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Re: Re: Re: Before you start to pillory Africa BTW, I think you may have inadvertently entered your comment into the quoted section of my post. Come to think of it, my argument can be boiled down to this: The $15B US HIV program could be funded instantly by either Nigeria diverting its oil...

Actually, I didn't mean to say or imply that the state is going to wither away, the jury is still out on that concept. What I did mean to say was that bad management is bad management and just because a bad manager is a Chinese Communist instead of a British governor makes no difference to the...

Re: Obesity, Starvation, and the US All you have to do is check out the welfare expenditures in any city or in the US, examine the food stamp program on top of those welfare programs. You'll see that what welfare programs give to recipients is _barely_ enough to keep them in shared housing and...

I remember a quote from Chou En Lai when someone asked him "What do you think about the French Revolution?" and his reply was "It's too soon to tell". The point was that in political thought, just like science, some ideas take time to develop and prove to work or not. An example would be...

You have one point of view. I can give two others. My parents did come to Canada to avoid the Communists and I was very sad to see HK turned over to the Communist Chinese. My business partner's extended family still lives in Hong Kong but his parents came to Canada. Both of them were very sad...

Re: Before you start to pillory Africa Oddly enough, I think we agree. The US has lots of problems right now, so many problems that I disagree with *d* that the US should be spending $3B per year on HIV problems in Africa, especially when the Africans have the money and the technology (i.e...

Re: 90s SC Vet You're right about innocents suffering because of HIV. I would expand the victims to children whose parents have died of HIV. But I guess the overall problem still remains, why is it only Africans are in such a helpless state? Why is it that only the US has the moral...

I read another story about HIV in Africa, that in some countries the men insist on dry intercourse to simulate the tightness of a virgin. Some prostitutes in those countries actually use astringents in their vaginas to make them extra dry and tight. You can imagine how the extra abrasions would...

Well, yes, I would say the same about North American natives as well. I remember watching a CBC documentary where the host basically told a group of aborgines that their best chance of success would be for them to be assimilated into the rest of Canadian society. They weren't happy to hear that.

Re: Re: Re: IMHO the US is losing even more credibility I agree that the British left behind a legacy in North America. But you have to remember that the Africans currently have the US , Europe, Asia, South America, the Internet, vastly more intellectual, physical and financial capital...

http://www.thebody.com/cdc/news_updates_archive/2003/feb6_03/bush_aids.html IIRC, the $10,000 cost per person per year figure is out of date, the drugs being planned for deployment cost about $300 per year per person, as the above URL discusses. That is the cost of the raw materials for the...

IMHO, lately there have been more posts but I'm not sure that the overall quality of the posts has improved. There are about 9600 members on TERB, if they all posted five posts per month, you're going to get almost 50,000 posts per month, probably five to ten times the current volume. But then...

I haven't been to the Canbest site in quite a while. I tried to access the discussion forums and every one asked for a login/pw. Did Canbest go to a pay system for all the forums?