MSM: Control freaks want web licenses to end bloggers’ anonymity – be very afraid

(Telegraph) – The American blogosphere is going increasingly “viral” about a proposal advanced at the recent meeting of the Davos Economic Forum by Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, that an equivalent of a “driver’s license” should be introduced for access to the web. This totalitarian call has been backed by articles and blogs in Time magazine and the New York Times.

MSM: Defiant banks pay millions in bonuses

(TimesOnline) – A fresh row over City bonuses is set to engulf ministers after it emerged last night that 200 executives at Lloyds, the partly state-owned bank, are set to receive one-off payments worth up to 80 per cent of their annual salaries.

MSM: The Christmas credit crunch – Greedy finance firms push interest rate towards 40%

(DailyMail) – The move by Capital One means some customers will be paying almost 40 per cent interest on their Christmas gifts and January sale purchases unless they clear the balance on their cards.

For Britons, The Party Game Is Over – John Pilger

On the day Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his “major policy speech” on Afghanistan, repeating his surreal claim that if the British army did not fight Pashtun tribesmen over there, they would be over here, the stench of burnt flesh hung over the banks of the Kunduz River. Nato fighter planes had blown the poorest of the poor to bits.

UN Calls For Bank Of The World, New Global Currency

Proposals for a new centralized economic world order outlined in globalist report

Peter Mandelson finally gets to run the UK … from Corfu

As seats of power go, it is pretty spectacular. It emerged today that Peter Mandelson has chosen to run the country from Nathaniel Rothschild’s opulent villa overlooking the sparkling Ionian Sea in a secluded corner of Corfu.

MSM: Al Gore likens fight against climate change to battle with Nazis

(Times) – Al Gore invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill today by encouraging political leaders to follow the example of Britain’s wartime leader and unite their nations to fight climate change.

China Voices Support For New Global Currency To Replace Dollar

China has expressed support for Russia’s proposal to hand the IMF the power to create a new supra-national global currency in response to the call for an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency.

MSM: GM says it will go bust in days without new US bail-out

General Motors today warned it would go bust within 30 days unless the US treasury gives it a further multi-billion dollar loan.