Woo-fookin-hoo! Charles has announced the winners of the 2006 Oriana and Fiskie Idiotarian Awards. Despite stiff competition (Howard, Harper - the greats) John Bolton took honors in a landslide victory. BOTH MY PICKS WON! I wish Vegas had odds on it. I would have bet the house (and the senate.)
The biggest, dangerous idiot? The biggest loser? Drunroll...............and the Fiskie goes the KOFI of course. What will Kofi do with an award that doesn't have a half million dollar pay off ?
Moral illnes, the pathology of the left.................
The negotiator Salon.com James Traub's
examination of Kofi Annan reveals a patient and wily leader who managed to
outwit John Bolton and elevate the United Nations.
Korrupt Kofi vs the Honorable Mr. Bolton? The mind reels. Coffee Enema presided over the very worst period of corruption, antisemitism, genocide, and nuclear proliferation in UN history.
Who's the cat that won't own up, who knows how to be corrupt? [Give 'em the] SHAFT!Shut your mouth!
Another corrupt nail in the morally and ethically challenged career of the Kofmeister. Something tells me this is the tip of the iceberg...... and he dares lecture America on values.
As Secretary-General Annan prepares to leave his post at the United Nations, a mystery is surfacing surrounding his apartment on Roosevelt Island, subsidized by New York taxpayers, which is still in use by the family of his brother, Kobina Annan.
The apartment was where Mr.Annan and his wife lived before 1997, when he became secretary-general. The Roosevelt Island home is part of an estate of low-rent state-regulated housing. For years, the Annans saved considerable sums by occupying an apartment meant to help financially strapped low to moderate-income New York families.
One question Mr. Annan has never addressed is why he and his wife felt comfortable availing themselves of this generous arrangement. Another is how it is that, since Mr. Annan and his wife left that Roosevelt Island apartment 10 years ago to move into the rent-free residence on Sutton Place supplied to the secretary-general, their former low rent apartment was handed over to be occupied by the family of Mr. Annan’s brother.
This kind of apartment, part of a state-regulated housing development program called Mitchell-Lama, is subject to strict eligibility requirements, involving family size and financial ceilings on combined family income.There is also a requirement that the leaseholder make continuous use of the apartment as a primary residence.
Kobina Annan is currently Ghana’s ambassador to Morocco, a post he has held for some years. His wife, Ekua Annan, features in the Ghanaian and Moroccan press as active in the Rabat diplomatic community. The pair posed together at a gala reception they hosted at their official Morocco residence in 2004.
But the issue is pertinent because Kofi Annan, whose wife comes from
one of Sweden’s wealthier families, has spent years lecturing Americans
on how the well-heeled have obligations to those less fortunate. Those
low- to moderate income New York families for whom such accommodation
was built face a four-year waiting list. Read it all here.
TEHRAN (OFF News) – March 15, 2007 – After three months of living
“underground,” former Secretary-General Kofi Annan came to the surface
and spoke in the Iranian capital at the opening of a two-day conference
questioning the existence of the UN Oil-For-Food scandal…. ( Read the rest HERE)
You mean the White House dinner wasn't enough of a send off for this cretin? Dinner, lunch ....what's next? Breakfast at Tiffany's? The man is the worst kind of corrupt snake and no friend, no friend to America. Diplomacy my ass.
Cut Condi's meds!
Rice bids outgoing UN chief Annan farewell at lunch AFP via
Yahoo! News US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave Kofi
Annan her best wishes at a lunch ahead of the end of his 10-year stint as United
Nations secretary general.
Gunmen burn civilians alive in Sudan Khartoum - Gunmen on horseback attacked a truck carrying medicine and
aid in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region and killed around 30 civilians
on board, some of whom were burned alive, the United Nations said on
Sunday.
The African Union had earlier put the death toll at 22 and said 10
others were wounded on Saturday when gunmen attacked the vehicle near
Sirba, 45km north of El Geneina, capital of West Darfur state and close
to the Sudan-Chad border.
"The gunmen were riding on horseback. The exact number of civilian
casualties is not yet established but it is estimated that around 30
people were killed," UN spokesperson in Sudan Radhia Achouri said on
Sunday.
The
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, has said the international
community has to wake up to the reality of rape, murder and destruction
in the southwestern Sudanese region of Darfur.
He was
speaking ahead of global events to mark the International Day for
Darfur, where more than 200,000 people have died in three years of
fighting.
Organisers want to draw attention to the level of rape and sexual violence against civilians.
The United Nations plans to gut the super-luxe
East Side townhouse that's home to the secretary general and give it a
multimillion-dollar renovation - complete with a $200,000 kitchen.
"That's a fantastic budget. It'd be a hell of a thing," said Stefan
Boublil, owner of swanky SoHo design firm The Apartment. "It's an
expensive kitchen."
The pricey kitchen upgrade is only a small part of a $4.3 million
overhaul of the four-story Sutton Place manse where Kofi Annan has
lived rent-free for a decade.
In a farewell speech on U.S. soil today, retiring United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to deliver a tough critique of
President Bush's policies. He will accuse the administration of
trying to secure the United States from terrorism in part by
dominating other nations through force, committing what he termed
human rights abuses and taking military action without broad
international support.
Though Annan has long been a critic of the war in Iraq and other
Bush foreign policies, the planned speech is among his toughest and
is unusual for a U.N. secretary-general concluding his tenure.
He ought to be exiled to Africa where his African brothers would tear him limb from limb, this evil poser.
So Bolton was at that dinner at the White House last night honoring Kofi the Krook and Bolton's wit was still biting? Amazing. A dinner honoring Kofi at the White House, more amazing. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the twilight zone.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, whose temporary appointment ends shortly, was back at the United Nations on Tuesday, his wit and prickly relationship with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan intact.
Just hours after he made clear he would not seek a renewal on Monday, Bolton and his wife Gretchen attended a White House dinner in honor of Annan, who leaves office on December 31, and his wife Nane.
Must have been hard to keep the food down.
Asked about a "healing process" with Annan, Bolton told reporters: "Nope, nobody sang Kumbaya."
Annan later quipped "But does he know how to sing?"
Bolton was referring to the African-originated hymn popularized in the United States as a campfire song.
Bolton, who spoke to reporters shortly before he voted in the U.N. Security Council on a Somalia resolution he drafted, was asked whether he had been offered a senior U.N. post.
Laughing, Bolton said, "I don't expect to be offered, and if offered, I would not accept."
This is rich ........the President is hosting a dinner for whom? The only way to get any respect nowadays is to subvert and undermine America. Why is Bush honoring Kofi Enema? He has never been a friend to this great country in any way. He has served to undermine the efforts and aspirations of free men everywhere.
Uh, shouldn't the dinner be honoring Bolton? I'm confused.
There is diplomacy and then there is idiocy and then there is being a schmuck. This is somewhere in between the latter two.
US President George W. Bush was to host UN chief Kofi Annan for dinner to honor the secretary general for his service despite lasting disagreements, the White House said.
Bush spokesman Tony Snow downplayed the likelihood of any bitter words with Annan, who most recently raised hackles at among US officials by branding the conflict in Iraq a "civil war."
The dinner "demonstrates that the president is somebody who does not think that, because you disagree with somebody, you can't be hospitable to them and thank them for their service," Snow told reporters.
"This is not going to be sitting around and having debates with the Secretary General. Instead, it's going to be an attempt to thank him for his service. It's an important job," said Snow.
The dinner came one day after Bush accepted the resignation of the controversial US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, effective when his temporary appointment to the post expires, perhaps in days.
It seems inconceivable that the Secretary-General will not disclose even the more basic financial information considering the 21 billion dollars in fraud that we know about at the UN. How does he get away with it? Rosett nailed it, "power without law." Newsmax reports here
UNITED NATIONS -- Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said Annan will not be coerced by any nation to
disclose his personal financial information.
Coerced?
"The U.N. is an inter-governmental organization," Dujarric said. It is not a
national government. [Financial] Disclosure forms are an internal control
mechanism, they were filled out by about 1,000 staff members under the
understanding that they would remain confidential."
Why?
Dujarric was responding to remarks made by U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations John Bolton to reporters on Friday when he called for Annan to publicly
disclose his personal financial worth before he leaves office Jan. 1, 2007.
Norm Coleman, one of the fighters on the forefront of UN Reform, has been relentless along with Ambassador Bolton in trying to begin to eliminate the enormous corruption (21 billion in fraud!), nepotism, and embezzlement at the UN.
Kofi is shameless. He embodies power without law and he continues to spit in the face of change. Kofi Annan's Last Cover-upis a disaster. He is still stonewalling on financial disclosure forms.
The fact is that if Mr. Annan
departs Turtle Bay without having made his financial disclosure form
public, the public will have reason to wonder. His term at the United
Nations will be remembered only for the oil-for-food scandal, the
sex-for-food scandal in the Congo, the massacres at Rwanda, Cambodia,
and Srebrenica, and inaction in the face of the genocide in Darfur —
and establishing that deception, secrecy, and patronage cannot be
pierced by the reforms by which he sought to rescue his reputation.
COLEMAN GIVES A FAILING GRADE TO UNITED NATIONS REFORM EFFORTS
Washington,
DC—Senator Norm Coleman, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations, and Congressman Henry Hyde, the Chairman of the House
Committee on International Relations, today released a Government Accountability
Office (GAO) report detailing the dismal status of reform efforts at the United
Nations (U.N.). The report was requested as part of the Subcommittee’s
continuing investigation into the U.N. “Oil-for-Food” Program. The Subcommittee
has already held four hearings and issued several reports relating to its
investigation and continues to press for meaningful reform at the
U.N.
“The report makes clear that reform efforts have been, at
best, very disappointing and moving at glacial speed,” says Coleman. “I would
give the U.N. an ‘F’ for its efforts taken to date. Everyone who has studied
the U.N. – including the Subcommittee, the U.N. Independent Inquiry Committee,
the Gingrich-Mitchell Task Force on U.N. Reform, and even the U.N. Secretariat –
are in agreement that the institution requires major reform. This new report
indicates that the U.N. has, thus far, fallen woefully short of what needs to be
accomplished.”
The GAO report related several areas where U.N. reform
efforts have failed to meet expectations, and identified several obstacles to
reform:
In a morally inverted world, where right is wrong and good is evil, Kofi Annan still is an abject failure and worse, guilty of war crimes, murder even. Annan has much to answer for.
Srebrenica is rarely mentioned nowadays in Annan’s offices on the 38th floor
of the UN secretariat building in New York. He steps down in December after a
decade as secretary-general. His retirement will be marked by plaudits. But
behind the honorifics and the accolades lies a darker story: of incompetence,
mismanagement and worse. Annan was the head of the Department of Peacekeeping
Operations (DPKO) between March 1993 and December 1996. The Srebrenica massacre
of up to 8,000 men and boys and the slaughter of 800,000 people in Rwanda
happened on his watch. In Bosnia and Rwanda, UN officials directed peacekeepers
to stand back from the killing, their concern apparently to guard the UN’s
status as a neutral observer. This was a shock to those who believed the UN was
there to help them.
Annan’s term has also been marked by scandal: from the sexual abuse of women
and children in the Congo by UN peacekeepers to the greatest financial scam in
history, the UN-administered oil-for-food programme. Arguably, a trial of the UN
would be more apt than a leaving party.
The charge sheet would include guarding its own interests over those it
supposedly protects; endemic opacity and lack of accountability; obstructing
investigations, promoting the inept and marginalising the dedicated. Such
accusations can be made against many organisations. But the UN is different. It
has a moral mission.
It was founded by the allies in 1945 to “save succeeding generations from the
scourge of war” and “reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights”. Its key
documents – the Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the
genocide convention – are the most advanced formulation of human rights in
history. And they have been flouted by UN member states for decades.
A more specific charge would be that, under the doctrine of command
responsibility, the UN is guilty of war crimes. Broadly speaking, it has three
principles: that a commander ordered atrocities to be carried out, that he
failed to stop them, despite being able to, or failed to punish those
responsible. The case rests on the second, that in Rwanda in 1994, in Srebrenica
in 1995 and in Darfur since 2003, the UN knew war crimes were occurring or about
to occur, but failed to stop them, despite having the means to do so.
Thoroughly despised is Annan by his African "brothers" for enabling the Arabs to mindlessly slaughter hundreds of thousands of Africans.
UPDATE: Onward and upward (more like downward spiral.) Beny Avni writes of the "last Secretary-General" (Gd willing);
The new Turtle Bay chief — most likely the South Korean foreign minister, Ban
Ki-moon — must realize that if he stays in office for two terms, he may go down
in history as the last U.N. secretary-general.
Can this inefficient, corrupt institution, which was born of the victory over
the Nazis, shaped during the Cold War, and kept on life support during the
short-lived single-superpower era, survive another decade as new alliances shape
a new international power structure?
Why should it? BTW, did youblog for Bolton(how insane that the Dems won't confirm him?)
Finally, I have found something to admire about Kofi Annan--- his utter in-your-face chutzpah. Just as Claudia Rosett described at the Hudson Institute on UN reform, power without law, so goes Koffee. The NY Sun
While blaming Turtle Bay's
member states for failing to enact his "ambitious" reform proposals,
Secretary-General Annan yesterday all but confessed to his own failure
to comply with one of the only reform measures that has been passed.
Now that's rich, pun intended.
[...] But when asked if he had filled out the financial disclosure form,
which at the height of the oil-for-food scandal became obligatory for
senior U.N.staff as a means of curbing some of the corruption, Mr.
Annan gave a diplomatic answer that amounted to saying he has not. "I
honor all my obligations to the U.N., and I think that is as I have
always done," he said. (Phototoon: iHillary)
ishcabibble, ishcabobble "Eb-dee eb-dee eb-dee ebdee- That's ALL FOLKS!"
Yesterday, Mr. Annan
acknowledged that several other ideas that he had suggested to revamp
the United Nations failed because "the decisions were up to the member
states." His plans were "ambitious, some would even say overambitious,"
he said. "We have achieved quite a lot, but there are areas where I
feel we could have done more, and we should continue."
And looking around I can't help thinking that if
Churchill had to face the obstruction and opposition that Bush now
faces, that we probably wouldn't have won the war. Bernard Lewis, 9/11/06 Hudson Institute Watch the video of his compelling speech below. Download BernardLewis91106.wav
Mr.
Lewis, the most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle
East., served in the British Army in the Royal Armoured Corps and
Intelligence Corps and observed;
"I had no doubt we would triumph. I don't have that confidence now."
I spent the day at the Hudson Institute Symposium "THE UN AND BEYOND: UNITED DEMOCRATIC NATIONS",
listening to some of the best minds explore, debate, recount, and
deservedly excoriate the history of UN failures. A small but select
group attended to hear what Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Anne Bayefsky
(bless her soul, the architect behind this symposium), Walid Phares,
Michael Krauss, Natan Sharansky, John Bolton, Bill Bennett, Claudia
Rosett, Jed Babbin, Bernard Lewis and esteemed players on the world
stage speak to the future of America's involvement and considerable
financial support of the UN.
It was a once in a lifetime, let me tell you.
Looking around I saw the rapt faces of Monica Crowley, Georgette
Mosbacher, Larry Kadish, Cliff Kincaid, Joseph Farah, Norman Podhoretz
and his lovely wife, Midge Decter. What a waste of brilliant thought.
Bayefsky opened up the symposium outlined the historical, the
historical failures, too numerous to outline here of UN incompetence,
corruption and complicity. Michael Krauss outlined point by point the
UN failure in Bosnia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, the genocide in Darfur etc and heaped contempt on the UN cowardly, bureaucratic peacekeepers.
Five years after 9/11 the UN is still unable to define terrorism.
Today Bayefsky wrote this editorial here at NY Sun;
Just last Friday the U.N. gave the world its answer to 9/11. The General
Assembly adopted its first-ever "Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy." The title
is grand. The substance was not: it called for the implemention of a General
Assembly resolution from 1991, which draws a distinction between terrorism and
the "legitimacy of the struggle of national liberation movements." The document
was also telling for what it omitted: a definition of terrorism, a reference to
state sponsorship of terrorism and a call to sanction states that harbor and
assist terrorists. Worst of all it began, not with defeat of terrorists, but
with "measures to address conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism, which
it describes as "prevent[ing] the defamation of religions, religious values,
beliefs and cultures," "eradicate[ing] poverty" and reducing youth
unemployment.
What does such a strategy do for winning the war? It throws sand in the eyes
of the troops on the front lines and renders the goalposts a mirage. More here
I thought I had a good idea of how debased that organization was. I
was wrong. From the outset the UN set out to fail. They have failed the
tortured, the oppressed, the poor, in incalculable ways. The graft and
corruption is endemic to the institution. Senator Norm Coleman referred
to the UN as a "jobs program for many countries." Those that contribute
little or nothing have enormous say.
9,000 mandates. The UN has 9,000 mandates and accomplishes little.
The premise of the discussion was the question of whether the UN be
could reformed and except the lone voices, the consensus from the best
minds was no. The alternative? A different organization. "The United
Democratic Nations," an organization of free nations. Shared values.
This seems to be one of the malignancies of the UN. How can democracies
and dictatorships co-exist in a world body successfully. They can't. And so immediately the organization is/was destined to fail.
My only complaint was the glaring omission from this 12 hour symposium of the continuing islamization of the United Nations as well documented and investigated by the intrepid David Littman here, here and here.
Hirsi Ali, Walid Phares, Michael Krauss. Phares, "Jihad divides the world"
Ayaan Hirsi Ali shares her thoughts on the UN; "The United Nations has proved to be incompetent and incapable of solving conflicts"
"The United Nations has been worse than ineffective. It has been
outright complicit. ...... Often threw inaction, sometimes through
neglect and somtimes through willful nuetrality.
Joseph Farah, World Net Daily...........loved talking to him. Talk about seeing things the same way.
Bayefsky explained that the multi billion dollar UN system was once
largely closed to NGOs (non governmental organizations) as the private
playing fields of member states. But NGOs have now found their way into
the most intimate recesses of the UN. Kofi and member states have found
it extremely useful to operate through these "partners" or proxies.
Bayefsky speaks of these orgs as GONGOS to discredit "government
sponsored non-gorvermental agencies."
But there is a
much darker side to the UN-NGO nexus than the rise of these obvious
interlopers in the NGO circles. it is the large number of NGOs that
have been empowered by UN-accreditation to spread anti-semitism, hate,
and encourage terrorism from a UN platform. The call for boycotts and
sanctions against Israel is a central plank of this campaign.
Claudia Rosett and Cliff Kincaid from Accuracy in Media Claudia Rosett and Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
The most powerful remarks came from the journalist closest to the
inside machinations of the UN, Claudia Rosett. Rosett is inside the
asylum. The UN does not "distinguish between democracy and dictatorship,
good and bad. And the enemy is getting worse."
The UN charter is a big lie and things built on big lies tend to work to extremely damaging effects.
The charter proposes Power without Law. There is no higher authority. It is a law of its own.
" The UN is not fixable"
How does Rosett explain UN reform? First, "silence, then investigation, then reform aka cover up, then silence."
"The UN is "POWER WITHOUT LAW." "It operates outside the law. The law of its own recipe .......brought us Animal farm.
It is corrupt by its very nature........... And it's a universe unto itself."
Senator Coburn
Natan Sharansky, former Soviet politcal prisoner was asked what was
motivating Human Rights Watch in its one-sided condemnations of Israel;
"Human Rights Watch was born as Helsinki Watch," Mr. Sharansky said. "We were
arrested for this." He mentioned the founding chairman of Human Rights Watch,
Robert Bernstein. "Then it had clear moral standards," Mr. Sharansky said. But
lately, after Mr. Bernstein's retirement as chairman, the organization has taken
a turn in the wrong direction. "I spoke with the new head," Mr. Sharansky said.
"There is a clear lack of moral criteria."
Mr. Sharansky spoke of Human Rights Watch's condemnation of Israel for
deliberately targeting Lebanese civilians — "slaughter," Human Rights Watch's
executive director, Kenneth Roth, called it in a letter to the editor of the New
York Sun. The Israeli politician said that Hezbollah terrorists were using "all
Southern Lebanon as one big human shield." In the face of such a Hezbollah
atrocity, in this battle, Human Rights Watch "accuses Israel of war crimes."
Mr. Sharansky is correct to call this a "very big problem." It extends beyond
Israel to Human Rights Watch's approach to the wider war on terror. Mr. Roth
marked the fifth anniversary of September 11 by issuing a statement denouncing
not the terror-sponsors in Tehran and Damascus but rather the Bush
administration, which according to Mr. Roth is responsible for America's "loss
of the moral high ground." Mr. Roth wrote that the "The Bush administration
still subscribes to the view that it is engaged in a ‘global' war," a theory Mr.
Roth wrote "threatens the basic rights of us all."
Truth is — as Mr. Sharansky recognizes — it is not America or Israel that has
lost the moral high ground in the war on Islamic fascists, but Human Rights
Watch itself that has lost its moral bearings. A sad fate to befall an
organization for whose founding ideals Mr. Sharansky spent so many years in the
gulag archipelago. More at the NY Sun
Jed Babbin, Josh Muravchik, Michel Gurfinkiel. Interesting contretemps between these guys. Watch Babbin in this video
The irrepressible Bill Bennett
Bernard Lewis made a remarkable speech. Stunning.
Karit Goldwasser (with Dershowitz-oyish), the wife of the kidnapped
soldier Ehud Goldwasser. The UN could have, should have is obligated to
bring him home safely. So says Resolution 1701. She spoke ....... it is
heartbreaking. Olmert sold his people out.
Senator Coleman thought the oil for food scandal would be a mirror in
the face of the UN and yet nothing has been accomplished since the
conclusion of the permanent subcommittee. Despite the UN having signed
on to the UN reform document.
The original human rights was so outrageous, so egregious it seemed
like low hanging fruit. Change that, reform that. That should have been
easy. But the UN has tried to make this a left right issue. Blaming the
United States and in the case of Malloch Brown, even FOX NEWS.
The graphs demonstrate just how fed up the American people are. This should be a major campaign issue.
Despite a left wing, UN sympathizing media, the outrageous abuse and
corruption have thoroughly disgusted the American people.
In a Frank Luntz poll commissioned by the Hudson Institute, a majority
of respondents expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the United
Nations and embraced scenarios under which the organization would be
"scrapped altogether." Luntz characterized the results
as showing that Americans are "one scandal away from washing their
hands" of the U.N. and that the issue could tip a future presidential
election. More here
And the UN still can't define terrorism. Pathetic.
Despite traitor Chaffee Senator Coleman is confident that Amabassador Bolton will be confirmed before the end of the year.
Congress must use our financial leverage in the UN to reform the UN. Must.
The
world has changed a great deal from the time of the United Nations
birth in 1945, and so has the United Nations. Sixty years ago
democracies, both nascent and well established, comprised the majority
of the founding nations of the UN. The members of the General Assembly
were strategically aligned primarily along what would become the lines
of the Cold War. America was confident that the UN would be an
organization which would work in tandem with American national
interests in promoting the welfare of humankind and the basic rights of
every human spirit.
We could not have been more
wrong. Because with 20 years, global politics and the UN has been
wildly altered. By the mid 60s, UN membership had more than doubled and
the majority of members were not democratic. Thugs calling the shots.
This post is a work in progress. I will be posting all of the audio on these speeches.
UPDATE: Here's the audio. Listen to them all, at your leisure of
course. Forgive me, Krauss audio did not make it. And he rcoked.
The U.N.'s top human rights body for six decades, the Commission on Human
Rights, was charged with identifying and responding to human rights abuse.
During that time, 30% of all its resolutions condemning a specific state for
human rights violations were directed at Israel, while not one resolution was
adopted condemning states like China, Syria, or Zimbabwe. In recent years, Libya
served as Chair. In the name of enhanced credibility, the Commission was
replaced this past spring by a Human Rights Council. Its members include Cuba,
China, and Saudi Arabia. Since June, the Council has adopted three resolutions
and held two special sessions critical of human rights violations in specific
states. Now 100% of them are on Israel. In the meantime, thousands die in
killing fields and deserts and torture chambers around the world. What does this
U.N. game plan do for winning the war? It defines the enemy as the Jew.
Question and Answer VLOG with Walid Phares, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, And Michael Krauss
UPDATE: The most remarkable, important statement to come out of that gathering is Bernard Lewis' closing statement on the current worldwide conflict;
The idea that democracy is totally alien and impossible for them [Arab nations] is demonstrably absurd in historical terms. Now it's not easy. It's a long, it's a slow, it's a difficult process. But it's one we must make. I will sum up what I have to say in one sentence; EITHER WE FREE THEM OR THEY WILL DESTROY US.
"Hitler would have won under these conditions," Mr. Lewis said, citing
America's inability to clearly define the war on terror and exactly who its
enemy is. The professor, whose vision of the future of the Middle East and
knowledge of Islam has guided President Bush's foreign policy, also cited as
challenges the multilateralism that hamstrings America's ability to fight the
war and the strong political opposition to policies designed to defeat the
enemy, such as detaining terrorists without trial.
During the darkest days of the fight against Nazism, Mr. Lewis said, he "had
no doubt that in the end we would triumph." He does not "have that certitude
now," he said.
Mr. Lewis told the center-right think tank's conference on the United Nations
that he agrees with a former communist dissident and current Israeli
parliamentarian, Natan Sharansky, that the only real solution to defeating
radical Islam is to bring freedom to the Middle East. Either "we free them or
they destroy us," Mr. Lewis said.
The contention, especially popular in diplomatic circles, that Arabs aren't
suited to democracy and that the West's best hope lies with friendly tyrants
shows an ignorance of the Arabs' past and contempt for their present and future,
and is "demonstrably absurd in historical terms," Mr. Lewis said.
Mr. Lewis said a great deal of material exists — from Arabs, from Persians,
and from Turks — that can form the basis for democracies in the region. He
quoted from a 1786 letter to the king's court in France from the French
ambassador to Istanbul explaining why the Ottoman Empire was slow in making
decisions. The ambassador reported that unlike in France, where the king made a
decision and that was it, "here the sultan has to consult" and so it "takes time
to get things done."
Mr. Lewis said he places no hope in the United Nations being part of the
solution. He "first realized the U.N. was hopeless" after the partition of
Palestine, he said. Palestine was a "triviality" compared to the partition of
India that took place a year earlier, in 1947, he added. Millions of refugees
were created and yet India and Pakistan formed a working relationship and sorted
out the problems.
The key difference, Mr. Lewis said, was that "in the partition of India, the
U.N. was not involved. "The United Nations failed to act after the Arab states
invaded Palestine, and then treated Jewish and Arab refugees differently,
leaving problems that remain today, he said.
UPDATE: Cinnamon Stillwell gives a great recap here as does Judith here.
Soros is all over the UN. Mark Malloch Brown, the Deputy Secretary General,
lives in a house Soros rents to him at below market rates. In violation of UN staff regulations.
In my expose of Soros intentions to overthrow the American constitutional government piece here, I indicated how Soros pays off, buys off the UN, the Democratic party et al. In the continuing UN scandal, the inquiry into Housing Subsidies Contrary to UN Charter Goes Ignored for 8 Weeks, as Head UN Peacekeeper Does Not Respond here.
Despite numerous attempts to get to the truth, the UN continues to stonewall on this scandal. Not only stonewall, but nefariously orchestrate treacheries behind the scenes. Can't you see Soros behind this Bolton smear campaign. On the August 29 noon briefing, Inner City Press again asked Kofi Annan's spokesman about housing subsidies:
Inner City Press Question: Yesterday, you promised an answer right
after the briefing on the staff rules and housing subsidies.
Spokesman: I do have an answer, which is, first of all, we are in
the process of replying to Ambassador Bolton's letter. The rules
pertaining to rental subsidies and deductions are regulated through
administrative instructions issued by the Secretary-General, which we
can give you copies of since they are public documents.
In the process? In the process for months to answer a simple question?
Wednesday Kofi Annan's spokesman Stephane Dujarric told Inner City Press that
the UN "in the last three years partly as a result of Oil-for Food and [the]
Volcker [Committee], is really trying to bring itself up to standards it was
never made to meet by the public or by the member states. I think we've done a
tremendous amount in that regard. The issue of public disclosure is more
tricky."
What's tricky about public disclosure? Unless of course you have something to hide.
What of this apparent conflict of interest? Asked Wednesday afternoon, Mr.
Dujarric said among other things, "You have to have an honor system."
There is no honor among these theives. Honor system, at the UN?
Inner City Press
At the UN, Incomplete Reforms Allow for Gifts of Free Housing to UN Officials by Member States
Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN
UNITED NATIONS, August 30 -- When UN officials receive free or cut-rate housing from their countries of nationality, the UN does not consider it a gift or favor, or even remuneration. Wednesday as Inner City Press' inquiry continued, it emerged that the issue is far from abstract. In response to follow-up questions, Kofi Annan's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, "I'm not saying there are not people that do get some benefits and have declared them, because there are, and that's being looked at." When asked if the list of recipient will be made public, Mr. Dujarric said, "These are issues that are being discussed... we may very well move to some form of public disclosure."
At the spokesman's noon media briefing on Wednesday, Inner City Press asked about whether such housing subsidy violate UN Staff Regulation 1.2(j), which states plainly that "No staff member may accept any honour, decoration, favour, gift, or remuneration from any Government." As transcribed, Inner City Press requested that the spokesman "at tomorrow's briefing publicly say if those subsidies are illegal under the rules or not." Mr. Dujarric responded, "They need to be declared and then they are deducted from the allowances received. But I will take a look at the staff rules in details and try to square that circle."
UN insiders interviewed by Inner City Press have called member-states' provision of free or cut-rate housing to their national who serve as UN officials both an open secret and a scandal. While in most legal systems a judge would not be allowed to rule in a case in which he or she was receiving free housing from one of the litigants, at the UN as disclosed Wednesday senior officials in such departments as peacekeeping and political affairs can make decisions impacting their countries while at the same time receiving free housing from their countries.
What of this apparent conflict of interest? Asked Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Dujarric said among other things, "You have to have an honor system." He used as an example that the head of the UN Department of Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari, formerly foreign minister of Nigeria, might recuse himself from sensitive matters concerning Nigeria -- but not because of any housing subsidy. Mr. Dujarric added that he was neither saying nor not saying if Mr. Gambari receives any housing subsidy. (UN insiders note that the housing subsidy question should be addressed by Mr. Gambari's predecessor at DPA.) Mr. Dujarric also pointed denied that any housing subsidies were provided to Jean-Marie Guehenno or Louise Frechette. The Canadian mission's press officer Michael Kovrig, in response to a follow-up question from Inner City Press, I can now confirm that Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada did not provide any housing subsidy to Deputy Secretary-General Frechette."
In today's NY sun, President Ahmadinejad of Iran said it is “unlikely” the U.N. Security Council will take action over his country’s nuclear program.
Iran has so far rejected a Security Council request that it suspend uranium enrichment by August 31. Mr. Ahmadinejad did not mention this deadline in remarks to reporters yesterday.
Mr. Ahmadinejad yesterday challenged President Bush to a live and “uncensored” televised debate on “ways to get out of the standoffs.” Iran is willing to open a dialogue with America, the Iranian leader said, if the Bush administration changes its “attitude.”
If the August 31 deadline passes without an Iranian agreement to halt uranium enrichment, the U.N. Security Council will then be faced with the problem of whether to impose economic sanctions. China and Russia, permanent members of the council with France, Britain, and America, have expressed caution about taking such a step.
Russia and China expressed caution? Hey c'mon now fellas. Russia says it opposes sanctions on Iran. And China........ not happening. France? France is all geared up to start talking .....again. Yeah, cheap French double talk, that's the ticket to saving the free world.
The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna said June 8 that it cannot be sure that Iran is not hiding a nuclear-weapons program. Iran concealed nuclear work from IAEA inspectors for 18 years until 2003.
In other words, the IAEA doesn't know it's ass from its elbow - Iran could have nukes as we speak. But then again, maybe not.
Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s offer to President Bush for
a debate “on how to end world predicaments” is a farce, said Dr. Yaron Brook,
executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. “The Iranian regime is the
world’s leading sponsor of the Islamic totalitarian movement that terrorizes us,
and it is eagerly pursuing long-range missiles and nuclear warheads with which
to terrorize us further. The only way to “end world predicaments” is
for this regime to cease to exist. We must defeat Ahmadinejad and
his regime--not debate them. Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute
Hat tip to Pete at ihillary for making me the graphic. Excellent.
UPDATE: Lebanon, Iran's proxy, speaks. No peace with Israel.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -
Prime Minister Saniora said Wednesday that he refused to have any
direct contact with Israel and Lebanon would be the last Arab country
to ever sign a peace deal with the Jewish state.
"Let it be clear, we are not seeking any agreement until there is
just and comprehensive peace based on the Arab initiative," he said.
He was referring to a plan that came out of a 2002 Arab League
summit in Beirut. It calls for Israel to return all territories it
conquered in the 1967 Mideast war, the establishment of a Palestinian
state with Jerusalem as its capital and a solution to the Palestinian
refugee problem _ all in exchange for peace and full normalization of
Arab relations with Israel.
In an extraordinary show of complete moral bankruptcy and moral equivalence, dhimmi Kofi Annan tied the freeing of kidnapped soldiers to releasing terrorists held by Israel. Kofi has sold his soul to the devil and they own him outright. In today's Sun;
In a departure from language used by the U.N.Security Council, Secretary-General Annan yesterday linked the issue of releasing Israeli
soldiers to freeing Lebanese terrorists held by Israel. Hezbollah demanded a prisoner swap when it kidnapped the two soldiers on July 12, launching a monthlong war.
Mr. Annan, speaking to the press in Beirut,retreated from several demands the Security Council made on Hezbollah and went as far as to equate the conduct of Israeli army soldiers with that of terrorists serving the Taliban regime.
“You have to talk with those with the guns to stop shooting, whether they are Israelis or whether they are Taliban or anybody else,” he said, referring to the United Nations’s need to deliver assistance to victims at times of war.
Can you imagine anyone of right mind saying such a thing?
Despite those gestures toward Lebanese Hezbollah supporters — and though he met with the Shiite speaker of Lebanon’s parliament, Nabih Berri, and with Hezbollah’s Cabinet minister, Muhammed Fneish, as well as Prime Minister Siniora — a Shiite crowd booed the U.N. chief as he visited a hard-hit Beirut neighborhood.
Surrounded by armed guards, Mr. Annan was forced to retreat to his car after a crowd in the Hezbollah-controlled southern Beirut neighborhood booed and heckled him
Now that's rich.
He then dropped a key provision in Security Council resolution 1701 that called for the immediate release of the two Israelis — whose kidnapping was the cause for the monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah — without reference to an immediate release of any other prisoners.
At America’s insistence, under the terms of the resolution, the release must be “unconditional.” The document also deals with the fates of the two Israelis and the prisoners in Israeli jails separately. More here
UN secretary-general
meets with Defense Minister Peretz, slams Israel for violating southern Lebanon
ceasefire. Annan also calls on Israel to lift aerial, naval blockade imposed on
Lebanon since beginning of war
Israel
is responsible for most ceasefire violations in southern Lebanon
, according to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan
Mr. Annan refrained from issuing a statement condemning an exhibition initiated by Mr. Ahmadinejad in mid-August of cartoons depicting the dispute about the existence of the Holocaust. NY Sun
The New York Sun reports today that Kofi Enema is winging it to the rogue Islamic Republic of Iran and
expects to confer with President
Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust denier who has repeatedly made
public pleas for the annihilation
of a U.N. member state.
Mr. Annan’s trip will also include a stop in Damascus, Syria, a U.N. spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said. More here
At least two members of the jihad media will be joining Koffee, one representing the New York Crimes Times and another with Paris-based La Merde Monde, are expected to travel with Mr. Annan. How submissive, dhimmis on parade.
The New York Sun reports American officials last week attempted to deter Mr. Annan from traveling to either Iran or Syria.
Kofi's contempt for Israel is rivaled only by his disdain for the U.S. and the West, any successful meritocracy would alienate this abject failure of a man. He of no spine, no integrity, no moral compass. What a piece of merde.
While Kofi Enema excoriates Israel for fighting Jihadi savages and Islamic Iranian legions in Lebanon, UN "peace conspirators" in the Congo sexual abuse little girls. Caught redhanded again. and again and again. Ugh.........
KINSHASA (AFP) - The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) is investigating new allegations implicating UN peacekeepers in the "sexual exploitation of minors," it has said.
"MONUC has received allegations about the existence of a major prostitution ring involving minors, close to a large concentration of Congolese soldiers and Blue Helmets (UN forces) in South Kivu, (in the) northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo," the UN mission said in a statement Thursday.
A MONUC spokeswoman in the South Kivu capital Bukavu told AFP: "To attract the girls, the pimps used as a major advantage the fact that the Blue Helmets were there and could have money."
These UN pimps are animals.
MONUC's reputation was sullied two years ago by revelations that peacekeepers were involved in the sexual abuse of 13-year-old girls.
The scandal broke in December 2004 when "at least 140 cases of allegations of sexual exploitation implicating MONUC personnel" were recorded, according to Jean Tobie Okala, MONUC's deputy spokesman in the capital Kinshasa.
A report at the time said that the allegations reflected a grave, long-term problem among UN peacekeepers.
"The investigation ... found that the problem was serious and ongoing," said the internal affairs report, on 72 cases of alleged abuse.
Sources close to the cases said the civilian employee was a Frenchman, later jailed in France, and that the soldiers in question hailed from Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa, Tunisia and Uruguay.
The investigation was carried out in Bunia, Ituri, in the northeast of the DR Congo, from May to September 2004 after local media alleged peacekeeper abuse of women and young girls.
Many of the alleged acts were committed with "a feeling of impunity," the report noted.
I can just bet. Impunity.......throwing their blue helmuts about like German SS officers I am sure.
The UN department of peacekeeper operations and MONUC should put into place a prevention program and should better inform soldiers what is expected of them when in contact with local populations, the report said.
What's expected of them? They have to instructed not to rape and traffic in little girls and women? We really need to leave the UN.
State Department sources said Ms. Rice has been
repeatedly stymied in her attempts to pressure Israel to end strikes against
Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon….
The disagreement between Mr. Bush and Ms. Rice is over the ramifications of
US support for Israel's continued offensive against Lebanon. The sources said
Mr. Bush believes that Israel's failure to defeat Hezbollah would encourage
Iranian adventurism in neighboring Iraq. Ms. Rice has argued that the United
States would be isolated both in the Middle East and Europe at a time when the
administration seeks to build a consensus against Iran's nuclear weapons
program.
Instead, Ms. Rice believes the United States should engage Iran and Syria to
pressure Hezbollah to end the war with Israel. Ms. Rice has argued that such an
effort would result in a US dialogue with Damascus and Tehran on Middle East
stability.
Ms. Rice has garnered support from several senior Republicans on the Foreign
Relations Committee, including chairman Sen. Richard Lugar. Members of the inner
circle of Mr. Bush's father, the former president, have also been advocating for
an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon, with subsequent pressure on Israel for a
diplomatic settlement with the Palestinians.
Ms. Rice's biggest supporter has been Brent Scowcroft, who served under the
first Bush administration as national security advisor. Sources said Mr.
Scowcroft, regarded as Ms. Rice's mentor, has been sending messages to his
friends in Congress and the White House that US support for the Israeli war
could jeopardize relations with Gulf oil suppliers, particularly Saudi Arabia….
Aides for Mr. Cheney have argued that the United States should have targeted
Hezbollah and Syria during the war against Iraq in 2003. They said despite US
intelligence warnings Hezbollah was allowed to dominate Lebanon and build a
formidable force along the Israeli border.
"There was talk of taking care of Hezbollah and Syria, but Condi and
[then-Secretary of State Colin] Powell said 'no way. We don't need another
front,'" an official said….
But the sources said Mr. Bush has been dismayed by the Israeli failure to
defeat Hezbollah. They said several high-ranking Republicans have expressed
amazement at the plodding Israeli advance into Lebanon. "One Jewish friend of
Bush actually called up a senior Israeli official and began yelling, 'What the
hell's going on here,'" a source said. "'Are you going to fight or what?'"
I f
Hizb’allah breaks the ceasefire – as they already have – and shoots at Israeli
citizens or population centers, territory or forces, the IDF may in most cases
not respond before informing the United Nations Secretary General of the
violation, and obtaining his permission to shoot back.This is the expectation of
Kofi Annan, as spelled out in a letter from him to the sovereign government of
the State of Israel earlier this week. More at iHillary
The
Lebanon War has highlighted the smallness of Israel's current leadership. Ariel
Sharon championed the policy of disengagement, but somehow no one can imagine
that the famous warrior, now dying,
would have botched the last month quite as badly as his successor, Ehud Olmert.
Olmert's waffling indecision about ordering a ground invasion of Lebanon,
which was approved, then delayed, then approved, then finally called off after
it had already begun, is war leadership that makes Shakespeare's Hamlet look
like a take-charge kind of guy. And so the demands for Israel to change its
leadership, begun last week, have
intensified, not only from
the redoubtable Caroline Glick in the right-leaning Jerusalem Post
but also, more significantly, in the left-leaning Haaretz, linked to
below.
But as Michael Ledeen points out in an excellent
column today, the failure in Lebanon is not primarily a personal failing by
Israeli and American leaders, nor is it a narrow military, tactical, or
political failure. It is a failure, he argues, for the same reason we've had to
fight a complex counter-insurgency war in Iraq:
The destruction of Hezbollah requires regime change in Damascus.
Security in Iraq and Afghanistan requires regime change in Damascus and Tehran.
Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, and Afghanistan are not separate conflicts. They are
battlefields in a regional war.
It is this "failure of strategic vision" that prevents our leaders from
winning the regional war—because they still think they are trying to manage a
series of disconnected local crises.
And as for the architects of the damnable ceasefire?
And the French are applauding as the Hizzies celebrate
their victory. But the french public has never seen a Hizzie. All they see is
women in hijab weeping.
But the [French] media gleefully report that the war ended in a
victory for Hizbullah...but don't mention France's role in handing them that
victory. N.Poller
UPDATE: Olmert is totally losing it. Is he a Hezb'Allah operative or what?
Hamas, the terrorist organization controlling Gaza, says it has received an
Israeli offer to free 600 terrorists - mostly women and minors - in exchange for
the abducted soldier Gilad Shalit. Full story here
There is a good reason that Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has accepted UN
Security Council Resolution 1701, which sets the terms for a cease-fire between
his jihad army and the State of Israel.
The resolution represents a near-total victory for Hizbullah and its state
sponsors Iran and Syria, and an unprecedented defeat for Israel and its ally the
United States. This fact is evident both in the text of the resolution and in
the very fact that the US decided to sponsor a cease-fire resolution before
Israel had dismantled or seriously degraded Hizbullah's military capabilities.
While the resolution was not passed under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter and so
does not have the authority of law, in practice it makes it all but impossible
for Israel to defend itself against Hizbullah aggression without being exposed
to international condemnation on an unprecedented scale.
This is the case first of all because the resolution places responsibility
for determining compliance in the hands of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Annan has distinguished himself as a man capable only of condemning Israel for
its acts of self-defense while ignoring the fact that in attacking Israel, its
enemies are guilty of war crimes. By empowering Annan to evaluate compliance,
the resolution all but ensures that Hizbullah will not be forced to disarm and
that Israel will be forced to give up the right to defend itself.
Kofi Annan has been stoking the flames of Jew hatred. His own blinding hate for the Jews has rendered him incapable of performing his duties in even the most basic capacity. He is a luxury a world spinning madly out of control can ill afford. He has got to go. He can not be fair or impartial. You could not have forgotten his rush to judgement to blame the Jews on the Hamas Gaza killings;
Retired Canadian Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie told Canada's CBC radio last week
that the Canadian officer Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, killed by IDF fire at a
UN post in Lebanon last Tuesday, had complained in e-mails that Hizbullah
fighters were all over his position. "They use the UN as shields knowing that
they can't be punished for it," said MacKenzie
Where os Kofi' outrage? Where is Kofi's condemnation of Hezb'Allah terrorists using the UN, women. children, as shield to kill innocent Jews?
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan slammed Israel for the attack, which killed
three other UNTSO observers, claiming that it had been intentional. Israel
apologized asserting that UN post had been targeted accidentally.
Israel is always apologizing. Ugh.
Hess-von Kruedener observed, in e-mails to MacKenzie, his former commander in
the Canadian army: "We have on a daily basis had numerous occasions where our
position has come under direct or indirect fire from both artillery and aerial
bombing. The closest artillery has landed within two metres of our position and
the closest 1,000 [pound] aerial bomb has landed 100 metres from our patrol
base.
"This has not been deliberate targeting," Kruedener said, "but has rather
been due to tactical necessity."
That last line has been read to imply that Hizbullah fighters used the UN
posts as cover from which to launch their rocket attacks and Israel had tried to
target them.
Mackenzie noted that the IAF's strikes have resulted in an extremely low
number of casualties given the amount of ammunition fired.
Kofi should be arrested. Conspiracy to murder.
Cry to those Using Babies as Sheilds
By
Naomi Ragen
My son is in the army. He is not the type at all, believe
me. Quiet, studious, a writer, a lover of Jewish history,
Talmud, ethics. He spent two years in a pre-army program in
the Galilee called Karmei Chayil. He made many good friends
there from all over the country, and now he and all his
friends are in the army. One of them I know well. A bit
chubby, with payot, and a great laugh. He and my son have
become like brothers. While both of them tried out for the
elite paratroopers unit, only he made it in. He and his
unit a re the ones in Lebanon. They were there over a week,
fighting under horrific conditions, running out of food and
water. Even though the Israeli airforce dropped tons of
leaflets warning civilians to flee because they were in
terrorist territory and likely to be injured, they still
encountered civilians.My son spoke to his friend
yesterday,and this is how he described it:
"The village looked empty, and then we heard noises coming
from one of the houses, so we opened fire. But when we
went inside, we found two women and a child huddled in the
corner of the room. We were so relieved we hadn't hurt
them. We took up base in one of the empty houses. And then
all of a sudden, we came under intense fire. Three rockets
were fired at the house we were in. Only one managed to
destroy a wall, which fell on one of us, covering him in
white dust, but otherwise not hurting him. I spent the
whole time feeding bullets to my friend who was shooting
non-stop. We managed to killed 26 terrorists. Not one of
us was hurt. Our commanding officer kept walking around,
touching everybody on the shoulder, smiling and encouraging
us: "We're are better than they are. Don't worry." It
calmed us all down. And really, we were much better then
them. They are a lousy army. They only win when they hide
behind baby carriages."
Please remember this when you hear about the "atrocity" of
the Israeli bomb dropped on Kfar Cana, killing many
civilians, a place from which Hezbollah has fired hundreds
of rockets at Israel. Unlike previous administrations, Mr.
Olmert has my respect when he says: "They were warned to
leave. It is the responsibility of Hezbollah for firing
rockets amidst civilians."
Terrorists and their supporters have lost the right to
complain about civilian casualties, since all they have done
this entire war is target civilians. Every single one of the
more than 2,500 rockets launched into Israel, is launched
into populated towns filled with women and children. Just
today, another suicide belt meant to kill civilians in
Israel was detonated harmlessly by our forces in Nablus. So
don't cry to me about civilian casualties. Cry to those
using your babies and wives and mothers; cry to those who
store weapons in mosques, ambulances, hospitals, and private
homes. Cry to those launching deadly rockets from the
backyards of your kindergartens and schools. Cry to the
heartless men who love death, and however many of their
troops or civilians die, consider themselves victorious as
long as they can keep on firing rockets at our women and
children.
Save your sympathy for the mothers and sisters and
girlfriends of our young soldiers who would rather be
sitting in study halls learning Torah, but have no choice
but to risk their precious lives full of hope, goodness and
endless potential, to wipe out the cancerous terrorist cells
that threaten their people and all mankind. Make your
choice, and save your tears.
That terrorists have been unsuccessful in killing more of
our women and children is due to our army, God and prayers,
not to any lack of motivation or intention on their part.
If you hide behind your baby to shoot at my baby, you are
responsible for getting children killed. You and you alone.
More on the Jew hating deceitful Kofi has been exposed in today's New York Sun. One of the four killed in the misfiring on the UN position wrote an email to his superior just days before complaining that Hezb'Allah was "all over us." Hezb'Allah is the target, no the UN he wrote;
An apparent discrepancy in the portrayal of events surrounding the deaths of four unarmed U.N. observers in Lebanon threatens to unravel Secretary-General Annan’s initial accusation that Israel “deliberately” targeted the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.
A Canadian U.N. observer, one of four killed at a UNIFIL position near the southern Lebanese town of Khiyam on Tuesday, sent an e-mail to his former commander, a Canadian retired majorgeneral, Lewis MacKenzie, in which he wrote that Hezbollah fighters were “all over” the U.N. position, Mr. MacKenzie said. Hezbollah troops, not the United Nations, were Israel’s target, the deceased observer wrote.
A senior U.N. peacekeeping operation official who briefed the press yesterday, however, said that on the day the deaths occurred, the only “known Hezbollah activity was 5 kilometers away.”The official’s briefing was conditioned on anonymity,
but the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, Jane Holl Lute, supplied the Security Council with similar information at an earlier briefing yesterday.
“To our knowledge, unlike the vicinity of some of our other patrol bases, Hezbollah firing was not taking place within the immediate vicinity” of the base that was hit Tuesday.
Based on reporting by the U.N.’s peacekeeping chief, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Mr. Annan alleged in Rome Tuesday that the incident was an apparent “deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a U.N. Observer post in southern Lebanon.” Although Mr. Annan began to backtrack yesterday, his spokeswoman, Marie Okabe, said he stood by the accusation.
Mr. MacKenzie, who after retiring from the Canadian military became a politician, had a very different interpretation. “I happen to know” the nowdeceased Canadian U.N. observer, Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, Mr. MacKenzie told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in a radio interview yesterday.
“We’ve received e-mails from him a few days ago and he was describing the fact that he was taking fire within, in one case, three meters of his position ‘for tactical necessity — not being targeted,’” Mr. MacKenzie said he wrote.
In one such e-mail, obtained by The New York Sun, Hess-von Kruedener wrote about heavy IDF artillery and aerial bombardment “within 2 meters of our position.” The Israeli shooting, he added, “has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity.”
Kofi is a liar and a murderer. He killed those "peacekeepers" just as if he pulled the trigger. Kofi must go. He is a danger to the world community and freedom loving people everywherre.
(4) Team Sierra is currently observing both IDF/IAF and Hezbollah military
clashes from our vantage point which has a commanding view of the IDF positions
on the Golan mountains to our east and the IDF positions along the Blue Line to
our south, as well as, most of the Hezbollah static positions in and around our
patrol Base. It appears that the lion's share of fighting between the IDF and
Hezbollah has taken place in our area. On the night of 16 July, at 2125 hrs, a
large firefight broke out between the Hezbollah and the IDF near a village
called Majidyye and lasted for one hour and 40 minutes.
(5) Based on the intensity and volatility of this current situation and the
unpredictability of both sides (Hezbollah and Israel), and given the operational
tempo of the Hezbollah and the IDF, we are not safe to venture out to conduct
our normal patrol activities. We have now switched to Observation Post Duties
and are observing any and all violations as they occur.
This is all the information of a non-tactical nature that I can provide you.
I cannot give you any info on Hezbollah position, proximity or the amount of or
types of sorties the IAF is currently flying. Suffice to say that the activity
levels and operational tempo of both parties is currently very high and
continuous, with short breaks or pauses. Please understand the nature of my job
here is to be impartial and to report violations from both sides without bias.
As an Unarmed Military Observer, this is my raison d'etre.
Deliberately targeted? Check out the Hezb'Allah flag and the UN flag flying side by side.Photo tip David
In recent days I wrote both here and here on how the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UNIFL was complicit in aiding and abetting Hezb'Allah in Southern Lebanon. So if Hizb'Allah was using the UNIFL as a shield is it any surprise that "peacekeepers" got killed? I mean, get serious. Kofi accusing Israel of deliberate murder shows what a Jew hater he really is. Not that that's a surprise.
[...] Hizb'Allah has been known to base itself right next to UNIFL
forces in the hopes that Israel would inadvertantly hit UNIFL in
response. This is understandable from Hizb'Allah's cynical [Cynical? savage is more like it - Atlas] perspective, but harder to fathom in relation to UNIFL's mandate to restore peace and security.
It is often noted that UNIFL failed in its mission, but even
that is too kind, to the extent that implies that its presence is
benign. In reality, UNIFL has provided more security to Hizb'Allah
than it has to Israel increasing the likelihood of conflict and helping
to make the current confilct inevitable. Jerusalem Post International Edition (no online link - transcribed from hard copy) More here
Israeli
Suspicion of UN Clouds Lebanon Force Plan An Israeli
commander at the Lebanese border recalls peering through binoculars one
afternoon to see UN peacekeepers sipping tea with Hizballah guerrillas. Some
Israeli leaders accuse UNIFIL of providing legitimacy to Hizballah, allowing it
to build up arms. Relations between Israel and the UN plummeted after
information emerged that UN peacekeepers on the Lebanon border suppressed video
tapes of three soldiers being abducted by Hizballah in 2000. "We know that they
had line of sight and could see the actual kidnapping. They could have put
roadblocks up to prevent Hizballah from escaping. But they didn't lift a
finger," said Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the UN. "There was
an international force in place in 2006 and it didn't prevent the current crisis
from erupting," Gold said. "What that means is that providing security for
southern Lebanon requires more than a knee jerk proposal to put international
forces on the ground." Efraim Halevy, a former director of Israel's Mossad,
noted, "Israel has a lot of experience with multinational forces. And it has not
been good." (Reuters) See also Hizballah
Uses UN Positions for Cover Hizballah
guerrillas were setting up rocket launchers near UN positions, spokesman Milos
Strugar said. (Los Angeles Times)
July 26, 2006: Israel expressed regret over the accidental bombing of the UN
observation post yesterday. Meanwhile, UN officials on the ground in Lebanon
admit that Hizbollah has been deliberately mixing in with civilians for
protection. Most of the Lebanese casualties have been caused by this tactic, as
the Israelis must either not attack Hizbollah troops and weapons, or fire and
hit the Lebanese civilians adjacent to the Hizbollah target. Strategy Page
UPDATE: UN Repairing Roads for Hezb'Allah
This might be the jawdropper of the day, as
today’s report from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon shows that the
United Nations is busily repairing damaged roads in Hizballah-controlled
areas—roads the IAF bombed specifically to impede Hizballah movement—right in
the middle of the war. (Hat tip: mich-again.)
UNIFIL is still facing
serious restrictions in its freedom of movement due to the ongoing hostilities
and the extensive destruction of roads and bridges throughout the area of
operation. Yesterday, a UNIFIL engineering contingent from China managed to do
some repairs on a key road artery between Tyre and Naqoura, and the road is now
usable for traffic. However, more road destruction was reported in various areas
in the south.
UPDATE: YOu must watch this video. Note "tactical necessity." Listen to all of this
Robert sent this video to me with the following note;
Not all Canadians are Wimpy. This is a respected
retired Canadian general. His interview is on a
CBC Toronto radio program. hat tip Robert W
We have to work with the Lebanese government to extend its authority over southern Lebanon.... The Lebanese government has indicated to me that already they've put in a thousand troops, and others will follow as the UN also moves down, and we will reinforce the UN troops on the ground.... Let me say that Hizb'A'llah .... is a player in the South of Lebanon... I did tell Mr. Nasrallah that Hizb'Allah exercised restraint, responsiblity, and dicipline after the withdrawal, and that we would want to see that continue, and I'm sure from the indications that he gave me that he intends to do it.--UN Secretary General Kofi Enema with Prime Minister Barak, June 21, 2000
A UN peacekeeping force is the very worst idea. Hizb'Allah's 12,000 rockets were amassed right under the nose of UNIFL (the UN's 28 year'interim' force.)
[...] Hizb'Allah has been known to base itself right next to UNIFL forces in the hopes that Israel would inadvertantly hit UNIFL in response. This is understandable from Hizb'Allah's cynical [Cynical? savage is more like it - Atlas] perspective, but harder to fathom in relation to UNIFL's mandate to restore peace and security.
It is often noted that UNIFL failed in its mission, but even that is too kind, to the extent that implies that its presence is benign. In reality, UNIFL has proviuded more security to Hizb'Allah than it has to Israel increasing the likelihood of conflict and helping to make the current confilct inevitable. Jerusalem Post International Edition (no online link - transcribed from hard copy)
In other words, the UN is part of the damn problem. Keep those low lives outta there. Although this latest statement from what must have been a lobotomized Egeland (I vlogged dhimmi Egeland on CNN here) was a good development;
UN Humanitarian Chief
Accuses Hizballah of Causing the Deaths of Hundreds in Lebanon UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland accused Hizballah on Monday of causing the
deaths of hundreds of Lebanese civilians during the past two weeks of
cross-border violence with Israel. "Hizballah must stop this cowardly
blending... among women and children," he said. "I heard they were proud because
they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of
this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and
women dead than armed men.
Israel's death toll stands at 36, with 17 people killed by Hizballah rockets and 19 soldiers killed in the fighting. (AP/Fox News)
UPDATE: From the "It Can't Happen Soon Enough" Dept;
Kofi calls on Israel to end it's lopsided response to terrorists invading
Israel. I ask this, where is Kofi calling the
750,000 innocent civilians killed by terrorists in Africa lopsided? --Atlas reader Lorin
U.N. Bias Against
Israel
U.N. institutional
structures consistently are used to isolate and vilify Israel.
Israel is the only
country in the world that is not eligible to sit on the Security Council, the
principal policy making body of the U.N. This situation violates the principle
of the "sovereign equality of all member states" of the U.N. under Article 2 of
the U.N. Charter.
Seven of the 140 items
submitted for a vote in the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) in 2002 were
anti-Israel. Last year, the UNGA adopted 19 anti-Israel resolutions.
Israel is the object of
more investigative committees, special representatives and rapporteurs than any
other state in the U.N. system. For example, a special representative of the
Director-General of UNESCO visited Israel 51 times during 27 years of activity.
The Director-General of the International Labor Organization has sent a "Special
Mission" to Israel and the territories every year for the past 17
years.
The "Special Committees"
and "Palestinian Units" of the U.N. spend more than $3 million a year,
essentially to spread anti-Israel propaganda. These bodies-the Committee on the
Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, the Division on
Palestinian Rights and the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs-are the
focus of the worst anti-Israel activity under the aegis of the U.N. They
organize, inter alia, the annual "Palestine Day" events at the U.N., as well as
symposia and other events.
The U.N. has repeatedly
held "Emergency Special Sessions" focusing solely on Israel. Originally
conceived in 1950 for emergencies like the Korean War, Emergency Special
Sessions over the past 15 years have only focused on Israel. No Emergency
Special Sessions were convened to examine the genocide in Rwanda, ethnic
cleansing in the former Yugoslavia or other major world conflicts.
The U.N. routinely
attempts to circumvent the founding principle of direct negotiations. The UNGA
passes annual resolutions that undermine the principles of the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process, based on direct negotiations between the two
parties. By proposing specific solutions to issues such as Jerusalem, the Golan
Heights and settlements, the U.N. pre-judges the outcome of negotiations.
Ironically, it was the U.N. Security Council that proposed bilateral
negotiations through Resolution 242 (1967) and 338 (1973).
The U.N. has failed to
investigate Palestinian actions supporting terrorism.
The U.N. has never
initiated any inquiry into Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority's role in
aiding and abetting terrorists, or passed one resolution condemning any
terrorist organization operating against Israel.
One glaring example of
the U.N.'s biased policy against Israel is the concealment and vehement denial
of the existence of videotape of Hezbollah's abduction of three Israeli soldiers
made by U.N. peacekeeping forces in Lebanon. For 11 months, the U.N. lied to the
world and denied the existence of any evidence related to the abduction. When
the cover-up was exposed, revealing the existence of the videotape, the U.N.
eventually showed Israel a heavily edited videotape with the faces of the
terrorists blurred. When asked the reason behind this, U.N. Secretary General
Kofi Annan stated it was due to the U.N.'s standing as a neutral
organization.
The U.N. has tolerated
and fostered anti-Semitism and anti-Israel propaganda.
The U.N. has condemned
virtually every conceivable form of racism. It has established programs to
combat racism and its multiple facets - including xenophobia - but has
consistently refused to condemn anti-Semitism. It only was on November 24, 1998,
more than 50 years after the U.N.'s founding, that the word anti-Semitism was
first mentioned in a U.N. resolution (GA Res. A/53/623).
"The Talmud says that if
a Jew does not drink every year the blood of a non-Jewish man, he will be damned
for eternity." -Saudi Arabian delegate Marouf al-Dawalibi before the 1984 U.N.
Human Rights Commission conference on religious tolerance. A similar remark was
made by Farouk al-Chareh, the Syrian Ambassador to the U.N., at a 1991 meeting,
who insisted Jews killed Christian children to use their blood to make matzos, a
charge recently recycled in a Saudi government sponsored newspaper.
On March 11, 1997, the
Palestinian representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission falsely charged
Israel with injecting 300 Palestinian children with the HIV virus.
The U.N. Human Rights
Commission promotes anti-Israel, anti-Semitic resolutions.
The Commission on Human
Rights routinely adopts totally disproportionate resolutions concerning Israel.
Of all condemnations of this agency, 26 percent refer to Israel alone, while
rogue states such as Syria and Libya are never criticized.
Last summer's conference
on Human Rights in Durban, South Africa, was devoted almost entirely to
condemning Israel. The conference was boycotted by the United States and
Britain.
The United States was
kicked off the U.N. Commission for Human Rights in May 2001, despite being one
of the most outspoken advocates for human rights and a founding member of the
Commission. It was replaced by Sierra Leone and the Sudan, both of which have
records of abuses of human rights, including slavery and the forced use of
children as soldiers. The United States recently regained its seat after a
yearlong absence.
John Bolton Does a Question and Answer with America on Dayside
This is a great exchange between Ambassador Bolton and regular folks. These VLOGS are excerpts of Bolton's appearance earlier today on FOX's Dayside, and it's excellent. Watch th!em all but particularly poignant is the burst of applause the audience broke into when Ralph Peters (third video in the series) thanked him for his extraordinary work.
Why hasn't this man been confirmed? Write your Congressman now.
Reuters Senate Republicans on Friday scheduled a
confirmation hearing on John Bolton, who is serving as U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations on a presidential appointment, as the White House renewed its bid
to get Bolton approved by the Senate.
In a word? Woot!
Ralph Peters asked a series of questions. Good stuff. CLICK LINK below for ALL OF THE VLOGS
The UN and more specifically Kofi Enema is a Jihadi tool. Everything they touch turns to shit. 30 million in gulags still in North Korea, Darfur- the UN has assisted in the murder, child slavery, rape as torture, by doing nothing- for years, oil-for food, human rights abuses in Iran, China, Cuba, the systematic abuse of women living under Islamic regimes.
I am listening to Kofi now................hec omes down decidedly on the sdie of te Jihadis. . I will load the speech as soon as possible.
No sir, you, you are to be condemned. Shame on you. NO UN FORCES IN LEBANON/ISRAEL. Israel is fighting enough enemies. Has the world the forgotten that there have been UN peace keepers on the border in Southern Lebanon, and they used to fly the Hezbollah flag on the UN flagpole? The UN also routinely permitted Hezbollah from firing short range rockets into northern Galilee.
JOHN BOLTON CLEAN UP AISLE TURTLE BAY.
UPDATE: JULY 21
Israeli
Suspicion of UN Clouds Lebanon Force Plan An Israeli
commander at the Lebanese border recalls peering through binoculars one
afternoon to see UN peacekeepers sipping tea with Hizballah guerrillas. Some
Israeli leaders accuse UNIFIL of providing legitimacy to Hizballah, allowing it
to build up arms. Relations between Israel and the UN plummeted after
information emerged that UN peacekeepers on the Lebanon border suppressed video
tapes of three soldiers being abducted by Hizballah in 2000. "We know that they
had line of sight and could see the actual kidnapping. They could have put
roadblocks up to prevent Hizballah from escaping. But they didn't lift a
finger," said Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the UN. "There was
an international force in place in 2006 and it didn't prevent the current crisis
from erupting," Gold said. "What that means is that providing security for
southern Lebanon requires more than a knee jerk proposal to put international
forces on the ground." Efraim Halevy, a former director of Israel's Mossad,
noted, "Israel has a lot of experience with multinational forces. And it has not
been good." (Reuters) See also Hizballah
Uses UN Positions for Cover Hizballah
guerrillas were setting up rocket launchers near UN positions, spokesman Milos
Strugar said. (Los Angeles Times) See also Hizballah
Rockets Hit UN Observation Post (AP/Washington
Post)
Saddam Hussein’s regime paid millions of dollars to a South
Korean businessman to create a “secret backchannel” to top UN officials,
including Boutros Boutros Ghali, then the UN Secretary-General, US prosecutors
alleged today.
The claim, formally naming Dr Boutros Ghali for the
first time, was made at the start of the first US trial over the UN’s
Oil-for-Food scandal.
“Tongsun Park has access at the highest levels of the UN. Tongsun Park had
his price. Tongsun Park sold his access to the UN. He sold it to the Iraqis,”
Michael Farbiarz, a federal prosecutor, told the jury. “Cash by the bagful was
sent to the US and doled out to Tongsun Park by an agent for Iraq.”
While Kofi takes the time out of his busy pilfering and extorting schedule to smear Israel with the Gaza beach Pali Arab murders, see who is sitting on the *NEW*, *IMPROVED*,"human rights" (more like human deaths) council -- check this out (hat tip Norman);
The Iranian prosecutor implicated in the death of Montreal photojournalist
Zahra Kazemi is part of a delegation at a new UN human rights body that was
created to replace a commission widely discredited for allowing human rights
abusers too much power.
The attendence of Saeed Mortazavi made a "mockery" of the inaugural meeting
of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, according to critics.
The move also angered human rights activists and defenders of press
freedom.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened the inaugural council session on
Monday, urging the member states to mark a "clean break" from the practices of
the now-disbanded Human Rights Commission, which had become infiltrated with
human rights abuser states.
The only clean break I can think of is Kofi's neck - figuratively guys. Figuratively (like this)- as the left goes tapping on their sticky keyboards that Atlas is calling for Kofi's death.
Hillel Neuer, a Montrealer and excutive director of activist group UN Watch,
said he was shocked to see Mr. Mortazavi in the council hall.
"There is nothing more obscene than seeing someone alleged to have been
involved in torture and possible murder sitting there as a dignitary," Mr. Neuer
said. "Unfortunately, we're reminded that the Human Rights Council is still a
case of the foxes guarding the chicken coop. There may be less foxes than there
were in the commission, but that should not put anyone at ease."
If you are unfamiliar with Kazemi and who she was and how horrible her murder go here for the backstory.
Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi died in Iranian custody on July
11, 2003, almost three weeks after she was arrested for taking pictures outside
a prison during a student protest in Tehran.
Two days later, Iran's
official news agency reported that Kazemi had died in hospital, after suffering
a stroke while she was being interrogated. On July 16, 2003, the story changed.
Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Iran's vice-president, conceded that Kazemi died as a
result of being beaten.
Later, the Iranian government would charge an
Iranian security agent in Kazemi's death. He was acquitted of a charge of
"quasi-intentional murder. In July 2004, Iran's judiciary said the head injuries
that killed Kazemi were the result of an "accident."
The case stayed
under the radar screens of most Canadians until March 31, 2005, and the stunning
revelations of Shahram Azam, a former staff physician in Iran's Defence
Ministry. He said he examined Kazemi in hospital, four days after her arrest.
Azam said Kazemi showed obvious signs of torture, including:
Evidence of a very brutal rape.
A skull fracture, two broken fingers, missing fingernails, a crushed big toe
and a broken nose.
Severe abdominal bruising, swelling behind the head and a bruised shoulder.
Deep scratches on the neck and evidence of flogging on the legs.Read it all
The massive injuries suffered by Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi while in
Iranian custody were so disturbing to the doctor who examined her that he felt
compelled to flee the country to expose what happened.
"I am a physician who is sworn to save peoples' lives," said Dr. Shahram
Azam, through an interpreter at a news conference in Ottawa Thursday. "When I
saw with my own eyes someone who has been tortured, without any doubt it
affected my mental state."
Nice. My hat's off to the UN, they always manage to outdo themselves.
UPDATE:Please sign the petition here and help let the world community know that it is a mockery of human rights if the chief prosecutor of a terrorist regime is allowed to sit on the human rights commission.(hat tip Iran Press News)
If the Democrats can't get elected legally(which they can't), they intend to grab power using international strong arm tactics. When Malloch Brown was talking down to the American people last week (and later insisting it was not a partisan issue- "this is not partisan, not Republican",) scant attention was paid to the Democrats in attendance.
What went less noticed, however, was that the conference at which Mr Malloch
Brown spoke featured a host of Democratic policymakers who also called for a
greater US engagement with multilateral bodies. The meeting highlighted an issue
that its organisers suggested could become an important theme during November’s
midterm elections in the US. Financial Times
I called the Soros backed posturing here on my VLOG.
Power and Superpower”, organised by the Center for American Progress and the
Century Foundation, two left-of-centre groups, sought to frame a new “muscular”
US policy of engagement with international institutions.
Just for knowing the President of Center for American Progress is John Podesta, yes that John Podesta, Poontang Clinton's Chief of Staff. Sarah Rosen Wartell is his Executive Vice President for Management
Ms. Wartell served at the White House during the Clinton Administration. As Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, she advised the President and senior White House officials on domestic economic issues. And so it goes.
There is clearly a very specific agenda here. And I want those looters and moochers to know that we ignorant hayseeds are all over it. We are watching, listening, tuned intoRush and FOX. You won't get this by us. Uh uh.
John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress and co-organiser of
the conference, said the challenge was to “flesh out what it means to be a
muscular internationalist”; to “build a vision where the US takes its rightful
place as a leader of the multilateral community”. [ishcabibble ishcabobble - Atlas]
“We can’t solve the problem of global warming without multilateral action; or
proliferation without actors operating in concert with another,” he told the FT.
“Ultimately, that means we have to accept constraints.” [Global warming. It's the Jihad stupid - Atlas]
Madeleine [not at]Albright, former secretary of state, issued a “clarion call for
militant moderation. If we do not recognise international standards, others will
not as well”. [Well isn't that fucking brilliant , this from the architect of North Korean Nuclear weaponry. Why doesn't she take an apartment with Helen Thomas. Separated at birth- Atlas]
More, an extension if you will, of what Robert Spencer calls the "deep affinity between the Left
and the forces of global jihad."
This guy is such a pimp, no wonder he gives UN peacekeeping rapists and human traffickers a free pass. Annan doubts IDF Gaza shelling findings. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan doubts the findings of an IDF inquiry into the Gaza beach shelling. Just before the publication in Tel Aviv of the results of the Israeli forensic investigation — and based on no independent findings of his own — Mr. Annan said blaming the event on a Palestinian Arab planted mine sounded “odd.” And I find it rather odd that Kofi would not address the barrage of hundreds of Kassam rockets into the town of Sderot. Homes, school, and children's bedrooms haverendered that town a ghost town. Where is Kofi's outrage? Where is Kofi's (and the world's) outrage over the kidnapping of an American Jew in Israel this past weekend (only to be released when his American status was discovered.) Nobody gave a shit when it was at first thought to be 'just' an Israeli. It got no media at all. None
Kofi spews his bile;
"The Israeli claim that the beach blast was caused by an explosive charge
at the site sounds strange to me. I don't believe it is plausible that
the Palestinians planted charges in a place where civilians often spend
their time," Annan told the London-based Al-Hayat daily.
Civilians? C'mon Kofi, shame on you. When Kofi gets mad at America he takes it out on Israel. He sent his patsy Malloch out there with a nasty message for the American hayseeds and got his ass handed to him. The Palis won't accept medicine for their 'civilians.' Speak to that duplicitous one.
Annan said he would send a representative on his behalf to the
region to investigate the Palestinian claims that an IDF shell killed
the Ghalia family on the Gaza beach.
Who is he sending the UN peacekeeping rapists or his money grubbing thieves?
Palestinian legislator Saeb Erekat, a close aide to PA Chairman
Mahmoud Abbas, called for an international inquiry. He complained that
Israel was trying to blame the Palestinians and warned, "this means
that this crime could re-occur."
Uh oh, Hamas must be laying more mines. Warn the actors civilians.
n Gaza, Human Rights Watch military expert Marc
Garlasco inspected the shrapnel at the scene and saw the wounded. He
concluded that the blast was caused by an Israeli shell. However, he
held open the slim possibility that it was planted there by Palestinian
militants, though fragment patterns did not back that.
Kofi Enema is relying on Garasco? Klinghoffer has the 411 on that knave here;
Marc Garlasco, of Human Rights Watch, told reporters recently, "What
happened at Haditha appears to be outright murder. The Haditha massacre will go
down as Iraq’s My Lai."
When Garlasco appeared on Sean Hannity’s radio show to discuss his views with
Hannity and retired Marine colonel Oliver North, Garlasco immediately
back-pedaled, admitting under questioning that he had "no idea of the
facts" in the situation. Like his fellows he steadfastly refused to allow
his ignorance to prevent him from judging the Marines. As one Marine said,
"killers like O.J. Simpson and Scott Peterson received more respect from the
press than our fellows are getting. It’s disgraceful."
He is at it again. This time he dismisses the findings of the
Israeli army investigation of the Gaza Beach incident. It concluded that
Israel was not responsible for the civilian deaths based on a careful
analysis of TV film of the aftermath and shrapnel taken from the injured treated
in Israel. Those revealed that not only was the timing of the explosion
inconsistent with Israeli shelling but
According to the Foreign Ministry’s Web site, the quality of the shrapnel was consistent with an explosion caused “by a bomb rather than a shell.”
Photographs of the crater left on the beach were caused by “an explosion from below (a mine),not a hit from above (a shell),” according to the Web site.
In addition, Israeli intelligence officers “amassed considerable information” indicating that “Hamas has been systematically mining the northern Gaza beach in an attempt to keep Israeli commandos from landing there again,” the three-day investigation found.
Kofi. what are they paying you?
Ronnie Daniel, military correspondent for Israeli Channel 2 TV has said that
an Israeli doctor managed to extract a metal shard from the body of one of the
Palestinians wounded in the June 9th incident on the Gaza beach, who were taken
to Israeli to be looked after.(Guysen.Israכl.News)
Palestinian doctors had tried to remove all the shards before
transferring the wounded to Israel. The metal compostion of the shard does not
match the metal found in Israeli artillery shells. The metal has not yet been
analyzed.
If you deloused the UN would there be anyone left in the building? The latest scandal? In today's NY Sun
Report: U.N. Commits Human Rights Abuses Against Its Staff
SOONER SENATOR IN HEATED DISCUSSION WITH ANNAN’S DEPUTY OVER AMERICAN ATTITUDES
UNITED NATIONS — Far from a beacon of justice to the countries of the world,the United Nations is “in breach of its own human rights standards because of the unfair way it treats its own employees,” according to a report due to be released today by an independent panel of three international jurists hired by Turtle Bay’s Staff Union to investigate the United Nations’s internal justice system.
The three-man panel, headed by a British jurist who played a key role in such cases as last year’s decision to send former Argentinian dictator Pinochet to stand trial in his homeland, Justice Geoffrey Robertson, was appointed after U.N. staffers repeatedly complained about abuse by their superiors in the organization and the lack of accountable bodies in which to air their grievances.
“It was an eye opener,” Mr. Robertson told The New York Sun yesterday. Describing a system where everything is conducted “under wraps and in secret,” he said justice is all but impossible for Turtle Bay employees.The existing structure “is a sclerotic system that dates back to the League of Nations,” he said, adding he doubted it could be reformed under the current leadership of Secretary-General Annan.
Fire the bum. And his motley crew of newly minted robber barons.
Once again we can count on Kofi Annan to pounce on the latest Jew hating device to alienate Israel from the rest of the world while empowering savages, murderers -- in other words like-minded kindred Kofi anti-spirits. And jump on it he did, even though the ruse was exposed almost immediately.
The secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, was "deeply
disturbed," he said in an official statement on Friday, at the killing of women
and children picnicking on a Gaza beach, committed "reportedly by Israeli
forces."
Eyeless in Gaza, Mr. Annan carelessly relies on heart-wrenching press
photographs
juxtaposing Israeli shelling with a child crying over her dead
mother's body. Israel, meanwhile, fears inflaming the region where myths about
the supposed Jewish thirst for innocent Arab blood quickly translates into a war
cry for billions of Muslims around the world. More here
This story was suspect from the first. I revealed to all the malevolent, diabolical charade that the Jew killers were perpetrating back on Friday here. But let's be honest, does Kofi care if it's a lie. No way. Kofi reports to these savages. He pays the jiyza. He and his flying monkeys.
In other words, Malloch Brown is a clerk. A clerk (who btw could not get elected dog catcher (when he ran for a similar post). What is unacceptable is not so much the criticism of
the Bush Administration, which is bad enough, but the fundamental illegitimacy
of an "international civil servant" criticizing a UN member government, and even
worse, criticizing the citizens of that member government for being ignorant.And Kofi vetted that speech.
BTW, while pompous Malloch Brown is holding the American people in contempt, brand new reports are emerging of UN peacekeepers sexual abuse crimes in Lberia.Right now . No link yet.
“Maybe it is fashionable in some circles to look down on Middle America, to
say they don’t get the complexities of the world and they don’t have the benefit
of continental education and they are deficient in so many ways,” Mr Bolton
added. “It is illegitimate for an international civil servant to criticise what
he thinks are the inadequacies of citizens of a member government.”
The tough-talking US envoy reiterated that the dispute could harm important
reforms to the international body. He also hinted that the US Congress, which
controls American government spending, might reconsider US funding to the UN,
which accounts for 22 per cent of the organisation’s annual budget. “Congress
has the power of the purse and they feel quite strongly on a bipartisan basis
that America has a right to know how their tax dollars are being spent, even
people from Middle America,” he said, with a note of sarcasm. “I don’t think we
have seen the end of it.” (Hat tip Rick)
John Bolton is firing everyone. I say jail time too. Crimes against humanity.
John Bolton, like fine wine, just keeps getting better and better. How he manages to accomplish so much in such a cesspool is one for the books. While Malkin is reporting that The United Nations is calling for censorship of the US (hat tip David);
The United Nations is complaining that Americans
are undermining it with criticism--you know, because the actions of its own
corrupt, incompetent officials have nothing to do with its squandered
credibility.
The 'esteemed' Warren Hoge over at The New York Times wrote a 'serious' piece on this whining. In Yiddish there is an expression "on duh gonif brent a hittle" translation: "on the thief the hat burns." In other words, Mark Malloch Brown's head is on fire.
Secretary General Kofi Annan's deputy assailed the United States
on Tuesday for withholding support from the United Nations, encouraging
its harshest detractors and undermining an institution that he said
Washington needed more than it would admit.
Agreed. It needs a complete overhaul, starting with terminating Brown.
"The
prevailing practice of seeking to use the U.N. almost by stealth as a
diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic
critics is simply not sustainable," said the deputy, Mark Malloch
Brown. "You will lose the U.N. one way or another."
It's lost. Completely, utterly morally bankrupt.
In a highly
unusual instance of a United Nations official singling out an
individual country for criticism, Mr. Malloch Brown said that although
the United States was constructively engaged with the United Nations in
many areas, the American public was shielded from knowledge of that by
Washington's tolerance of what he called "too much unchecked
U.N.-bashing and stereotyping."
Highly unusual indeed. But The Times was right there, lapping up it up like a good little organ grinder's monkey.
Who was it that said, "they only conspire against greatness." Reading this spineless sobfest would be funny if the UN weren't in a position to be so dangerous. Hey John, you must be doing something right. You have them on the run...... running to their propaganda organ The New York slime Times.
"Much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News," he said.
Two voices in a chorus of screaming lefty lunatics (and Fox just barely but to be fair they are the only network that have done important reporting on the greatest swindle off the backs of the oppressed in world history - oil for food.)
''The U.N.'s role is in effect a secret in Middle America even as it is
highlighted in the Middle East and other parts of the world,'' Malloch Brown
said.
I love when they talk down to the American people. Like we don't know our ass from our elbow. Just the opposite Brown, we (me and Middle America) are so onto you.
U.S. officials, including Bolton, said they were especially upset that
Malloch Brown, a Briton, mentioned ''Middle America.''
Bolton said Malloch Brown's ''condescending, patronizing tone about the
American people'' was the worst part about the speech.
Woot!
''Fundamentally and very sadly, this was a criticism of the American people,
not the American government, by an international civil servant,'' Bolton said.
''It's just illegitimate.''
Love that man.
John Bolton, with truth as his sword (ha!), is cutting the fat,
man. John, I don't think there is a cannula large enough to suck out
all that fat. Bring in the Marines.
In a move bound to ruffle
feathers at Turtle Bay, the American ambassador, John Bolton, yesterday
advocated mass resignations by the top appointees who run the United
Nations bureaucracy, so a new secretary-general, who is scheduled to
assume office at the beginning of next year, could pick his own team.
Mr. Bolton, a strong believer of sweeping change at the United
Nations, told The New York Sun that once a new leader assumes office on
January 1, not only should the heads of various departments, known by
their title of undersecretary-generals, leave, but also those directly
underneath them, known as assistant secretaries-general.
"I strongly recommend that all appointees, ASGs and above, should
resign their posts to give the new secretary-general a lot of
flexibility," he said
Such mass resignations could extend to top movers and shakers at the
United Nations, where for the last 10 years Secretary-General Annan
presided over some of the roughest periods in the history of the
institution.[and might I add the very worst 10 years in UN existence, the worst - Atlas] The article is The New York Sun here
He's right of course. Expect a low down dirty fight. Those pigs will not move away from the trough $ without some real ugliness.
But I do think the US should censure.... it's wallet
UPDATE: U.S. Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-IL), Chairman of the House International Relations Committee Con Brown's comments here:
" Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown has unfortunately misinterpreted United States objectives at the United Nations. U.S. insistence on reform is a recognition of the U.N.'s global importance. Linking U.S. contributions to the U.N. with essential U.N. reforms is not 'unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping,' but an effort to induce reforms that will allow the United Nations to serve its invaluable function. The reforms we support are reforms that the Deputy Secretary-General himself acknowledged are essential."
d'oh (why bother?)
UPDATE: You must WATCH THIS VIDEO. Casting pearls (Bolton) before swine Malloch
Ambassador John Bolton:"This was the worst mistake by a UN official in more that 25 years". ....Gateway has more here
UPDATE: June 8 From New York Sun editorial "Who lost the UN";
He [Malloch] complained that Americans — he didn’t call them “stupid hayseeds” but he implied it
And then he got to his point – which was to enter the 2008 American election campaign against the Republicans. He tried to disguise that as a bipartisan remark, talking about not only Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt but also Arthur Vandenberg and John Foster Dulles. “Who are their successors in American politics?” he demanded. “Who will campaign in 2008 for a new multinational national security?” It was a veritable call to the hustings to the John Kerrys and Albert Gores of the Democratic Party left. It was a public bet on the Democrats taking control of one or both houses of the Congress. His landlord, Mr. Soros, must have been rubbing his hands in glee. It may be that the Democrats will win. But it may not. And if the U.N. is lost, the historians will ask, Who lost it?
Verbal fisticuffs as the forces of good and evil went at it at the United Nations yesterday. The groundwork is being laid for the coming bloodshed. If the papers and networks ignore it, it won't make it go away. This is war;
New York Sun (Paid Only):A verbal brawl erupted at the Security Council yesterday as it debated the subject of terrorism. During the skirmish, Syria accused Israel of starting World Wars I and II, as well as “contemplating” a third world war.
The anti-Semitic outburst by the Syrian representative, Ahmad Alhariri, as well as allegations by his Iranian colleague, Ahmad Sadeghi, countered comments from Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Dan Gillerman, who said both Syria and Iran are part of an “axis of terror” that would pit them against a group of anti-terrorism “allies” in a “World War III.”
Secretary-General Annan released a statement on the exchange after Lebanon requested a cease-fire. Diplomats considered the statement even-handed, but it failed to mention a Security Council resolution that called on all Lebanese militias, including the most well-organized, Hezbollah, to be disarmed by the Lebanese government.
Spineless Annan
“Iran uses Hezbollah to fight its war by proxy,” Mr. Gillerman told the council yesterday, speaking during a speech at a periodic session evaluating international counterterrorism efforts. “We hold not only the government of Lebanon fully responsible for all terrorist activity initiated from its territory,but also hold responsible the governments of Iran and Syria for harboring and supporting Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations.”
truth teller
The “axis of terror is alive and active,” Mr. Gillerman said. “Leaders of Hamas meet regularly with, and have been offered financial assistance by, the president of Iran. The very same president who calls for the annihilation of another member state denies the Holocaust and is attempting to develop the nuclear capabilities to perpetrate the next one.”
The world “is no longer divided between rich and poor and north and south,” Mr. Gillerman added. “It is divided between those who join in this fight and those who do not.”
Mr. Gillerman [...] said, the council was able to “hear lectures about terrorism from two of the greatest experts on that subject.”
UPDATE: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
discussing the Holocaust with Der Spiegel, a German news magazine.;
"One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the
Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the
opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence,
an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion
on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will
contribute to the solution of global problems. Under the pretext of the
Holocaust, a very strong polarization has taken place in the world and fronts
have been formed. It would therefore be very good if an international and
impartial group looked into the matter in order to clarify it once and for all.
Normally, governments promote and support the work of researchers on historical
events and do not put them in prison"
Very sick, very debased, very United nations. The UN peacekeepers are back at it;
Aid Workers Are Said to Abuse Girls girls are being sexually exploited by United Nations
peacekeepers, aid workers and teachers, according to a new report.
This is hardly new, here are just a few previous cases I wrote about in the Atlas sphere,
Funny money on Iraq International Herald Tribune If the Bush administration wants to start winning back its
credibility, honest budgeting for the war in Iraq would be one good place to
start.
STFU, you dickless wonders. Liberty has no price, freedom is priceless. This is the news out of Iraq;
al Qaeda Iraq weakness may reflect reality Reuters A purported al Qaeda document published by the U.S.
military may or may not be authentic [the left wing media has to say that , it is al-reuters after all- Atlas] but its message that the Sunni Islamist
guerrillas face problems in Iraq could reflect reality, security experts said on
Tuesday. [aha!-Atas]
Bolton leap frogging the UN......watch it sink under its own weight
UNITED NATIONS — Iran yesterday increased the heat of the dispute over its development of nuclear weapons by threatening to attack Israel if America commits any “evil” act around the world.
And as the U.N. Security Council begins contemplating how to counter the Iranian defiance, Ambassador John Bolton told Congress yesterday that Washington may bypass Turtle Bay and assemble like-minded countries to impose sanctions on the mullah regime.
The latest Iranian threat came as Israel marked its memorial day for war victims yesterday on the eve if its Independence Day celebrations. “We have announced that wherever America does something evil, the first place that we target will be Israel,” the Revolutionary Guards commander, Rear Admiral Mohammad-Ebrahim Dehqani, said, according to the Iranian news agency ISNA.
Secretary-General Annan’s spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said yesterday the United Nations advises all sides to “lower the rhetoric and focus on the diplomatic discussions.” But Israel believes the Iranian threats are beyond rhetoric. NewYork Sun
Yeah, Steph, everyone is paying attention to you (unintentional nosespray!)
“You have to listen to the Iranians very carefully, because they mean what they say,” Israel’s deputy U.N. ambassador, Daniel Carmon, told The New York Sun yesterday. “This is not only about Israel. The Iranians endanger the whole world.”
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations officials yesterday were adamant that
no exchange of favors was involved in awarding an appointment to a top
Turtle Bay position to a man who had just bestowed on Secretary-General
Annan an international prize worth a half-million dollars.
Are
they fcking kidding me? And wait it get's better. Coffee Enema says the
half a mil is going into his "foundation" which btw does not even
exist. Yeah, it hasn't been set up up, but we have.
The UN
Environmental Programme gave out its 2006 Champion of the Earth awards on 21
April, 2006. The awards are intended to honor individuals or groups "for their
creativity, vision and leadership, and the potential of their work and ideas for
replication across the globe." One of those justified in receiving this award –
in the UN's estimation - was Iranian Massoumeh Ebtekar. She was Vice President of the Islamic
Republic of Iran and Head of the Department of Environment from 1997-2005. But
Ebtekar has another name - "Screaming Mary" – given to her by the American press
during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Mary was her nom de guerre and Ebtekar
was the hostage-takers' spokesperson.
Push back is desperately needed. I sincerely hope " Islamist Watch," a
new project to combat the ideas and institutions of nonviolent, radical Islam in
the United States and other Western countries can begin to undo the irreparable harm Islamic terror and intimidation has brought to bear on Western society(s);
Islamic groups and governments are pressing ahead with a campaign to have
international organizations take steps, including legal ones, to provide
protection for their religion in the wake of the Mohammed cartoon
controversy.
Who needs protection from who?
In a drive pursued largely away from the headlines, the
Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC) is promoting the issue at the
United Nations and European Union, and having some success.
Yes, I would imagine it would be "largely away from the headlines."
The executive
council of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
this month approved an agenda item entitled "respect for freedom of expression,
sacred beliefs, values and religious and cultural symbols."
Hmmmmmmmmm...................like the Star of David? Is that why the International Red Cross will not allow Israel to be a member?
Introduced by more than 30 Islamic states and the subject of considerable
debate, the motion explicitly tied freedom of expression to " respect for
cultural diversity, religious beliefs and religious symbols."
It also
directed UNESCO's director-general to carry out a "comprehensive study of all
existing relevant international instruments."
The motion did not refer directly to the furor over the publication of cartoons
satirizing Mohammed, although an "explanatory note" offered by the OIC members
did.
The publication of caricatures of the Prophet of Islam has caused
deep and widespread offense and indignation within the Muslim community
around the world," the note said, adding that respect for religious symbols and
beliefs and freedom of expression were "indissociable."
"Given the
importance of religion to peoples and to dignity and the way of life in
different cultures, respect for different religious beliefs is essential to
international peace and security and to the progress of human civilizations," it
said.
The Saudi-based OIC secretariat is spearheading the international
campaign of response to what it has called "wanton provocation and reckless,
blasphemous libertarianism cowering behind so-called freedom of the
press."
oy.........and of course the "international community is bending over."
The UNESCO move is just the
latest illustration of the way the OIC and its 56 member states are using the
cartoon episode to apply pressure on the West to comply with Islamic
norms.
At an OIC meeting in Istanbul
this month, OIC secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu urged representatives
of Islamic states to approach their counterparts in the West "with the aim of
defending the interests of the Muslim world, presenting the true image of Islam
and combating the stereotype perceptions about Islam and Muslims."
thugs
In an
earlier accomplishment, OIC members last February succeeded in pushing through a
last-minute amendment to the preamble of a U.N. resolution establishing a new
U.N. Human Rights Council.
We need to push back.
The OIC addition to the text referred to the
important role of states, NGOs, religious groups and the media "in promoting
tolerance, respect for and freedom of religion and belief" - but made no
balancing reference to freedom of speech.
They sure can turn a phrase. Every word a euphemism. Every word.
'Support mosque construction'
The Islamic campaign has won sympathetic responses from some senior U.N.
and E.U. figures.
"Your anguish over the publication of insulting
cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed is clear and understandable," Secretary-General
Kofi Annan said in a message read on his behalf at an OIC gathering in Istanbul
this month.
Who bends over better than Koffee Enema? ugh
While he said all should speak up for freedom of worship and
freedom of speech, he added: "We must exercise great sensitivity when dealing
with symbols and traditions that are sacred to other people."
Interesting gobbledygook coming from an anti-Semite.
Addressing
a meeting of European imams in Vienna, Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik of
Austria - the current E.U. president - also referred to the cartoons. "Freedoms
do have limits that should not be overstepped," she told 300 Muslim religious
leaders from across the continent.
Tell that to the dead men and women as a result of the cartoon jihad.
At the same gathering, the head of the
E.U.'s official anti-racism body bemoaned what she said was a "dangerously high"
level of anti-Muslim discrimination in Europe.
Could she be referring to the rioting in France perhaps?
Beate Winkler, head of the
European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia, said E.U. governments
should provide time for religious programs on public broadcasters and support
mosque construction.
Participant Turfa Bagaghati of the European Network
Against Racism -- an E.U.-funded NGO -- told Islam Online it was time Muslims
pressed "for their rights, like enacting laws banning aggression on Islam."
When I first saw this news item on the wires, I didn't comment because I am skeptical (to put it mildly)
and I think this is a gratuitous move on the part of Annan especially
since the Islamic
Republic of Iran was just elected to serve as the Vice-Chair of the U.N. Disarmament Commission. I think the UN is useless and ought to go the way of the League of Nations. Annan is a tool of the Axis of Islam and as long as he serves their ends he enjoys the ill gotten stature of his deal with devil.
On the day a Palestinian Arab suicide bomber
killed nine people in Tel Aviv, two dozen speakers, mostly from Arab and Muslim
countries but also from Cuba and Venezuela, lined up at the Security Council to
denounce Israel.
"Terje Roed-Larsen ... tries to meet the demands of the Israeli agenda through
the Lebanese gate," Ali Ammar, one of Hizbullah's 14 MPs, told the Lebanese
Broadcasting Corporation television.
But despite Annan's criticism for Hizbullah's
continued armed presence along the borders with Israel, he said that he had
"further taken positive note of repeated statements by Hizbullah's leaders that
indicate their willingness to disarm through design of, and Hizbullah's
integration into, a broad national defense strategy mechanism for the protection
of Lebanon. These are commendable developments." huh? More Here hat tip Daryl
But I respect and trust Bolton and if he says it is "significant "I will reserve judgment.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Iran as well as Syria on Wednesday to
cooperate in trying to restore Lebanon's political independence and disarm
militias, the first time the UN chief has issued a report linking Tehran to
instability in Lebanon.
US Ambassador John Bolton said Wednesday that Annan's decision to single out
Iran was "significant" and "an important step forward" because it recognizes
"that Iran's financing terrorist groups in Lebanon and Syria has a significant
impact on what happens in those two countries."
Annan mentioned Iran in a report on implementation of a September 2004
Security Council resolution that called for the withdrawal of all foreign forces
from Lebanon, the disbanding and disarmament of all militias, and the extension
of government authority throughout the country.
The secretary-general made no mention of Iran financing terrorist groups. But
he did note the "close ties, with frequent contacts and regular communication,"
that Lebanon's Hizbullah guerrillas, who are listed as a terrorist group by the
United States, have with Syria and Iran.
Iran
elected deputy for Asian nations of UN Commission on Disarmamentwhich
states, 'United Nations Commission on Disarmament on Tuesday elected Iran as
deputy for Asian nations.' To top this off is the irony of yesterdays IRNA
story: Campaign
against hegemony, a global move today: President This comes from Fanatical Midget with nukea (and a Napoleonic complex) who proclaimed it is Iran's very intention to make Tehran
the capital of the World and every state subject to the degenerate governance of
Asshats and Sharia. hat tip Earl
But not to worry!, Koffee Enema has arrived with his typical swagger, boulevardier that he is! He has the answer.......drumroll please;
Recent years have brought a cascade of scandals
at the United Nations, of which the
wholesale corruption of the Oil-for-Food relief
program in Iraq has been only the most visible. We
still do not know the full extent of these debacles—
the more sensational ones include the disappearance
of UN funds earmarked for tsunami relief in
Indonesia and the exposure of a transnational network
of pedophiliac rape by UN peacekeepers in
Africa—and we may never know. What we do
know is that an assortment of noble-sounding efforts
has devolved into enterprises marked chiefly
by abuse, self-dealing, and worse.
Seen by many, including many Americans, as the
chief arbiter of legitimacy in global politics, the
UN is understood by others to be the only institution
standing between us and global anarchy. If
that is so, the portents are not promising. The free
world is grappling with threats from the spread of
radical Islam to North Korea’s nuclear blackmail
and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear bombs. The UN, despite
its trophy case of Nobel prizes, has failed so
far to curb any of these, just as it failed abysmally
to run an honest or effective sanctions program in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Currently it is gridlocked
over matters as seemingly straightforward as cleaning
up its own management department.
In the effort to address the UN’s manifold problems,
there have been audits, investigations, committees,
reports, congressional hearings, action
plans, and even a handful of arrests by U.S. federal
prosecutors. There have been calls for Secretary-
General Kofi Annan to step down before his second
term expires at the end of this year. hat tip Iran Press News
You have got to read it all and bookmark it - permanently.
The United States has decided not to seek a seat on the newly created United Nations Human Rights Council.
The new council replaces the
discredited Human Rights Commission, which lost support because too
many of its members were themselves accused of serious human rights
abuses.
JB: So I don't take the view that there is no good that can come of it. But
it's now so encrusted in this management and corruption. It is so out of our
control. That's what this reform effort is all about, you can see it now, if
you follow-- and I think you have -- this debate over the human rights
commission, the so called reform is so bad even The New York Times and The
Washington Post support our position to vote against it.
Atlas: Which is shocking.
JB:"Which is amazing
Atlas: [More laughter]
The article ends with the following;
It was not immediately clear why the United
States has chosen not to take part
In a word, bullshit.
UPDATE: US Envoy
Agrees UN Culture Needs "Radical Overhaul" US Dept of State (press release) -
Washington,DC,USA Washington -- Structural problems at the United
Nations run deep and the organization's culture must be changed, says US
Ambassador JohnBolton. ...
Bolton just keep getting better and better. I just love this guy
John Bolton has called for an early pick for Kofi Annan's successor, to allow an
adequate transition period. More here
That and maybe help save the free world. In two words, long overdue. Kofi was an abject failure. And in other seemingly endless battles with the corrupt, lethargic behemoth, John takes on the world. heh, no contest.
History shows us that genocides can happen only if four important
conditions are in place. There must be the cover of a war. Ethnic grievances
must be manipulated and exaggerated. Ordinary citizens must be deputized by
their government to become executioners. And the rest of the world must be
persuaded to look away and do nothing. This last is the most shameful of all,
especially so because genocide is happening again right now in Darfur and the
world community has done precious little to stop the killings.
* * *
What is happening in Darfur is exactly what happened in my home
country of Rwanda, which was left to choke on its own blood from April to July
of 1994.
The United Nations took virtually no action during the genocide.
A detachment of well-equipped peacekeepers, made up of less than one-twentieth
of the American troops now stationed in Iraq, could have easily stopped the
killings without risk and sent the powerful message that the world would no
longer tolerate mass murders of civilians, a real expression of the phrase
"Never Again." But this simple act was deemed, then and now, to be somehow
beyond the power of the United Nations, the United States, NATO, the European
community and everybody else with the real power to stop another holocaust.
BRITAIN is pressing for a United Nations resolution that would open the way for
punitive sanctions and even the use of force if Iran were to refuse to halt its
controversial nuclear programme.
In a confidential letter obtained by The Times, a leading British
diplomat outlines a strategy for winning Russian and Chinese support by early
summer for a so-called Chapter VII resolution demanding that Iran cease its
nuclear activities.
If the Government in Tehran refused to comply with
such a resolution, the UN Security Council would be legally compelled to enforce
it.
The strategy marks a significant hardening of the Government’s position.
Iran leader sanctions Iraq talks with US (Reuters) Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday
sanctioned talks with the United States on Iraq, saying Iranian officials would
tell the U.S. to leave the country.
China said on Thursday, a day after Russian
President Vladimir Putin left Beijing, that Beijing and Moscow are in accord on
Iran's nuclear standoff with the West.
The main thrust of Bolton's speech (followed by a Q&A) was to speak to three specific issues where the UN has been involved in the Middle East, and the ups and downs of UN activity.
The short answer to whether the UN can be effective in the Middle East is "it depends. It depends on the circumstances."
First Issue: Syria out of Lebanon
Bolton spoke first and in great detail "finally extracting Lebanon from the grip of Syria." This phenomenon we've witnessed for decades to the point where basically we've all gotten used to it." "Not to date myself or anything but my first recollection of Lebanon was Eisenhower sending troops in in 1958."He goes on, "through the decades the situation got completely out of hand. For a number of years we have not a Lebanon functioning as an independent state."
Due to a confluence of events not the least of "which the United States and France, the reestablishment of a French American working relationship on the subject, the Syrian assassination of the former Lebanese prime Minister Hariri, which caused an international outcry, and frankly the work that we've been doing over a sustained period of time to explain to other friends and allies the pernicious role that Syria has played in the region as a whole, fostering or at least permitting the flow Of terrorist finance, weapons and personnel into Iraq where they took action against American and other coalition forces, their continuing harboring of terrorist groups like Hamas, Hizbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Damascus.....their continued efforts, serious continued efforts in weapons of mass destruction and finance of conventional weapon systems that threaten Israel and our forces in the region." All of these things combined in getting the necessary support on the Security Council to pass resolution 1559, ordering the complete withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon....and to address the manifold ways Syria exercises control over the Lebanese government.
"We know Syrian intelligence services are still present in Lebanon, still threatening people in Lebanon, the government of Lebanon."
More to come, gotta run
Second issue: On the UN and Iraq
"I just last week gave a quarterly report to the Security Council on behalf of the coalition forces describing the security situation there, urging again greater UN involvement , this is not something we are resisting in the Bush administration, quite the contrary, we would like and more importantly the government of the new Iraq would like additional UN participation.
We understand the UN was shocked and saddened, as we all were, at the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad that killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, Secretary General special representative- I knew Mello quite well from Bush 41, I had a lot of respect for him, he'd undertaken a very courageous mission as were all the UN personnel there and it's entirely understandable from a human perspective why the UN was saddened and hurt by this terrorist attack.
You might have noticed there are a lot of terrorist attacks in Iraq, it's a battlefield in the war on terrorism, our colleagues our fellow Americans who are out there whether military or civilian are all at risk, so are the Iraqis. So are the Iraqis who are trying to build a stable and democratic society for themselves, so are all the non governmental organization personnel who are providing assistance, humanitarian and other ways. We are prepared to provide whatever protection is needed for additional UN involvement. We think it beneficial for the country, we are prepared to assist.
So let there be no misunderstanding on this point. This is a case where the UN could take a society which had been ruled by a dictatorship for decades, where the people yearn for the chance to have a free and safer existence. The UN could be playing a much larger role and it's not because we're resisting, quite the contrary, we're urging it as strongly as we can and this is something we wish the other governments were lobbying the Secretary as hard as we are.
[In other words, Kofi and co. are pussies. They are happy to steal, cheat, embezzle from the poor in Iraq but when they are really needed? When they could really be useful, effective and make a difference? They turned tail and ran, and they are still running -Atlas]
Third (and most pressing) issue: Iran's Clandestine Nuclear Weapons program
"The administration has been concerned right from the outset. One of the things we tried to do at the beginning of the administration was create a new strategic framework between the United States and Russia." One which we made a lot of progress. We eliminated the unnecessary in fact harmful 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty to free up the US to create and develop missile defenses against launches by rogue states."
[..] 2/3 reduction strategic warheads. We had considerable success with the Russians on the strategic offense and defensive side. Where we have not had success reflected again even in recent days is in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and in particular nuclear weapons, Iran being the perfect case study.
We have pursued a peaceful and diplomatic course against Iran's nuclear weapons program for 3 1/2 years with IAEA . It's been our view during the entire period of time that Iran's program clearly violates the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. That program constitutes a threat to international peace and security, it belongs in the Security Council, it's now there. Long overdue in our view but there with the support with the EU countries and indeed the IAEA and both Russia and China as well.
It's now been two weeks since the exploration of the agreement of the foreign ministers of the five permanent members agreed in London in January that they would refer Iran to the security council and we would wait a month to allow the IAEA to meet one more time and then we would take action in the Security Council. Two weeks since that brief hiatus and in two weeks we have found we are once again at loggerheads among the five permanent members about what we are going to do on this subject.
We believe that Iran should be told in unmistakable terms that it should comply with nearly a dozen IAEA resolutions that have called on it to suspend its uranium enrichment program. To get out of the business of trying to have a completely indigenous capacity in the nuclear fuel cycle. We have supported incredibly generous offers by the EU3 (England, France, and Germany) and by Russia that would provide nuclear fuel for its so0called civilian nuclear reactors.
The Iranians have rejected all of these offers. They have said there is no way they are going to accept any circumstance other than that can enrich uranium domestically.
We are now at a testing time in the Security Council.
During the Cold war the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle between freedom and communism. It was blocked by the Soviet Union and communist China when they were admitted.
This test to the Security Council now is whether it will be relevant to the greatest threat we face today. The threat of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Even worst of all, the confluence of those two, terrorists getting weapons of mass destruction
[...] As the President has said, we do not oppose Iran
enjoying the benefits of peaceful, safeguarded nuclear energy. It is clear,
however, that Iran's pursuit of the nuclear fuel cycle is neither peaceful nor
solely for civilian energy generation. Frankly, Iran's track record justifies
this suspicion. As the resolution adopted on February 4 by the IAEA Board of
Governors notes, there have been "many failures and breaches of its obligations
to comply with its NPT Safeguards Agreement." Put differently, with rights come
responsibilities -- responsibilities that Iran has not come close to meeting.
Our work with the international community to seek a peaceful, diplomatic
resolution within the UNSC is not the only tool we will use to address this
problem. In addition to our diplomatic efforts at the IAEA, the UN Security
Council, and bilaterally, we are beefing up our defensive measures to cope with
the Iranian nuclear threat.
Ambassador John R. Bolton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Testimony before the House International Relations Committee Washington,
DC
A top commander of U.S. forces expressed doubt Sunday that negotiations
between the United States and Iran over Iraq would help bring peace and
stability in the Middle East.
"I don't have a lot of confidence that these will turn out to be productive,
but I could be wrong," said Gen. George W. Casey, the top commander in Iraq.
"They're playing, I think, a very delicate balancing act," he said of Iran.
"On the one hand, they want a stable neighbor. On the other hand, I don't
believe they want to see us succeed here." hat tip Jim D
Basta! The UN must go the way of the league of nations. The prejudice against the West and its blatant anitsemitism has infected the whole of the UN body and rendered it incapable of achieving any good. It is a terrorist enabling arm.
Almost completely disregarding Palestinian Arab aggression against Israel's
Jews, a United Nations envoy has sought to lay the blame for regional conflict
at the doorstep of the Jewish state by misrepresenting and exaggerating Israel's
defensive measures and isolated acts of frustration.
In a special report prepared for next week's annual meeting of the UN Human
Rights Commission, South African lawyer John Dugard charged:
"It seems that settlers are able to terrorize
Palestinians and destroy their trees and crops with impunity."
What he failed to mention, however, are the innumerable stoning, shooting and
bombing attacks carried out against the Jewish settlers by the hostile Arab
population surrounding them. Often those attacks are launched from the cover of
olive groves and fruit orchards, prompting frustrated and threatened Israelis to
take matters into their own hands.
Dugard also criticized official Israeli defensive measures both in Gaza and
the "West Bank." Story here
HAMAS has formed a government with no moderates in it. Theyhave refused to renounce their vow to destroy Israel and have refused to adhere to or respect previous "peace" treaties.
The violent Hamas government must be met with crippling economic sanctions. The World Bank has warned these sanctions would
devastate poverty-stricken Palestinian territories but it doesn't have to be this way. Bread lines are already beginning to form. In order to be a member of the civilized world, certain civilized behavor is de rigeuer. The Jews must be free to live and raise their children to live, learn, contribute..........does anyone really believe that Israelis want their children to go straight into the army for three years right after high school. WTF would want that?
Put this on your radar screen a/s/a/p. An international gun to your head to rob you blind so the UN can what? Fund terror? This is outrageous.
A few months ago the UN had its sights firmly on the Internet. Thanks to
Kincaid and others these designs were exposed early on and the UN was forced
temporarily to back off taxation of the Internet. The retreat is only tactical -
one step back to
take two steps forward.
Kincaid has discovered a meeting at which UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
delivered a major but virtually unreported speech to a UN Conference at the end
of February and the first of March 2006 at which he challenged delegates to have
the courage to levy international taxes. The meeting was hosted by that great
friend of America French President Jacques Chirac.
[...] the UN proposal to tax us for the first $200 billion.
If the UN were not blocked in this clear usurpation of power the $200 billion
would be only the beginning. The United States takes in about $2 trillion in
taxes. Surely the UN can figure how to duplicate that amount.
The Chirac-Annan conference was titled "the Paris Conference on Innovative
Financing Mechanisms" and apparently behind the back of the United States
Government the UN is planning its taxation schemes almost immediately. Read it all here Photo toon: ihillary
Rub your eyes, read it again. we need to support Cliff Kincaid at America's Survival Inc. (Kincaid@comcast.net) Researcher Cliff Kincaid has "devoted his life in recent years to studying what
is happening at the United Nations. He fortunately has a strong stomach." We need him as our
watchdog, informing us about the latest UN outrages. If he were not on top of
these developments we might never know about them in time to act. I think Bolton is otherwise engaged in trying to save the world from a nuclear holocaust. When the cat's away the rat will play.
The UN is on a roll -- over us..........they can't save a life in the Sudan but they can circle jerk with this nonsense;
United Nations
hands victory to Western Shoshone Attorneys for the Western Shoshone Indian Tribe of Nevada say the
United Nations has ruled in their favor. Monday the tribe announced the UN has
decided the human rights of tribal members are being violated by the United
States government.
Well, I read Atlas Shrugs, Power Line, National Review blogs ...... ... Ambassador John Bolton
I'm a fan! - Mark Steyn
Fearless, intelligent, beautiful -- Pamela Geller wears her Supergirl
costume well.
Pamela Geller is a dynamo of energy and
a paragon of courage and fearlessness.
-- Robert Spencer, JihadWatch in his book Stealth Jihad
You do great work with your blog. -- Geert Wilders
"Courageous insights from a pulchritudinous pundit!!" Dr. Andrew Bostom, Leading Scholar on Islam
"Great site," Dick Morris
"Indeed, some of Israel's best friends and most articulate defenders can be found in the blogosphere .... Atlas Shrugs, [et al] all provide a refreshing alternative to the moral relativism and politically correct anti-Israel blather of the media. Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post
"The best there is," Beryl Wajsman, President Institute of Public Affairs
Speaking to the unnamed, unchampioned, beating heart of her new land, Ayn was to say: 'Yours is the glory.'"
A man whose ability and independence leads others to reject him, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values. Man as an individual, as a creator. What's the most depraved type of human being? Not a sadist or a murderer or a sex maniac or a dictator; "The man without a purpose." Yet most people seem to go through their lives without a clearly defined purpose.
Life has Loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fires that sways and swing,
And children's faces looking up,
Holding wonder like a cup
Life has Loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of Gold,
Scent of pinetrees in the rain,
Eyes that love you,
arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy stars that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of Peace
Count many a year of strife well lost
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
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