UN To Save The World From Capitalism And Freedom
by Vince?Daliessio
Not content with targeted policies that kill hundreds of thousands of innocent children, The UN is developing an ever-more grandiose and completely compromised conception of itself - It now believes the solution to all the world's problems lies in global fascism.
Supposedly serious people have signed onto this scheme to socialize the world's resources and transfer them to corporations and other organizations;
PANDEMIC DISEASES
Millions of people across the developing world have died from malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/Aids, as well as from other pandemics. Vaccines needed to avert them require much-needed investment.
SOLUTION: An advance commitment by rich countries to buy $3bn (?1.7bn) worth of vaccines would be enough to encourage pharmaceutical giants to invest in finding medicines that would eliminate these pandemics.
SAVING: $600bn
It's like Donald Rumsfeld (former CEO of Searle Pharmaceuticals) was writing this!
PARIAH STATES
Big business and global money ignore countries where they see the risk of conflict outweighing their potential profit margins.
SOLUTION: Guarantees by international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund to lower the cost of borrowing for poor nations by underwriting investors' loans to conflict-torn states.
SAVING: $22bn
ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION: Sometimes large volumes of cash are needed and this is one. Live8 showed there was huge support among taxpayers for higher aid to countries in distress.
So it's either an internationalized version of Nixon's Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC), or else massively increased direct foreign aid. Great, just great. I'd rather Bob Geldof wipe his nose with my money than allow me to use it for something frivolous, like feeding my own children.
There's more, but you get the idea. This is a proposal we ought to stay far, far away from.
Comments
While Vince was writing that response, I was searching for an article I had read by a doctor who was told that she had AIDS. She started speaking about the disease and how it can strike anyone at any time. Then she found out that she really DIDN'T have AIDS. The test was faulty and it lead her to do massive research on how AIDS tests are administered and how statistics are compiled. To make a long story short, if you miss two days of work in a row in Africa, you could very likely be counted as an AIDS statistic. And when industries sprout up around numbers like that, can you see why there is no rush to correct any of it?
That's an easy one doc - it's the result of using a one-size-fits-all epidemiological model. This is transparently purposive, since it serves to conflate diseases that have a behavioral component with those that do not, thus blurring the threats together for political purposes. To illustrate, show me one place that an epidemiological model is being employed effectively for smoking, or alcoholism, or obesity - it is not.
Um, at the risk of sounding insensitive, what vaccine is needed for HIV/AIDS? HIV/AIDS is a completely preventable disease that spreads due to people's willingness to have unprotected sex. Im disturbed when it is included with TB and malaria...
First thing they should do is sit Geldof and Bono down and give them lessons in economics based not upon utility considerations (that don't care if you can or can't feed your kid if some other child might die "because" of your "selfishness"), but economics based upon conceptions of human rights--where "the right to life" does not mean that someone else has a duty to support your life. I, for one, am not lining up to enslave myself as the world's savior. The UN, Geldof, Bono et al can all go fuck themselves or die, whichever is easier.
Why don't they first pull together all the world's most powerful nations and abolish double-entry bookkeeping? Without that, any state solution can be seen as an economic winner!
You know that by "rich countries" they mean the US. I ask: "At what point do we qualify as a "poor" country ?" Does $8 trillion in debt + $50 trillion in underfunded entitlement obgligations do the trick ? I honestly lose sleep wondering when the US economic depression is going to hit.
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