As an American, I'm a HUGE fan of the United Nations. How about you?
The United Nations. Love it, hate it, what's your deal?
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It serves one useful purpose, and thats as a formal talking shop. A lot of wars have been avoided because there is somewhere the participants can formally talk about it. Communication is good. Course, it didn't work with Iraq because the US has a president determined to goto war, but with sane leaders, it is a useful tool.In 1904, Charles Newman-Berry connected two abacus's together using specially enhanced GrapeVine thus inventing the first Internet connection.
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The United Nations is a great organization and I support it 100%. The only problem with the UN is it doesn't have any teeth to enforce its resolutions. As such it gets pushed around by the United States. If the US doesn't support a UN resolution, that resolution doesn't get enforced. This is a big problem.Comment
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Same with France, Russia, China, and the UK. What's the big deal?Originally posted by Manga1
If the US doesn't support a UN resolution, that resolution doesn't get enforced. This is a big problem.
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well said... UN cannot stand on its on feet, unless its being dictated by powerful countries such as UK and US, which has a lot of allies.Originally posted by Manga1
The United Nations is a great organization and I support it 100%. The only problem with the UN is it doesn't have any teeth to enforce its resolutions. As such it gets pushed around by the United States. If the US doesn't support a UN resolution, that resolution doesn't get enforced. This is a big problem.Comment
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This is the URL to the full press realease ...The United Nations Secretary General ...
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The 1993 Declaration on Violence against Women included female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women within the definition of violence against women. The Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 called on governments to prohibit female genital mutilation wherever it occurs and to support efforts by non-governmental and community organizations and religious institutions to eliminate it ...
... The practice is particularly common in Africa, where some form of female genital mutilation occurs in at least 28 countries and where as many as
<H3>114 million women</H3>
are affected. At a ground-breaking seminar held in Dakar in 1984, participants from 20 African countries, as well as representatives of international organizations, demanded that the practice be abolished and called for education programmes that would change attitudes and practice. ...
... It is my sincere hope that we are moving towards the day when a practice which has affected the health and development of so many girls and women throughout the ages will be but a memory. As an African and as Secretary- General of the United Nations, I will do my utmost to ensure that this issue retains its rightful place on the international agenda and that it will receive the serious attention that it deserves from the United Nations system.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan
You need to edit/copy edit/paste it so there is no referrering URL from GFY. This was requested of me when posting about such matters.
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My opinion is IMPOTENT in many matters & very IMPORTANT in others.
After 20 years they have still not been able to stop FGM.
IMPOTENT
Peace keeping - VERY IMPORTANT.Comment
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Most of the world's men are not circumcised.Originally posted by Colin
I was genitally mutilated. Motherfuckers cut off my foreskin when I was a baby.
If you take an average sampling of 100 penis pictures (like I did from Usenet) ...
and you know what you are looking for ...
I would say unscientifically approximately 1/3 of those circumcised have EXTRA damage ...like a missing frenelum ...scared glans etc ... and there will be several that are just destroyed.
There is no need to cosmetically alter a persons body without their permission. They can make the decision themselves when they are adults.Comment
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No, it doesn't. It does the complete opposite. The UN reinforces the prevailing power structure of the day. The US, UK, China, France, and Russia can and have vetoed any Security Council resolutions they wish to.Originally posted by har har
i support the UN only because it keeps the US in some sort of check.
The countries it keeps in check are the ones with less political power.
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No one said that. I said *I* was. Fuck the EXTRA damage. Don't demean me. I want my foreskin back. Bastards!Originally posted by sexeducation
Most of the world's men are not circumcised.
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I am NOT demeaning you.Originally posted by Colin
No one said that. I said *I* was. Fuck the EXTRA damage. Don't demean me. I want my foreskin back. Bastards!
I too am circumcised and wish I was not.
And I have no "extra" damage either.
There are several devices you can use to "stretch" a foreskin but you can never replace the "original" nerves etc.
Many men report increased sensisity to the same stimuli when they are NOT circumcised. It is well known that the nerves of the glans are closer to the surface on men who are uncut.
I am NOT demeaning you. Your opinion is that of many men.Comment
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Iraq was chairing some Disarmament Panel and Syria is on something like the Security Council and is it Nigeria which is on the Human Rights thingy? I forget.
The UN is not a farce, only because it presents a real danger to mankind. Otherwise it would be a farce.Comment
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The UN???
Fuck all and Miss Havisham!
If we left things up to the UN everyplace would look like some hippie commune with chutney and incense all over the place.
Irresponsible breeding, lackadaisical defense systems, weird people trying to explain to me why I should fork over more dough to stupid superstitious people who hate me anyway?
Reminds me of 'Starfleet'. The world is 'Deep Space Nine' NOT 'The Next Generation'.Comment
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I wish I could blow up the Hague...
and end the UN once and for all -- I'd do it in a second.
I hope the US NEVER goes the way of western Europe and tries to give up it's sovereignty for no reason.Comment


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