Category Archives: United Nations
Michael Coren and Lord Moncton on climate change attitudes
From climate change, to changing attitudes about climate. Good.
Condemned for rights abuses, Venezuela to join UN rights council
U.N. Watch:
| ON THE ATTACK: Venezuelan exile Eligio Cedeno, UN Watch director Hillel Neuer, and Human Rights Foundation president Thor Halvorssen, heading to United Nations European Headquarters to challengethe upcoming election of Hugo Chavez to the U.N.’s top human rights body. Geneva, June 27, 2012. |
GENEVA, June 28 – This afternoon UN Watch will bring Venezuela’s most-wanted man — a banker and former political prisoner who escaped the clutches of Hugo Chavez — to confront his oppressor in a plenary debate of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The high-profile appearance has already sparked interviews withCNN, Spanish news agency EFE, Agence France Presse and Canada’s National Post.
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More U.N. lunacy
It seems the UN feels that less people would be good for Earth. I sort of agree. I think less UN would be great for the earth.
The U.N. wants control of the oceans?
I wouldn’t trust the UN to run a golf club. And I really mean that. And I don’t even like golf. But if the U.N. ran a club I would probably have to play and would’t be allowed to say what I really think of the game.
It should also be pointed out, that if the oceans are no longer under direct US control, it will be the end of civilization world wide.
Did that sound a little harsh and over the top? I’m sorry, let me rephrase…
If the USA ends it global hegemony over the oceans it will mean the end of civilization world wide.
There that’s better. Why? Because trade is why nearly every country in the world is getting richer except the utterly crazy ones like North Korea or Zimbabwe and trade is only possible so long as goods can travel safely across the oceans under US navy protection and the second that protection isn’t there, well look up the end of the Roman empire as it relates to brigands (also Muslims much like the pirates that nearly killed world trade during Jefferson’s time) and the loss of safety on Roman roads.
So this, should scare the crap out of everyone.
Zimbabwe blasts Canada and USA on U.N. – ‘HRC’
Please read the U.N. Watch story on their own page here:
While on the topic of the U.N.:
John Robson on the U.N.
No matter how many times this gets said, it needs to be said again till the U.N. loses its mystique and un-earned moral superiority and is disbanded altogether.
U.N. demand for compensation for Khadr, farcical.
Ezra speaks well on the pompous UN prick who berated Canada from a position of nothing at all.
U.N. now nothing more than communist overseers.
The contempt I feel when I watched this clip of the E.N. envoy had me chocking on bile.
I am among the poorest in Canada. But I do not think those who made different choices than I did, owe it to me to pay more so that I should have the benefits that those who made more money enjoy. As it is, Canada’s health care, medicine plans for the poor, programs for every imaginable thing such as busses that literally kneel down for the disabled on top of Para-transpo are exceptionally good.
However this isn’t the point. The point is that this UN envoy chose to focus on how much the wealthy have, as opposed to how much the poor have here in comparison to the poor everywhere else on earth. Only communists and other purveyors of fantasy ignore the reality of what people have and focus on the perceived unfairness of disparity of wealth. It doesn’t matter one bit if I have everything I want and for that matter, a lot more than I worked for, and the guy next to me has a half million dollar car. It only matters that I am being treated fairly based on what I contribute. If the disparity was 100:1 instead of 10:1 as the U.N. envoy claimed, but the lowest 10% enjoyed free health care, medicine, had access to food even if they blew all their state benefits on booze cigarettes and drugs, then they are doing exceptionally well. In fact too well as they would be the only people not being asked to pay for the consequences of their own choices and actions.
Overall in the world in fact, while the rich are getting richer, the poor are also getting richer and in the worst places, aren’t getting poorer. This is thanks to the efforts of people like Norman Borlogue, the genetic engineer who developed specialized foods to grow in the largest famine struck areas. The U.N. is trying to justify it’s own existence by trying to humiliate one of the most generous and certainly successful nations on Earth, now or ever, and probably for one reason and one reason only.
We have a government which is conservative by name, and believes in individual rights, and supports Israel.
The U.N. has become nothing more than an advance scout for Islam and communism. The sooner Canada leaves it the better.
Heritage Foundation debate on U.N. resolution on ‘defamation of religion’
U.N. vehicles participate in Iran’s military parade.
How very interesting.
Michael Coren interviews Hillel Neuer on the UN-HRC and the fake human rights guy, Jean Ziegler
Everyone should subscribe to UN WATCH news letter. These guys do really amazing work and actually do have an impact.
Mike Fegelman: The UN’s eroding moral compass
The National Post:
National Post Mar 12, 2012 – 9:12 AM ET
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As another telling example of how the UN has lost its moral compass, on March 9, just one day after International Women’s Day marked the achievement and continued challenges of women, the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women, passed the only country-specific resolution condemning Israel for the supposed intolerable living conditions of Palestinian women.
No action was taken against Iran, where girls are stoned to death for allegedly committing adultery, or Syria, where women are indiscriminately tortured, raped, and murdered by the Assad regime. The plight of Saudi Arabian women who are treated as chattel under monarchy-sanctioned gender apartheid was altogether ignored. The United Nations only censured Israel, one of the world’s most progressive defenders of women’s rights, for exclusive and unwarranted opprobrium.
The UN’s preoccupation with Israel will saw one of its own organization’s pass a resolution decrying that the “Israeli occupation” in territories, including east Jerusalem, is the main obstacle for the advancement of Palestinian woman. Not a peep from the UN about the internal Palestinian conditions that stymie female self-determination. Israel’s envoy to the UN, Ron Proser, rightly proclaimed that this council’s resolution “bring levels of absurdity and cynicism to new heights.”
Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East and stalwart protector of women, is cast by the UN as the foremost oppressor of women. In a region where the terms “Middle East” and “women’s rights” are contradictory and not complimentary, Israel stands out as a beacon for the rights of women, not its serial abuser.
It’s no wonder that when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly this past September, he referred to the UN as “a house of many lies” and a “theatre of the absurd.” A place where “Israel is unjustly singled out for condemnation more often than all the nations of the world combined” and where Israel is “not only cast as the villain, but where real villains are cast in leading roles.”
To support his argument, Netanyahu pointed out how Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights under Gaddafi’s ruthless and tyrannical rein. He referred to Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq which headed the UN committee on disarmament and how the UN described the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest accessible site as “occupied Palestinian territory”.
In a place where automatic majorities decide anything, it’s no wonder that also this week another UN organ body, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) approved a resolution to keep Syria on the agency’s human rights committee. Talk about farcical. A leading violator of human rights which has by some estimates killed close to 7,500 of its own people, sits on a UN committee tasked with instilling, nurturing, and enforcing international human rights.
In reality, Israel’s sterling record on women’s rights stands in sharp contrast to the sordid history of its Arab neighbour’s treatment of its own females. Israeli women like the late Prime Minister Golda Meir and current head of the Kadima political party, Tzipi Livni, have led their country with distinguished honour. Israel recently ranked 11th place among 59 developed countries for the participation of women in the workplace. Israeli women serve in Israel’s independent judiciaries, civil service and public sectors, and are leaders in the business and labour communities, all while serving important roles in the Israel Defense Forces. Next week in fact, Israeli women will take part in the “Slutwalk” protest. In a show of solidarity, Israeli women are joining this peaceful protest movement that started in Canada in response to a policeman’s comment that to avoid being attacked, women shouldn’t dress like “sluts”.