By Alan Caruba
On Sunday, Jan 28, the front-page story in my daily newspaper was “A chilling conclusion on global warming.” By Tuesday, the front page story was “Climate Study: Millions will go hungry and dry.” Soon more revelations about a United Nations report on climate change, due in April, will be in the news, but let me tell you its conclusion. We’re doomed.
Now, you might ask yourself, why would anyone have any confidence in a report from an international institution that perpetrated the greatest fraud, “Oil-for-Food”, in modern history? Or that stacked its Human Rights Commission with representatives of the most repressive nations? Or that initiated a ban on DDT, thus leading to the needless deaths of millions from malaria? Or that is currently dawdling around while thousands continue to die in Darfur?
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Posted by Walt as Environment Issues, Junk Science at 11:06 PM EST
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Geneva, January 29, 2007 — A coalition of leading human rights groups from around the world today called on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour to rebuke Iran for its campaign of Holocaust denial, on the day the UN marks the genocide of Europe’s Jews with ceremonies in New York and Geneva. The letter urged Arbour to strongly condemn Tehran’s fundamentalist regime every time it dismisses the Holocaust as “a myth.” The 40 signatories include Human Rights First, Freedom House, the Democracy Coalition Project, the Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre, and the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women.
According to Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, Iran’s latest questioning of the Holocaust—in a January 8th letter to the Human Rights Council that was circulated as an official UN document—requires a response from High Commissioner Arbour. “Since Ahmadinejad’s odious remarks began in September 2005, important statements were issued by both Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon,” said Neuer. “But denial of genocide is a fundamental assault on human rights, and so it’s vital for Madame Arbour to finally speak out as well.”
The text of the letter follows below.
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“Recommendation Dangerous for Global Security,
Counter-terrorism, and Human Rights Efforts”
Washington, D.C. – United Nations envoy, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, today released his proposal for the future of Kosovo. The proposal, as one anonymous Western diplomat stated, "amounts to ‘independence, subject to international supervision.’" The major points of the plan include:
• No reference to Serbian sovereignty or independence for Kosovo;
• Blocking Kosovo from joining Albania, or having its Serb areas split off and join Serbia;
• Giving Kosovo right to use national symbols including flag and anthem;
• Giving Kosovo right to join international organizations such as UN and IMF;
• Creating international envoy mandated by UN and EU with power to intervene in government;
• Retaining NATO and EU forces in military and policing roles;
• Protecting non-Albanian minority with guaranteed roles in government, police and civil service;
• Protecting Serbian Orthodox Church sites and Serbian language.
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By Alan Caruba
It’s official. America is now totally insane over the weather.
Even the Weather Channel that used to simply provide reasonably accurate, short-term information about the weather is now telling everyone we’re doomed because global warming is going to destroy the Earth. Why not just rename it the AlGore Channel?
The weather used to be the concern primarily of farmers and ranchers. It determines how well or not crops would grow and herds will thrive. As America became more urbanized, the rest of the population wanted to know whether to bring an umbrella or what to wear. Now it is a source of daily anxiety over the fate of the Earth.
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Posted by Walt as Environment Issues, Junk Science at 12:00 PM EST
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