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Annan prepares for privatisation of UN
The Business Online ^
| 2/11/06
| Joe Lauria and Fraser Nelson
Posted on 02/11/2006 7:44:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
The Bush administration has made an overhaul of management a centrepiece of its UN reform programme. John Bolton, US ambassador to the UN, once said that if the New York headquarters lost 10 of its 38 floors, it wouldnt make a bit of difference. He is leading an effort to move the UN towards the efficiency of a private company, including transforming the deputy secretary general into a chief operating officer and demanding that tasks are done by merit, not geography.
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posted on
02/11/2006 7:45:42 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Do you think this will go forward?
To: NormsRevenge; Indy Pendance
At first I thought this was Scrappleface.
To: Paleo Conservative
I was hoping this is real. It's a start if it happens. Money talks.
To: Indy Pendance
.....Do you think this will go forward?.....
Something has to be done, the UN is spending 75% of it's budget on salaries. No organization can produce any "work" with that imbalance.
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posted on
02/11/2006 8:01:48 PM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: Paleo Conservative
The loud sucking sound you hear is the outsourcing of billions of dollars worth of patronage sinecures, and outright terrorists right out of New York. Do my taxes really have to subsidize foreign agents whom at their best wish this country no good? Don't answer that question.
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posted on
02/11/2006 8:05:09 PM PST
by
Calusa
( "The ACLU, ... has grown tiresome...does not embody the reasonable person.")
To: Indy Pendance
If it doesn't we should withdraw all financial support,, period. That we have even continued to support it to the extent we have is a bit of a stretch.
It's like throwing good money after bad as it cureently functions or malfunctions, I should say.
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posted on
02/11/2006 8:05:32 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
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To: ncountylee
To: NormsRevenge
And all that prime real estate smack dab in NY City.
To: Indy Pendance; NormsRevenge; ken5050
"And all that prime real estate smack dab in NY City."
To paraphrase Browning,
If Big Apple's reach doth not the U.N. grasp,
then what's a KELO for?
(original: But a man's reach should exceed his grasp... or what's a Heaven for--Robert Browning)
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posted on
02/11/2006 8:31:00 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
To: NormsRevenge
"...have their work done more cheaply overseas."
Does that mean when you call the United Nations you will talk to a guy named Raj in India?
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posted on
02/11/2006 8:37:12 PM PST
by
no dems
("99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name." Steven Wright)
To: NormsRevenge
I think they ought to move the UN to communist China.
It would be a laugh a minute to see all those staff people able to run all over China with diplomatic immunity!
To: no dems
The study gives frank assessments of the risks with privatisation, especially guarding privileged information and interrupting projects if new contractors are hired. It concedes privatisation may not save money. Outsourcing does not guarantee reduced cost, which depends on market factors, and also
on how outsourcing is managed, it says. This is likely the first time I've ever agreed with the U.N...
Someone tell Bill Gates, Craig Barrett, and the other outsourcing whore CEO's...
Cheers!
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posted on
02/11/2006 9:22:53 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
02/11/2006 9:51:40 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(None dare call it ISLAMOFACISM!)
To: ncountylee
What sort of work, beyond mindless reams of paper that no one ever bothers to read, does or should the United Nations produce? Paper and toner are rather cheap.
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posted on
02/11/2006 9:58:41 PM PST
by
dufekin
(US Senate: the only place where the majority [44 D] comprises fewer than the minority [55 R])
To: Indy Pendance
"That land is now considered international territory"
I say we remove that tumor before it spreads. Quickly!
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posted on
02/11/2006 10:45:38 PM PST
by
proud_yank
(Good intentions + bad information = Recipe for disaster.)
To: NormsRevenge
He is leading an effort to move the UN towards the efficiency of a private company, including transforming the deputy secretary general into a chief operating officer and demanding that tasks are done by merit, not geography"
now, if he can move the UN towards, let's say ,Estonia...that would be helpful
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posted on
02/11/2006 11:16:09 PM PST
by
kajingawd
(" happy with stone underhead, let Heaven and Earth go about their changes")
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
02/12/2006 12:23:00 AM PST
by
Cobra64
To: NormsRevenge; All
Click this picture & go to the "last" for the latest UN scandals:
![](http://www.nypost.com/delonas/2004/07/07202004.jpg)
If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
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posted on
02/12/2006 3:47:56 AM PST
by
backhoe
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