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Your U.N. at Work – IV
Wall Street Journal Online ^ | June 7, 2008 | Editor

Posted on 06/07/2008 10:48:24 AM PDT by antonia

The General Assembly of the United Nations voted this week to elect Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann as its new president. Readers with a long memory will recall Father D'Escoto (he's a Catholic priest) as Nicaragua's foreign minister during the Sandinista regime of the 1980s. He's also the winner of the 1985 Lenin Prize. Only at the U.N. does that count as a recommendation.continued

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 200806; brockmann; generalassembly; leninprize; liberationtheology; nicaragua; sandinista; sandinistas; un; unitednations
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1 posted on 06/07/2008 10:56:08 AM PDT by antonia
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To: antonia

The UN is a Satanic and Evil Enemy of America.


2 posted on 06/07/2008 10:58:01 AM PDT by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: LtKerst

Gee? the John Birch’ers were Right all along!

Get Us out!


3 posted on 06/07/2008 10:58:51 AM PDT by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: antonia
If you're a thug of the leftist and Islamist persuasion, you're highly regarded at the UN. Westerners need not apply.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

4 posted on 06/07/2008 10:59:52 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: antonia
Liberation Theology High-Priest.
5 posted on 06/07/2008 11:01:53 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: antonia
Revolution theology instigator!
6 posted on 06/07/2008 11:03:06 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Where have all our Great Leaders gone? Certainly there must be one out there?)
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To: Beau Schott
continued
The U.N. also voted to name the government of Burma which otherwise has been busy preventing humanitarian assistance from reaching hundreds of thousands of its own needy victims of last month's devastating cyclone as one of the Assembly's vice presidents. Only at the U.N. is this not considered an embarrassment.

I was reading some people who are pro-Obama on the web and many believe that America needs to elect Obama in order to counter their perception of us as racists and as unconcerned with the delicate sensibilities of 'the rest of the world' is what a star from the 'iron man' movie was trying to say. (Stomach this if you can), ""I don't feel there's any lip service with [Obama]. I don't feel like he's one of those jaded politicos who say one thing and are talking out of both sides of their mouth. I also feel we've done such damage to our reputation - and as someone who lives outside America for half the year, I overhear things that I wish I didn't overhear. A lot of people in the West think that we're not very sensitive to the rest of the world, and I think that having a president called Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 says that we are part of the world, and we don't want to make unilateral decisions about the fate of all of us. I just pray to God that he wins." "
7 posted on 06/07/2008 11:17:53 AM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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To: antonia
I believe he espouses the left-wing Liberation Theology. Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.

Why does the name Liberation Theology ring a bell? The same as obamassiah's?

8 posted on 06/07/2008 11:32:00 AM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: antonia

We’re thinking along the same lines.


9 posted on 06/07/2008 11:33:17 AM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: processing please hold
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If that weren't enough, a U.S. official was present for the vote - which was by acclamation - when the U.S. could have at least protested the choice with an empty seat. Nor did the State Department make any effort to offer an alternative to Father d'Escoto, who ran unopposed. Somehow, we don't think this would have happened had John Bolton still been ambassador.continued

Global Transformation or The New World Order. Who's says we aren't giving our country away piece by piece. What are leaving for our children and grandchildren to cherish and protect?

Most people think the U.S. 'contribution' to the U.N. amounts to a couple billion dollars a year. But Senator Tom Coburn has documented that the U.S. funded portion of an annual U.N. budget of $15-$20 billion amounts to between 25 and 30 percent. Under Bush, funding for the U.N. system has grown from $3.1 billion in 2001 to $5.3 billion in 2005.

http://www.aim.org/aim_column/5275_0_3_0/%20U.S.

U.S. contributions to the U.N. system are over $5.3 billion OMB, for the first time ever, reveals how much the taxpayers fund the U.N. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a report yesterday to Dr. Coburn on contributions of U.S. taxpayers to the United Nations. Before this report, no one in the federal government had ever developed a public compilation of the total U.S. contributions, including non-monetary, to the entire U.N. system.

According to the report, in 2005, the United States gave $5.3 billion to the U.N - a 30% increase from 2004 funding level of $4.1 billion. Almost every Department of the U.S. government plus several independent agencies fund the U.N. Although the U.N. does not track this information or at least does not make such information public, most experts say the total U.N. budget is between $15-20 billion. Thanks !processingpleasehold, for the information .

http://www.freerepublic.com/~processingpleasehold/

10 posted on 06/07/2008 11:57:05 AM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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To: processing please hold
I believe he espouses the left-wing Liberation Theology. Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.
Why does the name Liberation Theology ring a bell? The same as obamassiah's?

You are correct. From Wikipedia:

"As an adherent of liberation theology, he secretly joined the Sandinistas.
He first publicly expressed support for the FSLN as one of Los Doce, in October 1977, and was appointed foreign minister after the Sandinista triumph in 1979. He served as foreign minister in Daniel Ortega's FSLN government from 1979 to 1990.[5] Pope John Paul II admonished him and other priests in the government for getting involved in politics."

11 posted on 06/07/2008 12:06:15 PM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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I heard he was unopposed. Made me want to spit.

You're very welcome. As you can tell by my home page, I consider the un as a destroyer of our great country. And our politicians are playing right along with them to erase our sovereignty. Now with Miguel d'Escoto, as the new president, I'm even more convinced of it. The more a person hates the US, the higher they go up the ladder in the un.

12 posted on 06/07/2008 12:08:14 PM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: goldstategop

Obama might qualify, Clinton was to whitey..


13 posted on 06/07/2008 12:08:40 PM PDT by MaxMax (I'll welcome death when God calls me. Until then, the fight is on)
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To: antonia

I thought so, thank you. The US is entering a perfect storm scenario with d’Escoto at the un and obamassiah wanting to be president. They make the perfect hate America - love the un team.


14 posted on 06/07/2008 12:12:25 PM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: processing please hold
from the editorial; continued
Speaking after his election, Father d'Escoto called for greater 'democracy' at the U.N. - an odd remark coming from a former servant of a communist dictatorship. He also called for the U.N. to take a stand against 'acts of aggression, such as those occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan.' That would be American aggression, not the Taliban's, the Mahdi Army's or al Qaeda's.

A former Lenin Prize winner as General Assembly president and cruel Burma as vice president - another sick joke from the U.N. continued

I consider the un as a destroyer of our great country. And our politicians are playing right along with them to erase our sovereignty. Now with Miguel d'Escoto, as the new president, I'm even more convinced of it. The more a person hates the US, the higher they go up the ladder in the un.

I couldn't agree more.

15 posted on 06/07/2008 12:17:48 PM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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Have you seen the new proposed un budget for '08-'09?

This'll curl your hair.

The stalled mandate review effort has not stopped member states from proposing and endorsing an enormous increase in the U.N. regular budget for the upcoming 2008/2009 biennium. The secretary-general has proposed an initial budget of $4.19 billion for core U.N. operations funded by the regular budget. It does not include the budgets of U.N. funds and programs like UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Nor does it include the cost of U.N. peacekeeping, which is projected to see a sharp increase from $5 billion in 2007 to $7 billion in 2008.

At first blush, the $4.19 billion budget seems to be a modest increase of $20 million over the final, revised 2006/2007 biennial budget of $4.17 billion. A more appropriate comparison would be with the $3.8 billion budget initially approved for the 2006/2007 biennium, which translates to a 10.3 percent increase. In fact, the U.N. regular budget has increased by an average of 17 percent annually over the past five years and has increased by 193 percent since the 1998/1999 biennial budget, according to data provided by the U.S. Mission to the U.N..[2]

By may math, 4.19 BILLION + 7 BILLION = 11.19 BILLION. And that's still not all we're going to pay for, just some of it.

Here's the complete article Proposed un Budget for '08-'09

You will be outraged.

16 posted on 06/07/2008 12:33:09 PM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: processing please hold
Is the un supporting obama?

UN
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WE BELIEVE

I found this while looking into an NGO called OneWorld and trying to find out if it was the same communist one world that's always protesting us.

17 posted on 06/07/2008 1:57:22 PM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: SandRat; All

Here is the menu at the UN World Hunger Summit this past week:

Menus at food summit feature Italian specialties The luncheon menus for the U.N. Food and Agriculture summit in Rome feature Italian specialties:

Tuesday:
Vol-au-vent (pastry puffs) with corn and mozzarella
Pasta with a sauce of pumpkin and shrimp in cream
Veal rolls with cherry tomatoes and basil
Spinach Roman-style
Fruit salad with vanilla ice cream
White wine from Orvieto

Wednesday:
Cheese mousse
Pasta with vegetables and cherry tomatoes
Chopped beef
Butter beans
Pineapple with ice cream
Cabernet

Thursday:
Zucchini pie
Parmesan Risotto
Ragout of veal with legumes
Sauteed potatoes
Lemon mousse with raspberry sauce.
Pinot Grigio

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/enemies_foreign_domestic/your_un_dollars.php


18 posted on 06/07/2008 4:08:37 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire

MREs are too good for them!


19 posted on 06/07/2008 4:20:57 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: penelopesire

Times Newspapers

June 4, 2008
Leaders at UN Food Summit Tone Down Menu over Fears of Hypocrisy

Six years ago, at another Food and Agriculture Organisation summit in Rome, The Times got hold of the menu for the sumptuous opening day lunch. Its publication caused a scandal.

The 2002 summit had set itself the target of halving the number of hungry people in the world by 2015. It began by feeding the heads of state lobster and foie gras and letting them wash it all down with an array of fine wines.

Of the world's wealthier nations, only Italy, the host, and Spain, the holder of the EU presidency, sent heads of state or government. The British sent Alun Michael, then Minister for Rural Affairs.

By contrast, dozens of presidents, prime ministers and even monarchs arrived from the developing world. They included President Mbeki of South Africa and, of course, Robert Mugabe.

(Philippe Wojazer/Reuters) Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, jokes with Food and Agriculture Organisation Director General Jacques Diouf before sitting dow to lunch in Rome

Perhaps mindful of accusations of hypocrisy levelled at them six years ago, world leaders tightened their belts this year and were offered a far more modest menu of pasta, mozzarella, spinach and sweetcorn at the equivalent fixture.

" It does not look good if leaders discussing global starvation are seen to be dining lavishly," an FAO official said. "At the last summit in 2002 we did not give enough thought to the menu and were open - unfairly, in our view - to the charge of hypocrisy."

2002 Menu

Foie gras and toast with kiwi fruit
Lobster in vinaigrette
Fillet of goose with olives
Seasonal vegetables
Compote of fruit with vanilla
Vins multiple fine wines

2008 Menu

Vol au vent with sweetcorn and mozzarella
Pasta with cream of pumpkin and shrimps
Veal olives with cherry tomatoes and basil
Fruit salad with vanilla ice cream
Vin Orvieto Classico Poggio Calvelli 2005

And this just in: Western leaders expressed outrage yesterday as Robert Mugabe flew into Rome in defiance of an EU travel ban to attend a United Nations world food summit while millions of people are starving under his brutal rule in Zimbabwe
   


20 posted on 06/07/2008 6:48:17 PM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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