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The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization is meeting in Rome and despite an EU ban on the attendance of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Mugabe is able to attend the FAO conference because UN rules take precedence over EU rules. The irony of Mugabe's attendance at the conference is not lost on Anne Applebaum:
. . . According to Oxfam, 80 percent of Zimbabwe's population now lives on less than $1 a day, thanks to Mugabe's policies, and lacks access to basic foods and clean water. Inflation is at 100,000 percent, this year's harvest was poor, and Zimbabweans are fleeing their country in large numbers. Meanwhile, Mugabe is notorious for using food aid as a political weapon, distributing it only to those who reliably vote for him. Thus does his presence at a U.N. food summit contain layers of troubling irony. Stephen Smith, the Australian foreign minister and one of Mugabe's more vocal critics, put it less delicately: "Robert Mugabe turning up to a conference dealing with food security or food issues is, in my view, frankly obscene."
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Who says they aren't worth the billions spent on them < / snark >
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
we can now expect a potato famine....everything they touch dies :-)
Freedom of Religion NOT Freedom from Religion
When Chavez said he smelled sulfer, it was from the U.N. building itself. Anytime you get that many evil demons together in one room, you're going to smell a lot of sulfer. Screw the U.N..
Tim Schieferecke
when McCain speaks of a League of Democracies I am very interested....the UN is a nest of haters and at every turn they have done NOTHING to stop the misery in the world they are set up to help....they are not worthy of our money and they certainly are not worthy of having residence in our country....they are irrelevant in this global society because when it becomes necessary to help other countries WE are in like flint and the American public donates their hard earned money and our military is the lead on many of the disasters.
Freedom of Religion NOT Freedom from Religion