More UNreality . . . But the Dutch Get It

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http://diplomadic.blogspot.com

[pau1f0rd]

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[Dundee]

This is a seriously good blog (as evidenced by the number of DU trolls trying to trash it).

There was a good suggestion on the comments page on replacing the UN with a blog.

I think the UN already has a blog (ie. DU)

[Pro-Bush]

BUMP! ..Like it!

[shibumi]

" "Ms. Margareeta Wahlstrom, United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Secretary-General's Special Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance in Tsunami-afected countries." "

ROTFLMAO!!! If you were trying your very best you couldn't make up something this funny!

[sinanju]

"Ms. Margareeta Wahlstrom, United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Secretary-General's Special Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance in Tsunami-afected countries."

Gilber & Sullivan could have really taken this and run with it. Or Graham Greene perhaps? I know! Christopher Buckley!

[Nuzcruizer]

The UN, once again, has shown it's failure to act, it's complete lack of any co-ordination, lack of any plan for world emergencies. It's just a collection of the worlds worst crooks hiding within all the NGO'S (selected not elected people)which make up the UN, which together want to control the entire world. This organization MUST be dismantled, and a new meeting room built for elected not selected world leaders to meet and solve the worlds problems. That is all we really needed in the first place, not a collection of NGO'S lead by crooks like Annan.

Of course the loony left support the UN, they hate the USA and democracy just like the UN and it's self appointed wanna-be world authority figures. They want to be able to tell people how to live, what to eat, and what to have sex with, and destroy Christianity and wipe out all the Jews in the world. The UN is their voice.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

They probably made up the title at the last minute to give somebody's actual secretary, er, personnel assistant, something important-sounding to do. "Here! Take this memo to Sri Lanka! And get those hard-working bureacrats some coffee while you're there! Remember, you're a Special Coordinator now! So hop to it!"

[sinanju]

They probably made up the title at the last minute to give somebody's actual secretary, er, personnel assistant, something important-sounding to do. "Here! Take this memo to Sri Lanka! And get those hard-working bureacrats some coffee while you're there! Remember, you're a Special Coordinator now! So hop to it!"

Well, she got her own title and, considering what we know about how things work in that den of iniquity, she probably paid most foully for it.

[seppel]

If the liberal West had not destroyed the white community in South Africa you could have expected military support from that country as well.

[William of Orange]

I'm glad at least 1 of my fellow Dutchies gets it :-)

[flieger]

Nice article, but unfortunately it is wrong in some aspects. True, the US and the Aussies are carrying the major burden of the relieve efforts.
As always, you just see what the MSM feeds you.
As far as the EU not doing anything, I have posted this before:
Germany has a MedEvac Airbus in continuous operation for a week now and a another stated flying today. The "FGS Berlin" (http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/german_auxiliary_ships.htm), a German supply ship with two helicopters has been sent to the region from Dschibuti (Enduring Freedom mission) and the THW (Technisches Hilfswerk) http://www.thw.de has a number of units (100 people+) on the ground with tons of equipment. The Bundeswehr has set up field hospitals at different places
This is just a part of what Germany is doing and other countries are doing a lot too. Just remember, Germany for example is half the size of Texas.

[bahblahbah]

Check out this blog.
http://laotze.blogspot.com/

Looks like there might be a little Jihad trouble ahead. This may just be another Somalia. Heh, might be worth letting the UN take over in a bit :p.

[bahblahbah]

True, but you have to realize the quoted report from the Dutch guy was 2 days old and that was just his general observation.

IIRC though, it was the US that airlifted 12-13 German citizens to Germany. Again IIRC, the "FGS Berlin" just left from the Cape of Good Hope yesterday.

"As always, you just see what the MSM feeds you."

The MSM has been feeding me all along that this has been a UN effort. It's kind of hard to see a UN effort though.

Cite where you've got your information from so I know where to look.

[Caipirabob]

They probably made up the title at the last minute to give somebody's actual secretary, er, personnel assistant, something important-sounding to do. "Here! Take this memo to Sri Lanka! And get those hard-working bureacrats some coffee while you're there! Remember, you're a Special Coordinator now! So hop to it!"

How much do you want to bet they delayed her visit by a couple of days to wait for the "cards" to be printed out?!?

Man, I can just see it. "When you get there and start running into Tsunami victims, hand them these cards so they'll know the UN is there to help!"

To top it all off they wanted the people doing THE REAL WORK to wear UN colors so they could all look like big blue bananas while rendering aid to the victims?

The UN must die. I leave it open to debate on the method, but they are doing a fine job themselves of making the UN a completely irrelevant joke.

[flieger]

From German media coverage (which, I know, is more focused on the German point of view as the US media is on the US).
I am in Germany right now and get my information from various European TV stations and CNN int, BBC world as well as from the internet including foxnews and cnn.com.

Most of my sources are in German, but http://www.faz.com (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) is in English and might be of interest. It is my favorite German newspaper.

[flieger]

Just read an article on http://www.faz.de (german newspaper), that Banda Aceh airport is/was closed after a plane crash landed. Must have hit a heard of cows on the runway on landing. picture

[agere_contra]

I think we can agree that the majority of first world countries are doing a great deal on their own initiative - they are sovereign states after all.

However the UN's response has been to a) print some meter-long business cards and b) memo everyone to make sure that the UN get the credit for everyone else's work.

[flieger]

I agree! The UN knows how to LOOK good and DO as little as possible. And if there is a buck or two to be pocketed...

[dennisw]

This is the best new blog .... bar none! I love it!