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Midwest Conservative Journal ^ | 7/08/2008 | Christopher Johnson

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Read it the other day on a blog. A wonderful response to the prevailing idiocy. But, Bush just agreed at G8 to send another 50 billion - most of which will likely be taken out of the pockets of US taxpayers - and folks are saying he scored a "great victory." This is on top of the 15 billion pledged last year to "fight AIDS in Africa."

There must be a flurry of bank account openings in places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. The Kleptocrats are going to feast as they never have before. I wonder if Kofi and Kojo will be getting a place at the trough? 50 billion! That will buy all sorts of new palaces, fleets of fast cars, harems of women, planeloads of recreational pharmaceuticals. The more idealistic of the kleptocrats who are practicioners of the "religion of peace" can buy lots of AK-47s, RPGs, C4, and the odd WMD for their amusement. How much to Mugabe? Compassion is always so easy with other people's money, especially that siezed at gunpoint from taxpayers. Fools.

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The WHO and the virus do gooders are trying to do to us with fear based on inflated models what they have done to Africa:

SPIEGEL: Would Africa actually be able to solve these problems on its own?
Shikwati: Of course. Hunger should not be a problem in most of the countries south of the Sahara. In addition, there are vast natural resources: oil, gold, diamonds. Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated. In the industrial nations, there’s a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn’t do all that poorly either.

SPIEGEL: But AIDS didn’t exist at that time.
Shikwati: If one were to believe all the horrorifying reports, then all Kenyans should actually be dead by now. But now, tests are being carried out everywhere, and it turns out that the figures were vastly exaggerated. It’s not three million Kenyans that are infected. All of the sudden, it’s only about one million. Malaria is just as much of a problem, but people rarely talk about that.

SPIEGEL: And why’s that?

Shikwati: AIDS is big business, maybe Africa’s biggest business. There’s nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical.