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Report: Cash-strapped UN health agency spends about $200 million a year on travel
CBS News ^ | May, 21, 2017

Posted on 05/21/2017 8:27:21 PM PDT by Wolfie

Report: Cash-strapped UN health agency spends about $200 million a year on travel

LONDON -- The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel -- far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

As the cash-strapped U.N. health agency pleads for more money to fund its responses to health crises worldwide, it has also been struggling to get its own travel costs under control. Despite introducing new rules to try to curb its expansive travel budget, senior officials have complained internally that U.N. staffers are breaking the rules by booking perks like business class airplane tickets and rooms in five-star hotels.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fraud; grifters; un; unitednations; who

1 posted on 05/21/2017 8:27:21 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie

They need to get their butts over to islam areas and get them islams pinched off faster. As fast as the filthy, savage, islam garbage patch filth gets their teats dried they are blowing up decent people.

Birth them faster! The scum of the world needs more african islams! Now! PROCREATE FASTER!


2 posted on 05/21/2017 8:31:20 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Wolfie

Priorities.


3 posted on 05/21/2017 8:33:02 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Wolfie

The UN is the absolute worst of bureaucracies.


4 posted on 05/21/2017 8:38:12 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Wolfie

Do they also play golf with Obama?

rwood


5 posted on 05/21/2017 8:49:33 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: soycd
Why are you so hostile on the day Trump is attempting to change the dynamic in the ME? Sounds hostile to Trump...You got issues with him?
6 posted on 05/21/2017 9:24:35 PM PDT by GOPJ (The liberal media is the thug arm of the Democrat Party.)
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To: Wolfie

Go ask them to pull out the receipts. The airline travel will be all business-class. The hotels will be mostly all five-star. Rental cars will be the upper-end type. You could go in and cut their budget by half and find that they could easily function with normal airline tickets, regular hotels and 10-percent less travel.


7 posted on 05/21/2017 9:25:27 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Wolfie
The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel....With a staff of about 37,000 aid workers versus WHO's 7,000 staffers, Doctors Without Borders spends about $43 million on travel a year.

After a while, we taxpayers just become numb to all of the things our taxes are wasted on. Kudos at least to Doctors Without Borders for having some scruples - it would be expecting far too much of the UN and its organizations to have any.
8 posted on 05/21/2017 9:30:44 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: GOPJ

>Why are you so hostile on the day Trump is attempting to change the dynamic in the ME? Sounds hostile to Trump...You got issues with him?

Well, hello to you too. I think I’m no more hostile to islam now than before it killed my best friend.

If you follow islam, stay far away from me. As for any other issues, I’ll bite. islam is to be destroyed, It has no future and is pure evil.

Try this and relax ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmAxT9D3B04


9 posted on 05/21/2017 9:33:00 PM PDT by soycd
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To: soycd

I felt you were being hostile to Trump...


10 posted on 05/21/2017 9:43:31 PM PDT by GOPJ (The liberal media is the thug arm of the Democrat Party.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Like spending $10 million on Chelsea Clintons wedding at nazi collaborator George Soros home using Clinton charity money from Haiti.


11 posted on 05/21/2017 9:59:05 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: GOPJ

>I felt you were being hostile to Trump...

Not at all. I despise islam, lazy and sloth. We are surrounded by them.


12 posted on 05/21/2017 10:01:26 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Wolfie

I remember being a little girl in school and having to learn a new term “W.H.O” and being told the letters stood for World Health Organization...

all it meant to us was we got to ask each other “WHO ?” and giggle a lot...


13 posted on 05/21/2017 10:18:58 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: soycd
Not at all. I despise islam, lazy and sloth. We are surrounded by them.

You are not alone in this opinion. We see it everywhere. They take several wives and call all but one a dependent or something so they can collect welfare while making babies to collect more welfare. They didn't learn this trick on their own. Lots of people have been doing it for generations. It probably started with lazy whites then lazy blacks caught on then lazy Mexicans and so on.

The reasons I don't want Islam in America even though the vast majority will be harmless is some will become radicalized and I don't believe in multiculturalism. I think a nation should have one main culture but see nothing wrong in having pride in ones ancestry. As Muslims multiply like rabbits they will begin to push sharia law for the neighborhoods they take over then the towns then the cities. It will be a slow invasion. For proof just look at Londonastan. Islam is not compatible with Western culture period. Crude Oil and water. When mixed all there is is a mess no one wants to touch. Islam should stay in Islamic countries unless they are just visiting or here for temporary work and no anchor babies allowed to be citizens.

14 posted on 05/21/2017 11:42:33 PM PDT by Boomer (Stupid is as stupid does and no one does stupid like the left.)
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To: Boomer

Lots of people have been doing it for generations. It probably started with lazy whites then lazy blacks caught on then lazy Mexicans and so on.
add in orthodox jews, no its not antisemetic, married under thier religion not with the state, women are now considered single moms and can apply for assitance of all kind


15 posted on 05/22/2017 3:26:41 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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I wonder how much longer they’re going to beg and not get the cash they usually do? I can’t wait for the pink slips to go out.


16 posted on 05/22/2017 4:57:24 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: PGR88

But it does offer a nice retirement package.


17 posted on 05/22/2017 5:06:42 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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