It will go down as one of the great failures of the Harper government that they did not resign Canada’s membership in the United Nations when they had the chance.

Furious Israeli politicians accused the UN’s cultural arm of anti-Semitism Thursday in the wake of a resolution approved by UNESCO that erases the Jewish connection the Jerusalem holy sites.
Lawmakers from both the right and left of the political spectrum said the decision, which refers to the Temple Mount and Western Wall only by their Muslim names and condemns Israel as “the occupying power” for various actions taken in both places, was ill-befitting of UNESCO.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the decision “absurd,” while President Reuven Rivlin called it an “embarrassment” for UNESCO. The Executive Board of UNESCO is next week set to approve the resolution, which passed Thursday at the committee stage.
Culture Minister Miri Regev slammed the resolution as “shameful and anti-Semitic,” and Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel called for Israel to increase the Jewish presence on the Temple Mount, a flashpoint site governed by a tense status quo, in response.
“To say that Israel has no link to the Temple Mount is like saying that China has no link to the Great Wall or that Egypt has no connection to the Pyramids,” Netanyahu said, adding that “with this absurd decision UNESCO has lost what little legitimacy it still had.”

What caused Haiti’s cholera epidemic? The CDC museum knows but won’t say.

The bureaucrats are always the last to know;

Six years ago, I became an assistant secretary general, posted to the headquarters in New York. I was no stranger to red tape, but I was unprepared for the blur of Orwellian admonitions and Carrollian logic that govern the place. If you locked a team of evil geniuses in a laboratory, they could not design a bureaucracy so maddeningly complex, requiring so much effort but in the end incapable of delivering the intended result. The system is a black hole into which disappear countless tax dollars and human aspirations, never to be seen again.

He leaves the rapes and killings for further on down the column.

US quietly maneuvers to cut UN dues

There is cautious hope among diplomats that the U.S. can chip away at least marginally at the U.N.’s “scale of assessments”– a dues system loaded in favor of many poor and not-so-poor countries that pay less than their fair share, and saddle the small number of rich countries — especially the U.S. — with the difference.

h/t peterj

and fermented cabbage.
I wonder if beer and pizza count as an “intangible cultural heritage”.

Agenda 2030;

“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history,” Figueres, who heads up the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, told reporters in February.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for the at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution,” Figueres said.

It could work.
h/t Robert of Ottawa

Rinse, repeat;

The United Nations has fired its peacekeeping chief in the Central African Republic after a new scandal over alleged sexual abuse by UN troops, even as the sacked commander warned of a “systemic problem” of sexual abuse by peacekeepers.

h/t Maz2

Defund this monkey cage: The UN Just Condemned a Single Nation for Women’s Rights Violations. Can You Guess Which One?

“Give ’em hell, Tony.”

The zombie statistic about women’s share of income and property

CNS News; Islamic Bloc Raises UN ‘Anti-Religious Intolerance’ Measure Backed by Obama Administration