Bloodthirsty Liberal

Best friend die? One of your wives left you? Where’s that winning smile that can light up a room?

Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi has failed in his bid to stay on as president of the African Union for another year.

At the annual AU summit in Ethiopia, leaders from 53 African countries chose the president of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, to take his place.

A BBC correspondent at the summit says Col Gaddafi was very reluctant to stand down, causing considerable resentment.

Wait for it…

He used his farewell speech to call for political unity in Africa.

Can I get a rimshot?

So, an egotistical man who fancies himself as president for life is unceremoniously dumped. Talk about Hope and Change! He is the one we’ve been waiting for.

Poor Muammar, kicked out of office for someone named Bingu. Nice to see he handled it well:

Libya has chaired the AU for the past year, and under the system of rotating regional blocs, the job was due to go to a southern African leader.

However, Mr Gaddafi wanted to extend the term. He had the support of Tunisia, and is said to have won over some smaller countries by paying their AU membership dues.

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After conceding the presidency, Mr Gaddafi said he would continue to promote his vision of a “United States of Africa”, adding that he did not need to keep the title of AU head.

“My brother president of the Republic of Malawi will replace me and take over,” he said.

“There is no need for any title, I’ll remain in the front struggling.”

I’ll say:

What other conclusion can one draw?

The U.S. military has halted flights carrying Haitian earthquake victims to the United States because of an apparent cost dispute, though a doctor warned that some injured patients faced imminent death if the flights don’t resume.

The evacuations were temporarily suspended Wednesday, said Capt. Kevin Aandahl, spokesman for U.S. Transportation Command. The flights were halted a day after Florida Gov. Charlie Crist asked the federal government to help pay for care.

However, Dr. Barth Green, a doctor involved in the relief effort in Port-au-Prince, warned that his patients needed to get to better hospitals.

“We have 100 critically ill patients who will die in the next day or two if we don’t Medevac them,” said Green, chairman of the University of Miami’s Global Institute for Community Health and Development.

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Crist asked Sebelius to activate the National Disaster Medical System, which is typically used in domestic disasters and pays for victims’ care. His letter noted the state’s health care system was already stretched by the winter tourism season and annual “snowbird” migration. South Florida hospitals also were preparing for a surge in visitors for the NFL Pro Bowl on Sunday and the Super Bowl next weekend.

While in Tampa on Saturday, Crist said Florida’s Department of Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon estimated the state’s costs had reached about $7 million.

Poor coordination and limited resources, not medical care costs, drove the governor’s request, said John Cherry, spokesman for the state Division of Emergency Management.

“We’ve made it clear that (the cost) is an issue we’ll deal with down the road,” he said.

Health officials say the medical flights landed without any advance notice, and the poor coordination may be keeping some survivors from getting the help they need, Cherry said. He cited the case of a burn victim flown earlier this week into Tampa, which is not equipped to treat those injuries.

I would say this this is Obama’s Katrina, but Katrina wasn’t Bush’s Katrina (as much as it was Nagin’s and Landrieu’s), so we’ll just call this Obama’s Haiti.

Can you imagine the howls and imprecations we’d hear about this cluster[bleep] if Bush were still president? They’d be calling it genocide.

You know I’m right. Just replay the liberal media talking points after Katrina: they’d all fit here.

And speaking of the differences between Presidents Bush and Obama:

George W. Bush didn’t get a whole lot of attaboys on his way out of the White House. But on World AIDS Day near the end of last year, the outgoing U.S. President was the man of the hour, fielding praise from global health advocates and world leaders for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPfAR, which increased tenfold the number of HIV-infected patients in Africa who receive antiretroviral treatments. At megachurch pastor Rick Warren’s Global Health Forum on Dec. 1, 2008, Bush lingered to discuss this untarnished highlight of his presidency, a commitment of $15 billion over five years to combat HIV/AIDS. “No U.S. President or political leader has done more for global health,” said Warren.

But now some critics are wondering if Bush’s successor is doing enough. Many global health advocates worry that the success of PEPfAR — an initiative that has consistently enjoyed broad bipartisan support — may be jeopardized by harsh economic realities and shifting political priorities. Although Barack Obama pledged during the 2008 campaign to boost PEPfAR funding by $1 billion each year, his first budget proposed just $366 million more for fiscal year 2010 than the current year, and a majority of the 15 countries that receive PEPfAR funds will see no increase. After five straight years of funding hikes and public-health victories — in 2008, Congress reauthorized PEPfAR with a new commitment of $48 billion over five years, with Senators Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden all voting in favor of the move — the slowdown has AIDS advocates scratching their heads: Why would the Obama Administration back off from the one universally popular program inherited from Bush?

Love the use of the word “inherited”. Nice touch.

Hey, if President Obama doesn’t think it’s a priority for this country to prevent the deaths of thousands and thousands of black people across the globe, I’ll defer to his wisdom, as he is half black himself—more money for me (though I think he should see a shrink for his—and their—sakes).

I just wish his psychopathy were more part of the discussion. It’s a little creepy, don’t you think?

PS: Speaking of Obama and Africans (and I had to go all the way to Scotland to find even a mention of this:

Week ahead

Published Date: 31 January 2010

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MONDAY

Former cricketer Sir Ian Botham will open the salmon season on the River Teith, near Callander.

Aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious will arrive at Rosyth dockyard on the Forth for a £40 million maintenance and upgrade programme.

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TUESDAY

The deadline will expire for Cadbury shareholders to approve the chocolate-maker’s takeover by America’s Kraft.

Groundhog Day will take place in the Pennsylvanian town of Punxsutawney.

WEDNESDAY

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee will meet to decide on interest rates – and whether to “print” more money under its policy of quantitative easing.

THURSDAY

BBC presenter Neil Oliver, below, will open the Scottish Caravan & Outdoor Leisure Show at the SECC in Glasgow.

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A full asylum request hearing for Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt is scheduled to take place in Boston. Zeituni Onyango had been living in the country illegally.

FRIDAY

The charity Samaritans will mark Stress Down Day by asking people to give their feet a treat and wear their slippers to work in return for a donation.

SATURDAY

An exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of EastEnders will open at the National Media Museum in Bradford, Yorkshire.

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The Six Nations rugby championships kick off. Scotland’s opener is against France at Murrayfield.

Did you miss that?

An exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of EastEnders will open at the National Media Museum in Bradford, Yorkshire.

No, not that.

This:

A full asylum request hearing for Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt is scheduled to take place in Boston. Zeituni Onyango had been living in the country illegally.

Gee, I hope I didn’t give away a state secret or anything!

Some call for the UN to intercede in war-torn regions like Darfur.

I say such evil cannot be allowed to happen:

A U.N.-backed Congolese military operation to oust rebels from eastern Congo has caused more civilian casualties than damage to rebels, with more than 1,400 people deliberately killed over a nine-month period, human rights groups said Monday.

Human Rights Watch said it had documented “vicious and widespread” attacks against civilians by soldiers and rebels between January and September. Soldiers being fed and supplied with ammunition by the United Nations have killed civilians, gang-raped girls and cut the heads off some young men they accuse of being rebels or supporting the enemy, groups said.

“For every rebel combatant disarmed, one civilian has been killed, seven women and girls have been raped, six houses have been burned and destroyed and 900 people have been forced to flee their homes,” British-based organization Oxfam said.

Human Rights Watch said it documented the killings of 732 civilians between January and September by the Congolese army and troops from neighboring Rwanda fighting alongside it. In the same period, it counted 701 civilians killed by the rebels they are fighting.

“Some victims were tied together before their throats were, according to one witness, ’slit like chickens.’ The majority of the victims were women, children, and the elderly,” the group said.

More than 7,500 cases of sexual violence against women and girls were registered at health centers during that nine-month period, nearly double that of 2008 and likely representing only a fraction of the total.

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“The U.N. peacekeepers are being put in an appalling situation where they are supporting an army that is attacking its own population,” it said.

What an excuse this might have made for Tiger Woods: “honey, I did it for the UN!” Except Tiger didn’t sleep with any black women. Oh well.

But it would seem that the UN is a great place to get laid—if you’re male:

The United Nations, which aspires to protect human rights around the world, is struggling to deal with an embarrassing string of sexual-harassment complaints within its own ranks.

Many U.N. workers who have made or faced accusations of sexual harassment say the current system for handling complaints is arbitrary, unfair and mired in bureaucracy. One employee’s complaint that she was sexually harassed for years by her supervisor in Gaza, for example, was investigated by one of her boss’s colleagues, who cleared him.

Cases can take years to adjudicate. Accusers have no access to investigative reports. Several women who complained of harassment say their employment contracts weren’t renewed, and the men they accused retired or resigned, putting them out of reach of the U.N. justice system.

And if you like to read about the sexual exploitation of the poor and war-ravaged by their supposed protectors, enjoy.

Fascinating history of the ties between the Zionist movement and the black civil rights movement, starting in the late 19th century and carrying on, through illustrious leaders in both communities, until the 50s and 60s. What happened then to break the bonds forged by oppression and aspiration?

Leftism:

THE SUBSEQUENT anti-Israel shift in African-American and African opinion - far from being a natural evolution of historical attitudes - was very much driven by the white leftist party line. It began as early as the 1956 Suez Campaign with Du Bois. During the Popular Front era when the Kremlin’s line had been pro-Israel, Du Bois denounced Saudi Arabia’s unrepentant continuation of the slave trade and criticized the Arabs for “widespread ignorance and poverty and disease and a fanatic belief in the Mohammedan religion.” U-turning after the new anti-Israel party line, Du Bois in a 1956 poem, “Suez,” portrayed Israelis as “the shock troops” of Anglo-American imperialists.

It’s not like we don’t already know this, but there’s a great history to be written (or read, if already written) about the Soviet poisoning of the Middle East with its support of Arafat and other quasi-fascistic figures there. Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa—commie fingerprints are all over the place. But the Arab states have yet to be fully investigated—or at least reported.

Some people think it is ok to murder albinos and sell their body parts to witch doctors

Yes, but is it racism?

As many as 10,000 albinos are in hiding in east Africa over fears that they will be dismembered and their body parts sold to witchdoctors, the Red Cross said in a recent report.

The killings of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania, who are targeted because their body parts are believed to have special powers, have sparked fears among the population in the two countries, the report said.

Albino children take a break earlier this year at a Tanzanian school for the blind, which has become a rare sanctuary.

“Thousands more albinos across a huge swathe of countryside … are unable to move freely to trade, study or cultivate fields for fear of albino hunters,” the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.

So it is literally a witch hunt? Terrorism? Racism? What is this exactly? And perhaps I’m wrong, but I thought that Tanzania was a prosperous, advanced country? I must be way off-base.

If I wasn’t so damn old, I’d adopt them all.

- Aggie

It’s a given that Zimbabwe’s behavior will be criminal and deranged, but exactly how the criminality and derangement expresses itself is endlessly fascinating:

Investigators for the world’s diamond control body say Zimbabwe should be suspended because its security forces are raping women, killing illegal miners, and smuggling gems out of a diamond field in the troubled country’s east.

Human rights groups have made similar accusations, but the charges carry particular weight coming from Kimberley Process investigators who visited Zimbabwe in June and July. Their recommendations are in a confidential report the Associated Press obtained yesterday.

Zimbabwean authorities have repeatedly denied such charges, including in statements to Kimberley Process investigators and officials. The investigators said that they found evidence contradicting the official account and that information provided by Zimbabwean authorities “was false, and likely intentionally so.’’

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The Kimberley Process was established in 2002 in an attempt to stem the flow of “blood diamonds’’ - gems sold to fund fighting across Africa. Participants must certify the origins of the diamonds being traded. Suspension could result in buyers shunning Zimbabwe’s diamonds.

What does Robert Mugabe care if Africans are slaughtering each other? For once, he’s not the one doing the slaughtering.

But hey, he’s not all bad. Even a blind, rabid hyena finds a rotting, stinking corpse once in a while:

“We are sick and tired of the old model, where China comes to Africa and extracts raw materials and goes back to China,” Arthur Mutambara told Reuters in an interview on Friday. “Now we are not interested in that.”

China is one of the few countries close to the long-embattled Zimbabwe government, but that did not deter Mutambara from challenging Beijing to do more to help development.

“We are not going to produce raw materials in Zimbabwe for China. China will come on our terms as partners,” he said during a trip to China to attend the World Economic Forum in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian.

I love the tough talk, but I would caution him against too cozy a partnership. The Mafia has partnerships, too, but the deals are rarely equitable.

You know me, I hate to bum anyone out: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Blog.

So could someone see that Mia Farrow is spared from this news?

Sudanese women who escaped the Darfur conflict to eastern Chad are facing high levels of sexual violence, an Amnesty International report says.

Despite the presence of a UN force, women and girls are being attacked when they leave 12 designated camps in search of water, the report says.

It also documents cases of refugees being attacked inside the camps by Chadian aid workers.

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Since 2003 about 250,000 Darfuris have fled the conflict in Sudan, where mass rape of civilians had allegedly been used as as strategy to displace entire villages.

“The rape that countless women and girls experienced in Darfur continues to haunt them in eastern Chad,” Tawanda Hondora, Amnesty’s Africa programme deputy director, said in a statement.

How’s that hunger strike over Darfur going? I know Mia had to give it up, since she looked like she was in week three of a hunger strike at the beginning. Didn’t Richard Branson take it up? That couldn’t have taken long either. Why don’t any fat liberal moonbats put down the cheeseburger and take up the cause? Michael Moore, are you listening?

Can’t understand you, Michael. That’s a microphone, not a drumstick.

Honestly, I don’t mean to torture anyone (which means I have no future as a leader in most African and Asian countries), but the world is a horrible, nasty place. A beautiful place, to be sure—Eden—but populated by the vilest form of life. Most humans make pond scum look like Alan Alda.

But on the rare occasions and in the rare places where we treat each other with a modicum of respect and brotherhood, we should be overjoyed and proud. The last thing we should feel is shame.

Darfur is the rule, Burma is the rule, Iran is the rule; we are the exception.

Anyhow, here’s your happy ending:

Chad’s government has denied that any Chadian has attacked a Sudan refugee.

See? Nothing to worry about. Have another slice of sweet potato pie, Michael.

His Auntie may live illegally in Boston public housing, but President Obama’s other relatives had better go begging elsewhere if they’re looking for a handout:

After Barack Obama was elected to the US Senate in 2004, a delegation from the remote African village where his father was raised journeyed to Washington, seeking financial help. But Obama offered them advice, not money.

Now that Obama has moved to the White House, expectations of financial benefit have grown even greater in this tiny hamlet where water is still delivered to thatched huts on the backs of donkeys.

“There are still those who are waiting for him to send millions,’’ said Nicholas Rajula, a Kogelo businessman.

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Rajula, the Kogelo businessman who funded the delegation’s trip to Washington in 2005, said Obama encouraged the group - which included his own uncle - to form self-help organizations and apply for funding through official channels, such as USAID.

“There is no money that comes from his pocket,’’ Rajula said.

That’s gotta be a pretty big insult out in those parts.

Especially given the president’s declared beliefs:

Obama … tracked down a sprawling family in Kenya after his father’s 1982 death, while researching his autobiography, Dreams from my Father.

In the book, Obama grappled with the idea of Western guilt, questioning how much he could help the huge extended family he was meeting for the first time.

“Now I had responsibilities,’’ Obama wrote in 1995.

“But what did that mean exactly? A part of me wished I could live up to the image that my new relatives imagined for me: a corporate lawyer, an American businessman, my hand poised on the spigot, ready to rain down like manna the largesse of the Western world. But of course I wasn’t any of those things.’’

Obama returned to Kogelo a few years later, to introduce his fiancee, Michelle, and in 2005, to give a speech as senator.

But of course, Obama is right:

A White House official said: “The president’s policy of pointing aid requests to official channels is consistent with his message of good governance’’ in Africa.

Besides, if the extended Obama family was looking for aid, they’ve had the last eight years:

The outgoing Bush administration considers its various foreign aid programs to be among its greatest achievements. USAID, the US Agency for International Development, provides much of that assistance.

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In the past eight years, there has really been a watershed in our thinking and in our resources. The Bush administration has raised the profile of development in a way that we have not seen since the Marshall Plan (after World War Two) and the onset of the Cold War,” she says.

Fore says foreign assistance has tripled worldwide, but in Africa it’s increased four-fold. “That’s a very important legacy just in terms of our commitment as a nation and as a people,” she says.

It’ll be a long wait, George Obama, before you again get a sympathetic soul like President Bush in the White House.

I bet a lot of money comes from his pockets: GW Bush, Crawford, TX 76638.

Which one is endangered?

Regular reader Joe from South Africa mentioned in a recent comment the disparity of the numbers of blacks killed under apartheid compared to the overwhelmingly greater number of whites killed since.

This story would seem to confirm his assertion—with the SA government’s lame cry of “racism!” serving as further evidence:

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has condemned as “racist” a decision by Canada to grant a white South African man refugee status.

Brandon Huntley, 31, had told officials in Canada he could not return to South Africa after seven different attacks.

They included three stabbings, which he said he had suffered as a result of his skin colour.

His lawyer said he was granted asylum because the South African authorities were unable to protect their citizens.

But ANC spokesman Brian Sokutu told the BBC that the decision would “only serve to perpetuate racism” in South Africa.

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Mr Huntley’s lawyer Russell Kaplan said the asylum was granted because of discrimination - not only over crime - but also because as a white man he would find it difficult to get a job.

“The big question throughout was - was this just an act of criminality or was there a racial motivation? And every single time there was evidence that they were not just victims of criminality, that there was a racial component in the incidents,” he told the BBC’s Network Africa programme.

I have no informed comment (which is usually no impediment), but if the government put half as much effort into protecting its citizens—black and white—as they did into hollering racism, well, there’d be a lot more South Africans—black and white—alive today.

As Henry Louis Gates might say, “This is what happens to a black man in Russia.”

Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia’s capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new study.

Africans working or studying in the city live in constant fear of attack, according to the report by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy.

A quarter of 200 people surveyed said they had been assaulted more than once.

Some 80% had been verbally abused.

But the number of assaults was down from the MPC’s last survey in 2002.

The report’s clear conclusion was that Africans living in Russia exist in a state of virtual siege….

But it’s getting better! At this rate, they’ll be welcome at borscht counters everywhere in about 2057.