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Idea 4310 ~
In
1969, when I was
briefly Director
of the UN Budget,
I jotted down this
note: 'The United
States maintains
around the world
429 major military
bases, 2900
smaller bases, one
million military
personnel, 500,000
members of their
families, 275,000
foreign workers,
and spends for
that between five
and six billion
dollars a year.
In 1969, the UN budget was 168 million dollars and the total number of UN international civil servants and of all its specialized agencies and world programs, including secretaries, was 40,000.' And with that, the UN is supposed to deal with all the major problems of this planet from peace to human rights, from health to education, from development to the environment, from outer space to the atom, etc. In my view, the political opponents of the UN budget should be straightened out by their voters. Sixteen years later, in 1985, the UN budget was 800 million dollars shared by 160 nations. During the same year world military budgets were 800 billion dollars, i.e. a thousand times more. Of the UN budget the US was assessed 200 million dollars or one third of the cost of an atomic Trident submarine. And yet that government complains that the UN is too costly and that the US pays too much! Historians will someday shake their heads in utter disbelief of such facts. (See Annex II of Part IV.) One of the best businesses on Earth: The US gets back in UN and delegations expenditures three times what it pays to the UN and complains that the UN costs too much and that the US contribution is too high! Switzerland has it even better: it collects the second biggest sum from the UN and is not even a member of the UN! * What a world! * It finally became a member in 2002. Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living, Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation Chapter 5 - The Miracle of Individual Life Dear philosopher Descartes, I believe that I am infinitely more than what you thought when you said "I think, therefore I am". In my opinion. I breathe, therefore I am I see, therefore I am I hear, therefore I am I think, therefore I am I love, therefore I am I feel, therefore I am. Of course, you might return: "You thought everything you just said. Therefore I am right after all!" No, you are not right, because when I breathe, when I see, when I hear, when I love, when I feel I do not necessarily think.
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