Please sign the petition to urge Congress to defund and exit the United Nations.
Child sexual exploitation as young as six years old by paid personnel. Funding and active participation in terrorist activities by paid personnel. Mentally ill patients are routinely sexually and physically abused by paid personnel. Involved in illicit gold and ivory and weapons trade and sexual exploitation and rape of Congo women and girls replete with photo and video evidence. Paid personnel roasting a fourteen year old Somali boy.
This is the organization who would claim moral authority to investigate human rights violations by the United States of America? Whose appointed commission is headed and bodied by some of the worst human rights violators in history including Sudan, Cuba, and Pakistan.
A waste of billions of dollars annually in fraudulent carbon footprint reduction programs abuses. It has a reputation for ignoring evidence in its internal investigations including rape and murder. Its filled with hypocrites who condemned Israel four times compared to the six times it has condemned any of the other 191 countries represented. Who claim to self police their organization but even their own appointed investigators quit in protest of limiting access and non-application of recommendations. Against its own charter, it is maneuvering for final authority over any military action by any nation including in case of grave threat even though they have a record of complete inaction on those same threats. Now it has banned criticism of Islam.
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The Dictators' Roman Holiday
In a display of arrogance and hypocrisy that was outrageous even for the United Nations, UN food development officials last week accused the United States of raising global food prices by subsidizing ethanol production. Actually, the outrage began even earlier.Only the United Nations would invite a dictator who has purposefully starved his own people to a summit on the international food crisis. But that is precisely what happened in Rome last week. Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, who has starved his political enemies and channeled food aid to only favored groups, was in attendance, as was the Iranian dictator, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It has already been one year since the U.S. Congress voted 411-2 to call on the UN Security Council to punish Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for violating the UN Charter and the UN Convention on Genocide for his repeated incitement of genocide against the Israeli people, yet the Iranian dictator is still welcome at UN events.
True to form, Ahmadinejad used the international spotlight to once again predict the demise of the state of Israel and accuse the U.S. of plotting an attack on him.
Mugabe accused the West, not his own genocidal policies, of starving his people.
In other words, it was a typical gathering for the United Nations.
Europe's Resistance to GM Foods, Not America's Support for Biofuels, Has Contributed to the Global Food Crisis
But the infuriating arrogance of UN bureaucrats lecturing the world's largest provider of food aid - and the single greatest contributor to the UN food fund - cannot be allowed to pass without comment.
In fact, it is the Europeans irrational resistance to genetically modified (GM) crops - aided and abetted by extremists on the left -- that is responsible for much of the hunger in Africa and the rest of the developing world.
GM crops that are commonplace in the U.S. - crops that don't need expensive pesticides and even potentially are drought resistance - are banned in Europe. And Europe and the Left's misinformation about the health and safety of these foods has led most African nations to ban them too for fear of being shut out of lucrative European export markets.
South Africa is the only African nation that grows GM crops. And while food production in the rest of Africa is 20 percent per capita less than it was in 1970, South Africa is producing surplus amounts of crops through biotechnology.
The U.S. Should Refuse to Participate in Future UN Charades
The UN food crisis gathering ignored the issue of GM foods, of course, but it did call on member nations to kick in at least $20 billion a year to help ease global hunger.
President Bush, who has tripled U.S. aid to Africa during his presidency, should ignore this demand and publicly refuse to participate in farces with vicious, murdering thugs like Mugabe and Ahmadinejad like the one in Rome last week.
President Bush should transition U.S. assistance to direct, bilateral forms only. Our willingness to allow UN bureaucrats and international dictators to lecture us in public strengthens them and isolates us. Far from feeding hungry people, it consigns them to lives of poverty, desperation and premature death.
For their good, and for our national self-respect, we should stop being a part this charade.
Your friend,

Newt Gingrich
U.S. does not stand for Uncle Sam, rather we are considered Uncle Sugar by the nations least appreciative yet most benefited by our aid programs. Let's take a look at votes in the United Nations by a long list of nations wallowing in Uncle Sugar's foreign aid like spoiled hogs:
Egypt votes
against the United States 79% of the time. Yet, Egypt
receives $2
billion annually in Foreign Aid.
Jordan votes
against the United States 71% of the time. Yet, Jordan
receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Pakistan votes
against the United States 75% of the time. Yet, Pakistan receives
$6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
India votes
against the United States 81% of the time. Yet, India receives
$143,699,000 annually in U.S. Foreign Aid.
The
Arab states, all recipients of foreign aid, consistently vote against the
U.S. by lopsided margins.
Even
Kuwait -- for whose independence American servicemen fought and died --
votes against us 67% of the time!
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Also WHERE IS GEORGE W. BUSH'S condemnation on these crimes against humanity? Has he spoke out forcefully and I've just not heard it.
Consider it done....I'm going to sign the petition and I'm also writing my senators
Whatever happened to Christian charity? Giving to the needy, loving thy enemy and all that? It's not like Egypt's $2 billion goes directly to funding anti-American votes in the UN.
Europe's resistance to GMOs is based on a few genuine, entirely rational concerns. One, engineering a superstrain of corn that grows anywhere is fine and dandy, humans have been selectively breeding plants for harsh climates since the dawn of time. The problem is that modern agrobusiness and patents on GMOs mean that companies gain monopolies on their supercorn, and export it around the world without competition, creating monoculture of crops that are extremely vulnerable to disease. This was a problem with the bananas of the world; they'd mostly been produced by cloning to keep optimal growth genes in the plantations, and a few years ago there was a fear that a banana plague was wiping out the species [I dunno if it has been dealt with yet or if bananas will really go extinct].
Two, GMOs may have health problems etc etc standard "don't standardize something before you discover that it causes leukemia and AIDS simultaneously" precaution.
Blame for food shortages aren't placed on Europe with good reason. You're using pretty bad justification to accuse Europe of causing the food crisis. They still produce an enormous amount of food, just because they don't apply mass production techniques to extract even more from the earth doesn't mean that they're causing a food crisis. There's an old observation by Malthus, that population grows geometrically, and resources grow arithmetically. Europe's food supply grows slower than the global population, and it [hopefully] meets European standards. That means they don't mass-produce mushrooms in filth[ier] conditions and wind up recalling their global export when its all contaminated with mercury and pesticides [thanks, China].
Europe also grows its biofuel supplies in specifically designated fields that are useless for farming crops. It's not like Indonesia carving up rainforest or American farmers turning corn into oil for subsidies, it's Italian farmers turning their brambles into biofuel weeds. "Europe's resistance to GM" is not causing any kind of problem. America's conversion of food into fuel is, as a global leader in food exports. When has inaction ever caused anything?