Oh, this can’t be good. Dr. Tim Ball writes in with:
“What is going on here? It suggests they are feeling pressure for liability for their activities?”
From Fox News: U.N. Climate Organization Wants Immunities Against Charges of Conflict of Interest, Exceeding Mandate, Among Others
The organization responsible for managing a global cap-and-trade system worth billions of dollars for carbon emissions projects around the world is trying to get sweeping legal immunities for its actions, even as it plans to expand its activities dramatically in the wake of the United Nations’ Rio + 20 summit on sustainable development, which starts June 20.
Despite its name, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, legal experts ruled in 2006 that it was not to be part of the U.N. system of organizations that has enjoyed diplomatic and legal immunities since the end of World War II. Now, it is scrambling to figure out how to get them. A meeting of a UNFCCC subsidiary in Bonn last month agreed to forward a new draft treaty covering the issue to another meeting in November.
Internal UNFCCC documents, examined by Fox News, show that among other things, top officials hope to use those immunities to avoid challenges in the future based on such things as:
–possible conflicts of interest in their duties,
–breaches of confidentiality in their work,
–violations of the due process rights of those affected by UNFCCC actions,
–making decisions or actions that are beyond the legal mandate of the organization or its subsidiaries.
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Cool! Sort of like a confession in advance, with details!
BTW, the Fox report has a “reversed-sense” sentence,
S/b “is not making UNFCC scale back” or “is not keeping the UNFCCC from scaling up its ambitions”
RockyRoad says:
June 12, 2012 at 8:45 am
King George used to think he could boss the colonies around–we now see how that all turned out.
First: King George had little say in things – Britain was and is governed by the House of Commons.
Second: The British had a world war to fight and a population uneasy about continuing to war against their relatives. So accepting the loss of the colonies due to the intervention of the French Army and Navy was considered the least costly option.
As I look around at the players, big and small, I wonder who is going to stop them as they grind on with Agenda 21? , this is just another step along that road…
stpaulchuck says:
June 12, 2012 at 8:44 am
So I buy into several investments related to CAGW, then I raise scare stories night and day that stampede people into those same investments driving up the prices. Later I quietly sell off at a HUGE profit. Then the whole scam craters.
Now I play my immunity card. [must be nice]
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Straight out of the Maurice Strong/ Al Gore play book. Al Gore hyped Molten Metal as a glowing example of an eco-company during the First Earth Day celebration. The stock prices soared…
One might conclude that Molten Metal was the “test case” Obama, Maurice Strong, Al Gore key players cashing in on Chicago Climate Exchange
Oh, and do not forget good old Maurice Strong was named in UN oil-for-food report
He also had a big hand in the idea of UN sanctions NGOs to push the UN agendas
Incestuous bunch aren’t they.
Just remember that Maurice Strong had to flee to China to avoid prosecution in the UN food for Oil Scam. Soros has been convicted of insider dealing in France and fined $3 million, fined another $2 million in his native Hungary. His “foundations have been accused of shielding spies and breaking currency laws” and his investing strategy has been targeted for harming several national currencies. So of course they want immunity for their disregard for the law. In their minds they are Globalists and above the petty laws of provincial nations. Their loyaltly afterall is to “The Cause” and not to any nation.
For some strange reason, the phrase: “Not just no, but hell no”, pops to mind.
It should be the UN itself pushing for multi nation legal accountability as that is the only way of ensuring that organisational corruption is minimized. Pushing to avoid FOI and other checks and balances, and slip shod application of their own IPCC internal “accountability” procedures already raises alarm, immunity would be the icing on the cake for harm by agenda.
Add to the such-things list (only have it read as things expressly prohibited):
• Sponsoring, funding, and/or promulgating demonstrably false data and studies about the climate or about any human activity related to or affected by climate.
• Using demonstrably false data and studies to justify its activities and budgets, to justify the expansion of the scope of its activities, and/or to justify the expansion of its authority.
Failure to comply may result in personal criminal liability with corresponding sentences that include imprisonment and/or personal fines.
Proverbs 21:6
Hey when playing Global Monopoly who doesn’t want a get out of jail free card for life with the added bonus of mandating that only UNFCCC houses and hotels can be used at inflated prices.
The UN, EU and Peoples Republic of China really do have a lot in common don’t they. It’s for your own good don’t ya know.
The UN needs to be defunded to the point where it can concentrate on it’s charter mission and nothing else. I also advocate relocating it to Nunavut from New York City.
“Oh, this can’t be good.”
… Oh, but it could be perfect. Disband the b*****ds. There you go, fellers, you’re immune.
We can dream.
The UNFCCC appears to be channeling Nixon!
RockyRoad
But think of all the culture and enlightenment you lost because a few colonists became a bit snotty about a half-mad king and his benevolent rule. Now you drive on the wrong side of the road, don’t understand cricket and rarely drink tea – I can understand why you feel so deprived.
But I digress, the matter in hand is whether pointless, self-important, overpaid bureaucrats should have immunity from prosecution in what is likely to develop into a massive corruption scam. The answer is clearly “No”, but did logic and ‘doing the right thing’ ever stop the bureaucrats at the UN from doing what was in their own best interests – once again, the answer is clearly “No.”.
“–violations of the due process rights of those affected by UNFCCC actions,”
“–making decisions or actions that are beyond the legal mandate of the organization or its subsidiaries.”
In other words, we know we have already violated your rights and we’ve already stepped outside the boundaries of our commission and done things we know we were not mandated to do – and since you’re probably going to find out and try to sue us……………we want immunity !
Pump in Billions and give them immunity from prosecution – what could possibly go wrong?
I think we can see exactly how one world government will operate. Anyone supporting Rio +20 should be dragged into the light of public accountability. Let them explain just why they signed their populations to measures that they know would never pass a ballot box.
Aidan Donnelly says:
June 12, 2012 at 9:29 am
…..As I look around at the players, big and small, I wonder who is going to stop them as they grind on with Agenda 21? , this is just another step along that road…
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No one. It is already pretty much in place. link All they need to do is keep tightening the net. If anyone gets rowdy in the USA then we have the military of more than one nation ready to step in.
We lost the war when we allowed the power of FEMA to grow.
When we allowed Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 to be Repealed and the Patriot Act to be passed. The new Canada-U.S. military pact signed February 14 2008 doesn’t help either.
And there is more…
One recent move did backfire: Documents: ATF used “Fast and Furious” to make the case for gun regulations but that didn’t stop them from spinning it. The Obama administrations Fast and Furious operation was fundamentally different than the Bush-era Operation Wide Receiver, but it should be an impetus for increased gun control, administration officials said in recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearings.
Given Head of Department of Homeland Security, Ms. Napolitano’s compete disregard for the security at the Mexican border, one can assume external “terrorists” are not the target of these changes in US policy.
The terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland has continued to “evolve” and may now “be at its most heightened state” since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks…. “homegrown radicalization is a growing threat, and one we cannot ignore,”
Administration Will Cut Border Patrol Deployed on U.S-Mexico Border – September 24, 2009
Local Officials: Border Crime On The Rise – January 6, 2011
…Ms. Napolitano attempts to justify to lawmakers a 30 percent budget reduction for U.S. Customs and Border Protection…March 17, 2010
Obama administration scraps border fence
The fence that has been built has been thanks to volunteers link
Is there a real threat?
Radical Islam makes inroads among Latin America’s Native peoples – February 21, 2010
Officials have confirmed a book known for celebrating suicide bombers was found in the Arizona desert.
“We’ve found copies of the Koran, we have found prayer rugs, we have found a lot of stuff written in Arabic, so it’s not just people from Mexico coming across that border,”
Now where is _Jim with his SNARK calling me a “Conspiracy Theorist” for stringing together a bunch of news stories???
How about flipping this around? Prosecute them before they do anything. Just on general principles. Makes as much sense as giving immunity.
That they want this immunity says it all.
They are corrupt and they know it.
What?! Gambling in Casablanca?! I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
The “military-industrial complex” which Eisenhower warned against has now metastasized into a global governmental-financial-corporate complex. The default assumption should be that ALL people involved with its functions are criminals until shown to be otherwise.
Are we about to learn of a new scandal like Climategate ?
makes you wonder when you see them ask for immunity.
Research grant fraud, conspiracy and serious fraud are missing in the list.
Oh, HELL no!
Brian H says:
Cool! Sort of like a confession in advance, with details!
Spot-on Brian. Clever, isn’t it? Then they’ll all be able to say it was in the smallprint – not their fault if nobody was actually looking. It’s outrageous, but just watch the mainstream media all look the other way at the Rio Jamboree…
They have been trying since at least 2010
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2010/sbi/eng/l09.pdf
All people are equal before the law, but some are more equal than others.
It is way overdue to expose the IPCC, it’s predecessor the UNFCCC, and it’s founder, high-school drop-out and scam artist Maurice Strong, for the scoundrels that they are.