Watch the Water in Iran
https:// www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-security-water-crisis/water-crisis-spurs-protests-in-iran-idUSKBN1H51A5
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A number of protests have broken out in Iran since the beginning of the year over water, a growing political concern due to a drought which residents of parched areas and analysts say has been exacerbated by mismanagement.
Iranian security forces are aware of the potential for water issues to cause instability. A senior Revolutionary Guards commander, Yahya Rahim Safavi, noted in a public speech in late February that water will play a key role for both the Islamic Republic’s national and regional security.
https:// www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/03/30/in-syria-we-took-the-oil-now-trump-wants-to-give-it-to-iran/?utm_term=.a4d7f0576e53
There are a lot of good arguments for maintaining an American presence in Syria after the fall of the Islamic State, but President Trump doesn’t seem persuaded by any of them. Perhaps he would back off his urge to cut and run if he knew that the United States and its partners control almost all of the oil. And if the United States leaves, that oil will likely fall into the hands of Iran.
It’s one feature of a larger U.S. mission in Syria that is really about containing Iranian expansionism, preventing a new refugee crisis, fighting extremism and stopping Russia from exerting influence over the region. The United States has serious national security interests in making sure that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran don’t push America out of Syria and declare total victory.
But Trump has repeatedly said those tasks are not the United States’ responsibility. He promised to pull the approximately 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria at a campaign rally on Thursday in Ohio.
This is one PLAN not to trust.
The Plan International network consists of collaborative partnerships between 21 national offices and more than 70 program offices. The national offices, of which Plan International USA is one, are responsible for governance, fundraising, and program and grants management. National offices work with program offices to fund and deliver programs in Plan’s program countries.
The national offices make up the Members’ Assembly—Plan’s highest decision-making body. Tasked with setting high-level strategy, the Members’ Assembly also elects Plan’s Board of Directors, which oversees International Headquarters.
The strategic center of Plan, International Headquarters, provides leadership, alignment, and services to field operations, and works with Plan’s national offices to develop common systems and policies across the organization.
Plan’s field work is split into four regional offices: Asia (ARO), Eastern and Southern Africa (RESA), Americas (ROA), and West Africa (WARO). Each regional office includes 12-14 country offices.
https:// www.planusa.org/our-network
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By Abu Bakarr kargbo. Symptoms of distrust, fraud and dishonesty are clearly evident in the operations of Plan International, an international nongovernmental organization whose presence in the Country has been primarily for the purpose of developments that are geared towards poverty alleviation and the development of children among others.
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By Abu BakarrKargbo. The Country Director of Plan International Sierra Leone is currently finding ways and means to save his institution’s from the calamity that may befall his institution if the Country’s Anti-Corruption Commission would decide to pounce on it for corruption offences.
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Red Cross and Plan International admit cases of sexual …
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It comes as children's aid charity Plan International admitted six cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of children between July 2016 and June 2017.
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QUESTION:
Who runs PLAN INTERNATIONAL?
Is this old news?
Questions raised over Haiti’s hiring of Clinton-linked PR firm
Franco Ordoñez, Politics, 03/11/18
“Taxpayer dollars intended for Haiti and the earthquake victims went to a lot of the Clinton cronies,” Trump said of Hillary Clinton during the event.
And many are raising questions about why Haiti would hire a firm with any connection to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton, as secretary of State, and former President Bill Clinton, as U.N. special envoy to Haiti, who headed the country’s post-quake reconstruction, have not always been well received by Haitians and its U.S. diaspora.
Caitlin Klevorick is a managing director in Mercury’s New York office. Klevorick was a senior adviser to Clinton who served as a point person for the State Department following the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
Working closely with Clinton’s chief of staff Cheryl Mills, who oversaw the Haiti portfolio for Clinton, Klevorick conceived and led a Haiti texting campaign that raised $36 million for relief efforts. She also pitched using Mercury’s public relations services in February 2016 to then-Haiti presidential candidate Jovenel Moïse, touting the firms vast knowledge of Haiti.
Mercury and Klevorick say she is not involved on the current account, which was filed with the Justice Department last month. Mercury officials also say the current contract is new and independent of the one Klevorick pitched to the campaign. That contract went to another firm, according to Mercury.
Klevorick’s pitch from two years ago also is similar to today’s contract.
Klevorick’s February 2016 proposal promised such benefits as securing profiles of Moïse in publications and outlets, interviews with newspapers and other media outlets, including TV appearances. It also promised placement of op-eds similar to the one that appeared in the Washington Post after the Oxfam scandal. And at least one member of the current Mercury Haiti team was also on the original Feb. 2016 pitch.
The Clinton connection, however, is not the only curiosity in the contract.
The client listed is not Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States, but Haiti’s Ambassador to France.
“The Clinton name in Haiti is certainly not put on any pedestal because the overall sense is that the Clintons promised a lot and really didn’t achieve that much,” said Robert Maguire, who gave new ambassadors a crash course on Haiti as an informal adviser to the State Department.
Klevorick was caught up in accusations that the Clintons were running a pay-to-play operation while reviewing incoming offers of assistance being funneled to the State Department by the Clinton Foundation, according to emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Republican National Committee.
http:// www.caribpress.com/2018/03/11/questions-raised-over-haitis-hiring-of-clinton-linked-pr-firm/