Former Nato Secretary-General Admits Bilderberg Sets Global Policy

(PaulWatson) – Former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes has confounded claims by debunkers that the secret organization which met in Sitges Spain over the last few days does not set policy, admitting during a Belgian radio interview that Bilderberg attendees are mandated to implement decisions that are formulated during the annual conference of power brokers.

In a radio interview reported on by the Belgian news website www.zonnewind.be, Claes told host Koen Fillet that Bilderberg does indeed decide policy for the coming year. Claes would certainly be in a position to know, being a two-time Bilderberg attendee as well as the eighth Secretary General of NATO from 1994 until 1995.

Economy

(Telegraph) – Anheuser-Busch beer blockade hits brewing

Supplies of Stella Artois, Leffe and Beck’s running low as Belgian unions prepare to ask European workers for support. Read More Here

(DNAIndia) – General Motors to close down Opel’s Antwerp plant

General Motors will close Opel’s manufacturing plant in the Belgian port city of Antwerp, sources said on Wednesday, closing the door firmly on the last remaining hopes for the site’s 2,300 staff. Read More Here

(Yahoo) – GM’s Opel to cut 8,300 jobs across Europe

General Motor Co.’s Opel unit will cut 8,300 jobs across Europe, including 4,000 in Germany, and close a plant in Antwerp, Belgium — casualties of the “tough reality” of a shrinking European auto market. Read More Here

(WSWS) – Many German local authorities nearing bankruptcy

At the start of 2010, a number of local town and district councillors in Germany began to reveal the catastrophic current state of local authority finances. Government budget policies, together with the international financial-industrial crisis, have drastically intensified the economic pressures on many municipal and district authorities. Their level of debt in 2009 climbed to €5 billion, and it is feared that these debts could rise to €50 billion within the next five years. Hitherto unimaginable cutbacks and economy measures will be the result. Read More Here

(CNN) – Air America going dark

Liberal talk radio network Air America is planning to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the company said Thursday. Read More Here

MSM: Carbon traders charged in fraud case

(Reuters) – Three Britons and a Dutchman have been charged by Belgian authorities with money laundering in an investigation into fraudulent trading in carbon emissions permits, Belgian prosecutors said on Monday.

Belgium Suspends Democracy and Civil Rights Over Swine Flu Pandemic

The Belgian parliament yesterday voted to give the government emergency dictatorial powers under the pretext of dealing with a pandemic emergency.

EU’s International Military Police Force (EGF) Can Squash Public Disobedience *

Don’t worry about French UN troops, Spanish UN troops, Romanian UN troops or any other UN troops being used to quell rebellions in western nations due to bank bailouts or any other unpopular or corrupt acts by government. Not when you have the international military police force at the hands of the EU. Never heard of it? Read below.

Former Belgian Mayor Crusades Against Chemtrails

“We are massively being poisoned and brainwashed” Former mayor Peter Vereecke (53) of Evergem wants the justice department and the city council to act against planes that are according to him spraying day and night disease causing germs and chemicals all over the world. ”Rest assured I am not insane”

MSM: G-8 leaders to receive books on Canova, gold coins

(Yahoo) – World leaders attending the Group of Eight summit opening Wednesday in Italy will each be presented with a gift from the past and one for the future.