In the continuing tragicomedy of UN news, there are now reports that the director of the UN’s Vienna-based Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman, is denying a story in London’s Sunday Times that the United Nations is about to hand her a new role as a UN envoy to extraterrestrials.
What’s really going on here is unclear. The Times quoted Othman, citing recent recorded remarks, as saying the UN is “ready-made” to seize the lead as decision-maker for all mankind on a “coordinated response,” should aliens show up. Such UN self-puffery is exactly the kind of talk one often hears from UN officials when a plan for some new post or program is already a backroom done deal — though it usually involves UN outreach to assorted human despotisms, not aliens. At an institution that recently seated Libya on the Human Rights Council, and allowed Iran last year to chair the board of its flagship development agency, the UNDP, gross inanity – as long as it’s coupled with any form of power or money grab — is all too credible. The Times did accurately report that Othman will be speaking at a conference on aliens next week in the UK — here’s a link to the confab, Oct 4-5, “Towards a scientific and societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life,” where she is listed as a panelist.
But even if the Times went overboard in reporting that the UN would actually create an alien-envoy role for Othman, that in no way obviates the very real and disquieting developments going on in Mazlan Othman’s orbit at the UN offices in Vienna, which, as I described in my previous post, “The Dark Side of a UN Envoy for Extraterrestrials,” are the real problem here. Iran has now embarked on a two-year chairmanship of the UN’s Legal Subcommittee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space — for which Othman’s Vienna office (UNOOSA) serves as the secretariat. Given the ties that have developed between Malaysia and Iran, in which Malaysia was one of three states which at the UN’s IAEA last year refused to rebuke Iran’s illicit nuclear activities, that’s cause for concern — aliens or no aliens. Is anyone in Washington paying attention?
Along those same lines, here’s a far more urgent reason — even if less juicy than the vision of a UN envoy for aliens — to ask whether the Obama administration is doing anything at all to mind the mess at the UN shop in Vienna.
At the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, as 2010-2011 chair of the IAEA’s governing body, UN member states have just picked an envoy of …wait for it …. Pakistan.
Yes, that’s right. Pakistan: the country that not so long ago brought the world the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation bazaar, the country that spawned the Taliban and continues to breed jihadi terrorists, the country that holds out its hand for billions in aid while pouring resources into the ability to produce yet more nuclear weapons. Behold, Ladies and Gentlemen, with crisis upon us over the Iranian nuclear bomb program, the North Korean nuclear bomb, and rumblings of a further proliferation breakout — from Venezuela to East Asia to the Middle East — the IAEA’s prime decision-making body, its 35-member governing board, as of today is chaired for the next year by one of Pakistan’s longtime nuclear insiders, Ansar Parvez of Pakistan.
Reportedly, the Obama administration did nothing to stop Pakistan winning the chairmanship of the IAEA governing board. The U.S. sits on the IAEA governing board. But according to Reuters, U.S. officials nodded along, just as they did this past spring when Iran won a seat on the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Reuters reports : “No country opposed Pakistan’s nomination by a group of Middle Eastern and south Asian member states at a meeting of the IAEA governors.” Citing an anonymous diplomat who attended the session, Reuters reports that the choice of Pakistan was approved “by acclamation.”
Aliens, schmaliens — whatever. With Obama lauding the UN as a core arena of U.S. foreign policy, and U.S. taxpayers shelling out billions for the UN budget, when does the Obama administration start showing responsible oversight, not to mention some muscle, at the UN’s offices in Vienna?
pufff…. the UN doesn’t even have a coordinated response to an earthquake in Haiti, what a joke!
The UN is full of New Age thought. For example, Lucis Trust, inside the UN building, is the religion of Assended humans, which the Accended Masters whom you would call Aliens direct, or called the religion of you can be as G-d.
Hold on, don’t blow me off to quick without looking at Lucis Trust. As a Christian man, the Bible I have reads about a one world government at the end times where the world is as it was before Noah got in his Ark.
Enoch walked with G-d, and was no more. Enoch stated the sons of G-d took wives as they chose. Bringing the Nephilim, or earth born into existence. The secular world lead by the UN would name these Son’s of G-d Aliens. No, the son’s of G-d are not the offspring of Cain.
Maybe I am wrong, but the Bible has been 100% correct so far.
Monday’s daily news update on Prophecy in the News discussed this too. Not only is the UN preparing for the arrival of an alien delegation, but the Vatican is too.
Othman is too late. His Holiness the Reverend Louis Farrakhan welcomed the first alien delegation some years ago when they arrived by flying saucer at the Shabazz Mosque #1 in Chicago.
The first attempt by hostile aliens to invade the USA was thwarted by President Jimmy Carter when he beat back an attempt by one of the hideous creatures to commandeer the presidential skiff. A large furred amphibian with long ears and a huge cotton tail, the alien appeared from nowhere and attacked the Commander in Chief without warning.
“Avast you long eared lubber,” the President, a former Navy officer, recalls himself saying before dispatching the marauding alien with a presidential oar.
Then there is CBS anchor Dan Rather, surely a reliable source, who reported an assault on his reliable person by two well dressed Aliens demanding cryptically, “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” CBS analysts are still analyzing the message.
Did Dan really say that, David? I missed that one. I must have been at work or something. Did he really say that?
I think the choice of Pakistan is an excellent one. I yearn for the agenda of the UN and those who actually believe in it to become even more open in its purposes, so that those decent nations targeted for destruction by its wise representatives might relieve themselves of unacceptable pretense over all of this. The UN investigating Israel over the flotilla – and condemning it – is no different than Putin concluding that the plane crash of Polish notable (he is in charge of that investigation) is a clear result of Polish anti-Russian perfidy. A perfect world.
I wasn’t there, Larry. Happened on Park Avenue where bigtime news anchors and other nabobs reside. Not my hood. I live on the West Side where visiting aliens would be lost in the crowd.
Gee, I’m so excited. We’ve had the UN oil for food program for Iraq (and all the French sticky fingered till tapping that went along with it), now the Mosques for oil program for New York (who knows who’s on the kick backs for that), but I can’t wait to see the earth first planet for UN program dedicated to ET. I wonder what Billy boy Clintons cut will be? Maybe Hillary should call home?
Sex is risky from his aortic valve’s POV, so money is a decent substitute. I think that’s how he looks at it.
If the UN is going to be in charge of first contact and security for arriving aliens I sure hope they don’t bring any girl children.
Thats OK they are Muslims you know the completely misnamed “Religion of Peace” guys who are the worlds perpetual whingeing, whining victims and Rage Boys and just so misunderstood. You know of course that Jihad is just SPIRITUAL and all those Terrorists inspired by Mohammad and the Koran to bomb and behead and stone and maim are just well MISTAKEN .Millions and millions and millions of them just mistaken. LOL
@ 3. David
Wasn’t all this covered in that excellent documentary “Men in Black”?
Well, one thing is for sure: If the aliens come as conquerors they will immediately be given a seat in the General Assembly.
As far as the Pakistan issue…I am always intrigued by the new and innovative ways the UN finds to secure its irrelevancy.
If aliens come and they are peaceful, the UN’s response would to send a delegation to them to demand they condemn the evil American and Israeli imperialists.
If the aliens come and decide to destroy the Earth, the UN’s last action would be to issue a statement claiming it’s all Israel’s fault.
Insofar as the IAEA has any access to real nuclear strategic information in the West, it would seem we are in serious trouble. That info will now be accessible to the most extreme regimes.
Perhaps it is all common knowledge, now, anyway. And it makes no difference. Although there must be a few more secrets that can be dragged out.
Iodine pills, anyone?
Pakistan, along with India and Israel is one of the three countries (North Korea withdrew) not to join the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Under the NPT, the IAEA has specific roles as the international safeguards inspectorate. A role that Pakistan refuses to let them play.
That’s really putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
WHy is anyone surprised that the Obama administration did nothing? They stood aside when Iran was voted on the UN Council for Women, do not object to the farce that is the UN Human Rights Council and does everything it can to empower the evil among the world. Pakistan is afterall suposed to be an American friend. You know the friend that helps get your child beat up at school, only this time the friend is killing our children. The only problem with the November election is that it won’t stop the idiocy of Obama’s foreign policy. For that we need another two-years.
Yes and I believe that the father of Pakistani’s nuclear programme,Abdul Qadeer Khan – is tipped to be Pakistan’s next president.Where does THAT leave the IAEA?
Did Dan really say that, David?
No. What he said was “I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords”
The UN wants to be the first to welcome ET and help the aliens fight intergalactic Zionism and American imperialism.
Will it be PC to call them aliens? Or will we have to use the term “undocumented space voyagers of extraterrestrial origin”?
Will the OIC demand that a mosque be built on the alien homeworld to fight the scourge of “extraterrestrial Islamophobia”?
At some point are you going to explain that the chair of the board of governors isn’t actually in charge?
The director general’s name is Mr. Yukiya Amano. He’s the head of the staff at the IAEA and runs the place. He draws up the agenda of governor’s meetings. Everything determined by the board is voted on – the chairman basically just runs the meetings and has no other administrative authority.
Here is the statute of the IAEA – check out
http://www.iaea.org/About/statute_text.html#A1.7
Here are the rules governing the board of governors:
http://www.iaea.org/About/Policy/Board/bgrules1.html
Take it down a notch. And maybe a few more facts would help.
Pakistan?
yea they represent me about as much as JStreet
Pakistan?
Obama’s favorite place to listen to Muezzin call to prayer??
and yes ALIENS- what an important topic for the UN- no wonder OBAMA ordered NASA “outreach” to MUSLIMS re: SPACE
Of course
makes so much sense now?
WTF we really have fallen through the looking glass into backwards crazy world
The U.S. has been more than generous to Arab and Muslim nations in direct foreign aid, military assistance and other ways. Egypt receives about $2 billion of American taxpayer dollars every year, yet it still votes against American interests at the U.N. 79 percent of the time. Jordan, a “moderate” Muslim nation, receives nearly $200 million annually in U.S. foreign aid, but votes against America at the U.N. 71 percent of the time. Pakistan votes 75 percent of the time against the U.S. at the U.N. while pocketing nearly $7 million annually in foreign aid (in addition to the money it gets to supposedly fight al-Qaida).
An even better example of the disconnect between American assistance and changed Muslim attitudes toward the U.S. is the Palestinian Authority. As former Israeli diplomat Yoram Ettinger writes for ynetnews.com, just since 2007, “U.S. foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority and to PA-controlled (nongovernmental organizations) reached nearly $2 billion, in addition to $3.7 billion contributed by the U.S. to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East since 1950.”
If the news has the word “United Nations” in it, it’s guaranteed, definite, surefire, cast iron, in the bag, clear cut, assured, straightforward, a sure thing, that it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
The United Nations; How the 21st century has exposed its worthlessness
The basic failure of the United Nations is exactly like Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations which relied on moral persuasion and security based on the collection of the League. The League never had any chance of success. As soon as any of his nations found that its national self-interest was threatened, the League could go run and hide. The US funds 22% of the UN budget. As of 1 January 2008, the top 10 providers of assessed financial contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations were: the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, China, Canada, Spain and the Republic of Korea.