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United Nations Wants Global Taxes to Fund Itself and Africa
[last update: 2011/11/10]
The United Nations wants your money. The following AFP news article indicates their approach – increased global taxes.
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101105/sc_afp/unenvironmentclimate]
From the AFP article: “Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia said there carbon emission taxes must be used as a deterrent to producing the gases blamed for global warming and to raise revenue.”
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Carbon (and Other) Taxes
From the above AFP article on the UN: “They proposed that carbon dioxide emissions should cost between 20 and 25 dollars a tonne.”
Without government imposition of carbon taxes, CO2 is a worthless commodity. “Watts Up With That” recently reported: “Carbon Trade Ends on Quiet Death of Chicago Climate Exchange” with the price of a tonne of CO2 flat-lining at 5 cents.
[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/08/public-carbon-trading-dead-in-the-usa/]
Obama was involved in the creation of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), and both Gore and Goldman Sachs were investors; see: http://www.appinsys.com/globalwarming/WhiteHouseDeception.htm
Former UN advisor and (creator of the UN environmental conferences) Maurice Strong was on the board of CCX. For more info on CCX see: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/CarbonMonetization.htm
CO2 An Excuse for Money Grab by the UN
But the United Nations doesn’t really care about CO2 – it is just an excuse for grabbing money. A 2004 report from the United Nations University [http://www.unescap.org/tid/mtg/egmrti_ref272.pdf] states:
They make it clear that they don’t really care what tax base is used, just as long as they can achieve redistribution of world income in the name of “global justice”.
“The revenue potential appears large – a fuel-consumption tax on CO2 emissions could by itself finance the MDGs. … It would require that the United States opt for it, however; 20 per cent of the tax yield would originate there alone.” From “Financing Development, Aid and Beyond”, OECD Development Centre [http://books.google.com/books?id=_XvLvuRd4-8C]
Financial Transaction Tax
From the AFP article: “The group also proposed a tax on financial transactions but admitted in their report: "diverging views will make it difficult to implement this universally." The United States has led nations opposed to a new financial tax.”
The United Nations has been trying to fund itself and Africa for many years. The UNU report cited above states: “If the world is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, we will need not only significant changes in policies and priorities but also a major effort by developing countries and the international community to mobilize additional financial resources.” The “Tobin Tax” – i.e. a global financial transaction tax has for many years been considered by the UN: “the final distributional effects, and the impact on real transactions, are hard to predict.” And a disadvantage according to UNU: “Some transactions are particularly affected, notably the remittances from emigrants … Remittances from migrants are a market-based external source of development finance, which have, according to published estimates, increased steadily from around US$ 15 billion in 1980 to US$ 80 billion in 2002. These are large flows, second only to foreign direct investment as a component of external resource flows to developing countries. To an important extent, remittances finance consumption and may be seen as an instrument of global redistribution: that is, an international mechanism for social protection.”
Never Ending
The 2004 UNU papers refer to needing $50 billion per year. Now the UN, according to the AFP article needs $100 billion per year. This growth in needs is never ending at the UN – even though the world has made great stride in alleviating global poverty (although Africa still has the largest percentage of poor people).
“The past 20 years have seen substantial progress in many aspects of human development. Most people today are healthier, live longer, are more educated and have more access to goods and services. Even in countries facing adverse economic conditions, people’s health and education have greatly improved. And there has been progress not only in improving health and education and raising income, but also in expanding people’s power to select leaders, influence public decisions and share knowledge.” [http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/summary/]
Global Government
Another UNU paper (“Innovative Sources of Development Finance”, 2002) proposes “the establishment of a ‘world development organization’ to coordinate such effort” (the effort it refers to is: “international taxes, fees and levies that could considerably augment aid flows to developing countries”). [http://www.cbd.int/doc/external/unu/unu-dp2002-98-en.pdf]
The AFP article says the UN climate panel included “financier George Soros”. According to the National Legal and Policy Center, Soros provided $50 million to the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which is “applying its talent to “contracting” the U.S. economy, redistributing its wealth, and creating a new world body to “supervise” global financial transactions – a body its elite membership intends to influence.” [http://nlpc.org/stories/2010/07/09/george-soros-new-plan-globalism-and-crony-capitalism]
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Africa
From the AFP article: “Zenawi said that African nations consider climate finance “an issue of sanity and justice”.”
A 2010 study reported in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal indicates what the real problem in Africa is - overpopulation:
[http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2010/10/15/population-floods-africa/]
From the above:
According to the UN, “World population is forecast to reach 9 billion by 2050, with almost all the growth in developing countries.” [http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Chapter6.pdf]
The developing countries are the ones producing actual air pollution – not CO2, but black carbon. The following figure shows the atmospheric solar heating due to black carbon, indicating the regional areas of major black carbon emissions [http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v1/n4/full/ngeo156.html].
“In their frantic search for a solution to the global warming crisis, climatologists and policy makers have managed to overlook one of the leading causes of rising world temperatures - soot, the familiar black residue that coats fireplaces and darkens truck exhaust. ``Soot - or black carbon - may be responsible for 15 to 30 percent of global warming, yet it`s not even considered in any of the discussions about controlling climate change,`` says Stanford Professor Mark Z. Jacobson” [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/02/010208075206.htm]
The global warming solution according to the United Nations:
See: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GWForAfrica.htm
According to the AFP article, UN climate panel leader and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Zenawi says this is about “sanity and justice”. Ethiopia has the 7th largest population growth rate in the world (3.2 % / year - a population doubling period of 22 years) “Ethiopia's poverty-stricken economy is based on agriculture” and yet “Under Ethiopia's constitution, the state owns all land and provides long-term leases to the tenants; the system continues to hamper growth in the industrial sector as entrepreneurs are unable to use land as collateral for loans.” [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/et.html] Perhaps Zenawi should look at a bit of sanity and justice within his own country.
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Oxfam Clueless
From the AFP article: “Oxfam's climate change spokesperson, Tracy Carty, commented: "Money to tackle climate change and help poor communities adapt can be raised without dipping into taxpayers' pockets. The next step is for political leaders to lay out a clear roadmap for making this funding a reality."”
So, by magical thinking, all these UN-based taxes are not “dipping into taxpayers' pockets”
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See also:
Global Governance: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GlobalGovernance.htm
Vulnerability Contradiction: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/Vulnerability.htm
Africa Wants Money: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GWForAfrica.htm
Climate Cash – The Vulnerable Want More Money: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/ClimateCash.htm
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