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 64: Thomas Shevory and the Nushawn Williams Lynching
Thomas Shevory is author of the 2004 book, “Notorious HIV: The Media Spectacle of Nushawn Williams.” He gives David and Elizabeth a lot of background on the case and discusses the upcoming civil trial that could see Nushawn, whose sentence expired two years ago, locked up in a mental institution for the rest of his life. Does this shock you? It should . . . especially since the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice (OMSJ) has found there is no evidence that Williams has ever been HIV positive.
Comment (0)Episode 2: Living in Black Radio with David and Christine
Keidi Awadu of LIB radio invites discussion on the targeting of Africans and African Americans for HIV testing and AIDS treatment with David, Christine and other guests as part of a joint podcast. Topics covered range from the propensity for false-positive reactions in blacks to the impact beliefs have on physical and emotional health. Following the broadcast Christine and David reflect on how people with black skin are targeted by the HIV and AIDS establishment, through circumcision and testing campaigns, all based on the old racist slur that blacks are more sexually promiscuous.
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