Posted on 06/15/2006 10:36:43 PM PDT by Moose Dung
The United Nations appears to have postponed a financial crisis that threatened to dim the lights at the end of June, as the United States and other key governments have agreed to extend its spending authority. Washington had imposed a spending cap, set to expire at the end of the month, in an effort to ensure that difficult management reforms were not delayed until the end of the usual two-year budget cycle. But U.N. officials and diplomats say that the United States, Japan and other nations are not willing to see the lights go out -- yet. "The cap on the budget will be lifted. There will be no crisis, as far as I can see, this month," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday during a press conference ...
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dung.
I knew we'd give in. All we do is thump our chest and bluster, bluster, bluster. Then fold like a house of cards. Damn!
yitbos
Here that sound? It's your taxes going up to support the corruption at the UN. :(
"(Kofi) Annan finds himself under pressure, including calls for his resignation, partly because his tenure has seen the largest-ever financial scandal in UN history in its $60 billion Oil-for-Food program in Iraq. The secretary-general's exposure is compounded bid the fact that his son, Kojo Annan, worked for one of the companies implicated in the fraud."
"The report also found that Kojo Annan and Cotecna actively concealed from Kofi Annan both their ongoing relationship and payments to Kojo that totaled as much as $485,000 over five years."
"The United Nation's "sex-for-food" scandal continues to spread. As the human rights group Save the Children documents in a new report, U.N. peacekeepers in the war-torn, refugee-rich Liberia have been accused of selling food for sex from girls as young as 8."
"HOME-MADE pornographic videos shot by a United Nations logistics expert in the Democratic Republic of Congo have sparked a sex scandal that threatens to become the UN’s Abu Ghraib."
"The expert was a Frenchman who worked at Goma airport as part of the UN’s $700 million-a-year effort to rebuild the war-shattered country. When police raided his home they discovered that he had turned his bedroom into a studio for videotaping and photographing sex sessions with young girls."
"When the police arrived the man was allegedly about to rape a 12-year-old girl sent to him in a sting operation. Three home-made porn videos and more than 50 photographs were found."
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