I can't believe that no one has mentioned this: Oil for Food.
The UN was in charge of the largest fraud ever. The UN was supposed to oversee the humanitarian efforts of getting food and medicines to the Iraq people, in exchange for some oil coming out.
Instead, billions of dollars were sent to the mass murdering Saddam Hussain, in exchange for the lucrative oil contracts. The top UN executive for the program, Bennon Sevan, was on the take as well. The head of the UN, Kofi Annan, was possibly involved. His son, Kojo was in on the fraud. So, either Kofi is the dumbest person alive, and really did not have anything to do with the corruption, or he was complicit in the scheme.
Any way you look at it, it does not look good for the UN. Why would we want to let this buracracy take any control of the Internet? This is the same organization that puts countries like Zimbabwe, Sudan and Saudi Arabia on the human rights council. The UN can't even formally define terrorism as the killing of non-military persons. Also, it sends "peace keepers" into the Congo that end up raping children!
What exactly can the UN take credit for since it's inception? None of the world's conflicts have been solved by anything the UN has done.
While it is true that the world needs a forum for discussion, it certainly does not need this corrupt organization to actually be in charge of anything.
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I can't believe that no one has mentioned this: Oil for Food.
The UN was in charge of the largest fraud ever. The UN was supposed to oversee the humanitarian efforts of getting food and medicines to the Iraq people, in exchange for some oil coming out.
Instead, billions of dollars were sent to the mass murdering Saddam Hussain, in exchange for the lucrative oil contracts. The top UN executive for the program, Bennon Sevan, was on the take as well. The head of the UN, Kofi Annan, was possibly involved. His son, Kojo was in on the fraud. So, either Kofi is the dumbest person alive, and really did not have anything to do with the corruption, or he was complicit in the scheme.
Any way you look at it, it does not look good for the UN. Why would we want to let this buracracy take any control of the Internet? This is the same organization that puts countries like Zimbabwe, Sudan and Saudi Arabia on the human rights council. The UN can't even formally define terrorism as the killing of non-military persons. Also, it sends "peace keepers" into the Congo that end up raping children!
What exactly can the UN take credit for since it's inception? None of the world's conflicts have been solved by anything the UN has done.
While it is true that the world needs a forum for discussion, it certainly does not need this corrupt organization to actually be in charge of anything.