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US laissez-faire to battle European 'social market' at G20
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14.11.2008 @ 17:31 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Ahead of the G20 meeting of the world's leading industrialised and emerging economies this weekend, the president of the United States and the president of the European Commission have laid down their markers for what should be the solutions to save the global economy.
On Thursday, US President George W. Bush made an impassioned plea for laissez-faire capitalism and warned against turning away from free markets, while commission President Jose Manuel Barroso extolled the virtues of public intervention and the European welfare state model built at the end of World War Two.

The European 'social market' model has been celebrated by President Barroso (Photo: wikipedia)
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"In the wake of the financial crisis, voices from the left and right are equating the free enterprise system with greed and exploitation and failure," said the US leader in a speech on Friday (14 November) at the Federal Hall National Memorial.
He conceded that there had been failures, but the blame for these should be pinned on borrowers, financial firms and regulators, not capitalism.
"But the crisis was not a failure of the free market system," he said.
"And the answer is not to try to reinvent that system. It is to fix the problems we face, make the reforms we need, and move forward with the free market principles that have delivered prosperity and hope to people all across the globe."
Mr Barroso, himself a conservative, said that the US has had to catch up with the European lead on all major global issues and now the US is behind on what is necessary to fix the world economy.
"When our American friends now are ready to embrace a real commitment to fight climate change, this is exactly what we are been saying and promoting for some time. When our American partners are saying they want to engage more in a multilateral world, this is exactly what the EU has been saying and promoting for some time. When our American partners now are saying they should put some rules in a financially unpredictable, sometimes unregulated market, this is exactly what the EU has been supporting for some time," he told a European Network of Foundations conference on democracy promotion in Brussels today.
"When our American friends now are saying that they should find some ways of promoting some public tools, some public systems, in terms of social security, public education, this is exactly what we Europeans have been doing at least since the end of the Second World War, with the development of our social market economy," he said.
Global governance
European political parties, businesses, and NGOs too have all laid out what they hope to see agreed to.
The national chambers of commerce from each of the G20 countries issued a joint declaration calling on world leaders to agree to strengthened national and international supervisory structures and improve the quality of regulatory standards, but warned governments against raising tariffs and protectionism.
"The World Trade Organisation should be taken as a positive example of global governance," the 20 chambers said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Socialist grouping in the European Parliament on Thursday issued a five-point plan from Manchester where their MEPs had been having a strategising pow-wow, for a rebuilding of the world financial system and how to boost the economy.
Their "Manchester Declaration", is a largely Keynesian document, calling for a European green investment package to put money in people's pockets and make the shift to a low-carbon economy, targetting in particular vulnerable households and small businesses.
The left-of-centre MEPs call for much greater levels of intergovernmental co-ordination and public spending.
"The European Union has a key role to play in raising and channelling funds. There should be no taboo," said French Socialist MEP Pervenche Berès, chair of the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee. "The member states should discuss the possibility of the EU issuing Eurobonds to invest in European projects."
Priming the global pump
UK premier Gordon Brown, who is likely to play a prominent role in the G20 discusions, having been the architect of the bail-out packages adopted in part or in whole by other EU capitals that saved their banks from a complete credit crunch.
However, despite his also being a member of the Socialist political family, he is expected at the summit to emphasise the need for co-ordinated global tax cuts to prime the global economic pump, although he also supports government spending increases.
"We need to agree on the importance of co-ordination of monetary and fiscal policy," he said before heading to Washington.
"There is a need for urgency. By acting now, we can stimulate growth in all our economies. The cost of inaction will be far greater than the cost of any action."
The Labour prime minister has also repeatedly warned against new "over-regulation" in response to the crisis. Nevertheless, Mr Brown is also pushing for international oversight of the world's top 30 banks by a college of supervisors.
In a curious twist of fate, French President Sarkozy, who, being of the conservative UMP party, has been perhaps the most dirigiste of EU leaders in the solutions he has embraced both at the European level and what he hopes to see the G20 endorse.
Mr Sarkozy, who currently chairs the EU's six-month rotating presidency, will argue for the development of cross-border regulation of financial institution lending practices and investment decisions.
On Thursday he also used the opportunity of the lead-up to the summit to deliver an obituary for the US dollar as a world currency.
"I am leaving tomorrow for Washington to explain that the dollar - which after the Second World War under Bretton Woods was the only currency in the world - can no longer claim to be the only currency in the world. What was true in 1945 cannot be true today," he said.
While Germany put up one of the main blocks to French plans for the development of a common European stimulus package at a summit of EU leaders last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel supports Mr Sarkozy's wish to see regulation of hedge funds and an end to excessive remuneration for bank executives.
However, despite their differences, the EU leaders head to Washington united on a plan of action they are to take to the meeting that would see greater transparency of financial transactions through revised accounting standards, the construction of an early warning system to tackle risks and a central role for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "in a more efficient financial architecture."
Many aspects of the European plan are likely to meet resistance from President Bush, who remains unconvinced that deregulation of financial markets had any role to play in the crash.
Thus while Brussels is impatient that action be taken urgently to deal with the crisis, in many ways does not expect much from this first summit, and the French EU presidency has called for a second G20 summit to be held next February in order to involve the Democractic president-elect, Barack Obama, who will only send former Clinton Administration secretary of state Madeleine Albright and and former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach to the Washington meeting.
G20 undemocratic, say NGOs
Development NGOs nevertheless believe that the transatlantic differences are largely superficial, as all G20 leaders, from centre-left to centre-right, have long been convinced of the need for ever greater market liberalisation, if not all to the same degree.
A coalition of 630 civil society organisations has criticised the meeting as undemocratic as 170 countries have not been invited even though the decisions reached by the G20 affect everyone. The groups are demanding that future global summits involved all goverments and that the United Nations be the convener, not the United States. They also want to see the engagement of citizens' groups and social movements and full transparency during all discussions.
They are particularly worried about giving the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund new powers.
"The policies of northern governments, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund pursued for the past thirty years have failed spectacularly," said Vitalis Meja with Afrodad.
"And now, the response is to bring 20 governments to DC for a new ‘Washington Consensus'."
Friends of the Earth and the Jubilee Debt campaign criticised the positions of all the leaders heading into the summit.
"While those that created the crisis have been bailed out (bonus intact) with unprecedented sums of taxpayer money, the poor in developed and developing nations have received nothing," they said in a statement.
"Let's call time on global greed," they continued. "The same systems that create poverty here – unfair trade rules and tax systems, debt burdens, privatisation and attacks on welfare spending – also create poverty in the developing world."

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BYE BYE MISS AMERICAN PIE

WHEN I WAS IN EUROPE THIS SUMMER,IN BERLIN, WALKING ABOUT THE CITY, I NOTICED A LOT OF OBAMA POSTERS. I WONDERED WHY OBAMA WOULD BE CONCERNED WITH CAMPAINING IN GERMANY? WELL A MONTH LATER, I WATCHED HIS ADDRESS TO THE GERMAN CROWD ON CNN, IN THE GUEST HOUSE WERE I WAS, IN HUNGARY. IT BROUGHT TO REMEMBRANCE OLD FOOTAGE OF HITLER ADDRESSING THE GERMAN PEOPLE. WHAT A STRONG ANOINTING OF THIS WORLD, THIS MAN OBAMA HAS TO CONNECT WITH THE PEOPLES OF THIS WORLD. EVERY WERE I WENT AFTER THAT, THE GERMAN TOURISTS WOULD GLEEFULLY ASK ME WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT OBAMA? THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY QUITE IMPRESSED WITH THE MAN. I GENERALLY WOULD REPLY THAT IT CONCERNED ME THAT SOMEONE WHO COULD ROUSE SUCH PASSION IN PEOPLE, COULD BE A DANGEROUS MAN. IT DID NOT SEEM TO EFFECT THEIR OBVIOUS DELIGHT IN OBAMA. THESE PEOPLE WHO HAD AN EXPERIENCE WITH A VERY CHARISMATIC, AND WELL LOVED LEADER IN THEIR OWN, NOT TOO DISTANT PAST. SEEMS WE HUMANS ARE EASILY LEAD, AND SLOW TO LEARN. HOW INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE THE MEDIA IS IN PERSUADING PEOPLE TO THINK , AND ACT ALONG CERTAIN LINES. SEEMS THE SHADOW OF THE TOWER OF BABYLON IS PASSING OVER THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY ONCE AGAIN. ITS BRINGING WITH IT THE SPIRIT OF UNITY, THAT THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD LOVES TO USE, TO BLIND THE MASSES FROM THE TRUE LIGHT OF THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOR EVER. THIS ALL COMES ABOUT IN A MATRIX OF FEAR, AND CONFUSION, THAT CAUSES THE MASSES TO SEEK MANS SOLUTION TO CRISIS SITUATIONS. RATHER THAN TURNING TO THE ONE TRUE DELIVERER IN REPENTANCE. ALL THE SINS OF MAN HAS BROUGHT US TO THIS POINT IN THE FIRST PLACE. EVERY TIME A COMMANDMENT, IS BROKEN. EVERY TIME A LINE HAS BEEN CROSSED IN RIGHT LIVING, A BREACH IS MADE , AND A FOOTHOLD IS OPENED TO DARK FORCES. NOW IN A WORLD DEVASTATED BY ABORTION, LUST FOR MONEY, AND PLEASURE ETC. A WORLD THAT HAS TURNED TO OTHER GODS. WE ARE AT THE THRESHOLD OF THIS PASSING AGE. WERE WILL YOU STAND ON THE DAY OF RECKONING? I, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, AND BY HIS MIGHT, WILL HOPE TO MAINTAIN MY TESTIMONY OF, YAHUSHUA. SHALOM

MENE MENE TEKEL PARSIN

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

UP ZION! ESCAPE,YOU WHO DWELL WITH THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON

YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES,KNOW YE NOT THAT THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD IS ENMITY WITH GOD? WHOSOEVER THEREFORE WILL BE A FRIEND OF THE WORLD IS THE ENEMY OF GOD. JAMES 4:4 GREETINGS BROTHERS, AND SISTERS IN CHRIST. IT APPEARS THAT WE ARE GETTING CLOSER TO THE DAY WHEN WE WILL FIND OURSELVES IN GREAT TRIBULATION. BANKS FOLDING. CULT ACTIVITY INCRESSING, ALONG WITH CULT SCANDALS. (ALL THE MORE REASON FOR THE WORLD TO HATE ANYONE, PROFESSING FAITH). THE HOLLYWOOD MEDIA BECOMING INCREASINGLY PERVERTED,AS IF THAT WERE POSSIBLE!!!!!!!! MORE, AND MORE SABER RATTLING BETWEEN POWERS. APOSTATE CHURCHES ACTING MORE LIKE ENTERTAINMENT CENTERS THAN SHEEPFOLDS. I REMEMBER WHEN PASTORS USED TO VISIT THE SHEEP!!!! WOW, IMAGINE THAT!!! NO TIME FOR THAT NOW, WITH HAVING TO PREPARE THIS WEEKS ENTERTAINMENT. IM GUILTY IN MANY WAYS OF SMELLING LIKE THE "WORLD". WE, I , HAVE TO SEEK TO SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM THE WORLD!!!! IT IS DYING, FAST! ITS WAY, WAY PAST TIME TO THROW THE TELEVISION IN THE DUMPSTER. WAY PAST TIME TO CUT UP THE CREDIT CARDS. WAY PAST TIME TO STOP GIVING MONEY TO DEAD WORKS. WAY PAST TIME TO SPEAK HEART TO HEART WITH OUR CHILDREN. DO OUR GRADE SCHOOLERS NEED CELL PHONES??? TEXT MESSAGING???? I KNOW A TEXT WITH A MESSAGE!!!! NO MONTHLY FEE!!!! JUST A LITTLE TIME. EVIL IS INSIDIOUS. A PREDATOR DOES NOT JUST CRASH THROUGH BRUSH TO JUMP ITS PREY. IT QUIETLY GETS AS CLOSE AS IT CAN, BEFORE THE FINAL LUNGE, OR SHORT CHASE TO MAKE THE KILL. FOLKS, THE ENEMY IS WITHIN THE CAMP. WITHIN OUR HOMES. WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT. WITHIN THE MAJORITY OF THE SOULS OF THIS WORLDS PEOPLE. ITS PAST TIME TO PREPARE OURSELVES FOR WHAT COULD BEFALL US SOON. SEEK THE COUNSEL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AS TO HOW TO BE READY. NOTHING IN THIS DYING WORLD IS WORTH LOOSING OUR SOULS FOR. IN YAHUSHUA MARK

Digital Remastering

JUDE 17-19 BUT, BELOVED, REMEMBER YE THE WORDS WHICH WERE SPOKEN BEFORE OF THE APOSTLES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST; 18 HOW THAT THEY TOLD YOU THERE SHOULD BE MOCKERS IN THE LAST TIME, WHO SHOULD WALK AFTER THEIR OWN UNGODLY LUSTS. 19 THESE BE THEY WHO SEPARATE THEMSELVES,SENSUAL,HAVING NOT THE SPIRIT.
TODAY WE SEE THE PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD MESMERIZED BY THE MASTER MASONS,AND THEIR ARTFUL CRAFT, IN BUILDING THE TOWER, WHICH SEEKS TO REACH INTO HEAVEN. ENTRANCED BY THE ALL PERVASIVE MEDIA INTO COMPLIANT, DESENSITIZED, DENIZENS OF THIS NEW DIGITAL REMASTERED DOMAIN. ILLUSION REPLACING REALITY. GOOD CALLED EVIL, AND EVIL GOOD. FOLLOWERS OF HUMAN POTENTIAL,(DESPITE THE HISTORIC RECORD),AND SEEKING TO ELIMINATE THE GOD OF THE BIBLE FROM THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS. THE COMMUNITARIANS, HARMONICALLY CONVERGING, TO BRING THEIR DARK LIGHT ANOINTING, TO AN EVER INCREASINGLY BLINDED, AND REMASTERED POPULACE. REGARDLESS, OUR ABBA LAUGHS AT SUCH FOLLY,HAVING THE ILLUMINISTS IN DERISION.THE TOWER BEING SHORT LIVED, AS WAS THE FIRST. THE ROD OF IRON SONE TO SHATTER THE NATIONS. TO BE REFASHIONED BY THE ONLY TRULY WISE MASTER BUILDER, INTO THAT WHICH PLEASES, AND BRINGS HIM THE GLORY, AND PRAISE, FOREVER. TRUE DIVERSITY RESTORED, OF ORDAINED NATIONS, WERE WE BUILD HOUSES, AND DWELL IN THEM IN PEACE. WERE WE PLANT, AND THE GROUND REJOICES IN BRINGING FORTH FOOD WITHOUT GENETIC MODIFICATION. THE MONEY CHANGERS,ENSLAVERS, BEING CAST OUT. TRULY WE SEE PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED RAPIDLY. YAHUSHUAS RETURN BEING VERY CLOSE. LETS TRIM THE WICKS OF OUR HEART LIKE THE WISE VIRGINS, AND MAINTAIN OUR TESTIMONY FOR OUR SAVIOR, AND SOON COMING KING. EVEN UNTO DEATH IF NEED BE. WORSHIPING THE CREATOR OF ALL THAT IS, AND NOT THE PARTAKING OF THE HOPLESS BEAST SYSTEM, WITH ITS DAMNABLE MARK!!! LOOKING FOR OUR ONLY HOPE, OUR KING, AND DELIVERER, YAHUSHUA MESSIAH. RETURN QUICKLY YAHUSHUA!!! SHALOM

IN THE SHADOW OF THE TOWER

I was sitting outside last week contemplating the age we live in, and the things iv been reading regarding the end times. When into my mind popped the words digital remastering!!!! Contemplating on those words, I thought about how it took us from the Word, and desensitized the world ,to were we have become "digitally desensitized denizens"of a dark domain. We being constantly bombarded by sound bytes, radio frequencies, television mesmerizing, media hypnotizing, techno witchcraft entrancing,brain washing, satellite watching,and the digitalized ID, and e-money. We have become lemmings for the NWO folks. the universe is a harmonic place!!! Yahweh spoke it into what is. satan is about the digital realm, remastering, mesmerizing, confusion, disharmony, rigid control, illusion, and death. May Yahushua deliver us from the cold insensitive age we live in, and deliver us from the the things which are coming upon the earth!!!! Lets all watch, and be ready like the 5 wise virgins. Hes coming soon!!!!! SHALOM