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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (35313)	9/7/2000 1:05:05 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Admit it Tiger. Here's the person you would actually like to see as our President. Gorbachev proposes huge U.N. expansion New economic, environmental councils pushed by former soviet leader, others worldnetdaily.com ------------------------------------------------ By Mary Jo Anderson © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com NEW YORK -- It is reportedly the largest gathering of heads of state in history. New York traffic is snarled and Manhattanites are testier than usual as the world's political heavyweights descend on the city. New York's finest are braced as dozens of groups organize demonstrations against various governments -- 91 protests are reportedly planned. Yesterday afternoon, bomb squads were summoned to examine a suspicious parcel left near the U.N.'s media liaison offices. Helicopters traverse overhead and the city has moved into red alert as the United Nation's Millennium Summit gets underway. The leaders of nations will be urged to sign U.N. treaties in various stages of global acceptance, including the controversial Rome Statute that initiates the International Criminal Court, or ICC. Across town at the State of the World Forum, Mikhail Gorbachev demanded that a new and expanded role for the United Nations be instituted. The Forum, a six-year-old project of the Gorbachev Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, seeks dialogue among world leaders in government and "civil society" sectors in search of a new paradigm for civilization on the threshold of the millennium. That paradigm -- the Forum vision -- sees the U.N. moving into the power position that opened up at the close of the Cold War. During yesterday's press conference at the New York Hilton Towers, Gorbachev proposed a radical expansion of U.N. powers. Former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev "In 1988, I spoke of a new role for the U.N., a new body. In addition to the Security Council, we must have an Economic Council and an Environmental Council with authority equal to that of the Security Council." The former Russian Premier denied that he was proposing controls on economic freedom, but insisted, "I am suggesting that we must give rights to this body [Economic Council], to develop rules to prevent explosive situations." One observer questioned whether this proposal was not simply an upscale version of Marxist central economic control. Gorbachev went on to explain that as unregulated capitalism globalized world markets, failure of smaller economies brought recessions, and rioting in the streets is the likely consequence. An "Economic Council" with the power to regulate capital is designed to "insure stability" and "ultimately transnational corporations will have to accept this," Gorbachev said. As the Forum -- scheduled to coincide with the main event, the U.N.'s Millennium Summit -- moved into its third day, it became clear in successive sessions that each speaker had a new angle on the same idea: The United Nations should coordinate global governance. Some speakers focused on environmental governance, others on educational efforts aimed at producing citizens with a commitment to global peace and justice. Global governance seeks stable world conditions so as to ensure the rights of humanity to clean air, stable markets and personal rights. Of course, some mechanism of enforcement is required if the rights of all are to be protected, say Forum participants. Good globalism is a reshaped globalism, stripped of the "Washington consensus" of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, said John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, a co-panelist with Gorbachev and Canadian billionaire George Soros. "Corporate globalism," he said, "brought inequality between nations" and a "violation of human rights." Soros, introduced to the 500 Forum attendees as "the quintessential voice of globalism," was blunt in his assessment of American corporations and the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress. "[They] are not a good example of 'compassionate conservatism'," he said. Opposed to the U.S. desire to reduce the scope of the troubled International Monetary Fund, Soros claimed, "that is not the solution." Instead, he suggested that IMF loans could be made directly to individuals and Non-Governmental Organizations, or NGOs, without the need for national guarantees. This plan in effect de-nationalizes capital, an idea that brought rousing cheers from the NGOs present. A free-floating market is a "moral hazard," the billionaire said, and "it results in instability -- how much instability can the world stand?" The answer, according to Soros, is for "civil society" to promote international law. Citizens and NGOs were urged to pressure their governments to sign U.N. treaties. A New York physician attending the Forum said he was "stunned and angry" at the overt anti-American sentiment that he felt characterized several of the presentations. "Most Americans have no clue what is happening in New York right now," he commented. "Don't they know that other nations have the most to gain and Americans the most to lose if these proposals are ever adopted?" Veteran U.N. observers cautioned, however, that it is important to recall that the proposals made by U.N. staff and State of the World backers are not synonymous with objectives of member nations. Nations and their heads of state are not anxious to trade away sovereignty and power for a "new paradigm" of globalism. The State of the World Forum and the United Nations Millennium Summit will run concurrently Wednesday through Friday.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (35313)	9/7/2000 9:03:59 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It appears that Gore cares a lot about Tipper too! I certainly think he should. But that ""kiss"" was a totally staged political event. If you saw it, you could tell it was. People think I am shallow because I admit to being a one issue voter, what does that say about the many women that will vote for him because he had one awkward kiss on stage, and because """they dig him""". Will the Lord of the Dance performers vote for Gore because Tipper was doing the funky chicken on stage?? BTW did you see that?? Whoahhhhhhh.