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The United Nations’ Rogue Agency

By from the February 2012 issue

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.

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UNESCO’s warped attitude toward Israel showed again in its ham-fisted condemnation last fall of a political cartoon. Published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, it depicted Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister briefing pilots before an imaginary attack on Iran, telling them to target UNESCO’s office in the West Bank on their way back—a joking reference to Netanyahu’s anger over the admission of Palestine. Within hours, a UNESCO assistant director general solemnly summoned Israeli Ambassador Nimrod Barkan and handed him an overwrought official protest saying, preposterously, that the cartoon “endangers the lives of unarmed diplomats.” Barkan merely reminded him that Israel enjoys a free press. “We’ve heard of Islamists raging against supposedly disrespectful cartoons,” an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman commented, “but UN officials going down the same road, that’s a whole new ballgame.”

THAT BLUNDER WAS ONLY a peccadillo compared with the ludicrous mess last year over filling an opening on the UNESCO committee that deals with human rights issues. The mind-boggling choice: Syria. No matter that the UN’s own High Commissioner for Human Rights recommends that the regime of Bashar al-Assad be prosecuted in the International Criminal Court in The Hague for crimes against humanity. That includes slaughtering some 5,000 demonstrators, including 300 children, and arresting 14,000 in its recent crackdown on opposition protests.

This grotesquerie was created by manipulating the organization’s skewed procedural rules. Syria was elected to the executive board two years ago, and all members have the right to sit on its committees. Once the Arab bloc decided for its own reasons to put Syria on human rights, it was a done deal. “It’s shameful for the UN’s prime agency on science, culture, and education to take a country that is shooting its own people and empower it to decide human rights issues on a global scale,” says Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, an independent human rights monitoring group. Commented Florida Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, “UNESCO continues to outdo itself with stunning displays of irresponsible and dangerous behavior. The selection of Syria to serve on a UNESCO committee responsible for human rights is an affront to those suffering at the hands of tyrants all around the world. The Administration must continue to follow U.S. law and withhold funds to UNESCO so our tax dollars are not used to support this increasingly irresponsible agency.”

Attempting to distance itself from the gaffe, UNESCO quietly let it be known that Director General Bokova actually disapproved of the choice but had her hands tied. That only underscored that Bokova, a soft-spoken, graying, grandmotherly lady of 60, has a tiger by the tail. In reality the organization is run by the volatile, unpredictable, pliant general conference, and the 58-member executive board that sets the conference agenda. The Arab-African bloc has an automatic 20 votes on the board, and can easily find another 10 from emerging nations for a majority to push through policies predictably anti-Western, or utterly irrational, like the vote on Palestine. However well-intentioned, Bokova is powerless to control or prevent its rogue actions.

Elected in 2009 as UNESCO’s first woman director general, Bokova was a member of Bulgaria’s Socialist—formerly Communist—Party, as well as ambassador to France and UNESCO itself. She had served as Bulgaria’s foreign minister under Premier Zhan Videnov, who did little to clean up the country’s post-communist cesspool of organized crime and corruption. She is a convert to press freedom—she certainly did not learn it from her father, who edited Bulgaria’s main, party-lining communist newspaper. Like many of the privileged of her generation, she studied at Moscow’s State Institute of International Relations, later doing stints at the University of Maryland and Harvard. “I am from this cold war generation that lived through this period; we didn’t choose it,” Bokova told the New York Times defensively before her election. “I have nothing to be ashamed of.”

Her election was symptomatic of the penchant of multilateral organizations for choosing the least common denominator. She is certainly not the strong, decisive leader UNESCO needs to keep the rambunctious executive board and general conference from riding roughshod over it. But in one respect at least, Bokova’s election helped UNESCO avoid another spectacular calamity.

Her only rival for the position, backed by the Arab-African bloc, was the Egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosny. Hosny’s record for promoting culture and defending human rights was of the Middle Eastern variety. He had declared he would personally burn any Jewish book found in Egypt’s great Alexandria library. He also boasted he had helped organize the 1985 escape of the Palestine Liberation Front hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, the charmers who shot the disabled American Leon Klinghoffer and shoved him overboard in his wheelchair. This being UNESCO, Hosny almost became its director. Arm-twisting and threatening, Egypt and its allies on the executive board managed to push the election to five rounds of voting—unprecedented in the organization’s history—before Bokova narrowly won. That a thug like Hosny could come within a hair of UNESCO’s top job speaks volumes.

ITS STATE PRIORITIES are also revealing. Number one on the official list is Africa, followed by gender equality. Only then come proper core activities like education, ethics, and intercultural dialogue. So no one should be surprised if the African tail wags the UNESCO dog. Official documents are peppered with the phrase “especially in Africa.” Its Cultural Commission considers that intercultural dialogue mainly means raising awareness of the slave trade, slavery, and the African diaspora. The general conference last November proudly expressed its official satisfaction with the publication of the eight-volume General History of Africa, “making this masterpiece of UNESCO one of the major intellectual achievements of the 20th century [sic].”

This order of priorities can lead to the occasional crack-up. Most spectacular in recent memory was the $3 million UNESCO Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences, set up in 2008. Never awarded, it was suspended in 2010 after protests ranging from Nobel laureates and press freedom groups to human rights defenders around the world. How could such a generous, euphonious, impressively named prize with the worthy goal of encouraging scientific research cause such a brouhaha?

Consider the donor. President Obiang, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea with a despotic hand since taking power in a coup 30 years ago, is justly renowned for rigged elections, arrest and murder of opposition leaders, muzzling the press, and what a UN special rapporteur termed “inhuman conditions” and “systematic torture” in the country’s prisons. Along with this goes, naturally, unabashed corruption in the use of the country’s abundant oil wealth for himself and his family. Appropriately enough, the $3 million prize money was delivered to UNESCO in cash.

When protests over this transparent attempt to improve a brutal dictator’s image became too embarrassing, Bokova called for the prize to be withdrawn in 2010 and said she would not be involved with it. Furious backroom politicking followed. Western diplomats, typically scared of looking colonialist or, quelle horreur, anti-African, took a back seat and left it to the sub-Saharans to annul the prize and return the money, presumably in small-denomination banknotes. The Arabs said they would support any decision by the Africans. Those worthies said the prize must be awarded.

There things stand, with UNESCO still holding the $3 million—Obiang refuses to take it back—and scheduled to take up the question again in April. Bokova, being against the prize after being for it, was left looking compromised. As a longtime secretariat member told me privately, “There was a very strong feeling here that it was wrong to accept it, just as we were against admitting Palestine. But these things get done anyway, despite what we feel is right.” Clearly out of control, it’s anyone’s guess what this outfit’s next caper might be.

Compared with the missteps of priority Africa, priority gender equality looks innocent enough. Of course women and girls should be taught to read and write, and UNESCO has programs in that field. And they should certainly be protected from discrimination, though it’s hard to see what UNESCO does about that except preach the good word. But in its effort to please feminist zealots, the organization inevitably ends up looking more than a bit silly. As when it slavishly altered UNESCO’s slogan to read, “Building peace in the minds of men and women.”

It has become a one-stop shop for everything on the feminists’ shopping list, plus some pleasant surprises. Do media women in the Maghreb need courses in “gender sensitive scriptwriting”? It held a workshop in Casablanca for that. Do downtrodden female philosophers need to “write free from the looming gaze of an imaginary, universal, male reader”? There’s a Women Philosophers’ Journal where they can. And while writing, they can refer to the UNESCO “Guidelines on Gender-Neutral Language” pamphlet, with its gross cartoons showing male chauvinists ruthlessly dominating helpless females. It is surely helpful to women raising children amid poverty and disease to know that “human power” is better than “manpower,” “wife and husband” preferable to “man and wife,” “intrepid child” tops “tomboy.”

OF ALL UNESCO’s countless programs, the World Heritage List is by far the best known. The 936 properties in 153 countries, including 21 in the U.S. from Yellowstone to the Statue of Liberty, are selected as being “of outstanding universal value.” When the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was adopted in 1972, it was to ensure that important natural and manmade sites were not wantonly endangered—a worthy cause to be sure.

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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.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (57) |

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.

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