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Posted on 03/09/2006 10:08:04 PM PST by nwctwx
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Yep, unfortunately, maps like that, expose the good, bad and the ugly. I personally think, the numbers are way underreported. The survey claims about 11 million, I believe 30 million more realistic! Clearly a strain on states social services. And yes, way overdue to be addressed!
One of my main concerns are people not being tested for infectious diseases (TB) etc.! There hasn't been one word uttered, or spoken in congressional debates on this issue.
The L.A.Times...YES, that's where it came from. I know, I know, make sure you're sitting down when read it. There may be a glimmer of hope for that newspaper yet, huh.
Blessings to you too, Lucy T.
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Thank you...
All of this is very unsettled and troubling. I just hope our benevolent law makers have the will to stick with the rule of law. Me thinks not. The barn door should have been closed years ago!
Thanks WestCoastGal.
Happy Easter to you and all other TM'ers as well!
Could this be a preview and pattern of coming attractions in America? I sure hope not!
In the name development, and in the blink of an eye, the Chinese government has imminent domain down to just a snatch, grab, and bulldoze. Leaving the property owner out on the street dazed, penniless, and homeless. In turn, has created a whole new society of homeless adults, and another of homeless children. With recent laws passed by our courts, plus a tsunami of illegal immigration, and pending congressional legislation on the horizon, you decide?
ABC Online
Correspondents Report - China's homeless rate growing
[This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/content/2004/s1108983.htm]
Correspondents Report - Sunday, 16 May , 2004
Reporter: John Taylor
HAMISH ROBERTSON: China may have made some amazing economic progress in recent years, but the shopping malls and skyscrapers of Beijing and Shanghai are a glittering facade that obscures a darker side to the country's economic transformation.
Begging and vagrancy are now rife in all of China's major cities, and the authorities are also being confronted by the growing problem of homeless children. Officially there are now 150,000 children who are forced to live by their wits on the streets of China's cities.
Our China Correspondent John Taylor compiled this report.
JOHN TAYLOR: In an underpass below Beijing's main artery the avenue of eternal peace, the usual assortment of buskers, vendors and beggars compete for attention.
Ms Wang, with her right arm amputated just above the elbow, sits against a wall cradling her 5-month-old son, Yongjian. She's a beggar, and a living example of the growing wealth gap in China.
MS WANG: I have no way to make a living at home. That's why I came here. If there is any way out at home, I won't come to Beijing at all.
JOHN TAYLOR: Ms Wang, who out of pride won't reveal her full name, is from a farming area in northern China. Her injury means she can't do as much work on the farm.
She says her husband can't support her and their son and his own parents at the same time, so she has come Beijing to beg, and brought along her baby boy.
Ms Wang wants to find work, and says she won't beg with Yongjian once he's old enough to understand what she's doing.
MS WANG: The "work" of begging, how to say, if there is any other way out, I won't do this at all, especially with a child in my arm. You know why? Because it is not good for the child. What I mean is that when the child gets older, say if he can walk or follow me, maybe next year or later, I won't sit here begging. That's bad for the future of the child, I think.
JOHN TAYLOR: In Beijing however, many children do beg. Probably some are part of organised criminal gangs, but others are also probably acting out of desperation.
Yong Jian and his mother aren't strictly homeless – they pay rent on a room they share with others with the proceeds of their begging.
But lawyer Tong Lihua, Vice General Secretary of the China Society of Juvenile Delinquency Research, says China has thousands of homeless children.
"The official figure is 150,000. But I believe the actual figure is higher than that. But no one has done a very careful investigation on the real figure", he says.
Mr Tong says the issue of homeless children is relatively new to China. He believes there are many different reasons why so many children are homeless. But he says the majority have something in common – they come from very poor families.
"Actually, for a long period of time, when China still had a planned economy, until 1978, there were only very few homeless children," he says.
"After the reform and opening of China, with the economic development and urbanisation and with the widening gap of people's living conditions, the phenomenon of homeless children appeared", he says.
JOHN TAYLOR: Mr Tong believes Chinese authorities have begun to address the problem: new child protection laws are being ushered in; shelters are being established, as are various protection organisations. Child homelessness is a complex issue, he says, but authorities have no choice but to act.
"From a moral sense, we have to protect these children", he says. "From the most pragmatic sense, to achieve stability, we have to protect them. Otherwise, if we don't protect them right now, if we don't correct their bad habits, many of them will go down a criminal path. Then the costs for society will be much higher", he says.
This is John Taylor in Beijing, for Correspondent's Report.
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You got that right! Listening to AM talk radio this week, that topic was brought up by a caller. The conservative radio talking head didn't have a clue about infectious diseases as to how they are being spread by illegals to us.
Here's one we don't usually discuss on this thread:
Snip: Malaria is found in some rural areas of Mexico, particularly those near the southwest coast. Travelers to malarial areas should consult their physician and take the recommended dosage of chloroquine, mefloquine (Lariam™), doxycycline, or atovaquone/proguanil (Malarone™) or other anti-malarial medication.....
Need more?
Snip: Dengue, filariasis, leishmaniasis, onchocerciasis, and American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) are diseases carried by insects that also occur in this region. Myiasis (botfly) is endemic in Central America. Protecting yourself against insect bites (see below) will help to prevent these diseases.
Next, (oh maybe I shouldn't post this - there couldn't possibly be any illegals from any of THESE areas here, now could there be? (sarcasm)):
Cholera: Officially considered infected. Infection reported in the following states: Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Distrito Federal, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacateca.
Sad to hear about all the homeless children.
I was hunting for a newspaper picture I used to have of an infant baby girl left to die in the gutter in China and all the people just walking on by!!
It was hard to imagine people doing that.
Snip: The drawing in the magazine Studi Cattolici has drawn immediate criticism from Muslims in Italy.
Pakistani Christian woman beaten, stripped, thrown in jail for defending cross
Snip: She defended Christ’s cross that Muslims pictured atop a garbage heap. For that, she’s in a solitary confinement cell in Pakistan. Nassem was attacked by Muslims, beaten, and stripped naked in public before being thrown into a jail cell.
Comments from the Islamic Center of Raleigh
Snip: But the center’s youth director, Hisham Sarsour, has a different message. A former president of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) who was born in Jerusalem and educated at Columbia University, University of Wisconsin and the University of Southern California, Sarsour has a long record of making religiously divisive and anti-American statements.
At the same conference, Sarsour argued that American efforts to support freedom in Iraq are “dumb.” Sarsour also stated that when the U.S. engages in surveillance and when Muslims are taken into custody, “[a] Christian public is very accepting of this,” so much so that persecution of Muslims is the “new religion of America.”
Far more charitable is Sarsour's view of terrorism -- particularly when it is directed against Israel and the United States. For example, Sarsour disapproves of the term “terrorist” for Palestinian suicide bombers. Instead, as Sarsour sees it, those Palestinians who fight against Israel are fighting “terrorists." As for the terrorists in Iraq, Sarsour seems to regard them as brave patriots guilty of nothing more than defending their homeland. He asks rhetorically, “What is a terrorist? How can we fight terrorism? If Iraq is defending its own country, its own people, its own being, its own heart, is this a terrorist?”
You'fre right on target. It's a horrible problem that our politicians appear to be ignoring. For example of infectious diseases check out the 'mumps' epidemic in nine heartland states:
Mumps
More Mumps
Yet, More Mumps
Uncontrolled borders, and illegal immigration has left us vunerable to God knows what!
China has evolved into a strange form of communism, of the rich and middle class. The poor is still dirt poor. So one has to wonder of what happened to the Utopian dream of equality for all under Carl Marx. (sarcasm) It didn't work in Russia, and it's just a matter of time before the poor catch on that they're being had, and revolt.
I wonder what kind of government China would have if the people really revolted!
The Kiss of Death:
Chagas' disease is an infection caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Also called American trypanosomiasis. Transmitted by reduviid bugs, or kissing bugs, an estimated 18 to 20 million people in Central, South America, and the United States carry the disease.
The early stage of infection (acute Chagas disease) usually is not severe, but sometimes it can cause death, particularly in infants.
However, in about one-third of those who get the infection, chronic symptoms develop after 10-20 years. For these persons who develop chronic symptoms, the average life expectancy decreases by an average of 9 years.
Cardiac problems, including an enlarged heart, altered heart rate or rhythm, heart failure, or cardiac arrest are symptoms of chronic disease. Chagas disease can also lead to enlargement of parts of the digestive tract, which result in severe constipation or problems with swallowing. In persons who are immune compromised, including persons with HIV/AIDS, Chagas disease can be severe.
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=23102
In March 2006 according to the CDC and World Health Organization, Aruba has a fully blown Dengue Fever epidemic. Every day, the Aruban laboratories do more than one-hundred blood tests for dengue.
Most fatal dengue cases are among children and young adults.
Calling around to several medical institutions revealed there are at least a thousand cases of infections (in Auba), dengue is the most important mosquito-borne viral disease affecting humans;
its global distribution is comparable to that of malaria, and an estimated 2.5 billion people live in areas at risk for epidemic transmission.
LOL, I'm too tired tonight to even try to respond to that. It almost sounds like a code for something, yet fully understandable!
I did it again...
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