Look here Ma, that durn POKO has started up a blog on this here internet thingamabob.
BillyBob, have you done finished milking the cows? You know reading that tripe POKO writes wont get the chores done!
Okay Ma, I'll do my chores now and read the blog after I feed the pigs. That durn POKO, he's always up to something...






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The United Nations
During the closing days of the Second World War, representatives of 51 nations attended the UN Conference on International Organization in San Francisco and signed the UN Charter. This event brought the Organization into existence on 24 October 1945, the day now known as United Nations Day.
As we approach the sixtieth anniversary, one has to wonder if the UN will go the route of The League of Nations. The United States, for one, is not happy with the way the UN is operating.
An article in The New York Times stated:

Secretary General Kofi Annan and the members of the Security Council received an 860-page report today excoriating their management of the oil-for-food program and saying the United Nations must be extensively overhauled if it is to earn global credibility and meet its 21st-century obligations.

Back on June 30, 2004 The Heritage Foundation stated:
The Oil-for-Food fraud is potentially the biggest scandal in the history of the United Nations and one of the greatest financial scandals of modern times.1 Set up in the mid-1990s as a means of providing humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people, the U.N.-run Oil-for-Food program was subverted and manipulated by Saddam Hussein's regime--allegedly with the complicity of U.N. officials--to help prop up the Iraqi dictator.

The Vocker Commission's 860 page report can be accessed here using Adobe Acrobat Reader. ** please note these are extremely large files The UN's position on 'Oil-for-Food' can be viewed here.

I have not viewed the report above, but my feeling is that the UN has proven itself to be ineffective under the present Secretary-General and an immediate replacement should be found. Preferably a candidate who doesn't have a relative who is prone to criminal activity.
The late Dag Hammarskjold must be tossing in his grave at the current situation within the UN.

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