There’s not a lot of cause for hope in the news these days, but a few positive developments have been overlooked. At the 20th International AIDS Conference in Australia, the event marred by the deaths of several prominent researchers in the MH17 crash, it was announced that AIDS deaths and new infections have fallen more than a third over the last decade. Thanks largely to new retroviral treatments, South Africa’s average life expectancy has increased by more than a decade. And according to UNAIDS, last year, for the first time ever, more people were added to HIV treatment than were newly infected with the disease.
Thank God they will survive disease to be slaughtered.
President Joko Widodo?
“A political unity agreement negotiated with the help of Secretary of State John Kerry in early July between the rival candidates in Afghanistan’s presidential election may have put off a full-scale civil war. (It’s typical of Kerry’s luck that this rare and legitimate achievement happened at a time when no one was paying attention.)”
Poor Kerry. But at least it’s one more achievement than his predecessor.
I was born in 1946. I have never seen the world in such chaos. There have been Democrats and there have been Republicans in the White House during that time and U.S. Presidents have always been key in maintaining order in the world.
Now we have O bow wow, the evil, the spawn of the dark one and chaos reigns! Isn’t this biblical?