Posted by
Ed Lilly on Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:42:49 PM
Via Urgent Agenda, here’s the intro to a story on the developing "food crisis":
VIENNA, Austria - A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.
Ban said the U.N. and all members of the international community were very concerned and immediate action was needed.
And since the UN has done such a bang up job of solving every other problem it has deemed worthy of immediate action, we should definitely look to them in the event of a global food crisis. Which reminds me, there’s been talk of starting a communal garden in our yard for our family, the neighbors, and my wife’s sister’s family. Smart money says any garden we may plant has a better shot at helping address any hunger than the UN.
Of course, that’s not to say there isn’t a ray of hope buried within the article:
He spoke to reporters at U.N. offices in Austria, where he was meeting with the nation's top leaders for talks on how the United Nations and European Union can forge closer ties.
Just off the top of my head, I’d suggest they could have saved themselves the cost of traveling to Austria, and all the contributions to the “climate change crisis” such international flights may have made, and skipped the face-to-face meeting on how to force closer ties and just take the following approach: relocate the UN to the European Union. Brussels would be a perfect location for them. Then when the Islamists complete their demographic transformation of Europe, we can finally be rid of the UN once and for all.
Finally, we get the unsurprising news that the UN wants money:
"This steeply rising price of food — it has developed into a real global crisis," Ban said, adding that the World Food Program has made an urgent appeal for additional $755 million.
Perhaps if the UN opens its books for a full audit, including the Oil for Food scam it ran for Saddam Hussein, and actually helps do something about the billions of dollars it has laundered in such operations I would be more sympathetic to their appeal. There must be hundreds of honest international aid operations that would be better targets for such funding that could do more to help those who need food rather than filtering it through the UN.