Posted on 02/15/2008 7:05:01 AM PST by radar101
This act which just passed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday would commit the next president of the United States -- oh, my gosh, that may be Obama, what a coincidence. It would commit him to working towards the worldwide poverty goals set by the United Nations millennium declaration.
These goals may cost America an estimated $845 billion, while making us subservient to a whole array of U.N. treaties and resolutions like the Kyoto Protocol.
CLIFF KINCAID, ACCURACY IN MEDIA: That`s right. I found out about it a couple of days ago when it was really secretly put on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee agenda. It was sprung on the House last September, brought up for a voice vote. It passed.
KINCAID: And the Bush administration agreed to it. The Barack Obama bill basically, without mentioning the .7 percent, or the necessity of a global tax, commits the United States to carrying out this objective, meeting its own "millennium goal." And...
KINCAID: Right. This commits us to spend the money as dictated by the U.N., .7 percent, according to Jeffrey Sachs, who ran the U.N. Millennium Project. It means the United States has been short by $65 billion a year on what is called official development assistance.
BECK: OK. But it also -- it also puts us in line for Kyoto, it also puts us in line for what is also part of this U.N., you know, millennium agreement, of banning all small arms.
Plus, they have a so-called millennium declaration. That actually came out in 2000, which not only commits us to the more foreign aid spending, but calls on countries to implement Kyoto, a ban on small weapons, the children`s rights treaty, the women`s rights treaty. .
(Excerpt) Read more at transcripts.cnn.com ...
That’s because they are “citizens of the world” before they are Americans.
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INDEED.
I’ve traveled a lot and lived overseas for more than 16 years.
I consider myself somewhat a citizen of the planet . . . but NOT in a globalist sense
and NOT
to the hurt of my beloved America and even the Southwest for which I feel so much affection.
Besides, all Christians are citzens of HEAVEN, first, foremost and always . . . that’s the only citizenship that ETERNALLY matters.
What about men's rights? I'm sure President Obama will work to ensure that we all have "hope" even without any rights or freedom to go with it.
Past due time for a Potomac Tea Party...”
Too late.
9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
I just rarely agree with much of anyone very fully . . . expecially that many paragraphs worth! LOL.”
I read it and agree.
It’s quite sad, really . . .
I’m convinced that many FREEPERS would betray one another as would many in virtually all the churches I’ve been in.
Humans are such fickle creatures.
Thomas Jefferson was psysic?
“SINGLE ACTS OF TYRANNY MAY BE ASCRIBED TO THE ACCIDENTAL OPINION OF A DAY; BUT A SERIES OF OPPRESSIONS, BEGUN AT A DISTINGUISHED PERIOD, AND PURSUED UNALTERABLY THROUGH EVERY CHANGE OF MINISTERS (ADMINISTRATIONS) TOO PLAINLY PROVES A DELIBERATE, SYSTEMATIC PLAN OF REDUCING US TO SLAVERY.” -Thomas Jefferson.
I’d say prophetic . . . by whatever means.
Thx.
Things are getting more and more frightening. Am I crazy to wonder if we're getting close to the end times? Maybe we're not, but it sure seems that way sometimes.
The Global Poverty Act sounds like it intends to make everyone on the globe equally poor, except for the power elites that they will serve.
Liberals want nothing more than power and, for those that have it, their use of accumulated or acquired or inherited wealth. But they want all the rest of us to be "equalized" to a bare subsistence level. Hillary, Obama, Kennedy, Pelosi et al might just get their wish along with their social agenda in the coming years ahead.
Does anyone know how Bud Cramer (demonrat - Alabama) voted?
He is a cowardly POS so it wouldn’t surprise me if he voted in favor of it.
It’s sad but amazing. Things really haven’t changed in thousands of years. We are simply going back to the times of slaves/peasants (the vast majority of us) and kings/rulers (global elitists).
Having been a Christian for just under a year I’ve come to believe that we ARE in the end times.
Doesn’t matter that it has been a two party effort, once the sleeping frog passes out, the flame can be turned to “high”.
I had hoped I would be dead with no grandchildren before this went down. Well, my son is still single...
Does anyone know how Bud Cramer - Demonrat of Alabama - voted on this? Thx!
It’s upsetting to see such hysterical rhetoric flying around about this bill, because none of it is true. Cliff Kincaid is a propagandist of the first order. I worked on this bill, and its purpose is nothing like what’s being represented by Rush, by Mr. Beck. I don’t fault anyone here for being upset, given that rhetoric, but the good thing is it’s not true. Cases in point:
1. The bill does not have anything to do with levying a “global tax.” There’s no funding attached to the bill, and even if it did commit the US to putting up 0.7% of GDP (which it doesn’t), it has no bearing on taxation in any way.
2. Nor does it require that any US development assistance be channeled through the UN. The bill does not require or otherwise put pressure on the US to provide a single cent to the UN. Not one cent. Kincaid knows this, too, I’m positive of it.
3. The bill does NOT tie the US to any of the other treaties or UN declarations like Kincaid and Beck have said. And on that note, the “banning of guns and small firearms” or whatever, like Kincaid and Beck are also saying this bill would require, is not even in the UN declaration that they say the bill commits us to (which it doesn’t in fact commit us to anyway). They’ve made this up out of whole cloth, and I blame Kincaid for being dishonest and Beck and Rush for shoddy research. That UN declaration refers only to curbing the ILLEGAL (”illicit”) sale and trade of small arms. In other words, black market gun running. It has nothing to do with US gun laws and does not impact the 2nd amendment in any way whatsoever. I’ve seen Kincaid quote from that declaration, and the quote is doctored. It doesn’t exist.
4. In mentioning the millennium development goals, all it does is legislate that working toward those goals (it doesn’t set targets for how far we should go toward reaching them) will become an official focus of US foreign aid. The goals include basic challenges in economic development: reducing by the numbers of people living on less than $1 per day, working toward all kids having the opportunity to go to school (in the middle east, there are places where US-funded schools provide the only alternate to radical maddrassas—still don’t think it’s a worthwhile investment?), halting and reversing HIV, TB, malaria; reducing the numbers of kids under 5 who die, which can be done for cents per child. President Bush has committed to these goals, and the US is already funding efforts toward these ends—this bill just backs those efforts up by increasing their profile within the range of development issues we already work on. If you don’t think that addressing health, early childhood death, pandemic disease, eduction, is a part of spreading democracy or has anything to do with national security, you should read President Bush’s National Security Strategy because it’s the third “D” - Defense, Diplomacy, Development. This bill just helps US development assistance focus on the most effective (and cost-effective) fundamentals of economic development—the equivalent of reading, writing and arithmetic. Moreover, the point of requiring a strategy and having reporting requirements is to ensure that the money is having the intended impact.
5. The reason the bill has been just going through Congress without much fanfare is not because of some secret conspiracy or deviousness—it was just moving through because it’s just not that weighty of a bill. All of the hype it’s been getting lately is just scaremongering bordering on hysteria. I’m a policy analyst who works on very niche legislation, which very rarely is high profile enough to make the news (mostly laws that relate to the intersection of global health and national security), and just among those bills, this one is toward the bottom in terms of the profile it should receive.
I doubt many reading this will believe me over Rush, Kincaid or Glenn Beck, and I’m sure I’ll incur some wrath, but it’s the truth.
bttt
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