Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:25:19 +1000
To: <[log in to unmask]>
From: Phil Graham <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Hold the phone
At 01:54 PM 27/02/01 +0000, you wrote:
>From: Miranda Mowbray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
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> Half the world's population have never made or received a telephone
> call - Kofi Annan, Davos, 28 January 2001
Never mind the phone -- 1/3 don't have clean water to drink.
In any case, those statistics were first noted in the UNESCO world
report
for 1998 from data gathered between 1995-1996. Obviously no progress has
been made since. Makes me wonder whether it is an apology or an
admonition
on Annan's part.
Weapons production, on the other hand, is up up up. No government can be
without 'em, or so it seems.
regards,
Phil
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