Roasting the Press Episode 40 for Sunday, September 15th, 2024
United Nations Propaganda from the Past, the Present & the UN Pact for the Future + Adaption Propaganda from the CBC and the Children’s Aid Society + More on Monkey Pox.
Tonight’s new media personalities include Freedom Forum editor Chuck Black, independent media commentator Marie Anne and Mongo Minds Productions owner Richard Gagnon.
United Nations Propaganda from the Past, the Present & the UN Pact for the Future.
Our first story tonight is all about the United Nations (UN), and the propaganda it spews out to the general public and its various “stakeholders.”
Current UN propaganda is closely tied to centralizing international decision making within the various arms of the UN. These include the UN General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice and the UN Secretariat.
The UN also includes a multitude of specialized agencies, funds, and programs, including the World Bank Group, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UNESCO, and UNICEF, along with the various non-governmental organizations which may be granted consultative status with the various UN agencies.
Each agency needs its own PR to justify its ongoing existence and develop new sources of funding.
Current UN propaganda and PR is heavily focused around the UN Summit of the Future, being held in New York from September 20th - 23rd, 2024 and three “core agreements” scheduled for discussion at the summit.
The three core agreements are:
The UN Pact for the Future, a proposed global “pact” intended to centralize international decision making related to financing, peace and security, science, technology, and innovation and youth future generations within the UN and its various components. Key objectives of the pact include:
Strengthen “international cooperation” and consolidate the central role of the UN in “addressing global issues.”
Identify and respond to new and evolving threats, such as “climate change, technological advancements, and geopolitical tensions.”
Restore “trust” and rebuild public “confidence” in international institutions and processes, especially organizations affiliated with or supporting the UN.
Accelerate progress towards achieving the seventeen point UN promoted sustainable development goals (SDGs).
A Global Digital Compact, a digital “framework” designed to control the development of future digital technologies and insure that any future technologies are developed under approved UN parameters. Key objectives of the “compact” include:
“Supervising” and legislating internet access to ensure that “everyone has access to affordable, reliable, and secure internet connectivity.”
“Empowering individuals” with the skills and knowledge necessary to “participate fully” in the digital world.
“Safeguarding fundamental freedoms and privacy in the digital sphere.”
Encouraging “collaboration among governments, businesses, civil society, and international organizations to address digital challenges.”
Supporting UN sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Although promoted as being one of the core documents being discussed by the UN in New York this weekend, the Declaration for Future Generations, is the most ambiguous. Discussions are expected to focus around the following themes:
Intergenerational justice, or “ensuring that future generations have the same opportunities and resources as current generations.”
Supporting UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) and “addressing the urgent threat of climate change and taking decisive action to mitigate its impacts.”
Harnessing the potential of technology to create “a more equitable and sustainable future while addressing its risks.”
Strengthening international cooperation and institutions to address global challenges effectively under UN supervision.
The UN has no standing army and is unable to implement its wish-list without the active support of nations with standing armies willing to enforce UN policies or rich bankers willing to purchase standing armies to enforce UN policies.
So the UN keeps organizing meetings and summits and infiltrating national governments through organizations like the World Economic Forum (WEF) hoping to eventually build a consensus that they should be in charge.
It’s curious to note that most current UN literature is either blue or brown/gold. These colors are intentional for the images and emotions they invoke.
Blue suggests “a calming effect on the mind,” and discourages oversight or any sort of action. In essence, there’s nothing to see here. We should all move along now and be confident of the end result.
Brown suggests “reliability,” and provides a “calming effect on the subconscious levels of the mind.” You can trust UN deliberations, even if you shouldn’t look to closely at what they’re doing.
Gold, named after the precious metal, is the color of luxury, success, achievement, and triumph. It is closely related to royalty, wealth, and, of course, money.
It’s also worth noting that UN propaganda conveyed a different image to a different and far more general interest audience in its early years.
Here’s an example of early 1960 UN propaganda from the 1960’s television series, “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
It’s was certainly a more black and white world in the 1960’s, with the transnational UNCLE agents acting as a shield to hold back the evil darkness in the shadows.
The program derived from an idea generated from author Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond novels and worked for British Naval Intelligence during WW2.
But Fleming’s dark visage was also an overview of a far more participatory world.
The Man from UNCLE was a top rated program on a major American network. Millions of people watched the program weekly and an ongoing plot subtext was the need for ordinary citizens, often women with “extraordinary” knowledge or connections to temporarily join the professional spies and defend democracy.
In the 1960’s, the elites served us and they’re certainly weren’t all powerful. Sometimes they even needed our assistance, gave us useful information and were at least trying to encourage us go about our day to day lives.
Times have certainly changed.
Today’s propaganda is served up by academics for academics and rich “stakeholders” looking to rule the world. It includes a lot of monologues and diatribes and power-points and where once the battle included our participation and was all about preserving our options, that’s no longer the case.
The best current iteration of UN propaganda would just have to be the September 11th, 2024 McMaster University post, “Brighter Future” post, “Analysis: How the United Nations’ Pact for the Future could help heal a fractured world.”
It’s essentially a diatribe written by Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh, an academic with overt public connections to the United Nations. His thesis begins with the premise that individuals cannot make a difference in the current crisis.
The problems of the world, including climate change, ongoing war, the COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging diseases, human rights abuses and gross inequality, are spilling well beyond national borders and the ability — or willingness — of individual countries to manage them.
Ibhawoh also talks about a “desperate need for solutions” and offers up the UN to take up that role. He doesn’t really offer up any solutions but like any good party bureaucrat, he suggests that the organizations he works for, McMaster University and the UN, are in the best positions to consider solutions.
These are truly existential problems, and no single country or group of countries has the mandate or resources to take them on alone. But multilateral collaboration, through the United Nations, is at hand.
The UN is preparing for a significant evolution as it prepares to finalize and adopt its new Pact for the Future, a sweeping document that will guide international action to resolve current crises and shift its focus to the future. A key theme is “enhancing efforts towards peace-building, conflict resolution, and the protection of human rights.
Essentially the author is looking for tenure and job security. Ibhawoh doesn’t want to solve a problem. He wants to run the forum tasked with finding solutions until he retires.
At the end of his diatribe, the author notes that, while other “autocrats and rogue states” are attempting to restrict freedoms and centralize authority around a small cadre, the UN will instead “use the collective power of shared leadership” to centralize authority around a small cadre.
But it will be OK if the UN does it and we should believe Professor Ibhawoh when he says so.
The academic finishes up by noting that “we all have our part to play.” But unlike the 1960’sTV series, our new role is mostly just stepping back to accept our fate while the stakeholders and academics collect information and make power-point presentations, mostly because no one really wants to solve anything.
They just want tenure and to remain relevant.
In essence, this current propaganda from the UN about propaganda is stupid and pretty ineffective. It’s all about appealing to authority and it bypasses the people.
It’s not going to convince anyone to do anything unlike the 1969’s spy programs, which at least helped to build a public consensus for four decades of cold war military spending.
Maybe the UN just needs some cool theme music.
Adaption Propaganda from the CBC and the Children’s Aid Society
Our second story begins with the September 10th, 2024 CBC News post, “China quietly ends international adoptions.”
It’s an interesting piece highlighting how at least some parents are annoyed over new new Chinese regulations limiting international adaptions.
We then move on to an oldie but a goodie, the April 22nd, 2022 CBC News post, “GTA family finally brings adopted children from Ukraine home amid war.”
We wind up with the undated Ontario Adaption Assistance website.
We note that none of these sites include any real discussions about what happened to the parents of the children being given up for adaption.
More on Monkey Pox
We finish up with the August 24th, 2024 Mongo Minds on Btchute post, “Doctor Whistleblower Reveals Dangerous Vaccine Ingredient.”
As always, it’s scary, scary stuff.
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