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The guiding light of global policy : Comments

By Ioan Voicu, published 3/2/2017

Strengthening international solidarity is a crucial task for promoting universal peace.

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The author writes: In accordance with the UN doctrine, there are five imperative objectives for the 21st Century for which solidarity is essential: achieving sustainable development; preventing and mitigating conflicts, human rights abuses and the impacts of natural disasters; building a safer and more secure world; supporting countries in transition; and engaging the talents of women and young people.

Five? I count six.
Posted by david f, Friday, 3 February 2017 9:21:27 AM
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The word 'globalisation' makes me shudder. So does 'solidarity', which invokes Greece, world communism and all that nasty Left stuff. Throw in 'the UN Human Rights Council', and the game is up. It all leads to 'relativism' and the desire for control expressed by the Militant Secularists and, for heavens sake, 'world citizenship', which is code for One World Government as per the departed and unlamented extreme Left poltician, Bob Brown.

We need this stuff like we need a hole in the head!

The Judeo-Chistian culture, the bedrock of the West and the system that has made us great, is under threat from Radical Islam and the Militant Secularists – those termites who have taken control of our education system and who have access to our children five days a week. Islam is seeking to harm us through immigration and breeding in aid of its World Caliphate.

There is nothing “artificial” about our borders. We must ignore the likes of this author, and repair the real and legal borders we, ourselves, have allowed to fall down.
Posted by ttbn, Friday, 3 February 2017 9:31:49 AM
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You think most folk regardless of their political persuasion or ethnicity, would get that we achieve far more,more productively via universal cooperation? Almost as if we were one race, (the human race) living on just one (threatened) planet and sharing shrinking finite resources!

If we could just sidelined the money hungry (don't give a rat's speculators, despots, tinpot tyrants) and then concentrate via cooperative endeavor, to power the planet with clean, safe, cheap power. (Thorium?)

s Which we have enough of to power the entire planet for thousand of years! Then with lights and washing machines etc, in every home?

Set about ensuring safe clean potable water! And doable utilizing new, extremely cost effective deionizing dialysis desalination and made vastly more cost effective with clean cheap safe energy!

When we finally stop parking our brains and compassion, we'll invariably get to understand, when the least among us are better off, everybody is!

I mean Look what happened when millions were lifted from poverty in Asia!

So, given the benefit us all outcome! Why stop or allow others to stop essential economic progress?

Moreover, it is the only evidence based, proven method of ever controlling, runaway population growth!

The alternative? Massive assured self destruction! And not necessarily with a nuclear winter, when the carbon bomb is proving more dangerous and potentially more destructive for the entire planet and life as we know and understand it!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 3 February 2017 11:13:08 AM
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Speaking of "termites" who supposedly control our education system, and the education system in the USA (that supposedly most "religious" of Western countries) why not check out an essay titled Betsy Devos's Mudsill View of Public Education featured on this website:
http://www.talk2action.org
Betsy Devos and her brother Eric Prince are of course "religious" zealots of the worst kind. Also check out the topic DeVos and the Hillsdale College Connection

Note the references to the Christian based Accelerated Learning "Education" system in the above essay. It is quite popular with some back-to-the-past Christians here in Australia, especially in Queensland
Meanwhile Jerry Falwell from Liberty "University" is going to conduct a review of the entire USA "education" system. His "university" and what it teaches is also muchly featured in the above essay.

The plot thickens, or more correctly sickens.
Posted by Daffy Duck, Friday, 3 February 2017 11:23:03 AM
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A pig in silk? A monkey in silk?
What do they call it when you have a big steaming pile of crap all dressed up nicely to appear to be something it isn't?
Whatever that is, thats what this is.
And mass of contradictions in a 'baffle em with bs' format that's dressed up nice.

"...those who either suffer or benefit least deserve help from those who benefit most."

So what you're essentially talking about is levelling the playing field.

This might sound good on paper, but for those 'better off' countries the responsibilities you place on them forces them to take away from their people in their own nations who suffer or benefit least.
In this sense the globalism you're advocating doesnt really provide any more actual benefits to a 'better off' country such as ours anymore than it represents a race to the bottom between all 'better off' nations, or a march towards a chinese communist styled world run by corporate fascists.
Xi Jinping at Davos? What hes going to save us all by having us all work for a dollar a day?

Then you bring democracy into it.
"it was reminded that achieving sustainable peace required a 'democratic'..."

If I go over and look at the 2017 Global Risks report first thing it does is talk about the election of populist leaders as a bad thing.
It reminds me of Erdogan's attitude when he once compared democracy to a tram: "You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off."
You talk about democracy like its a great thing and them show contempt for it when the result doesnt go your way, all whilst your real agenda is to steer us.

[cont.]
Posted by Armchair Critic, Friday, 3 February 2017 11:23:19 AM
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[cont.]
What you say: "In an ideal model, if it is based on equality, inclusion and social justice..."
What it is: Lets just blend the muslims with the non-muslims and see how it works hey?
We'll pull the fallout down to collateral damage and it might even provide some conflicts or benefits we can use to further our goals.

In trying to implement this model you have our own leaders sell us out and support refugees, immigration, future global political aspirations, leftist agendas and protest movements and all the rest of it.
You forcing it on us, and it's causing issues in our own countries.

Then you mention the speech of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres but it's almost contemptuous because none of you are going to listen to our objections.

Therefore, more attention must be paid to the UN strong appeals addressed to all citizens of the world to advance .

You talk about 'moral responsibility', 'universal responsibility', 'global duties', 'a day to remind governments to respect their commitments to international agreements', 'solidarity as a global family' etc, etc and it all stinks.
The ONLY obligation a government should have is an obligation to it's own people.

You also talk about the 8 people in the world owning half the world wealth, go hit them up for money to fix the worlds problems, (after all they caused most of them) and tell them to stop with the emotional blackmail, propaganda and of making us pay for their global government agendas and dreams of world power.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Friday, 3 February 2017 11:24:50 AM
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Nice sentiments from the author. But it so important that income taxes are removed before globalisation can be fully realised.
Posted by progressive pat, Friday, 3 February 2017 1:02:00 PM
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A world without tax? What an interesting novel idea?

And with them gone so are all the amenities and services (roads, rail, bridges, schools hospitals etc) they paid for? I'd have to go back in history to find a time when nobody paid income tax?

Let me see? About when we lived in caves and ran our food down with a stone tied to a stick? Now that's human progress!

Particularly for those whose only achievable ambition is to die the richest person in the Graveyard?

Like those self-made men, you know the ones born in a cabin in the wilderness, hewn from logs using only, their own bare hands!?

Like a slim and athletic Gina, or rippling with work hardened bulging muscles, Clive?

Now trump that if you can? Just make sure it's legal!

All purloining/relieving other folk of wealth and property must have the protection of carefully crafted laws! Without which it might be construed as simple criminal theft?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 3 February 2017 4:09:48 PM
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More proof, if any was needed, that we have to keep these academic clowns locked up in their ivory towers.

These people have absolutely no interest in what would be good for the majority of people, just in themselves & their elite masters.

It is definitely time to cut off a very large percentage of the money wasted keeping these fools comfortable doing not very much for their keep.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 3 February 2017 7:17:04 PM
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Well said Hasbeen! Couldn't agree more, and top of that list has to be folks who've accrued their wealth on the bent backs, blood, sweat and tears of other folk, some who've been made bankrupt by these non productive money faced parasites!

Nothing could be further from the truth and exampled by this simplicity. How much trade and consequent generated wealth did we create with China when you were a boy and compare that now with what we have today and how much of our wealth is the product of de-povertizing China and Asia?

Think, how much money we could raise with a tiny tobin tax and then use that same reuseable pool of funds to build thorium power stations and new space age desal plants in the poorest parts of the world, then sit back as the economic engines we've built recreate desert wasteland/what have you, into veritable gardens of eden and a world where we don't need to fight for ever decreasing fresh water, but instead, ensure its abundant overflowing supply!

Yes it'd take decades, but when nations are wealthy enough for population control to become automatic, and those nations, new trading partners for a universally wealthy world!

What has anyone anywhere lost or given up? Hostility, want, poverty, unmet need, women dying in childbirth, little tummies growling in permenant hunger? What?
Your bank balance doesn't need to be smaller, nor your retirement pension! Just the very opposite in fact!

Vultures fight over dead cacasses, civilized humans share their abundance and in many ways, but particularly when it benefits them every which way.

All we can take from this world when we leave are memories and an assurance we have done all we can reasonably expect to make a better world for my kids and yours!

Moreover, it's got to be better to take memories of happy smiling faces, (Fred Hollow's legacy) than fear-filled emaciated ones, (Mr hitler's) to the next life?

And from a personal eyewitness report, let me assure there is one! While I understand your anxieties, I don't share them!

Cheers old mate, Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Saturday, 4 February 2017 11:23:30 AM
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.... In accordance with the UN doctrine, there are five imperative objectives for the 21st Century for which solidarity is essential: achieving sustainable development; preventing and mitigating conflicts, human rights abuses and the impacts of natural disasters; building a safer and more secure world; supporting countries in transition; and engaging the talents of women and young people.

achieving sustainable development. This all revolves around the definition of Sustainable.... Maurice Strong, the several time billionaire says that heating and cooling in dewelings and workplaces is not sustainable and has to go. Do we get to participate in defining the meaning of "sustainable'?

"preventing and mitigating conflicts" does this mean, we the people of all countries get to select the methods for setting conflicts or will that be decided for us by our very benevolent governments.

"human rights abuse" who gets define what rights are? again the, Major powers? Do the populations in all countries get to vote on a selection of definitions of the word rights so we the people make the decision? or, will that be made for us?

building a safer and more secure world. Again what will the safer mean? another Corporitised Soviet Union times world wide tyrrany.
Posted by Referundemdrivensocienty, Saturday, 4 February 2017 6:14:05 PM
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To give credit where it's due, Alan B does make a reasonable arguments, (certainly where nation building in concerned) but there's always counter-arguments.

For me it seems like an issue of juggling priorities.
I work on the idea that Australia has limited funds, we don't have a money tree so we have to decide that which is more important.

When it comes to goodwill spending on foreigners I can't get past the choice of 'Do I spend it on an Aussie on a public hospital waiting list who has already contributed towards this country or do I spend it on a foreigner?'
- And every single time I ask myself that question, I have to support the Australian citizen, I just can't bring myself to ever sell them out.

So in theory, my objection is not because I don't want foreigners to get the help and assistance they need, I just can't sell out an Aussie to do it.

Alan B. mentions "All we can take from this world when we leave are memories and an assurance we have done all we can reasonably expect to make a better world for my kids and yours!"

But is Alan talking about Aussie kids or the whole worlds kids?

Alan- B "What has anyone anywhere lost or given up?".

Globalism has cost our young ones jobs, many can't get a job to get a decent start in life these days.
(Though there's multiple reasons for this)
And does foreign spending not create a greater debt for them to inherit?

Finally, there's also a lot of criminal conduct during the cover of night going on in these foreign aid systems.
A human being can be worth up to a million dollars in harvested organs.
They call it 'making lemonade', a reference to 'when life gives you lemons' I assume.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Sunday, 5 February 2017 12:30:22 AM
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Well, of course I'm gonna start with my kids then Aussie kids! Thats where I and they live! And helping other folk lift themselves from poverty and dire circumstance; that then converts them into new trading partners, aids that very outcome!

And we're not talking squillions, just a tiny tobin tax, that as and where necessary, circumvents corrupt officials and used as low cost loans for small cottage industry startups; that can be used and reused dozens of times before exhausting.

Any other aid can be supplied as the Thorium molten salt, power stations and deionization desal hardware, which we first build here then export and assemble! In a win/win outcome for the recipients and ourselves!

It's said that land is the basis of all wealth. And I could organize a deal to sell you a few million hectares of the driest part of the Sahara? And thereby guarantee your prosperity? No? NO!

Water is the basis of all wealth! And when we sang, let them know it's Christmas in that band aid concert, we collected millions, but solved nothing!

Putting water on bone dry ground, permanently. So they could grow their own food indefinitely; and add things like Australian made electric stoves, refrigerators and washing machines etc. And we're killing the proverbial two birds, with just one stone!

We can find smarter ways to collect and distribute our aid dollars or just go to war in the lose/lose outcome that would surely be!

Without question we can make steel right here and with high tech, single stage smelting, (thorium powered arc furnaces) for far less than is currently doable in China and India?

And I dare say more durable enameled white goods as well? All that's really missing is government sponsored cheapest most efficient, cooperative enterprise!

Foreign aid just dosen't need to be money and a growing hole in a shrinking budget!? We're smarter than that, allegedly?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Sunday, 5 February 2017 5:46:28 PM
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