FauxNEWS

Yes the title is correct, Ron Paul is right, when it comes to the UN.  They are in his words ,” unelected, foreign body, such as the United Nations. ”  But the thing that is missing from his campaign that would resonate with most conservatives is the fact that they are also the most liberal and corrupt organization in the world.   They moved to the top of the list with the oil for food scandal came to light as the reason that they (the UN) was unwilling to enforce their own resolutions against the previous Iraqi government, that have lead to our current military presence in Iraq.

And they have since solidified their position with this current little story I found.   It has come to light that the UN is ignoring its own internal rules about about who they can purchase items from.  You see this enormous bureaucratic monstrosity that is the United Nations has a procurement list and if your company is not on the list you cannot sell things to this organization.   However it has become apparent that those that work at the UN and its many different sub organizations have failed to follow their own rules

But that was before FOX News uncovered the case of Corimec S.p.A., an Italian firm that sold the U.N. more than $30 million-worth of goods in 2006 (and many millions more in previous years), and which was suspended from the U.N.’s list of authorized vendors on March 15, 2007 for involvement in one of the highest-profile bribery scandals in the multi-national organization’s history.

Little more than a month after the United Nations Procurement Service dropped Corimec from its vendor list, the flagship United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) decided to ignore the ban and spent more than $2.1 million on emergency housing kits from the firm. The reason: UNDP officials declared that as a legally separate U.N. agency, they were not bound to honor the Procurement Service sanction.

OK so here we are this company was found to have bribed UN officials in exchange for the UN buying over $30 million dollars in goods and services, they get busted and are removed from the approved buyers list and then the UNDP goes and continues to buy from them, yet when confronted with the fact that they were not an approved vendor they claim they are not bound by the rules of their parent organization.  Does any of this sound familiar?  are those comments and attitude sound a whole lot like the White House from a previous administration when it came to things like fund raising and the Lincoln Bedroom.  But wait there is more….

The fact that UNDP, a $5 billion development agency, chose to override the vendor suspension is particularly significant, because UNDP is the premier agency through which the U.N. operates on the ground in most of the 160 countries that it services.

OK so here it is the organization that is the “face of the UN” in over 160 countries basically says that it is above it’s own organizational rules.  What sort of image and lesson does that teach in these third world countries where they operate?

The UNDP decision to disregard the blacklist inspired by the “serious” (UNDP’s term) issue of the bribery of U.N. officials raises a host of questions about the actual status of the effort to clean up corruption within the organization’s multi-billion-dollar procurement business, which was described by U.N. investigators in 2006 as wrapped in “systematic abuse,” “a pattern of corrupt practices,” and “a culture of impunity.”

More of the same, how can any civilized and law-abiding country actually sit there and accept that this organization is actually trying to clean up their act when the vast majority of those running the organization are from countries where bribery of officials is common place, as well as the basic refusal to obey organizational let alone civil laws and regulations

Chief among the questions is whether the U.N.’s left hand cares what the right hand is doing in an increasingly balkanized organization where the secretary-general, who appoints all the top officials, is apparently restrained from controlling their behavior afterwards.

Again,  the organization is so bloated and corrupt that it has lost it’s value as a place where nations could “bring their disputes to the world for assistance and resolution”.  It is now rife with people who are looking out for the best way to line their pockets, at either the expense of a vendor or the US or both, and to top it off, the US is to blame and then expected to just suck it up and pay the lions share of the operational expenses for this joke.  

That issue seems particularly acute now that the U.N. — which admits it has been badly tainted by corruption and inefficiency — has seen its overall budget grow at a spectacular clip as its various parts claim a special position in addressing the world’s multiplying problems and demand billions in additional funding to do so.

Finally, those in the highest levels of the organization have admitted there are problems, but are apparently been neutered to the point that they cannot do anything to fix them.  A classic case of the inmates running the asylum.

These next few paragraphs of the story show how corrupt, inept this organization really is.

Confidential UNDP records obtained by FOX News show that UNDP officials began considering the idea of using Corimec barely three weeks after the blacklisting was announced, based on a request from UNDP’s Pakistan office. UNDP officials were fully aware of Corimec’s suspension, and the reason for it.

At an April 4, 2007 meeting of the organization’s Advisory Committee on Procurement (ACP), which must sign off on all purchases of more than $100,000, UNDP initially rejected the idea, largely because of the suspension, and dismissed arguments made in favor of working with the company as “not credible.”

Yet on April 23, 2007, after a lengthy exchange of e-mails with UNDP officials in Pakistan, UNDP officials decided at another ACP meeting that despite their agreement that the U.N. “blacklist” was the result of the “serious offense” of bribery, they would override it because — in their view — they were not legally bound by punishment decisions that came from the bureaucracy ruled by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

So they tell the Secretary General to go to hell that his decisions are not legally binding.

Having made their decision, the UNDP did not inform either the officials in the United Nations Procurement Service who had ordered the suspension in the first place, or Secretary-General Ban, who had promised to make the U.N. conform to the “highest ethical standard” when he took office in January 2007.

The main reason for UNDP’s decision to ignore the procurement sanction was convenience, or “exigency,” as officials put it, in the face of continuing UNDP efforts to alleviate a housing crisis caused by Pakistan’s disastrous earthquake in October 2005. 

Well actually they did not tell him anything.

In addition, UNDP field officials downplayed the significance of the offense that sparked the penalty. They relayed Corimec’s contention that the actual bribery offense had taken place in 1993, and that the company had “changed the management and [that] many of its staff who were involved in unethical practices in the past have left.” 

And to top it off, they make excuses to downplay the issue saying that the company has changed and that they were good boys.  As my wife would say yeah whatever..

Corimec was originally suspended by the United Nations Procurement Service as a result of the bribe-taking career of Alexander Yakovlev, a Russian-born procurement officer whose secret Caribbean bank account was discovered by FOX News in 2005. That discovery led to his resignation and subsequent arrest. Yakovlev pled guilty in a U.S. federal court to money laundering and corruption charges and has since been cooperating with U.S. federal investigators prior to sentencing.

Yakovlev’s discovery came after more than a decade of soliciting and accepting bribes and steering contracts through rigged bids and manipulating technical criteria that dates back to 1993, and easily involved hundreds of millions of dollars. It led to the 2006 United Nations report that complained of the organization’s “culture of impunity.”

According to U.N. investigators, Corimec was involved in one of the earliest cases of Yakovlev’s bribe-taking, along with a related firm, Cogim S.p.A. In subsequent years, Corimec did exceedingly well as a U.N. supplier. In 2004, the firm won contracts worth $18.3 million; in 2005, $34 million, and even in 2006, after Yakovlev’s arrest, another $30 million.

 There is a whole lot more but I will let you read it for your self.  It is proof positive that the UN has outlived it’s usefulness and is nothing but a money pit for the morally corrupt slime of the world.

Now that more truth about the UN is out why do we not have a politician who will stand up and say what needs to be said about them? Well because most liberals want one world government and see the UN as the way to that, socialistic goal.  Most conservatives simply do not want to deal with that issue because they feel that there are other more pressing issues than these leeches.  That could not be farther from the truth.  If you look at the UN budget and what the US pays

Imagine what would happen if these 4 countries withheld their money from the UN till the corruption was cleaned up and proper representation and management were put into place?  Over 50% of their budget would be gone and this commentary would be coming from 2 permanent members of the Security Council, as if that makes any difference.

So what would make a good election point?  How about instead of calling for all of our troops to come home would be calling for the the US to either suspend funding for the UN or completely walking away from the organization as a whole, writing it off as a lost cause.   This would make a whole lot more sense than saying we should bring our troops home.  There are many reasons that we could claim and

Below are what I would put as my talking points regarding the UN.

1. Elimination of all funding from the US to the UN, this means every single dollar that comes from the any and all federal agencies
2. Termination of the Lease of the property that the UN Building stands on, the building is old and should be condemned.
3. Removal of all US troops from any and all UN lead military/peace keeping expeditions.  The only leadership that US troops should be following is from US military personnel
4. Placing before congress a bill that basically spells out that the US will not abide by any previous or future UN resolutions that in any way are detrimental to US interests, and use the Kyoto protocol as an example of what we will not follow.
5. Immediate termination of the position of US Ambassador to the UN, and all staff positions.  If a country wants to deal with us they come to us and we will deal with you on a case by case basis.

But if I am wrong please give me proof.

Posted on January 14th, 2008 under Election 2008, Global Whoring, Information, Multiculturalism, Politics • Tags: corruption, scandal, United Nations. • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback