The joke figure "Hanki" Ban Ki-moon, the lavishly overpaid Sekjen of the greedy, corrupt extravagantly overfunded United Nations, has now flung to the winds the sole continuing justification for the organization that he and his lackluster recent predecessors have turned into little more than a communist front organization.
That justification is strict impartiality on all political questions.
Hanki Banki has announced, with that whinnying pietism that is characteristic of him, that he will join a climate communist march against capitalism on Sept. 23.
The host of gibbering useful idiots that this gibbering useful idiot will join as they stumble, zombie-like, along the streets of New York chanting Ouroborindra Ba-Ba-Hee will very nearly all belong – like Hanki Banki himself and the rest of the useless, lickspittle parasites that infest the U.N. building – to the political hard left.
It is time to ban Ban and undo the U.N.
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Until the name "communist" became a dirty word worldwide as the name of a hateful regime of ruthless, bureaucratic-centralist cruelty that slaughtered 100 million people in the name of political correctness in the 20th century, most of these robotic thinkalikes of the political undead would have openly called themselves communists.
There will be a few rentaluvvies and probably one or two publicity-seeking billionaires making new fortunes at the expense of the poor by profiteering from the now-collapsed climate scam. But most of the insufficiently washed specimens that will crawl and slither to U.N. Plaza will have as their chief aim the destruction of capitalism.
The U.N., in the person of a communist bureaucrat and fossil-fuel billionaire named Strong, invented the climate scam because the pompous, squawking inadequates and misfits who populate its marble halls have long fancied themselves as Kommissars in the most exclusive club in the world – the Politburo of a global bureaucratic-centralist government.
They gave the game away in 2009 when, on Sept. 15, they published on an obscure U.N. website the draft climate treaty that, they hoped, would be triumphantly signed at the annual international climate yabbadabbathon at Copenhagen.
The draft, at Paragraphs 36 and 38 of Annex 1, explicitly mentioned that a global "government" would be established, with overriding powers of taxation, regulation and enforcement. This power of the Klimate Kommissars to compel independent-minded nations to do as they were told was delicately described in the treaty draft as a "facilitative mechanism."
A 2 percent tax on every financial transaction worldwide was to be levied. Rich nations would be ordered to contribute a further 2 percent of GDP each.
And would this world "government" be elected? Did the words "ballot" or "vote" appear anywhere in that dismal draft? No. This was to be a tyranny-by-clerk, modeled on the unelected and now mercifully collapsing European Union, which – by a process of annual agreements and treaties whose content was kept so secret that in Britain the major treaties were actually classified until they had been inflicted on us and we could not escape – acquired supreme legislative and administrative power by little and little, while few noticed what was going on.
The climate-treaty process has been the same. Every year, almost 200 nations send flabby, ill-educated, scientifically illiterate, mathematically innumerate delegates to an annual climate junket in some desirable location. Every year, to provide specious justification for the staggering expense, the delegates – after going into an extra few days' negotiation culminating in an all-night wrestling match (just as bogus as a real wrestling match) – would emerge unshaven and disheveled to announce that a new agreement to save the planet has been reached.
At Cancun in 2010, they established 1,000 new international bureaucracies as the sinews of their hideous Brave New World Order. At Durban in 2011, they tried to commit the world to halving the atmospheric concentration of CO2, for they did not know that CO2 is plant food and halving it would destroy many plant and animal species.
They also proposed an International Klimate Kangaroo Kourt, with sweeping powers to direct Western nations to bankrupt themselves so as further to enrich the U.N. And – I kid you not – they were proposing to give "Mother Earth" rights of legal personality and, in particular, the right to sue you and me in their International Climate Court.
They did not say how Mother Earth was going to instruct her lawyers or, for that matter, how Gaia was going to pay them.
However, I obtained an advance copy of the draft from the head of the U.N.'s documentation center at the conference, who said as he handed to me that I should read it with a sharp eye, remembering that the U.N.'s watchword was "transparent impenetrability."
I reported the contents of this driveling draft at WattsUpWithThat.com, the world's most visited climate website. WordPress, which hosts 500,000 blog postings a day on all subjects, got in touch the next day to say that my posting had received more hits than all the others.
The day after that, humiliated by the ensuing gales of worldwide laughter, the U.N. had to abandon half the 150-page draft agreement, including all the mad proposals I have mentioned.
At Doha in 2012, I went to the documentation center to ask, as I had asked in each of the previous five years, for the "Daft Conclusions of the Chair" – the key document summarizing what the conference was going to agree. But there was no such draft. Nor was my obliging friend anywhere to be seen.
The U.N., advised by EU bureaucrats, has driven the entire treaty-making process underground. "Transparent impenetrability" had lost forever what little transparency it had had.
Test this for yourself. Go to the website of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Doha climate conference and the 2013 Warsaw conference each have their own web pages. On either or both of these pages, click the link to the "decisions" of the conference. The link is self-referent, returning you to the same page.
Will the U.N. make the draft Treaty of Paris, due to be signed by all nations in December next year if they have not signed it in Lima this year, available to the public on its website? After the Copenhagen and Durban disasters, don't bet on it.
Meanwhile, it is now plain that the climate scientists did not know what they were talking about. For the ninth successive day, the extent of Antarctic sea ice is at the greatest level ever recorded in the 35 years of the satellite era.
In the 25 years since the U.N. climate panel published the first of its five Assessment Reports,the world has warmed at half the rate the panel had then predicted with what it mistakenly described as "substantial confidence."
For the past 18 years, there has been no global warming at all. Yet Hanki Banki says we face an unprecedented crisis. And he's right. The crisis is real. But it is not a climate crisis.
It is a crisis caused solely by the intellectual feebleness of Western governments, eager to outdo each other in signing away their people's democratic rights to a new tyranny all the more terrible for the fact that there will be no escape from it. For it will be global.
Democracy was fun, while it lasted.
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