December 11, 2011 – 8:17 am
So, the official part of COP17 in Durban, S.A., is over, and the delegates are taking fossil fueled flights (in lots of private planes) home. What did they accomplish? Basically, they kicked the can down the road (AP) A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a far-reaching program meant to set a […]
November 3, 2011 – 9:00 am
Yet another breathless report from the United Nations (which is going to be holding it’s latest conference in the lovely vacation spot of Durban, S.A., at the end of the month, of which Anthony Watts writes “I’m not sure what it celebrates, perhaps they are celebrating being given prepaid tickets and receiving a salary plus […]
October 17, 2011 – 8:18 am
Some very interesting, and disturbing, information from the Competitive Enterprise Institution’s Christopher Horner, via Watts Up With That? Although this is seedy and unlawful at any time, it also goes in the ‘bad timing’ file. Or it’s good timing, depending on one’s perspective. Just as a brand new book further exposes the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel […]
October 6, 2011 – 8:47 am
Obviously, Democrats have a problem with this (CNS News) U.S. House Republicans fired another shot across the bow of the United Nations Wednesday, advancing a bill to defund a U.N. agency accused of complicity in China’s coercive population control policies. By a 23-17 vote along party lines, the House Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill, […]
September 3, 2011 – 4:28 pm
Isn’t it kind of weird how the bombing of a UN office in Nigeria disappeared from the news almost immediately? Perhaps because, as usual, it paints the Religion of Peace in a bad light Nigeria detained and released several radical Muslims suspected of being terrorists in 2007 — including a man who officials now say […]
July 21, 2011 – 9:49 am
If they really believed that, they would turn all the power off at every UN building in the world, and stop flying all over the world for climate change (hoax) conferences in exotic vacation locations. Anyhow The United Nations Security Council has declared that global warming is a threat to world peace and stability, in […]
July 20, 2011 – 9:28 am
Because the UN does such a wonderful job with their Blue Helmets A special meeting of the United Nations security council is due to consider whether to expand its mission to keep the peace in an era of climate change. Small island states, which could disappear beneath rising seas, are pushing the security council to […]
June 18, 2011 – 8:33 am
That’s very nice of them. I’m not gay, but, I believe people deserve to be treated equally. But, notice which countries were against this The United Nations issued its first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people on Friday in a cautiously worded declaration hailed by supporters including the United States as a […]
April 3, 2011 – 9:03 pm
Say, when are we going to intervene in Cote D’Ivoire? Wouldn’t this simply be a humanitarian mission? The UN secretary general has urged Ivory Coast’s internationally-backed president to investigate hundreds of deaths blamed partly on his supporters. Ban Ki-moon said he was “concerned and alarmed” about the reports, from the town of Duekoue, but Alassane […]
March 17, 2011 – 7:36 pm
Following up on the post from earlier today The United Nations Security Council approved a measure on Thursday authorizing “all necessary measures†to protect Libyan civilians from harm at the hands of forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The measure allows not only a no-fly zone but effectively any measures short of a ground invasion […]
