Whilst at lunch today sitting in the canteen I
couldnt help but laugh at the ridiculous front page article on The
Daily Mail.
'The Fat Cats Of Foreign Aid', it reads.
In a nut shell, it goes on to explain how the top
bosses of some of the biggest foreign aid charities are raking in
more than £100,000 a year, and how through various bonus schemes
they've made themselves millionaires. Now I’m not going to condone
this sort of behaviour, in fact like 99% of the rest of the
population who actually need to work full time for a pittance, I find
this breach of trust abhorrent. However I do find the reporting of
this story for one decades too late, and secondly it is completely
offensive to any readers out there to suspect that they were so naive
in the first place.
The details of this story the same old format. An
audit of these big organisations were found to be a get-rich-quick
scheme for some millionaires and our wonderful superheroes who are
the British Members of Parliament are going to look into how to best
stop this terrible abuse of trust.
Obviously, we'll overlook the millions taken by
MPs over the years to tend to landscaping, moat clearance and
mortgages on houses which do not exist, or the fact that many of
these same Politicians got off without any form of official
punishment besides losing their position (of whom some have now
wormed their way back into positions of power through being lovers of
David Cameron.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204239/The-fat-cats-foreign-aid-Ministers-target-consultants-paid-500m-taxpayer.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
This "news" just isn't. I mean, its
common knowledge that Bono only donates 1% of earnings from charity
gigs to the charity.
Oh yeah, but he's in that (terrible) rock band U2,
so he's allowed to cheat people out of millions.
Feed. The. World. Bono, you cunt.
Thing is, the reality is even more easy to
understand than that. A friend of mine worked as one of those
annoying charity collectors for a few weeks told me how he quit once
he found out that only a small percentage was actually going to the
charities themselves, most was taken by the company which does the annoying sales pitch and secures
your regular donations by taking your card details. (You have been
warned.)
In any case, I seem to remember a certain
Southpark episode starring Starving Marvin which told us all the
facts about how charity worked about a decade ago, but meh.
Whilst we are on the subject of charity, it is a
strange coincidence that also in the Daily Mail, (I don't actually
buy this paper, it just so happens that both links so far are from
them) there are two other stories on the same page as this latest
'charity scandal' story. One is the fear that BAE's merger with EADS
may cause problems with the on-going Trident project, and second is
the weird story about how millions are being spent on creating an
Indian foreign aid headquarters when the aid is scheduled to stop in
2015.
I say coincidence because they are more or less
indirectly connected. Despite India straight up telling the UK that
our aid money is no longer needed (or indeed appreciated) we seem to
still be pouring a ton of money into their economy under the guise of
international aid. In reality its more to keep funding British
companies which have exported their manufacturing to India, and also
to hopefully butter up their politicians to continue using BAE for
their defence contracts.
Despite it not appearing as obvious, UK does
actually have a lucrative business in advanced technologies, i.e.
Satellite component research, etc. Unfortunately the UK funds these
organisations but then allows these companies to ship manufacturing
to India where wages are lower and where there is already
infrastructure to launch spacecraft.
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As for India using BAE, it was hoped that India
would purchase the Eurofighters as they had already with the Panavia
Tornado and SEPECAT Jaguar for decades. This however looks unlikely
to go ahead since the Indians have already been working with Russia
on the PAK-FA,
a stealth-fighter which would likely eat the Eurofighter, F22 and the
three F35 variants for breakfast.
It seems the UK thinks it a good use of public
money to continue to fund UK corporations manufacturing off-shore,
maybe it is in a roundabout way, but surely to dupe the population
into thinking this is some form of humanitarian stunt is nothing
short of disgusting.
Of course, not all of this money goes to military
and communications companies. Some actually does go to the Indian
people, except they probably don't want it. Whether you
agree that over-population is a real issue or not, forced
sterilisation in any sense is wantonly abhorrent behaviour. Whilst
many of us in the UK may be shocked or even appalled at the
suggestion that a Government of the 'free' world could do such a
thing, we would be deceiving ourselves as this sort of thing has
happened all over the world, a lot.
In any case, you've been warned about charities
now. Be extremely selective of who you give your money to in future!
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