United Nations running a poll

Posted: June 17, 2013 by tchannon in government, Politics, propaganda

NEWSFLASH! Action on climate change voted bottom of world’s priority heap

Hilary Ostrov has a mighty strange report about the United Nations using an on-line public survey.

Be no spin there would there? The story is double take variety, I don’t know what to make of it.

Item at “The View From Here” linked here.

h/t to Donna Laframboise at NoFrakkingConsensus

Tim

Comments
  1. Hilary Ostrov (aka hro001) says:
    June 18, 2013 at 12:00 am

    Thanks, Tim … but in the interest of “truth in posting”, I believe the UN (grandiosely, of course!) calls it a “Global Survey”!

  2. tchannon says:
    June 18, 2013 at 12:18 am

    Their web page says “Vote”.

    I don’t recall voting in a survey. 😕

  3. Lance Wallace says:
    June 18, 2013 at 1:05 am

    I took the test after seeing Donna Laframbvoise’ link to Hilary Ostrov blog. It seems to be an authentic survey. An interesting point is that they ranked the 16 threats by how developed the countries were. As you might have guessed, climate change ranked dead last for the two least developed categories, rising to 14th out of 16 for the next higher level, and then jumping to 8th for all of us developed countries like the UK and US. (Once we get adequate food, warmth, security, etc. we can start worrying about distant possibilities like climate change).

  4. tchannon says:
    June 18, 2013 at 3:09 am

    Yes.

  5. Hilary Ostrov (aka hro001) says:
    June 18, 2013 at 3:59 am

    @tchannon

    I don’t recall voting in a survey.

    They’ve … uh … redefined the word?! As they have so many others; but perhaps not as many as they have failed to define, in the interests of pouring a foggy dressing on their copious word-salads 😉

  6. tchannon says:
    June 18, 2013 at 4:04 am

    Quite so, propaganda. One of these is the “hot” words, force, anomaly, etc.

    I sometimes take delight in using straight.

  7. Brian H says:
    June 18, 2013 at 7:34 am

    Unfortunately, Climate Change Action ranked quite high here in Canada.

  8. hunter says:
    June 18, 2013 at 3:54 pm

    This is just another faux survey by a parasitic NGO getting a fat grant to fabricate a manipulative poll.

  9. michael hart says:
    June 18, 2013 at 5:24 pm

    Ask the right questions and you can get any answer you want in an opinion poll. I’d have more faith in the Eurovision Song Contest vote.

  10. michael hart says:
    June 18, 2013 at 5:29 pm

    …that is: ‘Null Pointes’ and ‘Goodnight Vienna’

  11. oldbrew says:
    June 18, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    It reinforces the impression of the Ki-moonies living in their own self-perpetuating world.

    Agenda 21 and all that.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21