From FOX News, an article by George Russell:

The upcoming United Nations environmental conference on sustainable development will consider a breathtaking array of carbon taxes, transfers of trillions of dollars from wealthy countries to poor ones, and new spending programs to guarantee that populations around the world are protected from the effects of the very programs the world organization wants to implement, according to stunning U.N. documents examined by Fox News.

The main goal of the much-touted, Rio + 20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, scheduled to be held in Brazil from June 20-23, and which Obama Administration officials have supported, is to make dramatic and enormously expensive changes in the way that the world does nearly everything—or, as one of the documents puts it, “a fundamental shift in the way we think and act.”

Yes, even while we hear little or nothing of what’s going on at Turtle Bay, the movers and shakers at that corrupt, power hungry and mostly useless international institution continue to plot evermore inroads toward world control via the curtailment of liberty of those of us here in the free world, forever trying to bring us down to some level on a par with third world countries in Africa and other places around the globe governed by dictators and theocracies that keep the people poor and themselves immersed in opulence.

Among the proposals on how the “challenges can and must be addressed,” according to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon:

–More than $2.1 trillion a year in wealth transfers from rich countries to poorer ones, in the name of fostering “green infrastructure, ” “climate adaptation” and other “green economy” measures.

–New carbon taxes for industrialized countries that could cost about $250 billion a year, or 0.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product, by 2020. Other environmental taxes are mentioned, but not specified.

–Further unspecified price hikes that extend beyond fossil fuels to anything derived from agriculture, fisheries, forestry, or other kinds of land and water use, all of which would be radically reorganized. These cost changes would “contribute to a more level playing field between established, ‘brown’ technologies and newer, greener ones.”

– Major global social spending programs, including a “social protection floor” and “social safety nets” for the world’s most vulnerable social groups for reasons of “equity.”

–Even more social benefits for those displaced by the green economy revolution—including those put out of work in undesirable fossil fuel industries. The benefits, called “investments,” would include “access to nutritious food, health services, education, training and retraining, and unemployment benefits.”

There’s all the more reason to vote Barack Hussein Obama out of office this November. All this is right up the alley of both him and his left wing cronies of the modern Democratic party, and they’ll go along with the U.N. 100%, as they do with that anti-U.S. body’s goal of a global gun ban for private civilians.

For years, the “United” Nations has been appointing committee heads whose political dogmas have been one hundred and eighty degrees in opposition to every American belief, tradition and economic theory, just as our own “progressive” elements have done.

The only thing united about them is the backwards, tinpot nations who, jealous of America’s success, are united to bringing us down by ruling against any policies that might benefit the United States or our national or economic security.

The article is here.