Uganda Disputes Condom Shortage as U.N. Envoy Blames Bush AIDS Policy - Yahoo! News: "On Monday, Stephen Lewis, the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, said U.S. cuts in funding for condoms and a new emphasis on promoting abstinence had contributed to Uganda's condom shortage.
''To impose a dogma-driven policy that is fundamentally flawed is doing damage to Africa,'' Lewis told a teleconference sponsored by health and human rights organizations.
Uganda had been one of a handful of countries to significantly cut its HIV infection rate, from 15 percent in 1992 to six percent by 2002. The United States is Uganda's main donor for HIV/AIDS prevention.
Now, that progress is at risk, according to CHANGE. The administration of
President George W. Bush and the office of Uganda's first lady, Janet Museveni, have emphasized abstinence and funneled money to religious groups who push it to the detriment of the other two planks of Uganda's successful anti-AIDS platform, known as ABC for ''Abstinence, Be Faithful, and Condoms.''"
Everything this administration has its hand in, is fucked! This administration needs to abstain and abdicate from governence, NOW!
8.31.2005
Iraq Unseating Vietnam as Most Expensive U.S. War-Report - Yahoo! News
Iraq Unseating Vietnam as Most Expensive U.S. War-Report - Yahoo! News: "Earlier this month, the
Congressional Budget Office estimated that the cost of continuing the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan at current levels would nearly double the projected federal budget deficit over the next ten years.
By then, the Iraq War would have come to cost more than $700 billion, unseating the Vietnam War, which cost $600 million in current dollars, as America's most expensive military adventure, according to the report.
It urged the administration of
President George W. Bush to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
''Iraq policy cannot be seen as a partisan issue. The costs to our country have been far too great,'' said report co-author Erik Leaver. ''No part of our nation remains untouched by this war. The military, the economy, social programs, and most important, our families and communities have all suffered because of this war.''"
Congressional Budget Office estimated that the cost of continuing the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan at current levels would nearly double the projected federal budget deficit over the next ten years.
By then, the Iraq War would have come to cost more than $700 billion, unseating the Vietnam War, which cost $600 million in current dollars, as America's most expensive military adventure, according to the report.
It urged the administration of
President George W. Bush to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
''Iraq policy cannot be seen as a partisan issue. The costs to our country have been far too great,'' said report co-author Erik Leaver. ''No part of our nation remains untouched by this war. The military, the economy, social programs, and most important, our families and communities have all suffered because of this war.''"
8.24.2005
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Tory likens extremists to Nazis
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Tory likens extremists to Nazis: "Conservative leadership hopeful David Cameron has likened Islamist extremists to Nazis and has warned that failing to confront them will be fatal."
Yeah, those dirty A rabs are just like the Nazis!
Except, the Nazis were financed by The Bush Crime Family, and IBM, Ford, basically big shots from a world superpower.
Those Nazis did more than talk, they had an army, a REAL military, secret security force, shot people for looking different, deported people for looking different.
Hell, those Nazis sound like Britian and the US more and more. Death camps, rape chambers, extra-judicial killing, first strike premeditated wars based on fabrications.
Tory=Rebulican=Nazi
Go get stuffed you wanker!
Yeah, those dirty A rabs are just like the Nazis!
Except, the Nazis were financed by The Bush Crime Family, and IBM, Ford, basically big shots from a world superpower.
Those Nazis did more than talk, they had an army, a REAL military, secret security force, shot people for looking different, deported people for looking different.
Hell, those Nazis sound like Britian and the US more and more. Death camps, rape chambers, extra-judicial killing, first strike premeditated wars based on fabrications.
Tory=Rebulican=Nazi
Go get stuffed you wanker!
8.22.2005
Bush Compares War on Terror to World Wars - Yahoo! News
Bush Compares War on Terror to World Wars - Yahoo! News: "As he did in last year's election campaign and more recently as war opposition has risen, Bush reminded his listeners of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — reciting the date five times in a 30-minute speech.
'We're not yet safe,' Bush said. 'Terrorists in foreign lands still hope to attack our country. They still hope to kill our citizens. The lesson of Sept. 11, 2001, is that we must confront threats before they fully materialize.'"
How nice for a war criminal to remind us of freedoms while running his own rape and torture camps. Grand daddy was a money launder for Hitler during the time in which he waxes poetically about.
The Bush Crime Family.
'We're not yet safe,' Bush said. 'Terrorists in foreign lands still hope to attack our country. They still hope to kill our citizens. The lesson of Sept. 11, 2001, is that we must confront threats before they fully materialize.'"
How nice for a war criminal to remind us of freedoms while running his own rape and torture camps. Grand daddy was a money launder for Hitler during the time in which he waxes poetically about.
The Bush Crime Family.
U.S. Says Terrorists May Pose As Vagrants - Yahoo! News
U.S. Says Terrorists May Pose As Vagrants - Yahoo! News: "'In light of the recent bombings in London, it is crucial that police, fire and emergency medical personnel take notice of their surroundings, and be aware of 'vagrants' who seem out of place or unfamiliar,' said the message, distributed via e-mail to some federal employees in Washington by the U.S. Attorney's office.
It is based on a State Department report that was issued last week. The State Department had no immediate comment Monday.
The warning is similar to one issued by the
FBI before July 4, 2004 that said terrorists may attempt surveillance disguised as homeless people, shoe shiners, street vendors or street sweepers.
The e-mail stresses that there is no threat of an attack and that it is intended to be 'informative, not alarming.'"
They just don't stop with the bullshit.
Now the USA PATRIOT ACT used against homeless, who are mostly verterns. While Bush continues the vertern's benefits cuts, ensuring more homeless for Chertoff (Of the Devil) to sweep up in dragnets.
It is based on a State Department report that was issued last week. The State Department had no immediate comment Monday.
The warning is similar to one issued by the
FBI before July 4, 2004 that said terrorists may attempt surveillance disguised as homeless people, shoe shiners, street vendors or street sweepers.
The e-mail stresses that there is no threat of an attack and that it is intended to be 'informative, not alarming.'"
They just don't stop with the bullshit.
Now the USA PATRIOT ACT used against homeless, who are mostly verterns. While Bush continues the vertern's benefits cuts, ensuring more homeless for Chertoff (Of the Devil) to sweep up in dragnets.
8.19.2005
Feds Target Meth With Money for Treatment - Yahoo! News
Feds Target Meth With Money for Treatment - Yahoo! News: "NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Top officials from the Bush administration announced new efforts to battle methamphetamine abuse, including a training laboratory for police agencies and $16.2 million in grants to focus on treatment of addicts."
Aint that a bitch?! White racists in Nashville strung out on "crack for crackers"(DL. Hugley) will get treatment. Blacks strung out on rock cocaine.....you got it, JAIL!
Aint that a bitch?! White racists in Nashville strung out on "crack for crackers"(DL. Hugley) will get treatment. Blacks strung out on rock cocaine.....you got it, JAIL!
Health System Discriminates Against U.S. Blacks, Poor - Studies - Yahoo! News
Health System Discriminates Against U.S. Blacks, Poor - Studies - Yahoo! News: "Abid Aslam, OneWorld US Thu Aug 18,12:17 PM ET
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 18 (OneWorld) - Black and poor Americans receive less life-saving medical treatment than their white and well-off compatriots, health researchers said in separate studies suggesting that inequality is worsening."
You don't fucking say?!
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 18 (OneWorld) - Black and poor Americans receive less life-saving medical treatment than their white and well-off compatriots, health researchers said in separate studies suggesting that inequality is worsening."
You don't fucking say?!
8.17.2005
Footage Contradicts London Police Reports - Yahoo! News
Footage Contradicts London Police Reports - Yahoo! News: "LONDON - A Brazilian shot to death a day after botched bombings in London had walked casually onto a train before being gunned down by undercover officers, according to leaked footage that appeared to contradict earlier police reports that said the man disobeyed police orders."
8.15.2005
Al-Qaeda, a Secret Service Operation?
ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2005081522982): "Countries facing the al-Qaeda threat are awaiting the intelligence Turkish security is to provide. Amid the smoke from the fortuitous fire emerged the possibility that al-Qaeda may not be, strictly speaking, an organization but an element of an intelligence agency operation. Turkish intelligence specialists agree that there is no such organization as al-Qaeda. Rather, Al-Qaeda is the name of a secret service operation. The concept “fighting terror” is the background of the “low-intensity-warfare” conducted in the mono-polar world order. The subject of this strategy of tension is named as “al-Qaeda.”"
8.10.2005
Britain May Create Secretive (Kangeroo)Terror Courts - Yahoo! News
Britain May Create Secretive Terror Courts - Yahoo! News: "LONDON - Britain is considering setting up secretive courts to make it easier to prosecute terror suspects — and to hold them without charge for longer than the current 14 days — as part of the crackdown following the deadly London bombings, officials said Tuesday."
As Bush, Congress Show Splits over Military Affairs, Detainee Details Treatment In Military Brig - Yahoo! News
As Bush, Congress Show Splits over Military Affairs, Detainee Details Treatment In Military Brig - Yahoo! News: "--Restricted his out-of-cell time to three showers and three short periods of solitary recreation per week--only to frequently deny him this. Al-Marri alleged he once went 60 days without being permitted to leave his cell at all. Indoors, his complaint alleged, he must wear leg irons and handcuffs even to shower.
--Denied him basic hygiene products such as a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, and toilet paper. HRW said that al-Marri complained that when not provided with toilet paper, he has had to use his hands to clean himself after defecating and it has taken more than an hour before soap was brought to him so that he could wash his hands.
He also claimed he was denied appropriate care for medical and mental health symptoms developed while in the brig.
HRW backed the father of five.
''It is bad enough that al-Marri has been held indefinitely without charges and incommunicado,'' said Jamie Fellner, director of HRW's U.S. program. ''Now we learn that his life in the brig has also been one of cruelty and petty vindictiveness. Whatever the Bush administration believes he has done or wanted to do, there's no excuse for how they are treating him.''"
--Denied him basic hygiene products such as a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, and toilet paper. HRW said that al-Marri complained that when not provided with toilet paper, he has had to use his hands to clean himself after defecating and it has taken more than an hour before soap was brought to him so that he could wash his hands.
He also claimed he was denied appropriate care for medical and mental health symptoms developed while in the brig.
HRW backed the father of five.
''It is bad enough that al-Marri has been held indefinitely without charges and incommunicado,'' said Jamie Fellner, director of HRW's U.S. program. ''Now we learn that his life in the brig has also been one of cruelty and petty vindictiveness. Whatever the Bush administration believes he has done or wanted to do, there's no excuse for how they are treating him.''"
8.09.2005
Why Iran will lead to World War 3
Why Iran will lead to World War 3: "Iran has shown an unwillingness to be bullied by Washington. The Bush administration has co-opted the EU to enforce its double-standards by threatening military action, but that doesn't' conceal the duplicity of their demands. Why should Iran forgo the processing of nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes if it is written right into the treaty? Would Israel or Pakistan accept a similar proposal?
Of course, not. Both countries ignored the treaty altogether and built their own nuclear weapons behind the back of the international community. Only Iran has been singled out and punished for COMPLYING with the treaty. This demonstrates the power of Washington to dictate the international agenda.
Iran's refusal puts the EU in a position to refer the case to the IAEA, where the board members will make their determination and decide whether the case should be sent to the UN Security Council. Whether the IAEA passes the case along or not makes little difference. Bush, Sharon and the western media will exploit the details in a way that condemns Iran and paves the way for a preemptive attack. The drive to war will not be derailed by mere facts. "
Of course, not. Both countries ignored the treaty altogether and built their own nuclear weapons behind the back of the international community. Only Iran has been singled out and punished for COMPLYING with the treaty. This demonstrates the power of Washington to dictate the international agenda.
Iran's refusal puts the EU in a position to refer the case to the IAEA, where the board members will make their determination and decide whether the case should be sent to the UN Security Council. Whether the IAEA passes the case along or not makes little difference. Bush, Sharon and the western media will exploit the details in a way that condemns Iran and paves the way for a preemptive attack. The drive to war will not be derailed by mere facts. "
8.08.2005
ABC News: U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
ABC News: U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba: "N E W Y O R K, May 1, 2001 In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities."
The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities."
The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
8.05.2005
August 5, 2005 -- Even When Under Suspicion For Espionage, Neo-Cons Advocating War With Iran Continue To Spin Their Disinformation Via The Pentagon.
Wayne Madsen Report: "NBC News and other corporate media broadcast a Pentagon-inspired story on the Aug. 4 evening news broadcasts suggesting that the recent bombings of U.S. armored personnel carriers were accomplished with the use of deadly armored-piercing 'shaped charges' from Iran and possibly, Syria. NBC cited 'military and intelligence sources' as sources. But the fact that the network's Pentagon correspondent, Jim Miklaszewski, reported Iran's 'complicity' is an indication that the report came from the neocon disinformation and espionage factory in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asian Division and its Office of Northern Gulf Affairs -- the one-time office of indicted Israeli spy Larry Franklin."
8.04.2005
Whiskey Bar: The Descent of Man
Whiskey Bar: The Descent of Man: "The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters. They mirror very accurately his congenital hatred of knowledge, his bitter enmity to the man who knows more than he does, and so gets more out of life . . ."
Another Day in the Empire
Fake al-Zawahiri Video Warns of More Attacks: "Osama bin Laden died in December of 2001 from renal failure and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Ayman al-Zawahiri, described as Osama’s “senior lieutenant,” was captured by the Iranians in mid-February 2002 and remains in Tehran’s Evin jail with other political prisoners (see Bin Laden’s No 2 “captured in Iran,” Guardian, February 18, 2002)."
Tim Wise: the Faulty Logic of Terrorist Profiling
Tim Wise: the Faulty Logic of Terrorist Profiling: "On the one hand, it is certainly true that 'suspicious behavior' is in the eye of the beholder. Furthermore, all available evidence suggests that law enforcement tends to 'see' dangerous or suspicious behavior more readily in the actions of persons of color than whites, even when the whites they ignore are more likely to be engaged in nefarious activity (possession of guns or drugs, for example). So on that level, searching folks based on their behavior may indeed lead to abuses, will not likley prevent terrorism, and should probably be considered as illegitimate as targeted profiling; but of course, it is not for fear of possible abuse that Sperry dislikes such searches. If anything, he would likely welcome them if such abuses could only be guaranteed.
Rather, Sperry thinks that searches based on behavior would be far less effective that his preferred method: focusing on people 'praying to Allah and smelling like flower water' Sperry suggests that suicide bombers douse themselves with perfume in anticipation of paradise, so this should be the basis for a search, but is he serious? With all the malodorous scents of a subway, how would one even be able to distinguish 'flower water,' in the first place? Or to tell it apart it from the overbearing scent of patchouli, slathered on the clothing of some white Deadhead in lieu of taking a bath for the past week?"
Rather, Sperry thinks that searches based on behavior would be far less effective that his preferred method: focusing on people 'praying to Allah and smelling like flower water' Sperry suggests that suicide bombers douse themselves with perfume in anticipation of paradise, so this should be the basis for a search, but is he serious? With all the malodorous scents of a subway, how would one even be able to distinguish 'flower water,' in the first place? Or to tell it apart it from the overbearing scent of patchouli, slathered on the clothing of some white Deadhead in lieu of taking a bath for the past week?"
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