From Giordano Bruno at Neithcorp Press:
“Goldman’s involvement in the Greek snafu is assuredly not isolated. Goldman deals with many countries and has likely pulled the same scam everywhere. But why would a large international bank deliberately sabotage the economies of the countries it does business with? Would this not ruin the banks as well in the long run? Not if you consider the possibility that Goldman is destabilizing countries deliberately to help the IMF… Continue reading
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Word Government Alert: UN Spends Haiti Money On Expanding Its Personnel
Next time there’s a natural disaster and you think the government should “do its share,” “help out” or be compassionate, remember this:
“The United Nations has quietly upped this year’s peacekeeping budget for earthquake-shattered Haiti to $732.4 million, with two-thirds of that amount going for the salary, perks and upkeep of its own personnel, not residents of the devastated island.
The world organization plans to spend the money
on an expanded force of some 12,675 soldiers and police, plus some 479 international staffers, 669 international contract personnel, and 1,300 local workers, just for the 12 months ending June 30, 2010.
Some $495.8 million goes for salaries, benefits, hazard pay, mandatory R&R allowances and upkeep for the peacekeepers and their international staff support. Only about $33.9 million, or 4.6 percent, of that salary total is going to what the U.N. calls “national staff” attached to the peacekeeping effort.”
