NEW YORK TIMES splashes headline: Obama Pursuing Climate Accord in Lieu of Treaty

The NEW YORK TIMES correctly points out this:

But under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty only if it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.

And it then goes on to say how President Obama will get around that pesky rule:

To sidestep that requirement, President Obama’s climate negotiators are devising what they call a “politically binding” deal that would “name and shame” countries into cutting their emissions

 

NEW YORK TIMES splashes headline: Obama Pursuing Climate Accord in Lieu of Treaty

A lawsuit says that the United Nations not only caused an outbreak of cholera in Haiti but then covered up its role in the worst outbreak of the disease in modern history..

The UN? 

You don’t say..

A lawsuit says that the United Nations not only caused an outbreak of cholera in Haiti but then covered up its role in the worst outbreak of the disease in modern history..

A tale of many Syria headlines

• CNN: What can the world do about Syria?


• Alex Jones’ Infowars: Phony ‘Houla Massacre’: How Media Manipulates Public Opinion For Regime Change in Syria


• Russia blames ‘both sides’ for massacre


• Wall Street JOURNAL: Syria’s Srebrenica‎ 


• Syria plunges towards civil war after massacre


• Children shot, knifed, axed to death in Syria’s Houla massacre …


• Who did it? Some local activists and eyewitnesses say they were from the Syrian army. Others say they were members of the shabiha, the pro-Assad militia that entered Houla from the Alawite villages that ring the township. (The shabiha is predominantly Alawite, the sect of Shia Islam that Assad belongs to.)The Syrian government says the men were terrorists.

You know what it all comes down to? This world is insane.. messed up.. unbelievable in the amount of atrocities that have killed. And for what? Nothing. In the end, absolutely nothing.