U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is heading for Washington and talks on the organization’s peacekeeping budget. His aim is to secure additional funding after the United States capped its share and threw responsibility back on the rest of the world to step up and fill the void.

The U.S. cost-cutting has created a hole of about $220 million in this year’s $6.7 billion budget, but the shortfall has been compounded by arrears that have pushed peacekeeping finances further into the red.

At the end of January, Ethiopia was owed $41.6 million for its blue helmets, India $40.5 million and Pakistan $35.7 million, according to the UN peacekeeping department.

When the U.N. was established in 1945 as a body deliberating peace and security matters, the regular budget was $19.39 million in nominal dollars, according to a Heritage Foundation report. In 2016, it was $5.4 billion biennially.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/12/u-n-chief-heads-to-washington-with-simple-plea-we-need-your-money/

Testimony provided to Congress from former FBI lawyer Lisa Page reveals contradictions as to when she learned about former British spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier, sheds light on the “insurance policy” and exposes the Obama Justice Department’s decision not to charge Hillary Clinton with allegedly violating the Espionage Act.

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https://saraacarter.com/explosive-lisa-page-testimony-steele-timeline-contradictions-and-doj-interference/

Stay safe and drive accordingly to road conditions, Keep an on fellow Patriots.

Bomb Cyclone

The storm on Wednesday is expected to bring up to 18 inches of snow in parts of Colorado and Wyoming, and possibly one of the strongest storms that Kansas has experienced, according to Dean.

"This is all unprecedented," said Hines, who has lived in the area for 25 years.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/bomb-cyclone-to-sock-central-us-with-blizzard-conditions-raging-winds-paired-with-severe-storms

What’s more, unlike other intelligence activities – such as cyberattacks, which are characterized by their discretion, the attack on the North Korean embassy was especially violent. On February 22 at 3pm, 10 masked men carrying alleged imitation weapons broke into the embassy, located north of the capital in the residential area of Aravaca. They tied up the eight people inside and put bags on their heads. The victims were beaten and interrogated. A woman managed to escape from a window on the second floor and her screams for help were heard by a neighbor, who contacted the police.

The assailants knew what they were looking for, taking only computers and mobile phones.

Sources believe that the goal of the attack on the North Korean embassy was to get information on Kim Hyok Chol, the former North Korean ambassador to Spain.

In February, Kim Hyok Chol also led the North Korean delegation that negotiated a nuclear disarmament plan with US special envoy Stephen Biegun in exchange for sanctions to be lifted.

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/13/inenglish/1552464196_279320.html

FAA Alone In The World As Canada Orders Grounding Of Boeing 737 Max 8s

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-13/faa-alone-world-canada-orders-grounding-boeing-737-max-8s

Canadian airlines won't force travellers to fly on Boeing 737 Max 8s

“This means we will waive any change fees for travel on a Boeing MAX aircraft within the next four day period. This promise rolls forward should the situation continue,” spokesperson Lauren Stewart said in a statement to CTVNews.ca on Wednesday.

Flight attendants

Wesley Lesosky, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Air Canada component, asked the airline to “at a minimum continue to offer reassignment to crew members who do not want to fly on this type of airplane” in a statement on Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the union, which represents more than 8,000 Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flight attendants, said members have “safety concerns” following the tragedy in Ethiopia.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canadian-airlines-won-t-force-travellers-to-fly-on-boeing-737-max-8s-1.4334303

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Is the UN Still upholding the Values that it was Created for?