could it potentially fit that strategy or not? john: i think the russians and chinese will try anything they can think of to gain access to key decision makers for all kinds of purposes. that s why this debate, those who say this was fits the pattern of a classic fsb operation. others say it looks like a bunch of much clowns trying to organize a clown convention. this is the world of counter intelligence. this is why people develop paranoia trying to determine whether somebody is a double agent or a mole. we don t know enough about any of this to come to a conclusion. the real issue is what exactly this lawyer, the lady who came to talk about had in mind.
it s a clown convention anyway. stop funding it. his salary, we pay 22%. that s our assessed contribution for the u.n. regular budget. 22%. we should defund all the activities of the human rights council and then maybe they will pay attention. can we do that, can we say no more dough for this? i think we can. we are required to pay set contributions or some contributions to the u.n. but you are not required to adhere to any international treaty that s been violated and, lord knows, the u.n. charter has been violated more times than we can count. congress has the ability to suspend payments and historically when we do that, they finally pay attention to us. his term is, his six-year term and he started 2008 so he s going to be around for a while? unless somehow the financial pressure and somehow someone i assume someone could get rid of him, right? it s a gravy train. sometimes people like him show up as par of the u.s.
it s a clown convention anyway. stop funding it. his salary, we pay 22%. that s our assessed contribution for the u.n. regular budget. 22%. we should defund all the activities of the human rights council and then maybe they will pay attention. can we do that, can we say no more dough for this? i think we can. we are required to pay set contributions or some contributions to the u.n. but you are not required to adhere to any international treaty that s been violated and, lord knows, the u.n. charter has been violated more times than we can count. congress has the ability to suspend payments and historically when we do that, they finally pay attention to us. his term is, his six-year term and he started 2008 so he s going to be around for a while? unless somehow the financial pressure and somehow someone i assume someone could get rid of him, right? it s a gravy train. sometimes people like him show up as par of the u.s.