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2019-10-12 International-UN-NGOs

UN axes cocktail soirees amid $1.3B cash crisis

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Posted by Fred 2019-10-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 They could audit the "personal expenses" of the last five UN Secretary-Generals and would probably find enough corruption to pay for a month or two.

Independent Audit... Now that is a phrase that causes the UN bureaucracy to run screaming away like a vampire shown a holy cross!

Posted by magpie 2019-10-12 00:18|| 2019-10-12 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I hear Ulan Bator is a lot cheaper than NY.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-12 05:08|| 2019-10-12 05:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Hardly makes life worth living in NYC. Well, it's off to Vermont to watch the leaves change into fall colors!

Posted by Whavimp Grath4899 2019-10-12 06:52|| 2019-10-12 06:52|| Front Page Top

#4 1) Let me do the audit. Please...

2) Will they have enough $ for sternly worded letters?

Posted by Raj 2019-10-12 07:31|| 2019-10-12 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The top contributor should simply renege. Why must any nation be a 'top contributor' to what is effectively just an unaccountable nuisance to sovereign states tying to run their own shit ?

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-12 08:59|| 2019-10-12 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 OK. It's not the Babylon Bee but this is some other satire site, right? Right? I mean, they wouldn't really cancel the cocktail parties, would they? And all those high falutin' diplomats have to buy their own liquor? And what about the girls? Tell me this is satire.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-12 12:27|| 2019-10-12 12:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Trump cut off U.N. money and they start to fold. We must have providing most of the money that kept them afloat. Good for our taxpayers that they fold. The U.N. was a tool for the globalists to take power and sovereignty from the U.S. Another good reason to re-elect Trump for doing work for the U.S.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-10-12 18:22|| 2019-10-12 18:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Why are they even physically there in New York? If you ask any of them, GlobalWarmingClimateChangeFossilFuel is the biggest problem humanity faces. Save the Planet, reduce your big-ass air travel carbon footprint, and teleconference. You do have electricity in your countries, don't you?

(if not, you better get some! You're going to need it to run your electric cars)

Posted by SteveS 2019-10-12 21:18|| 2019-10-12 21:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Not to worry, Biden will be president in 2021 and he'll restore full finding as long as we give Hunter a big fat salary. Or so they keep telling themselves.

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-10-12 21:46|| 2019-10-12 21:46|| Front Page Top

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Posted by CrazyFool 2019-10-12 21:46|| 2019-10-12 21:46|| Front Page Top

#11

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-10-12 21:46|| 2019-10-12 21:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Whoo hoo triple post! Mods please fit. Thank you!

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-10-12 21:48|| 2019-10-12 21:48|| Front Page Top

#13

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-10-12 21:48|| 2019-10-12 21:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Done - but that's the only option I have, CF. No problem

Posted by Frank G 2019-10-12 22:37|| 2019-10-12 22:37|| Front Page Top

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