The UN court, the US, and Iran
This headline made me chuckle: “UN court tells US to ease Iran sanctions in blow for Trump.”
Why would anyone care what the UN says, or consider this a “blow”?
More:
It remains unclear whether the judgment will be anything more than symbolic because both Washington and Tehran have ignored ICJ decisions in the past.
To the propagandists who wrote that Agence France Presse piece I’m quoting: no, it doesn’t remain “unclear.”
More:
The judges at the court in The Hague ruled unanimously that the sanctions on some goods breached a 1955 “Treaty of Amity” between Iran and the US that predates Iran’s Islamic Revolution.
Those judges at The Hague; always making with the jokes.
Pompeo’s response was to terminate the 1955 treaty.
If you want to learn my general opinion of international law, please see this post I wrote back in 2005. Excerpt:
Why were we able to hold the Nuremberg trials, and to sentence Nazi war criminals and afterwards carry out the sentences? Quite simply, it is because we had won the war. That is what gave us jurisdiction, and that is what gave us the actual men to put in the actual docks. If we had attempted to put them on trial before that, it would have been merely a form of propagandist theater, a way to label them as war criminals but not to actually do anything about it. We would have lacked jurisdiction, one of the major elements of any case. Simply declaring that we had jurisdiction would not have made it so–except in our own minds, for propaganda purposes.
So, what of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, set up to try war criminals? It only has jurisdiction over those countries who consent to give it jurisdiction, because it has no natural territory (the Hague, after all, is rather small, as is the Netherlands) which it governs. Furthermore, it makes rulings only with the consent of the signatories, since it has no method of enforcement in the face of defiance (the order part of law and order). Therefore, the Hague court is merely a propaganda machine, albeit one with a large worldwide audience. As such, it can (and most definitely will), be used for propaganda purposes–to further a certain agenda or agendas, such as focusing on the actions of the US allies in the Iraq War. It would go after the US too, of course, if we had signed onto the Court, but we have not done so.
For the media, everything is a blow to Trump and Trump is a blow to everything. Because Trump blows the status quos of hungry ho’s and greedy bros and international foes, steps on nevertrumptoes, reaches unprecedented lows, perpetrates grievous woes, and so it goes as the economy grows and grows.
The UN needs to find a new place to call home.
We’ve got a vacant block of land in Benghazi. Let’s move ’em there.
I’m pretty tired of these un-elected by us “International” organizations of one sort or the other handing down their “decisions” and diktats, and using the U.S. as a whipping boy.
Pretty tired, as well, of the useless collection of mostly Muslim states, tin horn dictators, failed states, and international welfare queens that make up a large portion of the members of the UN, and which never get tired of holding out their hands while they simultaneously jeer at the U.S.
The talk factory that is the UN is both way too expensive and way too ineffective; a self-important collection of tens of thousands of way too highly paid bureaucrats, functionaries, not to mention their “peacekeepers,” whose arrival and operations–from the record–only add to whatever calamity they are supposed to be helping.
I know the conventional wisdom is to “keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer.”
But, the UN is way too close, and it’s time for it to hit the road, pick up stakes, and settle somewhere else, somewhere more “international” say, Sweden, Germany, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Mongolia, or the Socialist paradise of Venezuela.
Why would anyone care what the UN says, or consider this a “blow”?
they are the coordinating body people look to to know what to do without actual orders all the provers want… kind of silly not to know that from the days of Huxleys brtother and his writings on taking over the world with the league, which had to go as league was communism, and so it went to a new name…
but its communism central
the internationals office
you just saw the left get their orders
and you dont get that… never did…
but then again, you ever met anyone higher than prole
those wars like bush started and so on…
they were NOT American wars
they were wars with amercians and by blue hats.
its purpose was to get veto power over any american actions before they happend… their biggest screw up was korea
however, the Security Council did act against Soviet interests. After communist North Korea attacked South Korea in June 1950, the Security Council granted President Truman authority to send American troops to defend South Korea. This happened due to a fluke of history. The Soviet Union was boycotting the Security Council because the permanent seat held by China was then occupied by the anti-communist government on Taiwan rather than the communist mainland government. As a result, the Soviet Union failed to exercise its veto. Although about 15 U.N. member nations participated with the United States in the Korean War (1950-1953), American troops did most of the fighting.
but thats not all
In 1945, the United States assumed that the United Nations would share its interests and that U.N. members would follow the American lead. This assumption was shaken by the Cold War. But the United States still managed to win important votes in the General Assembly. For example, for years the General Assembly voted to keep communist mainland China out of the United Nations. This changed, however, in 1971. Despite U.S. efforts, the majority of U.N. members voted to replace anti-communist Taiwan with communist China in both the General Assembly and the Security Council.
so, they could do anything, and we could do nothing
they then let spies in, stole money, started wars we got credit for, and more
but hey
dont learn that league means communist
from the list of communist fronts (you argued against this point by the way)
Communist League
Labor Youth League
League for Common Sense
League of American Writers
American League Against War and Fascism
American League for Peace and Democracy
American Polish League
Armenian Progressive League of America
Bulgarian American People’s League of the United States of America
Citizens Protective League
Photo League
Queensborough Tenants League
Revolutionary Workers League
Florida Press and Educational League
Oklahoma League for Political Education
Virginia League for People’s Education
Virginia League for People’s Education
Young Communist League
All-America Anti-Imperialist League
American League Against War and Fascism
American League for Peace and Democracy
Armenian Progressive League of America
Communist League of America (Opposition)
Communist League of Struggle
Independent Communist Labor League of America
Independent Labor League of America
Florida Press and Educational League
Independent Voters League, Pittsburgh
Labor Youth League
League for Mutual Aid
the above are all communist fronts with the word league in their name
this is only matched by the term peoples..
a PEOPLES history of america by Zinn (want his communist card number?)
Alabama Peoples Educational Association
Carpatho-Russian Peoples Society
Congress of the Mexican and Spanish-American Peoples of the United States
two other words that were big were Defense, and Democracy
though you could throw in international too…
here is a list from 1948 alone… (can you imagine how many there are now, with how much money and how many people who have few generations involvement?)
1948 Attorney General’s list
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Abraham Lincoln School, Chicago, Illinois
Action Committee to Free Spain Now
Alabama People’s Educational Association
American Association for Reconstruction in Yugoslavia Inc.
American Branch of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
American Committee for Spanish Freedom
American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birbidjan, Inc.
American Committee for Yugoslav Relief Inc.
American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe
American Committee for a Democratic Greece
American Council on Soviet Relations
American Jewish Labor Council
American League Against War and Fascism
American League for Peace and Democracy
American Peace Crusade
American Peace Mobilization
American Poles for Peace
American Polish Labor Council
American Polish League
American Rescue Ship Mission
American Russian Institute
American Russian Institute, Philadelphia
American Russian Institute of San Francisco
American Russian Institute of Southern California, Los Angeles
American Slav Congress
American Women for Peace
American Youth Congress
American Youth for Democracy
Armenian Progressive League of America
Benjamin Davis Freedom Committee
Boston School for Marxist Studies
Bridges-Robertson-Schmidt Defense Committee
Bulgarian American People’s League of the United States of America
California Emergency Defense Committee
California Labor School Inc., San Francisco
Carpatho-Russian People’s Society
Cervantes Fraternal Society
China Welfare Appeal Inc.
Chopin Cultural Center
Citizens Committee for Harry Bridges
Citizens Committee of the Upper West Side, New York City
Citizens Committee to free Earl Browder
Citizens Emergency Defense Committee
Citizens Protective League
Civil Liberties Sponsoring Committee of Pittsburgh
Civil Rights Congress
Comite Coordinador Pro Republica Española
Comite Pro Derechos Civiles
Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
Committee for Constitutional and Political Freedom
Committee for Peace and Brotherhood Festival in Philadelphia
Committee for the Defense of the Pittsburgh Six
Committee for the Negro in the Arts
Committee for the Protection of the Bill of Rights
Committee for World Youth Friendship and Cultural Exchange
Committee to Abolish Discrimination in Maryland
Committee to Defend the Rights and Freedom of Pittsburgh’s Political Prisoners
Committee to Uphold the Bill of Rights Commonwealth College, Mena, Arkansas
Communist Party, USA, its subdivisions, subsidiaries and affiliates
Communist Political Association, its subdivisions, subsidiaries and affiliates including:
Alabama People’s Educational Association
Florida Press and Educational League
Oklahoma League for Political Education
People’s Educational and Press Association of Texas
Virginia League for People’s Education
Congress against Discrimination
Congress of American Revolutionary Writers
Congress of American Women Congress of the Unemployed
Connecticut Committee to Aid Victims of the Smith Act
Connecticut Ste Youth Conference
Council for Jobs, Relief and Housing
Council for Pan-American Democracy
Council of Greek American
Council on African Affairs
Daily Worker Press Club
Dennis Defense Committee
Detroit Youth Assembly
East Bay Peace Committee
Emergency Committee to Save Spanish Refugees
Everybody’s Committee to Outlaw War
Families of the Baltimore Smith Act Victim
Families of the Smith Act Victims
Finnish-American Mutual Aid Society
Frederick Douglass Educational Center
Freedom Stage, Inc.
Friends of the Soviet Union
George Washington Carver School, New York City
Harlem Trade Union Council
Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee
Hellenic-American Brotherhood
Hollywood Writers Mobilization for Democracy
Hungarian-American Council for Democracy
Hungarian Brotherhood
Idaho Pension Union
Independent Party, Seattle
Industrial Workers of the World
International Labor Defense
International Workers Order, its subdivisions, subsidiaries and affiliates
Jewish Culture Society
Jewish People’s Committee
Jewish People’s Fraternal Order
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
Joseph Weydemeyer School of Social Science, St. Louis
Labour Council for Negro Rights
Labor Research Association
Labor Youth League
League for Common Sense
League of American Writers
Macedonian-American People’s League
Maritime Labor Committee to Defend Al Lannon
Massachusetts Committee for the Bill of Rights
Massachusetts Minute Women for Peace
Maurice Braverman Defense Committee
Michigan Civil Rights Federation
Michigan Council for Peace
Michigan School of Social Science
National Association of Mexican Americans
National Committee for Freedom of the Press
National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners
National Committee to Win Amnesty for Smith Act Victims
National Committee to Win the Peace
National Conference on American Policy in China and the Far East
National Council for American-Soviet Friendship
National Federation for Constitutional Liberties
National Labor Conference for Peace
National Negro Congress
National Negro Labor Council
Nature Friends of America
Negro Labor Victory Committee
New Committee for Publications
North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy
North American Spanish Aid Committee
North Philadelphia Forum
Ohio School of Social Sciences
Oklahoma Committee to Defend Political Prisoners
Pacific Northwest Labor School, Seattle
Palo Alto Peace Club
Peace Information Center
Peace Movement of Ethiopia
People’s Drama, Inc.
People’s Educational Association (Los Angeles Educational Center)
People’s Institute of Applied Religion
People’s Programs, Seattle
People’s Radio Foundation, Inc.
Philadelphia Labor Committee for Negro Rights
Philadelphia School of Social Science and Art
Photo League
Pittsburgh Art Club
Political Prisoners’ Welfare Committee
Polonia Society of the IWO
Proletarian Party of America
Protestant War Veterans of the USA
Provisional Committee of Citizens for Peace, Southwest Area Provisional Committee on Latin American Affairs
Quad City Committee for Peace
Queensborough Tenants League
Revolutionary Workers League
Romanian-American Fraternal Society
Russian American Society, Inc.
Samuel Adams School, Boston
Santa Barbara Peace Forum
Schappes Defense Committee
Schneiderman-Darcy Defense Committee
School of Jewish Studies
Seattle Labor School
Serbian-American Fraternal Society
Serbian Vidovidan Council
Slavic Council of Southern California
Slovak Workers Society
Slovenian-American National Council
Socialist Workers Party including:
American Committee for European Workers’ Relief
Southern Negro Youth Congress
Syracuse Women for Peace
Tom Paine School of Westchester, New York
Trade Union Committee for Peace
Trade Unionists for Peace
Tri-State Negro Trade Union Council
Ukrainian-American Fraternal Union
Union of New York Veterans
United American Spanish Aid Committee
United Committee of Jewish Societies and Landsmannschaft
United Committee of South Slavic American
United Defense Council of Southern California
United Harlem Tenants and Consumers Organization
United May Day Committee
United Negro and Allied Veterans of America
United World Federalists
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Virginia League for People’s Education
Voice of Freedom Committee
Walt Whitman School of Social Science, Newark, New Jersey
Washington Bookshop Association
Washington Committee for Democratic Action
Washington Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Washington Commonwealth Federation
Washington Pension Union
Wisconsin Conference on Social Legislation
Workers Alliance Yiddisher Kultur Farband
Young Communist League
Yugoslav-American Cooperative Home, Inc.
Yugoslav Seamen’s Club, Inc.
here is huacs list
Abolish Peonage Committee
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Abraham Lincoln School, Chicago
Action Committee to Free Spain Now
Adolph Larson-Ruby Hynes Defense Committee
Alabama Peoples Educational Association
Albanian-American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Alex Bittelman Defense Committee
All-America Anti-Imperialist League
All-California Conference for Defense of Civil Rights and Aid to Labor’s Prisoners
Allied Labor News Service
Almanac Singers
Ambijan Committee for Emergency Aid to the Soviet Union
American Association for Reconstruction in Yugoslavia, Inc.
American Branch of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions
American Committee for a Free Yugoslavia
American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom
American Committee for European Workers’ Relief
American Committee for Friendship with the Soviet Union
American Committee to Survey Trade Union Conditions in Europe
American Continental Congress for Peace
American Council for a Democratic Greece
American Council on Soviet Relations
American Croatian Congress
American Federation of Labor Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief
American Friends of Spanish Democracy
American Friends of the Chinese People
American Friends of the Mexican People
American Fund for Public Service
American Jewish Labor Council
American Labor Alliance
American Labor Party
American League Against War and Fascism
American League for Peace and Democracy
American Negro Labor Congress
American Peace Appeal
American Peace Crusade
American Peace Mobilization
American People’s Congress and Exposition for Peace (Chicago: June 29-July 1, 1951)
American People’s Fund
American People’s Meeting
American People’s Mobilization
American-Polish Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
American Polish Labor Council
American Relief Ship for Spain
American Rescue Ship Mission
American-Rumanian Film Corp.
American-Russian Fraternal Society
American-Russian Institute, New York
American Russian Institute, Philadelphia
American Russian Institute of San Francisco
American Russian Institute of Southern California, Los Angeles
American-Russian Trading Corp. (Amtorg)
American Serbian Committee for Relief of War Orphans in Yugoslavia
American Slav Congress
American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia
American Society for Technical Aid to Spanish Democracy
American-Soviet Science Society
American Sponsoring Committee for Representation at the Second World Peace Congress
American Student Union
American Students Repudiate Aggression in Russia
American Technical Aid Society
American Veterans for Peace
American Women for Peace
American Workers Party (1933-1934)
American Writers Congress
American Youth Congress
American Youth for a Free World
American Youth for Democracy
American Youth Peace Crusade
American-Yugoslav Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Armenian Progressive League of America
Artists’ Front to Win the War
Association of Interns and Medical Students
Baltimore County Committee for Peace
Baltimore Youth for Peace
Bay Area Committee to Save the Rosenbergs
Bay Area Rosenberg-Sobell Committee
Bay Cities Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Book Union
Boston Committee to Secure Clemency for the Rosenbergs
Boston School for Marxist Studies
Bridges-Robertson-Schmidt Defense Committee
Briehl’s Farm, near Wallkill, NY
Bronx Victory Labor Committee
Brookwood Labor College
Bulgarian-American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
California Emergency Defense Committee
California Labor School, San Francisco and Los Angeles
Cambridge Youth Council
Camp Arcadia
Camp Beacon
Camp Kinderland, Hopewell Junction, NY
Camp Lakeland, Hopewell Junction, NY
Camp Timberline, Jewett, NY
Camp Unity, Wingdale, NY
Camp Woodland, Phoenicia, NY
Carpatho-Russian Peoples Society
Central Council of American Women of Croatian Descent
Cervantes Fraternal Society
Charles Doyle Defense Committee
Charles Rowoldt Defense Committee
Chicago Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case
Chicago Greek Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Chicago Jewish Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Chicago Labor Defense Committee
Chicago Sobell Committee
China Aid Council
Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties
Citizens’ Committee for Harry Bridges
Citizens’ Committee of the Upper West Side, New York City
Citizens’ Committee to Free Earl Browder
Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms
Civil Rights Congress
Civil Rights Congress Bail Funds
Civil Rights Division of Mobilization for Democracy
Clatsop County Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Oregon
Cleveland Committee to Secure Clemency for the Rosenbergs
Colorado Committee to Protect Civil Liberties
Colorado Peace Council
Columbus Peace Association
Comite Coordinator por Republica Española
Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
Committee for Citizenship Rights
Committee for Civil Rights for Communists
Committee for Concerned Peace Efforts
Committee for Defense of Greek-Americans
Committee for Defense of Martin Karasek, Bettendorf, IA
Committee for Defense of Morning Freiheit Writers
Committee for Defense of Public Education
Committee for International Student Cooperation
Committee for Peace Through World Cooperation
Committee for Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlantic Pact
Conference for Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlantic Pact
Committee for the Defense of Eulalia Figueiredo, New Bedford, MA
Committee for the Freedom of Martin Young
Committee for the Freedom of Sam Milgrom
Committee for United States Participation in the American Continental Congress for Peace
Committee in Defense of Henry Podolski, Detroit
Committee of Philadelphia Women for Peace
Committee of Professional Groups for Browder and Ford
Committee on Election Rights
Committee to Aid the Fighting South
Committee to Defend America by Keeping Out of War
Committee to Defend Angelo Herndon
Committee to Defend Chungsoon and Choon Cha Kwak
Committee to Defend Hazel Wolf
Committee to Defend Lincoln Veterans
Committee to Defend Mike Daniels
Committee to Defend Toma Babin
Committee to End Sedition Laws
Committee to Protect Joseph Mankin’s Citizenship
Committee to Repeal the Walter-McCarran Law and Stop Deportation of Sam and Fanny Mankewitz
Committee to Repeal the Walter-McCarran Law and to Protect the Foreign Born, Philadelphia
Committee to Save the Life of John Juhn
Commonwealth College, Mena, AR
Communist Information Bureau
Communist Labor Party of America
Communist League of America (Opposition)
Communist League of Struggle
Communist Party of America (1919-1923)
Communist Party of the United States of America
Communist Party, USA (Majority Group)
Communist Party, USA (Opposition)
Independent Communist Labor League of America
Independent Labor League of America
Communist Political Association (1944-1945)
Community Unitarian Fellowship
Conference for Legislation in the National Interest
Conference for Progressive Labor Action
Conference on Constitutional Liberties in America
Conference on Pan-American Democracy
Congress of the Mexican and Spanish-American Peoples of the United States, (Albuquerque: March 24–26, 1939)
Congress of Revolutionary Writers
Congress of American-Soviet Friendship
Congress of American Women
Connecticut State Youth Conference
Connecticut Volunteers for Civil Rights
Consumers’ National Federation
Coordinating Committee to Lift the Embargo (Spanish)
Council for Pan-American Democracy
Council of United States Veterans
Council of Young Southerners
Council on African Affairs
Croatian Benevolent Fraternity
Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace
Czechoslovak Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Daily Worker Press Club
Daniels DEfense Committee, North Carolina
Delegates’ National Assembly for Peace (Washington, DC: April 1, 1952)
Dennis Defense Committee
Denver Peace Council
Descendants of the American Revolution
Detroit Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Detroit Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Detroit Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case
Detroit Youth Assembly
Dora Coleman Defense Committee
Down River Citizens Committee, Detroit
Downtown Club, Los Angeles
East Bay Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
East Bay Peace Committee, Oakland
East Harlem Women for Peace
East Los Angeles Defense Committee
East Meadow and Westbury Rosenberg Committee
East Side Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Los Angeles
Eisler Defense Fund
Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
Emergency Committee of the Arts and Professions to Secure Clemency for the Rosenbergs
Emergency Conference to Aid the Spanish Republic
Emergency Conference to Save Spanish Refugees
Emergency Peace Mobilization
Emergency Trade Union Conference to Aid Spanish Democracy
Emory Collier Defense Committee
Estonian Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Films for Democracy
Finnish American Freedom Committee
Finnish-American Mutual Aid Society
Florida Press and Educational League
Frances Vivian Defense Committee
Frank Ibanez Defense Committee
Frank Spector Defense Committee
Freedom of the Press Committee Against Deportation
Friends and Neighbors of David Hyun
Friends of Chinese Democracy
Friends of Diamond Kimm
Friends of Soviet Russia
Friends of the Soviet Union
Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Friends of the Campus
Frontier Bookstore, Seattle
Frontier Films
Fund for Social Analysis
George Washington Carver School, New York City
Georgia Peace Council
Gosman-Fabian Defense Committee
Great Neck Rosenberg Committee
Greater New York Committee for Employment
Greater New York Emergency Conference on Inalienable Rights
Greek-American Committee for Defense of Peter Harisiades
Greek-American Committee for National Unity
Greek-American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Detroit
Greek-American Council
Greek-American Defense Committee, Detroit
Gus Polites Defense Committee
Harbor Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Los Angeles
Harlem Youth Congress
Harry Bridges Defense Committee
Harry Bridges Victory Committee
Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee
Hellenic-American Brotherhood
Hempstead Rosenberg Committee
Henry Steinberg Defense Committee
Hollywood Writers Mobilization for Defense
Housewives Protest Committee, Pittsburgh
Hungarian-American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Hungarian-American Council for Democracy
Hungarian-American Defense Committee
Hungarian Brotherhood
Ida Gottesman Defense Committee
Illinois Chapter of the American Peace Crusade
Illinois People’s Conference for Legislative Action
Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions
Independent Progressive Party
Independent Voters League, Pittsburgh
Institute of Marxist Studies
Institute of Pacific Relations
Intercontinent News Service
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
International Book Store, Inc., San Francisco
International Committee of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace
International Juridicial Association
International Labor Defense
International Music Bureau
Intourist
Irving Peace Theater
irwin Franklin Defense Committee
Italian-American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Detroit
Italian Anti-Fascist Committee
James Keller Defense Committee
Japanese American Committee for Democracy
Jefferson School Bookshop
Jefferson School of Social Science
Jewish People’s Committee
Jewish People’s Fraternal Order
John Reed Clubs of the United States
John Santo Defense Committee
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
Joint Committee for Trade Union Rights
Joint Defense Committee
Joseph Weydemeyer School of Social Science, St. Louis
King-Ramsey-Conner Defense Committee
Korean-American Deportees Defense Committee
Labor Research Association
Labor Youth League
Larry Davis Defense Committee
Latvian Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
Laurenti Defense Committee, Akron
Lawyers Committee on American Relations with Spain
Lawyers Committee to Keep the United States Out of War
League for Mutual Aid
now, how many do you think world wide are going to coordinate on what you just heard… the above is not even opposed… in fact, the above cant even be talked about
above is an tip of an iceberg
no one would do a thing after mcarthysms..
so, these and more for all these years, especially feminists
are unopposed…
artfldgr – thanks for the lists, if only for the jaw-dropping length of them.
How can there be that many people with nothing to do but go to meetings and stir up trouble?!? Also, seriously, how many are still in action, after 60-70 years, or do they just re-form with new names?
Anyway, I read the two stories Neo linked, and have to point out that the Treaty of Amity was with the Shah of Iran, who is not, IIRC, the current leader of the country, and has not been for some time.
(That’s a sarc there).
The ones in charge aren’t showing us a lot of amity these days.
So, Pompeo buried a treaty that’s been dead for 40 years, just in time for Halloween.
I hope he used the proper form for vampires and zombies.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9647904/Buried-with-a-stake-through-a-heart-the-medieval-vampire-burial.html
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-vampire-burials-20141125-story.html
Artfldgr:
Once again, you don’t seem to have caught my sarcasm.
I have no faith in the accuracy of political polls for specific policy questions, but I can’t help but see this improvement as a result of the Democrats attack on Judge Kavanaugh and the in-your-face rebuffs to the UN and its inane attempts to virtue-bully the US.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_oct04
“Thursday, October 04, 2018
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -3.”
..also the virtue-bullies in our own Federal Courts.
It has been 20 years since the emergencies happened for Nicaraugua and 17 for Salvadore.
How long are we supposed to consider “long enough” for countries to repair their own “emergency conditions” and bring their citizens home?
I do have a great deal of sympathy for kids born and raised here, and no problem with an adjustment for non-citizen now-adults who want to stay, but the others need to go home with their parents, even if they were born here, because families should not be separated.
If they had not had all these “automatic” extensions, but each country been evaluated in a timely manner, many of them would not have been born and raised here in the first place.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-withdrawing-protected-status-from-300000-immigrants/
“Temporary protected status was initially intended to extend only until beneficiaries’ home countries recovered from the various natural disasters that initially warranted humanitarian protections. Past administrations, however, have renewed the visas automatically on an annual basis rather than allowing them to expire.
Nicaraguans received temporary protected status in 1998, Salvadorans became beneficiaries in 2001, Haitians received protections following the massive earthquake there in 2011, and the Sudanese entered in 2013.
The Department of Justice issued a forceful statement in response to the ruling, accusing Chen of usurping the authority of the executive branch.”
https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-brett-kavanaugh-republicans-0cd3ce73-960f-418d-8cdd-5cb11db2b06a.html
“Top Republicans tell Axios that they’re seeing a surprising and widespread surge in GOP voter enthusiasm, powered largely by support for Brett Kavanaugh and his Supreme Court nomination.
What they’re saying: “The Kavanaugh debate has dropped a political grenade into the middle of an electorate that had been largely locked in Democrats’ favor for the past six months,” said Josh Holmes, a former top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Pointing to Montana, Indiana, West Virginia, Missouri and Tennessee, Holmes added: “[P]rivate polling shows the enthusiasm shift is … unmistakable in the red states that will determine control of the Senate.”
In North Dakota, one of the top races, a Fox News poll yesterday showed Republican challenger Kevin Cramer leading Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D) by 12 points (53%-41%) — up from four points last month.
“ND now appears out of reach entirely for Democrats,” Holmes said.”
So since she is going to lose her election anyway,
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/heidi-heitkamp-will-vote-no-kavanaugh-confirmation/
“Heitkamp, one of the most vulnerable Democratic senators up for reelection this cycle, is trailing her Republican challenger, Representative Kevin Cramer, by a substantial margin, according to recent polls. Her decision to oppose Kavanaugh has the potential to broaden that divide, as a recent poll by Public Opinion Strategies found that 56 percent of North Dakota voters support the nominee’s confirmation.
…
Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.V.) — now the lone Democrat who remains undecided on Kavanaugh’s confirmation — faces a political dynamic similar to the one confronted by Heitkamp: A majority of West Virginia voters (58 percent) support Kavanaugh’s confirmation, according to another Public Opinion Strategies poll.”
I think a good summation was posted today (@11:00) by blogger CBD over at Ace of Spades:
Also above @ 3:28 AesopFan asks: “How can there be that many people with nothing to do but go to meetings and stir up trouble?!?”
Ironically enough that is the hallmark of the unique success of western civiliztion + capitalism + free markets (relatively free, anyway). We no longer live in a world where you must hunt and gather food today so you can eat tomorrow. and too many people accept this simply as the way things are as though this is the way that they’ve always been. They pay no mind to Robert Heinlein:
The way to get the UN out of the USA is for us to cut off all financial contributions. Then cut off utilities, a few days without electricity and water will send them elsewhere.
Quite some data about last years in the UN.
http://markhumphrys.com/un.html
Right now, Asia is just uninterested. China knows that they will make the rules in a few decades and the UN will become obsolete and irrelevant. From their point of view, the less western organizations remaining relevant in that new age to come (when China finally rules the world), the better.
Africa is useless as usual. The Western World is filled with self-pity and only cares about kneeling down and begging for pardon. So the UN was free to take by Muslim countries.
And they did.
I’m with Parker.
Cut off the sustenance & suggest they find new digs elsewhere.
You’d hear the howls from Venus I am sure.
Artfldgr: nothing about the National Lawyers’ Guild? 🙂
How many divisions does the ICC have?
I’m a bit puzzled about something. This 1955 treaty with Iran, or the Shah, or whatever… since it would have been part of the ‘pre-Islamic’ jurisprudence of the country, wouldn’t the Islamic revolutionary government after 1979 have disavowed all of that material, or at least a large chunk of it?
“Those judges at The Hague; always making with the jokes.”
Elevating the sarcasm to snark.
But Neo, haven’t you learned from justice Stephen Breyer that we need to genuflect to international law?? From Wikipedia,
“In 2015, Breyer released a third book, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities, examining the interplay between U.S. and international law and how the realities of a globalized world need to be considered in U.S. cases.”
I haven’t read any of it, but I did see Breyer discuss this briefly in an interview. Just removing another brick from our foundation, as well as constraining democracy.
Philip on October 4, 2018 at 7:29 pm at 7:29 pm said:
I’m a bit puzzled about something. This 1955 treaty with Iran, or the Shah, or whatever… since it would have been part of the ‘pre-Islamic’ jurisprudence of the country, wouldn’t the Islamic revolutionary government after 1979 have disavowed all of that material, or at least a large chunk of it?
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The Iranians, having some of the same psychological quirks as Senate Democrats, bring out certain treaty articles from time to time if they see an advantage to them.
Until now, the US has obligingly rolled over and allowed themselves to be used as a Persian carpet.
The State Department delenda est —
even under new management; they can supervise the sowing of the salt.
Take a look at the treaty, which includes in its title:Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights. No friendship, minimal to no economic relations, and no diplomatic relations for nearly 40 years.
The Mullahs have been violating the treaty for decades.
Yeah, right. Occupying the US embassy with “students” is a strong indication of that “friendship.”
The Embassy occupation, the truck bomb in Lebanon, and various IEDs set off in Iraq to kill US soldiers would hardly constitute “fair and equitable treatment .”
Back in 79 Carter __________. Then was the time to nuke qom. That opens eyes and clenches sphincters.Everything from that point forward unleashed islamic terrorism. It was born from that moment of weakness.
I recall Bush 43 saying in mock-seriousness, “Violating International Law? I’d better call my attorney.”