FT.com | Monday, June 11, 2007
Neil Buckley and Catherine Belton

Russian president Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for a radical overhaul of the world’s financial and trade institutions to reflect the growing economic power of emerging market countries “ including Russia”.

Mr Putin said the world needed to create a new international financial architecture to replace an existing model that had become archaic, undemocratic and unwieldy.

His apparent challenge to western dominance of the world economic order came at a forum in St Petersburg designed to showcase the country’s economic recovery. Among 6,000 delegates at the biggest business forum ever held in post-Soviet Russia were scores of international chief executives including heads of Deutsche Bank, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Nestl, Chevron, Siemens and Coca-Cola.

Business deals worth more than $4bn were signed at the conference “ including an order by Aeroflot for Boeing jets – as executives said they were continuing to invest in Russia despite deteriorating relations with the west.

Mr Putin’s hosting of the forum capped a week in which he dominated the international stage. He warned last Monday that Russia might target nuclear missiles at Europe if the US built a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, then offered a compromise at the G8 summit involving switching part of the US system to Azerbaijan.

His speech on financial institutions suggested that, along with an aggressive recent campaign against US unilateralism in foreign policy, he was also seeking to challenge western dominance of the world economic order.

Mr Putin said 50 years ago, 60 per cent of world gross domestic product came from the Group of Seven industrial nations. Today, 60 per cent of world GDP came from outside the G7.

The interests of stable economic development would be best served by a new architecture of international economic relations based on trust and mutually beneficial integration, Mr Putin said.

The Russian president said there was increasing evidence that existing organisations were not doing a good job regulating global economic relations.

Institutions created with a focus on a small number of active players sometimes look archaic, undemocratic and unwieldy. They are a far cry from recognising the existing balance of power,” he said.

YouTube | Sunday, June 10, 2007

What Presidential Candidates are part of the CFR? What are they trying to accomplish?

Global Research | Saturday, June 9, 2007
Elaine Hughes

Most folks by now have heard about TILMA — the corporate-friendly Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement between Alberta and British Columbia that came into effect this April Fool’s Day. Its mandate is to “harmonize” regulations and standards between the two provinces, removing so-called barriers to economic development. The Opposition currently is pressuring the Saskatchewan government to sign on, too.

Meanwhile, Agrivision’s plans continue for a Smart Inland Port in Saskatchewan, where trucks and containers will be dispatched, loaded with our raw materials via Vancouver or Prince Rupert to factories in Asia that has plentiful and cheap labour.

They will also move on the NAFTA corridor that connects non-unionized ports in Mexico, through another inland port at Kansas City, to Winnipeg and other crossings, to deliver to Canadian stores finished goods from China and India. A similar scheme, ATLANTICA, is in progress, using ports at Montreal and Halifax.

The next step in the underground process of Canada’s “deep integration” with the United States is another closed-door meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), this time in August near Montreal.

Driven by the North American Competitiveness Council, an unelected group of CEOs from Wal-Mart, Lockheed Martin, Manulife Financial, Chevron and Suncor Energy to name just a few, SPP’s job is to decide the future of Canada and to draft government policy towards the final step in NAFTA — the North American Union.

That’s the ultimate goal for a seamless, borderless free-trade entity that joins Canada, Mexico and the U.S. in a common economic body, so that the aforementioned “stakeholders” continue to accumulate wealth. By using TILMA, they hope to “harmonize” provincial regulations and soften up Canadians before this final move.

Want to save Canada? Tell Premier Calvert to reject TILMA.

Uninformed.co.uk
Tobias Cunningham
Sunday, May 20, 2007

That may as well have been what our next Prime Minister said during his May 15th speech. He has been doing it alot recently in the run-up to him taking over in June. Back in March while I was casually reading through the Metro newspaper in university I saw this little article headline and had to take a picture…

More of the same with this video, putting the term out there, getting you used to it. Yay let’s all embrace the New World Order…green taxes, a microchipped, cashless society…hooray for Gordown Brown! What original ideas he has…I’ve never heard of this before!

…open your eyes to the tyranny that is coming and that which is already here. Globalism cannot be allowed to destroy the very fabric of society that we have all become accustomed to. But if it continues unchallenged this is exactly what will happen.

Stop the New World Order!

CanWest News Service | February 8, 2007
Kelly Patterson

Canadian, U.S. and Mexican politicians discussed using “stealth” to overcome public resistance to the integration of the three countries at a confidential meeting last year, according to documents just released under U.S. Freedom of Information laws.

08/02/07 “Ottawa Citizen” — – Top military brass, corporate executives and diplomats also attended the meeting in Banff, Alta., where participants discussed everything from the harmonization of food and drug standards, to common immigration policies, and the pooling of energy resources.
The secret guest list of the North American Forum included then-U.S. secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld, Canadian Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Rick Hillier, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, Pengrowth Corp. CEO James Kinnear and Lockheed Martin executive Ron Covais.

Presentation outlines for the forum acknowledge that the concept of North American integration - which some call a “North American Union” - is unpopular, and note that it might be tough to sell as a concept.
“While a vision is appealing, working on the infrastructure might yield more benefit and bring more people on board (’evolution by stealth’),” the notes said.

“Evolution by stealth” means using regulatory changes, such as food- and drug-safety benchmarks, which don’t require parliamentary approval, to lay the infrastructure for North American integration. This allows for change with little or no public debate, critics say.

Media were excluded from the September forum, and Day, who gave a speech at the event, declined to reveal the contents of his talk.
“It was meant as a private meeting,” said Melisa Leclerc, a spokeswoman from Day’s office, although she conceded he attended “in his capacity as minister for public security.”

“It is not encouraging to see the phrase ‘evolution by stealth’ in reference to important policy debates such as North American integration,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a Washington-based conservative watchdog group that obtained the documents last week.

But, former finance minister John Manley, who attended the meeting, said the forum was “not part of a nefarious plan to yield sovereignty to the U.S. …. It was just some informed private citizens and government officials having a conversation” on how best to co-operate to ensure their citizens enjoyed a safe and prosperous future.

In fact, he said, Canada comes out stronger than ever from such meetings, which force “some senior American officials to think about Canada for a few days.”

However, Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians said the reference to stealth is “a very telling and important statement.”

Many of the politicians who attended the forum have been pursuing “integration by stealth” for the past two years, she said, pointing to a little-known but top-priority agreement called the Security and Prosperity Partnership.

The accord, kickstarted by U.S. President George W. Bush, then-prime minister Paul Martin and former Mexican president Vicente Fox at a 2005 meeting in Waco, Texas, is designed to streamline everything from food and drug safety standards to counter-terrorism measures.

Government officials from the three countries are expected to meet in Ottawa later this month. However, Foreign Affairs spokespeople said they did not yet know when it would be held or who would attend.

The partnership’s stated goal is to protect North America from security threats such as terrorism and flu pandemics as well as economic threats from new global-market giants such as China.

Many of the accord’s measures are not contentious, such as plans to improve water quality, reduce sulphur in fuels, and co-ordinate efforts to fight pandemics and avian flu. But it also covers a host of hot-button issues such as plans to enhance data-sharing on high-risk travellers, revamp safety and environmental regulations, centralize the assessment of new chemicals and rework food safety standards.

Most of the 300 policy recommendations within the accord may not require legislative changes, the Council of Canadians said.