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 »

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Episode 9: Science Fiction: Law & Order’s Morality Tale on “AIDS Denialism”

David and Christine discuss “Retro”, a recent episode of the prime time TV show, “Law & Order Special Victim’s Unit”, in which a false version of Christine’s life is used to send a supposedly true message about AIDS. Special guests include Robin Scovill, Christine’s real life husband of 12 years whose inexplicable HIV negative status causes him to be eliminated from fictionalized portrayals of his family as well as from most factual news articles. Continue reading »

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