At 14:54 1998-05-15 -0400, you wrote:
>>Well, the UN is dying because some countries, especially US, do not pay
>>their shared costs (could not remember the right word now), and general
>>lack of interest from some countries.
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>I'm sorry, but the US pays its dues by providing its military without
>billing the UN imho.

IĞm sorry for that too.
The idea of UN is to collect power AND *supervising* from lot of countries.
There will always be problem if only one country run along playing hero,
and forcing it his way.
On the other hand, UN is kind of backtied by bureocracy such as veto and
tend to be slow in process, but better organization and *funds* i believe
can make UN work as supposed to and will work better alone and strong
without UN - US "synchoronziation" problems.

I would also like an extention of US, or other global organization, to
handle environmental issues globally.  Such as environmental tax for fuel.
Like aeroplanes fuel is now not taxed, but they fly at high altitude and
combusting at high temperatures thus generating very much more nitrogen
oxides per fuel unit then by example cars.  But right now they fly cheap
internationally on untaxed fuel spewing out a very lot of shit.  

/Morgan


>Andy
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