The Red Brick Times

The UN General Assembly is in its 61st Session (Sept 2006 through Sept 2007). Here is the first report of the General Committee, the organization and adoption of the agenda for the 61st session. There are many items directed to cost savings. For example, meeting support does not extend past 6PM, and members are directed to begin meetings on time. There is a notation to not bother the Secretary General for reports unless they directly impact critical and active agenda items.

Reference the General Assembly debate, and specifically, member states' turns at the podium: The presentations for September 19th include G.W.Bush. The link includes both video and text choices. The presentations for September 20th include Hugo Chavez. Interestingly, Chavez's speech is the only one that does NOT yet include the text. This morning, the notation next to the Chavez speech text button was [text not available]. Now, the notation shows [English] but the button does not work. That's OK. The news media has taken care of it.

As a compare/contrast, here is a link to a UN Speech made by Hugo Chavez a year ago on September 18, 2005.
Posted 11:30 AM by Andy (2) comments

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Maybe Chavez was right. Norwegians thought Bush was saluting Satan. Sean Penn calls Bush a dumb devil. Does Bush worship the devil? Signs of Satan. And finally:

George Bush has a heart attack and dies. He goes to hell where the devil is waiting for him. "I don't know what to do here," says the devil. "You're on my list but I have no room for you. But you definitely have to stay here, so I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I've got three people here who weren't quite as bad as you. I'll let one of them go, but you have to take their place. I'll even let YOU decide who leaves." George thought that sounded pretty good so he agreed. The devil opened the first room. In it was Richard Nixon and a large pool of water. He kept diving in and surfacing empty handed over and over and over. Such was his fate in hell. "No!" George said. "I don't think so. I'm not a good swimmer and I don't think I could do that all day long." The devil led him to the next room. In it was Tony Blair with a sledgehammer and a room full of rocks. All he did was swing that hammer, time after time after time. "No! I've got this problem with my shoulder. I would be in constant agony if all I could do was break rocks all day!" commented George. The devil opened a third door. In it, George saw Bill Clinton lying naked on the floor with his arms staked over his head and his legs staked in spread-eagle pose. Bent over him was Monica Lewinsky, doing what she does best. George Bush looked at this in disbelief for a while and finally said, "Yeah, I can handle this." The devil smiled and said, "Monica, you're free to go!"

# posted by  Andy : September 21, 2006 12:40 PM
 
As one news analyst pointed out, remember that Hugo Chavez is running for reelection in Venezuela. His focus group is the electorate there. And he has a bunch of oil to play with. So while his rhetoric was unvarnished and refreshing, it is probably meaningless in the larger scheme.

# posted by  Andy : September 21, 2006 1:07 PM
 
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