Tuesday, July 27, 2004

The Aid Game

Mo money, mo money.
"..the Netherlands has promised EUR 100 million for the reconstruction of the violence-torn region Darfur."
Just what starving blacks need - roads, telephones, airports and palaces for the political class.

In addition, the EU is gonna stop the violence.   Sometime.   Eventually.   Maybe.   In a few months.
Van Ardenne was speaking after the EU met on Monday in Brussels and issued a warning to Sudan, threatening it will call for the UN to take further action if the situation in Darfur has not improved within three months.
Note to Sudanese:   I know it's a lot to ask you to do without food for three months while armed Arabs try to kill you, but there's the French investment in Sudanese oil to consider.

It's a game folks. The aid money is essentially laundered through international organizations like the UN and the NGOs who administer it, every one of them, including the donor country and the dictator getting their take. It's more lucrative than drug dealing. And no sniffer dogs (or mega media, for that matter.)

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