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• Pole-dancing, Jeremy Clarkson and angry twins

  Published: June 24, 2007, 4:22 pm

  Tags: United Kingdom, European Union, United Nations, Jeremy Clarkson, Comedy, Poland, Christianity, Politics, Germany, News

  Jeremy Clarkson can do it, obviously. He's English. But when Poles start doing it? Where will it all end? Mocking the Germans. It's fun, it's popular and it's all too easy. Last year everyone's favourite comedy racist (/ homophobe/ campaigner for the right to emit as much carbon as your hundred-valve 66-horsepower baby-seal-powered recreational

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• UN, as in FlUNky for Fascists

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:18 pm

  Tags: United Nations, Russia

  Their veniality is beyond dispute. Their inventiveness never ceases to amaze: Most top-level [UN] appointments are presented to the public simply as a fait accompli, with a brief bio, disclosing little and in some cases obfuscating a great deal. Why doesn't the public deserve to hear a lot more about the criteria, qualifications, and selection

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• How the UN Stands up to Bullies

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:09 pm

  Tags: United Nations, China, Sudan, Darfur, Human Rights

  same time, one of the oldest nations of the world, Tibet, is still under foreign occupation and is one of the last countries under colonial rule since it was invaded by China in the 1950s. What about the implementation of the UN resolutions on self-determination for Tibet? And what will you do as Secretary General to facilitate a peaceful

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• British Invasion

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:04 pm

  Tags: Photo Op, Gordon Brown, Nypd, Traffic, United Kingdom, United Nations, Walforf Astoria

  gave a speech today at the United Nations on the same topic. (After which employees massed to photograph him while he spoke to reporters.) We'd mention the details of the plan, but the more relevant part is this: That's why there were all those cops around the Waldorf yesterday and today. Just in case you're curious. (We were.) Earlier:

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• UN, as in Thank YoU(N)

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:52 pm

  Tags: Israel, United Nations, Lebanon

  No, not really: “The cease-fire acted as a life jacket for the organization [at the end of the Second Lebanon War],” a Hizbullah officer said in an interview aired by Channel 10 on Tuesday. In the interview, the unnamed officer said Hizbullah gunmen would have surrendered if the fighting last summer had continued for another 10 days.

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• Good News From Darfur [UPDATED]

  Published: August 1, 2007, 6:04 am

  Tags: United Nations, Sudan, Darfur

  the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, called for an expedited transition from the African Union to the United Nations. This point, however, leaves me scratching my head: “We must dedicate ourselves fully to deploying a mission which will make a clear and positive difference in the lives of the people of Darfur,” Ban said.

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• No Country for Old Men

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:39 am

  Tags: United Nations, Human Rights

  Well, not everything. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has reiterated his commitment to “zero tolerance” of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers. … The conference comes a week after a BBC report highlighted claims of children being subjected to rape and prostitution by UN peacekeepers in Haiti

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• Who’s Running the UN, Julius Streicher?

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:44 pm

  Tags: Israel, United Nations, Anti Semitism, Lebanon, Palestine

  heart of darkness: The United Nations has scheduled an International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace , to be held in the European Parliament in Brussels, August 30-31. This misleading [title] not withstanding, this annual conference is held under the auspices of the Committee on the Exercise of the

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• Sudan Vs Iraq?

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:42 am

  Tags: United Nations

  Earlier, I pointed out the folly of the new UN mission to Sudan. The force is too small, the mission too narrow, and the rules of engagement too restrictive to accomplish anything other than provide a sideshow for the genocide....

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• Darfurther Nonsense XXXVII

  Published: August 2, 2007, 10:34 am

  Tags: United Nations, Sudan, Africa, Darfur

  the troops would be the United Nations’ largest peacekeeping operation and, under the U.N. resolution passed Tuesday, would be under orders to prevent attacks against civilians. Just remember, the UN’s expertise in this role is open to serious question: The U.N. evacuated dozens of staff Wednesday from a remote east Congo town

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• Hold Your Applause

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:18 pm

  Tags: Israel, United Nations, Terrorism, Lebanon

  United Nations Security Council on Friday called on Hezbollah to immediately and unconditionally release abducted Israel Defense Forces soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. In a Presidential Statement, the Security Council expressed concern over the fact that the soldiers are still being held by Hezbollah, and that the organization has

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• So Mad I Could Spit

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:11 am

  Tags: Israel, United Nations, Lebanon

  objections from Qatar, the United Nations Security Council decided late Friday to delay the publication of a presidential statement calling for Hizbullah to release captive reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev immediately and without preconditions, Israel Radio reported. The statement, which was approved unanimously by 15 nations, also

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• Visas: Everywhere You Want to Be

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: United Nations, Russia, Immigration

  you’re surprised: A United Nations employee was arrested Monday on charges that he and two others used U.N. stationery in a visa fraud scheme, prosecutors said. Vyacheslav Manokhin, a U.N. employee based in Manhattan, was accused of helping numerous non-U.S. citizens enter the country illegally by providing fraudulent documents so they

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• Britain Discovers Its Retreatist Foreign Minister

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:06 am

  Tags: United Nations

  When Gordon Brown picked former Kofi Annan deputy Lord Malloch-Brown as his Foreign Minister, Americans groaned at the message that the appointment made towards appeasement and unaccountable internationalism. Americans knew Mark Malloch-Brown from his attack on American free speech last...

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• Darfur Intervention On Shaky Ground

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:39 pm

  Tags: United Nations

  The UN announced its deal to intervene in the Darfur a week ago, with the Security Council authorizing an anemic force of 26,000 troops with equally anemic rules of engagement. Now it looks like the force may get weaker yet...

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