http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/unitednations/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:41:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419609/posts Dear Mr. Secretary-General, It is our understanding that the role of the United Nations is to "bring peace and prosperity to the people of the world." The UN, in this age of terror and horrendous human rights violations (i.e. such as Burma, China, Sudan and Iran,) has failed miserably, to meet its obligations and its purpose under your tutelage. Hence, we the undersigned, emphatically request, Mr. Secretary General, that you submit your resignation based on the following points: Your loud silence, continuing to ignore the ongoing, blatant and insidious violations of human rights in Iran, is completely inexcusable. Where is... Right Side News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419609/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:41:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415225/posts   Anambra 2010: ‘The world is watching Nigeria’ By ZIKA BOBBY Friday, December 25, 2009 Ahead the 2010 governorship election scheduled to hold in Anambra, the international community has focused its attention on Nigeria. Chairman of the Awka Development Union of Nigeria, based in the Netherlands, Obi Ochije, who stated this during a telephone conversation with Daily Sun, said the outcome of that election would determine how the international community sees Nigeria. “Nigerians who are living abroad are all interested in the election billed to hold early next year in Anambra. That is one election that will determine whether Nigeria... Daily Sun Nigeria http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415225/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:25:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413548/posts UN Charter: “To maintain international peace and security.” Edit LinkBy Ted Belman A movement is afoot to get the UN to predetermine borders between Israel and the future 23rd Arab state and to recognize “East Jerusalem” as its capital. Such predetermination would be in violation of the Roadmap which calls for a negotiated solution where “negotiated” implies freedom to say “no”. And such predetermination would prejudge the outcome which the world never tires of telling Israel, no one can do. I began doing research on the powers of the UN and on whether such UN predetermination would be ultra-vires its... ISRAPUNDIT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413548/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:17:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412781/posts "OIC Slams ‘Demonic’ Portrayal of Islam, But Support for Religious ‘Defamation’ Measures Continues to Erode" SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – An Islamic-led campaign against religious “defamation” has taken another blow the United Nations, where support among member states has dropped to a new low amid escalating concerns that defamation resolutions endanger non-Muslims in Islamic societies and harm freedom of expression. While much of the world’s attention was focused on Copenhagen late last week, the U.N. General Assembly passed a range of human rights-related resolutions. For critics of the world body the results were mixed. The latest in a string of religious defamation... CNS NEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412781/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:27:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412358/posts No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr. Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all. What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr. Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412358/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:15:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412357/posts UN IPCC Head Not Qualified for Post; Has Huge Conflict of Interest Issue The London Telegraph No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr. Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all. What... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412357/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:14:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411424/posts COPENHAGEN – A plan to protect the world's biologically rich tropical forests by paying poor nations to protect them was shelved Saturday after world leaders failed to agree on a binding deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Burning trees to clear land for plantations or cattle ranches and logging forests for wood is blamed for about 20 percent of the world's emissions. That's as much carbon dioxide as all the world's cars, trucks, trains, planes and ships combined. About 32 million acres (13 million hectares) of forests are cut down each year — an area about the size of England... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411424/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:01:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411348/posts COPENHAGEN – A historic U.N. climate conference ended Saturday with only a nonbinding "Copenhagen Accord" to show for two weeks of debate and frustration. It was a deal short on concrete steps against global warming, but signaling a new start for rich-poor cooperation on climate change. The agreement brokered by President Barack Obama with China and others in fast-paced hours of diplomacy on Friday sets up the first significant program of climate aid to poorer nations. But although it urges deeper cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming, it does nothing to demand them.... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411348/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:07:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410838/posts NEW YORK, NY, December 18, 2009 (C-FAM) - A recent submission to the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) provides evidence of the potentially fatal consequences of "safe" abortion promoted by UN agencies, and includes a list of 113 studies linking abortion dangerous complications such as pre-term birth in subsequent pregnancies."The encouragement by [the UN Population Fund] UNFPA and [the World Health Organization] WHO of the use of mifepristone (RU-486, Mifegyne) and misoprostol (Cytotec) as ‘safe’ abortifacients in medically resource poor nations is unconscionable" the paper says, "and a violation of the human... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410838/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:36:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410236/posts The United Nations (UN) has licensed the minting of gold bullion coins bearing its logo to provide a "public option" world savings currency. According to the Vancouver Examiner, Oro gold coins are hoped to contribute to making the UN better funded by 2015, with revenue rising by ten to 15 per cent. The coins are set to be produced in Europe and then distributed globally, with any licensee able to produce such bullion under contract. Armand Dufour of the European Bank says that he welcomes the introduction of the gold coins. However, he goes on to add that there is... Gold.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410236/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:26:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410048/posts In a related development, secret documents were leaked today indicating that the United Nations has been plotting to form an international environmental governing body which almost certainly would infringe on U.S. sovereignty. theFinancialSkinny http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410048/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:35:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409955/posts Large pieces of a climate deal fell into place Thursday with new offers from the U.S. and China, but other tough issues remained before President Barack Obama and other leaders can sign off on a political accord to contain the threat of an overheated world. An announcement by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the United States would contribute to a climate change fund amounting to $100 billion a year by 2020 was quickly followed by an offer from China to open its books on carbon emissions to international review. The U.S. delegation did not immediately react to the... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409955/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:16:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409919/posts “Too Many Births Said to Threaten the Climate” read the headline in the November 19 edition of the French daily Le Monde. The headline refers to the new “State of World Population 2009” report published by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The document is called a “report,” but in light of the unabashed and unrelenting advocacy of which it consists, it might be better described as a “pamphlet.” Subtitled “Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate,” what it advocates is combating “global warming” (“There is no time for delay; we are already on the precipice”) and its novelty... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409919/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:35:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408240/posts COPENHAGEN (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon said world leaders faced a "defining moment in history" as they balanced their nation's interests with a global clamour to halt the juggernaut of climate change. With just over three days left to broker one of the most ambitious, yet also fiendishly complex, deals in human history, conference chair Denmark appealed for all sides to embrace the spirit of compromise. But China and the United States -- the world's two biggest carbon polluters -- brushed aside European calls for concessions on emissions reductions, the thorniest issue of all. Related article: UN system to... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408240/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:16:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407885/posts The United Nations has declined Denmark’s help to quicken the snail's pace of accreditations to the COP15 Climate Summit. The chaotic scenes at the entrance to the United Nations Climate Conference at the Bella Center continue today with people waiting hours to get through an apparently undermanned U.N. accreditation system. The congestion caused by the thousands trying to get into the summit caused Danish police to call for a second day of temporary closure of the Bella Center metro station. Although Denmark is host for the summit, accreditation is in the hands of the United Nations. “The bottleneck is in... Politiken (Denmark) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407885/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:31:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406399/posts YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHO WAS A GUEST AT OBAMA’s FIRST STATE DINNER….. Mr. Ratan Tata [The chairman of the Tata Group - India's biggest conglomerate] A story emerging out of Britain suggests “follow the money” may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis. A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in... wordpress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406399/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405248/posts A story emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions , despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis. A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs. WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405248/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:34:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405408/posts The 400-year-old freedom of the high seas would be lost under United Nations plans to limit environmental damage. Military forces of several nations are in discussions with conservationists over pooling surveillance resources to enforce the changes. The “freedom of the seas” has given mariners legal rights to roam the high seas — a boundary that usually occurs 200 nautical miles from shore — at will. Specialists gathered at a London conference are saying that fishermen have been pushing the concept too far. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea came into force in 1983 and enshrined the... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405408/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:34:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403779/posts So this big climate change confab is going on right now in Copenhagen. Lots of British Thermal Units have given their lives to fly in the delegates from all around the globe. Delegates from the "rich" countries want to feel good and guilty about being rich, greedy, energy guzzlers. Delegates from the "developing" countries want to exploit that guilt and extract their gold--collecting billions of dollars from the rich folks to help them adapt to "climate change." So this conference is about "going green" alright: It's about the green going out of OUR pockets and into theirs! And all... DUmmie FUnnies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403779/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:33:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403243/posts UNITED NATIONS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that emails leaked from a British university have done nothing to undermine the United Nations' view that climate change is accelerating due to humans. "Nothing that has come out in the public as a result of the recent email hackings has cast doubt on the basic scientific message on climate change and that message is quite clear -- that climate change is happening much, much faster than we realized and we human beings are the primary cause," he said. AlertNet.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403243/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:22:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402911/posts COPENHAGEN (AP) -- This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference. Only the United States and Canada experienced cooler conditions than average, the World Meteorological Organization said, although Alaska had the second-warmest July on record. In central Africa and southern Asia, this will probably be the warmest year, but overall, 2009 will "be about the fifth-warmest year on record," said Michel Jarraud, secretary-general of the WMO. The agency also... Yahoo! Finance News / AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402911/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:42:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402847/posts William Faulkner once famously remarked, “The past is not dead, in fact, it is not even past.” The axiom underlying this statement is the reality, that regardless of cultures, circumstances, or even time, the natural tendencies and impulses which are the motivators driving civilizations do not change. What follows, from the beginning of world history, is essentially the same plot with a variety of nuances in different settings with different characters—from Babylon to Alexandria, to Rome, to Berlin—and finally, to Washington D.C. During Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930’s a great part the ideology he embraced was popular in... Skarbutts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402847/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:18:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402559/posts World Health Organization scientists are suspected of accepting secret bribes from vaccine manufacturers to influence the U.N. organization's H1N1 pandemic declaration, according to Danish and Swedish newspapers. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical profits from swine-flu related drugs have soared – with earnings between $10 billion and $15 billion in 2009, investment bank JP Morgan estimates. As WND reported, the WHO Director General Margaret Chan initially raised the influenza pandemic alert to its second highest level in May – but evidence reveals the agency may have made it easier to classify the flu outbreak as a pandemic by changing its definition to omit "enormous... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402559/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 03:09:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401660/posts COPENHAGEN – Delegates converged Sunday for the grand finale of two years of tough, sometimes bitter negotiations on a climate change treaty, as U.N. officials calculated that pledges offered in the last few weeks to reduce greenhouse gases put the world within reach of keeping global warming under control. Yvo de Boer, the U.N.'s top climate official, said on the eve of the 192-nation conference that despite unprecedented unity and concessions, industrial countries and emerging nations need to dig deeper. Finance — billions of dollars immediately and hundreds of billions of dollars annually within a decade — was emerging as... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401660/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 21:20:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401640/posts UN officials likened the Climategate controversy to Watergate today, claiming that computer hackers who stole thousands of e-mails sent by a senior climate scientist were probably paid to do it by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit. Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the theft from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was not the work of amateur climate sceptics but a sophisticated and well-funded attempt to destroy public confidence in the science of man-made climate change. He said the fact that the e-mails were first uploaded to a... Times Online (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401640/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 20:26:28 GMT