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May 10, 2005 - Brazil has rejected $40 million in U.S. funds for
fighting AIDS. The move is seen by some observers as a rejection of Washington's head-in-the-sand linkage of neo-con morality and foreign aid.
''Biblical principles are their guide, not science," Pedro Chequer,
director of Brazil's AIDS program told media outlets on
Wednesday. "This premise is inadequate because it hurts our
autonomous national policy." Acting in accordance with a 2003 federal law, U.S. Congress demanded that Brazil publicly condemn prostitution before accepting the funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.
Prostitution is a legal industry in Brazil and a key civic player in
fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Jacobson said Brazil's sex industry plays a crucial role in the
battle against AIDS in part through its role in helping the
government review donation assistance. "Brazil has taken cutting
practical approaches and they were not going to adopt an approach
based on ideology," Jacobson said in an interview on Friday.
The U.S. government globally seeds its conservative ideology with
tools such as the so-called global gag rule, a measure that blocks
U.S. family planning assistance to foreign NGOs that perform
abortions in cases other than a threat to the woman's life, rape or
incest.
But Jacobson says that unlike the the global gag rule, the demands
relating to prostitution appear to be applicable to domestic
organizations, such as U.S.-based charities with international
operations.
Kelly Hearn, AlterNet
This came from the Yahoo group Spiritual Atheists. I've asked for a link.
May 10, 2005 - Brazil has rejected $40 million in U.S. funds for
fighting AIDS. The move is seen by some observers as a rejection of Washington's head-in-the-sand linkage of neo-con morality and foreign aid.
''Biblical principles are their guide, not science," Pedro Chequer,
director of Brazil's AIDS program told media outlets on
Wednesday. "This premise is inadequate because it hurts our
autonomous national policy." Acting in accordance with a 2003 federal law, U.S. Congress demanded that Brazil publicly condemn prostitution before accepting the funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.
Prostitution is a legal industry in Brazil and a key civic player in
fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Jacobson said Brazil's sex industry plays a crucial role in the
battle against AIDS in part through its role in helping the
government review donation assistance. "Brazil has taken cutting
practical approaches and they were not going to adopt an approach
based on ideology," Jacobson said in an interview on Friday.
The U.S. government globally seeds its conservative ideology with
tools such as the so-called global gag rule, a measure that blocks
U.S. family planning assistance to foreign NGOs that perform
abortions in cases other than a threat to the woman's life, rape or
incest.
But Jacobson says that unlike the the global gag rule, the demands
relating to prostitution appear to be applicable to domestic
organizations, such as U.S.-based charities with international
operations.
Kelly Hearn, AlterNet
This came from the Yahoo group Spiritual Atheists. I've asked for a link.
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Re: Woohoo, Brazil Just Says NO to Christian Ideology--even when it costs them US dollars!
Sun, May 15, 2005 - 2:36 AMwww.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php
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Re: Woohoo, Brazil Just Says NO to Christian Ideology--even when it costs them US dollars!
Sun, May 15, 2005 - 7:48 AMAnd remember Jeff Gannon, a male escort, prostitiute, and "pretend" reporter for the shriveled neo-con heart of darkness, who had been given daily access to White House press briefings and secret government documents that he used to destroy the careers of CIA agents that this administration put on a hit list. While attacking Gays in his blogs for the Bush administration "spiritual warfare" Christians, Gannon posed himself and male prostitutes as US soldiers, peddling their bodies on several gay porno web sites he created.
Those kind of prostitutes the Bushies LIKE to give money to.
And remember Bush bro Neil, who has thet unfortunate hankering for under-aged Asian prostitutes. There are quotes where Neil is fond of bragging about his sexual prowess with these prostitutes, boasting that he is "so good" that he often does not have to pay.
The Bush family likes those kind of prostitutes also. -
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Re: Woohoo, Brazil Just Says NO to Christian Ideology--even when it costs them US dollars!
Sun, May 15, 2005 - 4:09 PMThe hypocrisy of the Right is the hypocrisy of the Bible. Are you familiar with the story of Judah and Tamara?
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Re: Woohoo, Brazil Just Says NO to Christian Ideology--even when it costs them US dollars!
Sun, May 15, 2005 - 9:26 AMHere's the link, just in case you care. www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21965/
