The United Nations Charter statement, “We, the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…”, prompted The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to adopt the Declaration of Principles on Tolerance. Conflicting goals and the manipulation of reality were required to adopt this culture-of-peace program and to have made accountability in education justifiably contentious. Teachers do not want to be held accountable for policies and curricula which are founded on false premises and manipulated data when teachers have no authority to alter either. While it is noble to
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In yet another assault on national sovereignty, various liberal leaning groups from within the United States have invited United Nations election monitors to be observers during the presidential election in just two weeks. United Nations-affiliated election monitors from central Asia and Europe and will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for what they think to be voter suppression activities by conservative groups. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects, will be sending 44 observers from its human rights office to monitor
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Ever since the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, there have been people trying their hardest to come up with reasons why these important amendments to the U.S. Constitution really don’t mean what they seem to mean. The First Amendment, with its insistence that the rights of free speech never be abridged, has been
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Though a number of cities and county governments have taken steps to break ties with what is sometimes known as the United Nations Agenda 21, Alabama has become the first state to take such a stand. The new Alabama law prohibits any government involvement in ICLEI, or the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. At its heart, ICLEI has essentially been an end around by which environmental activists have been able to push their globalist agenda through what is often called “soft law”. When countries like the United States fail to adopt the environmentalist agenda
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Obama administration is ramping up its support of the UN Law of the Sea Treaty, often known as LOST. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey all appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday in support for what is essentially an attack on our national sovereignty. Advocates for the treaty are counting on senators to do what they did when considering the new START Treaty a couple of years ago: take the president’s word for
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The decline of the dollar is being followed with interest by America’s rivals around the world. Currently, the greenback is at three year lows against key competitor currencies such as the Euro and the Swiss franc. It’s setting new records for lows against the reminbi (which doesn’t even trade freely!) and even Brazilian reals and
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An old story is becoming new again, worrying many homeschooling and independently minded parents across the country.  The UN Convention on Rights of the Child first made headlines in 1989 when the first signatures were attached to the agreement.  Now, 20 years later, only two countries remain who have not ratified the bill—Somalia and the
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