Riffhard wrote on Jun 28^th, 2009 at 1:58pm:


Going from memory here, 44 Democrats voted against and 8 Republicans voted for, thus putting it over the top. Sounds almost BiPartisan to me.

Obama-backed plan volunteers Americans to pay global taxes

Wednesday, June 24, 2009
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Worldtribune.com

The United Nations is proceeding, with President Obama’s acquiescence, to implement a global plan to create a new international socialist order financed by global taxes on the American people.

The Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development that begins today will consider adoption of a document calling for “new voluntary and innovative sources of financing initiatives to provide additional stable sources of development finance...” This is U.N.-speak for global taxes. They are anything but “voluntary” for the people forced to pay them.

The most “popular” proposals, which could generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue for global purposes, involve taxes on greenhouse gas emissions and financial transactions such as stock trades.

The document was agreed to at an informal meeting of expert “facilitators” and was made available on June 22 at 3 p.m. It is doubtful that any changes will be made to it.

The conference was postponed from June 1-3 to June 24-26 at the U.N. in New York. While the “outcome document” has been watered down somewhat from the previous version, it still reaffirms attainment of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, which would require the payment of $845 billion from U.S. taxpayers. A commitment to the MDGs was a stated objective of the Global Poverty Act, which Barack Obama had introduced as a U.S. senator. It requires the U.S. to devote 0.7 percent of Gross National Income to foreign aid.

Now, as President, Obama can bypass the Congress and simply direct his Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice to approve the U.N. conference document. Then the pressure will be increased on Congress to come up with the money and satisfy our “international commitments.”

This is the pattern that he followed in regard to more money for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). After agreeing at the G-20 summit to provide more money for the IMF, the Obama White House slipped the cash and credit into the recently passed emergency war funding bill. The Obama White House had added billions in cash, as well as a $100 billion line of credit, for the IMF.

Rep. Mike Pence commented, “This legislation, which includes $108 billion in loan authorizations for a global bailout, for the International Monetary Fund — at a time when this government has run up a $2 trillion annual deficit — I believe does a disservice to taxpayers and to those that defend us. Passing a $108 billion global bailout on the backs of our soldiers is just not right.”

The U.N. conference document explains where all of this is leading — the destruction of the American dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the build-up of global institutions such as the IMF and the U.N.

It declares that “We acknowledge the calls by many states for further study of the feasibility and advisability of a more efficient reserve system, including the possible function of SDRs in any such system and the complementary roles that could be played by various regional arrangements.” SDRs are Special Drawing Rights, a form of international currency that enables global institutions like the International Monetary Fund to provide more foreign aid to the rest of the world. The U.S. pays for SDRs through its financial contributions to the IMF.

If implemented, the document would officially mark the end of the United States as the world’s leading economic power.

Urging socialism as the solution to the crisis, the document states that “Insufficient emphasis on equitable human development has contributed to significant inequalities among countries and peoples. Other weaknesses of a systemic nature also contributed to the unfolding crisis, which has demonstrated the need for more effective government involvement to ensure an appropriate balance between the market and public interest.”

The nerve center of this emerging new international socialist system will be the United Nations, a body that has developed a reputation for corruption and incompetence and whose “peacekeepers” have been implicated in sexual abuse and other human rights violations.

“The United Nations, on the basis of its universal membership and legitimacy, is well positioned to participate in various reform processes aimed at improving and strengthening the effective functioning of the international financial system and architecture,” the document says.

“This United Nations Conference is part of our collective effort towards recovery,” it adds.

The Obama Administration’s unofficial point man in U.N. deliberations has been economist Joseph Stiglitz, who has been coordinating a “Commission of Experts” that has reported to U.N. General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto, the notorious Communist Catholic Priest who received the Lenin Peace Prize from the old Soviet Union.

Stiglitz produced his own document which called for “the issuance of additional SDRs,” “additional sources of funding” for global institutions, a new global reserve currency, and a new global credit facility. Key recommendations have been incorporated into the official U.N. conference document but Stiglitz and his “experts” provide far more details about them.

In terms of new funding sources, the document calls for “innovative sources of financing such as emission rights trading and financial transactions taxes…” The concept of “emissions trading” enables corporations to avoid limits on greenhouse gas emissions if they pay taxes to government. It is part of the “cap and trade” legislation now being pushed on Capitol Hill.

Chapter Five of this document, “International Financial Innovations,” goes into detail, declaring that “For some time, the difficulty in meeting the UN official assistance target of 0.7 percent of Gross National Income of developed industrial countries as official development assistance, as well as the need for adequate funding for the provision of global and regional public goods (peace building, fighting global health pandemics, combating climate change and sustaining the global environment more generally) has generated proposals on how to guarantee a more reliable and stable source of financing for these objectives.”

The document notes that an international airline ticket tax is now in effect, as a result of the actions of the “Leading Group on Solidarity Levies” that now involves close to 60 countries and major international organizations. This money is going to fight global diseases.

The term “Solidarity Levies” is U.N.-speak for global taxes.

The Stiglitz document explains, “Some of the initiatives that have been proposed encompass ‘solidarity levies’ or, more generally, taxation for global objectives. Some countries have already decreed solidarity levies on airline tickets but there is a larger set of proposals. There have also been suggestions to auction global natural resources — such as ocean fishing rights and pollution emission permits — for global environmental programs.”

It goes on to say, “The suggestion of taxes that could be earmarked for global objectives has a long history. To avert their being perceived as encroachments on participating countries’ fiscal sovereignty, it has been agreed that these taxes should be nationally imposed, but internationally coordinated.”

So the nations of the world, including the U.S., will collect the taxes but then turn them over to institutions such as the U.N. The world body will function, in effect, like a global IRS.

Is it too much to ask that our media take some time off from talking about the girl with star tattoos on her face, “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” and Perez Hilton, to examine what is going on at the United Nations?   

Ten Thousand Motels wrote on Jun 28^th, 2009 at 2:55pm:



Ahem...., can you say wealth redistribution? It's like not Barry didn't say right up front that he wanted to implement a Global Poverty Act. What do you think he meant by that?

Thanks for the article TTM. Scary stuff going on here and the media has it's throat so full of Barry's cock that they can't bother to report on it.


Riffy

fuman wrote on Jun 28^th, 2009 at 3:03pm:


I'm telling you right here and now that if this bill passes the Senate that those 8 Republican House members are going to rue the day that they voted yes for this crap bill. This is going to cost all of us thousands of dollars anually, and anyone seen supporting a larger federal governement at the expense of the taxpayer is going to get hammered in 2010. As far as I'm concerned I'm glad those 8 morons voted in favor of the government over the people. Now we know who they are and they will loose in any primaries.


Riffy

Pdog wrote on Jun 28^th, 2009 at 5:55pm:




I must confess that I got the name wrong. I was posting from memory and I screwed up. It's was not any congressional body. It was the Black Chamber Of Commerce Association of America. A body, by the way, that supported Barack Obama throughout the primary right through to his election. They are about to pay huge debt for that support. As are coal miners, truckers, farmers, blue collar plant workers, union members of all stripes (except federal unions mind you), and the rest of us. We will all pay, and pay dearly, if this insane bill gets approved in the Senate. The details are way way way out of the mainstream, and nothing more(or less) than a huge federal power grab and they are about as un-American as you can get. This bill mandate a federal water tester for every city, town, and magistrate in the country! Trampling state's rights! Not only a water tester, but a federal zoning inspector! The insanity of this bill is staggering.


They are doing exactly what Thomas Jefferson warned us about. They gathering all power to the federal government. Does that not strike you as wholly un-American? Because it is!

I think that it is high time for people to really remember, and understand this quote.




For those of you can not understand,or refuse to see what is happening before your very eyes you will get exactly what you deserve, but for those of you that supported Obama and are starting to get a sense of dread, for you there is hope. Real hope. Not this wealth redistribution and destruction of our way of life crap that we've been fed thus far.


Read the bill. Understand the bill.



Riffy

WASHINGTON – The Obama White House left open the possibility Sunday that the president would break a campaign promise and raise taxes on people earning less than $250,000 to support his health care overhaul agenda.

White House adviser David Axelrod said the administration wouldn't rule out taxing some employees' benefits to fund a health care agenda that has yet to take final form. The move would be a compromise with fellow Democrats, who are pushing the proposal as a way to pay for the massive undertaking without ballooning the federal deficit.

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Read his lips, no middle class taxes.
Another promise bites the dust!

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with Bush.

This is Obama's health care plan, not Bush's.
Bush did not believe in a federal, socialist, nationalized medical system.
This is 100% Obama's baby, and he can't afford his absurd plan, and so now he is flip-flopping once again and funding it by taxing the middle class.  Precisely what he said he would not do.

Ha fucking Ha!

What's that, oh sure, here you go.
That "toothy" UN Resolution just keeps on keepin' on....

WASHINGTON – The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the U.S. is keeping close tabs on a suspected North Korea arms ship.

An American destroyer has been tracking the North Korean freighter sailing off China's coast, possibly on its way to Myanmar.

Ambassador Susan Rice says the U.S. is pursuing and following the ship's progress closely. But she is not saying what the U.S. actually might do on the high seas — such as whether to contact and request inspection

Riffhard wrote on Jun 29^th, 2009 at 9:07am:



it's like tipping a rapist... haha... that was great!

Riffhard wrote on Jun 29^th, 2009 at 9:30am:



Hillary pointing and talking with tihs voice... current TV has some funny stuff... Al Gore helped start that network.

"Remember those scenes in Star Trek. Scotty to Captain Kirk. Life support is failing. Kirk to Scotty. Shut down all nonessential systems and direct all available resources to life support. There it is — the order for our time. No resources for war or extravagance. Focus all attention on the health of the crew and the life support system."

I went to a political forum, and some asshole started a Stones thread!!!!