Do your really imagine that all 200+ governments plus a clergyman and a computer-programmer, can really co-operate to such an extent that they could create any such thing?
That the hard-line Communist states, and the Russian Federation, are going to work on this with the "West"?
That the Islamic theocracies, who oppose other faiths and despise the USA, are going to help a Christian priest and an American businessman build such a hair-brained scheme?
Let alone that both types of dictatorship, both inimical to humanity and democracy, would want to encourage the UN, which upholds human rights?
The UN does not have the strength and certainly no desire to be a [i]de facto[/i] dictator over the whole world.
Even the EU, which is probably the worlds' largest single [i]bloc[/i] by number of member-states, only just manages itself, with a lot of disagreement and disaffection. And that's only about 26 countries of overlapping, fundamentally democratic, systems and societies.
Anyway, we Britons are already on two national lists: our National Insurance and our National Health Service, numbers. Not to mention all the numbers on the schemes we choose to have, like driving-licence, utility-accounts and bank-accounts.
So Gates thinks a television a 'basic service'? Hardly! It's a luxury not a need. I choose to have no TV, and so do many others including at least two of my own friends. (I receive my News and current-affairs, plus other knowledge and entertainments, via the radio.) Surely clean water and sewerage are far more 'basic services' than TV, which is primarily for entertainment.
Like it says itself, wherever it is from, "... internet ramblings".
@ArishMell I think the main thing that stops you being open to universal movements is that you consider each of the individuals as nothing more than that: fanciful folks, imagining great things, but imagining them alone, folks whose success may have gone a little to their heads, and given them illusions of grandeur as they lie on their beds at night and plan vast schemes they have no hope of realising...
Hence, for you, the pope is a wishful little prelate, with a tiny say over a few thousand churches and a few million people who are really not interested in him at all ... Gates is a successful businessman who would love to initiate more schemes but has to content himself with selflessly giving away his money to the poor...
This is so far from reality, that I fear your awakening will be rude when it comes.
By the way, don't shoot the messenger! Read the message!
@WalterF I did read the message. I know you did not write it, but I wonder who did and why.
It may well be anonymous, but it does clearly accuse all manner of people and organisations of hatching some plot so far-fetched by simple logic that it has no credibility.
I know perfectly well the Pope is revered by millions of Catholics, but to non-Catholics, especially followers of other faiths, he is someone to be respected but is not especially important to them.
Similarly, Bill Gates is an extremely wealthy businessman: but so what? I do not like his company's sales methods and monopoly, but for reasons unconnected with any "world government" allegation.
