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Duterte: "I Will Burn Down The United Nations"
Zero Hedge ^ | 12-24-2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 12/24/2016 2:49:45 PM PST by blam

Tyler Durden
December 24, 2016

The United Nations is making a lot of enemies.

Yesterday, when the Obama administration refused to veto a UN vote over Isreal settlements, one which provoked Israel to lash out at the Obama administration saying "friends don't act that way", but more importantly defied Trump who in a previous tweet urged Obama to veto the resolution, the President-elect had one message, or rather tweet, to the UN:

However, Trump is not the only one to hold a prominent grudge against the international organization, which many have accused of being nothing but an ineffective, if material, waste of taxpayer funds: taking Obama's threat several steps further, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to “burn down” the United Nations headquarters in New York, in response to mounting international criticism over his bloody crackdown on suspected drug dealers.

“You go and file a complaint in the United Nations, I will burn down the United Nations if you want,” Duterte said, quoted by the New York Times. “I will burn it down if I go to America,” he added during a speech at an army base in the country's southern city of Zamboanga.

Earlier in the week, Duterte called Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, a top UN official, an “idiot” and “son of a bitch” after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights suggested launching an investigation into Duterte's own accounts of killings when he was mayor of Davao City, and the “shocking” number of deaths during the ongoing anti-drug war.

“This guy [Zeid] is ever the joker or crazy,” Duterte said during a televised speech, repeatedly calling him stupid. “You UN officials, sitting there on your asses, we pay you your salaries. You idiot, do not tell me what to do... Who gave you the right?”

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KEYWORDS: commies; duterte; phillipines; un
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1 posted on 12/24/2016 2:49:45 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

Id actually send the UN to North Korea or Afghanistan, let them be around their Commie loons and choke on it


2 posted on 12/24/2016 2:51:29 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: blam

Sometimes you just gotta call a spade a spade

And an SOB an SOB


3 posted on 12/24/2016 2:54:26 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: blam

I’ve got no problem with it.


4 posted on 12/24/2016 2:55:29 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: blam

Maybe we should issue him a boat, gas can and matches?

A greatly missed piece of control that should have been part of the original UN Charter would have made the organization subject to an annual audit. As witness to the lack, look at the “Oil_for_Food” UN Program run in the 1990s as part of the international action against Saddam Hussein and his Iraq Government. What a FARCE!


5 posted on 12/24/2016 2:56:22 PM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: blam

I’m really starting to like Rodrigo Duterte.


6 posted on 12/24/2016 2:57:02 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Lock her up!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Id actually send the UN to North Korea or Afghanistan, let them be around their Commie loons and choke on it

Look at the pros and cons. A communist country would benefit from the spending by visitors coming and going to a UN there. With our money.

By being here in the USA, our government keeps an eye on the goings-on, and the spending is being done here. Not that I agree with that, I want them gone also.

Best thing would be to withdraw our funding, except for one dollar a year. Let others pay the freight for all the trouble the UN causes. Within a year or two the UN will shut down due to lack of funding, and we can convert it a VA center.

7 posted on 12/24/2016 2:58:36 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Harare, Zimbabwe


8 posted on 12/24/2016 3:04:09 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Duerte is a little further out there that I am confortable with, but he’s right. The UN needs to have it’s charter revoked and then be burned down.


9 posted on 12/24/2016 3:04:37 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: blam
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, a top UN official, an “idiot” and “son of a bitch” after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights suggested launching an investigation into Duterte's own accounts of killings when he was mayor of Davao City

Gee a Muslim suggests an investigation over human rights violations in a predominantly Catholic country. Better start amongst your own Hussein. You could spend the next 100 years exposing your beloved Islamic countries for the hell holes and human rights violators they are well known for.

10 posted on 12/24/2016 3:07:15 PM PST by Lent
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To: blam

I’m starting to like this guy.

5.56mm


11 posted on 12/24/2016 3:07:26 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: blam

How firm is Trump on that Exxon guy for Secretary of State? This guy Duerte has the right attitude and no ties to Russia.


12 posted on 12/24/2016 3:09:46 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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13 posted on 12/24/2016 3:10:42 PM PST by ASA Vet (Make US Intelligence great again!)
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To: blam

Can we start a GoFundMe page to raise money for gasoline?


14 posted on 12/24/2016 3:12:08 PM PST by Clay Moore (JRandomFreeper, SWAMPSNIPER RIP)
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To: blam
“You go and file a complaint in the United Nations, I will burn down the United Nations if you want,” Duterte said, quoted by the New York Times.

I'm starting up a Go Fund Me page for this guy. All donations will go towards the purchase of gasoline and matches to be used to burn the Useless Nations down.

15 posted on 12/24/2016 3:12:10 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Clay Moore

ROFL! Beat me by two seconds!!!


16 posted on 12/24/2016 3:13:06 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: blam

Veto every single agenda and vote for the next 4 years. Harass the hell out of every foreign punk working there shy of trusted allied nation employees or their diplomats.


17 posted on 12/24/2016 3:14:16 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: blam

Duterte said during a televised speech, repeatedly calling him stupid. “You UN officials, sitting there on your asses, we pay you your salaries. You idiot, do not tell me what to do... Who gave you the right?”

Telling it like it is.

I would like to see Duterte become Secretary-General of the UN after he finishes his term in office. Wouldn’t that be great?!?!?!


18 posted on 12/24/2016 3:19:16 PM PST by boycott (S)
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The lame stream media hate Duterte - but haven’t seed, him utter a single word I disagree with.

He could be a very useful ally in the Pacific against Red China and the ingrates from Japan


19 posted on 12/24/2016 3:20:31 PM PST by WashingtonFire
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Most folks do not know it, but the UN actually has FOUR headquarters around the globe: 1) New York, USA; 2) Geneva, Switzerland; 3) Nairobi, Kenya; and 4) Brussels, Belgium. I say we give the UN an ultimatum to get out of the USA in 6 months and decamp to one of their three other headquarter. America dumps its membership in the UN and cuts them off from all US dues. The UN headquarters is then bulldozed and given to the City of New York.


20 posted on 12/24/2016 3:21:26 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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