Look to Your Women, the UN is Here

This is going to make us all so much safer, perhaps Michael Jackson should be given a post.

The security of America and other wealthy countries will for the first time be declared a key priority for the United Nations under reforms designed to restore confidence in the crisis-ridden international body.

The UN Secretariat promises a "real re-launch … a fundamental manifesto" after criticism of its performance since the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.

Mark Malloch Brown, the Briton newly appointed as the UN's chief of staff, said: "Reform really has to align the UN behind an agenda that includes a security system which can fully meet US concerns on terrorism."

Chidyan Siku, Zimbabwe's ambassador to the UN, gave the proposals a cool reception. "My feeling, and the feeling of colleagues from developing countries, is that the Secretariat is trying to please America by slanting towards the strategic agenda of the North. That will not find favour with us," he said.

And everyone knows how important the opinion of Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe, it's economic mastermind leader, is to the wealthy nations of the world. Here's a short quote from someone close to the scene in Zimbabwe:"There is nothing as evil as to starve people of information," says one high-ranking education official. "It's like living in the old Soviet Union. We know nothing about the opposition; all information is government-controlled."

Then of course, we have our usual suspects and groupies from Chirac and pack.

An official at the French mission said: "They may be going too far in trying to please Washington. The UN is not only about the US."

This is so absurd, I can't even begin to poke fun at it. No wonder these guys like Jerry lewis.

Tip of the stetson to the Telegraph.