Old News, I'm Sure

I know you have seen this, but just in case you have not had a chance to read the New York Times, or watch CNN or MSNBC, I thought I would would bring this to your attention; even though it is making headlines on all the MSM sites.


Uh huh. Sure it is.

WTF?

Someone please tell me it's April 1st because this can't possibly be true.

Reason Number 989,998 Why The UN is Irrelevant

And preposterous, and specious, and nugatory.

Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, came to Canada at the behest of the various despots and potentates who make up the UN Human Rights Council, in order to point out what he called “unacceptable” rates of food insecurity in this country.

His solution is to increase social assistance and minimum wage in line with the cost of living. Taxes would be imposed on fatty foods and soft drinks; land zone policy would be amended to bring fresh food outlets to “food deserts”; food subsidization programs for remote regions should be enriched, as should support for First Nations trying to access “traditional foods.”

Needless to say, the Harper government was none too thrilled at being lectured by one of their least favourite organizations. Jason Kenney, the Immigration Minister, called Mr. De Schutter’s visit “completely ridiculous” and said he should focus on countries with widespread hunger issues. “It’s not an intelligent use of resources,” he said.

Read it all, it's delicious.

Devastating

That this exists in 2012 is beyond belief. That the UN produces almost daily condemnations against Israel for defending herself, but ignores North Korea, beggars belief.

I guess I knew these camps existed, I just hadn't bothered to find out the breadth and sheer evil of their existence. There are no words.

“One lucky day, I discovered some kernels of corn in a small pile of cow dung,” he said in a report released by Amnesty International in May.

“I picked them up and cleaned them with my sleeve before eating.”

UNHRC: Reason Number 99,999 Why It Should Be "Dissapeared"

UN automatically approves Human Rights Council agenda for next five years, which keeps Israel as only state in world specifically targeted for human rights violations. US, Canada, and Palau only states to join Israel in objecting

Full article here.

Meanwhile the esteemed HRC member states of Angola, Cuba, Djibouti, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Uganda and many others, get away with murder. Literally.

Thank you PM Harper for once again putting Canada in the right column when it counts.