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So then Hezbollah drags mindless newsmen and women to the scene and screams, “Look what the bloodthirsty Jews are doing to us!!” And Kofi Annan agrees that the U.S. or Israel is to blame? More at: http://peace-and-freedom.blogspot.com/

MIDI - TELL LAURA I LOVE HER That Kofi Annan's a partisan...we all watch what he has done He has condemned Jews...no big surprise which side he'd choose We know all about oil for food...hey, Kofi, we're not in the mood Israel should stand up and say...just hit the road and go away Hey, Kofi, just shove it...to hear that, I'd love it Hey, Kofi, we've heard enough...we'll send you something you can stuff The UN is worthless as they come...it is filled with useless scum In orange jumpsuit may we see...both Kofi Annan and Hillary Get the UN...

War on terrorism's most idiotic phrase to date: "Proportionate response to terrorism." How do Kofi and the friends of terror manage to say it with a straight face? It follows the same logic as being a little bit pregnant.

New York - A renewed controversy erupted Friday before next week's UN conference on small arms and light weapons, as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan insisted organization has no plan to take away Americans' right to bear arms. The US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, charged that the conference may infringe on Americans' constitutional right to bear weapons. He vowed to defend that right when the two-week conference opens on Monday, saying that some UN members may have a 'larger agenda' aimed at the US Constitution's Second Amendment, which protects the right to own weapons. 'The message is clear: to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Following unprecedented criticism of U.S. popular and governmental attitudes toward the United Nations, the world organization's second-ranking official ended his June 6 speech in New York with this rhetorical question: "Who will campaign in 2008 for a new multilateral national security?" Unbelievably but unmistakably, U.N. Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown was injecting himself into the next American presidential election."He was shamelessly pandering to partisan interests," Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, who has led congressional pressure for U.N. reform, told me. Malloch Brown's remarkable speech was delivered under the auspices of two left-of-center think tanks, one of them...

book review ON INCOMPETENCE Gregory R. Copley, President, International Strategic Studies Association An International Relations Debacle: The UN Secretary-General's Mission of Good Offices in Cyprus 1999-2004, by Claire Palley. Oxford. UK. and Portland. Oregon, USA, 2005: Hart Publishing. ISBN: 1-84113-578-X. 395pp, illust., hardcover. $45. Rarely, in lives filled with books, is a vol- ume found which has the power to pro- foundly influence minds with the com- pelling weight and wisdom of its facts and arguments, and with the movingly restrained passion of its compilation. Claire Pal ley's work, An International Relations Debacle: The UN Secretary- General's Mission of Good...

The announcement of the three carefully orchestrated suicides of the terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay arrived in that packet of news briefs on Fox with little accompanying fanfare. Just a how do you do and an update out of that small bit of democratic America on that great big island of oppression where the liberals grow teary eyed about Fidel’s marvelous health care system, where a toothy Jimmy Carter’s photo also hangs on the murderous Mr. Castro’s wall, and where Mr. Chavez often calls. Sadly, like so many deaths which had preceded these, they were choreographed to maximize their attention...

Eric Shawn is the author of the new book "The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World," a scathing look at the United Nations' ineptitude, corruption and crimes against humanity. Shawn, a veteran Fox News Network anchor who has covered issues surrounding the United Nations for years, sat down with NewsMax to talk about his eye-opening book.

The United Nations has launched another effort at “reform,” designed to convince the American taxpayers that things are changing for the better at an institution known for corrupt practices. The public face of this effort is an American, Christopher Burnham, the new U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Management, who recently spoke to the Heritage Foundation about affirming “the highest ethical standards” at the world body and making sure the world body is more open and accountable. Unfortunately for him, he agreed to take questions, one of which – about the U.N. Secretary-General getting a $500,000 personal gift from a foreign government –...

See for example this thread first. The US is breaking the law Says somebody, flapping his jaw It's Kofi Annan who shows once 'ag-ain' that he's like the U.N.'s Lord Haw Haw.

There are still too many complaints of sexual abuse against United Nations troops, the head of peacekeeping operations has said. Jean-Marie Guehenno said the UN had investigated 295 cases under a new reporting system introduced last year. It could take several more years to reform the system fully, says Jordan's UN envoy who last year urged changes. The 18 peace missions worldwide employ 85,000 staff from over 100 countries, with a budget of nearly $5bn. Mr Guehenno said although significant progress had been made in reducing the number of cases of sexual exploitation following an investigation in the Democratic Republic...

US Military Adding New Construction at GuantanamoBy Al Pessin Pentagon 17 February 2006 Pessin report - Download 692k Listen to Pessin report Camp Six under construction at Guantanamo Bay A report issued by the UN's Human Rights Commission on Thursday called for the closing of the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay. When asked about the report, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that while he does not agree with everything in it, he supports its main conclusions. Mr. Annan said sooner or later there will be a need to close Guantanamo and it will be up to the U.S....

Exile enrages Syria by linking Assad to Hariri assassination By Harry de Quetteville (Filed: 02/01/2006) Syria's ruling Ba'ath party yesterday expelled one of the country's most senior politicians after he implicated President Bashar al-Assad in an assassination plot last year. The party denounced Abdel-Halim Khaddam, 73, a former vice-president and a stalwart of the Ba'ath regime, as a traitor to the "party, the homeland and the Arab nation" for his remarks. Earlier the Syrian parliament had called for him to be put on trial for high treason. Mr Khaddam, who resigned six months ago, is already in exile in Paris....

THE UN Secretary-General has used his end-of-year press conference to lash out at the media in general, and The Times in particular, for their coverage of the Oil-for-Food scandal and his role in it. Kofi Annan singled out James Bone, New York correspondent of The Times, after he questioned Mr Annan about a Mercedes jeep that his son, Kojo, imported into Ghana using his father’s diplomatic immunity to avoid taxes. Kojo Annan worked for a Swiss firm, Cotecna, that won a lucrative UN contract to monitor those imports. Mr Annan told reporters that they had focused unduly on himself and...

Excerpts - WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- By this time next year Kofi Annan will be packing his bags ready to hand over the United Nations to a new Secretary General, but choosing the seventh U.N. head since the world body's inception in 1945 may not follow the usual formula, and could produce a surprise. Although Annan does not leave office until Jan 2007, behind the scenes the campaign for the succession is getting into gear, and diplomats in the glass tower on the East River expect the appointment to be sewn up well ahead of time, probably by next...

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2449872005 Annan loses his cool over 'unfair' media coverage KOFI Annan, the United Nations secretary-general, lashed out at the media after a year of unrelenting attacks on the UN and strong criticism of his management of the £37 billion oil-for-food programme in Iraq. The normally mild-mannered official appeared to lose his temper, attacking newspaper reporters for what he said was unfair media coverage of his role - and his son's - in the controversial programme, and said the real scandal had been overlooked. That, he said, was the more than 2,200 companies and individuals from some 40 countries that paid...

Evelyn Leopold http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/un_annan_dc;_ylt=Ak8uJ3VvSPKytd39jkRAoTys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ-- UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Terrorism and conflicts across the Middle East will be major global issues in 2006, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said at a year-end news conference on Wednesday and he also lashed out at the media for its coverage of the oil-for-food program. Annan said he faced getting tough management reform proposals through the U.N. General Assembly and trying to solve the ongoing conflict in Sudan's Darfur region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But he said he expected terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and the Middle East -- the slayings in Lebanon, the...

Tomorrow, you, the people of Iraq, will have a further historic opportunity to shape your political future and choose your own leaders by democratic means. Your vote will mark the beginning of a new chapter in Iraq's history. I therefore encourage all of you to turn out and exercise your democratic right to vote as a first step towards building together a stable, united and prosperous Iraq. This is your chance to let your voice be heard as a force for peace and national reconciliation.I appeal to all to refrain from violence or any other action which might undermine the...

This is the prominent UN public display which was used to mark the commemoration of "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" on November 29, 2005. The Palestinian flag is on one side. The UN flag is on the other side. A map without the UN member state of Israel stands between them. This map was displayed at a public gathering at UN Headquarters, in the presence of all top three UN officials, the Secretary General, and the Presidents of the UN Security Council and the General Assembly. It purports to be a "map of Palestine" and is dated...

With the 2006-2007 United Nations budget set to pass later this month without proper allocations in place for much-needed reforms, hope for institutional change is greatly diminishing. Last week, America's able representative to the U.N., John Bolton, attempted to rectify the situation, taking bold steps to delay the biennial budget's approval, citing evidence that none of the prescriptions or conclusions for reform agreed upon at the World Summit in September were reflected in the document. For his unwillingness to allow the world body to continue its pernicious game of smoke-and-mirrors, Amb. Bolton and the country he represents were excoriated by...