http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/worldcourt/ en-us Mon, 5 Sep 2005 15:59:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477780/posts Decision Brief No. 05-D 44 2005-08-31 On eve of U.N. push for global government, advocates urge Senate to approve a building block: The Law of the Sea Treaty (Washington, D.C.): As concern grows that the United Nations is intent on replacing what the National Security Guidance calls "an orderly arrangement of sovereign states" with a proto-world government - complete with the ability to impose international taxes, a new push is being made for a treaty that would advance that purpose: the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). This sovereignty-sapping agenda is at the heart of a dispute now playing... The Center For Security Policy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477780/posts#comment Mon, 5 Sep 2005 15:59:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344793/posts *NEA conference call full audio and transcript here** Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally? That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three weeks ago when I wrote an article on Big Hollywood entitled The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?” The question still requires debate but the facts do not. The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable. But some have claimed that... Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344793/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:12:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225589/posts Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. His nomination of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh to be the State Department's top lawyer constitutes further evidence of his disdain for American values. This seemingly obscure position in Foggy Bottom's bureaucratic maze is one of the most important in any administration, shaping foreign policy in the courts and playing a critical role in international negotiations and treaties. Let's set... Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225589/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:12:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179499/posts Get ready to learn the words to "We Are The World" because if President Obama has his way there will be a new world order where the UN and World Courts have have a big say in what happens in the US. Both Susan Rice an Hillary Clinton have a strong alliance with Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott, a big believer in world government and a trusted contact of the Russian Intelligence service while he was in the Clinton Administration. Don't forget that as a Senator the President supported the pro-UN Global Poverty Act and co-sponsorship of the Jubilee Act... Washington Times/Yidwithlid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179499/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 05:40:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2162969/posts George Soros, admitted Nazi Collaborator and convicted inside trader is already showing the the influence he will have on an Obama government's foreign policy. Through his foreign policy Think Tank Soros is working with Samantha Power, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Robert Malley to create a "New World Order" that will be anti-US, Pro-terror and Anti-Israel. Soros, who backed Obama during the presidential campaign, is a well-known advocate of a “New World Order” in which the U.S. refuses to act unilaterally in its own interests… In violation of Barack Obama’s promise to run an open and transparent transition to the next administration,... AIM/Yidwithlid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2162969/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141705/posts Global warming hysteria is making front page news over at MSNBC.com. Actually, maybe it is no longer hysteria. Global warming is the new issue of the 21st century, and provides a whole array of ways the governments of the world can steal more money from the sheeple. What a great way to make money to finance their and their friends greed! Activists blast U.S. at climate change talk: Rich countries under fire at U.N. conference for resisting new targets MSNBC.com: Wow! Who is rich here? Last I checked, the "rich" countries are in enormous debt, a financial catastrophe threatening the... The Gadfly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141705/posts#comment Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:09:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141237/posts Stephen Hockman QC is proposing a body similar to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to be the supreme legal authority on issues regarding the environment. The first role of the new body would be to enforce international agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions set to be agreed next year. But the court would also fine countries or companies that fail to protect endangered species or degrade the natural environment and enforce the "right to a healthy environment". The innovative idea is being presented to an audience of politicians, scientists and public figures for the first time at... UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141237/posts#comment Tue, 2 Dec 2008 03:54:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083802/posts THE HAGUE- The former leader of Bosnia's Muslim army, Rasim Delic, was jailed for three years yesterday by the Hague Tribunal for allowing the torture of Bosnian Serb soldiers by a Mujahideen unit in 1995. By majority decision, Delic, who was the chief of staff of the Bosnian Army in 1995, was found guilty of violating customs and laws of war, when he did nothing to prevent cruel treatment of Serb prisoners by a Mujahideen unit under his command. Judge Bakone Justice Moloto, citing the "appalling brutal" mistreatment meted out by Islamic foreign fighters, said that tribunal judges had decided... Blic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083802/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:06:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083612/posts The convergence between Jihadi Khomeinists and Jihadi Salafists seems to be developing as strategists and terrorism analysts are debating the near future of the global jihadi movement. Moving fast to reach out to the Islamist regime in Khartoum, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization openly declared its backing of Omar Bashir's government as the latter in turn solidified its alliance with Hezbollah. This development, which surfaced as of the end of July, comes in parallel of an attempt by the Khomeinist-inspired organization to sign a collaboration agreement with Salafist factions in Beirut a few weeks ago. But the Hezbollah-Sudan exchange of declarations... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083612/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:47:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078661/posts There are strange happenings in the world of international jurisprudence that do not bode well for the future of free speech. In an unprecedented case, a Jordanian court is prosecuting 12 Europeans in an extraterritorial attempt to silence the debate on radical Islam. The prosecutor general in Amman charged the 12 with blasphemy, demeaning Islam and Muslim feelings, and slandering and insulting the prophet Muhammad in violation of the Jordanian Penal Code. The charges are especially unusual because the alleged violations were not committed on Jordanian soil. Among the defendants is the Danish cartoonist whose alleged crime was to draw... WALL STREET JOURNAL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078661/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:08:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074973/posts Election '08: Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that, if elected, an Obama administration might pursue criminal charges against the Bush White House. This is how he plans to unite the country?Barack Obama insists he's the one we've been waiting for to bring the country together. Yet, he and Biden are signaling their willingness — or is it their eagerness? — to criminalize political opposition. "We will not be stopped from pursuing any criminal offense that's occurred," Biden said Monday at a Florida campaign stop. "If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074973/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:08:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069963/posts 28 August 2008 Belgrade _ The French Foreign Minister says Serbia has a right to seek a world court ruling on the legality of Kosovo’s independence but warned the EU would not fully accept it. In a statement to Serbia’s state news agency Tanjug in Paris, Bernard Kouchner warned that “if eventually the International Court of Justice will consider the case, something I am not certain about, it would have to take into account all relevant elements.” “Do not forget that are international agreements, the United Nations and international community stand (on the issue)… The court will take all of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069963/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:03:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065909/posts Long after the guns fall silent in the Georgia-Russia conflict, the two countries' legal artillery is still likely still be firing away in an attempt to have the each other publicly judged guilty of war crimes, even genocide. On September 8th, the International Court of Justice begins hearings in a case filed by Georgia.The case seeks to halt Russian military action in Georgia, and accuses the Kremlin of conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing there.Mikheil Saakashvili, the Georgian president, has called the Russian forces in his country "21st century barbarians."Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, has had even harsher words... Al Jazeera http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065909/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:08:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064541/posts An American lawyer has offered to represent Iran in an international lawsuit against Israel and his own government in an effort to stop Washington and Tel Aviv from initiating further sanctions against Tehran. Francis A. Boyle says following Washington's latest ultimatum to Tehran to freeze uranium enrichment within two weeks or face further isolation, Iran needs to act quickly. At weekend talks in Geneva, the United States delivered what it describes as a "clear and simple message" that Iran must choose between cooperation and confrontation. In an e-mail interview with Press TV, Boyle urged Iran to begin drafting lawsuits for... Worldpress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064541/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:35:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063768/posts The secrets of the crushing of Yugoslavia are emerging, telling us more about how the modern world is policed. The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, this year published her memoir, The Hunt: Me and War Criminals. Largely ignored in Britain, the book reveals unpalatable truths about the West's intervention in Kosovo, which has echoes in the Caucasus. The tribunal was set up and bankrolled principally by the United States. Del Ponte's role was to investigate the crimes committed as Yugoslavia was dismembered in the 1990s. She insisted that this... John Pilger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063768/posts#comment Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:55:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062807/posts Is the defendant's dock at the International Criminal Court reserved for leaders of small and poor countries that defy the West? Not if Rwanda has its way. It wants to charge some of France's most celebrated leaders of the 1990s as collaborators in genocide. Last week the government of Rwanda issued a damning 500-page report documenting France's participation in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This marks a remarkable turnaround in the deeply politicized world of human rights reporting. Usually, such reporting takes the form of governments or human rights groups based in the West condemning poor countries for having political or... IHT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062807/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:45:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061514/posts PARIS — Georgia has filed a lawsuit against Russia at the International Court of Justice in The Hague for its actions in and around the territory of Georgia from 1991 to 2008, the court said in a statement. ny times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061514/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:41:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059774/posts BELGRADE: Former US and French Presidents Bill Clinton and Jacques Chirac “personally” blocked plans to arrest the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, wanted for a genocide trial over the past 13 years, a former official of the UN war crimes tribunal said in an interview published yesterday. Florence Hartmann, a former spokeswoman of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) prosecutor, said in an interview with the daily Blic that “sometimes the arrest was blocked personally by Chirac, another time it was Clinton.” Karadzic was arrested in July in Belgrade after 13 years on the run. ICTY accused... Arab News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059774/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:27:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059718/posts The execution of José Ernesto Medellín Rojas by the state of Texas is a violation of international law, said Amnesty International today. "It undermines the authority of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which had ruled in favour of a stay of execution." Amnesty.ORG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059718/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:13:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2058513/posts HUNTSVILLE — An illegal immigrant from Honduras who claimed his treaty rights were violated when he was arrested for a robbery-murder near Dallas was executed Thursday evening. "God forgive them, receive my spirit," Heliberto Chi said in English. In Spanish, he told a friend watching through a window that he loved him and appreciated his hard work. He appeared to be whispering a prayer in Spanish with a tear at the corner of his right eye as the lethal drugs began to take effect. One of Chi's cousins, who was among the witnesses, sobbed uncontrollably. Two sons of his victims... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2058513/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:39:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058290/posts An illegal immigrant from Honduras who claimed his treaty rights were violated when he was arrested for a robbery-murder near Dallas lost his appeal ... at the U.S. Supreme Court, clearing the way for his execution. In the second case of its kind this week in Texas, lawyers for condemned killer Heliberto Chi went to the nation's highest court claiming Chi should have been told he could get legal assistance from the Honduran consulate when he was arrested in California and extradited to Texas to face charges for killing his former boss at a men's clothing store during a robbery... Ft. Worth Star-Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058290/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:08:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057954/posts Heliberto Chi, a Honduran native...moved one step closer to execution Wednesday when [Texas"] highest criminal court rejected his bid for a stay. Chi, condemned for killing Armand Paliotta during an after-hours robbery ...will be put to death tonight in Huntsville unless his lawyers can persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to spare his life. Arlington attorney Wes Ball said the odds are against Chi because Ball’s argument is similar to the one the justices rejected Tuesday when they allowed the execution of Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin to go forward. Ft. Worth Star Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057954/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:11:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057568/posts Karadzic demands Holbrooke, Albright appear in court AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic demanded on Wednesday that former U.S. peace mediator Richard Holbrooke and ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appear at the U.N. war crimes tribunal to back his claims of an immunity offer from the United States. Karadzic, who was transferred to the Hague's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia last week to face war crimes and genocide charges after 11 years on the run, challenged the legality of the case against him, a filing released by the tribunal showed. In the document, Karadzic repeated... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057568/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:39:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2057328/posts Medellin executed for rape, murder of Houston teens By ALLAN TURNER and ROSANNA RUIZ Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Aug. 6, 2008, 12:36AM Comments Recommend 1 2 3 Texas Department of Criminal Justice Jose Medellin's case created international controversy when the United Nations' world court determined Texas had violated the killer's rights under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Share Print Email Del.icio.usDiggTechnoratiYahoo! BuzzHUNTSVILLE — The state of Texas defied an international court and executed Jose Ernesto Medellin late Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for the killer in the 1993 Houston gang rape-murders of... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2057328/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:29:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057233/posts HOUSTON — In a case that has drawn international attention, Texas executed José E. Medellín on Tuesday night in defiance of an international court ruling and despite pleas from the Bush administration for a new hearing. The execution came just before 10 p.m. Central time, shortly after the United States Supreme Court denied a last request for a reprieve. Protesters for and against the death penalty clamored in the rain outside the Huntsville Unit, about 70 miles north of Houston, where Mr. Medellín was executed by lethal injection. “I’m sorry my actions caused you pain,” he said to the witnesses... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057233/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 05:04:20 GMT