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People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world's leading authority on global warming has told The Observer Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further. His comments are the most controversial advice yet provided by the panel on how individuals can help tackle global warning.

Shun meat, says UN climate chief By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website Cow road sign Livestock production has a bigger climate impact than transport, the UN believes People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist. Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will make the call at a speech in London on Monday evening. UN figures suggest that meat production puts more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than transport... "The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that direct emissions from meat...

People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist. Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will make the call at a speech in London on Monday evening.

People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world's leading authority on global warming has told The Observer Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further. His comments are the most controversial advice yet provided by the panel on how individuals can help tackle global warning. Pachauri, who was re-elected the panel's...

A nice-sounding bill called the "Global Poverty Act," sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations. Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has not endorsed either Senator Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. But on Thursday, February 14, he is trying to rush Obama's...

The youngsters are among almost 5,000 residents who in some cases are being offered £500 rewards if they provide evidence of minor infractions. One in six councils contacted by the Telegraph said they had signed up teams of "environment volunteers" who are being encouraged to photograph or video neighbours guilty of dog fouling, littering or "bin crimes". The "covert human intelligence sources", as some local authorities describe them, are also being asked to pass on the names of neighbours they believe to be responsible, or take down their number-plates. Ealing Council in West London said: "There are hundreds of Junior...

Election '08: Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that, if elected, an Obama administration might pursue criminal charges against the Bush White House. This is how he plans to unite the country?Barack Obama insists he's the one we've been waiting for to bring the country together. Yet, he and Biden are signaling their willingness — or is it their eagerness? — to criminalize political opposition. "We will not be stopped from pursuing any criminal offense that's occurred," Biden said Monday at a Florida campaign stop. "If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a...

The world's wealthiest countries are failing to deliver on their promises to give money to the world's poorest nations, a UN report says. The UN report on progress towards the millennium development goals says this is threatening targets for drastically reducing world poverty by 2015. The UN report says there has been some improvement but not enough. World leaders signed up to ambitious goals eight years ago aimed at reducing poverty, hunger and disease by 2015. Now the UN report says wealthy countries are not living up to the commitments they made at the Gleneagles summit in 2005 - and...

WHAT IF IT WASN'T THE ISLAMIC LOBBY THAT CONTROLS? What if it was not Islamo Arab [oil] lobby that sucks you to the bone and controls all international bodies? * We wouldn't have been sending so many billions (in gas money) to those that hate us (no matter what we do). * The UN would finally start doing something, stopping the Arab genocide in the Sudan for starters... * The UN would have less bigoted anti-Israel obsessive "condemnations". * US & EU could breath a little... * Europe could even get a hold on securing its borders... and think for...

THE HAGUE, 30/08/08 - Dutch UN diplomat Eveline Herfkens does not have to pay back any of the 280,000 dollars that she wrongfully received from the Foreign Ministry. She used this money to rent a luxury flat in Manhattan from 2002 to 2006. Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen concludes that Herfkens has not acted incorrectly as far as his department is concerned. There are therefore no grounds for demanding the money back, he wrote to the Lower House. The MPs had insisted that steps be taken to recover the wrongfully paid money from Herfkens. The conservatives (VVD), socialists (SP) and Party...

How do anti-humanity 'Palestinian' leaders manage to talk [in the UN, or infiltrating "peace" & "socialists"movements] about "human rights"?The wonder isn't just about the Islamic Hamas butchers but even when it comes to the "moderate" Fatah that still glorifies mass murderers as "heroes/martyrs" and hosts those hate sermons that justifies the killing of the infidels on its official TV. What's "human rights" or "human" about a cult that worships death for its children and for its adversary? How can one talk about "human rights" when the basic right of surviving of Israelis is in question by most 'Palestinians' (polled) or...

United Nations say opium cultivation drops in AfghanistanBy The Associated Press August 26, 2008 KABUL, Afghanistan - The UN's anti-drug office says opium poppy production in Afghanistan was down 19 per cent this year compared to 2007. That due to successful campaigns in the north and east though fields in the south remain awash in the heroin-producing crop. Efforts to eradicate opium poppy fields in the south failed miserably, and the Taliban stand to earn tens of millions of dollars from the trade.

Dhaka, Aug 24, 2008 / 09:54 pm (CNA).- Critics have charged a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative with providing the “menstrual regulation” abortion method in countries where abortion is otherwise illegal.Menstrual regulation, also known as "menstrual extraction," is used by women who missed their regular menstrual period and suspect that they are pregnant but cannot or do not want to wait for the results of a pregnancy test. If the woman is pregnant at the time the menstrual extraction is performed, an abortion results. The evidence of an abortion is either destroyed during the procedure or is easily disposed...

The Genocidal Islamic monster Al-Bashir warns to harm peacekeepers if 'arrest is issued'     Sudanese president is defiant in Darfur visitThe Associated Press - Jul 23, 2008... one day after a presidential adviser warned that aid workers and peacekeepers might not be safe in Darfur if an arrest warrant is issued for al-Bashir. ...http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5inqUzmH0M_JwO_wre74Z0-3h3-2gD923KSIG0   Warlord frequented local bar in disguiseThe Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada - Jul 24, 2008A senior Sudanese official is warning that aid workers and peacekeepers might not be safe in Darfur if an arrest warrant is issued for the country's ...http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1127571   They Said ItWednesday, July...

My grandmother used to say, “Your sins will find you out.” It’s a variation on Sir Walter Scott’s comment, “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” but far more direct to an impressionable grandson. World leaders consistently cite the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the basis for their policies on energy and environment. In response to my email on the subject John Baird, Canadian Minister of the Environment stated in part, “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2007, presents compelling scientific proof that the...

UN's Durban II Conference Against Racism? The Durban World Conference against Racism... in 2001, was driven by noble and just ideals... To the dismay of the many who shared the spirit of the conference's goal, the debate degenerated into a festival of overt bigotry. According to the Canadian government, it spiraled into "a circus of intolerance." And now, in anticipation of Durban II planned for 2009 in Geneva, human rights advocates and government officials alike predict it will be just more of the same. Some Background The first Durban conference's condemnation of Western European colonialism became tainted when it omitted...

S erbia's government has intensified its activity in buying out the property of Albanians in northern section of Mitrovica, a city in the Republic of Kosovo, says Mitrovica Mayor Bajram Rexhepi. Rexhepi expressed his concern about the attempts of Serbia's government to buy out the properties with Albanian owners in the neighborhood Kroi i Vitakut in northern Mitrovica by offering very high prices. He said that at the Security Council meeting will be insisted for this to stop. "Although the trading of property is the right of owners, we will insist to stop this trade, because it is politically motivated...

Russia blocked UN Security Council action on the Georgian crisis, refusing to support a Western-backed draft resolution calling for an immediate Russian military withdrawal. Even though Moscow has said it will withdraw, Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the council the resolution should include and endorse a six-point peace plan promoted by French president Nicolas Sarkozy and signed by both Georgia and Russia. Since the French-drafted text did not do this, "the Russian Federation will not be able to support (it)," he said. The council meeting ended with no attempt to put the resolution to a vote and French and other Western...

Russia has rejected a draft UN Security Council resolution on Georgia, saying it contradicted the terms of last week's ceasefire deal. The draft text called on Russia to pull back its forces to the positions held before the current conflict. But Russia says the truce allows its troops to stay in a buffer zone on the Georgia side of South Ossetia's border. Moscow earlier dismissed a Nato warning that normal relations were impossible while its troops remained in Georgia. The conflict broke out on 7 August when Georgia launched an assault to wrest back control of the Moscow-backed breakaway region...

Excerpt - UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Veto-holding Russia blocked U.N. Security Council action on the Georgian crisis on Tuesday, refusing to support a Western-backed draft resolution calling for an immediate Russian military withdrawal. Even though Moscow has said it will withdraw, Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the council the resolution should include and endorse a six-point peace plan promoted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and signed by both Georgia and Russia. ~ snip ~

An American lawyer has offered to represent Iran in an international lawsuit against Israel and his own government in an effort to stop Washington and Tel Aviv from initiating further sanctions against Tehran. Francis A. Boyle says following Washington's latest ultimatum to Tehran to freeze uranium enrichment within two weeks or face further isolation, Iran needs to act quickly. At weekend talks in Geneva, the United States delivered what it describes as a "clear and simple message" that Iran must choose between cooperation and confrontation. In an e-mail interview with Press TV, Boyle urged Iran to begin drafting lawsuits for...

THE United Nations has criticised repressive measures taken by Russia against Georgians in the past and discrimination it claims people from the Caucasus and Central Asia still face today. Released amid the ongoing crisis between Georgia and Russia, a UN report on Russia noted "with concern" a host of abuses against Georgians in 2006, including searches of Georgian businesses, identity checks and destruction of identity papers, deportations and detentions "in inhumane conditions".

Why doesn't Barack Obama become UN Secretary General? He is lauded the world over, criticizes the US all the time, and is completely insubstantial. Anyone agree?

An independent Lebanon-based monitoring group on Saturday rebuffed United Nations’ assertions that Israel is the only violator of the Security Council Resolution that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War, and accused international peacekeepers of cooperating with Hizballah. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has become a “hostage of Hizballah,” and is anything but fulfilling its mandate, charged Toni Nissi, general coordinator of the International-Lebanese Committee for UN Security Council Resolution 1559, during a press conference in New York.

Sponsors of a UN Security Council resolution to formalize the ceasefire deal between Russia and Georgia pushed for a vote by week's end, but Moscow balked at inserting any reference to Georgia's territorial integrity. "Yes ideally, we would like a vote this weekend," a Western diplomat close to the bargaining involving European, US and Russian diplomats told AFP Friday. "But we'll take as long as it takes. We are not going to push for a vote if we know that the Russians will veto the text -- which does not mean we have to give in to all their demands......

THE UN refugee agency says 118,000 people have fled their homes because of the conflict between Georgia and Russia. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres will go to Georgia and Moscow next week and will demand greater access for aid agencies to the conflict zones, his spokesman, Ron Redmond, said today. "The latest estimates of displacement related to the conflict now total more than 118,000, based on figures provided by the governments,'' Redmond said. The UNHCR estimate has risen steadily in recent days. Guterres will spend three or four days in Georgia before going on to the Russian capital,...

Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Maj.-Gen. Claudio Graziano on Thursday accused Israel of violating UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that brought an end to the Second Lebanon War. During a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Graziano cited the IAF forays over Lebanon and the village of Ghajar, which he called "a permanent violation of 1701" and "a permanent area under occupation." A further violation, according to Graziano, was Israel's failure to provide maps of all the locations where it dropped cluster bombs during the 2006 war. In contrast, he said...

8. While negotiations between the Georgian and Abkhaz sides remained stalemated, a combination of developments brought about a dangerous dynamic in the situation around Abkhazia, Georgia. One month after the decision of the Russian Federation to withdraw from the 1996 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) restrictions on Abkhazia, Georgia (see S/2008/219, para. 14), on 16 April the President of the Russian Federation issued an instruction authorizing direct relations with the Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto authorities in a number of fields. The Russian Federation stated that the decision was aimed at supporting Russian citizens and the local population and...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United Nations pledged on Wednesday to hasten its cautious steps in helping Iraq rebuild, five years after a devastating bomb pushed it to pull foreign staff out of the country. U.N. and Iraqi officials gathered at U.N. headquarters in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone for a somber ceremony commemorating the 22 people who died when a truck bomb struck U.N. offices in a Baghdad hotel on August 19, 2003.

An astoundingly bone-headed statement from Barack Obama today, as he calls for the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Georgia.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Georgia brought another last-ditch appeal Monday to the United Nations Security Council to stop Russia's advancing army, which U.N. officials confirmed has driven beyond Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The officials, B. Lynn Pascoe and Edmond Mulet, advised the council behind closed doors that non-peacekeeping Russian airborne troops were entering U.S.-allied Georgia from Abkhazia, and were not meeting any resistance while taking control of Georgia's Senaki army base, council diplomats said on condition of anonymity because it was a closed session. "A full military invasion of Georgia is going on," Georgian Ambassador Irakli...

Excerpt - LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Georgia is calling for a United Nations' peacekeeping force to intervene to halt its conflict with Russia, a Georgian diplomat said. ~ snip ~ "We need troops (on the) ground," he told Reuters in an interview late on Monday. "Let it be a U.N.-mandated international force, ideally EU," he said. Russia, as a permanent member of the Security Council, would have the ability to veto any such move. ~ snip ~

The UN Deforms Education by: Deborah Lambert, August 11, 2008 “It’s not easy being three years old,” said Mike McNally, writing on Pajamas Media, adding that with potty training, play dates, and learning to feed yourself, life can be a constant challenge. A case in point is the fact that British tots will soon be subjected to “lessons on human rights and multiculturalism, in between finger-painting sessions and nap time.” It’s all part of the “United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,” a plan to develop “Rights Respecting Schools” not only in elementary schools, but at the nursery...

The Unitied Nations security Council met this morning in an emergency session called by the Republic of Georgia. The Republic requested that the U.N send peace keeping troops to prevent any further advances from the illegal invasion from Russia. In a prepared statement the U.N. voiced "strenuous" concern over the invasion of this neighboring country and expressed "deep saddness" over the heavy loss of life of innocent countrymen of Georgia. In perhaps the boldest move in the history of the United Nations the security council went even further saying that if the Russian troops do not immediately withdraw, they will...

...There can be no doubt that the magnitude and rapid deployment of Russian forces was not only unexpected but suggests that the Russians were prepared and waiting for Georgia to re-exert government control over the region. There reaction was swift, well orchestrated and is turning brutal. Regardless of the cause of tensions between the two nation, there are certain facts that the world can not ignore. The lack of international response in light of the Russian invasion and clear targeting of civilian populations is deplorable. The United Nations and Nato must ...

Tbilisi. Georgia accused Russia on Sunday of making "dangerous moves" by asking the UN to withdraw its observers from territory near its breakaway region of Abkhazia. "The Russians have asked the United Nations observers to withdraw their posts from the territory between Abkhazia and Zugdidi district," interior ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told AFP. "We observe very dangerous moves in the Abkhaz direction," he said. "The demand itself to withdraw these posts is dangerous."

<p>U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad exchanged sharp remarks with the Russian ambassador on Sunday, accusing Moscow of resisting attempts to make peace with Georgia after days of fighting have left hundreds of civilians dead.</p> <p>Khalilzad pointedly asked Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin in the U.N. Security Council session whether Russia's aim was to "change the leadership in Georgia" _ a charge Churkin did not directly address but seemed to deny.</p>

For an entire week, Americans watched as Senator Barack Obama took his act on the road, courting the European elitists and cowtowing to an endless array of foreign politicians. At this point it may be easy to take Obama’s “celebri-plomacy” lightly. Yet, his trip highlights a dangerous threat to America’s national sovereignty in the form of his globalist policies that will diminish America’s role in the world and outsource decisions of vital national interest to the United Nations. His Global Poverty Act, currently under consideration in Congress, is just one such policy. Despite its seemingly innocuous title, the Global Poverty...

Obama Supports Global Tax From United Nations Christine O'Donnell Friday, August 08, 2008 For an entire week, Americans watched as Senator Barack Obama took his act on the road, courting the European elitists and cowtowing to an endless array of foreign politicians. At this point it may be easy to take Obama’s “celebri-plomacy” lightly. Yet, his trip highlights a dangerous threat to America’s national sovereignty in the form of his globalist policies that will diminish America’s role in the world and outsource decisions of vital national interest to the United Nations. His Global Poverty Act, currently under consideration in Congress,...

Night-time pictures of heavy shelling Georgian forces and South Ossetian separatists have been exchanging heavy fire just hours after agreeing to a ceasefire and Russian-mediated talks.Russian media reports said Georgia had launched a tank-led attack on the separatist stronghold of Tskhinvali, and airstrikes on rebel positions. Georgia says it aims to finish "a criminal regime" and restore order. At least 15 people are reported dead. Moscow called on the world community to work "to avert massive bloodshed". At Russia's request, members of the UN Security Council are holding a rare emergency session to discuss a response to the escalating violence....

Mighty Russia, population 150m, and tiny Georgia, population 4.6m, its former colony and now fiercely independent neighbour, are in terrible danger of blundering into a bloody and pointless conflict in the Caucasus. It would sorely damage relations between Moscow, the European Union and the US. It could also destabilise the rest of the Caucasus region. Washington and Brussels can urge restraint, but the only country that can stop the nonsense is Russia itself. The immediate cause of the conflict is a tug-of-war over the secessionist region of South Ossetia, which has been trying to break away from Georgia since the...

Israel’s security cabinet on Wednesday warned Lebanese terrorist militia Hizballah that it will not be permitted to continue violating UN Security Council Resolution 1701 by receiving illicit arms shipments via Syria. Israel has kept a close eye on the ongoing arms smuggling that has helped Hizballah rebuild since the 2006 Second Lebanon War by conducting regular military overflights.

The world's top diplomat, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, appeared at work Friday wearing a short sleeved shirt without a suit jacket or a tie. Surrounded by his senior managers in relaxed outfits on the 38th floor of the UN headquarters building, he was advocating a recently unveiled one-month pilot project, "Cool UN," an energy-saving initiative that was inspired by the Japanese "Cool Biz" campaign and other existing programs around the world. "I'm a rather formal type of person, but I'm committed to leading by example," said Secretary General Ban. "You can feel very comfortable. Even in conducting diplomacy I...

“The Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil, more than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan, and Mexico combined, and enough to supply U.S. demand for 12 years.” One would have thought Joe Carroll’s Bloomberg News report would have evoked some interest by the public and other media outlets. Instead, news of the U.S. Geological Survey was greeted mostly by a giant collective yawn. “One third of the undiscovered oil is in Alaskan territory, the agency found…” Considering that the Democrat-controlled Congress adamantly refuses to let drilling occur for the oil known to exist in and off-shore Alaska,...

By now, we are all familiar with the specious European efforts to bring President Bush up on charges of "crimes against humanity" because of the authorized torture he and his administration supposedly instituted. Oh, the Euros are in high dudgeon over their assumed sense of moral superiority in their claims against the evil, evil America. Despite the rapidly improving situation in Iraq, the calls to throw our national leaders into some Euroweenie calaboose have surged unabated. Yet, as these same hypocrites have been funding a supporting torture (not to mention financing the exportation of terrorism) for decades and now there...

“The Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil, more than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan, and Mexico combined, and enough to supply U.S. demand for 12 years.” One would have thought Joe Carroll’s Bloomberg News report would have evoked some interest by the public and other media outlets. Instead, news of the U.S. Geological Survey was greeted mostly by a giant collective yawn. “One third of the undiscovered oil is in Alaskan territory, the agency found…” Considering that the Democrat-controlled Congress adamantly refuses to let drilling occur for the oil known to exist in and off-shore Alaska,...

War on AIDS will be long, more funds needed: UN 14 hours ago MEXICO CITY (AFP) — A global conference on AIDS was to get down to business on Monday after hearing that victory against the disease lay beyond the farthest horizon and endangered lives could only be saved with inflows of money...

A United Nations human rights committee meeting recently in New York grilled liberal Finland about gender parity on the boards of private Finnish companies. The committee demands 50 percent representation on all private boards. Americans should be concerned because Senate Democrats will likely move to ratify the treaty that would place America in the dock to answer similar and even more outrageous questions. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has languished in the U.S. Senate for years since it was signed by Jimmy Carter in 1980. Even so, CEDAW ratification has remained a...

Mr. Cravatts, PhD, director of Boston University's Program in Book and Magazine Publishing at the Center for Professional Education, writes frequently on terrorism, higher education, politics, culture, law, marketing, and housing, and is currently writing a book about the world-wide assault on Israel taking place on college campuses. As part of evaluating the competitive landscape of the popularity of nations, in a process referred to in marketing circles as ‘place branding,' Israel, to no one's great surprise, comes up short in brand likeability, ranking last out of 35 nations included in an August 2006 survey conducted by nation branding expert...

National Post, April 08, 2004 We bombed the wrong side? by Lewis MacKenzie Five years ago our television screens were dominated by pictures of Kosovo-Albanian refugees escaping across Kosovo's borders to the sanctuaries of Macedonia and Albania. Shrill reports indicated that Slobodan Milosevic's security forces were conducting a campaign of genocide and that at least 100,000 Kosovo-Albanians had been exterminated and buried in mass graves throughout the Serbian province. NATO sprung into action and, in spite of the fact no member nation of the alliance was threatened, commenced bombing not only Kosovo, but the infrastructure and population of Serbia itself...