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THE MOST IMPORTANT Irish man in 2015 is not Enda Kenny, or Paul O’Connell or Bono – it is Ireland’s rather less well-known ambassador to the UN, David Donoghue.
Why would this be the case? Because this year he co-manages, along with Ambassador Macharia from Kenya, an unprecedented global process on behalf of everyone on the planet. Their aim is to get UN agreement on a visionary set of goals to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, fight corruption, and transform the global economy towards a more sustainable growth path.
No pressure, then.
I hope David got a good break over the holidays because he’ll need a lot of energy in the months ahead. And he will need to hear from citizens across the country, and around the world, on the importance of the decisions he is making on behalf of us all.
Making extraordinary things happen
If we press David and his peers to get a good compact agreed this year, then we will see extraordinary things happen. This will mean helping developing countries with more effective aid, trade, investment, policies and helping citizens within developing counties – and indeed all of us – to hold leaders accountable for the delivery of these promised polices.
If we get this package agreed then, by 2030, one billion more people might lift themselves out of extreme poverty; three million fewer kids might die each year from preventable treatable diseases; every girl could access decent schooling, and vast regions of drought-prone countries would be re-afforested and soil health renewed to help farmers fight against hunger and climate change.
Some may be sceptical about these big global plans and what they achieve. But we have more form than many think when it comes to progress in the fight against extreme poverty.
In 2000 the Millennium Development Goals were agreed and have helped galvanise support around the world which, in turn, has helped groups like ONE campaign for billions more euros in the fight against extreme poverty, made sure the money was better spent than before, cancelled over a hundred billion euros in African debt and promoted more transparency in investment and governance. All this has helped developing nations dramatically reduce child mortality and deaths from Aids, TB and malaria, and with over 50 million more children going to school. Globally extreme poverty has been halved since 1990, and could be virtually eradicated by 2030 – if we get this right
Press politicians to agree on better policies
Because the stakes are so high today, a global movement has been launched by the likes of Malala Yousufzai, Bill and Melinda Gates and over one thousand NGOs around the world. It’s called action2015 and it’s calling upon you and everyone you’ve ever met, your friends and your family, to be great global citizens and join groups like Dochas and ONE to press politicians to agree better policies – and then stick to them.
In particular, we are demanding a revolution in financing for development in 2015, a disruptive breakthrough in transparency that shows how the world is run, a radical improvement in the availability of information – especially in the developing world, but also in places like Ireland’s Financial Services Centre and the City of London.
Citizens need to be able to be able to follow the money, to see not just where aid goes to save lives, but also the far bigger sums involved in how investments flow to buy natural resource extraction contracts, who owns which secretive anonymous shell company to help hide stolen money, and the trail from resources to results – or lack of them.
If a new global movement of citizens demands this revolution in transparency and data, and ensures this is at the heart of the new global goals that Donoghue is negotiating, we citizens will be able to hold power accountable better than ever before.
The Irish have always been great global citizens, giving more than half aid to the poorest nations and keeping to aid promises even in the hardest times. This movement believes passionately that new technology married with the oldest resource known to humanity – our thirst for fairness and justice – can unite a renewed, connected, informed and effective movement of activist citizens from around the world. Citizens who together, through their actions, must help point the world away from some of the darker trends that have shocked us all – from Ebola to acts of extremism – and towards a better safer word for us all.
So let’s not just hope Paul O’ Connell lifts the rugby world cup this year – but also that David O’ Donoghue holds aloft a great new global social contract to inspire us all.
action/2015 is calling on the public to join them in their calls to ensure world leaders commit to a better world. Throughout 2015, the campaign will provide ways for everyone everywhere to get involved in influencing the outcomes of these global debates For more information please visit www.action2015.org
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Make me Proud to be Irish. Well done David.
He abstained from standing up for four children being blown to bits on a beach in Gaza – That’s all you need to know about him !
“And he will need to hear from citizens across the country, and around the world, on the importance of the decisions he is making on behalf of us all.”
He is not making decisions for me. This touchy feely article is trying to make us all feel better about a one world totalitarian government.
We are told to admire Bill Gates (of Hell) and his vaccine program. No mention here of his depopulation agenda or the facts that about his polio vaccination disasters in India:
“In 2011 there were an extra 47500 new cases of NPAFP [non-polio acute flaccid paralysis]. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio received. Through this data was collected within the polio surveillance system, it was not investigated.”
The Oral Polio Vaccines were given to Indian children. The CDC dropped the OPV from its vaccine schedule in the US because it was causing polio.
http://nsnbc.me/2013/05/08/bill-gates-polio-vaccine-program-caused-47500-cases-of-paralysis-death/
Here is Bill explaining how vaccines will RUDUCE the population of Earth and not increase it..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gROhNaJoGzI
Do some investigations into his father.
Here is some more gushy rubbish pushing this New World order C^&P :
“Citizens who together, through their actions, must help point the world away from some of the darker trends that have shocked us all – from Ebola to acts of extremism – and towards a better safer word for us all.”
Get Lost.
Interesting stuff Ray. Hard to distinguish some conspiracies, pharma self interest and Gate bashing but there’s merit there overall. So I did get another perspective from it.
The problem with NWO articles is that they latch on to the wrong parts, even if they are right in some ways relating to global control of finance.
Bill Gates, for all everyone’s hated of windows, has been putting his money into non PC research, such as reducing the cost of medicine to help people live. The population reduction item was fairly clear that as well as vaccines, education and women’s reproductive health will reduce the over population in high poverty areas. The target is not to “kill off children with vaccines”, but to ensure women are aware that they do not have to produce a brood of 10 to ensure that one survives, and risk their lives with this policy.
let’s stick with dealing with Irish water for now (and hope that action 2015 lobby so that the UN don’t start forcing mandatory water charges in exchange for debt reduction in Africa)
Fair play William.
Best of luck with your lobbying Jamie, but unfortunately I think the biggest stumbling block to getting global agreements will be another Irish person, Samantha Power. While David has some integrity in his history with IrishAid (although recent polls show Irish people think this money is wasted and should be reduced), he lost a lot of respect by abstaining on a UN vote last year on Gaza, against the wishes of Irish people at the time, proving that political lobby groups will always have more input than people groups like action2015.
It’s a tough job, and good luck to you (even if this article was a bit over-fawning!).
The ould UN ehh???
Done a great job there stopping the yanks from slaughtering Men, Women and Children in the middle East.
With freaks like Jolie an ex heroine junkie adopter.
and
Katy Perry a woman who makes money by mimicking and “singing” about sex acts in her underwear to arenas of 6-7-8 year old children.
Here’s some of the smut Perry sings to children.
Katy Perry
I Kissed A Girl
“I kissed a girl and I liked it, the taste of her cherry Chapstick”
“I kissed a girl just to try it”
“I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it”
“It felt so wrong”
“it felt so right”
“Don’t mean I’m in love tonight”
“I kissed a girl and I liked it (I liked it)”
“Us girls we are so magical”
“Soft skin, red lips, so kissable”
“Hard to resist, so touchable”
“Too good to deny it”
“Ain’t no big deal, it’s innocent”
Katy Perry
Dark Horse Lyrics
“She’s a beast”
“I call her Karma”
“She eats your heart out”
“Like Jeffrey Dahmer”
“Shorty’s heart is on steroids”
“I’m gon’ put her in a coma”
“She ride me like a roller coaster”
“Her love is like a drug”
“I was tryna hit it and quit it”
“But lil’ mama so dope”
“I messed around and got addicted”
Really, what type of person dances lewdly in their jocks on front of kids???
The UN is a joke.
Just like its freakshow ambassadors.
Agenda 21
What is Sustainable Development?
According to its authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction.
Social Equity (Social injustice)
Social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people “to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment.” Redistribution of wealth. Private property is a social injustice since not everyone can build wealth from it. National sovereignty is a social injustice. Universal health care is a social injustice. All part of Agenda 21 policy
I totally agree.
“The Dark Forces are well aware of how powerful Natural Law is, which is why they have worked so hard to trick us into accepting and obeying their laws, which are canon law, admiralty law, trust law, and contract law. These unnatural laws are designed to destroy our sovereignty, freedom, and free will. The good news is that these unnatural laws have no power over us once we realize that we have natural rights and learn how to defend them.”
I have always had a soft spot in my heart since the U.N. worked so diligently to bring peace to Northern Ireland – The way the global community combined and made the Irish and British killing each other was what the U.N. is all about ….
And all the while our soldiers were serving in the Middle East bringing peace there !
soldiers = soul diers.
The U.N. is a joke. U.N. soldiers have caused cholera to spread in Haiti and they did that by urinating / defecating in peoples sources of drinking water there.
The U.N. will never condemn any NATO country for anything???
The United Nations represents the Pope, and its Armies will fight to enforce the Pope’s decrees
The United States no longer has its own military. Our military forces fighting in Afghanistan and in other regions of the world aren’t wearing U.S. insignia, and ever since the Gulf War, the U.S. insignia has been painted off all military vehicles. Our military no longer fights in the interest of the United States, but in the interest of the United Nations, which includes almost all of Europe, Central and South America, Africa, Australia, etc. Most of the countries belonging to the United Nations, like Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Yugoslavia, and others, are Roman Catholic countries with Roman Catholic armies.
http://www.thestillman.com/stillmanfiles/the-roman-catholic-takeover-of-america-2/the-roman-catholic-takeover-of-america/
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