wilburnpace37's Space http://wilburnpace37.posterous.com Most recent posts at wilburnpace37's Space posterous.com Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:44:00 -0700 The Self-Appointed Altruists http://wilburnpace37.posterous.com/the-self-appointed-altruists http://wilburnpace37.posterous.com/the-self-appointed-altruists Many advisors live in plush residences, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 lap tops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple in the local average wage. They're just busybodies, preachers, critics, do-gooders, together with professional altruists.

Always self-appointed, they answer to no constituency. Though unelected and ignorant of local facts, they confront the democratically chosen and those who voted them into office. A few of them are enmeshed in felony and corruption. They could be the non-governmental organizations, or NGO's.

Some NGO's - like Oxfam, Human being Rights Watch, Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Amnesty - genuinely contribute to enhancing welfare, to your mitigation of hunger, this furtherance of human and civil rights, or that curbing of disease. Others - usually inside guise of think tanks and lobby groups - are sometimes ideologically biased, or religiously-committed together with, often, at the assistance of special interests.

NGO's - such as the International Crisis Group : have openly interfered on behalf of the opposition in the recent elections in Macedonia. Other NGO's did so in Belarus together with Ukraine, Zimbabwe and Israel, Nigeria together with Thailand, Slovakia and Hungary - and in Western, rich, countries including the USA, Canada, Germany, and Belgium.

The encroachment on state sovereignty of international law - enshrined in various treaties and conventions - allows NGO's to try hitherto strictly domestic affairs like corruption, civil proper rights, the composition of this media, the penal and civil codes, environmental insurance coverage, or the allocation of economic resources and associated with natural endowments, such since land and water. No field of government activity is now exempt from the glare with NGO's. They serve since self-appointed witnesses, judges, jury and executioner rolled inside one.

Irrespective of their persuasion or modus operandi, all NGO's are top serious with entrenched, well-remunerated, extravagantly-perked bureaucracies. Opacity is actually typical of NGO's. Amnesty's rules prevent it's officials from publicly commenting on the inner workings with the organization - proposals, debates, opinions - until they have become officially voted into its Mandate. Thus, dissenting perspectives rarely get an available hearing.

Not like their teachings, the loans of NGO's is inevitably obscure and their sponsors anonymous. The bulk of the income of most non-governmental organizations, even the main ones, comes from - usually foreign - abilities. Many NGO's serve as official contractors for government authorities.

NGO's serve for as long arms of their sponsoring reports - gathering intelligence, burnishing their own image, and promoting their interests. There is a revolving door between the staff of NGO's and government bureaucracies the world over. The British Foreign Office finances a bunch of NGO's - like the fiercely "independent" Global See - in troubled spots, such as Angola. Several host governments accuse NGO's involving - unwittingly or knowingly : serving as hotbeds involving espionage.

Almost no NGO's derive some within their income from public contributions and donations. The more substantial NGO's spend one tenth within their budget on PR together with solicitation of charity. In a desperate bid to get international attention, so some of them lied about their projects inside Rwanda crisis in 1994, recounts "The Economist", that the Red Cross felt compelled to draw up a ten point required NGO code of honesty. equality charter

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