Ron Paul, at the link below, believes in a socialist plan that may this weekend start to build "one central bank for the world". He notes "the end of a monetary system that started in 1971".

http://www.foxbusiness.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&referralObject=3147244

This is exactly what Metyu the Conspiracist* has been expecting for a long time, so it's nice to hear someone that knows more than I do about the banking system coming up with similar ideas.

I often get into a similar debate with environmentalists. The climate "problem" is global, and so requires a global solution (they say). It requires the introduction of a variety of new systems to tax, subsidise, credit and otherwise build a new economic system based around Carbon (they say).

Even when responsibility for this new system was given to the current World Bank**, no alarm bells started ringing. You even mention that the WWF is a main proponent of carbon footprinting, and has links to Exxon (the hated petrochemical company) through it's directors, and you get shouted down and called a conspiracist. No-one wants to hear about what they don't intrinsically know.

But I have spent a long time studying global governance. Most of the texts go back to the eighties, as governance concepts were becoming accepted and we had examples such as the experience of the International Whaling Commission to observe***. Since all academia is merely descriptive rather than providing predictive analysis, I am comfortable saying that the presently emerging systems have been planned for many years. Probably since the last major change in 1971. Fear is the single most effective tool to get people behind new ideas. "Without a new economic system based around Carbon, the whole planet is in danger". Sound familiar?

The East Asian Crisis in 97/98 left millions dead, and allowed the world's rich to buy up all the assets whose value had gone down by significant amounts. Some academics claim that the ~$80 billion the IMF bailed the region out with at the time made the West a figure many times greater than that.

It is no coincidence that a former colonial family member was made chair of the IPCC just after 911. And whether this current financial crisis is a result of design or accident, there is a significant body of vultures waiting to work its magic on the outcome.

Conspiracist nonsense? Possibly. But we're scared about our energy, we're scared about our food and we're scared about our money. So we should be aware that there is more going on than the papers portray: we are entering very dangerous times.

Notes and further reading:

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

http://www.fpcn-global.org/content/More_Scandals_about_programs_WWF

http://www.globalissues.org/article/3/structural-adjustment-a-major-cause-of-poverty

* Conspriacy defined as "In a political sense, conspiracy refers to a group of persons united in the goal of usurping or overthrowing an established political power. Typically, the final goal is to gain power through a revolutionary coup d'état or through assassination."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy (political)

** The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - one of the two Bretton Woods institutions, the other being the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Gordon Brown, so far incredibly quiet during his period as PM, was a chairman of the IMF. Neither organisation today reflects the intentions of the founders; both are tools of Washington and Whitehall.

*** I find it interesting that the UN World Commission on Environment and Development released it's report "Our Common Future" in 1987, and provided the accepted definition of sustainable development and a blueprint for what was to become Agenda 21 and the Millennium Development Goals. The IPCC was formed one year later in 1988. Thus you have two organisations with almost identical objectives - i.e. sustainability - but two very different approaches to achieving it. It was not long after that the Cold War ended and the current era of politics began. "The End of History? The beginning of nonsense" said one Margaret Thatcher.