U.S. President George W. Bush Wednesday announced a new orphaned diseases initiative and sought to dispel concern about a U.S. military presence in Africa. Bush, speaking during a news conference with Ghana President John Agyekum Kufuor in Accra, said the United States would make available $350 million over five years to target neglected tropical diseases such as hookworm or river blindness. Also, the United States plans to specify nearly $17 million this year to Ghana to fight malaria. This is all part of our initiative -- whether it be on HIV/AIDS or malaria, Bush said, to help save lives. Health leaders need global strategy for spotting disease threatsAccording to my man Temple 3 - there's a WHOLE LOT more to these headlines than meets the eye;
As it happens, “in June 1996, President Clinton issued a Presidential Decision Directive calling for a more focused US policy on infectious diseases. The State Department’s Strategic Plan for International Affairs lists protecting human health and reducing the spread of infectious diseases as US strategic goals,and Secretary Albright in December 1999 announced the second of two major U.S. initiatives to combat HIV/AIDS. The unprecedented UN Security Council session devoted exclusively to the threat to Africa from HIV/AIDS in January 2000 is a measure of the international community’s concern about the infectious disease threat.” (Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States. January 2000 National Intelligence Estimate). Oddly enough, the 1996 Presidential Decision Directive was announced by the Vice President, Al Gore. This is the same Al Gore who founded the internet, led the fight to end global warming and sat silent on the floor on the United States Senate as Black elected officials stood on his behalf and on behalf of the disenfranchised voters in Florida who delivered the popular vote to the Democratic nominee in 2000. It’s the same Al Gore who has presented himself as a disinterested arbiter of a pending dispute between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over the nomination of the party in 2008.By T3's reckoning - TPTB are embarked on a long-range plan of staggering dimensions. In keeping with my own recent posts on Clinton, Africa, The South African Long Emergency, and related topics - this is a subrealist MUST READ. Now that he's back from a too long hiatus, T3 should be part of your daily blog fare anyway - This is only part 1 of a projected multipart treatment - and I'm on the edge of my seat right now...,
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This is a two track problem.
1) Yes - International entities are most capable to apply their existing scientific infrastructure to study these pathogens and come up with a solution or a vaccine.
2) No - It is not possible to sufficiently close the "threat vector" for these diseases without a sufficient "organic" initiative lead by these sovereign governments in Africa with strong coordination with the social service, religious and cultural entities.
When it comes to altering behavior that involve transmission vectors via - food (ie: infected meat), sexual behavior, contact with wild animals, etc - EDUCATION and COORDINATION is the only way to achieve a certain level of risk mitigation.
I challenge everyone to fire up their DVR with "On Demand" and record and then watch every episode of "Drugs Inc" over the past few years and then STILL claim that America's drug addiction/drug smuggling/drug distribution economy/drug interdiction and drug punishment system is as cut and dry as "Let's End The War On Drugs", replacing it with TREATMENT.
1) In Portland Oregon - our dear friend BIGot DonO Ne - would shutter he sees a city where the majority of people arrested for drugs and destroying their lives are White. Once hooked, these young kids become "fiends" - spending their waking day looking for MONEY to purchase drugs later. This is nothing short of an attack on the "Prosperity of America"
1a) A Junkie couple kisses each other goodbye as the female prepares to enter DRUG REHAB.............FOR THE 7TH TIME
2) In Memphis - you first see the Police doing "Knock And Smash Down The Door" drug raids to arrest drug dealers. In the next scene you see STREET PIRATES who do the same at 3am but to ROB DRUG DEALERS. In the city in which "Dr King" was killed - a Black male wearing a blue bandanna says that he has NO EMOTIONAL CONNECTION with the people who he robs. EITHER they are going to tell him where the drugs and money is OR THEY WILL DIE. They will beat a loved one in front of him until he "gives up the goods"
3) In Detroit - a drug dealer laments that the bankruptcy of the government has been the best thing for his heroine business.
4) In Chicago - while it is illegal for Pharmaceutical firms to do live "Human Guinea pig testing of their drugs" - two middle aged Black brothers are the "Go To Junkies" to test the strength of a new shipment of "Blow". If they live to tell about the experience - they call the drug dealer and tell him that the batch was strong - and they can "cut it" - increasing their profits without degrading the product sufficiently.
This entire series (along with "The First 48 Hours") provides a powerful lens of TRUTH regarding the disconnection between people's THEORIES on PUBLIC POLICY and two groups of individuals WHO DON'T GIVE A DAMN because their VIRTUES have bene stolen by greater priorities
1) The DRUG ADDICT who wants another HIGH
2) The Drug Dealer - who wants more money AND to make sure that he stays alive because he pays the money that he owes his "Contact" (increasingly from Mexico) who will kill him if they don't get their money after agreeing to consignment.
Thank you for making such a compelling argument for across the board legalization. Personal sovereignty has been undermined for far too long now, with the unacceptable externalities your show relates.
Makes a far more compelling argument for (1) poisoning interdicted drugs and slipping them back into the supply chain, and (2) ratcheting up the death penalty to immediate Summary Execution for anyone caught in the trade - catch 'em cold in stings and dispose on the spot. Put a stop to this destructive nonsense, one way or the other, in short order, so remaining folks could get back to polite civilized life.....
In BD's fantasies, a few top toxicoligists would be contracted to develop an assortment of very difficult to detect agents used to adulterate perhaps 10-20% of seized shipments necessitating tests on entire loads destroying a lot of it. Very slow acting stuff that destroys liver/kidneys so no sure-fire way to quickly evaluate product. Mix it up with a little sarin and cyanide here and there. How many times could you take a 100-to-1 shot on your life before you lose?? And there would be confused dealers having fits and killing each other over alleged bad stuff with users deleting themselves ala Darwin. Keep the whole program Top Secret, let 'em figure it out after it's too late. Corrupt folks keeling over from the ghetto, to the 'burbs, to Congress and the White House ------- In BD's fantasies.....
An effective cull that works and improves society - only the guilty would lose. Remember, water, energy, and infrastructure resources are all currently overburdened, broken, and failing. A needed 10-30% population reduction, along with securing the borders, would be a pleasant adjustment.....
Ahhh yessss......, a rare and exceptional moment of complete dopaminergic-spectral self-disclosure. Priceless....,
...and we might begin 're-colonization' with Kansas City ---> http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article829512.html
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