UNSCAM: Canadian Tycoon Could Assist In U.N. Probe, CPC: Assisting Municipalities, Coulter on a 'Liberal'

Canadian Tycoon Could Assist In U.N. Probe Claudia Rosett, April 18, 2005

Ms. Rosett is journalist in residence with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

Who are the two mysterious high-ranking U.N. officials fingered in one of the latest indictments of the oil-for-food scandal?

[. . . . ] Maybe Mr. Annan should ask a longtime United Nations undersecretary general, Maurice Strong, special adviser to the secretary-general since 1999 and currently Mr. Annan's personal envoy to the Korean Peninsula.

The New York Sun is not asserting, or even suggesting, that Mr. Strong himself is one of the U.N. officials in question. But Mr. Strong's history indicates he might be especially well-placed to offer insights into at least the likely identity of U.N. official #2, who according to the indictment had family business ties to Canada, and along with U.N. official.

#1, met with Mr. Park sometime around 1996 - the year the flawed terms of oil-for-food took shape. [. . . . ]

Search: "Air Harbour Technologies, registered at the Isle of Man" , "Cotecna employee and consultant, Michael Wilson" , "airport at Harare, Zimbabwe" , "Kojo Annan rubbed elbows for a time with his father's special adviser to the United Nations" , "his directorship with Air Harbour" , "lattice-work of associations"




Office of the Leader of the Opposition

REALITY CHECK
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 18, 2005

Misplaced Musings on Municipalities

OTTAWA – Trying to endear himself to Team Martin and the PMO, Liberal MP Russ Powers attacked the Conservative Party today, claiming that the Conservatives have never supported assisting municipalities.

In fact, gas tax revenues for municipalities was an idea first pushed by the Conservative Party. Paul Martin even voted to support a 2003 motion by Conservative MP James Moore, in support of using a portion of the federal gas tax for infrastructure:

“That, in the opinion of the House, the government should initiate immediate discussions with the provinces and territories to provide municipalities with a portion of the federal gas tax.”

The motion was passed by the House of Commons on October 7th, 2003, with Paul Martin among the Liberals supporting the conservative motion. Perhaps Russ Powers should have someone fact-check the statements the PMO gives him before he reads them in the House of Commons.

Ann Coulter -- What is a liberal?

Ms. Right -- She is quite possibly the most divisive figure in the public eye. But love her or hate her, you do not know the real Ann Coulter By John Cloud, Time, April 24, 05 edition -- via Western Standard / Shotgun

[. . . . ] She composed herself and offered a very Ann Coulter answer. “They’re terrible people, liberals. They believe—this can really summarize it all—these are people who believe,” she said, now raising her voice, “you can deliver a baby entirely except for the head, puncture the skull, suck the brains out and pronounce that a constitutional right has just been exercised. That really says it all. You don’t want such people to like you!”

The couple at an adjacent table—which, this being Manhattan, was a handsbreadth away—visibly stiffened, and the man groaned. The woman looked at Coulter with white-hot hatred, and Coulter ... blushed. [. . . . ]