“We were to have made a $60m payment to Unesco in November and we will not be making that payment.”

State department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists in Washington that the United States is cancelling funding for the UN cultural body Unesco after it voted to grant full membership to the Palestinians. Membership dues paid by the US account for about a fifth of the organisation’s annual budget. (source)

TAKING OUR BALL AND KICKING YOU OUT OF NYC.

(via sexartandpolitics)

I can’t even begin to tell you how fucking disgusted I am. Not surprised, but really god damn fucking disgusted.

UNESCO is one of the least funded UN agencies to begin with.

(via how-to-kiss-distinctly-american)

To be…fair? the jokers in Congress in the early 90s are at fault for this, not the current State Department or the President. It’s an automatic trigger that if a UN agency recognizes Palestine, the US cannot fund it.

(via filigree)

I want to embrace this fully, and withhold taxes anytime the U.S. government does something I disagree with. 

(via filigree)

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