Posted on 06/09/2006 12:04:26 AM PDT by familyop
Edited on 06/09/2006 10:00:31 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
New York: Deputy Secretary-General of the U.N. was on Wednesday night accused of making ``a very, very grave mistake'' after calling the Bush administration hypocrites who were feeding a right-wing anti-U.N. frenzy in middle America.
Washington's Ambassador to the U.N. responded with undisguised fury to a speech by Mark Malloch Brown, the Deputy Secretary-General, in which he accused Washington of using the international body ``almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool'' while failing to defend it at home.
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Or maybe the entire thing is a slush fund for totalitarian nutjobs the world over, anyway.
"Popular opinion media," or the Whore of Babylon, as I like to call it, is a major CAUSE. They are not "behind" it. They are right up front with it. It is not that media is for one side or the other. It is what they can do to keep people divided against themselves. THAT is what makes news.
The real sad story is that for those who take in the Whore are bound to catch an STD (Sensually Transmitted Disease). It spreads among the viewers like an AIDS virus. Worse yet, are those who use the media to legitimize a certain world view, a perspective, or situation....mostly based on a 15 second soundbite.
The Whore may be one problem, but the harlots who lay down for her is what gives her her power.
Boycott mainstream media.
Arrowhead>>>---MSM-->
What about the harlots who pay for the advertising and dictate the opinions? For about a decade, I worked quite a few office contracts for corporations that pay for the advertising. Before that, I attended some English classes with relatives (now journalists) of some of the corporate bosses. They are far worse than what they publicly reveal through the popular, so-called "news" media that they pay.
Free speech in the US is so inconvenient. The world would be better off if all the EU smartypants and the UN ran everything.
The UN is a bunch of third world thugs. Period.
Agreed! In content anyway. But, not in name. They are not the harlots. They are the Pimps. ;^)
Arrowhead>>>---Pimps-->
That's a good point.
I submit that "one way or another" is to continue business as ususal at the U.N.
Let it be known that the discourse that I feel towards the UN has nothing to do with Rush Limbaugh or Fox News - the agency is beyond useless, and is simply a front used by thieves to steal money away from the US taxpayer.
Abolish it.
Harare, Zimbabwe seems t0 be a perfect l0cati0n f0r the UN t0 me.
I don't know what you're smokin' but I don't want any. To think that the UN has had a positive effect on international relations is naive at best. It is no more useful than was the league of nations.
"Mr. Bush cannot articulate complex concepts off the cuff"
I beg to differ! "Off the cuff", IMO, is when the President is at his best! Second best is when he reads from notes. He apparently has a history of dyslexia, and I think the teleprompter format is his downfall.
My first impression of Bolton was that he was a goofy looking putz with a 'carpet that doesn't match the drapes' cookie duster moustache, but after reading some of his co-workers comments I thought he might actually be the right man for the job.
Now I KNOW he is the right man for the job.
Way to go JB! Sticking up for hard working middle America.
..and why is this UK fag so upset by what Rush or Fox News has to say about the UN? Annan is a pathetic failure as head of the UN and should have stepped down long ago.
I don't think you're going to fit in here.
...or Useless Nattering.
You have a gift for stating the obvious. The General Assembly is made up of a large number of tin-pot dictatorships whose people didn't elect their representatives in the first place. The Security Council is stymied by France, Russia and China.
No one is saying we are going it alone, simply that US interests are no longer served by the UN, which is not just a little bit corrupt but corrupt from the head (Kofi and Kojo Annan) to the toe (UN peacekeepers in Rwanda). We can accomplish a lot more through bilateral efforts and NATO.
The UN has outlived its usefulness.
Disagree. We've had them for 60 years. Now let's have the UN in Addis Ababa for the next 60. We may take them back after that, we'll see.
Costs would be considerably lower in Addis and it would be a real boost to the Ethiopian economy to have all those high-living UN diplomats spending tax free money.
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