Jan Egeland ...use some of the $21 Billion you stole from the mouths of the Iraqi children.....A**HOLE...
If UN diplomats paid their NYC parking fines, the USA could easily double the contribution to aid the Tsunami victims.
Egeland: I just want to throw him a beating. Or fire his keister at a bare minimum.
Excellent article. Why should the United States continue to pay millions in dues for the "privilege" of belonging to this group of Unbelievable Nincompoops???
Please, oh please, let my great-grandchildren read in school about how Jan Egeland and Kofi Annan were responsible for the final downfall of the UN (League of Nations II).
The U.N. is a despicable, corrupt, vile, P.O.S., hypocritical institution. They should be thrown off our shores, those stinkin, worthless, pompous, arrogant piles of steaming crap!!
(is that too subtle??)
Oh, the humanity. Tens of thousands of poor people to exploit. Just think of all the bribes and kickbacks the U.N. personnel could extort. And don't forget the brothels. Bribes, kickbacks, brothels, if only the United States weren't so stingy and would cough up enough seed money.
Can anyone supply the UN guy's email address? I need to express to him or his office directly the disgust and anger I feel. For him to play politics with this world's biggest donor, donor corporations, group of NGO disaster-relief orgs, churches raising money for far away needs, and individual donors from the very poorest to well ... I'm really not so sure about the very rich. How much will Teresa fork over? Michael Moore? All the Hollywood slut boys and girls? Maybe they could turn a trick or two for Ege Norway who wants all the gifts to be channelled thru his agency ... Did we get any disaster relief for Florida or other places hit by hurricanes? ... At the UN, they get their jollies by being the center of even our own gift-giving. That's what they do at the UN, play the game of putting their outfit at the center without doing anything to meet the bottom line. They don't create wealth or jobs or dividends, they just slurp up ours and damn us for being selfish. All these Eurocountries that disdained the coalition in Iraq, sacrificed no warriors, nor helped pay the financial load. Now they have the gall to call us selfish? This guy should be fired immediately, and I want to tell him so. Send him back to the Norwegian bureaucracy; he'll always have a job.
I'm amazed that those pompous elitists at the U.N. are able to actually walk a straight line with such humongous cojones.
I'd also like to be able to be in N.Y. when that skinny bird Jan Dude is strolling on the streets. I'd be chewing gum so that I could aim it at his face!
Hey world.........F**K YOU!
Egeland detracted the "stingy" statement this morning on CNN. Or rather, he explained what he meant by it.
IIRC, he said that he was asked a question about his opinion of the amount of foreign aid this year in GENERAL, not specifically with this disaster. And he thinks all rich nations should give a higher percentage of their GNP (that the average aid from rich nations was something like .1 to .2 percent of their GNPs per year.)
And that he wished more aid was given to less publicized emergencies this past year. Something like that...
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20041228/2004-12-28T190549Z_01_N28706943_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-QUAKE-UN-DC.html
UN Official Backs Down: Rich Nations Not 'Stingy'
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The international response to a catastrophic tsunami in Asia has been quick and generous, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday, playing down his earlier comments that wealthy nations were stingy.
U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland rowed back from statements he made on Monday after an annoyed Secretary of State Colin Powell said Washington was "the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world."...
Egeland told reporters on Tuesday: "I've been misinterpreted when I yesterday said that I believed that rich countries in general can be more generous."
"It has nothing to do with any particular country or the response to this emergency. We are in early days and the response has so far been overwhelmingly positive," he said.
"The international assistance that has come and been pledged from the United States, from Europe and from countries in the region has also been very generous," Egeland added.
Countries have contributed or pledged tens of millions of dollars in the first few days after the disaster.
The United States provided an initial $15 million mostly channeled through the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, plus logistical support for aid efforts. On Tuesday, the U.S. Agency for International Development added $20 million for the earthquake relief, a White House spokesman said.
Other countries have claimed for years that the US is at the bottom of the list when it comes to making humanitarian donations as a percentage of GDP (using data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)). I was curious about this and visited OCHA's web site and found the numbers to be surprising.
Using the data for the 2003 Global Humanitarian Assistance, which includes Consolidated Appeals and Natural Disasters response, the USA accounted for 41.65% of total donations. This amounted to $3,277,941,061 US dollars. If one adds up the total US dollars donated by the individual countries of the European Union in 2003 as well as the European Commission and ECHO (European Commission), the amount comes to $1,812,547,419. GDP for the US in 2003 was 11 trillion and the EU was 10.522 trillion. http://ocha.unog.ch/fts/reports/pdf/ocha_18_2003.pdf
2002 data, US: $1,889,580,423 and EU-15: $1,691,434,884
2004 data: US: $989,156,831 and EU-15: $2,066,347,449
These are simply the numbers. I do not know if the 2003 figures include aid to Iraq. The numbers seem fairly comparable to me.
I guess the UN needs something to replace the Oil for Food scam, perhaps an Aid for Tsunami will do. One has to keep up the payments for the villas in Paris you know.
I read tonight that in addition to what our government gives in aid, the US citizens give $241 billion in charitable contributions. Wonder how much Mr. Egland gives?