While “democracy” is the sine qua non for countries to be accepted in the international world system – especially by the wealthy Western nations – it is quite ironic that it’s not practised in that institution, to which all of the very same countries belong!! Yep!! Your Eyewitness is, of course, talking about the United Nations and its General Assembly!! As every year grinds to a close, it has become routine for dozens of resolutions to be voted on with the intention of improving the world and offering justice to its nations.
As the UN official release described its Dec 14, SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION, 53RD MEETING’s decisions, “With Developing Countries facing persistent inequality, lack of financial access, and the ravages of climate change, the General Assembly adopted 38 of 41 resolutions and 2 decisions introduced by its Second Committee (Economic and Financial), in an effort to turn around rising poverty and hunger, and propel the Sustainable Development Goals.” Now, this is exciting news that should be broadcast and shouted from the rooftops (our hut-tops) in every sh*thole country in the world!! Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, they were gonna be free at last!!
So, let’s take one of these proposals that’s been voted on every year since 1974, as stated in the release: “Towards a New International Economic Order” (NIEO) this time) (by a recorded vote of 123 in favour to 50 against, with 1 abstention (Türkiye). By its terms, the Assembly expressed concern over the increasing debt vulnerabilities of Developing Countries, the net negative capital flows from those countries, the fluctuation of exchange rates, and the tightening of global financial conditions; and, in this regard, stressed the need to explore the means and instruments needed to achieve debt sustainability, and the measures necessary to reduce the indebtedness of Developing States.
Now, if the UN’s democratic, shouldn’t the votes of the 123 countries that voted “for” outweigh the 50 that voted “against”?? Those 123 countries are 64% of the entire membership of the UN’s 193 members, and represent more than 7 billion from Asia to Africa to Latin America, against 900 million as represented by the 50 that voted “against”!! Yet nothing ever gets done!! Why?? Cause, in these votes, there’s one constant – it’s the West versus the Rest!! The 50 countries opposed to the call for a fairer, more equitable economic system consisted of the US, EU, Britain, Israel, Canada, Australia, South Korea, and Japan. This grouping’s dubbed the “Collective West”, cause the “West” isn’t a geographical expression no mo’, but an economic one!!
Another resolution was the “Role of the UN in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence”. The vote was 130 in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States), with 45 abstentions.
Yet, nothing’s ever done!!
…with moral outrage
After having oil gushing off our shores, the number of woke activists expressing moral indignation has mushroomed. But, sadly, not like an effective atomic bomb mushroom – just like jumbie umbrellas sprouting on dried cow dung!! Having observed them for a while now, your Eyewitness can only say he agrees with a five-year-old headline from England – home of woke activists for a century!! The Daily Mail had announced in a bold headline: “Psychologists say your moral outrage is simply self-serving: Expressing your anger at a third party ‘makes you feel less guilty about injustices in the world’… Voicing your moral outrage may seem like selflessness, but it’s really self-serving… Experts say expressing anger is trying to reinforce that you’re a ‘good person’… Those who state their outrage feel less personal guilt than those who don’t”!!
So, the next time you hear those nuts complaining that we should quit pumping oil because of global warming, just know that they’re merely “virtue signalling”.
Simpering about how “good” they are!!
…on noise pollution
Does officialdom believe that because of the sacred associations around this time of the year, noise loses its efficacy to destroy the mental stability of our citizenry??
Gotta be, since nothing was done about all-night cacophony throughout Christmas Eve!
