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“Deaf Ears”
Official blames UN’s “deaf ears” for failed Ethiopia-Eritrea peace mission
The northern Tigray regional president blames the United Nation Security Council (UNSEC) for failing to carry out its responsibility to halt Eritrea’s repeated disruptions that crippled the Ethiopia-Eritrea UN peace keeping mission (UNMEE)
In an official closure of the 8-year long UN mission, Two UN planes on Sunday have picked up the last UNMEE Indian battalion from the regional capital’s Airport, a battalion which has been deployed along the Ethiopia-Eritrea border.
In a fare-well ceremony bid at Alula Aba Nega international airport, Tigray regional president Tsegay Berhe said “The federal government of Ethiopia has repeatedly addressed grave concerns from day one to the UN security council as the Eritrean government continued to undermine and threaten the peace process; however “deaf ears” were given by the UN security council to all the concerns Ethiopia has been addressing”
The official says the council’s “deaf ears” than swiftly acting against Eritrea’s unlawful acts were the reasons which helped Asmara to a further continued and official disruption over the mission.
“This could be taken as one of the bad lessons that the international community have learnt and it shows the UN Security Council didn’t keep the integrity of the Algiers agreement and the security and comfort of its UNMEE battalions,” he said.
Uh, excuse me, but who in their right mind would use the words “integrity” and “UN” in the same sentence?
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BS = UN
UN: crisis must not stop climate change action
Environment ministers agreed Tuesday that the world financial crisis must not halt efforts to combat global warming, the top United Nations climate official said.
Officials from the U.S., China, Canada, India, the European Union and more than 30 other countries met for two days of informal talks in Warsaw ahead of a climate conference in December.
“There was a very strong consensus that the current financial turmoil should not be an excuse to slow down action on climate change,” U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press after the talks.
“Many ministers said that addressing climate change can deliver important economic benefits that are important in the light of the current financial situation as well,” de Boer added.
Are they freakin’ kidding???? After all the evidence to the contrary, they still are going forward with this nonsense?
This is nothing more than a plan to take control of every country, mandating global taxes to control something that happens naturally. Yeah, maybe one of the ice caps is melting, but hey, the other has grown. Maybe it’s a little warmer in the summer, but wasn’t last winter the COLDEST ON RECORD?
The arrogance of man is showing, big time. We do NOT control the planet. Common sense says you adapt, and if you can’t, you die! Climate change has been going on for MILLIONS of years. It’s not something we did, and we can’t stop it.
Scientists say the emission of carbon and other greenhouse gases, mostly from fossil fuels, must peak within 10 to 15 years and then drop sharply to avoid potentially catastrophic changes in the climate.
What scientists? The ones they paid, along with the Boracle, to come up with a ‘plan’?
We either adapt, or die! Simple.
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GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N.!!! NOW!
OMG !! UN’s Durban II Draft Released — Its Anti-Freedom, Anti-Israel, Anti-US
UN Racist “Anti-Racism” Campaign Now in Black & White
by Anne Bayefsky
The shocking text of the “Draft Outcome Document” to be adopted at the UN’s so-called anti-racism conference, Durban II, has just been released. It features:
- accusations that Israel is guilty of apartheid, crimes against humanity and genocide
- allegations that Palestinians are victims of Israeli racism
- the accusation that Zionism is racism by referring to a “racially based law of return”
- claims of a right of return that would end the Jewishness of the state of Israel
- an effort to end Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem
- an attempt to strangle free speech by demands that states “encourage objective and balanced portrayals of people, events and history, especially in the media”
- a demand that states adopt laws to invade public and private life for the purposes of “preventing and punishing expressly and specifically contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in public and private life”
- an insistence that the world media be governed by “a code of ethical conduct with a view to prohibiting the proliferation of ideas of superiority and the justification of racial or religious hatred”
PLEASE! Go read the entire post!
The Useless Numnuts stopped being UNITED a LONG time ago, if they ever really were. They are doing their best to destroy democracy, and their largest obstacle is US! They MUST be stopped! And evicted!
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Can They Live With You?
Government pushes for global halt to executions
Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on Friday reiterated the Government’s commitment to end executions worldwide.
“Minister Frattini expresses his strong support for moves worldwide to abolish the death penalty,” said a statement from Italy’s Foreign Ministry, released to mark the European day against the death penalty.
I guess Mr Frattini wants to supply food and housing for child murderers, mass murderers, etc. I don’t know….can he afford to support ALL of them?
The Italian Foreign Ministry’s statement backed the resolution approved last year by the United Nations’ General Assembly calling on states to halt all executions immediately and enact bans on capital punishment in their legislation.
Here’s a “WHO GIVES A FLYING FLIP” about what the Useless Numnuts say or do? They are nothing more that child murderers and rapists themselves!
“Reports of the execution of minors and other vulnerable people are a particular cause for concern,” the statement said.
Perhaps they should have a “chat” with those nice folks in Iran about that!
“The death penalty constitutes a violation of the most fundamental of human rights: the right to life,” said an EU statement.
Psst! EU! 
Well, I suppose those ‘civilized’ types over there don’t much care about the victims of the scum who kill for the fun of it. I’ve no doubt they’d have been against capital punishment for Hitler, eh?
The Rome-based Hands Off Cain, which campaigns to stop the death penalty, estimated that China executed least 5,000 people in 2007.
Iran had the second highest number of executions, with 377 in 2007, according to campaign group Amnesty International.
The United States was fifth in the rankings with 42 executions, 11 less than in 2006, Amnesty said.
Big difference? We don’t execute children (although there are some who SHOULD get the death penalty), or gays.
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The Chihuahua With Rabies
No Dinner Jacket Required
Satire by Shawn Goodwin
If New York City smelled more putrid than normal last week, please do not blame Mayor Michael Bloomberg. This one was not his fault. Last Tuesday, Iranian President/Certified Nutcase/Bronson Pinchot look-alike Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the United Nations General Assembly to universal acclaim. Okay, the “universal acclaim” came from Iran’s state-sponsored news agency, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and Susan Sarandon, but that’s not the point. These three don’t agree on anything, except maybe on their love of Bull Durham.
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Misnamed Groups?
Christian Groups to Host Ahmadinejad and UN Head for NY Dinner
The president of the United Nations General Assembly, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, will be attending a dinner in New York at which Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a featured guest, according to The Forward, a Jewish-American weekly newspaper published in New York City. Brockmann, a Catholic priest from Nicaragua who publicly criticizes the United States’s anti-terror war in Iraq and Afghanistan, will attend the dinner on September 25th, an event which was organized by five American Christian organizations and will be co-hosted by the Iranian mission to the U.N.
The dinner, which will take place at the Grand Hyatt hotel in midtown Manhattan, is billed as centering around issues pertaining to the role of religion in tackling global challenges and fostering peace, and is being sponsored by the Mennonite Central Committee, the Quaker United Nations Office, the World Council of Churches, Religions for Peace and the American Friends Service Committee.
If they really wanted to tackle global challenges, they might want to look at one of the MAJOR reasons for the problems. That would be Islaminazis!
Will Ahmadinnerjacket being wearing his Leisure Suit Larry outfit? Or will he opt for formal attire.
I have to say, if these supposed Christian groups invited such a person to a dinner, then they must not be reading the same Bible I have on my nightstand.
Norway’s prime minister, Kjell Magne Bondevik, who also heads the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, will attend. The dinner will also serve as a fast-breaking evening meal for Ahmadinejad, who is observing the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Is the Center for Peace and Human Rights another name for “we will appease those who want to destroy”? Just wondering.
Ahmadinejad has openly called for the destruction of the State of Israel, hosting a conference called “The World Without Zionism” in October of 2005. Iran’s president, who vocally denies the Nazi genocide against the Jews during the Holocaust, has referred to the Jewish State as “criminal,” “a disease,” and “a dead rat,” and issued a statement on Israel’s 60th anniversary of independence, saying, “Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today, the reason for the Zionist regime’s existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation.”
If I had any say, this POS would not set foot on U.S. soil. EVER!
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It Melted…It Froze…It Melted…It Froze…
Melting Swiss Glacier Yields Neolithic Trove
Some 5,000 years ago, a prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows.
The unremarkable journey through the Schnidejoch pass, a lofty trail 9,000 feet above sea level, has been a boon to scientists but it would never have emerged if climate change were not melting the nearby glacier.
So far, 300 objects dating as far back as the Neolithic or New Stone Age — about 4,000 B.C. in Europe — to the later Bronze and Iron Ages and the Medieval era have been found in the site’s former icefields.
“We know now that the discoveries on Schnidejoch are the oldest of this kind ever made in the Alps,” said Albert Hafner, an expert with the archaeology service in Bern canton.
They have allowed researchers not only to piece together snapshots of life way back when, but also to shed light on climate fluctuations in the past 6,500 years — and hopefully shed light on what is happening now.
“For us, the site itself is the most important find because we have this correlation between climate change and archaeological objects,” Hafner said.
“We know that people were only able to walk on this site when it was relatively warm,” said Martin Grosjean, executive director of a national network called Swiss Climate Research. “When it was too cold, the glacier advanced and it was not a passable route.”
Well now, isn’t that interesting. I wonder how many SUVs were tooling around when that Stone Age guy was wandering around. Were there traffic jams during the Bronze Age? Were the Medieval folks drilling for oil and building pollution spewing factories? Gosh! I wonder what caused those meltdowns if it weren’t evil man. Hmmm…. Perhaps….just perhaps, mind you…..it was NORMAL climate cycles?
Scientists have long known there were periods of warmer weather in the region but the artifacts allowed them to identify the exact years, when the site would have been passable on foot.
Scientists KNEW? YIKES! Did someone forget to tell the “Great and Wonderful” Boracle?
Yet even with this information, the hysteria is included. Well, what can you expect from anything associated with the NY Slimes.
A recent U.N. Environment Program report said by the end of the century, swathes of mountain ranges worldwide risk losing their glaciers if global warming continues at its projected rate.
“The ongoing trend of worldwide and rapid, if not accelerating, glacier shrinkage may lead to the deglaciation of large parts of many mountain ranges by the end of the 21st century,” the report warned.
Guess what! Obviously this isn’t the first time the glaciers have melted. No doubt, it won’t be the last. So, you losers up there at the UN? Snap out of your sleaziness. You are NOT getting my money, and you can’t have my guns!
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Heading Towards The End?
Iran: Tensions between US and Russia behind nuclear push, says expert
Iran’s decision to step up its nuclear programme was a bid to exploit the current tensions between the US and Russia, a leading Middle East expert said on Friday.
Sami Al-Faraj, director of the Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies, expressed concern in an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI), after an announcement by Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Ali-Reza Sheikh Attar.
“Iran is certainly taking advantage of the crisis in relations between Moscow and Washington in order to develop its nuclear technology,” he told AKI.
For some reason, this seems bassakwards. Iran starts with the nuclear stuff, Russia is helping them, and THEN tensions start to escalate. Amhadinnerjacket threatens to wipe Israel off the map. Things get more tense. “Jacket” continues to threaten, not just Israel, but the “great satan”, aka USA, and the UN decides sanctions are needed. Right. Right?
Ali-Reza Sheikh Attar said Friday that Iran has nearly 4,000 working centrifuges at its nuclear facility at Natanz and another 3,000 were being installed.
Oh, and Jacket can’t count either, but this doesn’t surprise me. He’s not the brightest bulb in the box.
“Russia has sought the political support of countries in the organisation, among them China, but received a cool response. Iran could work to convince countries that are members of the SCO, like Kazakhstan and Kirghizistan, to support the Russian position in Georgia.
“In exchange, Tehran would have strong political support for its nuclear programme.”
The last thing the world needs right now is Iran and Russia playing footsie. Hopefully, China has more sense than to join this merry band of thieves.
At the same time however, he warned that a possible intensification of Iran’s nuclear programme could become “a big problem for the international community” because it comes at a time of great tension in the Middle East.
Gee, ya think? Creating and adding to that tension would be…..drum roll please…….IRAN!
Referring to the UN Security Council’s anti-Iran resolutions, Attar said that the sanctions were futile and ineffective.
“Had westerners become certain that the resolutions would bring us down to our knees, they would have definitely intensified them (the sanctions),” he said.
Truer words were never spoken. The Useless Numnuts can come up with all the ’sanctions’ in the world, and such countries are going thumb their noses. They just don’t care!
Mr Dry Bones sure got it right:
Cross posted at Reject the UN
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Yes! Make It Go Away!
Yes, I do actually read some of the ‘opposition’ stuff on occasion. And sometimes, I even have to comment on it in a post. Here’s an occasion that cannot be passed up! A little piece over at HuffPo by Johann Hari:
John McCain’s Secretive Plan to “Kill the UN”
But McCain does know one thing: he doesn’t like the United Nations. He championed George Bush’s appointment of John Bolton as the US Ambassador to the UN — precisely because Bolton scorns the UN as “irrelevant” and “a twilight zone.” He even announced “there is no such thing as the United Nations.” It was like appointing Marilyn Manson as Ambassador to the Vatican. This is part of a long seam of thinking on the American right: they opposed the UN’s creation by Franklin Roosevelt as an unacceptable fetter on American power, and have never been properly reconciled to it. Republican congresses have refused to authorise US dues to the UN — so there is now a backlog of $2.8 billion outstanding.
Yet McCain cannot oppose the UN outright — because the American people support it so passionately. Contrary to the yokel-myth, a typical opinion poll — by Global Public Opinion — just found that 64 percent of Americans think the UN is doing a good job, compared to just 28 percent who support George Bush. Some 72 percent of Americans want the UN to play a bigger role in their foreign policy.
Ok, McCain just went up a notch or two in my book. I don’t like the Useless Numnuts either. Do I really need to list the reasons? Probably not. Most thinking people KNOW this ‘august body’ is a bunch of anti American, anti Israelis, anti gun, anti women, pro world tax, thieves….dang…the list goes on and on. Murderers, rapists?
So, we “owe” $2.8 billion? Do I give a flying flip? I think it’s time to condemn that building up there in New York, and kick the whole of ‘em out! They want to move? Buh bye! I heard Toronto was willing a while back. Better yet, perhaps they should move the whole shebang to Dafur? Zimbabwe? The Congo? How ’bout Babylon?
I’m fairly sure the original idea was for nations to work together to ensure peaceful resolutions to conflicts. Pfft! They’ve failed miserably, and have even encouraged conflicts, murder and suppression of free people. Does this sound like an effective organization to you? Nope, me neither.
Lofty ideals, while they make those folks ‘feel good’ aren pretty useless if they can’t be implement without major harm to the people they are suppose affect.
The United Nations Millennium Declaration: The Goals is an example of just how out of touch with reality that bunch really is.
Peace, security and disarmament
International rule of law — Strengthen compliance with decisions of the International Court of Justice and provisions of the UN Charter; take concerted action against international terrorism; redouble efforts to counter world drug problem, transnational crime;
Let’s see. “Concerted action” involves sitting around, making up ‘resolutions’ to tell rogue nations “No no…bad! Mustn’t do that!” Yup….real affective, as we’ve seen in recent years. How many resolutions did they pass on Iraq? What are we up to now on Iran?
UN and armed conflict — Give UN the resources needed for conflict prevention, dispute resolution, peacekeeping, peace-building and reconstruction; strengthen cooperation with regional bodies;
Resources involves a great deal of tax payer money to put little blue hats on some of the worst criminals seen…..Peace Keepers! Pfft! They only keep “pieces”, not peace.
Disarmament — Strive to eliminate weapons of mass destruction; call on States to consider acceding to Landmines Convention; end illicit traffic in small arms, light weapons
This is one of those that REALLY disturbs me. In the long run, what they are ‘asking’ is for decent, law abiding citizens give up their right to defend themselves from above mentioned blue hatted thugs. Unacceptable! And anyone who supports such a move is also unacceptable, whether it is a candidate for the POTUS, or a regular citizen of Australia. NONE of us should accept such a blatant attempt to ‘take over the world’!
You can go and read the whole column, if you want. I’ll sum it up for ya…… UN good! US bad! Shocker, eh?
Cross posted at Reject the U.N.
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Don’t Think He’s Dangerous?
Think again!
Obama Supports Global Tax From United Nations
Christine O’Donnell
For an entire week, Americans watched as Senator Barack Obama took his act on the road, courting the European elitists and cowtowing to an endless array of foreign politicians. At this point it may be easy to take Obama’s “celebri-plomacy” lightly. Yet, his trip highlights a dangerous threat to America’s national sovereignty in the form of his globalist policies that will diminish America’s role in the world and outsource decisions of vital national interest to the United Nations.
His Global Poverty Act, currently under consideration in Congress, is just one such policy. Despite its seemingly innocuous title, the Global Poverty Act would force America to adopt the U.N.’s “Millennium Development Goals” as official U.S. policy. This means outsourcing to the United Nations all important decisions concerning the use of U.S. foreign aid dollars. Not only that, but the fee for allowing the U.N. to play the “middle man” in our global war on poverty would be a tax of .7 percent of the U.S. Gross National Product. That’s right. Barack Obama and his liberal allies such as Senator Biden have signed on to a bill that would allow the U.N. to tax America (and Americans) an estimated $845 billion over the next 13 years. Obama’s plan represents perhaps the greatest affront to our national sovereignty since the War of 1812.
The Global Poverty Act dismisses the American ideals of a free-market economy and responsible government for a global bureaucracy that has already lost tens of millions in development funds to corruption. The measure demands virtually no accountability or reform from the impoverished and often oppressive nations who are the recipients of our charitable largess. Furthermore, the United Nations Development Program has become the favorite “rich uncle” of terrorist states and rogue regimes, accidentally funneling millions to North Korea’s illicit weapons programs and violating 95 U.S. export laws in the process.
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