Wonder when they did the planning for the socialist-confab-disguised-as-a-climate-conference in Copenhagen. Usually these things are scheduled a couple years in advance. Perhaps employing the UN and IPCC climate models, conference planners expected tropical weather in Copenhagen at this time of year. But apparently the city is under blizzard conditions just now. A big Oops! on that one, huh?
Read in the Wall Street Journal that Hillary Clinton has committed the USA to "assisting to raise" $100 billion per year for poor countries to help them green up. Only, Clinton made the commitment dependent upon getting China to agree to the same. Very clever. China must know that any $100 billion that comes from the USA will have to be borrowed from China first. Think they'll agree to that?
Clinton's position is all a diplomatic smokescreen to make the US look compliant to these stupid, global-socialism policies. Better just to admit that they're stupid policies and get it over with. I mean, really, who needs this crap? Why enable it?
I, for one, will never work my butt off to build windmills in Angola. Sorry about that. The USA was a wilderness at one time, too -- and not so very long ago -- and somehow this nation developed without the aid of global meddling and hand-outs. We did, however, have the advantage of foreign investment in many cases -- something that's still available to developing nations.
But you do know which ingredient is missing in the underdeveloped states, don't you? That is, you know what they need to make them attractive investments: POLTICAL LIBERTY AND FREE MARKET CAPITALISM. Who wants to invest in a country if the investment is going to be nationalized or burned to the ground by a bunch of machete-toting barbarians? Or islamic terrorists. Take your pick -- same basic lack of respect for human life and individual rights.
The best thing the developed nations can do for the 3rd world is to leave them alone, except as trade partners. They are capable of finding their own way and developing their own economies. For a while, they begged for independence. Isn't that what they all claimed to want as imperialist European colonialism was breathing its last gasps following WWII? They even have the benefit now of being able to get educations here and in Europe to take advantage of all the knowledge the human race has accumulated. So what's holding them back, except sorry-ass domestic leadership and misguidance from globalist do-gooders?
At any rate, 3rd world nations must begin by providing themselves with some kind of a politically stable environment and the establishment and enforcement of private property rights. The UN can't give them that, except under force of arms. They just have to grow up and take another approach. Instead of whining to the UN with hat in hand, begging for aid and spinning tales of civil war and poltical cannibalism, they must embrace the concept of equal individual rights and build on that. And stop eating each other's children, figurately speaking.
'Course that's not what the marxist-socialist one-worlders want, or even these nations' own home-grown totalitarian leadership. The one-worlders would prefer to keep them as dependent colonies at the beck and call of heaven-only-knows-who -- some supreme global conference of the divinely enlightened. Some Super Comrade. An Ubermensch. So as they develop, the Ubermensch can pillage and redistribute their wealth.
That's exactly what will happen unless the people themselves of those nations rise up to stand against it. Like Honduras.
Anyway, personally, I refuse to fund anything less that kind of freedom. It's just pouring my labor and my ideas and my money down a rat-hole. Ain't gonna happen, I guarantee. They'd have to pry those dollars out of my cold, dead hands. And they'd have to get to me before the IRS does.
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