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PROGRESSIVES SPINNING SCIENCE TO ADVANCE THEIR POLITICAL AGENDA: POPULATION GROWTH, HIV/AIDS, SWINE/AVIAN FLU, GLOBAL WARMING, AND NOW MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (MERS)

The United Nations has dishonestly sought to secure permanent power for its internal bureaucracy and a source of permanent funding unaffected by the whims of its member nations, of which the United States is the largest contributor. To this end, the United Nations has admitted falsifying medical statistics on hiv/aids and over-publicizing pandemics …

First, lets deal with the matter of the United Nations’ estimates. They have admitted that population growth is not linear and many of their projections involving population growth are faulty. Even recently, they admitted that their estimates of HIV/Aids were markedly in error due to a faulty methodology that simply diagnoses anyone with fever and weight loss in a particular region as being affected with HIV/Aids and that the deception was for the benign purposes of raising awareness of the true problem and seeking funding for their programs. Can you say “lying thieves?”

The United Nations has a history of admitting to the overstating of scientific research for the purposes of increasing public awareness and issue-based funding. They are not a credible source of information when it comes to their self-interest which would convey great regulatory and taxation powers to an institution that currently begs member nations for support.

I have zero respect for the United Nations. They have ignored their charter and sat idly by while rogue leaders engaged in genocide. They have admitted to openly distorting science and medicine reporting for the purpose of increasing media and public awareness and to boost fundraising. They have been complicit in the ugly deaths of hundreds of millions with their pseudo-science ban on the pesticide DDT, which they have now approved. They are rife with internal corruption as members live lavish lifestyles while others starve.

"Having millions fewer people with a lethal contagious disease is good news. Some researchers, however, contend that persistent overestimates in the widely quoted U.N. reports have long skewed funding decisions and obscured potential lessons about how to slow the spread of HIV. Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS."

Please Pay Attention to the MERS Warnings -- The WHO calls it a ‘threat to the entire world’ and 26 are dead. Why all of the scary talk about the strange, deadly virus coming out of the Middle East? Kent Sepkowitz explains.

Margaret Chan, secretary-general of the World Health Organization, raised a few eyebrows and dropped a few jaws this week with her proclamation that the weird new corona virus circulating mostly in the Middle East posed a “threat to the entire world.”

She might be right, sort of. The virus is a close cousin of the contagion that caused SARS, the acronym for the severe acute respiratory syndrome that appeared dramatically in South China and Hong Kong in 2002, spread rapidly, and ended up causing more than 8,000 cases, including 775 deaths. The exact reason for the precipitous appearance of SARS (and even more precipitous disappearance) remains a hot topic of debate among virologists, public-health sorts, and those who specialize in predicting doom.

Why then the scare tactics? Well, Chan is someone with an interesting career. Trained as a doctor in Canada, she was a high-ranking public-health official in Hong Kong for both the 1997 H5N1 avian-flu outbreak and, relevant to MERS, for the 2002–03 SARS outbreak. Her avian flu performance initially was perhaps a little shaky—early in the outbreak, she made some headlines by publicly grinning and bearing it, telling the citizenry that she wasn’t afraid and was, in fact, planning to eat chicken that very night.

It ain’t easy. But Chan has taken the only path available: scream really loud with eye-popping language to get a little notice. As predicted, the news media (including The Daily Beast) took the bait. Mission accomplished.

We shouldn’t begrudge her this bit of showmanship; her job is to prepare people for what might be ahead. That means overstating the threat more than once in a while, as she is with MERS. But her work will not be wasted, unfortunately. Sooner or later, we will indeed meet up with another truly scary epidemic and another reason to pay sober attention to the pronouncements of the WHO. And then their experience in corralling the world’s attention, sharpened by the likes of MERS, may make all the difference. Source: Please Pay Attention to the MERS Warnings - The Daily Beast

Why I am calling bullshit!

First because you can’t trust a person who knowingly and deliberately generates fear in order to pursue a personal, political, and professional agenda. Second, the numbers pale in comparison to the number of people, mostly elderly, who die from the various forms of seasonal flu. And third, the WHO is playing with fire – the boy who cried wolf so many times, when the wolf really appeared, nobody would believe the boy.

Bottom line …

How stupid do you have to be to repeatedly believe an “official” source that lies – and then excuses their actions by claiming they want to raise awareness and funding.

-- steve

“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS

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Racist Representative Bobby Rush rips Senator Mark Kirk's Gang Arrests proposal as "elitist white boy solution"

The numbers don’t lie – most of the impetus for disarming law-abiding citizens comes from the overwhelming number of weapon-related deaths and injuries from minority gang members in the inner cities. These gang members, domestic terrorists in reality, along with the black gangsta culture, are a clear and present danger to their communities. Of course, socialist Bobby Rush is a promoter of black liberation theology, appears to hate Whites and America. Not surprising since Rush went AWOL from the Army and co-founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers.

Rush, a radical progressive continues to blame poverty, high unemployment, and poor education, while failing to blame the ruling democrats for destroying the black nuclear family with their welfare policies, turning a blind-eye to rampant promiscuity and deadbeat fathers, and single working women with multiple children with multiple fathers that almost guarantees a rough existence. Ask Rush where the billions in assistance actual went and he goes silent – probably knowing it was stolen by his democrat party. No, Rush would rather disarm law-abiding citizens who need a weapon for self protection – enlarging the pool of potential victims, rather than disrespect his core constituency by suggesting that their criminality was out of control.

Bobby Rush rips Mark Kirk’s mass gang arrests proposal as ‘elitist white boy solution’

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) is highly critical of a proposal by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) for mass arrests of 18,000 Gangster Disciples, telling the Sun-Times on Wednesday that Kirk’s approach is “headline grabbing” and an “upper-middle-class, elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about.” One of Kirk’s top priorities is targeting gangs; he has been meeting with law enforcement officials to devise a plan to execute the mass arrests.

Rush’s comments came as Kirk and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) huddled Wednesday with Zachary Fardon, the nominee for U.S. attorney in Chicago, and urged him to keep fighting public corruption and to redouble the battle against street gangs.

The senators asked Fardon, who is expected to be confirmed by the Senate in the coming months, to put the pressure on Chicago’s largest gang, the Gangster Disciples.

Kirk said at a press conference with Durbin at the Union League Club following the Fardon meeting that he will ask the Senate Appropriations Committee for $30 million “to go after gangs like the GDs . . . and pick the biggest and baddest for a federal effort.”

“I think it’s completely within the capability of the United States government to crush a major urban gang,” Kirk said. “Just think of what the greatest generation did here in Chicago, pretty much crushing the Capone organization.” Rush, asked by the Sun-Times to react to Kirk’s proposal said in a phone interview: “It’s a sensational, headline-grabbing, empty, simplistic, unworkable approach.”

You don’t need $30 million, you need the law enforcement and judicial officials to do their jobs. Not turn a blind eye to gang-violence. It would not surprise me if the gangs are not paying off the politicians and the police and judges-- à la Al Capone’s syndicate style.

If there is $30 million for Congress to spend, better most of it be allocated for “job creation and job training,” to address the gang problem, Rush said. Rush’s House district includes communities plagued by gang violence. He said his criticism of Kirk is “not to excuse their activities.” Rush said an arrest sweep “is not going to work. . . . It is not a law and order, lock ‘em up solution.”

Rush said he would like to talk to Kirk, to “get him to see the bigger picture.” He added, “I am really very upset with Mark” and that Kirk’s approach was an “upper-middle-class, elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about.” Realizing those were very strong words, a short time later Rush issued a follow-up statement to the Sun-Times to put his remarks in context.

Yeah right Bobby …

It was the democrat’s “bigger picture” that nearly killed our economy by relaxing loan underwriting standards for affordable housing. It was the democrats who imposed strict gun control that kept Chicago citizens from protecting themselves against armed gangs. It was the democrat public employee unions that sucked money out of the city’s treasury. It was the democrats and the teachers unions that are responsible for producing decades functionally illiterate children. You have had decades to solve the problem and you failed as your party stole the city and state blind with your political corruption and thuggish ways.

Kirk’s “current plan does not include the option to create jobs, provide affordable and safe housing, quality health care and improve schools in urban areas, BUT certainly a plan to incarcerate 18,000 black men is elitist. Why is incarceration the sole option instead of rehabilitation which is proven to work and not locking young men up,” Rush said in an email. Source: Bobby Rush rips Mark Kirk’s mass gang arrests proposal as ‘elitist white boy solution’ - Chicago Sun-Times

Rehabilitation of hardened criminals who hone their bodies and skills in gang-controlled prisons. What chance is there for people to break away from the gang culture and influence? It is not the government’s duty to provide any citizen with anything other than the opportunity to prosper. Something that apparently does not exist, by design, in the democrat-controlled inner cities.

Bottom line …

Bobby Rush is a racist who has been in politics for over 20 years – with a steady decline in the welfare of his constituents. If he couldn’t play the race card and talk about “the man,” he would be nowhere. Unfortunately, he is “the man” and every bit as corrupt as any other Chicago machine politician. Don’t get me wrong, Bobby Rush is bright and articulate and had a chance to be a real civil rights leader, it’s just that he is a product of his environment; another corrupt democrat who exploited radical racial socialist politics for his own benefit.

-- steve

P.S. If you hear Bobby Rush speak, he speaks in a slow, hesitant manner – nothing more than a symptom of his salivary gland cancer.