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ISSN 1172-4153 | Volume 2 | Issue 33 |
| 17 April 2009
Helen Clark’s real UN job
on the
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Documents suggest UN to become ‘world government’ By Ian Wishart
NZPA
Briefing documents from a prestigious socialist think-tank that boasts Helen Clark as a senior member indicate the United Nations is being groomed to become a world government, and Clark’s new UN role is part of that overhaul. The briefing paper is from Socialist International, a left-wing organization boasting a number of world leaders as members, and which lists Helen Clark as the co-chair of its Asia-Pacific Committee. Details of the plan are contained in the latest Investigate magazine, which goes on sale this Sunday. It comes hard on the heels of a United Nations climate change briefing paper leaked to Fox News which also indicates the global warming scare is a smokescreen for a much bigger political agenda: “A United Nations document on ‘climate change’ that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge re-ordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes,industrial relocations,new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes – all under the supervision of the world body [the UN],”reported Fox. The Investigate story has even more detail. “What is at stake is to launch a reform process of the general UN system in view of fostering a new global agenda and building a New World Order,” begins the Socialist International briefing on the planned reform of the UN. The group, which includes British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a member and President Obama’s new climate change czar Carol Browner, talks of a five year phase in where elected politicians in countries like New Zealand would also become members of a proposed new UN parliament: “Member States should make way for an enhanced
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role for parliamentarians in global governance.They should instruct the Secretariat to work with national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, as appropriate,to convene one or more experimental global public policy committees to discuss emerging priorities on the global agenda.These committees would comprise parliamentarians from the most relevant functional committee in a globally representative range of countries.In an experimental five-year period, different organizational arrangements could be tested and, through periodic review, refined over time. “At some point, contemplation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly will be needed to complement UN General Assembly, where the states are represented. Such a development should be supported by the gradual emergence of truly global citizenship,” says Socialist International.
“International democracy is feasible and politically necessary. Such an Assembly should be more than just another UN institution. It would have to become a building block of a new, democratically legitimate, world order.” The UN, with two parliaments, one for the nations as exists now and another for individual parliamentarians, would gradually take over responsibility for the military forces of nation states, and control world economic flows. The briefing paper draws heavily on reports completed by Kemal Dervis,Helen Clark’s predecessor as UN Development Programme head, which indicates Socialist International has been working closely in plans to reform the United Nations along these lines. The full story, including Helen Clark’s role, is outlined in the May edition of Investigate magazine.
NZ taxpayers invest $30m in China By Ian Llewellyn of NZPA
Shanghai, April 17 – New Zealand will spend $30 million constructing and promoting its pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, Prime Minister John Key said today. The sum is five times the amount spent at the last world expo at Aichi in Japan and Mr Key said he was planning to return to China next year with a
business delegation to promote New Zealand and its business links. The Chinese are estimating 70 million people will visit the expo and Mr Key said if only a small number of those chose to buy New Zealand goods or visit the country, then the economic spin-offs would be enormous. Speaking at the opening of a business centre for New Zealanders working in Shanghai, Mr Key said
New Zealand had to invest heavily to increase trade into China. The time for debating the merits and potential of doing business with China was over. “The question is how you convert that into a long term successful business model and that has eluded a lot of businesses in the past and it is not to be underestimated the challenges that are here,but that is why New Zealand has to invest heavily,”Mr Key said.
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Government agencies were there to help and would continue to do so, he said. Both Zespri and Solid Energy said they would be spending money on developing New Zealand’s exhibition to help draw the attention of the millions of visitors expected to visit the expo. New Zealand’s exports to China have been booming since the two countries signed a trade deal a year ago despite the global economic recession. China has reported its worst economic growth data since 1992. It slowed in the first quarter of Continue reading