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The Group Of 77

I just sat through an hour of CNN, getting caught with on all the specs on today’s London Underground bombings. Sobering, and uncomfortably familiar.

Back on that morning in September of 2001 as the events were unfolding back east, I remember being the first person I knew who noticed the the date. 911. The number for Emergency, a number representing panic. The chosen date of the attack itself was perversely creative. It demonstrated purposefulness, reinforcing the message, effectively making the sense of violation even more real.

I’m curious about today’s date, July 7, and wonder if there’s anything significant about the number 7 or 77 that’s being communicated here in these London attacks.

Hmm. Check this out. Pay attention to the members included in the Group’s list, as well as the nations notably absent:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Group of 77 at the United Nations is a loose coalition of developing nations, designed to promote its members’ collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations. There were 77 founding members of the organization, but the organization has since expanded to 133 member countries.

The group was founded on June 15, 1964 by the “Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries” issued at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The first major meeting was in Algiers in 1967, where the Charter of Algiers was adopted and the basis for permanent institutional structures was begun. There are Chapters of the Group of 77 in Rome (FAO), Vienna (UNIDO), Paris (UNESCO), Nairobi (UNEP) and the Group of 24 in Washington, D.C. (IMF and World Bank).

Member States:

* Afghanistan
* Algeria
* Angola
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Argentina
* Bahamas
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Barbados
* Belize
* Benin
* Bhutan
* Bolivia
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Botswana
* Brazil
* Brunei Darussalam
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cambodia
* Cameroon
* Cape Verde
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Chile
* China
* Colombia
* Comoros
* Republic of the Congo
* Costa Rica
* Côte d’Ivoire
* Cuba
* North Korea
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Djibouti
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* Egypt
* El Salvador
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea
* Ethiopia
* Fiji
* Gabon
* Gambia
* Ghana
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Honduras
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Jamaica
* Jordan
* Kenya
* Kuwait
* Laos
* Lebanon
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Libya
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Mali
* Marshall Islands
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Micronesia
* Mongolia
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Myanmar
* Namibia
* Nepal
* Nicaragua
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Palau
* Palestine
* Panama
* Papua New Guinea
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Philippines
* Qatar
* Romania
* Rwanda
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Samoa
* Sao Tome and Principe
* Saudi Arabia
* Senegal
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Singapore
* Solomon Islands
* Somalia
* South Africa
* Sri Lanka
* Sudan
* Suriname
* Swaziland
* Syria
* Thailand
* Timor-Leste
* Togo
* Tonga
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Tunisia
* Turkmenistan
* Uganda
* United Arab Emirates
* Tanzania
* Uruguay
* Vanuatu
* Venezuela
* Vietnam
* Yemen
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

Presiding Countries:

* India (1970-1971)
* Peru (1971-1972)
* Egypt (1972-1973)
* Iran (1973-1974)
* Mexico (1974-1975)
* Madagascar (1975-1976)
* Pakistan (1976-1977)
* Jamaica (1977-1978)
* Tunisia (1978-1979)
* India (1979-1980)
* Venezuela (1980-1981)
* Algeria (1981-1982)
* Bangladesh (1982-1983)
* Mexico (1983-1984)
* Egypt (1984-1985)
* Yugoslavia (1985-1986)
* Guatemala (1987)
* Tunisia (1988)
* Malaysia (1989)
* Bolivia (1990)
* Ghana (1991)
* Pakistan (1992)
* Colombia (1993)
* Algeria (1994)
* Philippines (1995)
* Costa Rica (1996)
* Tanzania (1997)
* Indonesia (1998)
* Guyana (1999)
* Nigeria (2000)
* Iran (2001)
* Venezuela (2002)
* Morocco (2003)
* Qatar (2004)
* Jamaica (2005)

Group Of 77’s official web site: http://www.g77.org/

9 comments… add one
  • 'cenzo July 7, 2005, 11:43 pm

    nice, but i have a hard time buying into the idea that these guys were thinking about telephone dial-ups or transnational development initiatives when they chose the dates, etc. of their acts. then again, the group of 77 is now at 133 members strong as you say. thus, since 1+3+3 = 7, there must be a sinister cabal there somewhere! hmmm… sinister cabal… what do cheney and rumsfeld have to say about this wrinkle?

    kidding, of course. what does the fact that they were able to pull this off – 4 simultaneous bombs + two found that were unexploded (failed to detonate) – in london at the beginning of a G8 summit, ie. a heightened security environment if ever there was one, 4 years after 9/11, in a country whose gov’t has by and large endorsed the idea that this is a war on terror we’re in, not just “bush’s war in iraq”? and who doesn’t think that if they had had access, they would have used larger, dirtier bombs, and more of them? we’re damn lucky manpower limitations appear to have constrained the scope of their operation this morning.

  • pirco July 8, 2005, 1:23 am

    There must be something you can dig up for the madrid bombings on 3/11

    except, in europe, the day comes first, so it was 11.3 for them.

    still… something?

  • Dan E. July 8, 2005, 8:49 am

    I rememeber back when the New Year turned in 2001 and everyone was so excited about it being 01/01/01 and how that wouldn’t happen again for 3000 years (hmmm…what about 01/01/3001???). No one bothered to mention that we would also have a 02/02/02 and an 03/03/03, etc., thereby lessening the “specialness” of 01/01/01. I don’t know about you, but I enjoyed 05/05/05 just as much as I enjoyed 01/01/01. I know Jace will especially enjoy 6/6/6.

  • Ner July 8, 2005, 9:21 am

    Interesting coincidence but I think even a greater coincedence was that it was the day after the Olympics were announced to be held in London.

  • andreas July 8, 2005, 9:57 am

    7^7 = 823543

    if you sum the digits 823543 you get 25. sum those digits and you get 7 again.

    any takers?

  • jawn July 11, 2005, 4:14 pm

    just once i want to be the first one to think of something interesting

  • Chato July 13, 2005, 6:10 pm

    math is great math is wonderful… do Terrorist “Bombers” have math love too?I can maybe see that since planning these things have to be fairly precise and organized but…

  • phentermine September 17, 2005, 4:05 am

    This makes me speechless :) Very well done!

  • pirco November 10, 2005, 9:44 am

    well, yesterday’s bombing in jordan happend on 9.11.2005 (european date format).

    any takers HERE?

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