I don't mean to offend anyone with this post, and it isn't supposed to make you feel like a fool if you've already partaken, however this is why I won't be taking part in the Ice Bucket Challenge, or if I do, I sure won't be donating.
The 2013 Tax Returns for ALSA (the charity everybody is donating to recently) is available online, from their own website (therefore you cannot deny it's authenticity). Last year, the ALSA spent £7,5 million on labour costs; the President of the charity was paid £220,000 for working 40hrs a week, the Chief Financial Officer pulled in a healthy £130,000 for working the same, and the Public Policy Officer took home a handsome £121,000 for his 40hr a week employment. (page 8 of the Tax Return).
The ALSA don't make any excuses, or even deny that they spend only 28% of the total money received on actually researching into cures and treatment - want to know what's ironic? That 28% is only £7.2 million, meaning they spent £300,000 more last year on lining their own pockets than they actually spent on doing what they were donated money to do.
ALS Assets Tax Return (found at: Hosted)
I don't donate to charity, because most of the donation just goes into the pockets of overpaid white collar criminals. I'd rather buy a homeless guy in Hanley a couple of pies from Wrights; at least then you know that somebody in need is actually benefiting from your charity, not some overpaid douche in their designer clothes.
Furthermore it is my honest belief that the media is engineered and manipulated to distract the public from reality, consider this: lately social media and RSS feeds have been spammed full of videos of celebrities doing the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS... it came from nowhere, suddenly flourishing into a media frenzy that saturates your vision. Why? What could the media want to distract you from so badly?
In the last six weeks, the death tolls from Gaza:
- 2,070+ Palestinians, mostly civilians.
- 67 Israelis, mostly troops.
The ice bucket challenge doesn't keep me blinded. On this note, people who defend Israel over the Gaza situation dumbfound me. It amuses me that their predominant argument is "Hamas started it. Hamas fired 3,000 rockets and killed 1 Israeli civilian." Allegedly that justifies wiping out an entire populated area? It's the equivalent of your neighbour chucking a pebble at your window, so you move away and then nuke the entire estate. Overkill doesn't even begin to describe. #FreePalestine
Moving on, a brilliant video that adds weight to my argument about how the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is nothing short of a distraction tactic that has swept the social media attention of the world away from the real issues at present such as Gaza, Syria, Ferguson etc is that of Orlando Jones.
Yes, ALS is a problem, and yes, of course I condone people supporting it; but realise that it didn't just pop up overnight, ALS has been around for a long time... I don't believe that it's a coincidence that the media frenzy around it just conveniently coincides with the perfect time to distract people from real world issues.
Charity; sometimes it's a convenient distraction.
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The 2013 Tax Returns for ALSA (the charity everybody is donating to recently) is available online, from their own website (therefore you cannot deny it's authenticity). Last year, the ALSA spent £7,5 million on labour costs; the President of the charity was paid £220,000 for working 40hrs a week, the Chief Financial Officer pulled in a healthy £130,000 for working the same, and the Public Policy Officer took home a handsome £121,000 for his 40hr a week employment. (page 8 of the Tax Return).
The ALSA don't make any excuses, or even deny that they spend only 28% of the total money received on actually researching into cures and treatment - want to know what's ironic? That 28% is only £7.2 million, meaning they spent £300,000 more last year on lining their own pockets than they actually spent on doing what they were donated money to do.
ALS Assets Tax Return (found at: Hosted)
I don't donate to charity, because most of the donation just goes into the pockets of overpaid white collar criminals. I'd rather buy a homeless guy in Hanley a couple of pies from Wrights; at least then you know that somebody in need is actually benefiting from your charity, not some overpaid douche in their designer clothes.
Furthermore it is my honest belief that the media is engineered and manipulated to distract the public from reality, consider this: lately social media and RSS feeds have been spammed full of videos of celebrities doing the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS... it came from nowhere, suddenly flourishing into a media frenzy that saturates your vision. Why? What could the media want to distract you from so badly?
In the last six weeks, the death tolls from Gaza:
- 2,070+ Palestinians, mostly civilians.
- 67 Israelis, mostly troops.
The ice bucket challenge doesn't keep me blinded. On this note, people who defend Israel over the Gaza situation dumbfound me. It amuses me that their predominant argument is "Hamas started it. Hamas fired 3,000 rockets and killed 1 Israeli civilian." Allegedly that justifies wiping out an entire populated area? It's the equivalent of your neighbour chucking a pebble at your window, so you move away and then nuke the entire estate. Overkill doesn't even begin to describe. #FreePalestine
Moving on, a brilliant video that adds weight to my argument about how the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is nothing short of a distraction tactic that has swept the social media attention of the world away from the real issues at present such as Gaza, Syria, Ferguson etc is that of Orlando Jones.
Yes, ALS is a problem, and yes, of course I condone people supporting it; but realise that it didn't just pop up overnight, ALS has been around for a long time... I don't believe that it's a coincidence that the media frenzy around it just conveniently coincides with the perfect time to distract people from real world issues.
Charity; sometimes it's a convenient distraction.
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