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To: M203M4
Hot damn, just glancing over the Earth Charter, there is some nasty stuff.

A selection of the charter:

2 (b) Affirm that with increased freedom, knowledge, and power comes increased responsibility to promote the common good.

3 (b) Promote social and economic justice, enabling all to achieve a secure and meaningful livelihood that is ecologically responsible.

4 (d) Control and eradicate non-native or genetically modified organisms harmful to native species and the environment, and prevent introduction of such harmful organisms.

5 (d) Prevent pollution of any part of the environment and allow no build-up of radioactive, toxic, or other hazardous substances.

5 (e) Avoid military activities damaging to the environment.

7 (d) Internalize the full environmental and social costs of goods and services in the selling price, and enable consumers to identify products that meet the highest social and environmental standards.

7 (e) Ensure universal access to health care that fosters reproductive health and responsible reproduction.

8 (b) Recognize and preserve the traditional knowledge and spiritual wisdom in all cultures [except Christian] that contribute to environmental protection and human well-being.

III. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
9. Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social, and environmental imperative. 10. Ensure that economic activities and institutions at all levels promote human development in an equitable and sustainable manner.

a. Promote the equitable distribution of wealth within nations and among nations.

b. Enhance the intellectual, financial, technical, and social resources of developing nations, and relieve them of onerous international debt.

12. Uphold the right of all, without discrimination, to a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity, bodily health, and spiritual well-being, with special attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities.

a. Eliminate discrimination in all its forms, such as that based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, language, and national, ethnic or social origin.

b. Affirm the right of indigenous peoples to their spirituality, knowledge, lands and resources and to their related practice of sustainable livelihoods.

IV. DEMOCRACY, NONVIOLENCE, AND PEACE

14 b. Promote the contribution of the arts and humanities in sustainability education.

16. Promote a culture of tolerance, nonviolence, and peace.

c. Demilitarize national security systems to the level of a non-provocative defense posture, and convert military resources to peaceful purposes, including ecological restoration.
d. Eliminate OUR OWN nuclear, biological, and toxic weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
e. Ensure that the use of orbital and outer space supports environmental protection and peace.






They left out gun control. Everything else on the leftist agenda is covered.

8 posted on 03/09/2008 10:02:49 PM PDT by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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To: M203M4
Flaming commies. Much of this is in tune with the "real" Obama. His Global Poverty bill in Senate is directly aimed at taxing the hell out of U.S. citizens and giving it away to other countries. What a loon!
11 posted on 03/09/2008 10:28:12 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: M203M4

Well, isn’t that special. Too bad the Maunder Minimum is making them look like fools.
Soon this crap will be replaced with a new sky is falling and only socialism can save us religion.


13 posted on 03/09/2008 10:50:12 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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