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UN Building, from Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park (Wolfe)

My brain’s been battered,

splattered all over Manhattan  ~~~ Stones

With no less a sense of enchantment than Dorothy gazing upon the Emerald City, the small boy shivered in the shadow of the massive modernist slab, as the cold wind blowing off the East River snapped the colorful flags of the nations of the world. He contemplated:

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED

• to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
• to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and 
• to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
• to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom

The boy had not been so inspired by the vision of a bright, modern, peaceful future since he’d been to the World’s Fair, earlier that summer of 64:

Plaza of Astronauts – The Rocket Thrower (who knew the Rocket thrower would be a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the rockets would become drones?)

The soundtrack for all that:

There is just one moon and one golden sun
And a smile means friendship to everyone
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
It’s a small world after all  ~~~ Small World

The enchanted boy’s next adventure to the Emerald City would come the next year on another class trip to Broadway – the boy still gets goosebumps from these words: 

This is my quest, to follow that star
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
To fight for the right, without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell for a heavenly cause

The small boy grew, and next’ year’s adventure to the Emerald City, off Broadway, brought this tune: “How are things in Glocca Morra?”

Well, 50 years have gone by, and that small boy, scorned and covered with scars, still strove to visit the Emerald City again yesterday, to bear witness to the Camelot Branded Nobel Peace Prize winner’s address to that same UN at a special Climate Summit.

After launching another war (his 4th? or 5th?, with a “major renewal” and expansion of US nuclear weapons), here are Obama’s empty words – to run where the brave dare not go – to fight for the right without question or pause?– and here’s the vision of the UN the boy now saw, as the helicopters hovered overhead:

   NYC, just outside the UN Climate Summit (9/23/14)

Here’s the words version of the story:

We need to highlight the fact that the United Nations has sold out to corporate interests. At U.N. meetings on climate change you see corporate logos on display. During the last meeting on climate change in Poland, the U.N. held a simultaneous conference to promote coal as a clean energy source. These U.N. meetings have become corporate trade shows where discussions on climate are hijacked to promote corporate interests. Barack Obama has announced he will continue the U.S. stance of only calling for voluntary climate goals in advance of the upcoming climate summit in Paris next year. ~~~ Kevin Zeese

And where were our brave climate protesters?

A Potemkin Protest? Barricades at the ready, there were more cops than protesters in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza

ps – there was no freedom at the Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park – it is closed on Tuesday’s!