Thursday, December 11, 2003

And while I'm on the subject of the United Nations

There's not much news from the big UN Internet conclave in Geneva, which must mean the shopping is good. But here's one of the highlights - Mugabe attacks 'Western media' at Geneva summit:
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe launched a virulent attack on Western media Wednesday at a world summit on making better use of information technology such as the Internet to help poorer nations.

In his first foreign excursion since quitting the 54-nation Commonwealth, Mugabe railed against new technologies, saying they were used for espionage and to weaken the Third World in the face of "a dangerous imperial world order led by warrior states and kingdoms."
No mention of CIA mind rays.