{"id":31389,"date":"2012-08-09T05:37:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T09:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31389"},"modified":"2012-08-09T10:38:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T14:38:26","slug":"if-you-doubted-that-the-un-was-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31389","title":{"rendered":"If You Doubted That the UN Was Useless  . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . then you might want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2012\/08\/08\/sudan-election-to-un-human-rights-council-all-but-certain-watchdog-says\/\">read this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s the same Sudan whose president has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for &#8220;crimes against humanity&#8221; for genocide in Darfur. But the UN apparently has no problem with giving them a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u00a0 (the US taxpayer)\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterworldcampaign.org\/issues\/funding\/\">pick up 22% of the cost of the UN&#8217;s everyday budget and 27% of the cost of UN peacekeeping operations<\/a>.\u00a0 &#8220;Your tax dollars at work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe those John Birch Society billboards about the UN from the 1960s were right after all. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . then you might want to read this article. Yeah, that&#8217;s the same Sudan &hellip; <a title=\"If You Doubted That the UN Was Useless  . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31389\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If You Doubted That the UN Was Useless  . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}