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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.
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But today UNESCO has twisted its meaning to satisfy as many of its client activists as possible. The new slogan of its flagship program is World Heritage and Sustainable Development, thereby pleasing the greens and those who view UNESCO primarily as an economic development, not cultural, agency. (Just for the record, culture properly understood has nothing whatever to do with economic development, as many an impecunious writer can attest.) As Irina Bokova said in a recent speech announcing the upcoming 40th anniversary celebrations of the convention, “Heritage stands at the crossroads of climate change, social transformations and processes of reconciliation between peoples. Heritage carries high stakes—for the identity and belonging of peoples, for the sustainable economic and social development of communities.” Anybody feel left out?
To be sure, with a headquarters staff of 80 running the program, the World Heritage Committee can sometimes help avoid damage to important sites. When in 1995 Egypt planned a new highway near the Giza Pyramids which might have blighted the site, negotiations with the Egyptian government found a solution. And when the archaeological site of Delphi in Greece was threatened by plans for an aluminum plant nearby, the Greek government was persuaded to find another location.
But many observers are increasingly unhappy with the way the World Heritage Committee operates. They accuse it of inappropriate politicization and, ultimately, corruption of its original mandate. This came to light publicly at the general conference last November, when the Estonian ambassador, Marten Kokk, stood up and said aloud what many insiders were thinking. “We regret to say,” he declared, “that the increasing operational problems and politicization of the World Heritage Committee compromise the credibility of the [1972] Convention and the World Heritage List.” He also criticized conflicts of interest on the committee, with members abusing their positions to win selection of candidate sites in their home countries.
Interviews with other delegations made clear what Kokk was concerned about. “Several delegations are unhappy with the way the Committee is selecting sites for its list,” the ambassador of one Nordic country told me. (Delegations I interviewed insisted on anonymity when voicing criticism.) “Too often, the decision is made not on the grounds of a site’s historical or aesthetic value, but for political reasons. As a result, the committee’s choices diverge more and more frequently from the professional advice of the outside experts who make recommendations. This is against the very raison d’être of the 1972 Convention.” A member of a different delegation, who sat on the committee for four years, confirmed this. “It’s clear that, for political reasons, the World Heritage Committee is not complying with the recommendations of the experts in selecting sites,” he said. “There are many obvious cases. We regret this very much.” A recent report by an external auditor confirms the program’s corruption. It notes that in one recent year, six candidate sites that the experts did not find “of outstanding universal value” were selected as heritage sites anyway for political and economic reasons.
MEMBER STATES OBVIOUSLY consider that it is worth doing whatever necessary to get as many World Heritage sites as possible. They mean prestige, jobs, and economic development in the form of increased tourism. Travel agencies tout package tours focused on World Heritage-listed sites, manna from heaven for poor countries. “Is the World Heritage Committee politicized?” asked one disabused Western ambassador I talked with. “Everything at the UN is politicized. Should the committee be overturning the recommendations of the experts? Absolutely not, and we have to put pressure on member states not to do that anymore.” A committee official says that it is now considering the growing criticism and issuing new operational guidelines. “We hope these reforms will correct anomalies,” he says, without explaining how.
Some locations with World Heritage sites are learning that it’s not an unmixed blessing. The German city of Dresden, known for its splendid baroque and rococo architecture, won heritage status in 2004 for its restored city center including palaces, churches, opera houses, and museums. Then in 2006 UNESCO’s culture police frowned on the city fathers’ decision to build a four-lane bridge across the river Elbe, more than a mile away from the historic center. They gravely “delisted” the city in 2009 for refusing to obey orders not to build. The citizens of Dresden now enjoy their new bridge and somehow continue to thrive in one of Germany’s fastest-growing cities.
Latest target of UNESCO intrusion is Liverpool. The English city on the Mersey, home of the Beatles, founded in 1207, was granted World Heritage status in 2004. Alas, a three-day visit by UNESCO inspectors last fall concluded with the warning that it would lose its status unless it made radical changes to the $9 billion Liverpool Waters project to regenerate its northern docklands. The project, a half-mile from the historic center, includes offices, a shopping mall, cruise liner terminal, and other job-creating features. “This project is absolutely vital for the future of the city,” the head of the Liverpool city council, Joe Anderson, told me on the phone. “We have a 29 percent unemployment rate, and this will create jobs both now and for generations to come. Plans dating back 100 years show our forefathers wanted a similar docklands development. And now we have these outsiders trying to tell us how to shape our city.” He still hopes for a compromise, but Liverpudlians will get their new docklands.
The intrusions can get worse. Maladroitly designating a World Heritage site can actually spark warfare, a rather serious unintended consequence for an organization striving for a “culture of peace.” That happened on the Cambodia-Thailand border after the Preah Vihear temple was selected in July 2008 in response to a Cambodian request. This reignited a longstanding border dispute over that area. Within weeks the first Thai and Cambodian soldiers were being killed in firefights, while thousands of civilians fled. The 1,000-year-old temple itself was damaged. The military standoff continues while the International Court of Justice considers the case.
Meanwhile, UNESCO’s boffins recently created a functionary’s dream: a program that is, literally, infinite. If you liked physical, measurable World Heritage, they reasoned, you’ll love the intangible heritage that can exist simply in the minds and habits of certain people. This can mean everything from oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, quaint rituals and festivities, to “knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe.”
There are already 267 intangible heritage items, but, as an expansive program official explains, “There exist in the world thousands, even billions of potential practices that could be on the list. It’s unlimited and infinite. The only limit is our capacity to handle it.” You can bet that will be growing. Meanwhile, recent additions include the Mibu no Hana Taue rice planting ritual in Japan, Mexico’s mariachi music, French cooking and horseback-riding, and Croatia’s Nijemo Kolo, a silent circle dance from the hinterland of Dalmatia. The only really important heritage ritual still missing from the list is the Texas Two-Step, though it does unfortunately involve a man leading a woman.
LESS THAN A DECADE after the U.S. rejoined, UNESCO, with the Palestinian flag now flying at its headquarters, has shown convincingly that it is back to its old political games. Whatever the best intentions of the secretariat, political infighting will always trump good works. Africa, the Middle East, and the emerging nations own it. They may individually contribute 1 percent or less to the budget, but their vote equals America’s. Without weighted voting according to contributions, or some safety valve like the UN’s Security Council, they will stay in the driver’s seat. It is unrealistic to think the U.S. can significantly influence UNESCO’s direction, as the futile campaign to block the admission of Palestine shows.
The organization does have worthwhile programs in literacy, tsunami warning systems, clean water, post-disaster relief, and others. But unlike some other UN agencies that occasionally have quantifiable, visible results, most of UNESCO’s activities are impossible to assess objectively and are oriented to pleasing its activist clients. Moreover, in the absence of any sunset clauses, vested interests can keep asinine or downright undesirable programs, all with overwhelmingly self-important names, running indefinitely.
Britain, far more tough-minded toward ineffective UN agencies than the Obama administration, did its own independent assessment of UNESCO last year. Among other failings, the study found it “is unable to identify its impact. Systematic results reporting and evaluation is not adequately practiced.… UNESCO is under-delivering significantly in its leadership of the education sector.… Long-lasting historic underperformance now means much of UNESCO’s mandate is often done elsewhere.” Without improvement, the UK threatens to cut its funding, as it has already to UN Habitat, the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and the International Labor Organization.
Do useful programs in education and the like require a heavy, inept, expensive international bureaucracy? Or could unilateral foreign aid, along with ad hoc groupings of nations, nongovernmental organizations, and corporate sponsors do the job more efficiently?
The question is rapidly becoming academic for the U.S. By cutting off its funding to UNESCO, America has de facto begun heading for the exit. It is not an option to humiliatingly lose all moral authority there by trying to remain a member without paying our dues. (Internal murmuring against the U.S. on this score has already begun.) Washington policymakers must accept the logic of this situation and either change the laws that created it or declare America’s official withdrawal. Bokova’s December trip to Washington to lobby the Hill changed few minds. Her argument, that U.S. influence abroad will be reduced without its voice at the culture palace on the Seine, pales beside UNESCO’s endemic flaws.
“UNESCO is easy to criticize, even to mock. How could it be otherwise? Here we have an organization which has set out to influence the educational, scientific and cultural activities of the world—no less. Obviously ridiculous and laughable! Yet would it not be more helpful to suspend judgment at least until the facts have been looked at as a whole?” Those words were written in 1951 by a former UNESCO staff member, Britain’s Theodore Besterman, in the first book ever published about the organization. It shows that the UN’s cultural agency, with its ill-defined, infinite utopian mandate, has been open to abuse and invited criticism since the beginning. The difference is that now the facts are in.
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.