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Bishop Hill UNEP World Congress 2012
Aug 23, 2011 Climate: Parliament Climate: other Greens The United Nations Environment Programme is holding a congress next year. The object seems to be to have national legal systems work to the UN's agenda rather than the public's:
The World Congress is aimed at contributing to the Rio+20 process by promoting global consensus among relevant stakeholders such as those engaged in the development of law, Chief Justices and senior judges, Attorneys-General and Public Prosecutors involved in the interpretation and enforcement of law and Auditors-General whose work will focus on governance and accountability issues on the role of law in promoting the goals of sustainable development.
If politicians tried to influence judges there would be an outcry. Why is it OK for the United Nations?
Reader Comments (24)
I think that this is a very frightening statement. It's the thin end of the wedge and will lead to much greater loss of personal freedom, including freedom of speech.
Science has served its purpose and will be abandoned. The agenda is all that is important now.The social imposition of policy using the full weight of the law.
Democracy has become a distant memory.
Hitler's subversion of the German legal system was absolutely key to the way he established totalitarianism in Germany. But democracy has not become a distant memory, pesadia. It may well be to people in UNEP organising this summit but it hasn't to each of us. I refuse to accept a slide to global totalitarianism is inevitable. It isn't.
This'll be a can of worms.
"If states are responsible for their
failure to control soldiers and judges abroad, a fortiori they should likewise be held
responsible for a failure to control transboundary pollution and environmental harm
emanating from industrial activities inside their own territory"
P27 of
2. Information Resources on Human Rights and the Environment:
a) Paper prepared by Alan Boyle on human rights and the environment
http://www.unep.org/environmentalgovernance/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=GccCLN-brmg%3D&tabid=...
I'm guessing the UN has grown either impatient with politicians or greedy with what they have so far got out of them. Not in limiting the future potential threat of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming you understand but, in furthering their influence and income in an largely unaccountable way.
Bishop; may I borrow some words of yours to comment on this?
Some time after this I lost the will to live...
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http://www.building.co.uk/play-the-sustainability-buzzword-game/3130368.article
"those engaged in the development of law"
Such as Polly 'ecocide' Higgins?
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/6/2/more-dangerous-proposals.html#comments
When you see the word "stakeholders", it's time to get concerned.
The Rule of Law has nothing to do with Justice. The UN Charter has nothing to do with "of, by, and for the people".
Q: How can nations save a little cash in hard times?
A: Cancel their UN membership, dues, & subscription.
Looks like UNEP bought into the Web 2.0 BS generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
The only difference being that male bovine excrement can actually serve a useful purpose as fertilizer, something no amount of caustic/toxic/alarmist report from UNEP could ever do. :)
Pharos: Does the sustainability buzzword game help to explain why my council tax bill continues to increase, whilst the services provided are in terminal decline?
Richard Drake
"I refuse to accept a slide to global totalitarianism is inevitable. It isn't"
I sincerely hope that I am mistaken but I would have been happier if you had used the word "possible"
Even you can see the signs and they are many.
Why is this a surprise, anyone familiar with 'agenda 21' will know this has been going on for 20 years,part of the megalomaniacal UN [+ others like the Bilderburg's] ideal: of one World Government.
Alarmists call it nonsense, UNEP is proof [if it were needed] and AGW is the vehicle.
I would say concern over the UN's real agenda reached critical mass in the west in the weeks before Copenhagen. Republicans were already incensed by the EPA endangerment business, Monckton's US lecture tour went viral, he had full Fox News exposure, and then the Climategate/IPCC bomb dropped. The genie is well and truly out, and the UN forced back to the strategy drawing board, in my view. However the ruinous economic legacy of carbon politics remains.
Y'know, when I see something like this I have to shed a tear that the only US Presidential candidate who'd really be likely to do anything about the UN is Ron Paul.
I can't help noting pesadia that you are so concerned about a global slide into totalitarianism that you are not even willing to give your real name. I don't listen to the opinions of people who say they are convinced we are losing all our freedoms but are not willing even to take a small amount of reputation cost for that opinion. Others have given their lives for our freedoms. I listen to such people.
My real name is peter oneil.
Living in a small town in Almeria in Spain
Struggling with the language.
If you google google Norman Starch, it will give you a flavour of what I mean.
Also, I have been a victim myself.
Sorry, that should read Norman Scarth
"I would say concern over the UN's real agenda reached critical mass in the west in the weeks before Copenhagen. Republicans were already incensed by the EPA endangerment business, Monckton's US lecture tour went viral, he had full Fox News exposure, and then the Climategate/IPCC bomb dropped. The genie is well and truly out, and the UN forced back to the strategy drawing board, in my view. However the ruinous economic legacy of carbon politics remains."
Yes agreed but what chance is there of achieving the equivalent of the over throw of Ghadafi ie: the destruction of the EPA?
Politicians in this country, do influence judges. Hence the various sentencing guidelines and the "hints" that the recent riotous louts should be banged up!
peter oneil aka Norman Scarth aka pesadia: I just did a quick Google. Not sure what to make of it, at any level at all. If you are the WW2 veteran born in 1925 who says it's already worse than the gas chambers here in the UK then your technical savvy is impressive for your age but I cannot say the same for your sense of proportion. I'd have to get to know you a lot better before saying much more. But I would say to everyone on this thread: cheer up. Here's what I just retweeted on Twitter, from a self-styled Arab logician:
That's very good. There's no law of history that says the UNEP is immune to that.
sorry if i mislead you to conclusion that i might be connected in any way with Norman Scart,. that was not my intention.
The democracy to which I refer is the one we had before the current dictatership. You know the 27 non-elected beurocrats in Strasburg who run the uk and the rest of europe.
Is revolution a solution, I don't know but i tend to agree with George Bernard Shaw who said,
"Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder"
Sorry Peter (not Norman), I fully agree about the democratic deficit in Strasbourg. I tend to follow the later Enoch Powell that this was built in from the beginning. But even Powell had a journey to go on. And I can't agree that all revolutions are bad. What about the Swiss Revolution from 1841, under James Fazy? He was a friend of all the guys like Buonarroti coming out of the French Revolution leading on to Marx and Engels but steadfastly resisted the lure of power and inaugurated something truly remarkable, that should be much more celebrated than it is.
Let's hope Abdul Jalil is man of the same depth and integrity. But let's also celebrate this remarkable piece of symbolism for us yesterday:
Overcoming tyranny is never without sacrifice, as any Arab, of any stripe, will tell you. We are seldom called to suffer as much here as people in that region of the world. There will be some cost to overcoming the embryonic power-seeking of the EU and UNEP levels. We should take courage.
Coming from an agency that won't even voluntarily disclose its annual service contracts and materials procurements - and that is the highest-flying (dreaded carbon emitting) of all the reporting agencies - all I can say is they must have, well, redefined "governance" and "accountability"
Talk about do as I say, but not as I do, eh?!