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The UN is facing “imminent financial collapse”, Secretary General Antonio Guterres clamored. “I cannot overstate the urgency of the situation we now face.”
Promises, promises.
To drive home the seriousness of it, they’re turning off the escalators and turning down the heat in the United Nations digs in Geneva. That’s the sort of thing that the UN’s global warming propaganda and agreements seek to force everyone to do anyway, but the only time the global body of globalists gets around to doing it is when they cry poverty to the rest of the world.
How seriously should we be taking the UN’s thermostat theater? About as seriously as an Idaho amateur high school boys’ production of Harriet Tubman. The UN’s tricks depend on its pawns having no more memory than fruit flies and that’s usually a pretty reliable bet with politicians.
But back in 2024, Secretary Guterres made a point of (supposedly) ordering the heat turned down at the UN headquarters in New York because there was (supposedly) no more money. His spokesman took to wearing a scarf reading “It’s Cold” in French while denying it was a stunt.
What they did not mention was that the heat had been turned down from 22 to 21 celsius or, for those in the lands of the Fahrenheit freedom movement, from 70 to around 71 degrees.
That year, New York temps in February were in the forties (Fahrenheit) or 7 (Celcius.)
But wait a minute. Why turn down the thermostat one degree in New York in 2024 and Geneva in 2026? Why not the other way around? That’s because New York City is in the middle of a severe snowstorm and temperatures have hovered in the single digits (Fahrenheit) while in Geneva, the weather has been in the 30s and 40s (also Fahrenheit) and not all that cold.
When it’s freezing in Geneva and mild in New York City, the UN staff make a big show of turning down the thermostat one degree in New York, and when it’s freezing in New York City and mild in Geneva, they turn down the thermostats in Geneva because the UN is one big scam.
The UN wants to pretend that it’s suffering but not so much that it actually gets even a little cold.
In 2024, the UN (which somehow survived mild temperatures outside and 70 degree temperatures inside) got its billions of dollars and the secretary general got his $418,348 salary which allowed his spokesman to stop wearing his prop scarf and go back to flying private jets.
Air travel accounts for an estimated quarter of the UN’s budget. While the UN would like you to think that its budget is the reason small children aren’t dying of malaria in the third world, it’s really more like cutting down the wait time for the drink cart by 15 minutes. For example, former World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan Fung Fu-Chun spent $370,000 on travel expenses in one year while allegedly often flying first class. That period, the UN’s WHO spent more on travel than on AIDS or Malaria. But we still get fooled again.
The UN Secretary General’s spokesman did explain that they really are trying to cut costs and “the Secretary-General and the Deputy Secretary-General also often travel business when first class… because an increasing number of flights, planes, in fact, do not have first class, so they often also do travel business.”
Move over starving kids, Antonio flies business when first class isn’t available.
But Antonio and the UN have been putting on a dog and tony show, turning down the heat (again) and claiming that they massively cut the UN. In reality, they cut department heads by 3% and 19% ‘across the board’. The lower staff cuts however are theater because the moment the money comes through, they can be hired back. And hardly anyone at the top gets cut.
And the shenanigans are just getting started.
Last year, the UN claimed it was so low on cash that the “crisis stricken organization” might have to leave Geneva. Then the UN announced that Secretary Guterres had received “a generous financial package of support to the United Nations presence in Geneva” from the Swiss government, hopefully in crypto or gift cards, and will stay on for the greater good.
UNICEF will make a show of moving some jobs from Geneva to Rome into the World Food Programme (WFP) building. (Moving buildings without leasing new ones is another giveaway that this is just more theater.) WFP is the organization that faked the Gaza famine and every famine you can think of. The WFP building appears to have its own swimming pool. Neither UNICEF nor WFP is servicing Rome, so why not move its HQ to Gaza, Afghanistan or Yemen?
Same reason the United Nations turns down the temps in the city that is the least cold.
Meanwhile the Secretary General is complaining that he has to give back unspent money which he can’t do because he never received it. “We are trapped in a Kafkaesque cycle expected to give back cash that does not exist.” Orwellian would be more appropriate than Kafkaesque. A Jewish man who wrote about the nightmarish dangers of fictional government bureaucracies would probably not be the model for a nightmarish antisemitic fictional government bureaucracy.
All of this theater is a roundabout way of demanding we cover 22% of the UN’s budget.
The Trump administration is less enthusiastic about paying for over a fifth of the budget of an organization that hates the United States and seeks to destroy it while eating pricey lunches in Manhattan. And so every year or so the UN puts a gun to its head, takes itself hostage and screams that unless it gets more money it faces “imminent financial collapse” and frostbite.
But let’s have the UN secretary general’s quote in context rather than in the media headlines.
“Either all Member States honour their obligations to pay in full and on time – or Member States must fundamentally overhaul our financial rules to prevent an imminent financial collapse,” Antonio intoned. Translated into English from UNese, that means the United Nations faces “imminent financial collapse” unless it spends less money or stops asking the U.S. for 22%.
It’s the equivalent of ‘either we stop flying first class or we face imminent financial collapse.’
There is a simple solution to all this. If the UN wants to take billions in American money to save the third world, it should go there. Let the UN leave New York, Geneva, Rome and the entire West, and take its headquarters down to whichever third world hellhole it’s sending money to.
Real estate in Gaza, Somalia and Afghanistan are still fairly cheap. More so than Manhattan.
“Put your money where your mouth is,” an old gambler once said. The UN runs its mouth, but all it will ever do is turn down the thermostat when it’s 45 degrees and sunny outside the office.
