Bill Clinton Raises Billions to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change
Associated PressSeptember 25, 2010
Former President Bill Clinton's three-day conference for VIPs with deep pockets generated nearly 300 new commitments valued at $6 billion to tackle major global issues from poverty and disease to climate change.
The sixth Clinton Global Initiative, which wrapped up late Thursday, brought together 67 current and former heads of state, more than 600 business leaders, and more than 500 leaders from non-governmental and philanthropic organizations. The VIP attendees included President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former president's wife, Queen Rania of Jordan and Bill Gates.
"I think it's the way they reinforce one another — it's the networking," the ex-president said in an interview during the conference, trying to explain its success. "They get pumped up on each other and start trying to really do something."
"For example, when we started the Global Initiative only about a third of our commitments came from companies, and this year the companies will be involved in 54 percent of them," Clinton said.
He explained that companies are either spending money on their own or teaming up with NGOs, sometimes from countries with very low incomes.
"Over the years," Clinton said, "the people that come here want to do something meaningful with their lives and with the mission of their companies, like Procter and Gamble's president saying their goal was to save one life an hour somewhere on the planet every hour of the day."
"I think people believe in this idea of the obligation of citizens to take action to do something about these problems," he said.
At the close of the conference, the former president said he was "proud" of the nearly 300 new commitments, a near-record number despite the fallout from the global economic crisis.
He said one of the most interesting things about the new commitments is that about half were made by people who made previous commitments — some that have been completed and some that have not.
"In total, more than 1,900 commitments have been made, worth $63 billion, and they have improved the lives of nearly 300 million people," Clinton said in a statement at the end of the conference.
Asked about the impact of the financial crisis, the former president said about 15 projects were dropped because people couldn't complete them, and about 35 others may have to abandon them for lack of financing.
"In general," he said, "we're doing pretty well."
The conference is similar to the World Economic Forum in Davos in its provocative panels and opportunities for networking, but Clinton said there is one major difference — any participant in the Clinton Global Initiative must make a financial commitment.
New commitments this year range from projects to help preserve the Amazon to getting medicine to the needy, producing science and technology kits for Mexican schools, providing Kenyan households with clean cookstoves and opening 100 neighborhood libraries in Jordan.
Global Tax Scam Shifts from Climate Change to Poverty
Infowars.comSeptember 21, 2010
As the science behind global warming becomes increasingly discredited and its proponents are exposed as eugenics-obsessed control freaks who care only about destroying freedom, the effort to make Americans pay a global tax has shifted from the justification of climate change to that of poverty.
As we documented on Sunday, leaders from 60 nations will be meeting at the UN this week to push a tax on world financial transactions, formally launching a massive program to bankrupt the middle class and enrich the coffers of global government.
Separately, the leaders of Spain and France are also now calling for new “financing sources” with which to build the infrastructure of a one world government. Remember, this has nothing to do with poverty. As the leaked Danish text revealed, global institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank have no intention of handing the money looted from American taxpayers to poorer countries, they will merely continue to keep the third world in bondage with crippling loans while withholding the real wealth for themselves.
“We need to make more effort to look for alternative financing sources … that aren’t as vulnerable as the budgets of developed countries when faced with crises like the one we’re seeing today,” said Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
“Both he and French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for some form of financial tax to raise money to combat poverty, an idea already rejected by the International Monetary Fund and many Group of 20 major developed and developing nations,” reports Reuters.
Although climate change still gets a token mention in the call for a global tax, the justification of poverty has firmly overtaken it as the primary ruse via which globalists plan to conduct a massive transfer of wealth – not to poor nations – but to their own back pockets.
As the recently leaked UN blueprint revealed, the elite are determined to use a global tax as just one of the weapons in their arsenal to dismantle the middle class of richer nations.
In their own words, the globalists talk of their aim to “limit and redirect the aspirations for a better life of rising middle classes around the world” — in other words, to reduce the standard of living for the middle classes in Western Europe and America.
As the opening session paper puts it:
“The real challenge comes from the exponential growth of the global consumerist society driven by ever higher aspirations of the upper and middle layers in rich countries as well as the expanding demand of emerging middle-class in developing countries. Our true ambition should be therefore creating incentives for the profound transformation of attitudes and consumption styles.”
This is globalist talk for dismantling the middle classes by looting them with global taxes and consumption levies in the name of alleviating poverty in poorer areas of the world and stopping climate change. However, as we have already explained, this is merely a ruse. The money will not be “redistributed” to the poor, it will be swallowed up by the same globalist institutions running the scam.
To achieve their goal, the UN will have to oversee “nothing less than a fundamental transformation of the global economy,” states the report. In other words, economic growth will wither and be replaced by a “green economy” and a “post-industrial revolution.”
Since Spain’s “fundamental transformation” of its economy over to a “green economy” has devastated the country, with unemployment hitting a crippling 20 per cent, it’s unsurprising that Zapatero is now calling for a new global levy on financial transactions in an effort to force already destitute Americans to pick up the tab for the failed and economically crippling “green” measures that he inflicted on his own country while doing the bidding of his globalist masters.
