Posted on 12/19/2010 10:25:51 AM PST by opentalk
That human action or activity often has unintended consequences is not a new observation.
Among the activities that often have results very different from those envisaged or desired is foreign aid. There is probably not a single case of a very poor country being hauled out of poverty by such aid; there are many instances of dictators being kept in power and of civil wars virtually funded by it.
..To the roll of unintended consequences must now be added the likely introduction of cholera into Haiti by Bangladeshi troops there who are part of the UN peacekeeping force there.
A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine for December 9 from Harvard Medical School shows that the strain of cholera that has caused an epidemic in Haiti probably originated in South Asia, that is to say Bangladesh. The authors arrived at this conclusion by genetic analysis.
...There is a terrible irony to all this that the authors do not mention. The Bangladeshis now suffer from the largest mass outbreak of arsenic poisoning in the history of mankind, thanks to the wells in their country drilled (with the best of intentions, no doubt) by UNICEF. The arsenic was in the groundwater, and millions of Bangladeshis now suffer from chronic arsenic poisoning; and one in four deaths in Bangladesh has now been attributed to it.
Humanitarian action has thus imported mass poisoning into Bangladesh and humanitarian action has now exported cholera from it. Beware of internationalists trying to do good.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
The earthquake didn’t kill enough Haitians so let’s introduce cholera and see it that works better.
Then you have Bill Clinton who probably spread herpes and other STDs throughout Haiti.
Years ago when I took my first ride as a student pilot we flew from Stuart, Florida to Indiantown, Florida.
Got out to discuss it all with my C.F.I. and went in to the decrepit trailer used as the office at Indiantown.
In it was a poster Titled the Ten biggest lies you’ll hear in Aviation.
#1, Hi I’m from the F.A.A. and I’m here to help you.
Dr. Bill Wattenburg (KGO-AM 810 weekends, 10 pm > 1 am) had (as is his habit) the ridiculously simple answer both to this issue and how to feed literally millions of poor Haitians, and bureaucratic red tape stood in the way, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths. Bureaucracy stands in the way still, to this day, causing an entirely preventable and yet predictable cholera outbreak.
His idea is simply to drop individual plastic bottles of bottled water into lakes from low-flying helos. The bottles, each containing some air, will float and can be picked up. This solves the distribution and the hoarding problems all at once. The origin of his idea stems from efforts to feed the Kurds, who were being harassed and persecuted in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq post Desert Storm.
It was observed that when pallets of food aid were dropped via parachute, the Iraqi army soldiers would simply wait until the Kurdish refugees approached the intact pallets and machine-gun them. Dr. Bill experimented with food packets dropped from a small private plane piloted by a friend of his near Livermore, CA.
He found that stuff dropped from an airplane will simply reach its terminal velocity and scatter over a wide area. Hence, granola bars and the like need not be packaged into cartons and tightly wrapped up on pallets dropped via parachute. You just dump it out of the airplane as single-packaged items. Inevitably in such situations, stronger elements within the refugee population get to the pallets first and hog the food. Instead, by simply dumping the stuff out of the back of an airplane, it will scatter, providing many more folks the chance to get it.
During the Kurdish refugee situation he lobbied the US Army and the UN literally for months trying to get them to try his idea. The Army insisted that people would get hurt if the items dropped on them. Nobody would make the decision to change the way things were being done.
It’s exactly the same story in Haiti. Now with the outbreak of cholera, the water supply, such as it is, has become contaminated, which will take years to get out of the system. Another government success story.
Back in the 1980s, Haiti was a popular destination for gay pedophiles.
The weekly rate for child was probably the cost of an overpriced
cup of coffee nowadays.
In the grand scheme of things, I doubt the Zippered One could have
any effect on Haiti at all, let alone an increase in STD infections.
As Reagan said "Government is not the solution; it's the problem."
DDT banned in Africa has resulted in millions dead and still dying.
POPULATION CONTROL -
http://www.bing.com/search?q=typhoid+vaccines+to+africans+caused+sterilation&form=MS8TDF&pc=MS8TDF&src=IE-SearchBox
Hewlett Packard Foundation, BIll and Melinda Gates, UN - UNESCO Ted Turner/Timothy Wirth, Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie foundations. Carnegie funded the eugenic movement. They’ve given billions...they make me sick to my stomach. These stories need to get out into the mainstream.
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