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Swiss Voters Narrowly OK Joining U.N.
AP ^
| Sun Mar 3, 5:28 PM ET
| ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS
Posted on 03/04/2002 4:28:18 PM PST by rwjst4
GENEVA (AP) - Swiss voters approved joining the United Nations (news - web sites) on Sunday, finding the prospect of a greater role in today's interlinked world more compelling than fears that it would threaten the nation's centuries-old tradition of neutrality.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020303/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_un&printer=1
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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"The government pushed the latest initiative, believing that the political climate has changed since the height of the Cold War and that it was time for the 7 million Swiss to play a full role in the world."
Yeah sure. That's what they all say.
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posted on
03/04/2002 4:28:18 PM PST
by
rwjst4
To: rwjst4
55-45 isn't "narrow".
To: rwjst4
"Over the next 20 or 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable...[W]e have to empower the United Nations and...we have to govern and regulate human interaction."
Jim Garrison, President of the Gorbachev Foundation USA, 1995
(William F. Jasper "The United Nations Exposed," The John Birch Society 2001, www.aobs.com)
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posted on
03/04/2002 4:34:27 PM PST
by
rwjst4
To: rwjst4
Congratulations, Switzerland!
You can kiss your guns and your gold goodbye!!!
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posted on
03/04/2002 4:36:40 PM PST
by
DrLiberty
To: DrLiberty
At first, I thought the Swiss had to do a supermajority in order to pass something, instead of just a bare majority.
Too bad. I guess there won't be a safe haven for the next war, not like that mattered to some WW2 Jews.
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posted on
03/04/2002 4:46:28 PM PST
by
Frohickey
To: DrLiberty;GuillermoX;Texaggie79
About 15 years ago, I made a bet with someone that Switzerland would be the World/UN Capitol within 50 years. That bet is looking better these days.
Switzerland may have the right idea, self-serving as it may be. Washington, DC, has been the seat of power in the US for a long time, but was so easily accesible by the commoners that a cheap, inefficient labour market grew up around the city. That can't happen in Switzerland, it's so damned hard to get there for poor people.
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posted on
03/04/2002 4:49:54 PM PST
by
Dakmar
To: DrLiberty;GuillermoX;Texaggie79
:-)
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posted on
03/04/2002 4:51:30 PM PST
by
Dakmar
To: Frohickey
I guess there won't be a safe haven for the next war, not like that mattered to some WW2 Jews.
Safe havens are never extended to all (you should know that)...as the rich almost always manage to safely escape danger...many times with the property of the not-so rich stuffed in their bulging pockets.
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posted on
03/04/2002 5:13:39 PM PST
by
wheezer
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