NEWS UPDATE: Flowers After the Date Rape? Clinton Tries to ‘Help’ Haiti While Hurricane Rages and Haitians Protest Earthquake Ripoff
October 7, 2016–The versatile emotional-blackmail model of AIDS relief has been trotted out again to exploit another kind of tragedy. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton this past Tuesday exhorted his Twitter followers to send money to unspecified “Members of the Clinton Foundation Community” to “help in Haiti” — even as Haitians were organizing rallies against the Foundation’s previous effort there. (The tweet is viewable HERE.)
Adding urgency to the appeal, the tweet featured a disaster-porn satellite photo of Hurricane Matthew flushing the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere down the familiar toilet-swirl of a Caribbean storm.
Some of those Twitter followers were not impressed with the Foundation’s record of “help.” Continue reading »
Comment (0)Episode 33: Film Maker Joan Shenton
Joan Shenton is an award-winning British television producer whose company, Meditel Productions, has produced over 150 programs for network television. In 1987, she produced the first documentary challenging the science behind the HIV=AIDS hypothesis, “AIDS: The Unheard Voices”, which won the Royal Television Society Award for Journalism. She then produced three more documentaries: “The AIDS Catch”, “AZT – Cause for Concern”, and “AIDS and Africa”. She is currently creating a new documentary, “Positively False: Birth of a Heresy“, soon to be released in 2011. Joan is best known for her book, “Positively False: Exposing the Myths Around HIV and AIDS”, which can be found on Amazon.com, Alibris.com, and other online resources. In this hour-long conversation, David, Terry and Joan explore a range of fascinating topics centered around the rethinking AIDS movement, and the fierce resistance it encounters worldwide.
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