>From NewsMax 9/5/200 Between a rock and very hard spot! "We need the UN to save us from the Robber Barrons" should be the title I think. It looks like to me that, leaving aside the earth flopping on it's axis or New York being reduced to necular rubble, the UN is here to stay and our nationalism will pass the way of the Buffolo. Since I believe it to be true, that our government, perhaps all, are in the hands of Corporate Raiders we can only pray the UN turns out to be benevolent. D/ 'World Forum' Bashes America, GOP Austin Ruse Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2000 NEW YORK Anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism were the order of the first day of the State of the World Forum on Tuesday. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said globalization has come almost completely for the benefit of rich nations and has hardly benefited the developing world. "Globalization has been privatized," said the former Communist leader. "It has been Westernized and Americanized." Gobachev founded the State of the World Forum six years ago, and it draws deep thinkers from government, business and "civil society" to address questions of global concern. The leftist politics of the participants is readily apparent. Gobachev complained that "transnational corporations" hold monopolies on patents and all new technologies and that they do not share with poor countries or people. Gorbachev even called for the establishment of a Soviet-like central authority to be run by the United Nations that would direct international economics and the environment. The riots around the World Trade Organization talks were much on the minds of Tuesday's speakers. Gorbachev called them a "legitimate protest" by those who cannot abide the state of trade. Billionaire Blames Republicans and Capitalists Billionaire financier George Soros said the rioters' protests were misdirected and should have been aimed at the Republicans in the U.S. Congress. He said Congress and the Seattle rioters were strange political bedfellows but both were "dangers to international institutions." Soros complained the Congress had not paid America's U.N. dues and had not committed to debt relief of the poorest countries. "So much for compassionate conservatism," he said. Soros also denounced what he called "robber capitialists" and "market fundamentalists" who believe that markets alone can take care of the common man. "Markets will take care of private interests, not the common good," he said. Big Brother Will Solve Everything Soros suggested that only governments could take care of the common good, but they have come under the power of capital markets and therefore never would. Soros praised the World Trade Organization for its binding juridical authority. Echoing Gorbachev, Soros called for the establishment of international organizations that have powers to bind states on labor and environmental issues. The Republican Party also came under attack when AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said he intended to remove the GOP leadership on Nov. 7, Election Day. The well-heeled crowd, who paid $1,000 to $2,500 a person to attend, cheered wildly. Sweeney said a global conservative movement led by former President Ronald Reagan, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl created globalization. "From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, globalization is now known as a failure. And a free-market solution is likely to be catastrophic,² said Sweeney. Out of dozens of speakers, a few conservatives will be heard form this week, including former National Review Editor John O¹Sullivan and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell. 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