European leaders met on Sunday to develop a global economic reform strategy in advance of the G20 summit scheduled for April. The current economic meltdown has given rise to unprecedented government actions worldwide as leaders seize the opportunity to secure even greater control of markets and national economies.

“We're dealing with an extraordinary international crisis the likes of which we have not seen for decades, both as regards financial markets and the global economy,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday, February 22. "We believe that such a crisis can only be solved jointly.”

Merkel’s joint measure would include the establishment of a new institution, “which will take on more responsibility for global [financial] mechanisms.”

Not to be outdone by Merkel’s call for a global economic watchdog, Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a call for a “global New Deal” to lift the world’s economies out of the current economic environment.

“We need a global New Deal, – a grand bargain between the countries and continents of this world so that the world economy can not only recover…but so the banking system can be based on best principles,” chimed Brown.

As if engaged in a game of “I can top that,” French Prime Minister Nicholas Sarkozy upped the ante by calling for a complete overhaul of the system. “We are not talking about superficial measures now or transitional measures – we’re talking about structural measures.”

Just what those measures may be are unknown at this time, but whatever emerges from the next G20 summit is likely to involve an unprecedented global power grab through increased government regulation of markets and economies.

Michael E. Telzrow is Executive Director of the National Railroad Museum and a Contributor to The New American magazine.

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MarkGlen said:

A trap called welfare NAFTA and Beyond, Written 1994 and published in the AJ An article in Foreign Affairs, Jan./Feb., 1994, titled “Time for a Global New Deal” by Jerry Collingsworth, F. William Goold and Pharis F. Harvey said: “In the future, achieving real economic growth in the U.S. will require policies to attain coordinated growth in the global economy.” NAFTA is a beginning. What we need, they think, as the next step into one worldom is a tax/spend/tax world bureaucratic authority. Their reasoning is that the class of workers to be created by NAFTA and also laborers of other Third World countries will not earn enough money to buy all the TV’s, VCR’s, Hula Hoops and Pet Rocks that will be manufactured by Third World countries. Now, this threesome is convinced that global socialism, or “a Global New Deal” is the plan that will achieve “real economic growth in the U.S.” Most people are familiar with this deal, but for the sake of some I will explain: The Global New Deal, like the old New Deal, is like a father who spends the family fortune and dies, leaving the family deeply in debt. In other words “a Global New Deal” will take money from people who have money, borrow more, and give to those who have less, or none, (creating professional welfare recipients) until the whole world is bankrupt. It will give labor unions a free hand to strike for higher wages so Third World workers will be able to buy more TV’s, VCR’s, etc. Envision all this on a global scale.

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GaryRLewis said:

a nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves I've done a good amount of research on this drive towards a NWO and I started to see, as I'm sure you have to, that many of these globalists are actually members of secret societies (Skull and Bones, Freemasonry, Illuminati, etc.) This societies have a pyramidal, hierarchical shaped structure with those at the top being essentially luciferians. It really is a battle between good and evil and I feel that apathy or ignorance is part of the evil which has infested our country. I don't want to use the word sheeple because it may be offensive towards sheep but the zombies of this nation have absolutely no idea what is going on and what's worse is they don't care to know.

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DeLyon Getty said:

	Observer All who love freedom should be wary of Brown.
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Dave B said:

A-Men Gary Lewis The NWO Objective is now in Hyper speed. Aaron Russo was on the money in all his predictions (See Youtube interview) 911 was the crossing of the Rubicon. No turning back now. They must go the full length: New currency, New parlimentary government, scrap the constituion. Eventually have every one chipped with RFID. If you think that's too far out, we already have national ID, and the Passport has an RFID chip in it. It will take Christians and Jews that believe in god to stop this as the Atheist have no backbone to stand up against the evil.

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MarkGlen said:

	"WELFARE" If I were an artist I would draw a picture of a large steel trap and write under it in boldface letters: "WELFARE"
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Robert Waldon said:

	The Abomination of an Obama Nation Socialism / financial collapse is at the doorstep--bigger government is exactly the wrong direction.
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