Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: regiment on May 18, 2011, 12:53:23 pm
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saw this in the paper today thought G B WAS BROKE
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Now you know why! :}
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but dose the goverment know what we now
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I have always said that when I win the Lottery big style, You know not any of the small ones but anything over say 50 million I will donate to Charity,( I would donate as well if I won smaller but I amm hoping for the 50 Million) However not with Cash.. I will find out what specific equipment they need and then source it myself and donate that, it will also have a clause on it stating that it can not be sold within 5 years without my Consent, as I am not having my money pay for new carpets and wallpaper. <*< <*<
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Hopefully, we're going to save 4point odd Billion on the NHS computer system by writing off the 2.6 Billion we've aready spent on it when it should have cost 7 but it won't work.
Regards Ian.
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... as I am not having my money pay for new carpets and wallpaper.
I don't think it's carpets and wallpaper they buy! When I've seen TV reports on starving masses, especially in Africa, and the camera pans away from the small baby covered in flies - there is usually a lorry load of well fed "army types" all carrying the latest guns!
I suppose they need the guns to stop the starving stealing the "army rations" we have paid for %) %) >>:-( >>:-(
Danny
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I have always said that when I win the Lottery big style, You know not any of the small ones but anything over say 50 million I will donate to Charity,( I would donate as well if I won smaller but I amm hoping for the 50 Million) However not with Cash.. I will find out what specific equipment they need and then source it myself and donate that, it will also have a clause on it stating that it can not be sold within 5 years without my Consent, as I am not having my money pay for new carpets and wallpaper. <*< <*<
If I won that sort of money I would buy my own 10 acre lake :} :-))
Scoop
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Nobody knows where the "Foreign Aid" actual goes to... Maybe the government use it to bribe their "friends" or maybe they just pocket it....I have always thought that it's the perfect scam....
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If I won that sort of money I would buy my own 10 acre lake :} :-))
Scoop
Well that was just assumed as any way.. Only 10 acre
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Once it's gone it's gone
Despots pockets
Certainly not to the people who need it
Even the Red Cross and other agencies
lose sight of the aid after it lands in the
country.
Did the Bangladesh floods in the 60's and
saw it at first hand what was being squirreled away
by the 'official' organisation on the ground
Power Corrupts
Absolute Power makes Millionaires
Ned
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Where does the money go? Thirty-odd years ago you always knew when the family planning teams had been around in Afghanistan and NWFP (Pakistan) - the kids all had balloons.
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Well that was just assumed as any way.. Only 10 acre
Yep plenty big enough for all to enjoy :}
Scoop
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8.7bn - a big number for most people - is just over half a percent of the UK's GDP.
I see that as a cheap sum for continuing security and goodwill from potentially unstable or failing nations. Certainly it is compared to the 25bn recently quoted for a new set of ballistic missile submarines.
Andy
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pakistan india FAILING NATIONS !!! i do not think so
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Me neither.
Try potentially unstable.
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Some of you older members (I should have said "long serving" members) may recall that in my long running saga about my life at sea I talked about what I saw happening in Djibouti in 1979. A ship loaded with foodstuffs was tied up astern of a Russian ship.
The food (I think came from the answers to one of Geldorfs appeals) was loaded directly into the Russian ship, which was simultaneously offloading mobile weapons platforms.
Never just give money if you can avoid it. Can't think how, but there must be a way. BY.
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also what happened to the money that bob geldodfs and co received on save the world thing millions
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This is an answer to Brian ,or rather another scheme I was witness to . 1968 we had just loaded about 10000 tons wheat in B C Canada ,a gift to the starving in I ndia , we docked outside Columbo ,couldnt get in ,disbute over who unloads , next thing we are told to give it to the fish ,it had got wet and was dangerous ,this was because of waiting for 7 days ,with the hatches open waiting for the barges . Needless to say the good people of B C were never told .sad innit ,and these things still happen .
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Can any one reasonably justify giving millions of pounds to any nation that
spends money on building nuclear weapons while a large proportion of its
own populace starves ?
I don't mind donating clothes or food in a natural disaster,
but governments and dictators buying arms and military equipment
while holding out the begging bowl for its people makes my blood boil.
When the men in charge start to look after the poor and needy on their
own doorstep then I will be more generous when the envelopes arrive in the post
asking for our money.
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Im not going to go into details but having worked (IT Contract) for a well known so called "Charity" its one you are all probably all well aware of I wouldn't give them a penny. The money that was wasted was horrific
Donate clothes etc yes but watch who exactly is getting them,
My money goes to deserving Charities either in the UK or Finland.
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...governments and dictators buying arms and military equipment
while holding out the begging bowl for its people makes my blood boil.
Bit like this country then, richtea. Do we need £25bn of new ballistic missile subs - plus a couple of bloated aircraft carriers - while the people are "being held responsible" in terms of bailing out the bankers? Or should that be re-lining their pockets?
To be honest, I'm sick of the hypocrisy I get foistered on me from Westminster. Good thing I voted SNP. %)
Andy
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Your lucky you have a political party that looks after your area.
I always vote, but now I waste it by voting UKIP.
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Your lucky you have a political party that looks after your area.
Good to see someone with a sense of Humour....anyhow...
I watched a program recently about overseas aid given by China.....superb system,
they ask the country what they need (program showed a hospital) sent over a team to build it (all the construction team stayed on site in portacabins no fancy hotels)
meanwhile they took uni graduates or hghly qualified people from the county to china to train them as doctors/ nurses etc
by the time the hospital was built the sent over chinese doctors for a few years to get it up and running then handed it over to the doctors/ nurses they had trained to run
then sent over required medicines and materials to keep the hospital running then a team from the chinese embassy looked in occasionaly to see how it was coping and help when required.
Saved far more money than our way of giving them money hand over fist to squander away.
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Money?? Hm, yes, I remember that. Crinkly, jingly stuff.... but then I got married. <:(
Barry M
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Saved far more money than our way of giving them money hand over fist to squander away.
And in exchange they were granted a monopoly of the Country's mineral rights...
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apparently no Colin
the report said they didn't get anything in return
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I read somewhere recently that theres a league table of corrupt countries/states....reputedly we are in the top twenty. Its nice to know that we are good at something :}
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Money?? Hm, yes, I remember that. Crinkly, jingly stuff.... but then I got married. <:(
Barry M
Same here mate I have to ask before I spent now and then its not a lot <:( <:( LOL
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apparently no Colin
the report said they didn't get anything in return
My comment was a bit tongue in cheek but it is true to say thet the Chinese are working their way into a very influential position in many of the African countries and in the process cornering the market in certain rare minerals essential to mainstream manufacturing processes which puts them in a very strong pposition commercially.
Colin
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Colin, The Chinese understand human rights African style..
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Colin, The Chinese understand human rights African style..
I didn't say the chinese were perfect but maybe we should look at the way they do overseas aid %)
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You may have gathered from previous posts that I have spent a lot of time in India, and like the country and its people. It does strike me as odd, however, that whilst we give them aid, they have a very substantial foreign aid programme of their own.
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Actually, Dekan, Britain is number 20 in the list of least corrupt countries. No great distinction, I grant you... And India is placed at 87 in the most corrupt list, which must be a big improvement on the past.
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Collin is correct. There are parts of Africa where Mandarin is standard.
And when the local government wants to open a mining business who do they turn to but the Chinese who built them a railway line or a hospital.
There is no contractural linkage, just an inevitable good will.
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Actually, Dekan, Britain is number 20 in the list of least corrupt countries. No great distinction, I grant you... And India is placed at 87 in the most corrupt list, which must be a big improvement on the past.
Sorry if I conveyed the wrong impression... that is in deed what I meant.... 20 strikes me as pretty poor for a country thats all ways telling other nations how to behave.
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Who made up the list - the Iranians...? Anybody can say anything and there are still people happy to believe them. Many people will be waking up this morning disappointed that the world didn't come to an end as predicted after all...
Chicanery knows no boundaries.
Colin
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Bit confused here. I understand that Britain still gives foreign aid to China. Yet China can afford to give aid
to other countries. Seems to me we give the money, they get the credit and perks that come from this. John.