Billionaire NGO Invests In Human Misery
ENS
22nd Dec 2013
NEW DELHI
US-based non-profit organisation
' Safe Horizon ' , which claims to have rescued Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade’s maid Sangeeta Richard from the clutches of misery and harassment, is known for its deep pocket, the fat pay checks of its senior executives and its zeal for scouting for “victims” who can be the faces on its posters during fund raisers.
The NGO is representing Sangeeta, who, it claims contacted Safe Horizon after fleeing Devyani’s residence.
Safe Horizon’s financial statement for the year 2012 reveals that the NGO invested over $10,500,000 (Over `65 Crore) in bonds, mutual funds and shares.
The NGO which claims to work in areas like domestic violence, criminal justice and human trafficking is funded by big corporates like AGT International, AVON, US government agencies, Philips Van Heusen Corporation and Capital One Bank.
Its expenditures are more intriguing including an average $161,000 or `1 Crore on lobbying every year.
It pays its high flying CEO more than $339,000 or `2 crore per annum.
A US based group ' Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) ' claimed money paid by ' Safe Horizon ' is more than what a member of the US House of Representative receives as annual salary.
“The federal government spends $1 billion a year for programmes to curb domestic violence. But these programmes lack accountability and transparency, giving rise to bloated salaries, mismanagement and outright theft,” SAVE claimed.
A political commentator Carry Roberts who exposed several frauds masterminded by US NGOs wrote in ‘Renewamerica’ that “victims of battering are in short supply these days. So when no victim is known to exist, the solution is obvious: fabricate one.”
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“Like other abuse shelters, Safe Horizon makes a grand show of being perpetually hard-up for cash.....But how many would-be donors know Safe Horizon resembles Citicorp or Bank of America, far more than a grass-roots organisation dedicated to providing succour to persons down on their luck?” Roberts wrote, adding that Safe Horizon rakes in nearly $56 million every year and pays skyscraper salaries that would put many bail-out bank executives to shame.
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US state attorney Preet Bharara was peeved that Indians were not talking about hapless and real victim Sangeeta, who is now at the mercy of the US Department of Justice and Safe Horizon.
Perhaps Bharara is not aware of the conflict of interest between Safe Horizon and the US Justice department.
In its financial statement, the NGO claimed it received money to the tune of
$ 952,000 from the Justice Department which will announce the judgement on the plea of the NGO it funded.
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by Robert D. Kaplan
" - - -. When a new American ambassador arrives in a Middle Eastern country, he is greeted by an official from the foreign ministry, sometimes the foreign minister.
But when the Commander in Chief of the CentralCommand stationed in Tampa, Florida flies to a Middle Eastern
country, the whole cabinet comes out to greet him, and this is also true in
But when the Commander in Chief of the CentralCommand stationed in Tampa, Florida flies to a Middle Eastern
country, the whole cabinet comes out to greet him, and this is also true in
other places around the world.
Central Command, which deals with
Central Command, which deals with
the greater Middle East from the Horn of Africa into Central Asia, is on the point of having more Arabic language speakers than the U.S. State Department.
Since the U.S. is operating all over the world at this level, I think it is
fair to describe it as an empire.
True, it has no colonies, but then we
True, it has no colonies, but then we
live in a jet age where borders do not matter as much as they used to.
Whether or not you have colonies is simply less of an important factor than in previous centuries. -- - - . "
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