Thread: Sex, Money & Consensus: New Doc Pounds United Nations

Sex, Money & Consensus: New Doc Pounds United Nations

November 22, 2009

News networks here in Europe including BBC and others have tepidly shared info and commentary on Herman van Rompuy, the recent Belgian prime minister who assumed the new position of President of the European Union, while Great Britain’s Baroness Catherine Ashton was named the body’s new Foreign Minister. Much of the continent seems to have given a collective yawn to the new appointments, with some asking why former British PM Tony Blair had not been the choice for the EU’s top position given his high profile. Euroskeptics and pro union supporters have squared off on BBC about the increasing centralization of the EU. Meanwhile, in Amsterdam, another world body - the United Nations - has stirred perhaps much more vibrant discussion in the wake of a screening here at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).

Matthew Groff and Ami Horowitz’s doc “U.N. Me,â€

What is the old mantra? "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." The UN has done not much to aid the rest of the world in any way and they are continually marching onto our soil to complain about how everything in the world is our fault.