The difference being, of course, that if Ferdinand II had proposed “voluntary” contributions from printers and getting involved with the German peoples, everyone from the electors to the Imperial knights would have re-started the Thirty Years’ War and burned Vienna to ashes.

By taking a page out of the latest muslim rage tactic, rioting in Turtle Bay and torching the UN?

United Nations needs to engage not only with Governments but with people

I doubt coffee wants to engage with this people.

But come on down, coffee – I’ll make it worth my while.

1. Any vendor aced out now has a built in motivation to drop a dime to the opponent of the political system-mover, anon of course, on this corrupt power system.

2. This is a built in populist issue: your tax money going to Kofi’s chalet in Switzerland. So political opponents unlike closed systems in Europe get to run on this issue on TV commercials etc.

3. Governments will pay higher prices for this “transfer” and it gets them no built in advantage. Where’s the patronage? Kofi can’t do anything for them, unlike fixing potholes in front of Mrs. Smith’s house or keeping the streets plowed in a Chicago winter.

So yeah, Kofi might get a few bucks but governments by definition shop on price absent local patronage stuff because their entire incentives are about staying in power.

One of the strategies for control. Taxing electronic communications another. I canít see Australians being all that chuffed about being taxed by the UN. And it would of course be a wealth tax. So off to Iran goes the money so they can improve their technology for catching the free speakers on the web, and incarcerating them.

For those who have forgotten, The report again.

http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N04/376/41/PDF/N0437641.pdf?OpenElement

The, representative democracy giving way to participative. The Separation of powers does not work on a global level. The Need far greater engagement with religious and spiritual groups And unions.

This is not new obviously, but it is coming together with the latest nicely for them. From virtually no monitoring and accountability to absolutely none. And part of the plan requires control of the internet (eminent, make use of communication and information technologies in order to drive the brave new world of international government by civil society ).
Koffiís be nice to bigots is a little clearer as well. Follows nicely from the eminent personís proposal that religious and spiritual groups get a bigger say so, in this brave new world of improved democracy.

I wondered when Bolton bucked at the addition of the Gay and Lesbian group whether he was just being pigheaded or he has started the fight against this movement to obliterate democracy and place us under the control of a mob of corrupt invisible UN persons and there gross mates in the NGOîs and tyrannical states. People to be heard through civil society mechanisms. Oh yeh!

I would imagine the legacy media would love tax burdens applied to the Internet. So, if anything they should be mum on this so that us rabble have as much chance as a 1925 Ukrainian dying of obesity.

I feel the lefties are just sick, fecal Eloi. Somebody that knows all that Eros stuff can weave a better analogy, but I think they’re all now old and ugly, their appetites expended in a vomitorium of lives wasted with serial rejection of purpose and meaning. They were supposed to change the world. They were to be unlike any that had gone before them. They were the best and the brightest. But nothing changed. The world just shrugged. Like their destructive icons, they really want to have a Gutterdamerung, and so, call on the available furies. And if we ignorant peasants have to go too, well why not? We never appreaceated them anyways. They got that right