By Jo Nova
It couldn’t happen to a nicer parasitic committee
This is what happens when you treat your main benefactor like an idiot, and do everything possible to turn them into a vassal state of the Globalist Blob. In return for $800 million a year the UN spreads Chinese bioweapons, and throws giant junkets to reward The Blob loyalists, but nothing for the average American taxpayer.
The US pays 22% of the regular UN budget, yet the UN has no respect for American voters or their choices.
UN Running Out of Cash, Trump Unmoved
by , Gateway Pundit
Unless collections improve, Guterres warned, the UN will run out of cash by July 2026.
Wide-scale non-payment by member states has accelerated the crisis. In 2025, 42 of 193 member states failed to pay their assessments in full, and by the February 8, 2026 due date, only 55 countries had paid.
The United States is the dominant factor. Historically the UN’s largest contributor at 22 percent of the regular and peacekeeping budgets, roughly $820 million per year, the U.S. paid no dues at all in 2025 and accounts for approximately 95 percent of all unpaid contributions currently owed. The total U.S. debt stands at $2.2 billion to the regular operating budget…
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the UN wants to control your medical data, decide which injections you must get, and dictate whether you can travel when the next pandemic comes, which it can declare any time it suits. The UN (plus Mark Carney) organized the bankers into a $130 trillion cartel to use pension funds against the average American (and western) voter. It dreams of putting a carbon tax on shipping so it can finally raise its own revenue (and be even less accountable than it already is).
What looks act and smells like it’s working to become an unelected Global Government? And what’s the other word for that? — Tyranny.
The United Nations is $1.57 billion in debt — quite an achievement for a group that has an annual budget of $3.5 billion.
We know the EU and patsy countries like ours will keep funding the UN. But Donald Trump has turned off the tap to crime and corruption. Celebrate the win…
POST NOTE: Lest anyone get the wrong idea, the other 78% of UN funding will no doubt continue, as the golden handshake promises of UN roles after politics tempt patsy leaders to chip in their nations wealth to help the poor suffering bureaucrats in Geneva.
There is something to be said for electing billionaires who don’t want or need UN handouts.
Our best hope is that stupid countries who are desperately in need of oil will be forced to pander to the US because it has what they want.
h/t Willie Soon
Oh dear.
How sad.
Never mind.
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To borrow a phrase from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
… and there was much rejoicing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yciX2meIkXI
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Maybe the UN could downsize to match its current income,
Budgeting might be a new experience.
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First term POTUS Trump made that recommendation during his first address at the United Nations HQ
Back to what was originally planned, stop interfering in the affairs of member countries, remove the attached organisations and reduce operating expenses.
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It could ask Albo and Chalmers to advise …
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A brilliantly sinister idea!
Albo and Chalmers doing to the UN what they are doing to Australia. To be sure to be sure, make sure they appoint Rudd to a UN position.
With his leadership, it should collapse on itself even quicker.
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The UN no longer works for the interests of peace, freedom or Civilisation.
It is now merely a tool of those who work to establish a global, socialist dictatorship.
Like all good ideas it was taken over and corrupted by the Left, a fulfilment of Rudi Dutschke’s “long march through the institutions”.
Unfortunately Australia and its globalist government has a fanatical commitment to all UN decrees which it uses as a method to implement extraterritorial governance without the will or permission of the people who didn’t vote for that.
Good to see it go, if it does indeed go. I suspect that the woke governments of the world like Australia’s will tax us even more or borrow more money to hand over to the UN kleptocracy just to keep it and its cushy jet-setting (with fossil fuels) job positions for retired politicians and other favoured Elites going.
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And just look at how many times UN officials and/or headquarters have been co-located with terrorists and with some officials even moonlighting as terrorists such as with UNRWA in Gaza and UNRWA and UNIFIL in Lebanon.
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Given that two of its “founders were FDR and Stalin; what could you expect.
The Korean War, starting in 1950, was the first test; and a close-run thing it was.
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And the bureaucrat who had the most say in its set up and structure was Alger Hiss.
For those who don’t know, Hiss was one of the 3 most important and influential Soviet agents in the FDR Administration, along with Harry Dexter White (who set up the IMF) and Lauchlin Currie (who set up the World Bank).
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Good riddance. Please turn off the lights and close the doors behind you on the way out. !!!
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Johnny, the UN HQ in NY will probably be sold off, reckon it would make a nice Trump hotel, with nice views over the Harbour.
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In fact POTUS Trump has joked about UN Building maybe being converted into a casino so that Americans can make money instead of pouring money into it.
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Either that, or, with the aid of some “controlled demolition”, drop it into Turtle Bay as a marine-life sanctuary.
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Close the door behind you, lots of doors, lots of buildings…
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If they can’t pay the rent they must be evicted. Not sure where the whole obscenity may be welcomed, after all not many countries want or need a “ blood sucking “ monstrosity doing its best to take over their country or even be associated with what has become a complete joke!
It’s time the world was cleansed of this abomination. Then peace may actually be achieved!!
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Bouvet Oya.
By sailing boat, of course – and no eating the local avifauna.
Supplies – by sailing boat – every year … or so.
You know – weather permitting …
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All the UN activity and buildings in New York City should relocate to Tehran and occupy the buildings used by the now deceased Supreme Leader and the ayatollahs of the Twelver Shia clergy. Iranian oil can provide funding.
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It’s sad to see New York City go down the tubes.
If they take the UN with them, then silver linings.
At least they can take pride in their great opus Pandemic.
And the horse they rode in on.
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The NY UN building could be sold off and turned into apartments for the rich, housing for the Democrat-caused homeless or a mental asylum.
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You could make a point that the UN is already a mental asylum.
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One reason for survival and voting support is developing countries and dictators sending family members and friends to become diplomats attending UN and embassies staff.
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‘ … relocate to Tehran …’
Beijing would be a better fit.
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“ All the UN activity and buildings in New York City should relocate to Tehran and occupy the buildings used by the now deceased Supreme Leader and the ayatollahs of the Twelver Shia clergy”
Why replace one defunct dictatorship with a financial & morally bankrupt, would be dictatorship, having ambitions of WORLD GOVERNMENT & DOMINATION,
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Be very careful of what you wish for or are even willing to contemplate!!
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Hopefully this is also the end of the IPCC, a self appointed, unaccountable grift organisation wasting billions on coastal resorts, gelato shops and fossil fuelled junkets. I suppose there is no chance of getting our money back. If this was any other organisation there would be various investigations, and possibly abuse charges for deliberately terrorising youngsters
Hot off the press: UN IPCC Admits Apocalyptic Climate Scenarios Are ‘Implausible’ – Media Scare Stories Over Last 15 Years Are Officially Junk – ‘Most significant development in climate research in decades’.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2026/05/05/un-ipcc-admits-apocalyptic-climate-scenarios-are-implausible-media-scare-stories-over-last-15-years-are-officially-junk-most-significant-development-in-climate-research-in-decades/
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The sooner this corrupt “organisation” is shut down the better.
Grifters, ALL of them.
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How about Trump completing the job and kick them out of New York (and the rent-free building).
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Don’t believe that’s possible, as the land was privately owned by one of the Rockefellers and gifted to the UN.
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No, Michael, offset the notional rental costs against the nominal US debt. The UN will go bankrupt even sooner.
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NYC has never found it difficult to steal from landowners.
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Even easier now with the new mayoral administration?
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This article has caused me to reappraise my view on POTUS Trump. For some time now, I have recognised Trump as already the greatest leader in history for declaring peace with CO2. I thought this would be easy his greatest achievement. If USA defunding the UN radical left can cause its downfall then that would be easily his greatest achievement because it is the main instigator of the war with CO2 and all the other civilisation destroying activities – no borders, First Nations apartheid and gagging free speech.
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Businessman Donald Trump has been opposed to many UN activities beginning, I understand, after the UN Lima Protocol 1975 was introduced effectively calling for manufacturing industry to be transferred to developing countries along with developed countries losing the industries signing trade agreements favouring developing countries and removing tarrif and other trade barriers to imported goods.
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Best news this morning !
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Antonio sure ain’t Albuquerque!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Strait_of_Hormuz_(1553)
When Portuguese needed funds to provide for their lavish lifestyle five hundred years ago, they sailed into ‘the mouth’ of the Persian Gulf and demanded whatever wealth the locals had, beginning in 1507, then again in 1514 and once more, versus the Ottoman Empire, in 1553.
The British got in on the act in 1622 before the Portuguese came back 3 years later, hoping to ‘reignite’ the spirit of Alfonso Albuquerque and the age of free stuff! On second thoughts, perhaps Antonio is the crusty old sea dog / pirate / colonist / invader reborn, once again pillaging the (not so) high seas for loot and photo opportunities.
May they rest in pieces.
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Wonderful news and I just hope that the US cuts their funding for the next 2 years and Vance fights the Dems hard on the UN funding issue at the next election in 2028.
The UN supports terrorists and hates Israel and other stupid western countries should now cut back their funding as well.
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Hallelujah! We get to bask in the sun for a wee bit. Come Jan 2029 that’s over, and that’s when the real fight starts.
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“Come Jan 2029 that’s over, and that’s when the real fight starts.”
Why then?
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Inauguration of President #48 in the USA?
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I can only hope it really is in a death spiral – a flat spin even. What a horrid mob of snout troughers they are , but I fear this Hydra will not die. It has too many friends.
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I hate being a patsy country!!
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Make it The End
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There are vast land areas plus smaller jewels of Australian development history where the United Nations has borrowed our sovereignty to create world heritage areas.
By Australian Federal government law giving effect to UN orders, control of activities in these places rests with the UN.
Just one example that pains me still is the 19,504 sq km of the Kakadu national park declared in the mid 1980s to be restricted. Quote “No operations for the recovery of minerals shall be conducted in Kakadu national park.” Thus, the UN closed down an emerging and exciting new mineral province. Such provinces are rare scientific wonders of significant national economic value.
Question: When the UN goes down the gurgler, will Australian laws that mention it be declared no longer valid?
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That is UN Agenda 21 Sustainability based National Parks, even State Forests set aside a long time ago for sustainable logging for the timber industry converted to UN registered National Parks, and of course Australian taxpayers fund National Parks & Wildlife organisations for the UN based on our lands.
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Our federal government has used UN conventions to circumvent our constitution, particularly those clearly laid out separation of powers. Your example perfectly demonstrates that specific problem. There are plenty more.
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Yes, and reinforced by State Governments legislation and regulations, as I have pointed out Federation of States created the Commonwealth of Australia 1900 and the States established a Federal Parliament with State’s House of Review the Senate.
It takes cooperation not only of Federal then States but also Senate and State Legislative Councils.
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Minister for Foreign Affairs Senator Wong will surely leap in to defend and beg for funding, probably Prime Minister Albanese and other Cabinet Ministers will agree, after all Australia is a wealthy country.
And Albanese Labor recently signed that Trade Agreement with the EU Government that signed on behalf of EU countries and terms and conditions including approving of land use here and Australia adhering to the UNIPCC net zero emissions agenda.
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One question which has always puzzled me. The number of people who work for the UN and what they do.
“The United Nations system employs over 130,000 personnel globally, according to 2024 data. This includes staff across the UN Secretariat, funds, programs, and specialized agencies.
The UN Secretariat has over 36,000 staff operating in 474 duty stations worldwide.”
Others say 40,000 staff and 40,000 contractors/volunteers etc. I presume the latter group are paid by the donor countries.
For the Secretariat staff that means wages about $US100,000 each. It’s a massive business. So the question..
What do they do?
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Maybe the description given by now former Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown during his final address as leader at the National Press Club Canberra?
He said his “dream” is about a “world parliament” and with no international borders restricting people movements, in other words that Fabian Marxist New World Order
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They’re UNaccountable and their activities are UNchecked.
Now thankfully they’re UNderfunded.
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And if we allow that the UN has 193 member states (including the Vatican, Palesting, South Sudan,Trinidad and Tobago,….) You are looking at 700 people for every country. Trinidat and Tobago has 1.5 Million but Pacific island states are tiny. Nauru has 13,000 people! 40 states have populations under 1 million. 80 UN states are under 5 million.
So recalculating the UN has 113 member states over 5 million people and so about 1200 employees per UN member. What do they do? Make sandwiches?
Surely some of the $US3.4Billion wages budget could be spent on actually helping people? And they would not need a $100Billion per year tax on international trade/bunker oil.
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Even if you allowed 100 employees per country over 5 million, you would have 10,000 employees, not 134,000?
“While a precise, real-time total of Australian civilians employed across the entire UN system is not publicly aggregated, thousands of Australians work for the UN, including personnel in peace operations and international civil servants. Historically, over 65,000 Australian personnel have served in UN and multilateral peace/security operations since 1947.”
I suppose the UNWRA members in Gaza who took part in the massacre of unarmed men, women and children at a music festival were working in peace/security operations?
To whom is the UN accountable? Or is that a silly question?
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TdeF:
Old news – Parkinson’s Law.
Each bureaucrat makes work for another.
When the Union Jack floated over palm and pipe, the Colonial department had 24 employees (and 2 part time Turkish interpreters).
When the sun had set and many countries had been given independence, the Office required 1200 employees.
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Apparently sandwiches with not tasty fillings
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I stumbled on this, surprised to see the BBC do a piece critical of the UN, one of their directors provides some insight into how the UN squander money. Kudos to GN3- Parkinson’s Law gets a mention, in the article, underneath the quote below. The FAO is the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4CHcY4XzKFrTy2BDJrbk40V/un-wasting-money
I avoid charities that spend too much on salaries and administration because l want the donated money to go directly to the needy. How many westerners realise parts of their taxes are being funnelled on to the UN gravy train?
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It turns out it was by Alistair Cooke from 1976 (the link didn’t specify the date and the original audio seems to have been deleted). I guess the question is- has anything changed in 50 years?
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UN means Unified Numbnuts. May we all celebrate it’s demise. Why not a “end of the UN day” to celebrate.
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I shall have to mark it on my calendar, so as to be ready to celebrate.
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I won’t be celebrating just yet. They know they just need to hold out until the Democrats regain power and they’ll get all the money (including the ‘overdue’ amounts). You can be sure they’ll be desperately helping behind the scenes at the upcoming midterms.
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One of the UN roles: Legal Arbitration: Settling legal disputes via the International Court of Justice.
Key Recent Decisions and Orders (2025-2026)
Application of the Genocide Convention (South Africa v. Israel): The Court has issued multiple orders, including in January 2026, directing Israel to take measures to prevent incitement to genocide, ensure aid access, and halt operations in Rafah.
Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories (Advisory Opinion): The ICJ ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal and should end as soon as possible, including an October 2025 advisory opinion regarding UNRWA operations.
So according to the UN which created the State of Israel in 1949, there have been 500 orders against Israel. And Israel is responsible for genocide, blocking aid access and the mass murder on Oct 7. And the UNWRA who housed the assailants and took part in the mayhem are blameless.
Plus some other important issues.
Sovereignty over the Sapodilla Cayes (Belize v. Honduras; Guatemala intervening): Orders in March and April 2026 set timelines for written submissions regarding this long-standing maritime sovereignty case.
Climate Change Advisory Opinion (2025): The Court concluded that nations have obligations to protect the climate system, relying on IPPC reports to define the existential threat.
Who needs the International Court of Justice? What good have they done? Is the Prime Minister of Israel a war criminal and the Ayatollah Khomeini not? Apparently Gadaffi was a nice man and was about to lead the Human Rights committee when he ended in a drain.
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Is this the follow to the Geneva Based League of Nations Court?
The one who ‘stopped’ the Italian takeover of Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War (with German and Russia assistance) and the Japanese invasion of China?
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Very recent appointment of a Government of Iran official as a women’s rights delegate United Nations.
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Perhaps the numpties could ease back on all the private jet flights and run the joint to a budget.
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As far as I can tell in Australia, you budget for money you don’t have anyway. Employ vastly more people and on higher salaries than makes sense. Start projects you cannot afford and run up massive off budget expenses for which you have no funding. And expect the bills to be paid by your subjects, regardless. The world budget is a fantasy world for Liberals.
As Margaret Thatcher said, “socialism is fine until you run out of other people’s money”.
But the attitude to Donald Trump goes down in the annals of Darwinian extinction level stupidity for the organization. The same with the US Federal Department of Education which has no job at all in the Constitution and no schools. And is soon to be completely closed.
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So biggest financial supporter of the UN by far, the one who provides the building, the rates, the electricity, the maintenance and the biggest donor and the biggest economy in the world visits. What happens?
Escalator Malfunction: An escalator at the UN headquarters stopped while Donald and Melania Trump were stepping onto it, forcing them to walk up the steps. Trump described this as a sudden, dangerous halt, while UN officials stated a safety mechanism was triggered, potentially by his own videographer.
Teleprompter Failure: At the start of his address to the UN General Assembly, the teleprompter failed, forcing Trump to use written notes for about the first 10 minutes. A UN official noted that the White House was operating the teleprompter system itself.
Audio Issues: Trump stated that the “sound was completely off” in the auditorium, claiming that world leaders could not hear him properly.
Audience Reception: Unlike the laughter that followed some of his earlier addresses to the UN, his 2025 speech was met with silence,
Investigation: Trump called for an investigation and for those responsible to be arrested, citing reports that UN staff had joked about disrupting his visit.
UN Response: The UN pushed back, with spokesperson Stephane Dujarric suggesting the escalator stoppage was caused by a safety mechanism tripped by the US delegation’s own staff.
and according to the Guardian
Contentious Speech: Separately, his address was notable for harsh criticism of UN migration and climate policies, calling climate action a “con job” and urging European countries to close their borders.
None of these things happened to Grumpy and utterly irrelevant Greta Thunberg whose contribution to the UN is zero. Even though they stole her childhood. Allegedly.
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The worldwide left associates and relentless negativity targets all who dare to question their political agendas
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Sure but biting the hand that feeds you is a new low in group intelligence. The disdain and contempt of all the UN people, mostly residents of New York, was self evident. In this world of the internet, who needs a building and all those people in New York? “16,000 people are employed by the United Nations (UN) in New York City alone.”. (The 15,890 individuals in the UN community in New York take home around $1.64 billion in household earnings, averaging roughly $103,000)
Did they think they were even exempt from the requirements of normal polite behaviour? Is Trump Derangement Syndrome a job requirement in the UN? Apparently.
If the escalator stopped while he was on it, it was Trump and Melania’s own fault. The same reason the money stops. Not suprising. Fire the lot. The whole idea is very expenseive, pointless, obsolete and completely dysfunctional.
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And since WWII, we now have satellites, fibre optic, the internet and live meetings world wide. Who needs a giant building with 16-20,000 full time employees just to hold meetings? And all those massive hosting expenses for socialist ex-politicians living the high life on full salary in New York while hating Donald Trump? It’s all a giant farce, a Wilsonian leftover of the League of Nations from 1918. All for leftist lawyers and politicians to enjoy their final party days, noses in the trough and first class travel.
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Christmas in July at the UN!!!
GO WOKE GO BROKE…
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And when, not if, the UN collapses, what difference will it make. The demolition of the insane IPCC (Self Interested Government Politicians Pushing Climate Change) would leave the world a richer place.
No Climate payments. No $150Billion a year CLimate Fund. No $100Billion a year illegal bunker tax to fund more UN employees while doing nothing about anything. And no International Court to declare victims fighting oppressors as criminals.
No World Health Organization to hide the reality of a US funded, French built, Chinese Army viral laboratory which killed tens of millions and rename the deadly virus COVID to hide its obvious and documented WUHAN origin.
Where are the WUHAN virus reparations? Was it really an imported killer US frozen chicken, to the country which produces more chickens every year than any other?
What division of the United Nations has actually contributed to world peace in say the last 50 years?
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We are seeing the undoing of everything FDR/Wilson. The UN. The New Deal Socialism. The rule by unelected bureacrats. And after almost 100 years, it’s about time.
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The Mikado has got a little list.
Should add the U.N. I insist,
And the W.H.O. you’ll agree,
Along with the I.P.C.C.,
And “they’d none of ’em be missed”.
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“UN is facing imminent financial collapse — Guterres begs for cash” – This is the best news this side of the fall of the Soviet Union, or something like that..
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So the USA was funding NATO, the UN, illegal migration, and what’s not…. No wander it ended up with 36 trillion dollars in debt.
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Globalism is the latest attempt at taking over the world. It will not succeed. Globalisation will always fail same as it failed for the Babilonese, the Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, Huns, Kaisers (German for Caesar), Hitler, Stalin and the Davos gang.
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I’m just surprised Trump hasn’t kicked the entire shabang out of the USA. He could use the excuse that the entire setup was a security risk to the USA and a hive of antiwestern, scheming ideologues to boot.
It would be more accepted in areas like the USSR, China or deepest Africa, depending on which influences it prioritises. It would also be more representative of the major interests that drive it. They could all pay – with difficulty except for China which would love to have it for its own scheming – and scheme away to their hearts’ content. Even somewhere in the EU while that body drives climate change and leads the race to One World governance where it has already setup its undemocratic EU Commission.
Preferably it should sink. Probably would as schemers fall out and a peaceful existence could not be guaranteed.
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