Obama using Ebola to turn military into social workers? Fulfills plan of highly influential left-wing groups NEW YORK – In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization. In 2012, the major league of progressive groups with deep ties to the Obama administration got together to produce a comprehensive, 96-page report titled the “2012 Unified Security Budget.” It offered recommendations for reforming the U.S. military during Obama’s second term in office. The progressive groups drew up extensive road maps recommending the use of the U.S. military to combat “global warming,” aid in disease prevention in Africa, fight global poverty, remedy “injustice,” bolster the United Nations and increase “peacekeeping” forces worldwide. Already during his first term, Obama utilized some of the specific recommendations of an earlier military budget paper produced by the same groups. The 2012 Unified Budget report makes clear the stated objective of transforming the U.S. Armed Forces into an operation that emphasizes conflict resolution, international military cooperation via the U.N. and diplomacy. Tuesday, the White House released a “Fact Sheet” announcing the U.S. military is “partnering with the United Nations and other international partners” to help the governments of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal respond to the Ebola outbreak. An estimated 3,000 U.S. forces will be utilized as the U.S. Africa Command is set to establish a Joint Force Command headquartered in Monrovia, Liberia, to “provide regional command and control support … and facilitate coordination with U.S. government and international relief efforts.” Obama’s plan calls for U.S. Military Command engineers to build Ebola Treatment Units in affected areas. American personnel are to recruit and organize medical experts to staff the new units, including with a program that seeks to train up to 500 health-care providers per week. While Obama has slashed funding for numerous military defense programs, the president’s plan to fight Ebola in West Africa calls for $500 million to be added to this year’s Overseas Contingency Operations for “humanitarian assistance” in West Africa. Some of the funds will be used for “medical treatment facilities, personnel protective equipment and medical supplies; logistics and engineering support; and subject matter experts in support of sanitation and mortuary affairs,” according to the White House release. Transform U.S. military into social workers? The theme of utilizing the U.S. military for humanitarian aid coordinated with the U.N. was heavily covered in the 2012 detailed blueprint “A Report of the Task Force on a Unified Security Budget for the United States” (or 2012 Unified Security Budget). The report lays out a future Obama “defense” agenda. The 2012 Unified Security Budget is a joint product of the Center for American Progress, CAP, and the Institute for Policy Studies, IPS. Previous recommendations from the two groups’ yearly Unified Security Budgets have been adapted by the Obama administration. The Center for American Progress was behind some of Obama’s first-term agenda. CAP founder John Podesta is now a White House “counselor.” The 2012 Unified Security Budget itself recalls how the group’s policy recommendations from some of its recent defense papers have already been adopted by Obama’s Sustainable Defense Taskforce, which has notoriously recommended $1 trillion in defense cuts over 10 years. Boasts the 2012 report: “A majority, though not a supermajority, of the members of the President’s Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform adopted the annualized figure of $100 billion, and many of the recommendations from this proposal.” The report makes clear the stated objective of transforming the U.S. Armed Forces into an operation that emphasizes conflict resolution and diplomacy as joint efforts with the U.N. The 2012 report sets the tone of its lofty agenda by demanding immediate reductions in the military’s already heavily slashed budget. But there is one exception requiring massive increases in funding – global engagement. It specifically calls for the U.S. military to coordinate humanitarian aid missions with the U.N., some of which aim to fight “poverty and injustice.” “Effective U.S. global development policy can support countries and people to manage their own way forward from poverty and injustice,” states the report. The report goes on to recommend massive funds be sent to combat global woes, including an increase of $3.5 billion to “Global Health” investment and $2.14 billion to support United Nations peacekeeping and ensure that the U.S. does not fall behind in U.N. payments. Also outlined is a growing international consensus on “the need for rich countries, including the United States, to provide compensatory funding to developing countries to help them adapt to the impacts of climate change that are already under way.” Such U.S. funding should make up for “reductions in food production caused by increases in droughts and flooding, greater climate variability leading to increased disease, decreased access to water and, in some cases, a need to relocate entire communities.” U.S. military as vehicle for aid to Third World Podesta’s Center for American Progress further released a 52-page proposal in January 2012 in which authors Michael Werz and Laura Conley lay out a plan for the U.S. military to be used as the delivery vehicle of aid to developing countries purportedly ravaged by so-called global warming. The paper, “Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Addressing Complex Crisis Scenarios in the 21st Century,” contains a specific initiative to redistribute America’s wealth and resources to developing countries and to “revisit traditional divisions of labor between diplomacy, defense, and economic, social, and environmental development policy abroad.” Recommendations include an increase in funding for the Global Climate Change Initiative efforts and more money for the Climate Adaptation Fund established by the parties to the Kyoto Protocol, as well as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to counter global warming, adopted by more than 190 countries. The U.S. is singled out as one “of the few global powers capable and willing to act in the common interest.” U.N. helmets on U.S. troops Meanwhile, another main goal of the 2012 Unified Security Budget is the creation of a standing international peacekeeping force, which is also a top priority of the Connect U.S. Fund, one of the report’s sponsors. The Connect U.S. Fund is a Soros-funded organization promoting global governance. Its mission, according to the group’s website, is to influence “policy through integrative collaborative grant-making on human rights, non-proliferation, climate change and development, and effective foreign assistance.” The Connect Fund provides grants to pro-U.N. groups such as Human Rights First, which states it has used top military brass to secure U.S. politicians’ commitments against torture. Another grantee, the Center for Victims of Torture, produced a 2008 draft executive order against torture endorsed by prominent national security figures Months later, a virtually identical executive order was issued by Obama. The Connect Fund is directly tied to the White House. Obama’s handpicked assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, Eric P. Schwartz, served as the Connect Fund’s executive director just prior to his White House appointment. Even before his appointment, Schwartz coordinated meetings on behalf of Obama’s White House transition team with the Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court. The group openly advocates placing more blue United Nations helmets on U.S. troops and coercing the U.S. to join the U.N.’s International Criminal Court, which could prosecute American citizens and soldiers for “war crimes” and other offenses. 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Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:27:43 +0000