Britain blames US for failing world's poor

The Times (U.K.) ^ | 08/26/2002 | Anthony Browne

[USA21]

U.N want a tax on America

[USA21]

Johannesburg Summit 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development Watch it

[Vidalia]

Cute for a country that just LOVED Imperialism...

[TADSLOS]

I thought Ted Turner was to blame...Ted Turner Cuts Payments

[USA21]

Catherine Day, deputy director at the European Commission, said Ashe's text, which axes several disputed sections from the 77-page draft, was a "good basis for discussion" and denied it was toning down environmental concerns.

"We feel it's a very positive step," echoed John Turner, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for international environmental affairs.

The text toned down earlier drafts that spoke of the possible dangers of globalization -- poor nations fear that liberalization could mean that rich corporations will swamp their vulnerable economies.

Another part of Ashe's draft partly meets developing nations' worries by urging rich nations to make "concrete efforts" to raise aid to them to 0.7 percent of their income. They now give about 0.22 percent, or $67 a year from each person in the developed world, down from 0.33 percent a decade ago.

[JimSEA]

I have little doubt that the "conclusion" of the Earth Summit will be nothing less than a declaration of war on the USA -- however it might be phrased.

[Faraday]

As the gloom deepened in the corridors, it seems many delegates are staying away. Although 65,000 delegates had been predictected to turn up, the UN has downgraded its expectations to just 40,000, and by yesterday only 9,000 delegates and journalists had been accredited.

LOL. The UN socialists' pipe dreams are collapsing like a house of cards. Thank you President Bush for staying in Crawford. You are doing much good by not attending.

[BenLurkin]

>Every one of the nations in the U.N. has a national government.
>The good people of Botswana should turn to the government of Botswana to solve their problems, NOT US. >If their government isn't up to the task then they need to replace it with one that is.
>If there is more terror, then we will clean out the rat's nests one by one, and maybe that will solve the overpopulation problem.

[Faraday]

As the gloom deepened in the corridors, it seems many delegates are staying away. Although 65,000 delegates had been predictected to turn up, the UN has downgraded its expectations to just 40,000, and by yesterday only 9,000 delegates and journalists had been accredited.

LOL. The UN socialists' pipe dreams are collapsing like a house of cards. Thank you President Bush for staying in Crawford. You are doing much good by not attending.

[goldstategop]

I'd tell this to the Brits: bloody mind your own soggin' business. And what its worth, if we're really failing the world's poor, why it is so many all the world risk life and limb to come to America? What a bunch of morons. And the U.N is nothing more than a paid advertisement for socialists, poverty pimps, black racists, radical Islamists, and enviro wackos. I'm glad our President isn't there to legitimize that motley band of anti-American misfits.

[dennisw]

I hope a lot more "delegates" get robbed. This is wealth transfer in action. From the overstuffed, lobster eating, FIRST world to the SKINNY THIRD world.

You have no idea the buffets the UN/World Bank/IMF throw at such shindigs.

[VaBthang4]

And my equally adolescent retort:

US blames Britain for failing the World

[Jorge]

The U.S. has done more to help the world's poor than the UK and all of Europe put together.
What a bunch of friggin ingrates.

[Militiaman7]

[jackbill]

Seems to me that for the cost of this fiasco they could feed a lot of hungry Africans.

[IronJack]

“We very much want to see targets on issues like sanitation. We hope to pursuade our American friends to agree to some of the targets” she added.

Translation: "We very much wanted to place an additional burden on the United States to worry its global primacy. We had hoped that US would shoulder even more of the responsibility for bringing these third-world flytraps out of the dark ages, even though these nations' repeated failures to achieve even basic cultural stability is a product of their own ineptitude and corruption. Promoting capitalism within their borders would be labeled economic imperialism, so that only leaves one "solution:" an endless conveyor belt of money that falls into these black holes, always accompanied by demands for even more money."

[ccmay]

It occurs to me that the best possible outcome of this conference would be for all 60,000 of these parasites and despots to be lined up against a wall and shot dead.

Nothing this conference could propose, and certainly no proposal that has a prayer of being implemented, would do as much for the starving masses of the Third World as removing the burden of this statist filth from their backs.

-ccm

[SamAdams76]

"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.

"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"

"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."

"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.

"Both very busy, sir."

"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."