Archives for the 'UN' Category
Truth Hertz Donut
Published on 23 Sep 2009 at 10:10 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under America, Obama, UN.
Today’s bitter breakfast compliments of Nile Gardiner, UK Telegraph, The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak:
Gadhaffy Dhuck
Published on 3 Sep 2009 at 9:55 pm.
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Filed under Libya, UN.
I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to look forward to the visit. Libyan tinpot dictator/wackjob Moammar Gadhafi is sputtering mad and plans to demand the abolition of Switzerland while he’s in front of that august body, the U.N. General Assembly. He’s cheesed at the Swiss over the arrest of the drunken, violent apple of his eye, [...]
Circular Jerkality As A Concept In International Law
Published on 26 Apr 2009 at 1:36 pm.
8 Comments.
Filed under UN, moronocy.
Former constitutional lawyer, New York Times bestselling author and self-adulator Glenn Greenwald interviews the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture about U.S. treaty obligations regarding the non-armed conflict that for purposes of discussion we’ll call “the fight against terrorism.” Rather, that’s what they’re calling it. For purposes of discussion.
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Life Sucks, And Then You Die
Published on 16 Mar 2009 at 11:02 pm.
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Filed under Korea, UN.
If you’re lucky you don’t get tortured first. United Nations does something relatively useful. It reports widespread misery, starvation, imprisonment, torture and death in North Korea. It isn’t exactly news. Vitit Muntarbhorn tells the UN Human Rights Council someone should do something about it. Unclear who or what he has in mind. Reuters:
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Deadbeat Nation
Published on 12 Mar 2009 at 11:02 pm.
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Filed under UN, USA.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon calls the UN’s largest donor nation a “deadbeat.” 192 member nations, and one nation … ours … pays just under one-quarter of the $5.5 billion tab. Just not fast enough.
I spent the last 10 minutes or so trying to come up with something clever to say about that, but I’ve got nothing.
White [...]
Hamas Stimulus Plan
Published on 24 Feb 2009 at 8:54 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Obama, Palestinians, UN, terrorists.
US plans $900 million for bomb-flattened Gaza. No worries, it won’t go to Hamas. It’s going to the UN! via Yahoo:
EmbarrHamasment
Published on 4 Feb 2009 at 10:14 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Palestinians, UN, terrorists.
This is actually kind of funny. The United Nations is PO’d at Hamas because the terrorist group ripped them off for a bunch of blankets and food meant for the poor. Money quote, via AP:
”Does anyone really think that the Americans, who are our single largest donor, or the Europeans, who are our largest multination [...]
World Government
Published on 9 Dec 2008 at 10:52 am.
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Filed under America, Europe, Obama, UN.
Financial Times columnist examines the prospects, suggests EU model could go global. Concludes it won’t be happening soon. Good thing, because all his arguments for it demonstrate why it is such an incredibly bad idea. Starting with the EU model, moving through the ideas of “global governance” to address global warming, global financial woes and the [...]
Dawn over Turtle Bay
Published on 14 Oct 2008 at 9:02 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, UN.
Afghanistan needs a political solution, but won’t get it without ongoing, robust military action, says UN envoy to the ‘Stan, who adds things aren’t as bad as they say they are. CanWest News Service:
Dawn Over Vienna
Published on 27 May 2008 at 9:52 am.
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Filed under Iran, UN, nukes.
IAEA: Iran may be withholding nuke info.
How Bad Does the U.N. Have to Get?
Published on 5 May 2008 at 9:00 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under UN.
That’s a good question. Mull that while reading Daniel Hannan in the UK Telegraph on the challenge to Kumbayah-singing UN fans posed by the news that the UN may be encouraging elephant poaching in the Congo. I dunno, if you can stomach the mass graves and child rape …
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Crisis Looming
Published on 29 Apr 2008 at 9:29 pm.
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Filed under UN.
The United Nations is setting up a top-level task force re looming global food crisis to avert “social unrest on an unprecedented scale.” Times of London:
Mission of Burma*
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 9:16 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Bush, UN, asia.
Burma news from Buddhist to Belmont Bangkok to Beijing on Bush. Monks defy military junta. Junta imposes a curfew and bans gatherings of more than five people. I don’t think the monks intend to back down. The old geezer in the orange robes looks PO’d.
Belmont Club’s Richard Fernandez at Pajamas on Burma’s “Saffron Revolution” cites Bangkok Pundit and [...]
Belgian Wannabes
Published on 23 Jul 2007 at 12:36 am.
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Filed under Britain, UN.
Memo to AP. If you want to be in the analysis business, study this guy. Bolton re Britain:
Stuff in That Place Next to India
Published on 30 Mar 2007 at 4:04 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, Pakistan, UN.
OK, I think I’m starting to get the hang of it. Afghan armed freedom fighter-style horseplay in … damn … look I didn’t name the place … OK, OK, we’ll do it your way … in the capital of Pakistan. There. Are you happy?
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You-Know-Who Ups Violence
Published on 30 Mar 2007 at 3:55 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, Islam, UN.
Suicidal religious illegal combatants … no, I don’t think that will fly … People of the predominant Middle Eastern spiritual persuasion, but not followers of Ali … nope, that’s not going to work … Jesus, this is hard.
OK. Let’s try this. People are killing people in Iraq because they are trying to provoke other people [...]
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Trying To Be Sensitive …
Published on 30 Mar 2007 at 3:46 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Islam, UN.
… And not caring to run afoul of the United Nations Human Rights Council which, Allah be praised, has its eye squarely on the pressing issues of the day: Is it OK to say these Brits are illegally held hostage and paraded in violation of international law and decency by the Islamic Republic of Iran? Or [...]
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Human Rights Council vs Human Right
Published on 30 Mar 2007 at 3:40 pm.
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Filed under Islam, UN.
Free speech is deemed an unhuman non-right as UN Human Rights Council seeks to ban expression linking terrorism to … the primary practitioners of terrorism in the world.
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IAEAsy
Published on 23 Feb 2007 at 11:58 pm.
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Filed under Iran, North Korea, UN.
So how come mullahs and third-rate leftover Stalinists are interested in doing business with the IAEA?
