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Zimbabwe -- Starvation takes toll (cholera and dysentery outbreak)
Daily News (Zim) ^ | September 5, 2002 | Energy Bara in Masvingo

Posted on 09/06/2002 3:39:26 AM PDT by Clive

AN outbreak of cholera and dysentery has hit the Bikita and Zaka districts of Masvingo province, where 10 people have died amid fears that the diseases might spread to other parts of the province because of huge gatherings prompted by mass starvation.

As hunger tightens its grip in Masvingo province, hundreds of people are now spending weeks queueing for scarce maize supplies at townships and service centres with inadequate water and toilet facilities for such numbers, creating the ideal environment for the spread of the water- borne diseases.

The diseases have claimed six lives in Zaka’s Chiredzana area while four have died in Bikita.

In Bikita district alone, four people have died from the diseases in the Fuve and Odzi areas, while nine are reported to be battling for their lives at Mashoko Mission and Fuve hospitals.

In Zaka, three people were by yesterday still detained at St Anthony’s Mission Hospital. Health officials said they were battling to contain the diseases.

Confirming the deaths yesterday, Tapuwa Magure, the Masvingo provincial medical director, said camps had been set up in the affected areas to keep track of the outbreak.

He expressed strong fears that the diseases might spread to other parts of the province because of poor water and sanitary facilities.

Magure said: "We are worried with the development and monitoring camps have been set up in the affected areas.

"We have not established whether the cases in Bikita and Zaka are linked."

Sources in the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare said health personnel deployed in the affected areas could not cope with the outbreak.

The situation, according to sources, has been aggravated by the current drought which has forced people to swarm to rural service centres in the hope of getting food as their reserves have completely run out, straining the existing water and sanitary facilities.

One source said: "There are several gatherings in some of the affected areas, as people converge in search of food.

"This has affected all measures which have been put in place to contain the diseases."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: africawatch; zimbabwe

1 posted on 09/06/2002 3:39:26 AM PDT by Clive
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2 posted on 09/06/2002 3:39:59 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive
Huh. No sooner had the great Sustainable Growth summit in Jo-burg ended than the joyful news is announced from Zimbabwe! The NGO horticulturalists had brought forth two of their favorite hothouse flowers! To thin the population without the ugly scourge of war!

I'm sure they must be delighted. Modesty will no doubt keep them from claiming credit.

(steely)

3 posted on 09/06/2002 3:58:53 AM PDT by Steely Tom
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Where's the outrage particularly from all those liberals that demanded justice for South Africa?
like Randall Robinson, Jesse and Al Sharpton. Where are the pickets , this time in front of the Zimbawean Embassy?

Are they afraid of being called racist if they complain about a black dictator--even though he is destroying his own people.

4 posted on 09/06/2002 3:59:20 AM PDT by catonsville
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To: Clive
The positions are layed out in an article in today's L.A. Times.

Whites claim Mugabe is a brutal, dictatorial, thief using political issues of fairness to cover the transfer of lands from white owners to his personal supporters and family - careless of the resulting famine.

Blacks claim that redistribution is the only solution to Britain's theft of half of the country's decent farmland in the late 1800's - and that current problems are due to natural variations in weather patterns, Britain's refusal to act in a less precipitous matter when it had the chance to do so, and inevitable lawlessness accompanying such dramatic social and economic change.

Anyone know how whites farmers acquired the land? I know nothing about the history of this country.

5 posted on 09/06/2002 8:20:23 AM PDT by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry
How did they acquire the land?

Most farmers had to buy the land back after independence in 1980, however, in a Marxist dictatorship there is no private property.
6 posted on 09/06/2002 8:27:06 AM PDT by TEXASPROUD
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To: Steely Tom
The NGO horticulturalists had brought forth two of their favorite hothouse flowers! To thin the population without the ugly scourge of war! I'm sure they must be delighted. Modesty will no doubt keep them from claiming credit.


Death of a continent (Aids crisis in Africa) ^
      Posted by Askel5 to Cachelot
On News/Activism ^ Jul 3 9:51 PM #47 of 55 ^

It sounds like what you're saying is that America has purposefully committed genocide by "culling" the African population for purposes of grabbing their resources.

No, that's what Kissinger suggested would be a good idea. I'm merely repeating ad infinitum portions of the GOP's national defense policies on population control. Books such as Excessive Force, which I purchased at CPAC from Steven Mosher's table, also are a goldmine of information.

Sudan is an excellent example of the the more brutal connection of depopulation to resources which sounds so matter of fact when detailed in policy memoranda such as Carter's GLOBAL 2000 or the motherlode that is Kissinger's NSSM-200/NSDM-314:

Part One -- Analytical Section
--------    ------------------
Chapter I   World Demographic Trends
Chapter II  Population and World Food Supplies
Chapter III Minerals and Fuel

Rapid population growth is not in itself a major factor in pressure on depletable resources (fossil fuels and other minerals), since demand for them depends more on levels of industrial output than on numbers of people.

On the other hand, the world is increasingly dependent on mineral supplies from developing countries, and if rapid population frustrates their prospects for economic development and social progress, the resulting instability may undermine the conditions for expanded output and sustained flows of such resources.

Chapter IV  Economic Development and
            Population Growth
Chapter V   Implications of Population Pressures
            for National Security
Chapter VI  World Population Conference

Part Two -- Policy Recommendations
--------    ----------------------
Section I   A U.S. Global Population Strategy

Section II  Action to Create Conditions for Fertility De-
            cline: Population and a Development Assis-
            tance Strategy
A. General Strategy and Resource for A.I.D. Assistance
B. Functional Assistance Programs to Create Condi-
   tions for Fertility Decline
C. Food for Peace Program and Population

Section III International Organizations and other Mul-
            tilateral Population Programs
A. UN Organization and Specialized Agencies
B. Encouraging Private Organizations

Section IV  Provision and Development of Family
            Planning Services, Information and Tech-
            nology
A. Research to Improve Fertility Control Technology
B. Development of Low-Cost Delivery Systems
C. Utilization of Mass Media and Satellite Communi-
   cations System for Family Planning

Section V   Action to Develop Worldwide Political and
            Popular Commitment to Population Stability
While specific goals in this area are difficult to state, our aim should be for the world to achieve a replacement level of fertility, (a two-child family on the average), by about the year 2000 [emphasis added]. This will require the present 2 percent growth rate to decline to 1.7 percent within a decade and to 1.1 percent by 2000. Compared to the U.N medium projection, this goal would result in 500 million fewer people in 2000 and about 3 billion fewer in 2050. Attainment of this goal will require greatly intensified population programs [emphasis added]. A basis for developing national population growth control targets to achieve this world target is contained in the World Population Plan of Action.

30. The World Population Plan of Action is not self-enforcing and will require vigorous efforts by interested countries, U.N. agencies and other international bodies to make it effective. U.S. leadership is essential [emphasis added].

Just as Kissinger made no bones (give or take 40 million American unborn) about the fact that abortion was vital to the solution, I'm saying that the US makes no bones about what is and is not in our national interest. Bodies can float like logs out of a bloody Rwanda of blacks run amok which some badass Boy Scout troop could tame and it's an "internal civil conflict into which we cannot intervene". Milosevic allegedly slaughters a mere 40,000 (okay, so that was never proven) and we go in and bust up bridges, target civilian infrastructure and a substantial amount of Collateral Damage and it's a moral war because our almighty National Interests (or those of the Stakeholders, anyway) are on the line.

A bit unclear? Let Brzerzinski have a go:

CHARLIE ROSE: So, we say to the Tibetans, ``You know, we can't do it because we don't want to get into a big deal with China, a fight with China.''

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: That's right.

CHARLIE ROSE: ``They're too big and strong.''

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: That's right.

CHARLIE ROSE: We said with Chechnya, ``We can't do it because morality plays no issue here because, you know, we don't want to get into a big conflict with the Russians.''

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: That's right. That is unfortunately--

CHARLIE ROSE: And we say to the Africans, ``We don't have a big stake here. It's Africa. It's not Europe, and so -- therefore -- we can't get involved.''

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: And we can support the African states doing-- You're absolutely right, Charlie. That's exactly the reality.

CHARLIE ROSE: It's not very tidy, is it?

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: It isn't tidy. And reality isn't tidy. And look at our own society. Look at the presence of crime in certain parts of our cities. In certain parts of a city there's much less. In other parts of the city there is much more. In certain parts of the cities certain forms of conduct would not be tolerated in daylight. In certain parts of cities they are. Unfortunately you cannot deal with all of the problems of the world at the same time. But that's not an argument for doing nothing where you can.

CHARLIE ROSE: So, the Brezhnev principle becomes--I mean, the Brzezinski principle--

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: You're not the only one who has done this, Charlie.

CHARLIE ROSE: There is no Brezhnev-- The Brzezinski principle becomes, ``Do something where you can have an impact and where it most closely fits your national interest in terms of like people.''

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: Well, where morality, practicality and interest coincide, obviously it's more possible. And I think it's even obligatory.
And last but certainly not least, as a Bloodhound, I'm happy to direct you to the sorts of Private Corporations (given his stint in Western Africa, Connaught's Thomas Hecht is a steller example of Stakeholder in the proces) of whom Kissinger repeatedly speaks. These Private Concerns -- with the guidance of folks at Rockefeller's daughter's Synergos Institute in conjunction with the World Economic Forum and the Global Philanthropists Circle help direct the billions in pop-control foundation monies from Stakeholders like Baroness Lynda Chalker, Bill Gates, Buffet and Turner to the right Targets.

These folks not only underwrite the researchers and academics who rotate out of "public service" (e.g., the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation floating the likes of Piotrow at Johns Hopkins and Foege at the Carter (GLOBAL 2000) Center at Emory) they act as partners of a sort in conjunction with the US, UN, USAID and other agencies charged with managing the "healthcare mechanisms" by which targeted nations could best be fast-tracked toward acceptable reproduction rates. No question but what the argument can be made that the AIDS epidemic is a product of the Blood Industry. Follow the money, as is always the case with "healthcare mechanisms".

So, given the evidence of US objectives and means as detailed in NSSM-200/NSDM-314 and carried out to this day -- particularly the protection and continued funding of the exact pharmas responsible for the epidemic -- I do believe the case can be made that the average USAIDS report on the depopulation effects of AIDS on certain African nations may well be a measure of success after all.

Despite the patently obvious agenda of so many of its cohorts and partners, even UNFPA's a bit confused, it seems:

Tuesday October 19, 1999

UNFPA MEETING JOKES ABOUT AIDS HELPING DEPOPULATION IN AFRICA

NEW YORK, Oct 19 (LSN.ca) - The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute reported Friday that at a briefing meeting of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), participants joked that AIDS was helping to do the work of population control in Africa. During the meeting a representative from Marie Stopes International, one of the largest abortion providers in the world, asked jokingly what a "demographer's approach to AIDS and STDs is since they reduce life expectancy."

A demographer and former UNFPA representative, Jan Fransen, emphasized at the meeting that, "individual rights" should not be "at the centre of development." Rather, the major concern from Fransen's view must be the number of "people which the earth can hold in a sustainable way," which he declared to be between only 700 million and 1 billion individuals. By extension, it would seem that those of like mind with Fransen in the UN, must favour extraordinary social upheaval that would be required in order to reduce the world's population by five billion people from its current six billion.

But who can begrudge the abortionists a little gallows humor as they go about their Humanitarian work on behalf of the Living?



7 posted on 09/06/2002 8:27:41 AM PDT by Askel5
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To: Askel5
That's realpolitic.

It's the way nations operate because it's the only way they can operate. Your objections sound very similar to utopian socialist objections to capitalism.

8 posted on 09/06/2002 10:25:40 AM PDT by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry
We had no choice but to seek to control the reproduction of our own citizenry as well as the rest of the planet?

If we could not bring the birth rate down, it really was incumbent upon us to bring the death rate back up?

It's our "realpolitic" is what smacks of utopian Planning and Population Control where the utterly immoral is rationalized as some pragmatic necessity.

9 posted on 09/09/2002 11:31:43 AM PDT by Askel5
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To: Askel5
Kissinger is talking about enhancing and/or protecting our wealth and power. Nations (and individuals) will do just about anything to achieve those goals - and always have.

One can debate whether or not population control will actually do what he claimed. But once people believe it will you can toss morality out the window.

Notice also that no one is too particular about the choice of methods.

Don't blame me. I'm not Kissinger, or Machiavelli, or any of the countless others who've made similar observations. I merely happen to think their observations are a correct description of human nature and its workings.

10 posted on 09/09/2002 4:35:07 PM PDT by liberallarry
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