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No desk big enough for Kofi to hide under

by Judi McLeod

May 11, 2004

If there’s one book I can’t wait to get my nose into it’s Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures. The tell-all book, written by employees of the U.N.’s department of peacekeeping operations, is bound to be more intriguing than the divorce of Kofi annan from first wife, Nigerian Titi alakija.

Kudos to NewsMax.com for being first to break the story of the book and first to come up with a review of the book’s galleys. It’s just like NewsMax to beat the dreary drones of the mainline media to the scoop.

In Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures, Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and andrew Thomson detail exactly how UN operations work.

UN Secretary-General Kofi annan and the gang have been trying to stifle the release of the book and no one really wonders why.

One of the main edicts at UN headquarters is the one stating, "Thou shalt not tell." But tell is what Cain, Postlewait and Thomson did, first selling the book to Miramax and then asking permission for clearance, which was, of course quickly denied in Kofiland.

according to feisty Newsmax, while the book chronicles the "personal" misadventures of its trio of authors, "it also contains numerous references to instances of corruption and incompetence in the UN’s peacekeeping operations."

Downright comical when one considers that Kofi has his very own paper mill with which to send out his own gilded message. according to an Internet account, "Each year, a flood of UN documents and well over two billion pages is published at a football-field size printing press, located beneath the north lawn of UN headquarters."

as proof that global John Q. Public does not always buy into Kofi’s official message machine, are the statistics on advance sales of the book.

Since NewsMax broke the story of the book, advance sales at amazon.com jumped more than 1 million slots in just two days; it went from 1.4 millionth place to 1,280th.

Meanwhile, while no one can censor the ever loquacious and tree-killing UN, the UN is doing its best to censor the daring authors of Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures.

The authors are the opposite of mealy-mouthed UN style in showing the outside world what is really behind the UN curtain.

The cigar-chomping Kofi may get a free ride from the mainline media, but not from his own employees.

Still turning up for his UN job in legal affairs, Ken Cain, a Harvard graduate says the world body’s election personnel "looks like the international jet set on vacation."

It seems that the grumpy old men and holier-than-thous running the UN, who have made their diplomatic careers on saving the wicked world with pacifism, drink like the proverbial fish on the endangered species lists.

Says NewsMax’s Stewart Stogel: "Sex parties in `a villa’ in the capital, Phnom Penh (are) well known for Friday night parties, supported by UN field personnel.

"a favourite drink, called the `Space Shuttle’ was made. Here’s how: "by distilling a pound of marijuana over a six-week period with increasingly good quality spirits. It is a work of love and the final product is an amber-colored liquid that tastes like Cognac. We drink it with rounds of coke."

"Peacekeeping troops" sent by Bulgaria to Cambodia were not military personnel but prison inmates and the patients of psychiatric wards--even though they arrived in military uniform to become UN Blue Helmets.

How’s that for UN weapons of mass destruction!

We all know about the UN $10 billion oil-for-food scandal.

The new book reveals how $3.5 million disappeared in broad daylight from the UN center in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Some $8 million has gone missing from operations in angola. More than $20 million disappeared from the UN’s Cambodia relief effort and $10 million disappeared from a UNICEF operation in Nairobi, Kenya.

The hole in the UN’s pocket is gargantuan.

But this is only the United Nations in party mode.

UN Irresponsibility and accountability out in the field hurt the innocent.

Co-author Kenneth Cain claims the Bulgarian Blue Helmets were hated by everyone in Cambodia and described them as "a battalion of criminal lunatics (who) arrive in a lawless land. They’re drunk as sailors, rape vulnerable Cambodian women and crash their UN Land Cruisers with remarkable frequency."

Suppression seems to be in style at the UN.

"There is no black box, I don’t know what you’re talking about," annan’s official spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters, looking for the flight recorder from the 1994 fatal crash that killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi.

Eckhard reinforced his comments with the pretext of peeking under his desk.

after this little drama, the UN propaganda machine went into overdrive, casting doubt on whether the black flight recording box was the one from the fatal 1994 air crash.

NewsMax later learned that despite the denials the voice recorder discovered in the locked filing cabinet at the UN peacekeeping department was indeed the one from the 1994 crash.

When Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures hits the book stands on June 9, no desk will be big enough for Kofi and Company to hide under.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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