The U.N. is in a crisis of relevance. In a desperate effort to prevent the collapse of the international institution, Kofi Annan appointed a 16-member "High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change" last November. The report is expected in December. U.N. observers are eagerly awaiting the panel's recommendations about two areas of critical concern to the United States.

The panel is expected to recommend the criteria to legitimize pre-emptive unilateral action, and to recommend major changes in the structure of the U.N. Security Council.

Kofi Annan has already declared the U.S. invasion of Iraq to be "illegal." Panel member Gareth Evans, a former foreign minister of Australia, told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars:

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A Broken Chromosome

Finally, Kerry may have truly settled into a comfortable position on Iraq. Since Kerry has been ranked as the foremost Liberal in the Senate, it is appropriate that he has finally landed as the dove. It is congenital that the liberals magnetically choose the path of least resistance. It is the Hide and Hope philosophy. It is Ostrich Management. It is the congenital strain of Neville Chamberlain appeasement. Do not confront and tackle the problem directly. Act the way Chamberlain would act and the way modern Europe acts today. Face the enemy terrorist as a struggle against individuals and combat them with legalistic measures. The democrats have abandoned the mainstream and tilt the pendulum heavily to the left. The struggle to wrestle the nomination was between Dean and Kerry. The strength of the democrat party with the class and good sense logic of Lieberman and Gebhardt was easily constrained and deferred. The mindset of Kerry underscores the importance of interpreting terrorism as a nuisances and a battle that has to waged with concurrence of the global community and with appropriate sensitivities. [Read More!]

A rise in attacks for financial gain, as opposed to attacks motivated by the creator's desire to gain notoriety, is a disturbing trend noted in Symantec's latest report on Internet security. Symantec is a leading provider of antivirus and PC security software.

The people behind these types of attacks, says Symantec Africa regional manager Patrick Evans, are well-funded, organized crime groups that use networks of bots to obtain financial information for their own gain. "It is not just script kiddies anymore," he says, "although they are still there." Bots, Evans explains, are installed on vulnerable PCs and can be remotely controlled. A further implication of such control is that code can be updated on the fly, rendering antivirus software useless in a matter of seconds. [Read More!]

If elected, you and I (or those of us who actually pay taxes) will pay upkeep and secret service protection for five Kerry mansions here in the United States plus those he and his wife own abroad. It is good to be John F. Kerry...the F stands for Forbes in case you ever wondered. He is one of the richest senators in government and he married even richer.

Their properties certainly reflect their opulent lifestyle. When someone is elected president, the Secret Service has to protect this person and family as well as their property - for as long as the president and his spouse lives!

Beacon Hill, Boston $6.9 million

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Just one day after the United Nations signed a cooperation agreement with the new International Criminal Court, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called for implementation of his long-touted "New World Order".

The New World Order, Gorbachev said, will be based on strong adherence to international law and will lean heavily on the UN

Though it's today-the-pond-tomorrow-the-world in spirit, Gorbachev said his New World Order would not seek to impose the view of one country or a group of countries on others.

In a speech to the 91st annual Insurance Leadership Forum, Gorbachev took swift aim at the United States, the only developed nation that has refused to surrender its sovereignty to the International Criminal Court.

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(AgapePress) - I have noticed that labeling any industry "big" demonizes that industry immediately. For instance: Big Tobacco, Big Pharmaceutical companies, and Big Corporations. If the farmers in Idaho were to label themselves "Big Potato Agrarians," angry, torch-bearing mobs would drive them out of the state! Given this connotation, I think it appropriate that we finally call the abortion industry, and its cabal of cheerleaders, what they really are: Big Infanticide.

Between the years 1973 and 2003, approximately 44,670,812 abortions were performed in the United States. An estimated 435,000 Americans die each year from tobacco-related illnesses. In other words, approximately 1,489,027 are killed each year by Big Infanticide, while only 435,000 are killed by Big Tobacco!

This is assuming that Big Tobacco is actually responsible for anyone's death...a premise I firmly reject. As an avid smoker of fine cigars, I can attest that no one has ever forced me to smoke. I know the dangers of smoking, but I choose to smoke. A baby does not choose to be aborted; however, I would hardly place any consequences I may experience as a result of my indulgence in tobacco on the same level as a baby being killed by Big Infanticide shoving a spike into its skull!
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