[Gateway] On Thursday, the watchdog group U.N. Watch accused the Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, of "gross violations of U.N. rules and professional ethics."
Albanese is in charge of investigating "Israel’s violations of the bases and principles of international law"
According to the legal complaint filed to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres and High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turkwith, Albanese allegedly accepted honorariums and payments from activist and advocacy groups in violation of the U.N. code of conduct.
The role of special rapporteur is a volunteer position technically independent of the United Nations. Expenses are to be paid for out of a designated budget and acceptance of payments, including those for travel and honorariums, from "any governmental or non-governmental source" for "activities carried out in pursuit" of the special rapporteur’s mandate is strictly prohibited.
Albanese also has a history of antisemitic, anti-Israel comments.
She has claimed that Israel has no right of self-defense after the Hamas terrorists on October 7.
She claims "self-defense" has a "narrow meaning under Article 51 of the U.S. charter" and that it does not give the Jewish state the right to defend itself against Hamas terrorists who invaded their land and slaughtered 1,400 civilians, kidnapped others, including babies, and used rape as a tool of war.
A report at the Washington Free Beacon explains Albanese believes the definition requires the threat to come from "another state," and since she claims Hamas comes from an "occupied territory," Israel’s defense of its own citizens is a crime.
She also denied that the terrorist group’s hatred of Jews was behind the attack.
Of course in keeping with the WOKE trend of everything white is evil, the gangster mining king is a former SADF fellow named Pieter Bello played by Bart Fouche.
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The USA has to stop funding these parasites. I am all for making the UN relocate to somewhere/anywhere else. I also want to level the funding of the UN so that each country funds the same amount.
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Whiskey Man, UN is condemned to one of the worst Hell-holes in the Western world, as it is....
The new imam of a large mosque in Birmingham, England had previously suggested that the U.S. deserved the 9/11 jihadist attacks that killed thousands and that the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks were not as deadly as claimed by Israel. https://t.co/mhYM2aszs4
The mosque has been linked to Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabis, while the imam during a previous assignment at the Brixton mosque appeared in our archives associated with Zacarias Moussaoui
“I do not arrive alone,” Claudia Sheinbaum tells supporters after becoming Mexico’s first woman president following landslide win in general elections. #Mexico#ClaudiaSheinbaum
[RT] Kiev will work to pressure Israel to end the bloodshed in Gaza, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky said during his trip to Singapore on Sunday, almost eight months into the Israel-Hamas war.
Speaking at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security conference, Zelensky reiterated that Israel has the right to defend itself from "Hamas terrorists." He also raised concerns over the dire humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave, besieged by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
"After Israel [entered] the territory of Gaza, there has been a humanitarian crisis," Zelensky noted, adding that Kiev is ready to help with the delivery of aid to the enclave.
"International law must be respected," Zelensky stressed. "Ukraine will recognize two states: Israel and Palestine. And will do everything to make Israel stop, so this conflict could end, and civilians would not be hurt." Biden's little for poodle barks.
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Ukraine will recognize two states: Israel and Palestine.
But the two state solution the Palestinians will accept is Hamastan and Hesbollahstan.
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The US should stop giving the Ukrainian regime money and weapons
Nato should back off
Everyone shd listen to Victor Davis Hanson and stop this meatgrinder right now
Amd someone needs to sue Kagan and wife toria nuland. Mass murderers.
The only waynto remove the warmonger oligarchs is to vote in President Kennedy.
He really would clean house.
At present you will get the exact same failed policies designed to steal your money and give it to corporations - Trump and Biden are BOTH establishment.
Shannon Joy nails it. All Biden has is "prevent trump". All trump has is "biden is attacking me i am like julian assange"
Policies the same
Donors the same
The war is because Trump appointed warmongers during his admin as whitney webb has detailed. Raytheon / MIC
The poison jab was all trump but biden did the same. Moderna and pfizer and DoD/CIA
The migrant crisis? Because trump never built a wall or even tried to. Farmers need slaves. Big ag, monsanto.
You need RFK jr
Ps - trump raised $200m after his conviction
It is all theatre
Alex jones raised $30m after his "they are shutting me down" emergency
All theatre
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I’m sorry, Anon1, but just because Kennedy was right about the Covid-19 vaccine does not mean he is right about anything else. Sadly, there are many important issues that he is as dangerously wrong about as the Biden Democrats. And he has totalitarian impulses, which means that even when he’s right he’ll go about it the wrong way.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Kazakhstan removed the Taliban movement (an organization under UN sanctions for terrorist activities) from the terrorist list in order to develop economic cooperation with Afghanistan. This was stated by the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
“Kazakhstan has removed the Taliban regime from the terrorist list, based on the importance of developing trade and economic cooperation with modern Afghanistan,” the press service of the head of Kazakhstan quotes him as saying.
One of the strategic tasks at the present stage is the active involvement of Afghanistan in interregional ties, Tokayev added.
As Regnum reported, on May 27, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice of Russia reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Taliban movement could be removed from the list of terrorists. The special representative of the Russian President for Afghanistan, head of the second department of Asia under the Russian Foreign Ministry, Zamir Kabulov, then said that recognition of the Taliban has become much closer than when they came to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
Russia has also sent an invitation to representatives of the Taliban movement to take part in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which will be held from June 5–8. The movement confirmed its participation in SPIEF.
The Russian leader said on May 28 that the status of the Taliban movement is constantly being discussed. Putin added that Russia takes into account the opinion of each country in the region on the issue of recognizing the Taliban. The decision, as the president said, will be worked out together.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] It was around 11pm on Tuesday when, last week, another petrol bomb was thrown — and St John's House, a four-storey block in Tallaght on the outskirts of Dublin was suddenly ablaze.
It could have been much worse but, fortunately, no one was inside and firefighters were quickly on the scene.
As to why anyone might take the trouble to attack a set of empty offices, the answer is all too clear: they'd been earmarked as housing for asylum seekers.
A recent and dramatic rise in the number of migrants reaching Ireland has sparked a furious campaign of protests and petrol bombings right across the country. This was just the latest.
In December, a blaze ripped through the disused 19th century Ross Lake House country hotel in Rosscahill, Galway. The Great Southern Hotel in the seaside town of Rosslare, County Wexford was targeted with petrol bombs just the month before. Both had been due to accommodate refugees.
More than 6,500 people have already claimed asylum since the start of the year — a radical increase from the past, and the calm weather of the summer months is yet to come, threatening more arrivals and unrest.
Earlier this month, the Minister of Finance, Michael McGrath, said that up to 30,000 asylum seekers are forecast to land Ireland in 2024, more than double the 13,600 in 2022.
Ireland has long enjoyed a reputation as the land of 'a hundred thousand welcomes', taking around 3,000 refugees from Syria and 105,000 Ukrainians since 2022.
Now, though, there's a backlash - and it's clear that the Irish state is struggling to find enough accommodation. Some 1,900 asylum seekers are said to be homeless, with hundreds of them sheltering in tents.
The vast majority are in Dublin where, last week, the authorities dismantled a large migrant encampment — but amid much sceptical comment: the clearance happened just before the capital was due to host the Europa League Final.
Besides, it's far from clear how much difference such operations make. The authorities tried the same thing a fortnight earlier but, like a game of whack-a mole, tents sprang up elsewhere that same evening.
Now, amid growing concern from a population not used to large influxes from abroad, the Irish government has decided to blame Britain and, in particular, our plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Deputy Taoiseach (or prime minister) Micheál Martin could hardly have been more direct, stating that it was 'fairly obvious' that fearful immigrants were hoping 'to get sanctuary here and within the European Union, as opposed to the potential of being deported to Rwanda'.
I see this for myself on the three-hour bus journey from Belfast to Dublin, where I meet 22-year-old friends Zahid Khan and Wali Khan from Afghanistan.
When I ask Zahid how they arrived in Northern Ireland, he replies: 'Dunki', a south Asian term that refers to people crossing a country's borders illegally.
They both paid people-smugglers 15,000 afghanis (about £167) before making the perilous journey through Iran and Turkey to Europe, where they had to fend for themselves. Then they hid inside a container on a boat crossing the Channel before catching a ferry to Belfast. Now they want to cross the border from Northern Ireland into the Republic and claim asylum in Dublin.
Zahid travelled to Belfast last month by ferry; Khan stepped off the boat just that morning. When I ask them why they'd picked Ireland, the response is clear: 'Rwanda'.
'It's now difficult to stay in the UK so we've had to come to Ireland,' says Zahid. 'Inshallah (God willing), they'll give us a house so that we can stay.'
A bus departs hourly from the Europa bus centre in Glengall Street in Belfast. One-way tickets for the three-hour trip cost around £17. Across the road, the Dublin Express, promises to transport passengers in as little as two hours and 20 minutes for just £11. The border between north and south is famously porous: checks are few and far between.
We chat in Urdu, a second or third language for many Afghans. It seems Zahid set off for the UK in spring 2022. He was caught by the border guards in Turkey, where he was imprisoned for five months. He was released with the expectation that he would return to Afghanistan.
Instead, he snuck into Bulgaria, but was caught by officials before being deported to Turkey. Undeterred, he headed back to Europe. The entire journey from his home to Ireland, which normally takes three or four months, took him two years.
Zahid says that life under the Taliban was unbearable, claiming that they killed his father, who had worked for the previous government. Wali, meanwhile, says the Taliban killed his uncle who worked in the army. His father is dead and his mother is a refugee in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan. It took him a year to get to Ireland.
'I like Europe,' he says when asked why he came here. 'I just want to work, whatever job I can get.' In his old life, he worked at a bakery making fresh naan bread.
Zahid has brought a cricket ball with him. He played the sport at a good level in Afghanistan, and hopes he can play for Ireland one day.
When the bus arrives in Dublin, they'll make their way down to the Grand Canal, where a tent city has been established.
Migrants usually make their way to the International Protection Office (IPO), in Lower Mount Street, where newcomers to Ireland must present themselves to lodge asylum claims. Those who register at the IPO can expect a weekly allowance of 113.80 euros (around £97).
There were also tents outside the IPO and along Mount Street for the best part of a year until, finally, they were removed at the beginning of May. Taoiseach Simon Harris has declared that these 'makeshift shanty towns' will not be allowed to reappear — although he was embarrassed earlier this month when it emerged that Irish taxpayers themselves have indirectly helped to pay for the encampments.
Why? Because the country's Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has funded four homelessness charities providing tents to the migrants.
Arriving in Dublin, I walk down to the Grand Canal, overlooked on either side by elegant Georgian and Victorian houses. Along the lush, tree-lined banks are rows of tents crammed together side-by-side.
There are more than 100 men down here, mostly from Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of Africa. One man is folding away an Islamic prayer mat. Socks are hanging out to dry on an improvised washing line.
I speak to a young barefoot man who gives his name as Ali. He tells me he is 20 and from Gaza.
But when I question him further, I realise he's not even 18. Ali says the people-smugglers told him to lie about his age. He looks close to tears as he explains that he doesn't know why they brought him to Ireland.
Occasionally, Irish men walk by and hurl abuse, telling the migrants to 'f*** off and leave'. A constant police presence ensures there is no further trouble.
'We get a lot of that type of racism,' a 22-year-old Afghan named Safiullah tells me in broken Urdu.
Tension has been growing among the locals. Last month, six people were arrested for public order offences during four nights of anti-migrant protests at Newtownmountkennedy, a small town in County Wicklow, over plans to turn a disused guest house into an accommodation centre. Four of them were charged after rocks were thrown at Gardai and the window of a police car smashed by a man wielding an axe.
Then, on the first Bank Holiday Monday in May, thousands marched through central Dublin, waving Irish tricolours and shouting 'Get Them Out' (to the government) and 'You'll Never Beat the Irish'. Some brandished signs saying 'Ireland is full'. Elsewhere, demonstrators have belted out slogans such as 'Ireland is for the Irish'. They've also branded Sinn Fein 'traitors', due to the party's support for mass migration, which has alienated much of its working class base.
This anger will no doubt play its part in next week's European and local elections. Malachy Steenson, a solicitor who is standing as an independent in the European elections, believes immigration will be a top priority at the ballot box. 'June 7 will show a huge rise in nationalism,' he tells me. 'We were described as racists or fascists, but we're just seeing what's an obvious fact. People are flooding in at a rate that has never been seen before. They're not genuine asylum seekers.'
Earlier this month, a high court in Belfast suspended the Rwanda Act in Northern Ireland, saying it considered it a violation of the Windsor Framework, which regulates UK-EU relations following Brexit. It also declared parts of the act to be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
But Steenson believes Ireland should co-operate, saying: 'When Rishi Sunak next uses the military plane [to transport the migrants to Rwanda], we should tell him to keep a few seats on it, land it at Baldonnel airbase [near Dublin] and we'll fill the rest.'
Back at the canal, Mashal, 22-year-old from Pakistan, tells me: 'All these people are risking their lives to come here. They shouldn't send them to Rwanda.' He shows me a picture of him with a class of children, to whom he taught science and English.
I struggle to understand why he'd want to leave that all behind. He claims he couldn't support his family on 15,000 rupees per month, around £43, which is well below Pakistan's minimum wage.
He lived in France for a year, leaving because he couldn't understand the language. 'This place is better. I hope I can get a job as a teacher here.'
A new plan to accommodate asylum seekers will see the Irish state provide 14,000 beds by the end of 2028, as part of a wider strategy to make 35,000 spaces available across the system.
Coilean O Ruaric thinks it's 'outrageous'. He documents Ireland's growing homelessness crisis on his YouTube channel and believes the state is neglecting its citizens. 'We have 14,000 of our own homeless people. They didn't make that promise to us,' he tells me. 'I've got nothing against these guys. My issue is with the government. We just don't have the capacity or the infrastructure [to house them].'
The day of my visit, the Dublin authorities removed more than 100 tents and erected steel barriers to stop them returning.
Nearly 200 asylum seekers were removed and taken to an IPAS (International Protection Accommodation Services) centre a few miles away, which offers washing facilities, health care, food, and 24-hour security.
But that's not enough for Steenson. 'It's pure optics and total opportunism,' he says. 'The government needs to close the borders. Tomorrow, another 50 tents will appear somewhere else.'
And they did, this time close to the affluent area of Ballsbridge.
Perhaps it's not all that surprising. I think back to my conversation with Zahid and Wali on the bus. When I asked if they were worried about sleeping rough, Zahid simply smiled as he replied: 'If I wasn't scared to walk through jungles, why would I be scared of sleeping in a tent?'
They are determined — while the Irish state seems feeble and disjointed in respose.
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If immigrants improve any place they arrive at then logically wherever they came from should have already been too wonderful to need to leave in the first place.
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Spent two weeks in Ireland last month. Wonderful trip. Did miss our scheduled visit to Trinity College and the Book of Kells because of
'student' protests getting it shut down (not sure how long the College survives that huge cut in revenue...) but found plenty of better things to do. (Did note nearby a bunch of posters nearby from the "Revolutionary Communists of Ireland" exhorting them to get organized.)
Watch the moment an Antifa protester trying to stop police funding at a recent Portland city council meeting gets told by Mayor @tedwheeler that rioters shouldn't whine and cry when they suffer the consequences of their actions. In his final year in office, Wheeler has shown more… pic.twitter.com/8YNi087YTV
#Indian Prime Minister Narendra #Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win a big majority in the general election, TV exit polls say, suggesting it would do better than expected by most analysts.https://t.co/a2TMFWCoKy
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 3, 2024
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The speaker of #Iran’s parliament, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, registers his candidacy for the snap presidential election on June 28.https://t.co/NqSLNewot3
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 3, 2024
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Does he have information that will result in the arrest and conviction of HRC or does he enjoy helicopter transport?
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Another Bearded Islamist Psychopath ? What a surprise
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#Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei commends Hamas’ October 7 attack on #Israel, saying it was “exactly what the region needed.”https://t.co/ig2Fn9rnmg
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 3, 2024
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
She has claimed that Israel has no right of self-defense after the Hamas terrorists on October 7.
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