Iran, Voice of the UN’s ‘Committee on Information’
It is Iran that currently prepares the reports of the UN’s Committee on Information, to be submitted to the same General Assembly where Iran currently serves as one of the 20 vice presidents. Here’s a link to the UN Department of Information’s report on last month’s meeting of the Committee on Information, at which the main voices, along with the European Union (which applauded the proceedings), appear to have been those of the Palestinian observer, Algeria, Cuba, Venezuela and Moldova.
You might suppose that with 193 members states to choose from, the UN would be able to scrounge up better candidates to guide its adventures with information. But at the UN, merit counts for little or nothing in such decisions. Many of the slots are apportioned according to geographic groups. Iran belongs to the Asian group, in which, for reasons which it would behoove America’s own public information services — including those of the State Department and the White House — to explain to the rest of us, Iran wields a remarkable degree of influence. Despite being under Security Council sanctions since 2006, Iran continues to enjoy an out-sized number of special posts at the UN.
All this might be of some interest to U.S. taxpayers, whose dollars bankroll 22%, or more than $20 million of the whopping $92.5 million annual budget of the UN’s Department of Public Information. With guidance like this, perhaps it’s worth taking a closer look at what, exactly, all that money’s paying for?
As a staunch Democrat, I am tired of you picking on the UN. I also support an Iran that is able to defend itself, if need be, with nuclear weapons. Why do I support Iran 1) A strong Iran will deter US intervention in the Middle East and avoid mistakes like our war in Iraq/Afghanistan 2) A nuclear armed Iran will force Israel to obey the UN resolutions designed to cut it down to size 3) The Middle East is Irans legitimate sphere of influence. The UN is also a legitimiate counterweight to American power, and I anticipate that the UN will get even more respect during a second term Obama, who will win in a landslide with at least 45 states
Sorry, not the best of parodies. The best ones have to at least appear to be superficially believable to the viewpoint that they are parodying, and not even the most fringe of leftisst would accept this spoof at face value and agree with it.
I don’t think it’s a parody.
The nazi policies of the left are actually aimed at destroying Israel and they are not different from what a “Codreanu” signature would imply.
You had me going there for a second, or I should say until I read the last sentence. What a wonderful piece of sarcastic wit.
It’s quite perverse enough that the United Nations would have a so-called Committee on Information whose members include such censorship-loving regimes as those of Belarus, China, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Zimbabwe and Syria.
I like the perversity, because it assures me that the world is now running on the fakery of the fictive reality that governs us, and having our fake gubmint the UN with a fake committee on the freedom of thought is all ya need, rat there in a nice, neat little package, to know for sure that a tapestry of lies, both intentional and automatic, covers us from head to foot.
Which brings us to the election: Barack Hussein of course has no intention of bringing the truth back into play; for his part, Mitt doesn’t even know that widespread fakery exists, and is the urgent problem that could doom us all.
But both are Harvard men, and that’s very prestigious and deep, so everything will probably be ok. Both know in their small and shallow hearts that it’s all a matter of degree. Or degrees.
I can sorta see keeping the UN in New York if for no other reason than to keep an eye on them but why on Earth are we still funding them? If we quit funding them they would just dry up and go away.
a world in which Iran is in charge of “communications” and Cuba sits on the Human Rights Council is an upside-down world where black is white and nothing makes sense. I hope one of President Romney’s “Day One” activities will be looking at why We The People are funding fully one-quarter of this corrupt organization’s budget.
The UN building is the den of the Chimera, the alliance of internationalist subversives, islamist supremacists, and (pseudo-)enlightened elitists, therefore the fact that Iran is the rapporteur of this committee is just normal.
We need Saint George.
The UN is a cesspool -and the US is funding this filthy outhouse.
The UN is a cesspool that in large part has become the major operating arm of the Moslems, with their respective delegations there taking orders from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, who are perhaps the most powerful of the all the jihad sharia people. But, I’m convinced that every good OIC bureaucrat holds in his secret heart a great affection for the Mo-Bro-Hood as the ultimate Moslem outfit, the organization applauded by Prez Barack Hussein in his infamous Cairo speech.
Not to worry, the UN will soon have a Committee on the Freedom of Religion hosted by Saudi Arabia and a Committee on Free Speech hosted by Iran. I think it’s about time we did away with the UN and only had an alliance of democracies from around the world. It’s time to stop giving platforms for every dictator and religious fanatic out there at the UN. We have better things to throw our money away on, like Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
In the meantime, Ahmadinejad is visiting China.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/in-warning-to-west-iran-says-fresh-round-of-nuclear-talks-may-end-in-failure-1.435549
The Marxist-Islamic Alliance is alive and well.
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It’s an “only Nixon could go to China” thing. With these countries on the committee, if it comes out against censorship in some way, that will mean something even to countries with heavy censorship. If the committee on information were run by countries with free presses, the countries from which it needs compliance would just consider it a political bludgeon and ignore anything it says. Of course, this way, it will most likely be used as a bludgeon the other way, against countries with voters who listen to U.N. resolutions.
I haven’t checked the composition of the committee, but it should have some of these, though not be run totally, or even primarily, by them. That the rapporteur is from the Iranian mission is a problem, but Iran’s presence on the committee is not.