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.
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Obama is trying to get his alinsky magic back with the news release LEAK of him telling pubs to stop ‘scaring’ people. And he is as slick as a snake in the grass by making it look like he is giving free money to save/create jobs.
It won’t work. America knows he is a liar.
I agree.
America knows he is a liar.
Not so sure that will make a difference sadly enough.
It will when they have to pay taxes to breathe, pass flatulance or a tree sues them.
I think I’ll change my name to Skip Copenhagen......has a certain ring to it.
They try to pass this and Bammie is going to find that he can’t get back in the country, nor can any of the UN members. I would imagine that the Turtle Bay building will implode real good and there will be no more UN nor will there be any further US foreign aid to ANY country ANYWHERE.
I am as prepared as I think I can be.
The reality, as I see it, is that rather than Global Warming, the solar cycle is putting us into a multi-year cooling trend. If the solar cycle does not pick up, then do not be surprised at crop failures and widespread famine in the 3rd World. See this thread
They have ZERO credibility with the U.N.’s failed food for oil scandal and CLimateGate they are communist jokes!
Pray that they keep fighting and it falls apart as there is no way they can control the world.
I’m rummaging around in my copy of the Constitution for the clause that gives the power to a foreign entity to tax even one penny from an American. Doesn’t this document mean ANYTHING anymore?
I'm surprised you haven't noticed -- they don't care about the Constitution. There is only Power and the Will to use it.
Yes they do. All they have to do is pass a bill that says that no US money will be used in furtherance of this agreement. But the Dems will be content to sit back and pretend they have no choice.
Understand.
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