Monday, March 31, 2008
Trashing Human Rights Laws
This comes as no surprise. But it should be looked at as an example of what the free world is up against. The people who hate liberty are working to extinguish it.
For the past eleven years the organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), representing the 57 Islamic States, has been tightening its grip on the throat of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Yesterday, 28 March 2008, they finally killed it.
With the support of their allies including China, Russia and Cuba (none well-known for their defence of human rights) the Islamic States succeeded in forcing through an amendment to a resolution on Freedom of Expression that has turned the entire concept on its head. The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression will now be required to report on the “abuse” of this most cherished freedom by anyone who, for example, dares speak out against Sharia laws that require women to be stoned to death for adultery or young men to be hanged for being gay, or against the marriage of girls as young as nine, as in Iran.
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan saw the writing on the wall three years ago when he spoke of the old Commission on Human Rights having “become too selective and too political in its work”. Piecemeal reform would not be enough. The old system needed to be swept away and replaced by something better. The Human Rights Council was supposed to be that new start, a Council whose members genuinely supported, and were prepared to defend, the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Yet since its inception in June 2006, the Human Rights Council has failed to condemn the most egregious examples of human rights abuse in the Sudan, Byelorussia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, China and elsewhere, whilst repeatedly condemning Israel and Israel alone.
I’ve spent some degree of time on here bashing the UN as a paper tiger and a corrupt organization. It spends a lot of time attacking the US and Israel while pushing bogus agendas like Global Warming, Meanwhile, uit undermines human rights laws and ignores the worst offenders of these same laws. But there really is a need for universal human rights laws. The UN does have a noble purpose even if it fails to deliver on its promises.
The problem with the UN is that many of its member states are run by despots and tyrants. They’re not interested in human rights, they’re interested in suppression. They use the softness of western values as an easy in to undermine our civilization and impose their own so called values. The west is letting this kind of nonsense go on, with not a lot of serious response.
The actions stated above are to be looked at as a warning of what could be ahead of us if we don’t stand our ground and defend our principals.
McCann Theory
This is very disturbing if true. It’s up there with the Child Bride post below. (or down there, I should say).
Abandoned Shed in Antarctica
Come see photos of a real time capsule. The Scott and Shackleton’s abandoned huts in Antarctica.Amazing stuff.
Training Droid
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Mad Fold-Ins Through the Years
Mostly political ones. They are very clever pieces of art.
The “Luke Skywalker” Arm
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Instant Merchandizing
You can now manufacture products on demand, using your own designs, very quickly, easily and cheaply. And it’s only going to get better.
Welcome to the age of the instapreneur. With nothing more than a design, amateurs can manufacture jewelry, robots, T-shirts, furniture — anything. No warehouses. No minimum orders. And no money down. The digital economy isn’t just digital; the same market forces that allowed midlist musicians to make a living distributing their songs online now give amateur clothiers the chance to sell their wares without having to persuade Barney’s buyers to carry them.
Thousands are launching instant businesses. Zazzle, of Redwood City, California, offers a dizzying array of user-designed products from posters to tennis shoes. StyleShake, a custom-clothing site in London, received 25,000 dress designs in its first three months. Spreadshirt, founded in Leipzig, Germany, hosts 500,000 individual T-shirt shops. “These companies significantly lower the threshold for someone to bring anything to market,” says Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. “There’s an industrial-age bias that you need volume to support a factory; but with this, much-more-creative low-volume businesses become viable.”
No Buddy Left Behind
Help Army mascots get a good home outside of Iraq. I remember when I was in the Air Force we found a stray and adopted it. We called her Bullit. I’ve got a picture of her somewhere. A lot of these GIs feel lonely away from home and a dog can be a good friend to them, so I understand where they’re coming from.
Child Marriage Defended
An expert on Islamic law explains why its OK to marry a 9 year old girl, like Muhammad did back in the day.
There is no minimum marriage age for either men or women in Islamic law.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Self Portrait
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