STRANGE HOW THIS RULING HAS NOT BEEN VERY WIDELY REPORTED HERE IN THE UK, IN OUR M.S.M!
We wonder why?
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/05/greenpeace-not-charity-in-nz.html
If a check is made upon the Charities listed on the Commission's website, and then cross-check against the number of charities which get most if not all of their funding from Council and/or Government sources, you will begin to see the size of the problem.
Most ‘charities’ are simply vehicles for people to suck upon the ‘hind tit’ of the public purse, and to appear to be ‘doing good’ whilst ‘earning’ a very good living.
When you read the published accounts of, say ‘World Vision’ as a typical example, the vast amounts of public cash which they trawl into their coffers, one would think that they had enough over the years to relieve all poverty in the whole of Africa, but they still ask for more! Also looking through those same accounts, your eyes will open wide at the numbers of people who earn very very large sums of money whilst working in a Charitable organisation. Go to most other charities and you will see the same; they are just another method of earning a really good salary whilst doing the minimum amount of ‘charitable’ work.
Read of how the RNLI threw millions of pounds away through crap investments? People gave money to fund the building and crewing of lifeboats, and the imbeciles at the financial top of the so-called Charity threw it all away. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/pers ... ty.htmlDid anyone leave, or get fired? Get Real!
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Greenpeace too political to register as charity, New Zealand Court rules
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/09/greenpeace-loses-charity-status-in-new-zealand/#more-39622
By Paul McBeth, May 9 (BusinessDesk)
Environmental lobbyist Greenpeace of New Zealand Inc. is too involved in political causes to register as a charity, the High Court has ruled.
Justice Paul Heath turned down an appeal last Friday that Greenpeace could register with the Charities Commission after the body rejected its 2010 application.
Justice Heath said Greenpeace’s political activities can’t be regarded as “merely ancillary” to its charitable purposes and that the commission was correct in disqualifying it for registration over the potentially illegal activities.