard swept through the opposition counter-demonstration in Tehran’s city centre, clubbing, kicking and slapping protestors. There were no immediate reports on injuries or arrests in the clashes.

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Flashback: Plentiful paper currency buffing gold’s shine | Gold continues record-breaking run | Gold price rises to all-time high | Fisk: Nations to hasten demise of dollar in new world order | IMF approves $13bn gold sale to boost lending fund | Gold regains $1,000 | Gold toys with $1000/oz | Industrial demand for silver sharpens bullish view | Global demand for gold investment soars 38% in past year | The search for the mint’s missing gold | Royal Canadian Mint’s ‘lost’ gold worth a mint | Bullion and Bandits: The Improbable Rise and Fall of E-Gold | Has the Mint’s gold vanished? | Bank crisis spawns new kind of gold rush | Gold Tops $1,000, First Time Since March as Recession Deepens | Manipulation Of Gold And Silver Prices Further Exposed | Analysts Predict Hyper-Inflation To Push Gold To $2000, Oil to $300 | Ottawa warns on gold-backed Web trades

Graeme Wearden, The Guardian
November 4, 2009

Gold hits new high on International Monetary Fund sale, India diversifies reserves as dollar continues to weaken

Gold prices surged to a new high of $1095.05 an ounce this morning following the news that India has purchased $6.7bn (£4.05bn) of gold from the International Monetary Fund.

Yesterday the IMF announced it had sold 200 tonnes of gold to the Reserve Bank of India over the past two weeks. Traders reported that the huge sale had intensified interest in gold, which has now risen by almost 23% this year.

India said it was keen to diversify its reserves away from the US dollar, which has weakened in recent months.

Pranab Mukherjee, India’s finance minister, said: “We have money to buy gold. We have enough foreign exchange reserves.”

Erik Nilsson, senior economist at Scotia Capital, said the deal was “certainly indicative that the monetary authorities in India are not overwhelmingly upbeat about the outlook for the US dollar”.

The dollar has lost 6.5% of its value in the last five months, measured against a basket of other currencies. This has helped to push up the price of commodities priced in dollars, including gold and oil.

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In addition to scarcity, gold is very easily divisible and as a ‘noble metal’, is not inclined to react with its environment – the stuff practically lasts forever, and this by its natural characteristics presents a liquid measuring stick against which units of value may be weighed. And as a commodity with industrial applications, it is actually useful. So in the same way that rulers are length, gold is value. Now – compare paper. Easily reproducible and destructible, paper may be used to inflate or deflate the money supply at the stroke of a legislator’s pen. As a measure of value, it thus contracts and expands arbitrarily. It’s as though your measuring tape turned out to be a different length every time you went to use it.

Flashback: Gold continues record-breaking run | Gold price rises to all-time high | Fisk: Nations to hasten demise of dollar in new world order | IMF approves $13bn gold sale to boost lending fund | Gold regains $1,000 | Gold toys with $1000/oz | Industrial demand for silver sharpens bullish view | Global demand for gold investment soars 38% in past year | The search for the mint’s missing gold | Royal Canadian Mint’s ‘lost’ gold worth a mint | Bullion and Bandits: The Improbable Rise and Fall of E-Gold | Has the Mint’s gold vanished? | Bank crisis spawns new kind of gold rush | Gold Tops $1,000, First Time Since March as Recession Deepens | Manipulation Of Gold And Silver Prices Further Exposed | Analysts Predict Hyper-Inflation To Push Gold To $2000, Oil to $300 | Ottawa warns on gold-backed Web trades

David Goldenberg, The Globe and Mail
November 4, 2009

Gold’s allure comes down to scarcity in a world awash with government-minted cash

After at least a half-dozen runs at the milestone of $1,000 (U.S.) an ounce over the past two years, the price of gold finally managed to roll past that mark a little more than a month ago and yesterday managed to push its way to a new high, closing a shade below $1,085.

What is amazing is that gold, widely considered an asset that correlates highly with market instability and economic uncertainty, pierced the $1,000 level at a time when equity prices were rising to their best levels of the year and just after a pleasant 3.5-per-cent third-quarter U.S. gross domestic product annualized growth performance.

It’s not as if anyone can calculate a price-to-earnings ratio for gold. There is no dividend discount model for gold and there is no interest rate or income stream for gold. So what is it exactly that gold bugs see?

Well, gold is a store of value and one that has been durable and reliable for thousands of years. No fiat currency system has outlived gold. Perhaps the better question is what is so sacred about fiat currency – the paper money we all know? The backing of the government printing press; is that the alluring factor?

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Flashback: Chinese media claims Beijing snow ‘artificially induced’ | Rutgers Professor Warns Geoengineering Could “Create Disasters,” Global Famine | China wages war on Olympic weather | Man-made clouds to change the sky | Technology Exists to Redirect Hurricanes, Naval Physicist Says | Weather War? | NASA Funds Sci-Fi Weather Control Technology | Much of Britain sprayed in secret germ warfare tests

David Adam, The Guardian
November 4, 2009

Chinese scientists claim to be able to control the weather. But is so-called geoengineering more than wishful thinking? And, if so, should we be worried?

The unseasonal snow that fell on Beijing for 11 hours on Sunday was the earliest and heaviest there has been for years. It was also, China claims, man-made. By the end of last month, farmland in the already dry north of China was suffering badly due to drought. So on Saturday night China’s meteorologists fired 186 explosive rockets loaded with chemicals to “seed” clouds and encourage snow to fall. “We won’t miss any opportunity of artificial precipitation since Beijing is suffering from a lingering drought,” Zhang Qiang, head of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, told state media.

The US has tinkered with such cloud seeding to increase water flow from the Sierra Nevada mountains in California since the 1950s, but there remains widespread scientific sniffiness in the west at such attempts at weather control. The chemicals fired into the sky, usually dry ice or silver iodide, are supposed to provide a surface for water vapour to form liquid rain. But there is little evidence that it works – after all, how do investigating scientists know it would not have rained anyway?

Such doubts have not stopped China claiming mastery over the clouds. Officials said the blue skies that brightened Beijing’s parade to celebrate 60 years of communism last month were a result of the 18 cloud-seeding jets and 432 explosive rockets scrambled to empty the sky of rain beforehand. Last year, more than 1,000 rockets were fired to ensure a dry night for last year’s Olympic opening ceremony.

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