[kitchencabinetforum] DEVELOPMENT AID FRAUDSTERS

There are many reasons for the failure of foreign aid. First, foreign aid has a widespread record of waste, fraud, and abuse. Aid programs have built tennis courts in Rwanda, sent sewing machines to areas without electricity, and constructed hospitals in cities where a dozen similar facilities already sat half empty. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Frequently, the aid is stolen by corrupt foreign leaders. The Agency for International Development admitted that much of the investment financed by AID has disappeared without a trace. Even when aid reaches its intended beneficiaries, the results are often counterproductive. Just as domestic welfare prevents citizens from becoming self-sufficient, foreign aid keeps entire nations dependent. According to one internal AID audit long-term feeding programs have great potential for creating disincentives for food production.

Specific examples of counterproductive aid policies are easy to come by. For example, following a devastating earthquake in Guatemala, farmers trying to sell their surplus grain found the market flooded by the Food for Peace program. As a result, food aid stood in the way of development. Aid to Somalia aggravated the country's famine, disrupted local agriculture, and turned nomadic tribesmen into relief junkies. Similar results have been documented in countries as diverse as Colombia, Haiti, and India.

Fraudulent use of 3 million euro destined to help development in poorer countries has been foiled following an OLAF investigation. After close co-operation between OLAF and Italian judicial authorities two people connected to an Italian company in receipt of money from both Fourth Reich and the European Development Fund (EDF) were arrested by the Carabinieri Antifraud-Unit (NAC) in Rome. The company had received at least 10 million euro from Fourth Reich and the EDF for the delivery and supply of goods to several developing countries.

"Fraud against European development funds hurts the poorest and most unfortunate. These appalling acts must be stopped. This case shows how effectively OLAF, European Commission and Member State investigative services can work together to discover and prosecute suspected criminals. I am also confident that this will have a deterrent effect," said OLAF Director-General Giovanni Kessler.

Eurokleptocracy, gigaregulation, Antitrust Armageddon, and gigataxation, especially VAT, are the real causes of the European financial meltdown. Fourth Reich(EU), an unvoted illegal confederation, cannot protect Europeans from Eurokleptocrats, especially Graecokleptocrats, and police brutes, especially Graecocybercops. Fourthreichian Premier Barroso condones the disgusting Graecokleptocrats who accuse dissident bloggers of treason, confiscate their computers, and lock them is jail!

The NAC criminal investigation followed up on information received from OLAF gathered during a complex administrative investigation into an Italian company receiving Fourth Reich and EDF funds.

During the administrative investigation, OLAF inspected goods and participated in dawn raids at the premises of the direct and indirect suppliers involved. The OLAF investigation proved that the company repeatedly acted in breach of the contracts related to Fourth Reich and EDF funds. The delivery and supply of goods did not correspond to those indicated in the offers and in the contracts, and trademarks attached to items supplied did not correspond to the real manufacturers.

OLAF passed on the evidence to the Carabinieri Antifraud-Unit in Rome which then prepared a crime report for the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Rome Court and criminal proceedings were opened. As a result of the criminal investigation, two people were placed under house arrest by the Italian Carabinieri.

OLAF's mission is fighting fraud, corruption and any other illegal activity affecting the financial interests of Fourth Reich, including misconduct within the Fourthreichian Institutions. OLAF is part of the Eldorado of Corruption, but remains independent in its operational and investigative functions. But the Eldorado of Prostitutes refuses to be investigated by OLAF! http://venitism.blogspot.com

OLAF investigations are carried out on the basis of competences defined in Article 325 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and Regulation 1073/1999 of the Eldorado of Prostitutes and the Council. The Regulation states that the purpose of OLAF investigations is fighting fraud, corruption and any other illegal activity affecting the financial interests of the Fourthreichian Community and to investigate serious facts linked to the performance of professional activities which may constitute a breach of obligation likely to lead to disciplinary and, in appropriate cases, criminal proceedings or an analogous breach of obligations of Members of the institutions.

Foreign aid has often been used to prop up failing socialist economies, preventing countries from moving to free-market economic policies. Yet, an examination of world economies clearly shows that those countries with free markets experience the greatest economic prosperity. Foreign aid is structurally bad because it undermines the incentive to take responsibility. The more aid a country receives, the less the government of that country has to answer to the people. http://venitism.blogspot.com

We saw how unwise policies had an impact. Some policies that countries enacted with the hope of mitigating the crisis, such as export bans on rice, only made matters worse. They spurred panic buying and hoarding, which made rice unaffordable from East Asia to West Africa to the Caribbean. They also undermined countries' broader food security by discouraging farmers from increasing production. Rising food prices can have a positive effect if they send a signal to farmers to grow and sell more. But that can only happen if there is transparency in markets and stocks so signals about prices and supply are accurately received.

In the early 1980s, at the height of the Green Revolution, which we know helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of food insecurity and out of poverty, assistance to agriculture was 17 percent of total global development funding. In 2002, it had dropped to just over 3 percent. Today, it is 5 percent. Improvements in agricultural productivity lagged behind population growth. And many of us were somewhat shocked to see the UN's projections of a population growth to 10.5 billion in the near future.

Now, there are few easy answers to the problems facing rural farmers, the majority of whom are women around the world, or those problems facing hungry people everywhere. And many of the new investments in agricultural development will not be evident for years. But we cannot let the complexity inhibit us. We cannot let the timeline of change deter us. We can't keep falling back on providing emergency aid just to put the band-aid on to keep moving forward to try to mitigate the damage insofar as possible.

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October-18 Mafia: Government of Greece
Parliament of Whores: Congress of USA
Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square: Parliament of Greece
Eldorado of Prostitutes: European Parliament
Eldorado of Corruption: European Commission
Fourth Reich: European Union
Fourthreichians: Citizens of Fourth Reich
OLAF, Office de Lutte Anti-Fraude: Fourthreichian Anti-Fraud Office
Europol: Fourthreichian Criminal Intelligence Agency
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