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Castro Endorses Global Taxes At UN Conference
America's Survival ^ | March 22, 2002 | Fidel Castro

Posted on 03/29/2002 2:23:14 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

Excellencies:

Not everyone here will share my thoughts. Still, I will respectfully say what I think.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.

The world economy is today a huge casino. Recent analyses indicate that for every dollar that goes into trade, over one hundred end up in speculative operations completely disconnected from the real economy.

As a result of this economic order, over 75 percent of the world population lives in underdevelopment, and extreme poverty has already reached 1.2 billion people in the Third World. So, far from narrowing, the gap is widening.

The revenue of the richest nations that in 1960 was 37 times larger than that of the poorest is now 74 times larger. The situation has reached such extremes that the assets of the three wealthiest persons in the world amount to the GDP of the 48 poorest countries combined.

The number of people actually starving was 826 million in the year 2001. There are at the moment 854 million illiterate adults while 325 million children do not attend school. There are 2 billion people who have no access to low cost medications and 2.4 billion lack the basic sanitation conditions. No less than 11 million children under the age of 5 perish every year from preventable causes while half a million go blind for lack of vitamin A.

The life span of the population in the developed world is 30 years higher than that of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa. A true genocide!

The poor countries should not be blamed for this tragedy. They neither conquered nor plundered entire continents for centuries; they did not establish colonialism, or re-established slavery; and, modern imperialism is not of their making. Actually, they have been its victims. Therefore, the main responsibility for financing their development lies with those states that, for obvious historical reasons, enjoy today the benefits of those atrocities.

The rich world should condone their foreign debt and grant them fresh soft credits to finance their development. The traditional offers of assistance, always scant and often ridiculous, are either inadequate or unfulfilled.

For a true and sustainable economic and social development to take place, much more is required than is usually admitted. Measures as those suggested by the late James Tobin to curtail the irrepressible flow of currency speculation -albeit it was not his idea to foster development - would perhaps be the only ones capable of generating enough funds, which in the hands of the UN agencies and not of awful institutions like the IMF, could supply direct development assistance with a democratic participation of all countries and without the need to sacrifice the independence and sovereignty of the peoples.

The Consensus draft, which the masters of the world are imposing on this conference, intends that we accept humiliating, conditioned and interfering alms.

Everything created since Bretton Woods until today should be reconsidered. A farsighted vision was then missing, thus, the privileges and interests of the most powerful prevailed. In the face of the deep present crisis, a still worse future is offered where the economic, social and ecologic tragedy of an increasingly ungovernable world would never be resolved and where the number of the poor and the starving would grow higher, as if a large part of humanity were doomed.

It is high time for statesmen and politicians to calmly reflect on this. The belief that a social and economic order that has proven to be unsustainable can be forcibly imposed is really senseless.

As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger. It should definitively be said: "Farewell to arms."

Something must be done to save humanity!

A better world is possible!

Thank you.

(PROLONGED APPLAUSE)


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: castrowatch; nwo; unlist

1 posted on 03/29/2002 2:23:14 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Castro Endorses Global Taxes At UN Conference
Why, sure he does! In a trice he'll have his hand out for Cuba's/his cut.
2 posted on 03/29/2002 2:25:30 PM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Clara Lou
The New World Order (they hope)

castro arafat

3 posted on 03/29/2002 2:29:50 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Diogenesis
Excellent.
4 posted on 03/29/2002 2:30:39 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Diogenesis
Looks like an Axis of Evil to me.....
5 posted on 03/29/2002 2:40:12 PM PST by Own Drummer
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To: *Castro Watch;*UN_list;*"NWO"
index bump
6 posted on 03/29/2002 2:55:21 PM PST by Fish out of Water
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To: Tailgunner Joe
extreme poverty has already reached 1.2 billion people in the Third World

Isn't Cuba part of the Third World?

7 posted on 03/29/2002 3:03:33 PM PST by Rightwing Canuck
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To: Tailgunner Joe
So?
8 posted on 03/29/2002 3:31:17 PM PST by theoutsideman
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"The poor countries should not be blamed for this tragedy. They neither conquered nor plundered entire continents for centuries; they did not establish colonialism, or re-established slavery; and, modern imperialism is not of their making. Actually, they have been its victims. Therefore, the main responsibility for financing their development lies with those states that, for obvious historical reasons, enjoy today the benefits of those atrocities.

The rich world should condone their foreign debt and grant them fresh soft credits to finance their development. The traditional offers of assistance, always scant and often ridiculous, are either inadequate or unfulfilled.

The reason a lot of third world countries, like Castro's own home, are starving and suffering is that their Dictators hoard the resources of their people. When we do send aid, people like Saddam steal it, and build palaces with the money take.

Castro's speech sounded similar to the "reparations" argument.

Oh, that's right, him and mister shakedown are buddies.

9 posted on 03/29/2002 3:38:16 PM PST by Vigilantcitizen
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Well if Castro likes the idea, it must be a good one.
10 posted on 03/29/2002 3:50:46 PM PST by Maceman
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The scary thing about this is that some of the lines sound like they were written by some of the America firsters around here, ironic considering the subject matter.
11 posted on 03/29/2002 3:52:07 PM PST by Dat
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Ok, lets start by taxing cuba to repay all those whose property was stolen by the communists when Castro took power. Once that is all repaid with interest, we could consider the proposal further.
12 posted on 03/29/2002 6:59:21 PM PST by JustTheTruth
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The poor countries should not be blamed for this tragedy. They neither conquered nor plundered entire continents for centuries; they did not establish colonialism, or re-established slavery; and, modern imperialism is not of their making. Actually, they have been its victims.

They have been the victims of mismanagment by their own governments. The repressive socialist governments monopolize resources to insure that their people are completely dependent on them for their meager existence.

The rich world should condone their foreign debt and grant them fresh soft credits to finance their development. The traditional offers of assistance, always scant and often ridiculous, are either inadequate or unfulfilled.

Welfare for socialist governments won't solve their problems. The people living there will still be kept poor and hungry while the aid money disappears to corrupt leaders.

For a true and sustainable economic and social development to take place, much more is required than is usually admitted.

Change from within is the only way to solve the problems of these poor countries. Once they agree to certain reforms, then supply the aid to help them rebuild the infrastructure that was squandered by mismanagment. The UN will just become more powerful by holding the purse that promotes their socialist agenda.

13 posted on 03/29/2002 7:04:28 PM PST by eggman
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To: Dat
Which comments?
14 posted on 03/30/2002 12:35:38 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: theoutsideman
So: Communist Cuba = the United Nations = International Socialism.

Some may say this is a non-issue because President Bush put the kibosh on it, (for the time being) but, it is still an issue, because it will come up again.

Do you know that the United Nations was created by Marxists, and for Marxist purposes?

15 posted on 03/30/2002 12:56:56 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: viligantcitizen
reparations = shakedown = extortion = socialism.
16 posted on 03/30/2002 12:58:25 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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