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Friday, September 22, 2017

For a Friday

On this lovely first day of autumn ...

The UN is a colossal failure and it is high-time that we withdrew from it:

Remember Rwanda, where Canadian Major-General Romeo Dallaire, as he then was, and his tiny, ill-equipped and mostly ill-prepared band of peacekeepers — 10 of whom were slaughtered along with 800,000 Rwandans, most of them Tutsis and about a third of them children — became the ghastly symbol of all that is terribly wrong with the UN. ...

The political staff and civilian police both worked only 8-5, with the usual two-hour break for lunch.

The UN logistics system, which was supposed to supply the soldiers, was an abysmal failure.

Of 300 military vehicles shipped to Rwanda, 220 were broken when they arrived, and the other 80 couldn’t be fixed when they broke down because there were no spare parts and the mission had no mechanics.

The promised helicopters never arrived.

By the time the genocide was in full sweep, Dallaire’s only professional troops, the Belgians, were pulled out by their government, the UN civilians were quick to flee, the UN-hired civilian pilots wouldn’t fly into Rwanda, and the UN Security Council couldn’t even decide upon the wording of its next resolution.

Pugliese quoted from a Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs report on the genocide written the following year: Mobs went door to door, festively beating drums and blowing whistles as they hacked Tutsis to death with machetes.

Also - PM Hair-Boy did not tell the UN how he refused to let in Yazidi refugees until embarrassed into doing so:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech to the United Nations general assembly Thursday focused largely on domestic issues, even including his finance minister’s proposed tax reforms, but didn’t get much into geopolitics.

Because that stuff is too hard to think about.

For him, anyway.

Trudeau didn't want to "trivialise" the word genocide when those being killed weren't in his riding.

It's only money:

As part of the much-scrutinized process that led to Madeleine Meilleur being nominated as Canada’s official languages commissioner this spring, the federal government spent almost $77,000 on a headhunting firm, part of more than $2 million spent on “executive search” services this year alone.

Much-delayed ethics, lobbying and information commissioner positions are also being supported by such services, the government has confirmed.

An Ottawa headhunting firm was just one cog in what many viewed as a botched appointment. It all started just before the previous official languages commissioner, Graham Fraser, resigned after a decade on the job.

It's only illegal when someone else does it:

The deletion of thousands of documents related to the politically explosive decision to cancel two gas plants near Toronto was a deliberate act that breached the public trust, the trial of two former top aides in the Ontario premier's office heard Friday.

The long-awaited and delayed trial began with the prosecution outlining the case against David Livingston and Laura Miller, and the defence chipping away at whether a critical Crown witness could be qualified as an expert.

Livingston, the chief of staff to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, and Miller, his deputy, have pleaded not guilty to charges of breach of trust, mischief, and unlawful use of a computer.

Oh, this must hurt:

From a number of venues normally in robotic lockstep with the great consensus of settled science, the London Times, the Washington Post, and even the maniacally warmist The Independent, a story emerges that the famous models of the global warming industry may have overstated the degree of global warming in the past two decades.

They do not say this on their own, mind you. That would localize the heresy, and no organ of respectable journalistic opinion is willing to go full apostate on the creed of the Ecopocalypse without external backup.

We don't have a justice system, only a legal one:

Indian media reports say police from the Punjab were already in Vancouver and had taken custody of the pair when the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that it would hear a new challenge of the extradition — leading to an extraordinary last-minute intervention at the Vancouver airport, after Sidhu and Badesha had already been loaded onto the airplane that was to return them to India.

To remind one:

Liberal MP Justin Trudeau said the government should not call honour killings "barbaric" in a study guide for would-be Canadian citizens.

Was it something they said?

Hundreds of Buddhists in Burma tried to block a shipment of aid to Muslims in Rakhine state where the United Nations has accused the military of ethnic cleansing, with a witness saying protesters threw petrol bombs before police dispersed them by firing into the air.

I am not angry but I am very disappointed:

“My casting says that the sky is the limit for all of us. I think what we’re seeing now in our media is this push to diminish and to devalue and to make people feel that the sky is not the limit for them, that they are meant for the ground,” says Martin-Green, a force of energy so bubbly and exuberant, its hard to imagine she was chosen to play a human raised as a Vulcan. Not only chosen, but actively waited on; production halted until her Walking Dead contract ran out.

“So having me as the first black female lead of a Star Trek just blasts that into a million pieces. I am eternally grateful that the diverse casting of our show means that we are now a part of the conversation and hopefully a part of making the world a better place, as cliché as this sounds. Because I really believe it and think its vital for us all right now,” she says, the spectre of Trump lurking unspoken.

There is no new ground here, really: