US Sovereignty is being openly eroded by schemes advanced by the UN and aided and abetted by US politicians and NWO agents

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/229653-house-to-examine-plan-to-let-un-regulate-internet

House to examine plan for United Nations to regulate the Internet

By Brendan Sasso - 05/26/12 08:10 AM ET

House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next week to give the United Nations more control over the Internet.

The proposal is backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members, and would give the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) more control over the governance of the Internet.It’s an unpopular idea with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress, and officials with the Obama administration have also criticized it.

“We're quite concerned,” Larry Strickling, the head of the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, said in an interview with The Hill earlier this year.

He said the measure would expose the Internet to “top-down regulation where it's really the governments that are at the table, but the rest of the stakeholders aren't.”

At a hearing earlier this month, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also criticized the proposal. He said China and Russia are "not exactly bastions of Internet freedom."

"Any place that bans certain terms from search should not be a leader in international Internet regulatory frameworks," he said, adding that he will keep a close eye on the process.

Yet the proposal could come up for a vote at a UN conference in Dubai in December.

Next week’s hearing is expected to bring more attention in the U.S. to the measure, which would give the UN more control over cybersecurity, data privacy, technical standards and the Web’s address system. It would also allow foreign government-owned Internet providers to charge extra for international traffic and allow for more price controls.

The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Communications and Technology will hold the hearing and hear testimony from Robert McDowell, a Republican commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); David Gross, a former State Department official; and Sally Shipman Wentworth, the senior manager of public policy for the nonprofit Internet Society.

The Internet is currently governed under a “multi-stakeholder” approach that gives power to a host of nonprofits, rather than governments.

Strickling said that system brings more ideas and flexibility to Internet policymaking.  

“We lose that when we turn this over to a group of just governments,” Strickling said.

In an op-ed earlier this year in The Wall Street Journal, McDowell warned that “a top-down, centralized, international regulatory overlay is antithetical to the architecture of the Net.”

“Productivity, rising living standards and the spread of freedom everywhere, but especially in the developing world, would grind to a halt as engineering and business decisions become politically paralyzed within a global regulatory body,” McDowell wrote.

He said some governments feel excluded from Internet policymaking and want more control over the process.

“And let's face it, strong-arm regimes are threatened by popular outcries for political freedom that are empowered by unfettered Internet connectivity,” McDowell wrote.

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http://www.infowars.com/un-creates-new-more-powerful-global-environmental-agency/

UN Creates New, More Powerful Global Environmental Agency

Susanne Posel
Infowars.com
May 27, 2012

In June of this year, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the United Nations (UN) will push for the expansion of their new and improved global environmental agency.

The UN Environmental Program(UNEP) will be promoted to “specialized agency” with a new title, UN Environment Organization(UNEO).

The UNEO will prop up the Sustainable Development division of the UN. The same agency that disseminates Agenda 21 policies to governments will be centralized into a global agency with powerful international backing.

As the unscientific assertions of a global environmental crisis, vanishing biodiversity and over-population become more “urgent” to the UN; the insertion of international governance is being covertly added into the mix as the answer to solve all problems worldwide.

Through treaties, agreements and institutions, reformation of the UN within the UN has yielded quite a response.

Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General devised the global sustainability panel that includes more than 50 supporters of the creation of UNEO.

“One option is the possible transformation of UNEP into a specialized agency of the United Nations. A strengthened UNEP could enhance coherence between relevant multilateral environmental agreements, and better integrate its work with the activities of development institutions, especially the United Nations Development Program,” states one recommendation.

The UN is changing the status of the “program” to an “agency” to demand more funding for its initiatives; as well as receives more power and autonomy.

Although UNEO is slated to be funded entirely by voluntary donation, “assessed contributions” could be allocated to the agency on the basis of success and necessity.

Specialized agencies within the UN receive these “assessed contributions” by member states as derived from factors such as national income and gross domestic product.

The more the country can afford, the more the UN takes to fund their international directives.

One way of directing funds to the UN is through the usurpation of innovative technologies for the sake of “saving the planet”. There is a call for development and manufacturing of greenhouse safe products; however the allocation of funding toward research for finding a way to mitigate or even stop climate change effects seems to be left out.

The business of climate change is expected to be quite lucrative for those successful at convincing authoritative bodies that these technologies must be purchased by their nation and mandated for use by their citizens.

The UN will disburse a global carbon tax , redistribute the world’s wealth and install programs that will place all issues concerning humanity, poverty, the securitization of resources and education under its control and command.

They will force ecological taxes to steer large amounts of money into funds designed to redesign humanity, civilization and the planet – and fit them all into their mold. A carbon cap-and-trade tax system for industrial countries could yield $250 billion per year.

They also want to take in investment monies to mandate new public policies, regulation and propose incentives “by fundamentally restructuring public spending and leveraging private investments towards environmental and social investments, indebted industrial countries can expect to find new growth paths that support fiscal consolidation while contributing to a green economy.”

The US contributed $22.9 million of American taxpayer money to the UN in 2010. That accounted for 9.8% of the agency’s total annual funding. US federal agencies that “voluntarily” gave to the UN are:

• The Department of the Interior
• Department of State
• The Environmental Protection Agency
• NASA

The creation of a global environmental agency is championed by the European Union, who has been calling for the upgrade of UNEP for quite some time.

IN 2007, Jacques Chirac called for the expansion of a “massive international action to face the environmental crisis”, referring to the yet realized UNEO. “We are coming to realize that the entire planet is at risk, that the well-being, health, safety, and very survival of humankind hangs in the balance. We call for the transformation of the UNEP into a genuine international organization to which all countries belong, along the lines of the World Health Organization.”

The ideal that Chirac lead over 5 years ago is now being resurfaced and supported by 46 countries in the European Union; as well as Africa, Latin America and Asia.

The US, Russia and China have declined to be part of the push for this monstrous agency that will wield enormous international power over the environment.

Chirac, a man-made climate change alarmist, backed the documentation of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when they made public a series of reports that claimed the global temperatures were exponentially rising and those drastic effects would continue for centuries.

Obama has followed suit with the UN and created his own environmental organization called theInternational Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

IRENA is run like a UN agency, with members’ contributions based on the same criteria as the UN funds their agencies. IRENA receives American taxpayer money which makes up 22% of its current annual budget.

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http://www.infowars.com/foreign-agents-creep-into-u-s-canada-under-integration-scheme/

Foreign Agents Creep into U.S. & Canada Under Integration Scheme

Alex Newman
New American
May 27, 2012

As the so-called trilateral North American “integration” process marches onward toward an ever-closer union between the governments of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, national law enforcement agents are slowly creeping across borders through a variety of shadowy schemes. Going forward, that trend is set to accelerate, according to officials, who say government functionaries may soon be able to chase and arrest suspects outside of their own nations. But critics of the controversial plan are fighting back with increasing urgency.

U.S. and Canadian authorities have already spent millions of dollars on “pilot projects” seeking to blur national borders in the field of policing. Almost 150 so-called “cross-border” officers have been trained so far, according to a report published this month byEmbassy magazine. Meanwhile, the Shiprider program — officially known as “Integrated Cross-border Maritime Law Enforcement Operations” — has been active since 2009, when high-ranking bureaucrats from the United States and Canada signed the agreement without even obtaining legislative approval.

“Shiprider removes the international maritime boundary as a barrier to law enforcement by enabling seamless continuity of enforcement and security operations across the border, facilitating cross-border surveillance and interdiction, and serving as both a force multiplier and, potentially, as a model for other U.S./Canadian cross-border (integrated) enforcement and security initiatives,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) says about the scheme on its website.

Under the highly controversial but little-known program, boats staffed by law-enforcement agents from both governments can scurry back and forth as if there was no border between the two nations. And in March, top Obama administration officials met with their Canadian counterparts to super-charge the unconstitutional process by signing even more “agreements” — again without consulting Congress, let alone ratifying a treaty.

“We will continue to work with Canada to further enhance information sharing and integrate our cross-border law enforcement operations, strengthening the national and economic security of both our nations,” claimed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano after signing a deal to advance the process with Canadian officials. Her counterparts across the border issued similar statements following the meeting.

Disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder — currently being threatened with contempt of Congress charges for covering up and lying about the administration’s deadly “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking scandal — also touted “integrated law enforcement” as a “key pillar” of what critics consider to be a subversive scheme. In a press release posted by the Canadian government following an agreement, the scandal-plagued Justice Department boss said he was “grateful” to his counterparts in Canada for their work to “strengthen the critical ties that bind our nations together.”

The Defense chiefs from the governments of Mexico, Canada, and the United States also met earlier this year and signed their own deals to integrate the three militaries and discuss ways to expand the use of the armed forces in continental law-enforcement operations. “We know that transnational threats require transnational responses,” the three claimed in a joint statement. “With this in mind, we have agreed to enhance our cooperation to support efforts to counter transnational criminal organizations and to respond to natural disasters in the hemisphere.”

But those latest agreements, while significant, were just small pieces of Obama’s momentous and almost certainly unconstitutional “Beyond the Border” plot with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, signed early last year with almost no mention by the establishment press. And that scheme merely builds upon a process that has been ongoing for many years. But in the realm of law enforcement, the “integration process” is moving forward quickly, and critics — though not the mainstream media — are paying attention.

While even the Canadian government acknowledged that the early phases of the cross-border policing plot have stirred significant controversy — particularly among activists concerned about national sovereignty and civil liberties — at least two top law enforcement officials promised to continue marching onward with the broader plan. However, it will be accomplished in “baby steps” to get people acclimated to the idea, they said.

When questioned in Canadian Parliamentary hearings about a proposed law legalizing and expanding cross-border police integration in North America, senior RCMP officials promised to take it slowly. But if anti-national sovereignty zealots get their way, American FBI and DEA agents may soon have permission to arrest Canadians in Canada, while RCMP officials would purportedly acquire the power to arrest U.S. citizens on American soil. U.S. officials might even be able to conduct aerial surveillance over Canada, according to reports.

“We recognized early that this approach would raise concerns about sovereignty, of privacy, and civil liberties of Canadians,” RCMP Chief Superintendent Joe Oliver told the Canadian Senate Committee on National Security and Defense earlier this month. “We said ‘Let’s take baby steps, let’s start with two agencies to test the concept, let’s demonstrate to Canadians and Americans that such an approach might work.”

Apparently “baby steps” was not Oliver’s own phrase, as RCMP deputy commissioner for federal policing Mike Cabana used it during the same hearing as well. “First of all, the discussion started with respect to marine environments. And secondly, baby steps,” he toldlawmakers, referring to schemes aimed at abolishing the border for law enforcement purposes. According to Cabana, the marine plot “was seen as probably the most logical place to start to explore the possibilities.”

Prominent critics, however, are sounding the alarm — especially in light of the latest developments. “Ok, this is truly absurd. DEA, FBI, NCIS [Naval Criminal Investigative Service] agents authorized to arrest Canadians in Canada?” wrote attorney and media commentator James Morton, former president of the Ontario Bar Association. “I’d say it’s a bad parody by extremist Canadian nationalists … except it’s real legislation in Parliament right now.”

While the scheme to erect a “North American Union” was at one time dismissed by members of the establishment as a “conspiracy theory,” those supposed “analysts” and “experts” have now been completely discredited. It is neither a conspiracy — it is mostly out in the open for those who care to look — nor a theory, at this point at least. It is happening.

A U.S. embassy cable released by WikiLeaks last year confirmed conclusively what had long been suspected: Extremist anti-national sovereignty elements within all three governments have been collaborating, largely in the shadows, to create a supranational regime along the lines of the unpopular entity now ruling over Europe. Now it just happens to be more obvious as it proceeds in public.

If proponents of “integration” get their way — which at this point remains uncertain, as opposition continues to grow and lawmakers have never consented to anything of the sort — “North America” will be ruled by a new system. Some of the most radical proposals being pursued by advocates include a continental “Parliament” to legislate, an expansion of the North American court system originally developed under NAFTA, and even a new transnational currency.

Shadowy bureaucrats and top officials are working fiendishly behind the scenes and in the open to bring the highly controversial schemes to fruition. Supporters of national sovereignty, the U.S. and Canadian constitutions, and individual liberty, on the other hand, are working hard to stop it, with opponents of “integration” saying the plot is illegitimate on its face — and could even be considered treasonous. But as the plan to virtually abolish national sovereignty moves forward and the public begins to understand its implications in the coming months and years, the battle is likely to intensify.