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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:11 am Post subject: What's up with the Red Cross? |
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http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Investigation_finds_Red_Cross_agreed_to_withhold_New_Orleans_aid_operates_in_tandem_with_Home_0913.html
From the above link/article:
Red Cross mishandling donations?
As of Sept. 11, 2005, the American Red Cross estimated that it had received $578 million in gifts and pledges for the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
During previous disaster relief efforts, however, the Red Cross has withheld funds intended for victims and placed them into a reserve fund for future use, including for what one Red Cross president described as a 뱖ar fund."
The Red Cross has repeatedly been cited for poor handling of donations for disaster victims. Some have even referred accused them of "bait-and-switch fund raising." |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:17 am Post subject: |
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I wrote this on another thread only last week, if I recall correctly. Congratulations, you're gullible.
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| The Red Cross has a long history of thieving and stealing cash donations intended for disaster relief... Families of September 11th victims were prevented from receiving half of the donations sent by well meaning citizens to the Red Cross for their aid. |
I remember that CNN campaign. I'm not surprized that [you] fell for it.
That was the week I decided never again to trust an American journalist. People gave money to the Red Cross by the millions in the days following September 11. Presumably they intended it to further the Red Cross's mission, which is emergency services and disaster preparedness. Then CNN started running with the message "Red Cross stealing money from victims' families!" and repeated it for the entire week. They claimed that the people who donated intended their money to be given to the families of victims (as gifts? prizes?) and that the sneaky Red Cross was embezzling the money for it's own (sinister?) purposes.
CNN's actions made me sick. But what made me sicker was, by the end of the week gullible Americans by the millions were calling the Red Cross and demanding their money back. In the wake of the biggest national disaster in memory, our journalistic establishment willfully and successfully perpetrated a massive sabotage on the American Red Cross, just to boost its ratings. Un Be Lievable. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| The Red Cross is, if not corrupt, very inefficient and incompetant. A fellow student in Yemen was the former director of the R.Cross in the M.East and North Africa. As time went by, he felt like it steadily went down the toilet; finally he had enough. Another student volunteered for the R.Cross in Jordan to help refugees from Iraq. Apparently a lot of the money given to help those refugees ended up in the pockets of the Jordanian leaders of the R.Cross. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
I wrote this on another thread only last week, if I recall correctly. Congratulations, you're gullible.
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Could you elaborate? The article says-
"Previous investigations have shown that the Red Cross mishandled its 9/11 fund, attempting to divert more than half into a "war fund" before Congress intervened, and moved $10 million from a fund in 1989 for earthquake victims towards other uses. Allegations of similar holdbacks following the Oklahoma City bombing and several later disasters, coupled with the discovery that the Red Cross, mandated by its Code of Conduct to remain independent of government, is officially part of the Bush Administration's national security apparatus, led RAW STORY to dig deeply into the Red Cross and its recent disaster relief efforts." |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| How does your CNN story relate to this situation? (other than they both are talking about the Red Cross) |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
| How does your CNN story relate to this situation? (other than they both are talking about the Red Cross) |
Yes, that's a better way of putting it (I was trying to say the same thing when I said "please elaborate"). |
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