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Entries for March, 2009

Mexico’s Fox touts EU-like integration for the Americas

San Antonio News
March 28, 2009
By Elaine Ayala
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox was in San Antonio Friday, delivering a wide-ranging address about U.S.-Mexico relations that touched on trade, the drug war, comprehensive immigration reform and the United States’ “mammoth” financial crisis that has spread worldwide.
Fox also delivered a message of hope — hope that someday Canada, [...]

G20 “Terrorist Plot” Exposed As Teenagers With Plastic Guns And Fireworks

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Yesterday’s reports of a foiled “terrorist plot” in relation to the G20 protests in London have been scaled back after it was revealed that the house raided by police contained only plastic guns and fireworks.
“The three men, aged 25, 19 and 16, and two women, both 20, all live in Plymouth [...]

‘IMF currency’ can be floated within a year

Reuters
March 28, 2009
UNITED NATIONS: A reserve currency system based on an IMF unit instead of the US dollar, a proposal floated by China, could be phased in within a year, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Thursday.
Stiglitz, a Columbia University economics professor who heads a UN expert panel analyzing the financial crisis and recommending [...]

CFR Unveils Global Governance Agenda

Old-Thinker News | March 31, 2009
By Daniel Taylor
The Council on Foreign Relations, often described as the “real state department”, has launched an initiative to promote and implement a system of effective world governance.
The program, titled “The International Institutions and Global Governance Program,” utilizes the resources of the “…David Rockefeller [...]

Obama Intimately Tied To Carbon Trading Scam

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, March 30, 2009
A combination of interesting mainstream and alternative media reports reveal compelling links between president Obama and a privately owned carbon trading group, which also has direct ties with elitist groups such as the Club of Rome and the Trilateral Commission.
Judi McLeod’s excellent article for Canada Free Press, which she expanded from [...]

Real Journalism Versus “Professional Journalism”

George Washington’s Blog
Monday, March 30, 20099
If Jon Stewart walked out of his studio with his camera crew, went to where establishment figures were speaking, and threw tough questions at them, you’d get something like We Are Change.
The We Are Change reporters have asked the tough questions - a la Stewart (well, minus the comedy) - [...]

Activists Arrested For Asking Bloomberg A Question Plan Countersuit

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, March 30, 2009
We Are Change New York members have described the “inhumane, insane and surreal” experience of being arrested by police for asking Mayor Bloomberg a question and promise that “the full story of this incident is yet to be heard.”
Luke Rudkowski, along with fellow We Are Change members Manny and [...]

Social network sites ‘monitored’

BBC
March 25, 2009
Social networking sites like Facebook could be monitored by the UK government under proposals to make them keep details of users’ contacts.
The Home Office said it was needed to tackle crime gangs and terrorists who might use the sites, but said it would not keep the content of conversations.
It is part of a [...]

Mandatory Service Bill Lives On

Infowars
March 29, 2009
It seemed like a victory, of sorts. Last week the Senate approved a bill to radically expand the AmeriCorps program. The bill initially contained language that proposed a study for mandatory service for all young people in the United States, but this language was removed as the bill moved through the Senate and [...]

Bilderberg to meet in Greece

James P. Tucker, Jr.
The American Free Press
March 28, 2009
Bilderberg will return to its 1993 crime scene when it attempts to meet secretly in Vouliagmeni, Greece, May 14-17. Bilderberg will return to the grounds of Nafsika Astir Palace hotels in Vouliagmeni, 20 miles outside Athens, and meet behind guards at the Westin Nafsika.
High on the Bilderberg [...]