Germany Wants Global Tax On All Financial Markets - Idea To Be Pushed In Pittsburgh G20 Summit

UPDATE 1-Germany's SPD Woos Left With Tax On Financial Deals

Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:00am EDT

* SPD unveils plan to tax financial transactions

* Step could be aimed at wooing left-wing voters

By Hans Busemann

BERLIN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have unveiled plans to push for a global tax on financial market transactions, in an apparent attempt to win over left-leaning voters weeks before election polls suggest they will lose.

In a paper by SPD chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, the party outlines steps to make banks bear some of the costs of the economic crisis.

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Steinbrück Seeks Global Tax

By Bertrand Benoit in Berlin , Financial Times, 11 Sep 2009

Germany's finance minister has called for a global tax to be imposed on financial transactions in an effort to end what he derided as "binge-drinking" on markets.

In one of the more radical steps mooted by a world leader to reform the financial system, Peer Steinbrück said receipts from the tax would be used to repay the cost to governments of tackling the crisis, including fiscal stimuli and bank rescue operations.

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Sunday 9-27-09 Germany's Election Day

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All smiles: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeir at their only televised political debate on Sunday before the election on Sept. 27.

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Ron FraserColumnist

German Election—Each-Way Bet

September 14, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

In two weeks, the German electorate will cast their vote for the government that will rule their nation over the next four years. The result of that election is now anyone’s guess.

Ron Fraser

Talk about a seesaw! German polls indicate that the upcoming federal election is going to be a nail-biter.

That the result will lead to another cobbling together of an unwieldy coalition of uncomfortable bedmates seems a foregone conclusion. But who will ally with whom remains an open question.

Chancellor Merkel has gone public with her intentions to dump Germany’s left-of-center Social Democrats in favor of the business-oriented Free Democratic Party (fdp). The fdp’s East German orientation may be more within her comfort zone, as she hails from Germany’s east herself.

The real question is, if more of the vote on polling day goes to the Social Democratic Party (sdp) leader, Frank Walter Steinmeier, which parties he will choose to engage with in coalition. If he looks further left and engages the Green Party and the current opposition Left Party (at present a seemingly unlikely proposition), then the most recent polls indicate the combined vote would marginally exceed that of a Christian Democrat/Christian Socialist/fdp alliance.

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Merkel-Steinmeier Election Debate

'You're Like an Old Married Couple!'

By David Crossland

Sunday's TV debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier was billed as the highlight of the election campaign, but turned into a snore as the two uncharismatic contenders praised their cooperation over the last four years and avoided direct confrontation.

German voters had hoped that Sunday's much-hyped television debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic Party (SPD) challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier would breathe life into the tepid election campaign that has been likened to a cotton wool fight.

Their hopes were dashed. The 90-minute encounter billed as a "TV duel" between the dispassionate German leader dubbed "Mutti" or Mummy and the gray-haired career bureaucrat was almost over when one of the four interviewers uttered in exasperation: "You're like a harmonious old married couple!"


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The Vatican, Germany and Global Regulation

Ron FraserColumnist

The Vatican, Germany and Global Regulation

April 13, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

There’s something sinister about the linkage between the Vatican, certain German elites and the regulatory power that Anglo-Americans have yielded up to the EU-controlled Financial Stability Board.

Ron Fraser

We are not conspiracy theorists. We don’t believe in the rapture. Nor do we have any affiliation with any of the sects that claim knowledge of underground dealings of secret societies working to establish a new world order.

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Victory For The World Champion Spy

Ron FraserColumnist

Germany—World Champion Spy!

March 23, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

Germany has just trumped all other nations with its latest espionage tool.

Ron Fraser

Many events occurring this year in Europe are reinforcing the increasing dominance of that continent by the nation of Germany.

Having created a monetary system that contained inequities destined to sow the seeds of its own failure, Germany now has the whole of Eastern Europe in addition to Ireland, the Baltic countries and Iceland virtually begging for German initiative to lead them out of economic crisis.

Germany is clearly the economic and the political power to which the whole of Europe now looks for leadership in its time of crisis. Yet it has been roundly criticized for not pulling its weight in the security and defense of the West.

Germany has for some time been encouraged by other EU nations and, in particular, by the United States, to shoulder a greater burden in the defense and security of not only Europe, but in theaters such as Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. Almost every step of the way, Germany has appeared reluctant to oblige. Now, things are changing—and changing rapidly. All of a sudden, Germany’s postwar image as a reluctant debutante has been replaced by that of a new, vigorous, highly inventive, state-of-the-art emerging military power!

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Will Vatican City State Endorse Jerusalem City State For World Peace? You bet!

As many writers, such as myself, have been investigating and forewarning about the issue to propel the Old City Of Jerusalem beyond the status of a new Global-City State, it is also becoming clearer to many others. Ron Fraser is hitting the target. The question is will the mysterious third party be the visible Vatican, The European Union, The United Nations or will it be an invisible force. For your investigation, here's a clue. Go behind the Hermetic maxim "As above, so below". This carries much merit in this issue. - Johnny



Ron FraserColumnist

Vatican’s Hidden Jerusalem Agenda

March 16, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

Why is Pope Benedict visiting Israel, and why right now?

Ron Fraser

This magazine has been watching Joseph Ratzinger for a long time. As we have watched, we have followed his course from chief confidante of the late Pope John Paul ii to his enthronement as pope and then on throughout the past four years of his controversial papacy.

As we have watched this leading religious figure, we have monitored his involvement in a clandestine project of the Vatican that was documented in Bible prophecy almost 2,000 years ago and which remained a mystery until fully exposed within the last two decades.

Now, as Benedict xvi prepares for his upcoming visit to Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan this May—a tour incorporating his first visit to Israel since being elected pope—it is crucial that the Vatican agenda for the city of Jerusalem be publicized.

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2009—Year of the Beast? - Ron Fraser Identifies

Ron FraserColumnist

2009—Year of the Beast?

January 5, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

This year may see the Lisbon Treaty ratified. If it does, fearful consequences will spring into perspective!


ime as calculated by the Gregorian calendar stood still for one second between the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. The reason was an international agreement to allow for official atomic clocks to adjust to the world’s irregular but gradually slowing rotation. So a leap second was inserted between 2008 and 2009.

It may have appeared to outsiders that time occasionally stood still for those who have been the prime movers behind the rebuilding of Europe into an imperial force yet again, following World War ii. Indeed, it has taken 63 years since the fascist elites went underground for them to pursue their goal of reviving the Holy Roman Empire.

Yet, time has certainly not stood still for those of the World War ii generation who went underground in 1944 to recast their plans for world dominion following the failed Nazi/fascist attempt, nor for the next generation to whom they handed on the baton, to keep the imperial Germanic/Roman dream alive.

The collapse of the last bastion of freedom in the world, the Anglo-Saxon nations—led by the rapid decline of the British Empire over 50 years ago and now accelerated by the sudden collapse of the United States—has opened a vast geopolitical vacuum to be filled. 2009 may well be the year when the European Union suddenly leaps into view to be seen by all as that which it was always destined to become: the final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire!

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