The U.S. government is by far the largest debtor to the United Nations and is falling further behind in dues payments to the UN and its affiliated agencies. As detailed in the chart below, the U.S. begins 2008 with $1.5 billion in arrears at the United Nations. The President’s proposed budget for FY 2009 will likely push permanent U.S. debt to more than $2 billion.
Yet due to the fact that the U.S. typically pays its bills to the UN one year late, by which time new bills have already come in, the result is that the U.S. is rarely less than $2 billion behind in its payments to the United Nations. Click here to view a presentation on U.S. debt to the UN.

source : http://www.betterworldcampaign.org/i...to-the-un.html

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Ah...great now...knowing this is beeing investigated which will costs awefully lot of money to do the reports and then the conclusion is the same what we all know already.

We know, but we dont care as Racism is all over the world....

HunterICX

None of which changes the fact that we contribute more to the UN than any other country and iirc that's not including the all that prime Manhatten real estate the UN building is sitting on with is worth billions in itself.

As far as I and ever increasing numbers of my countrymen are concerned we'd be happy if our UN budget were zero and we kicked that nest of thieves and spies from our shores.

They should be investigating corruption within their own organization instead of wasting their time and money on a useless venture such as this.

Wit till you hear the conclusions before you lambast the investigation.

The UN investigation into racism in Japan makes for uncomfortable reading.

The UN was a corrupt, toothless waste of space the day it was formed, and nothing has changed.

It's as simple as this: There will be no racism when there is no world.
It's human nature. What matters is at what level that racism is. There is going to be prejudice against any difference from your norm. Any thoughts different than that and you are living in la-la land. Color is just one. Then you have gender, financial, class, political, blah, blah, blah.
Let the UN investigate. Big whoopdy-do.

Speak for your self.
It's not in my nature.

Sure it is. The question is how much. Little or lots.

:shifty: You are calling me a racist?

I'm not going to argue about it. Call it what you want. Everyone has prejudice against whats different. You might swing totally another way to try and prove you aren't but it just proves you are.

Brad is right, in that the basis for racism probably is in our genes, and derives back to a time when every strange apeman appearing at the horizon was a potential thread to the survival of your tribe and a potential enemy for the tribe'S waterhole. It is a genetically impßlemented habit that makes us prefer those people that we know, that we grew ip with, and in that way consider to be like ourselves. That explains why physical differences are so important for most people, and why nevertheless children of different origin do not easily become racist to each other when they grew up in their childhood over longer time.

So, despite "racism" (which was a survival strategy, originally) being in our genes, the real point is that man has the ability to become aware of it, and actively refuse to allow that pattern remaining active. In other wors: man can learn not to be racist, man can be educated and raised not to be racist, and man has the self-reflection and mind to reason why he does not want to be racist.

Needless to say that ideolgies again can turn you into a racist.

No doubt there are many studies that show that the vast majority of people show racial preference.

One that springs to mind is the reaction times in shooting simulators when police are
presented with images of black and white males holding either telephones or guns.

But a "vast majority", however vast, does not speak for everyone.

Human natures are not hard to overcome. There are many abhorant things that are
in human nature, but not in a decent man's mind or actions.

Ahh! An online version of the reaction times experiment!

Faaaaaar from scientific, but interesting none the less
http://backhand.uchicago.edu/Center/ShooterEffect/

Yes but these are subconscious reactions which can be measured by measuring the eye's iris reactions when shown pictures of people of other races, you can try and ignore it or you can even overcompensate but it is there.