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Breaking America's grip on the net

After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governments.

Source: The Guardian, October 6, 2005

EU Wants International Control of Internet

The European Union insisted Friday the job of Internet traffic cop must be shared by governments and the private sector.

"We are looking for a new cooperation model, a model that allows Internet governance and the laying down of public policy principles in coordination by all countries which are interested in the governance of the Internet because the Internet is a global resource," he [Martin Selmayr] said.

Source: My Way, September 30, 2005

EU's Barroso sees no constitution for 'at least' several years

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he did not expect the European Union to adopt a constitution for 'at least' several years.

'There will not be a constitutional treaty in the immediate future,' Barroso told a news conference.

'For at least the next two or three years, we will not have a constitution,' he added.

Source: Forbes (online), September 21, 2005

President's spokesman warns EU to keep off his property

Hajek is known for his irritation with EU symbols. When asked why an EU flag was not hoisted beside the Czech flag on Prague Castle during last year's elections to the European Parliament, Hajek responded: "We did not even consider doing so, it never crossed our minds. The mere thought is chilling to me, I just recollect those Soviet banners".

Source: Prague Daily Monitor, September 7, 2005

Brussels wants immigrants to swear allegiance to EU

Immigrants to Britain will have to swear an oath of allegiance to EU laws and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, rather than the Queen, under a proposal announced by Brussels.

The European Commission also announced measures to counter illegal immigration across Europe and others to promote integration of legal immigrants.

Source: Times Online, September 2, 2005

Internet in jeopardy of U.N. control?

Jackson, an author and former PayPal.com executive, will discuss new efforts by the United Nations to try to wrest control of the Net from the United States, working with such nations as China and Iran. Calling the specter of U.N. control "certain disaster," Jackson says it is imperative to the 1 billion people worldwide now online that the U.S. maintain its control of the Internet.

WorldNetDaily, August 10, 2005

Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food

Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food.

The Independent on Sunday can today reveal details of secret research carried out by Monsanto, the GM food giant, which shows that rats fed the modified corn had smaller kidneys and variations in the composition of their blood.

According to the confidential 1,139-page report, these health problems were absent from another batch of rodents fed non-GM food as part of the research project.

Source: The Independent (online), May 22, 2005

Socialist was behind U.N. sea treaty

One of the main authors of the U.N.'s Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST, not only admired Karl Marx but was an ardent advocate of the Marxist-oriented New International Economic Order, according to a new report.

Source: WorldNetDaily, May 3, 2005

EU struggles with biometric deadline

The EU will fail a US deadline on biometric passports with 19 of 25 capitals again falling behind on post-September 11 security requirements.

Brussels is asking Washington for more time and an second extension from October 2005 to August 2006 for the introduction of high-tech travel documents.

Only six EU member states – Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and Sweden - are on track with moves to include digital photographs and fingerprints in passports.

Source: EUPolitix, March 30, 2005

Annan to unveil UN reform plan today

Secretary-General Kofi Annan will today unveil his blueprint for the most sweeping changes at the United Nations since it was founded in the wake of the Second World War.

Annan is hoping to use the UN’s 60th anniversary this year as a springboard to revitalise an institution that has been tarnished by scandal and damaged by the angry divisions over the Iraq war.

Source: The Peninsula (online), March 20, 2005

Saudis Funded Columbia Program At Institute That Trained Teachers

Saudi Arabia has funneled tens of thousands of dollars into the "outreach" programs of Columbia University's Middle East Institute, which until last week was training some of the city's public-school teachers in how to teach students about Middle East politics.

Source: NY Sun (online), March 10, 2005

Vitamins: Will they be regulated as drugs?

While e-mails circulating about the imminent banning of over-the-counter vitamins and minerals in the U.S. are overly hysterical and in some cases downright false, food-supplement activists still are skeptical about new guidelines likely to be put into effect later this year by a U.N.-linked global commission.

As with many e-mail warnings passed through the ether, the current letters include some accurate information but with overblown conclusions and misleading predictions.

One such warning talks of new global regulations overriding U.S. law. Though they theoretically could be used as a tool by the World Trade Organization, the guidelines under consideration would not supersede regulations that govern what supplements will be available at local health-food stores in the U.S.

Source: WorldNetDaily, February 25, 2005

U.N. influence on court's juvenile execution ban

In its stunning 5-4 ruling banning states from executing murderers who committed their crimes before they turned 18, the U.S. Supreme Court majority openly cited a United Nations convention, an international treaty and the laws of the United Kingdom in arriving at its sweeping decision.

Source: WorldNetDaily, March 2, 2005

Mexico threatens Arizona over anti-illegals measure

A Mexican government official has threatened to use international courts to block an Arizona law meant to prohibit illegal aliens from receiving public benefits and voting rights.

Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said in a radio interview Wednesday that an international strategy would be used if other attempts to reverse Proposition 200 fail, the Associated Press reported.

Source: WorldNetDaily, January 28, 2005

Sovereignty-sapping U.N. accord gets new life

The Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST, a U.N. agreement decried by U.S. sovereignty advocates who were able to prevent consideration by the United States Senate last year, appears to have new life after comments made by Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice at her confirmation hearings.

The international treaty, which gives a U.N. agency called the Seabed Authority control of over 70 percent of the earth's surface and natural resources, was thought to be a slam-dunk for approval in the Senate last year, but opponents pressured members of the body, including Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and no vote was held.

Source: WorldNetDaily, January 25, 2005

Meet NAFTA on steroids

North American national borders would be virtually eliminated under plans being considered by senior business and political leaders from Canada, the United States and Mexico for a "NAFTA-plus," continent-wide, customs-free zone with a common approach to trade, energy, immigration, law enforcement and security.

Source: WorldNetDaily, November 15, 2004

Prodi flags up new EU symbol clash

A call for European Olympic medal winners to fly the EU flag alongside national banners has sparked a Brussels “meddles” row.

Romano Prodi, while congratulating Greece for its organisation of the 2004 games, set out his idea for a more euro-Olympic vision.

Source: EUpolitix (online), August 31, 2004

Euro Parliament balks at US passenger data pact

In a bid to protect Europeans' rights to privacy, the European Parliament Wednesday voted by 276 to 260 in favor of referring a draft agreement between the European Commission -- the European Union's (E.U.'s) executive branch -- and the U.S. on air passenger data to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

The European Court of Justice has the power to declare that the yet-to-be ratified agreement contravenes E.U. law.

Source: International Data Group (IDG, online), April 22, 2004

EU plans huge boost in security spending

Plans to plough up to €2bn (£1.3bn) a year of EU cash into defence and security research were presented yesterday, raising the prospect of Europe spending as much as the US Department of Homeland Security.

Source: independent.co.uk, February 17, 2004

Brussels sparks 'made in EU' debate

Debate is raging over an EU investigation into the feasibility of a ‘Made in EU’ label which could replace more classic, national denominations like ‘Made in Germany’.

Brussels has yet to make any firm proposals concerning a standardised, pan-EU label but already industry groups as well as individual states are up in arms at the plan which is likely to be costly and which could spell an end to much coveted national marks of origin.

Source: EUPolitix.com, January 12, 2004

Pope Wants New International Order to Keep Peace

The world needs a "new international order" to solve its conflicts and ensure peace, Pope John Paul said in his New Year's Day address on Thursday....

"More than ever we need a new international order which draws on the experience and results of the United Nations," the 83-year-old pontiff said at a mass in St Peter's Basilica.

Source: Reuters, January 1, 2004

Memos reveal abortion-rights strategy

Internal memos produced by a leading abortion-rights group map out a multi-year strategy for using the United Nations and other international bodies to impose so-called reproductive-rights laws worldwide.

The Center for Reproductive Rights wrote the memos as a summary of its strategic planning meetings last October, according to the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, or C-FAM, which obtained copies.

The memos show CRR "and many pro-abortion allies throughout the world plan to expand international laws well beyond their current scope and to impose these new laws worldwide, even upon individual nations that do not explicitly assent to the changes," according to C-FAM.

Source: WorldNetDaily, December 9, 2003

U.N. control of Web rejected

The United States, backed by the European Union, Japan and Canada, has turned back a bid by developing nations to place the Internet under the control of the United Nations or its member governments.
    But governments, the private sector and others will be asked to establish a mechanism under U.N. auspices to study the governance of the Internet and make recommendations by 2005.
    The move came in preparatory talks for the World Summit on the Information Society, opening Wednesday in Geneva. More than 200 delegates from more than 100 countries attended the talks.

Source: The Washington Times (online), December 8, 2003

A U.N. grab for Internet control?

A global summit set for next week in Geneva is expected to provide the venue for a plan to put the Internet under United Nations control.

Developing nations – including China, Syria and Vietnam – are pushing for the U.N. or one of its agencies to regulate the Internet, perhaps as soon as 2005. Diplomats from more than 60 countries plan to take up the issue at the U.N. World Information Summit in Geneva beginning next Wednesday.

Source: WorldNetDaily, December 2, 2003

EU redraft robs Britain of foreign policy veto

A change of wording in the latest draft of the European Constitution published yesterday would strip Britain of its veto in all areas of foreign policy.

Source: Telegraph News (online), November 27, 2003

Secret Memos Reveal Worldwide Pro-Abortion Legal Strategy

The Friday Fax has acquired a number of internal memos produced by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) that map out CRR’s multi-year strategy for establishing binding and enforceable international reproductive rights laws, most notably girls’ and women’s right to state-financed abortion on demand. The memos were written to summarize the conclusions of strategic planning meetings held by CRR in late October, and they explain in detail how the Center, along with its many pro-abortion allies throughout the world, plans to expand international laws well beyond their current scope and to impose these new laws worldwide, even upon individual nations that do not explicitly assent to the changes.

Source: Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute

O'Connor: U.S. must rely on foreign law

American courts need to pay more attention to international legal decisions to help create a more favorable impression abroad, said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at an awards dinner in Atlanta.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 31, 2003

Judge Bork: Judicial Activism Is Going Global

Justices have started to cite foreign sources to justify the way they rule at home, oftentimes looking toward liberal courts no matter how preposterous the connection to the cases being heard at home, said retired Judge Robert Bork (search).

Bork, whose third book, Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide View of Judges, was released this week, said judicial activism has been growing and evolving in the United States since the 1960s, and is, in fact, going global.

Source: FoxNews (online), September 11, 2003

Ginsburg: Int'l Law Shaped Court Rulings

The Supreme Court is looking beyond America's borders for guidance in handling cases on issues like the death penalty and gay rights, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Saturday.

The justices referred to the findings of foreign courts this summer in their own ruling that states may not punish gay couples for having sex.

Source: The Kansas City Star (online), August 2, 2003

Belgium Lawmakers Debate War Crimes Law

Belgian lawmakers Thursday debated a reformed, more limited law for prosecuting war crimes to replace legislation that had become a political liability because of cases filed against President Bush and other world leaders.

Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt's government introduced the bill after the Bush administration threatened to pull NATO headquarters out of Belgium unless the 1993 law was scrapped. That threat was made after charges were filed against U.S. and British officials relating to the Iraq war.

Source: Newsday.com, July 24, 2003

U.N. seeking global gun control?

A U.N. group is working toward establishment of an international system to register and regulate civilian possession of firearms, according to a former congressman.

The ultimate aim of many members of the conference on small arms is to outlaw personal ownership of guns altogether, said Georgia Republican Bob Barr in an interview yesterday on the newly syndicated WorldNetDaily Report with Joseph Farah.

Source: WorldNetDaily, July 16, 2003

Justice: Can Constitution make it in global age?

In a rare appearance on a television news show, Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer questioned whether the U.S. Constitution, the oldest governing document in use in the world today, will continue to be relevant in an age of globalism.

Source: WorldNetDaily, July 7, 2003

Ode to Joy heralds EU's final draft text

The Convention on the Future of Europe ended its 17 months' work with a final flourish yesterday, adding a flag, anthem, motto, and official "Europe Day" to the European Union's draft constitution.

Source: telegraph.co.uk, July 11, 2003

Police and FSB Listen In on Mobile Phone Calls

Mobile phone providers switched off their encryption systems for 24 hours on a government order, allowing the Federal Security Service and the police to eavesdrop on all calls.

An alert notifying callers that their conversations could be listened in on popped up on cellphones around Moscow at 9 p.m. Tuesday and lasted until 9 p.m. Wednesday on an order by the Communications Ministry. The alert, depending on the model of cellphone, is usually either an exclamation point or an unlocked padlock.

Source: The Moscow Times.com, July 10, 2003

U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Nearly 50 Countries

The United States on Tuesday suspended military assistance to nearly 50 countries, including Colombia and six nations seeking NATO membership, because they have supported the International Criminal Court and failed to exempt Americans from possible prosecution.

Source: Reuters (online), July 1, 2003

U.N. to host global gun-control event

Just days after French President Jacques Chirac called for a a global tax on individual firearms purchases, the United Nations has announced it is gearing up to sponsor a global gun-control forum next month in New York City.

Source: WorldNetDaily, June 8, 2003

Global tax on guns?

Some world leaders at the G8 summit meeting are floating the idea of a global tax on arms sales, including – at French President Jacques Chirac's suggestion – a tax on gun purchases by individuals.

Source: WorldNetDaily, June 3, 2003

Global anti-tobacco treaty approved

Despite initial concerns over its constitutionality, the U.S. said today it will sign on to an international tobacco control pact adopted by the World Health Organization.

The first global public health measure ever approved, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control seeks to limit tobacco-related deaths and disease by banning tobacco advertising, imposing higher cigarette taxes and cracking down on smuggling.

Source: WorldNetDaily, May 21, 2003

Revealed: U.N.'s plan for world government

WND probe unearths plot for global taxation, gun control, standing army

The United Nations and the United States are engaged in a major battle over American sovereignty – the last major impediment to global governance – according to the May edition of WND's acclaimed monthly magazine, Whistleblower.

Source: WorldNetDaily, May 20, 2003

World government in action

Do you believe there are powerful people who conspire together annually to solidify their grip on world domination?

Do you believe all of this happens in secret, with the quiet complicity of the world media?

Well, I've got news for you. There really are conspiracies at work. There really are powerful people plotting world domination. And they really operate in near-total secrecy as the world press sits on its collective duff.

Source: WorldNetDaily, May 16, 2003

US steel tariffs illegal, rules WTO

The World Trade Organisation has ruled that the US violated international trading rules when it imposed tariffs of up to 30 per cent on steel imports last year.

Wednesday's decision, by a dispute settlement panel in a case brought by the European Union and seven other countries, could stoke fresh trade tensions at a time the US and EU are trying to avoid any economic fallout over the diplomatic repercussions from the war in Iraq.

Source: FT (Financial Times).com, March 29, 2003

Ontario presses for North American security perimeter in wake of FBI manhunt

Reports that five men wanted for questioning by the FBI may have slipped illegally into the United States from Canada highlight the need for a North American security perimeter, Ontario's security minister said Tuesday....

A security perimeter would harmonize customs and immigration procedures between Canada and the United States, but critics argue this would compromise Canada's sovereignty.

source: canada.com, December 31, 2002

Canadian database used to spy on citizens

Privacy activists in Canada never thought it was a good idea to have a centralized, national database containing millions of files of personal information on citizens, and the recent revelation of rampant abuse of the registry confirms their worst fears.

Source: WorldNetDaily, December 31, 2002

Scandal clouds launch of $3b Amazon surveillance system

Scanning a dense rainforest the size of Western Europe, a mammoth radar system set to crank up today will spy on the drug-runners, diamond-miners and illegal loggers who infest Brazil's Amazon....

The intelligence web will scan 5.2 million sq km of the world's largest rainforest, as well as catalogue its diverse wildlife and pinpoint Indian populations....

Source: The New Zealand Herald (Online), July 26, 2002