Such an inspiration




Malala delivers defiant riposte to Taliban militants as UN hails 'our hero'

"'They thought that the bullet would silence us. But they failed,' says Malala, 16, at UN to push campaign for girls' education"

This young woman is someone who was probably thrust into a limelight that she didn't desire. She has certainly taken up her role with conviction and courage. She has suffered so much already due to the actions of the violent Islamist cowards in her home country. I do hope she can stay safe and healthy, protected from the fanatics. Words against bullets...

---

I listened to an interview with him

The U.N. official, that is.

Food for thought: Why David Olive is ashamed to be a Canadian today

We're a 1st World developed country that had its first food bank start in 1990 as a temporary measure. They're now a fixture. In a country driven by Capitalism, it may be that the food banks actually fulfilled a purpose for our Capitalist leaders - they took away the guilt and political issues that would accompany people starving in their homes or on the street and lessened the possibility of violence over the lack of food. For the politicians it was all win.

This is a national disgrace. Jason Kenney has the gall to suggest that the U.N. shouldn't chastise us. Perhaps it may be our place to remind Mr. Kenney that his government is failing in one of the most basic of tasks - providing food for those most impoverished in his own country. Great thing those blinkers, aren't they Mr. Kenney?

The only plus in this is that we're one step better than the U.S. - they tried everything possible to prevent the U.N. from even collecting data in their country - so that makes us one step up. Whoopee. Some great place to be.

I, too, am ashamed to be a Canadian today. I'm ashamed to live in a country that lets poverty like this happen. I'm ashamed to live in a country that can elect such a heartless and uncaring government...

---

Such a terrible crime

Trafficking still one of fastest growing criminal activities globally, says UN expert

"Human trafficking, "one of the most appalling forms of human rights violations," remains one of the world?s fastest growing criminal activities in the world, an independent United Nations expert said today."

Criminals without consciences will do anything to make money. Nothing else matters...

---

It is ironic...

Another human-rights irony at the U.N.

"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad campaigned in Uganda and Zimbabwe. Behind the scenes, his flunkies twisted arms and offered favors."

But isn't all of life? (Joke!)

---

Good for them

Walkout at Iran leader's speech

What disgusting behaviour. How can a body like the U.N. even let someone like him speak? It's like inviting Hitler to speak on the eve of WW II. We can never let a fanaticly anti-Israeli nation like this have nuclear weapons...

Aw, so the left isn't always wrong?


At the U.N., a Firebrand Increasingly in the Mainstream

"Economic Order Led by U.S. Is Popular Target"

Well, their big economic guru did admit that it appeared that his economic theories were wrong...

I haven't heard

the U.S. say too many good things about the U.N. in recent years anyway. It isn't unusual to hear them complain.

Priest elected UN General Assembly president

(As an aside, does the U.S. still owe the U.N. all the money it did some years ago, I wonder?)

The Face of Evil

Bolton admits Lebanon truce block

This isn't an April Fool joke. The article is from the BBC on March 22nd. John Bolton, as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.:

"deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006"

He's 'damn proud' of doing that because they were waiting for most of the Hezbollah threat was removed and only moved to help when it appeared that Israel couldn't continue. Oh, and they were disappointed with Israel.

I guess they wanted most of Hezbollah to be dead before any ceasefire came about. Might as well use another army to do it.

We have looked upon the face of evil...

The Vatican, the U.N., and Labour

Vatican Statement to U.N. on Labor

"Work Is the Essential Key to the Whole Social Question"