Chelsea Clinton To Mom And Dad: The United Nations Sucks

Revelations from the latest release of Hillary Clinton’s emails are useful for more than just determining how unqualified she is to handle affairs of state or whether there is a Benghazi smoking gun. We can also glean an insider’s view of just how incompetent the United Nations has been at helping developing countries recover from disaster—in this case, Haiti after the devastating earthquake of 2010.
Chelsea Clinton, now vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, had visited Haiti in 2010 to review the development programs the foundation was supporting under the aegis of the UN’s disaster relief mandate. What she saw of the UN’s role clearly horrified her.


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U.S. will not take floor at UN rights debate on Israel, Palestinians

GENEVA - The United States will not take the floor at the main U.N. human rights forum on Monday during the annual debate on violations committed in the Palestinian territories, a U.S. spokesman told Reuters.  The move at the 47-member state forum where Washington unfailingly defends Israel, follows signals that the Obama administration is undertaking a "reassessment" of relations with Israel.  The last time that Washington spoke under that stand-alone agenda item was in March 2013, U.N. records show.

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Obama Wants to Pay 33% More to U.N. and Other Int’l Groups

When U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday, the panel will consider a budget request for international organizations that is 33 percent bigger than last year’s, including a 43 percent hike in U.S. contributions to peacekeeping missions.   Read more at CNS News
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IRAN: Fox in the UN Hen House

Iran will preside over the United Nations arms control forum this month, despite the fact that it is under U.N. sanctions for illicit nuclear activities and routinely supplies arms to the terrorist organization Hezbollah in violation of international law. Read more at the Washington Free Beacon...

Some good news... Ambassador Rice will not be attending the conference according to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. --bc Read More......

Senate Votes to Stop US From Joining UN Arms Trade Treaty

Patriot Update - In the last batch of amendment votes to the budget, the Senate voted on several foreign policy proposals. ✧ Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced an amendment that would prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in order to uphold the Second Amendment. His amendment passed on a 53-46 vote. ✧ Republicans have been critical of President Obama’s decision to consider the treaty, although Obama has said he would not vote for anything that would violate the Second Amendment. ✧ The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty would regulate international arms sales. Negotiations end on March 28.

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Concerns About Sovereignty Lead Senate Conservatives to Nix U.N. Treaty on Disabled

(12-5-2012, CNSNews.com) – Conservative groups welcomed the U.S. Senate’s failure on Tuesday to ratify a United Nations disabilities treaty, which they view as an infringement of U.S. sovereignty. But Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), a leading proponent, called it “one of the saddest days I’ve seen in almost 28 years in the Senate.” ✧ The Senate voted 61-38 in favor of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), falling five votes short of the required two-thirds majority. ✧ Eight Republicans voted with Democrats for the measure. No Democrats voted against it.

Republicans who voted with the Democrats in favor were Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), John Barrasso (Wyo.), Scott Brown (Mass.), Susan Collins (Maine), Dick Lugar (Ind.), John McCain (Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Olympia Snowe (Maine). ✧ Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) did not vote. Read more at CNSNews... Read More......

George F. Will: The sky, apparently, continues to fall

 Sometimes the news is that something was not newsworthy. The United Nations’ Rio+20 conference — 50,000 participants from 188 nations — occurred in June, without consequences. A generation has passed since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, which begat other conferences and protocols (e.g., Kyoto). And, by now, apocalypse fatigue — boredom from being repeatedly told the end is nigh. Read more at the Columbus Dispatch...

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WSJ: UN Ends Arms Trade Treaty Talks Without Deal

[Excerpts]  Talks at the United Nations over a potential treaty limiting the illicit flow of weapons ended last week without a deal. [...] For the deal to be struck, all 193 U.N. nations had to agree on the text of the agreement. The New York Times reported that the U.S. faced internal pressure from gun-rights groups to walk away from the talks.  Read more at the Wall Street Journal Blog by Samuel Rubenfeld...

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July 27: Last Day for UN Gun-Banners to Hammer out Small Arms Treaty

A dangerous threat to our Second Amendment right to 'keep and bear arms.'

Pledge Your Opposition to Hillary's Global Agenda

Will Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorse the end product? Yes.
Will President Obama sign it? Yes.
Will the U.S. Senate ratify it? Uncertain, it may depend on you.
Call your senators today and encourage them to man up and vote against ratification. Our Democrat senators will be under extreme pressure to support ratification.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) DC (202) 224-3753, Salem (503) 362-8102 | Sen. Ron Wyden (D) - DC (202) 224-5244, Salem (503) 589-4555

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Law of the Sea Treaty now dead, DeMint says

The United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty now has 34 senators opposed to it and thus lacks the Senate votes needed for U.S. ratification, a key opponent of the treaty announced Monday. ✧ But the treaty’s main Senate proponent denies the treaty is sunk, saying plenty of time still exists to win support before a planned late-year vote. Read more at Washington Times... Read More......

Freedom Outpost: UN Installs Iran To Police Arms Control

The controversial United Nations Arms Trade Treaty is not only a threat to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, but now an overseeing member of the month long conference has been named that should be cause for alarm: Iran. That’s right, the nation that our government claims is the next boogeyman is now one of the chosen members of the [fifteen member] “bureau” that will determine what is in the treaty. Read more at Freedom Outpost... Read More......

Gun Control, the UN & 'Selling U.S. Out….Again'

The Second Amendment is precious to most Americans. The right to bear arms is, however, repulsive to liberals and they have tried all manner of maneuvers to take Americans’ guns from them. ✧ The latest tactic is to ratify a United Nations Treaty to regulate arms trade. The concept of the treaty was introduced in 2006 and was vetoed twice by the Bush Administration. The basis for the veto is the sovereignty of the United States Constitution and the unwillingness to subjugate our Constitution to any international body. [...] Now, Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MO) and Rep. Ben Quayle (R-AZ) have introduced House Bill 5846, “The Second Amendment Sovereignty Act,” to counter the proposed treaty. The Bill would block funding for or the implementation of the treaty.

Quayle said the “U.N. treaty is a direct threat to American sovereignty and the constitutional rights of all Americans. Congress needs to put its foot down, and make clear that it, not the United Nations, is the only body with the constitutional right to impose laws in the United States.”

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County in Washington Ditches Sustainable Development

THE NEW AMERICAN - Activists in Clallam County, Washington are celebrating their government's decision to pull the plug on membership in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), a worldwide association of more than 1,200 local governments dedicated to promoting the United Nations' sovereignty-eroding sustainable development program known as Agenda 21. The county will save $1,200 in annual membership dues, but ICLEI critics say they've salvaged much more than that. Read more at The New American... Read More......

Obama Science Czar Led UN Effort to Hide Proceedings, Subvert FOIA, Records Indicate

10/17/2011 - CEI Files FOIA Request Seeking Public Records on Climate Change Policies

Washington, D.C., October 17, 2011 - The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), run by controversial White House Science Adviser (and former Mitt Romney climate adviser) John Holdren. The FOIA request seeks records involving an apparently co-ordinated effort between OSTP and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to subvert and circumvent U.S. law. ✧ Specifically, CEI's FOIA request seeks details of the Obama Administration's involvement in a UN IPCC plan to hide official online correspondence in non-governmental accounts. The express purpose of creating a non-government web-site "cloud" communications system was to avoid national transparency laws, such as the U. S. FOIA. However, with OSTP having taken over the lead U.S. role in the IPCC in 2009, this also implicates the Presidential Records Act of 1978 (PRA). Read more at CEI...

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The UN on Property Rights

From Sovereignty.net - The United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I) met in Vancouver
May 31 through June 11, 1976. Agenda Item 10 of the Conference Report sets forth the UN's official policy on land. The Preamble reads:

"Land...cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable...."

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TD: The Wrenching Transformation of America

(Hat tip: Facebook: Benton County Americans for Prosperity), April 22, 2009 Speech by Tom DeWeese - Ladies and gen­tlemen, I’ve come a long way to get here and I have such a short time to be with you. So, let’s just get every­thing out on the table right now, shall we? ∴ I believe the Amer­ican people, and their every action, are being ruled, reg­u­lated, restricted, licensed, reg­is­tered, directed, checked, inspected, mea­sured, num­bered, counted, rated, stamped, cen­sured, autho­rized, admon­ished, refused, pre­vented, drilled, indoc­tri­nated, monop­o­lized, extorted, robbed, hoaxed, fined, harassed, dis­armed, dis­hon­ored, fleeced, exploited, assessed, and taxed to the point of suf­fo­ca­tion and desperation. ∴ America is drowning in a sea of rules and reg­u­la­tions, par­tic­u­larly under the guise of “saving the environment.”

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