Marco Rubio does to Cuban diplomat what Israel did to Hamas: FAFO

The United Nations is supposed to be a place where representatives of the world's nations gather to lecture one another about peace, justice, and human rights while accomplishing approximately nothing. But when U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz exposed the luxurious lifestyles of Cuba's communist overlords during a General Assembly debate Tuesday, the proceedings briefly transformed into a live demonstration of what happens when a dictatorship encounters an inconvenient PowerPoint presentation.

As media outlet PJ Media reported, the Cuban delegation responded to Waltz's remarks with an epic shouting match, culminating in a Cuban diplomat allegedly shoving an American diplomat. Apparently, exposing the perks of the proletariat's supposed champions is grounds for a diplomatic incident.

Now one of Cuba's representatives is preparing for an involuntary change of scenery.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed an order expelling Richard Tur de la Concepción, the first secretary of Cuba's mission to the U.N., who allegedly shoved an American diplomat during the confrontation at U.N. headquarters. Waltz announced the expulsion before sitting down with Fox News to explain that Cuba's diplomatic privileges apparently do not include free swings at American officials.

"He's gone," Waltz told Fox News. "He is going to be on a plane to Havana within the next 24 hours."

Asked where the Trump administration stands, Waltz made its position abundantly clear.

"You lay a hand on an American here in the United States, President Trump, Secretary Rubio and myself, we're not gonna stand for it," he said. Mike happens to be a decorated Green Beret and Army Special Forces soldier, so it's a good thing the Cuban didn't attack him directly lest he get handed his butt in spades.

Cuban officials, meanwhile, have remained silent about the expulsion, presumably busy consulting the revolutionary handbook for a chapter titled What To Do When The Americans Actually Enforce A Consequence.

The confrontation began over a non-binding resolution demanding an end to the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial embargo on Cuba, scheduled for a vote Wednesday. According to the New York Post, Waltz used his speaking time to expose the economic arrangement behind Cuba's supposedly egalitarian paradise: a ruling class enjoying real estate, luxury watches, and private jets while ordinary Cubans endure blackouts, shortages, and the exciting daily adventure of discovering which necessities are unavailable today.

To illustrate the arrangement, Waltz held up a photograph of Che Guevara wearing a Rolex worth roughly $40,000. The revolutionary icon, famous for preaching equality, apparently understood that some watches are more equal than others.

"According to the regime's own statistics, that would pay for 55 years of an average Cuban wage," he said.

Waltz then produced a second photograph, this time featuring current Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. The man currently overseeing Cuba's socialist paradise was also sporting a Rolex, suggesting that the revolution's commitment to eliminating class distinctions has developed a few highly exclusive exceptions.

"It didn't just start with Castro," Waltz said. "This is the current Cuban president, also with a Rolex on."

That was apparently the moment the Cuban delegation decided that international diplomacy had become intolerable. Delegates began banging on their desks, presumably hoping to drown out the sound of their own government's luxury-watch collection being discussed in public.

Che with his $40,000 Rolex: Communism was berry, berry good to him

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla rose from his seat, marched toward the podium, and demanded that General Assembly President Khalilur Rahman call Waltz to order under Rule 71. Waltz turned toward the agitated delegation.

"He doesn't like hard truths," he told them. "You can come and intimidate all you want."

Rodríguez continued toward the podium, but Waltz refused to surrender his place. The encounter was beginning to resemble a hostage negotiation in which the hostage had just discovered that the captors were wearing Rolexes.

"You understand who you're dealing with? This is America. Back up!" Waltz shouted.

U.N. officials scrambled to restore order, while Rahman threatened to suspend the session. Waltz, however, continued speaking, apparently unwilling to let the proceedings be derailed by a government whose preferred response to criticism involves intimidation rather than answering questions.

"He's not going to intimidate me in the United States of America — like he tries to intimidate political prisoners," he told the Assembly.

After another round of desk-banging, Waltz resumed his speech, delivering a reminder that the United Nations is not technically an extension of the Cuban Communist Party's central committee.

"This is America, my friend," he said. "This is the United Nations. This isn't your communist dictatorship. You cannot silence me."

Richard Tur de la Concepción now has a plane ride to Havana ahead of him, where he can presumably explain how a diplomatic mission intended to defend Cuba's interests wound up producing an expulsion order, an international spectacle, and an unexpectedly expensive lesson in personal space.

The revolution may promise to abolish the ruling class, but it apparently never promised to abolish its Rolex collection. And after Tuesday's performance, one Cuban diplomat has discovered that the United States is not obligated to let him stay just because he has a fancy title and a seat at the U.N.

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U.N. Discovers Closing One Of World's Most Important Shipping Lanes Might Actually Be Bad

The United Nations emerged from another emergency meeting Tuesday to announce a startling revelation: shutting down one of the world's busiest maritime chokepoints could have consequences.

The international body condemned the renewed fighting between the United States and Iran, warning that another closure of the Strait of Hormuz would create humanitarian problems across the globe. Apparently, even the U.N. has noticed that stopping the flow of oil, food and medicine isn't exactly a winning strategy.

U.N. rights chief Volker Turk called the renewed attacks "a huge setback for civilians in the region and beyond," warning about the "impact on human rights far beyond the region."

The strait "is a vital lifeline on which millions are reliant," Turk said.

More on Turk.

He is an anti-Zionist Austrian-born UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, which in his case, is an oxymoron.  Since Oct, 7, 2023, Turk has been consistently critical of Israel's refusal to do nothing about the attack, while softly condemning the Hamassholes who FA'd. While he did refer to Hamas' slaughtering of Jews "heinous, brutal and shocking" war crimes, he apparently cannot comprehend Israel's need to defend herself.

This anti-Semite repeatedly accused Israel of war crimes, "mass killing" of Palestine civilians [without mentioning how Hamas fires rockets among the civilian population], hindering humanitarian aid, thus contributing to starvation, [without mentioning how Hamas blocks or steals the aid, uses it or sells it back to Gazans], and the "horrifying and unconscionable suffering" meted out to Palestinians [which doesn't actually exist].  This is not an exhaustive list of Turk's anti-Zionist claims, but you get the picture.

A lifeline is one way of describing the narrow waterway through which a massive share of the world's energy supply travels. It turns out civilization enjoys having cargo ships reach their destinations instead of playing maritime bumper cars with Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

"Disruptions to the flow of food, medicines, and other necessary commodities have severe socioeconomic and humanitarian consequences, both regionally and globally, he continued, adding that diplomacy, restraint and de-escalation must be prioritized," Turk said.

It is a familiar refrain from Turtle Bay, where calls for "restraint" tend to always arrive after terrorists, dictators or rogue regimes strike the innocents. 

Turk also insisted hostilities between the U.S. and Iran "must stop immediately," urging an immediate return to the ceasefire, especially due to the fact that Iran is getting its butt handed to them.

The appeal will no doubt be filed alongside the U.N.'s long and distinguished collection of sternly worded statements that have proven absolutely terrifying to the world's most aggressive regimes. Not!

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Israeli Ambassador Drops Mic With "Journalist Or Terrorist?" Quiz, Catches UN Red-Handed Platforming Hamas Lies

In a move that had the usual suspects squirming in their seats, Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon turned a Security Council session into a much-needed reality check Tuesday, unveiling what he called a "Journalist or Terrorist?" quiz to expose how the United Nations and international media eagerly swallow Hamas propaganda before the facts can even catch up.

"Israel is condemned again and again and again," Danon said during the meeting while holding up photos.

"A claim is made against Israel. The U.N. repeats it, and then the world condemns it. Then, when the truth comes out, it takes time, sometimes weeks, months, years, there is no apology, no correction and no retraction. They move on. We will not move on," he added.

As Danon flipped the photos over, they revealed clear evidence of the deceased's membership in Hamas or other terror groups, proving once again that the Jewish state is fighting actual terrorists while the world clutches its pearls over "journalists."

Danon also took aim at New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani for rushing to condemn Israel over the killing of Al Jazeera contributor Ahmed Wishah, whom Danon rightly described as "a Hamas terrorist."

"This is the machine," Danon said. "Hamas makes a claim. The NGO ecosystem, rapporteurs and briefers all repeat the lies."

"Then a U.N. report rubber-stamps it, the world's media broadcasts it, and Israel is condemned before the facts are even checked," he added.

In other words, the UN's favorite hobby: rushing to bash the only democracy in the Middle East while giving a global megaphone to a pack of bloodthirsty jihadists. Danon isn't letting them get away with it. Israel stands firm, and the truth keeps winning, no matter how slowly the rest of the world catches up.

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ICC prosecutor who went after Bibi takes leave amid sexual assault charges

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) top dog, Karim Khan, who made waves trying to slap an arrest warrant on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s fight against Hamas terrorists, just hit the brakes.

On Friday, the Khan man announced he’s temporarily stepping back while the U.N. digs into some ugly sexual assault claims against him. Yeah, you read that right, the guy has his own problems with the law.

In an email to his hit team, Khan said he’ll “take leave until the completion of the investigation” into allegations from a female aide, a Malaysian lawyer in her 30s, who says he coerced her into sex multiple times. The Wall Street Journal laid it bare: she claims Khan invited her to his hotel room in 2023, where he “took her hand and eventually pulled her to the bed.” Then, her account gets grim: “he pulled off her pants and forced sexual intercourse,” per her testimony.

Take one look at Khan's face and body, and you got to believe the woman has a decent claim.

Khan got wind of these accusations last spring. Barely two weeks later, in May 2024, he was out here announcing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Israel’s then-defense minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Israel-Hamas clash. 

Coincidence? Hardly.

The Washington Free Beacon didn’t mince words back then, calling Khan’s move a stunt that “puts genocidal murderers and their would-be victims on a level moral playing field,” exposing “the ICC’s moral obscenity and its ignorance of the way democracies have historically responded to existential threats.”

Here’s where it gets messier: the aide claims Khan leaned on the ICC’s Israel investigation to pressure her into dropping her allegations, according to the Journal. 

Khan flatly denied the claim, but who wouldn't?

Fast-forward to November, and the ICC doubled down, formally issuing warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. That marked a first for the U.N.-backed court—going after a democratically elected, Western-aligned leader. Bold move. The Journal flagged it as a historic flex.

Enter President Trump, who wasn’t having it. 

In early February, he signed an executive order smacking sanctions on the ICC for targeting Israel and other U.S. allies. The White House laid out the case: “The ICC consistently constrains liberal, democratic nations like Israel in exercising their rights to self-defense.” They added that Trump “will not support an organization that unfairly targets U.S. citizens and our allies.” Classic Trump—zero chill.

So, here we are. Khan’s on ice, the ICC’s playing hardball, and the allegations are flying. Stay tuned—this one’s far from over.

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The U.N.'s allegations claiming Israel committed sexual violence totally debunked

Hamas, the terrorist outfit that’d rather lob rockets than build schools, is getting a standing ovation from the U.N., our ivory tower universities, and—get this—the International Criminal Court, which had the gall to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

Meanwhile, the media laps up Hamas’ propaganda like it’s a happy hour special, helping these scumcrumpets win the PR war. It’s enough to make your blood boil. 

Now, let’s talk about the latest U.N. pile of dog crap—a report from the so-called “Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel” (COI, because acronyms make nonsense sound official). It’s titled “More than a human can bear: Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” 

Sounds like a horror movie, right? Rape, sexual slavery, forced sterilizations—you’d expect a laundry list of war crimes. Spoiler alert: much like Joe Biden's skivvies, it's a load of crap.

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) dove into this dumpster fire of a report, and their conclusion? It’s a blatant attack on Israel’s sovereignty, a sleazy attempt to smear a nation defending itself against Hamas, an “internationally recognized terrorist organization.” 

The report’s title is pure clickbait, promising evidence of atrocities but delivering zilch-point-balderdash. Instead, it twists the collateral damage of war—much of it caused by Hamas’ own tactics—into “intentional” acts of “sexual, reproductive, and gender-based violence.” 

Take this gem: the COI claims that any attack impacting a hospital’s maternity ward is “reproductive violence.” Never mind that Hamas uses hospitals as terror HQs—apparently, Israel’s supposed to tiptoe around them. They can fire at the, you know, Jews, from schools, hospitals and mosques, but Israel can't fire back.

Destroyed roads to hospitals? Also “reproductive violence,” because women need those roads. Shortages of menstrual pads or healthy food for pregnant women? You guessed it—“reproductive violence.” One woman had to eat canned tuna because there was no flour, milk, or eggs. Another used a cloth for her period. Heartbreaking? Sure. War is hell. But calling these “reproductive violence” is like calling a paper cut attempted murder. And guess who started this war? Hint: it wasn’t Israel.

It gets dumber. The COI accuses Israel of “systematic use of sexual violence” because Israeli officials dared to mention Hamas’ actual sexual crimes on October 7 to justify their military response. So, pointing out Hamas’ atrocities makes Israel the bad guy? That’s mental gymnastics worthy of a gold medal. 

The report even blames Israel for Palestinian cultural issues—like fathers forcing daughters into veils or early marriages—that predate this conflict by decades. Perhaps the U.N. staff who makes these crazy claims need to read the Koran and Hadith and see how it's part of Islamic culture. 

Apparently, Israel’s bombs are causing toxic masculinity now.

Strip searches of detainees? The COI calls them “egregious,” ignoring that they’re standard practice when terrorists hide bombs under their clothes. And while Israel’s investigating 74 cases of potential misconduct by its own forces—showing accountability—the COI claims there’s a “clear culture of impunity” in the IDF. Pot, meet kettle. But people believe what they were taught and want to believe.

Here’s the kicker: actual sexual and gender-based crimes under international law—rape, forced prostitution, sexual mutilation—aren’t even remotely supported by the COI’s examples. The one alleged rape case they mention is under investigation by Israel’s military court, proving Israel takes it seriously. Yet the COI spins this into a vast conspiracy of state-sanctioned violence. Unreal and they get away with this garbage constantly.

The worst part? The oxymoronic International Court of Justice, Amnesty International, and other NGOs treat this garbage like gospel, citing it without a shred of skepticism. The COI’s reports are political weapons, not justice, and they’re diluting the real suffering of victims—like the women Hamas raped and mutilated on October 7.

War sucks, no question. But equating a lack of sanitary pads with deliberate sexual violence is not just wrong—it’s dangerous. The U.N.’s COI is a biased joke, and the ACLJ is fighting back, demanding the U.N. Secretary-General and Human Rights Council shut it down. They’ve fired off legal letters to the U.N., ICC, and Security Council, calling out this farce and urging a focus on Hamas’ real crimes.

The U.N.’s anti-Israel circus needs to end. Israel’s fighting for its life against terrorists, and we’ve got to have its back. Sign the petition, folks—let’s show Hamas and their U.N. cheerleaders we’re not buying their lies.

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Rashida Tlaib's anti-Semitic 'facts' do not comport with reality: gets instant fact check

Hamasshole fangirl, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) called Israel an "apartheid state" in a tweet that got more blowback than Eric Swalwell's shorts.

"Speaker McCarthy wants to rewrite history but the apartheid state of Israel was born out of violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians," Tlaib tweeted on Monday. "75 years later, the Nakba continues to this day."

Tlaib's tweet was in response to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's post noting the "special relationship" between Israel and the U.S. The Jew hating congresswoman was instantly fact checked by Twitter with several errors pointed out.

The first fact check points out that Israel was created by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, linking to the document at the U.N.'s official website. The so-called "ethnic cleansing" that Tlaib claimed happened "affected both Jewish and Arab communities caught up in the war initiated by 5 Arab states who opposed the existence of Israel." 

The Twitter fact check linked to the State Department's official history of the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 to emphasize that point.

The last fact check note showed that Israel has over 20% Arab citizens which have "full and equal rights," linking to a Democracy Institute study that found the country's Arab residents had declining rates of infant mortality and rising life expectancies. [In fact, Arabs are fully represented in the Knesset, unlike Palestine where Jews are not allowed to live and will be killed if they make a wrong turn on the road.]

Twitter's "Community Notes" system has been expanded by platform owner Elon Musk. He announced in April that there would be "no exceptions" to fact checks for those who post "materially false statements on this platform." He included heads of state and even himself under the system.

The fact check of Tlaib, a progressive member of the "squad" comes after conservatives have long shown that social media companies target and censor conservative views with arbitrary fact checks and bans, including a ban on former President Trump, something that is evidently changing at Twitter under the leadership of Musk. The concept of free speech seems to scare the heck out of the left.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, argued that Tlaib was "a bit off" with her so called facts.

Hitler and the Grand Mufti

"You’re a bit off on this congresswoman," Friedman posted on Twitter. "Actually, the State of Israel was born notwithstanding the unsuccessful Palestinian attempts at ethnic cleansing to remove the Jews, through acts of terror and collaboration with Hitler (whose dear friend was Grand Mufti of Jerusalem)."

Tlaib's office has yet to respond to the blowback the blowhard produced.

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US leads push back against UN's migration agenda

The Trump administration is leading the pack of countries that are pushing back against the United Nations' migration agenda. Now that the US is doing it, this gives them the cover they need to follow suit.

Last December, the US announced that they would withdraw from the U.N.'s Global Migration Compact, which was due to be implemented by an intergovernmental conference in Morocco in December. Rex Tillerson, then-Secretary of State argued that the compact might undermine the U.S.'s right to enforce its immigration laws and secure its borders.

Perhaps the UN was playing us for suckers.

"The United States supports international cooperation on migration issues, but it is the primary responsibility of sovereign states to help ensure that migration is safe, orderly, and legal," Tillerson twanged.

The U.S. was the first to leave the compact, but when other countries saw they had cover, they began pulling out of the non-binding compact faster than Michael Moore downing a donut.  It was known affectionately as "Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration."

Hungary, Poland, Austria, Australia and Israel got on the Trump Train and announced they're not going to sign the accord. They all cited their concerns that it will impede the ability of countries to set and enforce their own immigration policies.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week, "We are committed to guarding our borders against illegal migrants. This is what we have done and this is what we will continue to do."

Who can blame him? Israel's illegal migrants tend to come into the country via tunnels and are loaded with explosives. I can't imagine Israel giving up self-managing their immigration and borders.

"We believe that the Compact is inconsistent with our well-established policies and not in Australia's interest," said Australian Prime Minister Scott Turnbull. "The Compact fails to adequately distinguish between people who enter Australia illegally and those who come to Australia the right way, particularly with respect to the provision of welfare and other benefits."

Which seems to be a motivating reason for many migrants arriving in stable countries.

Former President Obama loved the U.N. He wanted the globalization of nations and a central government dictating law and policy.

The U.N. has lost its former reason for living and should be put to pasture.


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UN hypocrites lecture US on racism

Geneva -- I suspect the U.N. committee given the role of dealing with racism believes that it takes one to know one. They recently issued a formal "early warning" over the current situation in the United States--a rare move that had often signaled the potential for an impending civil conflict.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (their motto: "No Jews Allowed. Allahu Akbar!") said it invoked its "early warning and urgent action procedure" due to the increase in racist demonstrations in the United States.

They noted the events in Charlottesville, Virginia in which Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist who plowed his car into a group of anti-racism counter-protesters.

The racism committee (an oxymoron if there ever was one) is part of the U.N. human rights office. They can issue a formal early warning to help prevent "existing problems from escalating into conflict" like the ones they experience on a daily basis in their own countries. 

They can also pretend that they're personally morally superior to the US-- but they're not--the 18-member committee are hypocrites of the highest order.

Regarding the Charlottesville white supremacist rally and counter-protesters, including the fascist group known as Antifa, the committee said that the U.S. must "undertake concrete measures to address the root causes of the proliferation of such racist manifestations."

They also verbally attacked U.S. figures who, while criticizing the white supremacists and neo-Nazi scum muffins, defended the First Amendment and the tradition of free speech.

And they lectured us with such crap that we must "ensure that the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly are not exercised with the aim of destroying or denying the rights and freedoms of others. [The U.S. must] provide the necessary guarantees so that such rights are not misused to promote racist hate speech and racist crimes."

Apparently they don't understand the concept of free speech. 

And while the U.N. panel was pissed off over our handling of recent events, they always look the other way when it comes to the ongoing violence and abuse around the world, and in many cases, within their own countries.

"The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination's report that it is alarmed by recent protests in Charlottesville is precisely the reason the U.N. enjoys little support in this country," said Robert C. O'Brien, a former U.S. representative to the U.N. General Assembly under President George W. Bush.

Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, and president of Human Rights Voices, is highly critical of the U.N. panel.

"The 'urgent action' procedure on all forms of racial discrimination, that was invoked by the Committee for the United States, is intended to deal with 'problems requiring immediate attention," Bayefsky said, "but it has not been used by the committee for any other nation on earth in 2017 and only applied to five other nations at all in the last decade according to the committee's own website.

"The committee sounded a global alarm for the car-ramming attack in Charlottesville, but never Palestinians ramming their cars into Jews in Israel or Islamic extremists doing likewise anywhere in Europe," she said. "The end result is another example of the notorious inequality of U.N.-based equality rights systems."

"Instead of focusing on the 200,000 people in concentration camps in North Korea or the genocide of Christians in the Middle East or the recent murders of innocent Europeans by extremists, this U.N. committee wasted its time on 'alerting' the world to a fringe group that was roundly condemned by every politician in the United States from the president on down."

But that's what you get when you have 57 Islamic nations running the joint.

"The fact that this committee includes members from Russia, China, Burkina Faso and Algeria tells Americans just how little heed they should give its alerts," Bayefsky added.

The United States is still the greatest country on earth, in spite of the efforts being made by the left to change it. We don't need to be lectured by the U.N. whose member nations have an atrocious record on human rights and anti-Semitism.

Screw them!


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North Korea's tantrum leads to klush

North Korea threw a temper tantrum Thursday by firing several short-range thingamabobs into the sea off its east coast, South Korean officials said. This tantrum comes just hours after the U.N. Security Council approved the toughest sanctions in 20 years against Pyongyang for continuing its nuclear testing and long-range rocket launch.

Dennis Rodman is quite upset over the entire ordeal and told the media that "Kim's a good guy, and guess what, he's not going to do anything bad with rockets and stuff. He's like a brother to me, or something."

Defense spokesman Moon Sang Gyun said the thingamabobs were fired from Wonsan on the east coast, a small town noted for creative misfortune cookies.

Gyun surmised the thingamabobs could be anything from projectiles to missiles to klushes (a high-level projectile made of exotic metals and goes "KLUSH!" when it hits the water.)

The Yonhap news agency's anonymous South Korean source said that eight or nine thingamabobs or klushes flew about 160 miles before landing in the sea with a big klush. The Defense Ministry could not confirm nor deny the report.


North Korea tends to test-fire projectiles and rockets, but they especially test them when they are angered at world condemnation. This latest test can be seen as a symbolic bird-flipping at the U.N.  Security Council.

The latest U.N. sanctions include mandatory inspections of cargo imports and exports with North Korea, in the air, on land and sea. When President Obama was asked by Dennis Rodman "Yo, why don't we do that sanction s**t with Iran?" Mr. Obama just laughed and walked away.




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Reset the reset button

Secretary of State John Kerry has as much influence over Vladimir Putin as a yo-yo has with a shark. Putin has totally ignored Kerry's supplications to cease bombing non-combatant Syrians and allow them to receive critical humanitarian aid lest they starve to death.

As a response to Kerry, Putin has escalated the air sorties and deployed Russia's most lethal fighter jets to Syria, the Su-35S, with air-to-air and air-to-ground capabilities.

The Russian airstrikes hit Syrian opposition forces, some of which are CIA-backed. These attacks have derailed proposed peace talks in Geneva Wednesday, but perhaps Kerry can 'do a Hillary' and send them another reset button.

Putin backed two U.N. resolutions supporting a ceasefire, but has broken its promise to stop bombing civilians--much like Iran will likely do once they develop a nuclear weapon they say they will not develop.

Kerry was optimistic when in Rome: "[T]here will be a ceasefire. We expect a ceasefire. And we expect adherence to the ceasefire. And we expect full humanitarian access."

And unicorns.

Two days after Kerry spoke, the Russians were bombing like a Mohammad YouTube video. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have no access to food supplies and are literally starving.

Kerry claimed he was assured by his Russian counterpart,  Sergei Lavrov, that the bombings would stop. Big surprise--Lavrov lied. (See also Iran Nuclear Talks for more of the same.)

"I talked to Foreign Minister Lavrov a couple of days ago," the naive Kerry said, "and I specifically discussed a ceasefire with him, and he said they are prepared to have a ceasefire."

The very next day Lavrov figuratively flipped him off and told him the strikes would continue. "Russian strikes will not cease [in Syria]," he said. "I don't see why these airstrikes should be stopped." A few hours later the U.N. talks went south, but Kerry continued to whine.

"It could not be more clear. That is an obligation that is not tied to talks. It is an obligation accepted by all parties in the United Nations resolution. Russia voted for that; Russia has a responsibility, as do all parties, to live up to it," Lavrov said.

Since Monday, Russia has already carried out over 300 strikes, none of them perfunctory like ours.

The State Department has denied the peace conference was a waste of time, but they are the same idiots who wanted an extra month to produce more of Hillary Clinton's emails due to a snow storm.

Our administration is run by liberals who use cries of "politically motivated" to give cover for their rank incompetence.



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Ban Ki-moon and Kumbayah

Ban the Builder

The United Nations chief wants everybody to chill out when it comes to fighting violent extremism. 

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asks that the nations of the world respond to violent jihad (which he refers to as violent extremism) with "cool heads and common sense." 

He warns that we not respond with "mindless policies" that might actually kill the enemy because all they do is hurt the feelings of ISIS and make them even madder at us.

The U.N. headless said that "mindless policies" turn people against each other, alienate marginalized groups [like maybe the Jews?] and play into the hands of the enemy (aka Islamic State). 

Ban said the new plan to prevent violent extremism, such as beheadings of journalists and others who don't follow Islam the way they say you should, or the burning of people alive, such as the captured Jordanian pilot, need all 193 member states to address the causes of violent extremism, listen to people's grievances, and make sure human rights and due process aren't trampled on.

Ban Ki-moon said that governments mustn't forget that "terrorist groups are not just seeking to unleash violent action, but to provoke a harsh reaction."

So what he's saying is that we shouldn't give them what they want. We should treat them nicely and they'll leave us alone.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to believe that the people who are leading the world aren't graduates from Gump Academy.


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The "UN"likely peace

United Nations--U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric (no relation to Heidi Klum) said that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will host a meeting of key global leaders to try ending the "decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict" on September 30, during the annual high-level General Assembly session.

Dujarric said that along with foreign ministers from the Quartet of Mideast mediators: the USA, UN, EU and Russia, Ban Ki-moon is also inviting the Arab League secretary-general (some dude who prays 5 times a day and has been taught that Jews are to be hated and killed as often as possible) and the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, who refuses to allow Jews or Bibles to enter their country.

Negotiations between Israel and the region that calls itself "Palestine" have been stalled when Obama's people failed at brokering a peace agreement in 2014. Now there is the chance to begin a broader effort to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which really began back when Israel was sanctioned as a nation unto itself, on May 14, 1948, or never, according to Islam.

About ten years ago, a mentally ill patient of mine said to me that if all that was left in the world was one Palestinian and one Jew, they would still be at war.

Benjamin Netanyahu said of the Palestinians: "I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea."




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Ayatollah: keep your infidel pig fingers off my bombs

Iran's renown, divine, revered supreme leader made it clear that there will be no international inspections of their military sites while he has yet to get his virgins. Also, there will be no talking to or hobnobbing with any of their scientists under any nuclear agreement. "Dammit, these bomb-makers have work to do."

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (his friends call him "Meanie") told his military leaders that Iran will resist "coercion and excessive demands" from that spineless kitty cat in America and other world powers. "If they so much as lay one infidel finger on any of our nuclear facilities, they will lose that finger, Sharia-style."

Negotiators from Iran, U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany have begun a new round of balderdash in Vienna. They are working doggishly to reach a deal, any deal, that will make them look good to their voters (except in Russia's case where voters are a moot point). 

If they can reach a deal, the sanctions will be lifted. If they cannot reach a deal, Obama will allow them to do what they want anyway--after all, isn't that kind of what he has done with illegal aliens?

The deal is slated to be reached by June 30th while Iran is slated to have their nuclear bomb ready to go by May 31st. Now that's coordination. 

According to FoxNews.com, a fact sheet on the framework accord said that Iran would be required to grant the U.N. nuclear agency access to any "suspicious sites." Rumor has it that they are all suspicious sites.

The Ayatollah, in response to the fact sheet Tweeted: "LMAO" He also emailed our so-called president asking "Where is my $50 billion, dude?"

The supreme leader was referring to the signing bonus Obama has promised he would offer if they would please sign on the dotted line. But the supreme leader is claiming that the U.S. is increasing our demands that international inspection of Iran's military sites and interviews with their scientists be included in the final deal.

Well, duh?? Of course it should be included in the deal and I'm fairly certain, in spite of Obama's lack of leadership, foresight, skill, intelligence, patriotism, bravery, humility and honesty, that it was included in the original proposal. If not, why not just give the Ayatollah a few of our own nukes and let him play with them? (That's a rhetorical question.) 

Khamenei said that interviewing Iranian scientists would be an affront to Iran's dignity and it sure as hell would spill the beans if any of them ends up talking.

"The impudent and brazen enemy expects that we allow them to talk to our scientists and researchers about a fundamental local achievement, but no such permission will be allowed," the man of Allah told his military commanders on Wednesday on state TV. "No inspection of any military site or interview with nuclear scientists will be allowed."

So now the question is do we a) trust a country that prays for "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" or b) tell them that the deal is off?

Knowing our so-called president, I suspect he will choose a). 




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