-Caveat Lector- This is very interesting about UN. Communism just make things fairer altogether ? -----Original Message----- From: Mark A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, 16 July 1999 6:55 Subject: SNET: New York Post: UN Reviving Communism -> SNETNEWS Mailing List Source: New York Post http://www.nypost.com/editorial/10902.htm">http://www.nypost.com/editorial/1 0902.htm Editorial IS THE UNITED NATIONS TRYING TO REVIVE COMMUNISM? The United Nations, a corrupt and corrupting institution that grew out of the crackpot notion of an enlightened world government, doesn�t like the direction in which the global economy is going. Its predictable solution: world government, with the U.N. in charge. Ummm, no thanks. The great economic problem in the world, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme, is that markets are just working too well. Yes, you read that right: The U.N. thinks that the explosion of worldwide freedom that has followed the end of communism is no fair. This explosion goes by the name of "globalization," and it�s the purpose of the U.N. report to turn the word "globalization" into an epithet. Competitive markets may guarantee efficiency, the U.N. report says, but they do not guarantee equality. In other words, eight years after Boris Yeltsin jumped on a tank and sealed the doom of the Soviet Union, some people and some countries are far richer than others - and that�s no fair! "By the late 1990s," write the report�s authors, "the fifth of the world�s people living in the highest income countries had 86 percent of world GDP and the bottom fifth had just 1 percent." No fair! Though technology is providing the world with previously unimaginable benefits, it�s not being used in the right way, according to the U.N. Rather, it should be used for "eradicating poverty." Alas, that goal is supposedly not on the agenda: "Cosmetic drugs and slow-ripening tomatoes come higher on the priority list than drought-resistant crops or a vaccine against malaria." No fair! You might think that amazing advances have already been made in the world of medicine in the United States when it comes to vaccines and drugs and that sort of thing, but the U.N. doesn�t dwell on those. When it condemns the refusal of "technology" to find "drought-resistant crops" it conveniently ignores the unbelievable bounty offered to the world by U.S. scientist Norman Borlaug and his "green revolution." These technological improvements have all taken place because the U.S. has a free-market economy that offers spectacular rewards to those who figure out new ways and new techniques to improve the lives of those around them. If any country in the world is to develop a vaccine against malaria, it will be the United States - because the drug company that finds the vaccine will profit from it as a result. But the backward-looking pseudo-intelligences behind the U.N. report refuse to see this. What they see is that technology is out of reach for the poor, and the laws governing patents do not pay enough attention to the "knowledge of indigenous people." All these troubles, it seems, could be solved by the reinvention of national and global governance so that "human development and equity" is foremost. Because the current "institutions of international governance are inadequate for the challenges of the 21st century," the report suggests some new ideas. Topping the list, naturally, is a "stronger and more coherent United Nations," followed by institutions like a world environmental agency and a world investment trust with redistributive functions. A world ruled by people like those who wrote this report is a world this planet has known all too well, to its infinite sorrow. It�s a world of bureaucrats who believe not in equality, but in egalitarianism, and will stifle everybody who disagrees. The centralization of power in the hands of these bureaucrats in the name of the "poor" leads inevitably to a dictatorship in their name. In other words, it�s communism all over again. Globalization is just the new word these neo-Communists are going to use now that capitalism sounds good. The good news is that ideas like these have had their day. The bad news is that the bureaucrats of the United Nations are still sitting on their duffs in that monstrosity on the East River, trying to figure out ways to enhance their roles in the world. There�s a lot of talk about how the United States owes a lot to the United Nations in the form of "arrears" for its "dues" - money the U.N. needs to support efforts like this noxious report. The very fact that this report exists should be reason enough for Republicans in the House and Senate to see to it that this ideological cesspool of an organization receives not even so much as a Lincoln penny. -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Posted by: "Mark A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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