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For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.(Joel 3:1-3)The prophet Joel saw the Last days as an international trial , with the...

Bugs reduce pollution, increase nutrition, and should seriously be considered as a food source: This is according to a UN report with University of Copenhagen contribitions by Victor Yakimov What is nutritious, delicious, and has six legs? If we could collectively get over our disgust at the six legged critters, insects could become a staple of the human diet, along with fish, and other kinds of meat, a new UN report argues. The Food and Agriculture organisation FAO hailed members of the insect world as an under-utilised resource, in the report which was released this Monday. By 2050, world population...

I have been seeing these ads on the Blaze that are seemingly for Agenda 21, what the heck is that all about? Anyone know?

Unbeknownst to the press, President Obama met this evening with former president George H.W. Bush and his son, former Florida governor Jeb Bush in the Oval Office. White House officials did not list the meeting on the president's schedule but released a photo through Flickr and Twitter. According to the date and time stamp on the photo, it was taken shortly after 5 p.m. That's about the time Obama returned to the White House from a fundraiser at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. White House officials did not immediately respond to questions about the subject of the meeting and its exclusion...

Thursday October 28, 2010 Countries Slam Attempts to Create New “Right” to Sexual Education at UN By Samantha SingsonNew York, October 28, 2010 (C-FAM) - Angry delegates took to the UN floor this week to denounce a report that promotes a new human right to explicit sexual education for young children.The African and Caribbean blocs led the widespread hostility toward the report by registering their “strong rejection” and “strong disapproval.” The report claims a new human right to sexual education citing non-binding recommendations and other UN reports including the controversial UNESCO guidelines on sexual education and the Yogyakarta Principles....

Does America engage in massive and widespread violations of human rights? The Obama administration thinks so. That's the takeaway of the "Report of the United States of America Submitted to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights." The introduction says it "gives a partial snapshot of the current human rights situation in the United States, including some of the areas where problems persist in our society." What human rights problems? One is the higher unemployment rate for blacks (15.8 percent) and Hispanics (12.4 percent) compared with that of whites (8.8 percent). Unemployment is directly related to education. Blacks and Hispanics...

WASHINGTON DC (C-FAM) -- At the United Nations (UN)-backed Women Deliver conference in Washington DC last week, abortion activists announced the achievement of a new international human right to maternal health just three years after launching a campaign to establish it. Advocates said that the new right requires nations to liberalize abortion laws and create numerous new bureaucracies, procedures and programs. n a paper entitled, “Preventing Maternal Mortality and Ensuring Safe Pregnancy," the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) asserted, “[W]omen’s rights to life, health, and non-discrimination entitle them” to maternal health and that “governments must ensure women’s access to high-quality,...

(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Three thousand abortion advocates packed into the Washington, DC Convention Center this week for the Women Deliver 2 conference, a meeting aimed at increasing funding and government accountability for maternal mortality reduction strategies, including access to "safe abortion." While organizers closed the conference amid applause and cheers from a half-empty auditorium, outcomes fell far short of the ambitious funding goals set by organizers in the months leading up to the conference. Women Deliver brought together United Nations (UN) agencies like the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organization and prominent abortion organizations like Ipas,...

The United Nations has elected Iran to the Commission on the Status of Women. According to their own website, the Commission is "dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women.” If so, Iran would seem beyond just a curious choice as a member. Current legal code in Iran actually defines the sexes as unequal. Men’s rights are codified as superior to women. According to Nobel Peace Laureate Shrin Ebadi, the first women judge in Iran before the 1979 revolution and imposition of the current Islamic law, "The criminal laws adopted after the revolution unfortunately took away a woman's human...

Participants at Copenhagen's global climate summit will be meeting during the holiday season, but they will not be surrounded by festive Christmas decor, according to Denmark's Foreign Ministry. Since Christmas is a religious holiday, it has no place at a United Nations event, said officials planning the event. A sponsor providing fir trees for the conference's Christmas trees learned this the hard way when it was turned away by planners of the international event, the Copenhagen Post reported.

The latest United Nations concern is the fear of a global food shortage. However, the U.N. and the United States are to blame for the crisis. It is interesting that food shortages in the world first became apparent over the last decade coinciding with the US-led effort to change the world's industry from growth to stagnation in an attempt to convert it to a green-based economy.

Many of us Europeans wish to see McCain as the next president of the United States of America, even though we who do may not constitute a majority. While electing the next president itself, naturally, is a solely American business, I think it's worth pointing out that many aware and well educated Europeans DO NOT support Obama even though he, undeniably, is the the favourite candidate of most PC European politicians and journalists - and most of our politicians and journalists are appallingly PC. The article by Swedish politician Mathias Sundin: "As Americans everywhere prepare to go to the polls,...

The U.N. headquarters in New York will be warming up as part of an initiative to battle climate change, U.N. officials say. Under a directive from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, air conditioning in the 50-year-old, glass-walled Secretariat will be dialed down in a nod toward environmentalism, and in return, suit-and-tie requirements will be jettisoned in favor of national dress, The Washington Times reported Wednesday. The landmark, 39-story building on New York's East River is notorious for its draftiness and Ban, who calls himself the environmental secretary-general, has instituted an in-house climate change initiative to save energy costs. Called Cool U.N.,...

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 30 (IPS) - After a two-week fact-finding tour of U.S. prison and detention facilities, a UN human rights investigator has blasted the administration of President George W. Bush for a rash of shortcomings in the country's flawed justice system and continued violations of the rule of law. Philip Alston, United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, addresses a press conference concerning his findings during a country-wide visit to the United States © UN / Devra BerkowitzPhilip Alston, United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, addresses a press conference concerning his findings during...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he would press Group of Eight (G8) leaders at their summit in Japan next month to tackle the world food crisis, climate change and the flagging fight against global poverty. On the eve of his departure on a two-week, three-nation Asian tour, the secretary general said the July 7-9 summit in the northern Japanese resort town of Toyako must face the three inter-related crises which demand "our immediate action." He said that before departing, he would write to each of the G8 leaders to lay out his concerns about the global food crisis, the...

So much buffoonery, so little time. Who was the Buffoon of the Week and who just missed out? Let's take a look. BUFFOON ALSO-RANS: The California Supreme CourtThe Brave New Justices of the CSC ruled that gay marriage is not an oxymoron, but a legal right in California. By doing so, not only did the court overturn the laws of California and the will of the people, they overturned the collective wisdom of thousands of years of civilization as well. As Pat Buchanan put it, "Homosexual marriage is not in the California constitution, else someone would have discovered it in...

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2449872005 Annan loses his cool over 'unfair' media coverage KOFI Annan, the United Nations secretary-general, lashed out at the media after a year of unrelenting attacks on the UN and strong criticism of his management of the £37 billion oil-for-food programme in Iraq. The normally mild-mannered official appeared to lose his temper, attacking newspaper reporters for what he said was unfair media coverage of his role - and his son's - in the controversial programme, and said the real scandal had been overlooked. That, he said, was the more than 2,200 companies and individuals from some 40 countries that paid...

"New York City is too good for the "privileged, pampered" bureaucrats of United Nations, notes Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine. Ship the corrupt globalists to the corrupt Third World..."

Imagine a continent that collectively budgets very little on its own defense, instead finding protection in a distant and democratic superpower that pays rent for the privilege of basing troops, planes, and ships to stop hooligans — sometimes, as in the case of an embarrassingly impolite Mr. Milosevic, right on Europe’s doorstop. In return, many European elites ridicule American values, naïveté, and insularity — even as their countries have raked in billions of American dollars in trade surpluses and tourism from mostly oblivious, aw-shucks Americans.

The International Criminal Court Vicki Blackmore How would you like to be kidnapped by your enemies and asked to stand trial for actions against them? You could be held without bail, without even knowing the reason you were there indefinitely. None of your family or friends would even know where you were. Then finally you would be brought before a group of them and they would “judge” you for crimes committed against them. These people would be criminals, mass murderers, terrorists, slave traders, rapists; and your only crime was to defend yourself and your family against them. This is exactly...