Jules Crittenden

Archives for the 'UN' Category

Dawn Over Vienna

Published on 27 May 2008 at 9:52 am. 3 Comments.
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. 5 Comments.
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:

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Mission of Burma*

Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 9:16 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under asia, Bush, UN.

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 […]

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Belgian Wannabes

Published on 23 Jul 2007 at 12:36 am. 7 Comments.
Filed under Britain, UN.

Memo to AP. If you want to be in the analysis business, study this guy. Bolton re Britain:

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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. 2 Comments.
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. 6 Comments.
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. 5 Comments.
Filed under Iran, North Korea, UN.

So how come mullahs and third-rate leftover Stalinists are interested in doing business with the IAEA?

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