The Age Kevin Rudd’s proposal to establish an Asia-Pacific community is running into a reality check: most countries say they would prefer to adapt an existing institution than set up a new body.

Steven W. Mosher | The U.S. should not only continue to avoid funding the U.N. Population Fund, it should withdraw entirely from the organization.

Al Jazeera | Gulf Arab states will maintain their 2010 deadline for a single currency, the secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council has said.

Jurriaan Maessen | The cave drawings accompanying Gideon Rachman’s article ‘And now for a world government’ are a clear misconception meant to convey the ‘modern’ as the natural progression of the ‘primitive’, and world government as inevitable.

Telegraph | An English-language “information” pamphlet claimed the EU “is delivering a better life for everyone” and described the single market as “a winning formula.”

Infowars | Obama’s Trade Rep is a NAFTA booster who works for a law and lobbying firm serving corporate interests.

Reuters | President Bush cleared the way for Costa Rica to formally join a regional free trade agreement between the United States and five other Central American countries.

Russia Today | The outgoing American administration wants to strike a number of deals with its allies that will force Barack Obama to follow the same course, according to inside information obtained by RT.

Dissident Voice | Since the end of World War II, the United States has acted through proxies either to defeat leftist insurgencies or to subvert “hostile” governments.

AFP | The United States and Ukraine risked irking Moscow by signing a strategic accord Friday that calls for a US diplomatic post in Crimea.

Carolina 9/11 Truth | Following a recent press conference, SC Governor Mark Sanford was recently questioned about attending the Bilderberg Meeting in June 2008, and what he thought of the media blackout.

Infowars | Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs and 2008 Bilderberg attendee, Maxime Verhagen, gave a speech recently touting the benefits of globalisation, which he says has brought the world ‘closer to home.’

Infowars | Is this meat product produced within the North American Union or is the label merely a typo?

London Telegraph | Wealthy nations must be careful not to cause more suffering to the developing world as they take bolder steps to boost their faltering economies, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said.

Sky News | Ireland is set to hold a second vote on the stalled EU constitutional treaty next year, the EU has said.

Infowars | Globalist monument vandalized with anti-NWO messages.

Bloomberg | President-elect Barack Obama will inherit a relationship with a China whose wealth and influence are essential to rescuing the world economy.

Marc Morano | Global warming is the “worst scientific scandal in the history… When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.”

Press for Truth.ca | Professor Herbert Grubel, author of ‘The Case for the Amero’, talks about the economic benefits of having a common North American currency.

European Jewish Press | The Framework Decision is considered as an important tool for sanctioning on the EU level racist and xenophobic crimes.

We Are Change | Despite being told by his teachers that the ‘New World Order’ is a laughable conspiracy theory, one student activist found that a chapter in his history book was titled ‘America and the New World Order.’

Agence France-Presse | The global financial crisis is distracting attention from other pressing issues such as high food and energy prices, and environmental damage, says Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Venezuelanalysis.com | Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez proposed the creation of a regional monetary bloc with its own currency to break the hegemony of the U.S. dollar and U.S.-dominated international financial institutions.

Fareed Zakaria | Aside from NWO propaganda and absurdly glowing praise for President-Elect Obama, this article shows perhaps the most naked admission yet that the much-hailed “change” will be, in substance, only a greater manifestation of global government.

Press for Truth | Press for Truth Canada questioned former PM Paul Martin on his Bilderberg attendance and the signing of the Security and Prosperity Partnership. He also promised to watch a copy of The Nation’s Deathbed.

Mail Online | It is a scandal that Britain is contributing so much money to the super-state when struggling families are being forced to tighten their belts as recession looms.

Dick Morris & Eileen McGann | The results of the G-20 economic summit amount to nothing less than the seamless integration of the United States into the European economy.

Catherine Austin Fitts | Watch for a new focus on “green investing” as the trick in all of this will be how to create new productivity when the absence of real prices mean there is no market to provide the necessary signals and financial incentives.

| The merits of concepts such as developing “tailored careers”, cultivating a “culture of innovation” and providing “constructive feedback” were popular themes.

Canada Free Press | With all eyes on the Big O’s Office of the President-elect, very few know that the Port of Los Angeles–the nation’s largest–is now effectively under the control of the Peoples Republic of China.

Daniel Taylor | The international bankers seized the U.S. with the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, culminating more power in the 1929 crash. Now, the same interests are in a power grab for the globe.

Wise Up Journal | An Irish Times poll asked a misleading question, hoping to fish-out a majority figure for another vote again on the Lisbon treaty, indicating it could be modified regarding “neutrality, abortion and taxation” also allowing Ireland to keep it’s EU commissioner.

Matthew Rothschild | Did you know that the United States military could go into Canada in times of emergency? And the Canadian military could go into the United States?

YouTube | Throughout the history of mankind, the elite have always fought for world empire.

YouTube | How the globalist monetary system really works.

Reuters | Gold surged on Friday as world leaders gathered to battle the economic crisis, amid talk of a new Bretton Woods agreement to shore up the financial system, but calls to revisit the gold standard are unlikely.

Times Online | Gordon Brown described protectionism as the “road to ruin” as international tensions surfaced at the start of the G20 summit in Washington.

Times Online | Russia and the EU agreed today to pile pressure on President Bush to accept far-reaching changes to the global financial system at the G-20 summit in Washington.

Paul Joseph Watson | Sarkozy calls for end to dollar’s world reserve status as powerbrokers meet to finalize building blocks of new world economic order.

Telegraph | The new global order, those who have not studied history contend, is to be modelled on the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944.

Cliff Kincaid | 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?

Independent | Some G20 nations hope the weekend summit on financial reform will be a modern Bretton Woods, but can it make big decisions without Barack Obama?

CFR | Bretton Woods was a meeting of finance officials, and some central bankers, but mainly finance ministry people. And they had a fairly specific mandate, which was the creation of the International Monetary Fund, and as a sort of afterthought, the creation of the World Bank.

Debkafile | Brzezinski warned that changing the substance of US policies is not as easy as it sounds and Obama may be incapable of bringing “dramatic change” to Washington.

Current.com | Council on Foreign Relations and Bilderberger Richard Haas now echoes Vice President-Elect Joe Biden’s promise of a generated crisis and Colin Powell’s revelation of a crisis that will happen on January 21 or 22.

Telegraph | Prime Minister Gordon Brown will today set out a five-point plan to create a “stronger and more just” world order in the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Kurt Nimmo | The “progressive” John Podesta is on Obama’s transition team along with Lockheed Martin, Genral Dynamics, and Slave-mart.

The National | Baron Rothschild shares most people’s view that there is a new world order. In his opinion, banks will deleverage and there will be a new form of global governance.

CBC | Prime Minister Stephen Harper will meet with bank and insurance executives in Toronto on Thursday to discuss the financial downturn that has rocked economies around the world.

Russia Today | President Dmitry Medvedev is echoing his French and British counterparts in calling for far reaching changes to the world financial system.