The Watchtower's UN Membership - Quotes From Awake!
The Watchtower's UN Membership - Quotes From Awake!
The Watchtower's UN Membership - Quotes From Awake!
DEPTHS OF
THE
WATCHTOWER'S
PROSTITUTION:
Concerning the many Awake quotes below, they may seem innocuous. But
keep in mind that one of the functions of an NGO, as stated above, is
"disseminating information and mobilizing public opinion in support of the
UN and its Specialized Agencies. Association with DPI constitutes a
commitment to that effect."
Let it now be known the lengths to which the Watchtower went to inform its
international readership of the UN's programs and activities. But, by no
means are the quotes below the full extent to which the organization has
disseminated information to legitimize the UN's claim to rule the world. The
following is only a partial listing taken solely from the Awake over the past
12 years only. At any rate, let the public record below approximate the depth
of the Watchtower's spiritual prostitution with the United Nations.
(Note for those unfamiliar: "g" is the symbol for Awake because it used to
be called the Golden Age Magazine.)
*** g01 6/8 p. 3 Good Health for AllA Reachable Goal? ***
Nevertheless, large-scale efforts are being made to stem the tide of sickness and disease. Consider the
World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations. At a conference sponsored by
WHO in 1978, delegates from 134 lands and 67 UN organizations agreed that health is not simply
freedom from sickness or disease. Health, they declared, is "a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being." The delegates then took the bold step of declaring health to be a "fundamental human
right"! WHO thus set the goal of achieving "an acceptable level of health for all the people of the world."
*** g01 6/22 p. 8 Where Has All the Water Gone? ***
Use and Misuse of Groundwater
Groundwater is the water supply we tap into when we sink a well. The United Nations Children's Fund
report Groundwater: The Invisible and Endangered Resource calculates that half the water used for
domestic purposes and for irrigating crops comes from this source.
*** g01 7/22 pp. 4-5 Helping Hands Are Everywhere ***
On the contrary, United Nations Volunteers (a UN agency) states that viewed globally, "the need for
increased volunteer effort is greater today than ever." Says a museum supervisor: "Volunteers are our life
blood."
Yet, there is a paradox. Even though many directors, managers, and coordinators working with volunteers
feel that such ones are "worth their weight in gold," much of the work of volunteers goes unrecognized.
To begin to change that situation, the United Nations decided to use the year 2001 as a time for turning
the spotlight on volunteer workers. The box "International Year of Volunteers" describes some of the
goals the UN hopes to reach.
Cultural Organization: "With no school, the future for most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa hangs on
balance."
*** g00 2/8 p. 31 The Gap Between Rich and Poor Is Widening ***
"More progress has been made in reducing global poverty in the past five decades than in the previous
five centuries," states UNDP Today, a publication of the United Nations Development Programme.
*** g00 12/8 pp. 7-8 Children Deserve to Be Wanted and Loved ***
But not all the news is bad! UN agencies, such as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and
the World Health Organization, have worked hard to improve the lot of children. Annan noted: "More
children are born healthy and more are immunized; more can read and write; more are free to learn, play
and simply live as children than would have been thought possible even a short decade ago." Still, he
as the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization calls it, to fill the gap and
determine what human responsibilities are. However, they have encountered some difficulty.
*** g99 1/8 p. 14 The MediterraneanA Closed Sea With Open Wounds ***
The economy of many Mediterranean lands, however, depends on tourism. Speaking of such countries,
Michel Batisse, a former assistant director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization, says: "Their only resource is tourism, but that depends on the coastline not being
ruined by uncontrolled construction driven by the search for quick profits."
*** g99 1/8 p. 15 The MediterraneanA Closed Sea With Open Wounds ***
In 1990 the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) reported that 93 percent of shellfish taken
from the Mediterranean contained more fecal bacteria than the maximum allowed by the World Health
Organization.
*** g99 2/8 p. 23 The Year 2000Will Computer Crashes Affect You? ***
heading off the year 2000 (Y2K) problem in their computer systems, and getting ready to process a new
round of population censuses, according to the United Nations Information Service."
*** g99 2/22 Chemical Pesticides Kill More Than Bugs ***
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) estimates that there are more than
100,000 tons of leftover pesticides stored in developing countries. "A significant part of the stocks," notes
Our Planet, a magazine published by the United Nations Environment Programme, "are left-overs of
pesticides obtained under aid agreements."
*** g99 5/22 A New Defense in the Fight Against Tuberculosis ***
says Peter Piot, director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, "who didn't benefit from
the inexpensive anti-TB medicines they needed to cure their tuberculosis."
*** g99 6/8 p. 6 Loss of a LimbHow You Can Reduce the Risk ***
According to a report of the United Nations secretary-general, these programs teach "populations at
risk ... how to minimize their chances of becoming victims while living and working in mined areas."
*** g99 6/8 p. 6 Loss of a LimbHow You Can Reduce the Risk ***
Sadly, "people become accustomed to the presence of mines and grow careless," says a United Nations
report.
*** g99 7/22 pp. 3-4 The World Is Growing Grayer ***
"The lengthening of life expectancy," says demographer Eileen Crimmins in Science magazine, "has been
one of the greatest triumphs of humanity." The United Nations agrees, and to draw attention to this
achievement, it has designated the year 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons.
*** g99 8/8 p. 28 Watching the World ***
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in
1948, defined the fundamental right to education. While many commendable efforts have been made, this
goal is still far from being reached
*** g99 9/22 p. 7 What Is the Future of War? ***
Some have felt that the United Nations might be that government. But the UN was never intended to be a
world government with power beyond that of its member nations. It is only as strong as its member
nations allow it to be. Suspicion and disagreement continue between those nations, and the power they
grant to the UN is limited. Therefore, instead of shaping the international system, the UN remains more a
reflection of it.
*** g99 11/8 p. 5 How Illicit Drugs Affect Your Life ***
Indeed, some 22 percent of the world's HIV-positive population are drug users who injected themselves
with infected needles. With good reason, at a recent United Nations conference, Nasser Bin Hamad AlKhalifa, from Qatar, warned that "the global village is about to become a communal tomb for millions of
human beings as a result of the illicit drugs trade."
*** g99 11/8 p. 6 How Illicit Drugs Affect Your Life ***
"Revenues from illicit drugs fund some of the world's fiercest religious and ethnic conflicts," reports the
United Nations International Drug Control Programme.
According to the United Nations organization, it is estimated that there are some 340million drug
addicts worldwide.
*** g98 4/8 p. 12 What Does the Future Hold for Women? ***
Progress has undoubtedly been made since then, but as the United Nations publication The World's
Women 1995 states, there is still a long way to go.
*** g98 11/22 p. 12 Human Rights for AllA Worldwide Reality! ***
A well-known inscription on a wall of the United Nations Plaza in New York City reads: "They shall
beat their swords into plowshares. And their spears into pruning hooks: Nation shall not lift up sword
against nation. Neither shall they learn war any more." With this quotation from the Bible book of Isaiah
chapter 2, verse 4, King James Version, the UN points to a major way to decrease massive human rights
violationsend warfare. After all, war is 'the antithesis of human rights,' as one UN publication
expresses it.
*** g98 11/22 p. 22 The Edict of NantesA Charter for Tolerance? ***
At a recent United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization conference, a speaker
argued that "one of the ways of celebrating the Edict of Nantes is to think about the status of religions in
our time."
survey
*** g97 4/8 p. 31 Women Living Longer but Not Necessarily Better ***
Our Planet, a magazine of the United Nations, notes that for a majority of the world's women, basic
human rights are still "the icing on the cake they have never tasted.
*** g97 6/8 p. 22 SingaporeAsia's Tarnished Jewel ***
As recently as December29, 1995, Mr.K. Kesavapany, Singapore's permanent representative to the
United Nations in Geneva, in a letter addressed to H.E. Ibrahim Fall, Assistant Secretary-General for
Human Rights, of the United Nations in Geneva, stated the following:
*** g97 10/8 p. 10 A Trouble-Free ParadiseSoon a Reality ***
The United Nations, so often hailed as the best hope for peace, struggles to keep opposing parties apart in
areas of conflict.
October.
*** g96 7/8 pp. 22-23 The Pope's UN VisitWhat Did It Accomplish? ***
Then he stated: "As we face these enormous challenges, how can we fail to acknowledge the role of the
United Nations Organization?" He said that the UN needs "to become a moral center where all the
nations of the world feel at home." He stressed the need to promote "the solidarity of the entire human
family."
*** g96 7/22 p. 12 The "New World Order"Off to a Shaky Start ***
But the United Nations had flexed its muscles and ordered Iraq to withdraw by January 15.
*** g96 7/22 p. 14 The "New World Order"Off to a Shaky Start ***
This led up to the anniversary of another significant event, the founding of the United Nations
organization in October 1945. Hopes then ran high that the key to achieving world peace had at last been
found.
The United Nations, as Boutros Boutros-Ghali, its secretary-general, recently said in its defense, has
scored many triumphs.
*** g96 10/8 p. 10 At LastA Government That Will End Crime ***
The United Nations is a transnational (international) body. Since its founding, it has sought to combat
crime. But it has no more answers than the national governments have. The book The United Nations and
Crime Prevention notes:
war has ever robbed the lives of 250,000 children in just a week."
*** g95 3/8 p. 6 How Wholesome Food Can Improve Your Health ***
States Facts for Life, a United Nations publication: "For the first few months of a baby's life, breastmilk
alone is the best possible food and drink. Infants need other foods, in addition to breastmilk, when they
are four-to-six months old."
*** g95 7/22 pp. 4-5 Man's Fight Against Disasters ***
Five years later, in December 1989, the United Nations responded to his call for an end to passivity by
designating the years from 1990 to 2000 as the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, or
IDNDR. What is its aim?
*** g94 1/22 p. 16 Wetlands of The WorldEcological Treasures Under Attack ***
At the opening of a worldwide campaign promoted by the United Nations to save wetlands, threats to
Brazil's Pantanal ecosystem were cited. It is one of the world's largest wetlands.
"Child-bearing is one of the leading causes of death among women of reproductive age in developing
countries," states the 1992 Report issued by the United Nations Population Fund.
*** g94 8/8 p. 29 Watching the World ***
During the past ten years, about 1.5million children have been killed in war, according to The State of the
World's Children 1994, a report by the United Nations Children's Fund.
*** g94 11/22 p. 28 Watching the World ***
Each year over 15 million women between the ages of 15 and 20 give birth worldwide, estimates Populi,
a magazine of the United Nations Population Fund.
*** g93 9/22 p. 20 World GovernmentIs the United Nations the Answer? ***
IN RECENT years the United Nations has won renewed confidence and admiration in the world. To
millions the abbreviation "UN" evokes heroic images: troops in blue berets bravely rushing to the world's
trouble spots to establish peace, relief workers bringing food to the starving refugees of Africa, and
dedicated men and women working unselfishly to establish a new world order.
*** g93 9/22 p. 20 World GovernmentIs the United Nations the Answer? ***
"The United Nations and its various organizations have been so monstrously negligent and incompetent
that they have played almost no role at all in alleviating Somalia's misery."
*** g92 2/8 Part 3: Greedy Commerce Shows Its True Colors ***
Creation of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, also called the World Bank,
a specialized agency closely related to the United Nations and designed to offer financial assistance to
member countries for reconstruction and development projects.
*** g92 5/22 p. 14 Drift-Net Fishing on the Way Out? ***
Just last year a report submitted to the United Nations said that the Japanese drift-net fishery, in the
process of harvesting 106million squid, killed 39 million fish that the fishermen did not want.
UN Chronicle. "They are sicker and more illiterate than men and lack the opportunities males have to
better themselves." Two major studies on world poverty in 1990 by two international development
agencies, the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank, have reached that bleak
conclusion.
beginning to work as it was designed to work." He also said: "The United Nations can help bring about a
new day" if its members 'leave terrible weapons behind.
*** g91 9/8 pp. 3-4 What Is Happening at the United Nations? ***
"The ending of the cold war [in Europe]," answered UN Secretary-General Javier Prez de Cullar in his
1990 report on the work of the United Nations. For decades that tense situation "bred chronic suspicion
and fear and polarized the world." He noted that the "concept of security [that] has begun to emerge is
precisely the one the United Nations has been expounding all through the years."
*** g91 9/8 p. 8 The United NationsA Better Way? ***
THE preamble to the United Nations Charter expresses these noble aims: "We the peoples of the
United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our
lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, ... and [desiring] to unite our strength to maintain
international peace and security, ... have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims."
*** g91 9/8 pp. 8-9 The United NationsA Better Way? ***
The chartered purpose of the United Nations to maintain "international peace and security" expresses a
desirable goal for mankind. The world would indeed be far more secure if the nations obeyed Article 2(4)
of the UN Charter: "All Members shall refrain ... from the threat or use of force against the territorial
integrity or political independence of any state." But self-interest of member nations has repeatedly
hamstrung the efforts of the UN toward achieving its purpose. Rather than living up to their UN
commitment to "settle their international disputes by peaceful means," nations or whole blocs of nations
have often resorted to war, claiming that the 'matter was essentially within their domestic jurisdiction.'
Article 2(3,7).
Is this really peace with security? True, "membership in the United Nations is open to all ... peaceloving states." (Article 4(1)) But will a nation that is peace-loving when it joins the UN stay that way?
Governments change, and new rulers bring in new policies. What if a member turns radical, with extreme
nationalistic aims and covetous territorial ambitions? And what if it begins arming itself with nuclear and
chemical weapons? The United Nations would now have a ticking time bomb on its hands. Yet, as recent
events in the Middle East show, such a turn of events may be the very thing to move the nations to
empower the UN to remove this threat to their security.
Diplomats attending the 44th United Nations General Assembly stated that the three most important
world issues crying out for a solution are debts of developing countries, drug trafficking, and
environmental protection. There was broad consensus that the UN must become involved in solving them.
The president of the General Assembly said that all members had "underlined the need for the United
Nations to play a central role as mankind's last hope for peace and justice."
*** g90 8/22 p. 6 Can You Trust the News You Get? ***
Free interchange of news on a worldwide scale is also a problem and was the subject of a heated debate at
*** g90 9/8 p. 7 Today's YouthMeeting the Challenges of the 1990's ***
NOVEMBER 1985. Dignitaries from 103 lands gathered at the United Nations headquarters to map out
"a global strategy addressing the problems of the world's young people."UN Chronicle.
*** g90 12/8 p. 21 Part 9: Human Rule Reaches Its Climax! ***
Before its official burial, it had already been replaced by another supranational organization, the United
Nations, formed on October24, 1945, with 51 member states. How would this new girding attempt fare?
*** g90 12/8 p. 22 Part 9: Human Rule Reaches Its Climax! ***
Writer R.Baldwin calls the United Nations "superior to the old League in its capacity to create a world
order of peace, cooperation, law, and human rights." Of a truth, some of its specialized agencies, among
them WHO (World Health Organization), UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), and FAO
(Food and Agriculture Organization), have pursued commendable goals with a measure of success.
Also seeming to indicate that Baldwin is correct is the fact that the United Nations has now been
operating for 45 years, over twice as long as the League.
*** g90 12/8 p. 22 Part 9: Human Rule Reaches Its Climax! ***
Of course, some argue that the threat of nuclear warfare did more to prevent the Cold War from heating
up than did the United Nations. Rather than keeping the promise embodied in its name, the uniting of
nations, the reality is that this organization has often done nothing more than serve as a middleman, trying
to keep disunited nations from flying at one another's throats. And even in this role of referee, it has not
always been successful. As author Baldwin explains, like the old League, "the United Nations is
powerless to do more than an accused member state graciously permits."
*** g90 12/8 p. 22 Part 9: Human Rule Reaches Its Climax! ***
Varindra Tarzie Vittachi, a former deputy director of UNICEF, wrote in 1988 that he refuses "to join the
general lynching party" of those who disavow the United Nations. Calling himself "a loyal critic," he
admits, however, that a widespread attack is being made by people who say that "the United Nations is a
'light that failed,' that it has not lived up to its own high ideals, that it has not been able to carry out its
peacekeeping functions and that its development agencies, with a few noble exceptions, have not justified
their existence."
The chief weakness of the United Nations is revealed by author Ivor, when he writes: "The UN, whatever
else it can do, will not abolish sin. It can make international sinning rather more difficult, however, and it
will make the sinner more accountable. But it has not yet succeeded in changing the hearts and minds
either of the people who lead countries or of the people who make them up."Italics ours.
Thus, the defect in the United Nations is the same as the defect in all forms of human rule.
*** g90 12/8 Part 9: Human Rule Reaches Its Climax! ***
About the United Nations
The UN currently has 160members. The only countries of any size that do not yet belong are the two
Koreas and Switzerland; a Swiss plebiscite held in March 1986 rejected membership by a 3to 1 margin.
Besides its main organization, it operates 55additional special organizations, special agencies, human
rights commissions, and peace-keeping operations.
Every member nation is granted one vote in the General Assembly, yet the most populous nation, China,
has about 22,000 inhabitants for every one inhabitant of the least populated member, St.Kitts and Nevis.
During the celebration of the United Nations International Year of Peace in 1986, the world
experienced 37 armed conflicts, more than at any time since the end of World WarII.
Of all UN member nations, 37percent have fewer citizens than does the united international "nation" of
Jehovah's Witnesses; 59percent have fewer citizens than the number of persons who this year attended
the Memorial celebration of Christ's death.