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U.N. Human Rights Council Calls for Boycott of U.S. Companies
« on: October 25, 2012, 04:36:32 PM »
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The Washington Free Beacon has obtained a report soon to be released by the United Nations that calls for an international campaign of legal attacks and economic warfare on a group of American companies that do business in Israel, including Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar Inc., and Motorola Solutions Inc.

The Human Rights Council (HRC), a body dominated by Islamic countries and known for its hostility to, and heavy focus on, the Jewish State, issued the report. The George W. Bush administration refused to participate in the HRC, but President Barack Obama joined it soon after taking office. Members of the HRC include infamous human rights abusers such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Libya, China, and Cuba.

The Obama-approved body maintains a “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories [sic].” The current rapporteur is American college professor Richard Falk, a 9/11 “truther” who once posted an anti-Semitic cartoon on his personal blog.

In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, the Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman blasted the report and the HRC’s special rapporteur: “We believe you should have prevented the Secretariat from being a party to Mr. Falk’s anti-Israel agenda. Mr. Falk’s entire tenure as Special Rapporteur has served to undermine the credibility of the institution of the United Nations.”

The report attempts to instigate a campaign of boycott, divestment, sanctions, and legal action against a litany of international companies doing business in Israel. In addition to American companies, the U.N. targets include major European firms such as Veolia Environnement, Group 4 Security, the Dexia Group, the Volvo Group.

“The costs to companies and businesses of failing to respect international humanitarian law are considerable,” the report warns, “including damage to a company’s public image, impact on shareholder decisions and share price and could result in employees being criminally responsible for rights abuses.”

The report warns American employees of targeted companies that they face legal risks.


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Re: U.N. Human Rights Council Calls for Boycott of U.S. Companies
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2012, 08:38:33 PM »
Dear UN:

**** you.

Sincerely,
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Re: U.N. Human Rights Council Calls for Boycott of U.S. Companies
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2012, 09:34:27 AM »
John Birch may have been right.
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Re: U.N. Human Rights Council Calls for Boycott of U.S. Companies
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2012, 09:38:32 AM »
Why oh why couldn't the 18 9/11 hijackers have taken out the U.N. building rather than the WTC?

Woulda been so much simpler.

U.N. woulda moved to some cushy little garden spot -

Like Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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Re: U.N. Human Rights Council Calls for Boycott of U.S. Companies
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2012, 09:38:39 AM »
Please, PLEASE boycott us, UN!
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Re: U.N. Human Rights Council Calls for Boycott of U.S. Companies
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2012, 09:42:13 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 26, 2012, 09:38:32 AM
Why oh why couldn't the 18 9/11 hijackers have taken out the U.N. building rather than the WTC?

Woulda been so much simpler.

U.N. woulda moved to some cushy little garden spot -

Like Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

I'd prefer Havana or Tehran, myself.  Maybe Pyongyang.
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Re: U.N. Human Rights Council Calls for Boycott of U.S. Companies
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2012, 10:03:44 AM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on October 26, 2012, 09:42:13 AM
I'd prefer Havana or Tehran, myself.  Maybe Pyongyang.

Havana's far too close. I want that POS organization out of my ****ing HEMISPHERE.
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Re: U.N. Human Rights Council Calls for Boycott of U.S. Companies
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2012, 10:24:57 AM »
Oh please, let's finally elect someone who will get us out of this useless, money sucking monster!
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