AWB/CWB how business is done?

[TOM4CWB]

WD9, Parsley;

When I asked about AWB kickbacks and CWB involvement in Oil for Food bribes in Iraq... I got the "this is how business is done in the middle east" answer from the CWB business rep in Stettler at the "CWB Accountability meeting" Mr Wittal. THe CWB used "Agents of the Board" to do their business... does this make what the CWB did, right or legal?

What do most Canadians think about the CWB's involvement in the Oil for Food scandel?

Here is the Ausie take on the AWB and Gov. involvement in the bribes:


AWB: Tuckey claims Nats knew
November 28, 2006


Wilson Tuckey ... "The dogs have been barking about corruption for years, a number of people - who were not Liberals - were constantly out in the marketplace saying it was the way you did business in the Middle East".

Liberal backbencher Wilson Tuckey says some in The National Party may have known about AWB's activities in Iraq long before the scandal made its way into the public sphere.

Mr Tuckey says he will introduce a private member's bill seeking to strip the scandalised single desk operator AWB of its monopoly powers.

Prime Minister John Howard has flagged possible changes to the wheat export single desk system after the release of Commissioner Terence Cole's investigation into AWB's $290 million kickbacks to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime.

Mr Tuckey has long complained that The Nationals - which has fought to retain AWB's single desk - has always been too close to the wheat marketer.

Asked today by reporters in Canberra if he thought Nationals members knew about the kickbacks, the West Australian MP said: "The dogs have been barking about corruption for years, a number of people - who were not Liberals - were constantly out in the marketplace saying it was the way you did business in the Middle East"...

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/awb-tuckey-claims-nats-knew/2006/11/28/1164476171251.html


Most think AWB defence a lie
Stephanie Peatling
December 4, 2006

NEARLY 70 per cent of people do not believe the Federal Government did not know AWB was paying $290 million to Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a Herald/ACNielsen poll.

An overwhelming majority of Labor voters - 88 per cent - believe the Government lied about how much it knew, and 46 per cent of Coalition voters reject its explanation.

The number of people who disbelieved the Government has dropped slightly from earlier this year but the poll found the level of recognition of the scandal had also dropped.

The Prime Minister, John Howard, is likely to take options for stripping AWB of its monopoly powers to a meeting of all Coalition MPs this week. Mr Howard said the Cole report had clear implications for the single desk that gives AWB the monopoly to sell wheat overseas.

The Deputy Prime Minister, Mark Vaile, said yesterday there was no deep division in the Coalition over the single desk arrangement, but conceded there were some extreme views.

Mr Vaile said a clash last week between his Nationals colleague Senator Barnaby Joyce and the Liberal Wilson Tuckey had been resolved with an apology from Mr Tuckey."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/most-think-awb-defence-a-lie/2006/12/03/1165080815797.html

[AdamSmith]

"Grain marketing is a highly competitive industry and farmers need every edge they can get," said Adrian Measner CWB president and chief executive officer."

"The project will also introduce new e-business options for farmers, such as online permit applications, PPO contracting and tracking, producer car ordering and farmer account management, as early as spring 2007."

The Americans are building ethanol plants at a record pace, creating new demand for grain and new wealth for the grains industry.

The CWB has revamped their web site and are making it simpler and faster to apply for a permit book.

Is it even remotely possible for them to be more useless?

[lesm]

By now,I think they are about as usless as they can possible get. It reminds me of Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burnt.

[parsley]

http://www.spectre.net.au/book-58-86.php


Parsley

[silverback]

You can smell the desperation to look relevant.

Either that, or there is money to be made by creating all these new ideas before the axe falls.

[wd9]

AS, but at least they will be able to edump raw eproduct more e-fficiently into the value added system of the US.

And you will be able to etrack that echeque for the whole eyear and a ehalf it takes to get to eyou (I mean you).

Bonus!

[Braveheart]

This is the most compelling reason that Adrian Measner has to go. He is still stuck in the command and control CWB bubble. "Bubble boy" Adrian has had such a long career with the board that he can think no other way. The whole board mentality is administration. Administered marketing, administered delivery, administered price spreads . . .

The CWB always seems to be aiming behind the target. In an age where most firms vision is to be part of a value chain, the board is working on re engineering its' supply chain.

And $46M???? Yikes!

[just_wondering]

Don't forget that voting in the director elections ends on the 8th.
And that for those who support the board and all it does will see this as another reason why a vote for the status quo is the raely best thing and that they will call up all their buddies too make sure to Get Out The Vote.
The CWB is working GREAT right just ask them.

[just_wondering]

I was also going to add how many of these releases Measner will get out before they throw his _SS out of the building.

[TOM4CWB]

Just-wondering,

The voting ended on Dec 1st at midnight, if the ballot was not post marked before then... it is garbage.

We are to wait for the e-mail to clear the e-office so our e-ballot can be counted by the e-accountants @ e-MNP!

[TOM4CWB]

Guys... don't you think you are being a little e-ruff on the e-directors?

Now if the new e-system were e-ISO compliant... there actually might be a e-point to all of this e-ntellectual e-property they are e-making.

I hope there is something e-usefull to what is going on... because the CWB obviously has been e-spending on this e-project for quite some e-time.

Seriously... this is where the CWB sees its future. WOW!

Could this system replace the CGC system for instance?

[TOM4CWB]

Parsley,

This cracked me up... it would be funny... if it weren't so true!

"I felt important for a few seconds, a
manipulator of the world wheat market price. Then the Police training kicked in with ‘hope they give me a cell with a toilet’. It was like my list of jobs for the day and seemed so unreal.

One – brush your teeth.

Two – check the messages.

Three – manipulate the world wheat price."

Sounds so simular to 423 main... it is scarry.

[SASKFARMER3]

Lets see I am the CWB and I give an impression to all farmers that I make them a profit in the sale of wheat and barley on the world market.
Then through different programs etc I spend like a drunken sailor the profit and finally leave a little scrap to be sent in a final check to the dumb farmers who think I am doing a real fine job.
Oh this sure sounds a lot like the liberal sponsorship scandal I have a right to my severance even though your fired. But after seeing how the big boys did it in Ottawa the CWB brass learned from the best how to live like you were bill gates.
Us Dumb farmers just kept letting them have fun at our expense, Now that the ship is starting to sink we have useless announcements how they are going to stream line the system etc. to save us money.
What a JOKE!

[craig]

The CWB needs to be more specific. Where are the possible 10 million in savings. I want to know if this was approved by the board of directors. I would suggest that under the current light of uncertainty about the boards future, a proposal to spent 46 million up front and then not start seeing a return on investment for at least 3 years is not very prudent management.

[wd9]

Craig, as SaskF said, they are entitled to their entitlements!