UN Chief’s warning – the end of the world is nigh! - Telegraph Blogs

In reality, the United Nations can’t even maintain its own headquarters, manage its own books and keep its tens of thousands of peacekeepers under control, let alone save the world. The UN is an extraordinarily badly run institution, rife with corruption and mismanagement, that shields some of the most odious tyrants on the face of the earth.
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The main threat to humanity at present is posed not by climate change but by dangerous madmen like Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, heading rogue regimes hell-bent on wiping their neighbours off the map. Not to mention the rise of militant Islam and a global terrorist network that seeks the destruction of the free world. As long as UN officials stick their head in the sand and ignore the world’s real problems the body will remain an irrelevance.

McCaskill: “You don’t trust me?”

“I don’t know what else I can do.”
Well, you could start by representing the state of Missouri to the federal government instead of representing the federal government to the state of Missouri. That seems to be the major issue at many of these town halls. Washington politicians come back to their home states with the idea that they have to sell this plan to the people, rather than let the people tell them how they should vote. They don’t push Washington on us, they push us on Washington.

See, it’s the title of “representative” that so many politicians forget when they arrive in Washington, D.C. They see themselves as “Senator” or “Congressman,” not the voice of the people.

Australian Senate Kills Emissions Trading Scheme Bill | Energy & Environment

Australia's carbon trading laws were defeated in parliament's upper house Senate on Thursday, leaving the government's plan to curb greenhouse-gas emissions in disarray and raising speculation of an early snap election.

--Reuters, 13 August 2009