Comments on: With a Nod to Orwell and Kafka, How About a Get-Real UN Web Site? http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/how_about_a_getreal_un_web_sit/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:41:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bloodthirsty Liberal http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/how_about_a_getreal_un_web_sit/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Bloodthirsty Liberal Wed, 30 May 2007 19:57:57 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/2007/05/30/with-a-nod-to-orwell-and-kafka-how-about-a-get-real-un-web-site/#comment-749 I do my best, Claudia, but I'm only one man. I use your invaluable site, <a href="http://www.eyeontheun.org/" rel="nofollow">Eye on the UN</a>, <a href="http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1277549/k.BF70/Home.htm" rel="nofollow">UN Watch</a>, plus any random news reports I can get my hands on. The complete picture of diamond-smuggling, sex-trafficking, Cash-for-Kim, Oil-for-Food, the Human Frights Council, plus the rampant, everyday Israel-bashing is pretty ugly--but it's as complete as I can make it. Bloodthirsty Liberal I do my best, Claudia, but I’m only one man. I use your invaluable site, Eye on the UN, UN Watch, plus any random news reports I can get my hands on.

The complete picture of diamond-smuggling, sex-trafficking, Cash-for-Kim, Oil-for-Food, the Human Frights Council, plus the rampant, everyday Israel-bashing is pretty ugly–but it’s as complete as I can make it.

Bloodthirsty Liberal

]]> By: Alex Reed http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/how_about_a_getreal_un_web_sit/comment-page-1/#comment-748 Alex Reed Wed, 30 May 2007 18:34:09 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/2007/05/30/with-a-nod-to-orwell-and-kafka-how-about-a-get-real-un-web-site/#comment-748 Sometimes, when the world has taken a sharp turn into surreal Kafka territory, into an age of delusion, as it surely has at the UN, the US State Department, and other venues, the only thing to do to keep heart, mind, and soul together, is to follow one's heart and feet, and join in a dance on the edge of the precipice. So, count me in. The recondite world of the UN could use more illumination and understanding! What shall we call this new and useful webistic endeavor? Possible Website Names // Department or Section Headings • The UN Spectator • The UN Daily Guddle • ONU Soit Qui Mal Y Pense* (chapeau à Jean Hesse, le formidable, qui était là à la creation!) * "Honni soit qui mal y pense!" King Edward III // ONU - Organization des Nations Unies - soit qui mal y pense // Au nu soit qui mal y pense..... • The Chronicles of Turtle Bay (lost Narnian materials approach?; or, for a more si-fi version of UN events?, etc....) • Private Eye on the UN (for a more realist recounting of events at the UN, webmistress, Georgette Bataille) • Castle Life on Turtle Bay: UN World at Work and Play • UN Reality Sandwiches • The Lower Depths of Turtle Bay • Lost Illusions: UN World at Work and at Play • UN World: Tales of the Turtle • UN Tatler • In Another World: UN Life and Times • Du côté de chez Ban (French language version) • La tortue enchaînée (chapeau au Canard) (investigative reports section) • Chroniques de l'ONU: Le vice appuyé sur le bras du crime (Chateaubriand) (Peacekeepers section) • Dead Souls - Life in the UN Castle (weekly spotlight on a UN "personality") • Soros Bulba (ongoing section on history of George Soros involvement with UN) • The Vicious Circle (section on UN Human Rights Council)//or//section on NGO's (Le cercle vicieux... v. Talleyrand) • Greed is Good (v. Gordon Gekko) - (adventures in accounting section) • Another Hero (section for anonymous contributions from staff) • Tales of Benji (The roman-feuilleton section. Benon Sevan's adventures in the Secretariat) • Give it All (section on the budget department's creativity) • The Thirty-eight Steps (section on up-and-coming denizens of the HQ's 38th floor) • Red Dreams in the Chamber (section on worldwide socialist démarches by the UN) • Security (UN Security Council section) • Supernatural Thing (exploits of the UN's mystery facilitator*) * Sorry. This comment started out as a lark. However..... I have to say one serious word about the three Israeli soldiers abducted last summer by Hamas and Hizbollah. Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev. In all the multitude of press conferences attendant on all the multitude of diplomatic meetings that have taken place in and about the Middle East since the last, late, lamented war in Lebanon last summer, these three names should have been constantly on the lips of every western, Israeli, and UN diplomat. I never heard them. Our State Department has been quick, of late, to legitimize all manner of terrorist regimes from Hamas to Iran and Syria. Since the brain trust at State was determined to follow this, in my view ruinous, course, could they not have demanded, at least, the release of these three young men as part of the price of sitting down? In Israel, where the survival and safety of the nation seem to have been marginalized in the headlong rush of the Olmert government to retain power, Winograd Report or no, the stolen fate of the three soldiers is little mentioned. For their families, time and life must have stopped last summer when the three were taken. I cannot even imagine how they move from day to day in what must be for them an unending nightmare. They deserve the active and urgent help of all democratic governments. They deserve more than a UN mystery facilitator. There was a time when the great and good were better than they have shown themselves to be today. Sometimes, when the world has taken a sharp turn into surreal Kafka territory, into an age of delusion, as it surely has at the UN, the US State Department, and other venues, the only thing to do to keep heart, mind, and soul together, is to follow one’s heart and feet, and join in a dance on the edge of the precipice. So, count me in. The recondite world of the UN could use more illumination and understanding! What shall we call this new and useful webistic endeavor?
Possible Website Names // Department or Section Headings
• The UN Spectator
• The UN Daily Guddle
• ONU Soit Qui Mal Y Pense* (chapeau à Jean Hesse, le formidable, qui était là à la creation!)
* “Honni soit qui mal y pense!” King Edward III // ONU – Organization des Nations Unies – soit qui mal y pense // Au nu soit qui mal y pense…..
• The Chronicles of Turtle Bay (lost Narnian materials approach?; or, for a more si-fi version of UN events?, etc….)
• Private Eye on the UN (for a more realist recounting of events at the UN, webmistress, Georgette Bataille)
• Castle Life on Turtle Bay: UN World at Work and Play
• UN Reality Sandwiches
• The Lower Depths of Turtle Bay
• Lost Illusions: UN World at Work and at Play
• UN World: Tales of the Turtle
• UN Tatler
• In Another World: UN Life and Times
• Du côté de chez Ban (French language version)
• La tortue enchaînée (chapeau au Canard) (investigative reports section)
• Chroniques de l’ONU: Le vice appuyé sur le bras du crime (Chateaubriand) (Peacekeepers section)
• Dead Souls – Life in the UN Castle (weekly spotlight on a UN “personality”)
• Soros Bulba (ongoing section on history of George Soros involvement with UN)
• The Vicious Circle (section on UN Human Rights Council)//or//section on NGO’s (Le cercle vicieux… v. Talleyrand)
• Greed is Good (v. Gordon Gekko) – (adventures in accounting section)
• Another Hero (section for anonymous contributions from staff)
• Tales of Benji (The roman-feuilleton section. Benon Sevan’s adventures in the Secretariat)
• Give it All (section on the budget department’s creativity)
• The Thirty-eight Steps (section on up-and-coming denizens of the HQ’s 38th floor)
• Red Dreams in the Chamber (section on worldwide socialist démarches by the UN)
• Security (UN Security Council section)
• Supernatural Thing (exploits of the UN’s mystery facilitator*)
* Sorry. This comment started out as a lark. However….. I have to say one serious word about the three Israeli soldiers abducted last summer by Hamas and Hizbollah. Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev. In all the multitude of press conferences attendant on all the multitude of diplomatic meetings that have taken place in and about the Middle East since the last, late, lamented war in Lebanon last summer, these three names should have been constantly on the lips of every western, Israeli, and UN diplomat. I never heard them. Our State Department has been quick, of late, to legitimize all manner of terrorist regimes from Hamas to Iran and Syria. Since the brain trust at State was determined to follow this, in my view ruinous, course, could they not have demanded, at least, the release of these three young men as part of the price of sitting down? In Israel, where the survival and safety of the nation seem to have been marginalized in the headlong rush of the Olmert government to retain power, Winograd Report or no, the stolen fate of the three soldiers is little mentioned. For their families, time and life must have stopped last summer when the three were taken. I cannot even imagine how they move from day to day in what must be for them an unending nightmare. They deserve the active and urgent help of all democratic governments. They deserve more than a UN mystery facilitator. There was a time when the great and good were better than they have shown themselves to be today.

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