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Soon to be the new mascot of the Democrats’ cap-and-tax push, Disney’s Tinker Bell was tapped by the United Nations this week to serve as an “Honorary Ambassador of Green.”
This is not an Onion parody:
The United Nations Monday named Disney character Tinker Bell an “Honorary Ambassador of Green” to help raise children’s environmental awareness.
The announcement [...]

“Terror council.”

In response to North Korea’s willful violation of a toothless U.N. Security Council resolution, the panel quickly passed…yet another toothless U.N. Security Council resolution.
It is Monty Python’s world, and we are all just living in it. Fetch the comfy chair!

We all know the answer, but William A. Jacobson has an excellent post asking the inconvenient [...]

Your global watchdog at work again:
UN bigwig arrested on kiddie porn charges.
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Previous U.N. sex scandal blogging.

Hostis humani generis.

But still wrong.

Softball pitchers only, please.

What, didn’t you like the condoms?

“[N]o genuine pollution cuts are being made…”

Priorities.

“That food is now sitting on a tarmac doing no good.”

Orville Redenbacher’s ghost: “Delicious!”

Who, why, where, and when. Plus: the battle for John McCain’s soul.

Big Ward Churchill fan, too.

Tool. Traitor. Shill for “Islamic charity.”

Global wahmbulance alert.

Can Republicans beat back this U.N. power grab?

Surrender is not an option.

Bush and the U.N. vs. American sovereignty.

Shipwreck.

Update: U.S. walks out on A-jad.
When Ahmadinejad was ushered to the podium of the General Assembly to speak, the U.S. delegation walked out, leaving only a low-ranking note-taker to listen to his speech, which indirectly accused the United States and Israel of major human rights violations. The Iranian president spoke hours after French President Nicolas [...]

Henchmen for Saddam.

More run-of-the-mill corruption at Turtle Bay.

Reuters reporting:
The U.N. Security Council voted on Wednesday to establish a special court to prosecute the murder two years ago of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri.
Ten council members voted for the Western-sponsored resolution and five — Russia, China, Qatar, Indonesia and South Africa — abstained, with no votes against. The resolution will go into [...]

Do As I Say…

Kofi Annan plans to give the United States the finger in his farewell address.

Cam Edwards reports on the U.N. confab in NYC this week on renewed international efforts to undermine the Second Amendment:
A remarkable thing happened at the United Nations yesterday. We, the United States, told the world “no”. The messenger was Robert Joseph, the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Speaking before the dozens [...]

Hands off of our 2nd amendment, you blue-helmeted bullies.
Alan Gotlieb reports:
In what can only be a carefully-timed, deliberate insult to the United States and its Constitution, the United Nations is hosting a conference on global gun control aimed directly at our Second Amendment, on dates that include our national holiday, July 4.
The U.N. Conference on [...]

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United Nations Undersecretary-General Jan Egeland–yeah, the same jerk who called America “stingy” during the Indonesian tsunami disaster last year–has come around to offering the U.N.’s help to victims of Hurricane Katrina (hat tip: Catez Stevens, who has more):
United Nations Undersecretary-General Jan Egeland, who oversaw relief efforts after the Indian Ocean tsunami in [...]

The United Nations is trying to figure out how to get its paws on the Internet and take over governance of cyberspace.
The good news, for now, is that it can’t decide on how to do it. Via Declan McCullagh:
A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy over internet [...]

Looks like Kofi Annan has not been honest about his relationship with his son’s employer, Cotecna Inspection Services, a major U.N oil-for-food contractor.