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2005-09-14 International-UN-NGOs

Poor nations lose in watered-down UN document

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Posted by Steve White 2005-09-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Campaigners and diplomats who favoured a bold approach..."

They misspelled "old".

Throwing money, other people's money, is always their "answer". The UN is the most concentrated nest of con artists, kleptocrats, crooks, scammers, and schemers ever assembled.

Thanks, John. You're just what this bunch needs.

Posted by .com 2005-09-14 00:37|| 2005-09-14 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 "Poor nations lose in watered-down UN document" What did they lose? Jaques and Kofi's attempt to put the UN;s hand in my wallet? Oxfam? Save the Children? Are they here in my town saving children? Those recycling old pledges would be the EU of course.

Stick a fork in this waste of space and time called the UN, it's done.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-14 01:05|| 2005-09-14 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Typical Guardian spin. Bolton wanted a bunch of stuff taken out. A bunch of stuff was taken out. Look to me like he won.

Posted by phil_b 2005-09-14 02:11|| 2005-09-14 02:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Too baaaaad.

Posted by gromgoru 2005-09-14 06:26|| 2005-09-14 06:26|| Front Page Top

#5 A perfect example of why the GA is a ball-less gas factory, by design.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-09-14 10:25|| 2005-09-14 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Everyone raise their hand who thinks the founders of the United Nations really intended "tackling poverty" as a primary mandate of the UN?

Posted by DO 2005-09-14 11:32|| 2005-09-14 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Everyone raise their hand who thinks the founders of the United Nations really intended for the UN bureaucrats to have their hands on our wallets?

Posted by Darrell 2005-09-14 11:57|| 2005-09-14 11:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Boo-fucken'-hoo.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-09-14 12:00|| 2005-09-14 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Oxfam described the development section of the final draft as a "recycling of old pledges". Save the Children said the chance of a historic breakthrough on poverty "had all but slipped through the fingers of world leaders".

My wallet thanks you, John Bolton...

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-14 12:06|| 2005-09-14 12:06|| Front Page Top

#10 mite as well brake it eezy to em

Posted by muck4doo 2005-09-14 14:13|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-14 14:13|| Front Page Top

#11 "recycling of old pledges"

Oh well, how about honoring those first?
They just wanted some shiny new pledges that they of course weren't to honor anyway, just like the old ones.

Posted by True German Ally 2005-09-14 16:59|| 2005-09-14 16:59|| Front Page Top

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