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You're right, it's simple self-interest to make Africa at least marginally more functional.
Anyway you look at it, South Africa does not have a good track record in governing.
I'm pretty sure W felt that way about Saddam. Be careful of falling into the conservative "We are the police force of the world" mentality. We aren't and it doesn't work. Unless by "someone" you meant an internal uprising.
One in four African infants do not reach their fifth birthday while millions of Africans have already starved to death recently. It is Katrina multiplied many, many times on that continent and with all the brain power out there, no answers yet because of politics and western exploitation.
The State Canvassing Board, a panel of five arbiters charged with determining the winner in the overtime election tussle between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democratic rival Al Franken, meet this morning in St. Paul to take up Franken's request to include rejected absentee ballots in the final tally.
The board, headed by Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, is scheduled to gather at 9:30 a.m. CST
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/se...
Answer: The choices all SUCK!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/26/meet-t...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsXzHLiHTOU
In Africa, "AIDS" is largely diagnosed using the so-called Bangui definition, which says that you have AIDS if you have two major symptoms and one minor symptom. No "HIV test" is required! Major symptoms are weight loss, chronic diarrhea and chronic fever, minor symptoms include coughing and generalized itching. But these are precisely the symptoms of TB, malnutrition and parasitic infections, all widespread in Africa.
Since international financial aid is tied to AIDS, the locals have learned to label any and every serious illness "AIDS".
When HIV tests are performed, they are usually performed on pregnant women. I quote the The UNAIDS "AIDS epidemic update" of December 2002:
"In countries with generalized epidemics, this image is based largely on HIV tests done on anonymous blood samples taken from women attending antenatal clinics."
The problem with that is that pregnancy is a condition that causes false positives on HIV tests! Extrapolating those numbers to entire populations leads to grotesque overestimates of real HIV positivity.
Another problem is that, as Emeritus Virginia Tech professor Henry H. Bauer has discovered, black people are intrinsically more likely to test false HIV positive, and this has nothing to do with sexual behavior.
Critics have pointed these problems out for years, but only recently did the AIDS establishment admit that their apocalyptic projections of African AIDS were greatly overestimated.
A November 20, 2007 story in the Washington Post titled U.N. to Cut Estimate Of AIDS Epidemic - Population With Virus Overstated by Millions concedes that the presumed epidemic "has been slowing for nearly a decade" and that "the far-reaching revisions amount to at least a partial acknowledgment of criticisms long leveled by outside researchers who disputed the U.N. portrayal of an ever-expanding global epidemic."
Unfortunately, the AIDS establishment still can't admit that basic scientific problems exist with the very notion of African AIDS, and that the so-called African AIDS epidemic is very likely a relabeling of old, traditional and well-understood diseases related to poverty, unsanitary living conditions, septic drinking water and extreme malnutrition.
Prof. Sam Mhlongo, MD, head of the Department of family medicine at The Medical University of Southern Africa, confirmed this interpretation at a conference on African AIDS held by the European Parliament in Brussels on December 8, 2003. He said:
"In the middle 50's and 60's, 50% of black children were dead before the age of 5. The causes of death were recorded as: pneumonia, high fever, dehydration and intractable diarrhoea due to protein deficiency. Today, these clinical features are called AIDS. Today in South Africa, TB is the leading cause of death and morbidity amongst Africans, but this is called AIDS. "
So yes, people ARE dying in Africa. No one denies that. The question is, what are they dying from? The evidence says they're dying from effects of poverty, and you can't treat poverty with chemotherapy drugs. On the contrary, if you treat already malnourished, sick people with toxic AIDS drugs, they'll only die faster.
Mbeki deserves a medal.
Good to know you are a supporter of the so called 'Bush doctrine'. Last time I read this blog I think.
As much as I oppose Mbeki, for reasons including the one your are discussing, you don't have the right to change other people's governments by force, subversion, or any other means. Neither does the government of the USA, or the UK, or France, or China, or Russia, or anyone. You are accusing Mbeki of genocide while advocating war crimes. In fact, the supreme international war crime, according to the Geneva conventions. Although I suppose as a supporter of neo-conservative foreign policy, you also believe the Geneva conventions are "quaint". It is impossible to conclude otherwise from your statement.
Perhaps a return to western controlled dictators for South Africa sounds like a good idea to you, but it would be just as criminal as the invasion of Iraq, the coup in Haiti, or any of the numerous war crimes we have been complacent in, in this decade or any other.
Incidentally, George Bush and America's anti-condom policy that we are all directly responsible for has and will continue to result in a much larger genocide in Africa than Mbeki could ever achieve.
Then what does that say about us? We are directly responsible for the deaths of over one million innocent civilians under the Bush administration alone. Should George Bush be executed? Should everyone who contributed tax dollars which paid for the cluster bombs and depleted uranium that have devastated a handful of countries this decade be executed? Not to mention his genocidal 'abstinence only' tyranny, which will end up killing millions.
I expect to read ignorance like this from Bill Kristol. I really didn't expect it from John Aravosis. Good to know that when the Obama administration starts propagandizing for its first aggressive war, so called liberal commentators will rush to defend his crimes even faster than most of you did in the aftermath of September 11th, cheerleader for the war crimes we have committed in Afghanistan.
You think you'd have learned your lesson from Saddam.
Quit insulting pigs. They are wonderful animals and nothing like this creep Mbeki!
"A recently concluded double-blind placebo controlled trial of the herbal supplement Sutherlandia OPC has confirmed what thousands of users already knew - Sutherlandia OPC is 100% effective in reversing HIV symptoms.
In the article " Success Against Cancer and HIV in South Africa " I reported how the Sutherlandia OPC supplement from South Africa designed by South African HIV and cancer crusader and researcher Marc Swanepoel had been virtually 100% successful in stabilizing and reversing HIV symptoms and over 90% successful against a broad range of cancers."
http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-11-09/news/par...
They intend to accomplish this through CODEX Alimentarius, established under WHO in 1962, to club defiant nations into submission. They depend on the rogue FDA to send traitorous representatives to undermine, not reflect, the will of the people expressed under US grass roots 1994 DSHEA law. Law that binds FDA regulatory power.
Safe upper limits are for toxins, so building blocks of healthy tissue systems are transformed into poison by words declaring that they are, with no evidence. No dead bodies.
Meanwhile, prescription drugs, properly taken as prescribed, are among the top 3 causes of death in the USA, if not the number one cause.
Sick `em, John.