Day: October 13, 2017

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) fell from grace at astounding speed. From being touted as the Obama administration’s “global partner” in globalizing education
just a few years ago, to facing a massive financial crisis and even a
U.S. government exit today under President Trump, UNESCO is on track to
become a byword for globalist corruption and tyranny. It also offers
Americans a powerful example of how easy it is to restore ceded U.S.
sovereignty and crush globalist schemes that undermine liberty,
morality, self-government, and common sense. Israel also announced its
departure. Now, it is time to focus on the broader United Nations.

Today, the U.S. State Department formally notified UNESCO boss Irina Bokova — an actual communist swamped in corruption scandals — that the United States is leaving the organization. In a statement, the U.S. State Department said
the decision “was not taken lightly.” The reason for the decision,
officials said, includes “U.S. concerns with mounting arrears at UNESCO,
the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing
anti-Israel bias at UNESCO.” More on each of those important points in a
moment.

In its official statement, the Trump administration said the U.S.
government “indicated to the Director General its desire to remain
engaged with UNESCO as a non-member observer state in order to
contribute U.S. views, perspectives and expertise on some of the
important issues undertaken by the organization, including the
protection of world heritage, advocating for press freedoms, and
promoting scientific collaboration and education.” But pursuant to
UNESCO’s Constitution, the U.S. will withdraw, with the decision taking
effect on the last day of 2018 — despite intense lobbying by globalists
and foreign powers.
Speaking about the Trump administration’s decision, widely criticized
UNESCO Director-General Bokova issued a statement touting UNESCO and
expressing regret over the U.S. government’s move. “At the time when
conflicts continue to tear apart societies across the world, it is
deeply regrettable for the United States to withdraw from the United
Nations agency promoting education for peace and protecting culture
under attack,” she said. “This is a loss to the United Nations family.
This is a loss for multilateralism.” Multilateralism is another term for
globalism.
Even before the Trump administration announced an “Amexit” from
UNESCO, though, relations were already strained. Thanks to 1990s federal
laws banning U.S. funding of international organizations that admit the
“State of Palestine” as a member, even under the Obama administration, the U.S. government was forced to cut off most American financial support
to the UN agency. Of course, Obama tried hard to get around that — and
even found creative ways to illegally send U.S. tax money — but the hole
in UNESCO’s budget, close to 25 percent of its budget, was still
catastrophic. UNESCO claims U.S. taxpayers “owe” it about half of a
billion dollars at this point. Other major donor governments, reacting
to UNESCO’s extremism and corruption, also withheld funding.
Among the most serious problems identified by critics around the world was UNESCO boss Bokova. Despite support from international communism and leading establishment globalists such as the Rothschild dynasty, among others,
Bokova, a longtime communist operative from Bulgaria, has become
infamous worldwide for lawlessness and corruption. She originally joined
the Bulgarian Communist Party as a youth member, despite the party’s
track record of mass murder and brutality. She later served in senior
posts in the communist regime, which murdered hundreds of thousands of
people — something for which she has never apologized. Her father was a
high-ranking communist bigwig, too. That helped to secure Bokova’s spot
at the KGB-controlled Moscow State Institute of International Relations,
an elite training center for future communist spies and operatives.    

The stench of corruption scandals has been swirling around Bokova for years, as well, much of it exposed by investigative watchdog group Bivol.
From lying on her résumé and owning luxury properties around the world
that her tax-funded income could not possibly account for, to using
public money and handing out “awards” to people in positions of
influence in her campaign to lead the UN, to appointing cronies without
qualifications to top posts, Bokova has attracted scrutiny worldwide.
Most recently, she was exposed by Bivol for using her luxurious UN-funded apartment-office in Paris
as the registered address for a shadowy business named after her and
her husband. Her husband, another communist operative burrowed into an
international organization, is already under investigation in Bulgaria
for mega-corruption and huge alleged bribes from murderous regimes.
Bokova’s corruption is so extreme and so well known that, in addition
to destroying UNESCO’s reputation, her own staffers been been begging
for external audits and investigations. As The New American reported, a large number of UNESCO staffers sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a fellow socialist linked to Bokova’s communist network through his leadership of the Socialist International,
pleading for help. To protect herself, though, Bokova is working hard
to ensure that a “friendly” candidate takes over when she leaves her
post later this year. The New American was the
first publication to report, citing insider sources at the agency, that
she was considering a Communist Chinese operative as ideal for the post. Today, the communist agent has been widely reported to be a front runner.
Even the “legitimate” activities of UNESCO under Bokova’s leadership
have drawn fierce criticism from defenders of liberty, national
sovereignty, common sense, education, science, culture, Christianity,
biology, and more. Consider, for example, a recent report disgorged by UNESCO that demands propaganda in textbooks pushing globalism, statism, the “LGBT” agenda, and other “values” that the UN agency claims all children must possess. The UN agency has also been fiendishly working to sexualize children as young as four-years old with perverse and wildly inappropriate “sex education.” And that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to UNESCO, which has long been seeking to standardize “education” around the world using, among other tools, the radical “World Core Curriculum” modeled on the bizarre teachings of Lucifer Publishing Company founder Alice Bailey.     
On Israel, UNESCO has long been criticized for its bizarre obsession
with demonizing the tiny Jewish state. Most recently, the disgraced UN
outfit came under criticism for adopting a resolution last year
describing Israel as an “occupying power” while downplaying the
historical Jewish connections to the Temple Mount, the Western Wall, and
more. Also sparking outrage was the resolution’s reference to the
“Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif” as holy Muslim sites, completely
erasing the historical and religious links of Jews to the sites. In
2015, UNESCO passed a similar resolution purporting to rename famous
Jewish historical and religious sites with Arabic names, again sparking
global outrage. Adding fuel to the fire, just today voting UNESCO member
states gave a plurality of votes to Qatari candidate Hamad bin
Abdulaziz Al-Kawari, widely accused of anti-Semitism, in the race to be
the outfit’s next leader.
According to UN Watch, each year, UNESCO adopts about 10 resolutions
criticizing a particular country. Unsurprisingly, considering the UN
agency’s membership roster, 100 percent of those resolutions target the
state of Israel, with one exception occurring in 2013 when Syria was
condemned in one resolution. The obsessive focus on Israel has become so
extreme that more than a few prominent Jewish and non-Jewish critics have referred to UNESCO as systemically anti-Semitic.
UNESCO is among the worst when it comes to UN agencies, many of which
consistently demonize Israel more than all other governments and
dictatorships combined.
Following Trump’s lead, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
calling the U.S. government’s move “brave and moral,” also announced
that his government would be withdrawing from UNESCO. “This is a
courageous and ethical decision because UNESCO has become a theater of
the absurd and instead of preserving history, distorts it,” he added.
Netanyahu has previously accused the UN outfit of promoting “fake
history.” Other senior Israeli officials also praised Trump’s decision.
“Today is a new day at the U.N., where there is price to pay for
discrimination against Israel,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon
was quoted as saying.
But while it may have gotten more extreme and more corrupt under
Bokova, UNESCO has a long and sordid history of extremism and
corruption. In fact, this is actually the second time the U.S.
government has withdrawn from UNESCO. The agency’s extremism and
hostility to basic liberties got so outlandish that, by 1983, President
Ronald Reagan decided to formally cancel the U.S. government’s
membership in the Soviet-dominated outfit, along with American funding
for it. In a series of scathing statements about the organization,
senior U.S. officials lambasted the UN agency and its collectivism. U.S.
State Department officials, for example, said UNESCO “has extraneously
politicized virtually every subject it deals with.”
The UN agency’s totalitarian extremism, which has accelerated in
recent years under communist operative Bokova’s tenure, was another key
issue in Reagan’s decision. UNESCO “has exhibited hostility toward the
basic institutions of a free society, especially a free market and a
free press, and has demonstrated unrestrained budgetary expansion,”
officials said, lambasting the organization for wasting money promoting
Soviet schemes and other totalitarian absurdities.
President Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State for International
Organizations Gregory Newell, meanwhile, said at the time that, despite
frequent warnings from U.S. officials, UNESCO has “served anti-U.S.
political ends.” Specifically, Newell cited “misguided policies,”
including “collectivist” schemes that promote “group rights” at the
expense of individual rights. He also blasted UNESCO’s promotion of
licensing schemes for journalists, its obsession with imposing a “New
International Economic Order” in which taxpayers in freer countries are
fleeced so their wealth could be redistributed to the UN and oppressive
Third World regimes, and numerous other problems.
The U.S. government re-joined UNESCO in 2003 under neoconservative
President George W. Bush. “As a symbol of our commitment to human
dignity, the United States will return to UNESCO,” Bush claimed, without
explaining how joining a dictator-dominated organization dedicated to
anti-American ideologies and plagued by scandal would be a symbol of
commitment to “human dignity.” Bush also claimed, falsely, as it turns
out, that the organization had been “reformed.” Recent events and
actions by UNESCO prove that the outfit has not only not “reformed,” but
that it is actually worse today than it was in 1984 when the U.S.
government withdrew.
The Trump administration made a very wise decision in exiting UNESCO.
But it is not enough. While it is a key agency, UNESCO is merely one
tentacle of the globalist-controlled monster that is the UN dictators
club. To protect the liberties and self-government of the American
people over the long term, Congress must act. Fortunately,
there is legislation already introduced in Congress, the American
Sovereignty Restoration Act (H.R. 193), that would end all U.S.
government involvement with the dictators club. Now it is up to the
American people to push the effort over the finish line by educating
their communities and their elected representatives.

Related articles:
U.S. Must Investigate and Withdraw From UN “Education” Agency
Communist UNESCO Boss Seeks Corrupt Successor to Escape Justice
UN Education Agency Slammed as Immoral & Anti-Semitic
UN “Education” Agency Staffers Seek Probe of Communist Chief
Corrupt Communist Leads Race for UN Boss
Common Core and UN Agenda 21: Mass Producing Green Global Serfs
UN Demands More Globalist Propaganda in School Textbooks
In Bid for Power, UN Communist Offers Obama a UN “Peace” Prize
Communist Candidate for UN Boss Relies on “Little KGB” Spies
Top Rothschild Bankster Pushes Corrupt Communist to Lead UN
Bulgarian Communist and UNESCO Boss Irina Bokova May Lead UN (Video)
UN and UNESCO Bosses to Join Communist Tyrants at “Victory Day”
UNESCO Report: Sex Guidelines for Kids From Birth
Bill to Get U.S. Out of UN Introduced in New Congress
UN Pushes Common Core-style Global Education Regime
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republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

This is most welcome and long overdue. Next step: withdraw from the
UN entirely and kick it out of New York. UNESCO (like the UN as a whole)
is simply a tool of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Last
year it passed a resolution declaring the Temple Mount Muslim, not Jewish. It renamed
the Western Wall “Al-Buraq Plaza.” And those were just two of its
ridiculous moves, defying history, reason, and any fair treatment of
Israel.

This is a good step. Now, Mr. President, take the next one.

“U.S. withdraws from UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural organization, citing anti-Israel bias,” by Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, October 12, 2017 (thanks to Paul):

The United States plans to withdraw from UNESCO, citing
financial reasons, as well as what it said was an anti-Israel bias at
the U.N.’s educational, cultural and science organization.
The decision to withdraw from UNESCO, which the United States helped
found, was announced Thursday morning by the State Department, which
said the United States would remain involved as a nonmember observer. It
will take effect at the end of 2018.
It marks yet another decision by the United States to distance itself from some parts of the international community.
Some of the United States’s closest allies are among UNESCO’s 195
members. France’s U.N. ambassador, Francois Delattre, had urged the
United States to remain in UNESCO this week, saying the United States
“must stay committed to world affairs.”…
But the United States has at times had an ambivalent relationship
with the Paris-based organization. The government stopped paying its
dues in 2011 after UNESCO voted to include the Palestinian Authority as a
member.
And senior Trump administration officials — including U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations Nikki Haley — have been critical of the
organization….