Adscam, meet UNscam

DAMIAN PENNY asks, where are the conspiracy theorists when we need them?

Maurice Strong, who had business ties to a Korean businessman caught up in the oil-for-food scandal, also served on the board of Power Corporation, which had ties with TotalFinaElf, an oil company which allegedly profited nicely from the oil-for-food scam. And who else served on the Power Corporation board with Strong? Paul Volcker, the man the UN hired to investigate the program.

Then there's this interesting story:

The Canadian company that Saddam Hussein invested a million dollars in belonged to the Prime Minister of Canada, canadafreepress.com has discovered. Cordex Petroleum Inc., launched with Saddam’s million by Prime Minister Paul Martin’s mentor Maurice Strong’s son Fred Strong, is listed among Martin’s assets to the Federal Ethics committee on November 4, 2003.

I have no idea to what to make of this, as yet. There's lots more on the oil-for-food scandal aka UNscam and the Canadian connection here and here and here. Some of the dot-connecting sounds more than a little tinfoil-hatish, but then nothing surprises me these days.