Operation Featherweight: Month 15, Week, 1, Day 3.

Yesterday (28/9/15) saw the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). One of the big topics of this year's meeting looks likely to be the ongoing war in Syria.

After all most people seem to have conveniently forgotten that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) still control large sections of Iraq despite the US-led operation to oust them beginning more then a year ago - just before the opening of the previous UNGA.

Unfortunately the opening of the UNGA is a two week event packed with political posing and posturing. This is not the sort of thing to which the booming voice of god is really suited to.

Also the other big topic seems to be preparations for this December's COP21 Climate Change Summit at which a new climate change agreement is set to be signed. As such the opening of the UNGA has sparked a flurry of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC's). If I'm going to help devise a system to peer review these INDC's I am probably going to have to read them first.

Obviously though I won't be able to read the INDC's of nations such a Senegal because they have decided to make their submissions in French despite the designated UN language for the process being English. If they were hoping to argue that translating their submissions into English would place an impossible burden upon them I should point out that the Central African Republic (CAR) managed it. This is despite the President of the CAR - Catherine Samba-Panza - being forced to leave the UNGA opening to deal with worsening religious violence in the country.

Although it's always been resource rich but dirt poor the CAR's most recent round of problems began in March of 2013 when Michel Djotodia of the Seleka (literally "Rebel") alliance marched on the capital Bangui and declared himself President. In the run-up to Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour this massively increased pressure on South Africa which saw 14 of its troops killed as Seleka fighters stormed Bangui airport.

After seizing power Djotodia discovered that he didn't have any money to pay Seleka fighters so ordered them to pay themselves by looting the city. This prompted Bangui's residents to form neighbourhood defence groups that fought with potential looters and eventually started carrying out revenge attacks on other neighbourhood groups who they accused of looting. Although this was entirely a dispute about material possessions Muslims tended to form one set of neighbourhood groups while Christians formed others.

Then Qatar's propaganda arm Al Jazeera decided to pour gasoline on the situation by declaring the unrest in CAR as anti-Muslim violence and used the international community's failure to take action as evidence of some global conspiracy against Islam.

This latest wave of violence has been sparked by a young Muslim man being found dead outside a Mosque. Despite there being no evidence of who was responsible for the death and it certainly not been ruled out that he was killed by other Muslims this has provoked Bangui's Muslim residents to embark on another wave of rioting and looting.

On the south-eastern border of the CAR you have the extremely resource rich Sud-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Alongside minerals such a gold, diamonds, nickel and cadmium this region of the DRC is home to the largest rainforests outside of South America which are vital to efforts to combat climate change. East of Sud-Kivu you have Uganda, Kenya and Somalia. Just across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia you have Yemen and then Saudi Arabia.

As such this latest round of violence seems to be yet another example of Muslim - I use the term loosely in CAR - extremists being used to punish a poor African nation for daring to sign up to efforts to combat climate change. It is obviously intended to act as a warning to the others.

On the day of the opening of the UNGA the Islamic extremists of the Taliban captured the resource rich and previously stable province of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. This obviously makes a mockery of US President Barack Obama's claim that he had responsibly ended the US' war in Afghanistan when he withdrew US troops from the country. It also sends the message that the US is either unwilling or unable to protect anyone from Islamist violence.

Also on Monday (28/9/15) Saudi Arabia bombed a wedding party in the Yemeni port city of Mocha killing at least 130 civilians. This is intended as a show of force allowing Saudi Arabia to declare that it can do whatever it likes and no-one in the UN will dare to challenge them.

This is of course the 70th UNGA with the organisation being formed in 1945 in response to the horrors of the Second World War. One of the key events leading up to that war was Nazi Germany's 1938 invasion of Czechoslovakia. At the time this was presented to the World as a humanitarian intervention to protect civilians.

Under the codename "Project Green" Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party began laying the groundwork for this by whipping Czechoslovakia's German speaking minority up into an almost religious frenzy.

Although Nazism is strictly speaking a political ideology it is heavily inspired by religion and the occult. For example the Swastika symbol is stolen from Hinduism where it is used as a symbol of good fortune. The "Reich" that Hitler was trying to build has its roots in the Latin term "Regnum" meaning rule of god. As such it can be seen as a type of Islamic Caliphate with the "Fuhrer" (Spiritual Guide) being god's appointed leader of the Reich.

Having whipped Czechoslovakia's German speaking minority into up into this cult of Nazism Hitler's Germany then began telling them that they were been prevented from living as god intended by the persecution of the Czech government. The German speaking minority then started protesting against this 'oppression' and Hitler began supplying them with weapons which they used to attack the Czech security forces and themselves in false flag attacks which were blamed on the Czech government.

The most important of these incidents occurred in the Czech city of Ostrava in September 1938 when the Nazi protesters opened fire on the security forces prompting the security forces to fire back. Hitler declared this to be a massacre of civilians and demanded the international community - the League of Nations as it was - allow him to invade Czechoslovakia to "protect civilians."

The League of Nations failure to stop Nazi Germany's 'humanitarian' invasion of Czechoslovakia led to it's collapse and the Second World War.

So when the United Nations was formed to replace the League of Nations after the war one of it's core principles was that nations were not allowed to invade other nations on the principle of humanitarian intervention. However it did put in place a mechanism where by the UN can authorise such action under Chapter 7 of it's charter as guided by "Responsibility to Protect (R2P)."

So when Barack Obama said in his address;

"When a dictator slaughters tens of thousands of his own people that’s not just a matter of one nation’s internal affairs."

He was actually invoking Adolf Hitler and railing against one of the core founding principles of the United Nations.

Obama of course began his address by speaking of those core UN values and the 70 years of comparative peace and stability they have brought to the World. For a moment there I did seriously think that Obama was going to end his address by announcing that he was withdrawing the US from the United Nations because it was proving too much of a restriction on the type of world he wants to build.

So it seems the UNGA got the comedy slot out of the way early this year even if it failed to raise many laughs.

I gather Russian President Vladimir Putin then spoke of the need to form an international alliance just like the one that defeated Nazi Germany to defeat ISIL.

17:30 on 29/9/15 (UK date).