This pisses me off, but I’ll be damned if I can find an angle that will make UN malfeasance seem urgent, so used have I become to it:
Just weeks before it announced the onset of a global food crisis and the urgent need for donors to provide at least $775 million in additional funding, the World Food Program was sitting on a cash and near-cash stockpile of more than $1.22 billion.
The startling figure is contained in the latest audited statements of the WFP, which were endorsed by the WFP’s executive director, Josette Sheeran, on March 31, just a month before Sheeran announced at an international aid conference on April 22 that a “silent tsunami” in rising food prices demanded the huge infusion of cash for the WFP’s latest budget.
In a May 1 International Herald Tribune op-ed, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon further declared that the WFP had just “$18 million cash in hand” in the wake of its appeal for emergency funding.
“It’s an outrage,” he shrugged.
I am sure there is some reasonable explanation. I mean, we can trust the UN… powder-blue feelgoodiness and changitude to you, sir!
It’s an outrage. If I were you, I wouldn’t pay it.
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Who wants to play the tired game of “how can we fix it”? Not me. The UN is fags, Dan.
Bush just pledged over $700M for the crisis and the UN has almost half again as much that they’re just sitting on because they plan to embezzle it later?
The Secretary General of the UN is telling outright lies in order to protect this billion dollar embezzlement target?
This is an outrage. We should stop paying the next $1BN worth of dues.
Claudia?
“Fun! I love Tom Swifties!!” he yawned.
We should stop paying the next $1BN worth of dues.
Alternatively, if we want to send a signal, we could resign our membership, expel the diplomats, fumigate the building, raze it, load the debris up onto barges, haul it offshore, and dump it.
Yup. You read that right.
And, as my going to bed comment, I say this:
Fuck the U.N.