Scientific Dictatorship

Czech president tells UN to stay out of economics

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Saturday criticized U.N. calls for increased "global governance" of the world's economy, saying the world body should leave that role to national governments.

The solution to dealing with the global economic crisis, Klaus told the U.N. General Assembly, did not lie in "creating new governmental and supranational agencies, or in aiming at global governance of the world economy."...

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Labels: Czech Republic, global governance, U.N., United Nations

U.S., China, and India to be Three Most Powerful Countries in 2025: Report

Sept 23 – In a report titled “Global Governance 2025,” experts from the U.S. National Intelligence Council and the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies project that by 2025 the United States will maintain its lead in the world power structure, but will have lost considerable ground to the next two countries on the list – emerging Asian forces China and India.

The 82-page report highlights several current and growing global threats, including climate change, economic issues, terrorism, competition for resources, and infectious diseases.

In judging the outcomes of these collective issues, the report outlines several potential scenarios that could take place by 2025, suggesting that the most likely structure in global governance will be “barely keeping afloat,” in which ad hoc institutions and solutions will be applied as new issues arise...

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Labels: China, global governance, India, United States

Walter Cronkite Receiving The "Norman Cousins Global Governance Award" In 1999 From The World Federalist Association

Walter Cronkite quotes Pat Robertson as writing that "any attempt at establishing a One World government before the return of the Messiah must be the work of the devil..."

Walter Cronkite then states "Well, join me...I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan..."

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ECB President Favors Global Governance

The President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, told Forbes that global governance is extremely necessary if we want to prevent another financial crisis. In his prepared printed and spoken remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations, Trichet emphasized that politicians, economists, and financiers must work across the Atlantic and collaborate on methods to create an international set of standards. It is his belief that through global governance, the resiliency of the global financial system can be assured, noting that ultimately it was governments’ use of taxpayer’s money, equivalent to around 25% of GDP on both sides of the Atlantic, that prevented another catastrophic great depression from occurring. With the backdrop of a U.S. financial regulation bill being stuck in the Senate, he argued three main points in support of creating internationally agreed rules...

Labels: Council on Foreign Relations, European Central Bank, global governance, Jean-Claude Trichet

Socialist International in Copenhagen: "Birth of Global Governance"

World government and world socialism. Those are the explicit goals of the Socialist International, one of the planet's most influential organizations, but one that is virtually unknown to the vast majority of Americans, since it is rarely reported on in the United States' major media...

Labels: global governance, globalism, socialism