On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:24:01 +1100, "B0NZ0"
wrote:
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>In Bali, there are voices calling for a global "carbon tax." It would be
>collected by the United Nations and we know how well they handle such
>funding. The Oil-for-Food fiasco is but one example.
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It was corrupt Australians and others like them who caused the fiasco,
not the UN.
From:
http://eherald.alp.org.au/articles/0106/natp23-01.php
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"The UN Volcker inquiry investigated 2200 companies worldwide that
used the UN oil-for-food program to make illegal payments to Saddam's
regime. Australia's $300 million was five times bigger than the next
biggest corrupt payment, making ours the sort of gold medal
performance you never want Australia to be credited with."
It gave Saddam $300 million in cold, hard, convertible cash in the
lead-up to John Howard's decision to take Australia into the Iraq war
– cash that Saddam used illegally to buy guns, bombs and bullets for
use against our troops in that war.
How did this come about? The core fact throughout the five years, 1999
to 2004, that this scandal ran is that it needed three main parties to
make it work:
* AWB, which paid money to Iraq via a Jordanian intermediary;
* Saddam, who gladly took the money; and
* the Howard government, which, in writing, approved the detailed
commercial arrangements between AWB and the Iraqis that made
these payments possible and which kept the UN off AWB's back
even when the UN formally raised concerns.
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I would say this is an example of _insufficient_ Global Governance !
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