Ted promised them $1 billion in stock back when Ted was actually worth more than $1 billion in stock.
Posted on 01/27/2005 5:48:34 PM PST by Pikamax
70 Nobel Winners Back U.N. Chief Annan
NICK WADHAMS
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS - Seventy Nobel laureates have signed a letter backing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has weathered calls for his resignation amid a spate of scandals in recent months.
The letter, supported by Peace Prize winners Jimmy Carter and Elie Wiesel, among others, was made public Thursday. It expresses the laureates' "deepest respect and support for Kofi Annan and the values he has embraced in his lifetime of work for peace and security."
The idea for the letter was spearheaded by the Better World Campaign, a nonprofit group that seeks to improve appreciation for the United Nations. The group is a sister organization to the United Nations Foundation, created in 1998 toward fulfilling CNN founder Ted Turner's $1 billion pledge to support U.N. programs.
U.N. Foundation press secretary Christina LoNigro said the push for the letter began in earnest in December when Annan, himself a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was under the most intense fire.
Annan was sharply criticized for a string of U.N. scandals including allegations of corruption surrounding the oil-for-food program; claims that U.N. staff were guilty of sexual harassment; and investigations into sexual wrongdoing and other alleged crimes by U.N. peacekeepers.
He has also been criticized for his son Kojo Annan's employment at a Swiss company that had an oil-for-food contract. Kojo Annan, who denies any involvement in wrongdoing, received payments from the Swiss firm for more than four years after his job ended.
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I lost all respect for the Nobel Peace Prize when they gave it to Arafat. Not to mention Jimmy Carter and Kofi are both Nobel Peace Prize winners.
I'm sure you can probably find Arafat's signature there. Remember, these are liberals.
starting = start
How much did this deplete his bank account, I wonder.
I wager that most of the peace prize winners signed this. You will probably not find any economics winners.
Or pour P__s out of a boot with directions on the heel.
leftists give leftists awards.
newspapers' pulitzer prize winners are leftists.
Anybody know how many living Nobel Laureates there are?
It would be kinda funny to be able to accurately answer "847 Nobel Laureates Do NOT back Kofi"
Ted promised them $1 billion in stock back when Ted was actually worth more than $1 billion in stock.
LOL!
I'm assuming you're still in high school. I lost respect for the entire institution many years ago. IMOHO.
Carter and his 'friends' are traitors to this country. If he were to check out, I would throw a cocktail party, blow up balloons, don hats, blow whistles at mid-night, and turn up the tunes.
... further proof that lotsa the world's 'smart' folks are on the take in this scandal and protect their own.... despicable
I thought he was against genocide!
Given the propensity for dead Democrats to vote, how do you know he didn't???
Leni
Yeah, that's what I was wondering -- how many got the invitation to sign the petition, and replied, "not just no, but hell no"?
I just checked, and all 70 of them voted in King County, Washington!
They don't realize that the words "Nobel Prize Winner" have long since become pejorative when not attached to a hard science.
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