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They’re Worried About Freedom, Now?

29 Sunday Dec 2019

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The useless UN aims to further its irrelevance in 2020.

The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom.

The General Assembly approved the resolution sponsored by Russia and backed by China, which would set up a committee of international experts in 2020.

The panel will work to set up “a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes,” the resolution said.

The United States, European powers and rights groups fear that the language is code for legitimizing crackdowns on expression, with numerous countries defining criticism of the government as “criminal.”

Say what now? I’ve watched these past few years as all those wonderful western governments and rights groups did nothing as people slightly to the right of Bernie Sanders were deplatformed right and right (never left). And, the European powers have laws criminalizing criticism of a government, if not their own; the US is working on that as well, the 1A be dead parchment. So, what is all the fuss suddenly about? Must be those dastardly Russians. If not for the UN support, I possibly could get behind this. As is, I just don’t care. I’m starting to see the internet, maybe even electricity even, as a mistake. Running from one Br’er Rabbit villain to another certainly is.

UN Concerned with Racism in the USA

24 Thursday Aug 2017

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Of course, the story only reports the usual one side of the racial divide. And, as with anything from the UN, a grain of salt is in order. Yet, here, they may be on to something.

A UN committee tasked with combatting racism has issued a formal “early warning” over conditions in the United States, a rare move often used to signal the potential of a looming civil conflict.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said it had invoked its “early warning and urgent action procedure” because of the proliferation of racist demonstrations in the US.

It specifically noted the unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a woman was killed after an avowed white supremacist ploughed his car into a group of anti-racism counterprotestors.

The racism committee, part of the UN human rights office, can issue a formal early warning to help prevent “existing problems from escalating into conflict” or to “prevent a resumption of conflict where it has previously occurred”, according to the rights office website.

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The US warning marks the seventh such alert issued in the past decade.

They mainly concern countries gripped by ethnic and religious strife, including Burundi, Nigeria, Iraq and Ivory Coast.

One wonders if this is escalation or resumption.

At any rate, at least we’re in good company. Burundi, Nigeria, Iraq, and Ivory Coast are all advanced nations with strong economies, nuclear power, outstanding schools, and thriving space programs… USA! USA! USA!

And this seeming a tad late for an early warning. Probably, the time for early action would have been in the 60’s, better addressing civil rights and halting the Immigration Act of 1965. The time for emergency action was probably 30 years ago. What comes now? Who knows? Peace and happiness, surely.

Obama’s Last Push For Gun Control

18 Sunday Dec 2016

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Let’s hope it’s the last. And it’s probably bound to fail anyway. Still, even as he departed for Hawaii, Obama started his push to ratify the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty through the Senate.

We weren’t going to cover this because, frankly, it seemed like just a desperate last salvo from a failed, departing President. But in the days since it was announced, there have been uncomfortable rumblings about some GOP Members of Congress caving in…

President Obama just formally delivered the UN Arms Trade Treaty to the United States Senate for ratification and he is demanding that Congress approve it.

As you know, the UN Arms Trade Treaty would implement global firearm import/export restrictions and force member states to create gun owner registries.

This has always been the goal of the modern gun control movement in America. Final gun control – disarmament – cannot happen without a detailed registry of who owns which firearms.

The gun control advocates are now just one Senate vote away from realizing this disarmament dream…

The White House is already trying to spin this. They are calling it “common sense” gun control. They are begging that a handful of Liberal Republicans break with their party and vote to create a nationwide gun registry.

In the Western World, there has never been a gun registry that wasn’t followed by confiscations.

Registration, confiscation, then you’re down to beating off attackers with your shoe. But they want to make even that a criminal act. Like in France.

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These murder numbers are a tad low. News Pipeline.

Tomorrow is the real U.S. Presidential election, by the way.

LiesAndStupidity.UN

28 Sunday Aug 2016

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Once the U.S. government has control of something it never, ever gives it up. That is, unless it has a really good, self-serving reason. Knowing this I ponder why the Hussein Obama administration is preparing to hand control over of the internet to someone else (likely the United Nations).

If the UN can be summed up in one word, that word is “communist”. A good adjective for “communist”, as it concerns the UN, would be “corrupt”. Fortunately, these may be modified (always) by “grossly incompetent”. Seriously, name one thing the UN has proved good at other than pitiful bumbling.

When the Obama administration announced its plan to give up U.S. protection of the internet, it promised the United Nations would never take control. But because of the administration’s naiveté or arrogance, U.N. control is the likely result if the U.S. gives up internet stewardship as planned at midnight on Sept. 30.

On Friday Americans for Limited Government received a response to its Freedom of Information Act request for “all records relating to legal and policy analysis . . . concerning antitrust issues for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” if the U.S. gives up oversight. The administration replied it had “conducted a thorough search for responsive records within its possession and control and found no records responsive to your request.”

It’s shocking the administration admits it has no plan for how Icann retains its antitrust exemption. The reason Icann can operate the entire World Wide Web root zone is that it has the status of a legal monopolist, stemming from its contract with the Commerce Department that makes Icann an “instrumentality” of government.

– L. Gordon Crovitz, The Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2016.

No, Mr. Crovitz, it is not shocking that this administration lies and then has no plan. That’s what they do. All they do. That’s their legacy.

How will this play out, if it comes to pass? That’s hard to say. It probably won’t mean much in the immediate future. The UN will likely search the globe for the highest bribes and then turn the internet over to the payor(s) of choice. Places like the U.S., Britain and Russia will probably see few ill effects for a while at least.

It may not matter at all. The internet hit its heyday some 10 years ago. Since then it has been getting slower and less responsive as more and more ads and other garbage float around constantly reducing speed and efficiency.

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UNinspiring…

The existing internet structure, invented in the U.S. though not by Albert Gore, has just about reached its limits. Plans are afoot for a speedier, bigger and better, market-based replacement. When the time comes I will upgrade if necessary.

There are a few constants in the universe: The UN is a failure. Hussein Obama has no idea what to do (other than prevaricate). And technology steams ahead. Let them RAM that in their ROM.

Mark of the Beast?

02 Monday Nov 2015

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I do not like the Book of Revelation. Rather, I am not fond of the modern “rapture” interpretation of the text. “Rapture” appears nowhere in the Book and the John Hagee telling (gleefully alarmist) is at odds with Christ’s admonishment about the end.

Revelation is the written account of a dream by John. We’re not even sure which John it was. Most say Saint John the Apostle. It is perhaps the vaguest part of the Bible.

That being said I came across a news story which eerily reminded me of the mark of the beast of Revelation fame.

In its never-ending quest for relevance or dominance the United Nations has released a plan to biometrically track all humans on planet Earth by 2030. I suppose that means a tracking chip implant.

To achieve this Satanic goal in America the UN would need Congress to pass an implementation treaty or law. Don’t think they wouldn’t do it. They too have plans to command and control everything and everyone.

Should this become the law of our land I ask my conservative law and order friends if they will obey. Will you? I will not.

At some point will a universal biometric ID be required for everyone, including you and your family?

And what would happen if you refused to take it?

I could definitely foresee a day when not having “legal identification” would disqualify you from holding a job, getting a new bank account, applying for a credit card, qualifying for a mortgage, receiving any form of government payments, etc. etc.

At that point, anyone that refused to take a “universal ID” would become an outcast from society.

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What would happen if you refuse? I intend to find out. I am not a box for UPS to track. Already I chaff under my own government’s “identification” schemes. A UN 666 chip is where I will draw a line. A line of sight on a blue helmet if necessary.

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Need be? Google.

Your freedom ranks up there with your health and your happiness. They are all bound together. Always be conscious some want, at all times, to eliminate them.