Comical

WND:

Tens of thousands of children in public schools across America soon could be getting a free comic book, one that extols the virtues of the United Nations and its agenda through the words of a kids’ hero, Spider-Man.

(snip)

Sciora specifically said the project is to target school-aged children with the message of the U.N.

“These comics, featuring favorite Marvel characters such as Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, will … tell the story of how the United Nations fights the challenges of poverty, disease, and conflict worldwide,” the U.N. announcement said.

So, they need a comic figure to extol the virtues of the UN and the way it works?  Try Dagwood Bumstead.

Cheney: There’s No Such Thing as a NAFTA Superhighway, But There Were WMDs in Iraq.

WND has it.

If the NAFTA Superhighways, the North American Union and the Security and Prosperity Partnership isn’t a problem, then why has:

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a GOP presidential candidate, introduced an amendment to H.R. 3074, the Transportation Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2008, prohibiting the use of federal funds for participating in working groups under the Security and Prosperity Partnership, including the creation of NAFTA Superhighways.

On July 24, Hunter’s amendment passed 362 to 63, with strong bipartisan support. Later, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3074 by a margin of 268-153. The bill has been sent to the Senate with Hunter’s amendment included.

Someone who seriously thinks he can become President of the United States isn’t going to waste time and parliamentary maneuvers over a baseless conspiracy theory, and 83% of the members of the U.S. House wouldn’t vote to prevent something that is a figment of somebody’s imagination.

As an aside, I think: (1) Saddam Hussein did have WMDs, (2) Was working on more, (3) Pawned them off on another country because he knew Yankee was about to march in, as there was more than a year of debate on the Iraq invasion before the invasion actually happened, (4) The American government knows this, but the truth of the matter is too insensitive and too much a hot potato, and would somehow damage foreign relations too much, i.e. whatever country is hiding Iraq’s pre-invasion WMDs somehow has us over a barrel, so Uncle Sam would rather have people think that there were “intelligence failures,” making the CIA look foolish, instead of the truth, and (5) Even with all this, that was not a justification to invade Iraq.

Beyond the Ls and the Cs

WND:

Former Sen. Fred Thompson, a Republican presidential candidate in waiting, candidly answered a question at a campaign stop in Texas yesterday regarding his membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, sometimes referred to as a “shadow government” organization of elites with a global agenda.

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There are several conservatives over the years who have been members of the Council on Foreign Relations. I try to learn as much as I can from all viewpoints.

I agree with that part, there are self-styled liberals and conservatives, and both partisan Republicans and Democrats, and a lot of moderates, independents and some overtly non-partisan, non-ideological and non-political individuals that have belonged to the CFR in the past and do today.

The problem with the CFR is not that it is or is not “liberal,” “conservative” or anything else. It’s a fundamental fault line between nationalism and internationalism, with CFR members almost universally favoring and promoting the latter.

This is the Last Place I Would Have Expected Such a Bill to Originate

Minnesota now requires all American flags in the state to be American-made. Isn’t this the same Nordic/Scandinavian politically correct racial egalitarian “we are the world” bunch of libs that has produced politicians like Hubert Humphrey, who boasted that he and his lib friends in the Senate were going to make white Southerners eat integration?

All of a sudden, they’re discovering nationalism.

Note to Minnesotans: Shop here to comply with your state’ s law.

Not On Their Radar Screen

Canadian conservatives are getting ready to protest the third summit of the “Security and Prosperity Partnership,” a precursor to the North American Union, which would be a formal merging of the political structures of the USA, Canada and Mexico. This summit is scheduled for Montebello, Quebec, in August.

Question: Where are the anarchists and other assorted far-left goobers? Especially considering the way they show off to protest other globalization meetings and summits, starting in Seattle in 1999 and extending to the present, and considering that they are stronger in Canada than they are here (ask Jared Taylor), one would think they would be all over this.

As far as I can discern, not only do they not seem to want to pound Montebello’s pavement in consternation of the SPP/NAU, they don’t even seem to have the NAU as an issue of angst on their radar screen, even though it’s representative of the same kind of globalization they supposedly dislike.

Because the NAU would essentially mean legalized open borders between the USA and Mexico, I think I have already explained the contradiction.

Responsibility is a Two-Way Street

HRC can’t get the damned village off her mind.

AP:

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Presidential hopefulHillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it’s time to replace an “on your own” society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.

The Democratic senator said what the Bush administration touts as an “ownership society” really is an “on your own” society that has widened the gap between rich and poor.

Trouble is, “shared responsibility and prosperity,” taken literally, is a two way street. Certain people and groups “share” in the “prosperity” in that they do a lot of taking and not much giving. Though I doubt that her phrase is meant to be taken literally, it’s meant as code words for more indiscriminate social welfare spending.

That means pairing growth with fairness, she said, to ensure that the middle-class succeeds in the global economy, not just corporate CEOs.

Except the Senate Amnesty bill, which she will probably vote for, will ensure that corporate CEOs succeed in the global economy, not the middle-class.

Another thing I have to keep repeating is that the working middle-class cannot possibly succeed or thrive if the economy is global, because globalization is a construct of the economic elite to eviscerate all economic classes between dirt poor and filthy rich, mainly to benefit the filthy rich.

You Live By the Globalization Sword, You Die By the Globalization Sword

If you live in a major metropolitan area, and your civic boosters and MPO executives are talking about your city becoming a “world city,” it’s time to cringe. For once the “world” finds better things to do, your city won’t be much of a city anymore.

The UK Telegraph has this feature that speculates that New York City could go the way of pre-Columbian Venice, in that what was an important “world city” became an also-ran due to changes in trade, technology and commerce.

The logic is obvious. A city is, and should be rooted, in a particular people and a particular place. Once a city decides to become a “world city,” then the city is at the whims of the world, and without preference to blood or soil, both they and their city will tend to disappear.

Bush to America: Get LOST

W. is trying another push (or is that putsch?) to get the Senate to ratify the UN Law of the Sea Treaty. If it passes, it would essentially give the United Nations territorial authority over ocean-faring commerce, and it would probably give the UN direct taxing authority beyond the willing contributions of member states.

Direct taxation and a direct standing military are the only two things that separate the UN from being a genuine world government.

What Happened to the Great Marxist?

Hugo Chavez withdraws Venezuela from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Looks like Good Ole H is going nationalist on us.

Now all he needs to do is withdraw from anything that starts with “UN,” and I’ll write him and ask him to run for the Republican nomination for American President.

The Cops Are Good Enough

UN wants to recruit NYPD officers for UN peacekeeping efforts.

New York cops are good enough, by and large, but the rules of engagement placed on them by politically correct chiefs, administration and city politicians is what makes them ineffective. I wouldn’t imagine that Big Evil Blue would give them any more free reign in places like Darfur or Haiti.

Now We Know Where To Look Should Another 9/11 Happen

The Canadian:

Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create a North American Union, told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

Mr. Pastor, a professor at American University, says that in such a case the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP - launched in 2005 by the heads of the three countries at a summit in Waco, Texas - could be developed into a continental union, complete with a new currency, “the Amero”, that would replace the U.S. dollar just as the euro has replaced the national currencies of Europe.

In May 2005, Pastor was co-chairman the Council on Foreign Relations task force that produced a report entitled “Toward a North American Community,” which he has claimed is the blueprint behind the SSP declared by President Bush, Mexico’s then-President Vicente Fox, and Canada’s then-Prime Minister Paul Martin.

At American University in Washington, D.C., Pastor directs the Center for North American Studies where he teaches a course entitled “North America: A Union, A Community, or Just Three Nations?” As WND previously has reported, Pastor is on the board of the North American Forum on Integration, the NAFI, a non-profit organization that annually holds a mock trilateral parliament for 100 selected students drawn from 10 universities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

The concept of trusting our security to a banana republic narco-state like Mexico is laughable.

Haiti’s UN-Supervised “Gun Buyback” Program a Flop

Understatement of the year.

The program is said to “demobilize” black gangsters and “reintegrate” them, as that latter word is used several times in the article. The downside is that Haiti had to become a UN colony in all essence.

What, pray tell, are they to be “reintegrated” into? The point is to get them out of the gangs. I suppose they’re to be “reintegrated” into the same Haitian gutter which bred the gang activity to begin with. Don’t try and teach a pig to whistle.

Global Action For Me, But Not For Thee

AP:

A 16-year-old Nepalese girl burst into tears describing her work in a match factory to help support her mother. A Jordanian teen spoke out about violence against girls in rural areas. A former child soldier from Congo cried when she recalled her suffering as a sex slave.

The three are among more than 200 young people attending a high-level meeting of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, which this year is focusing on discrimination and violence against girls. They spoke at a panel and a news conference about issues that concern them, ranging from rape, trafficking and prostitution to education, child labor and AIDS.

These girls’ testimony will be all for naught. The UN is dominated by third world dictators who benefit from these kinds of social ills. But white left-wing feminists will use this to get the white world to enact “global” treaties that will impose the feminazi agenda on white countries and peoples.

True To Her Reputation

Angelina “CFR” Jolie is trolling Vietnam to adopt a child. She probably didn’t go to Malawi because Madonna has cornered that market.

The (Im)Potency of Treaties

Schlafly:

Our Senators are taunted with the assertion that the United States should be embarrassed because 185 countries have ratified CEDAW, while we have not. I’m glad the Senate so far has had the good sense to reject a treaty that fraudulently makes naive people believe it will improve the lot of American women.

Pakistan has ratified CEDAW. That’s the country where a tribal council ordered a young woman gang-raped to avenge her brother’s crime of being seen with an unchaperoned woman from another tribe. Gang rape is common in Pakistan.

Nigeria has ratified CEDAW. That’s a country where women are stoned to death for the crime of adultery. Islamic law, called Shariah, calls for death to women who commit adultery, but a lesser punishment for adulterous men.

Saudi Arabia has ratified CEDAW. That’s the country where 14 girls died inside a Mecca school that went up in flames. Religious police kept rescuers from entering the building because some of the girls were not wearing their head coverings.

Colombia has ratified CEDAW. That’s a country where thousands of women a year are sold into sex slavery. Similar outrages take place in India, Nepal and Thailand, which have also ratified CEDAW.

Phyllis Schlafly is right. Domestic left-wingers love international treaties, not because it will really cure Chinese pollution or Pakistani misogyny, but because they will further advance the left-wing agenda in white countries (which is really all they care about), in ways that would not be possible through mutual public concurrence or the legislative process. This is similar to the liberal infatuation with an activist judiciary.

Angelina Jolie Invited to Join the Treason Lobby

But Brad Pitt isn’t going to get to join the Council on Foreign Relations.

There’s why Jolie was invited — I suppose CFR members can’t afford the little blue pills anymore.

Power Is Addictive

Reuters:

Former child soldiers in southern Sudan are failing to settle back into their communities and instead are picking up guns to fight again, a U.N. official said on Thursday.

Radhika Coomaraswamy of Sri Lanka, the special envoy for children and armed conflict, visited Sudan late last month.

“We were seeing the phenomenon of children not being re-integrated fully into their communities and actually coming back to the armed forces — a remobilization,” she said.

I don’t think this is what Hillary Clinton means by “redeployment.”

“They want to get back into the armed forces because they are used to carrying a gun, they have social status with a gun and they just can’t get back into their communities.”

I’m wondering if these recalcitrant “children” are in the older range of “child” or the younger. If the older, I think they’re too far gone for even the ubergenius UN to demobilize.

“Unless you build the community in Juba, unless you actually have education, sport, recreation for the community in Juba, these children are not going to go back,” [Radhika] Coomaraswamy [of Sri Lanka] said.

I think “Radhika Commaraswamy” translates from the Tamil as “Francis Slay.”

What’s More Worthless than Totally Worthless?

Treaties with third world countries:

Child soldiers are still being recruited in at least 13 countries from Afghanistan to Uganda, 10 years after international guidelines were agreed to eradicate their use, a British-based charity said on Monday.

Save the Children said hundreds of thousands of under-age soldiers were being forced to fight around the world despite guidelines laid down in the Cape Town Principles agreed in 1997, which established 18 as the minimum age for recruitment.

“The situation is still dire. Hundreds of thousands of children are still living in misery due to association with armed groups and forces,” Save the Children said in a statement.

So much for the UN.

It should be noted that while some of these child soldiers are in official government armies, and the convention applies to governments, a lot are in non-governmental fighting forces, ranging from the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, to various “rebel” groups in black Africa. I am not sure whether the convention applies to NGOs.

Democratic Republic of the Congo, R.I.P.

It is no longer a sovereign nation.

What Lubanga did was wrong, but the means of prosecution are more wrong.

State of the Union 2007

The only reason I watched the SOTU tonight is to see what Bush would say on immigration, and to hear Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) give the Democrats’ response. Interestingly, this is the second year in a row when a Virginian has given the Democratic response; last year that duty went to Gov. Tim Kaine, who was then, like Sen. Webb now, in the first month of his term. NBC’s Bio of Webb shows that he and rapper Eminem have something in common: They are both natives of St. Joseph, Missouri.

On Bush’s Iraq Speech Tonight

From the speech:

The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people – and it is unacceptable to me. Our troops in Iraq have fought bravely. They have done everything we have asked them to do. Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.

That’s the trouble. They HAVE done everything you have asked them, including fight with one hand tied behind their backs and under outrageously restrictive rules of engagement, and under politically correct pretenses.

Succeeding in Iraq also requires defending its territorial integrity – and stabilizing the region in the face of the extremist challenge………We will work with the governments of Turkey and Iraq to help them resolve problems along their border.

What about defending America’s territorial integrity, and stabilizing the border region in the face of the extremist Chicano challenge?

I take that sentence about Iraq’s territorial integrity to mean that partitioning is off the table.

Countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf States need to understand that an American defeat in Iraq would create a new sanctuary for extremists…

Bush immigration insanity is giving radical Islam a sanctuary for its extremism in the United States of America.

The challenge playing out across the broader Middle East is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of our time. On one side are those who believe in freedom and moderation. On the other side are extremists who kill the innocent, and have declared their intention to destroy our way of life. In the long run, the most realistic way to protect the American people is to provide a hopeful alternative to the hateful ideology of the enemy – by advancing liberty across a troubled region. It is in the interests of the United States to stand with the brave men and women who are risking their lives to claim their freedom – and help them as they work to raise up just and hopeful societies across the Middle East.

Bush still doesn’t get it. This notion that we’re fighting for the sake of global, universal tolerance, diversity and freedom against hateful religious fundamentalism misses what really is a racio-religious war, as the enemy sees it. Giving too much leeway on this philosophy to the American government would give future Democrat Party Presidents justification to engage in internal belligerence against Christian conservatives, as the left views them as “hateful religious fundamentalists.”

Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. There will be no surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship.

I.e. victory will never come.

But victory in Iraq will bring something new in the Arab world – a functioning democracy that polices its territory, upholds the rule of law, respects fundamental human liberties, and answers to its people. A democratic Iraq will not be perfect. But it will be a country that fights terrorists instead of harboring them – and it will help bring a future of peace and security for our children and grandchildren.

Experimenting with LSD these days, are you, Mr. President? Say it ain’t so!

In these dangerous times, the United States is blessed to have extraordinary and selfless men and women willing to step forward and defend us.

And as eight Marines held in a brig at Camp Pendleton, Calif. and facing murder charges for doing their proper jobs know firsthand, no good deed goes unpunished.

Plan A

CSM:

As President Bush readies a new strategy for Iraq, some experts in Washington are looking beyond the question of US troop levels to what might happen if worst-case scenarios come true. Call it Plan B: How the United States might handle Iraq’s partition.

It may still be possible to hold Iraq together, many of these critics believe. A surge in American military strength might help. But the hour is late - and a lack of contingency planning on the part of US officials may be one reason the situation has become so dire.

Partitioning should have been Plan A.  Ironically and paradoxically, globaloneyists Joe Biden and the CFR itself are now on board the Partition Express:

Will the country’s political divide be followed by a physical one? Possibly. Sen. Joseph Biden (D) of Delaware, incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has long advocated establishing Iraq as a loose federation, consisting of Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish regions, and a Baghdad that belongs to all.

Other experts, including Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, have been increasingly vocal in calling for the US to help Iraqis resettle in areas of safety.

This represents a total 180 for Biden, who, in 1991, praised President Bush for his “New World Order” advocacy vis-a-vis Iraq War I.

Fear Not My Dictator

News 1130 of Vancouver, B.C., via AR:

A politician who is internationally condemned for destroying his country has agreed to his first Western media interview in years. Zimbabweans describe life as being ‘tough’ with an 80 per cent unemployment rate, the spread of AIDS, and a currency not even worth printing.

Jonathan Roth asked Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe whether he was afraid of retirement, since the International Criminal Court may go after him.  Mugabe says that just observing the situation that he probably wants to die in office because that’s the only real way to guarantee immunity from the ICC.

Oh, puh-leeze.  If the “international community” had it in them to haul Mugabe in for human rights violations, they would have done so years ago, and they would have also enacted a near-global boycott of Zimbabwe, regardless of whether Mugabe was still on the throne or still living.  You and I know the white elephant (pun intended) of a reason why it hasn’t happened yet, and will never happen.

Further evidence of my statement is that this article has no indication of what Mr. Mugabe’s “crimes against humanity” are, and certainly no mention of his blantant anti-white bigotry and near-genocidal racism.  If a Vancouver radio station can’t bring itself to publish these truths on its own website, what makes them or anyone think that the UN/ICC will “go after him?”

Duh

Business Week via Schlafly:

No matter which party you belong to, or which Big Idea or school of economic policy you subscribe to, one thing is clear: Globalization has overwhelmed Washington’s ability to control the economy.

In other words, globalism is a big flop, which erodes national sovereignty.  The rest of the article proves the thesis.

Schlafly notes the Democrats’ high profile victories in November were a result of the economic nationalist banners they raised.  I have been saying since the elections that Iraq wasn’t that big an issue; now I know what was.

You Know What Else Truman Did?

Outgoing U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan gave his farewell address at the President Harry S Truman Library in Independence, Missouri today.  He chose the location because Truman was instrumental in founding the UN itself.

In his address, he bemoaned the “right by might” American foreign policy.  He said these words at a library dedicated to the only human being in world history to order the use of nuclear ordnance in conventional symmetrical warfare.

Then What’s To Blame?

UN:  Mysoginstic repression of women in the Arab world is not the fault of Islam.  Instead, it’s the fault of conservative social mores, male dominance, and foreign occupation.

Pray tell, on what can conservative social mores and male dominance be blamed?

Ironically, Afghani women are more free because of foreign occupation.

I’m surprised the UN didn’t blame the Crusades.

The White Elephant’s Manure in the Living Room

Most left-wing Democrats who (rightly) complain about the increasing gap between rich and poor and the crustification (more like Brazilification) of the American economic culture into a few, rigid and impenetrable classes, won’t talk about the real reasons why it’s happening.

Not Sen.-Elect Jim Webb (D-VA), who is anything but left-wing.  He not only points out that the living room is full of manure, but he also points out the white elephant that left the waste:  Open borders and free trade.  He says these things in the Wall Street Journal, which is a notorious advocate for both.

Jousting an International Windmill

From the same mindset that wants to democratize the Arab world, that thinks that Islam is a Religion of Peace (TM), that thinks that blacks, Hispanics and Muslims are on the verge of becoming loyal Republican voters, that states that OBL hates us because of our (withering) civil liberties, and that passes an education plan that might as well be financed with the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, because it mandates similar childish fantasies of racial equality in terms of academic achievement:

Homeland Secretary Chief Michael Chertoff wants conservative lawyers and judicial restraint activists in America to campaign in international venues for the same kind of judicial restraint that they desire domestically. Notwithstanding the futility of the notion, I say charity begins at home; we should make sure that judicial restraint carries the day domestically (not a given thanks to the Democrats’ takeover of the House and Senate), before we bother with LSD-induced delusions that the “international community” knows of or cares for Scalian jurisprudence.

Another Thing That Bothers Me

About anti-burqua campaigns in Europe, besides the points I made several days ago, is this:

This is more evidence that anti-burqua campaigns in Europe use leftist motivations.  While the white globalists of Europe would like to think their anti-burqua efforts are liberating their Muslim population from their particularist chains and showing them the greater glory of universal human rights and values, the Muslims invariably interpret them as neo-Crusaders imposing their whiteness and Christianity on an oppressed Islamic people.

European white left-wingers who oppose anti-burqua laws could note the irony of advocates’ invocation of “intolerance” to garner support for the laws when the advocates are engaging in “intolerance” of Muslims and their traditions all along.

Calling the Tune

Democracy Now notices that many MSM outlets owned by big media conglomerates air corporate propaganda instead of news.  In their own words, the biggest offenders are Murdoch, Disney and Tribune.

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

The irony of a left-wing goober group like Democracy Now complaining about this is that the mainline news media became more left wing when it lost its atomistic independence in the last several decades.

A similar example is the leftist “anti-globalization” riots at trade conferences in the late 1990s and early this decade.  Anyone who cannot spot the paradox in the phrase “leftist anti-globalist” has a two-digit IQ.