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First the Internet, Then Sovereignty
There’s a power grab taking place under the not-so-watchful eyes of the U.S. electorate — by that I mean the same people who voted to re-elect President Barack Obama despite overwhelming evidence that he did a miserable job during his first term in office. Thomas Lifson at American Thinker wrote about it on Monday:
Next week, the UN’s International Telecommunications Union will convene a meeting [in] Dubai aimed at grabbing control of and taxing the internet, all in the name of global peace, justice, and harmony. The revolutionary interactive telecommunications medium is simply too useful for ordinary people to inform and express themselves, and too democratic for the majority of regimes that comprise the United Nations. Far from being a democratic institution devoted to peace, the UN represents the interests of its members, whose numbers are overwhelmingly comprised of repressive third world regimes.
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Regrettably for freedom-loving Americans, President Obama has indicated that he favors “multilateral solutions” to international issues, which includes empowering the United Nations. Those who favor a new dark age of socialism and jihad have every reason to hate the internet. They have their eyes focused on methods to tax and regulate it as a prelude to controlling your right to read and write what you wish.
Lifson is not a right-wing wacko conspiracy theorist. He’s a responsible journalist who is concerned about the direction of our nation and our world, and he’s doing what he can to prevent from happening something that will forever change life as we know it on planet earth.
I wrote about the same problem in American Thinker back in February, only I took it one step further than the meeting in Dubai:
May come from a world tax? Try will come from a world tax. When the internet was in its infancy — actually, it’s still in its infancy, but it’s growing like gangbusters — I used to tell my strategy students at the University of Virginia to keep their eyes on the internet. At the time, our elected officials had decided not to tax purchases made over the internet to permit it to grow unhindered by cumbersome government restrictions, specifically taxes.
I told my students that one day, governments around the world would demand the creation of an internet tax to fund various things such as a global welfare system like the one that we have in the United States and a global police force/army with enforcement powers. The internet is the perfect vehicle to fund such programs because it’s global in nature and it’s easily accessible to anyone with a computer or a smartphone no matter where he or she lives.
What does that mean in practical terms? It means that we are moving toward a global government with teeth. By that I mean a global political body with taxing and enforcement powers. As things stand now, the U.N. is a paper tiger because it depends on the goodwill of governments around the world to operate, but if a global governing authority had direct access to a substantial tax revenue stream, things would change with lightning speed.
That’s where the internet comes in. By keeping their hands off the internet, our elected officials left the door open for some group (i.e., the U.N. or some other global organization) to claim the authority to use its tax revenue-generation potential. That day has arrived. When our elected officials decide that it’s time to give the U.N. or any other global group taxing authority, said group will go after the internet with reckless abandon, and the world as we know it will change forever.
I bring this up not to say “I told you so” but to point out that the underlying movement that’s afoot, the one that’s driving world leaders to attempt to latch onto the internet’s enormous revenue generation potential, is the creation of a global governing authority with teeth — i.e., a police force/army. Don’t be deceived: that day will come. In fact, it may have arrived.
I’m not a conspiracy nut either. I’m simply pointing out something that’s difficult for most people to see. Even so, that won’t prevent politicians who stand to benefit from movement in this direction from labeling people like Lifson and me as wild-eyed lunatics who have gone off the deep end.
Candidly, I had trouble convincing many of my students that we were on this path in the 1990s when I first pointed it out. In their minds, I was just speculating. Truth is, the inevitable is merely speculation until it happens.
I used a simple exercise to drive my point home: I asked my students to describe what they saw in the picture below. Their responses ran the gamut. Some of them saw a kitten; others saw a satellite photograph of the earth; still others saw a telescopic photograph of the moon; while others saw a lady’s face.
Then I would ask, “Does anyone see a cow in the picture?” Typically, 1 in 10 people can see the cow in the picture on their own, and 1 in 10 people will never see it. I can’t explain why. After I outlined the cow for them, 8 out of 10 people who could not see it on their own would say, “I see it; I see it.”
Once you’ve seen the cow in the picture, it’s virtually impossible not to see it, and it really is a picture of a cow. It’s not a good picture, though. If it were, the exercise wouldn’t work. You’ll find the picture at the end of this article with the cow’s face outlined and circled.
It took one more question to make my point. I asked someone in the class who thought she saw a satellite photograph, for instance, what the picture was before she saw the cow. Without fail, she (or he) would say, “Before I saw the cow, it was a satellite photograph.”
My response was slow and deliberate: “It was a picture of a cow all the time, and your seeing it did not make it what it is.”
This exercise had a powerful impact. There is a reality that is not dependent on our seeing it.
As a nation, we are headed for something that most people fear and do not want — i.e. the subordination of U.S. sovereignty to a global governing authority. It is virtually impossible for most people to comprehend that we are literally on the doorstep of it actually happening.
Again, I don’t bring this up to say, “I told you so.” I bring it up to alert you to a development that will forever change life as we know it and usher in a new world order that many have speculated about for a very long time.
That day is on the verge of arrival, and there isn’t much time left to prevent it from happening. In fact, it could take place before Barack Obama’s second term in office is completed.
This SnyderTalk editorial first appeared in American Thinker.
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Ezekiel 34: 11-16
For thus says Adonai Yahweh, “Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day. I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land. I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I will feed My flock and I will lead them to rest,” declares Adonai Yahweh. “I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.”
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
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Obey Yahweh and Let the Name Jesus Go
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Hosea 4: 6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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Americans increasingly back defending Israel against Iran
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Not the Typical IDF Soldier’s Mom: Muslim Arab Mother Whose Son Serves in the IDF Speaks Out
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David P. Goldman: Iran May Be Close to a Plutonium Bomb, German Defense Experts Warn—Western negotiators previously ignored Iran’s light nuclear reactor, on the grounds that it constituted peaceful use of energy.
Julian Borger: Window for Nuclear Diplomacy on Iran Is Now Open But Not for Long—Having delivered its latest quarterly report on Iran’s nuclear program to its board, the nuclear safeguards department of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gave a technical briefing on Wednesday to an audience of ambassadors in Vienna. The main message Western ambassadors came away with was that Iran appears to be just days away from starting feeding uranium hexafluoride gas into four new cascades of centrifuges at its underground enrichment site at Fordow. Those cascades, of 174 centrifuges each, are being vacuum tested which is usually the last step before piping in the uranium gas. The impression was that these new cascades would almost certainly be producing 20%-enriched uranium.
Gabriel Martindale: Why I Don’t Want a Palestinian State—Every time hostilities erupt in the Levant, and quite a lot of the rest of the time too, I get the dubious pleasure of witnessing the same set of stale arguments about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. First, some crazy leftie starts babbling about Zionist war crimes, land grabs, settlements and, if he’s feeling excitable…
Khaled Abu Toameh: Fatah: We also fought Israel in Pillar of Defense—Several armed groups belonging to Fatah in the Gaza Strip claimed Saturday that they had also fired various types of rockets and missiles at Israel during Operation Pillar of Defense.
David M. Weinberg: Toward a warlike Palestinian state— It is simply scandalous that France, Britain, Spain and others are lending a hand to Abbas’ reckless and destructive attack on Israel and the peace process.
Prof. Ron Breiman: There is no ‘two-state solution’— The media still refuses to see what the general public and the new Likud have sobered up to.
Ilan Ben Zion: Israel will negotiate with ‘other Palestinian groups’ if Abbas pushes statehood bid, deputy FM says—Israel will negotiate with other Palestinian factors if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas presses forward with his statehood bid at the United Nations this week, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon warned on Saturday.
Jonathan F. Keiler: How Not to Deter Hamas (and Iran)— If Israel can’t deter a thuggish terror outfit like Hamas, how is it going deter its larger and infinitely more dangerous sponsor, Iran?
Richard Baehr: Israel’s disproportionality problem— Israel stands out like a sore thumb, sort of like the billionaire boss who pays a lower marginal tax rate than his secretary.
Mati Tuchfeld: The public is shifting Right— The Likud shifted Right because the public, overall, has shifted Right.
Dror Eydar: Adopting the enemy’s narrative— Palestinians look around and know who won the latest round, but then they hear us weep, whine and lament over our “defeat” and are confused.
Herb Keinon: Israel Weighs Reaction to PA UN Move—A senior diplomatic source said Tuesday that the Palestinian resolution at the UN seeking observer state status is a clear violation of the underlying principle of the peace process, which requires all outstanding issues to be resolved by negotiations.
Daniel Schwammenthal The EU Should Not Be Complicit in Abbas’ Mistake—Having been marginalized by the Gaza conflict, PA President Mahmoud Abbas remains determined to ask the UN General Assembly for non-member observer state status on Thursday. Abbas failed to embrace the offer by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a comprehensive peace in 2008, and he has largely refused to even speak to Olmert’s successor, Benjamin Netanyahu. Abbas then has the chutzpah to cite the absence of peace talks, which he is himself boycotting, as justification for going to the UN.
Gilead Sher and Amos Yadlin: Abbas’ UN Gambit Will Not Bring Peace— Upgrading the PA’s UN status may pave the way for its participation in international tribunals, the most problematic of which is the International Criminal Court (ICC). However, Palestinian acceptance at the ICC would make it possible for Abbas and the PA to be held legally accountable at The Hague for the war crimes of Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups.
Elliott Abrams: The Gaza War and Its Fallout—Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood (MB) president, Mohamed Morsi, consistently separated Egypt’s interests from those of Hamas. He did not go to Gaza during the war, did not break relations with Israel, and did not threaten to cancel the peace treaty. It was clear that he did not want the tail to wag the dog – did not want the leaders of 1.5 million Gazans to harm the interests of 85 million Egyptians. He did not want a ground war that might have forced his hand on relations with Israel, and he does not want to see acts of terrorism against Israel launched from Egyptian territory.
Jonah Goldberg: Egypt’s ‘Moderate’ Despot— What do you call a leader of a theocratic and cultish movement with a deep and clear disdain for democracy who suddenly assumes dictatorial powers? A “moderate,” of course.
Paul Greenberg: The Land of Pharaohs: The More Egypt Changes— No doubt many an Egyptian misses Hosni Mubarak and the familiar tyranny they had grown accustomed to, the way some Russians still pine for Stalin’s oppressive rule. At least there was no question of who was in charge back then — even if the next knock on the door might mean a government-paid vacation in Siberia, or worse.
Daniel J. Mitchell: Only the Media Baffled that More Guns Lead to Less Crime— I don’t like to spend much time commenting on media bias. But every so often I find an example that cries out for attention.
Bob Owens: Gun, Ammo Sales Skyrocket in Wake of Obama Reelection— “Is the line ready? Ready on the right? Ready on the left? All ready on the firing line! Fire!”
Jack Dunphy: ‘Major Hasan Syndrome’ at the Los Angeles Police Department?—There is a price to be paid for the “inclusiveness” and “diversity” we’re all supposed to be so proud of. We can be thankful the price is seldom as dreadful as it was at Fort Hood, but sometimes the cost is a level of criminality less horrific but disturbing all the same.
Political Calculations: US-China Trade at Recession Levels— In a[n] article, we indicated that the U.S. Census’ data on the value of U.S.-China international trade was overstating the growth in the value of that trade because of the falling value of the U.S. dollar with respect to China’s currency, the renminbi (or as its often referred to in foreign exchange, the yuan).
Brian Sussman: Obama’s Next Move: the Global Warming Tax—The “climate change tax” now on the table at the Doha, Qatar climate conference is shaping up more and more to resemble a global welfare progam. And guess who pays the bill?
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life? Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided. They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
