tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79526914242161429652024-02-18T23:12:45.544-08:00CanadaLovesGlobalismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7952691424216142965.post-23471898479717816702010-07-04T12:33:00.000-07:002010-07-04T12:35:19.374-07:00G20 Police in the headlines<div class="thumbnail" style=""><a target="_self" href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/07/03/edm-g20-protest.html" class="usg-AFQjCNFT6no1h7PPIS0CYHVqoGGErzBt5Q " title="CBC.ca"><img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,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" alt="" height="80" width="80" /></a><div class="source"><a target="_self" href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/07/03/edm-g20-protest.html" class="usg-AFQjCNFT6no1h7PPIS0CYHVqoGGErzBt5Q ">CBC.ca</a></div></div> <h2 class="title"> <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNHQ_IPa8vgKYIJ0dLuq6neqCfFM2A " href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/protesting-the-protesters-97757494.html" id="MAA4AEgJUABqAmNhegFu"><span class="titleText">Protesting the protesters</span></a> <a class="star-link yesscript processed" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;"><span class="icon star-icon star-story unstarred"></span></a><input class="star-id" name="star-id" value="AFQjCNHQ_IPa8vgKYIJ0dLuq6neqCfFM2A" type="hidden"><input class="star-url" name="star-url" value="/star?cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&docUrl=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/protesting-the-protesters-97757494.html&docId=1319316315174159338&cid=17593770434050&title=Protesting+the+protesters&viewed=1278247710" type="hidden"><input class="unstar-url" name="unstar-url" value="/star?cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&docUrl=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/protesting-the-protesters-97757494.html" type="hidden"> </h2><span class="first-story"> <div class="story cid-17593770434050 l-en headline-story thumbnail-false "> <div class="sub-title"><span class="source source-pref sid-847746 ">Winnipeg Free Press</span> - <span class="date ">11 hours ago</span></div> <div class="body"> <div class="snippet"> A demonstration in Osborne Village on Canada Day protesting police tactics during the G20 summit in Toronto inspired a storm of protest on our website. Give me a break. Go home and grill a burger or two on the barby and have a beer. <b>...</b> </div> <div class="sources"><span class="source-link"></span></div> </div> </div> </span> <div class="story cid-17593770434050 l-en headline-story thumbnail-false "> <h2 class="title"> <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNH88lJ3i2kqfL_iC3tDjPmdv5EUvg " href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/831780--protesters-in-edmonton-march-to-demand-inquiry-into-arrests-at-g20-in-toronto" id="MAA4AEgBUABqAmNh"><span class="titleText">Protesters in Edmonton march to demand inquiry into arrests at G20 in Toronto</span></a> </h2> <div class="sub-title"><span class="source source-pref sid-669669 ">Toronto Star</span> - <span class="date ">15 hours ago</span></div> <div class="body"> <div class="snippet"> EDMONTON—More than 150 people marched in downtown Edmonton to demand a public inquiry into the arrests of hundreds of people following G20 protests in Toronto. A number of local activists who travelled to Toronto to protest the G20 summit witnessed <b>...</b> </div> <div class="sources"><span class="source-link"></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="story cid-17593770434050 l-en headline-story thumbnail-false "> <h2 class="title"> <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNHVgUtLSfVxJQ2afU_6CJea0XjSSA " href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Protesters+slam+policing/3233396/story.html" id="MAA4AEgCUABqAmNh"><span class="titleText">Protesters slam G20 policing</span></a> </h2> <div class="sub-title"><span class="source source-pref sid-663805 ">Edmonton Journal</span> - <span class="author-link"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q=author:%22Jennifer+Fong%22&scoring=n">Jennifer Fong</a></span> - <span class="date ">6 hours ago</span></div> <div class="body"> <div class="snippet"> Protesters, protesting the treatment of protesters by police at the G20 conference in Toronto, march past Canada Place to the EPS downtown station in Edmonton, Alberta, on Saturday, July 3, 2010. <b>...</b> </div> <div class="sources"><span class="source-link"></span></div> </div> </div> <div id="mc-quote"><a name="quotes"></a> <hr class="quote-hr"> <div class="quote-story story cid-0"><table class="quote-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="left-quote"><br /></td> <td><div class="quotesnippet"><span class="large"><b>"Some people have some concerns and they have various avenues available to them,"</b> McGuinty said.</span></div> <div class="info-line"><span class="speaker">more by <b><a href="http://news.google.com/news/quote?pz=1&cf=q&ned=ca&hl=en&qsid=psW2wMfhVs-BqM">Dalton McGuinty</a></b></span> - <span class="info">15 hours ago - <a class="usg-AFQjCNH88lJ3i2kqfL_iC3tDjPmdv5EUvg" href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/831780--protesters-in-edmonton-march-to-demand-inquiry-into-arrests-at-g20-in-toronto"> Toronto Star</a> <span class="source">(1 occurrences)</span></span></div></td> <td class="right-quote"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <hr class="quote-hr"></div> <div class="story cid-17593770434050 l-en headline-story thumbnail-false "> <h2 class="title"> <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNFT6no1h7PPIS0CYHVqoGGErzBt5Q " href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/07/03/edm-g20-protest.html" id="MAA4AEgDUABqAmNh"><span class="titleText">Edmonton protesters join call for G20 inquiry</span></a><span style="white-space: nowrap ! important; float: none ! important; padding: 0pt ! important; text-decoration: none ! important;"> <a ondblclick="slu" slt="" title="Read 1 review in topic Liberties/Rights" style="text-decoration: none; float: none; padding: 0pt; font-size: smaller; color: rgb(119, 119, 204);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/07/03/edm-g20-protest.html"><img ondblclick="slu" style="display: inline; float: none; border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" src="chrome://stumbleupon/content/skin/smallstumble.png" border="0" height="13" width="13" /></a></span> </h2> <div class="sub-title"><span class="source source-pref sid-663746 ">CBC.ca</span> - <span class="date ">17 hours ago</span></div> <div class="body"> <div class="snippet"> Keely Kidner, who attended a G20 demonstration in Toronto, addresses the protest held in Edmonton on Saturday. (Andrea Huncar/CBC)About 200 people marched from Edmonton City Hall to the downtown police station on Saturday, adding their voices to the <b>...</b> </div> <div class="sources"><span class="source-link"></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="story cid-17593770434050 l-en headline-story thumbnail-false "> <h2 class="title"> <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNHmLvWsLBstOjHa8KR-pG7C2uoVwA " href="http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2010/07/03/14600031.html" id="MAA4AEgEUABqAmNh"><span class="titleText">Edmontonians protest G20 arrests</span></a> </h2> <div class="sub-title"><span class="source source-pref sid-669590 ">Edmonton Sun</span> - <span class="author-link"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q=author:%22Richard+Liebrecht%22&scoring=n">Richard Liebrecht</a></span> - <span class="date ">19 hours ago</span></div> <div class="body"> <div class="snippet"> Frustration over police actions at the G20 Summit in Toronto spilled out onto Edmonton streets Saturday. About 200 people protested the treatment of protestors in Toronto a week ago, as well as the participation of <b>...</b> </div> <div class="sources"><span class="source-link"></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="story cid-17593770434050 l-en headline-story thumbnail-false "> <h2 class="title"> <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNEkG7iyOlhfQiZxLRp1ibzv1560uA " href="http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100703/edmonton-g20-protest-100703/" id="MAA4AEgFUABqAmNh"><span class="titleText">Edmonton protest demands inquiry into G20 arrests</span></a> </h2> <div class="sub-title"><span class="source source-pref sid-663756 ">CTV.ca</span> - <span class="date ">18 hours ago</span></div> <div class="body"> <div class="snippet"> More than 150 people took to the streets in Edmonton Saturday, demanding a public inquiry into the arrests of 900 people during G20 protests in Toronto. The "March to Demand Justice" saw demonstrators parade from Edmonton City Hall to the police <b>...</b> </div> <div class="sources"><span class="source-link"></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="story cid-17593770434050 l-en headline-story thumbnail-false "> <h2 class="title"> <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNGbwyjxv342JwrMAczr9RDnkoAabw " href="http://www.inews880.com/Channels/Reg/LocalNews/story.aspx?ID=1248726" id="MAA4AEgGUABqAmNh"><span class="titleText">Protesters "March to Demand Justice" downtown</span></a> </h2> <div class="sub-title"><span class="source source-pref sid-844746 ">iNews880.com</span> - <span class="author-link"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q=author:%22Scott+C.+Bourgeois%22&scoring=n">Scott C. Bourgeois</a></span> - <span class="date ">Jul 3, 2010</span></div> <div class="body"> <div class="snippet"> Demonstrators marched from City Hall to the Edmonton Police Service headquarters Saturday, in protest of police actions in Toronto during the G20. The aim of the "March to Demand Justice" is to send a clear message that Canadians want an independent <b>...</b> </div> <div class="sources"><span class="source-link"></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="story cid-17593770434050 l-en headline-story thumbnail-false "> <h2 class="title"> <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNHGD0YzST6inBrpMKu4t83LPdYINA " href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/44676" id="MAA4AEgHUABqAmNh"><span class="titleText">Canada: G20 protests under assault</span></a> </h2> <div class="sub-title"><span class="source source-pref sid-663477 ">Green Left Weekly</span> - <span class="date ">14 hours ago</span></div> <div class="body"> <div class="snippet"> Anti-G20 rally, Toronto, June 26. A series of unwarranted acts of vandalism by a small number of protesters against stores, vehicles and buildings, was used as an excuse for a massive unleashing of police repression against all protesters. <b>...</b> </div> <div class="sources"><span class="source-link"></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="story cid-17593770434050 l-en headline-story thumbnail-false "> <h2 class="title"> <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNFdOCQh0y32qCjTuxJjAtGq8cSFxA " href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eQzLuQLzeE" id="MAA4AEgIUABqAmNh"><span class="titleText">People - G20 protests - Toronto</span></a> </h2> <div class="sub-title"><span class="source source-pref sid-866665 ">rabbletv</span> - <span class="date ">Jul 3, 2010</span></div> <div class="body"> <div class="snippet"> Critical Mass took to the streets of Toronto on Sunday, June 27th. They biking action brought a very different energy to the protests. This clip is one of many that simply shows people. Protesting. </div> <div class="sources"><span class="source-link"></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="filter-link"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&topic=n&ncl=dQJdvcxr55yzSsMNy872nNXklLtcM">All 9 related articles »</a></div><span class="source-link"><span class="wikisense-link"><a target="_self" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_G-20_Toronto_summit_protests" class="usg-AFQjCNFEDukIbDcc99CPllFacDxxDzdC1Q "></a></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7952691424216142965.post-47049313569396525722010-07-03T19:33:00.001-07:002010-07-03T19:33:48.459-07:0020 people arrested at the G20 tell of ‘inhumane’ treatment at the hands of police<table border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="middle"><a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=178174.msg1056179#msg1056179"><img src="http://forumimages.prisonplanet.com/Themes/default/images/post/xx.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></td> <td valign="middle"> <div style="font-weight: bold;" id="subject_1056179"> <a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=178174.msg1056179#msg1056179">‘I will not forget what they have done to me’ G20 people tell of extreme abuse.</a> </div> <div class="smalltext">« <b> on:</b> <b>Today</b> at 07:52:22 PM »</div></td> <td style="font-size: smaller;" align="right" height="20" valign="bottom"> <a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=post;quote=1056179;topic=178174.0;num_replies=6;sesc=b083387518a8d90244e3b626dcba27b6" onclick="doQuote(1056179, 'b083387518a8d90244e3b626dcba27b6'); return false;"><img src="http://forumimages.prisonplanet.com/Themes/default/images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply with quote" align="middle" /><b>Quote</b></a> </td> </tr></tbody></table> <hr class="hrcolor" size="1" width="100%"> <div style="" class="post"><div align="center"><b>20 people arrested at the G20 tell of ‘inhumane’ treatment at the hands of police</b></div><br /><b>Lulu Maxwell, 17, Grade 12, Rosedale Heights</b><br /><br />Maxwell and a friend were hanging around near Queen and Dufferin Sts. at a convergence centre for protesters on Sunday afternoon when police started making arrests. “My friend was blowing bubbles and I was scribbling peace signs on the sidewalk.”<br /><br />Within minutes, her friend was grabbed and Lulu was put up against a wall. Her backpack was searched and Lulu says an officer said she could be charged with possession of dangerous weapons “because I had eyewash solution in my backpack.”<br /><br />She was taken to the detention centre and almost 12 hours after her arrest was allowed to call her parents. She was released, without charges being laid, at 5 a. m.<br /><br /><b>Natalie Logan, 21, U of T student</b><br /><br />Logan was taking photos at The Esplanade on Saturday evening when she was arrested.<br /><br />“I was documenting the protest when the police started encircling everyone,” she said. She was taken to the detention centre at 3:30 a.m. “Before they handcuffed me, I peed in a bottle because I knew I wouldn’t be able to otherwise.”<br /><br />She wasn’t charged and suddenly released at 3:30 p.m., more than 14 hours after her arrest. “I am embarrassed for my city, embarrassed for Toronto Police and embarrassed that this could happen.”<br /><br /><b>Selwyn Firth, 59, Toronto mayoral candidate</b><br /><br />Wanting a better view of a protest outside Queen’s Park on Saturday, Firth walked to an elevated U of T building. When police told him to leave, he identified himself as a mayoral candidate. He refused and was forced to the ground, his cheek lacerated. He was arrested for obstruction.<br /><br />“I wasn’t obstructing anyone, I was asking questions,” said Firth, who was taken to the Eastern Ave. detention centre where he needed insulin for his Type 1 diabetes. Sunday morning he was taken to the Finch Ave., courthouse and again needed insulin, so was sent to hospital. He later returned to court and was released on $1,000 bail. He is considering suing the city and police.<br /><br /><b>Erin Boynton, 24, London, Ont.</b><br /><br />She was arrested at The Esplanade early Sunday morning after police boxed dozens of protesters in.<br /><br />“I was with a protest marching peacefully down Yonge from Dundas Square,” she said. “When the cops came at us, many people scattered and those who were left in front of the (Novotel) got arrested.” She said police came from all sides and “squished us in. They didn’t give us a warning to leave…. just announced that we are arresting all of you.”<br /><br />She said a lot of people at the detention centre were innocent bystanders. “The police violated all our rights . . . there was police brutality. Quite frankly, it was quite disgusting.” Boynton wasn’t charged.<br /><br /><b>Cameron Fenton, 24, journalist with Dominion in Montreal</b><br /><br />“A bunch of us were peacefully protesting (near the Eastern Ave. detention centre) at about 2:30 a.m. when police told us that it was an unlawful assembly and we had to leave,” said Fenton. But they were boxed in and couldn’t leave. Some time later, about 30 of them were walking about two blocks away when they were boxed in again by police.<br /><br />Everyone was arrested. Fenton said he was never read his legal rights or allowed to make a phone call. “It was cold, there was barely any food or water… there was no place in the cages to even sit,” he said Monday. “That detention centre was tantamount to torture.” He was released on Sunday afternoon, after more than 17 hours in detention.<br /><br /><b>Emily Berrigan, 23, project manager for a local non-government agency</b><br /><br />Berrigan spent her 23rd birthday Saturday night in a detention centre on charges of obstruction and unlawful demonstration.<br /><br />She was with Oxfam Canada for the labour march in the morning, protesting peacefully. She went to Queen’s Park around 8 p.m. for her bike and within 10 minutes was arrested. She was taken to the detention centre at 9 p.m. and got nothing to eat or drink until 5 a.m., when she was given a sandwich and some water, she said. “The cage I was in had been pepper-sprayed and it stung our eyes and skin,” she said. At about 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, she was taken to the courts at Finch Ave. and released by 7 p.m. “That’s inhumane,” she said.<br /><br /><b>Adam MacIsaac, P.E.I.</b><br /><br />MacIsaac, an independent journalist in town for the G20, took out his video camera to document police search methods and says he was aggressively thrown to the ground. Police began kicking him in the ribs and stunning him with a stun gun. “I have a pacemaker!” he screamed repeatedly, but says they didn’t listen.<br /><br />MacIsaac was eventually taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he was handcuffed to a hospital bed. He says officers harassed him; one repeatedly asked if his pacemaker battery was nuclear. He was later taken to the detention centre and left alone in the back of police cruiser. When police let him go seven hours later, they said they had no idea where his $6000 worth of equipment went. They told him to file a complaint.<br /><br /><b>Amy Miller, Montreal</b><br /><br />Miller, an independent journalist, was on her way to the jail solidarity protest Sunday around noon with fellow journalist Adam MacIsaac. She stopped at Bloor and St. Thomas Sts. where she saw police officers searching a group of young people carrying backpacks. She says police attacked her.<br /><br />“I was throttled at the neck and held down. Next thing you know I was being cuffed and put in one of the wagons.” She says she was threatened and harassed by police at the Eastern Ave. detention centre. “I was told I was going to be raped, I was told I was going to be gangbanged, I was told that they were going to make sure that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again.”<br /><br />She also says she spoke to numerous young women who were strip-searched by male officers.<br /><br /><b>Steve Cruikshank, 28, Newmarket</b><br /><br />Cruikshank was among those boxed in by police “without warning” at the Queen St. and Spadina Ave. intersection Sunday evening. Officers kept yelling at people to “Move” but there was nowhere to go. Cruikshank said he asked where they should go and was hit in the face with a riot shield.<br /><br />He was arrested for breaching the peace and, with 50 others, taken to the Eastern Ave. detention centre.<br /><br />“I asked for medical attention and they said ‘No’, that I was ‘barely bleeding.’ I asked for a lawyer and wasn’t given access. I asked to make a phone call and they laughed.” About three hours later, he was released without charge.<br /><br /><b>Stefanie Roy, 21, Joliette, Que.</b><br /><br />Roy said she was arrested early Sunday evening “for nothing.”<br /><br />“We were sitting in front of a bank, talking and wanting to go home, when two big cars came up and police came out of them,” she said. They searched her car and found a hammer and a hatchet that happened to be there from a long time ago, Roy said. She was charged with possessing weapons. Police seized her laptop, boots, and a key-chain photo of her son.<br /><br />The charge was dropped on Monday, but she is still missing her boots. “I’m not going back in there,” she said, standing in her socks and staring at the detention centre.<br /><br /><b>Jean-Christophe Martel, 21, Granby, Que.</b><br /><br />Martel was arrested on the subway at 11 a.m. Sunday after police searched his bags and found something they considered to be heroin in his emergency medical kit. Police charged him with trafficking heroin.<br /><br />Martel says he was not involved with the violence in any way.<br /><br />After 24 hours, he was released from the detention centre Monday afternoon and the charge against him was dropped.<br /><br />“I’m going back to Quebec,” he said. “I’ll never leave that province again.”<br /><br /><b>Guillaume Lemarron, 24, Montreal</b><br /><br />Lemarron came with friends to the protest, and acted as a street medic on Saturday. They were arrested on Sunday while heading to the Greyhound station to leave town. Lemarron said the bandages and supplies he used in his work were misconstrued as bandanas. He was charged with wearing a disguise.<br /><br />During the arrest, his glasses were broken. Lemarron said he was protesting for “a better world” and a new democracy. “It’s in the past,” he said of his detention. “But I will not forget what they have done to me and others.”<br /><br /><b>Gabrielle Neveu, 21, Montreal</b><br /><br />Neveu came to Toronto to raise awareness for better health care in developing countries. Neveu had a bandana around her neck. She agreed to let police search her bag but her boyfriend didn’t. The tension escalated. “I don’t think I would have got arrested if I was alone,” she said.<br /><br />Police charged her with wearing a disguise. She was placed in the back of a police van that soon filled with other people. The van was taken to the detention centre where she stayed until Monday afternoon. Some people were strip-searched. “People were exhausted. No one had the energy to scream,” she said. The charge was later dropped.<br /><br /><b>Sasha Morrison, 28, Toronto</b><br /><br />On Sunday, Morrison was talking to a friend on Queen St. when police searched her bag and discovered an air filter mask. She was charged with wearing a mask with intent. “I’m wearing a mask?” she said “It’s a bogus charge.”<br /><br />Morrison, a graffiti artist, sometimes works on projects with police. As she stood talking to media, an officer came by and said “Good to see you,” not realizing she had been arrested. She was seething after a 19-hour detention. “I’m vegan. I haven’t had anything to eat until three hours ago.”<br /><br /><b>David Breed, 34, Toronto</b><br /><br />On Sunday, Breed and his girlfriend had stopped to watch the bike rally and were planning to get something to eat before going home to change for his shift as a security guard. “I was not involved in the protest,” he said. “I was standing on the sidewalk.”<br /><br />Breed was wearing black. Police searched him and found a retractable screwdriver and a Swiss army knife. He was arrested and charged with having concealed weapons. He’d had the knife since he was 10. Breed’s girlfriend, Jennifer Booth, had a legal number scrawled on her arm, but said she didn’t intend to get in trouble. “I’ve been to a lot of these things and he hasn’t,” she said after his release Monday. The charge against Breed has not been dropped.<br /><br /><b>Philip Dwek, 25, Toronto, medical student</b><br /><br />On Sunday evening, Dwek was headed home after studying in a coffee shop when he ran into a crowd at the corner of Queen St. and Spadina Ave. He found himself surrounded by riot police.<br /><br />“We were in the rain and it was freezing cold, I was trying to hide my medical book, trying to cover it under my shirt,” recalled Dwek, adding police eventually gave him a plastic bag for his book. He was arrested for conspiracy to cause mischief, put in a van and taken to 43 Division, then later released. It cost $60 to get back by taxi.<br /><br />Dwek understands police were trying to prevent a repeat of the Saturday violence but wishes they were able to tell the protestors and bystanders from the “rebels without a cause.”<br /><br />Joshua Enns, studying to be math teacher at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo<br /><br />Enns was arrested during a prayer vigil on Sunday. Police took him behind a bus and searched his bag. He forgot about the “dollar store pocket knife” in his backpack he uses to cut fruit. He was charged with carrying a concealed weapon.<br /><br />“I don’t endorse violence personally,” he said. “I didn’t come down for the show.” Enns was strip-searched at the detention centre. He couldn’t sleep with the fluorescent lights. He still faces the weapons charge. “Hopefully this will be cleared up so I’ll be able to teach.”<br /><br /><b>Matthew Beatty, 32, Ajax high school teacher</b><br /><br />A volunteer legal observer with Movement Defence Committee (MDC) for the G20 weekend, Beatty was following a protest march down The Esplanade on Saturday evening when he was arrested. “I was on the sidewalks, never jeered or chanted with the crowd,” he said.<br /><br />He was handcuffed and put in a “cage” with 20 others at the Eastern Ave. detention centre. “There were 40 people in one cage — it was brutal, and it was cold.” People were asking for toilet paper to wrap their arms and legs because of the cold, he said. During 18 hours in custody, he was given three cheese sandwiches, three cups of water and a cup of flavoured juice.<br /><br /><b>Tim V. Wight, 23</b><br /><br />Wight says he was at Queen’s Park participating in a peaceful protest all day Saturday. “I was there . . . to protest my concerns about the stripping of human rights within the city and the blatant waste of a billion dollars.”<br /><br />When police entered the park , Wight began to ask questions about why they were entering a peaceful protest zone. Police told him to move and said they would hit him if he didn’t back up. He prepared to leave but then officers grabbed him, knocked him down and kicked him twice in the face with heavy boots. He was treated for a concussion and had to have his forehead stitched.<br /><br /><b>Maryam Adrangi, 24</b><br /><br />The spokeswoman for the Toronto Community Mobilization Network was arrested Sunday outside activist “convergence space” at Queen and Noble on Sunday afternoon. She said she was driven around the city in an unmarked police van for four hours, taken to the detention centre for about 30 minutes and released without charge.<br /><br />Adrangi, who was born in Iran, said she endured racist and sexist comments from police, who made fun of her name and the photos they took of her. “I was really angry and frustrated that the cops felt entitled to do that to people,” she said.<br /><br />“One cop said to me, ‘If you were my daughter I would slap you in the mouth.’ ”<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/829921--i-will-not-forget-what-they-have-done-to-me" target="_blank">http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/829921--i-will-not-forget-what-they-have-done-to-me</a></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7952691424216142965.post-4615422060431448542010-06-29T20:51:00.000-07:002010-06-29T20:52:19.337-07:00G20 Toronto Report<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jwbTLVSSwxA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jwbTLVSSwxA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s0IAkfA-zHE&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s0IAkfA-zHE&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7952691424216142965.post-68245989922152902752010-06-29T20:50:00.001-07:002010-06-29T20:50:50.187-07:00G20 Toronto Collected Scenes of Police Brutality<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YVIYkrQIqwg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YVIYkrQIqwg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /> AutonomistVoice | June 28, 2010 | 7:38<br /><br />These armed men in costumes are not here to "protect" you. They are here to protect the State, the State's wars, the State's riches, and the State's consolidation of power.<br /><br />Credit to youtube user RJWeapon for the second half of the video. Please visit his channel and support him: <a href="http://bit.ly/c5BUKA">http://bit.ly/c5BUKA</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7952691424216142965.post-70346253522001516072010-06-27T23:22:00.000-07:002010-06-27T23:32:27.814-07:00G20 VIDEO OF ANARCHIST PROVACATEURS SETTING FIRE TO POLICE CAR<table border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="middle"><a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=177199.msg1051847#msg1051847"><img src="http://forumimages.prisonplanet.com/Themes/default/images/post/xx.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></td> <td valign="middle"> <div style="font-weight: bold;" id="subject_1051847"> <a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=177199.msg1051847#msg1051847">G20 VIDEO OF ANARCHIST PROVACATEURS SETTING FIRE TO POLICE CAR</a> </div> <div class="smalltext">« <b> on:</b> <b>Today</b> at 01:31:00 AM »</div></td> <td style="font-size: smaller;" align="right" height="20" valign="bottom"> <a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=post;quote=1051847;topic=177199.0;num_replies=0;sesc=2d451270855b06530d220c5192caa402" onclick="doQuote(1051847, '2d451270855b06530d220c5192caa402'); return false;"><img src="http://forumimages.prisonplanet.com/Themes/default/images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply with quote" align="middle" /><b>Quote</b></a> <a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=post;msg=1051847;topic=177199.0;sesc=2d451270855b06530d220c5192caa402"><img src="http://forumimages.prisonplanet.com/Themes/default/images/buttons/modify.gif" alt="Modify message" align="middle" /><b>Modify</b></a> <a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=deletemsg;topic=177199.0;msg=1051847;sesc=2d451270855b06530d220c5192caa402" onclick="return confirm('Remove this message?');"><img src="http://forumimages.prisonplanet.com/Themes/default/images/buttons/delete.gif" alt="Remove message" align="middle" /><b>Remove</b></a> </td> </tr></tbody></table> <hr class="hrcolor" size="1" width="100%"> <div class="post" id="msg_1051847"><a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d05_1277693864" target="_blank">http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d05_1277693864</a><br /> <br />[RAW VIDEO] G20 Protesters Setting Fire to Police Vehicles<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3em;">TORONTO [06.26.10] – Masked protesters rioted across downtown Toronto on Saturday, setting police cars ablaze and smashing store windows in a violent show of opposition to the G20 summit.</span><br /><br />Toronto police chief Bill Blair admitted police had struggled to control the crowds, and had used tear gas on one occasion, after warning people to stay away from trouble spots. "We have never seen that lev More..el of wanton criminality and vandalism and destruction on our streets," he told an evening news conference.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3em;"><b>Police said they have arrested more than 600 demonstrators</b></span>, many of whom were hauled away in plastic handcuffs and <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3em;"><b>taken to a temporary holding center constructed for the summit</b></span>.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Police adopted a more aggressive strategy Sunday by going into the crowd to make arrests, compared to the previous day when they stood back as protesters torched four police cars and broke store windows.</span><br /><br />Bridie Wyrock, 20, from Cleveland, Ohio, said she was arrested for public mischief for sitting on a street in the financial district. Wyrock, held for 19 hours before being released, said there weren't enough toilets and said some people resisted detention, but said police treated most people with respect.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 19pt; line-height: 1.3em;">"They put us in cages, blocked off on all three sides," Wyrock said. "It was cold and dirty."</span><br /><br />An anti-poverty group called The Global Call to Action Against Poverty criticized the protesters who committed violence.<br /><br /><b><i>"A bunch of pimply faced teenagers trashing shops and burning cars does not help anyone," said Rajesh Latchman of GCAP South Africa. "These hooligans obscure the real issues."</i></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7952691424216142965.post-81712925407773594272010-06-27T23:07:00.001-07:002010-06-27T23:07:39.312-07:00Smart Traffic Devices<table border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="middle"><a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=177099.msg1051246#msg1051246"><img src="http://forumimages.prisonplanet.com/Themes/default/images/post/xx.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></td> <td valign="middle"> <div style="font-weight: bold;" id="subject_1051246"> <a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=177099.msg1051246#msg1051246">Smart Traffic Devices?</a> </div> <div class="smalltext">« <b> on:</b> June 27, 2010, 11:07:55 AM »</div></td> <td style="font-size: smaller;" align="right" valign="bottom" height="20"> <a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=post;quote=1051246;topic=177099.0;num_replies=1;sesc=2d451270855b06530d220c5192caa402" onclick="doQuote(1051246, '2d451270855b06530d220c5192caa402'); return false;"><img src="http://forumimages.prisonplanet.com/Themes/default/images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply with quote" align="middle" /><b>Quote</b></a> </td> </tr></tbody></table> <hr class="hrcolor" width="100%" size="1"> <div class="post">Hi everyone -<br /><br />I live in Massachusetts and travel to Boston and Providence, RI occassionally. Well, I have noticed over the past two years these new towers on the Mass Turnpike I-90 and on Rt 146. Would love your thoughts about exactly what they are. They are powered by Solar Panels and have two small beige boxes on the pole. Each box is angled toward the travel lanes on the highways. They are spaced regularly about every 1/4 mile along the highways. They are NOT cameras (as far as I can tell) as the boxes do NOT have a lens or hole for a lens. I suspect they are monitoring devices that would allow the Govt. to identify your vehicle by RFID or something along those lines. <img src="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/Smileys/default/embarrassed.gif" alt="Embarrassed" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Photos:</b></span><br /><img src="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo02a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo07a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo04a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo06a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo05a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br /><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Original Photos:</span></b><br /><a href="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo01.JPG" target="_blank">Photo 1</a>, <a href="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo02.JPG" target="_blank">Photo 2</a>, <a href="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo03.JPG" target="_blank">Photo 3</a>, <a href="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo04.JPG" target="_blank">Photo 4</a>, <a href="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo05.JPG" target="_blank">Photo 5</a>, <a href="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo06.JPG" target="_blank">Photo 6</a>, <a href="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Photo07.JPG" target="_blank">Photo 7</a>, <a href="http://www.ma911truth.org/images/Video1.3g2" target="_blank">Video 1</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7952691424216142965.post-19328305359060013042010-06-27T22:59:00.001-07:002010-06-27T23:07:03.020-07:00Toronto G20 2010 Documents PDF<table border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="middle"><a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=177197.msg1051837#msg1051837"><img src="http://forumimages.prisonplanet.com/Themes/default/images/post/xx.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></td> <td valign="middle"> <div style="font-weight: bold;" id="subject_1051837"> <a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=177197.msg1051837#msg1051837">THE G20 DOCUMENTS just released.</a> </div> <div class="smalltext">« <b> on:</b> <b>Today</b> at 12:49:53 AM »</div></td> <td style="font-size: smaller;" align="right" valign="bottom" height="20"> <a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=post;quote=1051837;topic=177197.0;num_replies=0;sesc=2d451270855b06530d220c5192caa402" onclick="doQuote(1051837, '2d451270855b06530d220c5192caa402'); return false;"><img src="http://forumimages.prisonplanet.com/Themes/default/images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply with quote" align="middle" /><b>Quote</b></a> </td> </tr></tbody></table> <hr class="hrcolor" width="100%" size="1"> <div class="post">1<br /><br /><a href="http://www.g20.org/Documents/g20_declaration_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.g20.org/Documents/g20_declaration_en.pdf</a><br />THE G-20 TORONTO SUMMIT<br />DECLARATION<br />June 26 – 27, 2010<br />Preamble<br /><br /><br />1. In Toronto, we held our first Summit of the G-20 in its new capacity as the premier forum<br />for our international economic cooperation.<br /><br />2. Building on our achievements in addressing the global economic crisis, we have agreed on<br />the next steps we should take to ensure a full return to growth with quality jobs, to reform<br />and strengthen financial systems, and to create strong, sustainable and balanced global<br />growth.<br /><br />3. Our efforts to date have borne good results. Unprecedented and globally coordinated fiscal<br />and monetary stimulus is playing a major role in helping to restore private demand and<br />lending. We are taking strong steps toward increasing the stability and strength of our<br />financial systems. Significantly increased resources for international financial institutions<br />are helping stabilise and address the impact of the crisis on the world’s most vulnerable.<br />Ongoing governance and management reforms, which must be completed, will also enhance<br />the effectiveness and relevance of these institutions. We have successfully maintained our<br />strong commitment to resist protectionism.<br /><br />4. But serious challenges remain. While growth is returning, the recovery is uneven and<br />fragile, unemployment in many countries remains at unacceptable levels, and the social<br />impact of the crisis is still widely felt. Strengthening the recovery is key. To sustain<br />recovery, we need to follow through on delivering existing stimulus plans, while working to<br />create the conditions for robust private demand. At the same time, recent events highlight<br />the importance of sustainable public finances and the need for our countries to put in place<br />credible, properly phased and growth-friendly plans to deliver fiscal sustainability,<br />differentiated for and tailored to national circumstances. Those countries with serious fiscal<br />challenges need to accelerate the pace of consolidation. This should be combined with<br />efforts to rebalance global demand to help ensure global growth continues on a sustainable<br />path. Further progress is also required on financial repair and reform to increase the<br />transparency and strengthen the balance sheets of our financial institutions, and support<br />credit availability and rapid growth, including in the real economy. We took new steps to<br />build a better regulated and more resilient financial system that serves the needs of our<br />citizens. There is also a pressing need to complete the reforms of the international financial<br />institutions.<br /><br />5. Recognizing the importance of achieving strong job growth and providing social protection<br />to our citizens, particularly our most vulnerable, we welcome the recommendations of our<br /><br />2<br /><br />Labour and Employment Ministers, who met in April 2010, and the training strategy<br />prepared by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with the<br />Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).<br /><br />6. We are determined to be accountable for the commitments we have made, and have<br />instructed our Ministers and officials to take all necessary steps to implement them fully<br />within agreed timelines.<br />The Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth<br /><br />7. The G-20’s highest priority is to safeguard and strengthen the recovery and lay the<br />foundation for strong, sustainable and balanced growth, and strengthen our financial systems<br />against risks. We therefore welcome the actions taken and commitments made by a number<br />of G-20 countries to boost demand and rebalance growth, strengthen our public finances,<br />and make our financial systems stronger and more transparent. These measures represent<br />substantial contributions to our collective well-being and build on previous actions. We will<br />continue to co-operate and undertake appropriate actions to bolster economic growth and<br />foster a strong and lasting recovery.<br /><br />8. The Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth that we launched in<br />Pittsburgh is the means to achieving our shared objectives, by assessing the collective<br />consistency of policy actions and strengthening policy frameworks.<br /><br />9. We have completed the first stage of our Mutual Assessment Process and we concluded that<br />we can do much better. The IMF and World Bank estimate that if we choose a more<br />ambitious path of reforms, over the medium term:<br /><br />· global output would be higher by almost $4 trillion;<br />· tens of millions more jobs would be created;<br />· even more people would be lifted out of poverty; and<br />· global imbalances would be significantly reduced.<br />Increasing global growth on a sustainable basis is the most important step we can take in<br />improving the lives of all of our citizens, including those in the poorest countries.<br /><br />10. We are committed to taking concerted actions to sustain the recovery, create jobs and to<br />achieve stronger, more sustainable and more balanced growth. These will be differentiated<br />and tailored to national circumstances. We agreed today on:<br />· Following through on fiscal stimulus and communicating “growth friendly” fiscal<br />consolidation plans in advanced countries that will be implemented going forward.<br />Sound fiscal finances are essential to sustain recovery, provide flexibility to respond<br />to new shocks, ensure the capacity to meet the challenges of aging populations, and<br />avoid leaving future generations with a legacy of deficits and debt. The path of<br />adjustment must be carefully calibrated to sustain the recovery in private demand.<br /><br />3<br /><br />There is a risk that synchronized fiscal adjustment across several major economies<br />could adversely impact the recovery. There is also a risk that the failure to implement<br />consolidation where necessary would undermine confidence and hamper growth.<br />Reflecting this balance, advanced economies have committed to fiscal plans that will<br />at least halve deficits by 2013 and stabilize or reduce government debt-to-GDP ratios<br />by 2016. Recognizing the circumstances of Japan, we welcome the Japanese<br />government’s fiscal consolidation plan announced recently with their growth strategy.<br />Those with serious fiscal challenges need to accelerate the pace of consolidation.<br />Fiscal consolidation plans will be credible, clearly communicated, differentiated to<br />national circumstances, and focused on measures to foster economic growth.<br /><br />· Strengthening social safety nets, enhancing corporate governance reform, financial<br />market development, infrastructure spending, and greater exchange rate flexibility in<br />some emerging markets;<br /><br />· Pursuing structural reforms across the entire G-20 membership to increase and sustain<br />our growth prospects; and<br /><br />· Making more progress on rebalancing global demand.<br />Monetary policy will continue to be appropriate to achieve price stability and thereby<br />contribute to the recovery.<br /><br />11. Advanced deficit countries should take actions to boost national savings while maintaining<br />open markets and enhancing export competitiveness.<br /><br />12. Surplus economies will undertake reforms to reduce their reliance on external demand and<br />focus more on domestic sources of growth.<br /><br />13. We are committed to narrowing the development gap and that we must consider the impact<br />of our policy actions on low-income countries. We will continue to support development<br />financing, including through new approaches that encourage development financing from<br />both public and private sources.<br /><br />14. We recognize that these measures will need to be implemented at the national level and will<br />need to be tailored to individual country circumstances. To facilitate this process, we have<br />agreed that the second stage of our country-led and consultative mutual assessment will be<br />conducted at the country and European level and that we will each identify additional<br />measures, as necessary, that we will take toward achieving strong, sustainable, and balanced<br />growth.<br /><br />Financial Sector Reform<br /><br />15. We are building a more resilient financial system that serves the needs of our economies,<br />reduces moral hazard, limits the build up of systemic risk, and supports strong and stable<br />economic growth. We have strengthened the global financial system by fortifying<br /><br />4<br /><br />prudential oversight, improving risk management, promoting transparency, and reinforcing<br />international cooperation. A great deal has been accomplished. We welcome the full<br />implementation of the European Stabilization Mechanism and Facility, the EU decision to<br />publicly release the results of ongoing tests on European banks, and the recent US financial<br />reform bill.<br /><br />-16. But more work is required. Accordingly, we pledge to act together to achieve the<br />commitments to reform the financial sector made at the Washington, London and Pittsburgh<br />Summits by the agreed or accelerated timeframes. The transition to new standards will take<br />into account the cumulative macroeconomic impact of the reforms in advanced and emerging<br />economies. We are committed to international assessment and peer review to ensure that all<br />our decisions are fully implemented.<br /><br />17. Our reform agenda rests on four pillars.<br /><br />18. The first pillar is a strong regulatory framework. We took stock of the progress of the Basel<br />Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) towards a new global regime for bank capital<br />and liquidity and we welcome and support its work. Substantial progress has been made on<br />reforms that will materially raise levels of resilience of our banking systems. The amount of<br />capital will be significantly higher and the quality of capital will be significantly improved<br />when the new reforms are fully implemented. This will enable banks to withstand – without<br />extraordinary government support – stresses of a magnitude associated with the recent<br />financial crisis. We support reaching agreement at the time of the Seoul Summit on the new<br />capital framework. We agreed that all members will adopt the new standards and these will<br />be phased in over a timeframe that is consistent with sustained recovery and limits market<br />disruption, with the aim of implementation by end-2012, and a transition horizon informed<br />by the macroeconomic impact assessment of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and BCBS.<br />Phase-in arrangements will reflect different national starting points and circumstances, with<br />initial variance around the new standards narrowing over time as countries converge to the<br />new global standard.<br /><br />19. We agreed to strengthen financial market infrastructure by accelerating the implementation<br />of strong measures to improve transparency and regulatory oversight of hedge funds, credit<br />rating agencies and over-the-counter derivatives in an internationally consistent and nondiscriminatory<br />way. We re-emphasized the importance of achieving a single set of high<br />quality improved global accounting standards and the implementation of the FSB’s<br />standards for sound compensation.<br /><br />20. The second pillar is effective supervision. We agreed that new, stronger rules must be<br />complemented with more effective oversight and supervision. We tasked the FSB, in<br />consultation with the IMF, to report to our Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in<br />October 2010 on recommendations to strengthen oversight and supervision, specifically<br /><br />5<br /><br />relating to the mandate, capacity and resourcing of supervisors and specific powers which<br />should be adopted to proactively identify and address risks, including early intervention.<br /><br />21. The third pillar is resolution and addressing systemic institutions. We are committed to<br />design and implement a system where we have the powers and tools to restructure or resolve<br />all types of financial institutions in crisis, without taxpayers ultimately bearing the burden,<br />and adopted principles that will guide implementation. We called upon the FSB to consider<br />and develop concrete policy recommendations to effectively address problems associated<br />with, and resolve, systemically important financial institutions by the Seoul Summit. To<br />reduce moral hazard risks, there is a need to have a policy framework including effective<br />resolution tools, strengthened prudential and supervisory requirements, and core financial<br />market infrastructures. We agreed the financial sector should make a fair and substantial<br />contribution towards paying for any burdens associated with government interventions,<br />where they occur, to repair the financial system or fund resolution, and reduce risks from the<br />financial system. We recognized that there are a range of policy approaches to this end.<br />Some countries are pursuing a financial levy. Other countries are pursuing different<br />approaches.<br /><br />22. The fourth pillar is transparent international assessment and peer review. We have<br />strengthened our commitment to the IMF/World Bank Financial Sector Assessment<br />Program (FSAP) and pledge to support robust and transparent peer review through the FSB.<br />We are addressing non-cooperative jurisdictions based on comprehensive, consistent, and<br />transparent assessment with respect to tax havens, the fight against money laundering and<br />terrorist financing and the adherence to prudential standards.<br />International Financial Institutions and Development<br /><br />23. The International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have been a central part of the global response<br />to the financial and economic crisis, mobilizing critical financing, including $750 billion by<br />the IMF and $235 billion by the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). This has<br />underscored the value of these institutions as platforms for our global cooperation.<br /><br />24. We commit to strengthening the legitimacy, credibility and effectiveness of the IFIs to make<br />them even stronger partners for us in the future.<br /><br />25. Towards this end, we have fulfilled our Pittsburgh Summit commitment on the MDBs. This<br />includes $350 billion in capital increases for the MDBs, allowing them to nearly double<br />their lending. This new capital is joined to ongoing and important reforms to make these<br />institutions more transparent, accountable and effective, and to strengthen their focus on<br />lifting the lives of the poor, underwriting growth, and addressing climate change and food<br />security.<br />6<br />26. We will fulfill our commitment to ensure an ambitious replenishment for the concessional<br />lending facilities of the MDBs, especially the International Development Association and<br />the African Development Fund.<br />27. We have endorsed the important voice reforms agreed by shareholders at the World Bank,<br />which will increase the voting power of developing and transition countries by 4.59% since<br />2008.<br />28. We underscore our resolve to ensure ratification of the 2008 IMF Quota and Voice Reforms<br />and expansion of the New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB).<br />29. We called for an acceleration of the substantial work still needed for the IMF to complete<br />the quota reform by the Seoul Summit and in parallel deliver on other governance reforms,<br />in line with commitments made in Pittsburgh.<br />30. Today we build on our earlier commitment to open, transparent and merit-based selection<br />processes for the heads and senior leadership of all the IFIs. We will strengthen the selection<br />processes in the lead up to the Seoul Summit in the context of broader reform.<br />31. We agreed to task our Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors to prepare policy<br />options to strengthen global financial safety nets for our consideration at the Seoul Summit.<br />Our goal is to build a more stable and resilient international monetary system.<br />32. We stand united with the people of Haiti and are providing much-needed reconstruction<br />assistance, including the full cancellation of all of Haiti’s IFI debt. We welcome the<br />launching of the Haiti Reconstruction Fund.<br />33. We have launched the SME Finance Challenge and commit to mobilizing funding for<br />implementation of winning proposals, including through the strong support of the MDBs.<br />We have developed a set of principles for innovative financial inclusion.<br />34. We welcome the launch of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program in fulfillment<br />of our Pittsburgh commitment on food security, an important step to further implement the<br />Global Partnership for Agriculture and Food Security, and invite further contributions.<br />Looking ahead, we commit to exploring innovative, results-based mechanisms to harness<br />the private sector for agricultural innovation. We call for the full implementation of the<br />L’Aquila Initiative and the application of its principles.<br />7<br />Fighting Protectionism and Promoting Trade and Investment<br />35. While the global economic crisis led to the sharpest decline of trade in more than seventy<br />years, G-20 countries chose to keep markets open to the opportunities that trade and<br />investment offer. It was the right choice.<br />36. As such, we renew for a further three years, until the end of 2013, our commitment to<br />refrain from raising barriers or imposing new barriers to investment or trade in goods and<br />services, imposing new export restrictions or implementing World Trade Organization<br />(WTO)-inconsistent measures to stimulate exports, and commit to rectify such measures as<br />they arise. We will minimize any negative impact on trade and investment of our domestic<br />policy actions, including fiscal policy and action to support the financial sector. We ask the<br />WTO, OECD and UNCTAD to continue to monitor the situation within their respective<br />mandates, reporting publicly on these commitments on a quarterly basis.<br />37. Open markets play a pivotal role in supporting growth and job creation, and in achieving our<br />goals under the G-20 Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth. We ask the<br />OECD, the ILO, World Bank, and the WTO to report on the benefits of trade liberalization<br />for employment and growth at the Seoul Summit.<br />38. We therefore reiterate our support for bringing the WTO Doha Development Round to a<br />balanced and ambitious conclusion as soon as possible, consistent with its mandate and<br />based on the progress already made. We direct our representatives, using all negotiating<br />avenues, to pursue this objective, and to report on progress at our next meeting in Seoul,<br />where we will discuss the status of the negotiations and the way forward.<br />39. We commit to maintain momentum for Aid for Trade. We also ask international agencies,<br />including the World Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks to step up their<br />capacity and support trade facilitation which will boost world trade.<br />Other Issues and Forward Agenda<br />40. We agree that corruption threatens the integrity of markets, undermines fair competition,<br />distorts resource allocation, destroys public trust and undermines the rule of law. We call<br />for the ratification and full implementation by all G-20 members of the United Nations<br />Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and encourage others to do the same. We will<br />fully implement the reviews in accordance with the provisions of UNCAC. Building on the<br />progress made since Pittsburgh to address corruption, we agree to establish a Working<br />Group to make comprehensive recommendations for consideration by Leaders in Korea on<br />how the G-20 could continue to make practical and valuable contributions to international<br />efforts to combat corruption and lead by example, in key areas that include, but are not<br />limited to, adopting and enforcing strong and effective anti-bribery rules, fighting corruption<br />8<br />in the public and private sectors, preventing access of corrupt persons to global financial<br />systems, cooperation in visa denial, extradition and asset recovery, and protecting<br />whistleblowers who stand-up against corruption.<br />41. We reiterate our commitment to a green recovery and to sustainable global growth. Those of<br />us who have associated with the Copenhagen Accord reaffirm our support for it and its<br />implementation and call on others to associate with it. We are committed to engage in<br />negotiations under the UNFCCC on the basis of its objective provisions and principles<br />including common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and are<br />determined to ensure a successful outcome through an inclusive process at the Cancun<br />Conferences. We thank Mexico for undertaking to host the sixteenth Conference of the<br />Parties (COP 16) in Cancun from November 29 to December 20, 2010 and express our<br />appreciation for its efforts to facilitate negotiations. We look forward to the outcome of the<br />UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing which<br />is, inter alia, exploring innovative financing.<br />42. We note with appreciation the report on energy subsidies from the International Energy<br />Agency (IEA), Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), OECD and<br />World Bank. We welcome the work of Finance and Energy Ministers in delivering<br />implementation strategies and timeframes, based on national circumstances, for the<br />rationalization and phase out over the medium term of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that<br />encourage wasteful consumption, taking into account vulnerable groups and their<br />development needs. We also encourage continued and full implementation of countryspecific<br />strategies and will continue to review progress towards this commitment at<br />upcoming summits.<br />43. Following the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico we recognize the need to share best<br />practices to protect the marine environment, prevent accidents related to offshore<br />exploration and development, as well as transportation, and deal with their consequences.<br />44. We recognize that 2010 marks an important year for development issues. The September<br />2010 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) High Level Plenary will be a crucial<br />opportunity to reaffirm the global development agenda and global partnership, to agree on<br />actions for all to achieve the MDGs by 2015, and to reaffirm our respective commitments to<br />assist the poorest countries.<br />45. In this regard it is important to work with Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to make them<br />active participants in and beneficiaries of the global economic system. Accordingly we<br />thank Turkey for its decision to host the 4th United Nations Conference on the LDCs in June<br />2011.<br />46. We welcome the Global Pulse Initiative interim report and look forward to an update.<br />9<br />47. Narrowing the development gap and reducing poverty are integral to our broader objective<br />of achieving strong, sustainable and balanced growth and ensuring a more robust and<br />resilient global economy for all. In this regard, we agree to establish a Working Group on<br />Development and mandate it to elaborate, consistent with the G-20’s focus on measures to<br />promote economic growth and resilience, a development agenda and multi-year action plans<br />to be adopted at the Seoul Summit.<br />48. We will meet next in Seoul, Korea, on November 11-12, 2010. We will convene in<br />November 2011 under the Chairmanship of France and in 2012 under the Chairmanship of<br />Mexico.<br />49. We thank Canada for hosting the successful Toronto Summit.<br />10<br />ANNEX I<br />The Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth<br />1. As a result of the extraordinary and highly coordinated policy actions agreed to at the<br />Washington, London and Pittsburgh G-20 Summits, the global economy is recovering faster<br />than was expected. Our decisive and unprecedented actions over the past two years have<br />limited the downturn and spurred recovery.<br />2. Yet risks remain. Unemployment remains unacceptably high in many G-20 economies. The<br />recovery is uneven across G-20 members both across advanced economies and between<br />advanced and emerging economies. This poses risks to the continued economic expansion.<br />There is a risk that global current account imbalances will widen again, absent further policy<br />action. While considerable progress has been made in moving ahead on our financial sector<br />repair and reform agenda, financial markets remain fragile and credit flows restrained.<br />Concerns over large fiscal deficits and rising debt levels in some countries have also become<br />a source of uncertainty and financial market volatility.<br />3. The G-20’s highest priority is to safeguard and strengthen the recovery and lay the<br />foundation for strong, sustainable and balanced growth, including strengthening our<br />financial systems against risks. We therefore welcome the actions taken and commitments<br />made by a number of G-20 countries. Among more recent measures, we particularly<br />welcome the full implementation of the European Financial Stability Mechanism and<br />Facility; the EU decision to publicly release the results of ongoing tests on European banks;<br />and the recent announcements of fiscal consolidation plans and targets by a number of G-20<br />countries. These represent substantial contributions to our collective well-being and build on<br />our previous actions. We will continue to cooperate and undertake appropriate actions to<br />bolster economic growth and foster a strong and lasting recovery.<br />4. The Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth we launched in Pittsburgh is<br />the means to achieving our shared objectives. G-20 members have a responsibility to the<br />community of nations to assure the overall health of the global economy. We committed to<br />assess the collective consistency of our policy actions and to strengthen our policy<br />frameworks in order to meet our common objectives. Through our collective policy action,<br />we will ensure growth is sustained, more balanced, shared across all countries and regions<br />of the world, and consistent with our development goals.<br />5. We have completed the first stage of our Mutual Assessment Process. As we requested in<br />Pittsburgh, G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, with the support of the<br />IMF, World Bank, OECD, ILO and other international organisations, have assessed the<br />collective consistency of our individual policy frameworks and global prospects under<br />alternative policy scenarios.<br />11<br />6. The assessment is that in the absence of a coordinated policy response: global output is<br />likely to remain below its pre-crisis trend; unemployment remains above pre-crisis levels in<br />most countries; fiscal deficits and debt in some advanced economies reach unacceptably<br />high levels; and, global current account imbalances, which narrowed during the crisis, widen<br />again. Moreover, this outlook is subject to considerable downside risks.<br />7. We concluded that we can do much better. The IMF and World Bank estimate that if we<br />choose a more ambitious path of reforms, over the medium term, we could:<br />· raise global output by up to $4 trillion;<br />· create an estimated 52 million jobs;<br />· lift up to 90 million people out of poverty; and<br />· significantly reduce global current account balances.<br />If we act in a coordinated manner, all regions are better off, now and in the future.<br />Moreover, increasing global growth on a sustainable basis is the most important step we can<br />take in improving the lives of all, including those in the poorest countries.<br />8. We are committed to taking concerted actions to sustain the recovery, create jobs and to<br />achieve stronger, more sustainable and more balanced growth. These will be differentiated<br />and tailored to national circumstances. We agreed today on:<br />· Following through on fiscal stimulus and communicating “growth-friendly” fiscal<br />consolidation plans in advanced countries and that will be implemented going<br />forward;<br />· strengthening social safety nets, enhancing corporate governance reform, financial<br />market development, infrastructure spending, and increasing exchange rate flexibility<br />in some emerging markets;<br />· pursuing structural reforms across the entire G-20 membership to increase and sustain<br />our growth prospects; and<br />· Making further progress on rebalancing global demand.<br />Monetary policy will continue to be appropriate to achieve price stability and thereby<br />contribute to the recovery.<br />9. We agreed to follow through on fiscal stimulus and communicating “growth friendly” fiscal<br />consolidation plans in advanced countries that will be implemented going forward. Sound<br />fiscal finances are essential to sustain recovery, provide flexibility to respond to new shocks,<br />ensure the capacity to meet the challenges of aging populations, and avoid leaving future<br />generations with a legacy of deficits and debt. The path of adjustment must be carefully<br />calibrated to sustain the recovery in private demand. There is a risk that synchronized fiscal<br />adjustment across several major economies could adversely impact the recovery. There is<br />also a risk that the failure to implement consolidation where necessary would undermine<br />confidence and hamper growth. Reflecting this balance, advanced economies have<br />12<br />committed to fiscal plans that will at least halve deficits by 2013 and stabilize or reduce<br />government debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016. Recognizing the circumstances of Japan, we<br />welcome the Japanese government’s fiscal consolidation plan announced recently with their<br />growth strategy. Those with serious fiscal challenges need to accelerate the pace of<br />consolidation. Fiscal consolidation plans will be credible, clearly communicated,<br />differentiated to national circumstances, and focused on measures to foster economic<br />growth.<br />10. We have agreed on a set of principles to guide these fiscal consolidation plans by advanced<br />economies:<br />· Fiscal consolidation plans will be credible. They will be based on prudent<br />assumptions with respect to economic growth and our respective fiscal positions, and<br />they will identify specific measures to achieve a target path that ensures fiscal<br />sustainability. Strengthened budgetary frameworks and institutions can help underpin<br />the credibility of consolidation strategies.<br />· The time to communicate our medium-term fiscal plans is now. We will elaborate<br />clear and credible plans that put our fiscal finances on a sustainable footing. The<br />speed and timing of withdrawing fiscal stimulus and reducing deficits and debt will<br />be differentiated for and tailored to national circumstances, and the needs of the<br />global economy. However, it is clear that consolidation will need to begin in<br />advanced economies in 2011, and earlier for countries experiencing significant fiscal<br />challenges at present.<br />· Fiscal consolidation will focus on measures that will foster economic growth. We<br />will look at ways to use our fiscal resources more efficiently, to help reduce the<br />overall cost of our interventions while targeting resources to where they are most<br />needed. In addition, we will focus on structural reforms that will promote long-term<br />growth.<br />11. Advanced deficit countries should take actions to boost national savings while maintaining<br />open markets and enhancing export competitiveness.<br />12. Surplus economies will undertake reforms to reduce their reliance on the external demand<br />and focus more on domestic sources of growth. This will help strengthen their resilience to<br />external shocks and promote more stable growth. To do this, advanced surplus economies<br />will focus on structural reforms that support increased domestic demand. Emerging surplus<br />economies will undertake reforms tailored to country circumstances to:<br />· Strengthen social safety nets (such as public health care and pension plans),<br />corporate governance and financial market development to help reduce precautionary<br />savings and stimulate private spending;<br />· Increase infrastructure spending to help boost productive capacity and reduce supply<br />bottlenecks; and<br />13<br />· Enhance exchange rate flexibility to reflect underlying economic fundamentals.<br />Excess volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates can have adverse<br />implications for economic and financial stability. Market-oriented exchange rates that<br />reflect underlying economic fundamentals contribute to global economic stability.<br />13. Across all G-20 members, we recognise that structural reforms can have a substantial impact<br />on economic growth and global welfare. We will implement measures that will enhance the<br />growth potential of our economies in a manner that pays particular attention to the most<br />vulnerable. Reforms could support the broadly-shared expansion of demand if wages grow<br />in line with productivity. It will be important to strike the right balance between policies that<br />support greater market competition and economic growth and policies that preserve social<br />safety nets consistent with national circumstances. Together these measures will also help<br />unlock demand. These include:<br />· Product, service and labour market reforms in advanced economies, particularly those<br />economies that may have lost some productive capacity during the crisis. Labour<br />market reforms might include: better targeted unemployment benefits and more<br />effective active labour market policies (such as job retraining, job search and skills<br />development programs, and raising labour mobility). It might also include putting in<br />place the right conditions for wage bargaining systems to support employment.<br />Product and service market reforms might include strengthening competition in the<br />service sector; reducing barriers to competition in network industries, professional<br />services and retail sectors, encouraging innovation and further reducing the barriers to<br />foreign competition.<br />· Reducing restrictions on labour mobility, enhancing foreign investment opportunities<br />and simplifying product market regulation in emerging market economies.<br />· Avoiding new protectionist measures.<br />· Completing the Doha Round to accelerate global growth through trade flows. Open<br />trade will yield significant benefits for all and can facilitate global rebalancing.<br />· Actions to accelerate financial repair and reform. Weaknesses in financial sector<br />regulation and supervision in advanced economies led to the recent crisis. We will<br />implement the G-20 financial reform agenda and ensure a stronger financial system<br />serves the needs of the real economy. While not at the centre of the crisis, financial<br />sectors in some emerging economies need to be developed further so that they can<br />provide the depth and breadth of services required to promote and sustain high rates<br />of economic growth and development. It is important that financial reforms in<br />advanced economies take into account any adverse effects on financial flows to<br />emerging and developing economies. Vigilance is also needed to ensure open capital<br />markets and avoid financial protectionism.<br />14. We welcome the recommendations of our Labour and Employment Ministers, who met in<br />April 2010, on the employment impacts of the global economic crisis. We reaffirm our<br />14<br />commitment to achieving strong job growth and providing social protection to our most<br />vulnerable citizens. An effective employment policy should place quality jobs at the heart<br />of the recovery. We appreciate the work done by the International Labour Organization in<br />collaboration with the OECD on a training strategy that will help equip the workforce with<br />the skills required for the jobs of today and those of tomorrow.<br />15. We are committed to narrowing the development gap and that we must consider the impact<br />of our policy actions on low-income countries. We will continue support development<br />financing, including through new approaches that encourage development financing from<br />both public and private sources. The crisis will have long lasting impact on the development<br />trajectories of poor countries in every region of the world. Among these effects, developing<br />countries are likely to face increased challenges in securing financing from both public and<br />private sources. Many of us have already taken steps to help address this shortfall by<br />implementing innovative approaches to financing, such as advance market commitments,<br />the SME challenge and recent progress with respect to financial inclusion. Low-income<br />countries have the potential to contribute to stronger and more balanced global growth, and<br />should be viewed as markets for investment.<br />16. These measures need to be implemented at the national level and tailored to individual<br />country circumstances. We welcome additional measures announced by some G-20<br />members aimed at meeting our shared objectives.<br />17. To facilitate this process, the second stage of our country-led, consultative mutual<br />assessment will be conducted at the country and European level. Each G-20 member will<br />identify the measures it is taking to implement the policies we have agreed upon today to<br />ensure stronger, more sustainable and balanced growth. We ask our Finance Ministers and<br />Central Bank Governors to elaborate on these measures and report on them when we next<br />meet. We will continue to draw on the expertise of the IMF, World Bank, OECD, ILO and<br />other international organisations, as necessary. These measures will form the basis of our<br />comprehensive action plan that will be announced in the Seoul Summit. As we pursue<br />strong, sustainable and more balanced growth, we continue to encourage work on<br />measurement methods to take into account social and environmental dimensions of<br />economic development.<br />18. The policy commitments we are making today, along with the significant policy measures<br />we have already taken, will allow us to reach our objective of strong, sustainable and<br />balanced growth, the benefits of which will be felt both within the G-20 and across the<br />globe.<br />15<br />ANNEX II<br />Financial Sector Reform<br />1. The financial crisis has imposed huge costs. This must not be allowed to happen again. The<br />recent financial volatility has strengthened our resolve to work together to complete<br />financial repair and reform. We need to build a more resilient financial system that serves<br />the needs of our economies, reduces moral hazard, limits the build-up of systemic risk and<br />supports strong and stable economic growth.<br />2. Collectively we have made considerable progress toward strengthening the global financial<br />system by fortifying prudential oversight, improving risk management, promoting<br />transparency and continuously reinforcing international cooperation. We welcome the<br />strong financial regulatory reform bill in the United States.<br />3. But there is more to be done. Further repair to the financial sector is critical to achieving<br />sustainable global economic recovery. More work is required to restore the soundness and<br />enhance the transparency of banks’ balance sheets and markets; and improve the corporate<br />governance and risk management of financial firms in order to strengthen the global<br />financial system and restore the credit needed to fuel sustainable economic growth. We<br />welcome the decision of EU leaders to publish the results of ongoing tests on European<br />banks to reassure markets of the resilience and transparency of the European banking<br />system.<br />4. We pledge to act together to achieve the commitments to reform the financial sector made at<br />the Washington, London and Pittsburgh Summits by the agreed or accelerated timeframes.<br />Transition horizons will take into account the cumulative macroeconomic impact of the<br />reforms in advanced and emerging economies<br />Capital and Liquidity<br />5. We agreed that the core of the financial sector reform agenda rests on improving the<br />strength of capital and liquidity and discouraging excessive leverage. We agreed to increase<br />the quality, quantity, and international consistency of capital, to strengthen liquidity<br />standards, to discourage excessive leverage and risk taking, and reduce procyclicality.<br />6. We took stock of the progress of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)<br />towards a new global regime for bank capital and liquidity and we welcome and support its<br />work. Substantial progress has been made on reforms that will materially raise levels of<br />resilience of our banking systems.<br />· The amount of capital will be significantly higher when the new reforms are fully<br />implemented.<br />16<br />· The quality of capital will be significantly improved to reinforce banks’ ability to<br />absorb losses.<br />7. We support reaching agreement, at the time of the Seoul Summit, on a new capital<br />framework that would raise capital requirements by:<br />· establishing a new requirement that each bank hold in Tier 1 capital, at a minimum,<br />an increasing share of common equity, after deductions, measured as a percentage of<br />risk-weighted assets, that enables them to withstand with going concern fully-lossabsorbing<br />capital – without extraordinary government support – stresses of a<br />magnitude associated with the recent financial crisis.<br />· moving to a globally consistent and transparent set of conservative deductions<br />generally applied at the level of common equity, or its equivalent in the case of nonjoint<br />stock companies, over a suitable globally-consistent transition period.<br />8. Based on our agreement at the Pittsburgh Summit that Basel II will be adopted in all major<br />centers by 2011, we agreed that all members will adopt the new standards and these will be<br />phased in over a timeframe that is consistent with sustained recovery and limits market<br />disruption, with the aim of implementation by end-2012, and a transition horizon informed<br />by the macroeconomic impact assessment of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and BCBS.<br />9. Phase-in arrangements will reflect different national starting points and circumstances, with<br />initial variance around the new standards narrowing over time as countries converge to the<br />new global standard. Existing public sector capital injections will be grandfathered for the<br />extent of the transition.<br />10. We reiterated support for the introduction of a leverage ratio as a supplementary measure to<br />the Basel II risk-based framework with a view to migrating to Pillar I treatment after an<br />appropriate transition period based on appropriate review and calibration. To ensure<br />comparability, the details of the leverage ratio will be harmonized internationally, fully<br />adjusting for differences in accounting.<br />11. We acknowledged the importance of the quantitative impact study currently being<br />conducted by the BCBS that measures the potential impact of the new Basel standards and<br />will ensure that the new capital and liquidity standards are of high quality and adequately<br />calibrated. The BCBS- FSB macroeconomic impact study will inform the development of<br />the phase-in period of the new standards.<br />12. We welcomed the BCBS agreement on a coordinated start date not later than 31 December<br />2011 for all elements of the revised trading book rules.<br />13. We support the BCBS’ work to consider the role of contingent capital in strengthening<br />market discipline and helping to bring about a financial system where the private sector<br />17<br />fully bears the losses on their investments. Consideration of contingent capital should be<br />included as part of the 2010 reform package.<br />14. We called upon the FSB and the BCBS to report on progress of the full package of reform<br />measures by the Seoul Summit. We recognize the critical role of the financial sector in<br />driving a robust economy. We are committed to design a financial system which is resilient,<br />stable and ensures the continued availability of credit.<br />More Intensive Supervision<br />15. We agreed that new, stronger rules must be complemented with more effective oversight<br />and supervision. We are committed to the Basel Committee’s Core Principles for Effective<br />Banking Supervision and tasked the FSB, in consultation with the International Monetary<br />Fund (IMF), to report to our Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in October<br />2010 on recommendations to strengthen oversight and supervision, specifically relating to<br />the mandate, capacity and resourcing of supervisors and specific powers which should be<br />adopted to proactively identify and address risks, including early intervention.<br />Resolution of Financial Institutions<br />16. We are following through on our commitment to reduce moral hazard in the financial<br />system. We are committed to design and implement a system where we have the powers<br />and tools to restructure or resolve all types of financial institutions in crisis, without<br />taxpayers ultimately bearing the burden. These powers should facilitate “going concern”<br />capital and liquidity restructuring as well as “gone concern” restructuring and wind-down<br />measures. We endorsed and have committed to implement our domestic resolution powers<br />and tools in a manner that preserves financial stability and are committed to implement the<br />ten key recommendations on cross-border bank resolution issued by the BCBS in March<br />2010. In this regard, we support changes to national resolution and insolvency processes and<br />laws where needed to provide the relevant national authorities with the capacity to cooperate<br />and coordinate resolution actions across borders.<br />17. We agree that resolution regimes should provide for:<br />· Proper allocation of losses to reduce moral hazard and protect taxpayers;<br />· Continuity of critical financial services, including uninterrupted service for insured<br />depositors;<br />· Credibility of the resolution regime in the market;<br />· Minimization of contagion;<br />· Advanced planning for orderly resolution and transfer of contractual relationships;<br />and,<br />18<br />· Effective cooperation and information exchange domestically and among<br />jurisdictions in the event of a failure of a cross-border institution.<br />Addressing Systemically Important Financial Institutions<br />18. We welcomed the FSB’s interim report on reducing the moral hazard risks posed by<br />systemically important financial institutions. We recognized that more must be done to<br />address these risks. Prudential requirements for such firms should be commensurate with the<br />cost of their failure. We called upon the FSB to consider and develop concrete policy<br />recommendations to effectively address problems associated with and resolve systemically<br />important financial institutions by the Seoul Summit. This should include more intensive<br />supervision along with consideration of financial instruments and mechanisms to encourage<br />market discipline, including contingent capital, bail-in options, surcharges, levies, structural<br />constraints, and methods to haircut unsecured creditors.<br />19. We welcomed the substantial progress that has been made regarding the development of<br />supervisory colleges and crisis management groups for the major complex financial<br />institutions identified by the FSB.<br />20. We continue to work together to develop robust agreed-upon institution-specific recovery<br />and rapid resolution plans for major cross-border institutions by the end of 2010. We further<br />committed to continue working on ensuring cooperation among jurisdictions in financial<br />institution resolution proceedings.<br />Financial Sector Responsibility<br />21. We agreed the financial sector should make a fair and substantial contribution towards<br />paying for any burdens associated with government interventions, where they occur, to<br />repair the financial system or fund resolution.<br />22. To that end, we recognized that there is a range of policy approaches. Some countries are<br />pursuing a financial levy. Other countries are pursuing different approaches. We agreed the<br />range of approaches would follow these principles:<br />· Protect taxpayers;<br />· Reduce risks from the financial system;<br />· Protect the flow of credit in good times and bad times;<br />· Take into account individual countries’ circumstances and options; and,<br />· Help promote a level playing field.<br />23. We thanked the IMF for its work in this area.<br />19<br />Financial Market Infrastructure and Scope of Regulation<br />24. We agreed on the need to strengthen financial market infrastructure in order to reduce<br />systemic risk, improve market efficiency, transparency and integrity. Global action is<br />important to minimize regulatory arbitrage, promote a level playing field, and foster the<br />widespread application of the principles of propriety, integrity, and transparency.<br />25. We pledged to work in a coordinated manner to accelerate the implementation of over-thecounter<br />(OTC) derivatives regulation and supervision and to increase transparency and<br />standardization. We reaffirm our commitment to trade all standardized OTC derivatives<br />contracts on exchanges or electronic trading platforms, where appropriate, and clear through<br />central counterparties (CCPs) by end-2012 at the latest. OTC derivative contracts should be<br />reported to trade repositories (TRs). We will work towards the establishment of CCPs and<br />TRs in line with global standards and ensure that national regulators and supervisors have<br />access to all relevant information. In addition we agreed to pursue policy measures with<br />respect to haircut-setting and margining practices for securities financing and OTC<br />derivatives transactions that will reduce procyclicality and enhance financial market<br />resilience. We recognized that much work has been done in this area. We will continue to<br />support further progress in implementing these measures.<br />26. We committed to accelerate the implementation of strong measures to improve transparency<br />and regulatory oversight of hedge funds, credit rating agencies and over-the-counter<br />derivatives in an internationally consistent and non-discriminatory way. We also committed<br />to improve the functioning and transparency of commodities markets. We call on credit<br />rating agencies to increase transparency and improve quality and avoid conflicts of interest,<br />and on national supervisors to continue to focus on these issues in conducting their<br />oversight.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />see PDF for more...<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.g20.org/Documents/g20_declaration_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.g20.org/Documents/g20_declaration_en.pdf</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7952691424216142965.post-66271121636886424672010-06-26T20:34:00.000-07:002010-06-27T07:11:54.961-07:00Canadian Prison Camps For Those Without ID<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWzbZ1UNRH5F1AF8BtlbtOFyLpqtVFaMFbNnPz5q-70732pdYLMPKQ46I3OioHVhRx17vBZpgJQj6a0ziXz-GUFGdQ6_jDIXVe3Oo6ycb9EV3EUEmX8nTdyveClHnYvRCqToQA2bjDTIE/s1600/629easternaveCANADAPRISONCAMP.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWzbZ1UNRH5F1AF8BtlbtOFyLpqtVFaMFbNnPz5q-70732pdYLMPKQ46I3OioHVhRx17vBZpgJQj6a0ziXz-GUFGdQ6_jDIXVe3Oo6ycb9EV3EUEmX8nTdyveClHnYvRCqToQA2bjDTIE/s320/629easternaveCANADAPRISONCAMP.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487291805170633458" border="0" /></a><br /></div>This is where Charlie Veitch was taken, strip searched, locked in a cage and refused food and water for allegedly not complying with a request to identify. Thanks to a brand new secret law, if you don't present your ID to the security guards they can arrest you. Charlie had not been doing anything illegal or violent, and told the police officers his name when asked.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qDwfgoYCnUM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qDwfgoYCnUM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />You can read the new law <a href="http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_90p55_e.htm">HERE</a>, learn more about <a href="http://www.cveitch.org/">CHARLIE</a>, or look around the "film studio" below.<br /><br /><iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=629+Eastern+Ave,+toronto&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.235538,93.076172&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=629+Eastern+Ave,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario+M4M+1E3,+Canada&ll=43.658821,-79.336898&spn=0.008771,0.022724&t=h&z=14&layer=c&cbll=43.6589,-79.336599&panoid=FDiXfhm4pTEk7exU6eee_g&cbp=12,162.58,,0,-4.79&output=svembed" frameborder="0" height="350" scrolling="no" width="425"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=629+Eastern+Ave,+toronto&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.235538,93.076172&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=629+Eastern+Ave,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario+M4M+1E3,+Canada&ll=43.658821,-79.336898&spn=0.008771,0.022724&t=h&z=14&layer=c&cbll=43.6589,-79.336599&panoid=FDiXfhm4pTEk7exU6eee_g&cbp=12,162.58,,0,-4.79" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;">View Larger Map</a></small>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7952691424216142965.post-57939833345544429402010-06-26T19:02:00.000-07:002010-06-26T19:10:49.239-07:00G20 Police Dressed As Anarchists Torch Junk Cars<div align="center"><b><span style="color:red;"><span style="line-height: 1.3em;font-size:20pt;" >Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists? </span></span><br />Government Decides Who Protests At G20: Violent anarchists allowed to smash up buildings despite announcing target in advance, yet anti-poverty group barred from protesting<br /><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/who-controls-the-black-bloc-anarchists.html" target="_blank">http://www.prisonplanet.com/who-controls-the-black-bloc-anarchists.html</a><br />Paul Joseph Watson<br />Prison Planet.com<br />Thursday, April 2, 2009</b></div><br />The British authorities seemed to have little problem with allowing a group of violent black bloc anarchists smash up the RBS building while provoking police yesterday, despite the group announcing their target in advance, yet a legitimate anti-poverty organization has had its “accreditation” to protest at the G20 removed on the orders of Downing Street.<br /><br />This once again underscores the completely undemocratic power of the government to decide who is allowed to protest against them and who is not. When you have to get permission from the government to exercise a God-given right, as in China or Russia, then we know we are already living in a police state. The freedom to protest is not one that has to be “accredited” by the state, a license to protest as it were, it is an innate human right.<br /><br />Apparently, if you wear black hoods and scarves, smash up private property and provoke police, then that’s absolutely fine and you’ll be left largely untouched. But God forbid if you’re a middle of the road anti-poverty group that just wants to peaceably march down the street.<br /><br />“An anti-poverty group expressed “outrage” after its accreditation to attend Thursday’s G20 summit was suddenly withdrawn on Wednesday,” reports the Telegraph.<br /><br />“The World Development Movement said it had no idea why the decision was taken but claimed it was on the orders of 10 Downing Street.”<br /><br />“The group, which was part of last weekend’s huge (and peaceful – ed) Put People First Alliance which held a rally in London, said the Foreign Office received a note from 10 Downing Street telling it to revoke the accreditation.”<br /><br />Benedict Southworth, the group’s director, said that the decision was part of the government’s plan to “stage-manage events and prevent voices of dissent and disagreement being heard.”<br /><br />The black bloc anarchist assault on the Royal Bank of Scotland building yesterday certainly had an air of being stage-managed. The target was announced in advance, the authorities knew that the building was a prime target, and yet it was the only one in the street not boarded up. A cafe across the street was boarded up and yet the RBS building was left completely vulnerable to attack.<br /><br /><br />Stage-managed? Press photographers outnumber anarchists as the RBS siege is perfectly “produced” for a live television audience.<br /><br />Cue a relatively small gaggle of black-bloc anarchists, followed by an similarly sized press corps to photograph every angle of every smashed window, and you have the makings of a stage-managed event to instantly be consumed by the watching middle classes thus enlisting their support for a police state crackdown. In this instance, the police stood back and let them do pretty much whatever they liked, which is highly suspicious within itself, but the week is far from over and a wider crackdown could ensue now that public acquiescence has been garnered through repeated footage showing the hostility of the anarchists.<br /><br />We’re not saying for a minute that every anarchist group is working at the behest of the authorities as provocateurs, nor that the majority are not legitimate protesters expressing their right to free speech, but as we have documented, this particular black bloc sect are at best completely infiltrated by provocateurs who can routinely be relied upon to provide the media with violent footage with which to demonize legitimate protesters at every major global summit stretching back nearly two decades.<br /><br />To emphasize our point that a lot of these people are merely hired thugs, whenever someone asks them what they are actually proposing to replace the evils of capitalism, they have no idea, as the video below highlights.<br /><br /><br />Meanwhile, people who actually have a defined cause and merely want to exercise their right to free speech as a public platform to draw attention to the issue, and have already proven they are a peaceable group, are barred from doing so by the government removing their “accreditation” to protest.<br /><br />Why are the authorities so keen on stifling peaceful protesters while giving free reign to people who dress up like terrorists, attack buildings and provoke cops? Whose interests do the violent actions of the black bloc benefit? The interests of the general public in using free speech as a means of political change? Or the interests of the authorities in providing the perfect pretext with which to crush and outlaw that free speech?<br /><br />You can’t overthrow the entire system by smashing one bank and starting a bonfire. Real political change takes generations of struggle, decades of building respected educational platforms, and a gargantuan grass-roots movement focused on taking power on the local level and expanding upwards. Throwing a brick through a window isn’t going to achieve anything other than making the vast majority of the general public despise you even more, and support the very systems of power that you are supposedly opposing.<br /><br /><b><span style="line-height: 1.3em;font-size:20pt;" >We have documented numerous different occasions where <span style="line-height: 1.3em;font-size:30pt;" ><span style="color:red;">the leadership of the black bloc anarchists were actually working with the authorities to provide a pretext for a police state crackdown.</span></span></span></b><br /><br />Following the SPP protests in Canada two years ago, Quebec provincial authorities were forced to admit that three rock-wielding black mask-wearing “anarchists” were in fact police infiltrators used to gather information on protesters.<br /><br />Video shows two of the provocateurs pick up rocks and try to incite violence before they are outed as cops by legitimate demonstrators. The two thugs then tried to slip behind police lines before their fellow officers were forced to stage their arrest. Again, the fact that they were cops in disguise was later admitted by authorities. Watch the video.<br /><br /><br />Alex Jones’ film Police State 2: The Takeover exposed how the black bloc anarchists were completely infiltrated and provocateured by the authorities during the violent 1999 WTO protests in Seattle.<br /><br />The authorities declared a state of emergency, imposed curfews and resorted to nothing short of police state tactics in response to a small minority of hostile black bloc hooligans. Police allowed the black bloc to run riot in downtown Seattle while they concentrated on preventing the movement of peaceful protestors. The film presents clear evidence that the black bloc anarchist group was actually controlled by the state and used to demonize peaceful protesters. Watch the video below.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />At the WTO protests in Genoa 2001 a protestor was killed after being shot in the head and run over twice by a police vehicle. The Italian Carabinere also later beat on peaceful protestors as they slept, and even tortured some, at the Diaz School. It later emerged that the police fabricated evidence against the protesters, claiming they were anarchist rioters, to justify their actions. Some Carabiniere officials have since come forward to say they knew of infiltration of the so called black bloc anarchists, and that fellow officers acted as agent provocateurs.<br /><br />At the Free Trade Area of Americas protests in Miami in late November 2003, more provocateuring was evident. The United Steelworkers of America calling for a congressional investigation, stated that the police intentionally caused violence and arrested and charged hundreds of peaceful protestors. The USWA suggested that billions of dollars supposedly slated for Iraq reconstruction funds are actually being used to subsidize “homeland repression” in America.<br /><br />The leadership of the black bloc has been completely usurped by the authorities and anyone who still professes to be a member of the group is either supremely naive or completely stupid. To dress up like terrorists, all in black with ski masks and bandanas (like the police) immediately sends out a negative message to the watching public and demonizes legitimate protesters.<br /><br />More violence is expected throughout the rest of the week in London and if the police are ordered to institute a brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators then we can thank the black bloc anarchists, both the provocateurs and the useful idiots who ape their violence, for providing them with the perfect pretext to do so.<br /><br /><img src="http://thestar.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bf8f353ef013485044ecc970c-800wi" alt="" border="0" /><b><span style="line-height: 1.3em;font-size:88pt;" >=<img src="http://g4rg4ntu4.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/agent_provocateur.png" alt="" border="0" height="400" width="500" /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">New galleries: <a href="http://bit.ly/dfgCDX"> </a></span></span></b><a href="http://bit.ly/dfgCDX"><b><span style="line-height: 1.3em;font-size:88pt;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">http://bit.ly/dfgCDX</span></span></b></a> &<b><span style="line-height: 1.3em;font-size:88pt;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://fb.me/CbUungRS"> http://fb.me/CbUungRS</a></span><br /></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0