UNESCO’s Role in Our Schools

“UNESCO’s role is to think global governance”
by Lisa McLoughlin
Truth About IB

Opening address by His Excellency Mr Olabiyi Babalola Joseph Yaï, Chair of the Executive Board of UNESCO at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 20 April 2009

August 24, 2010 – It cannot be called “conspiracy theory” when it is fact. The above speech by Mr. Yaï is not ancient history. It was delivered a mere 14 months ago in the spring of 2009 and heaps adulation upon the election of Barack Obama to the U.S. Presidency. Regarding Obama’s election, Yai states:

“…the hope raised throughout the world by the election of Barack Hussein Obama, an African American, to the office of President of the United States of America.The prophetic words of Césaire spring to mind: “La relance ici se fait, Par le vent qui d’Afrique vient”.

In English, that means: “The revival here is done. By the wind which of Africa comes.”

So if Barack Obama’s election completes UNESCO’s “revival, what was its original goal? It is important to remember that Ronald Reagan withdrew the U.S. from UNESCO in 1984. According to The Heritage Foundation; “When the U.S. left, many UNESCO programs and debates focused on disarmament, “collective rights,” and other themes which Washington believed were departures from UNESCO’s original mandate.” It was George W. Bush who misguidedly rejoined UNESCO after 9/11 as a gesture of “goodwill”. UNESCO immediately took advantage of Bush’s goodwill by expanding its indoctrination efforts around the world, but particularly here in the U.S., via International Baccalaureate programmes.

In Mr. Yai’s own words:

“You will recall, dear colleagues, that I said, before Mr Ban Ki Moon, Secretary- General of the United Nations, that UNESCO’s role is to think global governance. That is why the Organization was founded. We come to the rescue of the system especially when the economic machine runs out of steam, as it clearly has today. It is thus a matter of urgency to set up a long-term working group on global governance. I hope that a State or group of States will seize on this worthy proposal, and that the Organization, as of this session, will give it the attention it warrants.”

Mr. Yai goes on to say:

“Our device must always be TRUTHS (in the plural) and CONSENSUS. A great thinker, Jaime Torres Bodet, had a proverbial saying: “the other name for UNESCO is truth”.”

Therefore, we must take Mr. Yai at his word – that UNESCO was founded for the purpose of global governance and to achieve that goal through education. TAIB finds the discovery of this quote incredibly ironic as we have been bombarded of late with demands for us to change this website’s name and remove the word Truth from it.

TAIB will not change the name of our site. We are bringing you the truth. As they say, sometimes the truth hurts. It’s time IB lovers suck it up and stop getting so angry at us for bringing them the truths they are simply too close-minded to hear.