Maurice Strong is stepping down from his UN post.
Maurice Strong, a long-time Canadian businessman and currently the top UN envoy for North Korea, will suspend his work for the United Nations while investigators look into his ties to a South Korean businessman accused in the UN oil-for-food scandal in Iraq.
Previous post here and here.
The Sri Lankans would like to talk to him, too.
Even as the association of Canadian Maurice Strong with “Koreagate Man” Tungsun Park was coming under world limelight, Sri Lankans were starting to demand answers about where the $425 million promised by Canada to tsunami victims is.
Four months after the tsunami hit, Sri Lankans still don’t have their money. Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin rushed to the scene for a weeklong photo op. Generous Canadians donated record amounts of money on line.
The Canadian government promised to match dollar for dollar, donations from the public. But the promised mega millions never arrived.
According to veteran newsman Garth Pritchard, in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of last December’s tsunami, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is allegedly holding the $425-million.
Kofi Annan’s special envoy to Korea Maurice Strong, also a senior advisor to Prime Minister Paul Martin, was the founding president of CIDA.
This should come as a surprise to nobody, Kate. Birds of a feather. Strong advised a dictator in Canada. He went on to advise the dictator of the U.N. So why shouldn’t he go to one of the last commie strongholds in the world?? And as for CIDA,the $425 million is just waiting for all the pork barrel schemes of the thieving Liberals.If this doesn’t really pissoff the average socialist Canucklhead,then we have truly witnessed the turning of a great country into worse then a third world in less the 20 years. Great f**king legacy for the assholes here in this country!!
And Strong is not the only one. The waste-of -ovaries that ran the U.N.’s audit branch directly forbade her underlings from going directly to the Security council with their concerns about the food for oil screw-up. And some people act amazed the such an august body as the U.N. could do this. WALK UP assholes.There are 200+ member countries in the Useless Nations and only 10% are democratic. It is the greatest HQ of commies and facists since Russia, Italy and germany!!
BAH…nuke the bastards where they stand and use the HQ in N.Y, for some good,like housing the homeless!
i tell ya, it’s a vast right wing conspiracy!
Beware: reports of Strong’s demise may be premature; he is reportedly ill, though; and his memory is failing; that memory loss is contagious; will UN call a study/conference/summit on memory loss? Is Kofi toast?
Ah, the air seems to be freshening somewhat. Now, Martin is next to resign.
Then on to David Suzuki.
Ah Maz2….your humour is refreshing. Martin resign? and I want a pony too…lol..
As for Suzuki…we can only pray he gets lung cancer from breathing back in all the bullshit he spews.talk about contibuting to global warming!!!
I’m still pushing for that open air holding area at Alert Bay. There’s just not enough pens to hold all these pigs. They could be frozen for all time in rememberence of what a moonbat represents. Corruption and scandal…
I’m still pushing for that open air holding area at Alert Bay. There’s just not enough pens to hold all these pigs. They could be frozen for all time in rememberence of what a moonbat represents. Corruption and scandal…
Kyoto = shell game to transit billions of dollars from 1st world to 3rd world despots, whence a big slice of it can stick to those who proclaim to be “a socialist in ideology, but a capitalist in methodology” – which translates, always to “socialism for you, capitalism for me”.
Uhhh …sorry for the double post… it claimed I used something offensive and I never changed nothing…. scared me for a sec…thought Kate was bitten by a moonbat..
Will Maurice Strong continue to receive a paycheque while he has removed himself from the U.N.? Does he have an indexed pension? Perhaps a couple of good references, for perhaps: directorships of boards? Nice retirement package?
Time for his memoirs, perhaps, and a run at the rubber-chicken circuit?
I like the way they say “CIDA is allegedly holding” the money. IOW, it’s history, it’s another deposit in some crook’s Swiss bank account, write it off.
Perhaps Mr. Martin will make the location of the funds perfectly clear to us tomorrow night.
Maurice Strong has been a director on the ZENON board of directors since October, 2000. ZENON made the water purification units that Canada shipped for Tsunami relief. See my post
Don’t get too excited, Maurice Strong is NOT stepping down, he is “suspending his work”- thats exactly what you do when you go on vacation or take the weekend off.
You just do not get rid of pests that easily. Now if only the UN would allow the use of copious amounts of DDT. Naah.
Even if this guy is implicated he will be re-hired by socialist/UN retards like Steven Lewis or Louis Frechette. They have never worked a day in their life and won’t change now.
As for Sri Lanka and all the dupes that contributed, you are gonna have to wait until the Libranos compile a list of people who have relatives around Toronto until you see one thin dime of aid distributed- its da canadian way.
On a lighter note perhaps the brains trust of Martin/Cretin/Strong could form an off-shore company to deal in CO2 credits?
Rob has it right. A Gulag for the miscreant/corrupt Lieberals 650 north from Alert; about the same latitude as Stalin’s Gulag.
For Canada, Gulag is an acronym for Go Up Landnorth And Gag(liano). Hockey Night lasts 7/24, blaring loudspeakers: He shoots/ s’elance/ He freezes. Bilingual, yes/oui/ciao.
Strong went for a seat in Parliament once, and backed out, so he knows the drill, and has proven that covert power is just as good as, if not better, than overt power. I believe he is fade-away mode, waiting for the CO2 emissions to clear before he steps out into the open again.
There is an interesting article here on some of his work at the UN. He probably came up with some of these ideas while he was helping Cuba and North Vietnam with their power problems.
For those with a keen interest in Strovest Holdings Inc., some googling might lead you here, whereupon the less stalwart might begin to be dazzled by the array of public audit firm names sprinkled therein.
Re: Sri Lanka
I hope that the wording used was just Judi’s outrage pouring through. I don’t take kindly to people demanding their charity…
Also, seeing how other UN run operations have also failed to pony up the cash, there is doubt that this is a Canada issue. I assume that any CDN Government funds would pass through Kofi or at least go where it is directed by Kofi.
So I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions based on that article yet.
(I’m not denying anything, just pointing out that there are other very probable explanations)
If this is authentic, it is a rare interview with PMPM’s mentor. Some insights into the man, the Manitou Foundation (fun!), the UN, China, US…
OT Re: Kyoto – Hate to say this Brightleaf, but I will anyway… 😉
it’s doubtfull any of that money would ever end up in a 3 world country. There’s a scandal behind this, like everthing else, and I feel it’s all going to end up in Quebec for hydro credits, and in the Libranos and jumpin Jack’s NDP’s pocket. Jumpin Jack has been showing to much support for this as well as Bagdad Paulie.
Rob, don’t see how Jack-in-the-Sack gets his paws on the dough. Connect the dots for me.
Thirsty? The Desmarais name keeps popping up in the most unusual places.