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WASINGTON Dictates!Asking India to liberalise its foreign investment policies, particularly in the financial services sector, the US today said further opening these areas can add about 1.5 per cent to the country's economic growth.Meanwhile,After ye

WASINGTON Dictates!Asking India to liberalise its foreign investment policies, particularly in the financial services sector, the US today said further opening these areas can add about 1.5 per cent to the country's economic growth.Meanwhile,After years of debate, foreign direct investment in retail may soon be a reality with a panel of secretaries expected to approve the framework for allowing global retail chains to set up shop in India later this month.On the other hand,Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday as the sexual assault case against him moved one step closer to dismissal after prosecutors told a Manhattan judge that they had serious problems with the case. It sounds quite a Mystery as US retains Control on IMF and the case DISMISSED!

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Collector orders return of farmland bought for private firm

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Raipur, Jul 1 (PTI) The Janjgir-Champa district administration in Chhattisgarh has ordered return of farmland to tribals after complaints that the land was bought by a State Minister's son for a private industrial house. Collector Brajesh Chandra Mishra today told PTI by phone that orders have been issued for return of 13.65 acres of land, acquired from five tribal-farmers in Bhada and Gadapali villages of the district. Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar's son Sandip had bought the land for which the payment was made by Videocon Industries that is setting up a power plant in the area. The Collector's permission is required if a non-tribal buys tribal land. Sandip is also a tribal but in this case the payment for the deal was made by Videocon. That's why orders have been issued for return of the land in question to original owners, Mishra explained. Videocon had paid a total of Rs 54.86 lakh to these farmers for the 13.65 acres, he said, adding a probe has been ordered into reports that actually around 80 acres of land were acquired. The main Opposition Congress has demanded Nankiram Kanwar's dismissal over the issue. Nankiram has, however, denied any wrong-doing on part of his son and said the issue is being unnecessarily given political colour. The senior BJP Minister said his son is an employee of Videocon and in that capacity he bought the land. "If Sandeep had sold the land at a higher price to the company then it would have been a case of corruption. But that was not the case here," Nankiram stated.

WASINGTON Dictates!Asking India to liberalise its foreign investment policies, particularly in the financial services sector, the US today said further opening these areas can add about 1.5 per cent to the country's economic growth.Meanwhile,After years of debate, foreign direct investment in retail may soon be a reality with a panel of secretaries expected to approve the framework for allowing global retail chains to set up shop in India later this month.On the other hand,Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday as the sexual assault case against him moved one step closer to dismissal after prosecutors told a Manhattan judge that they had serious problems with the case. It sounds quite a Mystery as US retains Control on IMF and the case DISMISSED!

"India imposes substantial FDI caps in the financial services sector particularly in the insurance sector... insurance penetration is very low (in India)...

"You should understand the central role insurance plays in commerce, trade and economic activities. Planes don't fly, ship don't sail in global commerce without insurance," a senior official in the US Commerce Department said here at a CII function.

Michael Camunez, Assistant Secretary for Market Access and Compliance in the US Commerce Department said that liberalising foreign direct investment (FDI) policies will also help in creating funds to invest in the infrastructure sector.

Camunez said that India is going to invest about USD 1.2 trillion in infrastructure sector in the coming years.

"...if India wants to substantially liberalise FDI caps in its financial services sector, generally it should contribute as much as 1.5 per cent to India's GDP growth, that's remarkable statistics," he added.

The US business houses wants India to increase the FDI cap in insurance sector to 49 per cent from 26 per cent.

The Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2008 is pending in Parliament. The Bill, when enacted, would allow raising the FDI cap for the industry to 49 per cent. However, it has been awaiting approval since 2008, as it was delayed by strong opposition from the Left parties.

He said that according to a study, India is going to be one of the top insurance markets in the world and further opening the sector "will be a win-win for both India and the US".

Further, Camunez said that protectionist policies are increasing in India in areas like foreign technology transfer, intellectual property rights and manufacturing.

"...these policies are hampering India's domestic competitiveness...," he added.

Government sources said the proposal has gained momentum, with both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee backing it, and chances are that the Cabinet could clear the proposal in August, setting the stage for the entry of large chains by the end of the current financial year.

While a date for the meeting of secretaries would be fixed over the next few days, the outline of the policy has been finalized after two rounds of inter-ministerial consultations. The plan envisages allowing foreign chains such as Walmart and Tesco to hold up to 51% stake in the Indian venture. This is higher than what had been proposed during the first round of consultations.

But there could be areas demarcated for these retailers. For instance, it would be left to state governments to decide whether foreign chains are welcome or not. Similarly, the government intends to allow these chains to operate in large cities only. How large cities are defined remains to be seen. If the cut-off is fixed at one million population, then the retailers can open stores in around 50 cities. But if the bar is raised to 10 million, then only Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata will make the cut.

The move is aimed at countering criticism that the large chains will result in the closure of mom-and-pop stores. Over the years, Opposition parties such as BJP have used livelihood concerns of kirana stores to block FDI in multi-brand retail.

Though the government believes that a large footprint of multi-brand retail chains will boost employment, efforts are also underway to stipulate local sourcing requirements. For instance, the secretaries' panel will discuss a plan to mandate 25-30% sourcing from small and medium enterprises.

In a recent interaction with TOI, economic affairs secretary R Gopalan had said the government could contemplate putting in place rules stipulating majority sourcing from India. But the view in other ministries is that this might not be compatible with the rules prescribed by the World Trade Organisation.

Further, to stay competitive, especially vis-a-vis kirana stores, the organized retailers will be forced to procure from local manufacturers and producers.

Only in case of goods such as electronics or high-technology items that are not manufactured in India or the local producers are not cost-competitive would a retailer opt to import.

In any case, most international players are already in India and have been sourcing for their global requirements or have additionally got into the wholesale cash-and-carry segment where they are not permitted to sell to individuals.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released without bail on Friday after a dramatic court hearing where the sexual assault case against him appeared to shift in his favor.

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The turnabout could upend French politics. Strauss-Kahn, 62, was a strong candidate for the 2012 French presidential election until his May 14 arrest and subsequent charges on attempted rape of a hotel maid in New York.

At a hearing to seek changes to his bail conditions, prosecutors said the credibility of the woman at the center of the case had been thrown into question.

As a result, the court agreed to let Strauss-Kahn be freed and his bail and bond returned. He agreed to return to court as needed, including for a July 18 hearing.

"I understand that the circumstances of this case have changed substantially and I agree the risk that he would not be here has receded quite a bit. I release Mr. Strauss-Kahn at his own recognizance," Justice Michael Obus told the court.

Strauss-Kahn smiled as he walked out of the court. He still faces felony charges of attempted rape and sexually assault.

The arrest forced his resignation from the International Monetary Fund and appeared to end his presidential hopes, weeks before he had planned to declare his candidacy.

Strauss-Kahn's supporters in the French Socialist party voiced delight at the apparent reversal and some said they hoped he might re-enter the 2012 presidential race.

The case has hinged on the accuser, a 32-year-old Guinean immigrant who cleaned the $3,000-a-night suite at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan where Strauss-Kahn was staying.

The New York Times quoted a source close to the investigation as saying the housekeeper had lied repeatedly and prosecutors no longer believed her account of the circumstances of the sexual encounter or of her own background.

The woman's brother told Reuters in Guinea that she was the victim of a smear campaign.

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by AL MARTIN (AL MARTIN RAW . COM)... the Debt Ceiling Limit Bill Is Not Passed

(6-28-11) The temerity of the US debt ceiling situation exceeds anything else going on anywhere -- even the debt crisis in Europe. According to Secretary of Debt Geithner and Helicopter Ben Bernanke who remind us everyday, the Republicans areplaying with fire by not agreeing to a pro forma extension of the debt ceiling by August 2. This is the only issue that really makes any difference.

Why? Because if the debt ceiling limit is not extended, the United States will default on its obligations, the consequences of which could be a global economic collapse. Forget about Greece and the other PIIG peripheral Euro Zone nations...

The Republicans have attempted to manipulate this because they understand quite well that they are playing with fire. John Boehner, leader of the Republican caucus on this issue, keeps trying to say that even if we can't come to an agreement with the Democrats by the August 2nd drop date, it would only be a "technical default," because its not like the United States doesn't have the economic capacity to service its debt and that its just a legal issue preventing it from doing so.

Strauss-Kahn Is Released as Case Teeters

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday.

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Published: July 1, 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday as the sexual assault case against him moved one step closer to dismissal after prosecutors told a Manhattan judge that they had serious problems with the case.

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Prosecutors acknowledged that there were significant credibility issues with the hotel housekeeper who accused Mr. Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her in May. In a brief hearing at State Supreme Court in Manhattan, prosecutors did not oppose his release; the judge then freed Mr. Strauss-Kahn on his own recognizance.
The development represented a stunning reversal in a case that reshaped the French political landscape and sparked debate about morals, the treatment of women and the American justice system. The case could also alter the political fortunes of Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, who is just a year and a half into his tenure and was facing his most highly publicized case to date.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, was considered a strong contender for the French presidency before being accused of sexually assaulting the housekeeper who went to clean his luxury suite at the Sofitel New York. After his arrest, Mr. Strauss-Kahn resigned his position as managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
From Mr. Strauss-Kahn's first court appearance on May 16, Mr. Vance's office expressed extreme confidence in its case. At that hearing, an assistant district attorney said that "the victim provided very powerful details consistent with violent sexual assault committed by the defendant." Those accounts varied greatly from what prosecutors revealed on Friday, acknowledging publicly for the first time that the case was not as strong as initially suggested. In a letter sent to Mr. Strauss-Kahn's lawyers and filed with Justice Michael J. Obus on Friday, prosecutors outlined some of what they had discovered about Mr. Strauss-Kahn's accuser, poking holes in her account and her background.
Prosecutors disclosed that the woman had admitted lying in her application for asylum from Guinea; according to the letter, she "fabricated the statement with the assistance of a male who provided her with a cassette recording" that she memorized. She also admitted that her claim that she had been the victim of a gang rape in Guinea was also a lie.
The woman also admitted to the prosecutors that she had misrepresented her income to qualify for her housing, and had declared a friend's child — in addition to her own daughter — as a dependent on tax returns to increase her tax refund.
The housekeeper admitted that she lied about what happened after the episode on the 28th floor of the hotel. She had initially said that after being attacked, she had waited in a hallway until Mr. Strauss-Kahn left the room; she now admits that after the episode, she cleaned a nearby room, then returned to Mr. Strauss-Kahn's suite to clean there. Only after that did she report to her supervisor that she had been attacked.
The woman's lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, gave a lengthy retort outside the courtroom in which he conceded problems with her credibility, but insisted that she was still the victim of an attack, saying that her version of events has never wavered. He said some evidence, like bruising she had sustained, was consistent with a nonconsensual encounter. And he said her decision to clean a room was consistent with someone who was confused and upset in the wake of an attack. Questions are sure to be raised about how swiftly and vigorously prosecutors proceeded with the case, as many in France questioned whether there was a rush to judgment with Mr. Strauss-Kahn.
While prosecutors have not yet dismissed the case, Mr. Strauss-Kahn will now be able to move about the country more freely; although prosecutors will retain his passport, most of his restrictive bail conditions have been lifted. Under those conditions, he was required to stay in a Lower Manhattan town house under armed guard and wearing an ankle monitor. He could only leave for certain reasons and had to notify prosecutors when he left.
Although forensic tests found unambiguous evidence of a sexual encounter between Mr. Strauss-Kahn and the woman, prosecutors now do not believe much of what the accuser has told them about the circumstances or about herself.
Since her initial allegation on May 14, the accuser has repeatedly lied, one of the law enforcement officials said.
According to the two officials, the woman had a phone conversation with an incarcerated man within a day of her encounter with Mr. Strauss-Kahn in which she discussed the possible benefits of pursuing the charges against him. The conversation was recorded.
That man, the investigators learned, had been arrested on charges of possessing 400 pounds of marijuana. He is among a number of individuals who made multiple cash deposits, totaling around $100,000, into the woman's bank account over the last two years. The deposits were made in Arizona, Georgia, New York and Pennsylvania.

Matt Flegenheimer and Colin Moynihan contributed reporting.
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Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday criticised both the BJP and CPIM for patronising civil society activists like Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev who have been organising movements against the Centre on corruption issues.

Addressing a Congress gathering in Kolkata, he said "the CPIM politburo had issued a statement supporting Hazare's hunger strike and so has the BJP".

"Even Janta Dal (United) had supported the movement to extract political mileage. But all these political parties have failed to realise that such movements by a handful of civil society activists were not against the Congress, but against parliamentary rule, parliamentary democracy and against the Constitution,' Mukherjee said.

"This is CPIM, a party which had taken wrong decisions on important national issues and for which the party was rejected by the people of our country. The entire country had wholeheartedly supported the Quit India movement by Mahatma Gandhi, excepting the CPIM. The Communist movement in India had begun in 1920. Communists are here in India for the past 91 years. Still, the party has failed to achieve any significant growth. Sometimes, they are rendering support to Sonia Gandhi, sometimes to BJP. All these are being done by the Communists to make their presence felt," said Mukherjee.

"In the recent assembly elections in five states, CPIM lost power in Kerala and West Bengal. They only run a government in Tripura these days," said the finance minister.

"The BJP too has won only seven seats in the just-concluded assembly elections in five states. This party is now dreaming to rule India and encouraging people like Anna Hazare to organise movement against the Congress as the BJP knows well that they will not be able to come to power again through elections. That's why they are trying to disturb a stable government under the leadership of the Congress," claimed Mukherjee.

On the issue of recovery of black money from foreign countries, the finance minister said the Centre had already recovered Rs 68,000 crore which was deposited in several foreign banks by many Indians.

"We have now agreements with 34 countries who have agreed to provide bank account details of our citizens who have kept unaccounted money in banks in those countries. The process of black money recovery from foreign banks has already started. Some people are questioning why the Centre did not initiate the process many years ago. The answer is simple. The foreign countries and their banks were unwilling to divulge details of accounts of their Indian clients. But now after signing the agreement with them, these banks have agreed to give us such information," the finance minister pointed out.

Ruling out the logic behind organising movements against the Congress by the civil society activists, Mukherje also said that "it is the duty and responsibility of the Centre to recover black money deposited in several foreign banks and there is no need to go for any agitation by the forces like civic society activists which don't have accountability to anybody."

"It is the people of our country who elect the members of parliament, MLAs in the states who are responsible for promulgating acts for the country and the states. But these forces which don't contest elections, are trying to put pressure on the system of parliamentary democracy unconstitutionally,' he observed.

Law minister Verappa Moily , AICC member in charge of West Bengal, Shakil Ahmed , state Congress leader and West Bengal minister for irrigation Manas Bhunia, party MLA Debaprasad Roy also spoke on the occasion which was also organised to mark 129-th birth anniversary of Bidhan Chandra Roy, former West Bengal chief minister. West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) president Pradip Bhattacharjee had presided over the function.

Congress MPs, MLAs from Telangana to resign on July 4
HYDERABAD: The ruling Congress MPs , legislators and state ministers from Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh today said they would resign en masse on July 4 in support of their demand for a separate state.

"The people of Telangana are expecting us to quit our posts for achieving separate statehood. Due to the delay in the formation of Telangana, there is an impression that we are not quitting our posts out of lust for power," Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Minister K Jana Reddy said.

"Now we are in a situation that we have to prove that we are not hankering for power. Hence we decided to submit our resignations on July 4," he said after a meeting of the leaders from the region attended by seven MPs, 18 MLAs , nine MLCs and nine ministers.

Reddy made it clear that they'll remain in Congress and work for achieving Telangana and strengthening the party.

The decision to resign "has been taken keeping people's aspirations in mind and it is hoped that the party leadership would understand our predicament," he said.

The Telangana Congress leaders have been pleading with the central leadership for the last two years to implement the announcement made by the Centre on 9 December 2009 to form separate Telangana, Jana Reddy said.

Congress leaders from Telangana had recently met the Congress leadership in Delhi and set a June end deadline to take a positive decision. They had threatened to take harsh steps if a final decision was not taken within the perios.

Congress Rajya Sabha member K Keshavrao claimed that party leaders from non-Telangana regions were trying to scuttle the formation of Telangana by meeting top Congress leaders in the first week of July.

The AP assembly has failed to take cognisance of the the alleged suicides by "600 persons" in support of separate Telangana demand, he charged.

There are 294 seats in the AP assembly. Around 50 MLAs, 11 MPs and 16 MLCs of the Congress are from Telangana region.
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NSSO data shows fewer people want to work threatening a higher dependency ratio

NEW DELHI: The relative decline in the number of people willing to work has come as a reality check for India, where a larger working population is seen aiding economic growth.

The employment data for 2009-10, released last week by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), shows a three percentage point decline in the total labour force participation rate and a six percentage point drop for women since 2004-05.

This implies that fewer people, especially women, want to work, threatening to raise the dependency ratio, which undermines India's demographic advantage.

"The demographic dividend is an illusion in our scenario," said Institute of Economic Growth professor Arup Mitra, adding, "Instead of an increase in labour participation rates and decreasing dependency, the participation rate has actually declined."

Labour force participation rate is the percentage of the total population in the age group 15-59 that is willing to work. The rate had shown an upward trend until 2009-10.

For various reasons, only 40% of the labour force was available for employment in 2009-10, as opposed to 43% in 2004-05. In the case of women, it dropped from 29.4% to 23.3%. When fewer working age people offer to work, the proportion of dependents in the economy increases, pulling down per capita incomes.

"As fewer active workers fend for an increasing population, the dependency ratio has risen to 1.6 from 1.2 over the two survey periods," said Akhilesh Tilotia, thematic analyst at Kotak Securities .

But most other experts are not willing to comment till a better understanding of the reason for the labour force participation rates is available.

The findings of the survey have also come under cloud because of the large number of contract workers used by the NSSO.

"Evidence suggests that people in the age group 15-24 are opting for education or skill enhancement and, hence, withdrawing from the work force," said TCA Anant, the chief statistician of India.

The fall in women's participation rates is a concern and tells us that we have a much more complicated story of employment on our hands," Anant said.

Sonalde Desai, senior fellow at National Council for Applied Economic Research , said a possible reason for this could be rising literacy among women and higher incomes of male members of a family.

"Lack of suitable jobs for women with moderate education may be the greatest driving force behind this pattern," she said.

Mitra blamed it on the rapid changes in the economy. "Due to structural changes in recent years, many people actually willing to work are unable to find the kind of work they want or are skilled to do. This forces them to pull out of the labour force. Women tend to be hit first," he said.

This is true for the farm sector, which employs about 60% of the country's labour force. As agriculture became more mechanized, people willing to do manual labour were forced to pull themselves out of the workforce, as they could not find the kind of work they wanted.
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Granaries full, foodgrain exports may be opened up soon to benefit from higher international prices

NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to open up foodgrain exports soon to clear the godown for the new crop and also allow trade to benefit from higher international prices.

But exports will be allowed in a phased manner in view of the high food inflation, which is down from over 20% at the beginning of the year but still above the comfort zone at over 9%.

Food minister KV Thomas said on Wednesday that the government was 'not averse' to opening up grain exports 'at the earliest.' India, one of the world's biggest producers and consumers of wheat and rice, has kept a tight control over grain exports since 2007, allowing only overseas sales of aromatic basmati rice, to ensure it can provide cheap food grains to the poor. India's reluctance to allow exports despite foodgrains stocks in excess of 65 million tones has come under criticism from within India and outside.

Farm minister Sharad Pawar has been repeatedly calling for opening up farm produce exports including food grains and sugar, especially since stocks are overflowing after three years of bumper harvests and the onset of the monsoon has raised concerns stocks outside could be damaged, adding to pressure for sales. "We're reviewing grain needed for servicing the right to food bill and the EGoM (empowered group of ministers) will take a decision soon.

The core ministry has suggested in a note to the Commerce ministry open up exports urgently "in order to advantage farmers," based on the production estimates given by the agriculture ministry. It has suggested that two million tonne of wheat and one million tonne of rice be exported.

"Whenever the EGoM meets next, this (foodgrains exports) will figure on its agenda," the minister said. "We have to be somewhat cautious since the IMD has forecast a below normal monsoons," minister Thomas said. The farm and food ministries are hoping that once exports are opened up, farmers will begin to get a good price in the open market for their produce this kharif marketing season, thereby reducing the procurement and storage pressure.

The holding cost of grains runs into several hundred crores in holding costs and balloons the food subsidy bill. Food grain prices have plummeted below minimum support prices in the just gone rabi marketing season. Exports will boost market prices.

Importantly, there are clear indications that the food law, even if approved, may be implemented for less than six months, entailing far less than annual estimate of offtake by states. However, there is no decision yet on the quantity and on whether exports will be from the Central pool or by the private sector. That decision is likely to be also taken by the EGoM.

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Tata group market wealth crosses $100-bn mark
The country's top corporate house Tata group's stock market wealth today crossed the USD 100 billion mark, as some of its companies including IT giant TCS gained value despite an overall weak market.

The cumulative market capitalisation of all the listed companies of Ratan Tata-led salt-to-software conglomerate today rose to Rs 4,47,351 crore, based on their share prices at the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Taking into account today's RBI reference rate for one US dollar at Rs 44.5855, this translates into total market valuation of USD 100.33 billion for the Tata group.

The group's total market value stood at Rs 446,420 crore (USD 99.8 billion) yesterday.

The Tata group comprises of nearly 100 operating companies, but only about 30 of them are listed in the stock market. These include TCS, Tata Steel , Tata Motors , Tata Power, Indian Hotels , Titan , Voltas and Tata Communications.

TCS alone accounts for more than half of the group's total market value with a market capitalisation of USD 52 billion (Rs 232,194 crore).

In an overall weak stock market today, when benchmark Sensex fell by 83 points, some of the Tata group companies managed to add value to their stocks. These included Rallis, Indian Hotels, Tata Communications , Tata Global Beverages , Tata Investment Corp , Trent and TCS.

Tata group crossing the USD 100-billion dollar mark of market valuation today, coincided with TCS's Annual General Meeting.

Incidentally, Tatas had crossed Rs 1,00,000 crore market value mark with TCS's listing on August 25, 2004, becoming the country's most valued business house at that time.

Also, earlier in January this year, the Tata group's market value had briefly crossed USD 100-billion mark, but a subsequent fall in the market brought down their valuation.

Way back in September 2007, the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries group had become the first business house in the country to attain a market cap of USD 100 billion.

About month later, RIL alone had attained a market cap of USD 100 billion on October 18, 2007, but a high rupee valuation was also a key factor at that time.

RIL's market cap at that time had risen to Rs 4,07,748 crore, which was equivalent to USD 103 billion dollars at that time's forex rates.

At the end of today's market, RIL had a market value of Rs 2,82,217 crore, while its group valuation, after taking into account another listed company, RIIL (rpt) RIIL was Rs 283,014 crore (USD 63.5 billion).

RIL shares today fell by about 4 per cent, thus becoming a major drag for the benchmark Sensex.

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US bonds are safest investment at this point: Maarten Jan Bakkum, ING Investment Management

In an interview with ET Now, Maarten Jan Bakkum , Senior Strategist, Emerging Markets Equity, ING Investment Management, shares his outlook for emerging markets. Excerpts:

Amongst the various asset classes, what would you bet big on, would it be emerging market equities, would it be US bonds or would it be commodities?

In an event of things getting out of hands in Greece or the Eurozone as a whole, probably money will flow to US treasuries like what happened in 2008. That is still the ultimate safe asset in the perception of investors. So yes, US bonds probably is the best place to hide if you want to hide.

Expect inflation to peak out in India, China: ING Investment

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But inflation is also another big concern which is clouding prospects especially for emerging markets. How are you viewing specific countries like China and India?

Inflation concerns in emerging markets have been with us now for almost a year. That started in August last year with food prices, grain prices and since then we have seen people getting more concerned about inflation and emerging markets actually globally. Interesting thing is that big countries such as China and India have tightened policy in this period, particularly India has done a lot. The Indian central bank has been probably the most decisive central bank in the world. So that means we need not be as worried about inflation anymore as we were late last year or the beginning of this year. Actually on the inflation side, there are still concerns and core inflation pressures are increasing slowly, but we probably for the time being at least should be close to a peak in inflation in the main markets such as China and India.

In light of the inflation battle that we are seeing across China and India, how many more rate hikes are you expecting from the Reserve Bank of India?

For India, there could be like 1 or 2 hikes more. If you look at inflation numbers, probably there will be peak in inflation this month or next month. Food price pressures probably will be bit less with the monsoons news coming in actually quite positively. For India, 1 or 2 hikes should be enough and for China, I do not think that we will have another rate hike. There might be some more reserve requirement hikes, but even though as the Prime Minister said that he thought that the battle against inflation has been won. Normally they do not say these things. Part of it is true. So for China we have seen really the worst, for India 1 or 2 hikes are to come.

And within the emerging market baskets, which countries do you think offer the most exciting prospects in terms of valuation and how would you rate India then?

Looking purely at valuation you probably should be investing in places like Russia. Russia is really a cheap market in the global context, but declining oil prices do not help. Elections are coming up. So maybe there is some more political risk that the markets have been pricing. For India, devaluation levels are still higher than the GEM average. So global emerging markets average is still below Indian valuations, but Indian valuations are lower than they have been for quite a while. Indian valuations are below their own historic averages, which means that there are probably some good opportunities there as well.

In India which sector would you be overweight on and what would you refrain from investing with a midterm horizon?

For India if you look at what the market has been doing over the last few quarters, India underperformed GEMs mainly because of inflation fears and also some investment growth concerns because of the political agenda. With the state elections behind us and the government showing a bit more signs of being more in control again and also with inflation probably the worst is behind us, you should be playing the stocks or the sectors that suffered most over the last few quarters, which could be banks or infrastructure stocks.

How are you viewing the infrastructure pack across emerging markets, particularly in India? Do you think that valuations have become more fair?

Valuations in general in the infrastructure names have not really come down a lot across the board because people still believe that infrastructure investments in emerging markets is a solid growth theme for, let's say, next few years, but nevertheless it is a theme that you should continue to play. Particularly with the growth prospects in the US and Europe deteriorating, infrastructure investments in the emerging countries with a solid financial backdrop is still a theme that is attractive and that is why infrastructure in general within India for sure should be high on the list.

Oil prices have been hurting economies like India and they show no immediate signs of cooling off. So how much of an impact do you believe high oil prices are going to have on corporate earnings for such countries, particularly India?

India as a market is particularly sensitive to oil prices because India imports most of its energy. Also in India, the earnings expectations are still high. Earnings growth prospects are not that bad. So I do not think that they are necessarily too high, but of course if oil prices would go higher from here, we should be a bit more cautious on the earnings growth expectations. Oil prices coming down what we have seen in the last few weeks is actually positive for Indian growth and should mean that probably the expectations for earnings growth of around 15% to 20% are not excessive for India for the next 12 months.

Revival of Air India
GoM to meet on July 18 to discuss AI's turnaround plan
The GoM is expected to bring a proposal before the CEA to release Rs1,200-crore budgeted equity to the airline in a couple of weeks.

Manmohan Singh: Easy target?

Manmohan Singh: An easy target of middle-class disdain
This is not just unkind and unfair but also intellectually shallow. He has a job whose many tasks just do not fit within the framework of simplistic morality.

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Now electricity bill to pinch your pocket!

Be ready to loosen your purse strings further as Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today dropped strong hints for an imminent hike in power tariff in the city.

Indicating a hike in tariff in Delhi, Dikshit said high inflation and increase in power purchase cost will have to be factored in while finalising new rates.

City's power regulator Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) is currently in the process of finalising a new tariff order for the year 2011-12.

"We are not going to put any unnecessary burden on the common man. The power tariff has not been hiked in the last three-four years. Things have changed since then.

"We will have to consider factors like inflation and increase in cost of living (while finalising the tariff)," Dikshit said while replying to a question on the issue.

The Chief Minister, however, said a final decision on tariff will be taken by DERC.

Citing severe liquidity crunch, all the three private power distribution companies in the city have been demanding a substantial hike in tariff.

In May last year, the city government had through a notification stalled DERC's decision to announce the annual tariff for 2010-11 till it re-examines the demands from discoms to increase the rates.

The DERC , which was making last minute preparations to announce the new tariff, after receiving the government directive had indicated that it had planned to cut down the tariff by 20 to 25 per cent as discoms would have a surplus of around Rs 4,000 crore if the existing tariff was not changed.

The government's notification was quashed by Delhi High Court in February, describing the intervention as "absolutely unjustified, unwarranted, untenable".

1 JUL, 2011, 04.07AM IST, BIBEK DEBROY,
The new land acquisition law must seek to reduce market distortions and segmentation

Land is contentious. With urbanisation and demand for non-agricultural use, coupled with lack of employment and skills for those in small-holder and subsistence-level agriculture, this is understandable. In western Europe, especially in Britain, and more especially in England, land markets were freed up before the Industrial Revolution and access to education and skills became more broad-based. We haven't introduced reforms that enable people to move out of agriculture, or diversify within agriculture.

Nor are there marketable skills. Much of the controversy over land is actually a skills problem. That doesn't mean status quo of small-holder and subsistence-level agriculture is desirable. Had that rural Arcadia existed, poverty levels would have been significantly lower. Given low agricultural productivity levels, nor does diversion of land to non-agricultural use mean India will starve.

What's this argument about fertile and irrigated agricultural land not being available for non-agricultural use? Some land is valuable, others are not. Had we done a better job of irrigation, much more of agricultural land would have become valuable. Whether it is for agriculture or whether it is for non-agricultural use, everyone will want what is more valuable and not what is less valuable.

There is a famous Oscar Wilde quote, to the effect that a cynic is one who knows the price of everything and value of nothing. This is from Lady Windermere's Fan and is Lord Darlington speaking, replying to Cecil Graham's question. Usually, we don't remember Cecil Graham's response. "And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing." How do we know value of any object? From prices in the market, and forces of demand and supply, assuming we allow markets to operate.

We had two Bills floating around, an amendment to Land Acquisition Act (LAA) of 1894 and a Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) Bill (RRB). Both lapsed and have to be placed before Parliament again. From NAC's ( National Advisory Council )) website, we learn there are differing views within NAC on what revamped LAA should contain. However, NAC agrees that the two Bills should not be separated and should be consolidated. Media reports sugge ST such a consolidated Bill will now be prepared by rural development ministry.

There are cogent reasons for unification. However, is there a conceptual difference between "compensation" under LAA and R&R? Common sense suggests there ought to be. Why is the word "acquisition" used in LAA? Its use suggests land is forcibly being acquired; there is coercion. It should not apply at all to voluntary transfer between two willing parties, provided there is no unfairness in the contract.

Private markets function and if there is a problem with the functioning of private markets, the State steps in and acquires land, for public or private use. Hence, there is compensation. As a legal principle, I can only compensate someone who has some kind of right. Contrast this with R&R. The R&R Bill not only talks about those who have rights (tenure-holder, tenant, lessee, owner), but also those who don't possess rights but whose livelihoods are disrupted.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/comments-analysis/the-new-land-acquisition-law-must-seek-to-reduce-market-distortions-and-segmentation/articleshow/9058361.cms

Vodafone, Essar to pay $880 million tax. Tax haven can opens?
Published: Friday, Jul 1, 2011, 22:40 IST
By Lison Joseph & Arun Giri | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

Vodafone Group Plc, the world's largest mobile phone company, and the Essar Group will share the burden of paying withholding tax of $880 million, or Rs4,000 crore, on Essar's sale of 33% stake in Vodafone Essar.
Essar decided to sell its 33% equity in Vodafone Essar in April for a guaranteed sum of $5 billion under a previous agreement, but the tax liability on the deal was unclear. Including withholding tax, the deal is now valued at $5.46 billion.
But Essar now has a refund claim on the entire $880 million should authorities deem the transaction not taxable as some participants are Mauritius-based, which has a double taxation avoidance treaty with India.
"We are very confident of getting the full refund based on numerous precedents," said Vikas Saraf, director,\strategy, M&A, Essar Group.
As per the latest terms, a third of Essar's equity in Vodafone Essar held through an India-based entity will be valued at $1.26 billion, while the remaining 22% held through Mauritius-based entities will be valued at $3.32 billion after withholding tax of $880 million.
"While Vodafone and Essar continue to believe that no tax is due on this transfer, it was viewed as prudent to pay withholding tax on a without-prejudice basis," the firms said in separate statements issued late on Friday said.
The $3.32 billion has already been paid and the 22% shares have been transferred to Vodafone as on July 1.
Interestingly, Essar recently reverse-merged a privately held group firm that holds the 11% equity, with India Securities Ltd, which is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
India Securities thus indirectly owns that 11% in Vodafone Essar, and stands to receive $1.26 billion payment for it, expected before February 2012.
Vodafone and Essar have also agreed to "cooperate fully" to seek all regulatory clearance required — a marked change from the belligerence that has marked the last months of their four-year relationship.
The decision to pay tax on this transaction might significantly weaken Vodafone's case in its other pending tax tussle with Indian authorities, which is seeking $2.5 billion in taxes relating to a 2007 transaction worth $10.9 billion.
Indications of the latest terms of the deal announced late on Friday came earlier in the day, when Vodafone's counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi informed the Authority for Advance Ruling(AAR) of the company's intent to withdraw its application for assessment of this tax liability announced in April.
The Income Tax Department's counsel G C Srivastava characterised the case as one of 'dual residency,' wherein Essar's Mauritius-based entities were mere investment companies, while effective control and management was in India.
According to Srivastava, Essar's decision to invest through Mauritius route was taken at the group level and since the group operates out of Mumbai, the investment decisions were made in India.
Such routing of transaction, the tax department argued, was a classic case of 'tax avoidance' and hence comes under the provisions of Section 93 of the Indian Income Tax Act which gives authorities the right to tax a transaction whereby a resident transfers stake to a non-resident with the purpose of avoiding tax.
As further indication of tax avoidance intent, Srivastava cited that Essar initially held its stake in erstwhile Hutchison-Essar through an Indian entity and later transferred it to a Mauritius entity to avoid tax.
Reacting to Vodafone's decision to pay tax, Srivastava said that it was a vindication of state's position.
Tax expert T P Ostwal feels the application withdrawal will have an impact on the Rs11,000 crore tax case pending before Supreme Court.
"Vodafone will now certainly have difficulties in arguing the other matter before the Supreme Court, if it were to deduct tax on payment to Essar. It means that despite a warning from tax department, it did not purposely deduct tax on payment to Hutchison. This clearly vindicates the Bombay High Court ruling in favour of the revenue department," said Ostwal.
But the bigger headache could be the precedent this sets for other Mauritius or any other tax-haven-routed transactions involving companies that have a predominantly Indian business.
According to sources in the Central Board of Direct Taxes, the tax department will now aggressively pursue similar transactions where the beneficial or real owner of shares is in India.
Giri is the editor of www.taxsutra.com

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IMF chief a 'honey trap' victim? Conspiracy theories swirl

After weekend arrest, supporters say Strauss-Kahn may have been set up for fall

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The weekend arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn sent shockwaves through the financial world and upended French presidential politics, but it also quickly gave rise to theories about whether the International Monetary Fund chief had been set up by rivals.

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Prior to his imprisonment at Riker's Island on charges of attempted rape, the globetrotting Strauss-Kahn wielded considerable power. As head of the monetary fund — which provides emergency loans to countries in severe distress and monitors global financial stability — Strauss-Kahn was a frequent guest of lawmakers and leaders of the banking industry.

And as a prominent member of France's Socialist party, he was widely considered to be one of the strongest potential challengers next year to President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The financial titan — who carries a reputation for womanizing — became an immediate talking point: For some, the story represented a sad fall from grace; others spoke of humiliation for France; but, for another group, it smacked of a set-up.

'Yes, I love women...so what?'

In a strange twist, Strauss-Kahn himself lit the fuse for theorists and supporters just two weeks ago. During an interview with French newspaper Liberation, the IMF chief predicted that his enemies could use his proclivity for promiscuity against him if he chose to run for president of France.

Story: IMF chief under suicide watch at NYC jail

When asked what challenges he faced in a possible bid, Strauss-Kahn replied, "The money, women and my Jewishness."

"Yes, I love women ... so what? [...] For years we talk about giant pictures of orgies,"he told Liberation. "But I've never seen anything out ... Let show them!"

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The IMF chief went on to admit that he could see himself being set up because of his affinity for women. According to a translation done by British newspaper The Guardian, Strauss-Kahn goes on to admit that he could see himself becoming the victim of a honey trap: "a woman raped in a car park and who's been promised 500,000 or a million euros to invent such a story... ."

'It is totally hallucinatory'

Strauss-Kahn's supporters took to his defense almost immediately after his arrest.

"I am convinced it is an international conspiracy," Michelle Sabban, senior councilor for the greater Paris region, told The Telegraph.

"It's the IMF they wanted to decapitate," she said. "It's not like him. Everyone knows that his weakness is seduction, women. That's how they got him."

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In France, defenders of Strauss-Kahn, a former finance minister who had topped the polls as a possible candidate in presidential elections next year, said they suspected he was the victim of a smear campaign.

"He is a brave man on whom a contemptuous fate has been inflicted," former Socialist culture minister Jack Lang told Europe 1 radio, complaining of a "lynching."

"It is not unthinkable that certain judicial officials, the prosecutor in particular or the judge, is driven by a desire to take down a Frenchman, a Frenchman who is moreover well known."

Strauss-Kahn and his supporters aren't the only ones who think he could have been set up for a fall. According to The Telegraph, some of Strauss-Kahn's rivals even found the news tough to believe.

"It is totally hallucinatory. If it is true, this would be a historic moment, but in the negative sense, for French political life," said Dominique Paille, a political rival to Strauss-Kahn on the center right, television, according to The Telegraph. "I hope that everyone respects the presumption of innocence. I cannot manage to believe this affair."

According to The Telegraph, Henri de Raincourt, minister for overseas co-operation in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government refused to rule out the notion of a trap during a broadcast interview.

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"I refuse to have a personal opinion and say, 'Yes it was a trap,' or 'No, it wasn't a trap.' I don't know," he said.

Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn claim the IMF chief was at lunch with his daughter when the assault is said to have occurred, and that he is not guilty.

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But according to the Associated Press , Assistant District Attorney John "Ardie" McConnell said the victim "provided a very powerful and detailed account of the violent sexual assault," and added that forensic evidence may support her telling of the encounter.

Previous affair

An employee who had a brief affair with Strauss-Kahn said she warned the organization about his behavior toward women in a letter sent three years ago.

The person who confirmed the existence of the letter is close to the former International Monetary Fund employee, Hungarian-born economist Piroska Nagy. The person declined to be identified, citing the sensitivity of the matter.

Nagy, who had worked at the IMF for decades, left the organization after the affair with Strauss-Kahn in 2008. An IMF-funded investigation into the affair cleared Strauss-Kahn of wrongdoing but criticized his judgment. The affair was back in the news after the 62-year-old Frenchman's incarceration on sex crimes charges in New York.

Nagy now works with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.

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THE NEW WORLD ORDER

By Aida Parker

IT is bad enough that the world is being pulverised into grinding poverty. But there is a much bigger story here. First, let's look at some relevant quotes:

*As Frederic Morton wrote in the preface to The Rothschilds "Someone once said that the Wealth of the Rothschilds consists of the bankruptcy of nations.
*In his The Empire of the City E C, Knuth wrote: "The fact that the House of Rothschilds made its money in the great crashes of history and the great wars of history, the very periods when others lost their money, is beyond question."
*US President Andrew Jackson, the only US President (1839/47) to totally abolish the National Debt, condemned the international bankers as "A den of vipers," one which he was determined to root out of American life. Jackson claimed that if the American people only understood how these "vipers" operate on the American scene, "there would be a revolution before morning.
* Many years later President Woodrow Wilson made another revealing statement. "Some of the biggest men in the US, in the fields of commerce and manufacturing know that there is a power so organised, so subtler so complete, so pernicious, that they had better not speak above their breath in condemnation of it."

Wilson was of course referring to the elitists, the insiders, the Globalists seeking a One World Order. For many years even talk of such an Insider conspiracy was dismissed as laughable. Not many people are laughing now. Right now we are seeing the truth of it all in Asia, Russia and Latin America.

The Rothschilds, the Rockefellers and many others in the international banking system and the big multinationals, the Insiders who support the New World Order, have huge influence with the IMF and World Bank.

It is certainly no secret that the IMF, by deliberately and persistently providing incredibly bad advice in all these distressed areas, played a major role in precipitating the ongoing global currency crisis.

Why this scheme to push these countries over the brink?

One prime reason: while these collapses have been catastrophic for the nations and people involved. they have provided rich pickings for Western banking and financial interests. That has become strikingly apparent in Asia where the corporate vultures have swooped down, buying everything in sight.

Hotel chains. great office blocks, manufacturing plants. mansions? ocean liners, fishing fleets, art collections, golf courses; you name it, they have gobbled it up, as well as buying out local partners in existing joint ventures or increasing their stakes.

Big buyers and investment banks such as Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Merrill Lynch. all have been buying up Asian assets for as little as ten cents in the US$.

Indeed. for internationals with corporate connections to the NWO-supporting New York-based Council on Foreign Relations or David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, buying up bankrupt assets for peanuts appears to be an important corollary to ruining national economies. But there is another and, from the NWO aspect, conceivably even more important aspect to all this.

The Asian problem started when the IMF advised the Thai Government against getting banks to cut back on money creation, the source of the problem in the first place: and, further, to sever its currency's ties to the US.$. By no means complete financial fools, the Thais protested. But when the IMF made it clear that these provisos were conditional on Thailand receiving a bailout, the IMF got its way; and the present crisis was born.

The same fatal prescription was forced on South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The major currency speculators then moved in and the Asian economies, one after another, were broken by widespread bankruptcies, severe recession and devastating inflation. The game was on.

But, as The New American points out, critics who complain that IMF practices lead to disaster are missing the point. From the Insiders' point of view, the IMF is immensely successful in its mission, which is to seize control of the economies of sovereign nations.

Martin Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard exposed this mission in a remarkable article in The Wall Street Journal, 10.10.98. He observed that the massive Asian bailout funds were not used to prevent currency runs (as one might suppose) but were provided "only if the countries accepted ... radical restructuring of their entire domestic economies ... labour rules, corporate governance, tax systems and other matters not germane to a financial crisis."

He then quoted IMF director Michel Camdessus as saying that if the IMF had wanted to deal only with the liquidity and debt problems, it would have succeeded but, "Happily, the Asian crisis gave the IMF the leverage to force structural policy changes that national governments would not otherwise accept." (AP italics).

Feldstein wraps up by condemning the IMF. He points out that the Asian economies were fundamentally sound and, with modest adjustments, could easily have earned extra foreign exchange to repay foreign debts. Instead, the IMF falsely criticised them as "incompetent and corrupt," thereby undermining the confidence of global leaders in emerging markets generally, and so contributing to the contagion.

One wonders; why has no so-called "investigative journo" quizzed Camdessus what the real objective of the IMF was, what special "Insider" programme it was following? And what about "original intent"?

Summing up. What we have and are seeing is Western banking institutions looting developing countries' central banks, plundering foreign exchange reserves, undermining national governments and destabilising entire national economies, promoting instability and unrest throughout the world. Over the last two years, a massive concentration of financial power has taken place in the hands of the Insiders. Does this not make organised crime look like a Sunday school?

And all of it, we may be very sure, as a means of finally installing a global currency and the NWO. The New World Order is a reality. All that is left for us is to understand that.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn conspiracy theories return

Telegraph.co.uk - Urvi Nopany - ‎2 hours ago‎

Blogger Philip Gourevitch commented that theories in France attributed Strauss-Kahn's downfall to plots conceived by President Sarkozy or Socialist rivals or the Russians who were unhappy with Strauss-Kahn's treatment of them at the IMF or the Greeks ...

DSK Rape case collapsing: Did he do it?

Slate Magazine (blog) - Emily Yoffe - ‎1 hour ago‎
Could the wildest French conspiracy theories be correct? It stretches credulity to think that an enemy of Strauss-Kahn, knowing he'd have sex with anyone, offered a payment to the maid to go in, drop her apron, get some "forensic evidence" out of him, ...

Reactions to Strauss-Kahn Shocker

msnbc.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
And Tron, who has since been charged with rape, argues there is a conspiracy against him, with detractors trying to "echo" the Strauss-Kahn affair. The plot thickens, meanwhile, for Strauss-Kahn's Socialist Party. Party leader Martine Aubry, ...

DSK: Is Anyone Innocent?

New Yorker (blog) - Judith Thurman - ‎6 hours ago‎

I was "sure" DSK was guilty, and I argued with my French friends about it—they were appalled that I could believe this wasn'ta witch hunt, or a conspiracy, or a case of American puritanism. (Whatever it is, though, it has inspired a rather salubrious ...

DSK Accuser's African Connection

Daily Beast - ‎5 hours ago‎

A conspiracy? The answers will come from New York's West African community. At the 2115 Café on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem, where the hotel chambermaid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of criminal sexual assault used to spend much of her ...

Dominique Strauss Kahn, the Missing Cell Phone, Women and the Timing

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎10 hours ago‎
Because it was the phone used for official IMF business. Sorry, but this time the conspiracy theorists have a lot in their favor. That phone had information in it which was not only highly confidential, surely had exchanges which would foretell the ...

Strauss-Kahn Is Released From House Arrest

NPR - Carrie Johnson - ‎3 hours ago‎
It also could revive speculation of a conspiracy against him aimed at torpedoing his presidential chances. A poll conducted within days of his arrest suggested that a majority of French think Strauss-Kahn — who has a longstanding reputation as a ...

New twist in Strauss-Kahn case rocks French politics

msnbc.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
Le Guen was among many French people, both supporters and critics of Strauss-Kahn, who had claimed the IMFleader was the target of a political conspiracy to torpedo his presidential chances. Within days of his arrest, a poll suggested that a majority ...

THE STRAUSS-KAHN CRIMINAL CASE COLLAPSES — WHOSE FINGERPRINTS ARE ON THE FRAME-UP?

Business Insider - John Helmer - ‎5 hours ago‎
The system also calls to account higher-level officials by the leaks of their subordinates; these can reveal dereliction of duty, official conspiracy, and abuse of authority. The leaks by "well-placed law enforcement officials" to the New York Times ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn 'could still enter French presidential race'

Telegraph.co.uk - Jon Swaine, Urvi Nopany - ‎6 hours ago‎

After a court hearing last month, Kenneth Thompson, an attorney for the maid, angrily dismissed suggestions that she was part of a conspiracy against the French Socialist. He promised that she would "get on that witness stand and tell the world what ...

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Wall Street Journal - David Gauthier-Villars, Max Colchester - ‎9 hours ago‎
For some, Friday's developments only supported such conspiracy theories. "I always thought he was innocent and I always said we should be careful about judging him," says Marie Mattei, a 53-year-old consultant. "He was known to like women, ...

Early French Reaction To News That DSK Case May Collapse

TIME (blog) - Bruce Crumley - ‎10 hours ago‎
Shift targets of suspicion: As the various elements of his dilemma gradually lined up against him, Strauss-Kahn's French backers found it increasingly difficult to continue flatly refuting the charges against him as fabrication, aconspiracy, ...

Accuser credibility questions shake IMF sex case

The Associated Press - ‎4 hours ago‎

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Strauss-Kahn case is 'close to collapse', say reports

The Guardian - ‎12 hours ago‎

When the allegations of a rape first surfaced, polls showed that 60% of French voters thought it was a political conspiracy against him. The news comes after weeks of speculation in which some legal experts had said the woman's case has started to look ...

Ex-IMF chief due in court as sex case 'unravels'

Bangkok Post - ‎9 hours ago‎
The Strauss-Kahn affair has sent shock waves through France, where many initially believed he was the victim of a political conspiracy and slammed New York police for forcing him to endure a "perp walk" before the world media. ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the case of the self-destructing charges

The Daily Maverick - ‎25 minutes ago‎
Additionally, these amazing goings-on will now again rev up the rumour mill that there was some sort of wildconspiracy aimed at DSK in an effort to remove the most viable challenger to Sarkozy. In a poll taken just after his arrest, a majority of ...

The triumph of "sexualized politics"

The Voice of Russia - ‎5 hours ago‎

Maybe it would be too far-fetching to suspect a deeply echeloned conspiracy, but the question "Cui prodest?" (Who benefits?) arises now and again. Such circumstances as the charges being filed in New York, the American politically correct society being ...

Report: Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Prosecutors Felled by 400 Pounds of Weed

New York Observer - Foster Kamer - ‎13 hours ago‎

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French Socialists hopeful after reports that Strauss-Kahn sex case crumbling

RFI - ‎8 hours ago‎
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The Shriveling of the Case Against DSK

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Strauss-Kahn Rape Case Expected To Collapse

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IMF Global Conspiracy to Run World Dictatorship

by WEBSTER TARPLEY(11-11-08) This is a confidential strategy paper for the November 15 G-20 summit in Washington DC.

This is not a new Bretton Woods in any sense, but rather a British-steered attempt to impose the dictatorship of theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) on the entire planet, wiping out all hope of economic recovery, the modernization of the developing countries, and national sovereignty at the same time.

Under this plan, the IMF would dictate the economic policies of all states. The IMF orthodoxy is austerity, sacrifice, deregulation, privatization, union busting, wage reductions, free trade, the race to the bottom, and prohibitions on advanced technologies. These policies would strangle humanity.

The Brazil-Russia-India-China bloc is reportedly objecting to putting so much power into the hands of the IMF, which is dominated by the US and the British, with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Treasury Secretary Paulson of Goldman Sachs laying down the party line.

The new Chinese economic measures are the opposite of the bankers' bailouts imposed so far in the wealthier countries.

New World Order (conspiracy theory)

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This article is about the use of the term New World Order in conspiracy theory. For other uses, see New World Order.

The reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States (1776). The Latin phrase "novus ordo seclorum", appearing on the reverse side of the Great Seal since 1782 and on the back of the U.S one-dollar bill since 1935, means "New Order of the Ages" and only alludes to the beginning of an era where the United States of America is an independent nation-state, but is often mistranslated by conspiracy theorists as "New World Order".^[1]

In conspiracy theory, the term New World Order or NWO refers to the emergence of a totalitarianone-world government.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

The common theme in conspiracy theories about a New World Order is that a secretive power elitewith a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government—which replaces sovereign nation-states—and an all-encompassing propaganda thatideologizes its establishment as the culmination of history's progress. Significant occurrences inpolitics and finance are speculated to be orchestrated by an unduly influential cabal operating through many front organizations. Numerous historical and current events are seen as steps in an on-going plot to achieve world domination through secret political gatherings and decision-making processes.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Prior to the early 1990s, New World Order conspiracism was limited to two American countercultures, primarily the militantly anti-government right, and secondarily fundamentalist Christians concerned with end-time emergence of the Antichrist.^[7] Skeptics, such as Michael Barkun and Chip Berlet, have observed that right-wing populist conspiracy theories about a New World Order have now not only been embraced by many left-wing conspiracy theorists but have seeped into popular culture, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.^[3]^[5] These political scientists are concerned that this mass hysteria could have what they judge to be devastating effects on American political life, ranging from widespread political alienation to escalating lone-wolf terrorism.^[3]^[5]

History of the term

During the 20th century, many statesmen, such as Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill, used the term "new world order" to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power after World War I and World War II. They all saw these periods as opportunities to implement idealistic proposals for global governance in the sense of new collective efforts to address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to solve, while always respecting the right of nations to self-determination. These proposals led to the creation of international organizations, such as the United Nations and NATO, and international regimes, such as the Bretton Woods system and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which were calculated both to maintain a balance of power in favor of the United States as well as regularize cooperation between nations, in order to achieve a peaceful phase of capitalism. These creations in particular and liberal internationalism in general, however, would always be criticized and opposed by American ultraconservative business nationalists from the 1930s on.^[8]

In the aftermath of the two World Wars, progressives welcomed these new international organizations and regimes but argued they suffered from a democratic deficit and therefore were inadequate to not only prevent another global war but also foster global justice. The United Nations was designed in 1945 by U.S. bankers and State Department planners, and was always intended to remain a free association of sovereign nation-states, not a transition to democratic world government. Thus, activists around the globe formed a world federalist movementhoping in vain to create a "real" new world order.^[9]

In the 1940s, British writer and futurist H. G. Wells would go further than progressives by appropriating and redefining the term "new world order" as a synonym for the establishment of a technocratic world state and planned economy.^[10] Despite the popularity of his ideas in somestate socialist circles, Wells failed to exert a deeper and more lasting influence because he was unable to concentrate his energies on a direct appeal to intelligentsias who would, ultimately, have to coordinate a Wellsian new world order.^[11]

During the Red Scare of 1947–1957, agitators of the American secular and Christian right, influenced by the work of Canadian conspiracy theorist William Guy Carr, increasingly embraced and spread unfounded fears of Freemasons, Illuminati, and Jews being the driving force behind an "international communist conspiracy". The threat of "Godless communism" in the form of a state atheistic and bureaucratic collectivist world government, demonized as a "Red Menace", therefore became the main focus of apocalyptic millenarian conspiracism. The Red Scare would shape one of the core ideas of the political right in the United States which is that liberals and progressives with theirwelfare-state policies and international cooperation programs such as foreign aid supposedly contribute to a gradual process of collectivismthat will inevitably lead to nations being replaced with a communist one-world government.^[12]

In the 1960s, right-wing populist individuals and groups with a producerist worldview, such as members of the John Birch Society, disseminated a great deal of conspiracy theories claiming that the governments of both the United States and the Soviet Union were controlled by a cabal of corporate internationalists, greedy bankers and corrupt politicians intent on using the United Nations as the vehicle to create the "One World Government". This right-wing anti-globalist conspiracism would fuel the Bircher campaign for U.S. withdrawal from the U.N.. American writer Mary M. Davison, in her 1966 booklet The Profound Revolution, traced the alleged New World Order conspiracy to the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve System in 1913 by international bankers, who she claimed later formed the Council on Foreign Relationsin 1921 as the shadow government. At the time the booklet was published, "international bankers" would have been interpreted by many readers as a reference to a postulated "international Jewish banking conspiracy" masterminded by the Rothschilds.^[12]

Claiming that the term "New World Order" is used by a secretive elite dedicated to the destruction of all national sovereignties, American writer Gary Allen, in his 1971 book None Dare Call It Conspiracy, 1974 book Rockefeller: Campaigning for the New World Order and 1987 book Say "No!" to the New World Order, articulated the anti-globalist theme of much current right-wing populist conspiracism in the U.S.. Thus, after the fall of communism in the early 1990s, the main demonized scapegoat of the American far right shifted seamlessly from crypto-communists who plotted on behalf of the Red Menace to globalists who plot on behalf of the New World Order. The relatively painless nature of the shift was due to growing right-wing populist opposition to corporate internationalism but also in part to the basic underlying apocalyptic millenarian paradigm, which fed the Cold War and the witch-hunts of the McCarthy period.^[12]

In his 11 September 1990 Toward a New World Order speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, President George H. W. Bushdescribed his objectives for post-Cold-War global governance in cooperation with post-Soviet states:

Until now, the world we've known has been a world divided—a world of barbed wire and concrete block, conflict and cold war. Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a "world order" in which "the principles of justice and fair play ... protect the weak against the strong ..." A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations.

The New York Times observed that progressives were denouncing this new world order as a rationalization for American imperial ambitions in the Middle East, while conservatives rejected new security arrangements altogether and fulminated about any possibility of U.N. revival.^[13]However, Chip Berlet, an American investigative reporter specializing in the study of right-wing movements in the U.S., writes:

When President Bush announced his new foreign policy would help build a New World Order, his phrasing surged through the Christian and secular hard right like an electric shock, since the phrase had been used to represent the dreaded collectivist One World Government for decades. Some Christians saw Bush as signaling the End Times betrayal by a world leader. Secular anticommunists saw a bold attempt to smash US sovereignty and impose a tyrannical collectivist system run by the United Nations.^[12]

American televangelist Pat Robertson with his 1991 best-selling book The New World Order became the most prominent Christian popularizer of conspiracy theories about recent American history as a theater in which Wall Street, the Federal Reserve System, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, and Trilateral Commission control the flow of events from behind the scenes, nudging us constantly and covertly in the direction of world government for the Antichrist.^[5]

Observers note that the galvanization of right-wing populist conspiracy theorists, such as Linda Thompson, Mark Koernke and Robert K. Spear, into militancy led to the rise of the militia movement, which spread its anti-government ideology through speeches at rallies and meetings, through books and videotapes sold at gun shows, through shortwave and satellite radio, and through fax networks and computer bulletin boards.^[12] However, overnight AM radio shows and viral propaganda on the Internet is what most effectively contributed to theirextremist political ideas about the New World Order finding their way into the politically left-wing literature of the anti-globalization movement, but also the previously apolitical literature of many Kennedy assassinologists, ufologists, lost land theorists, and, most recently, occultists. The worldwide appeal of these subcultures then transmitted New World Order conspiracism like a "mind virus" to a large new audience of seekers of counterknowledge from the mid-1990s on.^[5]

After the turn of the century, specifically during the late-2000s financial crisis, many politicians and pundits, such as Gordon Brown,^[14] andHenry Kissinger,^[15] used the term "new world order" in their advocacy for a Keynesian reform of the global financial system and their calls for a "New Bretton Woods", which takes into account emerging markets such as China and India. These declarations had the unintended consequence of providing fresh fodder for New World Order conspiracism, and culminated in former Clinton administration adviser Dick Morrisand conservative talk show host Sean Hannity arguing on his Fox News Channel program Hannity that "conspiracy theorists were right".^[16]Fox News in general, and its opinion show Glenn Beck in particular, have been repeatedly criticized by progressive media watchdog groups for not only mainstreaming the New World Order conspiracy theories of the radical right but possibly agitating its lone wolves into action.^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]

In 2009, American film directors Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel released New World Order, a critically acclaimed documentary film which explores the world of conspiracy theorists, such as American radio host Alex Jones, who are committed to exposing and vigorously opposing what they perceive to be an emerging New World Order.^[21]

Conspiracy theories

There are numerous systemic conspiracy theories through which the concept of a New World Order is viewed. The following is a list of the major ones in relatively chronological order:^[22]

End Time

Since the 19th century, apocalyptic millenarian Christian eschatologists, starting with John Nelson Darby, have feared a globalist conspiracy to impose a tyrannical New World Order as the fulfillment of prophecies about the "end time" in the Bible, specifically in the Book of Ezekiel, the Book of Daniel, the Olivet discourse found in the Synoptic Gospels, and the Book of Revelation.^[23] They assert that people who have made a deal with the Devil to gain wealth and power have become pawns in a supernatural chess game to move humanity into accepting anutopian world government, which rests on the spiritual foundations of a syncretic-messianic world religion, that will later reveal itself to be adystopian world empire, which imposes the imperial cult of an "Unholy Trinity" — Satan, the Antichrist and the False Prophet. In many contemporary Christian conspiracy theories, the False Prophet will either be the last pope of the Catholic Church (groomed and installed by an Alta Vendita or Jesuit conspiracy) or a guru from the New Age movement or even the leader of an elite fundamentalist Christianorganization like the Fellowship, while the Antichrist will either be the president of the European Union or the secretary-general of the United Nations or even the pan-Islamist leader of a caliphate.^[5]^[23]

Some of the most vocal critics of end-time conspiracy theories come from within Christianity.^[12] In 1993, American historian Bruce Barron wrote a stern rebuke of apocalyptic Christian conspiracism in the Christian Research Journal, when reviewing Robertson's 1991 book The New World Order.^[24] Another critique can be found in historian Gregory S. Camp's 1997 book Selling Fear: Conspiracy Theories and End-Times Paranoia,^[2] which has been described as "impressive both as a historical and theological work".^[12] Camp warns of the "very real danger that Christians could pick up some extra spiritual baggage" by credulously embracing conspiracy theories.^[2] Religious studiesscholar Richard T. Hughes argues that "new world order" rhetoric libels the Christian faith because the "new world order", as defined by Christian conspiracy theorists, has no basis in the Bible whatsoever and that, in fact, this idea is not only unbiblical; it is anti-biblical and fundamentally anti-Christian.^[23] Progressive Christians, such as preacher-theologian Peter J. Gomes, argue that the Bible must be read carefully to avoid misusing the text to legitimize ideological prejudices in the dominant culture.^[25] They caution conservative Christians that a "spirit of fear" can distort scripture and history by dangerously combining biblical literalism, apocalyptic timetables, demonization, and oppressive prejudices, such as sexism, homophobia, classism, xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism.^[26] They therefore call on Christians who indulge in conspiracism to repent.^[27]^[28]

Freemasonry

Main article: Masonic conspiracy theories

Freemasonry is one of the world's oldest secular fraternal organizations, which arose in late 16th- to early 17th-century Britain. Over the years a number of allegations and conspiracy theories have been directed towards Freemasonry, including the allegation that Freemasons are trying to bring about a New World Order.^[12]

The mystery surrounding Masonic symbolism and rites led to Freemasons being first accused of secretly praticing Satanism in the late 1700s.^[12] The original allegation of a conspiracy within Freemasonry to subvert religions and governments in order to take over the world traces back to Scottish author John Robison, whose reactionary conspiracy theories crossed the Atlantic, and during the 1800s produced outbreaks of Protestant anti-Masonry in the United States.^[12] Conspiracy theorists would eventually accuse some of the Founding Fathers of the United States, such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, of having Masonic designs interwoven into American society, particularly in the Great Seal of the United States, the United States one-dollar bill, the architecture of National Mall landmarks, and thestreets and highways of Washington, D.C., as part of a grand conspiracy.^[5] Accordingly, colonial American Freemasons are portrayed as having embraced Bavarian Illuminism and used the power of the occult to bind their planning of a government in conformity with the plan of the "Masonic God" — Lucifer worshipped as the Supreme Being — because of their belief that the "Great Architect of the Universe" has tasked the United States with the eventual establishment of the "Kingdom of God on Earth" — a Masonic world theodemocracy with New Jerusalemas its capital city and the Third Temple as its holiest site — the initially utopian New World Order presided over by the Antichrist.^[29]

A Masonic Lodge room

Freemasons rebut these claims of Masonic conspiracy. Freemasonry, which promotesrationalism, places no power in occult symbols themselves, and it is not a part of its principles to view the drawing of symbols, no matter how large, as an act of consolidating or controlling power.^[30] Furthermore, there is no published information establishing the Masonic membership of the men responsible for the design of the Great Seal.^[30]^[31] The Latin phrase "novus ordo seclorum", appearing on the reverse side of the Great Seal since 1782 and on the back of the one-dollar bill since 1935, means "New Order of the Ages" and only alludes to the beginning of an era where the United States is an independent nation-state, but is often mistranslated by conspiracy theorists as "New Secular Order" or "New World Order".^[1] Lastly, Freemasons argue that, despite the symbolic importance of the Temple of Solomon in their mythology, they have no interest in rebuilding it, especially since "it is obvious that any attempt to interfere with the present condition of things [on the Temple Mount] would in all probability bring about the greatest religious war the world has ever known".^[32]

More broadly, Freemasons assert that a long-standing rule within regular Freemasonry is a prohibition on the discussion of politics (and religion) in a Masonic lodge and the participation of lodges or Masonic bodies in political pursuits. Freemasonry has no politics, but it teaches its members to be active citizens. The accusation that Freemasonry has a hidden agenda to establish a Masonic government ignores several facts. While agreeing on certain Masonic Landmarks, the many independent and sovereign Grand Lodges act as such, and do not agree on many other points of belief and practice. Also, as can be seen from a survey of famous Freemasons, individual Freemasons hold beliefs that span the spectrum of politics. The term "Masonic government" has no meaning since individual Freemasons hold many different opinions on what constitutes a good government, and Freemasonry as a body has no opinion on the topic.^[33]

Ultimately, Freemasons argue that even if it were proven that influential individuals have used and are using Masonic Lodges to engage in crypto-politics, such as was the case with the illegal Italian Lodge Propaganda Due, this would represent a cooptation of Freemasonry rather than evidence of its hidden agenda.^[34]

Illuminati

The Order of the Illuminati was an Enlightenment-age secret society founded by university professor Adam Weishaupt on 1 May 1776, inIngolstadt, Upper Bavaria. The movement consisted of advocates of freethought, secularism, liberalism, republicanism and gender equality, recruited in the Masonic Lodges of Germany, who sought to teach rationalism through mystery schools. In 1785, the order was infiltrated, broken up and suppressed by the government agents of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, in his preemptive campaign to neutralize the threat of secret societies ever becoming hotbeds of conspiracies to overthrow the Bavarian monarchy and its state religion, Roman Catholicism.^[35]

In the late 18th century, reactionary conspiracy theorists, such as Scottish physicist John Robison and French Jesuit priest Augustin Barruel, began speculating that the Illuminati survived their suppression and became the masterminds behind the French Revolution and theReign of Terror. The Illuminati were accused of being subversives who were attempting to secretly orchestrate a revolutionary wave in Europeand the rest of the world in order to spread the most radical ideas and movements of the Enlightenment — anti-clericalism, anti-monarchism, and anti-patriarchalism — and create a world noocracy. During the 19th century, fear of an Illuminati conspiracy was a real concern of European ruling classes, and their oppressive reactions to this unfounded fear provoked in 1848 the very revolutions they sought to prevent.^[36]

During the interwar period of the 20th century, fascist propagandists, such as British revisionist historian Nesta Helen Webster and American socialite Edith Starr Miller, not only popularized the myth of an Illuminati conspiracy but claimed that it was a subversive secret society which serves the Jewish elites that supposedly propped up both finance capitalism and Soviet communism in order to divide and rule the world. American evangelist Gerald Burton Winrod and other conspiracy theorists within the fundamentalist Christian movement in the United States — which emerged in the 1910s as a backlash against the principles of Enlightenment secular humanism, modernism, and liberalism — became the main channel of dissemination of Illuminati conspiracy theories in America. Right-wing populists, such as members of the John Birch Society, subsequently began speculating that some collegiate fraternities (Skull and Bones), gentlemen's clubs (Bohemian Club) and think tanks (Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission) of the American upper class are front organizations of the Illuminati, which they accuse of plotting to create a New World Order through a one-world government.^[5]

Skeptics argue that evidence would suggest that the Bavarian Illuminati was nothing more than a curious historical footnote since there is no evidence that the Illuminati survived its suppression in 1785.^[36]

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an antisemitic canard, originally published in Russian in 1903, alleging a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination. The text purports to be the minutes of the secret meetings of a cabal of Jewish masterminds, which has cooptedFreemasonry and is plotting to rule the world on behalf of all Jews because they believe themselves to be the chosen people of God.^[37] The Protocols incorporate many of the core conspiracist themes outlined in the Robison and Barruel attacks on the Freemasons, and overlay them with antisemitic allegations about anti-Tsarist movements in Russia. The Protocols reflect themes similar to more general critiques of Enlightenment liberalism by conservative aristocrats who support monarchies and state religions. The interpretation intended by the publication of The Protocols is that if one peels away the layers of the Masonic conspiracy, past the Illuminati, one finds the rotten Jewish core.^[12]

Cover of a 1920 copy of The Jewish Peril

The Protocols has been proven by polemicists, such as Irish journalist Philip Graves in a 1921 The Timesarticle, and British academic Norman Cohn in his 1967 book Warrant for Genocide, to be both a hoax and a clear case of plagiarism. There is general agreement that Russian-French writer and political activistMatvei Golovinski fabricated the text for Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire, as a work ofcounter-revolutionary propaganda prior to the 1905 Russian Revolution, by plagiarizing it, almost word for word in some passages, from The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, a 19th century satire against Napoleon III of France written by French political satirist and Legitimist militant Maurice Joly.^[38]

Responsible for feeding many antisemitic and anti-Masonic mass hysterias of the 20th century, The Protocols is widely considered to be influential in the development of conspiracy theories in general and New World Order conspiracism in particular, and reappears repeatedly in contemporary conspiracy literature.^[5] For example, the authors of the 1982 controversial book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grailconcluded that The Protocols was the most persuasive piece of evidence for the existence and activities of the Priory of Sion. They speculated that this secret society was working behind the scenes to establish atheocratic "United States of Europe". Politically and religiously unified through the imperial cult of aMerovingian sacred king — supposedly descended from a Jesus bloodline — who occupies both the throne of Europe and the Holy See, this "Holy European Empire" would become the hyperpower of the 21st century.^[39] Although the Priory of Sion, itself, has been exhaustively debunked by journalists and scholars as a hoax,^[40] apocalyptic millenarian Christian eschatologists who believe The Protocols is authentic became convinced that the Priory of Sion was a fulfillment ofprophecies found in the Book of Revelation and further proof of an anti-Christian conspiracy of epic proportions signaling the imminence of a New World Order.^[41]

Skeptics argue that the current gambit of contemporary conspiracy theorists who use The Protocols is to claim that they "really" come from some group other than the Jews such as fallen angels or alien invaders. Although it is hard to determine whether the conspiracy-minded actually believe this or are simply trying to sanitize a discredited text, skeptics argue that it doesn't make much difference, since they leave the actual, antisemitic text unchanged. The result is to give The Protocols credibility and circulation when it deserves neither.^[7]

Round Table

During the second half of Britain's "imperial century" between 1815 and 1914, English-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician Cecil Rhodes advocated the British Empire reannexing the United States of America and reforming itself into an "Imperial Federation" to bring about a hyperpower and lasting world peace. In his first will, of 1877, written at the age of 23, he expressed his wish to fund a secret society (known as the Society of the Elect) that would advance this goal:

To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire and, finally, the foundation of so great a Power as to render wars impossible, and promote the best interests of humanity.^[42]

In his later wills, a more mature Rhodes abandoned the idea and instead concentrated on what became the Rhodes Scholarship, which had British statesman Alfred Milner as one of its trustees. Established in 1902, the original goal of the trust fund was to foster peace among thegreat powers by creating a sense of fraternity and a shared world view among future British, American, and German leaders by having enabled them to study for free at the University of Oxford.^[42]

Milner and British official Lionel George Curtis were the architects of the Round Table movement, a network of organizations promoting closer union between Britain and its self-governing colonies. To this end, Curtis founded the Royal Institute of International Affairs in June 1919 and, with his 1938 book The Commonwealth of God, began advocating for the creation of an imperial federation that eventually reannexes the U.S., which would be presented to Protestant churches as being the work of the Christian God to elicit their support.^[43] The Commonwealth of Nations was created in 1949 but it would only be a free association of independent states rather than the powerful imperial federation imagined by Rhodes, Milner and Curtis.

The Council on Foreign Relations began in 1917 with a group of New York academics who were asked by President Woodrow Wilson to offer options for the foreign policy of the United States in the interwar period. Originally envisioned as a group of American and British scholars and diplomats, some of whom belonging to the Round Table movement, it was a subsequent group of 108 New York financiers, manufacturers and international lawyers organized in June 1918 by Nobel Peace Prize recipient and U.S. secretary of state, Elihu Root, that became the Council on Foreign Relations on 29 July 1921. The first of the council's projects was a quarterly journal launched in September 1922, calledForeign Affairs.^[44] The Trilateral Commission was founded in July 1973, at the initiative of American banker David Rockefeller, who was chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations at that time. It is a private organization established to foster closer cooperation among theUnited States, Europe and Japan. The Trilateral Commission is widely seen as a counterpart to the Council on Foreign Relations.

In the 1960s, right-wing populist individuals and groups with a producerist worldview, such as members of the John Birch Society, were the first to combine and spread an ultraconservative business nationalist critique of corporate internationalists networked through think tanks such as the Council on Foreign Relations with a grand conspiracy theory casting them as front organizations for the Round Table of the "Anglo-American Establishment", which are financed by an "international banking cabal" that has supposedly been plotting from the late 19th century on to rule the world. Anti-globalist conspiracy theorists therefore fear that international bankers are planning to eventually subvert the independence of the U.S. by subordinating national sovereignty to a strengthened Bank for International Settlements.^[45]

The research findings of historian Carroll Quigley, author of the 1966 book Tragedy and Hope, are taken by both conspiracy theorists of the American Old Right (Cleon Skousen) and New Left (Carl Oglesby) to substantiate this view, even though he argued that the Establishment is not involved in a plot to implement a one-world government but rather British and American benevolent imperialism driven by the mutual interests of economic elites in the United Kingdom and the United States. Quigley also argued that, although the Round Table still exists today, its position in influencing the policies of world leaders has been much reduced from its heyday during World War I and slowly waned after the end of World War II and the Suez Crisis. Today the Round Table is largely a ginger group, designed to consider and gradually influence the policies of the Commonwealth of Nations, but faces strong opposition. Furthermore, in American society after 1965, the problem, according to Quigley, was that no elite was in charge and acting responsibly.^[45]

Larry McDonald, the 2nd president of the John Birch Society and a conservative Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives who represented the 7th congressional district of Georgia, wrote a forward for Allen's 1976 book The Rockefeller File, wherein he stated:

The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government, combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.^[46]

In his 2002 autobiography Memoirs, Rockefeller wrote:

For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents ... to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.^[47]

Barkun argues that this statement is partly facetious (the claim of "conspiracy" and "treason") and partly serious — the desire to encourage trilateral cooperation among the U.S., Europe, and Japan, for example — an ideal that used to be a hallmark of the internationalist wing of theRepublican Party — known as "Rockefeller Republicans" in honor of Nelson Rockefeller — when there was an internationalist wing. The statement, however, is taken at face value and widely cited by conspiracy theorists as proof that the Council on Foreign Relations uses its role as the brain trust of American presidents, senators and representatives to manipulate them into supporting a New World Order in the form of a one-world government.

In a 13 November 2007 interview with Canadian journalist Benjamin Fulford, Rockefeller countered:

I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world ... There have been people, ever since I've had any kind of position in the world, who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crackpots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.^[48]

Some American social critics, such as Laurence H. Shoup, argue that the Council on Foreign Relations is an "imperial brain trust", which has, for decades, played a central behind-the-scenes role in shaping U.S. foreign policy choices for the post-WWII international order and theCold War, by determining what options show up on the agenda and what options do not even make it to the table;^[49] while others, such asG. William Domhoff, argue that it is in fact a mere policy discussion forum,^[50] which provides the business input to U.S. foreign policyplanning.^[51] The latter argue that it has nearly 3,000 members, far too many for secret plans to be kept within the group; all the council does is sponsor discussion groups, debates and speakers; and as far as being secretive, it issues annual reports and allows access to its historical archives. However, all these critics agree that historical studies of the council show that it has a very different role in the overall power structure than what is claimed by conspiracy theorists.^[50]

Open Conspiracy

In his 1928 book The Open Conspiracy British writer and futurist H. G. Wells promoted cosmopolitanism and offered blueprints for a world revolution and world brain to establish a technocratic world state and planned economy.^[52] Wells warned, however, in his 1940 book The New World Order that:

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order, be rendered unhappy by the frustration of their passions and ambitions through its advent and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.^[10]

Wells' books were influential in giving a second meaning to the term "new world order", which would only be used by both state socialistsupporters and anti-communist opponents for generations to come. However, despite the popularity and notoriety of his ideas, Wells failed to exert a deeper and more lasting influence because he was unable to concentrate his energies on a direct appeal to intelligentsias who would, ultimately, have to coordinate the Wellsian new world order.^[53]

New Age

British neo-Theosophical occultist Alice Bailey, one of the founders of the so-called New Age movement, prophesied in 1940 the eventual victory of the Allies of World War II over the Axis powers (which occurred in 1945) and the establishment by the Allies of a political and religious New World Order. She saw a federal world government as the culmination of Wells' Open Conspiracy but favorably argued that it would be synarchist because it was guided by the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, intent on preparing humanity for the mystical second coming of Christ, and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. According to Bailey, a group of ascended masters called the Great White Brotherhood works on the "inner planes" to oversee the transition to the New World Order but, for now, the members of this Spiritual Hierarchy are only known to a few occult scientists, with whom they communicate telepathically, but as the need for their personal involvement in the plan increases, there will be an "Externalization of the Hierarchy" and everyone will know of their presence on Earth.^[54]

Bailey's writings, along with American writer Marilyn Ferguson's 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy, contributed to conspiracy theorists of the Christian right viewing the New Age movement as the "false religion" that would supersede Christianity in a New World Order.^[55] Skeptics argue that the term "New Age movement" is a misnomer, generally used by conspiracy theorists as a catch-all rubric for any new religious movement that is not fundamentalist Christian. By their lights, anything that is not Christian is by definition actively and willfully anti-Christian.^[56]

Paradoxically, since the 2000s, New World Order conspiracism is increasingly being embraced and propagandized by New Age occultists, who are people bored by rationalism and drawn to what Barkun calls the "cultural dumping ground of the heretical, the scandalous, the unfashionable, and the dangerous" — such as alternative medicine, astrology, quantum mysticism, spiritualism, and Theosophy.^[5] Thus, New Age conspiracy theorists, such as the makers of documentary films like Esoteric Agenda, claim that globalists who plot on behalf of the New World Order are simply misusing occultism for Machiavellian ends, such as adopting 21 December 2012 as the exact date for the establishment of the New World Order in order to take advantage of the growing 2012 phenomenon, which has its origins in the fringeMayanist theories of New Age writers José Argüelles, Terence McKenna, and Daniel Pinchbeck.

Skeptics argue that the connection of conspiracy theorists and occultists follows from their common fallacious premises. First, any widely accepted belief must necessarily be false. Second, counterknowledge — what the Establishment spurns — must be true. The result is a large, self-referential network in which, for example, some UFO religionists promote anti-Jewish phobias while some antisemites practice Peruvian shamanism.^[5]

Fourth Reich

Conspiracy theorists often use the term "Fourth Reich" simply as a pejorative synonym for the "New World Order" to imply that its state ideology and government will be similar to Germany's Third Reich. However, some conspiracy theorists use the research findings of American journalist Edwin Black, author of the 2009 book Nazi Nexus, to claim that some American corporations and philanthropic foundations — whose complicity was pivotal to the Third Reich's war effort, Nazi eugenics and the Holocaust — are now conspiring to build a Fourth Reich.

Conspiracy theorists, such as American writer Jim Marrs, claim that some ex-Nazis, who survived the fall of the Greater German Reich, along with sympathizers in the United States and elsewhere, given safe haven by organizations like ODESSA and Die Spinne, have been working behind the scenes since the end of World War II to enact at least some of the principles of Nazism (e.g., militarism, imperialism, widespread spying on citizens, corporatism, the use of propaganda to manufacture a national consensus) into culture, government, and business worldwide, but primarily in the U.S.. They cite the influence of ex-Nazi scientists brought in under Operation Paperclip to help advance aerospace manufacturing in the U.S. with technological principles from Nazi UFOs, and the acquisition and creation of conglomerates by ex-Nazis and their sympathizers after the war, in both Europe and the U.S.^[57]

This neo-Nazi conspiracy is said to be animated by an "Iron Dream" in which the American Empire, having thwarted the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy and overthrown its Zionist Occupation Government, gradually establishes a Fourth Reich formally known as the "Western Imperium" — a pan-Aryan world empire modeled after Adolf Hitler's New Order — which reverses the "decline of the West" and ushers a golden age of white supremacy.^[58]

Skeptics argue that conspiracy theorists grossly overestimate the influence of ex-Nazis and neo-Nazis on American society, and point out that political repression at home and imperialism abroad have a long history in the United States that predates the 20th century. Some political scientists, such as Sheldon Wolin, have expressed concern that the twin forces of democratic deficit and superpower status have paved the way in the U.S. for the emergence of an inverted totalitarianism which contradicts many principles of Nazism.^[59]

Alien Invasion

Since the late 1970s, extraterrestrials from other habitable planets or parallel dimensions (such as "Greys") and intraterrestrials from Hollow Earth (such as "Reptilians") have been included in the New World Order conspiracy, in more or less dominant roles, as in the theories put forward by American writers Stan Deyo and Milton William Cooper, and British writer David Icke.^[5]^[60]^[61]

The common theme in these conspiracy theories is that aliens have been among us for decades, centuries or millennia, but a governmentcover-up enforced by "Men in Black" has shielded the public from knowledge of a secret alien invasion. Motivated by speciesism andimperialism, these aliens have been and are secretly manipulating developments and changes in human society in order to more efficiently control and exploit human beings. In some theories, alien infiltrators have shapeshifted into human form and move freely throughout human society, even to the point of taking control of command positions in governmental, corporate, and religious institutions, and are now in the final stages of their plan to take over the world.^[61] A mythical covert government agency of the United States code-named Majestic 12 is often imagined to be the shadow government which collaborates with the alien occupation, in exchange for assistance in the development and testing of military "flying saucers" at Area 51, in order for U.S. armed forces to achieve full-spectrum dominance.^[5]

Skeptics, who adhere to the psychosocial hypothesis for unidentified flying objects, argue that the convergence of New World Order conspiracy theory and UFO conspiracy theory is a product of not only the era's widespread mistrust of governments and the popularity of theextraterrestrial hypothesis for UFOs but of the far right and ufologists actually joining forces. Barkun notes that the only positive side to this development is that, if conspirators plotting to rule the world are believed to be aliens, traditional human scapegoats (Freemasons, Illuminati,Jews, etc.) are downgraded or exonerated.^[5]

Brave New World

Antiscience and neo-Luddite conspiracy theorists emphasize technology forecasting in their New World Order conspiracy theories. They speculate that the global power elite are reactionary modernists pursuing a transhumanist agenda to develop and use human enhancement technologies in order to become a "posthuman ruling caste", while change accelerates toward a technological singularity — a theorized future point of discontinuity when events will accelerate at such a pace that normal unenhanced humans will be unable to predict or even understand the rapid changes occurring in the world around them. Conspiracy theorists fear the outcome will either be the emergence of aBrave New World-like dystopia — a "Brave New World Order" — or the extinction of the human species.^[62]

Democratic transhumanists, such as American sociologist James Hughes, and singularitarians, such as American inventor Raymond Kurzweil, counter that many influential members of the American Establishment are bioconservatives strongly opposed to human enhancement, as demonstrated by President Bush's Council on Bioethics's proposed international treaty prohibiting human cloning andgermline engineering. Regardless, transhumanists and singularitarians claim to only support developing and making publicly available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities for the common good; as well as taking deliberate action to ensure that the Singularity — the moment when technological progress starts being driven bysuperintelligence — occurs in a way that is beneficial to humankind.^[63]^[64]

Postulated implementations

Just as there are several overlapping or conflicting theories among conspiracists about the nature of the New World Order, so are there several beliefs about how its architects and planners will implement it:

Gradualism

Conspiracy theorists generally speculate that the New World Order is being implemented gradually, citing the formation of the U.S. Federal Reserve System in 1913; the League of Nations in 1919; the International Monetary Fund in 1944; the United Nations in 1945; the World Bank in 1945; the World Health Organization in 1948; the European Union and the euro currency in 1993; the World Trade Organization in 1998; and the African Union in 2002 as major milestones.^[5]

An increasingly popular conspiracy theory among American right-wing populists is that the hypothetical North American Union and the amerocurrency, proposed by the Council on Foreign Relations and its counterparts in Mexico and Canada, will be the next implementation of the New World Order. The theory holds that a group of shadowy and mostly nameless international elites are planning to replace the federal government of the United States with a transnational government. Therefore, conspiracy theorists believe the borders between Mexico, Canada and the United States are in the process of being erased, covertly, by a group of globalists whose ultimate goal is to replace national governments in Washington, D.C., Ottawa and Mexico City with a European-style political union and a bloated E.U.-style bureaucracy.^[65]

Skeptics argue that the North American Union exists only as a proposal contained in one of a thousand academic and/or policy papers published each year that advocate all manner of idealistic but ultimately unrealistic approaches to social, economic and political problems. Most of these get passed around in their own circles and eventually filed away and forgotten by junior staffers in congressional offices. Some of these papers, however, become touchstones for the conspiracy-minded and form the basis of all kinds of unfounded xenophobic fears especially during times of economic anxiety.^[65]

For example, in March 2009, as a result of the late-2000s financial crisis, the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation pressed for urgent consideration of a new international reserve currency and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development proposed greatly expanding the I.M.F.'s Special Drawing Rights. Conspiracy theorists fear these proposals are a call for the U.S. to adopt a single global currency for a New World Order.^[66]^[67]

Judging that both national governments and global institutions have proven ineffective in addressing worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to solve, some political scientists, such as Mark C. Partridge, argue that regionalism will be the major force in the coming decades, pockets of power around regional centers: Western Europe around Brussels, the Western Hemisphere aroundWashington, D.C., East Asia around Beijing, and Eastern Europe around Moscow. As such, the E.U., the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and the G-20 will likely become more influential as time progresses. The question then is not whether global governance is gradually emerging, but rather how will these regional powers interact with one another.^[68]

Coup d'état

American right-wing populist conspiracy theorists, especially those who joined the militia movement in the United States, speculate that the New World Order will be implemented through a dramatic coup d'état by a "secret team", using black helicopters, in the U.S. and other nation-states to bring about a totalitarian world government controlled by the United Nations and enforced by troops of foreign U.N. peacekeepers. Following the Rex 84 and Operation Garden Plot plans, this military coup would involve the suspension of the Constitution, the imposition of martial law, and the appointment of military commanders to head state and local governments and to detain dissidents.^[69]

These conspiracy theorists, who are all strong believers in a right to keep and bear arms, are extremely fearful that the passing of any gun control legislation will be later followed by the abolishment of personal gun ownership and a campaign of gun confiscation, and that therefugee camps of emergency management agencies such as F.E.M.A. will be used for the internment of suspected subversives, making little effort to distinguish true threats to the New World Order from pacifist dissidents.^[20]

Before year 2000 some survivalists wrongly believed this process would be set in motion by the predicted Y2K problem causing societal collapse.^[70] Since many left-wing and right-wing conspiracy theorists believe that the September 11 attacks were a false flag operationcarried out by the United States intelligence community, as part of a strategy of tension to justify political repression at home and preemptive war abroad, they have become convinced that a more catastrophic terrorist incident will be responsible for triggering Executive Directive 51 in order to complete the transition to a police state.^[71]

Skeptics argue that unfounded fears about an imminent or eventual gun ban, military coup, internment, or U.N. invasion and occupation are rooted in the siege mentality of the American militia movement but also an apocalyptic millenarianism which provides a basic narrative within the political right in the U.S., claiming that the idealized society (i.e., constitutional republic, Jeffersonian democracy, "Christian nation", "white nation") is thwarted by subversive conspiracies of liberal secular humanists who want "Big Government" and globalists who plot on behalf of the New World Order.^[12]

Mass surveillance

Conspiracy theorists concerned with surveillance abuse believe that the New World Order is being implemented by the cult of intelligence at the core of the surveillance-industrial complex through mass surveillance and the use of Social Security numbers, the bar-coding of retail goods with Universal Product Code markings, and, most recently, RFID tagging via microchip implants.^[5]

Original seal of the now defunct DARPA Information Awareness Office.

Skeptics warn that some consumer privacy advocates, such as Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre,^[72] — who claim that corporations and government are planning to track every move of consumers and citizens with RFID as the latest step toward a 1984-like surveillance state — have become Christian conspiracy theorists who believe spychips must be resisted because they argue that modern database and communications technologies, coupled with point of sale data-captureequipment and sophisticated ID and authentication systems, now make it possible to require abiometrically associated number or mark to make purchases. They fear that the ability to implement such a system closely resembles the Number of the Beast prophesied in the Book of Revelation.^[5]

In January 2002, the Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying information technology to counter asymmetric threats to national security. Following public criticism that the development and deployment of these technologies could potentially lead to a mass surveillance system, the IAO was defunded by the United States Congress in 2003.^[73] The second source of controversy involved IAO's original logo, which depicted the "all-seeing" Eye of Providenceatop of a pyramid looking down over the globe, accompanied by the Latin phrase scientia est potentia (knowledge is power). Although DARPA eventually removed the logo from its website, it left a lasting impression on privacy advocates.^[74] It also inflamed conspiracy theorists,^[75] who misinterpret the "eye and pyramid" as the Masonic symbol of the Illuminati,^[31]^[76] an 18th-century secret society they speculate continues to exist and is plotting on behalf of a New World Order.^[35]^[36]

American historian Richard Landes, who specializes in the history of apocalypticism and was co-founder and director of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, argues that new and emerging technologies often trigger alarmism among millenarians and even the introduction of Gutenberg's printing press in 1436 caused waves of apocalyptic thinking. The Year 2000 problem, bar codes and Social Security numbers all triggered end-time warnings which either proved to be false or simply were no longer taken seriously once the public became accustomed to these technological changes.^[77] Civil libertarians argue that the privatization of surveillance and the rise of the surveillance-industrial complex in the United States does raise legitimate concerns about the erosion of privacy.^[78] However, skeptics of mass surveillance conspiracism caution that such concerns should be disentangled from secular paranoia about Big Brother or religious hysteria about the Antichrist.^[5]

Occultism

Conspiracy theorists of the Christian right believe there is an ancient occult conspiracy — started by the first mystagogues of Gnosticismand perpetuated by their alleged esoteric successors, such as the Kabbalists, Cathars, Knights Templar, Hermeticists, Rosicrucians,Freemasons, and, ultimately, the Illuminati — which seeks to subvert the Judeo-Christian foundations of the Western world and implement the New World Order through a New Age one-world religion that prepares the masses to embrace the imperial cult of the Antichrist.^[55] More broadly, they speculate that globalists who plot on behalf of a New World Order are directed by occult agencies of some sort: unknown superiors, spiritual hierarchies, demons, fallen angels and/or Lucifer. They believe that, like Nazi occultists, these conspirators use the power of occult sciences (numerology), symbols (Eye of Providence), rituals (Masonic degrees), monuments (National Mall landmarks), buildings (Manitoba Legislative Building^[79]) and facilities (Denver International Airport) to advance their plot to rule the world.^[5]

For example, in June 1979, an unknown benefactor under the pseudonym "R. C. Christian" had a huge granite megalith built in the U.S. state of Georgia, which acts like a compass, calendar, and clock. A message comprising ten guides is inscribed on the occult structure in many languages to serve as instructions for survivors of a doomsday event to establish a more enlightened and sustainable civilization than the one which was destroyed. The "Georgia Guidestones" have subsequently become a spiritual and political Rorschach test onto which any number of ideas can be imposed. Some New Agers and neo-pagans revere it as a ley-line power nexus while a few conspiracy theorists are convinced that they are engraved with the New World Order's anti-Christian "Ten Commandments". Should the Guidestones survive for centuries as their creators intended, many more meanings could arise, equally unrelated to the designer's original intention.^[80]

Skeptics argue that the demonization of Western esotericism by conspiracy theorists is rooted in religious intolerance but also in the samemoral panics that have fueled witch trials in the Early Modern period, and satanic ritual abuse allegations in the United States.^[5]

Population control

Conspiracy theorists believe that the New World Order will also be implemented through the use of human population control in order to more easily monitor and control the movement of individuals. The means range from stopping the growth of human societies through reproductive health and family planning programs, which promote abstinence, contraception and abortion, or intentionally reducing the bulk of the world population through genocides by mongering unnecessary wars, through plagues by engineering emergent viruses and tainting vaccines, and through environmental disasters by controlling the weather (HAARP, chemtrails), etc. Conspiracy theorists argue that globalists plotting on behalf of a New World Order are neo-Malthusians who exaggerate the consequences of overpopulation and climate change in order to create public support for coercive population control.^[5]

Skeptics argue that fears of population control can be traced back to the traumatic legacy of the eugenics movement's "war against the weak" in the United States during the first decades of the 20th century but also the Second Red Scare in the U.S. during the late 1940s and 1950s, and to a lesser extent in the 1960s, when activists on the far right of American politics routinely opposed public health programs, notably water fluoridation, mass vaccination and mental health services, by asserting they were all part of a far-reaching plot to impose a socialist or communist regime.^[81] Their views were influenced by opposition to a number of major social and political changes that had happened in recent years: the growth of internationalism, particularly the United Nations and its programs; the introduction of social welfareprovisions, particularly the various programs established by the New Deal; and government efforts to reduce inequalities in the social structure of the U.S..^[82]

Mind control

Social critics accuse governments, corporations, and the mass media of being involved in the manufacturing of a national consensus and, paradoxically, a culture of fear due to the potential for increased social control that a mistrustful and mutually fearing population might offer to those in power. The worst fear of some conspiracy theorists, however, is that the New World Order will be implemented through the use ofmind control—a broad range of tactics able to subvert an individual's control of his or her own thinking, behavior, emotions, or decisions. These tactics are said to include everything from Manchurian candidate-style brainwashing of sleeper agents (Project MKULTRA, "Project Monarch") to engineering psychological operations (water fluoridation, subliminal advertising, "Silent Sound Spread Spectrum", MEDUSA) and parapsychological operations (Stargate Project) to influence the masses.^[83] The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats has become a popular stereotype and term of derision; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and is associated with conspiracy theorists.

Skeptics argue that the paranoia behind a conspiracy theorist's obsession with mind control, population control, occultism, surveillance abuse, Big Business, Big Government, and globalization arises from a combination of two factors, when he or she: 1) holds strongindividualist values and 2) lacks power. The first attribute refers to people who care deeply about an individual's right to make their own choices and direct their own lives without interference or obligations to a larger system (like the government), but combine this with a sense of powerlessness in one's own life, and one gets what some psychologists call "agency panic", intense anxiety about an apparent loss of autonomy to outside forces or regulators. When fervent individualists feel that they cannot exercise their independence, they experience a crisis and assume that larger forces are to blame for usurping this freedom.^[84]

Alleged conspirators

According to Domhoff, many people seem to believe that the United States is ruled from behind the scenes by a conspiratorial elite with secret desires, i.e., by a small secretive group that wants to change the government system or put the country under the control of a world government. In the past the conspirators were usually said to be crypto-communists who were intent upon bringing the United States under a common world government with the Soviet Union, but the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 undercut that theory. Domhoff notes that most conspiracy theorists changed their focus to the United Nations as the likely controlling force in a New World Order, an idea which is undermined by the powerlessness of the U.N. and the unwillingness of even moderates within the American Establishment to give it anything but a limited role.^[50]

In the 2008 book Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, political scientist David Rothkopf argues that the world population of 6 billion people is governed by an elite of 6,000 individuals. Until the late 20th century, governments of the great powers provided most of the superclass, accompanied by a few heads of international movements (i.e., the Pope of the Catholic Church) and entrepreneurs (Rothschilds, Rockefellers). According to Rothkopf, in the early 21st century, economic clout—fueled by the explosive expansion of international trade, travel and communication—rules; the nation-state's power has diminished shrinking politicians to minority power brokerstatus; leaders in international business, finance and the defense industry not only dominate the superclass, they move freely into high positions in their nations' governments and back to private life largely beyond the notice of elected legislatures (including the U.S. Congress), which remain abysmally ignorant of affairs beyond their borders. He asserts that the superclass' disproportionate influence over national policy is constructive but always self-interested, and that across the world, few object to corruption and oppressive governments provided they can do business in these countries.^[85]

Viewing the history of the world as the history of warfare between secret societies, conspiracy theorists go further than Rothkopf, and other scholars who have studied the global power elite, by claiming that established upper-class families with "old money" who founded and finance the Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Club, Club of Rome, Council on Foreign Relations, Rhodes Trust, Skull and Bones, Trilateral Commission, and similar think tanks and private clubs, are illuminated conspirators plotting to impose a totalitarian New World Order — the implementation of an authoritarian world government controlled by the United Nations and a global central bank, which maintains political power through thefinancialization of the economy, regulation and restriction of speech through the concentration of media ownership, mass surveillance, widespread use of state terrorism, and an all-encompassing propaganda that creates a cult of personality around a puppet world leader andideologizes world government as the culmination of history's progress.^[5]

Domhoff counters:

The opponents are the corporate conservatives and the Republican Party, not the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderbergers, and Bohemians. It is the same people more or less, but it puts them in their most important roles, as capitalists and political leaders, which are visible and legitimate... If thought of this way, then the role of a CFR as a place to try to hear new ideas and reach consensus is more readily understood, as is the function of a social club as a place that creates social cohesion. Moreover, those understandings of the CFR and the clubs fit with the perceptions of the members of the elite.^[86]

Progressives, who are skeptical of right-wing populist conspiracy theories, also accuse the global power elite of not having the best interests of all at heart, and many intergovernmental organizations of suffering from a democratic deficit, but they argue that the superclass areplutocrats only interested in brazenly imposing a neoliberal or neoconservative new world order — the implementation of global capitalismthrough economic and military coercion to protect the interests of transnational corporations ^[87] — which systematically undermines the possibility of a socialist one-world government. On the other hand, Marxists and anarchists, who believe the world is in the middle of a transition from the American Empire to the rule of a global ruling class that has emerged from within the American Empire,^[88] point out that right-wing populist conspiracy theorists, blinded by their anti-communism, fail to see is that what they demonize as the "New World Order" is, ironically, the highest stage of the very capitalist economic system they defend.^[89]

American intellectual Noam Chomsky, author of the 1994 book World Orders Old and New, often describes the new world order as a post-Cold-War era in which "the New World gives the orders". Commenting on the 1999 US-NATO bombing of Serbia, he writes:

The aim of these assaults is to establish the role of the major imperialist powers—above all, the United States—as the unchallengeable arbiters of world affairs. The "New World Order" is precisely this: an international regime of unrelenting pressure and intimidation by the most powerful capitalist states against the weakest.^[90]

Criticism

Skeptics of New World Order conspiracy theories accuse its proponents of indulging in the furtive fallacy, a belief that significant facts of history are necessarily sinister; conspiracism, a world view that centrally places conspiracy theories in the unfolding of history, rather than social and economic forces; and fusion paranoia, a promiscuous absorption of fears from any source whatsoever.^[5]

Domhoff, a research professor in psychology and sociology who studies theories of power, writes in a March 2005 essay entitled There Are No Conspiracies:

There are several problems with a conspiratorial view that don't fit with what we know about power structures. First, it assumes that a small handful of wealthy and highly educated people somehow develop an extreme psychological desire for power that leads them to do things that don't fit with the roles they seem to have. For example, that rich capitalists are no longer out to make a profit, but to create a one-world government. Or that elected officials are trying to get the constitution suspended so they can assume dictatorial powers. These kinds of claims go back many decades now, and it is always said that it is really going to happen this time, but it never does. Since these claims have proved wrong dozens of times by now, it makes more sense to assume that leaders act for their usual reasons, such as profit-seeking motives and institutionalized roles as elected officials. Of course they want to make as much money as they can, and be elected by huge margins every time, and that can lead them to do many unsavory things, but nothing in the ballpark of creating a one-world government or suspending the constitution.^[50]

Partridge, a contributing editor to the global affairs magazine Diplomatic Courier, writes in a December 2008 article entitled One World Government: Conspiracy Theory or Inevitable Future?:

I am skeptical that "global governance" could "come much sooner than that [200 years]," as [journalist Gideon Rachman] posits. For one thing, nationalism—the natural counterpoint to global government—is rising. Some leaders and peoples around the world have resented Washington's chiding and hubris over the past two decade of American unipolarity. Russia has been re-establishing itself as a "great power"; few could miss the national pride on display when China hosted the Beijing Olympics this summer; while Hugo Chavez and his ilk have stoked the national flames with their anti-American rhetoric. The departing of the Bush Administration could cause this nationalism to abate, but economic uncertainty usually has the opposite effect. [...] Another point is that attempts at global government and global agreements have been categorical failures. The WTO's Doha Round is dead in the water, Kyoto excluded many of the leading polluters and a conference to establish a deal was a failure, and there is a race to the bottom in terms of corporate taxes—rather than an existing global framework. And, where supranational governance structures exist, they are noted for their bureaucracy and inefficiency: The UN has been unable to stop an American-led invasion of Iraq, genocide in Darfur, the slow collapse of Zimbabwe, or Iran's continued uranium enrichment. That is not to belittle the structure, as I deem it essential, but the system's flaws are there for all to see.^[68]

Although some cultural critics see superconspiracy theories about a New World Order as "postmodern metanarratives" that may be politically empowering, a way of giving ordinary people a narrative structure with which to question what they see around them,^[91] skeptics argue that conspiracism leads people into cynicism, convoluted thinking, and a tendency to feel it is hopeless even as they denounce the alleged conspirators.^[86]

The activities of conspiracy theorists (talk radio shows, books, websites, documentary videos, conferences, etc.) unwittingly draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from serious criticism and activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background. That is why conspiracy-focused movements (JFK, UFO, 9/11 Truth) are treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work of truly left-wing progressives who are marginalized from mainstream public discourse.^[12]

Marxists, such as the members of the U.S. Party for Socialism and Liberation, reject conspiracy theories in general and New World Order conspiracism in particular because it produces false consciousness and cultism.^[92] They argue:

Conspiracy "theories" lack any true analysis of the systemic class forces at work that oppress billions of people each day. They do not point to imperialism and capitalism as the main problems, instead ascribing society's ills to a few leaders from imperialist countries that are somehow above the class systems under which we live. Such "theories" are not only false, anti-Marxist and truly reductive of history—they are dangerous diversions that keep people from aiming their anger and hatred toward the system that actually causes oppression throughout the world.^[92]

Marxists conclude that the real solution is something right-wing populist conspiracy theorists would never advocate or contemplate:democratic socialism.^[92]

Concerned that the apocalyptic millenarian theme in all conspiracy theories about a New World Order might motivate lone wolves to engage in leaderless resistance, which can encompass anything from patriot hacking to United States presidential assassination plots,^[93] Barkun writes:

The danger lies less in such beliefs themselves ... than in the behavior they might stimulate or justify. As long as the New World Order appeared to be almost but not quite a reality, devotees of conspiracy theories could be expected to confine their activities to propagandizing. On the other hand, should they believe that the prophesied evil day had in fact arrived, their behavior would become far more difficult to predict.^[5]

Warning of the threat to American democracy posed by right-wing populist movements led by demagogues who mobilize support for mob ruleor even a fascist revolution by exploiting the fear of conspiracies, Berlet writes:

Right-wing populist movements can cause serious damage to a society because they often popularize xenophobia, authoritarianism, scapegoating, and conspiracism. This can lure mainstream politicians to adopt these themes to attract voters, legitimize acts of discrimination (or even violence), and open the door for revolutionary right-wing populist movements, such as fascism, to recruit from the reformist populist movements.^[12]

Hughes, a professor of religion, warns that no religious idea has greater potential for shaping global politics in profoundly negative ways than "the new world order". He writes in a February 2011 article entitled Revelation, Revolutions, and the Tyrannical New World Order:

The crucial piece of this puzzle is the identity of the Antichrist, the tyrannical figure who both leads and inspires the new world order. [...] for many years, rapture theologians identified the Soviet Union as the Antichrist. But after Sept. 11, they became quite certain that the Antichrist was closely connected with the Arab world and the Muslim religion. This means, quite simply, that for rapture theologians, Islam stands at the heart of the tyrannical "new world order." Precisely here we discover why the idea of a "new world order" has such potential to move global politics in profoundly negative directions, for rapture theologians typically welcome war with the Islamic world. As Bill Moyers wrote of the rapture theologians, "A war with Islam in the Middle East is not something to be feared but welcomed -- an essential conflagration on the road to redemption." Further, rapture theologians co-opt the United States as a tool in their cosmic vision -- a tool God will use to smite the Antichrist and the enemies of righteousness. This is why Tim LaHaye, co-author of the best-selling series of end-times books, could lend such strong support to the American invasion and occupation of Iraq. By virtue of that war, LaHaye believed, Iraq would become "a focal point of end-times events." Even more disturbing is the fact that rapture theologians blissfully open the door to nuclear holocaust. Rapture theologians have always held that God will destroy his enemies at the end of time in the Great Battle of Armageddon. But since World War II, they have increasingly identified Armageddon with nuclear weaponry, thereby lending biblical inevitability to the prospects of nuclear annihilation. As one prophecy writer put it, "The holocaust of atomic war would fulfill the prophecies."^[23]

Criticisms of New World Order conspiracy theorists also come from within their own community. Despite believing themselves to be "freedom fighters", many right-wing populist conspiracy theorists hold views that are incompatible with their professed libertarianism, such asdominionism, white supremacism, and even eliminationism.^[12]^[18] This paradox has led Icke, who argues that Christian Patriots are the only Americans who understand the truth about the New World Order (which he believes is controlled by a race of reptilians known as the "Babylonian Brotherhood"), to reportedly tell a Christian Patriot group:

I don't know which I dislike more, the world controlled by the Brotherhood, or the one you want to replace it with.^[5]

Literature

The following is a list of notable published non-fiction books by New World Order conspiracy theorists:

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Carr, William Guy (1954). Pawns in the Game. Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Incorpora.ISBN 0-911038-29-9.
Davison, Mary M. The Profound Revolution. The Greater Nebraskan.
Allen, Gary. None Dare Call It Conspiracy. Buccaneer Books. ISBN 0899666612.
Allen, Gary. Rockefeller: Campaigning for the New World Order. American Opinion.
Allen, Gary. Say "No!" to the New World Order. Concord Press.
Abraham, Larry (1988) [1971]. Call it Conspiracy. Double a Publications. ISBN 0-9615550-1-7.
Still, William T. (1990). New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies. Huntington House Publishers. ISBN 0-910311-64-1.
Cooper, Milton William (1991). Behold a Pale Horse. Light Technology Publications. ISBN 0-929385-22-5.
Kah, Gary H. (1991). En Route to Global Occupation. Huntington House Publishers. ISBN 0-910311-97-8.
Martin, Malachi (1991). Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0671747231.
Robertson, Pat (1992). The New World Order. W Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8499-3394-3.
Wardner, James (1994) [1993]. The Planned Destruction of America. Longwood Communications. ISBN 0-9632190-5-7.
Keith, Jim (1995). Black Helicopters over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order. Illuminet Press. ISBN 1-881532-05-4.
Jones, Alan B. (2001) [1997]. Secrecy or Freedom?. ABJ Press. ISBN 0-9640848-2-1.
Cuddy, Dennis Laurence (1999) [1994]. Secret Records Revealed: The Men, The Money and The Methods Behind the New World Order. Hearthstone Publishing, Ltd.. ISBN 1-57558-031-4.
Marrs, Jim (2001) [2001]. Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-093184-1.
Lina, Jüri (2004). Architects of Deception. Referent Publishing. ASIN B0017YZELI.
Tedford, Cody (2008). Powerful Secrets. Hannover. ISBN 1-4241-9263-3.
Dice, Mark (2010). The New World Order: Facts & Fiction. The Resistance. ISBN 0967346673.

In popular culture

Cultural critics note that a vast popular audience has been introduced by Hollywood conspiracy thrillers to various fringe theories related to New World Order conspiracism (black helicopter, FEMA "concentration camps", etc.), which were previously confined to radical right-wingsubcultures for decades. Barkun cites the 1997 film Conspiracy Theory and the 1998 film The X-Files: Fight the Future as two notable examples.^[5]

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INTERNATIONAL BANKERS OWN THE TAX MAN
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is the real deal; a conspiracy that has already accomplished its set goals. This is the "Illuminati" conceived New World Order. The Illuminati symbol is on every Amercan dollar bill. Don't think for a moment that the New World Order is about truth, freedom, or abundance. It's not. Just look at the 9-11 coverup. Our governments have been ignorantly lead deeply into debt by anonymous creditors, and they (our governments) transfer those dubious debts on to the shoulders of we citizens through taxes. The US Federal Reserve Bank, the IMF, the World Bank, the Bank of England, and most other "National" banks are wholly owned and/or controlled by wealthy Banking/Illuminati interests. The US Government continues to finance a large part of the budget by borrowing from the "Fed" (Federal Reserve Bank) at interest, and forcing we citizens into tax debt. The "Fed" simply creates money out of thin air, using the US tax cashflow as "security", and loans it to government. Your taxes then go partly to service the interest on this ever-growing national debt, and partly towards fomenting the next money-making war for the private banks. This is not banking conspiracy theory. It is absolute fact. And it is happening in nearly every country.

I'm not fear mongering here. We are not hopelessly enslaved. But I can tell you clearly that if you do not understand the problem, you will never grasp the answer. Fact: Some things out there are not pretty. Fact: We can make it better.

Illuminati Symbol on US Money

ILLUMINATI SYMBOL ON U.S. MONEY
The real purpose of taxation is simply to line the pockets of those wealthy Illuminati bankers who control the US Federal Reserve Bank, the IMF, the World Bank and the world monetary system; and who underpin the "Illuminati" New World Order . Taxes create a real shortage of money, which the banks then replace with high interest debt. In the process, the banks gain control over more and more of the world's wealth through mortgage, debenture, and govt./private guarantee . The real battle being fought is not about the "right" level of taxation, but rather, about who has the right to create our means of exchange(our money supply), and what are the terms upon which that money is created. This battle has been waged for several hundred years, and the rights of the sovereign individual have been all but lost to the Illuminati banking conspirators' interests. If this was simply another conspiracy theory, the world would not be laboring under this immense banking indebtedness, nation would not be battling nation, and our money would not be carrying the Illuminati symbol of oppression.

Early American colonists were experiencing an economic miracle by issuing their own "script" (money) until the English monarch demanded British currency be used in all trade. The first act of the American revolution was sparked by the King's demand for the colonists to pay tax on imported tea in British gold coin (to repay the Crown debt to Illuminati bankers). This was the "Boston Tea Party". The rest is history.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, possibly because he had issued $500 million in interest-free "Lincoln Greenbacks" without the permission of the Illuminati banking conspirators. It was this interest-free money that allowed the North to pay their troops and win the American Civil War. Once Lincoln was buried, the Illuminati banks again had their way. James Garfield also tried to issue interest-free money. He, too, was assassinated. It is believed that JFK was also on to the Illuminati banking/tax conspiracy. He, too, was killed by unknown conspirators.

Adolph Hitler restored the might of Germany in under two years by refusing to borrow from the banks and issuing "Deutchmarks" against the wealth of the German people. Had he not been so greedy, he could have purchased all of Europe within a few years without the loss of a single soldier.

Stop Illuminati Taxes

DOES THE ILLUMINATI CONSPIRACY SUPPORT WAR?
Because the Illuminati Banking Conspiracy has the power to create money out of "thin air", it is little wonder that they are able to loan money to both sides in any military conflict without hesitation. They have nothing to lose, and everything (debt interest and power) to gain; whoever emerges victorious. This is why the 9-11 disaster, and the ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, have made astronomical profits for the banks. This further explains how the World Bank, the IMF, the US Federal Reserve, and the Bank of England are able to write off billions of dollars in unpaid development loans to struggling countries, and why the Banks happily continue to lend even more money in exchange for the power to implement policy for those countries; policy that entrenches the Illuminati's powers even more. This is the source of the undeveloped world debt crises.

NEWS FLASH! The BBC knew Trade Tower 7 was going to fall 30 minutes before it happened!
A supposed "live" take on a BBC tape archive from Sept. 11, 2001, shows reporter Jane Standleydescribing the demolition of Trade Tower 7 and the reasons for its sudden and "unexpected" destruction while standing in front of a window in which the said tower is seen still standing. Further, time stamp on a sister tape shows that the piece was aired 23 munutes before the tower actually fell. The short interview withStandley was abruptly terminated without explanation once someone at the BBC realized the obvious inconsistency, or the consequences in destroying the credibility of the official line.

What this means is that the entire 9-11 tragedy was carefully crafted and engineered by members of the present US Government administration. The BBC tape was scripted before hand with the full and detailed knowledge of what was about to occur. All three trade tower buildings were demolished with pre-planted thermite explosives, as was made crystal clear by striking photos of huge beams surgically cut through in a straight line with something hot enough to make them melt and run like hot wax.

Vice President Dick Cheney, who took over direct command of NORAD only a few months before 9-11,gave a direct command for the Air Force to "stand down" and ignore the hijacked planes. Gearge Bush's brother was in charge of security at the Twin Towers. A few weeks before 9-11 the entire complex was shut off from the public for a weekend while "fiber optic cable" was installed in the buildings.

Larry Silverstein, owner of the Twin Towers, stated on national TV (later recanting) that the order was given to "pull" Trade Tower 7 in order to "save lives". And a host of credible witnesses at the scene describe numerous explosions before the collapses, a warning to get out of the building, and a 21 second "countdown" before Tower 7 fell.

On one level, it was all preplanned to inflame public opinion against those Muslim countries standing in the way of US oil interests overseas.
On another much deeper level in which many of the players themselves were probably ignorant, it was designed to further empower the World Financial Dictatorship, remove many of our remaining personal freedoms, and pave the way for a New World Order in which the bulk of humankind be subjected to continual debt slavery and complete subservience to our financial masters.

For more details on this incredible breaking story, go tohttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/260207building7.htm
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FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM
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