For its final humaniaarium aid report card, the U.N. gets a F for its responce and a D- for trying.
One year ago the devastating deadly tsunami hit Indonesia. Many relief groups immediately mustered and organized massive relief aid for the stricken area. Eventually, weeks later, the U.N. wanting to show its value to mankind, instituted one of its largest relief efforts. It wanted to show the world that besides the financial corruption being exposed in the world body, they are still there to help mankind. But what the world witness was how well they can huff and puff up their quasi-organizing efforts, which many countries did not want anything to do with.
The weeks following the disaster, many high-ranking UN officials made publicity tours of the area with many press releases promoting their massive funds drive. Showing their true bureaucratic tendencies with special meetings being held, they requested that all countries wait for them so they could coordinate all the relief efforts. Instead they floundered while victims dies because of the U.N.’s red tape.
From the Diplomad blog:
A colleague came back from a meeting held by the local UN representative yesterday and reported that the UN rep had said that while it was a good thing that the Australians and Americans were running the air ops into tsunami-wrecked Aceh, for cultural and political reasons, those Australians and Americans really "should go blue." In other words, they should switch into UN uniforms and give up their national ones.
Wrong!
Again, from the Diplomad blog they expose the U.N.’s public relation showmanship:
Our folks in Aceh report that UN "coordination" means that the UN holds a meeting every day at 5 pm near the runway in Aceh. Every donor nation and NGO stands up and states what it’s doing; the UN rep writes it down. Some times, however, it’s hard to hear. The distinctive "whoop! whoop! whoop!" of those nasty American choppers and the roar of Australian and American C-130 engines on the tarmac can prove very bothersome to the UN rep as he tries to hear what everyone else is doing. Poor man! If only those stingy Aussies and Yanks would have the decency to shut down relief operations while the UN rep is trying to hold a meeting, after all, he’s here to help, help himself, that is, to taking credit for what the others are doing.
The Diplomad blog posted this State Department press guidance on the USA’s tsunami relief effort, with data accurate as of January 9. It details American contributions over and above the $350 million officially pledged, thus far, by the US Government:
– Americans have responded generously. The Chronicle of Philanthropy estimates $324 million have been donated by American citizens and corporations.
– More than 14,400 U.S. military personnel and $20 billion in military assets are involved in Operation Unified Assistance at a cost of $5 to $6 million a day.
– Almost 6 million pounds of relief supplies and equipment, including water, food and medical supplies (non-medicine), have been delivered to the region.
– 25 ships, 37 cargo aircraft, 8 patrol aircraft and 51 helicopters are involved in the relief effort. U.S. aircraft have flown more than 835 sorties.
– Approximately 150 USAID personnel are on the ground. USAID’s Disaster Assistance Response Teams and the U.S. military continue to conduct needs assessments and provide supplies and essential logistic support.
And the U.N. keeps holding press conferences and doing nothing. As the Israeli Insider reports:
The world has a right to expect more than mere ’spin’ from the UN. It is not just that donor money disappears into the vast bank accounts of the agencies and to points undisclosed, with inadequate transparency. It is also the passive (and sometimes active) aiding and abetting of terrorists that prolongs conflicts and large-scale human tragedy. Waste and corruption often ensure that the very populations that major UN agencies are mandated to assist end up worse off than before.
As of today, there is not much evidence by a positive report that the U.N.’s relief efforts were effective or existed.
Posted by Walt as Humanitarian at 11:46 AM EST
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The IMF has granted a $685 million loan to Iraq even though the terrorist violence continues. This loan signals to the world business community that it is alright to start investing in Iraq through business deals.
The 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference held in Breton Woods, NH, that led to formation of the International Monetary Fund. And most of the money it supplies to the world countries in loans comes from U.S. taxpayers. Very little of the loaned money is ever paided back. The money keeps going out and hardly ever comes back.
Even though Iraq is getting a major loan, most of its present loans were canceled. In today’s Washington Times:
Iraq announced an agreement yesterday with Germany canceling the equivalent of $5.6 billion of Iraqi debt. Debt-forgiveness deals were announced earlier this year with Canada, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Austria, France, Denmark, Switzerland and Spain. The U.S. canceled 100 percent of its claims against Iraq in December 2004.
The unfortunate taxpayers are the end losers in this deal. This is another good reason to get the U.S. out of the U.N.
Posted by Walt as Finances at 11:41 AM EST
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The United States has agreed to pay at least 6 months of its dues as long as the U.N. incorporates the recommended financial reforms, which include a $900 million dollar cap. Many of the countries have agreed, but not all of the 191 General Assembly members have cast their vote. The United States funds about 23 percent of the regular U.N. budget. Yet we have only 1 vote.
The U.N. is notoriously known for mishandling funds, over spending and waste spending. The U.N. is still trying to recover from their "Food for Oil" scandal.
The United States had refused [to pay their dues] because the world body has failed to enact a series of financial reforms — an effort made more urgent by recent disclosures that Saddam Hussein had used a U.N. oil-for-food program to receive bribes and pay kickbacks amounting to billions of dollars.
Source: Washington Times
I do not think any reform the U.N. promises will ever go forwarded. They have always been know as fat cats and spend over 75% of their budget on salaries. We would save billions of taxpayer money if we would get out of the U.N.
Posted by Walt as Finances at 8:34 AM EST
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The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) decided its first abortion case last month in Peru in favor of abortion. But a legal observer noted that the U.N. may have misinterpreted its own Human Rights document.
Peru's representatives were a no-show and did not answer any of the charges and the committee's decision was non-binding. It is obvious that Peru, as others countries, do not regard this committee as a real court and gives it no credence to its decisions.
This is another good example illustrating the U.N.'s lack of effectiveness and its uselessness as a governing body. Just like the Kyoto Protocol, their decisions are non-binding and can not be enforced.
Posted by Walt as Freedom & Human Rights, Population Control at 2:27 PM EST
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This last weekend, the Bush administration refused to any binding agreements at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal. A smart move by the administration. But a smarter move would be getting out of the U.N. altogether.
Recognizing that the Kyoto Protocol is an international wealth transfer scheme masquerading as an environmental agreement, the Bush administration has declared that it will not agree to any pact that exempts countries such as China and India, while requiring punishing sacrifices from the U.S.
Almost all nations involved have agreed to the terms of the Kyoto Protocol agreement. The Kyoto Protocol is basically a plan to reduce the industrial nations of their power and money by imposing very stringent rules on the pretense of improving the environment. Meanwhile the third world countries will be exempt so they would be able to take advantage of the increase market and manufacturing opportunities that are normally done by the industrial countries. The result would be that third world countries would grow in power and finances at the expense of the U.S. and other industrial nations.
Posted by Walt as Environment Issues at 12:16 AM EST
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The U.N. agenda is to impose its ruling authority on all countries in the world. The U.N. dose not support the sanctity of human life. One of the U.N.'s points on its agenda calls for the controlling the growth of the world's population, whether it is preventing births or allowing un-natural deaths.
Last month the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) decided its first abortion case, KL v. Peru. The decision establishes that denying access to legal abortion violates women’s most basic human rights. This is the first time an international human rights body has held a government accountable for failing to ensure access to legal abortion services.
This decision by the United Nations Human Rights Committee states that every woman who lives in any of the 154 countries that are party to this treaty – including the U.S – now has a legal tool to use in defense of her rights to have an abortion at the government's expense without any regard to the human rights of the unborn child.
The ruling also implies that a women's pregnancy is no longer accountable to the life and death of her unborn child. But instead, gives the Unite Nations the last say on the life and death of the unborn child, even if it means death to an unborn child.
Pro-abortionists world-wide see this as a win for them. While the anti-abortionists will see the battle for life is never going to get easy, unless the U.N. is taken out of the picture.
Posted by Walt as Freedom & Human Rights, Population Control at 3:00 PM EST
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Note: The UN has identified a major crime problem in the world, but are helpless or do not want to do anything about it. GET US OUT! - Walt
Washington, D.C.—Concerned Women for America (CWA) is saddened by a United Nations report that says human trafficking has tied illegal arms dealing as the world’s second largest and fastest-growing criminal enterprise, behind only illicit drug trading.
Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Senior Fellow of Concerned Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, said, “Combating trafficking is like running on a treadmill; we are moving as fast as we can, but it is almost impossible for our programs to keep up with the destructive path of the criminal networks involved in human trafficking.”
The U.N. report declares that nearly 30 million people are caught in modern-day slavery and that the industry now brings its criminals about $10 billion a year. With victims bought and sold over the Internet on such popular sites as eBay and Craig’s List, trafficking victims in the United States number over 50,000 –– one-third of these are assumed to be children. Human trafficking includes sex trafficking, forced marriage, and labor trafficking, such as sweatshops, migrant workers and domestic service.
Dr. Crouse, who has worked for nearly a decade to combat sex trafficking at the national and international levels, commented, “While the U.N. blames social and economic disparities for fostering trafficking, the demand for prostitutes is the driving force behind sex trafficking where the victims overwhelmingly are women and girls.”
Crouse adds, “In the United States Congress, legislators are working to end the demand for ‘sex slaves,’ and more and more states are passing legislation that will target pimps and johns rather than further punish the victims. They are used as a lucrative commodity in sex transactions, often being sold repeatedly until they are completely used up.”
Crouse concludes that, in the United States, public policy addresses both the prosecution of criminals engaged in human trafficking and the protection of vulnerable women and girls who are potential victims of sex trafficking.
Posted by Walt as Freedom & Human Rights at 2:40 PM EST
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Here is another good reason why we should get the U.S. out of the U.N. and then get the U.N. off of U.S. land.
Last week The United Nations held a "Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" last week. During the festivities a large map of the region was unveiled of the Palestine state. The name of Israel and the partition lines of November 29, 1947, marking a Jewish state alongside an Arab state, which was brokered by the U.N. Assembly were not on the map.
It is obvious the UN is not a friend of the Jewish state.
Anne Bayefsky, who reported on the event for the Eye on the UN organization, said that the ceremony's wording was aimed at giving honor to the worst of Palestinian terrorists. "It was a moment … crafted to include the commemoration of suicide-bombers,” she wrote. (from IsraelNationalNews.com
Anne Bayefsky has also requested the U.S. to withhold their fundings to the U.N.
The U.N is not operating in the best of interests and well being of Israel or any nation that does supports Israel.
Posted by Walt as Middle East at 11:00 PM EST
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Being energy independent would mean less terrorism in the world and another good reason why we do not need the UN.
If the United States could become energy independent, especially with access to vast quantities of oil reserves, many of our political and military troubles could be become non-existent. And the world terrorist activity and saber rattling from the Middle East and Venezuela would dwindle through lack of funding from oil revenues.
The United States has a vast amount of untapped oil reserves in Alaska. Also, our northern neighbor, Canada, has the world’s second largest oil reserves. Why then are we so dependent on foreign oil imports?
Just think for a moment what the results of being independent from the high prices of oil imports. Besides reducing the funding for terrorist activities, such diplomatic policies as giving Palestine their own country would no longer be of main concern to our National security. Israel will then be free from Western and UN meddling to do what it needs to do to protect her lands and citizens from terrorist attacks.
Of course we should see a large reduction of gas prices at the pumps.
Let us hope this come to plan in the very near future before time runs out against the war on terrorism since the UN is useless in preventing terrorist attacks, especially against western and Christian targets.
Posted by Walt as Terrorism, War & Peace at 3:42 PM EST
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