Re: WFP Food Aid program extended until December 2007


"Dan Christensen" <dchris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"PL" <pl.nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A program now extented to 31 dec 2007 and 30% underfunded while Fidel
Castro gives for millions of dollars new light bulbs to Jamaicans that
have light and food.

As you know, the WFP program is is comprised of food supplements

like rice, beans, oil, ....
Food comrade Dan.
for vulnerable groups (e.g. pregnant women)

773,000 thousand of them, no?
http://www.wfp.org/operations/current_operations/countries/countryproject.asp?section=5&sub_section=7&country=192

as a result of a prolonged and sever drought in eastern Cuba.

so how come Castro can not feed them but he can spend millions of light
bulbs for Jamaicans.

It seems to be working -- the infant mortality rates in Holguin and Granma
provinces are an impressive 4.0 and 4.08 respectively (better than the US
and Canadian averages).
(snip)

only if you believe the "official statistics" that have been discredited by
international experts and Cuban doctors that have left Cuba, no?

From the WFP:
"Another problem identified is the high percentage of women that begin their
pregnancy with

low weight, most of them suffering from anaemia. Similarly, some of the
expectant mothers

register an insufficient weight increase during pregnancy, which constitutes
a determining

factor in the low weight of newborns.

According to surveys, approximately 40 percent of the 0 to 2-year-old
children have

iron-deficiency anaemia, with varying degrees of severity. This high
percentage indicates

serious public health problems, particularly in the targeted areas."

"People emigrating from Cuba or visiting Cuba, including international
health representatives, have reported that it is in line with Cuban
Government
policy to report mild cases of dengue as "influenza". Cuban physicians
have confirmed allegations that some disease reporting in Cuba is
politically
influenced (e.g., if dengue were declared wiped out, then physicians could
report the disease only as influenza-like symptoms). "


"WHO and the PanAmerican Health
Organization (WHO's Regional Office for the Western Hemisphere) cannot
report
to the world without clearance from the Cuban government."


See: www.promedmail.org Archive Number 19970627.1390


Michael Thiede is Senior Research Officer in the Health Economics Unit
of the Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care at the
University of Cape Town, South Africa. He writes: " Last year I spent
three months in Cuba. I am still motivated to put together some papers
on Cuban health care. Unfortunately, however, during my stay I was
only able to get hold of the official statistical data and find them
not especially trustworthy.


http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/cuba_healthcarestatistics62202.html


(link broken)


Some reality:


Sociedad
Un falso primer lugar


Sin la existencia de fuentes independientes, ¿cómo los organismos
internacionales pueden certificar los 'logros' cubanos en salud y nutrición?


http://cubadata.blogspot.com/2006/06/un-falso-primer-lugar.html


SALUD PUBLICA
Aumenta mortalidad infantil en Cienfuegos


CIENFUEGOS, Cuba - 20 de octubre (Carmen Martínez Vilche, Jagua Press /
www.cubanet.org) - La preocupación se apoderó de las autoridades médicas
cienfuegueras el pasado 12 de octubre, al percatarse del incremento que
se registra en la mortalidad infantil en la provincia, que saltó de 5 a
12.3 fallecidos por cada mil nacidos vivos en lo que va de año.


Se desconocen las causas que originaron el incremento del fenómeno. El
problema ha generado tal preocupación que ha obligado a los funcionarios
del Ministerio de Salud Pública y del gobierno a reunirse para
determinar qué deficiencias provocaron esta alza.


Sin embargo, numerosos residentes entrevistados coincidieron en señalar
que este aumento de la mortalidad infantil se debe a la falta de médicos
con experiencia, ya que éstos han sido enviados a diferentes países del
mundo, dejando a la población infantil desprotegida.


http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y05/oct05/21a2.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/message/18545


Quejas Básicas del Personal de la Salud


.. Falta de recursos para estudios de los pacientes.
.. Carencia de los medicamentos básicos y paca variedad de productos.
.. Falta de personal por la masiva colaboración con otros países.
.. Sobrecarga laboral con más de 60 horas semanales de trabajo en muchos
casos.
.. Mala calidad del personal docente, muchos graduados nunca han visto en
sus manos ni cerca de ellos medios de diagnóstico tan importantes como
TAC, RMN, DOPPLERS etc. o medicamentos de últimas generaciones.
.. Malas condiciones higiénicas y de mantenimiento de los centros de salud.
.. Falta de medios para el saneamiento ambiental (recogida de basura,
fumigaciones, etc).
.. Salarios no acordes a su trabajo y necesidades en un país con economía
dolarizada donde ganan entre 6 y 15 dólares, según su clasificación.
.. Falta de información científica, textos y revistas actualizadas,
acceso a Internet.
.. Pésima y deficiente alimentación para pacientes hospitalizados y
personal de guardia.
.. Malnutrición generalizada en la población lo que genera un alto índice
de bajo peso al nacer, crecimiento intra uterino retardado, desnutrición
infantil, aparición de enfermedades nutricionales inexistentes ya hace
algunos años como Pelagra, Polineuropatías, etc.
.. Estadística falsa del Ministerio de Salud pública al no reportar las
enfermedades nutricionales y ofrecer cifras ínfimas o nulas de
enfermedades infectas contagiosas, SIDA, muertes maternas, mortalidad
infantil, suicidios, embarazos de adolescentes, etc.


Revista Desafíos Año 12, No. 65
http://webstc.org/desafios/desafios5.htm


http://www.lanuevacuba.com/nuevacuba/notic-06-01-3113.htm


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/message/20275



The standard reply to Dan's "lobbyist" lie:

Lobbyist.

Quote me comrade Dan.
We both know you can't.

Try something like this:

Quote:
"In my opinion the advances made by the Revolution are morally well worth
fighting for and justify the use of these extraordinary measures. In this
case, the ends do indeed justify the means.
......
These measures, however, would NOT be morally justified in propping less
worthy regimes in the region -- the USA and its vassal states in the
Caribbean and Latin America come immediately to mind."
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=tirG3.176162%245r2.278940%40tor-nn1.netcom.ca

"It is wrong to think that a particular end justifies EVERY means. At this
time, for example, it would be wrong of the Cuban government to send death
squads after their opponents as happens in Mexico and Colombia. Again, the
actions of the Cuban government in detaining these so-called dissidents seem
quite mild in comparison and are morally justified under the circumstances."
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=txMG3.176443%245r2.284921%40tor-nn1.netcom.ca

Unquote.

You lie about me as you lied about Wayne Smith, Amnesty
International,
Genocide Watch, ..........

Still waiting for the "Geneva" proof comrade Dan.
That "episode" clearly exposes your lies.

As I said comrade Dan.
Every time you post that lie about me I post the truth about you. You can
not deny that you are a self declared Stalinist cyber activists who lives in
a nice 250,000 dollar suburban house in Canada (realtor site with images can
be given at your request) while playing the communist.
Stuck as you are without arguments all you have left are lies, personal
attacks and moronic innuendo

Remember the lie about "lobbying in Geneva" while I actually was on vacation
in Cuba (as the source IP
address of my posts in SCC at that time prove).
This was your false claim:
"Taking a little break from arm-twisting in Geneva, Mr. Lobbyist?"
Link:
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/b6375f9783e47aee?q=g:thl1746703614d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
Your inability to substantiate any of it is the best proof of your lies.

Nothing more than another example of your lies and misquotes like the ones
below:

YOUR LIE about Wayne Smith
"It is clear from Smith's article here (and his website, CIP Online)
that he does, in fact, support an immediate and unconditional lifting
of your beloved embargo."
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/3f1fe3a55c12d7d7?dmode=source&hl=en

YOUR own words:

'We should reduce tensions, not aggravate it, making it clear to the Cuban
government that we do not have hostile intentions toward them,'' Smith said
during a 40-minute speech at a conference titled Cuba and the United States:
Relations in Permanent Conflict, Causes, Effects and Solutions.
''I did not say lift the embargo without conditions,'' he said.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/cuba/12157593.htm
You can enter after a free registration.

Permanent copy in the Cubaverdad archive:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/message/16823

YOUR LIE about Amnesty International.
Another example of the same lie: putting words in people's mouth.

Do you deny that in your posts you put some snippets from the report
quoted below and on your site you also falsely claim about the same
report
that:

"Today, for the first time, Amnesty International has explicitly
denounced
the US embargo on Cuba in humanitarian terms, and made clear its
support for
the immediate and unconditional lifting of these cruel sanctions"
http://members.allstream.net/~dchris/CubaFAQ215.html

Link to the "report": (the one you don't give)
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250172003?open&of=ENG-CUB

They aren't calling for an "immediate and unconditional" end to the
trade
sanctions in that report. Aren't they?
Do you deny you snipped the words "immediate and unconditional" from
this
sentences in the report (THE ONLY PLACES WHERE THEY ARE USED):

"in 1.
"On the basis of the available information, therefore, Amnesty
International considers the 75 dissidents to be prisoners of
conscience(2) and calls for their immediate and unconditional
release."

In 8.1
"· to immediately and unconditionally release the 15 prisoners
previously named by Amnesty International as prisoners of conscience.


· to immediately and unconditionally release anyone else who is
detained or imprisoned solely for having peacefully exercised their
rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly."

and added to those snippets your own words to create this sentence on
your
lying website:

" Amnesty International has explicitly denounced
the US embargo on Cuba in humanitarian terms, and made clear its
support for
the immediate and unconditional lifting of these cruel sanctions"

that sentence:
1. isn't in the report
2. isn't supported by the tenure and the conclusions of the report

You snipped two three words used by Amnesty to condemn the Castro
regime and
abused them in a sentence to imply support for your cause: a BLATANT
LIE.

What the report actually recommends about the "embargo" is:
"Amnesty International calls on the United States government
· to immediately suspend decisions on any measures that could toughen
the embargo.
· to review its foreign and economic policy towards Cuba, with an aim
towards ending this damaging practice.
· to place enjoyment of the full range of human rights at the
forefront of its concerns in developing new policy towards Cuba."

Clearly no immediate and unconditional end is demanded as Dan claims.
The request is for not stiffening the sanctions and to review a policy
that places "enjoyment of the full range of human rights at the
forefront of its concerns".

See:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250172003?open&of=ENG-CUB


Lies and more lies from comrade Dan Christensen, the resident Stalinist
propagandists of SCC.

PL



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