Friday - November 18, 2005

Stupid Idea Of The Day (so far)

Few things in life are certain. Death. Taxes. And Ted Turner having another idiotic idea. The Mouth of The South just ain’t right in the head. He hasn’t had a good idea since 1975. This latest concept from The Brain Of Ted defies understanding. I suggest a change in Ted’s medication ...

Ted Turner Wants Korean DMZ Made Into Park
UNITED NATIONS (AP)

Media mogul Ted Turner wants to turn the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas into a peace park and a U.N.-protected World Heritage Site to honor the thousands of young men who died during the Korean War. Turner first raised the idea of a peace park during a visit to the two Koreas this summer, and urged both sides to sign a peace treaty as a first step. North and South Korea technically remain at war since their 1950-53 conflict ended in a cease-fire instead of a peace treaty.

But the CNN founder went further at a dinner Thursday night, saying the DMZ, which is 2 1/2 miles wide and 155 miles long, should also be declared a World Heritage Site, which would ensure that dozens of species unique to the area are preserved along with its history. The DMZ is about one-quarter the size of Yellowstone Park and goes from seashore to seashore, through river valleys and across mountains.

“The DMZ needs to be designated as a World Heritage Site and as a World Peace Park site because we’ve got to preserve it from development,” Turner said. “Over the last 50 years, nobody’s been in there and the birds and animals and trees and bushes and flowers” have flourished, he added.

Turner was speaking at a dinner honoring a new initiative to promote “sustainable tourism” at World Heritage Sites—landmarks designated by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO. The initiative is being undertaken by Expedia Inc. and the United Nations Foundation, which Turner chairs.

The Foundation was created in 1998 to distribute the $1 billion Turner pledged to support U.N. causes. Turner said the DMZ should be a monument to both North and South Korea and China and the United States, countries that lost thousands of young men fighting in the area. He said he started working on the DMZ campaign because he was asked by the president of the International Crane Foundation. Every winter, about 4,000 cranes from two different species winter in the DMZ.

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   Wednesday - November 02, 2005

More United Nations Silliness

What started as a simple resolution to create a Holocaust Commemoration Day by the United Nations rapidly degenerated into a US-bashing session by the howling monkeys. First, Egypt wanted to make sure it included all victims of genocide since the beginning of time. I assume this was only to make sure the Jews weren’t being given some “special” treatment. Then, the representative from Venezuela decided that the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also victims of genocide. I’m only surprised they didn’t blame the extinction of the dinosaurs on the US ...

U.N. to Create Holocaust Commemoration Day
NEW YORK (AP)

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution Tuesday that will create the first international day of commemoration for the six million Jews and other victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The International Day of Commemoration will be held every year on Jan. 27. Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman thanked the 191 members of the General Assembly “at this unique and historic moment ... for adopting this unprecedented resolution.”

Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the annual commemoration will serve as “an important reminder of the universal lessons of the Holocaust, a unique evil which cannot simply be consigned to the past and forgotten,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. There was no vote on the resolution. Instead, General Assembly President Jan Eliasson banged the gavel signifying consensus after asking whether there were any objections and hearing none.

But after the vote, Egypt’s U.N. Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz complained that the day should commemorate all victims of genocide—“without discrimination on the basis of religious or ethnic background”—and not be limited just to victims of the Holocaust. “We believe that no one should have the monopoly of suffering,” he said.

Venezuela’s Ambassador Imeria Nunez de Odreman also expressed concern that it did not encompass other recent genocides including those in Cambodia, Rwanda and Kosovo. She also pointed to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasiki in World War II as examples of “devastating destruction” that occurred “with no justification” and should be included in the resolution’s stance against human atrocities.

The resolution emphasizes both “the duty to remember” and “the duty to educate” future generations about the mass slaughter ordered out by Adolf Hitler, Germany’s wartime Nazi leader. It rejects any denial of the Holocaust, condemns discrimination and violence based on religion or ethnicity, and calls for the U.N. to establish an outreach program to encourage the public to engage in Holocaust remembrance activities.

The resolution was sponsored initially by Israel, the United States, Australia, Canada and Russia. Gillerman said after Tuesday’s vote that it had 104 co-sponsors.

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   Monday - October 31, 2005

Let’s Get Ready To Rumble!

Key quote below: “the resolution was adopted under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, which is militarily enforceable”. Even the French (in the form of Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy) are actually showing a little intestinal fortitude over this one (see below). Brazil, China and Russia are sleazing out but it looks like the heat is on for Bashir Assad and the Syrian government (which, by the way, has been funneling foreign insurgents into Iraq for over a year now). Besides, I just don’t like Assad’s looks. The guy is a former eye doctor as well as just plain looking like a wanker ....

U.N. Security Council OKs Syria Resolution
NEW YORK (AP)

The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Monday demanding Syria’s full cooperation with a U.N. investigation into the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister and warning of possible “further action” if it doesn’t. The United States, France and Britain pressed for the resolution following last week’s tough report by the U.N. investigating commission, which implicated top Syrian and Lebanese security officials in the Feb. 14 bombing that killed Rafik Hariri and 20 others. The report also accused Syria of not cooperating fully with the inquiry.

The three co-sponsors agreed to drop a direct threat of sanctions against Syria in order to get support from Russia and China, which opposed sanctions while the investigation is still under way. Nonetheless, the resolution was adopted under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, which is militarily enforceable. The resolution requires Syria to detain anyone the U.N. investigators consider a suspect and let investigators determine the location and conditions under which the individual would be questioned. It also would freeze assets and impose a travel ban on anyone identified as a suspect by the commission.

Those provisions could pose a problem for Syrian President Bashar Assad, as well as his brother, Maher Assad, and his brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, the chief of military intelligence. The Syrian leader has refused a request from the chief U.N. investigator to be interviewed. Investigators also want to question his brother and brother-in-law. The U.S. invited foreign ministers of the 15 Security Council nations to attend the meeting to send a strong message to Syria to cooperate with the inquiry, and a dozen ministers showed up, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and ministers from Russia, China, Britain and France.

Rice told the council that Syria had been put on notice by the international community that it must cooperate with the inquiry by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis. “With our decision today, we show that Syria has isolated itself from the international community—through its false statements, its support for terrorism, its interference in the affairs of its neighbors, and its destabilizing behavior in the Middle East,” Rice said. “Now, the Syrian government must make a strategic decision to fundamentally change its behavior.”

“The Chapter VII resolution that we are passing today is the only way to compel the Syrian government to accept the just demands of the United Nations and to cooperate fully with the Mehlis investigation,” she said. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the Security Council is “putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.” “The people of the Lebanon have become all too acquainted with grief,” he said. “We owe them a better future, and this resolution is one way of providing them with that better future.”

France’s Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy stressed that the resolution has one aim: “the truth, the whole truth about Rafik Hariri’s assassination in order that those responsible for it answer for their crime.” By adopting the resolution, he said, the council showed solidarity with Lebanon, support for the Mehlis commission’s work which has been extended until Dec. 15, and demanded “firm and urgent cooperation” from Syria. Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa, who flew to New York to attend the council meeting, listened to minister after minister demand his government’s cooperation. Several noted Damascus’ recent promises to cooperate.

Assad on Saturday ordered that a judicial committee be formed to investigate Hariri’s assassination. A presidential decree said the committee will cooperate with the U.N. probe and Lebanese judicial authorities. Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, whose country has large Lebanese and Syrian communities, made clear that any further action against Syria would require Security Council approval. “Brazil will not favor hasty decisions that may lead to an undesirable escalation of the situation or further endanger the stability of the region,” he said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the resolution was useful because it showed the council’s determination to discover the truth behind Hariri’s assassination. “The final text of the resolution, of course, is not ideal,” he said. Russia said last week it opposed sanctions against Syria, its longtime ally. Late Sunday, Lavrov criticized what he described as attempts to turn the Security Council into an investigative body, in comments broadcast by Russia’s Channel One television. Although the final text dropped the threat of sanctions, it said if Syria doesn’t cooperate “the council, if necessary, could consider further action.” That could, ultimately, include sanctions.

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   Friday - October 21, 2005

Syria Implicated

We all saw this coming from a mile away. Syria, which sits on the UN’s Human Rights Committee has been directly implicated in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. In fact, the trail of blood leads all the way back to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s brother in law. The UN report on the assassination was released yesterday. Look for the UN to impose strict sanctions on Syria and to come down hard on the rogue regime .... aw, horse-crap - you know better than that. The UN won’t do a damned thing and Syria will keep on meddling in Lebanon and Iraq until the US finally decides to smash the crackpot Baathist regime of the Assad family ...

Brother-In-Law of Syrian Leader Implicated
UNITED NATIONS (AP)

The brother-in-law of Syria’s president was implicated in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and Lebanese intelligence officials helped organize it, according to a U.N. inquiry that officially linked Damascus to the slaying for the first time.

The exhaustive report into the Feb. 14 car bomb that killed the popular opposition leader and 20 others stopped short of fingering Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle. But it accused the regime of failing to cooperate in the inquiry and alleged Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa lied in a letter to the investigating commission.

It also cites one witness as saying Assad’s brother-in-law Assef Shawkat, Syria’s military intelligence chief, set up a false confession to Hariri’s murder 15 days before it took place.

Syria rejected the report.

Chief investigator Detlev Mehlis’ findings were issued to the U.N. Security Council late Thursday and will almost certainly inflame tensions in the region.

The Security Council is likely to use the report to renew pressure on Syria to ease its continued influence on Lebanon. The council is expected to discuss it on Tuesday, and may consider sanctions against Syria.

The decision to assassinate Hariri “could not have been taken without the approval of top-ranked Syrian security officials and could not have been further organized without the collusion of their counterparts in the Lebanese security services,” the report said.

- Go Read Of This Disgusting Example Of Arab Terrorism and UN Impotence

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   Wednesday - October 12, 2005

Suspicious Suicide

Hmmmmmm ... Syria’s Interior Minister supposedly “commits suicide” just days before a UN report on Syria’s possible involvement in the assassination of a former Lebanese Prime Minister is due out? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what is going on here. Kanaan was obviously ordered to fall on his sword. Althouogh, I fail to see what harm a UN investigation might cause since the asshats at the UN couldn’t find a criminal act if their lives depended on it, especially if it involved a fine, upstanding country like Syria (pardon my dripping sarcasm over that last part) ...

Syrian Minister ‘Commits Suicide’
DAMASCUS (BBC)

Syria’s interior minister Ghazi Kanaan has committed suicide, the official news agency in Damascus says. He was reportedly questioned by a UN investigator last month over the murder of ex-Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri. For many years Kanaan was Syria’s powerful intelligence chief in Lebanon, which was dominated by Syria until its military withdrawal earlier this year.

He returned to Damascus in 2002 as political intelligence chief and joined the cabinet in 2004. The United States froze his assets there in July saying he had aided terrorism in Lebanon. “Interior Minister Brig Gen Ghazi Kanaan committed suicide in his office before noon,” the Syrian Arab News Agency reported. The authorities are carrying out the “necessary investigation” into the incident, Sana reported.

The UN report on Hariri’s assassination is expected to be published before the end of October. Correspondents say it is likely to implicate Syria’s intelligence regime in Lebanon in the bombing, that killed 20 people in central Beirut in February.

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   Tuesday - September 27, 2005

Bill Clinton’s War

Forget the war in Iraq. What about the one Bill Clinton carried out on Yugoslavia? I don’t remember anyone protesting Slick Willy’s little excursion into that mess and nobody sure as hell is paying attention to what is going on over there, after US and NATO troops smacked down the Christians and gave Kosovo back to the Muslims. Would you like to know what happens when a country is over-run by members of the Religion Of Peace? This was Bill Clinton’s little war and this is his legacy ....

Ex-Security Chief Blows Whistle on UN’s Kosovo Mission
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Following five years of United Nations control and billions of dollars of international aid, Kosovo is a lawless region “owned” by the Albanian mafia, characterized by continuing ethnic cleansing and subject to increasing infiltration by al Qaeda-linked Muslim jihadists. The U.N.’s repeated failure to act on received intelligence has allowed illegal paramilitary groups to flourish and engage in terrorist attacks aimed at destabilizing regional governments in the Balkans, said Thomas Gambill, a former security chief with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), self-described as the world’s largest regional security agency.

Gambill was responsible for overseeing the eastern region of Gjilane in Kosovo from 1999 until 2004 under the authority of the U.N. His criticism comes as the United Nations prepares to launch final status talks on the troubled province ofKosovo , which has been a U.N. protectorate since North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces bombed Yugoslavia between March and May of 1999 to compel the Serb-dominated government of Slobodan Milosovic to withdraw its forces fromKosovo. The U.S. mission in Kosovo alone cost $5.2 billion between June 1999 and the end of 2001, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The NATO bombings were also launched in response to reports of large-scale ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians by the Serbs. But as soon as the bombing campaign ended, ferocious, retaliatory ethnic cleansing allegedly took place with Albanians, who are predominantly Muslim, targeting Christian Serbs. The violence was witnessed and documented by the U.N. and OSCE. Following the NATO bombing of Kosovo, American troops under NATO command were stationed in neighboring Macedonia and Albania while then-President Bill Clinton decided on the size of the U.S. contingent to be deployed inKosovo. When U.S. troops entered the province in June 1999, the alleged retaliatory ethnic cleansing was already underway.

Incidents of sexual violence, torture, arson, murder, kidnapping, and verbal threats were allegedly widespread as part of an organized and successful campaign conducted “right under the U.N.’s nose,” said Gambill. Minorities targeted by ethnic Albanian extremists for expulsion or death included Serbs, Roma, Muslim Slavs, Turks and Croats. Reports filed by the OSCE indicate that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which had been trained and supported by the Clinton administration, was predominantly responsible for the ethnic cleansing. In April 1999, congressional Republicans also promoted legislation seeking U.S. military aid for the KLA, causing Michael Radu of the Foreign Policy Institute to warn of the consequences of such a move.

Other armed extremist groups also participated in the ethnic cleansing, said Gambill. The overall goal of the groups was the creation of an ethnically pure state that included Albania, Kosovo and parts of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia “They will push for more. That is the plan. It’s called Greater Albania,” said Gambill. OSCE documents reveal that elderly Serbs who were unable to flee were threatened and women were thrown down staircases. Others were tortured, beaten and murdered. Some elderly Serbs fled to monasteries for protection, but the monasteries were later attacked as well, including as recently as March of 2004, according to the OSCE documents.

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   Friday - August 26, 2005

John Bolton: First Strike

John Bolton has already launched the first strike against the chattering monkeys at the UN. Bolton has thrown a monkey wrench into the UN’s latest proposal with 750 requested changes to the UN’s draft reorganization plan. The UK’s Guardian (notoriously liberal) has some decidely biased language in their coverage but one thing I find interesting is Bolton’s refusal to just go along with several very bad provisions. One of which is the proposal to force all developing nations to donate at least 0.7% of GDP to developing nations.

The US currently donates 0.2% of GDP, while several Euro-nations (like Norway) donate 0.7% and more. The problem I have with that is that Norway’s GDP is $183 billion, which means the Norwegians donate $366 million. The US GDP, on the other hand is $11.75 trillion and 0.2% of that is $23.5 billion, which is more than the entire GDP of half the nations in the UN (source: CIA World Factbook).

(GUARDIAN - UK)—John Bolton, Washington’s new ambassador to the United Nations, has called for wholesale changes to a draft document due to go before a UN summit next month aimed at reshaping the world body.

Mr Bolton, a long-standing UN critic who was given a temporary appointment by George Bush three weeks ago after the United States Senate failed to agree on his nomination, has proposed 750 amendments to the draft and called for immediate talks on them.

The 29-page document has been drawn up by a committee under the UN general assembly president, Jean Ping of Gambia, over the past year, during which time several drafts have been circulated.

Critics complained that the US objections had come towards the end of the drafting process, with only three weeks to go before the summit.

But Benjamin Chang, a spokesman for the American team at the UN, said Mr Bolton had simply been restating long-held US opinions. “Those are not new positions; surprise positions,” he said. “We’ve been engaged in this process, since the first meeting.”

The Bolton amendments, published in the US press, seek to play down the emphasis given to alleviating poverty, and expunge all references to the millennium development goals, including the target for wealthy countries to donate at least 0.7 % of national income to the developing world. America currently gives less than 0.2% in such aid.

The changes would also scrap provisions in the draft calling for action against global warming, and remove endorsements of the international criminal court and the comprehensive test-ban treaty - both of which are opposed by the Bush administration.

Instead, Washington is pushing for more emphasis on international measures against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

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   Thursday - August 25, 2005

John Bolton’s First Task: Nuke The UN

OK, enough is enough. The UNgodly, UNbelievable critters at the UN are starting to get on my nerves real bad. I’ve about had a gutful of these pusillanimous purveyors of putrid pretentious pragmatism. Sitting in a building just off Turtle Bay in New York is the most dangerous collection of Moonbats on the damned planet and I’m ready to use the nuclear option on their asses. This latest bloviating bullshit from the UN just leaves me speechless.

Somebody unleash John Bolton. Give him whatever he wants - guns, tanks, bombs, nukes .... whatever. When I wake up tomorrow morning, all I want to see in that corner of New York is a great big smoking hole in the ground.

Yes, the ol’ Skipper is really pissed this time. I haven’t been this mad since that day I caught Gilligan peeping into Mrs. Howell’s dressing room while spanking his monkey ....

Expulsions Illegal, UN Tells Clarke

(GUARDIAN - UK)—A senior UN representative last night threatened to cite the British government for violation of human rights over its planned deportations of alleged terrorist sympathisers. Manfred Novak, the UN human rights commission’s special investigator on torture, told the Guardian he is seeking permission through the Foreign Office to visit Britain to discuss the issue with the home secretary, Charles Clarke.

In a statement on Tuesday night, Prof Novak said that the government’s intention to return radical preachers to their countries of origin, even though some of those countries have a track record of human rights abuses, “reflects a tendency in Europe to circumvent the international obligation not to deport anybody if there is a serious risk that he or she might be subjected to torture”.

His intervention came as Mr Clarke, in response to the London bombings, yesterday introduced a list of “unacceptable behaviour” which would allowing him to deport or exclude foreign citizens for glorifying or encouraging terrorism. Mr Clarke said the first exclusions and deportations would take place within the “next few days”.

He rejected the UN criticism. He said “the human rights of those people who were blown up on the tube in London on July 7 are, to be quite frank, more important than the human rights of the people who committed those acts.” He added: “I wish the UN would look at human rights in the round, rather than simply focusing all the time on the terrorist.”

But Prof Novak refused to accept the rebuke. “The UN is strongly concerned about terrorism and counter-terrorism. But there are certain standards that have to be observed in the context of counter-terrorism,” he said last night. “We in the western democratic countries, in the fight against terrorism, should not step over these limits by violating international law.”

Prof Novak, whose investigations take him round the world, said he could cite Britain when he reports to the UN general assembly in October but he hoped the issue could be sorted out before then. His main objection is to the government’s policy of seeking memoranda of understanding from countries to which people would be deported that they would not be tortured. He said the memoranda were not an appropriate tool to eradicate the risk of torture.

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   Thursday - August 04, 2005

Star Wars: A New Hope

Darth Bolton finally met today with the Sith overlord Koffing Anus at the Death Star building in New York. Tension was high as rebel forces targeted the top ten floors of the Death Star ....

NEW YORK—A broadly beaming U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton presented his credentials yesterday to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, losing no time in getting started on his new job after a painful and extended confirmation process. Even before yesterday’s brief ceremony, which included several moments of small talk about Mr. Annan’s recent shoulder surgery, Mr. Bolton had spent several hours at the U.S. Mission in New York getting acquainted with members of a severely depleted staff.

Television and still cameras recorded the Bolton-Annan meeting, at which tense body language belied a courteous verbal exchange. Mr. Annan’s face was carefully composed into a stiff smile while Mr. Bolton’s hand remained clenched in his suit pocket. “I should give you this, I suppose,” Mr. Bolton said, handing over a large manila envelope containing a formal letter of introduction signed by President Bush.

Mr. Bolton, famous for his candor, was uncharacteristically silent as he entered and left the U.N. Secretariat, a building he once noted could be reduced by 10 stories without anyone noticing. In an interview hours later, Mr. Annan said he was glad the new ambassador had arrived and urged him repeatedly to work well with others. “We are in the middle of major reform of the United Nations and it’s a topic that has seized all the members of the organization, and I hope that he will join in these discussions and work with me and the other ambassadors to reform the United Nations,” Mr. Annan said in his 38th-floor offices. “Obviously, being the permanent representative of the United States with the support of the president, he will have an important voice,” Mr. Annan said. “But as I have indicated, it will be an important voice among many and I trust that he will work with the others to help us achieve our goals.”

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   Monday - August 01, 2005

Kofi Annan Issues Warning To John Bolton

It seems the Koffing Anus couldn’t wait more than a few hours after President Bush decided to make an interim appointment to send John Bolton to the UN as Amabssador to that useless body. The Koffing Anus just issued a warning that Bolton better come prepared to “play nice” or else ....

UNITED NATIONS (AP)—U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he looked forward to working with John Bolton but warned that the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations will have to negotiate with 190 other countries to get what he wants. Annan and U.N. diplomats played down the significance of President Bush’s decision to appoint Bolton while Congress is out of session as a way to bypass Democrats who had blocked a vote in the Senate. “I think it is the president’s prerogative and the president has decided to appoint him through this process,” Annan said. “From where I stand we will work with him as the representative of the president and of the government.”

Annan stressed that the United Nations and the United States need each other. He said that the relationship had “frayed a little recently and we should be able to get it back on key.” He cautioned that Bolton won’t get what he wants if he tries to take on other U.N. diplomats alone. “I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to be convinced, or a vast majority of them, for action to take place,” Annan said.

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   Thursday - July 21, 2005

The Wisdom Of The UN

From the “Blindingly Obvious Department” our research turns up this statement yesterday by the Koffing Anus in an address to the UN ....

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Violence in Sudan’s Darfur region has diminished greatly over the past year, partly because militia have run out of targets after razing countless villages, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said.

His report to the U.N. Security Council, obtained by Reuters on Wednesday, said active combat had been replaced by intimidation and fear, perpetuated by an ever-present militia when homeless people leave refugee camps.

”The decrease in attacks on civilians may also be a function of a reduced number of targets,” Annan said. “So many villages have been destroyed since the war began that there are now fewer locations for militia to strike.”

At least 180,000 people in Darfur have died from violence, hunger and disease and 2 million have been driven out of their homes, most into squalid camps or neighboring Chad.

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   Sunday - June 26, 2005

The UN Declares OldCatMan Is A Criminal

The UN says even an occasional puff of pot is link in deadly drugs chain ....

VIENNA (AFP) - The United Nations drug agency warned on world anti-drugs day that even occasional use of marijuana is a link in a long and dangerous cycle of crime, degradation and terrorism.

“The links between organized crime, drug trafficking, drug consumption, drug money, arms trafficking and terrorism become clearer every day,” said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), on Sunday. “We know that even the occasional marijuana smoker is a link in a much longer and more dangerous chain.”

And in a message to mark an international anti-drug day, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that drugs are “little more than tickets to a dead end.”

Governments marked the day with drug bonfires, and, in the case of China, by executing convicted drug traffickers.

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   Friday - June 17, 2005

Spank The Monkeys

The bill introduced by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), HR 2745, left committee yesterday evening and will go before the full House today for a vote. The bill would withhold half of the US’s dues to the Koffing Anus Krooks Klub and demand reforms before funding is resumed. In lieu of just shutting the damned place down and kicking the bastards out, this sounds like a good plan to me ....

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House is ready to decide whether to slash U.S. contributions if the United Nations doesn’t carry out reforms. Lawmakers had to weigh their frustrations with the international body against administration objections that the legislation could be counterproductive.

The legislation under debate and facing a vote Friday would withhold half of U.S. dues to the U.N.’s general budget if the organization doesn’t meet a list of demands for change. Failure to comply would also result in U.S. refusal to support expanded and new peacekeeping missions.

Before the final vote, legislators discussed the seating of such human rights abusers as Cuba and Sudan on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and the oil-for-food program that became a source of up to $10 billion in illicit revenue for former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., proposed an amendment under which the United States would use its influence to ensure that any member engaged in acts of genocide or crimes against humanity would lose its U.N. membersship and face arms and trade embargoes.

“Over the years, as we listened to the counsels for patience, the U.N.’s failings have grown,” said House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., sponsor of the measure. “The time has finally come where we must in good conscience say ‘enough.’”

Hyde was joined by lawmakers with a litany of complaints against what they said was the U.N.’s lavish spending, its coddling of rogue regimes, its anti-America, anti-Israel bias and recent scandals such as the mismanagement of the oil-for-food program in Iraq and the sexual misconduct of peacekeepers.

The bill lists 39 reforms sought. They include cutting the public information budget by 20 percent, establishing an independent oversight board and an ethics office, and denying countries that violate human rights from serving on human rights commissions.

The secretary of state would have to certify that 32 of the 39 reforms have been met by September 2007, and all 39 by the next year, to avoid a withdrawal of 50 percent of assessed dues.

U.S.-assessed dues account for about 22 percent of the U.N.’s $2 billion annual general budget.

The financial penalties would not apply to the U.N.’s voluntarily funded programs, which include UNICEF and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

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   Sunday - June 05, 2005

Two Problems, One Solution

Problem #1: American troops in Iraq are discovering hidden caches of arms and bombs, used by the insurgents to kill Iraqis, all over the country. Buried in hidden bunkers and hidden in farmhouses, these weapons caches which are being used by Muslim radicals to incite violence and hatred need to be discovered and disposed of. How to dispose of the tons of weapons buried across Iraq is a logistical nightmare. What can we do with all these arms?

Problem #2: Muslim gangs in Sudan are being hired and/or encouraged to murder black Africans in the Darfur region by the Sudanese government. Genocide is fully in progress by Muslims against Africans in this region. Muslim gangs swoop down on villages, kill all the men and rape the women, then proceed to the next village while the UN ignores the problem or just stands idly by wringing its pathetic little hands. How can we help the surviving women of Darfur protect themselves?

Solution: Take all the captured arms from Iraq and disperse them to the African women in Darfur who have survived rape, pillage and torture at the hands of Muslim madmen. It wouldn’t take long for the outraged ladies of Darfur to solve their problem and solve our problem too. Hell, we might even be able to convince Jesse Jackson to go over there to “oversee” the operation .... you never know where a stray bullet may land. It’s a win-win-win situation, I tell you.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/05/2005 at 10:07 AM   
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