Lou Dobbs, television show host of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” and commentator of the Early Show, is drumming up anti-immigrant, racist hysteria by spreading false data that accuses immigrants of spreading disease in America.

Reflecting the current widespread trend of the government/media to create and flame public fears about non-whites and immigrants, the audience for his program has grown 72 percent since 2003.

Lou Dobbs and his peons stated multiple times that there had been 7,000 cases of leprosy in this country over the previous 3 years, compared to 900 cases over the past 40 years.

Interestingly, according to the NYTimes,
"When Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes” sat down to interview Mr. Dobbs on camera, she mentioned the report and told him that there didn’t seem to be much evidence for it.

'Well, I can tell you this,' he replied. 'If we reported it, it’s a fact.'"

HOWEVER- official leprosy statistics show about 7,000 diagnosed cases — but that’s over the last 30 years, not the last three.

Sadly any white racist can spin lies as truth and before you know it, half of America accepts it as truth. We can only pray that Lou Dobbs soon goes the way of Jerry Falwell..........


Source:
Truth, Fiction and Lou Dobbs, NEW YORK TIMES

By DAVID LEONHARDT
Published: May 30, 2007

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

Bush's appointee to US Global AIDS Coordinator Randall Tobias resigns after being caught on a list of clients of a famous high-end brothel/ escort service.

Tobias is the main man responsible for trying to get all aid orgs seeking US funds or partnering with orgs that receive US funds, to sign a pledge opposing commercial sex work (cuz that's going to do a hell of a lot!).

Who put the H in hypocrisy.............. the United States of America!


Written by one of my heroes............


Tobias Latest Evidence of Bush Hypocrisy
RH Reality Check
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/04/30/bush-official-randall-tobias-resigns
Jodi Jacobson , CHANGE on
April 30, 2007 - 12:00pm


Excerpts:

....
In the far-rights' anti-science, always fiction world, you should never have sex, unless you
are a married heterosexual willing to do so only at risk of getting pregnant. Others—sexually active unmarrieds, gay, lesbian and transgender persons, and anyone else outside the "norm"—are subject to reprogramming. So since the Bush Administration wants a video cam in every bedroom and uterus (and I have no idea whether Tobias was taping his masseuses but that is another story), it is fair to ask if these guys are practicing what they preach. Apparently not.

...

Abstinence is big in U.S. global AIDS policy, which one colleague dubbed the
"Americans for Stopping Sex in Africa League." Billions of dollars have been
spent in a fruitless effort at home and abroad to spread a hyper-moralistic
and ideological message to everyone and sundry. Programs teaching people
sexual negotiation and safer sex methods have become as scarce as rubbers in
Uganda. Even sex workers in Asia and Africa are being told to abstain.
(Don't ask me.....it's in the program guides.)


.......... He has repeatedly testified before Congress supporting these policies, regularly using faulty data to support his claims. Under the "ABC" policy as developed under Tobias' watch, some 11 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have been subject to abstinence-only-until marriage programs, receiving no information, training, or methods to
practice safer sex, despite the fact that unprotected sex is responsible for 80 percent of new infections in that region. Condoms have been re-stigmatized and in some programs paid for by your tax dollars teens actually are told they will go to hell for having sex.

...
In a saner world, the U.S. government would not be known for its fundamentalist
"tighty-whities-in-a-twist" approach to sex.

But we don't live in that world. In our world, people with wealth, money,
and power get away with "special massages," they make unrealistic rules for
other people and set their own for themselves. And those at greatest risk of
life-threatening infections and engaged in a fundamental daily life struggle
to survive are punished in the interest of moralism. Give me some real
science fiction any day.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2070680,00.html


Another outrageous example of racial discrimination and profiling. Maybe US officials should recall the past century of imperialism, subjugation, emasculation, and robbery of natural resources in predominately Muslim countries if it's still wondering "why they hate us"





US 'wants British Pakistanis to have entry visas'


Matt Weaver
Wednesday May 2, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

The American government wants to impose travel restrictions on British citizens of Pakistani origin because of concerns about terrorism, according to a report today.
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