UN & EU’s shame & shambles feed mediocre MSM rambles & language games

UPDATE: 09/4/2015 11:40 AM PDT Please see further details pertaining to the “iconic” image in my comment below -hro

As readers may have noticed, I have rarely been favourably impressed with the output of any of the arms, elbows, hands, fingers etc. of the United Nations (UN) and its ever-expanding multiplicity of self-glorifying bodies – nor with that of its closely aligned partner in power-grabbing and propaganda par excellence, the European Union (EU).

Furthermore, for the past forty years, the inanities of “political correctness” have increasingly affected and infected far too many of our once valued institutions and organizations: From our respective governmental organizations to our long-standing once-upon-a-time respected and known Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) – as well as to far too many relatively unknown newbie NGO nobodies. The latter of which – if they are not just crawling out of a designated hole created circa 2009 – seem to multiply faster than rabbits!

In UN and EU circles – not to mention those in North America, quite often led by the equally unaccountable but grandiosely named Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the US – ardent proponents engage in shameless self-promotion and ever-creeping, if not sweeping, insertion by (for all intents and purposes) publicly unexamined regulation. They have an unwarranted impact on the way that we citizens are increasingly obliged to conduct our daily lives.

The latter effect is – in no small measure – thanks to the parades, masquerades and/or tirades of a government-funded (sometimes directly, sometimes not) cadre of loudmouthed NGO representatives. Far too many of whom have the implicit or explicit backing of the increasingly mediocre arms, elbows, hands, fingers etc. of the UN and/or its ever-increasing army of “designated” and/or otherwise officially “approved” NGOs.

But let’s not underestimate the role of far too many pandering pundits, in the so-called mainstream media (MSM). By way of recent example, consider the (taxpayer funded and, by far too many appearances, quite possibly BBC-trained!) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)’s hysteria regarding the very sad – but publicized to virtually instant “icon” – death by drowning of that poor little child from Syria. As I had written in response to their (updated) article:

CBC once again demonstrates how utterly biased and inadequate the “research” skills of its reporting army (and/or external news sources) really is.

If there isn’t an angle for which the Conservative Party (and/or Israel, another of CBC’s mindless favourite targets) can be blamed, their interest in the story is virtually non-existent.

Yes, this is a very sad story. But the blame really lies squarely at the feet of the honchos who run the perpetual “send us more money” UN’s various and sundry mediocre bureaucracies (with more than a little help from designated NGOs and “BIG” names of the PR hour) that have more interest in increasing and flaunting their self-appointed cachet than in actually taking action and doing good where it is sorely needed.

Shame on the CBC, [Liberal PM wannabe] Trudeau Jr, [NDP PM wannabe] Mulcair and their ill-informed acolytes for making such shallow hay of a very sad – but very, very far from “new” – crisis of the UN’s making and perpetuating.

Not to mention the current UN head honcho, Ban Ki-moon’s disgustingly diversionary call for a “private” pre UN-confab “High Level” gathering of approximately 40 selected heads of state (including the self-important, self-glorifying – but oh-so-destructive** on so many fronts – US President Obama) from the great and the good, later this month, to address … not this particular issue of the UN’s creation and perpetuation, but the “give us more billion$” manufactured and magnified matters of climate change/sustainable development.

** My perceptions are far from unique; but I believe they are shared by some whose voices deserve to be heard more widely.

For example, Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post [See: here and here] In the latter of these two articles, Glick observes:

We have arrived at the point where the consequences of the West’s intellectual disarmament at the hands of political correctness begins to have disastrous consequences in the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

Consider also David Harsanyi’s recent assessment of Obama’s ludicrous and ill-informed “interpretation of Jewish values” that go far beyond reason – or anything resembling factual. Harsanyi begins his post by noting:

President Obama has an ugly habit of goy-splaning Jewish values to Jews in an effort to push his political agenda. Now, if Judaism wasn’t so intimately, and destructively, chained to political liberalism in the United States, the president’s absurd reading of ‘Jewish values’ would almost certainly offend those who take faith, culture and security seriously.

And last, but certainly not least, another analyst who brings clarity to that which the MSM – for the most part – decidedly do not, is the Gatestone Institute‘s Douglas Murray. In a recent article, Murray brings several notes of much-needed reality, including:

The question of “what to do” [about the European migration crisis] remains politically toxic for any mainstream Western European politician. During the summer, British Prime Minister David Cameron passingly referred to the “swarm” of migrants at Calais. His political opponents immediately jumped on this and denounced his “offensive” language. What chance is there, however, of proposing the kind of bold thinking we will need to consider in Europe if we keep reducing our response to this crisis to a language game? [my bold -hro]

YMMV, but I’ll take the assessments of the above three observers over the pompous, shallow pronouncements of Canada’s Naomi Klein and/or Canada’s and the U.K.’s many media pundits any day!