Another step towards Globalisation. Rudd's ambitions as indicated below include USA

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The Australian Beacon

raysmyth@burcom.com.au

Australian PM wants Asia-Pacific union!

China people's Daily

Australian Prime Minister,  Kevin Rudd, said recently that he wants to see an Asia-Pacific Community by 2020 structured similar to the European Union.

Rudd said there was a "brittle­ness" in bilateral ties, and that while regional bodies like ASEAN and APEC had achieved much. there was a need for a region-wide architecture to tackle the growing challenges of the Asia-Pacific cen­tury.

"Terrorism in Southeast Asia will remain a continuing challenge. Across wider continental Asia, the rise of India and China represent great economic, environmental, energy policy and security rever­berations for the future," Rudd said in a speech to the Asia Society Australasia in Sydney.

"I believe it is time that we start­ed to think about where we want to be with our regional architecture in 2020. We need to have a vision for an Asia-Pacific Community," he said, adding the world could learn from Europe where centuries of animosity had been transformed into trans-national co-operation.

Rudd said an Asia-Pacific Community, which should include the United States, Japan, China, India, Indonesia and the

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other states  of the region, would encour­age co-operation and action on economic, political and security issues, but also develop a "genuine and comprehensive sense of com­munity".

"The danger in not acting is that we run the risk of succumbing to the perception that future conflict within our region may somehow be inevitable," said Rudd.

"At present, none of our existing regional mechanisms as currently configured are capable of achiev­ing these purposes."

Rudd, a Mandarin-speaking for­mer diplomat, came to power last November and aims to forge closer ties with the, region. He visited Beijing earlier this year, where he won wide praise, and he is set to travel to Japan and Indonesia later this month.

The road to world government

evin Rudd obvi­ously thinks that the European Union is really working well, so well that he wants a sim­ilar organisation for Australia.

I'm sure that he would say that this was a won­derful idea just thought up by the Labor Party. I'm sure that he would not say that this was a plan that had been hatched years ago by international bankers and that he was just carrying out his orders.

Yet, anyone watching the news can see the riots in the European streets, the complaints over over­whelming immigration, the over regulation, the inaccessibility of govern­ment and the endemic corruption the people suffer in the E.U.

No one but big busi­ness and international finance want these huge unions. In fact, what Big Kev is doing is giving Australian sovereignty away to an unelected regional government, just like the E.U. It seems there is a frantic move on to establish the North American Union, the African Union and the Asia Pacific Union to join the E.U.

These are just more steps toward World Government and not good for the Australian people, but it will be good for international finance and Big Kev is their representative in Australia.       - Ed.