Is the UN a U-Nuch?

Why is the UN a U-Nuch?

When North Korea detonated the their nuclear weapon, the world was outraged and the United Nations Security Council only needed 30 minutes to issue a unanimous condemnation. However, within 48 hours, the main parties to the council (US, China, Russia) did nothing to threaten the survival of the Communist regime.

Upon the formation of the UN Security Council, the US and the Soviet Union fell into a half-century of cold war during which the UN was paralysed.

When Bush decided to attack Iraq, it led to a bitter division in the Security Council that it was reduced to a bystander when the second Gulf War broke out.

It had been a bystander to the Balkan wars of the '90s, because Russia's interest in protecting its traditional ally, Serbia, prevented any U.N. action.

It is a bystander today in Darfur, because China has an interest in Sudan's oil and the Arab League protects one of its own.

It has been a bystander on Iran's nuclear program, endlessly postponing the consideration of sanctions, because Russia and China have other more compelling interests: commercial relations with a rising Islamic power and oil supplies for a growing China.

The UN could not endorse war. It could not stop war. It could only watch war. This is why it is a U-Nuch.

The article is a paraphrased version of Charles Krauthammer's viewpoint in TIME titled ...But Not At The U.N..

Neither IE 7 nor FireFox 2!

I just don't understand why the technology community is so facinated with the newly released Internet Explorer 7 and FireFox 2. Didn't they know that before these two browsers were released, there was already one company producing browsers with these 'new' features? That company is OPERA.

IE 7 boasts of a simple layout that maximises the viewing area and the ability to view multiple websites through tabs. The first released of FireFox already had that advantage. These ideas of simplicity are actually OPERA's, and it had been established centuries before FireFox came to existence! In short, OPERA is the pioneer, FireFox plagiarised it, and IE 7 succumbed to the serious technological peer pressure.

Readers, if you truly believe in originality, use OPERA. Why fall for those commercialised bullshit products that don't even acknowledge the source of their ideas? OPERA is a relatively small Norwegian company that has survived the intimidation of these technological big bullies. However, their ideas are revolutionary and we, as responsible web-surfers, should at least give them the credit by using their product.

After all, it's free. Click here to get OPERA!

Monash MBA

Monash MBA has been rated #1 in Australia by the Economist. To read more, click here.

My name a Borat......

Borat
Sacha Baron Cohen - star of HBO’s hit comedy “Da Ali G Show,” takes his outrageous Kazakstani reporter character Borat to the big screen. In this hilariously offensive movie, Borat travels from his primitive home in Kazakhstan to the U.S. to make a documentary. On his cross-country road-trip, Borat meets real people in real situations.

Click here to view the trailer.

Serious thought of the day

There are two points he (Pope Benedict XVI) is especially keen to make. One is that Christians in many Muslim countries do not have the same religious freedom that is enjoyed by most Muslims in the West. The other is that too many Islamic clerics seem to sanction or at least tolerate violence in the name of religion. This was central to his Regensburg lecture in which, as he later said, “I wished to explain that not religion and violence, but religion and reason go together.”

Taken from Economist.com. Please click the link to read more.

Interesting excerpt

... a conversation between 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and a Persian scholar on the truths of Christianity and Islam. "The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war," the Pope (Pope Benedict XVI) said. "He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.'" ...

This is an interesting excerpt from an article in TIME.com.

Great Outcoming Movies!

I've just seen the trailer for this movie. This is a must-watch!

The Prestige

From the director who brought us Memento and Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan. Starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, and Scarlett Johansson.

Plot Outline: Rupert and Alfred are rival magicians. When Alfred performs the ultimate magic trick, Rupert tries desperately to find out the secret to the trick. However, he then begins to realize that it may not be a trick at all.