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Obama Pushes Bill That Would Mandate Global Tax
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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
February 14th, 2008
Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama is pushing a bill that will lead to the implementation of a UN global tax, costing the U.S. at least $845 billion dollars over thirteen years in the name of fighting worldwide poverty, as well as banning "small arms and light weapons".
The "Global Poverty Act," which is sponsored by Obama, is up for a Senate vote today, and if passed would mandate the U.S. to spend 0.7 percent of the gross national product on foreign aid, on top of the money being sent out of the country already.
The bill passed the House by a voice vote last year because most members failed to read what was actually in it. The words "global" and "poverty" in the title were presumably enough to convince them that it must be good.
In reality, the bill also "Commits nations to banning "small arms and light weapons" and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child," writes Cliff Kincaid.
"Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the U.N.’s "Millennium Project," says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.’s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the "Millennium Development Goals," this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels."
A UN controlled global tax has long been a cherished goal of the elite and they have attempted to piggy-back it on numerous different pretexts, most recently via a global carbon tax on fuel, a move that was advanced at the recent summit in Bali.
During the summit, over one hundred prominent scientists signed a letter dismissing the move as a futile bureaucratic scheme which will diminish prosperity and increase human suffering.
In 2005, former French President Jacques Chirac called for the imposition of a global tax to finance the fight against AIDS.
Perfectly happy with giving Bush carte blanche to continue illegal spying on American citizens with the passage of this week’s telecom immunity bill, the Senate seems destined to rubber stamp legislation that would lead to a global carbon tax.
President Bush has overseen the biggest increase in foreign aid since the Marshall Plan and is highly unlikely to veto the bill if it is passed.
Contact the Senate and voice your opposition to this bill. Call the switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and asked to be connected to the office of your Senator.
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February 14th, 2008 at 8:16 am
God bless Paul Joseph Watson.
There’s a man who truly loves America. Where is it he lives? Iowa? Minnesota? I forget.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Banning hand guns and light firearms huh? The problem with that is, they will start with the good people who are honest law abiding citizens who have lawfully registered their firearms, but wont be able to take them from the criminals. The honest people will be sitting ducks. But Obama will have his bodyguards carrying firearms. lucky him.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:26 am
lol isn’t he from England?
and isn’t it kinda fishy how he posts a story or two every day? Who is telling him this stuff?
operation mockingbird?
February 14th, 2008 at 8:27 am
As a choice for candidate, Obama reminds me of being hungry and having to choose between
the 3week expired spoiled milk or the slimy spinach. He gives himself away by being associated
with the CFR. Just another sell out like the rest. Well there is Ron Paul but in this mutilated MSM
media he is just a grey slice of pie!
February 14th, 2008 at 8:32 am
so many african americans think because he’s black lets give him a try, but they dont understand how the system works, he’s with the illuminati they are using him to create a disguise that the country is becoming less racist, we finally have a black president, but in reality they are using his race, to do their bidding. And whats that? to continue to expand the New-World-Order.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I love the comments you luantics make.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:44 am
ya got to ban small guns and so on, so when the U.S government impluments martial law there wont be much resistance to this nazi gov, Ron Paul was the only one that wouldve saved the U.S from the neo-nazicons plans mccain wants the troops to stay in iraq for 100 years lets see we already slaughterd 1,000,000 plus people over there for what opps i forgot oil profit and control thats why we are there and im sure after 100 years there wouldnt be many iraqs left to fight for there country,and then there is obama hell he wont even salute the american flag and is in the pockets of the bilderbergs, and bushs little stimulus check plan with the oil companys well get ready because the gas prices are going to hit high numbers at the pump and will suck all those stimulus checks right out of your bank account im sure the dictator sitting in the oval office will make out good with huge profits corupt bastard.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:47 am
So tell me Joe Schmo, you freakin whackjob, when is the Martial Law coming you speak of?
Dont be shy. Lets hear it looney tunes.
1,000,000. Wow!!! You’re full of truth, arent you?
February 14th, 2008 at 8:53 am
I Feel Barak Huessin Obahma is the key person that will unite the NWO in the Middle East. That’s the last piece to this puzzle. The Mid-East will see him as a so- called brother because of his name.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Sure thing John.
BOOOOO!!!!
February 14th, 2008 at 9:00 am
JED = SPOOK
THANKAMARTIAN = SPOOK
HICKFROM WV = SPOOK
Anyone want to add to the list. These troglodytes are amusing. But, you shouldn’t waste your time with them. All the information is out there. The testimony is out there. Free your mind. Ignore these programmers.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:02 am
I don’t see any mention of a carbon tax in the bill, or any amount of foreign aid. See http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/.....110Lzw7gs:: for the text of the bill. All the bill does is require the president with a plan to deal with global poverty, which it explains is in US interests.
What is wrong with this bill? This article seems to come up with problems in the bill that don’t exist.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Is anyone surprised? Time and time again they have shown that if you oppose it, they will find another way to pass it anyway. We have lost control and must TAKE it back.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Hmmm, interesting John, must check it out.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:13 am
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February 14th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Tyrannical bastardian.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:23 am
obama is a CFR member and an illuminati protitute
February 14th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I would hate to see what happens if they really pass this bill and come to my home town and thousands of others just like it across america. They would certainly get them bullets first anyway. McCain will unfortunatley get into office. He’ll be the next president because the Demoncrats aren’t giving the people any other choice. My .02
February 14th, 2008 at 9:46 am
John is right; there is no specific mention of global taxes, or weapons bans for that matter, in the text of the bill (Global Poverty Act of 2007 (Introduced in Senate, S 2433 IS)). There is mention “sustainable development,” but the bill doesn’t seem to carry any weight beyond a resolution. All it does is “require” the President to come up with a “comprehensive strategy” for combating global poverty. Unless this stuff is part of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly Resolution 55/2 (2000) referenced in the bill, the claims made by this article really aren’t founded.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:56 am
If the bill you are refering to is S2433 it is the same as HR1302 (which passed). There have been 2 other bills since 2005 of the same name that died. There is nothing in the act that says anything about a “global tax” or “guns”. Basically all it says it that the president should come up with a plan to do something about poverty and report back to congress when he’s got a plan.
Do you even read the legislation??? The Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 is a bit troublesome because it created a state corporation with broad spending ablilities but even it mentions no taxes or guns. So…the question is, What the hell is Watson talking about????
February 14th, 2008 at 10:00 am
That’s right, 4peace&love! We need to ignore the haters and CENTCOM trolls.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Alex- would you sacrifice your family for this cause…meaning if they said to you we have a bio weapon in your family and we need you to lie to people to get the cure..would you Alex come on the air and lie to us to save your family?
February 14th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I don’t have to read bills, or see this or that, to know there is great curruption brewing in America, it’s all around me every day. There’s too many rules and regulations, so many most people can’t even read them all, that’s not freedom. If the country is going to prosper, we need less taxes, less legislation, more actual FREE market, education has to be made cheap and available, period. There’s too many rules and laws, and regulations and they don’t even enforce them on foreigners, jus us, they give foreigners free money and tax brakes to open businesses, but Americans get nothing. We get to give our legacy away to illegals, period….
February 14th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I am skeptical of the affiliation of that Jed one. Then again there is also a few other people on here who I am also skeptical of. Not being paranoid, just cautious, some people seem to have some sorto f agenda. They’re always debating, but in a Bill O’Reilly kind of way. Instead of debating with facts and points, they resort to calling people lunatics.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:10 am
we can argue over this or that, and tiny little details, but the facts are that we are over legislated, over taxed, over burdoned…whether it’s on purpose, or the politicians are just out of touch, makes no difference, either way the result is the same, we lose our freedom and our country, so if our leaders are just out of touch we should react as if they are doing it on purpose because the declaration of independence states that if they are insensitive to our needs, then it is our duty to find another way get around them and meet our needs… period.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:16 am
http://reactor-core.org/none-dare.html here we go folks read it! “None Dare Call it Conspiracy”
February 14th, 2008 at 10:23 am
you will never get my guns
February 14th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Yea, anyone here actually read the bill, or do you just blindly accept whatever Alex or the Watsons say as truth? Read the bill and show where it says any of the things declared in this article. http://www.govtrack.us/congres.....=s110-2433
Not saying the bill is good or bad, just that it doesn’t match up with this article.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:55 am
U.S.A today in 2007 ( no date given ) had an article on the candidates, and the second amendment. This is what John McCain had to say.
“I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved — which means no gun control,” McCain said.
McCain has a lot to say on taxes. There’s nothing about global taxes. Ban Internet Taxes.
Ban New Cell Phone Taxes. Retirement Tax Cut. Make It Harder To Raise Taxes. Keep Tax Rates Low. Cut Taxes For Middle Class Families. All of this is from his web-site.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Heres the info I send out to Obama supporters. It works sometimes, ive turned a few around. Ill need to add Pauls great info from his article to it.
Zbigniew Brzezinski has endorsed your Obama candidate – Obama is no longer against the machine when the David Rockefeller protege, founder of the trilateral commission, and creator of Al Qeada via Operation Cyclone is behind him. Hes not just endorsed him, hes working for the campaign and opening speeches for him. Its not hard to figure out he will be the new foreign policy adviser as Obama has adopted Brzezinskis foreign policy.
Obama has also said “Theres not much difference between my position on Iraq and George Bush’s position at this stage. The difference in my mind is whos in a position to execute.” Thats one of the reasons they call him “Obomber”. The other is that he said he wants to bomb targets in a nuclear bomb equipped country without that countries permission! Its time you all dropped this guy, youre being deceived – hes not anti war, hes all for the endless war on terror that “will not end in our lifetimes” as his blood relative Dick Cheney said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21340764/
Read Shadows of Power by James Perloff for more info on Brezinski and the Council On Foreign Relations – http://tinyurl.com/3xac82 The anglo american establishment is backing Obama 100% with this endorsement – its probably worse than the military industrial complex endorsing Hitlery.
Obamas wife Michelle is a director of the Chicago council on foreign relations too – A globalist establishment group formed by bankers and is dedicated to ending American Sovereignty – read that book I linked for more info on them. Obama is literally in bed with the anglo american establishment.
Obamas take on attacking Iran is that the use of military force should not be taken off the table when dealing with Iran, which he called “a threat to all of us.” Cheney would be proud.
You are not winning anything but your own destruction with Obama. He’s more of the same – just another skin color.
Who would vote for Obama anyway? I could only see people voting for him if they love the way this endless war is going, want to end the country by joining the NAU, and are sick of the Constitution and bill of rights. He gives good sounding speeches, but theyre broad with no specifics and with “hope” as the main message. With the lack of details on his policies, hes obviously deceiving you all.
In his own words:
“When I am president, we will wage a war that has to be won,” -Barack Obama
“There must be no safe-haven for terrorists who threaten America. My Strategy will be to build our capacity and our partnerships to track down, capture or kill terrorists around the world” -Barack Obama, August 1st 2007
“What I am opposed to is a dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.” – Barack Obama In his Chicago speech, making it clear that he’s no naive pacifist.
See video if him warmongering and talking about how great war is while his anti war base eats it up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIum0o-_LZk
“There’s not that much difference between my position and George Bush’s position at this stage. The difference, in my mind, is who’s in a position to execute.” -Obama in 2004 on the subject of Iraq
February 14th, 2008 at 11:12 am
IF this is accurate, then all I have to say is this:
They have finally taxed the air we breathe.
Human beings exhale more carbon dioxide than we take. Granted, it’s not much, but I wouldn’t be shocked if someone mentioned that. Imagine having to pay for each breath!
I know they would never do this, but can you imagine people holding their breath to save a few bucks?
Suck in all the free air you can get!
February 14th, 2008 at 11:15 am
The bill makes reference to and support of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly Resolution 55/2 (2000). This is where the info in the article comes into play and is spot on. Any support of the UN or for UN sponsored programs is not a good thing, in my opinion.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:17 am
We need to cut 500 old taxes from all aspects of our life those who can control your tax from income we need to stop so there nazi programs will stop.Globalist don’t need to steal more money they never worked for anything pure scum from the Devil they worship.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Give the bill number. ALWAYS give the bill number.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Looked into it hastily and also found it hard to find the parts in the bill but the analysts and reporters of it have written about it. Like this one:
http://tenncva.com/2008/02/14/.....ill-s2433/
more about it here
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2433/show
i do believe the 0.7 percent US GNP mentioned is in the bill as the millenium project, which is mentioned several times. Full bill text here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.2433:
February 14th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Hope you people are calling your senators. This is a bull shit bill.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:50 am
@ZOG – Alright, let’s see.
So Zog, do you think the Jewish people are the chosen people?
February 14th, 2008 at 11:53 am
The United Nations Millennium Declaration does not commit nations to banning small arms and light weapons. It references the commitment in http://disarmament.un.org/cab/.....192_15.pdf to stop illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. Stopping illicit trade does not mean banning guns. Cliff Kincaid words his article as strongly as possible so that the UN will “force” the US to meet the 0.7 percent commitment, but in reality the UN has no such power.
I just don’t understand why supposed writers for truth resort to underhanded tactics and stretching the truth. This sort of thing is why Alex Jones et al have a credibility problem. We need greater logic, better research, and iron-clad arguments to fight these battles.
The underlying message of this article seems to be that Obama generally supports the role of the UN, and the goals of the UN are ultimately at odds with American sovereignty. This is true, IMO. However, it is very misleading to write that “Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama is pushing a bill that will lead to the implementation of a UN global tax, costing the U.S. at least $845 billion dollars over thirteen years in the name of fighting worldwide poverty, as well as banning “small arms and light weapons”.”
February 14th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Jews Jews Jews
February 14th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
This makes me sick. We have people walking around feeling great about themselves because they are predicting that Obama will win over Hillary.
It is beyond obvious what is happening. Email this article to all of your friends and family!
February 14th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I read the bill also, and i can’t find anything about banning small arms…how can we get a hold of this Watson and make him explain himself.? Another thing…who cares about jews?….i am so sick and tired reading of comments from wacko’s about ‘jews’…give it a frikin break already!
February 14th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
“Jews, Jews, Jews.” lol
February 14th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Obama, Cheney’s cousin is already showing his true colors which is that of a globalist lap dog.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Besides, what makes anybody think that the U.S. will follow this?….the U.N. has banned the use of Depleted Uranium and we are still using that. Plenty of young men and woman are being poisoned with that crap…
February 14th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
The bill is S.2433 and H.R. 1302 The bill is a bad one but I could not find a mention of guns any were maybe I over looked it. Perhaps some one else can find it and post it.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I’m so sick of these people. I want to move out of the united fucked up states.
rj
February 14th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
RJ, If you hate it so bad, leave.
We hare our issues we need to fix, but I love this country and what it stands for.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I don’t buy it. As Obama has shown in Africa, he trying to help the poor. If he’s such a puppet, then why did he vote AGAINST the wire-tapping bill yesterday. McCain voted for it, Hillary no-showed. This website has NOT reported this because it doesn’t support their claim.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
zach,
obama is certainly a puppet.
his vote against FISA is one of his only anti-globalist cabal votes,
and it is consistent with his controller’s designes to market him to the ‘comedy central’ youth demographic: the ones who have really been paying attention to FISA.
he voted for the patriot act, for funding the war, against timetables…etc etc
plus he clearly refuses to recognize who our real enemies are (CIA, neo-cons, fed reserve) and instead pretends that islamo fascism is coming to destroy america.
look at his evil senior advisers, donors, and managers: brzezinski, lake, soros, mcpeak, axelrod.
the slick packaging is a clear psyop: “hope [the sheeple] can [temporarily] believe in”
he will be clinton’s VP, as he was created to be.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
maybe he voted against the wiretapping so that people would say oohhh look hes not that bad. After all he is trying to win over your votes. But still has any one but me looked up this bill?
February 14th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Obama comes off to me like he doesn’t realize what his Council on Foriegn Relations buddies are up to, or doesn’t realize how bad it will be if their plans are executed. I mean, really, his proposals would total up to 300 billion in extra spending for america, which as far as I’m concerned qualifies him as stupid enough to think that he’s doing the right thing.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Just read over bill and cannot find one word about a gun, pistol or even a single bullet. Can someone find the bill that Alex read because I just cannot find those words or anything relating to them in that bill. Thanks
February 14th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
get the fact straight, he voted to reauthorize and improve the patriot act but no on extending the patriot act’s wiretap provision. he is anti Iraq war, always has been.
This site is becoming dangerously close to the viewpoints of most conservatives who think all “socialist” programs are evil.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Get the facts straight? I did not state that everything else that was told in this article was false, I just want to see the part of the bill that speaks about gun control. It isn’t there.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Sorry Zach was reading with a blind eye again.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
If all of this is true, then we are headed yet even closer to this New World Order. I for one am a Citizen of the United States. I do not answer to the United Nations, nor will I pay any taxes – not one damn red cent – to them. Who the hell do they think they are telling me I need to pay them anthing. They kiss my -ss. And, there is hell no way I’m going to not own a damn gun because the UN tells my I can’t. I’m my own boss. I’m an American and I am free and will stay that way. This U.S. government works for US! Why the hell would they listen to anything the friggin UN says. To hell with them!
February 14th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
hay everyone who wants socialist health care, a nanny/police apathy state and gun control..LEAVE AMERICA..GO BACK TO CHINA, RUSSIA 1800s or wherever else lame people lived. ps your candidates are just like you..lame. ps the world you want to transform, well you believe lies, the liars love sucking things to get ahead, hmm, just like you
February 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
sorry that comment was intended for craig, not you. I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t say anything about gun control. you know republicans don’t care about anything unless they think someone going to take their gun away.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I agree with Philip (but without all the cursing). It is the American people who are in control of this government and it is us who are responsible for the actions of those that we elect to represent us. I am calling for everyone to let our respected representatives know just how we feel. I propose that is is done in a decent and in order way according to the word of God by as many good upstanding men and women of this country as we can muster. Philip keep us that great American founding father spirit.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Ah come on You guys, dont be so hard on cheney’s little, missing link…
He is only tryein to murder and inslave Our Children and do his part to make the Earth uninhabitable….
spider monkys need love too.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I’m not saying that the gun control legislation is not there, I just could not find it. It may be in some kind of coding that I just didn’t catch.lol It is hard to read over every single page and to investigate every word in one of those bills, some of them are thousands of pages. Please except my apologies if some kind of gun control is hidden in there. I believe that it is the right of every American citizen to own a gun of some sort. Got a few myself a proud of it…good conversation guys.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I cant find the gun control part eather.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
The gun control parts come from Obama’s bill generally supporting the The United Nations Millennium Declaration, which references the commitment in http://disarmament.un.org/cab/.....192_15.pdf to stop illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. It’s pretty indirect, but still there. The problem is that the UN document dealing with “small arms and light weapons” is talking about illicit trade, not simple ownership. That’s where the truth gets seriously distorted.
I went to the Kincaid article, and copied the “small arms and light weapons” part, then went to the relevant UN documents and searched for that phrase , following the trail until I arrived at the wording in question. Rather than read the entire UN document, which is quite long, I went to the relevant parts and read the surrounding and related text.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
that’s a huge distortion. I will say this though, while helping the poor is good thing, his plan is unrealistic.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
What’s another name for a communist, Zach? A socialist in a hurry.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
zach, i’m sorry you’re such a butt lover. obama is pro war as are all of the traitors filling senate seats today. see john warner defense authorization act. or just bend over and grunt.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
HOLY CRAP! It was passed!
AIM Says Media Cover-Up Obama’s Socialist-Oriented Global Tax Bill
http://www.earthtimes.org/arti.....9304.shtml
February 14th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Yes the articles of illicit trade are in the archives of the UN and are clearly outlined and defined but they are not in the documents that Obama has introduced. This is another one of those articles with a very misleading title from this site.lol. Anyway Obama is clearly socialist as are the majority of the higher ups in government on both sides of the isle. His policies clearly express that thought. Zach you are above the name calling, your article stands on it’s own without it. Keep up the fighting spirit.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
The bill is S2433 it is the same as HR1302 (and YES it did pass). BUT there have been 2 other bills since 2005 of the same name that died. AND there is nothing in the act that says anything about a “global tax” or “guns”. Basically all it says it that the president should come up with a plan to do something about poverty and report back to congress when he’s got a plan.
Do you even read the legislation??? The Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 is a bit troublesome because it created a state corporation with broad spending ablilities but even it mentions no taxes or guns. I don’t know where Watson got his info. He should be specific. What he’s talking about simply does not exist in this bill!!
February 14th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I never said I supported the bill, I’m just saying it’s not the globalist package this site makes it out to be.
What I don’t understand most Republicans in the senate and Bush would NEVER vote for a package like the one Obama is proposing, so who’s the real evil here?
As for all you communist fear mongers (Joseph McCarthy anyone?), our country has many social programs we pay for with taxes that have proved very beneficial. Free market stays focused on profit and we the people sometimes get left behind. This is why we have programs for healthcare, homeless, etc.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I didn’t see anything either. I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t try to slip it in at the last minute, though.
http://www.govtrack.us/congres.....=h109-3605
The other point is that most Americans ARE compassionate and are willing to give and help those in need, or they would be IF they could afford to.
We are not a socialist country.
It is neither the purpose nor the right of our government to force us to exercise charity.
The government needs to stop taxing us beyond measure and creating the problems that we have to remedy by our sacrifice and donations.
We would willingly give to those in need, from our abundance, if we had any.
The government is robbing us, not just of our money, but of our ability to practice charity, which is also robbing our souls. “Sorry, I can’t give, the government already did it for me (after robbing me)”
Giving is to come from the heart. “God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7), so it doesn’t really matter if you think you gave already via the government’s extortion or robbery.
The government is robbing you of your ability to be a cheerful giver. The government is robbing you of joy. The government is robbing you of your heavenly rewards.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
@ 51/Willis:
The Bill cites the “United Nations Millennium Declaration”, which speaks of supporting “regional disarmament measures” on page 3.
http://www.un.org/millennium/d.....es552e.pdf
So yes, the Bill does incorporate by extension the goal of arbitrary gun control by the UN.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Obama is the Anti-Christ.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I can’t find anything about disarmament in the bill text:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.2433:
Perhaps I am missing something?
February 14th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
CFR’s golden boy! He’s gonna be the one to finalize things. This bill is just another step towards a one world Gov to put it in simple terms. The UN is counting on him to get them that much closer towards exterminating national sovereignties across the globe. Do not give up your rights to bare arms folks. If we do then they have won, period.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
my name says it all. let someone with a blue helmet come and try to get my weapons.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
It won’t physically be a blue helmet. It will be our guys doing for them.
Law enforcement is already getting extreme make overs.
Right mindset though
February 14th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
We all know they shift numbers on these bills and slide the hidden agendas in. Wake up.
To Z.O.G. – God’s chosen people are those that believe in Him. To say that Jews are the chosen people means the rest of us are just S.O.L.? Silliness…
To Anita Morehead – Spider monkey! Love it……lol
February 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Join or start your local minutemen org and get ready. Im willing to bet an offensive launched against the HARRP facility in Alaska would put a stop to the storms that keep reaking havoc in this country.
wanna bet ?
February 14th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Picture this for an election. Clinton vs McCain. or even Obama vs. McCain. Basically everyone is realizing the US is about to get a lot worse. Does it ever just sadden you guys that the average American buys into the terrorism craze? Is everyone that ignorant? Just so you know your neighbors up north realize whats going on, and are very uncomfortable with it.
February 14th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
The Constitution of The United States and The Bill of Rights are the supreme laws of the land in America.Any law contradicting it is illegal.Any American leader writing laws against it is a traitor.Any acts contrary to it by police is treason.
Traitors and Treasonous acts are subject to one penalty-Death at the hands of The People.
Come And Take Them.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
What do you expect from Obama who is under direct supervision of Ze Big New Zbrinsky (He comes from a long line of circus performers
)
People need to wake up and realize umbrella institutions such as IMF, UN, WHO WTO only serve to give the globalists teeth and trump decisions made by local democracies. A global UN tax paid by us the people, will go toward investments designed to enrich the globalists and enslave us. I understand the global elites behind the UN in the future want the UN to be able to fund its own military expenditures. This would allow them to direct military expeditions to enforce its resolutions and punish countries that do not want to be dictated by this new global dictatorship.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I get your point Superman. Zbrinsky is a mastermind. That is why this is getting frightening.
All we ever hear of are all these bad guys…..are there none in the higher intellectual arena who stand against these agendas???? Anyone….name a few? The only one that comes to my mind is Margie Thatcher (Brit PM), who was overthrown for not laying out the red carpet for unionization of England to the Euro community and RP of course.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
you are defeated.shut up and obey.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
what is the number of the bill ?
February 14th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
A global tax of any kind is an abomination to the US Constitution.
When do we begin to pledge the UN flag, rather than the red, white & blue?
It should be obvious that our leaders have chosen to serve a foreign agenda, as they take the oath to office by tongue and cheek only.
I still can’t accept what’s happening and it reminds me of some sort of a sci-fi nightmare where authority has gone insane at all levels.
Very sincerely
February 14th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
me,
This is the bill…
S. 2433: Global Poverty Act of 2007
A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
http://www.govtrack.us/congres.....=s110-2433
February 14th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
This shows the bill as being introduced…
http://www.govtrack.us/congres.....=s110-2433
It’s not been updated.
The bill was passed. Here is the news on it…
AIM Says Media Cover-Up Obama’s Socialist-Oriented Global Tax Bill
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid disclosed today that a hugely expensive bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic Senator Barack Obama, was quickly passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. Kincaid said that the major media’s cover-up of the bill, which makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations, demonstrates the media’s desire to see Senator Obama elected to the presidency.
In a column posted on the AIM web site, Kincaid noted that Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was trying to rush Obama’s “Global Poverty Act” (S. 2433) through his committee without hearings. The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends. It was scheduled for a Thursday vote but was moved up a day, to Wednesday, and rushed through by voice vote. Kincaid learned, however, that conservative Senators have now put a “hold” on the legislation, in order to prevent it from being rushed to the floor for a full Senate vote.
The House version (H.R. 1302) was suddenly brought up on the House floor last September 25 and was passed by voice vote. House Republicans were caught off-guard, unaware that the pro-U.N. measure committed the U.S. to spending hundreds of billions of dollars. Kincaid’s column notes that the official in charge of making nations comply with the U.N. Millennium Goals, which are prominently highlighted in the Obama bill, says a global tax will be necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the money.
Accuracy in Media is a citizens’ media watchdog organization whose mission is to promote fairness, balance, and accuracy in news reporting. Founded in 1969, AIM is the oldest non-profit press watchdog group in America. For more information, please visit http://www.aim.org/.
http://www.earthtimes.org/arti.....9304.shtml
February 14th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
um how will it cost $845 billion. i think this article is B.S
February 14th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Dear god. Forced global marxist wealth redistribution AND a gun ban in the same bill? People need to get informed about this guy and his rockefeller connections. This guy is seriously dangerous. People actually think hes anti war and pro freedom.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
From what i can tell this is bill S.2433.
This document from the UN website is worth looking at because the text of the bill which reads, “(10) At the United Nations World Summit in September 2005, the United States joined more than 180 other governments in reiterating their commitment to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015.”
It ties the bill to the goals stated here:
http://www.un.org/millennium/d.....es552e.pdf
This includes the small arms verbiage not directly found in the bill.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Just what we need. More taxes. Doesn’t the world know that we are tapped out? I guess not with our wild spending on a failed war policy which we put more money into each day. I don’t know how to apoligize to my grandchildren and their children about the debt and worse that they will face. I guess I can just say, I had no knowledge until too late, and then hadn’t the power to stop it. I think many generations of Amercans past and present can say the same thing and actually be honest about it all. Oh, by the way, under Clinton, our troops in the Balkans wore the blue helmets of the UN. Illegal as hell according to the laws of our country and the regulations of our military because it meant our troops were under the command of a foreign leader. I would be in Levenworth if I had been still in the military then, for refusing an illegal order.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
The gloves are off!
February 15th, 2008 at 12:31 am
you know, having such a lead now in the primaries to bring this up is one of two things
one, he believes it and doesn’t realize how polarizing the word TAX has on the US public
two, he won’t allow Clinton to lose and this is how he’ll throw in the towel, ‘let’s raise taxes!’
well, it was fun seeing him edge out clinton, i guess the pressure is on to slow down his popularity
incredible
February 15th, 2008 at 1:46 am
My Russian Armenian neighbors think living in America is way better than in their country..”no law over there” they say. lol Guess it’s all perspective. When I brought up world government they said “fuckin jews”..hmm.
February 15th, 2008 at 2:38 am
IF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WERE TO WALK INTO AN AVERAGE CONVENIENCE STORE IN AN AVERAGE AMERICAN TOWN TO WITNESS AMERICANS BUYING WATER WITH A PLASTIC CARD THAT IS BACKED BY FAKE MONEY. THEY WOULD WANT TO KILL 80 PERCENT OF US TOO. STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES . BUY LOCAL, TRADE LOCAL. CUT OUT THE FED
February 15th, 2008 at 4:29 am
I wonder how long it will take for the msm to mention this, discuss it in a proper forum, and lay out the entire aspects of this bill to inform the American public. How about never.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:38 am
I urge everyone to take time to listen one of Jehovah’s Witnesses the next time they knock on your door. We have been pointing out the reality of the UN and it’s part in the “last days” for decades. “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” Man-made governments are not approved by God. None of them! They all serve to “dominate man to his own injury”.
It’s time to see that man was never meant to govern himself.
Again please seek out a witness and just investigate. These truly are the last days!!!!!!!
February 15th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Obama is a blend between Nicokai (the “anti-christ”) and Franklin Roosevelt. He is the Anti Martin Luther King. It’s amazing to see the Dead flocking to him, they aren’t even sheep. They are The Dead.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:55 am
We don’t have much time so I’ll just say, Disseminate & Unite.
February 15th, 2008 at 6:36 am
I just would like to know where Obama thinks this money coming from? This country is going bankrupt. Can we really afford more government spending? I’m not saying that world hunger isn’t something we should be concerned about. What I am saying that we need to solve our problems at home first, before trying to take care of the entire world.
Our first obligation should be to the people of the United States. How can we fund taking care of the rest of the world, when we can’t even take of our own citizens? It is unforgivable that we have homeless and starving people right here in our own country.
If we end the war, we would have plenty of money to take care of the US citizens who really need our help. The money kept here in the US would also help us from sinking into a depression. Our economy is being destroyed by huge overseas spending.
We don’t need this legislation. There are plenty of charities to donate to for people in the developing world. Just Google it. Anyone concerned about people in developing countries should donate. Personally, I would rather donate to an American charity first.
This article shows how bad it is here. It was written in 2003. I’m sure it’s much worse today.
Homeless And Starving In The Land Of The Free
US Homelessness and Poverty Rates Skyrocket While Billions are Spent Overseas on Occupation
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0308/S00011.htm
February 15th, 2008 at 6:49 am
money comes from the printing press. oh, by the way, food comes from the grocery store.hmmm, maybe charlotte isbyrt was right!?!
February 15th, 2008 at 8:20 am
I wish the source of these articles was published. When I cite a Prison Planet Article, I am called a Kook. If I could give the sources as AP. Reuters, etc. it would be very helpful.
February 15th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Just Google, “Global Poverty Act,” Joe Buxx.
February 15th, 2008 at 9:35 am
i still cant believe they passed the immunity bill. when are we going to fight back with more then words?
February 15th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Yes, this is true. Paul Watson is a great writer, to be sure – but the mind controlled dummies who don’t know the truth are skeptical, unless there’s also an “approved” source listed as a reference.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Exactly…I love this site for all the information you can’t find anywhere else, but it seems much of it comes out of thin air. Misleading title names, and like what Joe Buxx says, “I wish the source of these articles were published”. Am i missing something? I read all 3 versions of the bill and found nothing mentioned about a “small arms and light weapons ban”. Please contact me with some answers here, otherwise I will never trust this site even 1% of the time.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Yes, this article is very misleading, as are many others on this site, especially the Watsons. There small arms text is not in the bill, but the bill supports the UN Millenium Challenge commitment, which references the document at http://disarmament.un.org/cab/.....192_15.pdf which does include the small arms quote in question. HOWEVER, the UN document is talking about stopping ILLICIT arms trade, and says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about banning all small arms, or forcing countries to do any such thing.
WHY DO THESE WRITERS RESORT TO THE SAME DISHONEST TACTICS AS THE FORCES WE ARE FIGHTING?!?!?
This fight is too important to be putting out false information like this! It only weakens our credibility!!!!
February 15th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I will never again trust Alex Jones even one iota. This is his website, and this was a headlining article full of misrepresentations. Give me a break. There is nothing mentioned in any of the versions of this bill that pertain to a ban on small arms. Complete distortion!!!!!!!!!!!
February 15th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I even passed this mis-information on to some people who already think i’m half crazy for reading this stuff. Now I’m starting to believe them. The whole reason for me to come to this site is to get info i can’t find anywhere else. Now i will have to resort to reading every bill myself, since Paul and Alex can’t do it properly. Sickening blatent mis representation of the bill.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am
a package of 34 treaties, all of which were ratified by a show of hands — no recorded vote.
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....3f5d31.htm
A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....747413.htm
February 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
WE REALLY NEED MORE RON PAULS TO STAND UP AND FIGHT….
February 15th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Yes, it’s too bad that one of the only major sites covering these issues have low standards of journalism. I would really like to see much more reasonable coverage by Alex and everyone.
For example, this article could have been written about how Obama’s bill reflects an underlying philosophy of government and economics, what that philosophy means, and how it contrasts to the philosophy of someone like Ron Paul, for example. Or about the possible directions this type of legislation could go – ie, global tax, gun bans, etc.
I see a tendency in underground information groups like this to incestuously post from each other’s articles, rather than doing their own research and reasoning. The same applies to many rabid followers of Alex Jones and others – mindlessly repeating info without researching the issue from other sources, and evaluating the opposing viewpoint. If anyone speaks dissent they are “braindead”, “asleep”, “slaves”, etc. These kind of childish tactics reflect insecurity that comes from not having done the research to back up their viewpoint.
TRUST NO ONE! We all have to do our own research and be vigilant at all times! Demand higher standards of journalism from Alex Jones and others! Be a credible source of info for those around you!
February 15th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Most of this stuff doesn’t require “intense investigation”. It’s right in your face. WTC7. So why not comment on all the good that Alex and crew have done for the patriot/truth movement? And if you can do better, then post your website link, start a radio show, and i’ll listen.
February 15th, 2008 at 11:15 am
State Partnership Program (SPP)
US European Command’s SPP background info paper
Information Paper
The National Guard State Partnership Program (SPP) links US states with partner countries’ defense ministries and other government agencies, primarily through the vehicle of the States’ National Guards, for the purpose of improving bilateral relations with the US. The program’s goals reflect an evolving international affairs mission for the National Guard, and are to promote regional stability and civil-military relationships in support of US policy objectives.
The SPP was established following the National Guard Bureau’s (NGB) proposal in the Spring of 1993 to pair State National Guards with the Baltic Countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The NGB proposal was prompted by CINCEUR’s Jan 93 decision to staff the Military Liaison Teams (MLTs) in the Baltics with Reserve Component personnel, in order avoid sending a provocative signal to the Russian Federation that might have been caused by assigning Active Duty soldiers. The SPP thus began as a bilateral military-to-military contact program with which to engage the countries of central and eastern Europe, and is a direct outgrowth of US European Command’s (USEUCOM) Joint Contact Team Program (JCTP): It since has grown far beyond JCTP and become a hybrid engagement tool, allowing interaction in social and economic—as well as military—spheres. The SPP actively supports the National Military Strategy’s mandate to shape the international security environment.
The value of the SPP is its ability to focus the attention of a small part of the Department of Defense (DoD)—a State National Guard—on a single country or region in support of US Government policies. This concentrated focus allows for the development of long term personal relationships and a mechanism to catalyze support from outside the DoD which otherwise would not occur but nevertheless complements US policy. The optimum SPP partnership is one in which: the Host Nation professes genuine interest in Partnership; US and Theater engagement objectives are satisfied; the Force Protection risk is low; a minimum of additional resources is required to execute engagement; and National Guard core engagement competencies, particularly military support to civil authority (MSCA), are heavily incorporated.
Today, a total of 30 US states and one territory are partnered with 29 countries around the world.
The 17 State Partnerships in the USEUCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR) are:
Alabama – Romania
California & Kansas – Ukraine
Colorado – Slovenia Georgia – Republic of Georgia
Illinois – Poland Indiana – Slovakia
Maryland – Estonia Michigan – Latvia Minnesota – Croatia North Carolina – Moldova
Ohio – Hungary Pennsylvania – Lithuania
South Carolina – Albania Tennessee – Bulgaria
Utah – Belarus Vermont – Macedonia
Texas & Nebraska – Czech Republic
The four State Partnerships in the US Central Command (USCENTCOM) AOR are:
Arizona – Kazakhstan Louisiana – Uzbekistan
Montana – Kyrgyzstan Nevada – Turkmenistan
The eight State Partnerships in the US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) AOR are:
Florida – Venezuela Kentucky – Ecuador
Mississippi – Bolivia Missouri – Panama
Puerto Rico – Honduras West Virginia – Peru
Louisiana & New Hampshire – Belize
Washington, D.C. – Jamaica
The one State Partnership in the US Pacific Command (USPACOM) AOR is Hawaii – Philippines.
The State Partners actively participate in a host of engagement activities, ranging from bilateral training and familiarization events, to exercises, to fellowship-style internships, to civic leader visits. All activities are coordinated through the Theater Commanders-in-Chief and the US Ambassadors’ country teams, and other agencies as appropriate, to ensure that National Guard support is tailored optimally to US and country requirements.
February 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am
New World Order Rising?
Thoughts on the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development
http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates63.html
February 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I mean, really ethios4. We are literally at “code red” and watching the violent rape of the Constitution and the fall of free civilization as we know it, and guys like you want to criticize hard working patriots and truthers with your pussy nit picking performance cretiques. Pardon my French, but fuck you! You might be a decent guy, but that shit rubs my rubarb, dude.
February 15th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Although I must admit this article is very misleading, one cannot deny the language and overall mood used in the bill. It is absolutely scary.
It sounds way too much like eugenics at work especially where the AIDS funding is concerned (in other words, taxes are being used for population reduction). You guys complain about the article being misleading, you should read the actual bill itself, and tell me which is worse.
As for the source, the link is
http://www.govtrack.us/congres.....=h109-3605
Do any of you realize Congress doesn’t read the bills anyway?
February 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Summit: Judges Fortify Environmental Law Principles (enforcing!!environmental laws)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/741046/posts
February 15th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Annan in historic meeting with Supreme Court &Congress/is believed to be unprecedented.
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....a81760.htm
February 15th, 2008 at 11:51 am
It’s not nitpicking, Gabriel. The article is totally fallacious. I’m not saying fuck Alex Jones, I’m saying he is doing the movement a disservice by faulty journalism. He can do better. The fact that we are at “code red” makes it all the more important to get the facts straight!!
February 15th, 2008 at 11:54 am
rick golden, that partnering is so super scary, thanks for the info
yet again a way is found to around the sovereignty of the US
by the way every angle is covered, any bylaw in a partnered country could be applied to the US counterpart – it’s mind boggling and right in our faces
they are really going for world government, and it seems the US is standing in the way, so they are pulling on our shirtsleeves by this maneuvering, looks like they’re making lots of headway.
do you think anyone in our government will ever see the writing on the wall
it can’t be hopless, rick thanks again
February 15th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Just a little taste of how it would be with an Obama presidency. Globalist.
February 15th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Thanks for the article on “sustainable development”, rick! Very interesting!
Thoughts on the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development
http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates63.html
February 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Witness,
Are you hear to count time to turn in at the end of the month?
You may not be aware that the Watchtower Society tried to go to bed with Hitler and the Nazi government and more recently were caught with their hands in the UN cookie jar.
If you are a real truth seaker and are willing look at it, here are the links:
http://www.randytv.com/Hitler/third_reich.htm
http://www.randytv.com/Hitler/.....hitler.htm
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/32/78490/1.ashx
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/32/76847/1.ashx
February 15th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
The one thing that neither U.S. nor world politicians consider is that the entire global Fiat Monetary System has a finite life-span. The terminal point is already within sight for the U.S. Fiat Federal Reserve Note, it is reaching its Maximum Possible Life-Span and will take down the entire system that now depends upon it. So…get your guns and ammo, get your non-hybrid seeds and prepare for a collapse that none living have witnessed before. The well-made plans of mice and men will come to naught and much quicker than anyone thinks.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
obama is just a puppet global scam he wants 2 pull off,global warming is a scam scam scam to suck more money out of everyone try and take my guns and see what happens im tired of these fuckin so called law makers in congress they are betraying the american people constantly fuck them and fuck there laws they pass from this point on someone needs to round them up and take there shit and watch them sqerm like the scummy sludge they are corupt fucks parden my french we do still have free speech dont we:(at least i think we do unless they have pass something that says we dont its hard to tell anymore . THE LAW MAKERS ARE LAW BREAKERS.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Book of Revelation 17 &18 Mystery Babylon, She sits a queen who thinks she will never be a widow. She fornicates with all the Kings of the Earth. Possibly the U.N. Perhaps she builds the globalist system of The Beast that many refer to as the NWO. The Book of Revelation lists many Beast Kingdoms/Nations so anyone in any of those Nations who love & adore a Beast Kingdom/Nation may be worshipping the Beast & the Image of the Beast.
The False Prophet possibly being the man made religions of the world of man that love & worship the Beast, Mystery Babylon, or a Beast Kingdom of Nation that think the Beast is doing God’s work but it is doing the Devil’s work.
Perhaps a part of the False Apostacy that will have form of Godliness that isn’t Godliness at all, and perhaps nothing more than Religious Political Pharisees as God stated they will be killing thinking they are doing him a favor as people who belong to man made religions often do these things.
Perhaps a part of the reason God stated he will send strong delusion upon them so they will believe a lie & all will be damned.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Larry McDonald on the New World Order
http://video.google.com/videop.....&hl=en
February 15th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
ethios4 Says: rick they kill that man
February 16th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Contrary to what some would have you believe, this is not some kooky liberal democrat idea. This bill does nothing more than set a course of action to accomplish an initiative that the U.S., along with 180 + other countries, has already agreed to, the UN Millennium Development goals. The Millennium Development goals initiative is supported by George W. Bush, along with other republicans. The Global Poverty Act itself was co-sponsored by two rather conservative republicans. Most of the bad press associated with the bill is from the talking heads of American Conservatism, and as usual, their supporters are simply regurgitating their commentary rather than thinking for themselves. There are eight aspects to the Millennium Development goals, all of which are needed to make the world a safer and more productive place. And the truth is that when attempting to secure ourselves from attack, illegal immigration or any of the other major concerns of America currently, our money is better spent making the impoverished nations more prosperous than it is spreading death and destruction around the world. We currently are spending 100+ billion dollars in Iraq per year, and another 500 billion funding the military industrial complex. And that does not account for the amount spent rebuilding infrastructure that we demolished.
Not to over simplify the issue, but currently there have been over 100,000 innocent civilians, many of them children, killed in the war on terror. Everyone of those had either a mother, brother, father, sister, aunt, uncle, etc. that will carry a hatred for the US for most likely the rest of their lives. So in essence we have created nearly 1,000,000 new enemies of the US. That is what breeds attacks on the US. What if instead, we would have clothed, educated, feed, or provided needed medical treatment for 100,000 innocent civilians. What would the response have been to that? The United States is worth roughly 30 trillion dollars, most of which is held by the top ten percent of our population, we can afford to help out. I have not agreed with Bush on many things during his administration, but I do support him on poverty. He has taken steps towards actually helping impoverished nations rather than making a profit at their expense. If you are not aware of what I mean consider this. Bush has proposed that we increase the amount of foreign aid that is actually spent within the local agricultural industries. Before we would simply purchase food aid from American farming surplus, which provided our commercial farms with more profit, while the local farms of the areas we helped disappeared. This process did nothing to reverse the trend or reduce poverty. It simply made the situation worse. The industrialized world holds in its hands the ability to abolish all forms of poverty, it also holds the ability to abolish all life. Which should we do?
February 16th, 2008 at 10:17 am
When someone from as high up on the food chain as Brzezinski mentors a presidential candidate this is what to expect. This is right out of the Bilderberger playbook when they met in June of 2005 prescribing a world tax implemented by the UN to underwrite their version of a world government.
Mr. B writes about the world in feudalistic terminology. The designers of our world, the Bilderbergs are giving us a fedual society, this is pre magna carta, we are taking us back to the Dark Ages and Obama is on board. It saddens me to see the people embrace this wretched New World Order so gleefully.
February 16th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I just read the message form Dounble H and have to respond.
Mr. H x2, you are so mistaken on how the world works. The way aid works is not how you think it does. US humanitarian foreign aid is a loss leader for our ag compaines, Monsanto, ConAgra, and Archer Daniels Midland and so forth to take over new markets. The aid supports these companies to undercut the price of farm goods. the prices go so low the farmers in those coutnries go out of business. The markets are left for the ag companies to monopolize, dive up prices, resulting in starvation. Ehthiopia, Somalia, Jamaica and so forth are starving and yet they export food to your table. US foreign aid to end poverty is a LIE, it increases poverty and world suffering so you can have cheap spices and produce.
February 17th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Don’t you people actually read the bill? It just calls for Prez to report about the situation.
Doesn’t say anything about guns, or anything about a Tax.. WTF
March 30th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Morel, you are right the bill ‘says’ nothing about arms and taxes but it does require our ‘President’ to harmonize/support the UN’s “Millennium Development Goals” of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.’
Ultimately is not this ‘caring for the poor’ all about convincing the world populace that the UN is our loving all knowing, all wise protector, when the reality is…….?
On the front ‘lawn’ of the New York UN edition is a statue of their desire for everyone’s gun…(eradicate the 2nd Ammendment) that is everyone gun except their machine guns and armed enforcers.
History shows that if you can disarm the populace you can totally control and enslave them. Is this not what ‘Global Warming’ is really all about in the end, TOTAL Control over every aspect of your life?
This week did millions of people worldwide blindly turn out their lights for an hour? I surely did not!
Here’s an excerpt from Page II of the UN’s “Millennium Development Goals”
* Peace Security and Disarmament*
- To ensure the implementation, by state parties, of treaties in areas such as, arms control and disarmament and of international humanitarian law and human rights law, and call upon all states to consider signing and ratifying the Rome Statute of International Criminal Court
Read the entire ‘plan’ here>
- http://www.un.org/millennium/d.....es552e.pdf
March 30th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
You ididots, they are going to force us to ad more of our GNP or .07% to fight global poverty, sorry but in my book that is a tax!
Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the U.N.’s “Millennium Project,” says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.’s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the “Millennium Development Goals,” this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Bill S.2433 Sponsor: Barack Obama (D-IL) fifteen other sponsors
Sen: Joseph Biden (D-DE) Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Mary Cantrell (D-WA) John Kerry (D-MA)
Christopher Dodd (D-CT) Richard Lugar (R-IN)
Richard Durbin (D-IL) Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Russell Feingold (D-WI) Patty Murray (D-WA)
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Gordon Smith (R-OR)
Charles Hagel (R-NE) Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Thomas Harkin (D-IA)
May 15th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Tim Johnson (D-SD)
John Kerry (D-MA)
Richard Luger (R-IN)
Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Gordon Smith (R-OR)
Olympis Snowe (R-ME)
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Washington, DC—During a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee today, U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) stressed that any bailout of the auto industry should shield risks to taxpayers and further industry innovation.
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