We don't need no Stinkin IAEA Report

John Bolton: "With all due respect to the IAEA, with all due respect, the Charter of the United Nations says that the Security Council is responsible for threats to international peace and security. The Security Council doesn't need a report from the IAEA," he said.

Jeers and Heckling Greet Annan At Staff Meeting at United Nations  U.N. staffers heckled and booed Secretary-General Annan yesterday in a raucous meeting after he presented a "management reform" plan that includes cutting jobs for New Yorkers employed at Turtle BayNow that's rich, sort of reminds me of that scene in Tennesse William's "Suddenly Last Summer" when the young boys turned on Sebastian. His body being ravaged and cannibalized by angry young boys at a Spanish coastal resort:

He-he was lying naked on the broken stones... It looked as if-as if they had devoured him!...As if they'd torn or cut parts of him away with their hands, or with knives, or those jagged tin cans they made music with. As if they'd torn bits of him away in strips!

Rebuilding efforts in Iraq are not working, warns former special United Nations adviser Brahimi
Reform efforts at the UN are not working, warns current special blogging adviser Atlas Shrugs

In other ongoing UN failures; 'For God's Sake, Please Just Stop Aid'

Comfort yourself with platitudes about being part of "the international community." here:

12 key General Assembly votes taken on issues of critical importance to the U.S., and found that only four countries - Israel and the Pacific Ocean nations of Palau, Micronesia and Marshall Islands sided with the U.S. on most of the issues.

The rest of the U.N. members voted against the U.S. position the vast majority of the time, and dozens of countries voted along with America ZERO PERCENT of the time.

Hamas leader vows armed struggle against Israel
and Israel must continue to pay Hamas to keep them healthy and strong so that they can kill Jews, and continue to pay them so that they can build schools to teach their children to kill Jews

Maybe we can get this group of frustrated citizens to point their guns at Ahmadjihadman

Former Sudanese Slave Tells His Story to Gather Support for Freedom Walk Read this whole piece. I met Deng at Columbia here. It was Deng that opened my eyes to the savage enslavement  and wanton murder  perpetrated on the good people of Darfur by the Arab Radical Islamic Sudanese government.  Go to the Rally. I am.

When Simon Deng was eight years old, Arab marauders from the north of his native Sudan sacked his village and burned the tribal elders alive. The next year he was kidnapped and given to a Muslim family as their slave. His masters beat Mr. Deng, a black man from southern Sudan, forcing him to sleep with animals and overworking him to exhaustion. They promised him they would stop if he forsook Christianity, converted to Islam, and took an Arab name. But he never did.

"You are looking at a human being who, at one time, he was a gift," Mr. Deng said. "I was constantly under terror. I would cry for mercy, but always that mercy is not there."

After 3 1/2 years of slavery......Read it all

Archbishop missed chance to speak out on Darfur's bloody conflict speaks volumes
Just for knowing, this is the same Church of England that voted to divest from companies whose products are used by the Israeli government in the territories.

The great Sultan got herself in trouble,  Islamist Sheikh on Al-Jazeera Calls Her Heretic; Syrian Sermon Calls Her Infidel

Updating news items throughout the day;

Pity the children here. Think they were abused?

The motor that drives the blogosphere - the Clueless, my favorite Carnival - is up here

UPDATE: Iran Threatens U.S. With 'Harm and Pain', these boys aree just asking for it. It seems to me this escalating "stick in the eye" speaks volumes of how far along they are in nuclear enrichment. And while the world expects second class ranked, much maligned Israel  to act on Iran if UN can't,
I say no way, how dare the world expect Israel to mop this up? 
Europe's use of "soft power" here has brought us to a point where the free world now has two options left on Iran: disaster or catastrophe.  More here

Jay over at Stop the ACLU has more on the latest Iranian rabid, psychotic, diatribe here

Uh oh, get out the riot gear here

DRUDGE REPORT: US SAYS IRAN HAS ENOUGH URANIUM GAS TO MAKE 10 NUCLEAR WEAPONS

 

Comments

[Randy]

Just surfing blogs..WOW! GREAT ONE SO FAR..I haven't had time to read much of it but...WOW...Cool blog.

[wxjames]

Thanks, Atlas.
Wafa says it all quite clearly, and I love her background picture.
So the foolish Muslim cleric claims she is a heratic, and therefore not worth talking to. Brilliant responce.
And you gotta love where she doesn't care if he worships stones, just don't throw them at me. Hahahahahahahahaha

[Thomas Carney]

I just looked at the tentative schedule... I'll be in DC when he's there... I'm getting some days off right now..

[Megs]

Shoot...I really wanted to read that article about the man from Darfur and slavery. I hate registering for news sites though. *sigh*

[Pamela]

Meg, You must register for the New York Sun. If you register for nothing else, that's fine but the Sun is the best resource, the finest newspaper, hands down.

It is a must read for me everyday. Best intel out there.

Pamela

You'll thank me

[elemental]

This is a joke right?

Jeers and Heckling Greet Annan At Staff Meeting at United Nations U.N. staffers heckled and booed Secretary-General Annan yesterday in a raucous meeting after he presented a "management reform" plan

They were booing a U.S. endorsed plan, spurred on by Bush and Bolton that included outsourcing U.N. jobs to private firms. They weren't really booing Annan as much as the plan we pushed for, so given your idol worship of Bolton, you really think you should be engaging in so much shadenfreude?

and Israel must continue to pay Hamas

Putting it kindly, this is a mischaracterization. Israel doesn't pay HAMAS anything, they return the taxes and customs they collect on Palestinian merchanidise (from Palestinians) to the Palestinian Authority. Given that Palestine has no port access because there is a country sitting where they used to live, it's not exactly charity.

It was Deng that opened my eyes to the savage enslavement and wanton murder perpetrated on the good people of Darfur

Or you could have just read a fucking newspaper. You do realize the people of Darfur are already Muslim don't you and not really related to the now-ended civil war with the Christian south? I just don't want anything to get in the way of your sanctimony and concern down the road.

I say no way, how dare the world expect Israel to mop this up?

The world isn't asking Israel to do anything. The idiot twat Shaul Mofaz is just spouting out his pie hole in election year posturing/whining.

Trust me, the world would be better off if Mofaz and other fools would stop boasting about launching missile attacks on Hamas (who has observed a cease fire for a year now) that kill innocent people. Of course it wouldn't be good politics for Mofaz if there weren't some suicide bombings during his election run. No blood spilt means no sanctimony. Whatever would the right do if they didn't have Arabs to vilify?

Hamas leadership and the Israeli right both kill innocent children and rely on the violence of each other to gain power from their largely idiotic and nationalistic populations.

Don't worry, if Israel were really going to "do something" about Iran, AIPAC wouldn't have trotted out Bolton and Kay to launch their next little war.