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Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
April 30, 2010

The global elite have chosen the Bank For International Settlements, which financed Hitler’s war machine, to boss the financial arm of the new world order

European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet’s announcement that the Bank for International Settlements is to become the primary engine for global governance is a shocking admission given the fact that this ultra-secretive menagerie of international bankers was once controlled by top Nazis who, in collusion with global central banks, funneled money through the institution which directly financed Hitler’s war machine.

During a speech to the elitist CFR organization earlier this week, ECB head Trichet said that the Global Economy Meeting (GEM), which regularly meets at the BIS headquarters in Basel, “Has become the prime group for global governance among central banks”.

The GEM is basically a policy steering committee under the umbrella of the Bank for International Settlements. In its current form, the BIS, which itself is not accountable to any national government, is comprised of banking chiefs from global central banks, most of which are private and also have no responsibility to their nation states or their citizens.

The board of directors who control the BIS include Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and Bank of England head Mervyn King, as well as Trichet himself.

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While this journal typically avoids giving a lot of time to reports that rely on anonymous sources, Wayne Madsen has access to a network of Washington insiders, having worked within the military industrial complex for the Navy, the NSA and the Naval Data Automation Command. As a freelance investigative journalist, he’s filed reports for a variety of newspapers and has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC . Thus, when he produces a groundbreaking report like the following, it demands a hearing.

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Wayne Madson, Wayne Madson Report
April 30, 2010

On April 26, 2010, WMR reported: “Multiple U.S. intelligence sources have reported to WMR that a super-classified network with only some 70 terminals in select U.S. government locations handled the parallel command-and-control activities that permitted the 9/11 terrorist attacks to be successful.

“The ‘above top secret’ network bears the acronym ‘PDAS.’ WMR has not yet discovered what the acronym stands for, however, the system is limited to only a few hundred people with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Special Access Program (SAP) need-to-know access, in addition to the President and Vice President.”

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Van Loan said history has shown that free trade deals raise all boats, telling a business audience the North American Free Trade Agreement has doubled Canada’s trade with the United States and tripled it with Mexico.

Actual free trade deals do not come with strings attached. This is a Transatlantic regionalization treaty, not ‘free trade’.

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Susanna Kelley, The Canadian Press
April 30, 2010

TORONTO – As a nervous, recession-weary world watches to see if Greece’s near bankruptcy will drag down other European countries, Canada’s Conservative government is determined to forge ahead with a major free trade agreement with the European Union.

The economic contagion threatening Portugal, Italy and other countries in the region “has little to do” with the potential opportunities ongoing trade talks represent, Trade Minister Peter Van Loan told reporters Friday following a speech in Toronto.

“I view those challenges as, while important, I don’t think that they have any impact on the trade talks or the potential opportunities that the trade agreement would represent,” Van Loan said.

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Now that Bilderberg hatchet man Papandreou has successfully bankrupted the country, the IMF and EU prepare to acquire it on an installment plan.

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The Associated Press
April 30, 2010

ATHENS, GREECE–New austerity measures must be taken for the survival of debt-ridden Greece, Prime Minister George Papandreou said Friday, as negotiations on the details of a rescue plan with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union entered the final stretch.

The talks over what extra steps Athens must take as part of the rescue, which will provide €45 billion in loans this year and up to a reported €120 billion over several years, are expected to be completed over the weekend, possibly by Sunday.

Once an agreement on further cuts is in place, Germany – which would be the largest EU contributor to the aid package and has insisted on strict conditions for releasing the money – is expected to quickly push the issue through parliament so funds can be approved before Greece faces a May 19 debt payment date.

“The measures we must take, which are economic measures, are necessary for the protection of our country. For our survival, for our future, So we can stand firmly on our feet,” Papandreou said in Parliament.

“It is a patriotic duty to undertake this, with whatever political cost, which is tiny faced with the national cost of inaction … and indecision,” he said.

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Nicola Berkovic, The Australian
April 29, 2010

Kevin Rudd has put another election promise on the backburner with his controversial internet filtering legislation set to be shelved until after the next election.

A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday the legislation would not be introduced next month’s or the June sittings of parliament.

With parliament not sitting again until the last week of August, the laws are unlikely to be passed before the election.

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“…to the extent we now have a truly globalized economy, we need some semblance of global governance,” said Harper. “That’s what the G20 is so if the G20 doesn’t work, something else will have to fill that gap. We’re not talking about world government. No one is prepared to surrender their sovereignty to the G20 or some other body but what they are going to see in practice is that we are going to need to co-ordinate our policies to create stability for all of us.” But this is just doublespeak. Obviously economic policy is one aspect of government, Harper – so if that’s uploaded to a trans-national body, then you’ve created one of the necessary modules of a global government. This is how the EU started as well, with planning stretching back to Bilderberg meetings in the 1950s. It was initially represented as an economic community, and now it has a full blown regional government. In short, Harper has demonstrated that he isn’t to be trusted to be fully forthcoming with Canadians. Why should we take him at his word on this when he’s simply added his voice to the chorus calling for global ‘governance’? Flaherty has been calling for IMF surveillance of national economies since 2008, and the globalist economic clique has been calling for a ‘new world order’ and the centralization of banking power from before the derivatives crash even happened, so you can see there’s a bigger agenda at work here, and you’re getting played.

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David Akin, CanWest News
April 29, 2010

GATINEAU, Que. – Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday he will push the world’s leading industrialized nations to follow through on commitments to global financial reform and a return to balanced budgets but rejected calls, increasingly coming from Europe, to establish a tax on the world’s largest financial institutions.

He also said he holds out little hope that nearly decade-old negotiations to reduce global trade barriers through the World Trade Organization – the so-called Doha round of trade talks – would make any progress this year.

Canada is chair of the G8 this year and is co-chair of the G20 and, as a result, will play an influential role in setting the agenda for discussions of world leaders when they gather in southern Ontario this summer.

“June’s discussion must be less about striking new agreements than establishing accountability for existing ones,” Harper said at an international conference here hosted by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

Expanding on ideas he’s talked about at other international gatherings, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year, Harper said G20 nations must provide a clear road map to a return to balanced budgets, the elimination of restrictive foreign trade practices and some new forms [of] financial regulation.

“Understandably, there have been calls for rigourous, even punitive measures to be taken against those responsible,” Harper said. “You’ll know one refrain is a global bank tax. You will also know that Canada is not part of that chorus. Just as you can’t tax an economy into prosperity, you can’t tax the financial sector into stability.”

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Surprise! Happy May Day!

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CBC News
April 29, 2010

Okay… this journal simply couldn’t resist reposting this article. Consider the source – The University of East Anglia, home of the Climate Research Unit providing the cooked data that the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change). Now, this comes out of an entirely different department at the University, but it should at least be illustrative of the mentality of some of the folks working in the insular garrets of the ivory tower. For the record, animal rights are bunk – those who can’t even define rights (a human political construct, moral principles defining and sanctioning man’s freedom of action in a social context) certainly can’t go around declaring new rights on the basis of emotional reactions to situations. (Spain, for example, has granted legal rights to apes.) Now, there are some moral issues around things like the senseless slaughter of animals, but that’s more a question of your internal psychology and a lack of respect for life than any purported rights animals possess. Articles like this serve only to confuse the issues around surveillance which we need a firm grasp of if we’re ever going to be able to effectively push back on a cultural level.

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Ian Sample, The Guardian
April 29, 2010

Wildlife documentary makers are infringing animals’ rights to privacy by filming their most private and intimate moments, according to a new study.

Footage of animals giving birth in their burrows or mating crosses an ethical line that film-makers should respect, according to Brett Mills, a lecturer in film studies at the University of East Anglia.

Mills compiled a report on animals’ rights to privacy after reviewing scenes from the BBC’s 2009 wildlife series “Nature’s Great Events”. Among the offending footage was film of a narwhal whale that appeared to have retreated from view beneath the Arctic ice sheet.

“Instead of thinking we’ll leave it alone, film-makers decide the only solution is to develop new technology so they can film it,” Mills said.

“We have an assumption that humans have some right to privacy, so why do we not assume that for other species, particularly when they are engaging in behaviour that suggests they don’t want to be seen?”

In 2008 the BBC was inundated with complaints after Springwatch presenter Bill Oddie described an encounter between two beetles: “He crash-lands on top of a likely looking lady. There’s a bit of luck! One thing’s for sure: this boy is horny!”

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The Windsor bridge and Windsor-Essex Parkway are important links in the NASCO or North American Supercorridor Coalition plan — a network of inland ports and mass transportation routes designed to promote economic integration of the continent under the SPP and associated treaties. View an overlay on the revamped NASCO website which reveals the extent of the linkages planned. It’s not, of course, that the bridge is bad – but that Canadians deserve to know the full story of why it’s being built, and the implications for Canadian sovereignty. See the links at the bottom of this article for the big picture.

Update (2010/06/17):  An underground rail tunnel has just been proposed as a part of the continental link.

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CBC News
April 29, 2010

Canada has offered to contribute up to $550 million US to help the cash-strapped state of Michigan pay for a new bridge crossing the Detroit River between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit.

Federal Transport Minister John Baird made the offer in a letter Thursday to Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

Baird said Canada cannot afford any further delay in construction of the Detroit River International Crossing.

The cash from Canada will help cover the costs for Michigan to get started with the project on its side of the border, including an interchange with Interstate 75, the toll plaza and buying up land needed to build the U.S. Customs plaza.

“This is the most, not one of the most, this is the most important infrastructure project across Canada today and is one of the most important in our history,” Baird said.

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This is an historical tragedy – but it doesn’t seem right or just to collectively punish the descendants of your oppressors by demanding this sort of coercive wealth redistribution in a massive payout package. It’s equivalent (in terms of the principle of justice) to kicking families off land that they’ve lived on their whole lives because your ancestors used to live there. Surely there’s a statute of limitations on these things. Well, not even that. It’s more like: the individuals involved aren’t around anymore to bring this case forward. There are no such thing as ‘collective rights’, so such a settlement would be an injustice to individual taxpayers. However, the question of secession is an interesting one since it deals with hunting on crown lands (which, presumably, are unoccupied) and relationships between corporate entities, eg; the crown and the various tribes. It seems eminently reasonable to recognize the right of the Metis to hunt, to live in the nationl park. The government never had a right to restrict access in the first place as though it were the King banning poaching in the Royal Forest. Compare the case of these Newfoundlanders slapped with fees to visit their traditional lands.

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CBC News
April 29, 2010

Provincial, federal governments named in $13B claim

A New Brunswick-based aboriginal group and three men are suing the New Brunswick and federal governments for $13 billion in damages for alleged “genocide” and loss of native lands over the past 400 years.

They are also seeking a declaration that the two levels of government have no jurisdiction over aboriginal and Métis people in the province.

The lawsuit also demands the province stop all hunting, fishing and forestry prosecutions against aboriginal and Métis people until the case is heard.

The notice of action, filed in Moncton’s Court of Queen’s Bench, cites colonial actions dating back to 1610, saying they amount to genocide against native people.

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