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USA Today reports Trump has Officially Begun to Withdraw the US From the World Health Organization as Pandemic Spikes:
The Trump administration has officially begun to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip the globe and infections spike in many states across the U.S.
Congress received formal notification of the decision on Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump announced his intention to end the U.S. relationship with the WHO and blasted the multilateral institution as a tool of China. The White House said the withdrawal would take effect on July 6, 2021.
[...] The formal withdrawal comes as the United States nears 3 million reported coronavirus cases and more than 130,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Globally, there have been 11.6 million cases and almost 540,000 deaths.
Additional Coverage:
Trump administration moves to formally withdraw US from WHO
Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from World Health Organization
Trump Begins Process Of U.S. Withdrawal From World Health Organization
Previously:
(2020-05-20) Trump Threatens to Take US Out of WHO Entirely and Stop All US Funding
(2020-04-15) Trump to Halt Funding to WHO
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:18AM (2 children)
Depends, one would have to investigate one particularly relevant aspect of their operations before commenting about efficiency.
What's the interest/return on $94 million held in a bank/invested over a year, and does this money go into the fund?, it would be quite simple for them to still spend/disburse the *exact* $94 million as raised to balance that particular book and keep the interest/returns and put them down as 'operational expenses' (or some such other bullshit excuse), helps keep the directors six figure salaries ticking over nicely without it looking as if they're doing so directly from donations..so, a good test of corruption is, while dicking around with the spending/disbursement of these funds, have the directors etc been quick to pat themselves on the back and award themselves pay rises?
Disclaimer: worked for a charity for a decade, can neither confirm nor deny that such practices were employed by management there...but it bloody well looked like it was going on.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 09 2020, @03:07AM (1 child)
In these times, it is certainly less that 4ยข/$ of administration cost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2020, @02:48PM
You might have a point...it might explain why the last scheme I'd heard about before I left their employ that the lot I worked for involved purchasing property as an investment using 'surplus' funds....their word, not mine, and I always wondered how they managed to pass that one by the regulatory authorities.
It was a small charity, but with all sorts of interesting shenanigans going on...did I mention the accountants who audited the books were related to the CEO and CFO?, I can only assume with larger charites, the nature and scope of shenanigans is much greater..I say assume, but I've seen the stories in the papers and I've known people who worked for some of them...