Wednesday, April 23, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Claudia Rosett: What do Libya, Iran, Cuba, Russia and Pakistan All Have in Common? - 'Why of course! At the United Nations, they’ve all been picked to lead the preparations for the UN’s "Durban Review" mega-conference against "racism," scheduled for sometime in 2009. They all have seats on the 20-member preparatory committee which has just begun a two-week meeting in Geneva to plan for this Durban II pow-wow -- which now looms as a reprise of the anti-democratic, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-American 2001 conference that was Durban I. This round, Libya is chairing the preparations. Cuba gets to send not one, but two officials to the planning party; one to plan and the other to act as rapporteur...'
