KOFI ANNAN, the United Nations secretary-general, is said to be struggling with depression and considering his future. Colleagues have reported concerns about Annan ahead of an official report this week that will examine his son Kojo�s connection to the controversial Iraqi oil for food scheme.Depending on the findings of the report, by a team led by the former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, Annan may have to choose between the secretary-generalship and loyalty to his son.
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American congressional critics of the UN are already pressing him to resign over the mismanagement of the oil for food programme, and even his supporters have been dismayed by the scandals on his watch, including the sexual abuse of children by UN peacekeepers in Congo.One close observer at the UN said Annan�s moods were like a �sine curve� and that he appeared near the bottom of the trough.
What the hell. Time to insert a feeding tube.
Just so it can be pulled later.
More on the report out tomorrow. Also - don't bother looking for this report on either the CBC or CTV websites...
(Don't forget Friends Of Saddam - your one stop shopping center for Oil-For-Food updates.)
Just throw him in a cell with a few of his "peacekeepers".
Hopefully they don't stop there. The UN needs a complete flushing including all on the human rights board, and the French should get the boot...period. Would also be nice to expose all the corrupt Canadians involved in that idiocy. Technically everyone involved starved the Iraq kids, then they and MSM got the nerve to talk about the US killing people. At least with the US it's not intentional.
Would be nice to see all these corrupt systems exposed and collapsed, but it would probably mean a lot of countries would bite the dust. Would probably be easier to start over anyway then retain virus infected diplomates and heads of states.
Tonight's "The National" is offering Part 1 of the Two-part primer on Oil-For-Palaces. Any bets on the amount of coverage given to the Canadian connections (sorry, alleged connections)? This may even lead to a page 18 story in The Star explaining why Kofi is feeling a little blue. (Following from cbc.ca)
Monday, March 28, 2005, 10:00 p.m.
Bribes From Baghdad
Terence McKenna investigates the United Nations Oil for Food scandal, now widely referred to as the largest bribery and corruption scandal in history.
Started in 1996, the U.N. Oil for Food program was designed to help alleviate starvation and disease in Iraq brought on by international economic sanctions as a result of the 1991 Gulf War. The U.N. plan was to allow Iraq to trade oil for food and humanitarian supplies, but it's now clear that Saddam was able to steal billions of dollars from the program. He used a lot of that money to bribe UN officials, journalists, politicians and diplomats around the world.
In this revealing documentary, McKenna interviews many of those accused of stealing from the starving children of Iraq in a scheme designed by Saddam Hussein himself.
Where are we inserting the tube? 'Cuz I've got one that's about eight feet long and made of stainless steel. >:-)
A trip in September 1998 by Mouselli and Kojo to ........ South Africa...... had a private lunch with Kofi Annan.
......., the purpose of the lunch was to make the Secretary General aware of the various business dealings ...... in order to get the Secretary General's "blessing". read more
Oh please, next thing you know Kofi will be comparing his persecution to that of Wacko Jacko's.
It won't be enough for Kofi Annan to resign. As has been pointed out, the whole UN is a corrupt morass of sleaze, graft and bureaucracy.
However, some countries (such as France and its empire, which includes Canada) find the UN extremely useful as a front for their own economic and political agendas. This is made easy because the UN, its decisions, its actions and all its committees are functionally totally unaccountable.
How can a global political and economic reality permit itself to be governed by a system that is unelected and unaccountable?????? That's why the US objects to the UN.
Screw resignation. There's two things I want (neither of which I'm likely to get): Kofi in jail, and the Swiss turning over his bank account.
Someone should do a comparison of the state of the League of Nations vs the United Nations.
Well, it would seem that Paul Volcker the man that Ronald Reagan chose to run the US Federal Reserve and his Committee that included the former head of CSIS in Canada could not find any evidence that Kofi Annan was engaged in the corruption of the Oil for Food Program at the UN.
Second, it was the United Nations that decided that it would allow Saddam to make the decision as to which companies would be permitted to sell oil internationally for cash that was deposited in American bank accounts for use by the UN for the Food and Drug Supply Program.
You see, Saddam was a pretty wily capitalist, and of course a corrupt crook, not unlike Ken Lay at Enron. You see Saddam organized a system of "finders fees" or kickbacks by any other name.
Within a year or two, he completely corrupted the system at the UN with the complicity of Mad Vlad, the Russian fascist and capitalist extrodinare, and many others that recieved "allotments". Even the Oil Barons in Houston wanted to get in on the act, and did.
The money was circulating outside the UN Oil for Food Program, and its auditing processes. It happened because Capitalism ITSELF was corrupt. Bids were "rigged" and the kickback machine in Baghdad was spreading the money around the globe which was buying "influence" for Saddam who wanted the sanctions removed.
Its funny how a man's character changes when money hits the table. No capitalist without this chameleon quality can succeed unless he can change his colors, just like Saddam did and just like the representatives of the member states did who sat around the table at the Security Council.
I guess it never occurred to the US Ambassador to ask where all of Saddam's Mercedes were coming from, or who was paying for the palaces.
Now they wish to engage in another round of American racism by targeting an innocent man, the Secretary General himself. Well, the Americans did this and worse to Nelson Mandela.