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The heat is on. Washington Times is reporting: House Republicans call for Annan to step down Excerpt: “The oil-for-food program is a scandal of enormous proportions, and it may reach into the highest levels of leadership at the U.N.,” said Rep. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican who introduced a resolution yesterday calling for Mr. Annan [...]

Move America Forward has launched an ad campaign calling for the expulsion of the U.N. headquarters from the U.S: Americans must demand our government remove the United Nations from our borders and cease serving as the major financial supporter of an organization that has veered from its original purpose. The United Nations was originally founded [...]

Reuters reports on despicable acts by United Nations peacekeepers in the Congo: The United Nations is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday. The accusations include pedophilia, rape and prostitution, said Jane Holl [...]

When Catherine the Great toured the Ukraine and the Crimea in the 18th century, the story goes, bureaucrat Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin constructed elaborate fake villages in order to impress her. Now, there’s a 21st century twist on the Potemkin village: Potemkin refugee camps! The Washington Post reports that before U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan’s visit [...]

Hazardous material experts were called to U.N. headquarters on Monday after a suspicious powder was discovered on the 27th floor, according to Reuters. Free Republic poster Martin Fierro observes: “Have Blix inspect it. He’ll have an answer for us in five years or so.” Or maybe they should just ask these guys.