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It’s that time of the year. The time when every organization in the world (and the ones that run the world) ask you for money. On account of trying to run the world, the UN’s pleas for money get a higher profile in the former of major media stories.
The United Nations plans to reduce by half the amount of money it requests from donor countries in 2026 to help people affected by war and natural disasters, a consequence of the drastic cuts by the United States and European governments to their foreign aid budgets.
Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under secretary general for humanitarian affairs, told reporters that after “excruciating life-and-death choices,” the priority for its 2026 fund-raising appeal, which started on Monday, is to raise $23 billion to deliver aid to 87 million people, about half the $47 billion that it requested in 2025.
“This is a heartbreaking report to share. There is pain on every page,” Mr. Fletcher said of the appeal. “We are overstretched, underfunded and under attack.”
“I would be lying if I said this moment isn’t daunting,” Mr. Fletcher said. “It feels like we’re jumping off a cliff, not knowing whether anyone will catch us.”
The official UN release has even more hilarious Tom Fletcher quotes.
“This appeal sets out where we need to focus our collective energy first: life by life,” said UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher.
“Only 20 per cent of our appeals are supported. And we drive the ambulance towards the fire on your behalf,” he said.
“But we are also now being asked to put the fire out. And there is not enough water in the tank. And we are being shot at.”
Who exactly is “we”?
Tom Fletcher is a British diplomat who has a position at Oxford. His, presumably, six figure salary notwithstanding, no one is shooting at Oxford or driving ambulances there.
And Tom, how does one put this politely, lies. Like a dog.
“There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them,” Tom Fletcher claimed earlier this year.
Then a minor correction was issued.
The statement, aired on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and repeated across national media and in Parliament, was later clarified by the BBC as a misrepresentation of a humanitarian report projecting malnutrition cases in children aged six month to five years over a 12-month period.
Two days. A year. What’s about to happen. A projection. Who can tell the difference? Not the UN.
But according to Fletcher now, he’s driving the ambulance and being shot at and you need to give him $23 billion now or everyone dies.
Mr. Fletcher recalled that the 2025 appeal received only $12 billion – the lowest funding in a decade. As a result, humanitarians reached 25 million less people than during the previous year.
The consequences were immediate, including rising hunger and strained health systems – “even as famines hit parts of Sudan and Gaza,” he said at a press briefing prior to this year’s launch.
“Programmes to protect women and girls were slashed, hundreds of aid organizations shut. And over 380 aid workers were killed – the highest on record.”
380 aid workers were killed… because you only gave the UN $12 billion. If you don’t double the money, more aid workers will die!
Don’t ask questions about the connection between the two! 50 billion babies are about to die in the next 3 seconds! Tom’s got mates on the line and they’ve got a hot tip on a horse in Dubai. Prince Ngube only needs 50 trillion yen to get back into power. Send crypto to feed him!
Please send all the money to the UN. Care of Tom Fletcher. Send it now because the suffering is endless at UN HQ.
More than 150 health facilities in Somalia were closed, and in Afghanistan, which is also experiencing rising malnutrition, the U.N. says it will be able to support only about a million people through the harsh winter months this year, compared with more than five million in 2024.
How about we send zero money to Afghanistan, Somalia and Tom Fletcher. Even if a quadrillion babies will die in the next nanosecond.
Funding the UN just helps the UN. No one else.
“Funding the UN just helps the UN. No one else.” Amen to that! Not funding the UN is a sound investment that pays dividends. Dividends in the form of the UN being so broke that they can’t pay attention. So broke that they have to cease operations and vacate the premises. What’s not to like about that?
Regarding that third-world sewer on the East River, the frantically begging (send cash, send cash) major-domo at the United Nations said, “It feels like we’re jumping off a cliff, not knowing whether anyone will catch us.” Want my advice? Jump already, darn it!
Send the UN more money!? Most Americans don’t even want those mooching creeps in our country. Not one more penny for the UN!!
“not knowing whether anyone will catch us”
Oh we’ll catch you, UN guy. We will. No, really we will. We’ve even got a big net ready for your fall. It’s made entirely of wet Kleenex. Now jump, bitch, jump.
“not enough water in the tank”
Has LA mayoress, African conference queen and part-time pyromaniac Karen Bass been moonlighting at the UN?
Nuke the UN!
Isn’t Trump getting the UN to help manage the situation in Gaza? I’m a bit hazy on the details but that always seemed the most likely outcome.
No, he isn’t and the situation In Gaza is unmanageable. Only driving put alli it’s degenerate inhabitants will work.
Definitely unmanageable.
Currently a siege, by IDF behind the yellow line.
It has no money. So close it down! Problem solved. And the world will be improved in 48 hours or less.
Con-Men and Panhandlers at the UN have become a bane on society and it’s time they were told to go peddle their papers elsewhere.
Papers?? How about bullsh*t? There’s plenty of that at the UN. And it comes from all corners of the earth.
Ah, the UN: Yet another bad idea from FDR.
Is Fletcher even capable of telling the truth?
Eighty seven million aid recipients? Who have been chosen? What form of aid are they supposed to receive.
That bugs more than any of his other ridiculous claims of the IN helping people.
Unfortunately, carefully analyzing UN programs, some of them have done a great deal of harm.
The organization is prone to being hijacked by interested parties, such as the KGB, Muslim nations, etc.
Tell Tom Fletcher that if he doesn’t send me 6 billion of that money not only will babies die, but so will old people, fat people, skinny people, a whole bunch of brown people, women, transgenders, midgets, and all 143 genders. I am the only one that can save them, despite actually being on fire right now and mortally wounded by shrapnel. I will save them all by driving an ambulance straight into a burning building, thereby also saving the UN ambulance driver who Tom was going to order to drive into a fire.
“[U.N.] Programs to protect women and girls were slashed”.
Yeah, like the U.N. “peacekeeping” force in Haiti that morphed into a rape gang.
Where is the U.N. program to protect the women and girls in England who are assulted by Muslim rape gangs?
Where is the U.N. program to protect the women and girls of Africa from the medieval and brutalist practice of genital mutilation?
How about that non-existant U.N. program to protect the women and girls of the United States who continue to be physically and mentally assulted by an unhinged trans community?
Not to mention that ghostly U.N. program to investigate the thousands illegal alien immigrant women and girls who have disappeared into the American sex slavery trade under the Biden regime?
I have a better idea why don’t this Imbecilic go sell Pencils on Park Avenue or Broadway to make money for the Useless Nations him and Coffee Cup Annan selling Pencils
Or shine shoes 🙂
How many of those 380 “Aid” workers were helping Hamas?
How much of that money is going to tin pot dictators?
Maybe if the UN returned to its charter of promoting democracy and freedom. As is, China and Russia have veto power and every cycle has shocking appointments to committees such as Cuba and Colombia being on the Human Rights Council.
It NEVER WILL. The UN was created by the globalist Council on Foreign Relations as part of its drive for TOTAL CONTROL of the entire world.
UN off a cliff? Good place for them.
US OUT OF UN! UN OUT OF US!
I say the USA should fund the UN to $1 per year and no more. The UN and it’s various agencies have not been good for the world.
I would like the UN to be “done in”, I would like the building raised to the ground. I would like the spies, I mean diplomats expelled. I would like American taxpayer money to be spent on Americans. I would like citizens being able to run illegal alien invaders out of the country without socialist democrats, or spineless, emasculated empty nut sack repubs getting in the way.