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Haiti and Syria are victims of their rescuers. The two nations are now sites of major disease outbreaks. Cholera in Haiti and polio in Syria didn’t just happen. Through negligence, those who claim to rescue the people imported the disease entities and fostered the conditions for wider outbreaks.
680,000 cases of cholera in Haiti since UN rescue mission
The 7.0 Mw earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010 collapsed an already fragile society and infrastructure. The United States and major European powers sprung into action. Bill Clinton was the front man for the relief effort. The United Nations provided the vehicle to deliver much of the aid. Welcome to the new Haiti said former president Clinton boasting of the relief effort that would transform the near failed state. Within ten months, the vaunted relief efforts lead to a major outbreak of cholera.
The source of the outbreak was identified quickly. UN enlisted troops from Nepal set up camp and began their work. Someone forgot to screen the troops for cholera, a known problem in Nepal. Prior to these arrival of these peacekeepers, Haiti had never experienced a cholera outbreak. The recent suit for compensatory relief from the UN describes the situation elegantly: Continue reading Masters of disaster bring cholera to Haiti and polio to Syria
In a time of challenge and adversity, It’s human nature to want to hunker down. Some of us might even want to dig a hole, crawl into it, pull the covers over our head, and wait for trouble to roll on by. Self-preservation is perhaps the most basic human instinct…but that desire to protect ourselves and those people and things we hold dear can on occasion lead us astray.
So it is with the debate over the budget deficit. If you listen to those on the Right, Job One (besides obstructing anything and everything Barack Obama stands for) is reducing the deficit. As they see it, the deficit is the ticking time bomb that we’re handing future generations. Failing to balance the federal budget now means that our children will be paying for our sins…and besides, what family or business could be run on deficit spending? AUSTERITY!! is the battle cry, and, so the argument goes, we can’t possibly hope to pull ourselves out of the current economic slowdown until we get our fiscal house in order.
Those of us on the Left don’t necessarily downplay the importance of the deficit, and indeed many are fully in favor of reducing it. They simply don’t see reducing the deficit as the Prime Directive, the thing that needs to be done before anything else. Of greater importance in their estimation is investing in education, infrastructure, health care…the things that government is supposed to do, and things that create large numbers of well-paying jobs. As you might imagine, this is the side of the fence I come down on…and for some very good reasons. Continue reading Austerity: It doesn’t work, which makes it the PERFECT solution for those addicted to magical thinking
The American Embassy down the road from moi has attracted the attention of the Washington Post.
Free tickets no less to see the anti-covert USA op’s movie DIRTY WARS.
It’s still early in the first quarter,’ with plenty of time left to sign up HHS Secretary Sebelius
If you were in charge of the biggest project that your company or organization ever attempted, the centerpiece of your business and your roll out failed miserably, what would happen? We all know the answer. You would be fired.
That’s the way the real world works. But, it’s different in Washington.
Right, so you screw up and what happens? You get to go on a national tour where you tell people it’s really just fine. The Post article says the secretary is repeating the line, “in football terms it’s still early in the first quarter.” Early in the first quarter is an understatement. The website will be fixed by the end of November. I’d say that’s more like the 1970′s Oakland Raiders who won so many key games in the last two minutes of the forth quarter. Continue reading Fire somebody – Negligence on Obamacare website is cause for termination
Plus, the official low down on how this most pagan of holidays came to the United States, a mini review of the most appalling horror movie of all time, and the full length video of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead – Director’s Cut (1978). Continue reading Happy Halloween from the Agonist – a post full of treats
NYT -The Chinese authorities announced Wednesday the arrests of five people-all ethnic Uighurs from China’s western Xinjiang region- described as Islamic jihadists, who they say helped orchestrate an audacious attack near Tiananmen Square, that left five people dead.
Facebook banned the Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) use of the term KURDISTAN on the BDP’s Facebook page. According to BDP, Facebook did this to please the ruling AKP Party of Prime Minister Redep Erdogan. Turkey is a new market for social media and Facebook is happy to engage in Orwellian censorship to get
Only days after closing down the Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) Istanbul provincial branch’s page on Oct. 24, Facebook has closed the BDP headquarters’ page due to the use of the word “Kurdistan.”
The party announced the shutdown, accusing Facebook of increasing censorship, which it said is a result of the company’s constant cooperation with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
“The closure of our headquarters’ page is the most concrete indication of this. Facebook cited use of the word ‘Kurdistan’ in a message posted on the page. The word ‘Kurdistan’ is a legitimate and legal word; however, Facebook’s ban of this [word] is irrational,” it said in a statement. Hurryet Daily News, Turkey Oct 30
Bill Conroy posted a well-sourced piece on CIA involvement in the drug trade, including possible involvement in the death by torture of Kiki Camarena, an American agent of the DEA. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Atmospheric scientists have a really tough job: predicting weather. This year, 2013, has seen a hurricane season that lived up to predictions, and yet, did not:
In August of 2011, Tropical Storm Irene became the worst storm to hit New York since 1972. A year later, Hurricane Sandy made Irene look like a drizzle, and Governor Andrew Cuomo referred to the danger posed by the massive storms as the “new normal.” So it was hardly comforting for New York, still largely unprepared for another Sandy, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted in May that there was a 70 percent chance this year’s hurricane season would be more active than normal, with three to six major (category three or higher) storms.
Then … nothing happened. With the season winding down, there have been twelve named storms, two hurricanes, and not a single major hurricane to date. On the surface, it seems kind of embarrassing. But one of the lead scientists behind the NOAA forecast says that it is just proof that you shouldn’t pay attention to hurricane projections anyway.
[…]Consequently, while the number of storms predicted was on target, “They just didn’t find an environment that was conducive to go on and become strong,” Franklin says. “So we had lots of weak systems that didn’t last very long.”
“This is all wrong, it’s not obligatory [to fight the Syrian government]. These are feuding factions and one should not go there. I do not advise one to go there.” Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia
After weeks of agitation for increased attacks on the Syrian government and its president, Bashir al-Assad, the Saudis signaled a 180 degree change in policy, based on the mufti’s statement. Fighting with the Syrian rebels is no longer a sacred cause, it is something to be avoided, according to the Kingdom’s most important Muslim cleric.
The mufti is not some closet liberal in the Saudi hierarchy. He’s the top religious official in the Kingdom. His statements are used to interpret legal and religious policies. The King of Saudi Arabia, who asked him to speak on the Syrian conflict, appoints him.
Prince Bandar bin Sultan (aka Bandar Bush) has been recruiting Saudis and Sunnis from around the Middle East, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to fight with the so-called rebel cause in Syria. This has been a nightmare for the Syrian people. These are ruthless, religiously inspired jihadists who show no mercy once they’ve taken over a village, town, or city. Continue reading Bandar beat down – Chief Saudi cleric says fighting in Syria wrong
NYT – A federal judge in Texas on Monday blocked an important part of the state’s restrictive new abortion law, which would have required doctors performing the procedure to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
The decision, one day before the provision was to take effect, prevented a major disruption of the abortion clinics in Texas.
Mike Rogers (R-House Intelligence Committee Chair): “Sometimes our friends have relationships with our enemies.”
Guardian Online – The Obama administration appeared in disarray as it struggled with the fallout over the disclosure that the National Security Agency monitored the phone conversations of at least 35 world leaders, and that the phone of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, had been monitored.
However in Washington, the first signs are emerging that Obama’s administration may seek to distance itself from the NSA, concluding that the spy-agency has strayed beyond its remit and overreached.
The continuing saga of “what comes around goes around”.
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Haiti and Syria are victims of their rescuers. The two nations are now sites of major disease outbreaks. Cholera in Haiti and polio in Syria didn’t just happen. Through negligence, those who claim to rescue the people imported the disease entities and fostered the conditions for wider outbreaks.
In August of 2011, Tropical Storm Irene became the worst storm to hit New York since 1972. A year later, Hurricane Sandy made Irene look like a drizzle, and Governor Andrew Cuomo referred to the danger posed by the massive storms as the “
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