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Venezuela wins seat on U.N. rights council despite U.S. opposition
reuters ^
| Oct. 17, 2019
| Michelle Nichols
Posted on 10/17/2019 7:47:37 PM PDT by PROCON
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Venezuela was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday with 105 votes and a round of applause, despite fierce lobbying by the United States and rights groups, and the late entry of Costa Rica as competition.
In a secret ballot by the 193-member U.N. General Assembly, Costa Rica garnered 96 votes despite only entering the race this month, when President Carlos Alvarado declared the Venezuelan regime is not the suitable candidate.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: un; unhumanrights; venezuela
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Good grief, perhaps N. Korea will be the next member of the 'human rights' council.
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posted on
10/17/2019 7:47:37 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
Time for Trump to announce he is turning the UN building into condos! Kick all their asses out. They serve no purpose
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posted on
10/17/2019 7:49:33 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
To: PROCON
It is just a conscious effort to jam their finger in America’s eye. Screw ‘em. May the whole corrupt organization go bankrupt. If they want money, hold a telethon or launch a Go Fund Me campaign.
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posted on
10/17/2019 7:51:52 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: PROCON
I can’t stress enough the necessity to pull our nation the ‘H’ out of this sad organization. They accomplish no good whatsoever. We have many more places we can spend our good money than throwing it away at the U.N.
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posted on
10/17/2019 7:55:43 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
("Democratic" party sold out to the ICP. It is now the Communist Party USA.)
To: Army Air Corps
Or maybe they could sell Mitt Romney 2020 t-shirts.
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posted on
10/17/2019 7:56:40 PM PDT
by
Bernard
(We will stop calling you Fake News when you stop being Fake News)
To: PROCON
Anyone who voted for that should not see another American penny....but they will.
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posted on
10/17/2019 8:01:20 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: Bernard
Or maybe they could sell Mitt Romney 2020 t-shirts.
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posted on
10/17/2019 8:03:13 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(When we allow 'progressives' control of the language, lies replace Truth)
To: Bernard
That would earn them what, $20?
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posted on
10/17/2019 8:08:29 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: PROCON; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...
Defund the U.N. and kick it out of NYC. Enough is enough, this is one big effing joke. A tyrannical, murderous Stalinist regime on a human rights council ?
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posted on
10/17/2019 8:14:53 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
To: PROCON
I don’t know why the US lobys against these appointments. much better tactic is to have a presser and appeal to the oppressed people in these counties to overthrow these dictators. and dis the UN for being a complete waste of rational dialog.
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posted on
10/17/2019 8:35:45 PM PDT
by
kvanbrunt2
(spooks won on day 76)
To: PROCON
The U N has become a bigger farce than The League of Nations ever was.
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posted on
10/17/2019 8:37:23 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: PROCON
I read that Sudan, Libya, and Mauritania, which has the highest per capita number of slaves in the world, were also elected. What a sick, twisted outfit the UN is.
To: PROCON
Like naming Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger to drive the armored car.
UN is such a joke.
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posted on
10/17/2019 8:58:24 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
To: PROCON
I want us OUT!
Enough is enough.
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posted on
10/17/2019 9:13:29 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(My tagline ran off with another man.)
To: PROCON
Hopefully them becoming insolvent at the end of the month will start our process to leave the UN.
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posted on
10/17/2019 9:22:05 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: PROCON
The world is bat-crap crazy.
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posted on
10/17/2019 9:33:08 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(I donÂ’t want to gain the whole world and lose my soul. - Toby Mac)
To: PROCON
I was thinking The Pharoah of Egypt but, yeah...
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posted on
10/17/2019 11:37:52 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
To: Bommer
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posted on
10/18/2019 4:41:18 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: PROCON
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posted on
10/18/2019 4:52:18 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: Bommer
Nah, let DeBlasio turn it into low income housing and watch the middle East Side bitch about it . . .
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posted on
10/18/2019 6:29:42 AM PDT
by
LRoggy
(Peter's Son's Business)
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