Updates 2-3: UN & Maurice Strong, PM, Hu Jintao & Another "Priority" -&- "A disaster waiting to happen"

Update 3:

China's president Hu Jintao: "let's at least remember who he is and what he stands for."

Remember who he is Editorial, Globe & Mail, Sep 6, 2005

China is a police state and President Hu is chief cop. Chosen by a cabal of Communist Party leaders Hu took over leadership of the Communist Party in November 2002 and became supreme commander of China's armed forces a year ago.

REMEMBER WHO HU IS

Hu has stepped up the harassment of writers and intellectuals, cracked down on dissidents on the Internet and ordered party officials to undergo strict ideological training.

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Search: a researcher for the New York Times


RED CHINESE CAPITALIST BANKERS "Wall Street bankers need to be led, these Chinese-born bankers say, by someone who can earn the trust and respect of Chinese officials and executives but also know how to marshal the resources of a Western investment bank."

How often have you heard that to do business in China, Canadian businessmen need a middleman? Perhaps someone associated with the China-Canada business council or network?



Update 2:

The UN is the group to which the Canadian government turns for direction. e.g. US, Iraq and Saddam. Kofi Annan was invited to address our Parliament. Why?

In a scathing report released Wednesday, the IIC, headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker (search), found that the United Nations was guilty of "illicit, unethical and corrupt" behavior. -- "U.N. Deputy Gets Fair Share of Blame in Oil-for-Food Report"

FOXNews.com's Liza Porteus, Eric Shawn and Jonathan Wachtel contributed to this report

It was Frechette's job to keep Annan in the loop about what Sevan was doing and to approve regular reports required as part of the program's management. But the report found that she saw no reason to get involved if it was thought the program was being "well run." [if it was thought -- By whom? Note the passive tense -- no names.]

Frechette tried to deny any responsibility for oversight or that there were problems, [. . . ]

"The deputy secretary-general knew about — but did not act upon — many reports of major program violations," the Volcker report states. "In the final analysis, Mr. Sevan ran a $100 billion program with very little oversight from the supervisory authority that created his position."

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Search: Kojo Annan saved $20,000 by

There are plenty of links and other articles on the FOXnews site; perhaps these could be shared with the CBC which has been remiss on this story . . . when / if the Liberal Propaganda Organ goes back to work.

Volume I - The Report of the Committee (pdf)
Volume II - Program Background (pdf)
Volume III - United Nations Administration, Part I (pdf)
Volume IV - United Nations Administration, Part II (pdf)
Impact of Oil-for-Food Program on the Iraqi People (pdf)

Articles on FoxNews website:

Report Criticizes Annan, U.N. Security Council in Oil-for-Food Scandal
Committee: U.N. Allowed 'Corrupt Behavior' in Oil-for-Food Program
Fast Facts: Oil-for-Food Program
The U.N.'s Spreading Bribery Scandal: Russian Ties and Global Reach
U.N. Agencies Agree to Repay Oil-For-Food Proceeds
Oil-for-Food Report Hits 2 Ex-U.N. Officials



Oil-for-food is just the tip of the iceberg

It sounds like the Canadian government's Sponsorship corruption.

[. . . . ] The 860-page, four-volume document portrays an organization that suffers from "endemic corruption" and lacks both the expertise to run large-scale operations and the backbone to face down brutal dictators. . . . .

[. . . . ] There is much more. . . . . Too much attention was paid to ensuring diversity in race and homeland among oil-for-food senior managers, and too little to whether any of them had the skills-sets to handle their tasks.

The problems with oil-for-food are all too common in most UN projects. [. . . . ]
The new American ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, has begun to confront that culture. [. . . . ]

Update 1:

Former Homeland Security Boss `sweeping’ with the enemy?

Tom Ridge, the former leader of U.S. Homeland Security, is on the board of directors of a company that is controlled by Li Kashing of Operation Sidewinder notoriety, Canada Free Press has learned. [. . . . ]

Another Canada Free Press classic "We-told-you-so" moment -- on CSL & Cordex -- Denver-based? or Alberta-based? by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com, Friday, April 22, 2005

[. . . . ] Yesterday, [Maurice] Strong admitted that Tongsun Park, the Korean man accused by U.S. federal authorities of illegally acting as an Iraqi agent, invested in Cordex, the company he owned with his son, in 1997.

In that admission, Strong describes Cordex as a Denver-based company. Cordex Petroleum Inc. is listed among Martin’s assets as an Alberta-based company.Cordex had a U.S. subsidiary. [. . . . ]

Search: Strong’s New Age Baca Ranch , Cordex Petroleums was

Note: there is an "s" on the end of Petroleum in that article.

Scroll down the webpage at Canada Free Press for "Other CFP Stories about Paul Martin and Maurice strong"



UN: The Tainted Cheque did NOT come Direct from Saddam

Strong took tainted cheque, inquiry finds -- No 'direct evidence' prominent Canadian businessman knew money came from Iraq Shawn McCarthy with Alan Freeman in Washington, Globe and Mail, Sept. 8, 05 via Newsbeat1

NEW YORK -- Prominent Canadian businessman Maurice Strong accepted a personal cheque for nearly $1-million (U.S.) that was drawn on a Jordanian bank and came from a controversial international businessman who was working closely with the Iraqi regime, an inquiry into the UN's scandal-ridden oil-for-food program has found.

[. . . . ] Ms. Frechette, a former senior bureaucrat in Ottawa, "did not carry out the responsibilities of her office," Mr. Volcker said. He offered the same criticism of her boss, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. [. . . . ]

Search: former Canadian spymaster Reid Morden , $1-million cash in a cardboard box , $988,885 , Cordex Petroleum




PM has another Priority: "human rights"

PM to talk human rights with Chinese president CTV.ca

Prime Minister Paul Martin says he will be discussing the issue of human rights with Chinese President Hu Jintao during his visit to Canada.

[. . . . ] Martin insisted there was no "trade-off between human rights and economics" and that he would indeed be discussing the issue with the Chinese president.

[. . . . ] Martin will host Hu Jintao at a state banquet on Thursday. During his visit, he will also give a speech at the Canada China Business Council and visit Niagara Falls. Hu will be in Eastern Canada from Sept. 8 to 11. [. . . . ]

Checking out the oil, I suppose. Will he be visiting his Husky Oil friends?



Protesters to shadow Chinese leader's visit





Canada's disaster preparation: "A disaster waiting to happen"

[. . . . ] MacKenzie, one of our most respected soldiers, was backed in his assertion by Liberal Sen. Colin Kenny, chair of the Senate committee on national security and defence.

"Canadians just assume somebody's going to take care of them," Kenny warned. "We have not invested in the resources needed to assure the safety of our own citizens."

[. . . . ] Kenny and his fellow senators have warned us over and over again that Canada is woefully unprepared for everything from a terrorist attack to a natural disaster. [. . . . ]

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