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By Walden Bello

The Group of 20 (G20) is making a big show of getting together to come to grips with the global economic crisis. But here's the problem with the upcoming summit in London on April 2: It's all show. What the show masks is a very deep worry and fear among the global elite that it really doesn't know the direction in which the world economy is heading and the measures needed to stabilize it.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22322.htm



UK: Demonstrate at the G20 on 1 April

The leaders of the world's big powers will meet at the G20 summit in London on 2 April. It is Barack Obama's first visit to Britain. It is our chance to demand a change from Bush's war policies.

http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1121/1/



G20: Will China make this the G1?

Alone among the big economies, China is still in the ascendancy. It may well hold the swing vote at the G20

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/02/g20-china-hu-brown



G20 pledges $1 trillion in funds

World leaders at the G20 summit in London have announced they are to triple the finances of the International Monetary Fund to help fight the worst economic crisis since the 1930s and will impose new curbs on financial markets.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/04/200942143554840312.html


From Information Clearing House

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G-20: Welcome to the Multi-Polar World

Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian UK: "The run-up to the G-20 meeting has been interesting and colorful. President Lula Da Silva of Brazil declared that 'this crisis was caused by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.' His full remarks made it clear that he was not promoting biological race theories but calling attention to the injustice that the vast majority of the world, who happen to be both poor and non-white, should suffer for the greed and stupidity of a few."

http://www.truthout.org/040109R

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G20 Protests: Thousands Flood Into City of London
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/01

Why We Should Listen to the Protesters
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/03-11

Promises, Promises, That's All They Ever Give Us
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/03-5

G20 protests turn violent
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/74fd33c7115c0c1b?hl=en

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New World Order: Still A Conspiracy Theory?

Wikipedia still thinks so, despite hundreds of pronouncements during G20 summit

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, April 3, 2009

Despite the fact that the term “new world order” was mentioned in connection with the G20 this week hundreds of times by both global leaders and in news reports, it is still regarded as a “conspiracy theory” by that bastion of truthiness, Wikipedia.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-world-order-still-a-conspiracy-theory.html



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