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THE UNITED NATIONS IS DECLARED A FAILURE.

COMMENTARY BY DR JOHN WORLDPEACE FOR PRESIDENT 2016

The United Nations has failed. The five permanent members of the Security Council have finally after 68 years manipulated their way around the founding charter's primary objective to create a more peaceful and just world in favor of their own global agendas..

Russia, China, America, England and France have learned how to use their veto power to condemn the world to ongoing wars. Palestine statehood is openly thwarted by the United States in support for Israel. Russia thwarts any actions against Syria and does what it pleases in the Ukraine. China is taking over and dissolving Tibet and moving into the South China Sea.

Nigeria is on fire and no one cares.

The Asians are represented by China as a permanent member of the U N.

White humans are represented by Russia, America, England and France.

There is no Black representation in the permanent members of the Security Council and so Africa is a step child of the UN.

The members states of the UN are united in making sure the UN will not be led by a woman.

What is most revealing is that the Permanent members no longer try to hide their determination to keep their power and do with it as they please anywhere in the world. Mostly in support of their economic agendas.

There is no way to end the bloodshed of the Shia Sunni rift in the Muslim world that has set the Middle East on fire.

Each negative and evil cause in the world has its defender in one or more of the permanent members of the UN Security Council.

So what is the solution? There is no solution. The United Nations has a rotten core. One that can never be rooted out.

The only real hope for the world is economics. The economics of the world will eventually determine that for the most part there cannot be a world war that destroys business. In that objective, peace will advance if not on paper, in unspoken agreements among the predator nations who are intent on economically enslaving 98% of the world human society.

The world is about to enter an incredible advancement in technology and at the same time enter a Dark Ages for the world human society.

The UN cannot stop global warming or slow it down. It cannot stop the seas from being fished out. It cannot stop religious wars. It cannot enforce justice.

How can we manifest peace on earth if we do not include everyone (all nations, all religions, all races, both genders) in our vision of peace? We cannot.

And the permanent members of the United Nations, the Five Neo Kings of the New World Order, will live long and doom the world to famine, wars, injustice, plagues. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are coming because the Five Kings have determined them to be a necessity of the New World Order.

The world human society is predatory and violent. Violence has always dominated the primal nature of man. Nothing has changed. In the final analysis power and money rule the world. And that power and money set up the Five Kings 68 years ago. The only peace that is going to dominate the world is whatever peace maintains the status quo between the Five Kings.

The Third Millennium has arrived. Welcome to the 1,000 years of peace.

Dr John WorldPeace

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SOURCE: Reuters

Four ideas to save world peace

Kofi Annan and Gro Harlem Brundtland | 08 February, 2015 23:59

A big part of the problem is that the Security Council, which is supposed to maintain world peace and security on behalf of all member states, no longer commands respect.

Seventy years ago, the UN was founded "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war".

Looking around the world today, the least one can say is that it is not fully succeeding in this mission. From Nigeria through the Middle East to Afghanistan and Ukraine, millions are dying from that scourge, or imminently threatened by it, and the UN seems powerless to save them.

We have four ideas for making it stronger and more effective.

A big part of the problem is that the Security Council, which is supposed to maintain world peace and security on behalf of all member states, no longer commands respect - certainly not from armed insurgents operating across borders, and often not from the UN's own members.

Throughout the world, and especially in the Global South, people struggle to understand why, in 2015, the council is still dominated by the five powers that won World War 2. They are more and more inclined to question its authority, and the legitimacy of its decisions.

We ignore this threat at our peril. Times have changed since 1945, and the council must adapt.

Almost everyone claims to favour expanding the Security Council, to include new permanent members, but for decades now states have been unable to agree who these should be, or whether, like the existing ones, they should have the power to veto agreements reached by their fellow members.

1) Our first idea aims to break this stalemate. Instead of new permanent members, let us have a new category of members, serving a much longer term than the non-permanent ones, and eligible for immediate re-election. In other words they would be permanent, provided they retained the confidence of other member states. Surely that is more democratic?

2) Secondly, we call on the five existing permanent members to give a solemn pledge. They must no longer allow their disagreements to mean that the council fails to act, even when - for instance, as currently in Syria - people are threatened with atrocious crimes.

Let the Five promise never to use the veto just to defend their national interests, but only when they genuinely fear that the proposed action will do more harm than good to world peace and to the people concerned. In that case, let them give a full and clear explanation of the alternative they propose, as a more credible and efficient way to protect the victims. And, when one does use the veto in that way, let the others promise not to abandon the search for common ground, but to work even harder to find an effective solution on which all can agree.

3) Thirdly, let the council listen more carefully to those affected by its decisions. When they can agree, the permanent members often deliberate behind closed doors, without listening to those whom their decisions most affect. From now on, let them - and the whole council - give representatives of people in zones of conflict a chance to inform and influence their decisions.

4) And, finally, let the council, and especially its permanent members, make sure the UN gets the kind of leader it needs. Let them respect the spirit as well as the letter of what the charter says about choosing a new secretary-general, and no longer settle it by negotiating among themselves behind closed doors. Let us have a thorough and open search for the best qualified candidates, irrespective of gender or region; let the council then recommend more than one candidate for the General Assembly to choose from; and let the successful candidate be appointed for a single, non-renewable term of seven years.

He or she - and after eight "hes" it's surely time for a "she" - must not be under pressure to give jobs or concessions to any member state in return for its support. This process should be adopted without delay, so that it can be used to find the best person to take over in January 2017.

These four proposals, we believe form an essential starting point for the UN to recover its authority.

*The writers are chair and deputy chair of The Elders. The Elders are independent global leaders working together for peace and human rights. The group was founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007. Annan is former UN Secretary-General and Brundtland former prime minister of Norway.