Russia defends Trump from UN critic

[Rocknrule]

Source: The Hill

Russia’s government lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations over a top official’s condemnation of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to a Friday report.

Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the U.N., issued a verbal “demarche” to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in a private meeting on Sept. 13 over comments from Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the high commissioner of human rights, The Associated Press said Friday.

Zeid branded Trump and several European leaders as “demagogues” during a speech on Sept. 6, saying they share similarities with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

“All seek in varying degrees to recover a past, halcyon and pure in form, where sunlit fields are settled by peoples united by ethnicity or religion — living peacefully in isolation, pilots of their fate, free of crime, foreign influence and war,” Zeid said at the Hague.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/299839-russia-defended-trump-from-un-critic#disqus_thread

[Rocknrule]

1. Relevant song for Putin:

[Maven]

2. This is truly bizarre. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

4. I suffer from false awakenings...

I get about one a week. I am really wondering if I am awake right now, but they say one of the test to judge whether you are asleep or not is to try read or type something. This requires language skills, and that part is the brain is generally not active during false awakenings.

[TomCADem]

7. Protecting Their Investment

You just can't make this up.

[snooper2]

3. More ammo for Hillary-

[awoke_in_2003]

5. rec for exposure...

I am living in Bizzaro world.

[Laser102]

6. Last count, he had four people on his campaign that were heavily connected to Russia. Putin knows

the way to get his pipeline built is to make sure trump is the president. No protests that way. Screw the Ukraine in the process.

[Grimelle]

8. That's true love

What a bromance.

[PersonNumber503602]

9. oh man...

This stuff would be entertaining if it was a TV show or a movie.

[MBS]

10. If this were a novel, I'd dismiss it for

not having a credible plot.
What a really, really bizarre and disturbing situation.
And this is only one of about 5 equally troubling stories just today. .

[TomCADem]

11. But Pence Says Russians Respect Trump for His Leadership...

...such that they feel the need to try to actively prop him up.

[Igel]

12. What's missing is what we don't notice.

Putin's been quite clear. The UN works for the countries in the UN.

Employees don't criticize their bosses. That works when the UN criticizes Putin, it works when the UN criticizes Assad, it works when the UN criticizes pretty much anybody without the bosses' approval.

The SC can criticize. It's the bosses. But for the lower ranking peons, they stay out of countries' domestic politics.

Now, this is obvious to anybody who follows Putin's rhetoric over time. If you tune in just when the rhetoric touches something that interests you, all you notice are those little bits and then it's easy to assume that those little bits are the full picture.