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Prison Planet | May 21, 2008

By Paul Joseph Watson
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Veteran Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker has confirmed via three separate sources that the Bilderberg Group will meet this year in Chantilly Virginia at the Westfields Marriott hotel from June 5-8. Tucker told The Alex Jones Show that the earlier story claiming Bilderberg had already met in Athens Greece was a possible ruse to misdirect attention from the real scene of the crime.

The Bilderberg Group comprises around 200 top elitists in government, banking, business, media and academia who meet annually in semi-secrecy and shape the destiny of the world yet are subject to little or no mainstream media scrutiny.

As we discovered last week, original reports that Bilderberg had already met in Athens Greece turned out to be incorrect after Dutch newspapers and the Dutch Embassy let slip that Netherlands Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende was set to attend Bilderberg in Chantilly after a meeting with George W. Bush.

The Bilderberg gathering is now set to take place from June 5-8 and as expected, it will be held at the Westfields Marriott hotel, the same venue of the 2002 meeting. Tucker called the Dutch Embassy and was passed over to the Dutch Embassy in the United States, who confirmed that the meeting would be in Chantilly.

“I called the Dutch embassy….they confirmed yes - I asked the question twice I made sure I got it right - yes they will be at Chantilly and of course it will be the Westfields Marriott - Westfields is all booked up,” said Tucker, adding that his source inside Bilderberg also confirmed that the meeting will take place in Chantilly.

“A man who’s an international financial consultant who knows a lot of Bilderberg people personally….he’s helped us locate Bilderberg many times….he has also talked to his Bilderberg buddies who gave us additional confirmation just this morning that Chantilly is the scene of the crime,” Tucker added.

Tucker said he was all set to leave for Athens but decided to stay after he discovered that secretaries who routinely attend Bilderberg were all going to be in Washington. The fact that armed guards were not stationed outside the hotel in Athens also indicated that Bilderberg were not meeting there.

Tucker said it was possible that the Athens story was a ruse to “lead people the wrong way, because they do not like to be exposed.”

Tucker added that he will be checking into the Hilton in Herndon, Va, which is the closest and cheapest hotel to the Westfields Marriott.

“It surprised me because they were here two years ago and their routine has been three years in Europe and one year somewhere in North America - Canada or the United States,” said Tucker, adding that for a while he thought Japan was going to be the venue because the G8 is meeting in Japan for the first time ever this year.

Tucker encouraged activists to turn out and cover the meeting because the American corporate media routinely self-censors and refuses to report on Bilderberg, whereas a smattering of reports do come out when Bilderberg meets in Europe or Canada. Even the Turkish media proved it was more open than the US press last year when several newspaper and TV news stations reported on Bilderberg’s meeting in Istanbul.

According to Bilderberg.org, the Dutch Embassy’s decision to let the cat out of the bag and announce the venue of Bilderberg may, “Indicate that there are people in the Dutch government, maybe even including the Dutch PM himself, who are not happy about the secrecy upon which Rockefeller, Kissinger and the other Bilderberg chiefs insist.”

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Hart hails a “New World of globalization, eroding national sovereignty and a revolutionary changes in warfare.”

Why Is Gary Hart So Fearful Of Discussing His “New World Order”?

Prison Planet | Apr 30, 2008

CFR member contradictory, deceitful about context of term - ex-Senator repeats warning that Neo-Cons looking to stage incident as pretext to attack Iran

by Paul Joseph Watson

Note the black inverted pentagram behind him on the Democratic Leadership poster - PW

Former Senator Gary Hart seems to be having difficulties remembering his last lie because he fouled up again in his latest confrontation with We Are Change by reversing his assertion that he never used the term “new world order,” contradicting his previous falsehood, but still seemed fearful of discussing exactly what the term meant.

In the clip, Luke Rudkowski quotes Hart’s response to 9/11 at a September 12th Council on Foreign Relations in which he called for the disaster to be used to “make lemonade out of lemons” and create a “new world order”.

Hart lies by claiming the term was only used to highlight right-wing hostility to the phrase “new world order” which is completely false as you will see later and he also contradicts his previous response to the question in which he claimed to have never used the phrase “new world order” in his life.

Seemingly wary of the fact that a lot of people know exactly what “new world order” means now (global government, loss of sovereignty and individual liberty), Hart is frightened of admitting to using the phrase and refuses to discuss its meaning.

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An armored personnel carrier was on display at the police equipment trade show in Beijing.

With the slogan “dress to kill” on their black T-shirts, top executives from Magnum of Britain showed off their latest police boots.

NY Times | Apr 26, 2008

At Trade Show, China’s Police Shop for the West’s Latest

By KEITH BRADSHER

BEIJING — For the Chinese police agency boss who thought he had everything, the police equipment trade show here was a chance to scrutinize the latest offerings from manufacturers around the world for secretly copying computer hard drives, suppressing riots or collecting video surveillance of public streets.

China’s crackdown in Tibet after violent protests there has set off strong criticism from human rights groups and confrontations in several countries between police officers and demonstrators during the Olympic torch relay. But here in China, the world’s fastest-growing market for security and crime-control equipment, it is business as usual between Western multinationals and Chinese police agencies.

At the recent China International Exhibition on Police Equipment here, sponsored by the Ministry of Public Security, DuPont had a large exhibit promoting Kevlar bulletproof fabric for riot police use. Motorola was selling police radio systems as well as wireless systems for transmitting vast quantities of video surveillance data.

And with the slogan “dress to kill” on their black T-shirts, top executives from Magnum of Britain showed off their latest police boots. “Chinese police deserve the best — Magnum protects the protectors,” said Paul Brooks, the company’s president, in a speech to police officials.

The most intriguing device offered at the show to senior Chinese security agency officials was the Image Masster RoadMasster, a powerful computer system that swiftly copies computer hard drives without leaving any trace and comes concealed in its own color-coordinated briefcase.

Gonen Ravid, the chief executive of the device’s manufacturer, Intelligent Computer Solutions in Chatsworth, Calif., said that the company sells exactly the same equipment in the same briefcases to the Pentagon for use in Iraq, and to the Central Intelligence Agency and other Western intelligence agencies for use around the world.

No company in China makes similar equipment, he said. “The U.S.,” he said, “is still leading with this.”

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AP | Apr 18, 2008

By DENISE LAVOIE

BOSTON (AP) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in his first foreign policy address in the United States, called Friday on the U.S. and Europe to lead a new era of global “interdependence” aimed at solving international problems such as terrorism, poverty and climate change.

“We urgently need to step out of the mindset of competing interests and instead find our common interests, and we must summon up the best instincts and efforts of humanity in a cooperative effort to build new international rules and institutions for the new global era,” Brown said to about 350 invited guests at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

Brown cited Kennedy’s Independence Day speech in 1962, when the president proposed a “new and global declaration of interdependence.” Brown said Kennedy’s call for public service “still reverberates around the world and always will.”

Noting Kennedy’s creation of the Peace Corps, Brown called for the creation of “a new kind of global peace and reconstruction corps,” which he described as an organization of trained civilian experts available any time to rebuild states.

Brown also talked about U.S. leadership following World War II, including the Marshall Plan, which funneled millions in economic aid and technical assistance to help rebuild Europe.

“We must summon inspiration from the vision, humanity and leadership shown by those reformers to guide our actions today,” he said.

Brown called on the World Bank to focus on reducing poverty and said the institution should become a bank for both development and the environment by transferring billions in loans and grants to encourage the poorest countries to adopt alternative sources of energy.

The British leader, who has set a mandatory target in the U.K. to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent by 2050, insisted that a new global pact on reducing carbon emission must be agreed on by the end of 2009.

He said the deal, which would replace the Kyoto Protocol, should be led by the United Nations and needs to set binding targets for all developed countries.

Brown praised President Bush for leading the world in an attempt to root out terrorism and “our common commitment that there be no safe haven for terrorists.”

Brown said the United States and Europe should act as “hardheaded internationalists,” and use “diplomatic, economic, and yes, when necessary military action — to prevent crimes against humanity when states can no longer do so.”

Privatization of first major US airport attracts foreign interest

It remains unclear whether the effort will generate a backlash if a foreign firm is chosen, in light of security concerns raised after a failed effort by a Dubai group to take over major US ports.

AFP | Apr 2, 2008

by Mira Oberman

CHICAGO (AFP) - Foreign investors are lining up to bid to operate Chicago’s Midway International Airport, the first major US airport to be privatized under a federal initiative launched more than a decade ago.

City officials say six consortiums, which include firms from France, Australia, Germany, Canada and Spain, are vying to run Chicago’s secondary airport.

While many European airports were privatized years ago, all commercial airports in the United States are currently operated and owned by local or state governments.

Midway was the first major hub airport to apply for privatization approval since the US congress established a pilot program in 1996 to explore the use of private operators at commercial airports.

Yet it remains unclear whether the effort will generate a backlash if a foreign firm is chosen, in light of security concerns raised after a failed effort by a Dubai group to take over major US ports.

“This will surely generate debate since there may be perceptions about foreign ownership of sensitive or critical transportation properties like we saw with the Dubai port deal,” said Joe Schweiterman, a transportation professor at DePaul University in Chicago.

The groups which have submitted qualifications statements are:

- Spain’s Abertis Infraestructuras SA, Australia’s Babcock & Brown Group and US-based GE Commercial Aviation Services;

- AirportsAmerica Group, consisting of US-based Carlyle Infrastructure Partners LP;

- Chicago Crossroads Consortium, consisting of Australia’s Macquarie Capital Group Limited and Macquarie Airports and US-based Macquarie Infrastructure Partners and Macquarie Infrastructure Partners II;

- Chicago First Consortium, consisting of Germany’s HOCHTIEF AirPort GmbH and HOCHTIEF AirPort Capital GmbH & Co and US-based GS Global Infrastructure Partners I, LP;

- Midway Investment and Development Corporation, consisting of Canada’s YVR Airport Services Ltd. and US-based Citi Infrastructure Investors and John Hancock Life Insurance Co;

- France’s Aeroports de Paris Management and US-based Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and HMSHost Corporation.

The city said that once the firms are determined to be qualified, “the highest bid amount will be the only factor in determining who will operate the airport.”

“We are very enthused with the strong indications of interest we have received from teams wishing to operate Midway in what would be the first lease of a major US airport,” said Paul Volpe, the city’s chief financial officer.

A decision is expected in the next eight to 12 months.

The deal must be approved by federal regulators and 65 percent of the six airlines operating at the airport.

The private operator must also meet safety and security standards and the Transportation Security Administration will continue to oversee screening and airports security.

The 50-year lease is expected to raise between two and three billion dollars for the city.

But while the cash will be a welcome infusion, US municipalities have been wary of giving up control of airports which are often seen as their “crown jewels,” Schweiterman said.

The city will retain control over its primary airport, O’Hare, which handles 76 million passengers a year.

Midway’s five runways handled nearly 304,000 flights and more than 19 million passengers last year

Chicago is leading the nation in the privatization of city services.

It was the first city to lease a major piece of infrastructure in 2005 with a 1.8 billion dollar deal for the right to manage a key toll bridge for 99 years.

In February, the city offered up its 360,000 parking meters for lease after having rented out four of its parking garages to private operators.

It is also considering privatizing garbage collection and is trying to raise money by selling naming rights.

Gordon Brown has begun secret talks with other world leaders on far-reaching reform of the United Nations Security Council as part of a drive to create a “new world order” and “global society”.

Independent | Jan 20, 2008

By Andrew Grice in Delhi

The Prime Minister is drawing up plans to expand the number of permanent members in a move that will provoke fears that the veto enjoyed by Britain could be diluted eventually. The United States, France, Russia and China also have a veto but the number of members could be doubled to include India, Germany, Japan, Brazil and one or two African nations.

Mr Brown has discussed a shake-up of a structure created in 1945 to reflect the world’s new challenges and power bases during his four-day trip to China and India. Last night, British sources revealed “intense discussions” on UN reform were under way and Mr Brown raised it whenever he met another world leader.

The Prime Minister believes the UN is punching below its weight. In 2003, it failed to agree on a fresh resolution giving explicit approval for military action in Iraq. George Bush then acted unilaterally, winning the support of Tony Blair.

UN reform is highly sensitive and Britain will not yet publish formal proposals for fear of uniting opponents against them. Mr Brown is trying to build a consensus for change first.

His aides are adamant that the British veto will not be negotiated away. One option is for the nations who join not to have a veto, at least initially. In a speech in Delhi today, the Prime Minister will say: “I support India’s bid for a permanent place – with others – on an expanded UN Security Council.” However, he is not backing Pakistan’s demand for a seat if India wins one.

Mr Brown will unveil a proposal for the UN to spend £100m a year on setting up a “rapid reaction force” to stop “failed states” sliding back into chaos after a peace deal has been reached. Civilians such as police, administrators, judges and lawyers would work alongside military peace-keepers. “There is limited value in military action to end fighting if law and order does not follow,” he will say. “So we must do more to ensure rapid reconstruction on the ground once conflicts are over – and combine traditional humanitarian aid and peace-keeping with stabilisation, recovery and development.”

He will call for the World Bank to lead the fight against climate change as well as poverty in the developing world, and argue that the International Monetary Fund should prevent crises like the credit crunch rather than just resolve them.

Arriving in Delhi yesterday, Mr Brown said he wanted a “partnership of equals” between Britain and India as he called for closer trade links and co-operation against terrorism. He announced £825m of aid over the next three years – £500m of which will be spent on health and education.

Mr Brown is to bring back honorary knighthoods and other awards for cricketers from Commonwealth countries. He said: “Cricket is one of the great things that bind the Commonwealth together. It used to be that great cricketers from the Commonwealth would be recognised by the British nation I would like to see some of the great players in the modern era honoured.”

Read Andrew Grice atindependent.co.uk/todayinpolitics

Security Council membership

The UN Security Council’s membership has remained virtually unchanged since it first met in 1946.

Great Britain, the United States, the then Soviet Union, China and France were designated permanent members of the UN’s most powerful body.

Initially, six other countries were elected to serve two-year spells on the council – in 1946 they were Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Mexico, the Netherlands and Poland.

The number of elected members, who are chosen to cover all parts of the globe, was increased to 10 in 1965. They are currently Belgium, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Croatia, Indonesia, Italy, Libya, Panama, South Africa and Vietnam.

Decisions made by the council require nine “yes” votes out of 15. Each permanent member has a veto over resolutions.

The issue of UN reform has long been on the agenda. One suggestion is that permanent membership could be expanded to 10 with India, Japan, Germany, Brazil and South Africa taking places. Any reform requires 128 nations, two-thirds, to support it in the assembly.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and U.S. President George W. Bush at the APEC summit

China Daily | Dec 30, 2007

Moscow — Relations between Russia and China have a strong impact on the formation of a just world order, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

“Russian-Chinese relations provide a vivid example of friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation, based on long-term, strategic interests. Russian-Chinese political, economic and humanitarian ties have been developing vigorously, bringing visible benefits to the Russian and Chinese peoples. Strong interaction between our two countries in the world arena is an important factor of building a just world order with due account taken of civilized political-economic diversity,” Putin said in a message of greetings to Chinese President Hu Jintao, according to the Kremlin press service.

“The success of the Year of China in Russia and the Year of Russia in China provides a vivid example of the two countries’ shared wish to further develop mutual understanding and effective cooperation. The agreement you and I have reached to make the most successful events of the national years regular, will undoubtedly help deepen mutual trust and traditional friendship between our peoples,” the Russian president said.

BBC | Dec 21, 2007

Celebrations have been held after midnight to mark nine new states joining a European border-free zone.

The Schengen agreement, which allows passport-free travel across the area, now embraces 24 nations.

Some 2,000 people celebrated with the EU anthem, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, and fireworks in the town of Frankfurt on Oder at Germany’s border with Poland.

The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia joined the zone.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish PM Donald Tusk will mark the event on Friday morning in the town of Zittau, near the point where Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic meet.

Crime wave fears

They will be joined by Czech PM Mirek Topolanek and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

On Thursday a checkpoint between Austria and Slovakia was dismantled in one of several events marking the enlargement from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer sawed through a barrier at the Berg border crossing.

Other ceremonies took place in Hungary, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Poland and the Baltic states.

These Polish officials held their own celebrations as the EU extended the area for passport-free travel to include eight former communist countries in Eastern Europe, plus Malta.

Initially the lifting of internal controls involves just land and sea borders, but that will be extended to airports at the end of March 2008.

Mr Gusenbauer welcomed the extension of the Schengen zone, rejecting fears that it might create a crime wave in Austria.

The European Commission says that one billion euros (£720m) has been spent on beefing up security on the new EU frontiers, including the establishing of missions along the Polish and Slovak borders.

Mr Fico said: “From midnight tonight you can travel 4,000km (2,485 miles) from Tallinn in Estonia to Lisbon in Portugal without any border controls.”

Although the enlargement allows passport-free travel throughout the area, travellers can be asked to carry documents by any of the countries concerned.

These Estonian border guards were on duty as passport checks were being eliminated at land and sea ports. Airports will follow at the end of March 2008.

Vast database

For non-EU nationals, a Schengen visa allows travel across all the participating countries.

Thirteen existing EU states have already been part of the Schengen accord as well as two non-EU countries, Norway and Iceland.

The UK and Ireland are not involved in the zone - which embraces 400m people - but they have signed up to agreements on security.

A significant element of the Schengen agreement is the Schengen Information Service (SIS) which features an enormous database in the French city of Strasbourg.

The SIS database enables police in any Schengen state to find out whether a suspect has been involved in any kind of crime across the EU.

“We are ordering extra searches, and extra security, alongside our attack on organised crime.”

- Liam Byrne, UK immigration minister

BBC | Dec 20, 2007

The head of the European Union’s border watchdog has warned of a possible rise in illegal immigration because of the enlargement of the Schengen area.

Executive director of Frontex, Ilkka Laitinen, was speaking hours before nine EU countries were due to join the passport-free zone.

The scrapping of border controls will affect an estimated 400 million people.

“We are going to lose a very effective instrument to fight illegal immigration,” he said.

As soon as people had entered the Schengen zone legally or illegally, he said, they would be free to move across the entire area.

Free movement

Mr Laitinen said European countries were well aware of the potential problem but it had been “a deliberate choice of the European Union to focus more on the free movement of persons than on security aspects”.

Similar concerns have been expressed elsewhere.

The head of the German police union, Konrad Freiberg, has said the problem of people trafficking will become acute.

And 75% of Austrians questioned for a television poll said they opposed the lifting of barriers.

The UK, which is not part of the Schengen area, has revealed it has stepped up security and intelligence-led operations.

The immigration minister, Liam Byrne, said the measures had been co-ordinated with France.

“We are ordering extra searches, and extra security, alongside our attack on organised crime,” he said.

“I apologise if queues get a little longer but tougher checks take time.”

Fears dismissed

The Austrian Chancellor, Alfred Gusenbauer, rejected fears of increased crime as a result of the scrapping of controls.

He said the accord was not about criminality, insecurity or fear but it was instead “a bigger zone of peace, security and stability”.

The European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, was also upbeat.

“Together we have overcome border controls as man-made obstacles to peace, freedom and unity in Europe,” he said.

 
Atlantic-Pacific route would allow cross-continental goods deliveries

WorldNetDaily.com | Dec 18, 2007

North-of-border link finishes NAFTA superhighway grid

By Jerome R. Corsi

Canada has announced a plan to extend the NAFTA Superhighway network north in a way that would finish a continental grid designed to accommodate an anticipated tsunami of containers from China and the Far East.

The Canadian Intelligent Super Corridor, or CISCOR, is a national transportation route designed to reach from the West Coast ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert to Montreal and Halifax.

As WND has documented, recent articles published in The Nation and Newsweek magazines have attempted to characterize the NAFTA Superhighway as a “conspiracy theory.”

Yet, the CISCOR case study provides strong evidence that the continent’s ports, highways and rail lines are being reconfigured into an inter-modal system emphasizing technological logistics and “inland smart ports” designed to meet the demands of world trade, largely driven by the relocation of North American manufacturing to China.

Inter-modal is a transportation economics reference to containers that can be transported on several different modes of transportation, including container ships, trucks and trains, without having to be unloaded or repacked.

According to the CISCOR website, the Saskatchewan-based CISCOR Inland Port Network of the cities of Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw is designed to serve “as the central logistics and coordination hub, creating a Canadian east-west land bridge connecting three major North American north-south corridors: North America’s SuperCorridor, or NASCO, the Canada-America-Mexico Corridor, or CANAMEX, and the River of Trade Corridor Coalition.”

A multi-color North American continental map on the CISCOR website leaves no doubt the Canadian super corridor is designed to interface with the NAFTA Superhighway, extending down into Mexico.

The CISCOR map strongly models the continental map displayed by NASCO on the trade group’s website in 2005.

The CISCOR website confirms an earlier WND report documenting the Canadian national transportation plan to open Prince Rupert and Vancouver as deep-water ports capable of handling the new class of 12,500 container-capacity post-Panamax ships now being built for China.

The CISCOR strategy falls under the umbrella of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative as defined by Transport Canada, the Canadian counterpart to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

WND previously documented how the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railroads are included in Canada’s Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative, positioned to operate as NAFTA railroads.

Under the CISCOR plan, the Saskatchewan cities are defined as an “inland smart port,” as are Kansas City, San Antonio and Denver in the U.S.

The CISCOR website cites the University of Texas Center for Transportation research to define an inland port as follows: “An Inland Port is a physical site located away from traditional land, air and coastal borders with the vision to facilitate and process international trade through strategic investment in multi-modal transportation assets and by promoting value-added services as goods move through the supply chain.”

The plan to make the Saskatchewan cities an inland port centers on utilizing the West Coast deep-water ports in British Columbia as the input point for millions of containers from China and the Far East.

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