posted on Nov, 13 2008 @ 06:28 AM
"The bankruptcy of Iceland, now receiving a $2.1 billion two-year loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “to support an economic recovery
program,” has been depicted as something that could never happen to America. Is the U.S. too big to fail? Or is the U.S. going through the same
process, albeit on a slower basis?
Will we wake up to discover that America is now a bit player in a “New World Order” dominated by China, rich Arab nations, and international
institutions?
The politicians from both major U.S. political parties are attempting, with the help of the media, to mask what is happening by passing what they call
a financial “rescue” and economic “stimulus” packages. The word “stimulus” is sort of like “rescue.” This is actually a process of
piling up more debt and spending on top of more debt and spending. This puts us more at the mercy of those who decide to lend us money.
On November 15, the crisis goes global, as the Bush White House hosts an “international summit” designed, in the words of some of those
participating, to create new “international financial architecture.” This means increasing the power and financial resources of international
agencies like the IMF, possibly by implementing global taxes on the U.S. and other nations.
Anticipating the event, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the current turmoil in the world economy offers a chance to build a “new global
order” based on cooperation and opportunity. Brown summarized his approach as “internationalist, interventionist and progressive,” says a
release from his office.
And all of this is happening under a “conservative” U.S. President by the name of George W. Bush.
Many of those attending the Washington, D.C. event will be associated with the Socialist International, which issued a statement calling for the new
international financial architecture to include a World Financial Organization. A World Tax Organization can be expected to follow. It has been on the
U.N. drawing board for years.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
The first meeting of the Socialist International Commission on Global Financial Issues was held in Vienna, Austria, on November 3, and suggested
“tackling the issue of insufficient financial resources in multilateral institutions and regional development banks by seeking new sources of
funding and lending facilities, as well as more fundamental reforms in the global economic governance.” This is bureaucratic doublespeak for finding
new foreign aid money, possibly through a global tax, and cutting the U.S. down to size economically.
One of the key members of this Socialist International commission is Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz, a “revolutionary” economist
who was named by Miguel D’Escoto, the new Marxist President of the U.N. General Assembly, to run a U.N. task force on international financial
matters. Stiglitz, a key player in the emerging “New Global Order,” wrote a Sunday Washington Post article urging more foreign aid spending, a new
global warming treaty reducing U.S. use of energy, and an expensive carbon tax on Americans.
On October 13, Stiglitz was among a group of economists meeting with Democratic politicians on Capitol Hill to devise their new economic
“stimulus” plan. Obama says he wants this “stimulus” as soon as possible.
In a release from the World Economic Forum, Suzanne Nora Johnson, Senior Director of Goldman Sachs, USA, and a Trustee of the Carnegie Institution of
Washington, declared that the Washington summit “gives us great opportunities to find solutions and new ways of looking at the world.” Johnson
says that, while there has been “protectionist reaction” in the U.S. to sovereign wealth fund investments, as a result of the liquidity crisis
there would now be greater openness to such deals. Sovereign Wealth Funds are government financial entities based in China and several Arab/Muslim
states.