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Saturday, October 14, 2006
Posted
12:36 PM
by freelance radical
. GOODBYE, KOFI C-Span finally made it into the United Nations, where South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon was chosen via unanimous acclaim, to be the next Secretary General. I had read somewhere, that Ban Ki-Moon received an award for his proficiency in English, that he traveled to the US when he was 14, that John F. Kennedy presented that award to him, and that the young Ban Ki-Moon had been deeply touched by this event. So I figured.........being that he's 62 now, and that he's had almost half a century to practice his English a whole lot more, he'd be speaking it like a trooper, you know? I literally forced myself to listen to most of the speeches that accompanied this ceremony, and I think it got me to understand why the UN has become as useless as it is: First, there was a lengthy, meaningless speech by the representative of Asia. I would go crazy, in that place. People just talk and talk and talk and talk and talk..........no wonder, any kind of meaningful action never-ever comes out of there! These are talkers - not doers. They know how to talk, but they don't know how to do. I've been in organizations like that. And I've left them. All of them. Any large group that has the collossal arrogance to subject its members to this kind of verbal onslaught, cannot possibly be a functional entity. I hope that C-Span will return often, to the UN assembly. The world needs to get to know this talking-crowd! They're costing everyone a bloody fortune. And for what? =======
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