Absolutely Amazing! ... you can't cut off "our" money (Gee, sounds just like the Catholic Church) ... What unmitigated gall ... So the rest of the world really doesn't have ANY money? Just exactly how does this work?

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… over 50 years ago I remember collecting change for a Sunday School project that was intended to provide funding to dig wells in order to provide clean water for Africa. Fast forward 50+ years and the same pitch is still being made by the same groups for the same projects. So one can only assume that all of that “aid” (children’s change included) ended up in Swiss Banks. …

– Since 1960, rich (read USAirstrip-1) countries have sent over US$2.6 trillion in aid to Africa. In the period between 1970 and 1998, when aid to Africa peaked, poverty rose from 11% to 66%.

Hey, here’s an idea Mr. U.N Man. Had your organization done something about keeping things peaceful in Ukraine (and other places - which is after all your job as the inheritor of Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations via F.D.R. or don’t you know your own history?) you could have had an additional 350B (USD). As Dr. Phil would say, “How’s that Peacekeeping thing workin’ for you?”

Listen to the pigs squeal when they find out they aren’t as equal as they thought.

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About the UN Complainer General –

Guterres served as secretary-general of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He was elected prime minister in 1995 and announced his resignation in 2002, after his party was defeated in the 2001 Portuguese local elections. After six years governing without an absolute majority and with a poor economy, the Socialist Party did worse than expected because of losses in Lisbon and Porto, where polls indicated they had a solid lead. Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues assumed the Socialist Party leadership in January 2002, but Guterres would remain as prime minister until the general election was lost to the Social Democratic Party, led by José Manuel Barroso. Despite this defeat, polling of the Portuguese public in both 2012 and 2014 ranked Guterres the best prime minister of the previous 30 years.

He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005, and was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2005 to 2015. Guterres was elected secretary-general [in October 2016, succeeding Ban Ki-moon at the beginning of the following year and becoming the first European to hold this office since Kurt Waldheim in 1981.

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Remember the UNICEF collections in elementary school? I do… my parents wouldn’t let me put any money in it…lol But yup… time to get out of that organization. All it manages to do is turn every minor conflict into the world into an opportunity for another major war because everyone has to have their say.

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“Trick or treat for UNICEF.” Gosh, what an old memory you triggered.

We did it, but as far as I can recall, everyone thought it was a good thing at the time.
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Haha, our poor neighbors never knew what hit them. We had a lot of children in our neighborhood. “Hey Marge, all these dang kids want money, too!” which explains why most of us returned to school with more copper than nickel in them.

Thank you, John Birch Society for exposing the U.N. for what it is all these years.

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In Europe in the 80s as a kid we had little donation boxes at school a couple of times. One time I think it was UNICEF and I think one time was WWF for the pandas. or penguins. or polecats. Doesn’t matter, just give them money.

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Yes, we must certainly send more money to those “poor” African countries. If we don’t then they will never be able to afford 5 Star Hotels and never know the joy of caviar and champagne. I wonder what would happen if their “constituents” were aware of such “necessary travel expenditures”. Aaaahhh, what the heck … we aren’t going to prosecute anyone here either. They didn’t do anything wrong and neither did anyone in USAirstrip-1. At least we have filtering devices to clean God knows what out from our water.

https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/02/27/waste_of_the_day_congo_splurged_at_davos_on_usaid_dime_1094488.htmll

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… two quick points on the “Birchers” … in early notes connected with the setting up of The National Review Magazine Buckley made it clear that the “Birchers” had to be marginalized from the so-called Conservative Movement (marginalized and excluded are two different things - you will often see these two equivocated when discussed in the context of the relationship between Buckley and the JBS) and if memory serves it was the “clean cut Bircher Youth” et al. that were involved in some of the original opposition to the Vietnam War (yes, there was some division within the JBS in regards to the situation in Vietnam) and that certain intelligence groups made it an objective to taint the “clean cut ordinary youth” Anti-Vietnam movement by infiltrating it with “dirty, smelly hippies”.

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I wasn’t aware of the clean-cut youth against the war. Thank you.

To this day “Bircher” remains a bad word for many. They are not a perfect organization, but their journalism (New American Magazine) is still top floor in my book. They don’t cover geoengineering well, but short of that, they cover a lot of things I don’t see elsewhere.

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@chris “polecats”
You just made my day. Thank you! :rofl:

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