U.S. to Lose Internet Control Over Untold $Billions

Obama literally caved last week to Washington critics and extended the ICANN for another contract period which is typically two years. Obama, however, pulled another fast one by extending it for only one year to end in September during his last few months in office.  Why? It's so before the next President blocks it, Obama in his last term of office  can pass it through to still give up all U.S. protection and bring on speech and content bans--another deliberate Obama bomb shell ready to explode--are any liberal Democrats watching as their own internet freedoms are taken away and given up to the international controls by rogue regimes and dictators in a one-world organization?

The Wall Street Journal article below reports the ongoing progress about the Obama plan for ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) 2016 turnover to the U.N. - Agenda 21 Global Internet Agency, GIA. The full extent and scope of the economic losses as well as business and personal security issues are insurmountable to completely assess presently. It does not bode well, though, for our unbridled Internet freedom on the world wide web platform. So then, how does the International Monetary Fund correlate to this ICANN controversy?

WASHINGTON—April 14,2014. The U.S. would lose its veto power with the International U.N. Global Internet Agency, GIA, on the executive board under a plan being considered by some emerging economies. The countries are fed up with the United States' failure to ratify a four-year-old deal to restructure the ICANN.

Some members of the GIA, Global Internet Agency, steering committee indicated at a series of weekend meetings their desire to act now, underscoring the growing discontent abroad about the U.S. Congress's delay in approving an international accord to overhaul governance at the agency.

"The GIA cannot remain paralyzed and postpone its commitments to reform," Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said in a statement to the GIA's steering committee urging the GIA to sidestep the U.S. Congress. "Alternatives to move forward with the reforms must be found whilst the major shareholder does not solve its political problems."

I have been warning everyone about the United States losing its controls over the ICANN's operations that we financed to develop and continue to guarantee freedom of expression without levying fees and charges for access. Obama and his administration insist that under the new U.N. Internet controls abuse would never happen--as if this scenario had never before happened. Unfortunately, that loss of control is currently actually under way, but not with the ICANN as of yet.

In that Wall Street story above it is to dramatically make my point loudly heard, I changed the article's real name of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, to a fictitious ICANN U.N. agency name of the Global Internet Agency, GIA. It was to show how interchangeable the ICANN is as the IMF. Both are governed by an international body of smaller nations who will selfishly and unscrupulously do anything to get ahead with their own agenda.

Still in play is our loss of U.S. control that's now happening as reported in the Wall Street Journal article on April 15, 2014 as the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, members challenged the wisdom of our country's leadership and are asking that we lose our veto power to override the IMF committee decisions. Why should we?--we just underwrite nearly all of loans to bail out developing or poorly managed countries and corrupt governments with no hope of ever being repaid the over $50 Billion loaned so far too.

• Factoid: The IMF was founded at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 to secure international monetary cooperation, to stabilize currency exchange rates, and to expand international liquidity (access to hard currencies). In plain talk, the semi-secretive meeting was about a group of greedy bank scions who wanted to jump into the fray of the global market after WW2 to make very profitable loans while fixing their own interest rates and controlling their international exchange rates too.

Today, countries are building up foreign-exchange stockpiles to guard against financial crises —instead of relying on the IMF. It puts upward pressure on the exchange rates of other countries, including the U.S. dollar that increases inflation since everything will cost more. The Obama administration getting pressure from bankers and investment banker lobbyists does not want to be seen as a pushover to relinquish our IMF veto power while also waiting to loan the IMF more monies not until after the 2016 election. Politically, it would be disastrous to risk telling any of the U.S. voters about those intentions when their money is scarce domestically while asking for more taxes to pay to other countries. It is more Keynesian economics of wanting to print more money and the Treasury borrowing more from foreigners as U.S. treasury bond holders.

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Ready to Give Up To Obama Your Internet Freedom?

The Obama administration has announced September 2015 as the end to U.S. stewardship of the open Internet; Russia and China will really take advantage of that American ICANN surrender too. Authoritarian regimes want to grab control recognizing the "different modes and methods in Internet management"--code for a major subversion of the Internet and restriction to freedom of speech. 

Meanwhile, even though it is solely under the control of the U.S. Congress who voted down in both houses to give up ICANN controls, Obama is stealthily trying to pass his 'Executive Order' on the down-low and bypass congressional oversight once again; it will be far from the 'modest change in policy' that Obama claimed in March, 2014--another lie!  

Is Obama really aware of the major damages? Of course not, he is again clueless!--But how many more times must the public take that silly "clueless excuse?" It's time that everyone must finally just admit he really does know what he is doing! - Obama is a hardcore Socialist always ready to lie to promote his one-world government progressive ideals for wealth redistribution.      

Secretly, behind closed doors, the nations of the world had been negotiating an International Internet Treaty — initiated by Russia and China — to regulate theHu Jintao & Vladmir Putin Internet through an United Nations agency, the ITU, International Telecommunications Union. It was a boring highly technical meeting largely ignored by the press corps. The only reason anyone knows about these talks in the first place is through a "WikiLeaks anonymous posting" by a participant in the talks. That and the fact that in the signing ceremony in Dubai in December 2012, it was conducted in which Secretary of State Clinton had attended.

Thankfully the U.S. in this round of meetings did not sign any accords to give up any hard fought Internet sovereignty to thuggish authoritarian regimes like China and Russia. The internal political pressures on Washington have China & Russia agree on a U.N. International Telecommunication Union Agency to regulate the Internet.
been great to keep the Internet ICANN organization under U.S. control and from Billionaire software moguls, "Big Bucks" Obama donors, like Larry Page of Google, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook and Larry Ellison of Oracle. However, that still does not guarantee the future under Barack Obama if he has anything to do with it if he so desperately grabs at any major legacy he can hang his hat on so late in a failed lame-duck administration--these are desperate times requiring even more desperate measures and consequences to Obama don't really matter much, except to our freedoms. 

Everyone, worldwide too, will feel all the laws, restrictions & tax levies as the price they will pay when overseen by just another corrupt U.N. Regulatory Agency. It is nearly a guaranteed outcome when a stacked houseful of hungry, poorer members nations who greedily set up and collect their excessive access fees create a type of International third-world restricted Internet service program.

Vladamir Putin & Hillary Clinton

Has anyone asked Hillary about the details or her part in this little hidden disingenuous peccadillo of activities in her Secretary of State resume?

Now let's go forward to December 12, 2014, after the Russian government has cracked down on Internet Freedom rights. Google, Inc. have closed their search engineering offices upon being concerned about the safety of its staff in Russia should Google run afoul of the new Russian laws. Google will still maintain sales, user support, business partnerships, marketing and training. But why did they close you ask?

"Russia is one of the rare markets where Google doesn’t dominate the search sector. Yandex NV has long been number one, even though Google recently has been gaining ground. Yandex NV held 59.6% of the Russian search market in November, down from 61.9% a year earlier, according to Liveinternet.ru. Google, meanwhile, captured 31.7% in November, up from 26.4% a year earlier."

In the overall Russian Internet search market shares, the 31.7% capture by Google increased by an impressive 5.30% in just over a year. It appears the government regulators did not want to risk further embarrassment for any more erosion of their market sector share of Yandex NV dissolving under their iron-fisted control of Internet activities.

Another domestic issue was the civil unrest in Russia which is always a concern of a totalitarian government. Recently Russia had a rebellion that Putin and his cronies blamed was brought about and coordinated through the Internet social media. Putin further blamed the Western countries, specifically the U.S., for harboring and releasing these cyber-attacks inside the Russian borders too.

The Kremlin signed into Russian law their oppressive Internet regulations governing data-handling practices by Internet companies:

• All bloggers with 3,000 or more daily readers are required to register with the government and provide their home address. The ruling prevents these bloggers from using foul language and forbids them from spreading false information effective August 1, 2014. 

• All companies are required to store the personal data of all Russian users on servers within Russia. The law set the deadline for compliance as Sept. 1, 2016. Russian lawmakers proposed moving the deadline to Jan. 1, 2015, but the proposal didn’t receive final approval after companies objected. Now lawmakers are proposing a compromise deadline of Sept. 1, 2015. 

Now, government suppression of free speech created an actual exodus of Russian tech startup companies.  It is stark evidence that capitalism is alive and well since many have moved abroad to other countries in Eastern Europe such as the Baltics or to Asia. It has been reported that dozens of companies have closed their Moscow offices and gone to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia or countries in Asia. These expatriates even admit that the majority of them are happy about moving out of Russia--not good news to Vladmir Putin's ears I'm sure. 

Get Up & Email Your Representatives!

 ~ It is a Non-Partisan Issue ~

~ Americans Owe their Freedom to our Laws - So does the Internet ~

To Email your U.S. Congressional Representatives. 

Click on: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map Enter your home "Zip Code" and it will list by their Names and Internet sites. Click on to their individual "Official Website" and type into their email message box:"Do Not transfer ICANN to UN" and send--it's that easy and it will take a second to do it too! 

You Are Crazy if You Don't Email Congress!

Please Send this out to your Friends Now!  

 

Another Blow for Internet Freedom - ICCAN

STFU! Moscow Controls Internet Speech

STFU! ...Oops! BTW, it's not the acronym for the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union founded in 1934, LOL! President Vladimir Putin just signed into law to restrict the use of profanity to reinforce what the Kremlin calls traditional values in Russia. This line item is contained within their Internet bill to tighten controls over speech and the Internet.  

Bloggers with more than 3,000 daily page views will be subject to hefty fines for profanity beginning in August, 2114. The laws do not define what the 'foul language' is which leaves the totalitarian Putin regime wide latitudes in levying restrictions, incarcerations and fines.

Obama recently signed an executive order transferring in 2015 the United States based management of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) controls over to the United Nations body and a yet "unnamed group of people" as an international board legislating regulations of the who, what, why and when on how the World Wide Web, WWW, runs on the Internet.

Are those international panel members that will administrate the proposed 'United Nations ICANN Organization' oversight going to be all inclusive with like-minded thinkers as in Russia? If so, we are in "Deep SH*T" since this is to be the case. Then, look out for them levying onerous user financial burdens like punishing excesses of access fees, service rates and government licenses.

Look out for the ICANN panel members' stringent U.N. Internet guidelines to curb free expression and discourse.  This will all emanate from those freedom loving "civil rights advocate nations" like China, Myanmar, Iran, Albania, Cambodia, etc.--only kidding, but sadly it is the cold harsh fact!

Get Your Voice Heard & Email Your Representatives!

 ~ It is a Non-Partisan Issue ~

~ Americans Owe their Freedom to our Laws -  So does the Internet ~

To Email your U.S. Congressional Representatives. 

Click on: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map Enter your home "Zip Code" and it will list by their Names and Internet sites. Click on to their individual "Official Website" and type into their email message box: "Do Not transfer ICANN to UN" and send--it's that easy and it will take a second to do it too! 

You Are Crazy if You Don't Email Congress!

Please Send this out to your Friends Now!

I Agree 100% with our Democrat President!

The News Story: Our Democrat President, attending a Global Initiative Event about the Internet, observed, "A lot of people who have been trying to take this authority away from the U.S. want to do it for the sole purpose of cracking down on Internet freedom and limiting it and having governments protect their backsides instead of empower their people."

During the speakers' panel discussion the President asked Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, if he was worried about the U.S. giving up the ICANN domain administration will lead to to losing internet freedom. Mr. Wales wholeheartedly concurred adding, "People outside the U.S. often say, "Oh, it is terrible. Why should the U.S. have this special power?" His reply, "There is a first amendment in the U.S., and there is a culture of free expression."

Mr. Wales recalled on ICANN panels to be more understanding of differences in cultures. "I have respect for local cultures, but banning parts of Wikipedia is not a local cultural variation that we should embrace and accept. That's a human-rights violation." 

The Rest of the Story: I purposely did not mention which Democrat President that was quoted above, but it still should be no surprise on who supports the ICANN under a One World Order U.N. Control Organization. "You might think it is Bill Clinton who would embrace the Obama administration's surrender of U.S. control over the Internet. After all, it was the Clinton administration in the 1990s that invented "multistakeholder" governance of the Internet."

"Instead, Mr. Clinton, appearing on a panel discussion at a recent Clinton Global Initiative event, defended U.S. oversight of the domain-name system and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann. As author of the multistakeholder concept, he knows it is only U.S. control that keeps other governments at bay, allowing stakeholders like engineers and private companies to operate an open Internet."

"The Internet has given people around the world a taste of the First Amendment, but one can expect a quick shift to censorship once countries like Russia and China join as "stakeholders." They have long sought to control the Internet even beyond their borders and would make the most of a new role overseeing the root zone file containing names and addresses of the top-level domains such as .com and .org. The new governing body could censor the Internet everywhere, including in the U.S., by deactivating websites it opposes."

"I just know that a lot of these so-called multistakeholders are really governments that want to gag people and restrict access to the Internet," Mr. Clinton concluded. "We have an obligation not to let that happen."  Obama, oh mighty Socialist Comrade Leader, did you even hear what U.S. President Clinton said?  

"Congressional hearings on the Obama plan begin this week. The alternative Proposed legislation would retain U.S. control over the ICANN pending a review by the GAO, Government Accountability Office. The big unresolved question still remains on whether the White House has legal authority to transfer U.S. control without congressional approval."

"The Obama plan to abdicate oversight would permanently undermine the permissionless Internet, built under U.S. leadership to enable websites to operate free of government regulation. There should be bipartisan support in Washington for the U.S. to retain its role and protect stakeholders and Web users from repressive regimes. Otherwise, it's the beginning of the end for the open Internet."

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TO TELL THEM NO TO ICANN TRANSFER!