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The United Nations could be easily placated if the Obama administration would simply offer to include a likeness of Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Mount Rushmore. And who knows… maybe they already have!

From the Daily Mail:

A UN human rights official is urging the U.S. to turn over control of lands considered to be sacred to Native Americans, including the site of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, unveiled his recommendations in Geneva on Friday after completing a 12-day visit to the U.S. where he met with representatives of indigenous peoples in six states.

The fact-finder also had a chance to meet members of the Obama administration and briefed the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, but no member of Congress agreed to meet with him.

Other places the United Nations suggests the U.S. cede control over because the U.N. believes them to be sacred to Native Americans include areas in Alaska, parts of the Pacific Northwest, and Elizabeth Warren’s front yard.

Hey U.N., Johnny Cash has a message for you.

The U.N. lowered their flag to half-staff for a brutal dictator, elected Iran to its Commission on Women’s Rights, and wants to spend $76 trillion over the next four decades to “green” the world. With that in mind, why should anybody doubt they have what it takes to eradicate oppression and misery or question their grip on economic reality?

From Deseret News:

The focus of the forum was “universal access to basic social protection and social services.” “No one should live below a certain income level,” stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. “Everyone should be able to access at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water, sanitation and other essential services.” These services were presented at the forum as basic human rights equal to the rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The money to fund these services may come from a new world tax.

“We will need a modest but long-term way to finance this transformation,” stated Jens Wandel, Deputy Director of the United Nations Development Program. “One idea which we could consider is a minimal financial transaction tax (of .005 percent). This will create $40 billion in revenue.”

“It is absolutely essential to establish controls on capital movements and financial speculation,” said Ambassador Jorge Valero, the current Chairman of the Commission on Social Development. He called for “progressive policies of taxation” that would require “those who earn more to pay more taxes.” Valero’s speech to the forum focused on capitalism as the source of the world financial problems.

When asked where she expected the money to provide all needy people with a basic income, healthcare, education and housing would come from, Fatima Rodrigo, one of the presenters at the forum, mentioned the “very small tax of .005 percent.”

She added, “There is plenty of money, we just need to stop spending it on militaries and wars.”

Here’s an alternate plan: The U.N. should start with something they can immediately control. If they moved out of their super-expensive digs and instead held their meetings in cheaper quarters (perhaps in “Occupy” encampments), billions of dollars would be freed up that they could immediately put toward helping impoverished and oppressed.

Heck, maybe more people could be helped if they simply paid their parking tickets.

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), new head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says funding the Human Rights Commission is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

The U.N. is considered by many to be a useless institution that's nothing more than a clubhouse for despots and thugs. Photo: UN

After years of making threats to reduce its contributions to the United Nations, U.S. lawmakers are finally working to slash the billions of taxpayer dollars sent annually to the famously corrupt and severely managed United Nations, according to Judicial Watch, a public-interest organization that investigates political and public corruption and crime.

As the U.N.’s top donor, Uncle Sam has for years provided a huge chunk of its operating budget and funded many of its laughable, multi million-dollar “peacekeeping” and “human rights” projects.

“Just last year the U.S. gave the scandal-plagued world body $517 million for its “operating budget” and $2.68 billion for peacekeeping, more than any other nation,” Judicial Watch reported.

The cash has poured in over the years despite rampant fraud and abuse within the organization that was founded six decades ago to supposedly maintain international peace and security. Several high-ranking U.N. officials have been criminally convicted for bribery and fraud and more than a dozen others have been exposed for soliciting bribes and rigging bids in the last few years alone.

In arguably the biggest scandal in world history, the United Nations’ $64 billion oil-for-food program allowed Iraq to sell oil through the U.N. so that the proceeds could be used to purchase “humanitarian” goods for the Iraqi people. But Instead, thousands of companies paid Saddam Hussein illegal surcharges and kickbacks as U.N. officials stood by.

In addition, the U.N.’s so-called Human Rights Council is considered comical at best since it’s known for the oppressive regimes that comprise it. Among them are the world’s worst human rights violators, including Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, China and Russia.

The new head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), says funding the Human Rights Commission is a waste of taxpayer dollars. A few weeks ago she referred to the U.N. as a monster and beast, which is why she’s leading the effort to slash its funding.

Many members of congress became infuriated after they read conservative author Nathan Tabor’s best selling book about U.N. corruption, aptly titled The Beast on the East River, a reference to the United Nations building’s location in New York City.

Rep. Ros-Lehtinen’s committee began hold hearings on Tuesday in order to initiate the process by which Congress will ensure that “U.S. taxpayer dollars are being well-spent” and “advancing our nation’s interests.”

Predicting that the gravy train is about to end for the U.N., one national newspaper, Investor’s Business Daily asked its readers: What does the U.S. gets in return for the billions it pays to an ever-more bloated, corrupt, insolent bureaucracy carrying on as it always has, stuck in an entitlement mentality.

IBD also reported that while Chinese government leaders make extravagant claims about surpassing the U.S. in economic might, as they did last week during President Hu’s visit, the fact remains China pays about 2.1% of the U.N.’s annual budget while the U.S.

And no, not this time. I’m not talking about Barack Obama, though he would almost certainly finish in the top five. I don’t know how Americans let ourselves be taken to the cleaners time after time. America is undeniably the most open-handed and generous nation that this globe has ever seen. We have held incalculable power with far more restraint than any civilization in history.
Vint Cerf, Google’s ‘Chief Internet Evangelist’, has slammed the UN proposals.

We’ve also been the world’s greatest saps. It’s a sad truth that the more people receive without expectation of repayment, the more resentful they become. The other sad irony is that these selfsame entities’ very existence would be highly questionable without the auspices of the United States and the generosity of our people.

The United Nations was formed in 1945 at the end of World War Two. It almost immediately began a shift to the left, as monies destined for the poor of the countries of the world was taken and used to fund fiefdoms and armies to support the strongmen that emerged in the third world.

The United Nations did a credible job in the Korean War, though the US and South Koreans carried most of the burden of executing the war. Since then, it’s been a steady decline into totalitarian conflict. Under the the UN’s supposed ‘protection’, tens of thousands of people have been slaughtered, raped and enslaved. Money and food shipments meant for starving people have disappeared completely, while UN security forces looked but didn’t see.

Why this great country permits this American-hating parasite to feed off of our citizens is a mystery that many of us would like answered. And now the UN looks to regulate internet use. We’d like to wish them good luck, because they’re going to need it.

This is just another vast power grab by a power-hungry and totally extra-legal organization that has more in common with terrorists than with the American people and the west.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

Good news everybody. Saudi Arabia now has a seat on the women’s board at the United Nations. That’s right, a regime where it’s illegal for women to drive or leave the house without being accompanied by a male guardian, where girls were pushed into a burning building because they were trying to flee without covering their ‘obscene’ female faces… will be a key player in the international effort empower women.

I don’t know what contribution the Saudis can make to the project, since in Ridyah, empowering women usually means strapping them into an electric chair. But in the Muslim world, human rights is usually read to mean banning criticism of Islam under the guise of Islamophobia. In Europe, Islamists are calling the Burqa a human right. That’s probably what the Saudis will bring to the table, along with the condemnations of Israel that are De rigueur in every UN group and body.

Obama’s ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, called the Saudi win, “a very good outcome”. I’m not sure what she would consider a bad outcome. Given her role in kneecapping Canada for the Security Council seat, Rice would probably have considered a victory by a country that actually gives women full equal rights to be a defeat. When your only goal is to pander to the Third World, particularly the Muslim parts of it, in order to defy the colonialist and phallocratic Western patriarchy, handing over power to a phallocratic Eastern patriarchy is just a means to an end. At least until it actually becomes the end. The end of everything.

The fallacy of the United Nations is its assumption that every member of the UN is morally equal. The truth is that the majority of the world’s nations are dictatorships with limited human rights. The UN is nothing more than the representatives of dictatorships trying to talk about human rights without breaking up into gales of laughter. If you replaced 75 percent of the UN’s representatives with members of American street gangs, you would still end up with a more civilized body.

But we look the other way. And now Saudi Arabia, along with the likes of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Libya are on the board. Their mission will be to promote global standards for gender equality. Which should in theory disqualify countries who don’t believe in gender equality from membership. Of course since this is the UN, UN Women will have little to do with its stated mission.

Chilean leftist Michelle Bachelet, who heads up UN Women, praised Sudan for its commitment to gender equality in her opening statement. Yes, Sudan, a genocidal state which uses mass rapes as part of its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it’s already clear that the focus of UN Women isn’t to promote gender equality, but to intervene in conflict areas.

According to Ekklesia, the leftist religious think tank of London, The United Nations has voiced its shock following the burning of a mosque in The West Bank that is suspected to be an act of arson. Media reports say that the incident took place in the early morning of October 4th in the village of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem.

The attack, the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) said, is completely unacceptable, with Special Coordinator Robert Serry also extremetly concerned over the mosque’s desecration.

UNSCO reminded the Israeli Government that the extremists responsible for such attacks must be brought to justice and the rule of law upheld.  That’s all fine, U.N.. However, why has there not been even a peep out of this organization when Christian churches are burned down with increasing regularity, Christians are burned alive by Muslims and women raped by Muslims in front of their husbands and children? Looks a little one sided from this vantage point. So this UN protection is selective and applies only to Muslims which they have accepted as the One World Religion of a One World Order under construction.  It is to be remembered that Muslims not that long ago, took over the Church of the Nativity, a sacred spot for Christians, trashed a lot of it while holed up there, and used pages of The Holy Bible as toilet paper. Again, not one word from the U.N.

The UN, which must mean, United Nitwits, has proved to be an absolutely useless organization for the ideals [it] declared would be upheld to see nations work together and engineer a world at peace. Bill Federer, historian and author of the book, America’s God And Country, provided these details about the UN in his American Minute Newsletter:  “Created to prevent future wars, the United Nations, a name coined by Franklin Roosevelt, officially began October 24, 1945.

“Since then, there have been over 100 million causualties in nearly 150 wars: 5 in Central Asia, 11 in South Asia, 20 in Southeast Asia, 13 in Eastern Europe, 23 in the Middle East, 25 in latin & South America and 50 in Africa.

“Amidst accusations of a U.N. Oil for Food Scandal and a U.N. Sex Scandal, the 185 member United Nations spends $20 billion annually, though it has never been independently audited. At the 1945 Charter Conference, the U.N. secretary-general was Alger Hiss, who was accused of being a Communist agent by former Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers and convicted in a publicized 1948 trial.”

With this glaring background of a failed organization…no…a CUNNING organization, it is no wonder that they will not take any action on behalf of the Christian Church or Christians, but will devote all their resources to further Islam and try to keep the perceived enemies of Islam at bay since they see Islam as the coming One World Relgion in a new One World Order with U.N. Potentates on the throne. Well after all, not all Muslims are terrorists, don’t you see.

There’s no better way to ensure that visitors from an advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe want to vaporize the Earth immediately than by making them sit through a United Nations meeting as soon as they get here.

To that end, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs will choose a point-bureaucrat as the visitors’ first-contact/sacrificial alien rectal probee:

If aliens ever land on Earth there will no longer be any confusion over who will greet them with the news the United Nations is set to appoint an astrophysicist to be their first human contact.

Mazlan Othman is expected to be tasked with coordinating humanity’s response to an extraterrestrial visit, if ever required.

The 58-year-old Malaysian will tell a conference next week that with the recent discovery of hundreds of planets orbiting around other stars, the detection of alien life is becoming more and more likely.

‘The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that some day human kind will received signals from extraterrestrials,’ she said.

‘When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject.

‘The UN is a ready-made mechanism for such coordination.’

Better choices would have been Ban Ki-moon and Jimmy Carter. And why wait for aliens to come here? Just strap on their blue safety helmets and blast ‘em off for a Milky Way outreach tour.

Chances are that beings with the technology to travel millions of light years will be the ones choosing who they talk to first, not the U.N.