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| rubylith |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 09:18:23 AM
Obama Pushes Bill That Would Mandate Global Tax
Senate to vote on legislation that would cost U.S. $845 billion, also enables UN to implement gun bans
Paul Joseph Watson
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/021408_global_tax.htm" target="_blank">Prison Planet
Thursday, 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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| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 02/15/2008 : 10:21:18 AM
Look at the date on the fucking thing.
'Globe and Mail (Toronto) 14 March 2000'
Fact: Africans are dying and diseased in the millions, many have elementary at best health care, or quacks at the worst.
Sounds like another timely idea by a chump running for Pres. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 02/15/2008 : 03:06:17 AM
i did read it. it's just figures without any sort of verification or citation, and anecdotal evidence.
it's interesting, and i wonder what all the people in africa who have aids would think about it. i'm also curious about what all the doctors, trained in legitimate rich white countries like america, several of whom i actually know, would say about it. seeing as they're there. you know. treating aids patients.
he posits that africans don't have aids, but a series or conglomeration of indigenous diseases that doctors in africa, presumably because they either don't have the money or aren't civilized enough, are misdiagnosing. occam's razor. given two anwsers that adequately explain a problem, the simplest is mostly like the correct one. so which is simpler? aids or a bunch of exotic diseases being diagnosed accidentally or intentionally as aids? both technically fit.
there is an aids epidemic in africa. don't be an idiot. |
| Zachmozach |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 11:43:04 PM
I'm all for giving aid to other countries and all just not so much in the form of money. I'd be up for taking say 1/50 of our military budget to train people like doctors to go help and pay them or help destroy the patent laws that make it so people with aids can start getting the medicine without a drug company charging too much for medicine. However right I think we'd just do better not harming anyone to start with and fixing our country. |
| Arthen |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 10:31:23 PM
In the case of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki was being pressured to spend millions and millions of dollars on "cures" for AIDS, particularly AZT. Earning profits for drug companies. This can also lead, not necessarily in South Africa's case, to borrowing more money from the World Bank and IMF two of the most frightening groups/organizations in the history of the world. Leading to more under development or at least the continuation of it. |
| gnome44 |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 10:28:36 PM
Interesting article. I've never heard about any of this before.
What's not clear to me is why HIV/AIDS would be allowed to continue to be misdiagnosed like this. Who benefits from this? Obviously not the Africans, since they're still dying. Is someone pocketing this money? Or is just grossly misappropriated?
Weird. |
| Arthen |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 10:11:41 PM
I assume you dedicated the normal amount of time you give articles and arguments presented on the board. Thanks Dan. Back to metal induced blissfulness. |
| dan p. |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 9:08:02 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Arthen
What a bullshit tax for a bullshit reason. Check it:
"The Plauge That Isn't" is an article written about AIDS in Africa or the myth of it. My old professor Charles Geshekter someone too stupid to be teaching anyone from a position of authority is the author.
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/cgpoverty.htm
fixed. |
| Arthen |
Posted - 02/14/2008 : 3:45:18 PM
What a bullshit tax for a bullshit reason. Check it:
"The Plauge That Isn't" is an article written about AIDS in Africa or the myth of it. My old professor Charles Geshekter is the author.
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/cgpoverty.htm |
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