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Red Cross in the Crosshairs

Written by Buxi on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 11:01 pm

For the many Chinese critical of their government, their number one concern isn’t “human rights” or “freedom of expression”… instead, it’s corruption pervasive throughout Chinese society. In the aftermath of the earthquake, this issue is again on prominent display.

The Chinese Red Cross is playing a critical role in managing relief donations for victims of the earthquake. However, along with great authority comes great responsibility. The Red Cross is now being hit with allegations of corruption from every corner.

Within 24 hours of the earthquake, CCTV (and all other news organizations) began to redirect all donations to the Chinese Red Cross. Chinese Red Cross account numbers has been a regular presence on the scrolling banner on the bottom of every TV station ever since. Although this isn’t clear, I suspect the donations being collected by government-affiliated overseas Chinese groups (including the Chinese embassy) is also largely being directed to the Chinese Red Cross. Even the money collected by many independent funds (like Jet Li’s One Foundation) are ultimately being redirected into the Chinese Red Cross.

Most Chinese are unfamiliar with the Red Cross; public charity on this scale has simply never been done in China before. Therefore, many have been shocked by a few ugly facts that the West is more familiar with… including the heavy processing fee the Red Cross can claim for itself. (For example: the American Red Cross CEO has an annual salary of more than $650k).

In China, the law regulating charitable organizations allows charities to take up to 10% of all donations as a “processing fee”, to pay for operations. The Chinese Red Cross apparently takes 5% off the top of all donations. For many in China, the realization that the Red Cross isn’t a volunteer organization, but instead is in effect making a living off of donations intended for earthquake victims, has been very difficult to stomach.

http://blog.foolsmountain.com/2008/05/22/red-cross-in-the-crosshairs/

A Look Back At Canada’s Tainted Blood Scandal

In the early 1980s, about 2,000 Canadians were infected with HIV from tainted blood products. Many thousand more, perhaps as many as 30,000, were infected with hepatitis C. And so 20 years ago today, the Privy Council issued an order calling for the creation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada — better known as the Krever Inquiry.

Although AIDS was first reported in Canada on March 27, 1982, it took three years for the Canadian Red Cross Society, which administered the nation's blood donation system, to start screening for HIV. But as Justice Horace Krever detailed in his 1,200-plus page report, the blame for what he called a "nationwide public health calamity" didn't simply lie with one institution reacting too slowly to a deadly emerging disease. He found that there was plenty of blame to go around.

One of the key witnesses called by the Krever commission was Dr. Don Francis, a distinguished epidemiologist who was among the first to suggest that AIDS might be caused by an infectious agent. Dr. Francis recently sat down with George to talk about his life and work:

https://www.cbc.ca/strombo/news/canadas-tainted-blood-scandal

Frens, this Red Cross problem is international.

Lebanese FM received Iranian funds in Red Crescent parcels: Ex Justice Minister

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has been accused of engaging in widespread acts of corruption, including receiving Iranian funds as payment for providing a “Christian cover” for Hezbollah.

The charges leveled by former justice minister Ashraf Rifi, who was also the general director of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces from 2005 to 2013, are certain to inflame political tensions in Beirut, as the Lebanese government struggles to tackle endemic corruption and implement fiscal reforms as a condition for unlocking more than $11 billion of foreign financial assistance to help alleviate Lebanon’s dire economic crisis.

In a news conference Monday in Rifi’s home city of Tripoli in north Lebanon, the former minister described Basil as the “most corrupt” minister in the government.

“Since the Free Patriotic Movement provided a Christian cover to Hezbollah’s weapons, Iran paid the FPM large sums of money periodically,” Rifi said, referring to the political party which Bassil heads. “This money was transferred to Lebanon in boxes that had ‘the Iranian Red Crescent’ written on them. Bassil personally received and transferred these cartons.”

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2019/04/23/Lebanese-FM-received-Iranian-funds-in-Red-Crescent-parcels-Ex-Justice-Minister.html

False allegations: ICRC condemns video showing cash in trunks

18 JANUARY 2018

A video showing the illegitimate use of the ICRC emblem on storage trunks holding cash has popped up on social media periodically over the last two years, including in early 2018. We want the following to be understood clearly: The ICRC has nothing whatsoever to do with the storage or transport of cash alleged by this video and we strongly condemn the misuse of our name and logo in this manner.

The misuse of the ICRC emblem in the video is a dangerous abuse of ICRC's name and the particular meaning and purpose of the Red Cross emblem, which is the visible sign of the protection conferred by the Geneva Conventions to the victims of armed conflicts. The video fuels false conspiracy theories, such as money laundering, that harm the reputation the organization has built by assisting people affected by war over the last 155 years. Though we are not aware of any incidents as a result of this video, we are concerned about the impact such a blatant abuse of the emblem may have on the security of our staff and activities in the countries where we operate, where trust by all sides is essential to protect our staff and enable our humanitarian action towards those most in need.

The ICRC is a strictly neutral, independent and impartial humanitarian organization that seeks to protect and assist people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence.

https://www.icrc.org/en/document/false-allegations-icrc-condemns-video-cash-trunks

Anons

Look at the attacks, just this week.

Look at the attack pattern (not chronological).

Attack Mueller

Attack Elijah Cummings

Attack Dan Coats

Attack the Red Cross

Attack Epstein

Attack Disney Cruise Lines

Attack Ghislaine Maxwell

Attack Hussein

Attack Fuddy

Attack Congress on the take

Attack Russian Hoax actors

Attack Comey

Attack Antifa

Attack Awan/DWS

Attack Wray

Attack US MSM-13

Attack FISA Gate exculpatory evidence withholders

Attack China

Attack! Attack! Attack!

Frens, this is asymetrical warfare at its finest. Multiple targets hit one after the other after the other.

This is how we win.

>>7261984

Under this cover?

Hillary Clinton arrives in Ghana

2012-08-10 07:49

Accra - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Ghana on Thursday to attend the funeral of president John Atta Mills as she neared the end of a 10-day African tour.

Clinton landed in the capital Accra after visiting Nigeria, where she held talks with President Goodluck Jonathan and urged him to push ahead with reforms as his country faces a deadly Islamist insurgency.

Mills, who died on 24 July, five weeks ahead of polls in which he was to seek re-election, is to be buried on Friday. Some 16 heads of state and other dignitaries are expected to attend.

Clinton was also to hold talks with John Mahama, Mills' former vice president who was sworn in to replace him hours after his death.

Ghana is seen as a bastion of democracy in often turbulent West Africa.

US President Barack Obama chose the country for his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president in 2009.

The US secretary of state is also expected to briefly visit Benin on Friday, the last stop of her African tour. She has also visited Senegal, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Malawi and South Africa.

https://www.news24.com/africa/news/hillary-clinton-arrives-in-ghana-20120810