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Old 07-22-2012, 09:40 AM   #1
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Exclamation The United Nations’ uneasy peace

An excellent article detailing some of the garbage that comes out of the UN & how increasingly, countries are withdrawing from various UN agencies because of disconnects with reality. One example - Robert Mugabe has been named a "UN tourism ambassador" prompting Canada to withdraw from the UN tourism office. I think we can campaign for tourist dollars quite well without his help. Syria is allegedly campaigning for a seat on the UN Human Rights body - it gets weirder:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07...-uneasy-peace/
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