Andy Semple

The UN’s flagship anti-poverty agency is more interested in getting funding than in setting up programs that make the best sense

Just another reason why the UN should be defunded and ultimately disbanded. 

Via Fox News

The $5.7 billion United Nations Development Program, the U.N.’s flagship anti-poverty agency, is poor at producing lasting results, sets unrealistic or unfocused priorities and often seems more interested in getting funding than in setting up programs that make the best sense, according to an internal assessment that will be discussed at a top-level meeting next month.

Moreover, in a sweeping examination of some $19.7 billion worth of UNDP programs between 2008 and 2012, the report says that only in “just about half” of the country-by-country efforts was the agency “likely to have made, or make, a significant contribution to the intended outcome.”

Nor is the agency very good at judging where it is going wrong, the report adds, meaning that “strengthening the efficiency of projects and programs is a major challenge.”

The sobering evaluation of UNDP’s usefulness was carried out by UNDP’s own Evaluation Office, whose director is appointed by UNDP’s top official, Helen Clark. So far, only an executive summary of the evaluation is available to members of UNDP’s 36-nation supervisory Executive Board, which holds its semi-annual meeting in New York City starting on June 3. According to a UNDP spokesman, a full version of the report will be made public next week.

…One of the biggest causes of UNDP’s incoherence and chasing after short-term or ill-planned projects, the evaluators judge, is its business model, which increasingly depends on making use of earmarked funds from its big donors.

Unlike the U.N. Secretariat, where rich countries are assessed dues — with the U.S. at the top of the donor list, contributing 22 percent of the Secretariat’s “regular” expenses —contributions to UNDP are voluntary, and increasingly come with long strings attached —in part to ensure that the donors get some specific value for their money.

The only people on the planet worse than the UN at wasting money is the Australian Labor Party.

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EU Gov’t bureaucracy gone insane - Virtually all plants, vegetable seeds & gardeners to eventually be registered by Gov’t

A comment from a person who resides in the US.

I wouldn't doubt it. In America Monsanto owns agriculture. You cannot buy seeds at a store that will produce a plant that produces viable seeds. You can grow corn but the corn will not reproduce. Ya have to buy 'Heirloom' seeds to be able to get viable seeds. Hey, ya control peoples healthcare, food supply and their kids education, ya own people. I wouldn't doubt it.

Its part of the Agenda 21 plan – essentially the UN want to remove any and all means of us getting our own food supply, making farming unviable and gov’t solely responsible for the allocation of food – basically Soylent Green for real.

Via Natural News

A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."

It's called the Plant Reproductive Material Law, and it attempts to put the government in charge of virtually all plants and seeds. Home gardeners who grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals under this law.

The draft text of the law, which has already been amended several times due to a huge backlash from gardeners, is viewable here.

"This law will immediately stop the professional development of vegetable varieties for home gardeners, organic growers, and small-scale market farmers," said Ben Gabel, vegetable breeder and director of The Real Seed Catalogue. "Home gardeners have really different needs - for example they grow by hand, not machine, and can't or don't want to use such powerful chemical sprays. There's no way to register the varieties suitable for home use as they don't meet the strict criteria of the Plant Variety Agency, which is only concerned about approving the sort of seed used by industrial farmers."

Continue reading about this insane EU law – seeds are about to become contraband – here.

Maybe the real reason our police forces are becoming militarised is so they can adequately “control” the public? Why else do they need gear like this then?

 

 

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Agenda 21 and the Fabian Society

2GB’s Michael McLaren speaks with Dr. Amy McGrath, author of Wolves in sheep's clothing, about Agenda 21 and the influence of the Fabians on the world. Listen, here.

And Graham Williamson has authored a very detailed essay, packed with verifiable links, which is aptly titled, ‘Agenda 21: Politician shutting the debate down – response of the Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage, Greg Hunt Liberal MP.’

Claims made by Greg Hunt, that Agenda 21 is a 20 year old, dead, non-binding declaration which he had never heard of until 1 year ago, are tested and compared to the facts as established from extensive government documentation. Download here, Graham’s essay.

For more information about the UN’s sinister Agenda 21 plans for Australia, visit here.

For a good explanation of the UN’s diabolical Agenda 21 plan, watch the Glenn Beck video from June 2011 below.

  

Other Agenda 21 videos can be found under the ‘Agenda 21’ tab.

  

  

Update:

2GB’s Brian Wilshire on 7^th March talks about Agenda 21, prompted by Graham’s Williamson’s numerous research papers exposing the sinister Agenda 21. Listen, here.

 

 

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Agenda 21 reduces individual prosperity, personal freedom

This article is well worth reading – it helps explain just how sinister the UN’s Agenda 21 really is. Unlike the partisan politics here in Australia, in the US, both Democrats and Republicans are rightly dead against this menacing program.

On Tuesday, March 5, the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on LD 220, “An Act to Ban United Nations Agenda 21 in Maine,” a bill aimed at protecting private property rights and Maine communities from the international soft law that has been shaping land use planning, public policy, public education and local sovereignty for decades.

Americans (and Australian’s) are largely unaware of UN Agenda 21, which dates back to the 1970s but got its real start in 1992 with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, when President George H. W. Bush signed onto it. President Bill Clinton took office the following year and created the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, a collaborative of federal agencies, corporations and nonprofit groups, who directed all levels of government to change their policies to comply with UN Agenda 21.

UN Agenda 21 is a worldwide action plan to implement “sustainable development.” Rosa Koire, author of “Behind the Green Mask” and founder of Democrats Against Agenda 21, describes it well: “Agenda 21 is a global plan to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world. Inventory and control.”

Maine people should know that wittingly or unwittingly, the land trust movement in Maine is implementing UN Agenda 21’s land use goals by creating and controlling through conservation easements a vast, interconnected network of minimally human-inhabited and limitedly accessed land. While some leaders in the land trust movement are well aware that they are implementing Agenda 21 ideals through their work, many local land trust members are completely unacquainted with the UN’s vision.

Continue to read the article, here.

 

 

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UN report demands we should half our meat consumption to ‘save’ the planet

The UN wants the power to reduce the global population. If they control the food, they control who gets fed and who doesn’t (note the UN’s Agenda 21).

  

There is nothing good about the UN. If Abbott had any stones, he’d withdraw Australia from the UN and save us all from their one-way street treaties.

 

 

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IPCC hasn’t learnt a damn thing: draft Climate Report cites WWF, Greenpeace

Via Foxnews

Critics are blasting a draft U.N. climate change report that combines studies by advocacy groups like the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace alongside scientific research papers -- the same issue that led independent auditors to slam the U.N.'s last report.

“You'd think that the IPCC would have learned its lesson, that it would have told its authors not to rely on these sorts of publications,” said Donna Laframboise, the head of nofrakkingconsensus.com, an investigative website skeptical of the scientific consensus on global warming.

“The report currently includes, amongst its list of references, nine separate publications produced wholly or in part by the WWF,” Laframboise told FoxNews.com

This isn’t the first time the WWF has been used as a source in a climate assessment report by the U.N.'s IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2007, the panel relied on statements made in a WWF article to predict that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. That claim was based on nothing more than a remark that a scientist made in a 1999 interview with New Scientist magazine.

A 2010 audit by a panel of scientists from around the world called for change, meaning less so-called "gray literature," and the IPCC apologized for the error.

“The WWF has a definite opinion about whether humans are responsible for global warming. It wants more people to think the way it does,” Laframboise said. Some scientists say such reports should generally not be cited.

Continue to read the Foxnews article here.

For the IPCC to rely in part, on “junk “science from the likes of ecotard extremists WWF and Greenpeace makes their whole assessment process stink on ice. No wonder most people think CAGW is bullshit. 

 

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Chatting with Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Drive about the UN and Global Warming

I’m chatting with Gary Hardgrave from the 4BC Drive show about Australia’s commitment to pay the UN Climate Change fund $3 billion dollars per annum.

You can download the audio here and listen on itunes.

Some of the issues I discuss with Gary include:

It is presumptuous to think we, (humans) are a match for the sun.

There is no evidence that cyclones or hurricanes are caused by Anthropogenic Global Warming.

The U.N.’s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in its Special Report on Extreme Weather (2012) that there is “an absence of an attributable climate change signal” in trends in extreme weather losses to date. 

The U.K. Met Office recently released data showing that there has been no statistically significant global warming for almost 16 years. During this period, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations rose by nearly 9% to now constitute 0.039% of the atmosphere. Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years.

Climate policies therefore need to focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events however caused.

China, India, Russia, Canada, Japan and the USA account for over 63% total global CO² emissions. Yet these countries have not imposed upon their own citizens a Carbon Tax.

India is planning on 455 new coal power stations and China 363.

The capacity of the new plants add up to 1,400GW to global greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of adding another China – the world's biggest emitter.

China and India are ensuring their citizens will have access to cheap power while our political elite are continuing to make life tougher for everyday Australians.

Maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t the “cure” sound worse than the problem? A bit like amputating your leg to “cure” your in-growing toe nail?

The following quote by American author H L Mencken best sums up the current AGW state of play:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

 

 

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Agenda 21 is real so how will it affect you?

Ignoring the pro-American sentiment, the video is well worth watching.

 

When you break down all the UN bullshit, it’s a grand plan designed to seize private property, forbid human access to land, relocating people from rural areas to cities, forced “community” involvement, higher energy prices and higher taxes.

And your local council, state and federal governments have all signed up to the scam known as “sustainable development.”

Their goal is to bring ever-closer the advent of an eco-socialist New World Order.

 

 

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Seems the UN isn’t a big fan of Free Speech after all: Monckton gets evicted from UN Climate summit after challenging global warming

Article 19 from the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." 

Everyone mustn’t include Christopher Monckton.

Via Climate Depot

By Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter

Published: Thursday, December 6, 2012

[Reprint from E&E Greenwire - December 6, 2012 - subscription required]

Excerpt: UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a climate skeptic, gets evicted

After the news conference, and as diplomats gathered for the climate conference president's assessment of how close countries are to agreement, Monckton quietly slipped into the seat reserved for the delegation of Myanmar and clicked the button to speak.

"In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming," Monckton said as confused murmurs filled the hall and then turned into a chorus of boos.

The stunt infuriated negotiators and activists here who gather every year to address what they believe is one of the world's top threats, the steady rise of man-made global warming.

As Monckton was escorted from the hall and security officers stripped him of his U.N. credentials, several people noted that just a few hours earlier a group of young activists had been thrown out of the convention center and deported. Their crime: unfurling an unauthorized banner calling for the Qatari hosts to lead the negotiations to a strong conclusion.

By late today, several activists attending the conference had posted calls to "deport Monckton" on their Twitter feeds.

 

 

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Ecotards at the UN Climate Change Conference agree to wear carbon capture masks

No wonder they believe in imaginary Anthropogenic Global Warming.

  

If these UN delegates dopes are open to this, just think what they'd like to impose on the rest of the world! 

Keep mind these same “ecotards” thought it was a great idea a few years back to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide or Water…

 

AGW is nothing but a scam.

 

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