One is a pathogen released by the UN:
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Uganda: Ebola Outbreak Kills Medics
Health workers are among the dead in an Ebola outbreak, spreading panic among doctors and nurses needed to help treat victims of the highly contagious disease, officials said. Experts say that the Ebola strain in the outbreak is a new one and that the typical Ebola symptoms were not always present, slowing diagnosis. Doctors and nurses did not know at first what they were facing, so they failed to protect themselves, according to Jane Alisemera, the lawmaker who represents Bundibugyo District, the center of the outbreak. “We are facing a crisis in health care here,” she said. According to the Ministry of Health’s latest figures, Bundibugyo has 93 suspected cases of Ebola virus, among them 22 deaths. Four health workers were among the dead. The outbreak began Aug. 20, but the disease was not confirmed as a new strain of Ebola until Nov. 29. Infection control doctors from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently arrived to help local officials contain the outbreak (AP)."
Contain the outbreak, or spread it?
The other is the root of all evil:
U.S. Agency’s Slow Pace Endangers Foreign Aid"The Millennium Challenge Corporation, a federal agency set up almost four years ago to reinvent foreign aid, has taken far longer to help poor, well-governed countries than its supporters expected or its critics say is reasonable.
The agency, a rare Bush administration proposal to be enacted with bipartisan support, has spent only $155 million of the $4.8 billion it has approved for ambitious projects in 15 countries in Africa, Central America and other regions.
So, where did the rest of that money go?
I'll bet the fucker is taking every penny and putting it into the wars!
Senator Patrick J. Leahy
, the Vermont Democrat who heads the Senate appropriations subcommittee on foreign aid, asked where else should Congress look for savings in its foreign aid budget:
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Do we cut maternal health? AIDS? Malaria? Do we cut refugees? The only thing that’s got a blank check is the war in Iraq."
Excuse me, Pat? I didn't quite get that last part.
"The only thing that’s got a blank check is the war in Iraq"
Case fucking closed, readers!
American foreign aid often takes the form of modest, short-term projects that are planned in Washington and carried out by American contractors and charities.
Oh, so it is about BENEFITING AMERICAN INTERESTS, not the Africans!!!
Sigh! What else is there to say, readers?
