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Joe Higgins challenges Kofi Annan at Forum meeting
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Wednesday October 20, 2004 21:34 by SP Member
On 14 October the Forum on Europe heard an address by the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who had come to speak about planned reforms to the United Nations. All Party leaders were allowed to address comments to Kofi Annan. The following speech was made by Joe Higgins. Annan, reflecting the arrogance of all diplomats and members of the political elite these days, did not answer any of Joe’s questions or refer to any points made in his speech in the summation given to the Forum. Joe Higgins TD: |
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Jump To Comment: 1These names are being publicised as supporting Kofi - coz you'll recognise them.
Peace -former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
Peace - Kim Dae-Jung, former South Korean president
Dismal science - Joseph Stiglitz.
Gunter Grass, - for writing great books and drawing toads and rats and lonely drummer boys.
Wangari Maatha - Peace
Toni Morrison, writer
Seamus Heaney for telling us about his mammy
and Elie Wiesel for telling us about his.
ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev for being funky and not Stalin, former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias for being even more funky, South African anti-apartheid campaigner Bishop Desmond Tutu for meeting the catholic worker 11 o clock folk mass crew and saying no to trident, and former South African President F.W. de Klerk for stopping the supremacists getting the bomb and asking for the Mc Donalds to go on the corner of his apartheid era embassy to London so we could hang out in sleeping bags and boycott both at the same time.
The letter was organised by a foundation set up by billionaire commercial media magnate Ted Turner,
and in his pals sites, they list the above names as "most notable".
This sort of pisses me off.
You win the Nobel coz you're notable.
you don't get more notable Nobel prize winners.
so why aren't the 70 names online?