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Posted on 12/09/2020 9:10:08 AM PST by Olog-hai
The U.N human rights chief says she expects the U.S. administration of President-elect Joe Biden will be “much, much better” when it comes to human rights, and warned of shrinking “democratic space” in Hong Kong — saying her office will be monitoring the rights situation there.
Michelle Bachelet spoke to reporters in Geneva in a catch-all news conference to recap the year and look ahead to 2021. She cited concerns about the inequalities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism like that highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Bachelet hailed “a series of promising pledges” by Biden, on issues like increasing the number of refugees resettled in the United States, an end to construction of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and “an overhaul of the asylum system.”
She said she hoped the U.S. would return to the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council, from which the Trump administration pulled out amid allegations of anti-Israel bias and an excessive acceptance of governments with dismal human rights records. …
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When did a Dem ever see a civil right (iow, limitation on government power) they liked that didn’t have something to do with sex?
Oh I’m sure they are all excited anticipating getting their totalitarian, one government world back on track.
The UN should start looking for a new home.
Ain’t happening! Trump tweeted this this morning:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
We will soon be learning about the word “courage”, and saving our Country. I received hundreds of thousands of legal votes more, in all of the Swing States, than did my opponent. ALL Data taken after the vote says that it was impossible for me to lose, unless FIXED!
Oh Yes, Bachelet the Chilean Communist should be real happy to dump tons of Collectivist minded third worlders on us. Will liberate tons of $$$ for her and her buddies to divvy up. Gotta keep the mansion in Gstaad!
You know, if you work really hard at it, you can have a public that is too dumb to govern themselves.
Before we were “fascist” simply because we weren’t nutty Leftists we were because we dared suggest people should hav3 good morals.
That’s what the Germans were saying in 1933.
Biden will attack parental rights, the right to life, free speech, freedom of religion, the right to self-dense (2nd Amendment), along with all of the other restrictions that he supports relative to Covid-19. A Biden presidency - allied with Big Tech - promises to usher in an era of social control and social monitoring.
So says ANOTHER UNaccountable bureaucrat.
I’m selling my stocks in about 5 days.
Waiting for the market crash to come in January or February.
This is what the UN means by ‘better’.
Sounds rather AntiChrist to me..
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Black is white. White is black.
The Child Molester will enable human trafficking like never before.
UN => UM =>United Musims
Michelle Bachelet... has had early training by the Communist Party of former East Germany.
Chile election: conservative Piñera elected president
12/17/2017, 6:58:17 PM · by sparklite2 · 27 replies
BBC ^ | December 17, 2017 | bbc
A conservative billionaire and former president, Sebastián Piñera, has won Chile’s presidential election run-off. It is a marked move to the right for the country, which is currently led by socialist President Michelle Bachelet. She had backed Mr Guillier.
Chilean president asks cabinet to resign
5/7/2015, 3:11:53 AM · by SunkenCiv · 2 replies
BBC News ^ | May 7, 2015 | unattributed
...Ms Bachelet’s son, Sebastian Davalos, was accused by the opposition of using his influence to get a $10m (£6.5m) bank loan for his wife. His wife’s company used the money to buy plots of land in central Chile which her company then resold for profit. Although Chile’s national bank regulator cleared him of any wrongdoing, the issue has become a scandal. Ms Bachelet always maintained she had not been aware of the deal but in a TV interview on Wednesday night she acknowledged she had made “important mistakes” in not returning from holiday or commenting on the case sooner. Correspondents...
Chile’s Bachelet signs same-sex civil union law
4/13/2015, 1:07:31 PM · by Olog-hai · 7 replies
Associated Press ^ | Apr 13, 2015 12:52 PM EDT
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has signed a law that recognizes civil unions between same-sex couples. The law signed Monday takes effect in six months, giving same-sex and unmarried couples many of the rights granted to married couples. Among the changes, it will allow civil union partners to inherit each other’s property, join a partner’s health plan and receive pension benefits. …
Approval rating of Chile’s President Bachelet falls to new low
10/7/2014, 10:16:45 PM · by Viennacon · 5 replies
Reuters ^ | Thu Oct 2, 2014 | REUTERS/IVAN ALVARADO
Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet saw her approval rating fall for the third straight month in September, though support for her key reforms improved, a poll showed on Thursday. Overall approval of the center-left president slipped 2 percentage points from August to 47 percent, said pollster Gfk Adimark, Bachelet’s lowest rating in the monthly survey since returning to power in March. As well as flagging economic growth, there was a spate of bombings in capital Santiago in September, including one that left 14 people injured and another that left a man dead. Ahead of her second non-consecutive term, Bachelet promised an...
Unpopular Populism in Chile
12/20/2013, 9:29:17 AM · by InsightSur · 6 replies
The PanAm Post ^
Chile’s former president Michelle Bachelet won in a runoff election this Sunday, afterfailing to obtain a majority of votes in November’s first round. She has now cleared the path to a second term as president of Chile, with 62 percent of the vote, bettering the 37 percent garnered by her childhood playmate, economist, and recent minister of labor and social security, Evelyn Matthei. She did win a majority of votes on Sunday, but that’s only half the story. As US author and humorist Mark Twain famously mused, “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Election Of Socialist Is Bad Omen For Free-Market Chile
12/17/2013, 11:03:25 PM · by IBD editorial writer · 42 replies
Investor’s Business Daily ^ | 16 Dec 2013 | Editorial
Leftism: Chile has long been a global model of free-market economics. But on Sunday, it elected socialist Michelle Bachelet, who ran on a platform of tax hikes and “free” education. What drives a country to reject success? Bachelet took an astonishing 62% of the vote against her more conservative rival, Evelyn Matthei, who drew just 38%. It wasn’t entirely surprising: Bachelet projected a cheery, confident, maternal demeanor and made few gaffes, quite unlike the less polished Matthei. She also had a good record: As president from 2006 to 2010, she left office with a phenomenal 84% popularity rating — in...
I wonder if they had Dominion voting machines when she got an “astonishing 62% of the vote” there?
“Biden will end the USA as a sovereign country and replace it with a borderless open zone. We share his hatred of America”
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