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220 000 condoms off to Myanmar
News 24.com ^ | 20/05/2008 17:14 | SA

Posted on 05/22/2008 6:34:08 AM PDT by VocalObserver

Bangkok - The United Nations will send nearly a quarter of a million condoms into cyclone-hit Myanmar to help needy survivors with no access to contraceptives, a UN official says.

So far, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said it had sent 72 800 condoms to survivors struggling to maintain their family planning after the storm hit in early May.

A total of 218 400 condoms would be delivered, UNFPA aid advisor Chaiyos Kunanusont said.

"We don't want regular use of contraception disrupted. An emergency usually damages the health system, so people don't have access to condoms and contraceptives," said Chaiyos.

(Excerpt) Read more at news24.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cultureofdeath; cyclone; lifehate; myanmar; peoplehate; populationcontrol; unitednations; uselessnations
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To: VocalObserver

I hear you can use a UN condom for water filtration.


21 posted on 05/22/2008 6:48:12 AM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I'm so anti-pc, I use a Mac)
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To: Brilliant
Now don’t make fun of this...

Let’s face it, the whole world would be better off if Myanmar had half its current population. Same with China, Pakistan, etc.

If that is the case, why not ban all aid from making it to Myanmar or China. That would certainly hasten the population decline. But no, the minute there is a disaster, we rush in and try to mitigate deaths.

Seems we want to prevent future population from existing, but save those living now. I just don't understand the liberal mind at all.

22 posted on 05/22/2008 6:49:15 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: VocalObserver

Tens of thousands of people are dead - the first priority apparently is to make sure that none of them are replaced.


23 posted on 05/22/2008 6:50:11 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: VocalObserver

Dumb question - Are UN condoms blue on the end?


24 posted on 05/22/2008 6:51:00 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Friends with umbrellas are outstanding in the rain.)
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To: wideawake
Hey. Less people being born is less people being under communist rule and less people to die in cyclones.

Make perfect sense. /sarc

25 posted on 05/22/2008 6:52:27 AM PDT by Tolkien (Another day, another 1.603 million miles around the sun.)
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To: VocalObserver
It'll turn into an oil for condoms UN program and all we'll get out of it is the shaft.

26 posted on 05/22/2008 6:53:39 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: VocalObserver
The message ---- Don't repopulate!
27 posted on 05/22/2008 6:54:58 AM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
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To: w1andsodidwe

There is a moral difference between killing people and giving them birth control. The better argument against this policy, I think, involves whether they would use the condoms, or it’s just an empty gesture.

There is no question though that runaway population growth in the third world is causing problems here in the US. The world consumption of oil, for example, would be a lot less if there were fewer people consuming it. A lot of the illegal immigration problem in the US was brought on by Mexico’s population problems. I think the Muslim world in particular needs birth control. We can’t ignore this problem, unfortunately.


28 posted on 05/22/2008 6:59:15 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: VocalObserver
Dear Government/Ruling Junta/Military Compound of Myanmar:

We deeply regret the resistance you have shown to allowing international aid to feed and house your people. However we know there is one issue on which we can agree: you don't want a horde of little Myanmartians running around in the filth and rubble, as you will then have even more mouths to starve. So please accept these UN approved condoms as a first step in your junta's recovery. We also have a large surplus of inflatable life rafts and traffic control flashlights available. These might also be useful gifts as your people starve and die of disease.

Sincerely, UN Population, Flotation and Traffic Control

29 posted on 05/22/2008 7:01:05 AM PDT by Sender ("Why is it that I can't just eat my waffle?" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: VocalObserver

I am freakin’ speechless. Who thinks of these things, monkeys sipping cuervo in a tree? How, how, how does one conclude that starving, ailing, homeless, parentless people need condoms?


30 posted on 05/22/2008 7:04:05 AM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: VocalObserver

Perfect example of the UN thought process. Me myself I just cannot imagine a survivor of that Cyclone wandering around thinking “A condom, I need to find a condom”


31 posted on 05/22/2008 7:04:54 AM PDT by SledgeCS (Build the fence. Deport the Illegals. Sell all their assets to cover the cost.)
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To: Brilliant

The Myanmar government shares your belief. So, who dies first?


32 posted on 05/22/2008 7:05:53 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: VocalObserver

Where there are problems the UN only sees “opportunity”!!

Enjoy your baloon animal seminars.


33 posted on 05/22/2008 7:07:59 AM PDT by incredulous joe
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To: VocalObserver

In the midst of disaster .. only the liberals would be thinking about sex.


34 posted on 05/22/2008 7:09:05 AM PDT by CyberAnt (Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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To: VocalObserver

Is it just me or does anyone else find it funny that this report about condoms etc cums to us from Bankok ??


35 posted on 05/22/2008 7:15:31 AM PDT by InkYouBuss_007 (This one is escaping the Cuckoo's nest)
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To: VocalObserver
Why doesn't the UN send them tooth picks, after dinner mints and cigars as well. When you are starving and dying of cholera and typhus, I don't think sex is too high on your priorities.
36 posted on 05/22/2008 7:17:21 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: SledgeCS
Perfect example of the UN thought process. Me myself I just cannot imagine a survivor of that Cyclone wandering around thinking “A condom, I need to find a condom”

My kingdom for a condom.

37 posted on 05/22/2008 7:21:55 AM PDT by Walmartian
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To: VocalObserver

Priorities, doncha know...


38 posted on 05/22/2008 7:38:29 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: Brilliant
Let’s face it, the whole world would be better off if Myanmar had half its current population. Same with China, Pakistan, etc.

That is a despicably evil idea. We need single every eternal soul that God has created for his purposes and not ours. But besides that, from a purely economical perspective, people are the most valuable resource on earth. People are the means of production and consumption that drive the world's economy. Additionally, and maybe more importantly, people discover, invent, adapt and create even in slavery and other suboptimal conditions. Who are you or anyone else to say we would be better off with less. Why don't you volunteer to go first?

Let’s face it, the whole world would be better off if Myanmar had half its current population government. Same with China, Pakistan, etc. And that goes for the United States too!

FTFY

39 posted on 05/22/2008 7:38:55 AM PDT by Theophilus (Nothing can make Americans safer than to stop aborting them.)
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To: VocalObserver
"...and the nutritional value of a condom is... "

Hey! They make a great soup.

40 posted on 05/22/2008 7:41:20 AM PDT by mass55th
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