U.N. Head Criticizes Iran At NAM Summit In Tehran

Photo: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, is greeted by Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili for a meeting Wednesday in his Tehran office. Credit: Abolfazi Nesaei / International Iran Photo Agency

Iran's Policies Roasted By UN Head, Egyptian Leader -- Reuters

* Ban Ki-moon decries call for destruction of Israel
* Mursi urges support for foes of Iran's ally Assad
* Iran sees NAM summit as proof isolation has failed

DUBAI, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The U.N. chief and Egypt's president delivered stinging speeches at a summit of developing nations in Iran on Thursday, damaging the host country's quest for global prestige and support for its nuclear programme and its policy on Syria.

The Iranians had to listen while Ban Ki-moon denounced them for calling for Israel's destruction and denying the Holocaust.

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More News On The U.N. Chief Criticizing Iran At The NAM Summit In Tehran

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UN chief hits host Iran over human rights -- Bloomberg Businessweek/AP
Iran, Syria Criticized at NAM Summit Intended for Support -- Bloomberg
U.N. Chief Criticizes Iran on Rights -- Wall Street Journal
U.N. Leader Broaches Delicate Topics in Meetings With Top Iranian Officials -- New York Times

UN Agency Criticized For Breaking UN Sanctions On North Korea And Iran

UN Agency Slammed After Refusing US Request For Probe Into Iran, N. Korea Shipments -- FOX News

A United Nations agency under fire for shipments of computers and other sophisticated equipment to North Korea and Iran has apparently rejected a request by the U.S. State Department to conduct an independent probe into the controversy, drawing a pointed bipartisan rebuke from top lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

In a letter being released Tuesday, the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee complained to World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry about his agency's refusal to cooperate. They accused the agency of locking down key documents while trying to root out the whistle-blowers who alerted others to the scandal -- and then rebuffing the State Department's request for an outside investigation.

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Update: U.S. House Committee Urges Fresh Probe of UN Agency WIPO -- Bloomberg Businessweek

My Comment: I use to work for the UN (ICAO in Montreal), so I have a very good idea on how they function. In short .... these UN bureaucrats and officials have a very good job that pays well with benefits. If something was done wrong .... as it appears to be in this case .... trust me .... there is going to be a lot of obstruction and CYA occurring .... especially when investigators start to request information that is embarrassing.

A Call For More Military Intervention?

David Cameron: World Should Be Quicker To take Military Action To Stop Slaughter -- The Telegraph

David Cameron will today urge the world to be quicker to take military action to stop states from slaughtering their own people.

The Prime Minister will use his first speech to the United Nations to demand that the organisation become less of a talking shop and intervene when people under brutal regimes require its help.

In a clear statement of intent following Nato's successful campaign against Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, Mr Cameron will tell international leaders that the world must be prepared to act again.

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My Comment: PM Cameron believes that most interventions in conflicts would be bloodless like Libya's .... but this is far from the truth. Most conflicts are like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan's tribal areas .... just to name a few. Calls for military intervention may make great press, but Britain lacks the military resources and .... when it comes down to it .... political will to get involved on a regular basis to intervene militarily into other countries.

U.N.'s Ban Says Slump May Lead To Political Crisis

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Photo from UNEscap)

From Yahoo News/AP:

MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Friday that the global economic crisis could lead to a political crisis and social unrest and called on the world's leading economies to act.

"I am concerned that if we do not properly address this issue swiftly, this may develop rather alarmingly into political instability, into a political crisis," the U.N. chief told diplomats in Moscow.

Ban, who was speaking less than a week before he attends a crisis meeting of leaders of the G20 group of industrialized and developing nations in London, spoke of the impact of the economic crisis on Russia and Eastern Europe.

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My Comment: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon knows his history, economic/financial crisis have always led to conflicts and wars.

U.N. 'Climate Change' Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy

From FOX News:

A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.

Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations "information note" on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an "effective framework" for dealing with global warming.

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A New Global Currency?

UN Panel Touts New Global Currency Reserve System -- Yahoo News/AFP

A UN panel of expert economists pressed Thursday for a new global currency reserve scheme to replace the volatile, dollar-based system and for coordinated steps by rich countries to stimulate their economies.

"A new Global Reserve System -- what may be viewed as a greatly expanded SDR (Special Drawing Rights), with regular or cyclically adjusted emissions calibrated to the size of reserve accumulations, could contribute to global stability, economic strength and global equity," the panel said.

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My Comment: I guess it is time to now start buying gold.