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| World Bank/UN Malevolence - the Destruction of Jale |
| 2009-02-10 |
| Read the whole thing. Managers at the World Bank provided false information to the agency's board of directors about a $39 million, politically-connected European "coastal cleanup" project that led to the destruction and destitution of a powerless village in Albania in 2007 -- and then spent nearly two years trying to cover it up. The essence of the Albania scandal involves Jale, a pinprick of a hamlet occupied largely by poor and elderly inhabitants on a beautiful stretch of Adriatic beach known as Albania's Riviera. The scandal, laid out in documents also leaked to FOX News, paints a sharply-detailed picture of how the bank has responded to its own discovery of misconduct and potential corruption. It also shows how projects ostensibly intended to improve the environment and living conditions in far-flung parts of the world can be abused and distorted in the name of the bank. It remains unclear just why the World Bank board (and the investigation panel) was misled -- and who in Albania or perhaps even Washington may have benefited from misleading it. Senior agency officials and each of the bank's two dozen board members have repeatedly declined to speak with FOX. But what is crystal clear are the attempts by bank officials to hide something. The panel's report is filled with allegations of the bank obstructing investigators in their year-long probe -- in language highly unusual for a bureaucratic document. On April 3, 2007, the villagers were notified that their houses would be demolished. They were given five days to appeal to a local court, which they did, but the construction police did not wait for the hearing. They surrounded the village and -- over a four-day period starting on April 17 -- demolished the community, amid heart-wrenching scenes of screaming and resistance. According to the investigators, many of the dispossessed were told they should be happy, as the World Bank would soon be giving them better homes and lifestyles. Since the World Bank board had been wrongly assured that there would be no demolitions without a formal agreement, there were, of course, no World Bank-financed homes on the horizon. (Moreover, the panel report notes, the bank has done nothing since the demolitions to assist the victims in any way.) |
| Posted by:Scooter McGruder |
| #3 Sounds like some people need their arm and legs broken, then be left to the villagers and some dull knives. You know, that is what it is going to come to. Anyone that has any expectation of turning things around using a thoroughly gamed and corrupted system is naive. The Left is going to have to be removed by force, whether it's overt, or just a series of tragic accidents. |
| Posted by: Trader_DFW 2009-02-10 12:33 |
| #2 Sounds like the UN world order at work. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-02-10 10:51 |
| #1 Sounds like Soros or people like him decided that they wanted some prime beach front property cheap. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-02-10 10:16 |