ʻO kāna keiki ʻo Kojo ke kumu. ʻO Kofi, ka makuakāne, e holo ana i ka United Nations ma ke ʻano he ʻeleʻele mua i lilo i ke Kakauolelo Nui 7 - e hoʻomake ana i kahi ululāʻau UN he 40 mau makahiki i hoʻopiha ʻia me nā hobbits a me nā orcs - he pōpoki ʻoluʻolu, ʻike ʻia ʻaʻole e emi mai ka pilikia akā e ulu "hoʻomaha e like me. piʻi ka pilikia.
Akā, he mea nui kēia pilikia; pilikino; a me ka wili no na wili olelo.
ʻO ka hoa hana a me ka crony Benon Sevan, i koho ʻia e Annan e kiaʻi i ka $ 100 billion humanitarian Oil-for-Food Program ma Iraq ua hoʻopiʻi ʻia no ka hoʻopiʻi ʻana i ka hapalua o ka 14 miliona barela o ka aila i hāʻawi ʻia i ka UN ma ke ʻano he uku - 2.2% - ma kēlā me kēia barela. ʻaila kūʻai ʻia. Ma waho aʻe o ka ʻaihue ʻana i nā miliona nona iho, ua ʻōlelo ʻia ua ʻae ka UN ma lalo o ke kākau ʻōlelo nui iā Saddam Hussein e hana ʻoihana me nā ʻoihana Palani, Lūkia a me Kina, me ka hoʻolele ʻana i nā kickbacks i hāʻawi ʻia ma ka hoʻihoʻi ʻana, i nā moʻolelo pilikino a Hussein, ʻoi aku ka nui ma mua o $ 10 biliona.
Ua hoʻopiʻi ʻia me ka nepotism a me ka cronyism, ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia ʻo Annan, 64, i ka hoʻolaha ʻana i kahi komisina kūʻokoʻa e noiʻi i ka ʻaihue i kono ai i nā kelepona ʻino e kūʻē iā ia no "kahi hale kūʻai ākea o nā uku, punahele a me nā kickbacks." Ua kapa ʻo ia i ka pelekikena mua o ka Federal Reserve ʻo Paul Volcker e poʻo i ka hoʻokolokolo.
“ʻAʻole i lawa nā hana a ka UN no ka hoʻomalu ʻana i nā ʻaelike Oil-for-Food, hele ka ʻike ma ke ala, a ʻaʻole i loaʻa ka loiloi kūloko kūpono o ka papahana. . . . Inā ʻaʻole hiki ke hilinaʻi ʻia ka United Nations e holo i kahi papahana kōkua kanaka, hiki ke nīnau ʻia kāna mau hana ʻē aʻe, e like me ka mālama maluhia, nā hoʻoponopono lima a i ʻole nā papahana hoʻomohala," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo Sen. Richard Lugar, ke poʻo o ke Kōmike Kūʻai Nui o ka Senate.
Ke hoʻonohonoho nei ke Kōmike Kūkākūkā o ka Hale i kāna mau hālāwai ponoʻī a me kona luna hoʻomalu, ʻo Henry Hyde ua hoʻoholo mua i ka UN e ʻōlelo nei ʻo ka papahana Oil-for-Food "e hōʻike ana i kahi hōʻino me ka ʻole o ka mōʻaukala UN."
ʻO ka papahana Oil-for-Food, i hoʻokumuʻia ma 1996, uaʻae iā Saddam e kūʻai aku i kaʻaila (ʻo Iraq ka lua o ka mea hana nui) e loaʻa kālā e kūʻai i ka meaʻai a me ka lāʻau lapaʻau; e wehe i nā maina ʻāina; a e kūkulu i nā halemai, nā kula a me nā mea kanu wai no kona poʻe kamaʻāina, akā ua hoʻolimalima ʻo ia i nā piliona kālā a ua ʻae ka UN iā ia.
ʻO ka aila Iraqi i puhi ʻia ma lalo o ka mākaʻikaʻi pololei a Sevan no ʻehiku mau makahiki piha i kūʻai ākea ʻia i ka mea nāna i hoʻopaʻa i nā ʻeke o Saddam lāua ʻo Sevan - 75% ʻo ʻAmelika ponoʻī - a me nā loaʻa kālā i waiho ʻia i loko o kahi waihona escrow mālama ʻia e UN (French bank, BNP Paribas)
no Iraq e kūʻai i nā mea e pono ai ke ola i hōʻole ʻia e ʻAmelika a me ka honua ma lalo o ka hoʻopaʻi ʻana i nā hoʻopaʻi waiwai.
Hoʻohana ʻo Sweetheart i waena o ka poʻe Farani, Lūkini, Kina a me Iraqis, he ʻaihue he nui o Baghdad, me UN ka pale keiki.
Ua ʻōlelo ke kuhina aila ʻo Iraqi i ka UN "ʻaihue kālā mai ka poʻe Iraqi," me ka ʻōlelo ʻana he 300 mau bureaucrats UN i hoʻohana ʻia e lawelawe i ka papahana. "ʻAʻole mākou e puhi i ka aila e hānai iā Iraqis, akā e hānai i (300) UN bureaucrats ma New York."
Ma mua o ka nalowale pohihihi o Sevan i ka honua o lalo, i hoʻoikaika ʻia e ka luna ʻo Annan, nāna i hoʻopaʻa maʻalahi iā ia i ka hoʻomaha lōʻihi ma mua o ka hoʻomaha ʻana, ua ʻae ʻo Sevan me ka manaʻo ʻole, "ʻo ka nui o ka 10 pakeneka" o ka loaʻa kālā o ka papahana ua "ʻoki ʻia," e haʻi ana i kahi kīwī TV: "Inā ʻaihue ʻia ka 10 pakeneka o ka loaʻa kālā, 90 pakeneka i loaʻa i ka poʻe i manaʻo ʻia. No ke aha i hōʻike ʻole ai kekahi? i ninau aku ai oia me ka huhu.
ʻO ke koho a Kofi Annan e hāʻawi i ka ʻaelike koʻikoʻi i ka Swiss-based Cotecna Inspection SA. no ka nana ana i na moku aila a pau ma Iraq, ua haehae kona inoa, me na hoohewa ana no ka nepotism. ʻO ka peripatetic Kojo, 30, i hānau ʻia mai ka wahine mua a Annan ma Ghana, hana no Cotecna.
ʻO ka nīnau hou aʻe ke kumu i makemake ai ʻo Annan iā Cotecna, ʻo ia ka ʻoihana hewa a hoʻopaʻi ʻia, ʻo ia ʻo "Mr Ten Percent" ʻo Asif Ali Zardari, i hoʻolimalima ʻia ma ke ʻano he Pre-Shipment Inspectors (PSI) i ka wā ʻo kāna wahine ʻo Benazir Bhutto ke Kuhina Nui!
ʻO nā alakaʻi o ka honua ʻekolu - hana ʻino i ko lākou mau niho e like me Mobutu, Suharto, Marcos, Mugabe a me nā mea kanu autocrats i kēia manawa ma Uzbekistan a me Kazahkstan, ua hana ʻoihana me kēia hui paʻa o ʻelima mau hui honua, e hoʻonui ana ma mua o $ 800 miliona o ka makahiki. a he $150-$200 miliona ka loaʻa kālā mai nā ʻaelike nānā me 44 o ia mau ʻāina ʻilihune.
"ʻO nā mea nona kēia mau hui kekahi o nā poʻe waiwai loa ma ka honua, e noho ana ma nā poʻokela poʻokela e like me Geneva, London, Paris, a me Milan", wahi a James Henry, ka mea kākau o ka Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy.
Ua hoʻopiʻi ka ʻaha Swiss iā Cotecna a me SGS no ke kīpē ʻana iā Benazir Bhutto, a me ke alakaʻi ʻana i nā lālā o kona ʻohana, i nā makahiki 1990, me ke kōkua ʻana o nā panakō nui Swiss, ʻAmelika UK, a me Farani a me kahi hui o nā loio Swiss.
"ʻO ka hopena, ua kōkua kēia mau keʻena Komohana āpau i ka hoʻohaʻahaʻa i ka demokala Pakistan a me kona mau manawa no ka hāʻawi ʻana i kahi koho democratic i ka fundamentalism Islam a me ka dictatorship pūʻali koa," wahi a Henry, he mea hoʻokele waiwai ma ke aʻo ʻana, he loio a me ka mea noiʻi nūpepa, nāna e haʻi iā mākou i ka nui o ʻo ka "ʻoihana alakaʻi o ka honua a me nā hui kālā, pinepine me ka hui pū ʻana o kā lākou mau aupuni a me nā ʻoihana supranational, i hoʻokumu a hoʻoulu i nā mākeke honua kiʻekiʻe kiʻekiʻe no ka ʻaiʻē haumia, lele kālā, hoʻopiʻi kālā, ʻauhau ʻauhau, palaho, kaʻa kaua illicit. a me nā ʻano hana hoʻokele waiwai ʻē aʻe hou o ka honua.
ʻAʻohe mea kupanaha inā ʻaʻole hiki i ka World Bank a me ka IMF ke mākaʻi iā Cotecna a me kāna mau mea like, a no ke aha i hāʻawi mālie ai ʻo Kofi Annan i ka papahana Oil-for-Food iā lākou me ka pilau o kā lākou track-record.
"Ma ka hihia o Pakistan", wehewehe ʻo Henry, "e hōʻike ana i ka hiki ʻana o ka hoʻomohala democratic i ka palaho - paipai ʻia a hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻia e kahi hui o nā mea mālama kālā o ka Honua Mua, loio, a me nā hui nānā."
ʻO ka Nobel Peace laureate ʻo Kofi, ʻo ia hoʻi ka 'Palima' no ka mea ʻo ia ka lā i hānau ʻia ai, me kāna MA i Management mai MIT, ua ʻae ʻo ia i kāna keiki a me ka crony e hoʻomāliʻi i kona inoa maikaʻi.
ʻO ke ala ʻē aʻe o Kojo o nā pānaʻi malu i loaʻa i nā alelo. ʻEhā makahiki i hala aku nei ka ʻaelike no ka mokulele $75million ma Harare, ke kapikala o Zimbabwe, i pili i ke kaikunāne o kona pelekikena ʻo Robert Mugabe; ke keiki a kekahi kuhina aila Saudi mua; a ke keiki a ka luna nui o UN!
Ma hope o ka hoʻopaʻapaʻa diplomatic ma Iraq, me nā mea a pau e koi ana i ka UN e komo i kēia manawa, ʻo Bush a me kāna mau cohorts ma laila ʻākau ke makemake nui nei i kahi whistle-blower, kahi mea hiki ke hoʻopiʻi i ka UN a hōʻino iā ia.
A me kā lākou koho? He ʻano ex-Foreign Office Pakistani, no ka lōʻihi me ka UN ma New York.
Ua hoʻopau ʻo Serenading Shaukat Fareed, ka mea kākau moʻolelo ʻo New York Times ʻo William Safire, i kāna kolamu ʻo Malaki 29 me: "Pono mākou āpau i kahi puʻupuʻu ʻeha. Inā heluhelu mai kahi ʻano ex-UN i kapa ʻia ʻo Shaukat Fareed - e kelepona mai iaʻu.
Ke kū nei ʻo Safire ma lalo o ka lāʻau hewa. ʻAʻole ʻo Shaukat Fareed he 'ex-UN'.
"ʻAʻole hauʻoli wau i ka hewa ʻana o Safire i nā ʻike āpau," wahi a Fareed. ʻO kāna pane i lawe ʻia ma ka kolamu NYT Letter, ʻeono lā i hala loa, he mea ʻoluʻolu.
Pehea ʻo Safire i koho ai i ka inoa o Fareed mai nā limahana 15,000 UN? Aia kekahi mea i nalowale ma ʻaneʻi?
“ʻAe, ʻo wau ka mea nāna i hoʻohui mua i ka hale ʻaila-no-ʻai. Ma hope mai ua lawe ʻia ia mai aʻu aku a hāʻawi ʻia iā Sevan, "wahi a Fareed, ka luna hoʻomalu o kēia manawa, ka secretariat o ka papa hoʻonohonoho nui o ka UN, ʻo kēlā me kēia mea!
ʻO ka huki ʻana i ke kūlana, ʻo William Safire i manaʻo ʻia, he kaulana ʻo ia no ka ʻike ʻole ʻana i kāna kuhi hewa i kēlā me kēia manawa he hewa ʻole ʻo ia a i ʻole ka ʻōlelo wahaheʻe (pinepine). ʻAʻole hoʻi e haʻi aku kāna "Nupepa moʻolelo" iā ia e hoʻoponopono iā lākou.
"He poʻo hewa paha ka manaʻo," ua hoʻihoʻi hou ʻo Safire iā Daniel Okrent, ka Lunahooponopono o ka NYT Public nāna i manaʻo e lawe nā mea kākau i nā hoʻoponopono inā hewa lākou, "akā ʻaʻole hewa. ʻO ka manaʻoʻiʻo a i ʻole ka manaʻoʻiʻo, ʻaʻole pili i ke ʻano like ʻole, ka puʻupuʻu a i ʻole ka huhū, he manaʻo i pili i ka hoʻopaʻapaʻa ikaika akā ʻaʻole ia he ʻōlelo e pili ana i ka hoʻoponopono a i ʻole ka hoʻoponopono kānāwai.
ʻAʻohe mea kupanaha e makemake ʻo Shaukat Fareed e waiho i ka moʻolelo Safire. Ua ʻike maikaʻi ʻo Safire iā Fareed a i ʻole he kanaka ikaika loa ʻo ia no ka luna o UN e laka i nā pū.
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