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His handlers and family should be arrested for elder abuse! This old man has no idea what is going on around him.

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Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Friday blamed President Trump for a push by Cuba to join the U.N. Human Rights Council -- a criticism that ignores Cuba’s membership multiple times during the Obama administration.

 

“Trump's international failures have cleared a path for Cuba to join the U.N. Human Rights Council,” Biden tweeted in English and Spanish. “This would betray Cuba's political prisoners and further undermine U.S. diplomacy. As President, I will lead by empowering the Cuban people and defending human rights.”

It was not clear what international failures he was speaking about, or how that was connected to the Cuban push to get on the Council. The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News.

But a Miami Herald article that reported on the push by Cuba, as well as Russia and Saudi Arabia, claimed that Trump has “alienated” European allies and lost its influence on the international stage.

The U.S. has little to do with the membership vote of the U.N. Human Rights Council decided by the 193-member General Assembly -- which has had an anti-American slant for decades. Multiple U.S. administrations have expressed frustration as countries with poor human rights records have joined the body over the years.

 

It was that frustration that led the Trump administration to withdraw from the Council in 2018. Then-U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley described the body as  “a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias.”

 

Additionally, Cuba has been a regular member of the U.N. Human Rights Council -- including multiple times during the Obama administration, in which Biden served as vice president.

Cuba was elected to three-year terms in 2009, 2013 and 2016, respectively. The Obama administration did not manage to prevent other human rights abusers such as Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia from becoming members of the body, either.

Trump campaign officials mocked Biden for what they saw as a “self-own” over the tweet, and also accused Biden of wanting to return to the policies of the Obama administration, which sought to open relations with the Cuban Castro regime.

“Joe Biden can barely remember what office he's running for, so it's not surprising he forgot that Cuba was elected three times to the corrupt U.N. Human Rights Council while he was VP,” Senior Advisor Mercedes Schlapp told Fox News.

 

“What's outrageous is that Sleepy Joe wants to return to the failed Obama-Biden Cuba policy, which hurt the Cuban people and helped prop-up Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. Biden has always appeased communists. Just like he sold out Americans to China while Hunter got rich, now he’s selling-out Cubans and Venezuelans to coddle Bernie Sanders and AOC [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez],” she said. "This may help with Chavistas in his party, but he'll lose the election in November."

 

This year, Sudan, Libya and Venezuela were among the newly-elected members that took seats at the Council in Geneva. They joined countries including Somalia, Eritrea, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Philippines and Bahrain that were elected a year earlier.

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President Obama explained his decision to attend a Major League Baseball exhibition game in Cuba today between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban National Team, following this morning's terrorist attacks in Belgium.

 

President Obama was seated with Cuban President Raul Castro at the game. The president's wife and daughters were also at the game.

The UN Human Rights Council was formed in 2006. I wonder if any Republicans 'fact checked' to see if Cuba was on the council, then?  It would be comical if Cuba entered the council on Republican's watch, after the previous comments.

(I'll give you a hint... Fox News Entertainment may have left out that year. I'd do some checking elsewhere, if I were a Republican.)

 

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GENEVA, April 2, 2020 — China was appointed on Wednesday to a United Nations Human Rights Council panel where it will play a key role in picking the world body’s human rights investigators — including global monitors on freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention — in a move that has sparked protest by international human rights activists.

“Allowing China’s oppressive and inhumane regime to choose the world investigators on freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights organization based in Geneva that closely monitors the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, and a leader in speaking out at the UN for victims in China.

“It’s absurd and immoral for the UN to allow China’s oppressive government a key role in selecting officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide,” said Neuer.

“It’s absurd for the UN to allow the Chinese regime, which as a matter of policy and practice arbitrarily detains human right defenders like Zhang Baocheng and Wang Binzhang, to help nominate the next two members of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention,” said Neuer.

“Likewise, at a time when China has forcibly disappeared citizens who express dissent like the executive Ren Zhiqiang, who called Xi a ‘clown’ over coronavirus response — as well as  upwards of a 1 million Muslim Uyghur and minority group members — it is inconceivable that China would be allowed to influence the selection of the next member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances,” Neuer added.

“And how can China be involved in choosing the UN Special Rapporteur on the protection of freedom of opinion and expression, when the regime routinely imposes draconian censorship, and seeks to shut down dissenting voices?” asked Neuer.

“Finally, as the world is suffering from the deadly coronavirus pandemic that spread like wildfire in Wuhan while China silenced doctors, journalists and other citizens who tried to sound the alarm, by what logic can the Beijing regime be involved in choosing the UN’s next global monitor on the right to health?”

“This is absurd, and China’s appointment threatens to undermine the credibility of the UN’s highest human rights body—which already counts Venezuela, Pakistan, Eritrea and Qatar among its elected members—and is liable to cast a shadow upon the United Nations as a whole.”

“UN Watch calls on UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres and human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to denounce China’s appointment, and to side with the country’s human rights victims instead.”

While officially China’s delegate Mr. Jiang Duan, who holds the rank of Minister at their mission in Geneva, will serve on the 5-nation group in his “personal capacity,” in practice country representatives, especially those from authoritarian regimes, follow instructions from and pursue the interests of their respective governments. Indeed, the Asian Group entitled its letter to the UN, “Nomination of the People’s Republic of China to membership of the Consultative Group.”

“The UN often describes the UN human rights experts as the ‘crown jewels’ of its Human Rights Council, yet the world body only undermines their legitimacy by picking an authoritarian regime that oppresses human rights activists, dissidents and minorities to preside over the experts’ appointment,” said Neuer.

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 Biden raised eyebrows when he shrugged off concerns over the China threat. “Come on, man,” Biden said. “I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what, they’re not competition for us.”
Perhaps Biden’s insouciant attitude toward the Chinese government has to do with the fact that his family does not consider them competitors but business partners. In 2013, then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden flew aboard Air Force Two to China. Less than two weeks later Hunter Biden’s firm inked a $1 billion private equity deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China. The deal was later expanded to $1.5 billion. In short, the Chinese government funded a business that it co-owned along with the son of a sitting vice president.
If it sounds shocking that a vice president would shape US-China policy as his son — who has scant experience in private equity — clinched a coveted billion-dollar deal with an arm of the Chinese government, that’s because it is.

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March 20, 2016 at 11:37 pm

LITTLE HAVANA (CBSMiami) — As President Barack Obama boarded Air Force One for Cuba Sunday, crowds marched in Miami’s Little Havana against the presidential visit to the communist nation.

Demonstrators rallied on S.W. 8th Street and 13th Avenue chanting, “Libertad!”

Florida Lt. Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera was at the march. A first generation Cuban-American running for U.S. Senate, Lopez-Cantera said the president’s visit to Cuba is a photo-op that the Castro regime set up to legitimize themselves — and, since easing U.S.-Cuba relations more than a year ago, nothing has changed.

“There hasn’t been any reduction of oppression,” Lopez-Cantera told CBS4’s Donna Rapado. “As as matter of fact, there’s been an increase in oppression, an increase in political arrests and an increase of political beatings against people who are simply seeking to have rights that we take for granted here in America. Freedom of expression, freedom of the press, free elections, the end of human rights violations and the release of political prisoners.”

In fact, just before Obama’s arrival, more than 50 demonstrators were arrested in the streets of Havana. They are “Las Damas de Blanco” — the Ladies in White. They are the wives and relatives of jailed anti-Castro activists who march to Mass each Sunday, as they have for nearly four years.

Video showing police pulling and dragging the women as they chanted for freedom only fueled the anger those against the president’s visit already feel.

“I hope tonight somebody talks to Obama about what happened in Havana today,” Angela Bueno de Godinez told Rapado. “That’s impossible. A disaster.”

 

 

@JH1961 posted:

As much as Democrats appear to coddle Muslims, they will refuse to 'find anything wrong' with this development and claim that those that do are 'racists'.

The Dems will use the Muslims as they have used Blacks for the past
150 years, use and pacify but the Blacks haven't had anyone help them 
until Trump, 2016... 
 
Stacey Abrams is a perfect example that Liberalism is an infectious mental 
disease by way of other peoples money. Highly contagious of the low IQ
permanently self sheltering. 

 

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