Posted on 10/09/2001 7:10:14 PM PDT by freedomnews
Annan to address US public in nationally broadcast Town Hall meeting
9 October – Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, will address the United States public on 11 October - one month to the day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington D.C. - during a Town Hall meeting that will be broadcast nationwide.
Moderated by Walter Cronkite, the event will enable Mr. Annan to engage the US public in a conversation by reaching out to their communities. Via satellite from the UN in New York, the Secretary-General will detail how the UN can support the global effort against terrorism. After his address, he will take questions from people gathered in ten cities - Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle, St. Louis and Tampa.
Each individual city will host a panel of experts and a local moderator to facilitate ongoing discussion after the satellite portion of the broadcast concludes. The focus of the local meetings will be the impact of the terrorist attacks on the United States and the world. Some of the moderators include NBC's Bob Costas in St. Louis, former Colorado Senator Tim Wirth in Boston, and the National President of the League of Women Voters, Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, in Denver. The invitation only audience will be comprised of business and civic leaders, elected officials, youth, community leaders and clergy.
The Town Hall meeting is being produced by The Better World Campaign, a project of the Better World Fund, a sister organization to the United Nations Foundation. The Fund was created from a portion of an initial gift of $1 billion from American philanthropist and businessman Ted Turner. The organization is a bi-partisan, non-profit education and outreach initiative that aims to enhance awareness and appreciation for the work of the UN and the role it plays in international affairs.
But that hand-picked leftist audience he's doing this with makes me puke my guts out. They will assure him that the American people really want surrender and he will ultimately be left scratching his head, not realizing how weird and unrepresentative these groups are.
But that hand-picked leftist audience he's doing this with makes me puke my guts out. They will assure him that the American people really want surrender and he will ultimately be left scratching his head, not realizing how weird and unrepresentative these groups are.
But that hand-picked leftist audience he's doing this with makes me puke my guts out. They will assure him that the American people really want surrender and he will ultimately be left scratching his head, not realizing how weird and unrepresentative these groups are.
Why the hell should I care if the General Secretary of the United Nations wants to talk to me? Who in the hell is he to me, an American citizen?
MY President has already "reached out" to my "community" with his speech three weeks ago. I'd rather watch hockey on ESPN or something than watch Annan.
...what if Kofi threw a party and YOU AND I showed up?
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Coffee Annan doesn't have anything to say that I want to hear. No way, no how.
He is Major La Cucaracha...don't try to fool us, or more importantly, yourself.
"I do and do and do for you, and this is the thanks I get!"
How sweet of you to offer... Do you think there'll be dancing? ;-)
The Conference declared the 1980s to be the "UN International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade". The altruistic goal was to ensure all people in the world had access to adequate water supplies and sanitation within a decade.
Ten years later, the Brundtland Commission told the world that our approach to development was unsustainable--but it had little to say about water. Then, in 1992, the Rio Conference on Environment and Development, in its "Agenda for the 21st Century" (known as "Agenda 21"), addressed fresh water in chapter 18 of its report. In 1996, the World Water Council, a private think-tank, was formed. The founding members were Egypt's Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources, the Canadian International Development Agency and the French transnational water corporation Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux. Other organisations supporting the start-up of the World Water Council were: * International Water Resources Association (IWRA)
* Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo (CIHEAM- Bari)
* International Water Association (IWA)
* United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
* United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
* United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
* United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
* United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
* Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
* World Bank (WB)
* World Conservation Union (IUCN)
* World Health Organization (WHO)
* World Meteorological Association (WMA)
The World Water Council set about developing its vision for our future: a comprehensive document, The Long Term Vision for Water, Life and Environment,7 better known by its subtitle, World Water Vision, Making Water Everybody's Business.
At a 1998 meeting held in Washington, DC, the World Water Council appointed a group of commissioners to turn the World Water Vision into reality. The membership of the World Water Commission, as it became known, reads like a who's who of the ruling elite. The high profile commissioners include: * Yolanda Kababadse, President, World Conservation Union * Jessica Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA
* Robert S. McNamara, Co-Chair, Global Coalition for Africa * Maurice Strong, Chair, Earth Council, member of Commission on Global Governance, and a chief adviser in charge of the UN reform process
* Wilfred Thalwitz, former Senior VP, World Bank * Jerome Mondo, Chair of the Supervisory Board, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux
Memo to Mr. Annan,
The Town Hall meeting has been rescheduled and moved to new location. It will now take place tonight at the airport bonfire in Kabul.
Please pass this memo along to Mr. Turner and his lovely ex-wife, as well.
Sincerely,
U.S.A.
I don't think I get the International Doofus Network.
What world do you live in?
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