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12/29/2016 9:42:32 AM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

tileman1814
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We should have defunded the UN years go but the the jerkoff globalist that live in this country want a one world government and that goes against everything that our country was founded on and is in direct conflict with our constitution.

Semper Fi !!!

Part 1
There’s a “war” coming between the United States and the United Nations, the international coalition that has as a mainstay of its activities to condemn Israel over and over, according to one columnist.

Josh Rogin, who writes on international issues for the Washington Post, on Wednesday started out with the headline, “Inside the coming war between the United States and the United Nations.”

He explained that Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., already has started work on ways to keep U.S. money away from the U.N., because, “the U.N. has made it impossible for us to continue with business as usual.”

The senator said Republicans in Congress likely “will feel like this is a betrayal of Israel and the only response that we have is the power of the purse.”

The fight is over a resolution adopted by the U.N.’s security council last week, with the Obama administration’s abstention, which amounts to a tacit approval, that condemns Israel yet again.



It also calls on Israel to give up territory for the creation of a Palestinian state, as well as its guarantee of rights for those Palestinians. Israeli leaders described it as devastating, since their one key negotiating point in discussions about a two-state solution is that very same territory.

Obama had the option, since the U.S. is one of the permanent members of the group, to veto, but decided not to.

It has sparked outrage and accusations of administration anti-Semitism around the world, as well as an online petition effort that allows signers to encourage Congress and President-elect Donald Trump to not only defund the international group’s operations, including at its headquarters in New York, but also to leave it and even expel it from America.

Rogin advised Congress and Trump to be “strategic and thoughtful” in charting the course of the “inevitable clash.”

Already, he reported, “three Republican senators and their staffs have been working up options behind the scenes for how to convert their threat into action: Graham, Ted Cruz (Rex.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.). They believe they will have support for quick Senate action from both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and incoming Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a strong support of Israel.”

Nor is acting financially the only option open to Congress.

Reported Fox News, “Other punitive actions by Congress could include expelling Palestinian diplomats from U.S. soil and scaling back ties with foreign nations that voted in favor of the controversial measure.”

The report noted the Obama administration’s apparent fingerprints on the U.S. vote, with “a phone call by Vice President Joe Biden to Ukraine’s president to ensure that country voted in favor of the measure.”

Rogin wasn’t the only to charge that the Obama administration was creating a “war.”

Giulio Meotti, a Italian journalist and commentator, wrote at the Gatestone Institute that this year as been a good one for “anti-Semites” at the U.N.

The resolution, No. 2334, “is a cultural genocide that is no less dangerous than terror attacks. It is based on anti-Semitic lies and creates the atmosphere not for achieving ‘peace,’ as disingenuously claimed, but for perpetuating war.”

“According to the liars at the United Nations, the most evil country in the world is Israel,” he wrote. “The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra’ad, and Jordan’s Prince Seid al Hussein are sponsoring even now a ‘blacklist’ of international companies that have ties with Israeli companies in Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, to facilitate boycotting Israel in the evident hope of economically exterminating the only democracy and pluralistic nation in the region: the Jewish state.”

ted Nations until that organization becomes more responsible.”

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12/29/2016 9:43:02 AM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

tileman1814
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Part 2

Semper Fi !!!

The U.N.’s multiple moves this year against Israel came under fire from Meotti.

“It is a dreadful manipulation to try [to] erase all Jewish and Christian history, to make believe that all the world was originally and forever only Islamic. It is a jihad. That is what a jihad looks like … If one can erase and rewrite history, one can redirect the future.”

He pointed out that just months ago, UNESCO, the U.N.’s “cultural” agency, “by magically declaring ancient biblical Jewish sties ‘Islamic,’ even though Islam did not historically exist until the seventh century, hundreds of years later – pretended, with the villainous complicity of the West, to erase the Jewish-Christian roots of Jerusalem.”

Even the left-leaning Salon admitted action against the U.N. was likely, since, “It looks like President-elect Trump is on board with Republican efforts to punish the United Nations for its Friday resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories and East Jerusalem.”

It noted Trump’s social media statement, “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect.”

The Hill reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t pleased with Kerry’s attack on Israel.

Netanyahu described Kerry’s diatribe as “almost as unbalanced” as the resolution itself.

“Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders,” he said. He said the focal point of the long running fight has been “about Israel’s very right to exist.”

“I can only express my regret and say that it’s a shame that Secretary Kerry does not see this simple truth.”

The new online petition calls for the U.S. to cease all payments to the U.N., withdraw and “expel it from American soil.”

“We further urge President-elect Donald J. Trump and the Republican Congress to declare all United Nations resolutions, treaties and other explicit and implicit commitments to be no longer binding on the United States and violations of American sovereignty. … We urge President-elect Donald J. Trump and the Republican Congress to use all available means to encourage allies of the United States and Israel to withdraw from the United Nations and withhold all funding and official recognition from that organization.”

David Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine wrote, “The United Nations does only two things consistently and effectively: waste money and bash Israel. Sometimes it manages to do both at the same time.”

He pointed out for its money, the U.S. gets a U.N. email system that was “used to distribute child pornography … U.N. staff members have smuggled drugs, attacked each other with knives and pool cues, not to mention a tractor.” Greenfield also mentioned bribery cases.

Defunding? “It’s something that we and every sane country should have done decades ago. If you give money to the U.N., it will end up anywhere and everywhere except where it’s supposed to go. But defunding the U.N. isn’t enough. There is no reason for us to remain there at all,” he wrote.

He finished: “We should defund and withdraw. … The billions we waste on the U.N. will go toward taking care of our people. And once we are free of the U.N., we will actually be able to promote real human rights instead of pandering to the dictators and Islamists of the United Nations.”

“The U.N. is a massively corrupt and hopelessly broken institution,” said Joseph Farah, founder, editor and CEO of WND. “If ever there was a time and the right opportunity to put this on the front burner of a new administration that clearly opposes the kind of globalist vision that the U.N. offers and promotes, this is it. Enough is a enough! Why are we supporting this twisted, anti-Israel rogues gallery with our tax dollars and debt? Why do we continue to permit them to operate within our country? If Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress don’t seize this moment, a future administration will undoubtedly humiliate the U.S. and our allies, again, through the auspices of the United Nuisances.”

The petition continues: “It is outrageous an organization hosted on American soil, protected by American arms, funded by American tax dollars and built upon a global order sustained by the United States seemingly spends all its time attacking America and its ally Israel. It an insult to global decency that Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, is continuously targeted with the most outrageous slander and vitriolic attack as the United Nations allows some of the worst tyrannies on the planet to sit in judgment. Finally, as an independent republic, the United States of America has a responsibility to itself and to the world to cease subsidizing an institution which has not only proven hostile to the sovereignty of the United States and the security of Israel, but which has also shown itself to be a breeding ground of anti-Semitism and support for Islamic extremism.”

A report released last year said the U.S. pays about $3 billion year to the general U.N. budget and its peacekeeping efforts.

It’s more than what 185 other countries combined are paying.

“The 35 countries contributing the least will pay just $28,269 each,” the report said.

Al the while demanding Western nations accept millions of Muslim “refugees,” who could include terrorists, the U.N. “has deliberately sought to undermine American sovereignty and independence through global initiatives such as the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ and ‘New Urban Agenda,’” the petition states.

Bipartisan support already is in evidence, from “Republican President-elect Donald J. Trump and Democratic senators Chuck Schumer, Joe Manchin, Bob Casey, Richard Blumenthal, Mark Warner and Chris Coons.”

It continues, “American [Republican] senators including Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz have already called for cessation in funding for the Uni

12/29/2016 11:56:31 AM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

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Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech on his proposed plan for peace between Israelis and Arabs. His plan: blame the Jews, pretend that Palestinian terrorism and incitement isn’t representative of the actual Palestinian government, and then blather for 69 more minutes. His speech razed facts to the ground in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan.

Here were ten of the worst lies and lies-by-omission Kerry purveyed in his ode to lying and self-indulgence:

1. Equating Jewish Settlements and Palestinian Terrorism. Israel has been wracked by a wave of stabbings and shootings and rocket attacks from Palestinian terrorists over the last two years. Kerry spent a few minutes on that, but only in order to draw moral equivalence with Jews building additional bathrooms in East Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. “The truth is that trends on the ground, violence, terrorism, settlement expansion, and the seemingly endless occupation, they are combining to destroy hopes for peace on both sides,” Kerry said. This is nonsense. Before there were any Jewish settlements – when Israel did not control Judea, Samaria, or Gaza – the Palestine Liberation Organization called for the “liberation” of Palestine, meaning the complete destruction of Israel. The problem isn’t people building homes. It’s Palestinians murdering Jews, and refusing to accept that any home built by a Jew ought to exist in the Middle East.

2. “If The Choice Is One State, Israel Can Either Be Jewish Or Democratic. It Cannot Be Both.” This is patently absurd. There has been one state in the area between the Jordan and the Mediterranean for some 50 years. That state has been democratic. This lie rests on two absurd contentions: first, that if Israel were to annex all Judea and Samaria, Jews would be outnumbered by Arabs; second, that if Israel were to annex all lands, Israel would have to grant all Palestinian Arabs full citizenship or face status as an apartheid state. The first claim is simply false – Jews outnumber Palestinian Arabs outside of the Gaza Strip by a factor of two-to-one, and Jews now have the equivalent birth rate of Palestinian Arabs, and will soon have a higher birth rate, as Caroline Glick points out, meaning that Jewish majority status will increase, not decrease. Second, the United States does not offer citizenship to all the people living within its borders, or over territories over which it has sovereignty. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic are governed semi-autonomously, but citizens of Puerto Rico cannot vote in presidential elections in the United States. Israel could easily grant green cards to Palestinian residents while also giving them local control of their governance without a national vote.


3. Peace Will Only Be Realized With a Palestinian Terror State. The notion that peace depends on the establishment of a Palestinian terror state – and that’s what will be established, given that the unity government of the Palestinians now includes Hamas and Islamic Jihad alongside Fatah – is asinine. Israel has had to blockade Gaza because Hamas controls it, and is attempting to take military shipments from Iran. Adding another Iran-backed terror proxy state to the Middle Eastern map is a great way to encourage a two-front war against Israel, given the presence of Hezbollahstan on Israel’s northern border.

4. “No American Administration Has Done More For The Security of Israel Than Barack Obama’s.” To put it mildly, LOL. LOLOLOLOLOL. Funny guy, this Kerry. Here’s a timeline of Obama’s “support” for Israel. That timeline doesn’t even include the Iran nuclear deal or the current UN resolution hubbub.

5. Israeli Intransigence Is The Problem. Nope. Not even close. In 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered 94.2 percent of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians, a corridor that would link that territory to the Gaza Strip, land swaps that would increase Palestinian land holdings, a formula for division of Jerusalem. Abbas refused the deal. In 2000, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered a similar deal. Yassar Arafat refused it. Palestinians have never accepted any deal offered by the Israelis. Israelis continue to offer. But the problem is clearly the mean, nasty Israelis. And by the way, that awful Netanyahu fellow offered to freeze settlements early in the Obama administration, and the Palestinians responded with violence.


6. Settlements Are Illegal. No, they aren’t. Kerry declared over and over that Israelis settling east of the so-called green line are living there illegally. That’s patent nonsense. He also suggested that no Jews would be allowed to live inside a new Palestinian state, because Jews would object – ignoring, of course, that Palestinians would quickly murder any Jew remaining in a Palestinian state, and Jews have a slight objection to being murdered. Right now, over a million Arabs live inside Israel. Virtually no Jews live in the Muslim world because they were expelled, and quickly absorbed into Israel.

7. Equating Palestinian Government With Israeli Government. Perhaps the most insane spectacle was Kerry suggesting that the Netanyahu government is beholden to the “most extreme elements” in Israeli politics, while pooh-poohing Palestinian government support for terrorism. Kerry suggested that Hamas was a troublesome rogue group as opposed to an integral part of the Palestinian unity government.

8. Israel As Purported Burden To The United States. Kerry spent serious time talking about how the United States had subsumed its own interests in order to give military aid to Israel. Of course, the Obama administration has also given aid to the Palestinian unity terror government, and attempted to block weapons shipments in the middle of the Gaza terror war. And even the Obama administration says that such aid is good for the United States defense industry; a huge percentage of American aid to Israel is a subsidy to domestic defense contractors. Israel is America’s only democratic ally in the region.

9. The UN Resolution Changed Nothing. Kerry kept stating that the UN resolution didn’t do much to change the status quo. That’s false. This UN resolution said that all territories outside the 1949 Israel armistice lines – the “Auschwitz borders” – are occupied, including Jerusalem and holy sites like the Western Wall. It calls for all settlements in those areas “flagrant” violations of international law. There’s a reason Kerry pushed this thing through: of course it changes things.


10. The Obama Administration’s Maneuvers Help Peace. This is the opposite of the truth. America’s position for two decades has been that it would not cram down a peace deal on the Israelis and Palestinians – all issues would have to be resolved through bilateral negotiations. By placing the onus for all concessions on Israel and making Israel subject to the possibility of blowback from the International Court of Justice, Obama just allowed Palestinians to abandon any pretense at negotiations and stand on their newfound “rights.”

Kerry’s speech was chock full of lies. But here’s the good news: nobody will remember it a month from now, just as nobody will remember John Kerry’s legacy beyond his slander of American soldiers in Vietnam.

12/29/2016 12:09:09 PM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

tileman1814
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john kerry is nothing more than a kiss a** obama puppet.We all know what a liar he is that is why obama placed him where he is at anyway.A lot of truth about punk kerry came out during the 08 and 12 elections including his so called service in VN.kerry is another one of the lowlife bastards that could stand a good a** kicking.

Semper Fi !!!

12/29/2016 12:12:11 PM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

ludlowlowell
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Let the U.N. pass all the resolutions it wants. No one takes them seriously.

12/29/2016 2:19:19 PM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

tileman1814
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Quote from ludlowlowell:
Let the U.N. pass all the resolutions it wants. No one takes them seriously.


We need to take them seriously enough to kick them out of the country and stop paying the way for a bunch of america haters.

Semper Fi !!!



[Edited 12/29/2016 2:19:34 PM ]

12/29/2016 2:32:38 PM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

sureshot40
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I can't think of one damn thing the U.N. has ever solved or helped but plenty of things they have screwed up. They are not a group of allies. Shut them down and kick them out.

12/29/2016 2:50:03 PM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

clarity101
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i think, and the donald thinks, its starting.....

on the DRUDGEREPORT now..........

OBAMA LEFT OUT OF SYRIA TALKS...

Under pressure to PROVE Russian interference in election...
Ancient 'ETERNAL LIFE' bacteria leaves scientist 'ILLNESS-FREE'...
Retailers move towards 'Big Brother' shopping experiences...


Terrorists Raise Cash in Latin America to Attack USA...

NYE: Garbage trucks will line Times Square...
SOROS: 'WOULD BE DICTATOR' TRUMP THREATENS NEW WORLD ORDER...

12/29/2016 5:18:16 PM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

tileman1814
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There is so much news coming out at the Tea Party website that I can't keep up with it all.DH will only let me post so much and then they cut me off.
All I'm trying to do is share the news I think we should be aware of.

Semper Fi !!!

12/29/2016 7:20:27 PM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

ludlowlowell
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The U.N. is useful as a symbol. At least the world's nations are trying to create peace. Their resolutions?....yawn....yawn....

1/8/2017 2:43:52 PM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

tileman1814
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Someone should tell obama that he shouldn't shit in his own mess kit!!Maybe this will help dissolve the UN for good.

Semper Fi !!!

President Obama, all actions have consequences, including stabbing Israel in the back.

Israel has now announced its intent to cut $6 million they usually provide as United Nations funding. I bet Obama never saw that coming! (via The Times of Israel)

The Israeli mission stated that they would be removing some of their $40 million United Nations contributions because this money was allocated to four committees that were involved in Palestinian issues.

These committees Israel is de-funding include: the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, the Division for Palestinian Rights, the Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People, and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories

And they are also cutting support from a program: the Special Information Program on the Question of Palestine of the U.N. Department of Public Information. Clearly, Israel is refusing to fund these parts of the United Nations because they are working against Israel.

“We seek to stop the practice where the UN is used solely as a forum for unending attacks against Israel,” said the Israeli Ambassador, Danny Danon. This change in funding is because of Obama’s lack of action in the UN Security Council’s resolution against Israel.

Obama’s decision has not only alienated Israel, it was also distanced the American people. Even many Democrats were outraged by this betrayal of our ally. They never thought that the outgoing President was capable of such a thing.

The cut in funding is only the first measure the Israelis will be taking, according to their United Nations representatives.

Israel’s decision is supported by a lot of people. If it were me, I would cut all of the funding. Why would a country pay to meet others who intent to persecute them? In fact, the United States should follow suit!

Israel is our ally, and we should have supported them. Instead, our President decided to stab them in the back and continue to support the Islamic State. And the American people have to sit back and deal, but no more. This is the last straw.

Thank goodness Donald Trump is going to be in the White House soon, and the alliance with Israel can continue unhindered. Obama has made it perfectly clear that he will always support the Muslim people and no one else, but Trump is going to re-establish our strong ties with Israel.

www.angrypatriotmovement.com/israel-strikes-back-at-un/

1/9/2017 11:49:08 AM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

clarity101
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Quote from tileman1814:
There is so much news coming out at the Tea Party website that I can't keep up with it all.DH will only let me post so much and then they cut me off.
All I'm trying to do is share the news I think we should be aware of.

Semper Fi !!!



dh only cuts you off when you post in your own thread.

it works better if you ask someone else to create a thread for you then you can post all
you want.

it is annoying how you guys make a new thread everytime you post something instead of
letting things, ideas and comments flow.



2/3/2017 7:19:41 PM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

tileman1814
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Here is one more reason to get the US out of the UN and send the UN packing.

Semper Fi !!!

A shocking statement was made by a United Nations official Christiana Figueres at a news conference in Brussels.

Figueres admitted that the Global Warming conspiracy set by the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, of which she is the executive secretary, has a goal not of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity, but to destroy capitalism. She said very casually:

“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”

“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
I was invited to a major political dinner in Washington with the former Chairman of Temple University since I advised the University with respect to its portfolio. We were seated at one of those round tables with ten people. Because we were invited from a university, they placed us with the heads of the various environmental groups. They assumed they were in friendly company and began speaking freely. D*ck Fox, my friend, began to lead them on to get the truth behind their movement. Lo and behold, they too admitted it was not about the environment, but to reduce population growth. D*ck then asked them, “Whose grandchild are we trying to prevent from being born? Your’s or mine?

All of these movements seem to have a hidden agenda that the press helps to misrepresent all the time. One must wonder, at what point will the press realize they are destroying their own future?

Investors.com reminds Figueres that the only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.

www.zerohedge.com/

2/6/2017 4:51:41 PM WAR,The US Versus The UN  
rcrmike
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It's all very simple.

When the US pulls out of the UN, It's over! The US supplies the majority of the funds for the entire UN. More than the top three next largest donors. From there on down, the money is inconsequential.

No US support, they can't continue.

So why are we still there? Because we have untold NWO moles within our government that insist we need to be a member. And the other stupid ones listen to them.

America spends so much money that is used to shoot ourselves in the foot.

I'm expecting Trump to cancel our membership within his first term. Do you have any idea how much money we will save? Enough to protect Israel or anyone else, forever.

The math is very basic.

1. America saves a lot of money. Right now!
2. The NWO UN looses most of their income and goes bankrupt. Within weeks.
3. We don't spend more money funding unnecessary wars.

We win THREE different ways, get rid of a headache, and loose a bunch of bureaucrats off our payroll.

Oops, that makes FOUR wins in our column.


AAAAND, we don't have to go to war, we just pick up our marbles and say, Buh-Bye

2/7/2017 9:44:16 AM WAR,The US Versus The UN  

tileman1814
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Here is something to chew on.

Semper Fi !!!

In 2015, 35 countries will be charged the minimum regular budget assessment of 0.001 percent which works out to approximately$28,269 each. Twenty countries will be charged the minimum peacekeeping assessment of 0.0001 percent or approximately $8,470 apiece.

By contrast, the U.S. is assessed 22 percent of the regular budget (approximately $622 million) and over 28 percent of the peacekeeping budget (approximately $2.402 billion).

Put another way, the U.S. will be assessed more than 176 other member states combined for the regular budget and more than 185 countries combined for the peacekeeping budget. Who says America isn’t exceptional!

This is more than a complaint about dollars. It’s also about the value received for those outsized contributions. Consider: