July 30, 2006 – 11:49 am
From My Way News BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese protesters broke into the United Nations headquarters in Beirut on Sunday, smashing windows and ransacking offices, after an Israeli air strike killed at least 40 people in south Lebanon. Several thousand people massed outside the building in downtown Beirut chanting "Death to Israel, death to America. We […]
July 28, 2006 – 7:41 pm
Avast! Shamelessly stolen from Pamela at Atlas Shrugs. Click for full size in new window. This originally came from the NY Sun. And just to repeat this smackdown (since the power went out at Dreamhost central ) From the Washington Liberal Post KERRY: Are you prepared to go to bilateral talks? BOLTON: Quite the […]
July 25, 2006 – 3:00 pm
Impressive: But a day after criticizing Israel for "disproportionate" strikes against civilians, U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland accused Hezbollah of "cowardly blending" among Lebanese civilians. "Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending … among women and children," Egeland said. "I heard they were proud because they lost […]
July 6, 2006 – 12:06 am
Yet the media were rather quiet on this story The United Nations is investigating a report that U.N. peacekeepers in Congo allegedly fired mortars at a civilian area and stood by as Congolese troops set a village ablaze, a spokesman said Monday. The report in the London-based Observer on Sunday said South African and Pakistani […]
May 19, 2006 – 9:10 am
From the AP: GENEVA – The United States should close its prison at Turtle Bay, NY, and avoid using secret detention facilities in the war on terror, the U.N. panel that monitors compliance with the world’s anti-torture treaty said Friday. They were concerned with the practices of sexual harrasment, sex and drug parties, and child […]
March 13, 2006 – 11:57 am
Via the BBC A session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission has been suspended for a week amid disagreement over plans to reform the Geneva-based body. The commission has some important business this year: consideration of human rights in North Korea, Sudan and Belarus, and discussion of the war on terror and its effect […]
March 6, 2006 – 8:42 am
The United Nations cannot even control their own workers, including high ranking ones, what with Oil For Food scandal, the sex and drug parties by UN workers, sexual harrasment (the real kind, not the “I heard a joke” type), child abuse, and so on. Yet, they think that they can force compliance with the Kyoto Protocol: […]
June 28, 2005 – 8:18 pm
Serious allegations and proof of widespread fraud, money laundering, sexual abuse (including of children), drugs, obstruction of justice, kickbacks and payoffs, etc, are apparently not good enough for the UN. But, HEY!, some rumors are "sufficiently serious to merit an official inquiry." (via the Drudge Report) The UN has learned of "very, very serious" allegations […]
June 3, 2005 – 2:52 pm
 All credit goes to An American Housewife. Great Job!
May 28, 2005 – 6:35 pm
I rarely discuss conversations that I have had on the political forum I frequent, since it is somewhat like Vegas: what goes on there stays on there. However, there was an interesting discussion, which has sort of being on again off again for years, regarding the United f’ing Nations. All I simply wanted to know […]
