Tell the UN: Expel Ahmadinejad's Iran

Cross Posted from Monkey in the Middle

From UN Watch

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad systematically denies one genocide while actively seeking another: repeatedly denying the Holocaust, repeatedly threatening to eliminate Israel, and madly pursuing nuclear weapons. All this stands in contempt of the basic principles of the United Nations and warrants Iran's expulsion from the world body. Write to the President of the General Assembly urging him to take action against Ahmadinehad's Iran.

Send a copy of this letter by clicking here:

Dear Sir;

It’s time to tell Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that his promotion of hatred and destruction—his repeated denial of the Holocaust, his explicit incitement to eliminate Israel, his mad pursuit of nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community—carries a price. A government that systematically denies one genocide while actively seeking another stands in contempt of the principles of the United Nations.

The UN was founded on basic rules. One of them is that a member state that “persistently violates” the principles of the UN Charter can be expelled. By threatening to destroy a fellow member state, Ahmadinejad’s Iran violates Article 2 of the Charter—and mocks everything the UN claims to stand for.

The General Assembly should rescind the membership of Iran.

Sincerely;

Your Name

This will be sent to the UN and not to the US Congress or President, so every person on Earth can sign it. Let us try for 10 million letters.

UN reauthorizes Darfur peacekeeping

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council has approved another year of peacekeeping in Sudan's Darfur region despite sharp divisions over genocide charges against the Sudanese president.

The United States supports the mission but abstained from the council's 14-0 vote Thursday night.

It objects to language in the resolution that notes that the African Union wants the council to freeze the International Criminal Court's prosecution of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

U.S. spokesman Richard Grenell says that language sends the wrong signal to a man who presided over genocide.

The joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force took over duties in Darfur in January.

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UN reauthorizes Darfur peacekeeping

I'll just bet the people of Darfur are thrilled...

Now they can be raped and killed by the U.N. too...

A Standing Army for the UN?

Cross posted at Monkey in the Middle

Hat tip to LoneWacko

This is not a new proposal, but it has some high powered support in Congress now. In the 1950's and 60's this would have been a good idea, the UN wasn't a hotbed of scandal and corruption. But today the opposite is true.

The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces come in 2 flavors.

The first flavor are the member forces of the Civilized World. They have done a great job in keeping the peace and providing security for refugees and other civilians since the 1950's and the Korean War. Unfortunately, the nations that are members of this flavor have decided not to send troops to the UN any longer. They became tired of the job and the expense of the job. In doing that, the Blue Berets were then forced to rely on the second flavor.

The second flavor are the member forces from the developing and Muslim world. They are known for corruption, scandal and rape. Their idea of peacekeeping is to bribe and extort what they can get out of the refugees and civilians they are suppose to protect. These are the current Peacekeepers in the world. And they have given the Blue Berets a very black eye.

With our knowledge of this, why would anyone propose a permanent army for the UN? Who in their right mind would do this?

Crisis management experts are calling for the creation of a "United Nations army” – an international rapid reaction force that could be deployed within 48 hours to intervene in emergency situations around the globe.

Composed of up to 15,000 military, police and civilian staff, including medics, the proposed force would be recruited from professionals hired by the U.N. from many countries, and based at designated U.N. sites.

Its actions would be authorized by the U.N. Security Council, according to the Toronto Star.

"It's not a new idea, but it has now come into its own," said Peter Langille of University of Western Ontario, one of the major contributors to the book "A United Nations Emergency Peace Service: To Prevent Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity,” which will be presented at the U.N. on Friday.

"With countries moving away from U.N. peacekeeping, and troops overstretched in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, (the rapid reaction force) has new appeal."

Again the left try to do something good for the world without thinking out the whole ramifications. Who do they think will man this force and who will pay for it.

The new emergency force could cost $2 billion to establish, less than the wars that have plagued Africa and Asia in recent years. "A U.N. agency would for the first time in history offer a rapid, comprehensive, internationally legitimate response to crisis, enabling it to save hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars through early and often preventive action," the book states.

And we all know who will pay the $2 billion. The United States! Why not? We must have an extra couple of billion dollars thrown around somewhere.

And of course there are some in Congress who actually support this idea.

Bob Alexander (D-MI 08), Daniel Seals (D-IL 10), Stephen Todd Sarvi (D-MN 02), Darcy Burner (D-WA 08), Tom Udall (D-NM), Jill Morgenthaler (D-IL 06), Jigar Ashwin Madia (D-MN 03), Linda Stender (D-NJ 07), Gerry Connolly (D-VA 11), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Thomas Perriello (D-VA 05), Eric Massa (D-NY 29).

Let us call them the Dirty Dozen. They refuse to see how the UN has become a cesspool of corruption and scandal. They refuse to see how the once proud Peacekeepers have become nothing more than a gang of thugs and rapists. And yet they would allow these thugs to be a rapid response force. I guess they have to get them there fast before all the virgins are gone.

Here's a trick question to ask those who think that this is a good idea:

You support the UNEPS, a standing military force for the United Nations that could be used in places like Darfur. Couldn't it also be used in case of a natural disaster inside the U.S. where our resources are strapped, such as in case of a terrorist attack or something like Katrina?

If this idea scares you, you are not alone.
It would be too scary to contemplate.

UN officials say Congo prisoners dying of hunger

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - At least 26 prisoners have died of hunger in a prison in Congo since the beginning of the year, U.N. officials said.

The United Nations Mission in Congo sent a team to the Mbuji-Mayi Central Prison in the province of Kasai Oriental, about 600 miles southeast of the capital, Kinshasa.

Sylvie Van Wildenberg, a U.N. spokeswoman, said that four prisoners died during the night of July 13 "as a result of severe malnutrition." At least 10 have died since June, and 26 since the beginning of the year, she said Monday.

"Our concern is even greater as we noted that among these deaths, many of them are defendants, who are therefore presumed innocent because they have not been judged due to the slowness of the legal process," said Assiongbon Tettekpoe, a local human rights officer for the U.N., who visited the prison earlier this month.

The prison, built in the 1960s, has a capacity for 200 prisoners but is housing at least 425.

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UN officials say Congo prisoners dying of hunger

And the U.N. is going to do... Uh, what IS the U.N. going to do??

Likely the exact same thing they always do, NOTHING, that and complicate the problem even more...

The U.N. is really good at finding and pointing out problems all over the world, but it seems that they are that *toothless tiger* that has a lot of *growl* and that's about it...

Get the U.S. OUT of the U.N. and get the U.N. OUT of the U.S.

League of Democracies

Cross posted at Monkey in the Middle

For years many people in the Democracies of the World have screamed about the corruption and mismanagement that has been going on at the United Nations.

Prime examples of such corruption are:

Millions of Dollars spent propping up Kim Jong-il's regime in North Korea.

Food for Oil Program that made millions for Saddam Hussein, French Officials and Kofi Annan's own son.

Sex Scandals that bespeak of the moral corruption of UN officials.

UN Peacekeepers using rape and intimidation as a weapon against refugees.

UNIFIL's support for Hizbollah and terrorism.

Bribery and extortion by UN Officials.

The murder of 2 Israeli Soldiers by UNIFIL.

Outlawing of Christianity.

Just a few of the outrages that this Tower of Babel known as the United Nations has been up to. There is no oversite on this organization, no way to control the men and women who make up its officials from committing crimes, no way to control its spending.

For years people have been screaming to cut all funding to this place. And the government has done nothing.

What have the candidates of the 2 major parties proposing for the United Nations:

Barack Obama:

Supports the United Nations and believes that it should be used to combat all the world's ills. Introduced into the US Senate bill #2433.

A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United Sates foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

Sounds good until you look at the actual law. It will require the United Nations:

To introduce binding codes of conduct for transnational companies and effective tax regulation on the international financial markets, investing this money in programmes for poverty eradication.

In other words, it is a welfare program run by the United Nations and funded by the United States.

Barack Obama loves the United Nations. He thinks it should be maintained at all costs.

John McCain:

Believes the time has come for the Western (Civilized) nations to leave the Tower of Babel and form a new organization. The League of Democracies. A League where the values of Freedom are upheld. Where 2-bit dictators cannot force their crazy, ideas on those who cherish their freedoms. A League where membership in it demands that all the citizens of the nation be equal partners in Freedom.

Rising autocracies in China and Russia as well as Islamist regimes in the Middle East and elsewhere are confronting the United States and its allies more aggressively. They have far different notions of freedom, democracy and human rights and, left to their own devices, they would create a world far less hospitable to our values.

The United Nations, meanwhile, is increasingly unwilling to promote those values, which we believe would create a safer world for America and a more prosperous one for people across the globe.

Consequently, the United States and other democracies lack an effective institution through which to pool their resources, identify their challenges and define a strategy to protect their interests. It is well past time for America to lead the effort to create one.

Despite the outrage that it evokes in some U.N.-loving quarters, a so-called League of Democracies is hardly a new idea. Experts date it to the 18th-century Prussian philosopher Emanuel Kant and his notion of "perpetual peace."

Clearly, the United Nations is not working for America and its allies. It is neither defusing the most urgent threats facing the West nor responding to humanitarian disasters that offend our sensibilities.

In the 192-member General Assembly, such blocs as the 115-member Non-Aligned Movement and the 56-member Organization of the Islamic Conference can gather the votes to thwart U.S. priorities. In the Security Council, any of five permanent members can veto U.S. proposals for collective action to confront threats to peace.

On the threat front, the Security Council continues to block the tough sanctions that might convince Iran to drop its nuclear ambitions. Permanent members Russia and China each have growing business ties with the Islamic Republic as well as a shared geopolitical interest in keeping the United States mired in a struggle with the Islamic Republic. That means that the United States and its European allies, who face increasingly bold threats from Tehran, are subjecting their security to the whims of competing powers with competing interests.

On the humanitarian front, the Security Council could not agree on collective action to stop the killing in Rwanda, the Balkans or Darfur, or the brutal suppression in Burma and Zimbabwe.

The United Nations has done nothing except condemn the United States and Israel. Their 2 whipping boys.

John McCain said:

"When our nation was founded over two hundred years ago, we were the world's only democratic republic. Today, there are more than 100 electoral democracies spread all across the globe. We must reaffirm our faith in the principles that our founders declared to be universal, that all people are created equal and possess inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We fought a Revolution, a Civil War, two world wars, and a cold war to vindicate these principles and ensure that freedom could be enjoyed, as Abraham Lincoln promised, by all people of all colors everywhere.' We were right to struggle for democracy then, and we are right to do so now.

"This is not idealism, my friends. It is the truest kind of realism. Today as in the past, our interests are inextricably linked to the global progress of our ideals. The vision of a new era of enduring peace based on freedom is not a Republican vision. It is not a Democratic vision. It is an American vision. The American people have known instinctively for two centuries that we are safer when the world is more democratic. Whatever our differences, we all share the same goal: a world of peace and freedom, of prosperity and opportunity, of hope. We have a duty to ourselves to be true to those beliefs, to use our great power wisely on behalf of freedom. As Ronald Reagan proclaimed in his speech to the British Parliament in 1982, Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.'"

It is time that the United States and her allies remove themselves from the United Nations, tearing down that eyesore on the East River.

And to critics who worry that a League of Democracies would anger Russia, China and others who would feel disenfranchised, here's the answer in one word:

GOOD!

The UN Will Make Christianity Illegal

Cross posted at Monkey in the Middle

Since 1999, the OIC has been pushing with the U.N the ‘Defamation of Islam’ campaign. The OIC isn’t a small fry committee trying to be heard in the U.N., but is being pushed by the 57, Muslim nation members in it and reflects the Declaration of Human Rights in Islam which is only reflected by Sharia law. That is how they want human rights defined and filtered through, Sharia law.

What is it the OIC exactly wants and is pushing through the U.N.? Its actually quite clear when reading through even a little of this rubbish. On the surface they say they want to cover the defamation of all religions, but amazingly only one religion is mentioned by name as persecuted of sorts, Islam. According to Patrick Goodenough, International Editor, CNSNews.com, the text states they have “deep concern that Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism.”

They refer to that nasty mental illness that so many of us have, Islamaphobia, when we happen to in our hate and illness notice the forced sexual mutilations, beheadings, forced conversions, honor killings growing in America, buildings continuing to blow up, body parts continuing to fly past our windows and ongoing threats. Take more medication you mentally ill, hateful people. Don’t you know that real, international, religious freedom must submit to the wonder and edification of Shari Law?

The way this anti protection of religion and freedom piece of rot reads would only criminalize Christianity and push the execution of more Christians who are already being sentenced to prison and death for reading the wrong material, mentioning a verse to a Muslim or doing practically anything that might engage a real discussion in a Muslim country with a Muslim.

Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com, says it like it is in pointing out that this religious defamation idea is being used as a shield and a sword. “In Islamic countries, blasphemy laws are used as a shield to protect the dominant religion, but even more dangerously, they are used to silence minority religious believers and prevent Muslims from converting to other faiths, which is still a capital crime in many Islamic countries.”

Justice Scalia from our own Supreme Court recently reminded us of a few things of importance: “America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar Es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen. On Septemeber 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing, 2,749 at the Twin Towers, in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and 40 in Pennsylvania.”

Lets call this what it is. This aggressive effort of the OIC to slam this through the U.N and get the defamation piece approved by the U.N. itself is nothing but a declaration of War against freedom of speech internationally and Christianity. This is hidden in fancy, protective words, it would only protect MORE persecution, targeting and murder of more Christians and suck out even any soft ray of freedom a Muslim in a country might want to even discuss or compare their faith with any other. This will be brought up later this year at the U.N. again. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will give an expected report on the measure put together by the OIC in Pakistan last year and passed in a vote 108-51.

Lets talk more about the OIC’s special glasses of protection they want to cram down our mentally ill, freedom loving throats. All freedom and religious protection must go through Shari law. Lets see, beatings for wives and women, yes; Execution of gays, yes; crucifixion of robbers, yes; beheadings of Christians who preach the gospel, of course; execution for any convert from Islam to Christianity…..on and on it goes and reads. Gee, don’t you feel enlightened, inspired and eager to have the U.N. pass this Defamation of Islam Act? Have you figured it out yet that this is nothing but a bold maneuver of the Islamic countries to destroy Islam’s enemies and conquer the world, using violence, threats and killings as usual, but with an added flare, the most powerful International legal body officially behind them, the U.N.

If this passes with the money, power and push of the 57 members of the Islamic countries and friends, and the anti-semitic, anti-Christian and anti American U.N., get ready for an unprecedented blood bath world wide from the Religion of peace. Normal witnessing and sharing by a Christian pastor or missionary will be a crime, insulting and defaming Islam. That will mean a massive prison sentence or death sentence.

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This would not just be in the Muslim nations, but in any nation on the planet. Here in the United States any minister who preaches the Christian faith would be subjected to prison and/or death. In effect, Islam would become the de facto religion of the United States. Contrary to the US Constitution which would be outlawed by the very nature of Islam and Shar'ia Law.

This horrible Law, and it is a law, is called United Nations General Assembly Resolution 62/154. Don't try writing your Senator or Congressman about this. They have no say in it. Nor do they have to approve of it.

From the Resolution:

Deeply alarmed at the rising trends towards discrimination based on religion and faith, including in some national policies and laws that stigmatize groups of people belonging to certain religions and faiths under a variety of pretexts relating to security and illegal immigration,

Alarmed at the serious instances of intolerance, discrimination and acts of violence based on religion or belief, intimidation and coercion motivated by extremism, religious or otherwise, occurring in many parts of the world, in addition to the negative projection of Islam in the media and the introduction and enforcement of laws that specifically discriminate against and target Muslims, particularly Muslim minorities following the events of 11 September 2001, and
threatening the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Also expresses its deep concern that Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism;

Notes with deep concern the intensification of the campaign of defamation of religions and the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities in the aftermath of the tragic events of 11 September 2001;

Now according to the UN, Muslims are being persecuted all over the world. I would like to know where? In fact it is Christians, Baha'i, Druse, Jews and Hindus who are being persecuted by Muslims. Every day there are hundreds reports of the violence that Muslims do to members of other faiths, not the other way around.

Kidnapped Christian Girls Forced to Covert to Islam and Marry Muslim Men
Mumbai girl's Parents Get Life Term for Honor Killing
Sex Gang Snatches Teenager

Know this that under Shar'ia law it is legal to kidnap and rape a woman or child. Even to force the woman to convert and marry you.

Under Shar'ia law it is legal to kill your daughter if she brings dishonor to your family.

Under Shar'ia law it is legal to rape a woman if she is not a Muslim.

This is what the UN will bring to every nation on the Earth. The lunatic ravings of the madman called Mohammad. The right to rape, kill, and steal anything in the name of that Great Pedophile. The destruction of the US Constitution.

The ACLJ petition, which is to be delivered to the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, already had collected more than 23,000 names in just a brief online existence.

The ACLJ's European division, the European Center for Law & Justice, also has launched its work on the issue. It submitted arguments last month to the U.N. in opposition to the proposal to institute sharia-based standards around the globe.

"The position of the ECLJ in regards to the issue of 'defamation of religion' resolutions, as they have been introduced at the U.N. Human Rights Council and General Assembly, is that they are in direct violation of international law concerning the rights to freedom of religion and expression," the organization's brief said.

"The 'defamation of religion' resolutions establish as the primary focus and concern the protection of ideas and religions generally, rather than protecting the rights of individuals to practice their religion, which is the chief purpose of international religious freedom law."

"Furthermore, 'defamation of religion' replaces the existing objective criterion of limitations on speech where there is an intent to incite hatred or violence against religious believers with a subjective criterion that considers whether the religion or its believers feel offended by the speech," the group continued.

Interestingly, in nations following Islam, the present practice is to use such laws to protect Islam and to attack religious minorities with penalties up to and including execution, the brief noted.

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It is time to end our involvement in this farce called the United Nations. There is no international organization that can forbid the American People their right to Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship and Freedom of the Press.

And if the Muslim world doesn't like it, well too bad!

Under the UN Christians will become Criminals

Cross posted at Monkey in the Middle


The Dhimmitude of the world has begun. The UN is formally declaring Christianity an outlaw religion.

Dozens of nations dominated by Islam are pressing the United Nations to adopt an anti-"defamation" plan that would make Christians criminals under international law, according to a United States organization that has launched a campaign to defend freedom of religion worldwide.

"Around the world, Christians are being increasingly targeted, and even persecuted, for their religious beliefs. Now, one of the largest organizations in the United Nations is pushing to make a bad situation even worse by promoting anti-Christian bigotry," the American Center for Law & Justice said yesterday in announcing its petition drive.

The discrimination is "wrapped in the guise of a U.N. resolution called 'Combating Defamation of Religions,'" the announcement said. "We must put an immediate end to this most recent, dangerous attack on faith that attempts to criminalize Christianity."

The "anti-defamation" plan has been submitted to the U.N. repeatedly since about 1999, starting out as a plan to ban "defamation" of Islam and later changed to refer to "religions," officials said. It is being pushed by the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference nations, which has adopted the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, "which states that all rights are subject to sharia law, and makes sharia law the only source of reference for human rights."

This is the beginnings of the final battle between Christianity and Islam. The UN has become a tool in the pocket of Islamist and they are using it to attack all faiths but their own.

Interestingly, in nations following Islam, the present practice is to use such laws to protect Islam and to attack religious minorities with penalties up to and including execution, the brief noted.

"What should be most disconcerting to the international community is that laws based on the concept of 'defamation of religion' actually help to create a climate of violence," the argument explained.

For example, just two months ago an Afghanistan court following Islam sentenced to death a 23-year-old apprentice journalist who had downloaded an article from an Iranian website and brought it to his class, the ECLJ said. Other instances include:

• Award-winning author Mark Steyn has been summoned to appear before two Canadian Human Rights Commissions of vague allegations of "subject[ing] Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt" for comments in his book, "America Alone," the group said.
  
  
• In Pakistan, 15 people were accused of blasphemy against Islam during the first four months of 2008, the organization said.
  
  
• Another Pakistani man sentenced to life in prison for desecrating the Quran was jailed for six years before being acquitted of the charge.
  
  
• In Saudi Arabia a teacher was sentenced to three years in prison plus 300 lashes "for expressing his views in a classroom."
  
  
• In the United Kingdom, police announced plans to arrest a blogger (Lionheart) for "anti-Muslim" statements.


• In the United States, a plaintiff sued his Internet service provider for refusing "to prevent participants in an online chat room from posting or submitting harassing comments that blasphemed and defamed plaintiff's Islamic religion."

The ECLJ said, "The implementation of domestic laws to combat defamation of religion in many OIC countries reveals a selective and arbitrary enforcement toward religious minorities, who are often Christians. Those violations are frequently punishable by the death penalty."

If there ever was a reason to leave the UN, this is it. We must stop all payments of our dues from this Tower of Babel. We must demand that the Declaration of Human Rights be enforced in every nation of this world. And if this demand isn't met, we must leave the UN, close the building on the East River and if necessary declare full war on those who would take our freedoms away.

7 Darfur peacekeepers killed, dozens wounded

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Hundreds of heavily armed fighters riding horses and SUVs launched a brazen attack on a U.N.-African Union patrol in Darfur, killing seven peacekeepers and wounding nearly a dozen others, the U.N. said Wednesday.

The ambush was the deadliest attack on the international mission since it deployed this year and highlighted the vulnerability of the short-staffed and under-equipped force.

About 200 gunmen on horseback and in SUVs mounted with anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons exchanged gunfire for more than two hours on Tuesday with the peacekeeping force that included 61 soldiers from Rwanda, the U.N. said.

Five Rwandan soldiers and two police officers, one from Ghana, the other from Uganda, were killed. Twenty-two peacekeepers were wounded, including at seven who were in serious condition, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's said.

"We are outraged by the attack," Shereen Zorba, deputy spokeswoman of the U.N.-AU mission known as UNAMID, told The Associated Press. "We are not part of the conflict, but a tool to alleviate the suffering of civilians. We try to establish some level of peace and security in the ground. But to drag us in to be part of the conflict is unjustifiable."

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7 Darfur peacekeepers killed, dozens wounded

Can you name the 3 most useless things on the face of the earth??

Tits on a nun...

Balls on a priest...

A U.N. peace mission anywhere in the world...

Wizbang's Jay Tea on Why the U.S. Should Scrap the U.N.

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

Jay Tea has written a terrifically concise piece on why the U.S. should scrap the U.N., or at the very least, cut funding.

My only disagreement with Mr. Tea is that I want the U.N. out of the U.S. and he doesn't care one way or the other, as long as the U.S. takes strong action on U.N. policies.

Please read this article. I don't think it can be said any better.



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Iran's 25-Year Atomic Program and the U.N.'s Failure to Launch

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook


This Bloomberg Report says that Iran has concealed its "atomic program for two decades before 2003." That would be about 25 years that Iran has been working on an "atomic program."

The U.N. Atomic Agency reports that they have verified the "non-diversion" of declared nuclear material in Iran. So, materials haven't been diverted to nuclear? Or have they?

The U.N. jumped right on evaluating American's racist attitudes (because voters may not want to vote for Barack Hussein Obama), but the U.N. cannot feed the hungry, they cannot contain the peacekeepers who rape and pillage, they cannot stop greenhouse gases and they certainly cannot stop Iran - who, according to the report, "probably will not have enough uranium for a bomb until 2010, at the earliest...."

No need to worry, Israel, you still have about 1-1/2 years before you must launch (you do have complete faith in the U.N. and the IAEA, don't you?)

(Emphasized text is mine)

Iran Withholding Atomic Weapons Research, UN Reports (Update 1)

By Jonathan Tirone

May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Iran continues to defy United Nations demands that it suspend its nuclear program, has expanded its fabrication of atomic fuel and continues to stonewall investigators looking into documents alleging its government researched atomic weapons, the UN atomic agency said.

``The agency is of the view that Iran may have additional information, in particular, on high explosives testing and missile-related activities, which could shed more light on the nature of these alleged studies and which Iran should share,'' according to a nine-page report the International Atomic Energy agency transmitted to the Security Council today from Vienna.

Iran ``maintains that all the allegations are baseless and that the data have been fabricated,'' the report said. IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei will present the findings to the Vienna-based agency's 35-member board of governors June 2.

The IAEA findings are likely to intensify international pressure on Iran, holder of the world's No. 2 oil and gas reserves, over its atomic work. The Security Council has imposed three sets of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. Tehran's government says it's not making a bomb and wants enriched uranium to fuel nuclear energy reactors.

Surprise Visits

UN inspectors, who have made 14 surprise visits since March 2007 to Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, were ``able to continue to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran,'' according to the report.

The country increased the number of centrifuges it's operating by 17 percent since February to 3,500 and may by the beginning of the third-quarter be able to install 6,000 of the fast-spinning machines that separate uranium isotopes, according to the agency.

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UN sends top envoy to plead with Myanmar over aid

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A senior U.N. envoy went to Myanmar Sunday to urge its military junta to accept more international aid for cyclone survivors, as a British minister suggested the isolationist regime may be relenting.

John Holmes, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, was greeted by Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu at the start of a three-day trip that will include a tour of the Irrawaddy delta, the area most severely hit by Cyclone Nargis on May 2-3.

Holmes also will meet with high government leaders, said Daniel Baker, a senior U.N. official.

He did not elaborate but other officials have said Holmes' mission is to assess the needs of survivors and urge the isolationist junta to open its doors to more international aid before people begin dying from starvation and diseases.

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UN sends top envoy to plead with Myanmar over aid

Burma has many people dying, and I mean right now dying and they already have tens of thousands dead because of the cyclone that hit them, and the U.N. is going to BEG the rulers of Burma to accept aid?? Beg them?? You would think it should be the other way around wouldn't you?? The leaders of Burma being the ones pleading for help for their people??

Sorry folks, my sympathies only extend so far, what's going on in Burma right now is wrong, I know it, you know it, most reasonable and sane people know it, but it's Burma, short of going in and taking over there's not too much we can do to change their lot in life, it's their leaders that are keeping massive aid from reaching the people, and yes, I know they seized leadership, but if the people of Burma can't re-take their nation, then they are going to have to suffer that which fate has in store for them...

Very similar to that which faces us here in the USA right now, a people can make a government do the right thing, they can hold their leaders feet to the fire, but 1st there has to be a willingness to do so, and an acceptance that you may die trying...

I would much prefer to die standing and fighting than lying on my back starving at the hands of a tyrannical dictatorship...

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U.N. Human Rights Council Kicks-Up Its Policy of Abuse

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

One of the most important issues of our time is America's membership in the United Nations.

If you take comfort in the existence of the U.N.'s Human Rights Council, or any confidence that world human rights are protected by this Council, then you are deaf, dumb and blind, or you hate freedom.

Lorn Gunter at the Calgary Herald has put together a very important piece about the U.N.'s Human Rights Council. Gunter states the central issue:

The fascinating aspect for me is how many of Freedom House's "worst of the worst list" ["worst" human rights record] have also been elected by the UN to be voting members on its human rights council.

The U.N.'s inhumanity to man, woman and child goes on:

On May 21, 15 of the 47 UNHRC seats will come up for election or re-election. Along with UN Watch, an organization that analyzes UN activities, statements and programs, Freedom House has declared that five of the 15 candidate countries -- Bahrain, Gabon, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zambia -- are entirely unfit for membership because of their rights records. All but one of them (Bahrain) is already a member of the commission. This goes to show how useless the UN is at protecting human rights.

Please read this important piece at The Calgary Herald

Related Reading:
UN Weakens Freedom of Expression to Coddle Islam
United Nations Seals the Condemnation of Israel
UN Watch: Up Against UN Human Rights



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U.N. to Teach Americans How to Change their Behavior

Cross-posted from Faultline USA

Here are some excerpts from articles this week that should make anyone frightened. When it comes to our national sovereignty, our safety and our food supply should be number one! But it looks like the U.N is well on its redistributive way to take what’s left of our food.

According to USA Today, Surplus U.S. food supplies dry up

"Worldwide, food prices have risen 45% in the past nine months, posing a crisis for millions, says the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.

Because of the current economics of food, and changes in federal farm subsidy programs designed to make farmers rely more on the markets, large U.S. reserves may be gone for a long time.

The upshot: USDA has almost no extra food to supplement the billions in cash payments it spends to combat hunger at home and in developing nations. "

Could the global food crisis impact America?

"NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, in a recent meeting here with Bretton Woods Institution organizations, called for immediate and long-term measures to tackle a growing global food crisis.

The rapidly escalating crisis of food availability has reached emergency proportions,” Secretary-General Ban said April 14. He was referring to food riots taking place in different parts of the world, from Italy to Yemen and Mexico to the Philippines. Tanks were deployed in parts of Yemen April 4 after five days of protests by 1,000 people, mostly youth, angry about the rising price of food. Wheat prices have doubled since February, while rice and vegetable oil jumped 20 percent. . . .

While international leaders gathered to find solutions to the world food crisis, analysts in the United States braced for the April 16 Consumer Price Index Report. Analysts say the U.S. is wrestling with the worst food inflation in 17 years because of sharply higher costs for wheat, corn, soybeans and milk as well as higher energy and transportation costs. . . .

“It’s hard for most Americans to even conceive of the idea that food could become scarce in this country,” said Raj Patel, a writer, activist and former policy analyst with the advocacy group Food First and analyst for the World Bank, World Trade Organization and the United Nations. “Few of us are paying attention to the close relationship between bio-fuel, grain crops and price inflation,” Mr. Patel told Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman. He was appearing on her Pacifica Radio show, to push his new book, “Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.” The book is due out April 25. Competition between corn and other crops for planting acres has driven up the price of food in the U.S., as the government mandates more acreage for corn, wheat and soybeans, ingredients needed for ethanol production. . . .

“We are studying ways to communicate to people in the U.S. that they have to change their behavior. Americans are too complacent, believing there never would be a food shortage, which could be caused by a drought,” he said. “From my academic position, I can say that people are having a hard time finding food in America, so we have to change our thinking.”

This from What is Running Through Our Minds

". . .President Bush in mid-April drew $200 million from the Emerson Humanitarian Trust, named after former congressman Bill Emerson, a Missouri Republican. Bush's action followed a desperate plea from the United Nations for food aid. Thursday, the president announced he would ask Congress for $770 million in separate, additional funding to meet international needs.

But Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, at a recent food aid conference, says his agency faces tough decisions about managing the rest of the reserve in times of widespread hunger. "How far do we draw down?" he asked. "Do we take it down to zero because we need it? Do we hold some in there, because who knows what's going to happen, for emergency purposes later?"

The UN Security Council Takes Action Against Terrorism

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

The UN Security Council Takes Action Against Terrorism

On September 12, 2001 the United Nation's Security Council got serious about terrorism. As word of the U.N.'s lightening quick action through adoption of Resolution 1368 which

Determined to combat by all means threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts,...

the world breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the full might and power of the United Nations was now on the trail of terrorism.

This riveting Resolution detailed the 9/11 tragedies:

Unequivocally condemns in the strongest terms the horrifying terrorist attacks which took place on 11 September 2001 in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania and regards such acts, like any act of international terrorism, as a threat to international peace and security;

as well as resolved that

"those responsible for aiding, supporting or harbouring the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of these acts will be held accountable;..."

The Resolution ended with this powerful statement expressing the Security Council's acknowledgment of the urgency with which they would continue the pursuit of terrorists: [in their words]:

6 6. Decides to remain seized of the matter.

Just knowing that the Security Council was remaining "seized" on the matter of terrorism brought even more comfort and aid, especially to the people of America who were so recently the target of radical Islam.

A few days after the 9/12/2001 Res. 1368, on September 28, 2001, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1373, which reaffirmed the earlier Resolution and also stated that the Security Council was

Deeply concerned by the increase, in various regions of the world, of acts of terrorism motivated by intolerance or extremism.

On this day, a Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) was formed and was tasked with overseeing and implementing Res. 1373. According to the UN:

The 15-member Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) was established at the same time to monitor implementation of the resolution. While the ultimate aim of the Committee is to increase the ability of States to fight terrorism, it is not a sanctions body nor does it maintain a list of terrorist organizations or individuals.

On March 20, 2008, a culmination of all the years of the difficult and taxing work of the Security Council has resulted in a very clear statement to those seeking to do harm to others through acts of terrorism.

The Iranian delegate, an august member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) said it best:

"...a distinction ought to be made between the heinous acts of terror...on the one hand, and the internationally recognized and legally legitimate struggle of peoples deprived of their fundamental right of self determination, on the other."

What this means to you and to me, is that to this day, the U.N. Security Council has refused to "define" terrorism, and as a result has never "named" a terrorist , or a terrorist act.

Eye on the U.N. reports:

...the Chairman of the Working Group on terrorism from October 26, 2007 gives no hope that the OIC's [Organization of the Islamic Conference] stonewalling of a comprehensive convention against terrorism will come to an end anytime soon. The only thing that years of informal consultations have yielded is that everyone agrees on the need for further consultations.

A question might be: What goes on in an actual United Nations Security Council Meeting?
One example is seen at Eye on the UN's dedicated page to a list of documents distributed to members of the Council, by the UN's Palestinian representative.

Here is an example, and keep in mind that I have shown 4 here, but there are an additional 37 documents Glorifying Terrorism Via the UN - Suicide Killers as Martyrs:

3/4/2008Glorifying terrorism via the UN. New UN document, distributed by the UN's Palestinian representative, once again refers to terrorists as "martyrs." Latest list of "martyrs" includes Ayman Abu Fayed, a senior member of the al-Quds Brigades (the Islamic Jihad's military wing). Other "martyrs" listed include Hamza Khalil al-Hayya - who commanded a rocket-launching squad in northern Gaza - and at least five other Hamas militants, and 2 members of the terrorist group Popular Resistance Committees.
Click here to view this document in MS Word/PDF format 2/8/2008
Glorifying terrorism via the UN. New UN document, distributed by the UN's Palestinian representative, once again refers to terrorists as "martyrs." Latest list of "martyrs" includes Mohammad Fat'hi Sabarneh and Mahmoud Khalil Sabarneh, members of the Hamas's Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, a terrorist group which claimed responsibility for the attack on the yeshiva at Kfar Etzion on January 24, 2008. Also listed as "martyrs" are Ammar Zakarneh and Ahmad Abu Zaid, gunmen of the Islamic Jihad, who were killed in an exchange of fire.
Click here to view this document in MS Word/PDF format 12/28/2007
Glorifying terrorism via the UN. New UN document, distributed by the UN's Palestinian representative, once again refers to terrorists as "martyrs." Latest list of "martyrs" includes Mohammad Abdallah Abu Murshed, head of the PIJ's (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) terrorist operative wing, and Mu'tasem Sharif, member of the PA (Palestinian Authority) security forces and a suspect for smuggling weapons to Fatah's military wing, who was shooting at IDF soldiers when killed.
Click here to view this document in MS Word/PDF format 12/19/2007
Glorifying terrorism via the UN. New UN document, distributed by the UN's Palestinian representative, once again refers to terrorists as "martyrs." Latest list of "martyrs" includes chief members of the Jerusalem Battalions, an offshoot of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad which has been responsible for launching rocket attacks against Israel: commander general Majid al-Harazin, and senior weapon manufacturer Karim Marwan al-Dachduch. Other "martyrs" listed included senior members of the terrorist group Islamic Jihad, Hosam Abu Habl and Jihad Mustafa Dhaher.
Click here to view this document in MS Word/PDF format

While I have employed scarcasm here to make a point, the point is:

Since September 28, 2001 the CTC has never named a single terrorist, terrorist organization or state sponsor of terrorism.

Again, from Eye on the UN:

The five state sponsors of terrorism, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria write reports to the CTC about their compliance with Security Council Resolution 1373. In the absence of any UN definition of terrorism, all of these states readily proclaim they are engaged in a vigorous campaign to combat terrorism.

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, 2005, laid out the five D's - his five point UN strategy to combat terrorism:

• Dissuading the disaffected from choosing terrorist tactics;
• Denying terrorists the means to carry out attacks;
• Deterring state support of terrorism;
• Developing state preventive capacity; and
• Defending human rights in the struggle against the scourge of terror.

Additionally, Annan said back in 2005

To implement these sweeping mandates, the Security Council created a special body, the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), with British ambassador Sir Jeremy Greenstock as its first chair. “Counterterrorism has now gone global,” said Greenstock, “with the UN at the center.”

In the March 20th, 2008 Security Council meeting, which created yet another Resolution, No. 1805, to RECALL the powerful and "sweeping" Res. 1373 and REORGANIZE the pitiful CTC.

This same Kofi Annan speech is listed on the UN's webpage as the "Fact Sheet: The UN's Contributions to Counterterrorism. You can see it all there, and be prepared to be reviled.


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UN secretary-general calls food price rise a global crisis

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.

Ban said the U.N and all members of the international community were very concerned and immediate action was needed.

He spoke to reporters at U.N. offices in Austria, where he was meeting with the nation's top leaders for talks on how the United Nations and European Union can forge closer ties.

"This steeply rising price of food - it has developed into a real global crisis," Ban said, adding that the World Food Program has made an urgent appeal for additional $755 million.

"The United Nations is very much concerned, as (are) all other members of the international community," Ban said. "We must take immediate action in a concerted way."

Ban urged leaders of the international community to sit down together on an "urgent basis" to discuss how to improve economic distribution systems and promote the production of agricultural products.

Full Story Here:
UN secretary-general calls food price rise a global crisis

The U.N. cries about global warming and encourages the production and use of E85 ethanol, and that is a crock, Algore and his global warming crowd have urged the world to turn foodstuffs into fuel...

Food needs to be just that, food, stop the nonsense and allow the drilling for oil, use corn to make cornbread and not some BS gas additive that doesn't do any good to anyone...

People like Gore, the U.N. and even George Bush have got to make a decision, and soon, are we going to feed the world and develop alternative energy or do we starve the world by touting the useless??

United Nations Condemns Hamas - Gotcha!

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

How many times has the United Nations condemned Hamas?

I found this at snapped shot.
Try this fun little exercise:

Copy and paste these lines of text into Google (separately, that is):

"United Nations condemns Israel"
"United Nations condemned Israel"

Lots of links, right?

Then try these:

"United Nations condemns Hamas"
"United Nations condemned Hamas"

"United Nations condemns Fatah"
"United Nations condemned Fatah"

Enjoy the "No Results Found" hilarity.

So, I decided to try it by randomly selecting "United Nations condemned Hamas".... My search resulted in many links. Just see for yourself:

See more at snapped shot

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U.N.: Up to 300,000 dead in 5-year Darfur conflict

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. officials say the five-year conflict in Darfur is getting worse.

They point to a rising death toll of perhaps 300,000 and a delay in fully deploying a new peacekeeping force until next year.

U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes and Rodolphe Adada, the joint representative for the U.N. and African Union in Darfur, gave the grim reports to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.

They say the suffering in Sudan's Darfur region is getter even bleaker with thousands of additional people uprooted from their homes and food rations to the needy about to be cut in half.

SOURCE:
U.N.: Up to 300,000 dead in 5-year Darfur conflict

It's pretty amazing to me, the U.N. can keep all kinds of statistics but they can't do a damned thing to actually stop the violence...

Useless Nutjobs, it suits them well...

Obama's Senate Bill S.2433 - A U.N. Global Tax on the U.S.

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

A "thank you" to Ticker at Jus' Sayin' for bringing focus to Senator Barack Obama's Senate Bill S.2433 - which allows the United Nations to place a global tax on the world, and specifically, the United States.

To sum-up the proposed tax, it covers transferring currencies, rental values of lands, fossil fuels, use of the ocean and skies, etc. The full information is below, and I want to tell you that this is one of those obnoxious posts that enlarged some of the text...because we are all so busy - there's not enough time to read...and I'm just trying to get the word out.

The point here is, while this may never get through the Senate, we have a Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, attempting to make it happen.

This quote from Ticker's post - Obama and His Global Poverty Bill.

Senator Obama wants to tie the U.S. into