Sometimes I have no idea what the UN is smoking...perhaps that ganjaweed from Jamaica, mon. Earlier this week, the UN Disarmament Commission elected Iran’s Ambassador to that august body, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, to be the Vice-Chair of said commission. Or should that be Chair of Vice? Then, a UN news agency issued a report which claims that women were better off under Saddam!
You can bet that the Mullahs, and their next-door neighbor Saddam, are laughing their a**es off on these stories. But consider this: it wasn’t long after the UN chose Iraq to sit on a similar panel three years ago that we went in and took care of Saddam!

Here’s something that will get your morning off to a great star. Yeah, RIGHT.
The UN is always trying to find ways to get US (the United States, that is) to pay our “fair share” in their schemes for global government. Controlling the Internet was one plan. Cooking our books was another. Now there’s the plan for the imposition of ”international taxes,” courtesy of Paul Weyrich:

Among the $200 billion in new taxes which the UN is proposing to levy are: Taxes on air transport: this tax, Kincaid reports, was said to make “economic sense.” Taxes on aviation fuel: this tax was sold on the basis that it would have a positive impact upon the environment. Taxes on airline tickets: this tax, according to the UN, easily could be implemented because there is no legal obstacle, and it would generate $8 billion per annum.
The UN also seeks an indirect tax on air-flight corridors, which should generate $10 billion per annum, to be followed by an indirect tax on passenger transportation, to raise $20 billion per annum. An international currency tax would generate $60 billion. A tax on carbon emissions which at five cents per gallon of gasoline would bring in a whopping $130 billion per annum. There you have it: 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.

Weyrich goes on to say that this plan would have the greatest chance of success if one of two things were to happen...and of course, the folks at Turtle Bay would be overjoyed if both occurred:
1) The Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress, and/or:
2) The Democrats regained the White House after the 2008 Election.
Today’s Democrats are a far cry from the Democrats of FDR, Harry S. Truman, and even John Fitzgerald Kennedy...and would gladly surrender our sovereignty to the UN. We MUST do EVERYTHING WITHIN OUR POWER to prevent this from happening.

If you think the criminal justice system moves slowly in this country, just think how efficient the International Criminal Court is when trying former Serb dictator Slobodan Misonofabitch Milosevic for war crimes. Today begins his fifth year on trial!

The prosecution closed its case in February 2004, and Milosevic was given six months to prepare his defense, which began in August 2004. So far, Milosevic has used 82 percent of his allotted time—296 hours out of 360. The prosecution had the same allotment.

So Milosevic is only following the prosecution’s lead, and is also representing himself. But wait! There’s more:

There have been 14 delays in the trial because of Milosevic’s health, adding up to 66 trial days. Most of the sick days took place during the prosecution phase.
Because of health issues, court-appointed doctors recommended a schedule of three shortened days a week. Milosevic, meanwhile, has asked to be sent to Russia for medical treatment, but that has not been approved.

For all intents and purposes, they might as well give Slobo a full six-week holiday, like most European workers get. This “trial” is essentially another job for the defendant.
And liberals want Saddam Hussein’s trial to be transferred to this jurisdiction? Please, someone out there, stop me from laughing my a** off!

For awhile there, it looked as though the toothless watchdog agency which “oversees peaceful nuclear activity” was never going to refer Iran to the Security Council. Well, they finally did:

Two permanent council members, Russia and China, agreed to referral only on condition the council take no action before March.
Twenty-seven nations supported the resolution, which was sponsored by three European powers — Britain, France and Germany — and backed by the United States.
Cuba, Syria and Venezuela were the only nations to vote against. Five others — Algeria, Belarus, Indonesia, Libya and South Africa — abstained, a milder form of showing opposition.
Among those backing the referral was India, a nation with great weight in the developing world whose stance was unclear until the vote.

Russia and China’s “condition” is interesting...I wonder if something will happen this month? I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Looks like the rest of the vote went “along party lines.”
It’s also a good thing India supported the referral. Although we treated the Indians in such a way as to drive them to the Soviet sphere of influence during the Cold War, it’s much better to have them on our side in this fight. After all, they’ve seen more than their fair share of violence over the years.
Now, we wait and see what the Iranians will do. Tick...tick...tick...

...and unfortunately, the Immovable Object won this round:

John Bolton, Washington’s U.N. ambassador, tried to open his first meeting as head of the Security Council at 10 a.m. sharp on Thursday—and was irked to find no other diplomats showed up.
“I brought the gavel down at 10. I was the only one in the room,” Bolton said. The United States has just assumed the rotating presidency of the 15-nation council for the month of February.
“I believe in discipline. I think daily briefings constitute a form of intellectual discipline. Starting on time is a form of discipline,” Bolton told reporters. “I failed today.”
“I took a list of when they (council members) came in,” Bolton said. “We started just before 10:15.”

Essentially, the UN diplomats gave Ambassador Bolton the Finger; Bolton himself will have a rough time trying to get them to change their ways. They have many things to do as UN diplomats: park in no-parking zones; go to “gentlemen’s clubs” to pick up some escorts, try to create $7 trillion out of thin air, and of course, accept bribes to look the other way while Iran continues to build the Bomb. All on the Taxpayers’ dime...and not just the American Taxpayer, either!

When I got up this morning and scanned my usual founts for news, I thought it was going to be a slow day. Which wouldn’t have been so bad after all, considering it’s a Monday.
And then I saw this:

The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (£3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims today.
The price? An admission that the nation-state is an old-fashioned concept that has no role to play in a modern globalised world where financial markets have to be harnessed rather than simply condemned.

Yes, those crooked blowhards at the UN, gathered with “influential” world business elites at Davos (that name almost sounds like a certain alien despot from Doctor Who), want us to cook our books to magically create money that shouldn’t be there to begin with, since we didn’t spend the money on the things they say we should spend them on! Of course, said 7 trillion dollars would go right to the UN’s coffers...who know better how to spend it than the rest of us (including the corporations) do.
BULL...S**T!

Seeing as he got caught with his hand in Saddam’s Oil For Food cookie jar (and said jar was busted), now the UN Secretary-General wants to raid another cookie jar.
Iran’s:

“I had a 40-minute conversation with Mr. [Ali] Larijani, the Iranian negotiator of the nuclear issue. ...He in turn affirmed to me that they are interested in serious and constructive negotiations…
“First of all, I think we should try and resolve it, if possible, in the IAEA context. [Mohamed] ElBaradei is working with the parties, doing his best to try and resolve it there. I have been talking to all the parties, doing whatever I can to encourage a negotiated settlement and really keeping people at the table and trying to discourage escalation, and I will continue to do that.”

Negotiated settlement. HA! Escalation. HA! Kofi doesn’t want to see this issue go before the UN Security Council. He’d better do that Iranian cookie jar quick, because this time, it might turn out to be hot.
As in ”radioactive."

Nothing is sacred to the UN. This 25-second ad showing the destruction of Smurf Village was done with the consent of the Peyo family, as part of a Belgian UNICEF fundraising campaign for the rehabilitation of former child-soldiers from Burundi.
This isn’t the first time the UN has reached for the radical depiction to get people to feel instead of think. Who all remembers the explosive soccer ad?
I also took a quick look over at Little Green Footballs to gauge the reaction of my fellow Lizardoids, and found this particular comment which stood out like a sore blue thumb:

“Just remember, when the smurfs start smurfing, there will be smurf to pay. Smurfs will be smurfing each other like there’s no tomorrow. While some smurfs will think this is smurficilious, other smurfs will smurf and smurf, until they can smurf the remaining smurfs in short order.
“Only the smurf survive.”

HAT TIPS: Electric Desert and The Steel Deal

Here it is, almost 2 years after the first news reports...and the United Nations is still hellbound and determined to wrest control of ICANN and the Internet from the United States. Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN...he who defeated Fritz) is not happy:

“Putting the U.N. in charge of one of the world’s most important technological wonders and economic engines is out of the question. This proposal would leave the United States with no more say over the future of the Internet than Cuba or China-countries that have little or no commitment to the free flow of information.”

And there’s the rub right there. Most UN members are not democracies but THUG-ocracies who don’t give a damn about their people. And worse, the UN still has the cajones to put these types of countries on the Human Rights Commission...and perpetually exclude the State of Israel from ever sitting on such an august body.
But look what we’ve given the UN instead of their wildest fantasy...their worst nightmare! I can’t wait for Ambassador Bolton’s first official statements in the chambers of the Security Council!

HAT TIP: The Ranting Right Wing Howler

Dammit! I LIKE Robotech, but did they have to go and make a feel-good PSA lauding the UN’s 60th Anniversary? Apparently they did.
Please control your gag reflex as they swoon over what humanity is “truly capable of.” Quicktime 6 Required.

I don’t know who to be pissed off at more...the Democrats here in the US of A?...or the a**holes of Turtle Bay! Now I swear they WANT Iran to have the Bomb and they will stop at nothing, not even above losing certain manuals...to enable the mullahs to get it!
When in the Sam Hell are we gonna get rid of these bastards from our shores?

Paul Volcker: You can’t subpoena the two people who resigned from my Oil For Food commission...they have diplomatic immunity!

Congress: Don’t be too sure about that....

Not MINE, you understand. Who all remembers that bullshit supranational organization called the United Earth Oceans from seaQuest DSV ten years ago? Well, the LLL’s keep calling for a Global TAX to set something up just like it.
These idiots do not understand that socialism will hinder development of the market to our oceans, not encourage it! Not only that, since the UN itself is so FUBAR, they want to go create ANOTHER organization to rape the developed world? They really do piss me off sometimes.

NOTE: I used to open links to a new window with my previous posts. I think I’ll drop that practice and save on the maintenance.

Yes, you read right. Kofi Annan has gone and done appointed Bill Clinton to head the UN’s efforts at post-tsunami reconstruction. Since the Secretary General is apparently too busy to bother issuing his own statement, one of his staff does so:

“The secretary-general is confident that President Clinton will bring energy, dynamism and focus to the task of sustaining world interest in the vital recovery and reconstruction phase following the tsunami disaster. He believes that no one could possibly be better qualified for this task.”

Is your stomach turning yet? Anyway, Annan is going to tap Clinton for helping to resolve the issues of the Sri Lankan and Indonesian insurrections as well. We’ll see how far that goes, considering his “stunning successes” with Somalia, Kosovo and North Korea!

And since Clinton gets closer to that unspoken desire to become UN Secretary General, not only do the Asians have something to say about that since they are next in line to inherit the office (it traditionally goes on a rotating basis by continent), so does former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, who has presented a petition to President Bush to implore him to do everything he can to make sure Clinton’s wish doesn’t come true.

Hey, where can I sign that?

OK, so John Kerry said he’d put every potential American action to a “global test” to bring France and Germany on board. Ain’t gonna work!
And it didn’t take long for some funny schmucks to publish a Global Test to determine what’s in America’s best interests. The Christian Science Monitor also published a Global Test to help determine where one’s political views lie.
On Test #1 I lost track at -5100 points, but wait until you attempt to take the test in French. On Test #2 I scored as a neoconservative. Tell me something I didn’t already know!