Category Archives: UN

Oh, Good. UN Sending Human Rights Investigators To U.S.

If only we had a President who would tell the folks at the United Nations to piss off Everybody knows New York City is an expensive place to live. But the United Nations wants to know if affordable housing is so tough to come by that it actually violates human rights. Seriously? The United Nations […]

AGW Today: Frequent Flyer Miles, Not Change, Are On The Wind

I really need to change my tune regarding climate change. As the saying goes, I’m doing it wrong. If I were a True Believer, I might be able to join in on all the world trotting trips! If international confabs held last week in New York and Pittsburgh produced anything worth noting in the area […]

Obama At United Nations: Anti-Israeli Sentiment Gets Biggest Applause

It’s the new way of doing things. Playing nice with enemies and ditching allies. An art form Barack Obama has perfected in his short time as Agitator In Chief, as he drives his big bus right over Israel In declaring that it is time for Middle East peace “without preconditions,” President Obama used his speech […]

Bolton: ‘A Post-American Speech By Our First Post-American President’

I’m just straight up stealing The Corner’s headline for John Bolton’s commentary on President Kumbaya’s United Nations speech (via DrewM at Ace of Spades) Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton tells NRO that President Obama’s address to the U.N. was “a post-American speech by our first post-American president. It was a speech […]

Canada To Walk Out On Ahmadinejad At U.N.

Yesterday, I mention that Germany has pledged that it will walk out on Mahmoud during his speech if he goes into his typical Holocaust denial and Jew hatred modes, and was urging other E.U. countries to do the same. Now, Canada goes a step further Canada will boycott Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the […]

Germany Threatens Walkout If Mahmoud Goes Holocaust Denial

Nice to see that at least one country isn’t going to put up with the garbage Mahmoud pushes Germany will walk out of the U.N. General Assembly if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust in a speech he will give Wednesday, and it wants other European Union countries to do the same, the foreign […]

UN’s Ban Ki-moon Goes Chicken Little Yet Again

Apparently, Ban Ki-moon isn’t reading what his own IPCC scientists have been writing as of late. In his world EVERYBODY PANIC! U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for swifter work on a new climate treaty to fend off what he said could be economic disaster with a surge in sea levels of up to […]

AGW Today: Scare Mongering? You Want Scare Mongering?

Well, here, have a dose, via a few United Nations nuts, starting with this wacko pronouncement, via Andrew Bolt “Climate change will displace 25-50 million people by next year. The situation will be the worst in the poorer countries,” says Koko Warner of the UN University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security. Besides the fact […]

President Obama Kills 24% More Afghany Civilians And US Troops

Oh, wait, sorry, other than the Washington Times, and buried around in tiny articles scattered here and there, ho hum The United Nations said Friday the number of civilians killed in conflict in Afghanistan has jumped 24 percent so far this year, with bombings by insurgents and air strikes by international forces the biggest single […]

Nothing Shocking About This Coup

Over at the Miami Herald, an opinion piece on what happened in Honduras that Obama, Hillary, the United Nations, and the Organization of American States should read before making pronouncements The greatest tourist attraction in Central America has always been politics. Diplomats stop by every few years, take a couple of snapshots of what’s going […]

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