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2007-05-12 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by JerseyMike 2007-05-12 07:31|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Hahahahahahahahahaha!

Death by Irony!

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-05-12 07:50|| 2007-05-12 07:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Lessee...a prosperous country pre-ZimBob Mugabe is run into the ground such that it now cannot even provide food enough for its entire population and this country is now going to chair a sustainable economic development commission?

Where's my dictionary. I need to see if the word "stupid" has "See United Nations" as part of its definition.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-05-12 08:25|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-05-12 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 They're not stoopid, they're on the other side.

IIUC, the UN started as a vehicle for the allied powers (hence its name) and then later as a stabilizing scheme for the post-WWII world, but it has been co-opted first by the soviet, and now by the third-world, with countries voting by regional blocs to pursue their own interests and/or stick it to the Man, not to uphold any grand ideal. In that regard, having zim-bob-we head that commission makes perfect sense, it doesn't have to be "logical", it just have to serve ethnic/regional solidarity.

So, you've got an org whose servants and administrators are moved by and ideology from the very start constructivist, globalist and socialist (tranzi), which had been subverted by the soviet, by arab oil money-born influence (cf. the obsession with Israel, not a coincidence), and whose member States in majority share an anti-white, anti-western worldview.
Add corruption from the recruiting of the thirld world's "elite" to file the ranks of the cogs in the UN machinery and how this spread to normally not-so-corrupt servants from industrialized countries, add antisemitism and anti-americanism and anti-western resentment from those same people (even from the south americans)...

Not a good recipe.

Ion Mihai Pacepa on Bolton and the U_N_ on National Review Online

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-05-12 08:48|| 2007-05-12 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 You haven't hear the punchline yet. They'll come around asking us to pay for it. We already foot half the bill for the whole damned thing. I don't see where it is serving our interests at all anymore.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-05-12 10:27|| 2007-05-12 10:27|| Front Page Top

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