A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination.
Are there real troubles on tribal reservations in the U.S.? Yes. But there’s a very good argument that the problem is not lack of land, but a smothering and dispiriting mix of federal subsidies and regulatory intervention, including selective favors that enrich a few but do worse than nothing for the rest.
Rather than address that, the Obama administration has focused on providing a $1 billion settlement, announced last month, for claims dating back more than 100 years, or, as The Independent Sentinel described it, “Obama Buying Native American Votes.”
Whatever one’s view of that settlement, apparently it was not enough to satisfy the administration — which also called in reinforcements from the UN, in the form of inviting Anaya to “visit” his own native haunts, and provide a UN condemnation and prescription for the doings of America.
Here's another story on this (http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/so-the-un-wants-the-u-s-to-return-land-to-indian-tribes/?singlepage=true)QuoteAre there real troubles on tribal reservations in the U.S.? Yes. But there’s a very good argument that the problem is not lack of land, but a smothering and dispiriting mix of federal subsidies and regulatory intervention, including selective favors that enrich a few but do worse than nothing for the rest.
Rather than address that, the Obama administration has focused on providing a $1 billion settlement, announced last month, for claims dating back more than 100 years, or, as The Independent Sentinel described it, “Obama Buying Native American Votes.”
Whatever one’s view of that settlement, apparently it was not enough to satisfy the administration — which also called in reinforcements from the UN, in the form of inviting Anaya to “visit” his own native haunts, and provide a UN condemnation and prescription for the doings of America.
So after having 'given' out some tribal 'reparations' to the tune of $1 billion last month, Obama also INVITED the UN to conduct their 'investigation'.
Here's another story on this (http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/so-the-un-wants-the-u-s-to-return-land-to-indian-tribes/?singlepage=true)QuoteAre there real troubles on tribal reservations in the U.S.? Yes. But there’s a very good argument that the problem is not lack of land, but a smothering and dispiriting mix of federal subsidies and regulatory intervention, including selective favors that enrich a few but do worse than nothing for the rest.
Rather than address that, the Obama administration has focused on providing a $1 billion settlement, announced last month, for claims dating back more than 100 years, or, as The Independent Sentinel described it, “Obama Buying Native American Votes.”
Whatever one’s view of that settlement, apparently it was not enough to satisfy the administration — which also called in reinforcements from the UN, in the form of inviting Anaya to “visit” his own native haunts, and provide a UN condemnation and prescription for the doings of America.
So after having 'given' out some tribal 'reparations' to the tune of $1 billion last month, Obama also INVITED the UN to conduct their 'investigation'.
How about $1B in Wal-Mart gift cards ? They could buy all kinds of beads and cheap trinkets ... then maybe they'd shut the hell up for a while !
When is the UN going to get the boot??
Here's another story on this (http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/so-the-un-wants-the-u-s-to-return-land-to-indian-tribes/?singlepage=true)QuoteAre there real troubles on tribal reservations in the U.S.? Yes. But there’s a very good argument that the problem is not lack of land, but a smothering and dispiriting mix of federal subsidies and regulatory intervention, including selective favors that enrich a few but do worse than nothing for the rest.
Rather than address that, the Obama administration has focused on providing a $1 billion settlement, announced last month, for claims dating back more than 100 years, or, as The Independent Sentinel described it, “Obama Buying Native American Votes.”
Whatever one’s view of that settlement, apparently it was not enough to satisfy the administration — which also called in reinforcements from the UN, in the form of inviting Anaya to “visit” his own native haunts, and provide a UN condemnation and prescription for the doings of America.
So after having 'given' out some tribal 'reparations' to the tune of $1 billion last month, Obama also INVITED the UN to conduct their 'investigation'.
How about $1B in Wal-Mart gift cards ? They could buy all kinds of beads and cheap trinkets ... then maybe they'd shut the hell up for a while !
When is the UN going to get the boot??
Here's another story on this (http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/so-the-un-wants-the-u-s-to-return-land-to-indian-tribes/?singlepage=true)QuoteAre there real troubles on tribal reservations in the U.S.? Yes. But there’s a very good argument that the problem is not lack of land, but a smothering and dispiriting mix of federal subsidies and regulatory intervention, including selective favors that enrich a few but do worse than nothing for the rest.
Rather than address that, the Obama administration has focused on providing a $1 billion settlement, announced last month, for claims dating back more than 100 years, or, as The Independent Sentinel described it, “Obama Buying Native American Votes.”
Whatever one’s view of that settlement, apparently it was not enough to satisfy the administration — which also called in reinforcements from the UN, in the form of inviting Anaya to “visit” his own native haunts, and provide a UN condemnation and prescription for the doings of America.
So after having 'given' out some tribal 'reparations' to the tune of $1 billion last month, Obama also INVITED the UN to conduct their 'investigation'.
How about $1B in Wal-Mart gift cards ? They could buy all kinds of beads and cheap trinkets ... then maybe they'd shut the hell up for a while !
When is the UN going to get the boot??
That's what I was thinking. They're a fifth column operating out of one of our prime pieces of real estate ... err ... the indians' former prime pieces of real estate.
You think,that's bull, one of these morons came to Canada and sniveled that we had food insecurity, because our natives were fat 'obese'. As such we should raise taxes and shut down the oil sands...
Even if you accepted the idea that they were the first human inhabitants of the Americas (they weren't) what exactly is their claim of exclusivity? That they wandered over from Siberia when it was connected to Alaska? How is that any more righteous or noble a claim than when some Europeans wandered over the Atlantic in boats?
It sort of reminds me of Monty Python, when a mob is being whipped up against the Romans. "What good have the Romans ever done, eh?!"
"Uhh...roads?"
"And medicine!"
"Writing!"
It's more gibberish. Who were the Germans before they were conquered from
the north, there's barely a clue, and no remnant. Any settled area other than Israel and Afghanistan do we know for certain the original occupants? No.
I'm still waiting for the UN to monitor our elections. It's got to be coming pretty soon. ::bashing::
The United Nations is considering a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers, including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix, that could cripple their ability to reach users in developing nations.
The European proposal, offered for debate at a December meeting of a U.N. agency called the International Telecommunication Union, would amend an existing telecommunications treaty by imposing heavy costs on popular Web sites and their network providers for the privilege of serving non-U.S. users, according to newly leaked documents.
The documents (No. 1 No. 2) punctuate warnings that the Obama administration and Republican members of Congress raised last week about how secret negotiations at the ITU over an international communications treaty could result in a radical re-engineering of the Internet ecosystem and allow governments to monitor or restrict their citizens' online activities.
A Canadian Member of Parliament has demanded that we withdraw from that international cesspool called the UN.. Larry Miller, (Conservative).
A Canadian Member of Parliament has demanded that we withdraw from that international cesspool called the UN.. Larry Miller, (Conservative).
Didn't they review FL or something? I forget, but yeah, Leftists let that trash in...I want it thrown all the way out!
::asskicking::
Google deserves everything bad its way comes. As for the concept, FU to the UN.
God, every day ........
A proposal within an earlier draft agenda for the conference called for the “contraction and convergence for over- and under-consumers of natural resources,” CFACT noted. Given President Obama’s oft-repeated statistic that the United States produces 2 percent of the world’s oil but uses 20 percent, this proposal would affect the American economy significantly.
“We aspire to nothing less than a global movement for generational change,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said earlier this year.
Another proposal would spread the cost of green investment throughout society, at an estimated cost of $1,300 per American family. “We call for the fulfilment of all official development assistance commitments, including the commitments by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national product for official development assistance to developing countries by 2015,” the earlier draft says.
The EU should "do its best to undermine" the "homogeneity" of its member states, the UN's special representative for migration has said.
Another subsidiary of the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO), is also looking to self-fund through global taxes. The WHO in 2010 publicly considered asking for global consumer taxes on internet activity, online bill paying, or the always popular financial transaction tax. Currently the WHO is pushing for increased excise taxes on cigarettes, but with an important condition that they get a slice of the added revenue. The so-called Solidarity Tobacco Contribution would provide billions of dollars to the WHO, but with no ability for taxpayers or national governments to monitor how the money is spent.
Anybody here trying to impose this will be hanging from a light post...
American taxpayers shell out billions to the United Nations system every year. So what does that money help pay for?
Well, one thing that U.S. taxes help fund is the UN’s quest for new ways to impose yet more taxes, which the UN would like to see collected and spent not by national authorities, but by some global authority, such as, well, the UN itself. These taxes would in turn help finance UN planning of the global economy — a process which, to judge by the record, would then generate yet more UN proposals for yet more taxes. As an exercise in proliferation, it’s almost elegant.