Developments continue up here in Canada re: the $100 million AdScam fraud perpetrated by the Liberal Party. Prime Minister Martin has followed the script laid out here on Winds of Change.NET to the letter, beginning with a 'stick to the plan approach' before caving and borrowing a leaf from his worst enemy's playbook. Meanwhile, new witnesses are taking the stand under publication bans. Sitting in Minnesota, Captain Ed promises to publish any material that's given to him.
Elsewhere, blogger and mystery writer Roger L. Simon cotinues to dig into the real mystery of UNSCAM, currently facing resignations from senior investigators who believe the report soft-pedaled the truth and failled to pursue obvious leads, major divisions in the senior panel, and 5 ongoing investigations outside the U.N. The Volcker "Investigation," answering to Kofi Annan himself and headed by someone who spent spent several years as a director of the United Nations Association (UNA-USA) and the Business Council for the United Nations, is becoming a disaster all its own.
Attention is also turning toward possible links to... Canada.
Specifically Power Corp., which has also played a significant role in Liberal Party politics over the last few decades. Belmont Club offers a Canadian relationships graphic in "Roger Simon's Mystery," where he notes the role of Maurice Strong, who recently resigned from his U.N. post as emissary to North Korea while his possible financial ties to Saddam Hussein's Korean bagman Tongsun Park are investigated:
"However, this same Maurice Strong has connections to Paul Martin, the Prime Minister of Canada who is now being accused of presiding over a decades long corruption scandal and to the French-Canadian Demarais family [JK: who own Power Corp] which have strong monetary connections to Total Elf Aquitane, which is alleged to have dealings with Saddam Hussein, and BNP Paribas, the official bank of the Oil-For-Food program. The Guardian reported on April 6, 2003..."
I don't see UNSCAM suddenly boomeranging back on Paul Martin. The connections are simply too tenuous. Nevertheless, it would be foolish not to investigate re: Maurice Strong and Power Corp, and Belmont Club offers an array of media sources and stories that help shed light on this aspect of the mystery. He follows that up with Roger Simon's Mystery 2, which focuses more heavily on Maurice Strong and ties information together from several new sources.
I don't see Maurice Strong as "Mr. Big" in UNSCAM, and it will take a lot more digging before we can really begin to see the whole web. He's worth looking into, however, and as Belmont Club so archly notes: "the ifs accumulate."
I expect more to follow.