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To: Old Boothby who wrote (970352)	10/5/2016 4:26:41 PM
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UN Picks Socialist Politician As New Secretary-General Via @dailycaller Michael Bastasch dailycaller.com United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference on the subject of the refugee crisis in Europe, at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, August 26, 2015. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy ? 5258882 United Nations Security Council members have chosen former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres as the international body’s next secretary-general. Guterres previously served as the UN’s high commissioner for refugees before being chosen to head up the whole UN by the 15-member Security Council Wednesday. An agreement has been reached. UN Security Council members to elect me as new UN Secretary General. I’m honored and happy. — Antonio Guterres (@AntGuterres) October 5, 2016 But before Guterres worked for the UN, he served as the president of Socialist International (SI), a global network of national socialist parties seeking to establish “democratic socialism” around the world. SI was formed after World War II, and helped fund socialist movements in Spain and Portugal. In the late 1980s, SI even funded the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua — a move that flew in the face of U.S. interests. Guterres also became the leader of Portugal’s Socialist Party in 1992, and then the country’s prime minister when socialists won a major electoral victory in 1995. Guterres enjoyed widespread popularity in his early years, increasing welfare spending and taxes to cut budget deficits. He was re-elected in 1999, but his popularity crumbled when economic growth stalled and the Hintze Ribeiro Bridge collapsed and killed 59 people. Socialists suffered a crushing electoral defeat in 2001, and Guterres resigned. He then went to work at SI until 2005 when he joined the UN. Guterres now heads the UN at a time when Syrian refugees have become a major source of political tension across Europe. He had to beat out nine other candidates for the top UN job, including several female candidates. Christiana Figueres, the former head of the UN’s climate arm, was also in the running for the job.

To: Old Boothby who wrote (970352)	10/5/2016 6:01:33 PM
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UN Convinced Donald Trump Will Win U.S. Election… Posted on October 5, 2016 by sundance Watch what they do, not what they say, and you’ll be able to spot the real polling numbers. The U.N. taking proactive steps today to ratify their insufferable climate treaty, because unlike the MSM protestations, they recognize the likelihood of a Donald Trump victory. There is no binding-authority behind this climate maneuver, so some elements of this are ridiculously “optics only”…. WASHINGTON DC – International governments have made a power play against Donald Trump by ratifying an international climate deal earlier than expected, effectively preventing him from “canceling” the deal as he has promised to do. The European Union’s Tuesday decision to join the Paris climate deal will push the deal over the threshold for ratification; it will formally take effect in 30 days. That means Trump, should he be elected president in November, could not “cancel” or renegotiate the terms of the agreement. President Obama committed the United States to reduce its emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent by 2025 as part of the deal. The agreement is nonbinding, so Trump would be free to ignore it if he wins the White House Some say Trump’s rhetoric about the deal helped speed up ratification. Most officials expected the climate deal, negotiated in December in Paris, to take effect no earlier than next year. A similar international climate accord, the Kyoto Protocol, wasn’t ratified for five years. But the specter of a Trump presidency appears to have spurred the deal along. ( more)