Posted on 12/09/2009 11:02:35 AM PST by PapaBear3625
[...] The draft Copenhagen Framework Convention on Climate Change establishes an international oversight body simply called the government. As the Convention draft states: The government will be ruled by the COP [Conference of the Parties], which will execute public policies . . . to which the market rules and related dynamics should be subordinate.
Like most big-government schemes, the Copenhagen Convention unleashes new agencies, panels, and other bureaucracies bearing such acronyms as EBFTA, TPRDA, TPRDM, and UNFCCC. The treaty even invokes the NAMAs and the NAPAs sadly, not a reference to a nearly homonymous 60s pop group. The Executive Body on Finance and Technology for Mitigation (EBFTM) pursues this riveting mission: To organize, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the implementation of the comprehensive framework for mitigation, including the enabling means of financing, technology, and capacity-building.
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Regarding revenues, the draft Convention offers options that negotiators will narrow into a final agreement. These include penalties and fines, a 2 percent tax on international financial-market transactions, a global carbon tax from which the LDCs [Less Developed Countries] shall be exempt, an international adaptation levy on airfares, except on journeys originating from or destined to LDCs, and mandatory contributions of 0.5 to 1 percent of GDP. Today, this tax alone would equal $72 billion to $144 billion in brand-new, annual, compulsory U.S. foreign-aid payments.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Copenhagen would be a nice venue to announce the withdrawal of the US from the UN and formally request they move their headquarters out of the US ASAP. I suggest southern Sudan, but they’re free to make their own choice...the sooner the better.
The EPA can levy "fees" on CO2 polluters, and then use these fees to make "grants" to UN agencies.
Did you see this, Ernest?
COP15 Proposals summary from AEP simulcast from Copenhagen earlier today
(Americans for Prosperity) http://www.americansforprosperity.org/national-site
COP15 Proposals:
- Western Economic Tax of 2% of GDP
- Removal of IP/Patent Rights for New Technologies in Clean Technology
- US Constitution is only paper, so Copenhagen Treaty as been renamed an Executive Agreement so Obama can sign it shortly
- Words worldwide government have been dropped from the Treaty; but there are 700 new global gov entities created
- The Treaty contains extensive, significant details (currently not being reported) on establishment of worldwide government
- Extensive political agenda of the COP15 meeting is being largely unreported
toe tag? /s
+1
Here's what the US should do. Take the number of countries in the UN and assign them a percentage value based on their populations and GDP. All UN countries will total 100%. Make them responsible for their percentage to fund the UN. Any country that receives aid from the US and doesn't pay their share of the UN dues, then that amount will be subtracted from the aid check the US sends them.
Carol Browner, energy czar
1. listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change
2. ran the EPA under President Clinton; she was on the board of directors for the National Audubon Society, the League of Conservation Voters, the Center for American Progress and former Vice President Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection
bttt
This article is a bunch of Crock.
It will be so easy to challenge this in court and it wil never pass Senate muster.
Blue helmets make great target practice!
To hell with France, NUKE the UN!
Obama signs this treaty, he will sign away our Sovereignty. Impeachable,treason? Failure to maintain his oath of office?
Its the only solution left.
Who the hell gives the UN authority to tax the USA
You assume of course that we will still be living under the laws of our Constitution and not some International mandate.
In January 2008 did you ever think we would be where we are now? I didn’t. I figured we had a decade or more.
End times. Be prepared, in every sense of the word.
appears they are the new enemy, I agree time to get out.
I used to think it would be a bad idea to leave the UN because the US could do more good utilizing the Veto power they hold, but it's become clear that the UN is irredeemable and corrupt through and through and the US ultimately does more ill in the world by remaining because the US funds the crimes the UN commits. I, for one, do not wish to be made complicit in their crimes, just as I refuse to be complicit in the murder of babies via abortion.
I was under the impression that only Congress could levy a tax on Americans.
Since Obama, Nancy, and Harry.
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