Those Nazi bastards, again?

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The Archbishop of Canterbury. Photo: CC/Stephen Punter

The head  of the Anglican church warns many economies are going the way of Nazi Germany.

(Hitler boasted that his form of socialism was superior to that of the Soviets.)

Cue the “shocked” and “disappointed” pols, who will decry the mention of the Nazis in the same breath as the mega-rich.

LONDON (AFP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams warned Monday that governments should not pursue dogmatic solutions to the financial crisis at the risk of the most vulnerable, saying that is what the Nazis did.

via AFP: Archbishop warns of dangers of economic dogma.

OECD to plot internet's future

Forty government ministers will meet with private business managers in Seoul next month to plan an all-reaching, all-seeing, all-knowing internet, which derives data from RFID tags and other ubiquitous sensors.

Father of the internet and Google chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf (pictured here) will be participating in the OECD meeting.

The ministers says they want to “provide guidance” to consumers as they adjust to the convergence of all media and commerce, and sensor-derived data, into a single stream.

From the program for the upcoming meeting:

The Future of the Internet Economy OECD Ministerial Meeting
The Internet is a key infrastructure for global economic growth and social development. Three major trends – Convergence, Creativity and Confidence – are influencing the policy environment for the Internet Economy. Each of these trends reflects significant shifts in the use and functionality of the Internet. Collectively, they represent a major transition in the evolution of the Internet and the economic system that has developed around it. Therefore, it has become increasingly necessary that policies supporting the Internet Economy be carefully crafted and co-ordinated across policy domains, borders and multiple stakeholder communities.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental trade organization set-up to rebuild postwar Europe. It has since broadened its reach into virtually every aspect of human affairs, planet-wide.

(Images: Vint Cerf, from the ICANN website.)

Royal Institute mulls a "world without rules"

(Outside Chatham House, the home of the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Image: Chatham House website)

NATO, Britain, India and global business leaders will meet at Chatham House next week will discuss the “new (global) economic order,” dominated by the BRIIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and Indonesia). Journalists at the event must observe the Chatham House Rule, which prohibits them from quoting any participant by name. — mb

Chatham House – Events – Conferences – View Conference Details
Are the rules of the game changing as the balance of the global economy shifts from Europe and the USA to include India, China, Russia and others?

At The New Politics of the Global Economy: a world without rules?, leading thinkers from governments, international organisations and corporates globally will discuss:

* the impact of changes in the global economy on investment, trade, and the environmental framework
* whether new rules will operate across borders
* the global security issues raised by the interdependencies of this new economic order
* the business strategies that will succeed in this new environment.