Wounded Warrior Project Executives Replaced Due to Wasting Funds

[From article]
The two top executives of the Wounded Warrior Project — among the largest veterans charities in the country — were fired Thursday after an investigation into accusations of lavish spending on parties, hotel and travel, according to a statement released on behalf of the embattled organization.
Wounded Warrior Project's CEO, Steven Nardizzi, and COO, Al Giordano, were fired by the charity's board amid criticisms about how it spent more than $800 million in donations over the last four years. The development was confirmed by Abernathy MacGregor, a public relations firm hired to represent the veterans charity.

[. . .]
The charity came under fire after an earlier CBS News investigation in January revealed large amounts of spending on administration, meetings, and travel.
Nonprofit watchdog “Charity Navigator” says Wounded Warrior Project spends just 60 percent of its budget on veterans. The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation provides more than 98 percent to veterans. Charity Navigator also assessed that Wounded Warrior’s total revenue for 2014 was well over $340 million.
[. . .]
Going to a nice fancy restaurant is not team building. Staying at a lavish hotel at the beach here in Jacksonville, and requiring staff that lives in the area to stay at the hotel is not team building," Army Staff Sergeant Erick Millette, who returned from Iraq in 2006 with a bronze star and a purple heart, told CBS News.
According to the charity's tax forms obtained by CBS News, spending on conferences and meetings went from $1.7 million in 2010, to $26 million in 2014, which is the same amount the group spends on combat stress recovery.
Two former employees, who were so fearful of retaliation they asked that CBS News not show their faces on camera, said spending has skyrocketed since Steven Nardizzi took over as CEO in 2009, pointing to the 2014 annual meeting at a luxury resort in Colorado Springs.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/10/wounded-warrior-project-reportedly-fires-top-executives-amid-spending-controversy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Wounded Warrior Project's top execs reportedly fired amid lavish spending scandal
Published March 10, 2016

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Extensive Energy Waste At Harvard University And Cambridge, MA City Council

No mention of the waste of hot air at City Council meetings, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and at the law school. Why not measure how much all of that hot air contributes to global warming? Then there is the wasted energy at the state house, and in state and federal courts. At least capture the hot air and use it to clean the streets and sidewalks of snow and ice. Have above mentioned venues been vetted for how many carbon foot/pounds they are using?

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151128/NEWS/151126368

Guest Column: Living and working green in Cambridge
By Sarah Kennedy
Posted Nov. 28, 2015 at 2:57 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Harvard University Heats The World, Part 2

Al Gore (Harvard College. A.B. 1969) Is Angry That Harvard University Wastes Energy

"No challenge  poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change," said Obama in his State of the Union speech Tuesday [January 20, 2015].

Global warming be damned. What would Al Gore think? Or the White House? Harvard announced the highest amount of fund raising among colleges this year, beating out Stanford University for the top spot. Haven't seen who leads in wasting energy, helping to deplete the planet of its natural resources. Perhaps if you have surplus money you do not need to worry about such things. 1,700 to 2,000 of the one percent, who traveled to the World Economic Forum on climate change (Ahem!) in Davos, Switzerland arrived by their own private jet planes.




Thinking locally, Harvard University, in one building alone may have wasted scores of gallons of fuel oil this winter (2014-2015) alone. On a 15 degree Fahrenheit night between two heavy snowstorms in January 2015, this hall window was open as wide as possible.



It was on the fifth floor, drawing heat from all lower levels of the building on a windy cold night. One would think that the highest fund raising university, the most prestigious university in the United States would be able to learn from recent alerts about wasting energy, at least in one building alone.



Alas in this dumbed down nation, even the best and the brightest, the richest university in the nation, has no institutional memory from two weeks ago. Here is a previous entry on this blog about the same building, posted and sent on January 9, 2015, to university administrators and their sustainability devision.

http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2015/01/harvard-university-heats-up-world.html



Once again those who wander the streets say thank you to Harvard University, especially to  Harvard University Housing experts, and the university sustainability team, for making Cambridge a warmer place when it is freezing cold. Not that the highly competitive and materialistic nature of Harvard University is genuinely warmer to humans. But that is another story for another time and place.



Harvard University campus police, building superintendents and graduate students can earn academic and economic credit, for harassing a 70-year-old man that they say is "crazy." What more do you need to know about Harvard University? No wonder Harvard is worshipped globally. It appears the university faculty teaches how to prey on vulnerable humans, how to exploit them. Is that why they get so much money, to encourage more of that behavior while preaching morality.



Wasting energy is a minor offense. But then Harvard University affiliates have superior standards and greater moral knowledge than ordinary humans. Harassing a vulnerable elder citizen and wasting energy has a higher meaning and effect, than ordinary civilians, unaffiliated with Harvard University, can understand. Campus police need to practice harassing elder citizens. It is what they will have to do when there are too many old people.



One of the topics listed on the university sustainability site is
http://green.harvard.edu/topics/energy-emissions

"Energy & Emissions Focused on reducing building energy use, improving the efficiency of our energy supply, and investing in renewable energy."

That sounds like what they do. Oh wait!
In case any logicians are reading this post, who may ask, "Why didn't you simply close the window?" Here is the answer. The window that is open is above the one you can see in this image. It is on the stairway. One must be at least 12 feet tall to reach the window to close it. I am not even six feet tall.

Updated: Harvard University Heats Up The World

Posted January 8, 2015 2:00 PM ET; Last updated January 9, 2015 8:13 PM ET

Bulletin! Breaking News! On Friday January 9, 2015 between 2:30 PM and 3:30 PM the knob for the door to the south stairway at 85 Prescott Street was repaired. 

But see also a subsequent (January 31, 2015) negligent waste of energy in the same building at this link. Who knows how long that window was open.

http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2015/01/harvard-university-heats-world-part-2.html

Harvard University has a substantial sustainability program. Here's a link to their web site, with a link within to Harvard University Housing. 

http://green.harvard.edu/

http://green.harvard.edu/schools-units/harvard-university-housing

The images on these pages are extraordinarily beautiful. Great photography. Here's one concern about the effectiveness of their dedicated professionals. Below are images of one door in a Harvard University Housing owned and operated building (85 Prescott Street). Students, faculty and staff live in this building. Over the past eight years the door knob to this door (first floor south stairs) fell off more than a dozen times. Complaints to the maintenance office were usually responded to and the knob was placed back onto the door. 

The University frequently sends out printed and digital memos reminding residents to conserve energy. The university spent money reducing water flow in the faucets. They brought curly light bulbs which allegedly are more efficient. But when it comes to recognizing waste of heat energy not so much. Bureaucracies have always focused mainly on sustaining themselves. No different at Harvard University which is growing into the largest education bureaucracy in the world. 

Oh yes, the door. In summer months having this door open allows the warm air to travel up the stairway to the door to the roof and leave the building keeping it cooler. But in the winter? Well the warm air generated by steam radiators (see one about three feet from the doorway), also travels to the stairway, rises up to the roof, goes out into the atmosphere warming the world. Thanks Harvard.


The door knob can be seen to the left of the throw rug.

One person is assigned to maintain each building. The superintendent refers to it as "My building." But he seldom scans the premises to see if there are problems. Lights go out for months until one concerned resident notifies the maintenance office. It is almost as if they expect this resident to do the work of the superintendent without pay. The same resident, on three occasions, asked one of the superintendents to fix the door knob when they were at the building for other matters. After a few days the knob fell off again. It remains that way for weeks if not months like other minor problems needing repair. 


Radiator can be seen a few feet from the door.

But this one wastes energy 24/7 during winter months. See, the real purpose of the sustainability division is to maintain itself. Superintendents spend some of their time harassing residents who complain about needed repairs. On one occasion the campus police stopped and questioned the same resident when he tried to stop tenants from providing food for rodents in the area around and inside the building. HUPD also spends some of its time harassing the same tenant. Who does he think he is telling us what to do?



It indicates how important it is to keep proper priorities. The bureaucracy must be free from diversions. It must remain focused on "Job One," maintaining itself. Saving energy, keeping premises clean, and replacing burnt out light bulbs, not so much. Stopping waste of energy is not a high priority for the sustainability office at Harvard University. Just keep that in mind, bud. Keep sending out emails to the university community. The primary focus is to maintain the image of the office of sustainability. That is why so many PR flacks are essential.

In The Name of Good, Ebola Comes To USA

One more example of the wisdom of Cleobulous, Pre-Homeric Greek philosopher: "The chief source of evil among men is excessive good." What if there is an earthquake, or a hurricane which destroys the isolation? Or a bomb? Oh wait. Obama said al Qaeda is on the run, protesting Israel. There are no terrorists in Georgia. Really? 

[From article]
The very first “risk factor” listed by the Mayo Clinic for Ebola — an incurable disease with a 90 percent fatality rate — is: “Travel to Africa.”
[. . .]
About 15,000 people are murdered in the U.S. every year. More than 38,000 die of drug overdoses, half of them from prescription drugs. More than 40 percent of babies are born out of wedlock. Despite the runaway success of “midnight basketball,” a healthy chunk of those children go on to murder other children, rape grandmothers, bury little girls alive — and then eat a sandwich. A power-mad president has thrown approximately 10 percent of all Americans off their health insurance — the rest of you to come! All our elite cultural institutions laugh at virginity and celebrate promiscuity.
[. . .]
why American Christians go on “mission trips” to disease-ridden cesspools. They’re tired of fighting the culture war in the U.S., tired of being called homophobes, racists, sexists and bigots. So they slink off to Third World countries, away from American culture to do good works,
[. . .]
The same Bible that commands us to “go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel” also says: ”
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’”

http://humanevents.com/2014/08/06/ebola-docs-condition-downgraded-to-idiotic/

EBOLA DOC’S CONDITION DOWNGRADED TO ‘IDIOTIC’

By: Ann Coulter
8/6/2014 03:04 PM

Millions in Teachers Union Dues Used for Parties

[From article]
More than 90 staffers earned six-figure salaries between July 2011 and
June 2012, the records show — including President Michael Mulgrew, who
took home $275,000.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/big_penders_at_teach_union_nqPRUrH7Qbe15RSAXzMRyN

Teachers union spends millions from membership dues on parties and conferences
By CARL CAMPANILE and YOAV GONEN
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:25 AM, December 31, 2012
Posted: 1:54 AM, December 31, 2012

Whistle Blower Fired After Exposing Waste of Funds

[From article]
"Nonie Pegoraro, then a senior director in the Office of Clinical and Health Services Research, says she was fired in May 2009 for trying to expose the widespread diversion of federal funds that properly belonged to the cash-strapped Health and Hospitals Corp.
[. . .]
Pegoraro claims that the head of a doctors group at Coney Island Hospital siphoned funds from research grants and that two officials conducting research at Jacobi Medical Center took $20,000 in a "corrupt" payment from a pharmaceutical company.
[. . .]
"During plaintiff's two-year employment with HHC, she filed multiple complaints with the [Office of the Inspector General],"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hosp_funds_hock_sYuy8ROjCUXGj0rZdKRWKN

Hosp funds $hock
Axed exec's charges
By DAVID SEIFMAN, City Hall Bureau Chief
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:03 AM, September 6, 2011
Posted: 1:48 AM, September 6, 201

Spending Other People's Money

During a serious economic crisis Cambridge spends $179,000 for an art installation on the new Police Station. Instead of sharing the money among low income artists the money for this boondoggle went to an MIT professor who is well paid by his taxpayer subsidized institution. [video embedded]

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1560868364/New-Cambridge-police-headquarters-features-lots-of-lights-and-a-179K-pricetag

New Cambridge police headquarters features lots of lights -- and a $179K pricetag

Courtesy photo

The new Cambridge Police headquarters features an array of lights signaling different kinds of emergencies.

By Jillian Fennimore

Cambridge Chronicle

Posted May 19, 2010 @ 03:46 PM

Medical Abuses (Book Excerpt)

"Well-intentioned but overzealous physicians and surgeons, profit-driven hospital administrators, aggressive pharmaceutical companies and a too-quick-to-believe public brought about, for the first time, the triad of unnecessary laboratory tests, ill-advised surgical operations, and uncontrollable health care costs."

[not posted online]

Ira Rutkow
Seeking the Cure: A History of Medicine in America
(Book Excerpt)
New York Post
April 11, 2010
Page 31

Questioning Anti Depressants

http://www.newsweek.com/id/232781

The Depressing News About Antidepressants

Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse.

Tom Schierlitz for Newsweek; Illustration by Serfcan Ozcan

By Sharon Begley | NEWSWEEK

Published Jan 29, 2010

From the magazine issue dated Feb 8, 2010