The UN and its unearned billions can't stop brutal terrorists and corrupt dictators but is very effective at pushing the US around:
7/9/12, "Obama To Sign Anti-Second Amendment U.N. Gun," IBD Editorial
"The United Nations is putting the finishing touches on an Arms Trade Treaty that transcends borders and may even trample our Constitutional right to bear arms. Every indication is that the president will sign it.
Like the New Start and Law of the Sea treaties before it, as well as the Kyoto Protocol and Agenda 21, the Arms Trade Treaty being finalized at the U.N. this month is one of those feel-good, can't-we-all-get-along pieces of parchment whose net effect is to accomplish little except to eat away at American sovereignty and freedom.
Just as the world's worst human rights violators sat on and often chaired the U.N. Human Rights Council, Iran, arms supplier extraordinaire to America's enemies, was elected on Saturday to a top position on the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty being held in New York. It began July 2 and extends through July 27.
This came right after the same U.N. found Iran guilty of illegally transferring guns and bombs to the murderous Syrian regime of Bashar Assad, currently slaughtering thousands of its own citizens as an impotent U.N. joins the U.S. administration in standing around and watching.
The mindset of the one-worlders preaches that guns cause crime and war and if we only get rid of those otherwise inanimate objects the evil that lurks in the hearts and minds of men will suddenly dissipate. Then we can buy the world a soft drink and sing "Kumbaya."
We are assured by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who enthusiastically backs the treaty, that it only deals with international trade and trafficking and does not affect our Second Amendment rights. How the treaty would have dealt with Operation Fast and Furious, the administration program that walked guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, she does not say.
We don't believe such assurances, given by an administration that has shown no respect for the U.S. Constitution and has a robust gun-control agenda of which Fast and Furious may have been a part. Its expansive view of its powers, recently ratified by a bizarre Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare, is supported by judges at all levels increasingly willing to incorporate international precedent and law in their decisions....
The treaty also establishes a bizarre moral equivalence between countries that trade arms to defend freedom and those that do so to suppress and extinguish it. Would such a treaty allow us to sell weapons to Taiwan or Israel?
Private ownership of firearms is a cornerstone of American liberty. If the people in places like Sudan and Syria had gun rights protected by their government and courts, would they be oppressed and slaughtered? We think not.
Let's protect our Second Amendment rights and not jeopardize them with a vague and misguided treaty." via Lucianne
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Obama asked the UN to take over part of the State of Florida located in the Everglades. UNESCO is among the most corrupt UN agencies. In sado-masochistic fashion, the US taxpayer gives $80 million a year to UNESCO:
7/30/2010, "UNESCO declares Everglades endangered site," Reuters
"The agency made the decision after a request from the United States.
The Everglades, known for its sawgrass prairies and alligators, were first declared an endangered site in 1993 following damage caused by Hurricane Andrew. The area was removed only in 2007.
"We commend the USA's request to re-inscribe the site on the danger list, and its plans for major infrastructure overhaul to restore the Everglade's fragile wetland ecosystem," Mariam Kenza Ali, IUCN World Heritage Conservation Officer, said in a statement.
Experts from Unesco and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) are to visit the site and help develop a conservation plan."
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10/31/2011, "UNESCO votes to admit Palestine; U.S. cuts off funding," Washington Post
"The United States provides UNESCO with more than $80 million a year, covering about 22 percent of its budget."...
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10/17/99, "Leaked documents reveal extent of UNESCO corruption," UK Guardian, J. Henley
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3/3/11, "U.K. Pulls Plug on United Nations Spending, in Move That is Bound to Hearten U.S. Critics," Fox News, George Russell
"The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was slammed for “long-lasting historic underperformance.” The $1 billion International Organization of Migration (IOM), which manages refugee camps, among other things, “only fills a marginal gap in the international humanitarian architecture.”"
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An Australian scientist notes failed UNESCO bureaucrats passing judgment on Australia's coral reefs:
6/22/12, "UNESCO, butt out!," Quadrant Online, Walter Starck (Dr. Starck is an expert on coral reefs and has a PhD in marine science)
"Signing away our sovereignty to inept and unaccountable UN bureaucrats with a demonstrable track record of failure in their own countries is worse than just stupid or spineless. It is treasonous. As a liberal democracy our government is one that is supposed to be of, by and for the people. It is past time that we the people started to take back our rights and our government from those who have usurped them. It is also time to tell the UN bureaucrats to butt out,
- go home and deal with their own problems."
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