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U.N. reform: The road to global governance
World Net Daily ^ | April 2, 2005 | Henry Lamb

Posted on 04/02/2005 4:41:01 AM PST by 26lemoncharlie

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Kofi Annan's long-awaited reform report, "In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All," is a laundry list of changes designed to strengthen the United Nations' grasp on global governance. Virtually every recommendation in Annan's report is a regurgitation of recommendations first advanced a decade ago by the U.N.-Funded Commission on Global Governance.

When the Commission on Global Governance's final report, "Our Global Neighborhood," was released in 1995, it went almost unnoticed outside the U.N. activist community. The dramatic changes the report recommends, however, have been bubbling up through the U.N. ever since.

The U.N.'s non-binding Millennium Declaration captured the goals of the Commission on Global Governance and expressed them in language acceptable to more than 150 heads of state at the Millennium Summit in 2000.

Now comes the official request by Kofi Annan to incorporate many of those recommendations into structural changes that will be legally binding on member nations.

The Commission on Global Governance recommended that the U.N. Security Council be expanded to 23 and that the veto power and permanent-member status be removed from the five current permanent members.

Annan is not going quite that far – at this time. He is recommending expanding the Security Council to 24 members in one of two possible scenarios, but he knows he has no chance of getting the veto power removed from the existing permanent members – at this time.

Regardless of the method chosen, expansion of the Security Council can do nothing but place more obstacles on the road to negotiating resolutions. It is difficult enough now, and sometimes impossible, to get agreement on U.N. action. The addition of nine more self-interested nations on this Council will stall, if not kill, any meaningful action in the future.

The Commission on Global Governance recommended that the U.N. Trusteeship Council be transformed and given "trusteeship" over the "global commons," with representation of "civil society" through partnership with non-government organizations, or NGOs.

Annan is recommending that the Trusteeship Council be eliminated and replaced by a new Council on Human Rights, replacing the corrupt Commission on Human Rights. Details are sketchy about the responsibility and authority of this proposed new council, but Annan is calling for a permanent arrangement for NGO participation and greater "coherence" among all agencies to achieve environmental and sustainable-development goals.

The Commission on Human Rights should be eliminated. A new Council, wearing the "human rights" label, offers no promise of change in attitude or function. The promise of expanding NGO representation, however, is cause for alarm. In autocratic nations, where citizens have no voice at all, NGO participation may be helpful. But in America, NGO participation in U.N. policy development provides a mechanism to bypass duly elected officials at the state and local levels. This practice is already widespread in the use of "visioning councils," "stakeholder councils" and "regional councils" of various sorts.

Annan's report calls for all nations to reaffirm their commitment to provide .07 percent of their gross national income to "Official Development Assistance." This amounts to a global welfare program administered by the U.N. Having seen the efficiency with which the U.N. administered the oil-for-food program in Iraq, there should be little appetite for any nation to help provide the U.N. with hundreds of billions of dollars annually to be used by U.N. agencies that have neither oversight by, nor accountability to, any responsible party.

The world's poverty can never be eliminated by increasing welfare dollars. Were the people in the developing world allowed to own private property, which could be used as collateral for loans to invest in business opportunities, the people could begin to build their own prosperity. Where poverty is most severe, government owns the land and the resources.

Were the people in the developing world allowed to develop abundant and affordable energy from domestic coal and petroleum, both prosperity and health would improve dramatically. The sustainable-development agenda advanced by the U.N. and its NGO partners are the real obstacles to the elimination of world poverty and poor health.

The recommendations in Kofi Annan's report will do nothing to enlarge freedom in the world; they will only enlarge the power of the U.N. to continue its quest for global governance. The United States should reject Annan's requirement that the report be adopted in full. Instead, the United States should develop its own set of recommendations for the U.N., stripping it of its "global governance" aspirations, and returning it to nothing more than a forum for discussions among its sovereign members.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalcommons; globalgovernance; globalism; globalist; globalistagenda; jbs; newworldorder; nwo; trusteeship; un; unreform

1 posted on 04/02/2005 4:41:02 AM PST by 26lemoncharlie
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To: 26lemoncharlie
Annan's report calls for all nations to reaffirm their commitment to provide .07 percent of their gross national income to "Official Development Assistance."

Oh, they are asking; how about.... NO WAY - and you shouldn't be smoking that stuff.
2 posted on 04/02/2005 5:10:51 AM PST by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: ARCADIA

With France and Germany on the brink of Bankruptcy, I wonder who will be first in line to claim Bankruptcy and have their hands out??


Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!! Stop the Globalist BS. Elect farmers, housewives and the unemployed!! Write in votes must still be counted and honored!!


3 posted on 04/02/2005 5:17:50 AM PST by 26lemoncharlie (Sit nomen Dómini benedíctum,Ex hoc nunc, et usque in sæculum! per ómnia saecula saeculórum)
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To: 26lemoncharlie

“I don't do carrots.” - comment from newly nominated UN ambassador John Bolton when asked about giving cash and other incentives to rogue states.


4 posted on 04/02/2005 5:38:50 AM PST by sergeantdave (Smart growth is Marxist insects agitating for a collective hive.)
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To: 26lemoncharlie
While we are waiting fo Koffi to globalize us..
the USA is being turned into a global satellite state
of Canada the U.S. and Mexico right under conservatives noses.

imo
5 posted on 04/02/2005 6:24:23 AM PST by joesnuffy (The generation that survived the depression and won WW2 proved poverty does not cause crime)
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To: joesnuffy

The Conservatives are part of the New World Order Team for Globaization. These people want to undermine the US Constitution, to remove our rights as they are stated in the US Constitution.

Although The laws have been changing and being tweaked toward Globaliztion, they are becoming more bold in espousing their philosophy as they change laws and become stronger. That's why this march to DC is so important. These members of Congress must be made aware that the people who elected them do not want this. The US Constitution is the Form that we want.


6 posted on 04/02/2005 3:49:37 PM PST by 26lemoncharlie (Sit nomen Dómini benedíctum,Ex hoc nunc, et usque in sæculum! per ómnia saecula saeculórum)
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