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Obama Official Tells Phony U.N. Panel That U.S. ‘Not Perfect’ On Human Rights
The Obama apology tour is continuing even in the halls of such corrupt organizations as the United Nations.
The U.N. “Human Rights” Council which is made up primarily of countries with the worst human rights records on the planet was treated to an apology for the U.S. for our own human rights failures.
President Bush refused to be part of a farcical panel on human rights with such countries as China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Cameroon.
The Obama administration on the other hand believes we can do more good as a member of the panel. So the 47-member body voted by secret ballot to decide if the U.S. would have the honor of being part of their laughable council.
In the end, the United States received 167 out of 192 votes and was allowed entry into the group.
After the votes were tallied, Obama’s left-wing U.N. ambassador Susan Rice said she understood why we didn’t get more votes. She acknowledged, “We have not been perfect ourselves.”
The idea that the U.S. would grovel and apologize for so-called human rights abuses at the feet of such disgraceful dictatorships as Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and China, is beyond reprehensible — It’s a goddamn disgrace.
This is simply more evidence of what a pathetic, and weak administration we have leading this nation.
Compared to the nations who make up the U.N.’s phony human rights council, we actually are pretty close to perfect.
-Chris Jones
UN “Human Rights” Commission Passes Resolution Shielding Islam From Criticism
The UN “Human Rights” Commission passed a resolution today put forth by Muslim nations intended to shield religion from criticism. Predictably, by “religion” they of course mean Islam.
The so-called UN “human rights” commission is a joke just like the UN itself. Also, for the record Islam is not a religion of peace. All Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are usually Muslim.
Israel’s UN Ambassador Calls Jimmy Carter A “Bigot”
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter “a bigot” for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, “went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas,” Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a luncheon briefing for reporters.
The Ambassador should be applauded for speaking the truth about the former President. Carter proved once an for all that he is no friend of Israel. This most recent misadventure is merely the latest attempt by Carter to further his anti-Israel crusade.
Gillerman wasn’t through with Carter yet:
The ambassador called last weekend’s encounter “a very sad episode in American history.”
He said it was “a shame” to see Carter, who had done “good things” as a former president, “turn into what I believe to be a bigot.”
Carter has had a fetish for dictators and terrorists for years, but he finally went too far this time.
-Chris Jones
U.N. Chief Calls Dutch Anti-Koran Film “Un-Islamic”
From Reuters:
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned as “offensively anti-Islamic” a Dutch lawmaker’s film that accuses the Koran of inciting violence.
Ban acknowledged efforts by the government of the Netherlands to stop the broadcast of the film, which was launched by Islam critic Geert Wilders over the Internet, and appealed for calm to those “understandably offended by it.”
It’s a sad day when the United Nations condemns a movie for being anti-Islamic. Since when are free people not free to be anti-Islamic if they so choose? It’s strange how the world must be walk on egg shells when it comes to Islam. We must be so careful not to offend Muslims.
That’s bullsh*t and it’s one of the worst double standards on earth. I wonder if people would treat Christians as delicately if they chopped people’s heads off anytime they were offended?
Geert Wilders’s movie about the Koran is a very accurate depiction and one that free people everywhere should watch. What radical Muslims don’t seem to realize is that by calling for Wilders death, they are showing the world just how accurate the movie really is.
-Chris Jones
George Clooney named U.N. messenger of peace
From Reuters:
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named actor George Clooney, who has campaigned for refugees in Darfur, as a U.N. “messenger of peace” on Friday to promote the world body’s peacekeeping efforts.
Clooney is the ninth U.N. messenger — people chosen from the fields of art, music, literature and sports who have agreed to help focus attention on the United Nations’ work.
U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said Clooney would have a special emphasis on peacekeeping. She said he had been “recognized for focusing public attention on crucial international political and social issues.”
Clooney, who is currently in Sudan, will receive his designation on January 31 at U.N. headquarters.
George Clooney is a left-wing nut with a bad habit of saying ridiculous things, but I do think he deserves some credit for his work on Darfur. He really has stepped up to the plate and raised awareness of the issue and traveled to Sudan a number of times.
Rather than just sitting in Hollywood and making ignorant statements like many of his colleagues, he really is out there doing something, so for that I think recognition by the UN is well deserved.
-Chris Jones
Skeptical Scientists Converge on Global Warming Conference
An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to urge the world to “have the courage to do nothing” in response to UN demands.
Lord Christopher Monckton, a UK climate researcher, had a clear message for UN climate conference participants on Monday that would make Al Gore’s head explode.
“Climate change is a non problem. The right answer to a non problem is to have the courage to do nothing,” Monckton told participants.
“The UN conference is a complete waste of our time and your money and we should no longer pay the slightest attention to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,)” Monckton added.
He went on to accuse the UN of trying to shut out scientists with an opposing viewpoint.
“UN organizers refused my credentials and appeared desperate that I should not come to this conference. They have also made several attempts to interfere with our public meetings,” Monckton explained.
“It is a circus here,” agreed Australian scientist Dr. David Evans. Evans is making scientific presentations to delegates and journalists at the conference revealing the latest peer-reviewed studies that refute the UN’s climate claims.
“This is the most lavish conference I have ever been to, but I am only a scientist and I actually only go to the science conferences,” Evans said, noting the luxury of the tropical resort.
Evans is a mathematician who did carbon accounting for the Australian government. His skepticism of global warming came about after he read the new data that you will never hear Al Gore talk about.
“We now have quite a lot of evidence that carbon emissions definitely don’t cause global warming. We have the missing [human] signature [in the atmosphere], we have the IPCC models being wrong and we have the lack of a temperature going up the last 5 years,” Evans said in an interview with the Inhofe EPW Press Blog. Evans authored a November 28 2007 paper “Carbon Emissions Don’t Cause Global Warming.”
“Most of the people here have jobs that are very well paid and they depend on the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. They are not going to be very receptive to the idea that well actually the science has gone off in a different direction,” Evans explained.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has links to some of these new studies on their website which you can see below.
Several other recent peer-reviewed studies have cast considerable doubt about man-made global warming fears. For most recent sampling see: New Peer-Reviewed Study finds ‘Solar changes significantly alter climate’ (11-3-07) (LINK) & “New Peer-Reviewed Study Halves the Global Average Surface Temperature Trend 1980 – 2002″ (LINK) & New Study finds Medieval Warm Period ‘0.3C Warmer than 20th Century’ (LINK) For a more comprehensive sampling of peer-reviewed studies earlier in 2007 see “New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears” LINK
-Samantha Giles
White House Announces “Enduring Relationship” with Iraq
The White House today announced an agreement reached between President Bush and Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki regarding the U.S. presence in Iraq.
This is a gentle way for the President to let the American people know that we have a long-term commitment to Iraq. The President will bring the troops home eventually, but we will have a continuing presence there just like we do in Japan, South Korea, Europe, Kuwait, and elsewhere.Democrats are already acting shocked by this announcement, but I can’t imagine anyone really believing we would sacrifice all the blood and treasure that we have, and not at least get a few military bases out of the deal.
That’s the way it has always worked and the way it should work. We liberated Kuwait, and in return we have permanent bases there. Iraq is extremely important strategically, and it’s a major advantage for the U.S. to have fully functioning military bases there.
It should be funny watching “dingy” Harry Reid stomp his foot and cry about this agreement. I’m sure Code Pink will throw themselves into the middle of the street or impale themselves on the capital steps in response as well. Meanwhile, Republicans and Joe Lieberman will point and laugh at the silly hippies.
-Chris Jones
** Read the full text of the White House statement by clicking the link above
U.N. Calls The Use of Tasers “Torture”
The U.N. Committee Against Torture singled out Tasers at the end of a conference in Geneva, expressing concern that the most popular model caused so much pain that use of it “constituted a form of torture.”
I think the bigger question here is, what doesn’t the U.N. consider torture? They love to throw that word around and label everything “torture.”
An example of true torture is watching American tax dollars continue to fund a corrupt, and ineffective organization like the United Nations.
What’s real torture is watching the U.N. pass resolution after resolution against various countries that they have no intention of actually enforcing. They are a truly impotent organization that would cease to exist without American funding.
The bottom line is that the U.N. needs America, but America doesn’t need the U.N.
-Chris Jones
U.N. To Cut Estimate Of AIDS Epidemic
The United Nations’ top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade.
Revised figures in the latest UN Aids annual report released on Monday cut an estimate for total infections to 32.7 million from the 39.5 million cases given in the agency’s 2006 report.
The UN report stated that the number of people in India estimated to be living with HIV/Aids has been more than halved to 2.5 million due to better statistics and evidence gathering.
In Asia, there are now 4.9 million cases, up from 440,000 last year. Indonesia has the fastest growing HIV prevalence on the continent, while the number of infections in Vietnam has more than doubled between 2000 and 2005.
Having millions fewer people with a lethal contagious disease is good news. Some researchers, however, contend that persistent overestimates in the widely quoted U.N. reports have long skewed funding decisions and obscured potential lessons about how to slow the spread of HIV. Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS.
Unprotected sex is the main factor behind the spread of the virus, with contaminated drug injecting equipment also playing a key role, the report said.
China Drops Out of Talks on Iran Sanctions
It looks like China is taking a hard line against further sanctions:
China has dealt a blow to Western efforts to increase diplomatic pressure on Iran over its nuclear program by dropping out of a meeting to discuss tougher sanctions against Tehran.
Russia, which like China opposes further U.N. sanctions against Iran, added fuel to the fire by announcing on Friday that the U.N. nuclear watchdog would soon start inspecting and sealing atomic fuel bound for an Iranian reactor.
The West fears Iran wants to develop atomic weapons but Iran denies this. Tehran says it wants only to generate electricity.
Political directors from Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia and China were due to meet on November 19 to assess reports about Tehran’s nuclear program from the United Nations and from EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
“I think it’s partly related to genuine travel difficulties, but also linked to resistance on the broader question of sanctions from that quarter,” a European diplomatic source said of China’s decision.
It doesn’t make any sense that China and Russia keep urging the Bush Administration to use diplomacy rather than war, but then block our diplomatic efforts at every opportunity.
-Chris Jones
Time To Act On Iran
The International Atomic Energy Agency issued its report on the status of Iran’s nuclear program, and it’s extremely troubling. What the report revealed is that Iran is much farther along in it’s weapons development than most intelligence agencies.
According to the report Iran has already installed 3,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium. That is enough to begin production of highly enriched uranium on an industrial scale. This would allow Iran to produce enough highly enriched uranium to have a nuclear warhead within a year.
The installation of 3,000 fully-functioning centrifuges at Iran’s enrichment plant at Natanz is a “red line” drawn by the US across which Washington had said it would not let Iran pass. Israel has also expressed similar sentiments and is thought to already be ready to strike Iran’s nuclear sites.
It is my belief that Israel will take military action if the U.S. does not. If Mexico was developing nuclear weapons while at the same time threating to wipe us of the map, you can be sure that the United States would take action.
While I do believe we must continue diplomatic talks, I don’t believe they will ultimately be successful. If diplomacy does fail I think one of two things will happen.
The first possibility is that Israel will launch air strikes against Iran and the U.S. will back them up with sea based cruise missiles and stealth aircraft.
The second possibility is that the U.S. will take military action against Iran and Israel will stand down. The purpose of the attack will be to not just delay the Iranian’s nuclear program, but to effectively end it. We would achieve this not with an Iraq-style invasion, but with a combination of air and sea assets.
Whatever happens, I suspect it will be happen within the next 4-6 months or at least before the Bush Administration leaves office. In light of the campaign rhetoric on the Democratic side, it’s not likely that a Democratic President would ever take military action in Iran or anywhere else.
-Chris Jones
Iran hands over blueprints for nuclear warhead
Iran has given the UN nuclear agency blueprints (they don’t have) showing how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads (they’re not trying to build) .
The move is seen as an apparent concession meant to stave off the threat of new UN sanctions. But diplomats said Tehran has failed to meet other requests made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in its attempts to end nearly two decades of nuclear secrecy.
The agency has been seeking possession of the blueprints since 2005, when it stumbled upon them among a batch of other documents during its examination of suspect Iranian nuclear activities.
Iran maintains it was given the papers without asking for them during its black market purchases of nuclear equipment through the AQ Khan network. Khan who is the father of the Pakistani nuclear program sold Iran everything it would need to build a bomb, and threw in blueprints for the warhead design for free.
AQ Khan perfected the technique of using thousands of small centrifuges to produce highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon. It’s considerably cheaper and much easier to conceal than the large plutonium reactors typically used.
His centrifuge design was a major breakthrough in nuclear science, so Khan formed a worldwide one-stop shop for nuclear weapons technology. The Chinese meanwhile had invented an excellent warhead that would be a perfect delivery system for Khan’s bomb.
So Khan agreed to swap his bomb design in return for the Chinese warhead design. This gave Khan the final piece for his thriving nuclear proliferation ring. He could now sell a complete nuclear weapons program from the design and construction, all the way to the weapon delivery to any country willing to pay.
How much you might ask?? What does a complete nuclear weapons program cost? Khan reportedly charged $200 million for the complete do-it-yourself nuke program.
Even in the face of everything we know, Iran still insists their only interest in nuclear technology is for energy purposes. Furthermore, they have never had an interest in acquiring nuclear weapons, because they are only interested in peace.
Yeah, right.
-Chris Jones
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