Wu Hongbo: A bolshevik propaganda style at the helm of UN-DESA

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Posted By Colum Lynch Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 2:53 PM

Some high-ranking U.N. officials hired in the wake of Ban Ki-moon's re-election have been receiving something of a hero's welcome at Turtle Bay, marked by the solicitousness one would associate with, say, a visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a rural hemp factory.

The U.N. Department of Management (DM) and the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), issued internal memos last month detailing the debuts of their new bosses, undersecretary generals Yukio Takasu, a former veteran Japanese diplomat who once served on the U.N. Security Council, and Wu Hongbo, a former top official in China's foreign ministry, in their first three months of office, while taking note of the incredible pride their staff take in serving the United Nations...

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Ban Ki-moon: Just another shill

Ban Ki-moon, dubbed the "Invisible Man" by The Wall Street Journal, has of late become quite transparent indeed as a shill for the failed policies of the United Nations.

About halfway through his first term as secretary-general, Mr. Ban stands by his self-professed "quiet diplomacy" when decisive leadership is so desperately needed. And instead of rightful condemnation, he condones U.N. lunacy.

Following Iran's rogue election of a world miscreant, the titular head of Turtle Bay reportedly dispatched a letter of congratulations to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Splattered by the blowback, the U.N. quickly issued an explanation, saying Mr. Ban's letter wasn't an endorsement but an expression of hope "that Iran and the United Nations will continue to cooperate closely in addressing regional and global issues."

Obviously that excludes Iran's nuclear ambitions, against which the United Nations has been utterly useless.

Meanwhile Ban has been anything but quiet in the U.N.'s fear-mongering over global warming, telling an audience at an economic forum that humanity has "just four months ... to secure the future of our planet." Only four months because the "science" of the U.N.'s climate canard rapidly is crumbling as more nations reject its tax-looting, industry-crippling diktats.

Ban Ki-moon continues the unremarkable tradition of his predecessors, giving the United States and like-minded nations more reason to abandon this ship of fools.