{"id":292318,"date":"2017-01-30T03:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blab-at-your-own-expense\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T03:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T02:22:26","slug":"blab-at-your-own-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blab-at-your-own-expense\/","title":{"rendered":"Blab at Your Own Expense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-article__lead\"><strong>Earlier this week it was reported that the Trump administration is preparing executive orders to reduce America&#8217;s funding commitments to the United Nations. Observers speaking to the RIA Novosti news agency suggest that the move is entirely in line with Trump&#8217;s campaign commitments to find bilateral solutions to problems in international affairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-article__lead\">The first of\u00a0the two draft executive orders, <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/us\/201701251050011195-trump-reduce-usa-role-un\/\" target=\"_blank\">obtained<\/a> by\u00a0the New York Times, calls for\u00a0the termination of\u00a0billions of\u00a0dollars in\u00a0US funding to\u00a0UN agencies which do not meet certain criteria or are contrary to\u00a0US policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-article__lead\">The White House&#8217;s proposal includes cutting off\u00a0aid to\u00a0UN agencies that provide full membership for\u00a0Palestine (a provision that is already US law), an end to\u00a0any US support for\u00a0programs which may help Iran or North Korea circumvent sanctions, and the cutting off\u00a0of aid to\u00a0organizations thought to\u00a0be controlled or influenced by\u00a0state sponsors of\u00a0terrorism or countries that systematically violate human rights. The criteria also call for\u00a0US funding to\u00a0be cut off\u00a0for any UN programs which fund abortion.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/gold-confiscation-1933\/?utm_source=LRC&amp;utm_medium=textad&amp;utm_campaign=Myths\">Myths, Misunderstandings and Outright lies about owning Gold. Are you at risk? <\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-article__lead\">The draft executive order proposes the creation of\u00a0a committee to\u00a0make recommendations for\u00a0funding cuts for\u00a0UN peacekeeping operations, the International Criminal Court (which US does not provide funding for\u00a0as things are), and development assistance to\u00a0countries that &#8220;oppose important United States policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"b-article__lead\"><em><strong>The second draft executive order is more straightforward, and simply requires a review of\u00a0all existing and pending multilateral treaties to\u00a0which the US is or will be party, and asks for\u00a0recommendations on\u00a0which treaties can and should be abrogated. Specifically, the document calls for\u00a0a review of\u00a0those treaties which&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/01\/no_author\/blab-expense\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week it was reported that the Trump administration is preparing executive orders to reduce America&#8217;s funding commitments to the United Nations. Observers speaking to the RIA Novosti news agency suggest that the move is entirely in line with Trump&#8217;s campaign commitments to find bilateral solutions to problems in international affairs. The first of\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}