The Need and Feasibility of the UN to Lead the Human Community in Creating a Digital Planet(007)
— An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Guterres and Global
Since the establishment of the United Nations in 1945, both UN officials and the international community. Countless social sages and benevolent people have devoted a lot of effort to the reform of the UN’s financial and funding models, and have also proposed various reform proposals and solutions, none of which were ultimately feasible. Whether it is a “global resource dividend”, a “global tax”, a “global currency transaction tax”, a “global energy tax “, “global carbon taxes”, “global weapons manufacturing taxes” proposed by the famous environmentalist Paul Hawken, and various “alternative financing “. Let alone implement them, they are not even discussed on paper, and no consensus can be reached in a limited circle. This may seem incredible, but it is actually not surprising. For to implement any of these options would touch the cheese of those with vested global interests. That is to say, they would inevitably touch the vested interests of the US Wall Street financial oligarchy. So, let alone implement them. You should not even think about it.
Guterres, of course, knows how deep the waters run. Apart from his righteous indignation at the immorality of the financial oligarchs, in reality, he does not dare to cross the line. But without a solution to the UN’s funding problem, the so-called UN reform is just an empty phrase.
Guterres was forced to save the country by “Building roads on the surface, sneaking around in the shadows”. Building roads is the “resident coordinator system”. The “sneaking around” is UN financing. The Resident Coordinator is nominally the UN Secretary-General’s “Ambassador Plenipotentiary” to each country. In reality, the most important mission is to expand the sources of funding for the UN and to raise additional funds. It is the Resident Coordinator who is the face of every grant, every dollar donated, in every country. They are also the UN’s ‘fundraising ambassadors’.
It is important to note that the Resident Coordinator does not seek financing from the host government, nor does he or she directly target direct private financing. Rather, they are using the international resources of the United Nations by helping the host country to establish the Sustainable Development Goals. This includes renewable energy, green energy, and other industrial projects for sustainable development. There is also social financing in the form of establishing peace funds and other funds on a mutually beneficial basis.
By all accounts, this Guterres manoeuvre is circuitous and stealthy enough. As can be seen from the chart above. It is also true that the main source of funding for RC funding comes from helping host countries to establish sustainable development goals, as well as from the Peace Fund and the Emergency Fund. It’s a win-win model of cooperation, which is great. However, that’s what you think, Wall Street doesn’t. On 28 October 2021, the United States Mission to the United Nations posted on their official website a “Statement of Position on the Adoption of the Resident Coordinator System Resolution”.
（usun.usmission.gov/explanation-of-position-on-the-resident-coordinator-rc-system-resolution-adoption/）
First, the support of the United States for the RC system was expressed. It was also stressed that the United States is the largest donor to this system. Then, the conversation turned to the point. “While the United States supports sustainable and predictable funding for the RC system, we regret that during the negotiation process, some sought to focus on the RC system’s funding model in a way that excluded meaningful discussions on the critical issues of accountability and results of the RCs and the RC system. We felt it was premature to discuss changing the current funding model ……” When all is said and done, the final implication is simply that if the UN is to implement the RC financing scheme, it must also be under the endorsement and control of the US.
It’s too sensitive, too much of a sense of smell. It’s only just beginning. To be honest, the ability to finance the RC system at this stage is still very weak, in the experimental stage, or, one might even say, in the conceptual stage. But you can’t even have an idea in this regard. As long as there is global money movement involved on this planet, no one escapes the eyes of Wall Street capital. Once the resident coordinator financing system is under the sway or control of the United States, I am afraid that the Guterres curve of financial reform will only end up in vain.
At this point, I think both the UN and the UN Secretary General should throw away their illusions once and for all. As long as the financial reform of the UN is on this planet and as long as the capitalist financial system has not yet ended, there is no need to dream about it. But, without money, it can neither act nor be acted upon. If the UN continues to exist in name only, even if it is not legally viable, it will be morally guilty of “omissions” or “crimes of omission” against the human community.
For example, with this global pandemic of the COVID-19, what we are seeing is not only no bright spots or results at the level of international cooperation in the common fight against the virus for humanity. The major powers are even slandering and discrediting each other. In the face of a global catastrophe, instead of uniting as one to fight the disaster and defend the right to life of all mankind, mankind is further widening social conflicts, stirring up racial hatred and splitting the international consensus. In the face of such a situation, the United Nations can only look on in disbelief and do nothing.
As Guterres highlights in the Tweets, the economically developed countries, are already getting their second round of booster vaccines, but billions of people in poor countries have not even had their first dose yet. This is a global epidemic, and unless we can permanently quarantine humanity, those countries and people who are not immune will remain as a source of infection, and the world will remain unsafe. Guterres has no alternative but to indict this gross inequity and to call on countries to provide new funding to support immunisation in poor countries. Suppose another, more serious global epidemic were to break out, with infection rates no less than those of Omicron and death rates of over 10% or more. How far will the conflicts in human society intensify, how will the confrontation between countries evolve, and who is capable of uniting the forces of humanity and forging a human consensus, and will there be any hope for humanity.
For example, in the face of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the United Nations is also helpless. Guterres has done everything the UN can do, but he can only watch the tragedy unfold and continue to watch it. Suppose the next step, the Taiwan Strait crisis really intensifies, will China, the United States, Japan and Western Europe break out in a head-on war, and if it does, the consequences will not be comparable to those of the Russia-Ukraine war. What would happen then, would it get out of hand, would a third world war break out, would a nuclear war break out? In the face of such a crisis, such potential risks. Is the UN capable of averting it, of stopping it. If not, then is it only possible to watch the tragedies of human society happen again and again, while the UN can only do nothing.
There is no doubt that such a tragedy can no longer be left to chance and that this situation must be fundamentally changed. The only way to change it is for the UN to establish its own independent economic system in order to free itself once and for all from the stranglehold of capital on the UN. To do this, it is clear that reform and other traditional models are not possible at all. Then a new approach, a new path, must be found. One must actively help oneself.
As the international anthem says: “There has never been a saviour, nor does it depend on gods and emperors! It is up to us to create the happiness of mankind!” The United Nations should no longer expect any great nation to show mercy, any powerful nation to show kindness, let alone capital to put down its butcher’s knife and become Buddha. Instead, it can only rely on its own strength, on the strength of hundreds of millions of grassroots civilians around the world to save itself. The goal and task of self-help is very clear: to solve the money problem of the UN, so that the UN can have enough money to guarantee its effective operation, in order to re-establish its credibility and influence. Only then will it be possible to guide human society onto the path of civilised, healthy and sustainable development.
This issue is so important that it is reiterated here.
If this is the case with the United Nations, which has the advantage of enormous resources, connections and consensus on the planet, and if it cannot even keep that “nameless simplicity” under the advance of capital, what will happen to other countries, institutions and individuals on the planet, especially those countries and regions that are resource-poor and economically backward, when they are under the advance of capital, and if If they can’t even keep the “unsung simplicity” of keeping their people alive, do they and their governments have any legitimacy to exist. Do they need to save themselves more than the UN. Therefore, if the UN saves itself, or if we help the UN to save itself, we are also helping people to save themselves, human civilisation to save itself and the planet to save itself.
Perhaps this is what the new age has to offer each of us on earth. Certainly, it is also the main theme of this letter.
This brings us to the end of the previous part — the problems (origins). The previous chapter dealt mainly with the problems of the United Nations, and indeed, with the problems currently facing human society as a whole and the development of human civilisation. I am afraid that the seriousness and urgency of these problems are beyond the imagination of most of us. No citizen of the earth should take them lightly. We cannot overemphasise, appeal to, or reiterate enough the need to draw the attention of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, global wise men and women, and society as a whole. In particular, we would like to make a short summary.
The life-and-death challenges facing human civilisation are closer than ever. Only by uniting together and building a common destiny can humanity meet the challenges and create a better future. However, the United Nations, which has the greatest potential to unite the consensus of mankind and integrate global resources to reshape a new civilisation, is struggling and unable to cope. Decades of work on the global climate issue, which the UN considers to be of paramount importance, have resulted in several conventions and national commitments. In fact, not only are the commitments of all countries unfulfilled, but even if they are fully fulfilled, it is unlikely that global warming will be kept below 1.5°C. Not only that, but the US$100 billion annual Green Climate Fund pledged by all countries to address the climate problems of developing countries has only raised a total of more than US$40 billion after more than 10 years. This is a big international joke. There is also the issue of the global pandemic, global hunger, the Russian-Ukrainian war, all of which we thought the UN could solve, or was solving. In reality there is no possible solution. The UN is just painting a self-congratulatory pie for humanity.
The UN has been forced to painting the pie. Because, to solve any global problem, you need money, and the UN doesn’t have any of its own. For this reason, Beasley has had to press the world’s richest people for donations, and Guterres has had to plead time and again at conferences and on Twitter for countries to donate more money so that the UN can do something. But the world is indifferent and unresponsive, and the UN can only look on in disbelief.
Money is killing the UN. The UN has long been aware of the need for reform, the main objective of which is financial reform. But in fact, the UN did not even dare to mention the words “financial reform” for fear of touching the vested interests of global capitalist groups. It was not until Secretary General Guterres took office that he introduced a curve of financial reform, the “resident coordinator system” reform initiative, but only in the hope of expanding the UN’s global donor channels a little, not to solve the UN’s fundamental financial needs. But even this pathetic expansion of funding was spotted by Wall Street capital, which publicly stated its disagreement through the US representative to the UN. At this point in time, the UN has no access to funding and no way to finance itself, and it is dead in name only. To change all this, the UN must abandon the illusion of reform and prepare to save itself from its roots.
On a global scale, since the United Nations, as a global sovereign association, can be forced by capital to exist in name only under the capitalist system. The vast majority of developing countries and regions on this planet, which lack the advantage of capital, have in fact been unable to survive for a long time and are only surviving because of the mercy and charity of capital. Do they not need to save themselves more than the UN.
Finally, human society today is divided and torn apart by the effects of the pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian war. Whether it is a global epidemic crisis, a global climate crisis or a global war crisis, the potential for each of these crises to destroy human civilisation is more urgent and more real than ever before. Once the United Nations is unable to function, and at this stage there are no countries or forces that can bring together the power of all humanity to resolve the crisis, the destruction of the planet and the destruction of human civilisation will be truly imminent. Is it not also necessary to save oneself.
The United Nations needs to save itself, humanity needs to save itself, the planet needs to save itself and how to save itself. The bell has to be untied. Since money is the cause of all this under the capitalist system, if the money problem can be solved at its root, self-help can be accomplished at all levels. Therefore, all educated people in human society should realise that by helping the UN to solve the money problem once and for all, they are helping the UN to save itself. It is also helping every one of us on earth to save ourselves, helping human civilisation to save itself, and helping the planet to save itself.
(to be continued)
The English translation is mainly done by AI and is inevitably not accurate enough. Please refer to the original Chinese text below for a more accurate understanding.
联合国引领人类社会打造数字地球的必要性和可行性（007）
— — 致联合国秘书长古特雷斯及全球贤达的公开信
自1945年联合国成立以来，无论是联合国官员，还是国际社会。无数社会贤达、仁人志士在联合国金融改革、筹资模式改革上倾注了大量心血，也提出了各种各样的改革方案和解决方案，最终是无一可行。无论是“全球资源红利 ”、“全球税收”、“全球货币交易税”、“全球能源税”、“全球碳税”，还是著名环保主义者保罗·霍肯提出的“全球武器制造税”，以及各式各样的“替代融资”。别说实施了，就是在纸面上探讨，都无法在一个有限圈子内达成共识。这似乎不可思议，其实并不奇怪。因为，要实施其中任何一项方案，都会动全球利益既得者的奶酪。也就是说，这些方案必然要触及美国华尔街金融寡头们的既得利益。因此，别说实施了。你们连想都不应该想。
古特雷斯当然知道这其中水有多深。除了义愤填膺的斥责金融寡头们的不道德之外，现实中，也是不敢越雷池半步的。可如果不解决联合国的资金问题，所谓联合国改革，就只是一句空话啊。
被逼无奈的古特雷斯只能曲线救国，“明修栈道、暗度陈仓”。这个栈道，就是“驻地协调员制度”。陈仓，则是联合国融资。驻地协调员，名义上是联合国秘书长派往各国的“全权大使”。而实际上最重要使命，是为联合国扩展资金来源，筹集更多资金。让驻地协调员在各国当面落实每一笔资助、每一分钱捐赠。也就是联合国的“筹资大使”。
需要说明的是，驻地协调员并不是找所在国政府融资，也不是直接面向民间直接融资。而是利用联合国的国际资源，通过帮助所在国建立可持续发展目标。包括再生能源、绿色能源，以及其他可持续发展的产业项目。还有就是以建立和平基金和其他基金的方式，在互利互惠的基础上，进行社会筹资。
按说，古特雷斯这一波操作，够迂回、够隐蔽的了。由上图可知。驻地协调员筹资的主要资金来源，也确实是来自帮助所在国建立可持续发展目标，以及和平基金和应急基金。是一种合作共赢模式，很好啊。然而，这只是你们自己想的，华尔街不这么认为。2021年10月28日，联合国美国代表团在他们的官网上发布了“关于驻地协调员制度决议通过的立场说明”。
首先，表达了美国对驻地协调员制度的支持。并强调，美国是这个制度的最大捐助者。随后，话锋一转，直指要害。“虽然美国支持为驻地协调员系统提供可持续和可预测的资金，但我们感到遗憾的是，在谈判过程中，一些人试图将重点放在驻地协调员系统的筹资模式上，而排除了对驻地协调员问责制和结果的关键问题进行有意义的讨论和RC系统。 我们认为现在讨论改变当前的筹资模式还为时过早……”说来说去，最后的意思无非是，如果联合国要实施驻地协调员的融资计划，也必须在美国的认可和掌控之下。
太敏感了，嗅觉太灵敏了。这才刚刚开始啊。说实在话，驻地协调员制度现阶段融资能力还很弱，处于尝试阶段，甚至可以说，还停留在设想阶段。可是，你有这方面的想法都不行。只要在这个星球上，只要涉及到了全球资金动向，就没有谁逃得过华尔街资本的眼线。一旦驻地协调员融资制度被美国左右或掌控，古特雷斯曲线式的金融改革，恐怕最后也只能是无疾而终。
到此为止，我想无论是联合国、还是联合国秘书长，都应该彻底丢掉幻想了。联合国金融改革，只要在这个地球上、只要资本主义金融体制还未终结，这个梦就没必要再做了。可是，没有钱，既不能作为、也无法作为。联合国再这么有名无实的维持下去，即使法律上不成立，道德上恐怕也是在对人类社会犯下“不作为罪”或“遗漏罪（Omissions）”。
比如说，这次全球新冠疫情大流行，我们看到的是，人类在共同抗击病毒的国际合作层面，不仅没有任何亮点和成效。主要大国之间甚至还在相互诋毁、相互抹黑。面临全球性重大灾害，人类不是团结起来，拧成一股绳来抗击灾害、捍卫全人类的生命权，而是在进一步扩大社会矛盾、激发种族仇恨、分裂国际共识。联合国面对这种局面，也只能望洋兴叹，无能为力。
正如推文中古特雷斯强调的，各经济发达国家，已经在打第二轮加强疫苗了，可贫穷国家的几十亿人连第一针都还没打。这是全球疫情，除非我们能将人类永久隔离，否则，那些没有免疫能力的国家和人民，就会始终作为一个传染源存在，全球就始终不安全。古特雷斯除了对这种极不平等现象予以控诉，除了呼吁各国提供新的资金支持贫穷国家免疫，别无他法。假设再爆发一场更严重的全球性疫情，感染率不亚于奥密克戎，致死率超过10%、甚至更高。请问，人类社会的矛盾将激化到何种程度，各个国家之间的对抗将演变成什么样子，谁有能力团结人类力量、凝聚人类共识，人类还看得到任何希望吗。
又比如，面对俄乌战争，联合国同样是毫无办法，古特雷斯做了联合国能做的一切努力，依然只能眼睁睁看着这场悲剧发生，眼睁睁看着这场悲剧持续。假设下一步，台海危机真的激化，中国与美国、日本、西欧会爆发正面战争冲突吗，一旦爆发，其后果恐怕绝非俄乌战争所能比。那将会怎样，会失控吗，会爆发第三次世界大战吗，会爆发核战争吗？面对这样的危机，这样的潜在风险。联合国有能力避免、有能力阻止吗。如果没有，那么，是不是只能眼睁睁看着人类社会的悲剧一次又一次发生，而联合国只能是无所作为。
毫无疑问，这样的悲剧再也不能听之任之了，这种状况必须从根本上改变。怎么改变，联合国只有建立自己独立的经济体系，才能一劳永逸的摆脱资本对联合国的掣肘。而要做到这一点，靠改革和其它传统模式显然是完全没有可能的。那就必须另外寻找新的办法、新的路径。必须积极自救。
正如国际歌所唱到的：“从来就没有什么救世主，也不靠神仙皇帝！要创造人类的幸福，全靠我们自己！”联合国不应再指望任何大国发慈悲，不应再指望任何强国发善心，更不应指望资本会放下屠刀立地成佛。而只能依靠自己的力量，依靠全球亿万草根平民的力量来实现自救。而自救的目标和任务非常清晰，就是要解决联合国的金钱问题，让联合国有足够的金钱可以保障其有效运转，才能重新建立自己的公信力和影响力。才有可能引导人类社会走上文明、健康、可持续发展的大道。
这个问题极为重要，特此重申：
占据着地球上巨大资源优势、人脉优势、共识优势的联合国尚且如此，尚且在资本的进逼下，连那份“无名之朴”都守不住，地球上的其他国家、机构和个人，尤其是资源匮乏、经济落后的国家和地区，他们在资本的进逼下又会如何，如果他们连让本国人民活下去这个“无名之朴”都守不住，这个国家以及其政府存在的合法性还有吗。他们是不是比联合国更需要自救。因此，联合国自救，或者我们帮助联合国自救，其实也是在帮助各国人民自救，帮助人类文明自救，帮助地球自救。
或许，这正是新时代给我们每个地球人的启示。当然，也是本信的主旨。
上篇-问题（缘起）到这里就该结束了。上篇阐述的主要是联合国的问题，实际上，也是整个人类社会、人类文明发展目前所面临的问题。这些问题的严重性和紧迫性，恐怕超出了我们绝大多数人的想象。任何一个地球公民，都不应对此掉以轻心。为引起联合国秘书长、全球贤达以及全社会的重视，我们怎么强调、怎么呼吁、怎么重申都不过分。对此，我们特别做个小结。
人类文明面临的生死挑战比任何时候都更临近了。人类唯有团结起来，构建一个命运与共的联合体，才有可能去应对挑战、创造更美好的未来。但是，最有可能凝聚人类共识，整合全球资源来重塑人类新文明的联合国，却呈现出举步维艰、无力应对的势态。联合国视为重中之重的全球气候问题，数十年努力换来了几纸公约和各国承诺。可事实上，不仅各国承诺根本无法兑现，即使完全兑现了也不可能将全球变暖控制在1.5℃以下。不仅如此，为解决发展中国家气候问题，各国承诺的每年1000亿美元绿色气候基金。10多年过去了，一共才筹到400多亿美元。简直是开了一个天大的国际玩笑。还有全球疫情大流行问题、全球饥饿问题、俄乌战争问题，我们以为联合国都能解决、或者正在解决。实际上根本没可能解决。联合国只是在给人类画一个聊以自慰的饼而已。
联合国画饼也是被逼无奈。因为，想解决任何一个全球问题都要钱，可联合国自己没有钱。为此，比斯利不得不向世界首富逼捐，古特雷斯也不得不在各种大小会议上、推特上，一次又一次恳请各国多捐助一点资金，让联合国能有所作为。可世界各国无动于衷、毫无反应，联合国只能望洋兴叹。
金钱正在扼杀联合国。对此，联合国也早就意识到了，必须改革，改革的主要目标就是金融改革。可事实上，联合国连“金融改革”四个字都不敢提，怕触动了全球资本集团的既得利益。直到古特雷斯秘书长上任后，搞了一个曲线金融改革，“驻地协调员制度”改革举措，也只不过是希望扩大一点联合国在全球的捐助渠道而已，并不能解决联合国的根本性资金需求。可就这么一点可怜的资金扩展举措，也被华尔街资本发现，通过美国驻联合国代表公开表明其异议立场。事到如今，联合国筹资无门、融资无路，已然是名存实亡了。要彻底改变这一切，联合国必须放弃改革幻想，准备从根本上自救。
从全球范围来看，既然作为全球主权联合体的联合国，在资本主义体系下，都能被资本逼得名存实亡。这个地球上缺乏资本优势的绝大多数发展中国家和地区，他们实际上是不是早就活不下去了，只不过是在资本的垂怜和施舍下，眼前才得以苟且偷生。他们是不是比联合国更需要自救。
最后，受大流行和俄乌战争影响，当今人类社会是四分五裂、狼烟四起。无论是全球疫情危机、全球气候危机，还是全球战争危机，每一项危机毁灭人类文明的可能性，都比以往任何时候更紧急、更真切了。一旦联合国无法发挥作用，当前阶段，还没有任何国家和势力，可以聚合全人类的力量去化解危机，地球的毁灭、人类文明的毁灭就真的迫在眉睫了。是不是也需要自救。
联合国需要自救、人类需要自救、地球需要自救，如何自救。解铃还须系铃人。既然这一切都是资本主义体系下金钱惹的祸，那么，如果能从根本上解决金钱问题，所有层面都能完成自救。因此，人类社会一切有识之士都应该意识到，帮助联合国彻底解决金钱问题，就是在帮助联合国自救。也就是在帮助我们每一个地球人自救，帮助人类文明自救，帮助地球自救。
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