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Who is "Big Mo"? Start here. We need to find out all we can about this guy.
http://www.david-kilgour.com/2008/Oct_11_2008_02.php

Over the decades, Mr. Strong has had close ties to at least five former U.N. leaders, from U Thant to Mr. Annan, and he implies that even now, in Beijing, he is informally in touch on occasion with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: "I do get the odd message now and then." (Asked to confirm this, Mr. Ban's office did not respond). Along with his labors at the U.N., Mr. Strong has been engaged for years with a kaleidoscope of nongovernmental organizations and private business ventures. A collection of his papers donated to the Harvard Library, spanning the years 1948-2000 runs to 685 boxes. A theme throughout, he says, is that "I've spent my life trying to help the U.N."

Mr. Strong no longer has any official ties to the U.N., however. In 2005, at the height of the investigations into the U.N.'s corrupt Oil-for-Food relief program for Iraq, news emerged of the six-figure check from Iraq. Evidence procured by federal investigators and the U.N.-authorized inquiry of Paul Volcker showed that Mr. Strong in 1997, while working for Mr. Annan, had endorsed a check for $988,885, made out to "Mr. M. Strong," issued by a Jordanian bank. This check was hand-delivered to Mr. Strong by a South Korean businessman, Tongsun Park, who in 2006 was convicted in New York federal court of conspiring to bribe U.N. officials to rig Oil-for-Food in favor of Saddam.

He has given few interviews from China, and for the past three years has refused my periodic requests to answer questions by phone or email.


See MAURICE STRONG - The U.N.'s Man of Mystery Is the godfather of the Kyoto treaty a public servant or a profiteer? By CLAUDIA ROSETT, WSJ October 11, 2008

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  • Clinton enriched himself on the missile deal. And for this Red China can now guide their war heads with accuracy. All this so Bill can now buy four houses. Anyone recall what his highest paid year was before being president ? In his own words, "thirty five thousand." Hillary one "K". He's a millionaire now.

  • And you say you listen to talk radio all day? Wow. I'm impressed. I need to do what you do.

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  • @SgtMelvon I knew Maurice back in the Village in the 70s. He's a warm and intelligent prankster.

  • no one will wake up, because people are so divided now a days. what the hell does it take to make people stand and fight, this is crazy

  • He wants to take down America and Obama is by his side. Wake up America!

  • Oh sure. Maurice could charm your socks off (if you were not forewarned.)

  • Maybe your right but my point is that people like Maurice Strong who are tyrranical psychos are ussually nice to people close to them.

  • Yeah. Hitler's niece, Angelika ("Geli") Raubal probably thought so too. In 1931, the 23-year-old Geli (daughter of Hitler's half-sister) was found shot dead in a room that she occupied in Hitler's Munich apartment. While her death was officially recorded as a suicide, there were enough suspicious circumstances to make many authorities believe that Hitler was responsible.

  • Hitler was a nice person to people he dealt with directly.

  • Excellent.

  • Yo maurice strongs my uncle, and he is actually really nice, so yaa....

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