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Feature
The United Nations’ Rogue Agency
With the admission of Palestine, UNESCO shows again it is over-politicized and running out of control. The U.S. should head for the exit.
We have all heard the jocular remark about the inmates taking over the asylum. But I had never actually witnessed that unnerving event until last October 31, when I spent an afternoon in the press gallery of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris. The vast conference hall was not quite a madhouse, but it was noisy, agitated, and full of wild surmise. Hundreds of delegates from member states milled about, chattering excitedly as the president of UNESCO’s biennial general conference plaintively called for them to take their seats and get on with the business at hand. To wit, voting on a request by the Palestinian Authority for membership—and with it, the first recognition of its statehood by a United Nations agency.
The stakes were high. In its quest for statehood without making concessions to Israel, the PA had applied for full membership in the UN in September, but it was obvious that the U.S. would veto that ploy in the Security Council. So PA President Mahmoud Abbas was targeting a weak link in the UN system where the veto does not exist. He knew that UNESCO, with its fuzzy cultural mandate, was as open to political manipulation now as it had been when it was an ideological battlefield in the Cold War.
The U.S. had made abundantly clear that, due to laws dating from the 1990s, admitting Palestine to any UN agency would mean an immediate cutoff of American funding. In UNESCO’s case, this amounted to fully 22 percent of its budget. There was no leeway for interpretation, no possibility of waiving the laws’ provisions. Perversely, that seemed only to sharpen the delegates’ appetite for admitting Palestine. As the roll was called, it became obvious that they relished thumbing their collective nose at the U.S. and the handful of member states that held this was the wrong place to decide Palestinian statehood. Cheers greeted votes in favor by delegations from Africa, South America, the Middle East, Russia, China, and, of course, France. Joining the fun was the ambassador from Uzbekistan, the beauteous 32-year-old Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, socialite daughter of President Islam Karimov, whose use of torture against dissidents, including boiling to death, the UN itself has termed “systematic.”
A sprinkling of moans or boos rippled through the assembly when the U.S., Germany, Holland, and a few others voted against. The president repeatedly called for a bit of decorum. Not a chance: now the grinning, gibbering, gesticulating inmates had indeed taken over. The final vote was 107 in favor to 14 against, with 52 abstentions. For anyone who still believed in UNESCO’s mission, it was an appalling spectacle. With that frivolous, self-defeating act, UNESCO signaled to the world that, once again, it was becoming the UN’s over-politicized rogue agency.
IT WAS A LOSE-LOSE MOVE both for Palestine and UNESCO itself. After the grandstanding, Palestine was no closer to statehood and possibly further away, hardening positions and jeopardizing the peace process. “It was an extremely reckless and callous move by Abbas,” one dismayed Western ambassador to UNESCO told me later. “There are no winners in this. Abbas has alienated some of his most important supporters.” The State Department and both parties in Congress quickly denounced the vote. As Texas Republican Kay Granger, chair of the House State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee, had warned, “I have made it clear to the Palestinian leadership that I would not support sending U.S. taxpayer money to the Palestinians if they sought statehood at the United Nations. There are consequences for short-cutting the process, not only for the Palestinians, but for our longstanding relationship with the United Nations.”
UNESCO immediately began suffering those consequences, starting with the loss of America’s contribution of about $80 million to its budget for last year, for 2012, and perhaps indefinitely. “We have to take drastic action and take it now,” the director general, Irina Bokova, said unhappily. “We are reviewing all activities in all areas, including staff travel, publications, communication costs, meetings, and the rest.” Some 20 of its 57 field offices might have to be closed.
It is paying the logical price for letting politics trump its cultural/educational mandate, and demonstrating that UNESCO lends itself, systemically, to this kind of abuse. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, as the man said, and this fiasco reminded me of the bad old days of the 1980s. UNESCO was then a hotbed of vicious anti-Western ideology complete with strident condemnations of America. Instead of concentrating on fostering “full and equal opportunities for education for all, in the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free exchange of ideas and knowledge,” it became a political tool wielded by the Third World and the Soviet bloc. “If you don’t like what we are proposing,” an African delegate once shouted at Westerners, “we will jam it down your throats until you choke!”
One notorious program promoted a socialist-lining New International Economic Order. Its undeclared purpose was to redistribute Western wealth to a global welfare state; private enterprise was dismissed as “an economy of waste.” Educational grants were funding violent Marxist movements like the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Soviet-armed South-West Africa People’s Organization. Another wayward project was euphemistically called Communication in the Service of Man. In reality it promoted a New World Information and Communication Order with state licensing and codes of correct conduct for newsmen. When in 1983 France expelled 47 KGB spies, a dozen were under cover at UNESCO.
The director general was one Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow, a volatile, irascible Senegalese who ran it like a profitable personal fief. Official funds were used to stroke his supporters. All job appointments and promotions were personally approved by him and based on ideology and nationality. When a planned U.S. audit of financial irregularities was announced, a mysterious fire destroyed key files. Disgusted and demoralized, competent senior staff fled, one protesting in writing “the destruction of professionalism.” The U.S., too, left: Ronald Reagan finally had enough and pulled America out of UNESCO in 1984.
WITH NO PERCEPTIBLE REPERCUSSIONS on American citizens except tax savings, it stayed out for 19 years. In 2003, George W. Bush took us back in “as a symbol of our commitment to human dignity.” The organization had been reformed, he noted hopefully at the time, “and America will participate fully in its mission to advance human rights and tolerance and learning.” Laura Bush later became, and remains, a UNESCO goodwill ambassador. After all, idealistic America has always been an important part of this organization with utopian visions, beginning with its creation. The first American member of the executive board, the writer Archibald MacLeish, wrote the high-flown preamble to UNESCO’s constitution: “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”
Today it has grown to 195 member states, more than any other multinational organization including the UN itself. Its staff of some 2,000 toil in half-a-dozen buildings at its sprawling Paris headquarters and field offices. They handle a biennial budget of $653 million, plus millions more in extra-budgetary contributions. At its best, it can be useful for monitoring and standard-setting in fields like education, science, and information. Member-state delegations I spoke with voiced many complaints about UNESCO—especially its growing politicization—but mostly like its education programs. American officials generally praise its efforts for universal literacy and clean water, women’s education, and disaster preparedness. One of its largest American-supported education projects is in Afghanistan, with literacy centers for both civilians and Afghan police officers.
Membership can also be good for American business. Companies like Apple, Cisco, Intel, Google, and Microsoft are cooperating with UNESCO because it opens access to global markets. As David T. Killion, U.S. ambassador to the organization, told me, “We think there are critical American interests at stake here: moral, cultural, national security, even economic interests. We think this is a strategic piece of real estate in the international system. It can get us to places we couldn’t get to otherwise.”
But Killion has been publicly critical of the political manipulation that goes on. Formerly a leading voice on international organizations with the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he made the rounds of delegations trying to dissuade them from voting for Palestinian admission. During the executive board’s debate on the question he took the floor to express America’s “strong opposition.” He added, “We are profoundly disappointed that this issue has injected a difficult political issue into this organization, and believe that it has the potential to undermine severely the organization’s ability to carry out its critical mandate.” In 2010, he protested UNESCO’s tendency to single out Israel for criticism. “This undermines UNESCO’s credibility,” he said. “The U.S. strongly encourages the executive board to seek an alternative to highly politicized decisions and seemingly permanent agenda items focused only on one country.”
If the organization keeps hammering Israel, it is due to its aggressive Arab-African regional bloc of members. Its influence over UNESCO can be seen in ways large and small.
There was the scandal over World Philosophy Day. UNESCO inexplicably decided the 2010 conference would be held in Tehran, capital of that beacon of free thought, Iran—an inexcusable choice by an organization supposedly dedicated to freedom and human rights. Shocked academics around the world declared a boycott, calling the confab a propaganda exercise for a brutal regime. “It’s as if they decided to hold a philosophy conference in Berlin in 1938—with Goebbels as its head!” said Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo, an expatriate Iranian philosopher teaching at the University of Toronto. Backpedaling, an embarrassed UNESCO first said the conference would go ahead as scheduled, then tried to dissociate itself from events in Teheran by holding a parallel meeting in Paris. Confusion all around, along with red faces.
About the Author
Joseph A. Harriss is The American Spectator’s Paris correspondent. His latest book, An American Spectator in Paris, was released this fall.
Jack in Wi.| 2.7.12 @ 6:41AM
This essay is laughable. Israel is a racist, apatheid state like South Africa. How long do you think the world is going to put up with it's lies, nuclear blackmail, and warmongering? It is headed for the asheap of history and good riddence to it.
Jack in Wi.| 2.7.12 @ 6:56AM
Now in regards to UNESCO. The whole UN is nothing but an attempt to build a New World Order. The UN caused the problem to begin with by forcing Israel on the rightful owners of the country. The Palistinians have gone to the UN as a last resort to stop the Israeli's with all their theft, racism, and murder. For 63 years they have been made second class people in the land they have lived in for thousands of years. The only answer in complete integration in the area of old Palistine. The Jews of South Africa and the USA were leaders in the fight to end to official racism in their countries. It is time for sane Jews to work for a one state solution. End the racism. End the hate integrate the Israeli state. Of course such a solution should include hundreds of billions in reparations to the Palistinans for all the theft, murder and torture of the last 64 years. If the USA has to be a multi cultural state as has been pushed by most Jews in this country. So should Israel be. Apartheid South Africa and the USSR ended peacefully. Lets hope the Zionist entity is disolved in a similar manner. Otherwise it is likely to end up in a pile of ashes like Nazi Germany. The Holyland belongs to the whole world not just a small group of squabbling Jewish sects.
Pete| 2.7.12 @ 12:57PM
You truly do Ron Paul a disservice. Your answer is the same as Hitler - kill the jews?
irish19| 2.7.12 @ 5:28PM
Jack,
The drycleaner called. Your brown shirts are ready for pick up.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 8:20PM
What about the torture and murder of Israeli children? Any reparations...no...thanks, Jackboot.
mmercier| 2.7.12 @ 9:27AM
you are a true zipperhead. you deserve to own this little place in your little universe.
Maddox| 2.7.12 @ 10:39AM
"If Muslims put down their weapons today, there would be peace in the ME. If Israel put down its weapons today, there would be no Israel."
No further explanation needed.
macwell| 2.8.12 @ 5:50AM
Well said
shoebox57| 2.7.12 @ 10:52AM
No chance! The U.N. needs to be kicked out of the U.S. in the face of all the egalitarian crap, all nations need to equally fund. Period.
Brian Mc| 2.7.12 @ 3:37PM
Better yet, this Monday morning before sun-up throw a lock on the door...with a sign, "No entrance without proof of representative government. Only then will you be allowed representation here". e.g. Lybia on the "Human Rights Council"?
Alan Brooks| 2.7.12 @ 8:52PM
The GOP is the enemy, not the UN.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 8:19PM
Racist---hmm, the Ethipian Jews rescued by Operation "Magic Carpet" might disagree. Apartheid---right, with Arab MKs and no Jewsih reps in Arab countries. Bye, Jack.
Carol| 2.7.12 @ 6:53AM
There is no such place called Palestine.
Obama and his fellow Commies are as interested in seeing Israel destroyed as the Muslim pigs getting to live in Israel and the rest of the Muslim scum in the ME.
God grant Israel the courage to defend itself against its enemies - especially now since Iran is near to their goal.
Jack in Wi.| 2.7.12 @ 7:03AM
I suggest you read the fine book by the Israeli historian Dr. Shlomo Sand. In his book ' The Invention of Jewish People ' Dr. Sand Proves that the closest relatives to Abraham in the world are the Palistinians. In fact most Israeli Jews are decendents of converts to Judaism over the centuries in the old Roman empire and several tribes of Mongolian Jews from the area of the Ukraine. Dr. Sand's book was a number one best seller in Israel for weeks. It is now availible in English. I suggest everyone intrested in the subject get a copy of the book. It is a very good read and puts a lot of light on the subject.
Fred Farkel| 2.7.12 @ 9:05AM
Your virulent anti-Semitism ia showing. Adolf would be proud of you.
shoebox57| 2.7.12 @ 10:55AM
This book tells us nothing new and in fact tells us several lies. Most People do not take the time to do the research necessary to invalidate anothers theory. If you do not believe in the the God of the Jews then you can probably stomach this garbage.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 6:40PM
Jack: I keep forgetting what a philosemite you are. Incidentally, Chris Christie recently gave a speech in which he stated that he especially admired Israel because of the enemies it has made.
Having Jack as my enemy is a very good thing.
shoebox57| 2.7.12 @ 10:56AM
Palestine is a given name of a region, not a Nation. Israel is a Nation, not a region. This is all we need to know.
POST American| 2.7.12 @ 7:30AM
---Gteat piece!
"Remember, the UN is NOT an elected
body, nor even a representative body.
In fact, it isn't even a properly 'charitable'
organization. The UN was entirely the
PRIVATE brainchild of capstone EUGENISTS
and USURERS. And remember, every
single world leader who signed the UN
charter in 1945 signed on for world
government and committed TREASON
against his people."
---Funny, John Bolton NEVER seems to
come up with copy like this.
NOW, could we get a little bit of genuine
reporting and journalism around the
Globalists's UN Agenda 21 ---the plan for world
austerity and wealth transfer ----and, trifling
though it may be, the program for the
orderly extermination of 90% of mankind
by 2100 under an authoritarian world
authority.
As we review latest reports about parts
of Tokyo being 4X more radioactive than
Chernobyl -----while fallout continues to
saturate the western US and Canada and
beyond---AND as the cross spectrum
cover up by the owned media continues
------it really would bring a little much
needed variety to things.
------------------------THANKS--------------------------
VonMisesJr| 2.7.12 @ 8:59AM
Whenever you here "Sustainable Development" or "Smart Growth," get ready for an assault on your property rights.
Agenda21 is a One World Government Plan organized through the UN, UNESCO, IMF, World Bank, and many sweet wounding names such as Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund and World Economic Forum. Make no mistake, it is the global elitist plan to impose a new serfdom on the world by usurping your property and herding all into factory cities. That is what the high speed rail craze is about: getting goods in and out of the developments the Bushes, Clintons, and the European elitist have in mind for us. Here is an article from American Thinker (http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/un_agenda_21_coming_to_a_neigh.html).
If you do not know and understand this, you should. States are currently accepting funding in grants that commit your property rights to a One World Government.
crookedwren| 2.7.12 @ 10:32AM
Excellent post. Agenda 21 and its primary agent ICLEI are quietly hoodwinking local and state governments throughout this country. Their agenda is clear to all who will read Agenda 21's documents. Bush Sr. signed on to it (remember his New World Order moments) and Clinton furthered it through Exec. Orders.
But it is at the local and state levels where they have made real inroads. Here in VA, dangerous legislation had already been passed -- among them a state mandate that would legitimize stealing private property and forcing people into urban developments. We have been fighting these things, but, of course, builders -- desperate for work -- have been hoodwinked into thinking this is a good thing. It isn't. It steals private property. It steals our sovereignty.
Our local Tea Party group got busy educating folks in one of our loveliest villages. They had been duped by ICLEI into signing on to UN's Agenda 21. Now they have begun to understand exactly the malicious goals of this group.
Many local Tea Parties throughout the US are busy fighting Agenda 21. And the msm refuses to talk about it.
Tom DeWeese has great material on Agenda 21.
There is (or was!) a great website called "Democrats Against Agenda 21" (or something similar). They had numerous posts that were helpful in educating the public about this issue.
Get busy, folks, if you don't know about Agenda 21.
The plans are in the works. And they are horrifying.
ICLEI uses pretty words, but their intent is chilling.
VonMisesJr| 2.7.12 @ 10:38AM
crookedwren, exactly. I learned of Agenda21 through a few of the TEA Party groups I frequent. We passed around allot of data, but when I went to a web search for Agenda21 to provide more information for my point; the hits are vague and online content removed.
If that doesn't wake people up, they will awake some day like Rip Van Winkle but with a boot on their necks.
Pete| 2.7.12 @ 1:00PM
Did you see the NAVY ad about the Navy protecting the world. Its already happened. We pay for the military of the one world government.
VonMisesJr| 2.7.12 @ 3:06PM
China pays for it. We mortgaged our children's future.
It must be part of the global redistribution of wealth plan.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 6:41PM
I guess, Pete. But who would you prefer have the best military in the world right now, besides us? Think carefully, now. No sarcasm; I'm interested in your answer.
Mike Hawk| 2.7.12 @ 9:06AM
I suggest UN HQ be moved to Mogadishu. It is more in tune with third world despotism and could use the business.
John786| 2.7.12 @ 9:48AM
Concessions. The Palestinians have already conceded 90% of historic Palestine to the Zionist movement. Concessions. Pray do tell us what exactly should an occupied nation concede to the occupier. The hypocrisy; both Isreal and US government policy is for two state solution. You would have thought they would be happy with the unesco outcome. Or is the two state solution phoney window dressing: like negotiations with Iran. Isreal has destroyed approximately 26 000 Muslim - Arab heritage sites: completely bulldozed. Masjid al aqsa in al Quds ( JEruslaem) is being destroyed. How can ISreal even remain a member of unesco while it follows apartheid policies: supported by the rapturers.
Al Adab| 2.7.12 @ 11:00AM
John:
Interesting that you bring this up in a discussion of the United Nations. It was that very international organization which created Israel from the former Ottoman territories. Although that event took place following WWII, it was the direct result of grave errors following WWI. All of us, from both cultures, are paying yet the price for misguided policies following that first war.
You and I will never settle the "Palestinian" problem, but we can engage, to our profit, in attempts to stabilize the region through proper recognition of geo-political realities. If only (another lost opportunity) our brothers in Gaza had taken steps to create what could have become the Hong Kong or Monaco of the Eastern Med instead of launching rockets. How very sad for all concerned.
John786| 2.7.12 @ 11:23AM
Al Adab,
I am presuming you are a Zionist possibly a 'christain' Zionist. Please tell me one thing. If the consensus in the US is that the Palestinian are an invented people. Why do successive US/ Israeli governments support a state for an invented people. And on a personal level: can I ask; are you an eschatological End times rapturing Christian. You don't have to answer. Gaza may not be Monoco but it certainly has the potential to be a Qatar, Abu dhabi because of the vast unexplored offshore oil & gas.
Al Adab| 2.7.12 @ 1:06PM
John:
Let me briefly touch on theology. As a Christian convert 1980, I have a certain perspective which leads me to study Western Civ. That said, I am not a Zionist. Although I accept the right of Israel to exist that does not obligate me to follow that nations foreign policy. From time to time the United States national interest and Israels national interest do coincide ala Nuclear armed Iran.
I have no problem with the national aspirations of any people, remember Kurdistan? Still such must be tread carefully lest ones aspiration displace others. We have seen also the results of that.
Eschatologicly tend toward the amillenial view rather than the pre-millenial one of so many "evangelicals".
I did envision a great and prosperous future for Gaza. Not only could they still develop offshore resources, they could have begun in international banking effort and built resorts akin to Monaco. As I said, a sad missed opportunity. Let us both, you and I, hope that they realize their future happiness is not found in the elimination of Israel, but in the development of the own potential.
We need to meet up for coffee one day.
John786| 2.7.12 @ 5:14PM
Al Adab,
I too wish for a peaceful future. The Arab nations have accepted a solution based on the 67 borders. And a just solution to the refugees. It is the failure of Zionism to evolve which has been an obstacle to progress. Im not opposed to any nationalism including Jewish nationalism. It is the manner by which Jewish nationalism has played out in Palestine I take an issue with. Nevertheless there is a vector albeit a small one that can take us all to the promised land.
I live on the other side of the Universe haji Al Adab : But yes coffee would be nice.
irish19| 2.7.12 @ 5:35PM
It is the failure of Hamas, Hezbollah, & the PA to recognize Israel's right to exist within secure borders that is the problem. Period. Until they do this, there can be no peace.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 6:45PM
No, they haven't. Not really. It is to say one thing in English and another in Arabic.
Zionism, by the way, does not demand a complete endorsement of Israeli foreign policy. It does demand a willingness to accept israel's existence as a Jewish State. And this, John 786 does not do.
hunter| 2.7.12 @ 10:19AM
Get the U.S. out of the un. Get the un out of the U.S.! Simple.
DaveD| 2.7.12 @ 11:22AM
Why the United States continues to participate in any organisation whose name begins with the two letters "U" and "N" escapes me.
Formed to prevent war, name one war the UN has prevented. Name a war that once started the UN has stopped. Name a spot on the globe where UN peacekeepers have actually prevented violence.
Tasked with broadening cultural understandings and promoting human rights, name a place where that is working, even working poorly.
Stumped? I'm not surprised.
tsd| 2.7.12 @ 10:24AM
The united nations is made up of a group of new world order socialist who steal from one group to give to another. Look at all the corruption, the chosen few who rule the place steal from they're own all the time. Look who makes up the committees, pedophiles and human rights violators are on the children's and human rights advocacy groups.... truly the fox in the chicken house scenario. All you have to do is look at the UN stand/scam that is the lie related global warming and carbon tax to see the sham they are. GET RID OF THE UN.... it is a joke on mankind by the global elitists.
Al Adab| 2.7.12 @ 10:42AM
The United Nations continues to prove that it is infected with an Anti-Western bias which bodes no good for the Western nations which finance the organization. The US should limit its involvement to a presence on the Security Council and perhaps the WHO and review its financial commitment to the UN accordingly. Relocation of UN HQ to say Dehli might improve the nature of the organization. US financial backing should be limited to only those agencies we might select, not to the continuing operation of a behemoth which rejects the very western values which made the UN possible.
John786| 2.7.12 @ 11:03AM
Al Adab,
Move UN you Delhi. And defun most Agencies. Both very good policies. But I fear we support them for different reasons. I would only add one further item to this list. Its obvious that the UN is hampering US foreign policy and is wasting valuable Taxpayers ( or borrowed) money. The US should therefore leave the UN completely and Kick them out of the US. Let thin fester in there own juices. I hope you will support me in this matter.
Mike Hawk| 2.7.12 @ 11:34AM
Per my previous post: (I am serious)
I suggest UN HQ be moved to Mogadishu. It is more in tune with third world despotism and could use the business.
John786| 2.7.12 @ 11:59AM
Maybe not Mogadishu. A bit cruel. But I salute your sentiment. Delhi is a splendid idea. Jakarta?. Or even Qatar: the eye of the vortex. HRH al Thani I'm sure would be pleased. The place is very small so you would probably need to move any foreign bases to make way.
Al Adab| 2.7.12 @ 3:42PM
John:
Like we said above regarding Israel, sometimes interests of different parties coincide. You and I have much in common. Qatar might be good for them although they would spend all their time in Bahrain. I do think they deserve Dehli though.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 6:46PM
Yes, I agree. The Organization of Islamic States dominates the UN entirely too much. The UN needs complete defunding.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 6:43PM
No, Mogadishu is most appropriate. Or Gaza. Gaza would be quite useful as a headquarters for the UN.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 6:47PM
Or anyplace where the UN diplomats will find themselves under constant fire.
Al Adab| 2.7.12 @ 3:45PM
Yes John, what is in the US national interest funding an organization that opposes the US at every turn. As I said, Security Council (for the veto) and WHO (which eliminated smallpox) might be exceptions. See below re: Qatar.
Roger Johnson| 2.7.12 @ 11:52AM
get the USA out of the UN.
Pete| 2.7.12 @ 1:01PM
The John Birch Society was right all along.
Marc Jeric| 2.7.12 @ 2:37PM
Defund the UN; chase it from New York - to Zimbabwe if possible.
The Bruce| 2.7.12 @ 9:01PM
Let's just fund them in Zimbabwe Dollars. It would basically accomplish all three things at the same time.
irish19| 2.8.12 @ 9:05AM
I like the way you think.
irish19| 2.8.12 @ 9:05AM
I like the way you think.
Marc Jeric| 2.7.12 @ 2:41PM
UNESCO - under the enlightened leadership by a communist ( now "socialist") from Bulgaria....I'll stop right here; no other words are necessary.
davelnaf| 2.7.12 @ 3:06PM
I was wondering where the variant of the word “colonialism” would appear in this article. This never-ending--and never will be ending--evil is what gets these anti-western Middle Eastern, African, Latin American, and Asian UN and UNESCO delegates and functionaries up in the morning to demonize the West so they can feel better about their manifest, never-ending failures.
Martin Owens| 2.7.12 @ 4:23PM
" Rogue Agency?"
The whole damn UN is a rogue agency.
jtb0983148| 2.7.12 @ 10:02PM
The UN and all 190+ gentile nations will be destroyed permanently by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for starting a war with their Creator over a piece of land God called Holy. This would be Israel and Jerusalem. Zeph 3:8: 8Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations (the UN), that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
God is so merciful and kind....He gave you a 3,500 year advanced warning and put it a dimestore counter Book with NO COPYRIGHT.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
POST American| 2.7.12 @ 11:15PM
"They can't bring in world government?
NO ONE will vote for it? '---NO problem.
We'll just make our own private club,
covertly pass thousands of treaties
---and do it anyway'."
i.e. ---the UN.
Remember folks!
"When an ideal ---ANY ideal,
gets its hands on the REAL
levers of power
----you get PURE EVIL."
D H Lawrence
1922
You really do.
---Globalism
-------'Free Trade'
-----------fractional reserve USURY
and, most certainly -----------EUGENICS
------------------are IDEALS-------------------.
-----------------------I.D.---ALLs-------------------------
Ruler4You| 2.9.12 @ 2:21PM
To argue to do away with UNESCO while not getting rid of the U.N. in its entirety is ridiculous in premise. They are the same beast.