LOOK, THE UN IS AN ORGANIZATION WHOSE TIME HAS PASSED:  UN’s Highest Court Issues ‘Strongly Worded Letter’ Threatening Climate Reparations for Carbon Emitters.

No, truly. I was just reading Heinlein from the fifties and he had such great hopes for the thing. Which was a triumph of hope over experience. The UN is a vestigial organ left over from when people earnestly believed that humanity would converge towards a one-world government. Because most humans are blind to the massive differences in other cultures. Anyway, I’m told they have some functions we need, like international aviation standards. You know what? I suspect those are adhered to kind-of in most countries, but never mind. Cut those loose as their own organizations. Let countries do peace treaties or not among themselves. Keep the things that are important to us safe. Disband the UN. Fumigate the building. Let the UN representatives and “peace keepers” find their perverse sex on their own time. The end.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Senegal signs the Artemis Accords. “Senegal became the 56th signatory of the Artemis Accords at NASA HQ today. . . . The United States and seven other countries established the Artemis Accords in 2020 to serve as a set of practical principles to guide responsible space exploration. Senegal joins the United States and 54 other nations – Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Republic of Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay – in affirming the Accords’ principles for sustainable civil space activity.”

The Artemis Accords are very important because they underscore the legality of exploitation of space resources.

THEY CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH:

And they don’t want you to know it. But this is mostly a tell that they’re afraid now.

UPDATE: Afraid with reason: