to give up elements of sovereignty to
address the threat of global climate
change. Under one such arrangement, the Kyoto Protocol, which runs
through 2012, signatories agree to
cap specific emissions. What is needed
now is a successor arrangement in
which a larger number of governments, including the United States,
China and India, accept emission
limits or adopt common standards
because they recognize that they
would be worse off if no country did.
All of this suggests that sovereignty
must be redefined if states are to cope
with globalization.”
“Globalization thus implies that
sovereignty is not only becoming
weaker in reality, but that it needs to
become weaker. States would be wise
to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves, because they cannot
insulate themselves from what goes
on elsewhere. Sovereignty is no longer
a sanctuary.”
“Necessity may also lead to reducing or even eliminating sovereignty
when a government, whether from a
lack of capacity or conscious policy, is
unable to provide for the basic needs
of its citizens.”
“Our notion of sovereignty must
therefore be conditional, even contractual, rather than absolute. If a state
fails to live up to its side of the bargain
by sponsoring terrorism, either
transferring or using weapons of mass
destruction, or conducting genocide,
then it forfeits the normal benefits
of sovereignty and opens itself up to
attack, removal or occupation. The
diplomatic challenge for this era is to
gain widespread support for principles
of state conduct and a procedure for
determining remedies when these
principles are violated.
The goal should be to redefine
sovereignty for the era of globalization, to find a balance between a
world of fully sovereign states and an
international system of either world
government or anarchy.”
UN Still Pushing for Global Tax
Article: As the UN Opens its General
Assembly Session, it is Already Thinking Up New Global Taxes
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www.endtime.com JAN/FEB 2013
“THE GOAL
SHOULD BE TO
REDEFINE
SOVEREIGNTY FOR
THE ERA OF
GLOBALIZATION...”
FoxNews.com – September 28, 2012
A one percent tax on billionaires
around the world. A tax on all currency
trading in the US dollar, the euro, the
Japanese yen and the British pound
sterling. Another ‘tiny’ tax on all financial transactions, including stock and
bond trading, and trading in financial
derivatives.
New taxes on carbon emissions
and on airline tickets. A royalty on all
undersea mineral resources extracted
more than 100 miles offshore of any
nation’s territory.
The United Nations is at it again:
finding new and ‘innovative’ ways to
create global taxes that would transfer
hundreds of billions, and even trillions, of dollars from the rich nations
of the world—especially the US—to
poorer ones, in line with UN-directed
economic, social and environmental
development.
International Observers
Assert Authority to Supervise
US Elections
Article: International Observers Say
States Out of Line
Politico.com – November 1, 2012
“The group hosting international
election observers said Thursday
that state officials in Iowa and Texas
are needlessly blocking access to the
decades-old process the United States
already has agreed to,” an official