UN Wants to Tax Internet
Article: UN Could Tax US-based Web
Sites, Leaked Docs Show
CNET News – June 7, 2012
The United Nations is considering
a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers, including
Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix
that could cripple their ability to reach
users in developing nations.
The European proposal, offered
for debate at a December meeting of
a UN agency called the International
Telecommunication Union, would
amend an existing telecommunications
treaty by imposing heavy costs on
popular Web sites and their network
providers for the privilege of serving non-US users, according to newly
leaked documents.
General Ban, who declares in a forward
to the document that “only such
integrated approach will lay lasting
foundations for peace and sustainable
development”, and calls the upcoming
Rio conclave a “generational opportunity” to act.
Former Head-of-State Convicted
by World Court
Article: Hague Court Convicts Taylor
of War Crimes
Reuters – April 26, 2012
For the first time in the history
of the world, a head-of-state has been
tried and found guilty before a world
court. A world court system is essential if the planned world government is
to be able to enforce its authority upon
the world.
World government took a big leap
forward on April 26, 2012, when an
International Tribunal found former
Liberian president Charles Taylor
guilty of war crimes and crimes against
humanity, including rape, murder, and
destruction of civilian property. He
was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Taylor protested his innocence
and charged that International Criminal Court prosecutors paid witnesses
to testify against him. He was speaking
at his sentencing hearing at the ICC in
The Hague.
“Witnesses were paid, coerced
and in many cases threatened with
prosecution if they did not give statements,” Taylor declared.
Taylor charged that the case
a