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Just a few minutes ago, I was watching America's News Headquarters on FOX NEWS and in a quick news update on the elections in Afghanistan, FOX NEWS reported on charges of election fraud in Afghanistan and UN involvement in election fraud coverup there. I then went to Google News and found that a UN official is denying UN involvement in election fraud coverup in Afghanistan.

Iraq news wires here WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — Three retired four-star American generals said today that attacking Iraq without a United Nations resolution supporting military action could limit aid from allies, energize recruiting for Al Qaeda and undermine America's long-term diplomatic and economic interests. "We must continue to persuade the other members of the Security Council of the correctness of our position, and we must not be too quick to take no for an answer," Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The officers' testimony came on...

A United Nations plane has crashed in western Haiti, killing all 11 people on board, UN officials say. The Uruguayan surveillance plane was monitoring the Dominican Republic border as part of its tasks with the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Most of those on board the plane were military officers from Uruguay and Jordan, officials told the BBC. More than 9,000 UN personnel are stationed in Haiti, which has long been ravaged by violence and instability. Police officer Cadostin Marc-Andre told the AFP news agency the plane had been nearing the municipality of Ganthier when it came down. UN spokeswoman...

BANGKOK – The United States was heavily criticized Friday at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok for failing to offer emission cuts or financing for developing countries — both considered crucial to reaching a global warming pact this year. The Bangkok talks ended just as it was announced that President Barack Obama had won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, for among other things strengthening the U.S. role in combatting climate change. U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said he hoped the award would spur progress when the U.S. delegation arrives in Copenhagen in December for crucial climate negotiations. Obama is...

ISTANBUL — The United Nations called on Tuesday for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy which has allowed the United States the "privilege" of building a huge trade deficit. "Important progress in managing imbalances can be made by reducing the reserve currency country?s 'privilege' to run external deficits in order to provide international liquidity," UN undersecretary-general for economic and social affairs, Sha Zukang, said.

At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech. Eye on the UN For Immediate Release: October 5, 2009 Contact: Anne Bayefsky info@EYEontheUN.org You Can't Say That: At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech. This article, by Anne Bayefsky, originally appeared in The Weekly Standard. The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended in Geneva on Friday. American diplomats were...

Conservatives for years have been contending that the United Nations is a useless, ineffective organization that caters to dictators and rouge nations. In an interview yesterday International Atomic Energy Agency (an independent organization that reports to the UN) director-general Mohamed ElBaradei spoke about the security in the Middle East. He also identified what he saw as it’s greatest threat. Was it Iran? No. Syria? Nope. Lebannon or Lybia? Not even close. Al Quaeda? No. Hamas? No.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Oct 2009 file photo) The U.N. Secretary-General is condemning the terrorist attack that killed five World Food Program aid workers in Islamabad, Pakistan. Several other people were injured in the attack as well. Islamabad police say a suicide bomber disguised as a security officer struck the lobby of the WFP headquarters in Pakistan shortly after midday. Some of the injured, who are in critical condition are being treated in a hospital. The U.N. Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon is in Geneva for the opening of the World Telecom Conference. He says his mood of high expectations and happiness...

There have been an detailed critiques regarding the UN’s Goldstone report, created for the purpose of bashing Israel over the Gaza war with phony claims of “war crimes.” And more are coming out each day on both sides of the Issue. The report is full of Hamas-let witnesses masking propaganda against Israel; the UN magnified it. Little verifiable evidence was presented, and almost nothing was said about Hamas terrorist activities. Hamas has taken the Goldstone report as if they were given a Carte Blanche by the world community to continue their terrorist strategies and even expand them further.

On the last day of the UN's Hate Israel Human Rights Council meetings it passed a resolution crafted jointly by the U.S. and Egypt talks to importance of freedom of expression, calling it “one of the essential foundations of a democratic society” and urging countries to protect it ` After the "niceties" the resolution talks about “negative racial and religious stereotyping,” and condemns any advocacy of “religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.” It urges governments to “address and combat such incidents,” in line with their obligations under international law. Speaking on behalf of the European Union,...

Departing United Nations Nuke Watchdog, IAEA director Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei has a history of appeasing terrorist powers looking to become nuclear, for example the Wall Street Journal described El-Baradei this way: The IAEA director seems intent on undercutting Security Council diplomacy. Just weeks after President George Bush toured the Middle East to build Arab support for pressure on Tehran, Mr. ElBaradei appeared on Egyptian television on Feb. 5 to urge Arabs in the opposite direction, insisting Iran was cooperating and should not be pressured. And as he grows more and more isolated from Western powers intent on disarming Iran, Mr....

GENEVA (AFP) – Members of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday postponed a decision on a damning report on Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip that raised evidence of war crimes by both sides and possible crimes against humanity. The 47 member Council decided to delay until March 2010 a vote on the report by an independent international fact-finding mission headed by former international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone. Goldstone last month recommended that the UN Security Council should ask the International Criminal Court to examine possible charges, unless progress was made in investigations in Israel and the...

After suffering years of terrorist attacks at the hands of Hamas terrorists,the United Nations sent South African Judge Richard Goldstone on a fact-finding mission examining Israel's Operation Cast Lead against Hamas in Gaza. The Goldstone report the mission's report found that "Israel committed actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity." Goldstone is nothing but another UN affront against truth and justice: Richard Goldstone's long-awaited report has confirmed suspicions that his investigation is guided by an agenda to isolate Israel. The farcical investigative process has produced a report which vilifies Israel but helps little in better understanding the Gaza...

Binyamin Netanyahu's UN speech last week was a masterpiece. It was frank, tough, emotional and most of all, very honest. Bibi pulled no punches as he called out the UN and its members for everything from sitting through the Iranian Despot's speech to the biased Goldstone report. To Paraphrase Harry Truman, he did not give them hell, he told them the truth and they thought it was hell. Most of the Speech's coverage has described it as a shot across the bow of Iran.Nothing could be further from the truth, Bibi's speech was a shot across the bow of the...

New World Order Muslim General Assembly Chief Condemns Gays Treki Not Called to Task by Liberal Press By thelastcrusade.org Ali Abussalam, the newly-installed president of the United Nations General Assembly, Ali Abdussalam Treki, said yesterday that homosexuality is "not really acceptable" and that homosexual acts should be treated as crimes.Treki, who is the Libyan secretary of African Union Affairs, opened the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly Friday with a press conference. One question concerned the UN resolution which calls for the universal decriminalisation of homosexuality. In reply, the new UN chief said: "That matter is very...

In the midst of one of the greatest existential threats of our times, President Obama is pursuing severe reductions in US military strength.  His recent statements at the United Nations have merely added fuel to the fire. When combined with his pledge to reduce US nuclear weapons stockpiles by 80 percent, a clear pattern emerges. These actions would seem irrational, even by Obama's standards, if they weren't in keeping with a 50-year old strategy aimed at unilaterally disarming the United States in order that a "progressively strengthened" UN Peace Force might be established. This idea has been steadily advanced during...

The President’s Troubling Trend on the World Stage by Rep. Mike Pence Posted 09/29/2009 ETUpdated 09/29/2009 ET On the eve of his address to the United Nations, President Obama warned world leaders meeting in New York City of the “irreversible catastrophe� of climate change. The president did so while many of the critical confrontations boiling over on the world stage were laid on the back burner of the agenda at the United Nations. A look at the growing list of challenges sends a startling message that such concerns are the least of our problems. As we approach eight years...

The UN General Assembly has been in session, and if typical of them, nasty things are probably in store for American gun owners as a result. The Citizen's Committee For The Right To Keep and Bear Arms (CCKRBA), in a recent mailing, said that The UN is still actively pursuing the guns you own, and the ones you want to buy. Don't count out associated non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as The International Network On Small Arms (IANSA.) IANSA's Rebecca Peters was largely responsible for the disarming of Australians and the associated increase in violent crimes there as a result of...

Just imagine if after the post-September 11th US attack on Afghanistan, the UN interviewed Taliban and al-Qaida supporters who told lots of lies about the US just to de-legitimize America and to make us look like a war criminal and the terrorists as the victims. And Imagine if the UN published a report based on those tall tales, and called for the US to be punished as a war criminal. That is just what happened to Israel. After suffering years of terrorist attacks at the hands of Hamas terrorists,the United Nations sent South African Judge Richard Goldstone on a fact-finding...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2009 AT 4:26 PM The UN, Women & Girls Posted by Jennifer Simon Ed. Note: Thanks to the Council on Women and Girls for keeping us updated. The status and role of women and girls was featured prominently in official events throughout the week in New York, during the opening of the 64th session of the UN General Assembly. Ambassador Rice was pleased to welcome Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President and Chair of the White House Council of Women and Girls, to...

Here is video of Charles Krauthammer on Fox News Sunday hammering President Obama on his speech to the United Nations this past week. Krauthammer said it began with "adolescent utopianism," and went "downhill from there." He said Obama "denigrated his own country" in the speech, and presented himself as the "redeemer" come to save America from its "wickedness." He pointed out that Obama urged those who listened to look at what he has done during his first eight months as proof of America's character, rather than pointing to America's long history of freedom and help for those in need around...

« The empty promises of a president of the United States Into the Winepress Posted on Sunday 27 September 2009 It’s been a long time coming. For decades the United States of America has been edging away from its only real friend in the Middle East. The relationship — which began tentatively at that brave moment when President Truman defied the ‘wise men” in his own administration and chose to recognize the newly born Jewish state; the relationship Israel worked tenaciously to strengthen in the ensuing years despite consistent opposition from within the State Department and other government circles; the...

So the circus has come to town again. The unspeakable Gaddafi is given a reasonable 15 minutes to speak, and goes on for an hour and three quarters of clowning, tearing up the UN charter and talking complete nonsense about swine flu. Well, you might say, that’s what Gaddafi does. But why do they let him? OK, manhandling him from the room might have been a bit much to expect, but they could at least have switched his mike off. But naturally everyone simply submitted to having their schedule thrown out and their time wasted. And then, naturally, Mugabe with...

At his United Nations debut, Barack Obama urged global cooperation to combat nuclear proliferation, climate change, and other problems that go beyond the borders of any one country. The speech was well received all over the world, except one place—America's right-wing netherworld, which quickly began whipping people into a frenzy. For Michelle Malkin, the speech was evidence that Obama was "the great appeaser," though she then went on to say, "From the sound of it, you'd think you were listening to Thomas Jefferson." (That's bad?) For Rush Limbaugh, Obama's speech was "basically a coup against America." At the National Review's...

With Despots and Dictators Aglow President Obama took apologizing for the United States to a new low this week. In an unprecedented move for a U.S. president (and what many assert is unconstitutional), Obama headed this month’s UN Security Council in New York City. At the helm, Obama apologized for American exceptionalism to despots and second-rate dictators. Obamapology’s words demonstrate his lack of allegiance to the U.S. as he diminished America’s role and history of helping other countries. He apologized for the U.S.’s previously “acting alone without regard for other nations,” and declared, “America’s been too selective in its promotion...

After threatening to kill every homosexual, the Gambia’s leader threatens rights groups Human Rights groups in Africa are demanding that the African Union human rights commission Headquarters be removed from Gambia following a fierce threat made by the Gambian president on opposition leaders and human right workers. "If you are affiliated with any human rights group, be rest assured that your security is not guaranteed... we are ready to kill saboteurs. I will kill anyone who wants to destabilize this country. If you think that you can collaborate with so-called human rights defenders, and get away with it, you...

It caused a weird and unfamiliar feeling – pride. That was the sensation of standing up for what is right. It was the touch of fortitude and courage to stand against what is most definitely wrong on the international stage. It was the feeling of growing a pair.

Much commentary about Barack Obama’s speech to the United Nations Wednesday has focused on his description of pre-Obama America as a deadbeat, lawless, foot-dragging country that tortures innocent Muslims, or did until his glorious ascension to the right hand of power. The predictable emphasis on the speech’s most offensive aspects overlooks more dangerous points yet: the president placed unilateral nuclear disarmament, the environmentalist agenda, and increased pressure on U.S. allies at the forefront of a globalist agenda, while relegating terrorism to a footnote – one that regards it as a “law enforcement� matter. (Yes, he used those words.) The “I�s...

Egypt's culture minister blamed a Jewish "conspiracy" for his election loss to head a U.N. agency. Bulgarian diplomat Irina Gueorguieva Bokova, 57, edged Farouk Hosny, 31-27, in a fifth and final vote for general director by UNESCO executive board members at the Paris-based organization on Tuesday night. The previous evening, the candidates were tied with 29 votes each, forcing a new election. "It was clear by the end of the competition that there was a conspiracy against me," Hosny said Wednesday after landing in Egypt, The Associated Press reported. "There are a group of the world's Jews who had a...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sat down for an exclusive interview with CBS News Anchor Katie Couric hours before his planned address to the United Nations Wednesday. Ahmadinejad spoke on a wide range of issues

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people. The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of such horrendous events. Nothing has undermined that central mission more than the systematic assault on...

Mark Levin says, "I heard a leader at the United Nations today," in Benjamin Netanyahu. Mark added, "The Netanyahu speech was the speech our President should have given." (Audio after the jump.)

Russia and Islam are not Separate: Why Russia backs Al-Qaeda By Konstantin Preobrazhensky Konstantin Preobrazhensky, a former Lt. Colonel in the KGB who defected to the United States in 1993, is an intelligence expert and specialist on Japan, about which he has written six books. His newest book Russian-American, A New KGB Asset will be published in late 2007. This article was first published by Gerard Group International, Intel Analyses, 31 August 2007.Americans generally believe that Russia is afraid of Islamic terrorism as much as the U.S.A. They are reminded of the war in Chechnya, the hostage crisis at the...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered the vipers' pit called the United Nations. He stood at the podium and delivered a speech that should have shamed all who were there and those who were too cowardly to be there in person. The United Nations has allowed it's halls to be infested with thugs, liars, re-writers of history and terrorists. The United Nations allows these people to speak as though they were part of a "good will" movement. For Netanyahu to have to follow such people and end up giving a speech that will one day be a part of history was...

Right now, more than 90,000 U.N. peacekeeping troops are stationed in conflict zones around the world—more than at any other moment in history. Though U.N. peacekeeping missions are financed largely by the U.S. and European countries, most soldiers on the ground come from the developing world. In 2008, the top five troop contributors for these operations were Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, and Nepal, with Ghana, Jordan, and Rwanda close behind. Some critics of the current system are calling for the U.N. to create a standing army—like NATO has—to improve response time and increase professionalism of troops. The U.S. remains opposed...

Here is video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking today at the United Nations where he refuted directly the anti-semitic claims of Iranian thug Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Netanyahu actually showed minutes of a meeting Hitler had with Himmler and others to plan the Holocaust extermination of the Jewish people. He also held up the original plans for the Auschwitz Concentration Camp signed by Himmler himself and asked dramatically, "Are these (plans) a lie?" He blasted Iran's "odious regime" as a "terrorist state," and said they threaten not only the Jewish people but the entire world. Netanyahu asked if the United...

The Netherlands was one of several countries to walk out of the UN general assembly meeting on Wednesday during an address by the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The US, Canada and France also left the hall because of what news agency ANP said was Ahmadinejad's 'anti-semetic rhetoric'. The European Union had already decided to leave the meeting if the president denied the holocaust had taken place during World War II, ANP said. During his speech, Ahmadinejad criticised the 'zionist regime' in Israel for its 'inhuman police in Palestine'.

Israeli Prime minister Bibi Netanyahu gave an address at the UN today that the "diplomatic" forum. It was frank, tough, and emotional very honest. Bibi pulled no punches as he called out the UN and its members for everything from sitting through the Iranian Despot's speech to the biased Goldstone report. To Paraphrase Harry Truman, he did not give them hell, he told them the truth and they thought it was hell. Netanyahu was at his most dramatic when he talked about Ahmadinejad's holocaust denials. He says the Iranian regime is a regime "fueled by extreme fanaticism." (Video Below):

Netanyahu speaking to UN NOW

Reading over the transcripts of yesterday’s speeches at the United Nations, We are again, stunned at the level deference this “August Body” receives. To be sure, most of this awe comes from the usual suspects, but the fact that governments actually refer to this group is disturbing . The Diplomatic Entity that is the United Nations allows people like Achmadinejhad, Chavez, Qaddafi, and a whole host of undesirables to come to America and dis us on our turf. The Venezuelan dictator came here during the Bush Administration and ran his mouth to the point where it raised the ire of...

The embattled US dollar is expected to come under scrutiny at a summit of developing and industrialized nations following China-led calls to review its role as a reserve currency. The dollar issue is bound to surface at the two-day meeting in Pittsburgh as US President Barack Obama and other leaders of the Group of 20 economies debate a new framework for tackling the so called global "economic imbalances" blamed for fuelling the latest financial crisis. "Though not clear how the plan would be enforced, it would involve measures such as the US cutting its deficits and saving more, China reducing...

As President Obama was addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations, just before Libya's dictator Moammar Kadhafi called for the demise of the Security Council and followed later by Ahmadinejad’s challenge of international law as we know it, my conclusion has become clear: Indeed the United Nations must reform, and significantly, and here is why: Qaddafi, whom many Arab leaders called the Fata alk Majnun (the crazy man) ranted for one hour and a half in front of the General Assembly accusing the organization of being unfair and intervening against some aggressors and not all perpetrators of human rights...

Here is video of United Nations delegates walking out during the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad. As you can see, the chamber was largely empty while he spoke because so many had either walked out or not attended during his speech. . . . . (VIDEO)

Libya’s eccentric dictator Muammar Qaddafi told a sleepy United Nations audience Wednesday night that he has the solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict: a single state called Isratine, an acronym for Israel and Palestine. He previously has suggested the term, but last night was the first time the phrase was introduced in the United Nations "The solution is a democratic state without religious fanaticism," he said. "Everybody should live in peace. Isratine, Isratine is the solution."

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ______________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 23, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY United Nations Headquarters New York, New York 10:10 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to address you for the first time as the 44th President of the United States. (Applause.) I come before you humbled by the responsibility that the American people have placed upon me, mindful of the enormous challenges...

Barack Obama's speech to the United Nations today had some positive aspects. He gave lip service to freedom of the individual and political rights. But overall, the speech was more of the same, that whatever the United States has done right, was just making up for what we have done wrong. There was precious little in the speech which was positive about the U.S. While not an outright apology, the entire tone of the speech was apologetic. The United States as the shining city on the hill is dead. The entire thrust of the speech was that we have acted...

Here is video of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to the United Nations.He used his speech to attack the United States and the Jewish people: Mr. Ahmadinejad repeated accusations that Israel was responsible for "inhuman policies" against the Palestinians. Then he broadened his attacks to the Jews who live outside that country. "It is no longer acceptable that a small minority would dominate the politics, economy and culture of major parts of the world by its complicated networks, and establish a new form of slavery, and harm the reputation of other nations, even European nations and the U.S., to attain...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – France on Wednesday led a walkout of a dozen delegations, including the United States, to protest a fiery speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN General Assembly. "It is disappointing that Mr Ahmadinejad has once again chosen to espouse hateful, offensive and anti-Semitic rhetoric," Mark Kornblau, spokesman to the US mission to the United Nations, said in a statement. Delegations from Argentina, Australia, Britain, Costa Rica, Denmark, France Germany, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand and the United States left the room as Ahmadinejad began to rail against Israel, a European source said. Israel had already...

The eleven, according to a European source: Argentina, Australia, Britain, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand … and the United States. I assume our guys wouldn’t have bolted without the White House’s approval, so kudos to The One for showing a bit of principle. Every year this degenerate does his same Jew-baiting shtick — “It is no longer acceptable that a small minority would dominate the politics, economy and culture of major parts of the world by its complicated networks” — and every year our moronic media lines up to interview him. And every year, it’s the...

Here is video of former US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton talking with Glenn Beck about Obama's speech to the United Nations and his comments on Israel. Glenn Beck asked "do you think it's possible to sit in a church with somebody who is as anti-Semitic as Jeremiah wright is and not come away with an anti-Semitic view?" John Bolton said again that he thinks "we've put Israel on the chopping block," and that Obama seems to think "our policy for the last 60 years has been wrong." (Video)