Well if American Troops were involved in this, there would be wall to wall scandal updates. Because it is the U.N. all we are going to get is the media covering their ass reports, but not to the level of alerting those that normally do not pay attention.
Source: Sri Lanka to probe UN sex claims
The President in his annual address to the United Nations (Corrupt House of Nations) once again called upon the U.N. to get up off their dead assess and do something about Human Rights. Instead of just sitting around collecting fat paychecks and accomplishing nothing. Well of course some in the audience chided Mr. Bush, saying well what about “Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay”. This coming from dictators who hang supposed gay people from the gallows. What a joke. None of these bastards are worthy of caring his chamber pot.
To compare Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay to some of the things that go on in these back-woods, third world, forth rate countries is intellectually dishonest on the highest order.
Refer to this article for some of the more honest statements that were said about the President’s speech. As well, those that seem less worthy of recognition.
Could it finally be starting? Could the scum of the U.N. Oil for Food SCAM finally be getting what they deserve?
I certainly hope so.
From Fox News: Former U.N. Oil-for-Food Chief Benon Sevan Indicted Over Bribes From Saddam’s Regime
Former U.N. Oil-for-Food chief Benon Sevan has been indicted in New York federal court for allegedly taking bribes under the program from Saddam Hussein’s regime, sources told FOX News on Tuesday.
Keep your fingers crossed.
The left in this country should feel proud they have a voice speaking for them at the disfunctional United Nations.
From Yahoo: At U.N., Chavez calls Bush ‘the devil’
From the Washington Post: Iran Wants Immediate Talks but No Freeze
Iran offered yesterday to enter into immediate and “serious” negotiations on a broad range of issues with the Bush administration and its European allies but refused to abide by a U.N. Security Council demand that it suspend work at its nuclear facilities by the end of the month.
Tehran’s proposal came in response to an offer in June by the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China for talks on the country’s nuclear program, and the possibility of future cooperation, if the Islamic republic would first agree to suspend its uranium enrichment work.
Iran certainly knows the effective rate of United Nations Security Counsel resolutions and it knows how to play them for the fools they have become. I am sure they realize that they will have no problem dragging this whole thing out until January 2009, when President Bush leaves office. I am sure they are hoping for a democrat like good ol’ Jimmy Carter to take his place. I am certainly hoping that does not happen.
Hey, Iraq played those suckers like banjos for 12 years, they probably figure they can continue this for at least 2 more years.
Final thought: It just occurred to me, could this be yet another elaborate scheme by Karl Rove to take the ‘06 and ‘08 elections and put the democrats deeper in the hole they continue to dig for themselves. I would not put it past him.
From the Financial Times: Amnesty urges UN to probe Israel strategy
Amnesty International says attacks on civilian targets by Israeli military forces during the recently ended fighting in Lebanon look like deliberate war crimes.
In a report released on Wednesday, the London-based human rights organisation argues that the destruction of Lebanese homes and basic infrastructure “was an integral part of the military strategy”.
Noting violations by both sides, Amnesty says it has asked the United Nations to open a “comprehensive, independent and impartial inquiry” about the 34-day war between Israel and the Lebanese-based Hizbollah militia.
The losses inflicted by Israeli forces were not just “collateral damage” under the accepted rules of war, according to Amnesty.
How can anyone respect what Amnesty International has to say. After reading this article and the actual news release from their web site I can honestly say, I have as much respect for them, that I have for the United Nations. Pathetic!
Both Amnesty International and the United Nations are driving full speed ahead to irrelevancy. The sooner the better. Then maybe some other organization will step up and be effective in doing the job they are suppose too.
From the AP: U.N. Temporarily Halts Caviar Exports
GENEVA - A U.N. panel ordered a temporary halt to caviar exports by the world’s major producers Tuesday, buying time for experts to find ways to reverse dwindling populations of threatened sturgeon — whose eggs provide the culinary delicacy.
Many sturgeon species are suffering “serious population declines,” said the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES.
So they will act to stop the exploitation of sturgeon eggs, but for the lives of the poor people like in Darfur, they continue to let them be slaughtered.
From the Strategy Page: Chaos, and No Relief in Sight
Darfur has fallen into anarchy, with army troops, pro-government tribal militias, bandits, anti-government rebels and AU peacekeepers all fighting one another. It’s a low key war, with the main objective being to rob, rape and kill civilians, or loot UN relief operations, or trying to stop the all the lawlessness.
So the assumption on my part here is, when the lives of the less fortunate around the world become as threatened, as those of the sturgeon, the United Nations will be prompt in acting to stop the serious population decline. Until then, the less fortunate will have to try and find their own way to reverse their dwindling populations.
From Opinion Journal: Where Is the Car?
Why Kofi Annan said I’m not a “serious journalist.”
UNITED NATIONS–Kofi Annan, U.N. secretary-general and Nobel peace laureate, is normally the meekest of diplomats. He is so accommodating he once described Saddam Hussein as a man “I can do business with.” These days he spends a good deal of time on the phone with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Yet he seems to have problem with me.
It was with some amusement that I found myself the target of a decidedly undiplomatic tirade by the U.N. chief at a news conference last week. The usually mild Mr. Annan erupted in an ad hominem attack, calling me “cheeky” and belittling me as an “overgrown schoolboy.” Although I have covered the U.N. in minute detail for The Times of London since 1988, and have known Mr. Annan for almost all that time, he suggested I was not a “serious journalist.”
The cause of Mr. Annan’s ire was a question I put to him about a Mercedes car that his son Kojo had imported into Ghana (and which cannot, now, be traced). The facts indicate that Kojo had bought the car in his father’s name, thereby obtaining a diplomatic discount and a tax exemption totaling more than $20,000. The question about the car–to which Mr. Annan again refused to give a satisfactory answer–is part of the wider probe into his role in the U.N.’s Oil for Food scandal. Despite months of investigation, important questions about the integrity of public officials remain unanswered. If we are serious about U.N. reform–as Mr. Annan claims to be–they must be resolved.
How much more evidence does one need to close the doors of this joint. Or, at least reform the Hell out of it. Starting with removing Kofi Annan from his position.
More here from The Zero Point.
From UPI: Overheads take up to 1/3 of tsunami funds
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) — Up to about a third of the $590 million U.N. fund spent for the Indian Ocean tsunami relief may have gone to pay for overhead.
The Financial Times says its two-month investigation showed the money appears to have been spent on administration, staff and related costs. The $590 million was part of the United Nation’s $1.1 billion disaster flash appeal.
Can anyone say, Darfur and UN Oil for Food Scam? Can anyone mention one thing the U.N. does well that someone — anyone — else could not do better?
The United Nations has become — not worth the cost or trouble — and should be disbanding and removed in lu of anything else. If this is the only way we can get rid of Kofi Annan, then I say go for it. It has become a ‘bone yard’ for dried-up, useless, over-paid, elitist, left-wing, nut-jobs that empower dictators and bash America and Israel.
From Reuters: Annan assails reporter in rare show of anger
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan lost his diplomatic cool with a reporter on Wednesday, calling him an “overgrown schoolboy” in a show of anger at questions over his part in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.The normally unruffled Annan responded calmly at an end-of-year news conference to several questions on the $64 billion program, which he said had sometimes been covered through “deliberate leaks” that were “fed by people with agendas.”
Journalists, he said, often missed the story, such as oil smuggling outside of the U.N. program, recently documented by a U.N.-established inquiry headed by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
His frustration showed when a British journalist, James Bone of the London Times, began questioning him about reports that Annan’s son, Kojo, imported a Mercedes-Benz car into Ghana using his father’s diplomatic status to avoid taxes.
Annan interrupted the reporter when Bone said, “Your own version of events don’t really make sense.”
“I think you’re being very cheeky,” Annan said. “Listen James Bone, you’ve been behaving like an overgrown schoolboy in this room for many, many months and years.
“You are an embarrassment to your colleagues and to your profession. Please stop misbehaving and please let’s move on to a serious subject,” Annan added.
Oh, Kofi as the saying goes - “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen”. Please get out of the kitchen. You are and have been making a real mess. Besides, I have heard you really can’t cook anyway.
Do us all a favor and leave. If you do, then maybe something can actually get done. Like world peace.
From the AP: 150 Nations Agree to Future Climate Talks
MONTREAL - More than 150 nations agreed Saturday to launch formal talks on mandatory post-2012 reductions in greenhouse gases — talks that will exclude an unwilling United States.
As it should, that is all they have done and that is what they will continue to do. While the US, Japan and a few other serious nations continue to take action to make things happen without crippling their economies.
For its part the Bush administration, which rejects the emissions cutbacks of the current Kyoto Protocol, accepted only a watered-down proposal to enter an exploratory global “dialogue” on future steps to combat climate change. That proposal specifically rules out “negotiations leading to new commitments.”
The parallel tracks represented a mixed result for the pivotal two-week U.N. conference on global warming, doing little to close the climate gap between Washington on one side, and Europe, Japan and other supporters of the Kyoto Protocol on the other.
The countries that support Kyoto have been the ones to fail to achieve the most. All talk no action.
At the same time, the host Canadians tried to draw in the Americans on the parallel track, under the umbrella 1992 U.N. climate treaty, which does not mandate emissions cuts or other actions on global warming. As the days wore on, the language offered the Americans, and finally accepted by them, weakened.
“It’s clear the Bush administration isn’t willing to accept its responsibility,” climate expert Bill Hare of Greenpeace International said of the continued U.S. rejection of global negotiations and emissions controls.
And let’s see what everyone else has done to keeps it’s commitments to Kyoto. Don’t everyone jump in at once. I will be waiting.
The fact is the United States has done more to be good stewards of the environment than all of these others, that have just been giving it lip service. So the whole conference has accomplished nothing more than to be another Bash America Bash.
Good going fellas, now what have you done exactly to protect the environment? Agreed to have more talks. Good job!
ElBaradei: World Losing Patience With Iran
You think Dude?
Can’t get anything by this guy, unless it is anything that he is suppose to watching for. Then you can move it right under his nose and he will never notice.
Nice to see that someone other than me realizes that the United Nations is irrelevant. It is also nice to see someone in the UN saying as much at the UN. This someone is John Bolton.
From Bloomberg:
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the United Nations General Assembly demonstrated its irrelevance today by adopting six resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including non-binding calls for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and Golan Heights.
The General Assembly, consisting of all 191 member governments, passed resolutions very similar to measures introduced annually by Arab nations for at least 30 years. The U.S. was joined by no more than seven other nations in rejecting the resolutions, which won up to 160 votes.
“These resolutions are purely symbolic,” Bolton told reporters at the UN. “It is one reason why many people say the UN is not really useful in solving actual problems. We have been making enormous progress toward solutions in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and that progress has benefited from UN participation, but it does not benefit from needless repetition of meaningless resolutions in the General Assembly.”
The only folks that think the UN serves any purpose at all are of course the left. Makes since, the UN is made up of the left and they both have become laughing stocks and irrelevant as far as I am concerned.
Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs
Yes, John Bolton goes to the United Nations and get results.
From the Jerusalem Post we have this:
Following intense US pressure, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday issued an unprecedented condemnation of Monday’s Hizbullah attacks on northern Israel.
This condemnation - slamming Hizbullah by name for “acts of hatred” - marked the first time the Security Council has ever reprimanded Hizbullah for cross-border attacks on Israel . The condemnation followed by two days a failed attempt to get a condemnation issued on Monday, the day of the attack, when Algeria came out against any mention of Hizbullah in the statement.
When asked what changed from Monday to Wednesday, one diplomatic official replied: “John Bolton,” a reference to the US ambassador to the UN. Bolton lobbied vigorously for the passage of the statement.
Finally, someone had the brass to get the United Nations too finally condemn the “acts of hatred” of Hizbullah. So what does this all mean? Well we know the reputation of the UN that it has brought upon itself over the years. Through ineffective sanctions and resolutions, it passed in respect to Iraq no less. First thoughts are we can expect very little from Hizbullah and its response. The UN is a ‘Paper Tiger’ in the terrorist’s world. I am assuming of course. Its word has no weight and is meaningless.
Now, do not get me wrong, I hope this does have an effect on them and brings everyone involved closer to peace in the region. I just have very good reasons to be skeptical at this point. I do believe that if the UN is going to be successful in getting Hizbullah to come around. They are going to have to put some conditions in place and demand in the strongest terms that they abide by them. They will also need to stand behind them and not simply pass another resolution hoping for different results. I think there is a saying about insanity somewhere there. I understand there is a charitable side to Hizbullah. Some say it is simply a front to raise money for the evil side. If it takes putting restrictions on these activities, then I say go for it. What matters are the results on the ground and at this moment I am in a “wait and see” posture.
U.N.: 2,000 Firm Gave Iraq Illicit Funds - That is the AP headline. You think they could of done better.
More than 2,000 companies made about $1.8 billion in illicit payments to Saddam Hussein’s government through extensive manipulation of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, according to key findings of a U.N.-backed investigation.
The report — to be released in full Thursday by the committee probing claims of wrongdoing in the $64 billion program — indicates that about half the 4,500 companies doing business with Iraq paid illegal surcharges on oil purchases or kickbacks on contracts to supply humanitarian goods.
The investigators reported that companies and individuals from 66 countries paid illegal kickbacks through a variety of devices while those paying illegal oil surcharges came from, or were registered in, 40 countries. The names will be included in Thursday’s report but were not in the key findings that were obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Well it is nice to see that this is still developing and that the MSM might be actually starting to report on it. Hopefully it will end with the removal of Kofi Annan. We can only hope.
So now it looks as though the Oil for Food Scam was setup as profit centers for UN pet companies instead of a way of helping Iraqi’s under the thumb of Saddam. It is hard to believe that any of those Iraqi’s were even helped with this sham of a program.
UNSCAM, what a disgrace.
Kofi Annan, what a disgrace.
All this adds to the reasons why liberals cannot be trusted and must be stopped.
