United Nations

The United Nations has taken the scandalous step of intervening in Austria’s deportation of a convicted terrorist while maintaining noticeable silence on the broader crisis of migrant-related crime affecting communities across the continent.

The case involves a Syrian national who served a seven-year prison sentence in Austria for terrorist organization membership before being deported in July in the first such removal to Syria since 2011. The man was released last year but quickly got arrested again on separate charges. Following that, he was placed in a detention center awaiting deportation.

“I will have a more extensive article on this subject later in the week, but suffice it to say that the UN’s

World Food Program headed by Cindy McCain is a deeply dishonest and dangerous organization.”

Trump should reopen the 1947 agreement locating its headquarters. It was a terrible real-estate deal.

President Trump has bemoaned the 1977 Panama Canal Treaty, which gave away strategic American territory. But what may be the federal government’s worst real estate deal of all time involved land in Mr. Trump’s front yard. The United Nations Headquarters Agreement of 1947 gave the U.N. a tax-free, quasi-extraterritorial 18-acre domain overlooking the East River in Midtown Manhattan. The Trump World Tower is right across First Avenue.

The U.S. offered to host the newly created U.N. after World War II amid a wave of optimism about the organization’s ability to prevent future wars. John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated the land, and the headquarters was built with an interest-free loan from Washington that would be worth $861 million in today’s dollars.

The Trump Administration’s agency audits and funding cuts have a wide spectrum of people in a panic, not just in the US but around the world. For some this is not much of a revelation; it’s been known for decades that the US taxpayer backstops numerous governments and NGOs. Without US dollars many of these organizations (and some countries) would not exist. However, seeing the beggars all come out of the woodwork at the same time to get their cut of the pie because the money is running dry is truly something to behold.

Why has America become a cash cow for the entire world?

h/t DS

“That thing we call the UN”.

On September 10, 1960, General de Gaulle uttered the derogatory statement above that has gone down in history books. The general refused, at the time, to finance the Blue Helmets expedition to the Congo. And above all, he could not stand to see the United Nations and its then Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld, interfering in the Algerian question. “Mr. H,” as he was called to avoid the difficult pronunciation of his Swedish surname, then sided with Nasser during the Suez crisis.

Orwell is alive and fighting alongside us.

China has secured its sixth term as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, becoming one of the most elected countries on the council where 64 percent of member countries are not democracies.

Iran has secured the presidency of the UN Commission on Disarmament. Then of the Human Rights Forum. Right: Iran executed 87 people in August, 29 in a single day, over 400 in a year. World record for hangings and shootings.

The UN Secretariat held its Summit of the Future at its headquarters in New York this week, on September 22nd-23rd. Few could number the many global summits that have been held across this nebulous grouping of entities, programmes and funds, although a list of the major ones may be found. They all focus on the noblest causes such as human rights, the environment, education, sustainable development, children and indigenous people that no one can easily oppose.

Trudeau supports this nonsense.