 
The Hard Road to World Order"
"In this unhappy state of affairs, few people retain much confidence in the more ambitious strategies for world order that had wide backing a generation ago—'world federalism,' 'charter 'review,' and 'world peace through world law.'... If instant world government, Charter review, and a greatly strengthened International Court do not provide the answers, what hope for progress is there?... In short, the 'house of world order' would have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion,' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”
- Richard Gardener, member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, "The Hard Road to World Order", (Foreign Affairs, 1974) p. 557-558
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BYE BYE BRITTAN: UK WILL BE FORCED TO EAT ONLY GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS!!!!
America is Next. Oh, wait...they're already doing so since the 80ty's!!!! Too bad no one told them.
www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/food/6924216/Britai...
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Meet the man behind INTERPOL: Ronald Kenneth Noble, INTERPOL Secretary General
Ronald K. Noble was elected Secretary General by the 69th INTERPOL General Assembly in Rhodes, Greece, in 2000, and was unanimously reelected to a second five-year term by the 74th INTERPOL General Assembly in Berlin, Germany, in 2005 (who are these people who elected him?!?!!?). He is also a tenured Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, on leave of absence while serving as INTERPOL’s Secretary General.
He was head of the Department's "Waco Administrative Review Team" which produced a report on the ATF's actions against the Branch Davidians leading to the murderous and vile Waco Siege.
Mr Noble previously served as the United States Department of Treasury’s first Undersecretary for Enforcement (1993-1996), where he was in charge of some of the US’s then-largest law enforcement agencies, including the Secret Service, Customs Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and Office of Foreign Assets Control. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant US Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice (1984-1989).
A former member of INTERPOL’s Executive Committee, Mr Noble was also President of the 26-nation Financial Action Task Force, the anti-money laundering organization established by the G7 in 1989. Mr Noble served as a Law Clerk for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, from 1982-1984, where he received the highest evaluation ever given to a Law Clerk by Judge Higginbotham.
Under Mr Noble’s leadership, INTERPOL has reorganized its activities around four core functions, transformed its technology and revitalized its databases and operational police support services.
Between 2000 and 2008, the number of Red Notices – international wanted persons notices – issued by INTERPOL nearly tripled, from 1,077 to 3,126; the number of ‘diffusions’ issued through INTERPOL more than doubled – from 5,333 to 13,339; and the number of annual arrests of individuals who were the subjects of INTERPOL Red Notices or diffusions surged from 534 to 5,680. In total, more than 27,000 international criminals who were the subjects of INTERPOL Red Notices or diffusions were arrested during this period.
In addition, INTERPOL has created and launched the world’s first and only global police communications system, called I-24/7, which empowers police agencies in 188 countries to instantly exchange information and to access INTERPOL’s databases. It has launched the world’s first global database of stolen and lost travel documents, which at the end of 2008 contained information on nearly 16.7 million travel documents from 145 countries; has created the world’s first international automated DNA database; has created a database aimed at fighting the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; and has created and deployed technologies, called MIND/FIND, that can put many of these tools into the hands of officers at airports, borders or anywhere else they are needed.
Under Mr Noble’s leadership, INTERPOL has also created the Command and Co-ordination Centre, which operates around the clock in all of INTERPOL’s four official languages (Arabic, English, French and Spanish) to serve as the first point of contact for any member country faced with a terrorist attack or other crisis. It is the only operations centre in the world through which any officer in any country can reach out to the global law enforcement community for information or other assistance regarding an investigation.
INTERPOL has also created deployable Incident Response Teams (IRT), which can be dispatched to the scene within hours of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other major crisis, and INTERPOL Major Event Support Teams (IMEST), which are available to help co-ordinate security for major international events.
Mr Noble oversaw the opening of INTERPOL’s New York office at the United Nations in 2004, which resulted in closer collaboration between the two organizations, including the creation of the INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notice for individuals subject to UN sanctions against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. As a result of this successful collaboration, the UN unanimously adopted a resolution to encourage further co-operation between the UN and INTERPOL, marking the first time in history that a UN resolution focused exclusively on the work of law enforcement through INTERPOL.
Mr Noble has tirelessly promoted these innovations and other INTERPOL services by personally meeting with officials from around the world, both those who visit the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon, France, and those he has met in the more than 120 countries he has visited since taking office. He has also given official testimony before the United States Congress, G8 and other bodies, and has authored a number of articles for books, newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and other publications.
In addition, an INTERPOL office was opened at the European Union in Brussels in 2008, in order to promote closer co-operation and joint initiatives in Europe.
Mr Noble has also spearheaded the creation of a bioterrorism prevention unit at the General Secretariat, and has initiated the process of creating the INTERPOL-UNODC Anti-Corruption Academy, in Vienna, Austria, which will be the world’s first international institute dedicated to fighting corruption.
During his tenure, Mr Noble has presided over a period of unprecedented growth at the organization. Between 2000 and 2008, the INTERPOL budget rose by more than 50 per cent (funded by WHOM??), while the number of nationalities represented at the General Secretariat and regional offices increased from 52 to more than 80.
In 2008 Mr Noble was awarded the world-renowned Légion d’Honneur – the highest decoration in France – by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In his speech President Sarkozy gave recognition to INTERPOL’s long-standing achievements and to recent transformations under Mr Noble’s leadership.
Mr Noble holds a Juris Doctorate Degree from Stanford University Law School, where he was Articles Editor for the Stanford Law Review, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. A national of the United States, Mr Noble speaks French, German and Spanish in addition to his native English.
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"Less than one year after my confirmation, Al Qaeda terrorists used US soil and US targets to murder thousands of U.S. citizens and citizens from more than 70 of our member countries spread around the globe. On September 11, 2001, the entire world’s attention was finally drawn to the importance of the anti-terrorism fight. On that day, we as a world community were put on notice by Al Qaeda that our personal and national security could never again be taken for granted. It does not matter where you were. It does not matter what you were doing. Each and every one of you can remember where you were when you first learned about or first saw images of the terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center on the 11th of September 2001. For Interpol, the 11th of September was a moment of reckoning. It was the time for us to decide what kind of international police organization we wanted Interpol to be. Although Interpol had been created over 80 years ago by police chiefs to provide operational police support internationally, something had happened to Interpol over the years. Interpol had become so slow, so unresponsive that in many police circles around the world Interpol was considered irrelevant to their day-to-day needs. But, it was on September 11, 2001 that Interpol went operational and that we committed ourselves to working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year to support our NCBs and police services. And it was on that day that we first began reaching out to you in times of crisis, rather than waiting for you to ask for help. One can say that Interpol was reborn on the 11th of September 2001."
In 2008, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur by the Evil Satanist baby killer French President Nicolas Sarkozy
(PHOTO NOT TAKEN BY ME)
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INTERPOL’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) for 21st century
INTERPOL GSI Vision: 21st Century Law Enforcement to Meet Global Threats
The ICPO-INTERPOL General Assembly, meeting in St Petersburg, Russia, from 7 to 10 October at its 77th session:
ACKNOWLEDGING that INTERPOL, through its commitment to strengthening law enforcement in 186(7)* countries, is to deliver a longer-term global security strategy that will guide the Organization’s development, identify and respond to critical resource requirements, and serve as a vehicle to articulate INTERPOL’s strategic priorities,
MINDFUL of the intent of the General Secretariat, with the close oversight of INTERPOL’s Executive Committee and consultation with NCBs, to further develop an organizational strategic framework that seeks to provide the most value to its members and the broader global community,
NOTES the General Secretariat, through the Global Security Initiative, will guide the development of an INTERPOL Strategic Plan that will take into account the following core components:
Global Security: Combating Transnational Crime, including Terrorism through Enhanced Information sharing and connectivity, Data Management and Analysis
Secure Global Infrastructure: Leading-edge Communications, Analytical and Cyber Security Initiatives
Global Law Enforcement Capacity: A 21st Century Training and Capacity Building Initiative for Law Enforcement
Strategic Global Partnerships: Encouraging Government and the Private Sector Investment in major strategic initiatives will ensure that INTERPOL’s Vision and Mission are realized
Innovation: Ensuring that INTERPOL becomes a focal point where state of the art ideas, tools and approaches to policing in the 21st Century are discussed.
HAVING IN MIND that such Strategic framework and additional resources would be of benefit to the Organization, including its National Central Bureaus, the law enforcement entities they serve, and the General Secretariat,
ENDORSES INTERPOL’s development of a Strategic Framework through the INTERPOL Global Security Initiative for the 21st Century that would attract funding from governments and the private sector to ensure that INTERPOL’s strategies and activities address 21st Century threats and Global Law Enforcement requirements.
www.interpol.int/public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2009/PR20090...
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