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| British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees 'new world order' after economic crisis |
| 2009-01-26 |
| BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown says that the current financial crisis should be viewed as an opportunity to create a "new global order", ahead of a week of meetings with world leaders. Speaking in London, Mr Brown - due to meet the leaders of Japan, South Korea and China in the next seven days - renewed a warning against protectionism, urging countries to instead help set "new rules for this new global order". Mr Brown, who will also meet the president of the World Bank, cautioned that if a consensus was not built supporting globalisation, "all our prosperities" would be imperiled. He has previously argued for stronger international co-operation better to regulate financial institutions, and said on Monday that he wanted to work towards better cross-border regulation at a summit of the Group of 20 industrialised and developing countries in London in April. His speech came just days after official data confirmed Britain was in its first recession - defined as two quarters running of negative economic growth - since 1991. "We face a choice. We could allow this crisis to start a retreat from globalisation," Mr Brown said in his speech. "As some want, we could close our markets - for capital, financial services, trade and for labour - and reduce the risks of globalisation, but that would reduce global growth, deny us the benefits of global trade, and confine millions to global poverty. "Or we could view the threats and challenges we face today as the difficult birth pangs of a new global order, and our task now as nothing less than making the transition through a new internationalism to the benefits of an expanding global economy, not muddling through as pessimists but making the necessary adjustment to a better future and setting new rules for this new global order." Mr Brown's spokesman Michael Ellam said that the premier would meet South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-Soo and Japanese premier Taro Aso, as well as World Bank chief Robert Zoellick at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Friday. He is also set to meet Chinese premier Wen Jiabao in London later this week. Mr Brown's Downing Street office said he would discuss with them "how we can best work internationally on financial reform, economic expansion and the creation of jobs in new sectors such as the environment". |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 The main problem is that US or US-Western domination of said OWG-NWO is NOT yet assured despite US-led successes around the world agz Radical Islam. In addition, the US per se will NOT be immune from any of the gross or specific this econ crisis. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-01-26 20:18 |
| #6 Sometimes I have to wonder if all this mortgage meltdown/financial crisis/recession is just the globalists breaking a few eggs to make an omelette. You ain't close to being the first one to think this. At first I thought maybe it was all coincidental, but the fact that so many of the architects of the collapse *cough*Bawney Fwank and Chris Dodd*cough* continue to hold onto power and craft "solutions" to the disaster they created has made me conclude that all of this was carefully and patiently planned. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2009-01-26 18:14 |
| #5 New World Order: Britain = third world Muslim country. |
| Posted by: Cynicism Inc 2009-01-26 15:38 |
| #4 Imagine a collapsed EU, It's easy if you try. No Brussels bureaucrats, No European parliament. Imagine all the people, Living with full democracy, Maybe the human race will join us, And there'll be no more tyranny. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-01-26 15:35 |
| #3 ...not muddling through as pessimists but making the necessary adjustment to a better future and setting new rules for this new global order... Sometimes I have to wonder if all this mortgage meltdown/financial crisis/recession is just the globalists breaking a few eggs to make an omelette. As long as Gordo and others of his ilk are in the kitchen I just can't help being pessimistic. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-01-26 11:53 |
| #2 Brown is a tranzi like Blair before him. Their idea of a "new world order" is one where a non-democratic oligarchy like the EU runs everything. No "of the people, by the people, for the people" here just the same kind of non-violent creeping tyranny that is the EU. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-01-26 11:51 |
| #1 Whatever emerges from the current financial crisis, it seems reasonable to assume the Mr. Brown and the Labour party will not be part of it. |
| Posted by: rwv 2009-01-26 10:49 |