Useless Outrage
I guess these could be filed under, "who gives a crap what you think".
First off, we have China shedding tears over the United States issuing a Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama. According to the ChiCom, the Dalai Lama supports "cults". To bad for you ChiCom, you keep trying to kill American citizens and their pets with your tainted products.
China has complained to the United States over a decision to award exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama a U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
The Dalai Lama, who fled to India after a failed uprising against Chinese Communist rule of Tibet in 1959, is branded by China as a "separatist".
The Nobel Peace Prize winner says he only wants greater autonomy for the predominately Buddhist Himalayan region.
"The Chinese government strongly opposes the U.S. Congress giving the Dalai Lama a so-called award," spokesman Liu Jianchao told a regular news briefing.
"We strongly oppose any country or person who uses the Dalai Lama to interfere in China's internal affairs. We have already made solemn representations about this to the U.S. side."
Next we have the United Nations. While it is commonplace to file everything from the U.N. under "who gives a crap what you think", I will be more specific. They want Blackwater USA brought up on war crimes. Blackwater made the huge of mistake of returning fire during an ambush in Iraq. Had they just gunned down some innocent Christians, all would be well for them. Unfortunately; they defended themselves against terrorists, and that's a big no-no.
The United Nations wants probes to determine whether private security contractors in Iraq have committed war crimes and for governments to ensure that the rule of law is applied, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
The killing of 17 Iraqis in a shooting involving U.S. security firm Blackwater last month has created tensions between Baghdad and Washington and sparked calls for tighter controls on private contractors, who are immune from prosecution in Iraq.
Ivana Vuco, the U.N.'s senior human rights officer in Iraq, told a news conference that private security contractors were still subject to international humanitarian law and that meant there were specific consequences for any breach.
"Investigations as to whether or not crimes against humanity, war crimes, are being committed and obviously the consequences of that is something that we will be paying attention to and advocating for," she told a news conference.
