This may have flown under the radar a little bit, but on Monday, September 11, seven AIDS activists were arrested after “swarming” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office to protest the delay in renewing PEPFAR, the U.S.
If they claim to have saved 25 million that's probably half those killed.
The war on Russia by America in former UKraine is acknowledged now to have left like half million Ukrainians dead, so the real cost is easily twice that , I guess
Rebecca, I think you're correct on both counts in your interpretation of PEPFAR:
That this is a case of "enlightened Westerners" swooping into poor Black, Hispanic communities and other countries to give them a lifetime of toxic medications whose adverse effects are well known, and that this is a massive money laundering scheme on the part of the government and big business to line the pockets of pharmaceutical companies.
It's unfortunate that opposing GOP lawmakers don't recognize and openly acknowledge these two points, opting instead to focus on the abortion angle. But at least their instincts are right in being suspicious of anything Fauci advocates, and at least they are delaying renewal of this odious legislation. That so many other lawmakers are blindly cheerleading for it is downright shameful.
Everything they say is a lie.
If they claim to have saved 25 million that's probably half those killed.
The war on Russia by America in former UKraine is acknowledged now to have left like half million Ukrainians dead, so the real cost is easily twice that , I guess
Rebecca, I think you're correct on both counts in your interpretation of PEPFAR:
That this is a case of "enlightened Westerners" swooping into poor Black, Hispanic communities and other countries to give them a lifetime of toxic medications whose adverse effects are well known, and that this is a massive money laundering scheme on the part of the government and big business to line the pockets of pharmaceutical companies.
It's unfortunate that opposing GOP lawmakers don't recognize and openly acknowledge these two points, opting instead to focus on the abortion angle. But at least their instincts are right in being suspicious of anything Fauci advocates, and at least they are delaying renewal of this odious legislation. That so many other lawmakers are blindly cheerleading for it is downright shameful.