in other words maintain the status quo .....Quote:
Originally Posted by Storekeeper
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in other words maintain the status quo .....Quote:
Originally Posted by Storekeeper
The Utter Dysfunction of the United Nations
A report written by "a concerned group of current and former UN employees" and emailed from IO Watch.
Recently Mark Malloch Brown, deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, said that "Middle America" did not know how the US is constructively engaged with the UN because of UN detractors and too much unchecked UN-bashing and stereotyping over too many years. Friends, the UN deserves to be bashed and bashed hard. Please allow us to give you a glimpse into how the United Nations is run:
Hirings and promotions routinely violate UN rules (and are illegal under most national laws) and revolve around patronage and whom one knows rather than professional qualifications. Poorly performing managers are simply moved into different management slots while others are placed in senior positions solely because of their nationality, or because of favors owed to them by their supervisors or colleagues.
Salaries for UN employees are free of taxes and come with six weeks vacation, 11 holidays, 10 sick days that are often used as vacation, plus 4 weeks of "home leave", rental and housing grants to supplement an already generous salary (we all make an average of $7,000-$10,000 a month tax free), a pension at 8% of salary times years of service that can be cashed out tax free at any time, and educational subsidies for children of UN employees. Many also participate in an "alternative work schedule" in which they get every other Friday off. But don't even try to apply. Your application will not be acknowledged nor will you ever get invited for a job interview. You must know someone to work at the UN (or worse, sleep with them).
Several of us have advanced degrees in management and have been trained to manage large public organizations, yet we are blocked from advancing by bureaucrats in their 50s with no management training, education, or experience - only sitting in their chairs because they are friends with someone in a higher position. We threaten them because they know they are there based only on their connections.
And there is a profound lack of accountability within the UN regarding budget and resource allocation, resulting in loss of millions upon millions each year through skimming, graft and corruption. Simple procurement that would normally take five minutes using modern technology systems takes 2-3 months in the UN. And many United Nations Development Program country offices pay "local experts" outrageously high sums of money for products of dubious quality. Such contracts would never be made by other international aid agencies such as USAID that have much stronger internal controls and oversight.
Much more here
Looks like jobs at the White House. Your point ? maybe we should get rid of the White House too.
Too bad the 911 heros missed the target
MORE ON THE U.N.
United Nations deputy secretary-general Mark Malloch Brown has a singular view of what constitutes international diplomacy. He said in a speech recently that the American public is ignorant of the importance and effectiveness of the UN because of the U.S. government's tolerance of "too much unchecked UN-bashing and stereotyping." .... In fact, during its six decades, the overall record of the United Nations has been so rife with failure, corruption and incompetence -- to say nothing of poor judgment, rudeness and condescension, as exemplified by Mr. Malloch Brown -- that it deserves to be disdained.
The organization's best known interventions -- attempts to attain and maintain peace -- too often have been exercises in lowest-common-denominator diplomacy that progresses at a glacial pace; and its essays into public health and environmental protection are frequently disastrous failures. The UN's leaders and programs consistently lack an appreciation for the relationship between wealth creation and public and environmental health. Mr. Malloch Brown's boss, Secretary General Kofi Annan, has expressed the hope that concern for "intellectual property" will not "get into the way" of producing and distributing drugs for a potential avian-flu pandemic. In other words, companies that make drugs and vaccines should abandon their intellectual property at Mr. Annan's whim.
Even if the recent incidents of corruption, dishonesty and profiteering -- exemplified by the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal and its coverup, sexual abuse of refugees by UN officials and peacekeepers, the botched investigation of the assassination of Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri, and procurement scams -- are anomalies, it is hard to explain away the anti-social outcomes of business as usual.
Nothing the UN has inflicted on innovation is worse than its record on biotechnology applied to agriculture and food production. At the UN's Task Force on Biotech Foods (which operates under the auspices of something called the Codex Alimentarius Commission, itself a creature of the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization), only gene-spliced products are addressed, a scope that has been condemned by experts repeatedly as unscientific and indefensible. The work of the task force prevents the wider diffusion of a superior technology for agriculture and food production and is directly detrimental to farmers, consumers, academic researchers and industry worldwide. It will exacerbate malnutrition and starvation in the developing world....
The UN's assault on innovation and wealth creation demands a counter-attack. The United States and other like-minded nations can provide the firepower by withholding funds and participation from UN agencies and programs that are corrupt or incompetent. Better still, they should cease paying any dues at all until the entire organization undergoes fundamental and genuine reform.
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So to get a job with the UN you have to know someone and they have to know you. It sounds like a very private and cautious club.
Do you think they really rob and steal that much money, money which is meant to relieve misery? How do people like that live with themselves?
Same as working for MS, Intel, Apple etc... it's called co-opQuote:
Originally Posted by attaboy
everybody is doing it, except when the UN does it, it gives a chance for some to bash it more
Intel hires people who submit resumes at job faires. They are a pretty fair bunch but you do have to work for your paycheck.
^ back in 1991 maybe
Try to send your application to MS
Many employers prefer to hire people with a prior military background. They love hardchargers ya know :p You get somebody with commitment and loyalty ... as well as somebody who can pass a fuggin' piss test ;)
^ I believe you. Every managers love to have "yes men" under them. If you have a gay manager, it's definitely a plus
Spoken like all the other losers with excuses for their shortcomings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
Can't get a job - join the army for a couple of years.
Might have a better chance of finding employment after that, or maybe not.
Who knows?
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Originally Posted by Storekeeper
You two argue even when you are saying the same thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,...060757,00.htmlQuote:
The new UN Human Rights Council began its first-ever session in Geneva with high hopes that it will do more for the victims of abuses and avoid the political horse-trading of the past.
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The new body replaces the former UN Commission on Human Rights, which was widely regarded as discredited due to the dominant presence of countries with poor human rights records and pervasive behind-the-scenes political bargaining that helped states duck criticism.
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The council, however, is already beset by criticism and lacks the support of the United States. Washington was one of only a handful of UN members to vote against the new body, saying the reforms did not go far enough to correct the deficiencies of the commission. It also objected to the inclusion of Cuba and other alleged rights abusers, such as China and Saudi Arabia.
Patriotism Litmus Test. America vs. the U.N.:
"...Here is Goldberg's General Rule on Patriotism: The more negative your view of America, the more positive your view of the United Nations."
"...America, true patriots recognize, is a nation and a system of laws and institutions designed to ensure individual liberty. The United Nations — a few charitable enterprises notwithstanding — is an expense-account boondoggle largely designed to fill the wallets of kleptocrats and assuage the egos of runner-up nations."
"...The same people who despise the federal and republican aspects of the United States — states' rights, the electoral college, indirect elections, etc. — will swoon over the moral authority of U.N. "votes" criticizing the United States. This is like having a gang of criminals "vote" on which old lady they're going rob and kill and then, looking at the corpse, say, "Well, it was a democratic decision." (This paragraph made me think of dirtydog)
"...Of course, you can think the U.N. is great for America and still love America deeply. Indeed, I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: "You're mistaken."
drinking early in the morning, SK ?
Unless you're a muslim.Quote:
Originally Posted by Storekeeper
American muslims are granted equal rights like all other Americans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
no according to them
They do nothing but whining, just like the pinko liberals.
Ungrateful lot.
The American muslims I know aren't whining.
Hamas Tries to Kill Jews, UN Blames Israel
There they go again. The old UN Human Rights Commission is now the new UN Human Rights Council, but nothing else has changed. In response to the abduction of an Israeli soldier and the constant barrage of rocket fire into Israeli towns, the UN condemned....the victim.The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday deplored Israel's military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as breaching international humanitarian law.The UN, now joined by the US Supreme Court, makes a mockery of international humanitarian law by moral equivalence and extending protections, but not responsibilities, to terrorists. Sadly, the U.S. administration remains excessively diplomatic in its rhetoric. It's far past time for unvarnished candor: the UN is a joke and can never function as long as it maintains this preposterous mindset.
"Stop, Or We'll Say Stop Again"
In yet another example of how useless the UN is, it refuses to do anything meaningful about North Korea's bizarre, childish behavior. Of course, this is because the UN is a lowest common denominator of world diplomacy and China and Russia are damn near the bottom of the barrel.China and Russia held firm in their opposition to a Japanese-drafted U.N. resolution that would call for sanctions on North Korea for its barrage of missile tests, including a long-range weapon, diplomats said.Ooh! A statement! That'll teach 'em. North Korea will think twice before flouting the International Community again. Repeat after me: unless the UN actually does something, it will be worth nothing. And since it won't do anything, it is literally worthless (i.e. it has no worth).
Consequently the 15-member U.N. Security Council, whose junior diplomats meet on the issue again on Thursday, may have to resort to a statement, which is weaker than a resolution and does not impose any action, participants at the talks said.
Our beloved hero must having a laugh over all this. The US has undermined the UN credibility after it went to war without UN approval, so no surprise that nobody want to listen to it anymore. A weak UN is the path to new wars.