Posted on 06/07/2006 9:06:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
June 7, 2006
According to this article in the New York Times, Americans out in the heartland don't like the U.N., and its all the fault of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
Said Mark Malloch Brown a Briton who is deputy to Secretary General Kofi Annan, there is "too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping." He added:
"Much of the public discourse [about the U.N.] that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News," he said.
Malloch Brown also took a swipe at US Ambassador John Bolton. As per the Times article:
"Mr. Malloch Brown did not mention Mr. Bolton by name, but he criticized the working strategy that many diplomats have associated with Mr. Bolton since his arrival last August. "Exacerbating matters is the widely held perception, even among many U.S. allies, that the U.S. tends to hold on to maximalist positions when it could be finding middle ground," Mr. Malloch Brown said."
If Malloch Brown is correct, sounds as if Rush and FNC are doing something right!
Haven't we been so for so long?
To wit, may I entreat you to watch/read these great links?
http://www.freedomtofascism.com/
How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution
http://www.cato.org/realaudio/cbf-02-15-06.ram
The Issue of Tariffs: How U.S. Revenue Collection Was Turned Inside-Out (video)
http://mises.org:88/Sophocleus
Size Matters: How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America's Families, Finances, and Freedom (And Limits the Pursuit of Happiness)
http://www.cato.org/realaudio/cbf-02-02-06.ram
Big Business and the Rise of American Statism
http://praxeology.net/RC-BRS.htm
The Founding of The Federal Reserve (video)
http://mises.org:88/Rothbard-Fed
The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part I (video)
http://www.mises.org/multimedia/video/Woods/Woods5.wmv
Secrets of the Federal Reserve
http://www.barefootsworld.net/fs_m_ch_01.html
Jackson's 2nd Bank US VETO (very important - what he correctly and constitutionally opposed is just what we ended up with in 1913)
http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/ajveto.htm
"The Separation of Commercial and Investment Banking: The Morgans vs. the Rockefellers"
http://www.mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae1_1_1.pdf
Damn, you were right!..... LOL
Yes, a lot of weak minded people need a source of opinions.
I've been proudly trashing the UN since I was smart enough to see what's going on.
What a great list. Good work!
It would also be nice if the peacekeepers sent into Africa wouldn't enslave the local populace into sex slavery networks.
As an extra added benefit, some have AIDS, which they then systematically spread into the country they are trying to protect.
I wonder just how much we have contributed in the way of UN "Dues" over the past 60 years?
FY 2006 its project at $439 million
"The United States has long been the U.N.s biggest financial supporter. Today the U.S. contributes 22 percent of the U.N.s regular budget. Under the Presidents budget request for fiscal year 2006, this would be $439 million.[1] The contributions of just three nationsthe U.S., Japan, and Germanymake up over half of the U.N.s total budget while the combined contributions of the lowest 128 contributors is less than 1 percent of the budget"
http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/wm759.cfm
When we add the total that we have given in direct/indirect UN support as well as direct/indirect Foreign Aid, its in the TRILLIONS!
And what do we get for our $$$$?
Read on McDuff:
WHAT THE UN REALLY THINKS ABOUT US
The united nations
(NOT capitalized on purpose)
The United States gives out $13.3 billion tax dollars in direct Foreign Aid annually. The United States is above and beyond the single most generous benefactor of the United Nations, donating $2.4 billion dollars of YOUR money, to primarily third-world dictators.
This amount is 25% of the United Nations budget. In addition, the United States also gives another $1.4 billion tax dollars to United Nations' programs and agencies. The American taxpayers fund more for the United Nations than ALL of the other 177 member nations COMBINED.
What most Americans do not realize is that the vast majority of the recipients of the of US Foreign Aid routinely vote against the wishes of the United States in the United Nations at an average rate of 74%. In other words, of the $13.3 billion tax dollars invested in direct Foreign Aid only about 26% or $3.5 billion went to support people who! endorsed American initiatives or causes. A staggering $9.8 billion tax dollars went to causes and people who were and are in open and direct opposition to the United States' interests and objectives.
Listed below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations' records:
Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time.
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time.
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time.
United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.
US Foreign Aid to those that hate us:
Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States, still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.
Jordan votes 71% against the United States and receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Pakistan votes 75% against the United States receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
India votes 81% against the United States receives $143,699,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN and give the tax savings back to the American workers who are having! to skimp and sacrifice to pay the taxes.
http://dalesdesigns.net/UN.html
We call it "free speech", you limey a$$hole.
Why find middle ground with people who are wrong?
Finally somebody gets it.
It's about time we got out of the UN. It only serves as a platform for every anti-american anti-free speech dictator.
It is corrupt and we still keep funding the UN.
We should all fear the day when the United States has to turn over all of its military to the United Nations.
God help us!
Heaven forbid I have a coherent thought of my own. I have to have FOX news and Limbaugh tell me what to think and feel.
THANK YOU John Bolton!!!!
An excellent post!
I was thinking a southern U.S HQ....hunting dogs, monster trucks, bass fishing, bluegrass & gospel music, catfish and hushpuppies.
Islamic terrorists would hijack multiple 747s, fully fueled, and intentionally crash them into the UN building.
That would definitely deflate the War on Terror.
Perhaps we can nominate Miss Ann for Assistant UN Ambassador for Ballbreaking? I'd pay to see that...Bolton and Miss Coulter vs the UN....
How about...
Bolton/Coulter 2008
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