Rush Limbaugh

Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, there really is a University for Peace

Memo to Rush Limbaugh: In sunny Costa Rica, Rush.  That's where the United Nations has its university.  It's called the University for Peace, U-peace for short.  A training camp for diplomatic Pooh-bahs that end up in Manhattan, the concept was adopted by the UN general assembly Dec. 5, 1980, in resolution 35/55.  Costa Rica abolished its army in 1948.  The peace-lovin' UN would like that.  

  King of Radio Rush Limbaugh was bowled right over that the UN has a school, while noting that its experts had coined the term “environmental refugees”.  Now that the term “environmental refugees” has been coined, the experts who coined it are predicting that there will be  “50 million environmental refugees in the world in five years' time”. 

  (That's if the World Health Organization (WHO), the other predicting arm of the UN isn't right about an inevitable avian flu pandemic coming to wipe us all out.)

  “…Oh, my God, I didn't even know they had a school,” Limbaugh joked on his Oct. 12 radio show.  “It's bad enough that they just have the UN.  There's a UN university?   How do you get in?  Is it all pass-fail?  I never heard of this place.  (child impression) “Dad, when I grow up, I want to go to the United Nations University,”

  “Really, little Johnny?  What do you want to learn to do?”

  “I want to learn to be corrupt—and get away with it, dad, and yeah, they have the cutest blue helmets, I can wear a blue helmet for free!”

  But little Johnny would never learn peace and democracy at the UN University for Peace.

  And Rush should speak to former Costa Rica President Rodrigo Carazo if he really wants to know, “Who gets in?”

  Even though Carazo was what the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) described as “the driving force” behind bringing the University for Peace to Costa Rica, he was forbidden entry there.

  Says James Latham, CEO of Radio Peace International (RPI), who was on the faculty of the University for Peace from 1987-2000, of the non-peaceful U-Peace curriculum: “Perhaps the most striking vision I had from this time was a day in July (2003) when our station (on U-peace campus) was visited by my old friend and co-founder of the University for Peace and past President of Costa Rica Rodrigo Carazo,

  “When Carazo appeared at our station that had been locked down by security guards hired by (university president Maurice) Strong, he asked if the guard would open the barbed wire gate and let him in.  (Carazo was attending the station's board meeting,)

  “The guard very nervously called on his radio to see if Strong's man in charge at the University for Peace would let the president in, The station was under siege and a number of us were holed up inside. 

  “The word came back over the guard's radio that Carazo was not allowed into the station.

  “Carazo looked at the guard for a moment, then got down on his hands and knees and crawled on the dirt under the gate and entered the fenced off radio station.”

  The land on which the university was built was donated to the Maurice Strong-led Earth Council.  The land was donated to the council in 1996 with the agreement that if the council moved, it would have to return the land to the Costa Rica government.

  The council sold the land and the Costa Rican government has been pursuing the Earth Council for payment of US1.6-billion for the wrongful sale of said land.

  Fleeing Costa Rica, the Earth Council landed here in Toronto, at last count not much more than a bunch of files in a public relations office.

  “The government cried foul and the Earth Council upped and departed the country, citing the drain of the legal fight.” (Peter Foster, National Post).

  Meanwhile, no one is learning about peace and democracy at the University for Peace, and the only peace we're going to get from the United Nations is the peace of mind that will come when they quit the corruption racket.

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