Protesters surround a vehicle the convoy of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as it enters the Gaza Strip Thursday. (Image source: Reuters)
A shoe is thrown at the convoy of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as it enters the Gaza Strip Thursday. (Image source: Reuters)
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Sustainability was one of the ideas the United Nations and the extreme environmentals and Warmists ran up the flag pole about a year and a half ago as a way of replacing what they had been attempting to do with “climate change,” namely, put massive amounts of control over people and private businesses, economies, along
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UN To Solve All The Worlds Problems With “Sustainable Development”
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The two-decade-old United Nations program known as Agenda 21 is relatively unknown to most Americans. but the global plot has the potential to wipe out freedoms of all U.S. citizens. We aim to wipe out the nation-wide ignorance about Agenda 21 in the newest issue of The Blaze magazine . It’s time this evil scheme was exposed, and we lay bare Agenda 21′s intents, players and backers in our powerful cover story “International Land Grab.” As the magazine reports: Imagine waking up in a country where a high-ranking government official stands in front of citizens and rails against personal property rights: “The American system of justice must be changed to conform to that of the rest of the world, and there must be a shift in attitudes. Individual wants, needs and desires are to be conformed to the views and dictates of government planners. In the process of implementing Sustainable Development, individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective .” The shocking line that individual rights should be relegated to the rear has actually been attributed to an American high-ranking, public official. Our Founding Fathers new the power of private property. George Washington said, “Private property and freedom are inseparable.” And John Adams affirmed, “Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.” Agenda 21 openly targets private property — which shouldn’t surprise anyone, considering that the United Nations has railed against individuals owning land for more than 35 years. A report from a 1976 U.N. conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, on human settlements contains lays out the position: “Land … cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. “Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. “The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole.” If the U.N.’s role and aims weren’t enough to convince you that Agenda 21 is bad news, wait until you find out about the seedy international organization that’s pushing it and who’s funding it. Get it all only in The Blaze magazine. But it gets worse: More than 600 cities, towns and counties have signed on to the international cause. Oh, and there’s this: The Agenda 21 plan has already got links in the White House. Find out who in the federal government has ties to this plan and how they’re already starting to implement it. So, is there hope? Yes, there is: In recent months, citizen groups across the country have organized and become involved in the removal of towns and cities from membership in ICLEI. There are several Facebook groups working to illuminate the real purpose of Agenda 21 and ICLEI, including “Wake Up Call to Agenda 21,” “Resist UN Agenda 21″ and “Stopping UN Agenda 21″; plus, many city and county Facebook groups have dedicated themselves to dismantling ICLEI’s substantial network. … Without the continued vigilance of freedom-loving Americans, this movement threatens to overwhelm private property rights that our Founders knew are central to our liberty. Find out all about Agenda 21 and what you can do about it in the newest issue of The Blaze magazine. You won’t find this exclusive report online. Subscribe today.
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At New York Times , ” New Speculation on Climate-Change E-Mails “: For two years, the mystery has endured: who set out to undercut climate scientists by publishing more than 1,000 of their private e-mails on the Internet? The original e-mails, released in 2009 on the eve of a high-stakes United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, sowed doubts about the scientists’ research and integrity and galvanized skeptics who challenge the scientific consensus that global warming is under way. It set off six separate official inquiries, all of which cleared the researchers of scientific misconduct. Then the controversy receded. Yet recently, speculation about the identity of the person who leaked the messages has surged with the release of new e-mails and signs that a police inquiry is under way in Britain. In November, just before another major international climate conference opened, this time in Durban, South Africa, another round of e-mails between the scientists were distributed online. Like those released in 2009, they were part of a trove taken from a computer server at the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in England; as before, the e-mail hijacker alerted the public to the e-mails in comments posted on various blogs. But November’s leaker left additional clues behind as well. Not much — an encrypted file and a note ending in what seemed to be a taunt — but enough to revive fervent speculation about what sort of person might be behind the stunt. The note, somewhat cryptic, seemed to suggest that efforts to fight global warming siphoned money from worthy causes like fighting poverty. “Every day nearly 16,000 children die from hunger and related causes,” it said. Then the note’s author seemed to dangle a challenge for hackers and programmers, saying that even though he was releasing 5,000 e-mails, “The rest, some 220,000, are encrypted for various reasons.” “We are not planning to publicly release the pass phrase,” the note added coyly. The stunt was enough to jump-start a police investigation that had long seemed dormant. A thrilling whodunit. Continue reading . IMAGE CREDIT : iMaksim .
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At Telegraph UK , ” Arab League monitor: I saw snipers with my own eyes .” Also, ” Syrian activists dying to tell their story “, and ” Arab League’s own parliament calls for end of Syrian peace mission .”
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**Written by Doug Powers Last week the UN General Assembly held a moment of silence for North Korea’s Kim Jong Il (it’s over, you can start talking again, Jimmy ). On Wednesday, in spite of the dictator’s abhorrent human rights record, the UN went a step further : (Reuters) – U.N. offices around the world lowered their flags to half-staff to mark the funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Wednesday in a move the world body said was routine but which prompted objections from some human rights activists. In New York, where the flag outside U.N. headquarters was lowered, spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the gesture had been requested by Pyongyang’s U.N. mission but was normal for the funeral of any head of state. “It’s a matter of protocol,” he said. North Korea is a full member of the 193-nation organization. But UN Watch, a Geneva-based advocacy group, said the U.N. human rights message was “at serious risk of being blurred today” because of the honoring of Kim, who died on December 17. “Today should be a time for the U.N. to show solidarity with the victims – the millions of North Koreans brutalized by Kim’s merciless policies of starvation, torture and oppression – and not with the perpetrator,” the group’s executive director, Hillel Neuer, said in a statement. Maybe one of the things about Kim Jong Il’s tenure that appealed to the appease-o-crats and Goracle-worshipping carbon credit dealers at the UN was his refusal to go overboard on the use of planet-destroying electricity: As for the funeral procession, the crowd lining the streets of Pyongyang was stricken with mandated grief, not unlike many at the protocol-rich, common sense-deprived United Nations: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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From Ian Livingston and Michael O’Hanlon, at Foreign Policy , ” The Damage Done “: With a wave of over a dozen bombings ripping through Baghdad just a week after U.S. troops officially pulled out, new questions are being raised about the country’s ability to stand on its own without U.S. security assistance. Before looking ahead to whether Iraq can withstand a potential new wave of sectarian violence, it’s crucial to take measure of where the country currently stands and the effect of eight years of war on its people and institutions. Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, researchers at the Brookings Institution began the Iraq Index to keep tabs on how the war progressed. As students of counterinsurgency know, it is difficult to find the right metrics to evaluate how a war effort of this type is going. It is also challenging to obtain reliable data even if relevant metrics have been identified. The most important metrics can also change with time; additionally, some can be leading indicators of change, while others tend to lag broader improvements. In the war’s early days, the general sense of disorder and chaos and the disempowerment of many former Baathists and former soldiers were probably the most important metrics. They augured poorly for the future — while official U.S. data focused more on restoration of infrastructure and other generally positive indicators that though important may not have been quite as crucial as they seemed at the time. Then U.S. attention turned to building up Iraqi security forces, but, alas, progress in their training, numbers, and equipment could not trump the growing sectarian fissures that were widening within the government, Army, police, and country writ large. Metrics of violence were recognized as the most important indicators by 2006 and 2007, when the country was being ripped apart. The success of the surge was fairly easy to see, as these numbers plummeted in late 2007 and 2008. Since then, however, tracking Iraq’s changes has become harder as progress has slowed and politics have become at least as important as security and quality-of-life indicators. With U.S. military engagement in Iraq having come to an end, here are 10 key metrics that reveal both the damage wrought by the war and the state of the country that U.S. forces are leaving behind… Continue reading at the link .
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The 10 Big Takeaways from America’s Adventure in Iraq
