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Title: AMERICAN RED CROSS: A CORPORATE FLEECING OPERATION EXPLOITING NATURAL DISASTERS
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URL Source: http://www.infowars.com/american-re ... -exploiting-natural-disasters/
Published: Oct 30, 2014
Author: KURT NIMMO
Post Date: 2014-10-30 19:45:49 by Ada
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Views: 56
Comments: 1

Report reveals organization more interested in PR than alleviating suffering

The American Red Cross is a corporate shell devouring millions of dollars in donations.

It not only fails to provide assistance to disaster victims but gets in the way of efforts by smaller, more efficient emergency relief efforts.

A joint investigation conducted by ProPublica and NPR discovered the Red Cross is not interested in its declared mission of “preventing and relieving suffering.” Instead, the organization diverts “assets for public relations purposes” and its distribution of relief supplies, according to one internal report, is “politically driven.”

This public relations agenda, designed to suck up donations from sympathetic Americans, resulted in a fake relief effort during Hurricane Isaac that was “worse than the storm,” according to Jim Dunham, a truck driver. Dunham said Red Cross trucks were dispatched “just to be seen” and were “sent way down on the Gulf with nothing to give.”

Demonstrating the Red Cross is nothing but a PR machine for wholesale theft, the report shows that during Hurricane Sandy “emergency vehicles were taken away from relief work and assigned to serve as backdrops for press conferences, angering disaster responders on the ground,” Justin Elliott, Jesse Eisinger and Laura Sullivan write for ProPublica.

The organization lacked basic supplies and when they were available often went to waste, the report states. Managers misdirected volunteers and, in the aftermath of Sandy, they wandered the streets of New York in search of hurricane victims because the Red Cross did not provide GPS equipment.

Handicapped victims “slept in their wheelchairs for days” because the charity did not provide cots. Sex offenders were “all over including playing in children’s area” because Red Cross staff were ignorant about and didn’t follow procedures, according to the Propublica report.

Despite countless problems and a bureaucratic malaise that resulted in botched disaster response efforts, the organization gave itself a high grade after Sandy. Red Cross Chief Executive Gail McGovern said its relief efforts were “near flawless.”

American Red Cross: Another Corporate and Bankster Fleecing Operation

Considering the fact Obama is the organization’s honorary chairman and its board of governors is dominated by the likes of Goldman Sachs, Merck, Circle One Financial Group, and other large corporations, the fact the Red Cross is merely a front for collecting donations should not come as a surprise.

It is telling as well that the Red Cross was created by congressional charter. It has a government mandate to work in league with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

As revealed during the Iran-Contra hearings exposing the inner workings of Rex 84, “the real purpose of FEMA is to not only protect the government but to be its principal vehicle for martial law,” writes Allen Roland. “This is why FEMA could not respond immediately to the Hurricane Katrina disaster — humanitarian efforts were no longer part of its job description under the Department of Homeland Security.”

The Red Cross has “totally mastered the science of extracting money from the unthinking masses,” writes John Hamer. “For the most part, they keep it for themselves as do the vast majority of major, household-name charities.”

Hamer provides striking examples of Red Cross fraud: in the wake of the “disastrous San Francisco earthquake in 1989, the Red Cross donated only $10 million of the $50 million that had been raised, and kept the rest” and “following the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Red River flooding in 1997 many donations were also withheld. Even as far back as the Korean War, the Red Cross was plundering soldiers’ relief packages, the famous ‘Red Cross Parcels’ from home.”

The lesson learned from the Red Cross scam is that only small organizations and local, non-corporate charities are capable of providing honest humanitarian assistance following natural disasters. Large centralized organizations dominated by government, corporations and banks are not interested in helping people. On the contrary, they are designed to loot the public and have unfortunately elicited the help of useful tools like Bruce Springsteen and Heidi Klum to facilitate widespread robbery and perpetuate negligence.

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#1. To: Artisan (#0)

CNSNews.com Archives in Chronological order:

11/8/2001 -- Letter on Sept. 11 Funds

On October 3, the September 11th Fund announced a $171,000 grant to the Legal Aid Society (LAS). Your group's own press release stated the purpose of the LAS grant was to "provide emergency civil legal assistance to low-income attack victims."

On November 1, the Wall Street Journal reported in an article ("Detainees on INS Breaches Held in Solitary Status") that the Legal Aid Society was providing civil legal assistance to eight detainees in the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

The article quoted Janet Sabel, identified as the head of the immigration division of New York's Legal Aid Society, as saying that the detainees "are being held in isolation, treated as security risks and interviewed by the FBI with almost no opportunity to first get counsel."

The article further identified the eight detainees as clients of Ms. Sabel and stated that "Unlike people charged criminally, Immigration and Naturalization Services detainees aren't entitled to government-appointed lawyers."

At a time when the public is questioning why so few of the victims have received aid they desperately need from groups that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars, it is disturbing that LAS so quickly rushed to provide free civil legal help to the detainees.

On November 6, Congress held a hearing regarding whether funds donated by the public for September 11th victims could be ethically reprogrammed for other charitable purposes such as blood bank support.

We believe the public will be outraged - and justifiably so - to learn that funds from the September 11th Fund are going to support a group which is apparently providing civil legal help to those jailed on violations of immigration law in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

11/8/2001 -- Sept. 11 Charity Gave Money to Group Defending Terror Suspects

11/9/2001 -- Congress Grills Red Cross on September 11 Fund Decisions: The charity is a federally-chartered entity, answerable directly to Congress.

11/9/2001 -- Criticism Mounts for Charity Fund Defending Possible Terror Suspects

11/15/2001 -- September 11 Fund Statement on $171,000 Legal Aid Society Grant [Nov. 9 statement by the September 11 Fund staff on their grant to the Legal Aid Society/LAS]

11/15/2001 -- Legal Aid Society Statement on $171,000 Grant [Nov. 13 statement by the LAS on its six-week grant from the September 11 Fund, additional to its annual budget of $125 million to provide legal services]

11/15/2001 -- 9-11 Fund Flap Pits One Legal Group Against Another, Excerpts:

The Legal Aid Society of New York (LAS) says the Washington, D.C.- based National Legal and Policy Center has wrongly accused it of using part of a charity grant to defend terrorist suspects in New York following the attack on the World Trade Center.

The September 11 Fund, which was established by United Way of New York City and The New York Community Trust, issued a similar statement Nov. 9, defending itself as well as the LAS.

But a top official with the National Legal and Policy Center [NLPC President Peter Flaherty] says such accusations are off base, and suggested the LAS and the September 11 Fund are holding out "straw men."

"What we have said is the September 11 Fund made a grant to an organization which is providing assistance to detainees."

"Presumably, they're trying to knock down a straw man because they're unable to defend their involvement with these detainees under any circumstances," said Flaherty, who described the LAS as "a highly politicized left-wing advocacy group."

Officials with the LAS have confirmed their representation of a number of people detained by federal officials, and Janet Sabel, who works on immigration issues for the society, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal as saying the LAS was working on behalf of detainees who are "being held in isolation, treated as security risks and interviewed by the FBI with almost no opportunity to get counsel."

Similarly:

9-11 Funds Follow the Money...

[CFIF/Center for Individual Freedom article Posted December 20, 2001]

Perhaps the folks at the United Way and the New York Community Trust [My note: of The September 11th Fund] felt bad for the American Red Cross, sitting alone atop the Congressional hot seat for the alleged mishandling of 9-11 funds. What else could explain their shelling out $30,000 in "grant" money from their September 11th Fund to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), an Asian-American civil rights group?

Turns out the AALDEF is part of a group suing the Justice Department for its detention of immigrants with suspected ties to terrorists.

This is Google's cache of http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3bf8e9ca3a21.htm. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Aug 14, 2014 19:32:15 GMT.

Excerpts from some Free Republic Comments at a posting there of the CNSNews.com article: Left-Wing Groups Aided by 9-11 Funds; Critics Charge 'Abuse' -- 11-19-2001

#17 and #29: They knew exactly where we expected that money to go. LIARS! [...] Wasting money from hard-working citizens who expected it to go to the families who need it for things such as food, rent, clothes, doctors[...] Maybe the administrators need to get a job that actually produces something besides a cushy job. I take nothing away from the people who volunteer their time but it makes me so angry for someone to pretend that they didn't know where the money was intended to go. LIARS!

#11: If this was Right to Life, NRA, or Boy Scouts the liberals would [...] want the IRS to act in the best Jack Booted form they can muster!!

#4: Jeanine Moss, spokeswoman for the September 11th Fund, told CNSNews.com the ideology of the non-profit groups receiving the grants is irrelevant...

She is funny. Wonder what she thinks of so many UNited Way Chapters pulling funding from the Boy Scouts for their views?

#5: due to the Boy Scouts[...] Yank their Non-Profit Tax status!

#6: The united way, red cross, and others appear to be collection fronts for the socialists.

#13: You raise a good point ... Without the United Way, Red Cross, the Left would lose much of its funding.

#19: I have never participated in the Combined Campaign drive here at work. I was always suspicious as to where all the money would go.

#21: [My] remembrance is of a tenure with a (very) large company that literally extorted its employees to contribute their "fair share" as a percentage of gross salary. Failure to contribute 100% was a career-ending thing.

#30: Funny you should mention that. About 20 years ago, a (small)hospital I worked for in the midwest always held their United Way drive and "allowed" employees to pledge and have an amount taken from their checks each week. In my department, we were "forced" to contribute. My boss made it clear it was mandatory to contribute something. [...] We were so angry, we each pledged 52 cents, with 1 penny taken out of our checks each week. That way, we kept our jobs. I always wondered who in our organization was getting a kickback from the United Way.

#10: It's forced unionisation, it's not unity.

#32: United Way is a part of the UNITED NATIONS

#20: The production of vaccines at the Kabul factory was so successful that some samples were sent to Geneva where the Red Cross congratulated the Taliban on their work. MORE...Here [ http://freerepublic.com/focus/fr/573767/posts ]

#23: demand your money back. The Red Cross, eventually, has begun to offer the return of donations if you ask for your money back.

#15: (Does anybody remember Jim and Tammy Faye Baker? [...] Jim Baker went to prison for collecting dontations allegedly for one purpose but using these funds for another purpose!) Why wouldn't that same "law" apply to United Way officials????

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