This could be the year [that we get world government]
This may be the year from which there is no turning back. Global
governance advocates have been relentlessly advancing their agenda for a
generation. Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, their progress has
been astounding. Most of the recommendations of the Commission on Global Governance are nearing implementation. The events scheduled to occur this year may push the world beyond the point of no return.
The Euro became the coin-of-the-realm for 12 European countries on
January 1. Ten years in the making, this event homogenizes the European
economy – under the control of a central authority. The three European
hold-outs, including the United Kingdom, are expected to be forced into
the mix sooner or later. This event gives the European Union an economic
foundation and justification for its existence. It is a major step
toward the regionalization of global governance.
A Similar structure is envisioned for the Western hemisphere. NAFTA was a start, and the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
is expected to finish the job. Economic zones are being established in
Asia, and all will function under the auspices of the World Trade
Organization – which, incidentally, is being consolidated into the
direct administrative structure of the United Nations.
The U.N.’s High Level Panel of Financing Development will meet in Monterey, Mexico, March 18 – 22, 2002, to adopt the Panel’s report.
Among the recommendations are: a World Taxing Authority, global taxes
on fossil fuel, global taxes on currency exchange, consolidation of all
international finance and development agencies under U.N. authority,
global regulation of multinational corporations and much more.
The International Criminal Court
is expected to enter into force this year, having been ratified by 47
of the required 60 nations. This is the first treaty in history to claim
authority in nations that have not ratified the treaty. Americans
should visit this website to see that important information, such as the
treaty and a list of nations that have ratified the treaty, is reserved
for people who pay to secure a password. The United Nations believes
strongly in the control of information.
Source: WorldNetDaily, January 5, 2002
U.S. Shifts Terror Hunt to Europe
With the investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks slowing in
the United States, Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft plans to travel overseas
next week to confer with European officials about the next steps in the
expanding international war on terrorism, senior law enforcement
officials said Friday.
FBI officials also confirmed Friday that they are moving to station
agents for the first time in China and India, saying improved law
enforcement cooperation with those two nations will help in the global
fight against terrorism and other crime-fighting efforts.
Source: LA Times.com, December 8, 2001
Europe Reruns Through Spy Bill
The European Union is again becoming a battleground over legislation
that would permit some secret surveillance of e-mails, Internet and
phone usage without a warrant
Source: Wired News, Nov. 8, 2001
Prodi predicts a united Europe
Full economic integration in Europe will come a step nearer with the launch of the euro, Romano Prodi predicted yesterday.
The president of the European Commission said
it was now inevitable there would be "common rules" for running national
economies in the 12 countries where the euro replaced existing
currencies from midnight.
Mr Prodi’s remarks are certain to revive
controversy over claims that the introduction of the euro will
eventually result in a "United States of Europe," with economic policies
being decided in Brussels.
Eurosceptics believe that centralised taxation
rules for Britain could be dictated by the European Union, with little
control by the UK Treasury.
Mr Prodi, speaking in Brussels prior to EU celebrations marking the
historic introduction of the euro, said the single currency could only
mean yet more economic harmonisation.
He said: "The euro in our pockets will lead to greater convergence in economic policy. We need to have more common rules."
Source: thescotsman.co.uk, 1 January 2001
Fears of a European superstate
Behind the fuel protests that raged across Europe in recent months was a fear – for some Europeans – of a European superstate.
Many of the protesters felt frustrated that key decisions about their
lives are no longer taken at national level, by leaders they have
elected.
Source: BBC (online), December 7, 2000
New international cybersnooping treaty is all-out attack on privacy
A new international computer-crime treaty the U.S.
government expects to sign this year is an "all-out attack on computer
privacy" and should be rejected, Libertarian presidential candidate
Harry Browne said today.
"This treaty doesn’t attack crime," he said. "Instead, it attacks
privacy, the Fifth Amendment, and certain kinds of software — while
giving the government awesome new powers to cybersnoop on innocent
Americans."
Source: Libertarian Party press release, November 3, 2000
UN signs historic millennium agreement
The UN Millennium Declaration adopted today after the largest
gathering of world leaders in history contains pledges to fight global
warming and AIDS as well as traditional evils of poverty and war.
The 32-point text describes the United Nations as “the indispensable
common house of the entire human family”, but says the 55-year-old
institution must be strengthened and made more effective.
It reasserts “the sovereign equality of states”, but says “the
central challenge we face today is to ensure that globalisation becomes
a positive force for all the world’s people”.
Source: theage.com.au, September 9, 2000
Changing the global rulebook
…world leaders have gathered in New York City for a special meeting
called the "Millennium Assembly" where they will review and sign
agreements to strengthen the entire United Nations system.
To set the stage for whatever the United Nations does, there is
always a great number of actors raising ideas about its next move — be
it the International Criminal Court, global taxes, a standing army, or a
People’s Parliament which they hope are perceived by you and me to be
innocent ideas — as if their clamoring was a natural outpouring of the
people of the world.
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 8, 2000
Gorbachev proposes huge U.N. expansion
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.
In his remarks, Gorbachev said, "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."
Most Americans have no clue what is happening in New York right now.
Don’t they know that other nations have the most to gain and Americans
the most to lose if these proposals are ever adopted?
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 6, 2000
The Convention and the Kyoto Protocol
The text of the Convention was adopted at the United Nations
Headquarters, New York on the 9 May 1992; it was open for signature at
the Rio de Janeiro from 4 to 14 June 1992, and thereafter at the United
Nations Headquarters, New York, from 20 June 1992 to 19 June 1993. By
that date the Convention had received 166 signatures. The Convention
entered into force on 21 March 1994. Those States that have not signed
the Convention may accede to it at any time.
For those States that ratify, accept or approve the Convention or
accede thereto after the date of entry into force, the Convention shall
enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date of the deposit by
such State of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or
accession.
Source: unfccc.de UNFCCC
Proposing a Federal Republic of Earth
A roundtable discussion, "The United Nations in Ten years; The United
Nations in One Hundred Years," admitted that the U.N. as it stood was
only a foundation for the world federation which would require a
voluntary army to "deter human rights abuses." Moderated by Tad Daly,
director of Global Security Programs for the State of the World Forum,
the discussion featured senator Alan Cranston and Tom Spencer, chairman
of the Foreign Affairs Security and Defense Policy Committee of the
European Parliament. The two were joined by various academics and
diplomats who advocated abolishing the veto power of the U.N. Security
Council — a dated mechanism favoring the winners of World War II —
adopting instead a "Parliament of Humankind." World peace was possible
if a "planetary patriotism" for the "Federal Republic of Earth”
supplanted nationalism. The U.N. must also restructure the General
Assembly, instituting a weighted voting process in place of the one
country, one vote system now employed. This proposal would provide an
equitable sharing of power among the more populous nations such as China
and India.
Source: WorldNetDaily, October 14, 2000
A world parliament is birthed
Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel said: "I have a vision of the
U.N. General Assembly resembling one day a parliament of the world. I
have a vision of the U.N. Security Council assuming additional tasks.
One day it might become the focal point for the operational
decision-making of this world organization. I have a vision of the U.N.
one day establishing a permanent strike force capable of stopping
aggressors as well as a permanent peacekeeping force with more of a
policing role."
Kofi Annan’s opening remarks crystallize the true intent of this
meeting: “You, ladies and gentlemen, are the leaders to whom the world’s
peoples have entrusted their destiny. Your peoples look to you for a
common effort to solve their problems. They expect you to work together,
as governments. And they expect you to work together with all the other
institutions — profit and non-profit, public and private — where human
beings join hands to promote their ideas and their interests. We must
adapt our United Nations so that, in the future, those priorities are
reflected in clear and prompt decisions, leading to real change in
people’s lives."
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 9, 2000
The real implications of globalization
Fifty-five years after the founding of the United Nations in 1945,
the heads of state, rulers and princes of this world are coming together
to examine both the successes and failures of the United Nations and to
dialogue about its future and the pressing need to add a "People’s
Parliament" or international representative government to its structure.
Ten blocks from the United Nations another meeting is being sponsored
by the Gorbachev State of the World Forum, which not only mirrors the
goals and objectives of the United Nations but is looking to help
implement them.
What is globalization? It is the blending together of economies, people, laws, politics, monies and social ethics into one.
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 6, 2000
The U.N.’s shocking millennium agenda
Q: One of the things we have to try to explain to our readers
is a phrase that is starting to be repeated more and more — "sustainable
development." What does that really mean?
A: Sustainable development came out of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and, in fact, I titled my book, "Prince Charles — The Sustainable Prince" after sustainable development. He was the one who has been pushing this Orwellian agenda.
The bottom line is, it is a new concept. The phrase "sustainable
development" was never used in any U.N. document before 1992. The Rio
Earth Summit is where it made its debut. Sustainable development
basically says there are too many people on the planet, that we must
reduce the population, that the United Nations is the only organization
in a position to help monitor and control the assets of the world
Source: WorldNetDaily, August 27, 2000
Words Have Meaning [What the UN is Really Saying]
Mr. Annan also described global governance, a phrase which has been
popularized by those who support the concept of the New World Order or
world government. Global governance is a phrase which sounds innocuous —
can’t quite put your finger on it and, because you don’t understand the
agenda, you won’t be able to figure out its meaning. He said your
peoples look to you for a common effort to solve their problems. They
expect you to work together as governments. And they expect you to work
together with all the other institutions — profit and non-profit, public
and private — where human beings join hands to promote their
ideas and their interests.
What he was doing was explaining that the day to day responsibility
of government has shifted from that of being the sole responsibility of
governments to a new entity: public-private partnerships.
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 7, 2000
Co-inventor of Web calls for "licence" to surf
The man who helped create the World Wide Web says it is time for
cyberspace, so far unfettered by laws and government intervention, to be
regulated by a user’s licence and a worldwide legal framework.
Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer engineer who co-drafted the first
proposals for the Web with Britain’s Tim Berners-Lee, makes the
iconoclastic suggestion in an interview published in Thursday’s issue of
New Scientist.
Greece says Nazis first put faith-designation on ID cards
Greece has officially acknowledged for the first time
that the practice of designation religion on its national identity
cards, a practice which is soon to be phased out, was first introduced
by the Nazis.
"It is an historic point which has been written about several times,"
said government spokesman Dimitris Reppas, breaking an official silence
over articles by a series of recent articles by several historians.
Source: Yahoo News Singapore May 30 [year not given]
Hungary cracks down on gun ownership
Hungary’s plans to introduce Europe’s toughest gun control legislation,
strictly curtailing the possession of legally held firearms, has
outraged many local special interest groups, including private security
firms, the insurance industry and sportsmen.
Source: Scripps Howard News Service May 29,2000
UN must rethink its peace-keeping role, says Annan
The United Nations should abandon outdated
concepts of neutral peacekeeping and replace them with a more muscular
form of peace enforcement if it is to avoid the kind of fiasco that has
unfolded in Sierra Leone, the Secretary General, Kofi Annan, said this
weekend.
Mr Annan, for whom Sierra Leone has been a personal humiliation with
more than 100 peacekeepers still being held hostage behind rebel lines,
has convened a panel of experts to reassess the UN’s peacekeeping
operations. He plans to present its conclusions and his own proposals
for reform to a planned UN summit of world leaders in September.
Source: independent.co.uk, 29 May 2000
What Price Sovereignty for Europe?
The German proposal for a federalist Europe really means an awkward
acceleration into the present of one of Europe’s least comfortable
issues: whether European Union members want to turn over great slabs of
national power to a supranational government.
Source: International Herald Tribune, May 25, 2000
United Nations plans to strip America, UK of 17 territories
A special United Nations group will meet this week to strategize the
"eradication of colonialism" — that is, the divestment from the U.S. and
other "colonial powers" — of 17 territories, including the U.S.
possessions Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
The U.N. Special Forum on Decolonization
is slated to convene on Tuesday in the Marshall Islands to discuss the
future of "the remaining 17 non-self governing territories," 15 of which
are U.S. and UK territories.
Source: WorldNetDaily, May 25, 2000
Special De-colonization Committee to hold Pacific Regional Seminar
The seminar will assess the achievements of the International Decade
for the Eradication of Colonialism, the role of the Special Committee of
24, and the political and socio-economic conditions of nearly 2 million
people in the remaining 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories.
Source: UN Press Release, May 11, 2000
US General sees long role in Balkans
After a thank-the-troops tour by Defense Secretary William S. Cohen
to two American bases that have already become self-sufficient towns,
the top US commander in Kosovo predicted yesterday that NATO
peacekeepers will have to remain in the Balkans for ”at least a
generation.”
That assessment by Brigadier General Ricardo Sanchez, commander
of Task Force Falcon, in an interview with the Globe, occurs as many
members of Congress are expressing increasing displeasure with the
open-ended US deployments to Bosnia and Kosovo.
Source: The Boston Globe, May 2, 2000, p. A01
Crime in Cyberspace: First Draft of International Convention
Provisionally entitled "Draft Convention on
Cyber-Crime", this Council of Europe text will be the first
international treaty to address criminal law and procedural aspects of
various types of offending behaviour directed against computer systems,
networks or data as well as other similar abuses.
This legally-binding text aims to harmonise national
legislation in this field, facilitate investigations and allow efficient
levels of co-operation between the authorities of different States.
Source: Council of Europe Press Release, April 27, 2000
Bork decries hypocrisy of international law
The United States should drop the rhetoric of international law and
speak the language of morality, Robert H. Bork said here Tuesday.
The impulse toward legal globalism seems to be very strong and "may
be capable of changing our Constitution," the former jurist told his
audience at the American Enterprise Institute. As an example, Bork cited
a recent opinion by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Bryer having to do
with the length of time a prisoner may be held on death row before
execution. Bryer opined that the constitutionality of this matter should
be influenced in part by examining the laws of other nations.
Source: CBS Market Watch, April 4, 2000
‘Earth Charter’ calls for global society
"U.N. group seeks ‘legally binding instrument on environment’
In a bid to form a single global community, a group calling itself the Earth Council has drafted a new "Earth Charter" that calls for all nations to surrender their
sovereignty for the "greater good" of a singular global order."
Source: WorldNetDaily, World Net Daily, April 3, 2000
For the year 2000
Source: freedomhouse.org
The 40 Year Gun Grab
For nearly 40 years, a few groups on the political right have sounded
the alarm over a seemingly absurd scenario — that gun control
legislation was actually a key part of a plan for total national
disarmament and the eventual replacement of United States troops by a
United Nations army as part of the law enforcement arm of a one-world
government.
At the center of this issue is a 20-page State Department pamphlet
published in 1961, titled "Freedom From War: The United States Program
for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World" – Department of State Publication 7277.
The program outlined was presented by President Kennedy to the U.N.
General Assembly on Sept. 25, 1961, and offered "specific objectives
toward which nations should direct their efforts." These included:
Source: WorldNetDaily, December 13, 1999
Freedom From War
The revolutionary development of modern weapons within a world
divided by serious ideological differences has produced a crisis in
human history. In order to overcome the danger of nuclear war now
confronting mankind, the United States has introduced at the Sixteenth
General Assembly of the United Nations a Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World.
U.N. Coming For Your Guns
On Sept. 24, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, of Ghana,
called on members of the Security Council to "tackle one of the key
challenges in preventing conflict in the next century" — the
proliferation and "easy availability" of small arms and light weapons,
which Annan identified as the "primary tools of violence" in conflicts
throughout the world.
It was the first time the council had met to discuss the subject, and
Annan praised the United Nations as a whole for playing "a leading role
in putting the issue of small arms firmly on the international agenda."
Source: WorldNetDaily, December 7, 1999
Clinton says NATO is ready to fight repression in Europe, Africa
Praising NATO for its campaign in Kosovo, US President Bill Clinton
said Tuesday that the alliance could intervene elsewhere in Europe or in
Africa to fight repression.
"In Africa or central Europe, we will not allow, only because of
differences in ethnic background or religion or racism, people to be
attacked. We will stop that," Clinton told US troops gathered at the
Skopje airport.
"We can do it now. We can do it tomorrow, if it is necessary, somewhere else," he said."
Source: Yahoo News Asia, June 23, 1999
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Global Taxation Near
A revenue stream, independent of the voluntary contributions of
member states, is all that prevents the United Nations from imposing,
and enforcing, its vision of global governance. Momentum is building for
global taxation schemes to provide that independent revenue stream.
Momentum is building for global taxation schemes to provide that independent revenue stream.
Source: World Net Daily, June 23, 1999
Challenging ‘Biosphere Reserves’
The U.S. Senate is holding hearings today on the American Land
Sovereignty Protection Act of 1999 (S510), which will be televised on
C-SPAN at 2:30 p.m. EST. The measure passed the house last week, despite
several efforts to kill, or weaken it. The bill is expected to meet
stronger opposition in the Senate. Sponsored by Senator Ben Nighthorse
Campbell, R-Co., the bill would require that all 47 U.N. Biosphere
Reserves, and 16 U.N. Ramsar Wetlands sites (named for Ramsar, Iran,
where the treaty was signed in 1971), be approved by Congress by 2003.
Any future U.N. designation would also have to be approved by Congress.
Source: WorldNetDaily, May 26, 1999
The 1998 Bilderberg Conference
The 1998 meeting of the secretive and immensely-powerful Bilderberg Group
closes tomorrow at the luxurious Turnberry Hotel in Ayrshire, Scotland.
The 120 or so Bilderbergers, who normally converge at their
pre-selected venue with as much secrecy as possible, had hoped that
their selection for the May 14th – 17th conference this year, 15 miles
south of Ayr and a quarter of a mile away from the A77 trunk road to
Glasgow, would – together with armed and black-clad police at the the
property entrance and around the perimeter – guarantee their
previously-inviolate privacy.
They have still not recovered from the acute discomfort which they experienced when the TORONTO STAR and local Toronto media, acting on detailed Press Releases from the NEW WORLD ORDER INTELLIGENCE UPDATE
[http://www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley], ran several major articles
revealing their existence and querying, for the first time in their then
43-year history, the nature and purpose of their secretive conclave at a
$66-million luxury resort property at King City, just north of Toronto
Source: John Whitley,
May 16, 1998
NATO and National Sovereignty
At the end of the recent NATO war strategy session, the LA Times
reported NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana as saying "We are moving
into a system of international relations in which human rights, rights
to minorities every day, are much more important, and more important
even than sovereignty."
Now that should scare the hell out of anybody! Solana is asserting
that NATO will be the world’s determinant of righteousness and take
remedial action as they see fit… wherever they please… regardless of any
sovereignty issues. Basically, what we have here is a bunch of old war
lords trying to re-define NATO in order to keep themselves employed
after NATO became irrelevant at the end of the cold war! And OUR younger
generation will be these self appointed gate keepers’ water-boys… not
only on front lines through-out the world, but also in the workplace as
even greater taxes will be necessary to finance their follies!
Source: Jack Koenig chairman Impact Voters of America, email May 4, 1999
Kosovo and the New World Order
What we are really witnessing in Kosovo is the New World Order
raising its benign humanist head and making its existence manifest. It
will impose peace in Yugoslavia even if it has to bomb the Serbs into
submission. But what is not clear is why NATO proceeded to act without
first getting the approval of the United Nations Security Council. The
reason may have a lot to do with how this whole world government idea
got started. It was Cecil Rhodes, creator of the world’s greatest gold
and diamond mining combine, who conceived of a means of establishing
world peace by creating a world authority run by the Anglo-Saxons….Is it
merely a coincidence that it is both Bill Clinton and Tony Blair who
are leading the charge into Kosovo, while the rest of NATO allies go
along reluctantly with this mission to impose "peace" on Slavs and
Albanians?
Source: WorldNetDaily,
World Net Daily, March 29, 1999
Doctrine of International Community
This speech, by British Prime Minister Tony Blair on April 22, 1999,
outlines the goals of the New World Order, ops… the International
Community. Read it carefully and understand the necessity of
globalization in economics and politics.
Source: [Sorry, but the link as been lost; at least, you have the name of the speaker and the date... CS]
US Policy on ICBM Launching
US Policy on ICBM Targeting
Primary documents on President Clinton’s policy of ICBM launching and targeting.
Source: Annual Report to the President and the Congress, William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense, 1999
Groups promote global governance ‘World citizenship’ the goal of Internet activists
The concept of becoming a "citizen of the world" may be gaining
popularity with some Americans, but the United States’ persistent
resistance to any sort of world government has, so far, prevented the
official formation of such a legislative body.
However, that hasn’t stopped groups such as the World Federation Association or the World Citizen Foundation
from trying to convince people — especially Americans — that the
concept of global governance, through a "reformed" United Nations, is
preferable to individual state sovereignty.
Source: WorldNetDaily,
World Net Daily, February 2, 1999
The implementation of global governance
Executive Order 13107, which, barring a congressional override this
week [January 7, 1999] will become the law of the land, is a perfect
example of how global governance is overtaking self-governance in the
United States.
Executive Order 13107 diminishes the candlepower of America’s
beacon of hope. What’s worse, it allows the United Nations a larger
measure of control over the beacon. If the trend continues, even for
another few years, the United Nations will extinguish the light
altogether, and America will be stripped of its wealth in order to
achieve "equity" in the new $quot;sustainable" millennium, by those who
think they know how everyone ought to behave.
Source: WorldNetDaily, January 7, 1999
Executive Order 13107 – Does it push globalist agenda, endanger Bill of Rights?
Clinton is directing his departments to start implementing the Human Rights treaties [UN] and their provisions.
Source: WorldNetDaily, World Net Daily, December 23, 1998
Executive Order 13107 – The Implementation of Global Governance
Executive Order 13107, which, barring a congressional override this
week will become the law of the land, is a perfect example of how global
governance is overtaking self-governance in the United States.
Despite the rejection by the U.S. Senate of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, and the refusal of the Senate to even consider many
of the other 81 U.N. Human Rights Treaties, the president has laid the
foundation through this EO to implement the objectives of those
treaties. The will of the U.N. is being implemented voluntarily by the
Clinton/Gore administration.
Source: WorldNetDaily, World Net Daily, January 7, 1999
From A to Z — Australia to Zimbabwe — U.S. troops were sent to 100 nations in ’97
Feel threatened by Iceland? Don’t worry — the U.S.
military has troops stationed in the tiny island nation to protect us
from danger.
And just to be on the safe side, we also sent some troops to Qatar…and Madagascar…and Sri Lanka.
And Ghana, and Mozambique, and Kazakhstan, and Burma,
and Namibia — and 91 other countries that most Americans can’t
pronounce, much less locate on a map, the Libertarian Party noted today.
"In all, our government sent troops to 100 nations over
the past 90 days," said Steve Dasbach, the party’s national chairman.
"From A to Z — Australia to Zimbabwe — American soldiers are roaming the
world, doing everything but defending our country."
Source: Libertarian Party Press Release,
July 25, 1997
NATO Forces Nab War Crime Suspect
A BOSNIAN Serb indicted on war crime charges was shot dead and
another detained by a 10-man SAS [NATO} squad yesterday as the western
allies used force for the first time against those accused of Europe's
worst atrocities since the Holocaust.
George Robertson, the Defence Secretary, said the operation was a
"declaration of intent" by the western allies against all alleged war
criminals in the Balkans
Source: London Telegraph.
July 11, 1997
Executive Order 13107
Source: Press Release, The White House Office of the Press Secretary
Once a country ratifies, it is obliged in law to
undertake all appropriate measures to assist parents and other
responsible parties in fulfilling their obligations to children under
the Convention.
Source: UNICEF, The State of the World's Children 1997
The Earth Summit II conference was held in New York from June 23-27, 1997. The Electronic Telegraph reported the following information about a world government (color added for emphasis):
"Mr Meacher [Earth Summit Environment Minister] said the following:
‘A new world order is gradually and painfully coming into play but it is
confronted by enormous resistance from the old pattern of forces and
vested interests.’ Perhaps the most significant agreement left in place
was a commitment to a legally-binding international organisation [sic]
to control the cutting down of forests within three years. Mr Meacher
said he was glad that the US, a major timber producer, had signed up.
 The Telegraph
article said Mr. Meacher "criticised [sic] the United States and the
G77 Group of Developing Nations for blocking agreement on an
international aviation fuel tax."
Source: The Electronic Telegraph, June 28, 1997
Shortly after his selection as UN Secrem General. Kofi
Annan told the Lehrer News Hour that Ingvar Carlsson and Shirdath
Ramphal, co-chairs of the UN- funded Commission on Global Governance,
would be among those asked to help him reform the sprawling, world- wide
UN bureaucracy. His first choice. however, announced in the Washington
Post on January 17, was none other than Maurice Strong, also a member of
the the Commission on Global Governance.
Source: eco-logic, February 17, 2006
The UNESCO document that defines and authorizes the World Heritage List, dated February 1997.
Brief overview of the World Heritage List, and comments about the danger posed by that list.
President Will Bomb Anyway
The House refused yesterday to support the air war in
Kosovo hours after voting to forbid President Clinton to spend any money
to send in ground troops without congressional authorization….Although
it is a public relations blow to the administration, the vote not to
support NATO air strikes will have little practical effect. A White
House spokesman said last night that the president would press forward
with the bombing anyway.
Source: Washington Times
New role for NATO?
NATO was formed as a defensive shield against Soviet
expansionism, but in Kosovo it is dropping bombs to stop a sovereign
state from abusing a group of its own citizens. Having crossed this
threshold, will the United States and its allies now move more
aggressively to enforce standards of behavior in troubled areas of
Europe, or, indeed, the world?
Source: Deseret News (Utah)
During 1992 to 1994, UN peacekeeping forces committed atrocities in Somalia.
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