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Ursula von der Leyen Consolidates Power. What this teaches us about the push for single global government

Suppose you want to glimpse the political future that the globalist movement seeks to impose on the Western world. In that case, you should pay attention to current developments in the European Union, particularly the European Council- the appointed body that administratively manages the EU. Most think the European Union is an alliance between independent Westphalian nation-states that have banded together to form a trade partnership sharing a common currency. This certainly was the original justification (or marketing) for this political structure. But not the current reality.
The fact is that the organizational, administrative and political structure of the EU has evolved to yield a privileged political caste, based in Brussels, Belgium, which exerts unilateral political and financial authority over the formerly autonomous member nation-states. Of course, this process has developed under the careful guidance and watchful hidden influence of the United States and NATO.
As currently structured, Western Europe under the EU is more akin to the federal structure of the United States, but with a weaker central constitution and body of law (routinely disregarded) and less autonomy for each member state. Yes, there is the election of Members of Parliament of the European Union by the citizens of each state, but those MEPs have little of no actual power. Power is concentrated entirely in the European Council’s central authority and its President, Ursula Von der Leyen- all of whom are appointed rather than elected. And, as recently covered by both Politico and Unherd, although the center-right populist movements of Europe, including France, Italy, Germany and other countries have made great gains in the recent EU parliamentary elections, their growing power was not sufficient to disrupt the reappointment of Ursula Von der Leyen as President of the EU.
Unsurprisingly, upon reappointment, Von der Leyen swiftly moved to consolidate power by controlling the appointments to the European Council, which is the structure that actually makes EU policy and has the power to override any local decisions by the formerly sovereign legislatures of member states. To the surprise of virtually no one paying attention to what has been happening in the EU.
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Politico: From queen to empress: Inside Ursula von der Leyenās power grab
After unveiling her new team, the European Commission president holds more influence than ever.
BRUSSELS āĀ When Ursula von der LeyenĀ unveiled her teamĀ for the next European Commission, she simultaneously silenced the doubters about who was really in charge in Brussels.
As she revealed the 26 commissioners and their roles to the public, one point was immediately clear:Ā she would have unfettered control over European Union politics. In a matter of minutes, she introduced a big title with little responsibility for one of the most powerful countries in the European Union, she propped up her buddies, and she diluted powerful portfolios by dividing them among multiple people.
The power grab was complete.
āShe will be even more in control of everything,ā said one EU official who, like others quoted in this piece, was granted anonymity to speak freely. āWho thought that was even possible?ā
It was the culmination of months of public and private strategy to remove the dissenting voices of her first term as European Commission president. From the first team,Ā noneĀ of the naysayers remain. Big personalities such as Franceās Thierry Breton and the Netherlandsā Frans Timmermans are now gone.
During her first term ā in which she faced a global pandemic and a war on the EUās doorstep ā she developed a reputation for making unilateral decisions, overstepping her job description, cutting other EU leaders out of the decision-making, and speaking only to a handful of advisers.Ā As a result, sheĀ gainedĀ the nickname Queen Ursula in Brussels.
The morning of von der Leyenās announcement of her second top team, she refused to tell the European Parliament, her partners in the process of approving commissioners,Ā who she was assigning to which job. Instead, she left a meeting with the Parliamentās top leaders and went straight into a press conference in which she revealed all the details. She was later accused of ācontemptā for the Parliament.
Hours before, she convinced the French she would give their commissioner nominee an exceptionally important job if they swapped out Breton. On Tuesday, as she revealed job descriptions, they realized theyād been bamboozled into a watered-down position.
āAnyone who thought that she could have changed her style, her will to keep tight control, was at the very least naive,ā said an EU diplomat.
Unherd: Von der Leyenās authoritarian plot
National democracies will be subordinate to her Commission
The European Union is about to enter what could prove to be the most ominous phase in its troubled history. In a few weeks, Ursula von der Leyenās new European Commission will officially take office, at which point she will have almost unfettered control over the blocās politics.
When von der Leyen introduced the new Commissionās lineup and organizational structure last month, even the typically Brussels-friendly mainstream media was forced to admit that what she had pulled off was nothing short of a coup. By placing loyalists in strategic roles, marginalizing her critics, and establishing a complicated web of dependencies and overlapping duties that prevent any individual from gaining excessive influence, the Commission President has set the stage for an unprecedented supranationalĀ āpower grabā that will further centralize authority in Brussels ā specifically in the hands of von der Leyen herself.
She is busy transforming the Commission āfrom a collegial body into a presidential officeā,Ā noted Alberto Alemanno, EU law professor at HEC Paris. But this is the culmination of a longstanding process. The Commission has been stealthily expanding its powers for a long time, evolving from technical body into full-blooded political actor, resulting in a major transfer of sovereignty from the national to the supranational level at the expense of democratic control and accountability. But this āCommissionisationā is now being taken to a whole new level.
Consider the blocās foreign policy, and its defence and security policy in particular. It has gone relatively unnoticed that von der Leyen has used the Ukraine crisis to push for an expansion of the Commissionās top-down executive powers, leading to aĀ de factoĀ supranationalization of the EUās foreign policy (despite the fact that the Commission has no formal competence over such matters), while ensuring the blocās alignment with (or, rather, subordination to) the US-Nato strategy.
āThe Commission is evolving from technical body into full-blooded political actor.ā
A signal aspect of this move has been the appointment to key defence and foreign policy roles of representatives from the Baltic States (total population: a bit more than 6 million), which have now been bumped up the political food chain because they share von der Leyenās über-hawkish stance toward Russia. One particularly important figure is Andrius Kubilius, former Prime Minister of Lithuania, who, if confirmed, will take on the role of the EUās first Commissioner for Defence. Kubilius, known for his close ties to US-funded NGOs and think tanks, will be responsible for the European defence industry and is expected to push for greater integration of military-industrial production. Furthermore, Kubilius served on the advisory board of the International Republican Institute and is a former member of the Atlantic Councilās EuroGrowth Initiative ā two Atlanticist organizations whose primary objective is to promote US corporate and geopolitical interests around the world.
For those Western nation citizens left pondering why they should care about the political machinations of Angela Merkleās protege Ursula Von der Leyen, they should consider the broader context. The structure of the EU is basically a test bed for āNew World Orderā political structure being incrementally advanced for the (literally) unholy alliance of the Socialist United Nations with the Corporatist World Economic Forum, both of which are allied as the proudly self-proclaimed new global government structure.
Quoting from our book āPsyWar Enforcing the New World Orderā:
By globally synchronizing the public health response across the United Nations member states, new powers were granted to the UN and its organizations at the cost of national sovereignty. These universally applied regulations and multilateral agreements have given birth to an enlarged, globalized administrative state. Although this power grab has percolated for many decades, the COVID crisis acted as an accelerant to synergize international agreements that advance the UN as a world government.
The United Nations has morphed into a leviathan. Its various agreements and goals seek to centrally dictate the worldās economy, migration, āreproductive health,ā monetary systems, digital IDs, environment, agriculture, wages, climate modifications, one world health, and other related globalist programs. To be clear, these are the goals of an organization seeking a globalized command economy, not an organization focused on world peace, ending wars or human rights!
This UN aims to regulate every dimension of our personal and national lives. It is working to reduce and eliminate national sovereignty across the world, and thereby to decrease our diversity, our traditions, our religions and our national identities.
The UN has partnerships and strategic agreements with member nations, as well as other globalist organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, CEPI, The World Trade Organization, The European Union and the World Economic Forum, known as the WEF.
An Example of How the United Nations Operates
The WEF and the UN signed a strategic agreement and partnership in 2019. Remember that the WEF has a commitment to āstakeholder capitalism,ā by which private-partnerships work to control governments. The WEF developed a plan in 2020 to use the COVID-crisis to reorganize global governance around social issues, including climate changeāthis plan was called the Great Reset.
The WEF is a trade organization representing the worldās largest corporations. It repeatedly exploits disruptive technologies to enhance economic growth opportunities for its corporate members. The WEF is specifically designed to advance the economic power of its global elite members, otherwise known as the ābillionaire class.ā
As the WEF feeds money into the United Nations through their 2019 strategic agreement, who is managing the conflicts of interests that come with this partnership? Where is the transparency?
The UN has fourteen specialized organizations under its leadership, all involved in global governance, including the World Health Organization or WHO.
None of these organizations is related to the scope of the original UN charter, which was focused on ending wars, promoting world peace, and protecting human rights. The UN had been quietly building power for years prior to the pandemic through various agreements and treaties.
For instance, the ā2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentā is a recent example of such an agreement.
Agenda 2030 has seventeen goals and 169 targets, which vary widely in scope and topic, but almost all of these goals directly affect world governance. Here are just a few examples from the Agenda 2030 treaty. Is this what the United Nations should be concerned with, or are these issues more properly addressed by the policies of sovereign nations?
āWe are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change.
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men.
Eliminate discriminatory laws, policies and practices.
Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.
Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people.
By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.
This is an Agenda of unprecedented scope and significance. It is accepted by all countries and is applicable to all . . .ā
Agenda 2030 is essentially a totalitarian socialist manifesto. This United Nations Treaty contains many more forceful statements regarding the reduction of national rights. The UN has signed strategic agreements with the largest organizations, corporations, and world powers to fulfill its utopian vision for the world.
This is a new world orderāwith unelected officials in control. That means that we all will be ruled by a nondemocratic UN administrative bureaucracy. This is a form of inverse totalitarianism. A world order based on a command economy; one that is at its core both socialist and totalitarian.
Now, these goals and targets may be fine for any single nation to undertake but this is a restructuring of the United Nations beyond its charter.
Early in the pandemic, the UNāthrough its surrogate the WHO, declared that a global vaccine passport was needed, and provided extensive guidance to member nations to standardize vaccine passports worldwide. In response, the leaders of the G20 issued a declaration in 2022 supporting development of a global standard of vaccination for international travel and the establishment of āglobal digital health networksā to be built on existing digital COVID-19 vaccine passports.
In June 2023, a new initiative between the EU and the WHO for strategic cooperation on global health issues was announced. This agreement seeks to ābolster a robust multilateral system with the World Health Organization at its core, powered by a strong European Union.ā
The pandemic has allowed world leaders to coalesce global administrative power under the guise of public health through the administrative bureaucracy of the UN. Public health has been weaponized to gain control of passports, travel, banking, the environment and the international economy. This is a gross violation of the individualās right to privacy, national sovereignty and the UN charter.
It is just a matter of time before these vaccine passports will be coupled with central bank digital currencies. Then, the passports can be used to deny the unvaccinated or other political dissenters access to travel and use of their own money.
Once international passports, central bank digital currencies, command economy aspects of the UNās Agenda 2030, and the WHO amendments to the IHRs are implemented, the groundwork for a new world order will be complete. A global administrative state, whose core power resides with the UN. The US deep state views its relationship with the UN as one where it has kept some degree of organizational control. This new world order will become a spiderweb of rules, regulations, agreements, and treaties within which individuals and nations will be trapped like flies. This new global governance will be virtually unbreakable. From there, it is only a matter of time before national sovereignty becomes obsolete. This is a reality unless we fight to stop this madness.
For this reason, the power of the United Nations must be exposed and curtailed. Globalists seeking to advance their agendas are using the model of the European Union, whereby rules and regulations stymie national sovereignty, to build a worldwide system of control. All must fight this takeover at the local, national, and international level. We must use the courts, our legislatures, media, public protests, and the power vested in our national and state sovereignty to fight this. If all else fails, individual nations may need to withdraw from the UNās New World Order in order to remain free.
āTrue Believersā like Corporatist EU President Ursula Von der Leyen or Socialist UN Secretary-General António Guterres always resort to heavy-handed totalitarian responses when threatened by alternative opinions or political movements. What can be observed with Von der Leyenās response to the populist center-right political surge in Europe is precisely what will happen as the Socialist/Globalist agenda of the UN and its leader António Guterres is threatened by populist movements in the United States, Argentina, and across the world.
Letās work together to keep our personal and national sovereignty safe for future generations. A New World Order is not needed, is not acceptable, and we the people and our sovereign governments should unequivocally reject this globalized takeover.
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Top Canadian bank studies possible use of digital dollar for ābasicā online payments

From LifeSiteNews
A new report released by the Bank of Canada proposed a āpromising architecture well-suited for basic paymentsā through the use of a digital dollar, though most Canadians are wary of such an idea.
Canadaās central bank has been studying ways to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for use for online retailers, according to a new report, despite the fact that recent research suggests Canadians are wary of any type of digital dollar.
In a new 47-pageĀ report titled, āA Retail CBDC Design For Basic Payments Feasibility Study,ā which was released on June 13, 2025, the Bank of Canada (BOC) identified a āpromising architecture well-suited for basic paymentsā through the use of a digital dollar.
The report reads that CBDCs ācan be fast and cheap for basic payments, with high privacy, although some areas such as integration with retail payments systems, performance of auditing and resilience of the core system state require further investigation.ā
While the report authors stopped short of fully recommending a CBDC, they noted it is a decision that could happen āoutside the scope of this analysis.ā
āOur framing highlights other promising architectures for an online retail CBDC, whose analysis we leave as an area for further exploration,ā reads the report.
When it comes to a digital Canadian dollar, the Bank of Canada last yearĀ found thatĀ Canadians are very wary of a government-backed digital currency, concluding that a āsignificant numberā of citizens would resist the implementation of such a system.
Indeed, a 2023 study found that most Canadians, about 85 percent, do not want a digital dollar, as previouslyĀ reported byĀ LifeSiteNews.
The study found that a āsignificant numberā of Canadians are suspicious of government overreach and would resist any measures by the government or central bank to create digital forms of official money.
The BOC has said that it would continue to look at other countriesā use and development of CBDCs and will work with other ācentral banksā to improve so-called cross border payments.
Last year, asĀ reported byĀ LifeSiteNews, the BOC has already said that plans to create a digital ādollar,ā also known as a central bank digital currency (CBDC), have been shelved.
Digital currencies have been touted as the future by some government officials, but, as LifeSiteNews hasĀ reportedĀ before, many experts warn that such technology would restrict freedom and could be used as a ācontrol toolā against citizens, similar to Chinaās pervasive social credit system.
The BOC last August admitted that theĀ creation ofĀ a CBDC is not even necessary, as many people rely on cash to pay for things. The bank concluded that the introduction of a digital currency would only be feasible if consumers demanded its release.
Conservative Party leader Pierre PoilievreĀ has promised, should he ever form the government, he would oppose the creation of a digital dollar.
Contrast this to Canadaās current Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney. He has a history ofĀ supporting central bank digital currenciesĀ and in 2022 supported āchoking off the moneyā donated to the Freedom Convoy protests against COVID mandates.
Banks
Legal group releases report warning Canadians about central bank digital currencies

From LifeSiteNews
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ācentral bank digital currency could hand incredible power to the Government and Bank of Canada to monitor financial transactions, punish whatever behaviours the government deems undesirable, and penalize those on the wrong side of government ambitionsā
TheĀ Justice Centre for Constitutional FreedomsĀ released a new report examining how the adoption of a central bank digital currency in Canada could undermine the rights and freedoms of Canadians, including their privacy, autonomy, security, equality, and access to economic participation.
Financial transactions are increasingly conducted digitally. In 2023, a mere 11 percent of transactions were conducted with cash,Ā according to Payments Canada.
This trend is not limited to individual consumers. Government entities, including government departments, agencies, and Crown Corporations, have rapidly digitized access to, and delivery of, their goods and services over the past decade.
READ:Ā Mark Carney has history of supporting CBDCs, endorsed Freedom Convoy crackdown
Against this backdrop, in 2017, the Bank of Canada (a Crown Corporation) began exploring the possibility of implementing its own government-issued and government-controlled cashless currency ā a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
In a 2023 Bank of Canada survey on CBDCs, however, 82 percent of 89,423 respondents strongly disagreed that the Bank of Canada should be researching or building the capability to issue a CBDC. Despite these results,Ā the Bank of Canada continues to research a CBDC for Canada.
The Justice Centreās report critically evaluates the impact a CBDC could have on Canadiansā fundamental rights and freedoms. Absent robust legislative protections and oversight, a CBDC could allow the Government and Bank of Canada to monitor Canadiansā purchases, donations, investments and other financial transactions.
A CBDC has the potential to empower government to reward and punish the behaviours and lifestyle choices of individual Canadians, as Communist China does with its āsocial creditā system. Allowing the government to peer into and influence Canadiansā purchasing behaviours could have a profoundly damaging impact on their privacy and autonomy, cautions the report.
READ:Ā Financial expert warns all-digital monetary system would enable ācomplete controlā of citizens
Canada is not the first jurisdiction to explore a CBDC. This report evaluates the Bank of Canadaās exploration within a global context, applying lessons learned from jurisdictions like Nigeria, the Caribbean, and others.
After analyzing negative outcomes of āgoing cashlessā in jurisdictions such as Australia, Sweden, Finland, and Norway, this report advocates for the value of cash and the need for robust institutional and legislative protections for the use of cash.
Ben Klassen, Education Programs Coordinator at the Justice Centre and lead author of the report, stated,Ā āMany Canadian politicians and policy designers would have us participate in a frantic (and global) race to digitize goods and services, including our dollar. The finish line, we are told, promises heightened profitability, convenience, and security. While the pursuit of innovation and efficiency can deliver worthwhile rewards, we must always remember the values of privacy, autonomy, security, equality, and access to economic participation. Adopting a central bank digital currency risks excluding the homeless, the elderly, the āinternetless,ā the technologically illiterate, and the conscientious objector.ā
āMost seriously, a central bank digital currency could hand incredible power to the Government and Bank of Canada to monitor financial transactions, punish whatever behaviours the government deems undesirable, and penalize those on the wrong side of government ambitions,ā continued Mr. Klassen. āThis issue should be framed as a contrast between a ādigital dollarā and a āhuman dollarā ā our currency cannot be designed without regard for the humans and human values that will be profoundly impacted by its design.ā
READ:Ā RFK Jr. warns Americans āwill be slavesā if central bank digital currency is established
This report was produced in collaboration with Sharon Polsky ā President of AMINAcorp.ca, President of the Privacy & Access Council of Canada, and a Privacy by Design Ambassador with more than 30 yearsā experience in advising governments and policy designers on privacy and access matters.
Reprinted with permission from theĀ Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.Ā
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