[WSIS CS-Plenary] Humanitarian Times & Daily Show
Elizabeth Carll, PhD
ecarll at optonline.net
Sun Apr 3 17:18:59 BST 2005
Djilali,
I haven't read the Humanitarian Times before, as it appears much like an
international version of the "Daily Show" with John Stewart, which is a
parody of TV news. A little humor on the typical negative reports in the
news.
Elizabeth
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Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [Africa-CS-WSIS]RESIGNATION TO SECURITY
COUNCIL
I really hope that it is a jok... First April is used
by some to make such a jok...
If it is true i suppose that all high staff UN
assignements will be allowed to US citizens... Perhaps
also we shall have the privilege to have an american
Pope !
Interesting as global word management, but the History
is not finish and the next battle will be the battle
for international good governance and The US President
would probably like to lead the debate !
J'esphre que ce message est un poisson d'avril parce
que si tel itait le cas on aurait des souci ` nous
faire.
Un prochain pape amiricain ? un prisident amiricain
menant les dibats sur la gouvernance mondiale, autant
de raison peut-jtre pour voter oui au traiti
constitutionnel europien ultra libiral... O dieu de
l'enfer ! quel cauchemerd !
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> >>>> <htimes at fcc.net> 01/04/2005 13:19:42 >>>
>
>_______________________________________________________________________
> >
> The Humanitarian Times
> >
> April 1, 2005
> >
> >- U.N. SEC. GEN. KOFI ANNAN SUBMITTED HIS
> RESIGNATION TO SECURITY COUNCIL
> >first thing this morning, surprising many UN
> watchers who believed that
> >the oil-for-food scandal had not directly
> implicated him. In a press
> >briefing early this morning, Annan said that the
> effectiveness of the UN
> >depended on a leadership that was not distracted by
> defensiveness over
> >scandals like this.
> >
> >- HEADS OF U.N. AGENCIES MET IN NEW YORK TO DISCUSS
> TRANSITION PLANS
> >this week. Those UN agency heads who are American,
> Paul Wolfowitz of
> >the World Bank, Wendy Chamberlin of UNHCR, Anne
> Veneman of Unicef, James
> >Morris of the World Food Programme, Brunson
> McKinley of IOM, & others met
> >Tuesday in a new inter-agency coordination
> mechanism to better plan the
> >UN's operations in concert with American interests.
> >
> >- WHITE HOUSE RELEASES LONG-TERM ROAD-MAP FOR
> UNITED NATIONS' REFORM,
> >following the recent spate of UN Reform proposals,
> including the High
> >-Level Panel report and this month's "In Larger
> Freedom?" by the Sec
> >General. The US Administration's proposal includes
> a number of mergers.
> >(more below)
> >
> >- ACTING SWIFLY IN RESPONSE TO THE SEC. GEN.
> VACANCY,
> >the US President appointed as interim Secretary
> General of the United
> >Nations his brother, Jeb Bush, who had been
> involved in goodwill
> >missions in Asia following the recent tsunami.
> When reminded that the
> >UN constitution prohibited the Sec. General being
> from one of the
> >permanent members of the Security Council, White
> House legal advisors
> >said that the US is not bound by that limited
> reading of an archaic &
> >inapplicable body of international law. The USG
> said that it had
> >conferred with key allies in making the decision.
> When asked by BBC,
> >Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he had indeed
> been told of the
> >appointment by his White House superiors an hour
> before the decision
> >was issued. In order to immediately effect UN
> reforms, the Pres. sent
> >army & marine brigades into New York City,
> surrounding the UN, &
> >closing its offices. SRSG Lahkdar Brahmi has been
> asked to create an
> >interim coalition provisional authority to
> facilitate the two-year UN
> >transition.
>
>_______________________________________________________________________
> > REVIEW OF WHITE
> HOUSE PROPOSAL ON UN REFORM
> >
> >- U.S. POSITIONS ON U.N. REFORM INVOLVE
> EFFICIENCIES & CONSOLIDATIONS
> >as a number of agencies were merged, effective
> immediately by Presidential
> >Decision Directive this week. Because of its
> brand-name value, Unicef was
> >maintained with the same name, under US control,
> but reporting directly
> to
> >the Republican National Committee. The World Food
> Program would take over
> >the Food and Agriculture Organization, & both be
> merged under the US
> >Department of Agriculture. USAID Administrator
> Andrew Natsios was
> >appointed head of UNDP, along with a merger of the
> two organizations.
> >The World Health Organization will be merged with
> the Centers for Disease
> >Control in Atlanta, combining their laboratory
> facilities and reducing
> >human resources, laboratory & security
> redundancies. IFAD, UNCTAD & the
> >International Labor Organization will be
> privatized, sold off at auction
> >this summer, proceeds to be held in trust by the
> Republican National
> >Committee, which will have fiduciary authority over
> the whole UN network.
> >
> >- PAUL WOLFOWITZ UNFURLED HIS VISION OF REVITALIZED
> WORLD BANK
> >as part of overall UN reform as well. The World
> Bank will be merged with
> >the US Department of Defense, helping to restore to
> the World Bank it's
> >original concentration on post-conflict
> reconstruction. After being
> >installed as the new director of the World Bank,
> Wolfowitz admitted that
> >he had no experience in third world development,
> had never even thought
> >about it, & didn't care. Both the World Bank & the
> US military have among
> >the largest budgets in the world. The Bank's
> borrowing authority would
> >be extremely valuable to the Pentagon during times
> of war, as proven by
> >historian Nial Ferguson in his review of how the
> Netherlands & the UK out
> >-financed their rivals in wars over the last 400
> years.
> >
> >- HARSH REACTIONS TO THE NEW U.N. REFORM PLANS OF
> THE U.S. WERE GIVEN
> >by two critics of the US Administration's
> proposals. On CNN's Larry King
> >Live, former US Ambassador to the UN, Richard
> Holbrooke said that he had
> >personally faced down Milosevic, he himself had
> known George Kennan, he
> >had introduced key humanitarian issues to the Sec.
> Council's agenda, &
> >he personally had a lot of important ideas. In a
> NY Times op-ed this
> >morning, Earth Institute director Jeffrey Sachs
> wrote an essay about how,
> >as macro-economist focused on the Soviet Union &
> Bolivia in the 1980s, he
> >had little idea about the types of politics behind
> the scenes in the UN
> >System. Sachs concluded, "the Millennium
> Development Goals (MDGs) still
> >inspire hope." In an accompanying letter to the
> editor, U2 musician/
> >singer Bono wrote that almost everything he knows
> about the real world
> >he learned from Sachs or Bob Geldorf.
>
>_______________________________________________________________________
> > April 1, 2005
> The Humanitarian Times
> >
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> >-- Original Message --
> >From: ngenda at bluewin.ch
> >Subject: Re: [Africa-CS-WSIS]WSIS, Civil Society
> and Multi-Stakeholderism
> >To: africa at wsis-cs.org, africa at wsis-cs.org,
> plenary at wsis-cs.org
> >Cc: wsis-finance at yahoogroupes.fr
> >Reply-To: africa at wsis-cs.org
> >Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 14:18:11 +0200
> >
> >
> >Why are you so busy defining yourselves. We are
> Africans. Private, public
>
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