[3] It was originally proposed by George Soros, who wrote Toward a New World Order: The Future of NATO, back in 1993. He figured that NATO could take on the military responsibilities of the New World Order until the U.N. was ready to do the job.

 

Will Marshall's book, With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty, includes a chapter by Anne-Marie Slaughter, "Reinventing the United Nations," which urges fulfillment of the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals, which will cost the U.S. $845 billion, and creation of a "more globally inclusive NATO."

 

Slaughter cites the views of Senator Joseph Biden, incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who she notes has argued for "reorienting" the U.N. and Bretton Woods institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He once wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal under the headline, "How I Learned to Love the New World Order." He has emerged as one of the strongest advocates of making NATO, once an anti-Communist alliance, into a military arm of the U.N. He also supported creation of the International Criminal Court.

 

[4] The Treaty establishes a new international legal regime, including a new international court, to govern activities on, over, and under the world's oceans. The treaty explicitly governs seven-tenths of the world's surface and could easily be interpreted to restrict U.S. military activities. The provisions of the treaty would also permit international rules and regulations governing economic and industrial activities on the remaining land area of the world in order to combat global warming and other perceived pollution dangers. The treaty provides for the taxing of U.S. and other corporations which mine the ocean floor, thereby establishing the first independent source of revenue for the U.N.

[5] While the Bush Administration has never formally endorsed this measure, the 2005 World Summit document advocates "equal access to reproductive health," a euphemism for abortion rights, and calls for "Achieving universal access to reproductive health by 2015." In this case, the U.S. Mission to the U.N. issued a statement after the fact saying that the U.S. does not agree that the phrase "reproductive health" means abortion rights.

 

[6] The Clinton Administration bombed Yugoslavia, without the approval of the U.S. Congress or the U.N, on behalf of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), some of whose fighters were trained by Osama bin Laden. Radical Islamists are now poised to take over Kosovo and make it into an independent state, if the U.S. and the U.N. give it their final approval. NATO was transformed by the Clinton Administration from a defensive to offensive military force without a treaty being submitted to or passed by the Senate, as required by the Constitution.

[7] At first, the U.S. had objected to references in the 2005 World Summit document to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) because they suggested the U.S. had to meet U.N. demands to spend a certain percentage of Gross National Product on foreign aid. U.N. adviser Jeffrey Sachs says the MDGs obligate the U.S. to spend an additional $845 billion on foreign aid. But the MDGs stayed in the document and President Bush, in his U.N. speech, declared that "We are committed to the Millennium Development goals." The U.S. position is that it supports "the development goals of the Millennium Declaration" but not the detailed and mandatory "Millennium Development Goals," which were cooked up by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and never formally adopted by member states. This is apparently why, in the President's speech, the "g" in goals was lower case. Almost a trillion dollars may hinge on a capital letter.

[8] President Jimmy Carter has argued that, ““While the international community is justified in exerting strong pressure on Iran to comply with the Non-Proliferation Treaty, there is no public effort or comment in the United States or Europe calling for Israel to comply with the Non-Proliferation Treaty or submit to any other restraints. At the same time, we fail to acknowledge what a powerful incentive this is to Iran, Syria, Egypt, and other states to join the nuclear community.”

What Carter seems to be saying is that Israel must be disarmed of its nuclear deterrent as part of the process of stopping the Iranian nuclear weapons program. That is the U.N. approach as well.

 

In a February 2, 2005, article, Mohamed ElBaradei, the director-general of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), argued that “all parties” in the Middle East should pursue “a dialogue on regional security” that would ultimately result in “a nuclear weapons free zone.” That approach has been reflected in resolutions on Iran.

[14] The 2005 World Summit document urges member states to adopt the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which justifies U.N. interference in how families raise their children and has been interpreted to prohibit spanking.

 

[15] The U.S. verbally opposes the proposal while continuing to underwrite the conferences and bureaucrats that make this power grab possible.

 

[16] A recent example of this is the AFL-CIO complaint, filed with the U.N.’s International Labor Organization, over “anti-worker” activities by the Bush Administration.

 

[17] These extraordinary figures were provided to Senator Tom Coburn by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Before this report, Coburn’s office says, no one in the federal government had ever developed a public compilation of the total U.S. contributions, including non-monetary, to the entire U.N. system.

[18] While Annan was a big backer of global tax schemes, so is Ban Ki-moon, the Minister of Foreign affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, whose government put forward a draft bill for the creation of an “air ticket solidarity contribution” – the international airline tax. His support for this global tax was considered a factor in his selection as new U.N. chief.

In his speech accepting the nomination and post, Ban Ki-moon said, “We should do our part in meeting the Millennium Development Goals, the expanding peace operations, the threats posed by terrorism, WMD proliferation, HIV/AIDS and other pandemics, environmental degradation, and the imperatives of human rights.”

[19] The 2000 Republican Party platform declared, “The United Nations was not designed to summon or lead armies in the field and, as a matter of U.S. sovereignty, American troops must never serve under United Nations command.”

But the Clinton PDD remains in effect and has never been repealed. In addition, U.S. troops have remained under U.N. command and control every year of the Bush administration.

 

[20] The matter has been taken before the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case involving using international law “as a source of authority for interpreting the U.S. Constitution and U.S. statutes,” as noted by the Washington Post. See ”Texas Accuses Bush of Trampling Its Autonomy in Death Penalty Case, “ Charles Lane, March 28, 2005, Page A02.

 

[21] UNESCO is promoting  a "Convention on the Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Content and Artistic Expression," which U.S. officials believe is designed to keep American influences and products out of the rest of the world. UNESCO has a Cuban Communist as one of its vice-presidents.

 

[22] The 2005 World Summit document, endorsed by the Bush Administration, proposes an international tax on airline travel, as long as it is implemented by countries on their own and not through the U.N.

 

For example, global taxes surfaced in Annex II of the Gleneagles 2005 G-8 communiqué, which is titled “Financing Commitments.”  It states that “A group of countries above [an apparent reference to Germany, Italy, France and the UK] firmly believe that innovative financing mechanisms can help deliver and bring forward the financing needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals [ i.e. more foreign aid spending]. They will continue to consider the International financing Facility (IFF), a pilot IFF for Immunization and a solidarity contribution on plane tickets to finance development projects, in particular in the health sector, and to finance the IFF. A working group will consider the implementation of these mechanisms.” 

 

While the Bush Administration is said to be opposed to global taxes in general, it has failed to follow through with vigorous opposition to proposals like UNITAID, the vehicle for spending the proceeds of the international airline tax.

 

[23] Among other claims, counsel for New argue that he has never been afforded the right to have a jury determine if, in fact, the order to serve the U.N. and wear a U.N. uniform was illegal and unconstitutional. See: www.mikenew.com

 

[24] John Kerry's sister Peggy is employed by the U.S. Mission to the U.N. as a liaison to the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that constantly undercut the U.S. position on most foreign policy issues. Kerry, one of many career employees at the U.S. mission, took time off from her job in 2004 to campaign for her brother for president. The U.S. Mission is consistently outmaneuvered by the NGOs, working hand-in-glove with the U.N. Correspondents Association (UNCA), a group of mostly pro-U.N. journalists. One of them, Ian Williams of The Nation magazine, actually takes money from the U.N. to train U.N. officials on how to deal with the press. He is a former UNCA president.

 

One new NGO-driven effort is the "Millennium Campaign," which has been urging achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. It says "the MDGs will require more resources from the U.S. and other rich nations." The U.S. contact for the campaign is Carol Welch, an adviser to Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), a group supported by a large number of liberal foundations, including the Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Planethood Foundation, the Ploughshares Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Stanley Foundation, and Ted Turner's United Nations Foundation.

 

United Nations Undersecretary-General Anwarul Chowdhury, the high representative for least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing states, has endorsed another idea, that of a "Global Media Compact" to foster awareness of the perceived need for more foreign aid spending.

 

The concept was launched at a luncheon attended by diplomats and members of the media at U.N. World Headquarters in New York, according to a story from United Press International (UPI). Chowdhury "appealed to media outlets to feature stories raising awareness of poverty, disease and hunger in severely underdeveloped countries," the story said. In other words, this campaign, like the other one, is designed to make "rich" countries cough up more money for the rest of the world. This campaign is said to be a partnership between the U.N. and a U.S.-based media company, MediaGlobal, which has launched a Web-based "development channel" called mediaglobalTV.org. The executive director of MediaGlobal is identified as Nosh Nalavala, who also served as media officer for Chowdhury's office.

 

You can find some information about the Media Compact by visiting the Universal Peace Television website, where you can see that UPI, the World & I, the World Peace Herald, and the Universal Peace Federation are listed as sponsors. These publications and organizations share one thing in common—they are funded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the billionaire who also underwrites the Washington Times.

 

 [25] Rep. Jim Leach, a liberal Republican defeated for re-election, has been offered up by Citizens for Global Solutions and anti-Bolton activist Steve Clemons as a replacement for John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. The CGS supports “Building a strengthened and empowered United Nations, by appointing a U.S. ambassador who understands diplomacy and cooperation are the keys to success.”

 

America’s Survival, Inc. is supporting Ambassador Frank Ruddy for the post.

 

[26] Senator McConnell did not attach the Senator Inhofe “No Global Taxes” bill to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill because Senate and House Republicans, tired of the big spender label that was pinned on them, decided to let the new Congress handle these money bills. Inhofe will reintroduce his bill in the next Congress but it will not go anywhere, in all likelihood, because Senator Joe Biden is taking over the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  Of course, the ranking Republican and current chairman, Senator Richard Lugar, didn’t support the Inhofe bill, either.

 

[27]  The first attempt at this was Rep. Roscoe Bartlett’s U.N. Erroneous Debt Act. During fiscal years 1996 to 2001, the U.S. directly contributed an estimated $3.5 billion to support U.N. military operations. Indirect U.S. contributions that benefited U.N. peacekeeping were estimated at $24 billion during this period. Most of that support was taken out of the Pentagon budget. That's money never credited to the U.S. account at the U.N. by a world body that accused America of being a "deadbeat" nation in paying our so-called "dues."

[28]  The group’s first report condemns use of the terms “Islamic terrorism” and “Islamic fascism” as “having contributed to an alarming increase is Islamophobia which further exacerbates Muslim fears of the west.” The group includes former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and John L. Esposito,, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and Founding Director of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

Annan accepted $500,000 in prize money from the government of Dubai. But there is no accounting of where the money went. 

 

[29] The U.N.-backed Unitaid agency is using the proceeds from a global airline tax to pay the Clinton Foundation to buy and distribute anti-AIDS drugs. The drugs are toxic and can kill and may cause the AIDS virus to mutate, making the disease even more deadly.  

 

One of the key players in this scheme is Ira Magaziner, who was Hillary Clinton’s point man when she tried to foist socialized medicine on the American people in the first Clinton term. Magaziner is running the Clinton Foundation’s anti-AIDS program and helping Unitaid manage the spending of global tax revenue. So far, the international airline tax has not been implemented by the U.S. But the new Democratic Congress may see this as something viable. 

 

Abner Mason, Executive Director of the AIDS Responsibility Project, notes that some anti-AIDS generic drugs distributed to Africa and endorsed by such entities as the U.N. and the Clinton Foundation have been taken off the market because they weren't properly tested and shown to be effective.

 

[30] The Bush administration has offered the U.N. a 30-year loan to pay for the $1 billion project.

 

International lawyer and former Ambassador Frank Ruddy has the experience, credentials and character to represent the U.S. effectively at the international organization. He believes in moving the organization away from grand visions of "global governance." Ruddy was the Deputy Chairman of a U.N. Peacekeeping Referendum for the Western Sahara in 1994 and has testified about the problems and flaws in U.N. operations worldwide.

While other names besides Leach have been put forward to replace Bolton, such as Zalmay Khalilzad, who is leaving his post as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ruddy has direct experience in working with the U.N. and understands, like Bolton did, the obstacles that stand in the way of asserting American interests at the world body. Ruddy would be able to pick up where Bolton left off.

Ruddy's impressive career has included serving as general counsel for the U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea; and assistant administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Ruddy is also very familiar with never-ending efforts at U.N. "reform." In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, he noted that former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, who served as Undersecretary for Management at the U.N., had submitted a report to then-U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1993 proposing the streamlining of the U.N., in order to eliminate waste and fraud and save hundreds of millions of dollars. But Ruddy noted that "Boutros-Ghali, as Thornburgh has stated publicly, had the report suppressed and remaining copies shredded."

If U.N. "reform" is still supposed to be a priority at the world body, Ruddy knows what needs to be done and who and what stand in the way.

Ambassador Frank Ruddy is independent of the U.N. lobby and has testified before the U.S. Congress on U.N. corruption. He is not afraid to shake things up in a bureaucracy as large and complex as the U.N. He would not need any on-the-job training from a U.S. mission to the U.N. staff that includes John Kerry's sister Peggy.

 

 

Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy: Cliff Kincaid is “the indefatigable president of the UN watchdog, America's Survival.”

 

Free Congress Foundation chairman Paul Weyrich: "Researcher Cliff Kincaid has devoted his life in recent years to studying what is happening at the United Nations...we need to support Cliff Kincaid at America’s Survival Inc. We need him as our watchdog, informing us about the latest UN outrages. If he were not on top of these developments we might never know about them in time to act... [America’s Survival] is an organization dedicated to protecting American sovereignty from encroachment by the United Nations.”

 

Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum: "Cliff exposed the racket about the U.S. owing 'back dues' to the U.N."

 

Conservative Book Club: "The U.N. is playing America like a fiddle, and Cliff Kincaid, author of the U.N. expose Global Bondage, shows how that global body is coercing the U.S. into funding the subversion of its own sovereignty -- right under our very eyes.... The U.N. has plans for you and your children, and, as author Cliff Kincaid has discovered, the hour is late."