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Title: Video: Red Cross scam in Haiti
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URL Source: http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=111806
Published: May 15, 2010
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2010-05-15 09:53:42 by Horse
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The Red Cross raised over $450 million on behalf of victims of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. They say they've spent $106 million. A Haitian goes in search of evidence that the money was spent to help Haitians. What about the other $344 million. The Red Cross says it has "long term" plans for that money. Long term plans when there are people going without food, water, medical care and basic tent housing. Isn't it about time some Red Cross people went to jail for fraud? Two groups we know and have faith in: Real help for Haiti
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
I started becoming aware of the frauds that are the Red Cross when I was in Korea in'66. The Biscuit Bit*hes (they called themselves "Donut Dollies") that were in our mess hall once a month for "Coffee and Donuts and Morale" collected a quarter from each of us for the visit. Our coffee, our donuts, our messhall. Ugly Broads. From there it got worse as I went along in life. $350 a unit for Blood for my grandfathers dying hospital stay. Charging some relatives for help after a tornado. B.S.!!!! They NEVER got a nickle out of me or my family after those exposures.
Not surprising.
"With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." Thank you for posting this.
Yes but they didn't even go to jail for killing and sickening many thousands of people in Canada with HIV and Hepatitis C tainted blood. Bill Clinton was involved to some extent in that scandal back in the 80's when he was Gov. of Arkansas and (ref: http://www.wnd.com/? pageId=30570) evidently awarded a prison care contract to Health Management Associates that was headed by a political ally who isn't named in that article. WND reported there in 2005 that the Red Cross was found guilty and fined $4000.00. Not 4 million or 4 billion -- 4 thousand dollars for over 20,000 injured and killed. Nothing mentioned about the Health Management Associates official being fined anything. There was a long document on the Communist roots of the Red Cross at another forum. I think this might be it: THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND REVOLUTION Recall all the money that poured into the 9/11 Fund out of the kindness of people's hearts that the Bush admin treated as hush-money bribery to prevent lawsuits from being filed by victim survivors or families of victims? CNSNews.com reported extensively at the time on scandalous withholding and mismanagement of the funds by the Red Cross and United Way. A legal defense fund was even set up with some of the money for terror suspect detainees and their immigration issues -- unclear if it was the Israeli art students or not but I can't find the info archived there anymore. Here's a link that does reference the CNSNews,com site and asks some questions about WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MONEY? then and for other disasters too. Scrolling to December 2001 on the page, this is a printout of that section: CNSNEWS.COM reported on November 19, 2001 that the United Way 9-11 fund which received donor pledges totaling $334 million, with $250 million already collected and $47 million distributed has been making grants totaling more than $1 million to a variety of left-wing political groups. Critics say many of the groups receiving charitable contributions from the fund have little or nothing to do with helping the victims of the attacks. Children's Defense Fund received $31,000. It has been at the forefront in lobbying for "children's rights", gun control and expanded welfare programs. Asian American Legal Defense & Educational Fund received $30,000 to provide "legal help and preventative measures against hate violence." It is also a member of the Alliance for Justice, a consortium of left-of-center groups including the National Organization for Women Legal Defense Fund, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, Planned Parenthood, and the Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund. The Independent Press Association received $81,150 "to use community and ethnic newspapers to distribute information about victim assistance to immigrants and non-English speaking people and to prevent bias-relation violence." Legal Services of New York received $40,000 "to replace phones, computers and other office equipment destroyed in the attack." New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a "disability rights" and "environmental justice" organization received $57,575. New York Immigration Coalition collected $450,000 to help "access relief assistance to immigrants harmed by the disaster." The group's stated purpose is to secure "immigrant rights." The Olive Leaf Wholeness Center received $100,000 to provide "massage therapy to rescue workers, medical examiners, staff and victims' family members at various relief locations." Its goals include creating "an enriching, humane, and ecologically sound healing environment" to "start people on their journey toward wholeness." The September 11th Fund was previously criticized for a $171,000 grant it gave to the Legal Aid Society, a group fighting for expanded government programs and welfare rights in New York City. It is also defending a number of detainees held on immigration charges in connection with the terror rights. The criticism which has been directed at the Red Cross in handling this disaster is just the latest in a long string, according to Mary Pat Flaherty and Gilbert M. Gaul, in an article in the November 19, 2001, Washington Post. In Oklahoma City, it spent only 25% of the $13 million it had collected for victims and families. When the Red River flooded in 1997, nearly $16 million was collected for the victims in North Dakota and Minnesota. The Minnesota attorney general had to resort to stinging public hearings and a 40-page report to prod the release of nearly $4 million in unspent victim funds. After January wildfires in the San Diego, the Red Cross improperly used money for vehicles and a telephone system upgrade while burned-out families waited for money earmarked for them. It seems to your editor that almost every week we read in the local paper about a spaghetti dinner or other event to help a local family or other local cause. These are all done by volunteers with no "overhead" costs. The next time you feel generous, why not look around for a local cause where you know your money will be well-spent.
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
More @ http://www.ioscorepublicans. or g/arcsep11.htm, scrolling from the CNSNews.com info for December 2001 down to NOVEMBER 2001: CALL THE RED CROSS TO ACCOUNT In an investigative piece in the October 2001 issue of Insight Magazine (www.insightmag.com), Kelly Patricia O'Meara looked into the question of what will happen to the millions and millions of dollars now being donated to charities for the families of victims of the Sept. 11th terrorist attack. To try to answer these questions, she looked into the disposition of huge sums collected in the aftermath of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, April 19, 1995. Letters of condolence and donations sent through the U.S. Postal Service and deemed "undeliverable" often are turned over to charities involved in disaster relief. Letters and packages addressed, for example, to "the woman who lost two kids" were turned over to the Oklahoma City Red Cross, opened and read by volunteers, and when possible forwarded on to the intended families. The Red Cross, Salvation Army, the governor's and mayor's offices decided the post office would deliver it if it was addressed to specific places and people and the Red Cross would take any undeliverable mail. Volunteers would open the mail, and if there were donations, they would go into a general fund to be distributed to the victims at the time, according to the postal inspector in Oklahoma City at the time. The experience of some of the families was that there was a surprising change in their mail deliveries after the Red Cross took over. "The first days after the bombing," said one family member, "people from all over the country were sending checks in lieu of flowers and we were getting a lot of checks and cash every day -- hundreds, even thousands, of dollars. Then the Red Cross went down to the post office and made arrangements to collect the mail and they would deliver it to us in bulk. All the mail had been opened, and from that point on there never was a dime, even in letters that said money was enclosed." An investigation by the postal inspector and U.S. attorney in Oklahoma City determined that: Cash donations may have been lost in the shuffle between and among agencies. Checks made out to the Red Cross and intended for specific individuals didn't always go to those individuals and weren't returned to the donor. Sometimes cash or checks went into a general fund for the Red Cross and then checks were delivered to the intended recipient. Money received for intended relief work may not have gone directly to specified funds or charities but was absorbed into larger operating funds for future disasters. Public accounting for how much money was received and then distributed is not readily available for public and/or press review and apparently, not audited the government agencies. Government funds established to receive funds for disaster relief and provide assistance did not make public "cash-in" and "cash-out" ledger records, and requests for such an accounting have not been provided. Let's hope they do a little better with the September 11 funds. ________ Looks like they didn't.
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Bumping this thread.
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I remember that.
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I did not.
These people should be charged with not just fraud but mail tampering. It's a federal offense to open and/or hinder the correspondence with another person's mail. USC Title 18 section 1702.
Sourcing updated: WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION by Antony C. Sutton Additional info at Post #9 of 4um Title: The American Red Double Cross ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
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#3. To: Horse (#0)
James Madison, Letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831
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“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#5. To: Horse (#0)
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Isn't it about time some Red Cross people went to jail for fraud?
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#8. To: GreyLmist (#7)
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
#9. To: GreyLmist, Horse (#7)
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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#11. To: titorite (#10)
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
#12. To: GreyLmist (#6)
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Letters and packages addressed, for example, to "the woman who lost two kids" were turned over to the Oklahoma City Red Cross, opened and read by volunteers, and when possible forwarded on to the intended families.
#13. To: All (#5)
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There was a long document on the Communist roots of the Red Cross at another forum. I think this might be it:
Chapter V: THE AMERICAN RED CROSS MISSION IN RUSSIA — 1917
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