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A new push to meet UN's antipoverty goals
The Boston Globe ^
| 1/3/2004
| Gunnar Stalsett
Posted on 01/03/2004 4:26:32 AM PST by johnny7
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:18 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WITH THE HUGE amounts of money appropriated by Congress and additional billions pledged by international donors to address the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is now evident that if an issue has priority, money can be located. Without question, Iraq and Afghanistan must be rebuilt, but other pressing human needs cannot be forgotten. As World Bank President James Wolfensohn recently emphasized, the world devoted about $800 billion to military expenditures in 2002, compared with $56 billion in development assistance. To put it another way, UNICEF's annual budget is being spent on military purposes every 15 hours, even as 1.3 billion people, half of them children, live on less than $1 per day, in almost unimaginable conditions of deprivation.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bsbingo; ghostoflbj; lbj; loathesthemilitary; militaryspending; nobelpeaceprize; nobelprize; poverty; socialism; socialists; stalinsusefulidiots; taxes; un; unicef; unitednations; usefulidiot; usefulidiots; waronpoverty; waronpoverty2
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posted on
01/03/2004 4:26:33 AM PST
by
johnny7
To: johnny7
Pretty scary article, IMO.
Carolyn
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posted on
01/03/2004 4:33:14 AM PST
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CDHart
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To: johnny7
Gunnar Stalsett is Lutheran bishop of Oslo and the former deputy leader of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.Sorry, Gunnar 'ol boy, you lost a lotta credibility when your committee admittedly gave Jimmah Cahrter the award so the world would know of your hatred of GW.
Being assholes has consequences, Gunnar. I read the entire article with an open mind . . . until I got to the last line. Now, my parakeet has more liner for her cage.
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posted on
01/03/2004 4:39:29 AM PST
by
geedee
(Liberals tend to worry about right and left and leave the right and wrong for others to sort out.)
To: johnny7
Why can't they focus on important issues like
ending slavery in Africa,
freeing people enslaved by Communism or
ending religous persecution of Christians and Jews world wide?
Oh, silly me, the UN and world Socialist crowd doesn't consider any of these a problem...
But further enslaving and punishing the few success stories we have to look to? These peons must learn their place in the social order! Confiscate their possessions for immediate redistribution!!!
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posted on
01/03/2004 4:46:12 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: Caipirabob
Human Rights are not a concern of the UN.
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posted on
01/03/2004 5:00:57 AM PST
by
weegee
To: johnny7
"Authentic human security can only be achieved through determined measures to eradicate poverty and improve conditions on a global level."
Authentic human security can only be achieved by overthrowing enslavement scemes called "socialism". A free man can provide for his own security. A slave/prisoner must rely on his keepers to provide for him.
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posted on
01/03/2004 5:06:16 AM PST
by
weegee
To: johnny7
Why not put together a brain trust over the next year... coupled with people from the developing world, including statesmen Marxists like Nelson Mandela....
Certainly there are better minds than a pal of Castro and Qadaffi...
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posted on
01/03/2004 5:11:00 AM PST
by
weegee
To: johnny7
To increase the chances of success, there should be a closer dialogue between major institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and private organizations ranging from the establishment-oriented World Economic Forum to the activist World Social Forum. More pitching for the socialists...
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posted on
01/03/2004 5:16:13 AM PST
by
weegee
To: All
...an international tax on currency transactions proposed by the Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin to raise the necessary funds to help meet the Millennium Development Goals. Another is an international bond issue advocated by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, to raise an additional $50 billion annually for development assistance.Perfect! This would provide our tax dollars to prop-up Cuba, N. Korea and Zimbabwe.
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posted on
01/03/2004 5:58:55 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“If you are being murdered, raped or molested... please hold... ”)
To: johnny7
As World Bank President James Wolfensohn recently emphasized, the world devoted about $800 billion to military expenditures in 2002, compared with $56 billion in development assistance.totally unrelated.
How many of those starving people live in free market democracies????
huh??? Thats the REAL question.
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posted on
01/03/2004 6:07:19 AM PST
by
GeronL
(The French just can't stop being French.)
To: geedee
Never made it to the last line. He lost me at the "international tax" mention. That'll happen, sure.
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posted on
01/03/2004 10:58:41 AM PST
by
kcar
(New world order? Die first!)
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