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How did a close George Soros associate , a Quantum Fund VP, who lived in his NYC apartment get accepted for crucial voting machinery? Soros Minion: How did a close George Soros associate , a Quantum Fund VP, who lived in his NYC apartment get accepted for crucial voting machinery? Especially after Soros’ unrelenting attack on the US justice system by funding leftist DAs? Brown was concurrently Vice-Chair of Soros Fund Management & Vice-Chair of Open Society Institute. Is Lord Brown George Soros’ favorite lieutenant? Agent Provocateur Brown: So, what kind of person is Lord Brown? He secretly advances Soros’...

How an Americanist devoted to destroying international alliances became the US envoy to the UNIn the heat of the battle over the Florida vote after the 2000 US presidential election, a burly, mustachioed man burst into the room where the ballots for Miami-Dade County were being tabulated, like John Wayne barging into a saloon for a shoot-out. "I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count," drawled John Bolton. And those ballots from Miami-Dade were not counted.Now that same John Bolton has been named by President Bush as the US ambassador to the UN. "If I were...

Toronto-- In the complex world of high finance, former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker is a proven wizard. Pulling the rabbit out of the hat, Volcker used the "Chinese wall" paradigm in his role of overhauling embattled accounting firm Arthur Andersen, having the firm separate its auditing and consulting practices in the wake of its role as auditor of Enron, which filed for the largest-ever U.S. bankruptcy. Keeping Miranda Duncan mum seems to have been Volcker’s next paradigm. When Miranda Margaret Duncan, one of two senior investigators who resigned in protest from Volcker’s independent inquiry into the oil-for-food scandal...

POSTED BY ED MORRISSEY Barack Obama has selected Gregory Craig as White House counsel, a move that will recall some controversial legal cases over the last few years. Craig has plenty of experience in politics as well as the courtroom, having served as Bill Clinton’s legal counsel during the impeachment hearings. Craig flipped from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama early in the primaries, and Obama has repaid his support — but Craig’s caseload will raise a few eyebrows: Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect...

Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan died on Saturday at age 80. Annan served as Secretary General between 1997 and 2006. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. In 2004, after archterrorist Yasser Arafat's death, Annan held a special meeting in the UN. The meeting included a "moment of silence." Responding to his death, Israel's Foreign Ministry called Annan one of the "pillars" of "multilateral diplomacy," and said he "devoted his life to achieving peace, reducing poverty, and fighting child morbidity." During his term, Annan opposed attempts to de-legitimize Israel, as well as attempts to deny the Holocaust....

The next feud between America's freedom and democracy hawks and old United Nations diplomats will likely develop this week with the release of a much-anticipated report. Ordered by Secretary-General Annan, it was prepared by a panel of 16 former world movers and shakers now in their 70s, who will undoubtedly be hailed at Turtle Bay as wise men, and derided elsewhere as has-beens. Men who held previous posts like Russian foreign minister and Saddam champion Yevgeny Primakov, British U.N. envoy David Hannay, or current Arab League chief Amr Moussa, are not going to excite anyone looking for fresh insights into...

I'm actually beginning to think had Hillary won there would be fewer Clinton retreads coming on-board. Where the change? The bold innovative thinking? Are former Clinton hacks the best you can do, Barry? Geez, at this rate I almost expect Lani Guinier to be nominated for something. It's almost as if they had some incriminating photos of the guy. No, instead of this mythical change, we get a guy who sent Elian Gonzalez back to hell. Craig, 63, is a partner at Williams & Connolly and a protégé of the late Edward Bennett Williams, the legendary Washington power lawyer. His...

I got a letter from Kofi Anan (sic)! I'm so excited! And I just can't hide it! Kofi Anan (sic) really loves me. And he wants me to be rich!DATE:26-2-2008 Attention: How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family?,You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a meeting for the passed 7 months which ended 2 days ago with the then secretary to the UNITED NATIONS. This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONA have agreed to compensate...

First in an op-ed in the Washington Post and later in a farewell speech, Annan laid out his case for what ails the world. And for the most part, it can be boiled down to five simple words: the United States of America. The anti-U.S. animus of Annan’s speech was as clear as it was shocking. It betrayed a deep antipathy for the world’s greatest democracy, and outright disdain for its ideals and sacrifices. Speaking of the myriad threats the world faces today, Annan took a backhanded swipe at the U.S. when he said: “No nation can make itself secure...

If the world's population was reduced to 100, it would look something like this.... The Miniature Earth

The United Nations plans to gut the super-luxe East Side townhouse that's home to the secretary general and give it a multimillion-dollar renovation - complete with a $200,000 kitchen. "That's a fantastic budget. It'd be a hell of a thing," said Stefan Boublil, owner of swanky SoHo design firm The Apartment. "It's an expensive kitchen." The pricey kitchen upgrade is only a small part of a $4.3 million overhaul of the four-story Sutton Place manse where Kofi Annan has lived rent-free for a decade. And that's not the whole cost.

NEW YORK -- The race for United Nations secretary-general is moving into its final weeks with South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon well in front, but the late entry of Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who would be the first woman in the post, muddles the odds. Seven declared candidates are now in the running to succeed Kofi Annan in January, and more could enter. They include a U.N. official who writes novels, the deputy prime minister of a recently deposed government, an ambassador with a passion for disarmament, a prince with peacekeeping experience, and a former World Bank executive from...

The whole question of the extent of Israel's response and the mantra of the appeasement monkeys is stupid. During a debate between David Horowitz and Josh Rabner on Hannity today, Rabner exemplified what you hear from the left every day: Israel is ing civilians or Israel is targeting civilians or some variant of this theme. In order to add perspective, let's compare what is happening in Lebanon graphically to a well-known event of WWII: the allied ing of Dresden. Now, bear with me, because I will conclude that they were both totally justified, even if there was a toll of...

Bill Engvale is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. For years he’s been doing a routine about stupid things that people say. Each example ends with the tag line, “Here’s your sign.” That means a big sign with STUPID written on it. Although geopolitics are not Bill’s metier, he offers a way to cut through the twaddle about the beginning of WW III. Let’s start with Howard Dean. (Remember him? He was in all the papers.) Dean cropped up today giving a fire-breathing speech to the faithful (and forlorn), screaming that we wouldn’t have these problems in the...

CRITICISM OF SUICIDE BOMBERS CENSORED AT THE UN IHEU today attempted to call on the United Nations to condemn killing in the name of religion, but were prevented from doing so by the heavy-handed intervention of Islamic representatives. The IHEU call, at today's meeting of the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, follows moves by Islamic clerics to legitimise the current wave of terror attacks. At this afternoon's meeting, IHEU representative David Littman attempted to deliver a prepared text in the joint names of three international NGOs: the Association for World Education, the Association of World Citizens, and IHEU,...

NEW YORK — Sen. Norm Coleman (search) is preparing subpoenas in order to force two former Oil-for-Food (search) investigators to testify, FOX News has learned. The Republican chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations could issue the direct challenge as early as Thursday to Paul Volcker (search), head of the Independent Inquiry Committee probing corruption in the $64 billion U.N. program.

Paul Volcker believes it's none of Congress' business why two senior investigators quit the United Nations (UN) Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) probing the Iraq oil-for-food scandal revolving around secret deals, millions in bribes and billions in global kickbacks.  Thus the stage has been set for a confrontation that may be quite unsettling for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.  Indications are that this time he won't emerge smelling like a rose. Volcker was assigned by the UN, in April 2004, to research possible corruption in the Iraqi Oil for Food program.  In the report, Volcker's panel cleared Annan of any involvement...

Professional critics have decried President Bush’s three-day “delay” in reacting to the tsunami disasters. But if the President used that time to understand the dimensions of the disaster, and to keep the United Nations from controlling relief efforts, every minute was justified. When the UN handles dollars, tens of millions disappear. When the UN handles protection and relief, tens of thousands of people die. Instead of leaving money and authority to the UN, the US created a “core group” with Japan, Australia and India. The lead personnel are the military of those nations. That makes sense, because military units are...

When the stink threatens to make even bureaucrats gag, somebody has to mop up some of the mess.     When a gaggle of special pleaders met the other night in New York to talk about the puddle in the parlor at the United Nations, it wasn't clear whether they were interested in shaping up the U.N. or merely saving the job of Kofi Annan, the bureaucrats' favorite bureaucrat. [snip]What frightened the coterie to action then, and no doubt Mr. Annan yesterday, is the growing sentiment in Congress to do something about corruption at the U.N., or else. [snip]     There was...

When the U.N. Fails, We All Do 'In a sense things got better after the peacekeepers left,' Rusesabagina told me. 'People realized no one was going to help them'By Fareed Zakaria NewsweekDec. 13 issue - You have never heard of Paul Rusesabagina. But if you watch the stunning new movie "Hotel Rwanda," you will never forget him. The movie tells the true story of Rusesabagina, an "ordinary" Rwandan, a hotel manager, who was able to shelter and save more than 1,200 people—Tutsis and Hutus—in the midst of the Rwandan genocide. He is a Rwandan Schindler, who in a series of...