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Next year the UNFCCC’s Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres will call a “significant number of
meetings and workshops…to prepare the new agreement.” Then in 2014, UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon will “convene leaders to mobilize the political will to ensure the 2015 deadline is met.”

The new treaty would be destructive to the American economy by capping greenhouse gases, primarily
carbon dioxide, the gas emitted when fossil fuels are burned. The UN insists that fossil fuels be
replaced with solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, but even with billions of stimulus
dollars and taxpayer subsidies, those sources produce woefully inadequate amounts of energy.”

http://www.eagleforum.org/topics/global-warming/un-takes-concrete-steps-toward-global-tax.html

ATTEMPTING TO TAX BILLIONAIRES, CURRENCY TRADING AND OTHER FINANCIAL
TRANSACTIONS, CARBON EMISSIONS, ETC.

In April of 2012 the United Nations Economic and Social Council proposed a “1 percent tax on
billionaires around the world. A tax on all currency trading in the U.S. 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.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/27/as-un-opens-its-general-assembly-session-it-is-
already-thinking-up-new-global/#ixzz2D6EyUXbK

ATTEMPTING TO TAX INTERNET CONTENT PROVIDERS AND INTERNET FINANCIAL
TRANSACTIONS

“Dec. 3-14, 2012 the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is holding a conference in
Dubai, at which U.N. member states will meet to update the ITU treaty arrangements for international
communications….the window will be open for everything from proposals for UN-regulated and
administered fees…to online censorship and government monitoring of Web traffic.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/11/un_advances_effort_to_grab_control_of_the_inter
net.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2012/06/08/is-the-u-n-trying-to-tax-the-
internet/
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations’ public health arm, is moving full speed
ahead with a controversial plan to impose global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity
and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online — while its spending soars and its own
financial house is in disarray.
http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/should-the-united-nations-get-to-tax-the-
internet-atm-withdrawals-and-air-travel/

ATTEMPTING TO GOVERN HOW TELEPHONE CALLS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS ARE
EXCHANGED INTERNATIONALLY

“The United States said Thursday that it will not sign a United Nations telecommunications treaty that
U.S. technology companies warn would disrupt governance of the Internet and open the door to
online censorship. The U.K. and Canada also said they would not ratify the treaty after negotiations
ended at a conference hosted by the U.N. International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Dubai.
U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer, who led the U.S. delegation during the conference, told reporters on a
conference call that the U.S. could not sign the treaty because there were “too many issues here that
were problematic for us.”
The treaty is intended to govern how telephone calls and other communications traffic are exchanged
internationally. While it is not a legally binding document, Kramer said the U.S. opposed extending
the scope of the treaty to include Internet governance and online content matters.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/272819-us-says-it-wont-ratify-un-telecom-treaty