IAEA chief: Iran Investigation at 'Dead End'

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9C7C6VG0&show_article=1

The International Atomic Energy Agency probe of Iran's nuclear program is at a dead end because Tehran is not cooperating, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Thursday in an unusually blunt expression of frustration four days before he leaves office.

Mohamed ElBaradei also warned that international confidence in Iran's assertions of purely peaceful intent shrank after its belated revelation of a previously secret nuclear facility. And he criticized Tehran for not accepting an internationally endorsed plan meant to delay its achieving the ability to make nuclear weapons.

Iran says it is enriching only to power a future network of nuclear reactors. But enrichment can also produce fissile warhead material. Iran continues enriching, despite three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions meant to make it freeze that activity and has built an enriched stockpile that could arm two nuclear warheads.

Fury in Seoul, Tokyo over NKorea launch

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.f7268b4a2905fc581431034aca2ff82a.21&show_article=1

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.f7268b4a2905fc581431034aca2ff82a.11&show_article=1

"Diplomats said there was general agreement on expressing concern over the launch and calling on Pyongyang to return to the six-party talks and to respect UN resolutions."
...Oh joy the UN comes to rescue again!

You would think with a clear violation of a UN resolution that some action would be a clear response, but apparently the "United Nations struggled for agreement on whether to punish the communist state." This is because you have nation such as Russia and China who aren't exactly on the same page as us or have the same interests. Why is it again we leave our security in the hands of our enemies?

U.N. accuses Israel of using human shields

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92755

It's curious to me that our society has "progressed" to the point where a self-proclaimed global, bipartisan agency would deliberately seek out transgressions of the supposed good guys while completely ignoring the transgression of obvious evil. When you have an elite military that has explicit, published rules on how their soldiers should conduct themselves in a lawful manner, I feel that any transgressions warrants the benefit of the doubt that it is an exception to the rule. On the other hand, you have a band of militants that also have explicit, published, and continuously demonstrated rules of conduct that are not so lawful. When one chooses to focus on the viewpoint of one and not the other, thereby implying that each are held to different standards, you forfeit your right to claim bipartisanship and elicit questions regarding your agenda. In addition, when your methods of so-called "verification" of claims is called into question...

"Indeed, in one of the cases cited by the U.N. – the shelling of a building with civilians inside – Hamas admitted it first fired rockets at Israeli civilian population zones from just outside the building."

...one wonders...why? Are Palestinian children more precious or innocent than Israeli child? One also questions our payments to such an organization and what that says about us as a country.

Source is wikipedia so take it for what it's worth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_United_Nations