Friday - July 28, 2006

Through The Looking Glass

“Storm Tracking Map”
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UNIFIL

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In the 28 years since 1978, the UNIFIL “peacekeeping” force deployed in Southern Lebanon has managed to maintain approximately zero amount of peace. The only good thing they accomplished was to draw a pretty map. Now you can use this treasured artifact as your very own Storm Tracking Map. Now you can follow the action when the Lamestream Media talks about “Bint Jubayl” and “Haddatha”, names that would tax anyone’s brain. Click on the image above to get your very own king-size (1024x807) tracking map. Now you can know precisely where everything is ... except UNIFIL. They departed Lebanon today. Adios.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/28/2006 at 02:34 PM   
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Keep The Penny

(USA TODAY) - July 11, 2006 - Because of the soaring price of zinc, it now costs nearly a penny-and-a-half to produce a penny. If the U.S. Mint were a for-profit business, the next step would be pretty automatic — it would shut down penny production or quickly reduce the penny’s cost by changing its content. The Mint, however, has the luxury of considering what is best for the country as a whole in making such a momentous decision.

What is in the interest of the nation? It should discontinue minting the dear old penny.

In fact, economists of all political stripes have concluded it’s time to get rid of the penny even if the Mint could make it at zero cost. On the left, Princeton’s Paul Krugman puts it this way in the introductory textbook he co-authored, Economics: With average wages now at $17 per hour, a penny is “equivalent to just over two seconds of work — and so it’s not worth the opportunity cost of the time it takes to worry about a penny more or less.” The rising value of our time “has turned a penny from a useful coin into a nuisance.”

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   Tuesday - July 25, 2006

Pounding Sand

Tough Noogies, Kofi! Git yer impotent parasites outta there. Israel has had enough of your crap. Call us back in a few weeks after Hezbullah has been reduceed to smoldering ruins. That is all ...

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the strike on a clearly marked U.N. border outpost was “apparently deliberate” and demanded Israel investigate. A bomb dropped by an Israel warplane scored a direct hit on the post in the town of Khiyam, near the eastern sector of the border, U.N. officials said.

The victims were from Austria, Canada, China and Finland, U.N. and Lebanese military officials said. It was not immediately known which two were confirmed dead.

Daniel Ayalon, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., called Annan’s reaction “deplorable.” He said the observers were caught in crossfire between Hezbollah and Israel. If Israel is found to be responsible for the deaths, it was not deliberate, he said.

“To level this accusation that it was deliberate is just outrageous and shocking and I hope he will apologize,” Ayalon told CNN.

- More horsefeathers at CNN ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/25/2006 at 08:52 PM   
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Confirm Bolton!

His nomination as US Ambassador to the United Nations is coming up again this week and it’s time for the Democratic obstructionists and Republican RINO’s to shut up and confirm John Bolton. This partisan nonsense has gone on quite long enough.

John Bolton has done an admirable job during his tenure under an interim appointment. The spoiled brats on the Left and in the Democratic Party had their fun. Now it’s time to let the grownups get on with business. John Bolton gets my vote. Write or e-mail your Senator today and tell him or her to confirm John Bolton. We need a strong hand in the United Nations snake pit now more than ever.

Confirm John Bolton Now
_{July 20, 2006}

Sen. George Voinovich’s (R.-Ohio) idiotic reasoning that he will now support John Bolton as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations gives Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R.-Tenn.) a perfect opening to bring up Bolton’s nomination for a confirmation vote.

When President Bush gave Bolton a recess appointment last August, Bolton was coming off a bruising fight in the Senate. Voinovich had surprised Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee by announcing his reluctance to support Bolton, handing Democrats the momentum they desired to stall the nomination.

Democrat obstructionists succeeded when a cloture vote on Bolton failed. Fortunately, Bush chose to bypass the Senate and appointed Bolton as UN ambassador anyway through a recess appointment. At the same time, Bush renominated Bolton, leaving it up to the Senate to act. For nearly a year, Bolton has waited to be confirmed for the job permanently.

In that time, Bolton has demonstrated his ability to be an effective UN ambassador, championing the much-needed message of reform. He brought a fresh perspective to the United Nations, and the criticism voiced by Voinovich and Democrats—that he didn’t play well with others—has proven to be moot.

Bolton has taken a lead on human rights issues, starting with the structure of the new Human Rights Council. He correctly held the United States out of the new council after U.S. proposals were rejected.

Bolton also deserves credit for his efforts to change the way the UN spends money. Despite resistance from less-developed countries that seek to control the process, the United States must continue pushing for management and personnel reform. Bolton is right to criticize the countries resisting change. As the oil-for-food scandal made apparent, reform is needed.

Bolton also has been a steady force in condemning terrorists and their sympathizers as crises have emerged in North Korea, Iran and Israel. He has done a good job articulating the U.S. position on these rogue regimes.

- More on the story at Human Events Online...

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/25/2006 at 08:21 AM   
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   Monday - July 24, 2006

UN: Useless Nuts

UNIFL: United Nations Interim Forces Lebanon - since 1978 the UN has had a “force” of 2,000 so-called “peacekeepers” in southern Lebanon. If you are ever asked to describe something that is utterly useless, ineffective and totally impotent feel free to use this as an example. The United Nations is nothing but a 60-year-long running joke but the only people laughing are the “diplomats” from all of the Third World pestholes who enjoy harassing the major powers.

What has UNIFL accomplished since 1978? Give me one example to justify the existence of this force and I’ll shut up and sit down. You can’t, can you? Then why do we continue to support this organization of useless weasels? So we can have some dipshit “Humanitarian Chief” issue a “strong reprimand”? Turn out the lights, send them home and raze the building to the ground. Now!

_{Randy Bish - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review}

U.N. Humanitarian Chief Condemns Destruction Of Beirut
_{(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) - Sunday, Jul. 23, 2006}

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israeli bombing in Lebanon on Sunday killed at least six civilians and three Hezbollah fighters, and Hezbollah fired rockets that killed two people in the Israeli city of Haifa. In Beirut, U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland toured bombed-out areas of the Lebanese capital and called Israel’s destruction in the city “a violation of humanitarian law.” He said he saw “destruction, block after block, and mostly in residential areas.”

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left Washington on Sunday for a brief visit to Israel, and then planned to go to the Palestinian headquarters in the West Bank and an international conference on the conflict in Rome. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy were in Israel on Sunday seeking an end of the fighting.

There was little optimism, however, that the two-week war in Lebanon would stop soon. The war has made even factions in Lebanon that don’t support Hezbollah increasingly angry at Israel. Israeli officials, meanwhile, indicated that they might accept a multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon eventually, but that for now the fight would continue. The Israeli military seeks to cripple Hezbollah’s militia so that it can no longer fire rockets from Lebanon into Israel.

Yossi Alpher, an Israeli expert on strategic issues, said he sees little in the current debate suggesting the war will end soon. “This is taking longer than the original estimates, but the ground war could go on for quite some time,” he said. “There will come a time when air and ground forces are creating less and less success, and then we’ll start to hear serious talk about a cease-fire.”

When that time comes, both Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Livni, the foreign minister, said that they would be willing to see a multinational force enter southern Lebanon to maintain a safe buffer. ”Our past experience with the U.N. was disappointing,” Livni said. Israel’s government would prefer NATO forces this time, she said.

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   Tuesday - July 18, 2006

Meanwhile …

These are not the warships you’re looking for. Move along. Nothing to see here.

So says the US Navy. Of course the visit was planned months in advance. The logistics of deploying this much hardware requires that much lead time. It is convenient though ... and somewhat comforting to know that the carrier group is on hand in case Kim Jung Mentally Ill decides to get uppity - especially after the recent bottle rockets the NoKos fired off.

Which brings me to the crux of the matter ... if we’re constantly being tasked to be the world’s policeman then why in hell are we paying dues to the United Notions. They ought to be paying us for this crap! Instead, they make us pay more than any other country, squat on prime real estate in New York and give us a hard time.

It’s time to tell Kofi And Gang to “pony up for protection” ... and sit down and STFU when we bust the bad guys for them. Send them a bill for Saddam’s capture - which they approved. A few trillion dollars ought to do it ...

U.S. Warship in S.Korea
Amid Missile Issue
—SEOUL, South Korea (AP)
July 18, 2006, 4:21 AM EDT

The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise arrived in South Korea Tuesday for a routine port call, officials said, amid heightened tensions in the region over North Korea’s missile launches.

The group led by the nuclear-powered carrier USS Enterprise, and including a guided missile cruiser, attack submarine and other ships, arrived for a previously planned port call at the southeastern city of Pusan, the U.S. Navy said in a statement.

“The Norfolk, Virginia-based carrier’s deployment to the Western Pacific was planned months in advance and is not in response to any current or recent events,” the statement said. U.S. military officials would not say how long the naval strike group would be in Pusan, but local media said it would stay for four days.

The communist North fired seven missiles earlier this month, including one believed capable of reaching the U.S. The missiles plunged into the sea east of the Korean Peninsula without causing any known damage or injuries, but prompted strong international condemnation. It wasn’t clear how long the vessel will stay at the port.

It is the first time in 17 years for the Norfolk, Virginia-based Enterprise to travel to Pacific waters. The carrier’s deployment to the Asia-Pacific region is “part of a regular rotation of vessels in support of U.S. commitments to around the world,” the Navy said.

About 29,500 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea, which remains technically at war with the communist North since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty.

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   Wednesday - July 12, 2006

Strongly Deplore

Protesting Missile Tests

A South Korean protester burns a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and North’s flags during an anti-North Korea rally in Seoul, on July 5.

North Korea test-launched six missiles including a long-range Taepodong in an early morning barrage, defying stern international warnings of retaliation and prompting concerns that it could follow with more tests. (AP/ Lee Jin-man)

China, Russia Float Own Plan on N. Korea
—_{UNITED NATIONS (AP) - July 12, 2006, 1:57 PM EDT}

China and Russia introduced a resolution Wednesday deploring North Korea’s missile tests but dropping language from a rival proposal that could have led to military action against Pyongyang. The draft, obtained by The Associated Press, “strongly deplores” North Korea’s missile tests last week and urges Pyongyang to re-establish a moratorium on such launches.

It requests—but does not demand—that all U.N. members “exercise vigilance in preventing supply of items, materials, goods and technologies that could contribute” to North Korea’s missile program. The resolution also calls on member nations “not to procure missiles or missile-related items” or technology from the North.

Chinese Ambassador Wang Guangya said he had been instructed to veto a much- stronger Japanese resolution, which is supported by the United States, Britain, France and four other countries. Wang previously said Beijing objected to three key elements in the Japanese draft: the determination that the missile tests threatened international peace and security; authorizing action under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which can be enforced militarily; and mandatory sanctions aimed at curbing North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs.

The Chinese-Russian draft resolution drops those three elements, which Japan and the United States consider crucial. Japanese Ambassador Kenzo Oshima and U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said they were still prepared to put their resolution to a vote—even with the prospect of a Chinese veto. Oshima called the Chinese-Russian draft “a move in the right direction” but said “a quick glance shows that there are very serious gaps on very important issues.”

“I think it will be very difficult for us to accept that as it is,” Oshima said. Bolton also cited “deficiencies,” notably the Chinese-Russian draft’s elimination of the reference to the tests as a threat to international peace and its use of the weaker word “calls” rather than “decides” in the Japanese text.

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   Tuesday - July 11, 2006

Useless Numbnuts

Someone please tell me exactly what the UN has done for anything or anyone in the last sixty years that couldn’t have been accomplished just as easily with normal diplomacy between countries. The building on Turtle Bay in New York is a money pit and a snake pit, all rolled into one. The sooner the US gets out of the UN and kicks the buggers out of the country, the better off we’ll be.

_{Michael Ramirez - Investors Business Daily}

UN Delays Vote On Possible North Korea Sanctions
—_{(CBC NEWS - AP) - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:52:08 EDT}

The UN Security Council’s five permanent members and Japan agreed Monday to postpone a vote on possible sanctions against North Korea for its missile test that rattled the region last week. Jean-Marc de La Sabliere, France’s ambassador to the UN and the current council president, said there would be no vote Monday. Wang Guangya, China’s UN ambassador, said council members have agreed to continue discussions on the Tokyo-sponsored resolution.

Guangya told reporters after a meeting with envoys from Russia, the United States, Britain, France and Japan that the resolution would have to be altered for the council to approve it. “If they wish to have a resolution, they should have a modified one, not this one,” he said. China’s consideration of any resolution was considered significant, since Wang had been pressing for a weaker Security Council statement, which would not be legally binding.

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Washington would look at any Chinese suggestions for changes, and the council would re-evaluate “on a daily basis” whether to proceed with a vote. The Kyodo News agency, citing unidentified Japanese officials, reported that Japan and the United States were seeking a renewed moratorium by North Korea on missile testing, and its unconditional return to six-party talks on its nuclear program, in exchange for withholding sanctions.

- More bilgewater from the UN here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/11/2006 at 09:18 AM   
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   Saturday - May 20, 2006

United Notions

Here I was, all prepared to enjoy a beautiful Spring day and the United Space Aliens of Turtle Bay have to go and make asses out of themselves ... and the Washington Post just doesn’t seem to get it.

First, the asshats imprisoned at Gitmo are not “terrorism suspects” - they are captured enemy combatants. Got that? They were captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan and Iraq trying to kill people. There is nothing “suspect” about them.

Second, if we want to keep these dangerous enemy soldiers locked up until hell freezes over, that’s our business and the UN can go pound sand. If this UN committee wants to do its job then go to Darfur and harass the Sudanese government.

Four hundred captured terrorists in a swank, pampered prison is a long way from a human rights violation whereas two million displaced and/or murdered Africans would seem to be slightly in violation of somebody’s human rights.

Does the UN really give a damn about trying to help in the world or are they just out to harass the US? That was a rhetorical question - we all know the answer ....

Military Prison’s Closure Is Urged
U.N. Panel Faults Detention Policies
_{Saturday, May 20, 2006}

UNITED NATIONS, May 19—A U.N. anti-torture panel Friday called on the United States to close its prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to expressly ban controversial interrogation techniques, and to halt the transfer of detainees to countries with a history of abuse and torture. The U.N. panel, charged with monitoring compliance with the 1984 Convention Against Torture, which the United States has ratified, also asserted that the CIA imprisonment of suspects in secret detention facilities without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross constituted a clear violation of the treaty.

Bush administration officials countered that the U.N. Committee Against Torture had not given the United States a fair hearing, that it had overreached its authority by calling for Guantanamo’s closure, and that its report is riddled with errors and misstatements. “We acknowledge that there were serious incidents of abuse. We’ve all seen Abu Ghraib,” the State Department’s top lawyer, John B. Bellinger III, told reporters. But “clearly our record has improved over the last few years,” he said.

The 11-page report was issued one day after two Guantanamo Bay detainees tried to kill themselves by overdosing on antidepressants. The attempts brought to 41 the number of inmates who have tried to commit suicide since 2002, Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., commander of Guantanamo Bay detainee operations, said Friday. After the unsuccessful suicide attempts, Guantanamo Bay inmates rioted, attacking guards with electric fans and other improvised weapons after a prisoner lured them into a cell by faking an attempt to hang himself. Guards subdued them by firing sponge grenades and five rounds of rubber balls from a 12-gauge shotgun, Harris said.

The U.N. report was a rebuke for the Bush administration and some of the main counterterrorism approaches it adopted after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It was delivered as the United States faces increasing pressure from international critics, including U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. The administration has engaged in an internal debate over the fate of the controversial island facility.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday that President Bush has made it clear “he doesn’t want the United States to be the world’s jailers, that we at some point in the future would very much like to see Guantanamo Bay closed down.” But, McCormack added, “at the moment, it’s housing some dangerous people.”

- More UN whining can be read at the WASHINGTON POST ...

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   Wednesday - April 19, 2006

Most Ridiculous headline Of All Time (and then some)

You can’t make this s**t up. All you have to do is sit and wait for the United Nations to issue another statement. It just gets better and better every day. I disagree with John Bolton in his assessment of the UN - the top ten floors are not enough ... raze the building to the ground and into the ground about a hundred feet, then fumigate the entire site with a small tactical nuke. Removal of the “diplomats” beforehand is optional ...

Iran Elected Deputy For Asian Nations Of UN Commission On Disarmament
_{New York, April 11, IRNA}

UN-Disarmament-Iran: United Nations Commission on Disarmament on Tuesday elected Iran as deputy for Asian nations. The UN Commission opened its annual meeting on Monday which will work until April 28. The UN Commission on Disarmament which is subsidiary organ of the General Assembly will review disarmament and international security.

The Commission could not reach unanimity in the past two year owing to US objection to put disarmament on the agenda of the specialized commission and adopt an action plan for enforcing disarmament at international level. Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member states have pushed for the agenda of disarmament and Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in the current annual meeting.

NAM member states issued a statement on the first day of the annual meeting calling on nuclear states to respect their commitments of demolishing their nuclear arms. They also called on Israel to sign up to NPT and give access to all its nuclear sites for monitoring by UN nuclear agency.

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   Friday - February 17, 2006

Kofi Must Go

Rather than just get rid of Kofi and replace him with another America-bashing crook, why don’t we just shut the damned place down and be done with it. In sixty years the UN has proven to be a money pit for the US and an invitation to every crooked, despotic regime on the planet to use the world stage to spout more and more nonsense.

We have poured billions into this useless organization and gotten absolutely nothing in return except the further animosity of the rest of the world. I have a very simple social philosophy: if you don’t like me and all you want to do is call me names and harass me, I’ll be damned if I’ll let you into my house to do it. Take your shit elsewhere. I don’t have to put up with it and I’m sure not going to provide you with drinks and snacks while you pound on me.

The rest of the world is entitled to their opinion of the US but I think it’s altogether best if they take it to Switzerland or someplace else where we can happily ignore their constant bleating and venomous infighting. While we’re at it, let them finance the damned thing too. Everyone’s entitled to voice their opinion of us ... just not on our dime ...

Bolton Launches Talks on Replacing Annan
February 17, 2006, 3:41 AM EST
UNITED NATIONS (AP)

The U.S. ambassador opened Security Council discussions on the next U.N. secretary-general, calling the choice of a replacement for Kofi Annan probably the most important decision the world body will make this year. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, the council’s president this month, called a meeting of the five veto-wielding permanent members Thursday “to get a sense of where the council is, so that we can begin to move forward on the issue.”

Annan’s second five-year term ends on Dec. 31 and his successor must be approved by the General Assembly based on a recommendation from the council. At the moment, the permanent members—the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain—are divided on when to choose the next U.N. chief and where he or she should come from.

By tradition, the job of secretary-general rotates by region—and Asian and African nations, who represent the majority of the 191 U.N. member states, believe it is Asia’s turn to lead the United Nations. “We believe, with more than two billion people, definitely Asia can provide the best qualified candidates,” China’s U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told reporters after Thursday’s meeting.

Russian Ambassador Andrey Denisov said choosing an Asian would follow tradition, “and it is better to follow traditions if we do have them, but it doesn’t mean that it is strict adherence.” French Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said his government believes the Asians “have a priority—but not exclusivity.” But Bolton reiterated Washington’s strong opposition to the principle of geographic rotation, a view backed by Britain.

“It’s our view that we should pick the best qualified person, whatever region of the world the person comes from,” he said. “Obviously, the secretary-general has to have political skills, but our view is the management question is far and away the most important qualification.” Bolton argued that in practice there really is no geographical rotation because three secretary-generals have come from Western Europe, two from Africa, one from Latin America, one from Asia, and none from Eastern Europe.

He also noted that there has never been a woman secretary-general and asked: “If you believe in geographic rotation, do you believe in gender rotation?” So far, the announced candidates are all Asian men. They include South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai, who is backed by the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and former U.N. disarmament chief Jayantha Dhanapala of Sri Lanka who recently represented the government in peace talks with the Tamil Tigers.

Equality Now, an advocacy organization which campaigns for women’s rights, came up with a sampling of 18 qualified women from all over the world. Its list of candidates includes the presidents of Latvia, Finland and Chile, several current and former senior U.N. officials, and Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who remains under house arrest by the country’s military rulers.

Council members expect more candidates to enter the race in the coming months. Bolton wants the council to decide on a candidate by June, but other members think that’s too early. China’s Wang said the council is “informally looking at dates like September, October” to give the next secretary-general time for a transition. De La Sabliere said there is growing support for a transition of two or three months.

Not only have the five permanent council members started talking about the next secretary-general, so have the 10 elected council members who serve two-year terms. But all 15 members agree that discussions are very preliminary—and there won’t be any discussion of candidates for several months. “I think we get together not to surprise each other,” Wang said of the meetings of the five permanent members, known as the P-5. “We believe the P-5 will have a major role to play. Whether they finally agree I’m not sure.”

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   Thursday - February 09, 2006

Mud In Your Eye

I haven’t been a big fan of the Nobel Peace Prize since they gave it to Yassir Arafish (who is in stable condition after being treated in French hospital). This, however, comes as a total surprise and should cause every Democratic Senator to go into apoplexy, considering how they tried to smear Bolton and managed to defeat his nomination. If he is awarded the Peace Prize, look for Ted Kennedy and Chuck Schumer to asplode ...

John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
February 08, 2006
(CNSNews.com)

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is one of two Americans who have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, Democrats and a few Republicans refused to confirm Bolton to the U.N. post, forcing President Bush to resort to a recess appointment. Bolton and Kenneth R. Timmerman were formally nominated by Sweden’s former deputy prime minister Per Ahlmark, for playing a major role in exposing Iran’s secret plans to develop nuclear weapons.

They documented Iran’s secret nuclear buildup and revealed Iran’s “repeated lying” and false reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a press release said. Bolton formerly served as U.S. undersecretary for arms control and international security, and he authored the Proliferation Security Initiative, an international effort to block WMD shipments. The effort eventually unmasked the secret nuclear network directed by Pakistan nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan.

Timmerman, an independent researcher, has written extensively on Iran’s nuclear activities for more than 20 years. His report for the Simon Wiesenthal Center in 1992 first detailed Iran’s ties to A.Q. Khan. His most recent book, “Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran,” was published last year. In June 2005, Senate Republicans fell six votes in their second effort to end a Democrat filibuster of Bolton’s nomination to serve as U.N. ambassador.

Bolton’s supporters complained that Bolton was the target of a Democrat smear campaign. A number of Democrats and some Republicans complained about Bolton’s brusque dealings with co-workers and underlings. One of Bolton’s Republican critics - Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio—now says he thinks Bolton is doing a good job.

“I spend a lot of time with John on the phone. I think he is really working very constructively to move forward,” Reuters quoted Voinovich as saying on Monday. Voinovich added that he’s still watching Bolton—but, “at this stage of the game I am pleased with the progress that is being made here and the team that he has gathered together here.”

In May 2006, the thought that Bolton might be confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations almost brought Voinovich to tears. Voinovich’s emotional moment came one day after he sent a letter to his fellow senators, telling them, “In these dangerous times, we cannot afford to put at risk our nation’s ability to successfully wage and win the war on terror with a controversial and ineffective ambassador to the United Nations.”

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   Friday - January 13, 2006

High Noon

The United Nations and the European Union, both international embaressments, have decided to get tough with Iran and today started rattling sabers butter knives at the Mad Mullahs. You can probably guess where this is heading. These asshats will totally screw things up, the US will have to spank Iran for getting uppity and then the UN/EU will howl in protest at the US. Same story, different day ....

UN: Iran Sanctions May Be Considered

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council may consider imposing sanctions on Iran if it fails to comply with demands over its nuclear program, but may look at other measures first, Britain said on Friday.

“I am not necessarily saying there will be a U.N. sanctions regime. That will be on the table,” Straw told BBC Radio after Britain, France and Germany called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog to discuss Iran’s resumption of research into nuclear fuel.

“There are prior stages here, and there are plenty of examples where the Security Council has made what are called Chapter Seven resolutions ... imposing obligations on a member state without the resort to sanctions. Obviously if Iran failed to comply, the Security Council would then consider sanctions,” Straw said.

- More on this story here ...

Iran Threatens to Block Nuke Inspections

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran threatened on Friday to block inspections of its nuclear sites if U.N. Security Council confronts it over its nuclear activities. Germany, Britain and France said Thursday that nuclear talks with Iran had reached a dead end after more than two years of acrimonious negotiations and the issue should be referred to the Security Council.

However, the Europeans held back from calling on the 15-nation council to impose sanctions and said they remained open to more talks. France said Friday that it favors a step-by-step approach with Iran over its nuclear program and that any sanctions request at this stage would be premature.

“We, like our partners, like the British and the Germans, consider that this co-request for sanctions is premature for the moment,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei said.

Iran said that if it were confronted by the council, it would be obliged to stop cooperating with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. That would be, among other things, the end of random inspections, said Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.

“In case Iran is referred to the U.N. Security Council ..., the government will be obliged to end all of its voluntary cooperation,” the television quoted Mottaki as saying.

- More on this story here ...

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   Friday - November 18, 2005

Kofi Has Chutzpah

Well, it looks like Big Anus (The Koffing One) is at it again. Mo’ money! Mo’ money! Gimme! Gimme! What happened to all that cash he and his cohorts (including his criminal son, Little Anus) got in the Oil For Food bribery scandal? Can’t they spare a little of the many billions they made off of selling Sodomy’s oil? If nothing else, Big Anus needs to keep one word in mind: KATRINA.

I don’t see the UN jumping in to help get money to our hurricane refugees or to any of the thousands of homeless in Mississippi and Louisiana. I believe it’s time to give the UN a prostate exam ... so let’s everyone give a finger to the Big Anus ...

Annan Calls Asian Quake Response ‘Weak’
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP)

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan chided the international community Friday for a “weak and tardy” response to the South Asia quake that killed more than 87,000 people. Annan said on the eve of a key donors conference that only 30 percent of the money pledged for quake relief had been donated so far. He said that paled in comparison to donations after the Dec. 26 tsunami that devastated 11 nations on the Indian Ocean.

“I think there is no doubt that donors’ response has been weak and tardy,” Annan said. “When the tsunami struck at the 10-day point we had 80 percent of the money we needed. In the case of Pakistan at the 10-day point we had 12 percent. Today we have 30 percent.” Annan warned of a “gigantic task” ahead for quake recovery efforts in northern Pakistan, saying the difficulties posed by winter’s onset and the logistics of reaching mountain villages made the Oct. 8 quake disaster comparable to the tsunami, which killed 180,000 people.

U.N. agencies have so far received cash donations of only $119 million, with another $40 million in pledges, out of $550 million they have been seeking since last month to finance emergency relief over six months. Britain said Friday it would pledge an additional $120 million at Saturday’s donor conference for post-earthquake reconstruction, to be paid out over three years. Britain already has contributed $57 million for disaster relief, the British Embassy said in a statement.

The United States has pledged $180 million in aid to Pakistan, about $54 million of which has already been spent, said Kevin Sheridan, spokesman for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Much of that went through international aid agencies outside the U.N. relief effort, he said. USAID chief Andrew Natsios said he would announce long-term support at the conference, but he declined to elaborate Friday. Annan and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf visited families sheltering in tents in the Pakistani Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad, and Annan said he would renew funding appeals at the donor conference for what he called “one of the largest humanitarian tragedies we’ve had to deal with.”

“I hope they will get us a better place for the winter because it’s cold here,” said Shaheen Bibi, 30, a mother of four, after Annan gave her money and blankets.Annan said he hoped conference delegates would “give willingly and generously,” but he added that if adequate funds were not raised, he would try to secure them later. “If we do not hit our target tomorrow, we need to keep trying. We have to keep pressing donor governments, the private sector and individuals to try harder. I don’t think we can cross our arms and sit back and relax because we made one attempt and we did not get all that we wanted,” he said.

- If you really want to read more of Big Anus’ crap go here

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/18/2005 at 11:27 AM   
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