Top Obama Aid John Podesta Helped UN Craft Radical New Global Agenda
Feb 13, 2014 No Comments ›› Infidel Alie
Excerpted from FOX NEWS:
John Podesta, the former Clinton Administration chief of staff who is
spearheading President Barack Obama’s aggressive strategy of
government-by-regulation, has also been helping United Nations Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon with an even more ambitious job: setting the stage
to radically transform the world’s economic, environmental and social
agenda.
That effort—a colossal and sweeping form of global behavior
modification–is supposed to get a new kick-start at a special U.N.
summit of world leaders to be convened by Ban in New York City on
September 25.
Its supporters hope that effort will end next year in a new
international treaty that will bind all 193 U.N. members– including the
U.S– to a still formless “universal sustainable development agenda” for
the planet that will take effect in 2020.
“Developing a single, sustainable development agenda is critical,”
says a report produced in May, 2013 by a 27-member “High-Level Panel of
Eminent Persons” hand-picked by Ban to help focus the discussion and
frame the effort required to make the huge and lengthy project a
success.
The high-level panel report was chaired by British Prime Minister
David Cameron and the presidents of Indonesia and Liberia. The sole
American among the international luminaries, who spent nearly a year at
their efforts and endorsed them through a process of consensus, was
Podesta.
The question is, critical to what? And the answer, according to that
panel, is pretty much everything, in what it called a series of “big,
transformative shifts.”
Their report opens with the challenge to end “extreme poverty, in all
its forms;” and declares, “We can be the first generation in human
history to end hunger and ensure that every person achieves a basic
standard of wellbeing. But it then adds: “ending extreme poverty is just
the beginning, not the end.”
The new agenda is also intended to bring “a new sense of global
partnership into national and international politics”; must cause the
world to “act now to halt the alarming pace of climate change and
environmental degradation;” and bring about a “rapid shift to
sustainable patterns of consumption and production,” to name just a few
things itemized in the document.
Moreover, it apparently also must spark a planetary psychological
sea-change: “The new global partnership should encourage everyone to
alter their worldview, profoundly and dramatically,” the report
declares.
At the time he joined the high-level panel and helped to shape its
radical and ambitious exhortations, Podesta was head of the Center for
American Progress , a think tank that he founded in 2003.
The Center is closely supportive of the objectives of the Obama
Administration and says its aim is to “provide long-term leadership and
support to the progressive movement” and “shape the national debate” in
the U.S. on a wide variety of issues, from energy to economic growth,
national security and climate change.
In 2010, Podesta became one of the most high-profile exponents of the
idea that the Administration could advance its agenda in the face of
Congressional opposition from Republicans through executive action, when
his staff authored a 54-page Center for American Progress paper on the
topic.
“The ability of President Obama to accomplish important change
through [executive] powers should not be underestimated,” he wrote in a forward to the document.
Podesta left the Center last month to take up his latest White House assignment.
The high-level panel, meantime, dissolved last fall, after delivering its report to U.N. Secretary-General Ban.
A so-called Open Working Group of the U.N. General Assembly is now
currently hammering out specifics of the proposals that will be
presented at the summit this upcoming September as a series of
Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, successors to the U.N.’s
much-touted but unevenly successful Millennium Development Goals, or
MDGs, which expire in 2015. Keep Reading
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