Comments on: Thinking Big, Thinking Small http://registan.net/index.php/2010/03/11/thinking-big-thinking-small/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 20:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: reader http://registan.net/index.php/2010/03/11/thinking-big-thinking-small/comment-page-1/#comment-384854 reader Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:59:45 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=10739#comment-384854 "most of the money makes it back to the +01 country code regardless." That is the plan, has always been the plan, and will remain the plan. The international military industrial complex has a nicer face that people don't associate with it much- the NGO. Aid is just another way of encouraging dependency. Africa is the tragic, monumental, and perfect example of this. "The focus is is on longer-term partnerships not short-term gains." Agha Khan, ignoring the moral quandry of their fund-raising (using donations of poor Ismailis) and Turquoise Mountain are not typical NGOs and are wonderful programs to copy, but horrible examples for understanding Western Aid distribution. Partnership implies equality, a voluntary association that both groups could theoretically dissolve. This is not the goal of DC, London, IMF et al. Gains is the name of the game, gains for corporations, government elites, sycophants, and parasitical classes. Losses are for Western taxpayers and 3rd World inhabitants. “most of the money makes it back to the +01 country code regardless.”

That is the plan, has always been the plan, and will remain the plan. The international military industrial complex has a nicer face that people don’t associate with it much- the NGO. Aid is just another way of encouraging dependency. Africa is the tragic, monumental, and perfect example of this.

“The focus is is on longer-term partnerships not short-term gains.”

Agha Khan, ignoring the moral quandry of their fund-raising (using donations of poor Ismailis) and Turquoise Mountain are not typical NGOs and are wonderful programs to copy, but horrible examples for understanding Western Aid distribution. Partnership implies equality, a voluntary association that both groups could theoretically dissolve. This is not the goal of DC, London, IMF et al. Gains is the name of the game, gains for corporations, government elites, sycophants, and parasitical classes. Losses are for Western taxpayers and 3rd World inhabitants.

]]> By: Farhad http://registan.net/index.php/2010/03/11/thinking-big-thinking-small/comment-page-1/#comment-384851 Farhad Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:35:01 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=10739#comment-384851 Turquoise Mountain and Aga Khan excel at listening to locals, understanding their current needs, using only highly culturally aware, professional, and skilled staff to excite projects that are sustainable. The focus is is on longer-term partnerships not short-term gains. Turquoise Mountain and Aga Khan excel at listening to locals, understanding their current needs, using only highly culturally aware, professional, and skilled staff to excite projects that are sustainable.

The focus is is on longer-term partnerships not short-term gains.

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