Posted on 09/18/2013 9:21:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The imminent breach of a promise by EU states to spend 0.7% of their gross income on overseas aid by 2015 is sparking calls for the UN to be given coercive powers to force rich nations to honor future aid pledges.
The secretary-general of the Africa-Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states, Alhaji Mumuni, and the chairwoman of the European Parliaments development committee, Eva Joly, both told EurActiv that they favored giving the UN stronger policy-setting powers.
Calls for strengthening the UNs aid enforcement regime will be given a shot in the arm by new figures from Concord Aidwatch, a pan-European development NGO monitor of EU states aid spending, which EurActiv has seen.
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Gimme gimme gimme.
That has been the plan all along. Conservatives have been saying that for decades, only to be greeted by the totalitarian left with eye rolls and accusations of being paranoid conspiracy theorists. SOP for the world's progressives.
The UN as world government is the orgasmic fantasy of the Progressive movement.
That's why the we need to define them as a dangerous enemy of the U.S., and now that they're talking about having coercive power, put them on notice that we would fight a war against that ever happening.
At the very least, we need to leave and defund the UN now.
UNaccountable bureaucrats are socialists. Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
FUN
Gimme gimme gimme
US OUT OF UN AND UN OUT OF US NOW!
-— The UN as world government is the orgasmic fantasy of the Progressive movement. -—
It’s the Tower of Babel redux.
The imminent breach of a promise by EU states to spend 0.7% of their gross income on overseas aid by 2015 is sparking calls for the UN to be given coercive powers to force rich nations to honor future aid pledges. The secretary-general of the Africa-Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states, Alhaji Mumuni, and the chairwoman of the European Parliaments development committee, Eva Joly, both told EurActiv that they favored giving the UN stronger policy-setting powers.
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