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The UN Development Program teams up with Jimmy Carter.
That would be the UNDP now embroiled in the UN’s dollars for dictators scandal in North Korea, and Jimmy Carter, author and America’s self-appointed President-for-Life. Neither one has yet explained in full some intriguing flows of cash; in the UNDP’s case to Kim Jong Il; in the case of the Carter Center, from Middle Eastern tycoons. Now they are getting together to promote good governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Read all about it, here. And somebody, please, warn our neighbors down south.
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1. bourne2y:“getting together to promote good governance”
Is this a good idea? The record shows that both Carter and UNDP are strangers to good governance. Or maybe they mean to promote “good governance” from the fifth grade to the sixth?
Truth is certainly stranger than Fiction - no one could make this stuff up.
Feb 6, 2007 - 11:19 am 2. heather:Ms Rosetti, finally someone is focussing on Maurice Strong. He has had a stellar career at the UN, but before that, he got his start in Canada. The Petro Canada takeover by the Trudeau government was the first I heard his name.
Ted Byfield, now of the Western Standard, and a reporter (female) whose name I cannot remember) know all about the corruption of that era: and Strong was at the center of it. Mark Steyn and David Warren would both know something about him, at this Canadian/Trudeau/PowerCorp phase of his career.
Really, Canada has been a strange entity, since WWII: run at the top by very slick operators, with access to the massive $$ that results from a first world economy. Really, the ideal of every banana republic leader, Canada is!
Someone should write a book. I knew there was BIG MONEY in environmentalism when I realized Strong was in on it.
Quite the guy, one of the great transnational elite, he is…
Feb 7, 2007 - 10:53 pm