VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2 -- MARCH 1, 2000

WHAT'S IT GOING TO COST YOU?

How much are you going to have to pay to implement the United Nations' AGENDA 21?

The Finance Caucus of the NGO Steering Committee to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development recently issued a draft document laying out some of the "needs" and some of the proposed means for meeting them. This Steering Committee is a "global coalition of NGOs and major groups working for sustainable development at the United Nations." Their draft report, "New financial mechanisms for sustainable development - green taxes for global needs?" submitted to the United Nations states:

"To assure sustainable development as identified in Agenda 21, governments agreed that new and additional resources were needed from developed countries. Agenda 21 recognized that it would take $625 billion a year to implement the agreement. This would include a transfer of $125 billion a year from north to south." The transfer from north to south may well be the transfer of your job to someone south of the border.

As the report pointed out, Agenda 21 or sustainable development is just one of the UN's money hungry agendas: "In fact, sustainable development is only one set of the many competing new demands for international money. Advocates of peacekeeping, refugees, development, etc, all want or need more financial resources."

Their solution to this taxing problem is as follows:

"In an ideal world, we would all be concerned with the state of the global commons to create and sustain a livable world. New forms of resource generation including taxation are needed, which might be collected nationally but which would be available for collective use. In this regard, we must better access resources that are available for sustainable development. Many of these ideas relate to other global objectives; the recommendations here concentrate primarily on ways of raising money for sustainable development.

"Obviously, a new tax or revenue stream should be cheap, easy to collect, and difficult to evade. It should be neutral in its impact on market incentives and on income distribution unless it is deliberately designed (like tobacco taxation or progressive income tax, for example) to influence consumption or to redistribute wealth.

"Most of the ideas for global taxation fall into three groups. The first group consists of various forms of taxation on financial transactions. As short-term transactions have proven to have destabilizing effects not fostering sustainable development, the issue should be endorsed at this CSD, with a concrete time-frame for an international implementation.

"The second group tries to exploit a hitherto-untapped source of revenue which no nation-state already "owns". the most-discussed example of these "global commons" is deep-sea mineral mining outside territorial waters.

"The third consists of attempts to get sovereign states to dedicate some part of their present national tax base to global purposes, in the same way that the European Union has an automatic right to part of the yield of VAT (value added tax) in member countries."

THE WAY FORWARD

"The CSD (Council for Sustainable Development) NGO Finance Caucus calls for the Financing for Development Conference to address the following suggestions for global revenue. It should be accepted that any such mechanisms that impact adversely on developing nations or Indigenous Peoples should be avoided.

Which organizations believe your pockets are deep enough to support their goals? A list of more than 100 can be found at:

http://www.una-usa.org/programs/coo.htm

The list contains some familiar names such as:

We have talked before about NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and how they are being used as change agents to bring about changes in the way our government will operate. There is now a new acronym we must introduce, CSOs (civil society organizations). To introduce these we offer some quotes from an article by Doug Hindson, a geopolitical researcher who lives in rural northeast Toronto, Ontario. He is a regular contributor to the print media in his area, and is beginning his fourth year as a panelist on "In Search of Understanding," a weekly television show. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Sovereignty International, Inc.

"On December 7, 1999, some five hundred people representing more than three hundred non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world began a four day conference labeled The World Civil Society Conference. They gathered in Canada's historic, largely French-speaking city of Montreal, Quebec, to flesh out a basis for what will become a UN People's Assembly, the formal charter for which is to be drafted in Samoa in April 2000."

Have you ever wondered who makes the arrangements to bring such groups together? Who picks up the tab for the travel and the hotel accommodations? Who organizes these NGOs and sets their agendas? How many of you have been invited to join and express your opinions of how our world should be run?

"One of the chief purposes of the conference, besides the run-up to the Spring 2000 meeting in Samoa, was the introduction of two foundational documents. The first, a 325 page draft document entitled Codes of Conduct for Partnership in Governance: Text and Commentaries is edited by Tatsuro Kunugi, Professor of International Administration and Cooperation at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan and Martha Schweitz, currently Professor of International Law at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan. It was published by The United Nations University. The document, a copy of which was presented to Secretary General Kofi Annan, is designed to guide NGO formation, and actions that have a bearing on partnerships among various actors for global governance."

"Codes of Conduct for Partnership in Governance," now that's a nice sounding phrase but what does it mean? And what is this partnership in governance? Do not all Americans have a partnership in the governance of our country, our state, and our local community? It's called the vote...the ballot box. Who else needs a partnership in the governance of America? You just might be surprised.

"The second document, entitled Whose World is it Anyway? Civil Society, the United Nations and the multilateral future is a collection of selected papers edited by John W. Foster and Anita Anand. It was published by The United Nations Association of Canada. The thrust of the 550 page book is to lay out the role of civil society and its components while addressing its involvement in future global governance."

Civil society, the United Nations and the multilateral future? What in the world is a multilateral future? The United States did have participants at this conference. Mr. Hindson's article contained the following reference:"the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) was front and centre, represented by Rachel Kyte of the U.S.A." We doubt seriously that Ms. Kyte's views would represent most of yours, but then you were not invited. We hope you do not think that all these people meet and that all those monies are spent just for the fun of it. No, these are people who believe in their agendas and who will go to extreme lengths to move them forward. Many, probably most are misguided and actually believe they can bring about a better future for the world through their efforts. They are what Lenin termed "useful idiots." But if the truth were known the bulk of the financing for such gatherings comes from the well stocked coffers of some of our well known "charitable" Foundations.

"A series of facilitated workshops were held during the course of the second and third days, dealing with a wide variety of topics. Workshop ten, for instance, answered the question: Does Civil Society need stronger governments and stronger parliaments to preserve the global commons? The answer of this workshop's participants was "Yes." Workshop six considered the topic: Under what conditions can Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) organize effectively for intergovernmental negotiations; lessons from summits of the 1990s."

We have talked about the global commons before, but in case you missed it: The air you breathe is not yours, the water beneath your property is not yours, the minerals that might lie under your home or farm are not yours, the gold and silver the oil and coal in the ground in your country is not yours nor does it belong to your country. All of these are common resources that belong to "everyone on earth," they are global commons. Of course it is not possible for all people to participate in the control and management of such resources, that must be left to the elite who know far better how to manage things than do you ... just as the federal government has become a far better manager of your money than you could ever be. And here we come to the CSOs, which are really just an extension of the NGOs, just another way of moving control of government from the hands of the people into the hands of special interest groups while calling it democracy.

There are NGOs and CSOs operative in almost every community of any size in America today. They may call themselves by many names: Citizens for Efficient Government, Citizens Committee for the Protection of (you fill in the blank), the Cahaba River Preservation Society, etc., etc. Most of them are made up of well-meaning citizens who truly want to do something to help solve some of our problems, but all too often they are being steered into directions that will eventually exacerbate our problems by restricting our liberties and abridging our freedoms. The goal of the globalists is control, total control over the lives of all who inhabit the earth, man and beast, and their professed concern for the environment or the animal kingdom is but a means of securing that control. Long before Lenin found his "useful idiots" Satan found his "willing dupes." They are alive and well on planet earth and proceeding with their masters' plan for his new world order.

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