- Budge's Links to the Tainted Arkansas Prison Blood Story
- Blood Trail by Michael Sullivan (Galster)
- BLOOD TRAIL -- Clinton
- BLOOD TRAIL -- Timeline
$100 million more proposed to fight AIDS in Africa Susan Page; Steve Sternberg USA TODAY July 19, 1999, Monday, FIRST EDITION WASHINGTON --
Calling the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa "a plague of biblical proportions," the White House will propose today spending an additional $ 100 million next year for prevention and treatment of the disease around the world.
Vice President Gore will release a report on AIDS in Africa that also urges the rest of the world to do more.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will convene a meeting next month of officials from the World Bank, the United Nations, foundations and corporations to fortify efforts to stem the epidemic."AIDS is not only causing unfathomable human suffering; it is jeopardizing economic growth, political stability and civil society in many sub-Saharan African nations," the report concludes.
In the past decade, 12 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have died of the disease, which is expected to deprive 40 million children in the region of one or both parents in the next decade.
As part of the initiative, Hillary Rodham Clinton will convene a meeting next month of officials from the World Bank, the United Nations, foundations and corporations to fortify efforts to stem the epidemic.
By the end of the year, the White House promises to host a religious leaders' meeting on the issue, and the National Security Council will help sponsor a summit of African leaders.
The 30-page report by AIDS czar Sandra Thurman warns that within a few years the epidemic will spread in force to India, Southeast Asia and the former Soviet republics.
Cornelius Baker, president of the National Association of People with AIDS, welcomed the initiative but called it "a very small down payment."
By the end of the year, the White House promises to host a religious leaders' meeting on the issue.This year, the U.S. government is spending $ 125 million on HIV prevention and AIDS care worldwide; $ 74 million of it is devoted to Africa.
Congress must approve the new funding, 70% of which is earmarked for Africa.
"I hope that the developed world joins together to help our African neighbors, especially the children," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
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We've been spending Billions killing innocent people in Yugoslavia. I guess it's only right that we spend some money to save some innocent people in Africa.
It is only right, at this conference of religious leaders, that Clinton speak to why he permitted a prison plasma program to continue throughout his years as Governor of Arkansas, despite an international F.D.A. recall in 1983.
I would imagine that as the story becomes more mainstream (and it will!) Clinton will be trying to show the world that he's doing his part in preventing and treating AIDS. We know and you proved it Wallaby that Arkansas was the hub of the high risk prison plasma trade in America. It was because of a corrupt govenor that allowed this deadly practice to continue. Remember what the White House said when confronted with the Canadian hemophiliacs charge of Arkansas prison blood poisoning them ...."We didn't know about AIDS or have testing for it back then in the 1980's" So Clinton in an essence didn't deny knowing about this prison operation. Ignorance is a feeble excuse when the facts bare out that indeed the knowledge was there that in the 1980's prison blood is dangerous and therefore should not be collected.
My sources tell me that legal action against Clinton and the other responsible parties for the sale of tainted prison blood to innocent hemophiliacs in Canada is moving ahead and we will see action in a short time. Meanwhile look for the RCMP to blow it wide open. The finger is going to be pointed at America and its president.
Bloody bump!
>Clinton ... didn't deny knowing.
Good point. Of course, since Clinton himself has never been asked point blank about this topic, he has been able to hide behind his mouthpieces. If he and his wife now intend to pose as Mr. (and Ms.?) Compassion to the AIDS victims, they'll just open the door even wider to having this story become BIG NEWS.
> As part of the initiative, Hillary Rodham Clinton will convene a meeting next month of officials from the World Bank, the United Nations, foundations and corporations to fortify efforts to stem the epidemic.
This is one time Miz Hillary actually knows something about the subject at hand. After all, she and Billy got a lot of money from the filthy HMA scheme to sell tainted Arkansas prison blood. Perhaps she will tell the world how much money they made from it, what Vincent Foster's role was, why Foster was so worried about the tainted blood when he died, and what was in the files that Miz Hillary's lieutenants rifled from Foster's office before his body was cold.
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Johannesburg -
She wept as she described how her mother had been stricken with HIV, then ostracised by her community, and how she herself
had been cared for, when her mother could no longer look after her or pay her school fees, by a local support group funded in
part by the US Agency for International Development.
Gore stood on one side of the distraught Nantongo and Sandra Thurman, director of the White House office of national AIDS
policy, on the other. They whispered encouragement and consoled her until she finished her tragic narrative and turned to a
prepared text. Evidently someone other than herself prepared the remarks, which thanked the vice-president for his leadership
on behalf of all sub-Saharan Africa.
One could understand the Gore team hauling in Tutu and Nantongo as props if their intention was to sell a reluctant public on
the notion of spending a few billion dollars on fighting AIDS and caring for its victims in Africa. Or, in other words, intervening
on a scale warranted by current data and projections that suggest that by 2005, 13000 Africans will be dying of AIDS every
day.
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In fact, as far as one could determine from the fuzzy numbers in the press releases, all Gore was doing was re-announcing the
administration's unopposed request to increase funding for international AIDS programmes by $100m in the coming fiscal year.
That is nearly double the current budget, to be sure, but still only a fraction of what it is going to cost to build a new bridge over
the Potomac for the benefit of Washington commuters.
Consider these statistics: indeed, 22-million African adults and 1-million children already are HIV-positive and thus under sentence of death within a decade; new infections in the continent are being added at the rate of one every eight seconds; and this plague threatens to reduce African output by 25% over the next 20 years. All these statistics are contained in a new report by the White House AIDS office. If they are true, then one might think the administration, nominally besotted as it is with Africa, could be a little bolder in its allocation of resources. The report makes the case that AIDS poses the single greatest threat to President Thabo Mbeki's dream of an African renaissance and to the Clinton administration's own mercantilist vision of the continent becoming a great new market for US goods and services. You think crime is now a problem. Wait until millions of young AIDS orphans are fending for themselves on the streets or seeking to eke out livings as militiamen. Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs is quoted as saying "a frontal attack on AIDS may now be the single most important strategy for economic development". Grant there is some truth in that, then consider the following fact. The US government, new initiative included, spends less on international programmes to prevent, mitigate and treat AIDS than US middlemen generate in revenues - $242m last year - from exporting, mostly to Africa, used clothing Americans have dumped at institutions like the Salvation Army. The tax deductions alone that Americans take from donating their old knickers to charity could fund African AIDS relief more generously than what Gore preened himself on this week. There is nothing especially generous, or even politically bold, about the Clinton administration wishing to spend an amount equivalent to the market capitalisation of a website that has yet to turn a cent in profit on combating a cataclysmic pestilence that the administration compares with the plague. The "extra" $100m announced by Gore, and blessed by Tutu and Nantongo, will at best be a palliative, at least the portion that is left over after paying the overheads - salaries, travel and conferences - of the organisations to which the money is dispensed. The organisations' attitude towards AIDS tends, logically enough, to be that of Fabian socialists who longed for the revolution so long as it did not occur in their lifetimes. The revolution, in this case, would be a vaccine, a cure or at least a survivable and affordable treatment. But Africans apparently are not worth the expense of finding same. The real money is in caring for them and their orphans and trying to alter their behaviour - not healing them. |
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To the Clintons, AIDS is just one more issue to turn to political capital without really caring a bit. Still, it is surprising that they have gotten away with doing so little -- next to nothing in six and a half years -- without being called on it by the liberals. I'll call them on it myself.
An open challenge to President and Mrs. Clinton: Stop ducking the issue. Cheap talk and press releases aren't enough. Take personal leadership of the worldwide effort against AIDS. Get involved. Nurse the sick. Teach the healthy. Lead the way.
Lo! A whole article has appeared as if by magic!
bttt
> Archbishop Desmond Tutu, quoting St Augustine, delivered a wonderful sermon on the inherent goodness of man and, by implication, Gore
That would be St. Algore?
What a fountain of confusion. The doctrine that man is inherently good is heretical to a Christian. Such doctrine effectively removes any moral argument against behaviors that transmit AIDS.
Shouldn't they at the same time, look after the blood victims here at home ?
Oh, I hope for the RCMP to do that, we have been waiting much too long, so many victims are already gone.
we have been waiting much too long, so many victims are already gone.
>sigh<
I have a note on my calendar that Clive is having surgery. Don't know if it's actually today or not but it must be soon (if everything is going as scheduled).
The organisations' attitude towards AIDS tends, logically enough, to be that of Fabian socialists who longed for the revolution so long as it did not occur in their lifetimes.
Great insight here!
Such doctrine effectively removes any moral argument against behaviors that transmit AIDS.
Stop being logical...this is Chinatown.
$100 Billion to fight AIDS in Africa
Wouldn't it be cheaper to send Jocelyn Elders and a boatload of Arkansan condoms over there?
"I hope that the developed world joins together to help our African neighbors, especially the children," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
Uh Oh...It's "for the children". Obviously a scam that will help fill the Clinton's and Hatch's Cayman Island accounts.
> Wouldn't it be cheaper to send Jocelyn Elders and a boatload of Arkansan condoms over there?
Schwew!! That would take care of the problem -- the hard way. Would the last person alive in Africa please turn out the lights?
> Stop being logical...this is Chinatown.
So I just learned -- with Joycelyn Elders leading the fire drill. I can just see her doing a high-steppin' trollop up the street, throwing leaky condoms to the crowd.
>> so many victims are already gone.
> >sigh<
We can't bring them back. We can fight for justice and try to stop the spread of the infections -- two sides of the same coin. A good push by the Mounties would really help.
Yes, i asked him if he had a laptop, so we could write to him.
Drip.....
He just posted elsewhere that his XYL (I'm guessing "old lady") won't let him have laptop or phone lest he try and run his practice from his bed! Looks like he's in good hands!
C.Hitchens is right. The Clintons don't know the meaning of the word, "compassion". Imagine, the cruelty of using an entire continent for political advantage!
Oh I guess you could twist bombing an African pharmaceutical factory into a compassionate act. He did do it at night when fewer people were there.
Yea, looks like Clive has a pretty good angel looking after him, he is indeed in good hands.
> Imagine, the cruelty of using an entire continent for political advantage!
The Clintons will do anything for political advantage. They will start wars, urinate on cathedrals, sabotage small planes. Why worry about Africa? We don't need it. There are other continents.
Sorry, I didn't know Clive was going under the knife; nothing major I hope.
Cheers.
The Clintons will do anything for political advantage.
Perhaps they owned a piece of Plasma Services back in the early eighties to help fund their political advantage.
A bump and a drip!
> Perhaps they owned a piece of Plasma Services back in the early eighties to help fund their political advantage.
Owned? No. Not in the usual sense. They didn't have to own anything. In Arkansas, it's said, every deal crosses the governor's desk. The governor gets a piece of the action or -- no deal. The book Blood Trail estimated that the governor took one-third of HMA. If that's in the right ballpark, the Clintons took millions from the tainted blood trade.
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