A Voice Of Reason From Czech Republic

Vaclav Klaus, the Czech President told the U.N. General Assembly that the solutions to the world's economies do not lie in regulatory agencies within the U.N. nor the idea of world governance by the U.N. He denounced the idea of:

Klaus is a Free Market economist who was instrumental in the privatization of the Czech Republic after the collapse of Communism, he stressed the fact that the move toward Socialism is a huge error and that it was a "mistaken assumption' to assume that regulatory interventions will prevent future economic crises; he insists that such agencies will only serve to destroy markets and prevent future economic growth in developing countries.

http://www.klaus.cz/clanky/2171

He references:

“The Intellectuals and Socialism: As Seen from a Post-Communist Country Situated in Predominantly Post-Democratic Europe”

by F. von Hayek

“I take it for granted that this audience knows the slightly provocative (because mercilessly generalizing) but very powerful and important, now already 56 years old article “The Intellectuals and Socialism”. This audience certainly knows as well that it was written by F. von Hayek and that it was published in the very confused and very pro-socialist post-second world war era, when the overall belief in the benefits of social engineering and of economic planning and, at the same time, the disbelief in free markets were at their heights.

I suppose that many of us still remember Hayek’s definition of intellectuals (we would probably say public intellectuals nowadays) as “the professional second-hand dealers in ideas”, who are proud of not “possessing special knowledge of anything in particular”, who do not take “direct responsibility for practical affairs” and who need not “even be particularly intelligent” to perform their “mission”. Hayek argued that they are satisfied with being “intermediary in the spreading of ideas” of original thinkers to the common people, whom they consider not being their equals.

Hayek was – more than half a century ago, which means before the current prevalence of electronic media – aware of the enormous power of intellectuals to shape public opinion and warned us that “it is merely a question of time until the views held by the intellectuals become the governing force of politics”. This is as valid today as it was when he wrote it.”

I love the simple facts... the G7? The most advanced people typically representing the west, western civilization.

Whats their common thread?

Again , Typically, they rode together on Christian Crusades.

Politically, economically, socially, technically, we are the more advanced and the third world muslims want to cash in on the wealth AND tell us how to manage affairs?

The barbarians need to go and hide in their caves or tents and get back to herding their goats.

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