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Interestingly, this was on CNN last week.

Well, on that speech, this is a very, very grave mistake by the Deputy Secretary General. We are in the process of an enormous effort to achieve substantial reform at the United Nations. And it’s a difficult effort, but it’s an effort that we feel very strongly about. And to have the Deputy Secretary General criticize the United States in such a manner, can only do grave harm to the United Nations. Even though the target of the speech was the United States, the victim, I fear, will be the United Nations. And even worse was the condescending and patronizing tone about the American people. That fundamentally and very sadly, this was a criticism of the American people, not the American government, by an international civil servant, it’s just illegitimate. So we’ve thought about this a good deal and we didn’t respond to it yesterday evening when we got a copy of the speech. But what we think the only way at this point to mitigate the damage to the United Nations is that the Secretary General Kofi Annan, we think has to personally and publicly repudiate this speech at the earliest possible opportunity. Because otherwise I fear the consequences, not just for the reform effort, but for the organization as a whole. I spoke to the Secretary General this morning. I said I’ve known you since 1989, and I’m telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior UN official that I have seen in that entire time. That’s why the only hope I think is that the Secretary General comes to the rescue of the organization and repudiates the speech.

Site should include Bolton’s entire speech instead of selectively editing. And include later response as well:

I am concerned at this point at the very wounding effect that this criticism of the United States will have in our efforts to achieve reform. And this isn’t the first time the Deputy Secretary General has done this recently. He gave an interview a few weeks ago that criticized the United States and the other major contributors. This is very serious. This is very serious.

Focusing on the U.N., my timeline built on a few key factors. 1) Any attempt to redefine the United Nations would be blocked by the United States. The idea of using the 2/3rds Majority Vote in the General Assembly? Hell no, the U.S. would block any implimentation of that by a veto in the Security Council. Removing the Security Council’s veto power? Heh, veto there too. So, in my gameworld, Russia, China, and France withdrew from the United Nations in January of 2005 after Bush was seen to have won the Presidential Elections over an unnamed Democratic candidate with lots of calls about voting machine fraud. Great Britian, under Tony Blair, remained with the United States in the UN for a short while until Blair was removed by a much less crooked government. They withdrew, and within a week, a nasty surprise in the form of Russian and Chinese soldiers, requested by Canada, formed a heavily armed and defended border that persists into the mid 21st Century. The former permanant members of the U.N. Security Council were joined by approximately 100 members of the General Assembly, and these nations formed a new World Government. The United States retained its Veto right over the U.N. Security Council and selects 9 ‘temporary members’ every so often.

This sets the scene for conflict for characters made by players. To make the game more interesting, I threw in the usual RPG elements of a high fantasy game, Magic, giant robots, genetically engineered slaves (employed by a rather … ahem, hypocritical United States), a large dash of cyberpunk (again, the USA), and we played for about 2 months before I left Baton Rouge to move to Denver.

Scary how my predictions are turning true.

I may have to revive the game, but this time, revise the timeline from 2005 on…to account for — recent developments. :)

I think Bush is like the folks who go into the military during peace times to pay for college and then a war breaks out. I don’t think he knew whathe was getting into when he ran for President. Seriously…

And we have a 8.4 trillion dollar debt which MUST be paid at sometime..and the interest is paid every day on that debt….

Heck of a job there georgie….

Heck of a job there georgie….

I already explained about the unemployment rate. Bush’s administration cooked the numbers to make it look like 4.6 % when it is really much higher. Do you not understand?

When the “rich” are getting richer, it means they are finding reason to invest in america (to get richer). The moment that crowd takes there cash back out of the american economy is the moment to get real worried. Those “rich” have companies that employ tons of american citizens. Do you really think that if they stop making money, they will continue to employ the same number of us?

BTW, how many countries have better unemployment figures then the US anyways? Really, I want to know. Isn’t ours around 4.6% which is insanely low. Most economist say that healthy unemployment is around 6%-8%. It isn’t possible to ever have 0% unemployment regardless of what your political affiliation tells you (republican or Democrat).

Can’t – cause the numbers are a fabrication. They only reflect people on unemployment and not the true number of those whose benefits have expired.

The DOW does not reflect the economy – it only affects share holders – and really, who can get excited about the rich getting richer?

The average American’s salary has declined under his administration, while the price of goods and services has increased.

Sorry, but nothing there to get excited about… Or I would.

You know that they’ve been renovating the museum? I had interviewed with the firm who is doing the project, and got to see the conceptual design documents. The initial design was done by Renzo Piano – one of the big names in architecture. And it is very, very cool. They have living egosystems inside the museum with enough height to accomodate an actual rain forest. Outside, the roof will be green space (grass) with domes that have oval windows/sky lights that peer into the interior spaces below. I think it’s supposed to be done in 2009… In case you want to visit when it’s done… http://www.calacademy.org/newacademy/index.php

The one in Atlanta is nice – but there’s an obvious difference between cutting edge architecture and some firm who just got a big budget project. Architecturally the building is well done, but the interior was just over-done, the details weren’t thought through, and it didn’t seem to be intuitive how to use the building (I think it should be). Good thing the main attraction was the fish.

There’s a 63′ x 29′ viewing window into a football stadium sized tank where there are 85,000 fish – including the four juvenile whale sharks that are around 17′-23′ in length. I sat there for an entire hour just watching this enormous fish tank, really. Know I know what my cats used to see when we use to have fish… :)

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OBGYN,

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