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The United Nations: Is it worth all the money?
Fox News ^ | September 20, 2022 12:15pm EDT | Teny Sakahian

Posted on 09/20/2022 7:24:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai

People in New York questioned the effectiveness of the United Nations and the amount of money it spends as the General Assembly convenes for its 77th session.

“I’m not a fan of the UN,” one man, Elias, told Fox News. “It’s a money-making corrupt organization.”

Giovanni, an Italian who moved to Brooklyn in 1977, made similar remarks.

“I’ll tell you the truth: I don’t know why they exist,” he said. […]

While the U.N. has carried out 71 peacekeeping operations since 1947, in recent years, the international body has put its energy behind social justice issues. It hosts an annual Climate Change Conference and adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes goals such as ending poverty, and ensuring equitable education and gender equity, according to its website. […]

The United States contributed $11.6 billion to the UN in 2020, making it the largest donor, followed by China, Germany and Japan. …

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: no; un; unitednations; untiednations; worldcommunism
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1 posted on 09/20/2022 7:24:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Look at all the good they do.

Oh, wait.


2 posted on 09/20/2022 7:25:54 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Olog-hai

No. Nyet. Nadda. No way. Nope.


3 posted on 09/20/2022 7:27:41 PM PDT by blackdog ("That's an applause line you useful idiots" )
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To: Olog-hai

No.


4 posted on 09/20/2022 7:27:46 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Olog-hai

It is to our enemies.


5 posted on 09/20/2022 7:28:37 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Olog-hai

I wake up every morning being thankful the United Nations has provided us with so much!


6 posted on 09/20/2022 7:30:29 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Olog-hai

Move it to Ethiopia.
Reduce our contribution to a nice round number.
We have overpaid from inception, so zero is a nice round number.


7 posted on 09/20/2022 7:30:44 PM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: Olog-hai

Short answer-———nope. Long answer——hell no.


8 posted on 09/20/2022 7:33:13 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: mewzilla

Just move it to Geneva or some 3rd world $hithole. Turn the building into apartments. Have a lottery for the units. $100k to enter. It will pay for the retrograde. All US citizens eligible to enter. We all paid for it.

Geneva Towers in SF. Blowing them up was a big mistake. A similar lotto would have made them luxury condos. Too late now.


9 posted on 09/20/2022 7:33:53 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Olog-hai
..... At this point .... The United Nations has become nothing more than a "Great Reset" factory.

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10 posted on 09/20/2022 7:34:31 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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I think Haiti would be the perfect local. Its an island, and its tropical. A virtual paradise.


11 posted on 09/20/2022 7:36:46 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Fill it with vagrants, mentally ill and the drug addicted

IOWs, the same sort of people occupying the building now


12 posted on 09/20/2022 7:38:37 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Olog-hai

For what, exactly?


13 posted on 09/20/2022 7:42:07 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Olog-hai

No the scum of the planet is not worth it, how much is useless skin worth anyway?


14 posted on 09/20/2022 7:42:27 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: Olog-hai

Whatever it costs for its demolition is worth every penny!


15 posted on 09/20/2022 7:42:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Olog-hai

Really? Most of us of the Conservative bent have been saying “Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US for 5 decades or more.


16 posted on 09/20/2022 7:44:23 PM PDT by ImpBill (America! Has anybody seen her lately?)
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To: Olog-hai

(“I’ll tell you the truth: I don’t know why they exist,” he said. […])

Because Satan loves his Tower of Babel.

See the EU Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.


17 posted on 09/20/2022 7:44:54 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Olog-hai

No. Next question, please.


18 posted on 09/20/2022 7:47:19 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: doorgunner69

(For what, exactly?)

Because Satan’s coming anti-messiah will need an administrative organization filled with Globalist One World idiots and fools.


19 posted on 09/20/2022 7:47:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal; metmom; Maudeen; 444Flyer

Pong


20 posted on 09/20/2022 7:48:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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