From Craig Rucker at CFACT:
Here is the final draft of the Rio+20 outcome document “The Future We Want.” You can examine the entire document at CFACT.tv and decide for yourself — have the delegates in Rio crafted a “future we want,” or as CFACT’s analysis shows “a future to dread.”
The U.S. spoke at the final plenary meeting of the pre-conference and CFACT’s Josh Nadal reports that the 0.7% tax on national GNP remains as a stated goal. That’s the one we analyzed would cost an American family of four around $1,300 per year!
Our U.S. lead negotiator said, in the waning moments of the plenary, that sustainable development is the only type of development “possible” in the 21st century. He said that Secretary Clinton and President Obama have made sustainable development an essential part of our foreign policy and national security.
He further said that the United States is dismayed that reference to reproductive rights do not appear in the text. CFACT’s view (as you know) is that it is crucial to human rights that governments neither mandate, nor determine proper human population levels. All evidence shows that prosperous, free societies establish stable populations and that people are a positive asset that should never be considered “pollution,” or “excess.”
What’s with the rule by executive order? AKA DICTAT? I thought Congress was sovereign … or the People .. or something?
the 0.7% tax on national GNP remains as a stated goal.
——————————————–
‘Post normal’ logic is perfectly illustrated here. On one hand, they deplore GNP as a measure, preferring nonsense like the ‘triple bottom line’, the ‘human development index’ and even happiness indices. On the other, when it comes to getting what they want, i.e. money, GNP (which according to them is grossly misleading) is used as the baseline for taxation.
So, according to them, it is OK to take money from people who are lower on the indices they claim are most important to give it to those who are higher on them. Or as others have put it, taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries.
How about demanding that in return for our cash, some of that happiness and other desirable things that other countries have more of than we do get sent our way in exchange?
Strangely enough, it can’t be done. The only transferable variable is money. Therefore, when it comes down to it, much as they have to hold their noses when it is mentioned (so crude, so vulgar!), regrettably, you must hand over your wallet. For this moment in time, GNP is the only thing that matters.
Presumably Greece, Spain and Italy’s debt problems are irrelevant. GNP is the thing. Hand it over to save the world. Hand it over to whom, you might ask?
Trust us, we’re the UN.
Oh dear.
@ur momisugly Robert of Ottawa says:
June 19, 2012 at 5:43 pm
What’s with the rule by executive order? AKA DICTAT? I thought Congress was sovereign … or the People .. or something?
****************************************************************
Executive orders are nothing new, but Obama has taken it to a new level. Imho, the plan is to rile up the citizenry enough to warrant a declaration of National Emergency, impose martial law, delay or suspend the upcoming election and thereby avoid the humiliation of a defeat. The end game is destruction of the American way of life, which is a prerequisite for creating a new world order. Obama has no intention of being sidelined in this globalist power grab and subjugation of the world, and will do whatever it takes to make sure he has a seat at the table.
Ack!!!! We’re all so screwed!!! Because of you evil d-word people Kumi bear is mad!!! Head of Greenpeace doesn’t like the fact that there isn’t any real commitments ……
Shameless theft of a Guardian story here.
Kumi bear cometh! lmao!!!!!
johanna says:
June 19, 2012 at 6:19 pm
“…the 0.7% tax on national GNP remains as a stated goal.”
Anyone who believes that the UN’s proposed ‘World Tax’ would remain at 0.7% of GDP is totally credulous. Before very long it would be at 7% of GDP, and rising fast.
The U.S. Sixteenth Amendment authorizing the government to collect income taxes was passed on the solemn promise that the top tax rate would never exceed 1%.
And compared with the totally corrupt UN kleptocrats, even the most thieving American politicians are as honest as Abe Lincoln.
Curiousgeorge: Has Obama discussed anything with Harper recently?
Smokey, I think the UN has been trying to get into US wallets almost from the moment it was founded. I think we are safe until after the Nov elections BUT after that, with (what I suspect will be) a bunch of lame duck democrats, just about any treaty that will eviscerate the Constitution will be joyfully passed.
Rhoda R,
That is my concern, too. The UN is controlled by anti-American, anti-West interests. There is no doubt:
http://hro001.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/sustainable-hockey-stick.jpg
James Sexton says:
June 19, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International’s executive director, said there were so many fudges in the draft agreement that Greenpeace now had no other option but to change its strategy and start planning waves of civil disobedience.
When asked if he was prepared to die for the cause, he responded: “Yes. I feel a very deep sense of that.”
———————
Might I recommend self-immolation as a way to attract some attention Kumi. I’m sure you can find some gasohol and a box of matches in Rio.
The Future the UN Wants to impose on You.
I see our former NZ PM Helen Clark No#3 at the UN is showing here usual Fabian Socialist sychophant control freaking form. 🙂
UN Official: Western Nations ‘Don’t Need More Cars, More TV, Whatever’
Environmental concerns have caused one high-ranking UN official to declare that “the West” does not need more cars, televisions, and other consumer luxuries.
United Nations Development Programme head Helen Clark told AFP in an interview: “So the issue is how to get human development that will see it continue to rise for the world’s poorest people and people in developing countries. Because frankly human development in the West – we don’t need more cars, more TV, whatever. Our needs are by and large satisfied, although the recession has put a lot of strains on that.”
Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand, also stressed the responsibility of richer countries to reduce their environmental footprint: “There is, in my opinion, a very heavy responsibility on the countries of the north to look at how they sustain their living standards with a much lower environmental footprint.”
http://cnsnews.com/blog/paul-wilson/un-official-western-nations-dont-need-more-cars-more-tv-whatever
James Ard says:
June 19, 2012 at 3:51 pm
There’s only six more months that Obama can continue to push the agenda. He couldn’t get elected dog catcher, regardless of how hungry he is. His grasping for his base tells you he knows he’s toast.
_______________________________________________
It is the Lame Duck session AFTER the November elections that is the danger point. That is the time period used to slip in legislation/treaties the voting public hates. They figure you will forget about it in the next four or six years and vote them in again anyway.
Unfortunately they are correct at least in the past.
With the bailout of AIG/banks and other unpopular moves, I have noticed people; black, white, Native American and Hispanic, have a lot better grasp of what is going on since Obama was elected (and the Economy crashed). I have been talking to random people for over six years and the change in awareness is amazing.
@ur momisugly PiperPaul says:
June 19, 2012 at 7:29 pm
Curiousgeorge: Has Obama discussed anything with Harper recently?
************************************************************
I would imagine so. Last formal meet that I’m aware of was about 3 months ago.
Frank K. says:
June 19, 2012 at 5:06 pm
I’d be concerned if these clowns had any power to implement their idiotic ideas…fortunately, they don’t.
By the way, for voters here in the U.S., please vote appropriately in November – we can finally rid ourselves (financially) of these greedy, left-wing “greens”…
_____________________________
And stick ourselves with greedy republican RHINOS.
Good Ole Mit then flip flops and says
Looks like we have a choice between a “Sangria watermelon” and a “Stars ‘n’ Stripes watermelon”
The USA has become like the UK we only have a choice of minor variation on the same major theme, an advance towards “Global Governance” Heck even the CIA has a report called “Global Governance 2025” http://www.foia.cia.gov/2025/2025_Global_Governance.pdf
The people who used the FOIA to get the report link
United States’ National Intelligence Council = NIC
A Who’s Who in the European Union Institute for Security Studies: http://www.yatedo.com/s/companyname%3A(European+Union+Institute+for+Security+Studies) (click for a bio on each person)
The US government has become completely treasonous and we, the voters have been given no way to stop the headlong rush towards the intentional destruction of our country because we can not choose decent people to vote FOR. The choice is done by the Republican and Democratic party machines not us despite the dog ‘n pony show called the primaries. We only get to vote for the “Lesser of two evils” and the agenda marches forward regardless of our actual wishes.
In the USA we live in a republic. We don’t have national votes on laws, treaties, etc.
However, we are still bound by these unless the provisions violate the U.S Constitution or they were passed unlawfully.
To echo what Gail has said, Romney and the republicans won’t even challenge Obama’s policies directly. They have gone a month without issueing the AG in contempt after “discussing and pontificating” about it…and even Romney refuses to say that he will rescind Obama’s latest policy to simply not “enforce immigration law.”
That is nonsense. The Republican party has become the party of no backbone. They will not stand for their convictions and when you have no convictions you might as well have none.
So our choices are: a wet noodle as president or an obviously evil or stupid man.
Not much of a choice. Who is going to stand up to the UN? None of the above. We will end up giving them more money and power just to make the world feel “Better about the US” because apperantly that is the politically correct thing to do and its “good to bow and otherwise scrape at heels” then have the world hate us.
I prefer having the world hate us and doing the right thing, but we won’t get that with our current crop of politicians who frankly lack the gall to stand behind their convictions.
Come November, nothing will change mark my words. People talk the big game about how we will see big change from Obama and in the end the only change we will see is the man at the top. Its almost worth voting for Obama I think just to make sure the tail-spin happens faster. People need to wake up and it takes harsh measures and pain to sometimes realize that you were retarded all along and gave up your freedoms.
Granted on that last position I tend to flip-flop myself. 4 more years of Obama madness or 4 years of RINO stupidity. Not much of a choice.
Babsy says:
June 19, 2012 at 12:52 pm
“The U.S. spoke at the final plenary meeting of the pre-conference and CFACT’s Josh Nadal reports that the 0.7% tax on national GNP remains as a stated goal.”
They gotta get that tax passed because if we were allowed to keep that money, we’d just waste it….
——————-
No Babsy, The object is to get to ability for the UN to collect a tax.
They don’t care about the amount just yet.
They say 0.7% seems small enough that we should not balk at such a trifle amount to “save the earth for our children”.
Giving them 0.000007% is enough to prove they have a right to your money and later they will just adjust it amount of tax as they deem necessary.
First implement the tax, they’ll do the rest.
You can bet the language is in there to give them the power to “set the tax to achieve their goals.”
This is the UN….start from these assumptions.
Notice how urgent issues morph over time:
Global Warming => Climate Change => Sustainability
But notice the policy goals remain the same:
Increased government => less liberty => less prosperity => consolidated, coordinated, harmonized government policies => coordinated enforcement => world government.
Gail Combs says:
June 20, 2012 at 4:49 am
Gail – I share your concerns. However, whom do you think will more likely to roll back the power amassed by the greedy, left-wing greens (and their enablers in the climate “science” industry): (a) President Barack Obama and a Democrat Congress, (b) Mitt Romney and Republican Congress?
Over here in the UK we don’t know how to stop this headlong rush into disaster. Most of our environmental regulations are decreed by unelected bureaucrats employed by the EUSSR Commission in Brussels. Our own politicians simply translate them into parliamentary format and then rubber stamp them. They have no legal power to do otherwise. And our electorate is largely unaware that this is going on since the regulations bear our own parliamentary imprimatur.
Note that the EUSSR is the prototype for the unelected supranational organisation which the UN and the Rio conference are trying to bring into existence.
But, even if our politicians were independent, we have a choice between Tweedledee, Tweedledum and Tweedledumber. The father-in-law of David Cameron (PM) receives just under £1,000 per day for having a wind farm on his land. The wife of Nick Clegg (Deputy PM) is a director of a Spanish company involved in renewable energy infrastructure. I am not aware of Ed Miliband (Opposition leader) having his nose in the trough. But he was the Minister for Energy and Climate Change in the last Labour Government so he was the idiot who introduced the Climate Change Act 2008. And only 3 (I think) MPs out of over 650 voted against this Act, possibly the most ruinous peacetime legislation ever.
I was pinning my hopes on whoever the Republicans put up against Obama having the balls to arrange an independent review of the science, de-fund the IPCC and declare that the US will not participate in any of these Rio shenanigans. It is a bit depressing to read above that Romney is apparently the standard-issue politician who doesn’t know what he wants to do other than achieve power. He apparently follows the philosophy of Groucho Marx, who said “I have principles, and if you don’t like them, I have others.”
All 7 billion of us should listen very carefully, to everything Monckton says above. When democracy finally disappears, will anyone notice. Under Orwellian truth and historical revision, we will all think the world has been liberated by the UN dictatorship and tyranny. Up becomes down, cold becomes warm, and the boot continues to stamp on the face of mankind forever.
There really is a Hell and we are busy creating it for all humanity. Most of us cannot see past the words. GK
Babsy says: @ur momisugly June 19, 2012 at 12:52 pm
“The U.S. spoke at the final plenary meeting of the pre-conference and CFACT’s Josh Nadal reports that the 0.7% tax on national GNP remains as a stated goal.”
They gotta get that tax passed because if we were allowed to keep that money, we’d just waste it…
___________________________________
Chuck Nolan says: @ur momisugly June 20, 2012 at 6:34 am
No Babsy, The object is to get to ability for the UN to collect a tax.
They don’t care about the amount just yet.
They say 0.7% seems small enough that we should not balk at such a trifle amount to “save the earth for our children”……
__________________________________
That is exactly what was done with the US income tax amendment. There was talk of putting a cap of 10% in the Amendment but it was decide not to “Because the tax will NEVER get as high as 10%”…. Yeah right.
Well the gambit worked 100 years ago so it looks like they are going to try and make it work again this time.
From Carroll Quigley to the UN Millennium Summit: Thoughts on the New World Order lists the agenda, in the actual words of the United Nations, for developing a world government, “Global Governance”, a New World Order Agenda 21, Sustainability or whatever the politically correct term is for it this week. It is a chilling list to read and see just how far they have progressed in completing that agenda in the last 12 years.
G. Karst says: @ur momisugly June 20, 2012 at 9:06 am
….There really is a Hell and we are busy creating it for all humanity. Most of us cannot see past the words. GK
________________________________
I agree we are ushering in the return to the Dark Ages, serfdom, “witch hunts” abject poverty and very short life spans of hard labor except for our overlords.
It would be laughable if it was not so serious that the socialists in their eagerness to help the “down trodden” are dragging everyone into a society that will makes todays third world countries look like heaven.
@ur momisugly Gail Combs says:
June 20, 2012 at 12:25 pm
That is exactly what was done with the US income tax amendment. There was talk of putting a cap of 10% in the Amendment but it was decide not to “Because the tax will NEVER get as high as 10%”…. Yeah right.
Well the gambit worked 100 years ago so it looks like they are going to try and make it work again this time.
From Carroll Quigley to the UN Millennium Summit: Thoughts on the New World Order lists the agenda, in the actual words of the United Nations, for developing a world government, “Global Governance”, a New World Order Agenda 21, Sustainability or whatever the politically correct term is for it this week. It is a chilling list to read and see just how far they have progressed in completing that agenda in the last 12 years.
*******************************************************************************
The problem is that the majority of people expect the UN burglars to come in thru the front door. So we/they don’t pay attention to the windows and back door.