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The New York Times, September 21, 2011: KICUCULA, Uganda — According to the company’s proposal to join a United Nations clean-air program, the settlers living in this area left in a “peaceful” and “voluntary” manner. People here remember it quite differently. “I heard people being beaten, so I ran outside,” said Emmanuel Cyicyima, 33. “The houses were being burnt down.” Other villagers described gun-toting soldiers and an 8-year-old child burning to death when his home was set ablaze by security officers. “They said if we hesitated they would shoot us,” said William Bakeshisha, adding that he hid in his coffee plantation, watching his house burn down. [...] ...the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming. The case twists around an emerging multibillion-dollar market trading carbon-credits under the Kyoto Protocol, which contains mechanisms for outsourcing environmental protection to developing nations - In Scramble for Land, Group Says, Company Pushed Ugandans Out

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Se masseslagsmålet i FN-bygningen


Da Tyrkias statsminister Recep Tayyip Erdogan var på vei for å se talen til den palestinske presidenten Mahmoud Abbas, ble han stoppet. Det førte til masseslagsmål.

Det hele startet inne i FN-bygningen i New York fredag. Statsministeren skulle fra et møterom og inn til generalforsamlingens hovedsal, der den palestinske presidenten Mahmoud Abbas skulle tale, skriver The Wall Street Journal.

FNs generalssekretær Ban Ki-Moons fremste talsmann, Martin Nesirky, betegner situasjonen som uheldig.

VGTV: Se masseslagsmålet i FN-bygningen her

- Det har vært noen uheldige misforståelser mellom FNs sikkerhetsvakter og medlemmer av en delegasjon på fredag, men disse uenighetene har blitt løst på en tilfredsstillende måte. Nødvendige grep er tatt, blant annet for å finne ut hva som skjedde og for å bidra til å unngå slike misforståelser i fremtiden, sa Nesirky til nyhetsbyrået AP.

På videoen kan du se flere dresskledde tyrkiske livvakter i basketak med FNs sikkerhetsvakter. En av livvaktene blir deretter lagt i bakken. Det skal ha blitt ropt over sambandet «security breach, security breach» før det stormet til med flere av FNs sikkerhetsvakter ifølge The Atlantic Wire.

Uenigheter

FNs sikkerhetsvakter har i etterkant fortalt at det hele startet da åtte personer fra den tyrkiske delegasjonen prøvde å entre en balkong i 4. etasje, noe de ikke hadde hadde lov til. De skal da ha blitt aggressive og begynt å dytte vaktene bakover. Tumultene skal ha endt med at en FN-vakt ble sendt på sykehus med flere bristede ribbein.

En kilde nær den tyrkiske delegasjonen forteller at det også oppsto en konflikt da det tyrkiske følget skulle forlate FN-bygningen, da en av FNs sikkerhetsvakter fysisk berørte statsministeren og «behandlet ham på en måte som ikke var en statsminister verdig».

Dette benektes av flere FN-tjenestemenn. En av tjenestemennene, som sier han har fått tilgang til rapporten fra USAs Secret Service, indikerte at Secret Service ikke grep inn fordi statsministeren aldri ble fysisk berørt.

Suspendert

Ban Ki-moon skal etter denne episoden hatt samtaler med den tyrkiske statsministeren, hvor han skal ha beklaget episoden, ifølge en FN-tjenestemann.

Seks av vaktene som var invlovert i episoden har blitt suspendert og flyttet til en annen avdeling med full lønn til etterforskningen er ferdig.

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Reuters, October 5, 2011: Thousands of Gaza teachers quit classes Wednesday to protest at a U.N. refugee agency's suspension of a Palestinian staffer, raising tension between UNRWA and Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers. [...] The Local Staff Union, a pro-Hamas body, called for a general strike Wednesday, the second such action in a week, to protest at UNRWA's suspension of the head of the union, Suhail Al-Hindi. Hamas sources said the U.N. agency had accused Hindi of meeting with Hamas political officials. Buses took some 7,000 teachers employed at UNRWA-run schools to U.N. headquarters in Gaza city where they held a sit-in, calling for an end to "UNRWA political punishment of employees." "Death rather than humiliation" read a banner held by striking teachers - Teachers protest at U.N. agency in Hamas-run Gaza

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CNSNews.com, November 23, 2011: Already reeling from a recent U.S. funding freeze over its decision to admit “Palestine,” the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO is facing new criticism over a decision to reappoint Syria to a committee dealing with human rights - UNESCO Blasted for Reappointing Syria to Committee Dealing With Human Rights

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Fox News, December 12, 2011: At least two major United Nations development agencies, described as having accumulated some $3.2 billion in cash in 2009, refused to divulge exactly what they spent their program money on, according to a confidential draft report prepared in the summer for the government of Norway and examined by Fox News. According to the consultants who prepared the two-volume draft study on behalf of the Norwegian development agency known as NORAD, the refusal meant that the agencies, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNICEF, failed “grossly” to live up to the “credo of adherence to transparency” that both agencies claim to follow in their work. A third agency, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, was not cited for “gross” failure, but also refused to provide spending details, “particularly recent staff costs” - U.N. Development Agencies Accumulate Billions -- and Keep Spending a Secret

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The Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2011: The Simon Wiesenthal Center asked UNESCO’s director-general Wednesday to suspend its sponsorship of a Palestinian children’s magazine, saying the magazine applauded Hitler for murdering Jews. According to Palestinian Media Watch, the educational children’s magazine, Zayafuna, “includes terms glorifying jihad.” The PMW report references an essay in the magazine by a teenage Palestinian girl. The girl wrote about meeting Adolf Hitler in a dream, who tells her that he killed the Jews “so you would all know that they are a nation who spreads destruction all over the world.” In the essay, Hitler tells the child to be patient regarding the suffering of the Palestinians at the hands of the Jews - 'UNESCO funds Palestinian magazine glorifying Hitler'

Breaking: UNESCO stops funding children's Palestinian teen magazine following SWC protest

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Slemme spekulanter driver matvareprisene oppover og skaper fattigdom, sult og nød, påstår FN-topp:

Spiegel Online, January 16, 2012: In a SPIEGEL interview, José Graziano da Silva, 62, the new head of the United Nations aid organization FAO, discusses his plans to combat hunger as well as his efforts to limit speculation and the impact it has on dramatically fluctuating food prices - UN Food and Agricultural Chief: 'Speculation Is an Important Cause of High Prices'

Intervjuet ledsages av denne grafen:

Tilforlatelig, men sannheten er at de reelle matvareprisene har falt jevnt og trutt, og er mer enn halvert siden 1998:

PricedInGold.com: The UN Food and Agriculture Office tracks prices of food around the world, converts local prices to US Dollars, and calculates an index with 100 being the average for 2002-2004. Prices for meats, cereals, oils/fats, dairy and sugar make up the components of the index, which is updated monthly. Of course all the currencies used to quote these prices are being depreciated by their governments, just as the US dollar is. And as this depreciation accelerates, so do the apparent "rises" in the cost of food. But is food really getting more expensive? Of course not! - FAO Food Price Index in gold from January 1990 to present

Francisco d'Anconia får siste ord:

Capitalism Magazine, August 30, 2002: Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, 'Account overdrawn' - "Francisco's Money Speech"

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Fox News, February 9, 2012: At a closed-door retreat in a Long Island mansion late last October, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his topmost aides brainstormed about how the global organization could benefit from a "unique opportunity" to reshape the world, starting with the Rio + 20 Summit on Sustainable Development, which takes place in Brazil in June. A copy of the confidential minutes of the meeting was obtained by Fox News. According to that document, the 29-member group, known as the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), discussed bold ambitions that stretch for years beyond the Rio conclave to consolidate a radical new global green economy, promote a spectrum of sweeping new social policies and build an even more important role for U.N. institutions “to manage the process of globalization better.” At the same time, the gathering acknowledged that their ambitions were on extremely shaky ground, starting with the fact that, as Ban’s chief organizer for the Rio gathering put it, “there was still no agreement on the definition of the green economy, the main theme of the [Rio] conference.” But according to the minutes, that did not seem to restrain the group’s ambitions - EXCLUSIVE: UN chief, aides plot 'green economy' agenda at upcoming summit

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UN Watch, February 13, 2012: Gays threaten the continuation of the human race, Libya’s delegate told a planning meeting of the UN Human Rights Council today, reported the Geneva-based UN Watch monitoring group. It was the first appearance in the 47-nation body by the post-Gaddafi government, whose membership was restored in November following Libya’s suspension in March - Libya Tells UN Rights Council: “Gays threaten continuation of human race”

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UN Watch, March 14, 2012: A UN report praising the Qaddafi regime's human rights record will receive its final plenary hearing today before being formally adopted next week by the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, sparking outrage among human rights activists from UN Watch as well as Amnesty USA - Today: UN rights council readying resolution praising Qaddafi's human rights record

Scandal: UNESCO vote keeps Assad regime on human rights committee

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Yahoo! News, May 11, 2012: The largest-ever United Nations conference, a summit billed as a historic opportunity to build a greener future, appears to be going up in smoke. U.S. President Barack Obama likely won't be there, and the leaders of Britain and Germany have bowed out. The entire European Parliament delegation has canceled. And with fewer than six weeks to go until the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, negotiations to produce a final statement have stalled amid squabbling - Critics: Biggest UN summit heading toward failure

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National Post, May 28, 2012: The UN just announced that its favourite African megalomaniac, Robert Mugabe, and his Zambian sidekick, Michael Sata, have been appointed United Nations international tourism ambassadors in recognition of the promotion and development of tourism. The UN through the United Nations World Tourism Organisation will officially confer the status to the two presidents at a function to be held in Victoria Falls this week and officiated by the UNWTO secretary general Mr Talib Rifai. The honour comes even though the European Union and U.S. have imposed travel bans on Mugabe and many of his senior government officials due to widespread human rights abuses - Michael Ross: Robert Mugabe named ‘international tourism ambassador’ in latest UN absurdity

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UN Watch, July 8, 2012: Iran was elected to a top post on the UN Arms Trade Treaty conference, revealed UN Watch today in an exclusive report. The Geneva-based human rights group is calling on UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who addressed the conference on the same day, to condemn the selection of the Tehran regime - UN Watch: Iran elected to UN Arms Trade Treaty post

Syria Running for UN Human Rights Council, Says U.S.

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Science, July 16, 2012: A tumultuous and divisive episode at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is set to come to a conclusion tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. in Paris, when the U.N. agency plans to give three researchers an award for the life sciences sponsored by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the dictator of Equatorial Guinea. A broad coalition of human rights advocates, scientists, and health experts have fought until last week to prevent the ceremony from occurring. They say the award is an attempt by Obiang to buy credibility for his regime, which stands accused of human rights violations - Scientists from South Africa, Egypt, and Mexico to Receive Controversial UNESCO Award Tomorrow

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CNS News, November 9, 2012: The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday elected Sudan – whose president is accused of war crimes -- onto an influential body whose powers include choosing members for agencies dealing with women and children, and accrediting civil society groups wanting to participate in sessions of the U.N. Human Rights Council. The Islamist regime in Khartoum received more votes than the United States did in the election for 18 new members of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the U.N. organ that coordinates socio-economic and related affairs. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has been wanted by the International Criminal Court since early 2009 on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, arising from the conflict in Darfur. Genocide charges were added in 2010 - Sudan Elected Onto Influential U.N. Body, Gets More Votes Than U.S.