Friday - July 06, 2012

They Wouldn’t Do That To Us, Would They?

The U.S. State Department is investigating the shipment of computers and other sophisticated equipment to North Korea and Iran by way of an obscure United Nations agency, despite ongoing U.N. and U.S. sanctions against both governments aimed at blocking their development of nuclear weapons.

The broadening inquiry raises new concerns about the ways in which U.N. agencies have managed to sidestep restrictions that the world body expects the rest of the world to obey in halting the spread of sensitive technologies to nuclear-ambitious pariah regimes.

It also calls into question how much U.N. member states know about the activities of agencies they supposedly approve and supervise.

In this case, there are hints that the top official at the U.N. agency, the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, “has not yet been fully open” to the inquiries, according to a senior U.S. official.

The State Department probe came in the wake of Fox News revelations in April about the actions by WIPO in sending such sensitive equipment to North Korea by a complicated method that seemed designed to bypass U.N. Security Council sanctions against the country.

The shipments took place in late 2011 or early 2012, and were financed through the Beijing offices of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

The WIPO actions also violated the sweeping restrictions of the equipment manufacturer, Hewlett-Packard, which forbids any HP equipment from being sent to such regimes.

I wonder if the real-world name of WIPO isn’t the “supporting tyrannies to defeat the West department” ... otherwise known as the General Assembly. We couldn’t trust them on the Oil For Food thing in Iraq, and now we’re learning they’ve given us the shaft again. “not fully open”?? To hell with that. There is NOT ONE THING that this world body does, says, writes, or thinks that should not immediately be in the public domain. No secrets. Not ever. Full cooperation and total transparency, always. Anything less is absolute proof of corruption. They are not a government. They are a world body tasked with improving the world and enhancing peace and freedom. Secrets and plots are not part of that.

The UN is nothing but a facade, a false shroud of respectability, for tinpot dictators and communist agitators to hide behind, and has been so for many years. It doesn’t matter if the USA is part of WIPO; our guys were kept in the dark. Or perhaps not, given the tinpot dictator and communist agitator we have in the White House. Maybe this is another Fast & Furious kind of scandal that’s just beginning to be found out. CYA ASAP?

Dump the UN. De-fund them and sell their building on the East River as an apartment block. You want some kind of useful international body? Then form an Alliance of Democratic Nations. Keep the thugs and reds out, set things up so that all the member nations do at least 85% of all their trading with other member nations, actively work at the overthrow and demise of every other non-member nation, and screw them all. Let them rot. They’re trying to screw us, and have been for ages, so it’s high time what few Good Guys are left got together and took a stand. FTW, FTW (fuck the world, for the win).

Posted by Drew458     on 07/06/2012 at 12:31 PM   
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