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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.

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.