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Title: OBAMA'S GLOBAL TAX PROPOSAL UP FOR SENATE VOTE
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URL Source: http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff207.htm
Published: Feb 13, 2008
Author: Cliff Kincaid
Post Date: 2008-02-13 12:47:30 by _______
Keywords: Obama, CFR Certified, NWO Approved
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By Cliff Kincaid February 13, 2008 A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations. Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has not endorsed either Senator Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. But on Thursday, February 14, he is trying to rush Obama’s “Global Poverty Act” (S.2433) through his committee. 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. The bill, which is item number four on the committee’s business meeting agenda, passed the House by a voice vote last year because most members didn’t realize what was in it. Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require. According to the website of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, no hearings have been held on the Obama bill in that body. A release from the Obama Senate office about the bill declares, “In 2000, the U.S. joined more than 180 countries at the United Nations Millennium Summit and vowed to reduce global poverty by 2015. We are halfway towards this deadline, and it is time the United States makes it a priority of our foreign policy to meet this goal and help those who are struggling day to day.” The legislation itself requires 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.” The bill defines the term “Millennium Development Goals” as the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly Resolution 55/2 (2000). The U.N. says that “The commitment to provide 0.7% of gross national product (GNP) as official development assistance was first made 35 years ago in a General Assembly resolution, but it has been reaffirmed repeatedly over the years, including at the 2002 global Financing for Development conference in Monterrey, Mexico. However, in 2004, total aid from the industrialized countries totaled just $78.6 billion—or about 0.25% of their collective GNP.” In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration 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. The Millennium Declaration also affirms the U.N. as “the indispensable common house of the entire human family, through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace, cooperation and development.” 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. Obama’s bill has only six co-sponsors. They are Senators Maria Cantwell, Dianne Feinstein, Richard Lugar, Richard Durbin, Chuck Hagel and Robert Menendez. But it appears that Biden and Obama see passage of this bill as a way to highlight Democratic Party priorities in the Senate. The House version (H.R. 1302), sponsored by Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), had only 84 co-sponsors before it 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. It appears the Senate version is being pushed not only by Biden and Obama, a member of the committee, but Lugar, the ranking Republican member. Lugar has worked with Obama in the past to promote more foreign aid for Russia, supposedly to stem nuclear proliferation, and has become Obama’s mentor. Like Biden, Lugar is a globalist. They have both promoted passage of the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, for example. The so-called “Lugar-Obama initiative” was modeled after the Nunn-Lugar program, also known as the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, which was designed to eliminate weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. But one defense analyst, Rich Kelly, noted evidence that “CTR funds have eased the Russian military’s budgetary woes, freeing resources for such initiatives as the war in Chechnya and defense modernization.” He recommended that Congress “eliminate CTR funding so that it does not finance additional, perhaps more threatening, programs in the former Soviet Union.” However, over $6 billion has already been spent on the program. Another program modeled on Nunn-Lugar, the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP), was recently exposed as having funded nuclear projects in Iran through Russia. More foreign aid through passage of the Global Poverty Act was identified as one of the strategic goals of InterAction, the alliance of U.S-based international non-governmental organizations that lobbies for more foreign aid. The group is heavily financed by the U.S. Government, having received $1.4 million from taxpayers in fiscal year 2005 and $1.7 million in 2006. However, InterAction recently issued a report accusing the United States of “falling short on its commitment to rid the world of dire poverty by 2015 under the U.N. Millennium Development Goals…” It’s not clear what President Bush would do if the bill passes the Senate. The bill itself quotes Bush as declaring that “We fight against poverty because opportunity is a fundamental right to human dignity.” Bush’s former top aide, Michael J. Gerson, writes in his new book, Heroic Conservatism, that Bush should be remembered as the President who “sponsored the largest percentage increases in foreign assistance since the Marshall Plan…” Even these increases, however, will not be enough to satisfy the requirements of the Obama bill. A global tax will clearly be necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the money. • Americans who would like their senators to know what they are voting on can contact them through information at this official Senate site.
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#30. To: Peppa (#22)
Shouldn't hold Maryland up as any type of benchmark, my friend.......probably most of the population either works for feebleguv or has a relative or someone else on the public hog's teats! The only way Morella was able to be an elected 'r' there was to be a demon in disguise! I think Gilchrest is from there, and he, who has recanted the war, lost his shot at retaining his seat in the house. I think he's one I've never been impressed with....for some reason I think he is the one who is in bed with environuts--could be wrong, but I don't think so. :(
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
When you have no arguments, attack the person. Psyops 101, right?
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
You sound so, so, so.........sinkspurish!
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
Notice, that is my point. The U.N. will not need to compel ObamaHillary to go along with its global objectives.
The Republican party is going to be utterly crushed at the polls this fall. The margin of defeat will be so extreme that there will be no way to steal the election, even with Diebold machines. Thanks to the "leadership" of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the Republican brand has become fundamentally unelectable and will remain so for the next twenty years.
#31. To: _______ (#29)
#32. To: _______ (#29)
#33. To: aristeides (#28)
If it's done by U.S. authorities, then no surrender of sovereignty is involved.
#34. To: TwentyTwelve (#23)
The Republican Party is in huge trouble.
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#35. To: TwentyTwelve (#23)
I heard something interesting on Neil Boortz this morning ;P... 2 RepublicaCritters were unseated in MD. 1) for being toooo conservative #2) for being too liberal. Both were taken out by their own party for not towing the 'party' line.
The Republican Party is in huge trouble.
#36. To: _______ (#25) (Edited)
There are two groups struggling for power in the New World Order: the pro-UN globalists (people like Obama, Brzezinksi) and the anti-UN Zionists (Bolton, McCain, Wolfowitz). Both want to make our national sovereignty a thing of the past, the only difference is whether the UN or Tel Aviv will be calling the shots. I also believe that the Zionist faction of the NWO is more likely to start a nuclear war than the UN globalists.
#37. To: Elliott Jackalope (#34)
I believe your assessment to be right on the mark. Those who would crawl through broken glass to support the likes of these bastids never stop to think that they lost any control of the house for something like 40 years, got it back finally, and newtie worked like hell to screw that all up; and never stopped to think that the idiot who called Jesus Christ a philosopher or the bastid that shoots friends in the face would actually take their country to the brink of ruination; and they certainly wouldn't give an inkling of a thought to the destruction of their own friggin party by these same 'powers'. They deserve every single bad thing that comes their way; alas, at the same time, the common man in 'merika is gonna suffer, too, but in a much more severe sense than just losing their 'party'.
The Republican party is going to be utterly crushed at the polls this fall. The margin of defeat will be so extreme that there will be no way to steal the election, even with Diebold machines. Thanks to the "leadership" of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the Republican brand has become fundamentally unelectable and will remain so for the next twenty years.
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#38. To: Elliott Jackalope (#34)
What's really strange about this is that I know a lot of people who hate Bush but love McCain, and there are a lot of Bushbots who hate McCain's guts. What this means is that even though Bush and McCain are basically xerox copies of one another (George is dumber, Mac is crazier, but that's about it), this election is still up for grabs. Somehow, voters just don't associate McCain with Bush - it must be because people look at style instead of policy issues.
#39. To: rowdee (#30)
The only way Morella was able to be an elected 'r' there was to be a demon in disguise! I think Gilchrest is from there, and he, who has recanted the war, lost his shot at retaining his seat in the house. I think he's one I've never been impressed with....for some reason I think he is the one who is in bed with environuts--could be wrong, but I don't think so. :( Good to know, I'm not familiar with the area, but just wanted to pass along the numbers. Just heard this morning that 2 pubs were unseated (I guess the Gilchrest you speak of was one of them), because one was too liberal, and the other one too conservative. That both were removed by their own party for not towing the partayy line. !! Ve must have a better squad of synchronized swimmers. (No Kennedy pun intended).
Shouldn't hold Maryland up as any type of benchmark, my friend.......probably most of the population either works for feebleguv or has a relative or someone else on the public hog's teats!
#40. To: Peppa (#35)
That sort of thing is old news, Peppa.........hell, look at how the demons turned against Jim Trafficant.......him and his damned 'beam me up Scotty' minute speeches!! And the republocraps who when in power wouldn't even do more than an 'eye' glance Bob Dornan's way when loretta sanchez took his seat with illegals voting! They were delighted to get rid of him because he was very vocal about right to life and some other stuff. This is why the republocraps will also be targeting getting rid of Ron Paul---they'd be satisfied to lose to a demon just to get rid of him. Tell ya what......back when the current liar in chief ran in 2000, one of the groups down in Texas stated they were not donating to Ron Paul because he doesn't stand behind them all the time (name of the group was something like Century 2000 I think). Of course the media picked that tidbit up and ran with it to his campaign. His campaign graciously denied any fracture (it was during the time he was having a BBQ get together as I recall). So it dropped off the radar screen as being a 'story'. I happen to have a friend who was working with some in Ron's office regarding a couple of issues, and she asked about this one day.....and the staffer told her it was true, that they withheld funds because they wanted him defeated and someone more in lockstep with party ideas, but that Ron wouldn't give the media the satisfaction of trying to wedge they and he.
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#41. To: Peppa (#39)
Yup.
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#42. To: rowdee (#40)
And the republocraps who when in power wouldn't even do more than an 'eye' glance Bob Dornan's way when loretta sanchez took his seat with illegals voting! They were delighted to get rid of him because he was very vocal about right to life and some other stuff. This is why the republocraps will also be targeting getting rid of Ron Paul---they'd be satisfied to lose to a demon just to get rid of him. What a story! It's the same as it ever was I guess. What do ya think of Cynthia McKinney? ;)
That sort of thing is old news, Peppa.........hell, look at how the demons turned against Jim Trafficant.......him and his damned 'beam me up Scotty' minute speeches!!
#43. To: Peppa (#42)
You don't want to go there.......literally or figuratively. If I could use a food product as a description: Fruit Loop or maybe, Mixed Nuts. Do you recall the name Carol Mosley Braun? Cynthia reminds me of a wild-eyed, high on something version of Carol.
What do ya think of Cynthia McKinney? ;)
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#44. To: Peppa, (#43)
And that is just my 'nice' version of what I think.
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#45. To: angle (#11)
Perhaps you will share your dream so I may comment on it???
Of course you're free to feel defeated if that's what you wish. I dare to dream.
#46. To: Cynicom (#45)
Enough naysayers on this board, thank you. I'll keep my pearls to myself, no offense to you.
#47. To: rowdee (#43)
If I could use a food product as a description: Fruit Loop or maybe, Mixed Nuts. Do you recall the name Carol Mosley Braun? Cynthia reminds me of a wild-eyed, high on something version of Carol. Hehe, okayyyyyyy. I'm just thinking about whose name might be on the ballot against all the others. Nut doesn't exactly disqualify her in my mind. She might be the 5thr of the less weevils.
You don't want to go there.......literally or figuratively.
#48. To: rowdee (#44)
Haaaaaa! Well, you don't have to stand on ceremony on my account.. ;) LOL!
And that is just my 'nice' version of what I think.
#49. To: angle (#46)
You should know by now I will not attack. Not my thing. Share your dream, just maybe we have common ground. Paul shattered my dream if it could be characterized as such.
#50. To: angle (#46)
You should know by now I will not attack. Not my thing. Share your dream, just maybe we have common ground. Paul shattered my dream if it could be characterized as such. I wish I had kept the attacks and the PMs I received when I tried to organize 4um support for Paul...Some were not nice. And the final count was something like 12 people contributed. I received very LITTLE help or encouragement and no thanks for my effort. That goes with the territory.
#51. To: rowdee (#43)
Hillary's Virginia showing might have been worse than it looks (to read about her Virginia, here: www.dai lykos.com/storyonl.../13/144445/846/538/456105 ) ROFL!
You gotta love the title of this piece:
#52. To: rowdee (#43)
I used to think she was a nut, too. Then it turned out that she was right all along about 9/11 (or at the least she had good reason for what she was saying.)
Cynthia reminds me of a wild-eyed, high on something version of Carol.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
#53. To: aristeides (#52)
Source url please??? Ten witnesses? Personal photos or recordings. Affidavits? Or is that your personal opinion? Just kidding.
Then it turned out that she was right all along about 9/11
#54. To: Cynicom, aristeides (#53)
McKinney going against DynCorp and Rumsfeld:
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised!
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#55. To: Cynicom (#49)
Said I wasn't gonna comment on another thread, Cyni......but this is just toooooooo rich to not venture forth into deeper waters. May I ask, do you still believe in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy? At your age? Or your alleged age? I say alleged, cause sometimes you sound like a really young person--one with no experience in the real world. I can see being disappointed at your age........but your dreams were shattered cause a man said he wasn't gonna leave the party he's been affiliated with for gawd knows how long! Geeze.......where is that damned box of kleenex when I need em.....this is what I have to look forward to when I get to however old you are? Where's the Ritalin, or is that Prozac..........better yet.........gotta go get me a martini or two!
Paul shattered my dream if it could be characterized as such.
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#56. To: Cynicom (#50)
Cyni, can we get some names, or 'near sounding names'. I just find it really hard to believe that those here on THIS board would be knocking you or anyone else down for trying to support RP. Other than morons like that long nosed fish, or stinkspur.........let's get some names......surely you remember at least one of them assholes that would be trying to break down your dream before it ever got started.
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#57. To: aristeides (#52)
Oh puleeze........a broken clock is even right a couple of otimes a day....the rest of the time she's a regular friggin space cadet! And will speak to anyone that she thinks she can get in her corner.
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#58. To: rowdee (#55)
RD... In a few days I will be 76. And every mile of it shows. At that age I have lived thru what many here call "recent history". That age does not give one intelligence but it does give an insight not shared by others, because I have lived it. No one can tell me what the depression was, WW2, Korea, Vietnam etc because people my age have lived it. Along the way I was fortunate enough to cross paths with some very knowledgeable, intelligent, educated and older nice people. That was a huge plus and I will never forget what they taught me.
Or your alleged age?
#59. To: rowdee, the thread (#57)
ANYONE who doesn't tow StateInc's one-party line (McKinney, Dornan, Trafficant, Paul, etc, etc) will be hammered by their 'party.' And that's not even mentioning the ones who were eliminated.
Join the Ron Paul Revolution
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#60. To: Cynicom (#58)
I'm not all that many years behind ya, Cyni.......but even I don't believe in the Tooth Fairy. And I certainly don't put all my dreams on some mortal man, no matter how great a person he is. Tell ya another little freebie........I am a christian, trying to follow Jesus Christ's words and actions, living my life that way--and yes, I stumble badly--a lot. But, at the end of time, even if it would turn out that he was a phony, a made up story, my hopes and dreams wouldn't be 'shattered'. Living a good life brings one no shame. I'm happy, I'm content......
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#61. To: rowdee (#60)
RD Having lived in poverty during the depression, we had not the luxury of believing in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, Easter bunny or whatever. Reality stared you in the face each and every morning. Exaggeration? Not at all. Unvarnished reality day after day after day.
but even I don't believe in the Tooth Fairy
#62. To: lodwick (#59)
What got Dornan into trouble?
ANYONE who doesn't tow StateInc's one-party line (McKinney, Dornan, Trafficant, Paul, etc, etc) will be hammered by their 'party.'
#63. To: Cynicom (#61)
My parents went thru the depression, as did my grandparents, so I received a lot of 'first hand' reports of the era. I also lived the results of it--frugal parents and grandparents. My parents went to school thru the 8th grade. THey picked fruits and veggies in Californicate before we kids came along. Dad was an accomplished stone mason, but when we were little, we lived on and he worked as a farmhand. I never knew we were 'poor' as a kid growing up--my Mom could make shoe leather taste and cut like filet mignon. Our clothes, as well as our bodies, were kept clean. I never realized my parents were considered 'migrant farm workers' until a few years back when i started studying genealogy. So, what does all this mean? Nothing much. Just conversation about the past, and perhaps a smidgen of what makes rowdee tick. :)
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#64. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#62)
Dornan had a conscience......a conscience that spoke to life. They didn't like his after hours speechifying, or floor speechification. They didn't like their consciences being bothered with words from the likes of him. Sort of like the jews not liking to hear the words of the prophets, so they killed them.....that sort of thing. Nothing personal, ya know.
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts!
#65. To: IndieTX (#0)
ping
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised!
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#66. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#62)
What Dee said.
Dornan had a conscience......a conscience that spoke to life. They didn't like his after hours speechifying, or floor speechification. They didn't like their consciences being bothered with words from the likes of him.
Join the Ron Paul Revolution
Freedom*Peace*Prosperity
#67. To: Elliott Jackalope (#34)
I agree here. It will be a complete wipeout.
Mark
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free - Americans who have been lulled into a false security (April 1968).---Ezra Taft Benson, US Secretary of Agriculture 1953-1961 under Eisenhower
#68. To: _______, Original_Intent (#29)
http://www.rense.com/general80/obmw.htm Obama, Freemason, Related To Both Bush, Cheney By Leo Zagami 2-13-8 Obama outlines his ambitious geopolitical plans in a recent essay for Foreign Affairs magazine. Foreign Affairs is published by the Council on ForeignRelations, which describes itself as a non-partisan group of which he is a member. Established in the 1920's and headquartered in New York, its membership includes prominent politicians and business elite, including heads of academia and media. The organization seeks to centralize both political power and market power to craft legislation outside the checks and balances of democracy. The CFR is rarely mentioned by the mainstream media... Obama is also a 32nd degree Prince Hall Freemason loyal to the Craft and devoted to his principles so forget about the "changes" and start thinking about the same old , same old , coming once again into power. Obama is illuminati aristocracy. his appearence from 'nowhere', and subsequent rocket to the front of the political line are no coincidence. Believe it or not, Barack Obama is related to both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as you can check here: http://www.nypost.com/seven/10172007/news/regional news/dissing_cousins__obama__cheney.htm So, the possible scenario is that Hillary might become the Vice President of Obama at the end of this political show , but in any case let's enjoy what the American call Democracy a good show in the hands of the usual suspects , and remember America the Pope is coming with His Blessings this spring..ha..ha....and make sure Brother Obama doesnt miss his Zionist masonic meetings as he would love to be the main actor in the reconstruction of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. Maybe the next AntiChrist to hit the US presidential scene will be darker then some people have expected.
#69. To: Vitamin Z, all (#3)
Dead correct. Also, the closer we get to Nov., the pretend independents reveal their true commie self and come out of the closet here a 4um. Just look at a couple of the replies here and at a couple of the other threads.
Mark
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free - Americans who have been lulled into a false security (April 1968).---Ezra Taft Benson, US Secretary of Agriculture 1953-1961 under Eisenhower
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