When asked why he robbed banks Willie Sutton replied That’s where the money is.
But bank-robbing can be a messy business and there is always the chance that someone is going to get mad at you and do something distinctly unfriendly like try to shoot you dead or put you in a steel box for a very long time. And the money really ain’t that great. If you started in Los Angeles, drove to New York City, and robbed every bank you passed along the way you wouldn’t get a billion dollars.
Kofi, Kojo, & Co., the Annan Gang, probably got more than that for allowing the UN Oil for Food program to turn into something a swindler like Bernie Madoff could only dream about. Plus, Bernie went to the pokey. The Annan mob just drifted off to where ever people, who have become rich beyond the dreams of avarice, go when they want to keep a low profile.
According to our friends at the increasingly ironically-titled Hot Air there is a new mob on the scene and their take looks to make the Oil for Food scam look like a school-yard bully stealing lunch money. The ultimate con: An investment scam where the investors don’t EXPECT any return, because what they’re doing is buying grace from the high priests of the new religion.
And they ask a very good question:
Why did the UN pick a former railway engineer with no background in climate science to lead its effort on AGW? Clearly, Pachauri was selected for his influence rather than his scientific expertise.
Clearly, if you wanted to study something which required astro-physics, meteorology, archeology, and geology you’d pick an economist. Just like you’d pick a coal miner if you wanted a new head for the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Kinda makes you long for the old version of The Bad Guy. At least when the jig was up they shot it out. Saddam Hussein cowered in a hole. Marc Rich bought a pardon from Bill Clinton.
HERE’s the story.
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