Confessions of a Misguided Trio

Australia Donates to UN....or do they

I was just consuming a bit of coffee when I seriously burned my tongue (thanks Starbucks) after hearing that the United Nations had at long last opened its Central Emergency Response Fund.

The burn was not a reaction to the UN opening the fund, but rather Australia donating $10 million dollars to it. Why did that shock me? I wasn't sure until the figure of $10 million hung around for a while....

Earlier this year a small article was written in The Australian that showed that the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), currently being investigated for giving some $300 million dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein, had ripped off, through inflated pricing the United Nations World Food Program...

So how much did the AWB "steal" from the UNWFP..... $10 million

[edit - I have been informed by my crack legal team that the word Alleged should appear at least once in this post, it now does...]

posted by Mark @ 5:10 PM