Stupidity of UN Continues
Maggiemygosh @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:57 am
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Maggiemygosh
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The United Nations continues to prove their total stupidity and as a result 4 UNARMED UN observers apparently were killed. Beside the UN Flag was a Hezabollah Flag so wonder why that was eh? Kaboom !!
Secondly why did the idiots in the UN continue to allow unarmed UN troops to be in a battle zone where the risk to their lives is very very high?
Thirdly why did the UN post 1,700 troops in Southern Lebanon in 1978 who have done absolutely nothing to maintain peace and security for Israel and for peace loving Lebanese citizens who are not Hezbollah supporters?
The UN is a BS organization loaded with corrupt and incompetent officials.
The only leader the UN ever had Dag Hammerskold was killed in a mysterious plane crash. He knew what he was doing and how to run that orgainzation. Since then it has been nothing but a garbage dump.
I have sat twice as an observer in the UN in New York City and when I left I was more than disgusted at what I saw and heard. I informed my boss that the UN should be scrapped immediately. Well nothing came out of that because when the Fiberal Government of the day was informed of that they refused to do anything other than continue to appoint incompetent jerks like Maurice Strong and Louise Arbour.
The overall majority of UN officials are lefty incompetents- so what else is new - and corrupt as hell making money on the side doing all kinds of nasty things.
Christy @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:17 am
I agree that the UN is worthless and corrupt. When I was working for the EU Parliament on monetary policy I had to talk to the UN team that is working on creating global taxes to fund the UN and after three hours of outright pandering for bribes and then their disgusting sexual advances I got up and walked out. Anyone who thinks the UN does any good or is a good organization is merely someone who has not had to work with that collection of criminals. I'm not fond of how the USA does things on their own but I don't fault them for not taking their lead from the criminals at the UN.
ridenrain @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:55 am
$1:
U.N. Employee Is Charged With Drug Smuggling
BY JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
July 27, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/36814
A U.N. employee used U.N. diplomatic pouches to smuggle illegal drugs as part of a ring that brought 25 tons of contraband into New York in the past year and a half, federal prosecutors and the FBI said yesterday.
The shipments of khat — an illegal stimulant grown in East Africa — were received by a mail clerk employed by the United Nations, Osman Osman, who sent them across America, according to an indictment unsealed yesterday.
Prosecutors say Mr. Osman, a Somali citizen who had been employed at the United Nations for 29 years, was an important cog in the largest khat trafficking enterprise America has known. Forty-four defendants were named in yesterday's indictment, and 14 were still at large, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office said.
Khat is an evergreen shrub grown along the Horn of Africa. Chewing the leaves has long been a custom in the countries of the region. Immigrants have brought the habit to America, where the active chemical in the leaf is as illegal as heroin. The trafficking ring exposed yesterday was responsible for importing more than $10 million worth of khat since the end of 2004, according to the indictment. A portion of the proceeds were sent back to Europe and the United Arab Emirates, in order to repay khat producers, according the indictment.
At a press conference yesterday, an FBI agent, Mark Mershon, said law enforcement officials hoped those arrested would cooperate with efforts to track down exactly where that laundered money went. The U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Michael Garcia, said that the khat trade is a known source of funding for Somali warlords.
Several shipments of the drug entered this country through U.N. diplomatic pouches, while other bundles of khat were carried on trans-Atlantic flights, or shipped by mail, according to the indictment. From New York, khat dealers distributed the drug across the country, according to the indictment.
In Columbus, Ohio, home to one of the country's largest Somali communities, a police officer said he had heard of yesterday's bust and was not at all surprised by the proportions of the khat trade in this country.
The sergeant with the narcotics division in Columbus, Ben Casuccio, said that the department has been interdicting khat since the mid-1990s. He noted the difficulty that police had in preventing khat from being sold in coffee houses within the tightly-knit Somali community of Columbus. But Mr. Casuccio said his primary worry was not the local effect of the khat trade.
"Here is our concern — there is an illegal government in Somalia currently and it's being run by warlords," Mr. Casuccio said, by telephone. "The funds are being sent back to facilitate those folks. We feel that some of the funds from khat are being sent back to these terrorist warlords."
Khat, which is chewed or brewed as a tea, causes euphoria, but can also lead to heart disease and violent outbursts, the indictment said.
The director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, Minn., Omar Jamal, said that khat is taken socially in large segments of the Somali community, where it is seen as no more harmful than the "the average American buying a cup of coffee."
"This is what people do when they sit around and talk," he said.
About half the people charged in the indictment do not live in New York, according to law enforcement officials. Mr. Osman, the U.N. mail clerk, is listed in the indictment as one of four leaders of the organization. He pleaded not guilty late yesterday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. His lawyer is currently driving in from Ohio, said the attorney who represented him at the arraignment, David Gordon.
A spokeswoman for the U.N., Marie Okabe, confirmed that Mr. Osman has worked at the U.N. since 1977, but declined to provide further details of what role, if any, the mail room at Turtle Bay played in the drug trafficking. Mr. Osman, 47, lives in Rocky Hill, Conn., according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office.
The indictment suggests that "Operation Somalia Express," as the investigation was called, put an end to a well-organized criminal enterprise that was willing to use violence. One of the men charged, Bashi Muse, spoke of killing a customer who owed him money, according to the indictment. Khat trafficking charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, although five of the defendants face additional money laundering charges, which also carry a potential 20-year sentence.
BY JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
July 27, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/36814
A U.N. employee used U.N. diplomatic pouches to smuggle illegal drugs as part of a ring that brought 25 tons of contraband into New York in the past year and a half, federal prosecutors and the FBI said yesterday.
The shipments of khat — an illegal stimulant grown in East Africa — were received by a mail clerk employed by the United Nations, Osman Osman, who sent them across America, according to an indictment unsealed yesterday.
Prosecutors say Mr. Osman, a Somali citizen who had been employed at the United Nations for 29 years, was an important cog in the largest khat trafficking enterprise America has known. Forty-four defendants were named in yesterday's indictment, and 14 were still at large, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office said.
Khat is an evergreen shrub grown along the Horn of Africa. Chewing the leaves has long been a custom in the countries of the region. Immigrants have brought the habit to America, where the active chemical in the leaf is as illegal as heroin. The trafficking ring exposed yesterday was responsible for importing more than $10 million worth of khat since the end of 2004, according to the indictment. A portion of the proceeds were sent back to Europe and the United Arab Emirates, in order to repay khat producers, according the indictment.
At a press conference yesterday, an FBI agent, Mark Mershon, said law enforcement officials hoped those arrested would cooperate with efforts to track down exactly where that laundered money went. The U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Michael Garcia, said that the khat trade is a known source of funding for Somali warlords.
Several shipments of the drug entered this country through U.N. diplomatic pouches, while other bundles of khat were carried on trans-Atlantic flights, or shipped by mail, according to the indictment. From New York, khat dealers distributed the drug across the country, according to the indictment.
In Columbus, Ohio, home to one of the country's largest Somali communities, a police officer said he had heard of yesterday's bust and was not at all surprised by the proportions of the khat trade in this country.
The sergeant with the narcotics division in Columbus, Ben Casuccio, said that the department has been interdicting khat since the mid-1990s. He noted the difficulty that police had in preventing khat from being sold in coffee houses within the tightly-knit Somali community of Columbus. But Mr. Casuccio said his primary worry was not the local effect of the khat trade.
"Here is our concern — there is an illegal government in Somalia currently and it's being run by warlords," Mr. Casuccio said, by telephone. "The funds are being sent back to facilitate those folks. We feel that some of the funds from khat are being sent back to these terrorist warlords."
Khat, which is chewed or brewed as a tea, causes euphoria, but can also lead to heart disease and violent outbursts, the indictment said.
The director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, Minn., Omar Jamal, said that khat is taken socially in large segments of the Somali community, where it is seen as no more harmful than the "the average American buying a cup of coffee."
"This is what people do when they sit around and talk," he said.
About half the people charged in the indictment do not live in New York, according to law enforcement officials. Mr. Osman, the U.N. mail clerk, is listed in the indictment as one of four leaders of the organization. He pleaded not guilty late yesterday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. His lawyer is currently driving in from Ohio, said the attorney who represented him at the arraignment, David Gordon.
A spokeswoman for the U.N., Marie Okabe, confirmed that Mr. Osman has worked at the U.N. since 1977, but declined to provide further details of what role, if any, the mail room at Turtle Bay played in the drug trafficking. Mr. Osman, 47, lives in Rocky Hill, Conn., according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office.
The indictment suggests that "Operation Somalia Express," as the investigation was called, put an end to a well-organized criminal enterprise that was willing to use violence. One of the men charged, Bashi Muse, spoke of killing a customer who owed him money, according to the indictment. Khat trafficking charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, although five of the defendants face additional money laundering charges, which also carry a potential 20-year sentence.
SJ-24 @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:57 am
Bribes and theft go hand in hand with the Liberal party of Canada. No wonder the defacto leader Wee Willy Graham is so hooked on the UN.
I have a few tours under my belt and even at my low level I saw shit happening that made me wonder how it is the UN gets anything done. While we flew in a C-130 and ate MRE, UN administrative personal traveled in private jets and ate steak and eggs...while sipping wine. They talked down to us, not with us when we brought issues forward. They never solved any of our problems. After my 6 month tour I was ready to never wear blue again. Too me, the UN is all about corruption and inability to do anything. Screw them and the so called United Nations. Kofi Annan is the Godfather of this mob of theives and should be laughed at, not appluaded.
If you want peace in the middle east. Nuke it. Nothing else will ever work to settle those animals down.
And here is the story that makes me wonder how it is Liberals could ever consider Graham anything other than worthless. Perhaps he should learn something about the system he brags so much about and understand why we need to abandon the UN and stick with what works...NATO. Terrorists don't understand anything but murdering the Western society. If Graham is so hooked on the UN, let that asshole wear a little blue barret and walk between the enemy camps with no weapon......
July 27, 2006
Graham blasts Harper over peacekeeper's death
MONTREAL (CP) - Interim Liberal leader Bill Graham is criticizing Prime Minister Stephen Harper's reaction to the death of a Canadian peacekeeper in Lebanon as "completely unacceptable."
Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener of Kingston, Ont., was killed earlier this week after an Israeli jet bombed the clearly marked UN post.
That prompted Harper to question why the UN didn't pull its observers out of what he called a virtual war zone.
Graham says Harper seems to have forgotten that Canada has been part of UN missions for several decades.
Graham, who was in Montreal today to speak to an environmental organization, also took aim at Harper's support for Israel, saying it undermines Canada's reputation as a peacekeeping nation.
Maggiemygosh @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:09 am
Excellent accurate post based on truth facts and reality.
Those idiots fiberals with Bill the idiot Graham again demonstrates how ugly how corrupt how stupid and how the Fiberals lie all of the time.
They are not a poltiical party they are a sect. Those who vote for them or support them in any manner are brainless.
The UN is so corrupt and has been for over 30 years. The occasional story about their corruption and lying and being everyday stupid was supported by Trudeau the communist wife beating jerk along with Chretien the lying pig and Martin the crook and supporter of terrorists.
Let me say this the UN has a lot more corruption going on than has so far been reported. Maurice Strong is a big part of it. Louise Arbour well she is a plain stupid and ignorant arrogant Quebecer who knows zippo but is a part of the corruption.
I was in the Fed Gov and believe me I know how bad the Fiberals were and communistic most of them were and in spite of factual reports about growing terrorism and the problems in the middle east and the Fiberal Cabinet Ministeres refused to accept the truth ! Even when we advised them about how corrupt and stupid the UN was again they rejected it.
ridenrain @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:23 am
No topic on the Liberals and the UN is complete without mentioning Maurice Strong and the Oil for food fiasco.
more
Arctic_Menace @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:55 pm
There are some good things to the UN, and they have done alot of good for the world and I have met some good UN Workers, But I agree, the UN is corrupt.
conjuredcrisis @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:12 pm
Theres more to UN corruption than just Oil for Food
Sex and Drugs at the UN
New York Post | June 1 2004
Three United Nations fieldworkers are publishing details of sex, drugs and corruption inside U.N. missions - despite an attempt by the world body to block their book.
"Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth" chronicles the experiences of a doctor, a human-rights official and a secretary in U.N. operations in Cambodia, Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, Liberia and Bosnia.
The controversial volume, due out next week, charges that some U.N. officials demanded that 15 percent of their local staff's salaries go directly to them instead; that Bulgaria sent freed criminals to serve as peacekeepers; and that incompetent U.N. security has cost lives.
Their first-person account of a decade in U.N. service also includes candid details of drug use - particularly a marijuana cocktail called "The Space Shuttle" - and casual sex.
"Almost a million civilians [whom] our peacekeepers were supposed to protect died in two genocides," said Dr. Andrew Thomson, one of the co-authors. "We didn't set out to write a scandalous book about the U.N., but this is a matter of historical record. Did the U.N. really think that none of us would come home angry and write about it?"
Woman sacked for revealing UN links with sex trade
By Daniel McGrory
How a tribunal vindicated an investigator who blew whistle on workers in Bosnia
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 44,00.html
Child sex book given out at U.N. summit
Washington Times 05/10/02: George Archibald
Original Link: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020510-25256488.htm
A UNICEF-funded book being passed out at the United Nations Child Summit encourages children to engage in sexual activities with other minors and with homosexuals and animals.
As the delegations to the summit remain deadlocked on abortion, international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that support the U.S. delegation's anti-abortion stance circulated copies of pages from a UNICEF-funded book given to delegates from Latin America that promotes sexual activity and abortion among teens in their countries.
"Reproductive health includes the following components: Counseling on sexuality, pregnancy, methods of contraception, abortion, infertility, infections and diseases," says the Spanish-language book, whose title translates to "Theoretic Elements for Working with Mothers and Pregnant Teens."
An accompanying workshop book produced by the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) tells Latin American mothers and teens: "Situations in which you can obtain sexual pleasure: 1. Masturbation. 2. Sexual relations with a partner — whether heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. 3. A sexual response that is directed toward inanimate objects, animals, minors, non-consenting persons."
The book, which was distributed by the Mexican government with U.N. funding, suggests lesbian sex as an acceptable alternative for girls.
"Sexual relations with a partner: Here we should insist there is no ideal or perfect relations between two or several people," the book says. "The one that gives us the most satisfaction and that which is adopted to our way of being and the style of life we have chosen. This is why we encounter many differences among women. Some women like to have relations with men. And others with another woman."
UNICEF spokesman Alfred Ironside acknowledged U.N. funding for the book, but said it was produced by the Mexican government in 1999 and pulled from circulation "when the content was more carefully reviewed."
Mr. Ironside said he did not know how many of the books were circulated. "A very small number were produced — fewer than a thousand," he said. "It was pulled out of circulation when the content was more carefully reviewed."
"That book was a product of the Mexican government, supported by UNICEF financially as part of UNICEF's support to the Mexican government," Mr. Ironside said.
"We do everything we do in full agreement with the governments we support. We do not operate independently," he said.
He said the book was "intended as a training manual for people working with adolescent women to prevent teen pregnancy. That publication was a compilation of articles by different contributors and has a very clear disclaimer in the front that the views of the writers do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations."
The workshop book is being passed out by anti-abortion NGOs to persuade delegates from the large Latin American bloc of countries called the Rio Group to support the U.S. proposal to remove ambiguous language from the child-summit action document, which has been used in the past by U.N. agencies to promote abortion.
Delegations to the U.N. Child Summit remained deadlocked yesterday in closed-door negotiations over abortion and other hot-button issues that have held up final agreement on a U.N. action agenda to protect the world's children.
The U.S. delegation, praised by pro-family groups for standing firm to ensure the agenda does not sanction continued U.N. promotion of abortions, was attacked by NGO critics for a second day at an afternoon briefing, NGO members at the meeting said.
Douglas Sylva, an official with the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, called the briefing "an NGO feeding frenzy," in which the United States was attacked for its position on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; arms sales to allies; the Bush administration's support of capital punishment; and U.S. failure to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
"The fact that the United States is the only country besides Somalia that has not ratified [the] child's rights [convention] is shocking," said Paula Daeppen, director in Zurich for the Federation of American Women's Clubs Overseas.
"We're supposed to be a moral leader of the world and child friendly," she said.
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, Texas Democrat, told the meeting she applauded the administration's work to protect children from pornography, exploitation and "child soldiering." But she said she disagreed with the U.S. delegation on some issues.
"There needs to be flexibility on life," she said — an apparent reference to the administration's strong anti-abortion stance. A person close to the congresswoman, who asked to remain anonymous, said her remarks were intended to urge "more flexibility on family planning."
Abortion is not mentioned directly in the draft child-summit document, but UNICEF, which organized the 187-country special session of the General Assembly, and the U.N. Fund for Population Activities, interpret the ambiguous phrase "reproductive health services" to include abortion.
A senior Canadian negotiator told delegates in earlier preparatory meetings that the term includes abortion, prompting the Bush administration to start pushing for the alternate term "reproductive health care."
European countries, with the exception of Spain, along with Canada, Japan and New Zealand oppose the U.S. position. Muslim nations and some African countries also support the United States.
The Rio Group, whose delegations say their predominantly Catholic populations don't condone abortion, said there is no danger the term "reproductive health services" will be used to promote abortions in Latin America.
The book takes its title from an episode in Somalia in which Heidi Postlewait, an American secretary, seeks consolation with a local interpreter after a sniper attack.
"I can feel this pounding inside me and I can't wait. It has to be right now, not in 10 minutes, not five. Now," she writes. "An emergency. Emergency sex."
At one point, the former New York social worker has sex with a soldier at their Mogadishu base.
"After, we lay back naked, sweat drying, smoking cigarettes. Nice," she writes. "Then I spotted an observation tower not 50 feet away, where two soldiers with night-vision goggles were peeping down at us . . . I think they set me up."
Particularly galling to the fieldworkers is the murder in Mogadishu of a young American colleague, shot dead as he rode in a U.N. convoy.
Kenneth Cain, an American human-rights official, complains bitterly that the board of inquiry ignored failings in U.N. security.
"The board is stacked with U.N. officials who oversee security," he writes. "I don't trust these f- - -s for a second to truly investigate and hold one of their own accountable."
Bulgaria has denied that it sent freed prisoners as peacekeepers to Cambodia, but some of the other allegations in the book have been substantiated.
For instance, an inquiry into the bombing of the U.N. office in Baghdad last year found the whole U.N. security system to be "dysfunctional."
The U.N. hierarchy tried to block the book using a rule requiring that U.N. staff get approval before writing about their work. Permission was denied.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1401352 ... eader-link
Nato force 'feeds Kosovo sex trade'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/ ... 48,00.html
UN ship 'carried child prostitutes'
From correspondents in the United Nations
THE United Nations is investigating a report that a ship chartered for peacekeepers in East Timor is also being used to bring child prostitutes to the island nation, the organisation said today.
http://www.news.com.au/
UN struggles to explain away presence of weapons inspector with S&M fetish
London independent 11/29/02: Kim Sengupta
Original Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/pol ... ory=356753
U.N. Finally Forced to Probe Its Pedophilia Scandal
http://www.prisonplanet.com/un_finally_ ... andal.html
Bodah @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:58 pm
Aother problem with the UN is that they are "the" ultimate politically correct army they never fire bulllets only hand out teddy bears, cafe lattes and friendship cirlces.
Another hippie dream, shot to shit.
SJ-24 @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:15 pm
The idea was right, but the fucking Liberals got involved and fucked it all up! 
Arctic_Menace @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:37 pm
The UN either needs to be scrapped, or needs a major make-over. Frankly, I'd prefer to take the latter option.
themasta @ Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:42 pm
I like sex, money, oil, drugs and food! How do I join the UN peacekeepers to ensure I have a steady supply of all of the above?
ridenrain @ Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:04 am
$1:
"Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth" chronicles the experiences of a doctor, a human-rights official and a secretary in U.N. operations in Cambodia, Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, Liberia and Bosnia.
Aside from it's amusing name, I definately do not recommend reading this. The story circles around 3 UN workers and the little soap opera that is their lives. I read the book to learn more about the UN, not to wallow in the sordid little lives of these spoiled brats.
Shake hands wuth the devil: is a better book.
Pissed @ Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:18 pm
wow\a
Tricks @ Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:56 pm
Pissed Pissed:
I still think its strange how israel accidently bombed a well known UN quarters with laser guided accurate bombs. Me thinks israel was sending a message.
www.pissed.ca
Me thinks that when you drop a massive bomb, there are going to be surrounding things hit.
www.pissed.ca