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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (75479)	9/30/2002 11:28:15 AM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 208838

Say wot ? _______________________ sfgate.com <snip> First, we must lobby to set up an independent international commission to investigate the impact of economic globalization on human development, social capital and the poor. The commission would address questions like the cost of economic growth to the environment; the price we pay for allowing big business to influence the quality of our air and food, and the impact of free trade on development and on those most marginalized and in need. Second, we need to push for something akin to a World Social Organization to counter the dominance of the WTO and to establish rules and regulations that will ensure the long-term protection of human rights, labor standards and the environment -- an organization with teeth as sharp as those of the WTO and equally effective powers of enforcement. There still remains the problem of alleviating the suffering of those who are most excluded and marginalized. We need to push for debt cancellation, a significant increase in overseas aid -- which has fallen 45 percent in real terms since 1990 to the least developed countries -- and a rethinking of the ways in which it is delivered. And we must ensure that all unfair trade barriers on agricultural and textile products from the developing world are pulled down -- developing countries are losing almost $2 billion a day because of inequitable trade rules. The world needs a new global tax authority, linked to the United Nations, with power to levy indirect taxes on pollution and energy consumption, which can then be spent protecting the environment. The authority should also levy direct taxes on multinational corporations, in order to fund the development of global environmental, labor and human rights norms. Finally, we need mechanisms to help people fight injustice. Workers and communities everywhere must be able to safeguard basic rights to minimum health and safety standards at work, to minimum wages, and not be dispossessed without adequate compensation. _______________________ geeee... I thought Communism was dead... Well, since bio-genetics seems to have some degree of success with cloning cows and sheep and growing tomatoes... why not alter human DNA and remove greed and idiocy, oh yes and moronosity and while we are at it, corruption too... --ah yes and desire to control others-- like "being a politician" -----> ROFLOL then... maybe then, we will have a better chance of succeeding at the above pipe dream