Portus-KPMG, CNOOC-Talisman, UN Cronyism, Kate of Small Dead Animals

Portus probe expands -- KPMG broadens search for investors' cash beyond two European jurisdictions Wojtek Dabrowski, Financial Post, July 23, 05

[. . . . ] To date, KPMG has located and frozen millions of investors' dollars in such exotic locales as Turks and Caicos and Cayman Islands.. . . .

[. . . . ] The Mounties' commercial crime division is also expected to probe KPMG's allegations that Portus co-founder Boaz Manor misappropriated as much as US$3.1-million.

Yesterday, KPMG obtained a "letter of request" signed by an Ontario Superior Court judge formally asking for the assistance of the courts in Israel. [. . . . ]

CNOOC may tap Talisman as buyout target

CALGARY - CNOOC Ltd. could look north toward some of Canada's largest international oil and natural gas producers if it abandons attempts to buy Unocal Corp. or loses the chase to Chevron Corp., analysts said yesterday. [. . . . ]

I think Talisman is the company which was forced into leaving Sudan because it was accused of "supporting" the oppressive government there. It was better to have China support that government? Oil is involved. China's state companies are welcomed into Canada or they will become 'Canadian' through lavish application of filthy lucre . . . to the usual suspects or buying Canadian companies . . . if that is not the same thing, of course.



All the Secretary-General's Men: the Tangled Web of U.N. Cronyism Claudia Rosett, July 21, 05, NY Sun

Reforming the United Nations is a tall order at the best of times. Today it stands no chance at all unless it starts by removing the network that during Kofi Annan's more than seven years as secretary-general has already helped him "reform" the world body - twice.

[. . . . ] Mr. Annan's 1997 reforms also created the post of deputy secretary-general, to which in 1998 Mr. Annan appointed a Canadian, Louise Frechette, who has served as Mr. Annan's no. 2 since then. By her own account earlier this year, Ms. Frechette at times served as Mr. Sevan's immediate boss, acting as go-between for Mr. Annan. From details cited in a February 3 interim report by the U.N.-authorized inquiry into oil for food led by Paul Volcker, midway through the program Ms. Frechette helped Mr. Sevan block attempts by U.N. internal auditors to send potentially damning secret audit reports on oil for food not just to the secretary-general's office, but directly to the Security Council. Mr. Annan has now put Ms. Frechette in charge of coordinating the next U.N. reform. [. . . . ]

Search: Soros , Strong , "will keep working on Korea" , continues to enjoy diplomatic immunity , renting a house for $10,000 a month from , Mr. Malloch Brown , "Mr. Boutros-Ghali, whose cousin, Fakhry Abdelnour, owned the company"

The UN truly represents the corrupt world which our government has done everything possible to support. Somehow, fitting, is it not?


The normblog profile 96: Kate McMillan -- of small dead animals July 22, 2005, normblog

Catherine (Kate) McMillan grew up on a working grain farm near Arcola, Saskatchewan. Now living in the small town of Delisle, SK (pop. 900), she works as a commercial and automotive airbrush artist and has been [. . . . ]

Standing Committee on Public Accounts Report Response: Ninth Report of the Committee (Chapters 3 to 5 of the November 2003 Report of the Auditor General of Canada)

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