2nd article on Pope's call for UN Global Government...
reuters.com
Pope calls for a "global authority" on economy
Tue Jul 7, 2009 3:25pm EDT
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called on Tuesday for a "world political authority" to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.
The pope made his call for a re-think of the way the world economy was run in a new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected both rich and poor nations.
Parts of the encyclical, titled "Charity in Truth," seemed bound to upset free marketers because of its underlying rejection of unbridled capitalism and unregulated market forces, which he said had led to "thoroughly destructive" abuse of the system and "grave deviations and failures."
An encyclical is the highest form of papal writing and gives the clearest indication to the world's 1.1 billion Catholics -- and to non-Catholics -- of what the pope and the Vatican think about specific social and moral issues.
[Be afraid, very afraid, when the world's most influential
religious leader issues "the highest form of papal writing"
and calls for the end of capitalism, UN global governance
as "the only possible solution" and for a new "socialist"
oriented economy.]
The pope said every economic decision had a moral consequence and called for "forms of redistribution" of wealth overseen by governments to help those most affected by crises.
[I'll give you three guesses (and the first two don't count)
on who will be paying for that "redistribution of wealth" to
the third world (which of course always gets stolen by the IMF
banksters, and the UN bureaucrats). It's called cap & trade, in
case you're still wondering.]
Benedict said "there is an urgent need of a true world political authority" whose task would be "to manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result."
Such an authority would have to be "regulated by law" and "would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights."
[Here comes those UN Treaties, and Executive Orders that
bypass the US political system.]
"Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties, and also with the coordinated measures adopted in various international forums," he said.
[Compliance? When religious leaders start talking about "compliance,"
I start thinking about brownshirts & youth brigades. And
with this Pope, that's not too much of a stretch:]
msnbc.msn.com
The United Nations, economic institutions and international finance all had to be reformed "even in the midst of a global recession," he said in the encyclical, a booklet of 141 pages.
The pope's call for a supranational body to tackle global economic woes disturbed some Catholic capitalists.
[Disturbs some non-Catholic capitalists too.]
The encyclical was addressed to all Catholics and "all people of good will" and was released on the eve of the start of the G8 summit in Italy and three days before the pope is due to discuss the global downturn with U.S. President Barack Obama.
[The Pope, The Vatican Banksters, The Rothschilds, The
Rockefellers and their G-8 lackeys... sounds like someone's
getting ready to divy up what's left of the pie.]
In several sections of the encyclical, Benedict made it clear he had great reservations about a totally free market.
[One more time for you "S-word" deniers - socialism is good,
capitalism is bad.]
"The conviction that the economy must be autonomous, that it must be shielded from 'influences' of a moral character, has led man to abuse the economic process in a thoroughly destructive way," he said.
"In the long term, these convictions have led to economic, social and political systems that trample upon personal and social freedom and are therefore unable to deliver the justice that they promise," he added.
Profit was useful only if it served as a means to a brighter future for all humanity.
"Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth and creating poverty," he said.
He said the current economic crisis was "clear proof" of "pernicious effects of sin" in the economy.
[How about we focus on a few banksters paying for that sin?]
"Financiers must rediscover the genuinely ethical foundation of their activity ...," he said.
[And hell will freeze over first.]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had rebuked the pope earlier this year at the height of the row over a Holocaust-denying bishop, welcomed the encyclical as important encouragement for world leaders ahead of a G8 meeting in Italy.
"Pope Benedict has encouraged the state leaders to create rules so that this sort of worldwide economic crisis isn't repeated," Merkel told reporters. "I also saw this as an order to work toward a social market economy in the world."
[A "social market economy" - just in case you still
had any doubts on where we're going here people.]
The pope appeared to back government intervention "in correcting errors and malfunctions" in the economy, saying "one could foresee an increase in the new forms of political participation, nationally and internationally."
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