Monday, March 9, 2026
The UN is a Potemkin village of failed programs
Defund The U.N.
The United Nations is having a budget crisis. It might have to lay off part of its staff. No one should be brokenhearted over this. It should instead be cause for celebration. The U.N. is nothing more than a parasite leeching off the American taxpayer while propping up dictators, terrorists, and every left-wing crackpot scheme ever dreamed up. It should be dissolved.
Earlier this year, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres “sent a dramatic letter to” member states to warn them “about the ‘imminent financial collapse'” of the organization, says the Global Policy Forum of Europe. “The letter followed earlier warnings” that the U.N. might be forced to cut its budget by 15% in 2026, meaning a reduction in the workforce by roughly 2,600.
Which would be a start, but with 37,000 employees, only a modest one.
Media reports further tell us that the U.S. is pressuring the U.N. to pare down its staff. Given the Trump administration’s warranted enmity toward the U.N., that isn’t surprising, but the fact that other nations “are also warming to the idea” is. It’s an encouraging sign that maybe the previously myopic have come to see the United Nations for what it is: A true basket of deplorables who cling to their false narratives and wholly unearned but media-burnished reputations to justify the organization’s existence.
When we made a similar argument against the U.N. last year, we listed irrefutable evidence that it is neither peacemaker nor protector but is in reality one part charade and three parts corruption. We present those points again:
- The U.N.’s peacekeeping operations have not only failed, they’ve often undermined efforts to establish peace, allowed terrorist camps to thrive, and indoctrinated “second and third generations into genocidal hatred.”
- “More than six decades of financial transfers” to the U.N., running in the trillions of dollars to alleviate poverty, have failed, says the Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow.
- The makeup of the Human Rights Council is a farce, with only 30% of the member countries “classified as ‘free’ by the U.S. think tank Freedom House,” says German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
- “At least 12 UNRWA staffers were directly involved” in Hamas’ unprovoked October 2023 massacre. The U.N. even had the gall to “overwhelmingly” pass “a disgraceful antisemitic resolution to demand that Israel surrender to barbaric terrorists who seek the destruction of both Israel and America,” says New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik.
- Since 2015, there have been 170 U.N. resolutions condemning Israel. Russia has been condemned a mere 25 times, North Korea 10, and Iran only nine. It is, on its face, an “irrational obsession with one nation.”
- In 1988, the Heritage Foundation noted that despite more than “$8 billion in outlays,” the “sad fact is that the” U.N.’s Food And Agriculture Organization “has become essentially irrelevant in combating hunger.” Can anyone point out when and where the U.N. prevented or stopped a famine? If so, let us know, because we know of no instance in which either has happened.
- As many as 50 million are living across the world today as slaves, and human trafficking has gone far beyond crisis levels. Again, if anyone can show us where the U.N. has made significant progress, or any progress at all, in addressing these blights, please share that information.
- The United Nations Population Fund has been credibly accused of “complicity in coercive abortion practices.”
- “Regrettably,” says UN Watch Database, “a Geneva-based non-governmental organization accredited in special consultative status with the United Nations,” “millions of human rights victims around the world are routinely ignored by the U.N. Instead of condemning their oppressors, all too often the U.N. awards powerful dictatorships, such as China, Cuba and Saudi Arabia, with positions of honor.”
- More from the UN Watch Database: The “corruption of the United Nations’ founding principles and ideals should be a matter of grave concern for all who value democracy, fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law. Regrettably, instead of using their power to challenge and improve the system, most Western democracies enable moral corruption at the United Nations by simply going along to get along.”
- The U.N. has “allowed some of the greatest crimes against humanity to occur on its watch” and “cannot stop genocide.”
- The U.N. admits that in 2023 alone it “received 758 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by staff.” This has been an ongoing problem.
- The U.N. General Assembly actually held a moment of silence to honor North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il after he died in 2011. No institution that would do such a thing should be allowed to continue in a sane world.
Maybe initial intentions were sincere. But the U.N. has become an anti-American, anti-semitic talk shop, where entitled foreign diplomats enjoy cushy sinecures at Western expense. If it were of any use at all, the U.S. and Israel would not now be eliminating the terrorist regime in Tehran — the mullahs would have never seized power in the first place.
If the administration can’t lead a coalition to break the U.N., at least it needs to end funding from the U.S., which generously provides 70% of the U.N.’s budget, and kick the thoroughly rotten institution out of the country. The taxpayer-financed ride needs to end.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
These are truly despicable liars
Manhattan BP Brad Hoylman-Sigal ripped after he blamed wrong protesters for hurling bombs outside Gracie Mansion
Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal was roasted Sunday after he blamed the wrong protesters for hurling suspected explosive devices during dueling demonstrations outside Gracie Mansion on Saturday.
Hoylman-Sigal issued a statement on X Saturday claiming, in part, “White Christian Nationalists led a roaming trail of Islamophobia and antisemitism today on Manhattan’s Upper East Side at Gracie Mansion where they targeted our mayor with an incendiary device.”
The borough president took down the statement before it was publicly revealed Sunday that two pro-Muslim demonstrators, identified as Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, were arrested in the incident. Federal authorities are working with the NYPD on the case.
The pair were part of a group of counter-protesters who mobbed a planned anti-Muslim demonstration organized by right-wing agitator Jake Lang.
Free speech is dead in totalitarian Canada
'Kangaroo court' tribunal fines school board member $750,000 for opposing gender ideology
Human Rights Tribunal orders Barry Neufeld to pay LGBTQ-identified educators for "injury to their dignity, feelings, and self-respect," prompting petition by would-be Conservative leader. Gender-critical nurse kicked out of her union.
As Canadian parliament debates legislation to criminalize supposed hate speech, comments against "gender ideology" in the curriculum have already cost a former British Columbia school board member the equivalent of more than half a million U.S. dollars.
A nurse who got kicked out of her own union for gender-critical views said the verdict against ex-Chilliwack Board of Education trustee Barry Neufeld shows "I do not have a snowball’s chance in hell" before the same quasi-judicial body.
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ordered Neufeld to pay $750,000 Canadian to all LGBTQ-identified members of the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association for "injury to their dignity, feelings, and self-respect," citing discrimination in employment, hate speech and "discriminatory publications" on Facebook, "statements made in Board meetings, rallies, and interviews."
Neufeld was one of the "loudest critics" of the Ministry of Education approving resources and tools intended to create an "inclusive education environment" on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, as required by the province's update of the Human Rights Code, the tribunal's decision says.
The trustee described SOGI 123, as the resources are known, as a "weapon of propaganda" that threatens "traditional family values" and teaches children the "absurd theory" and "lie" that "gender is not biologically determined, but a social construct," which distances children from their parents and makes them ripe for sexual abuse.
"For five years, he publicly denigrated LGBTQ people and teachers and associated them with the worst forms of child abuse," the verdict says.
Neufeld made six statements "likely to expose trans and/or gay and lesbian people to hatred or contempt" based on SOGI and 24 that "indicate discrimination, or an intention to discriminate, against LGBTQ people in public education.
The tribunal also ordered him to pay "Teacher C," a male who identifies as a woman and quit teaching because "Neufeld’s repeated transphobic comments, while not aimed at me directly, have hurt me personally," for "expenses incurred by the discrimination."
Nurse Amy Hamm said last week she's still awaiting action by the tribunal in response to her summer 2025 complaints against the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives for suspending her license and fining her over $90,000 for her gender-critical views, and Vancouver Coast Health for firing her in response.
Best known for her billboard praising Harry Potter author J.K. Rowlingfor her gender-critical views, Hamm wrote in The National Post that she'll still challenge BCCNM and her former employer in "that den of woke zealots, regardless" of its ruling against Neufeld.
She mocked the tribunal for its "contradictory assertion" that Neufeld both erased "trans existence" and "weaponize" their existence as a "threat to children, families, and social order," and its practice of assigning pronouns to each witness, "a wholly unnecessary move that signals their fealty to the gender doctrine."
Showing its unprofessionalism, the tribunal noted the B.C. Supreme Court dismissed Neufeld's defamation lawsuit against a claimant's witness but gave no legal analysis or explained its relevance to its own verdict, "adduced purely as an insult." It also put scare quotes around Neufeld's "credentials" without challenging their authenticity.
The B.C. Nurses' Union dropped Hamm for alleged discrimination, including in her Post columns, Hamm said Thursday, promising further details when she's not "too pissed off to think straight."
B.C. legislative assemblyman Harman Bhangu, who is running for provincial Conservative Party leader, is circulating a petition to Premier David Eby to "Dismantle these kangaroo courts!" that fined Neufeld and Hamm.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's "Combatting Hate Act" (Bill C-9), currently stuck in committee, could be used to "prohibit peaceful protests that the government dislikes" but it is "not the cause of the long erosion of free speech in Canada," law professor Bruce Pardy, executive director of classically liberal advocacy group Rights Probe, wrote in the Post last week.
Supposed "guaranteed rights" are the "doublespeak of the modern managerial state," he wrote. Government bodies routinely violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by banning protests and jokes "intended to offend someone’s dignity on a protected ground" while coercing preferred pronouns and punishing doctors for medical views at odds with the government and Hamm for flouting "regulatory ideology," he said.
"Legislation that requires reasonable speech is totalitarian, since the government is choosing the words that come out of your mouth," Pardy wrote. "If you are free, you can express yourself even if it does not serve democracy or help to discover truth."
Will British native men be able to rescue their country before its too late
British Army's New Battle Plan: Mascara for Morale While Bombs Drop
It's saddening what is becoming of the once-Great Britain. While American and Israeli forces are resolving a 47-year-old problem by the suitable application of high explosives, while the United States literally flew into a hostile, totalitarian South American regime in the middle of the night and nabbed their thug-dictator who was wanted by the American justice system, the British Army is debating whether soldiers - male soldiers, mind you - should be allowed to style their hair, and to wear makeup and fingernail polish. No, this isn't a Monty Python sketch. It's real.
Army chiefs have been criticised for launching a review – just as the Iran war intensifies – into whether male soldiers can wear make-up.
While British personnel in Cyprus called for more protection and HMS Dragon was stuck in port, all serving soldiers were asked on Thursday whether they thought men could apply cosmetics and wear their hair like women.
They were surveyed on woke ‘gender-free’ changes which could see men wearing make-up with long hair or hair extensions, painted nails and earrings.
The consultation from Army HQ in Andover asked soldiers if they agreed ‘rules on make-up should be gender-free’, explaining ‘this means that men, women and non-binary service personnel can all wear make-up in the same way’.
It's tempting to ask in what possible way this improves readiness, or makes the individual soldier more technically and tactically proficient, but honestly, we already know the answer: It doesn't.
Here's where the British Army really goes off the rails:
Women soldiers can wear make-up but it should be ‘inconspicuous’ and after training. It ‘includes natural eyelash extensions and nail polish although this can’t be of bright colour’.
Soldiers were also asked if hair and jewellery policies ‘should be the same for men, women and non- binary personnel’ – effectively meaning men could style their hair like women and wear stud earrings.
Make-up is currently banned for men and they must have short hair ‘which does not reach to the collar or on to the ears’.
The review also suggests laying down rules for ‘facial aesthetics’ such as fillers and microblading for the first time, plus ‘recovery periods’ for tattoos and piercings.
Eyelash extensions? These are men we are talking about, yes?
No wonder they didn't want to send their troops into battle.
It's a sad pass the once-Great Britain has come to, but the worst thing is this: We can honestly look at the British Army, with stupid ideas like this, and bear in mind how narrowly our own military force dodged this same rouged, nail-polished bullet. This is where Democrats would have taken our military, with their lunatic agenda of making our armed forces into a jobs program for the most neurotic and, let's face it, weakest members of the population.
We got away from that, and now the Iranian regime is discovering that the American military is once more ready to kick some and take some. But Britain? That nation that once stared down Adolf Hitler for the better part of a year, alone? They are done. They are cooked. This kind of lunacy illustrates that very plainly.
At least one senior British officer had something to say about the whole thing.
Monty Python says https://youtu.be/3ANufwUPFm8
Peeling the Epstein onion back one layer at a time
Epstein-Linked Billionaire Bankrolled Democratic Party, Records Show
Pedro Rodriguez | Though Democrats claim Republicans are “protecting the powerful“ by allegedly suppressing the release of the Epstein files, political contribution records show that Democrats have received tens of millions in campaign contributions from a major Epstein-files figure.
That figure is none other than Microsoft founder Bill Gates. On Thursday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform asked Gates to testify over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
At a recent staff town hall at the Gates Foundation, the Microsoft founder’s philanthropy, Gates admitted that he had an affair with two Russian women affiliated with Epstein, a Wall Street Journal report claimed based on a recording of the event.
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Gates, however, told the staff that while he had those affairs, the women were connected to Epstein only later. Gates reiterated, “I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” in his interactions with Epstein.
An Epstein email released by the Department of Justice in January claimed that Epstein and Gates discussed how Gates could secretly give antibiotics to his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, after he allegedly contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
“Your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis,” the email reads, as NPR reported.
In an episode of NPR’s “Wildcard” podcast in January, Gates’ ex-wife, who divorced him in 2021, did not deny the allegations.
“It’s personally hard to think about the allegations against him because it brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage,” she said.
Recipients of Gates’ Money
Over the last 20 years, Gates has donated millions through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partner nonprofit servicing group, Arabella Advisors, to major Democrat politicians and committees.
Records show that former Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., and the Democratic National Committee were all recipients of donations from Gates-linked entities.
According to Open Secrets, a platform that tracks political contributions, Gates’ philanthropic organization donated over $410,000 to “DNC Services Corp,” a registered affiliate of the DNC, in 2024.
Fortune Magazine has also noted that Gates donated at least $50 millionto Harris’ failed 2024 presidential bid.
That same year, the foundation contributed at least $135,000 to Harris and roughly $50,000 to state Democrat parties such as Michigan, Washington, Arizona, and Wisconsin. Some of these states are where Gates owns thousands of acres of farmland.
Gates’ foundation has also donated to the Georgia Federal Elections Committee in 2024. The foundation has also contributed to the state Democrat parties in Pennsylvania, Alaska, and Texas.
Arabella Advisors
In August 2025, the Gates Foundation announced that he would cease payments to Arabella Advisors, a “political consulting group” that has repeatedly donated to Democratic officials and committees.
Arabella Advisors provided extensive consulting and other services to multiple left-leaning “dark money” nonprofits, which themselves sent money to activist groups that influenced the Biden administration.
According to The New York Times, the Gates Foundation has allocated around $450 million in grants to Arabella and associated groups over the last 16 years. But in late 2025, the outlet noted that the foundation “would not make new investments with ‘Arabella-related entities,’” and that it “would not extend existing grants and would even try to ‘pursue early exits’ from a few long-term investments.”
Arabella Advisors closed its doors last year, transferring its “fiscal sponsorship services” to a new entity, Sunflower Services.
According to Open Secrets, the consulting group donated to several high-profile Democrat politicians in 2024, including former Montana Sen. Jon Tester and Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine.
The DNC, Tester, and Pingree did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. Casten declined.
Gates’ Worry
At the town hall, Gates said his impropriety could harm his philanthropic organizations, The Wall Street Journal reported.
He described his actions as contradictory to the foundation’s “goals” and “values.”
“It definitely is the opposite of the values of the foundation and the goals of the foundation,” he told the outlet. “And our work is very reputation-sensitive. I mean, people can choose to work with us or not work with us.”
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