Saturday 25 September 2010
Why aid destroys economies but loans and trade save lives
Article by Marc Aupiais
On the Haiti situation I gave extensive coverage as I have before to the fact that the local disaster hit country's economy would suffer for years to come, causing many deaths: not due to the natural disaster, but due to aid groups ignoring subsidiarity, and importing aid supplies and volunteers, rather than utilising local resources: a practice which has the same effect on an economy as dumping cheap goods no longer of use.
What has worked is micro-loans and business investment, and investment in infrastructure projects: something often ignored by major offenders such as the ever more political Red Cross and Unicef, as well as unfortunately the United Nations, with its development goals.
Rather than focussing on getting families out of poverty by spurring business, it focusses on born women and children, making the child unsupported when he becomes an adult. Such counter-cultural goals, have a real measurable cost, namely lost income for women and children, due to a focus on them rather than on the family structures: on education for women for instance: when unlikely to get a job, and when their uneducated husband could better support them if more educated.
Not to ever suggest that not educating women can be of benefit, but international donors always tend to ignore the best solutions locally and to forget local beliefs. The fact that condoms are seen as foreign and evil in Africa, should have tuned donors in to the Ugandan success of combating polygamy and extra-marital sex: playing on responsibility and personal will power.
What works? Same as everywhere else: jobs, micro-loans, infrastructure projects and investments: such as into China. What doesn't work? Politics and arrogance.
Read more here:
Scripturelink SACNS Quotes Analysis:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
Millennium Development Goals money never reaches poor- micro and macro loans will!
Marc Aupiais quotes C-Fam!
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Wednesday 15 September 2010
The type of Tea Party, without a guest list
Article by Marc Aupiais
The hooligan tea Party in the United States, is doing every attempt to strangle the Establishment Republicans into submission. A group of radicals, rebels, and people whose homes were foreclosed, the group is becoming even more furious: than the monkey American founders who ruined perfectly good tea.
The Republican Party is predicted to regain the house, and seep, or is it sweep Hope and Change away with the same broom the government took from American workers and gave to China, as it further chained itself to debt.
The Tea Party, like the uneducated British Football hooligans (not the ones who play in the Premier league), is certainly making splashes with their efforts to blow greenhorns into Washington, while of course claiming that they are not nearly as green as Obama.
Idealists, conservatives, and the Angry Mob in check, the Tea Party movement is certainly the new Katrina: resurrected after her pathetic pagan funeral.
If the Republican Establishment is not careful, it will sweep it off its feet, and create a new party: either out of the Republican party or all on its own.
As much as they remind one of JK Rolling's House-elves, the tea Party Republicans, and every ordinary voters, have something to say, as loudly as those who elected a token black president.
And I personally think that the Republican party should listen to the Unwashed Masses, who can no longer afford the expensive soap!
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Tuesday 14 September 2010
Fwd: Use CPR without the kiss of life- Experts advise (video link below)
Until the second mention of Saint Philomena is me!
Of interest I thinks!
Sancte Philomena Ora Pro Nobis!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
I don't know about the video but Lancet says:
They found chest-compression-only resuscitation was the clear winner compared with conventional CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or mouth-to-mouth breathing together with chest compressions).
Colin Elding of the British Heart Foundation said a number of studies had shown it could be as effective as combined mouth-to-mouth ventilation and compression in many cases.
But he said it was right for CPR guidelines to still include mouth-to-mouth.
He added: "The current guidelines state, however, that for 'lay person' CPR, if the rescuer is unwilling or unable to give rescue breaths they should give chest compressions only and that these should be continuous at a rate of 100 per minute. The BHF believes this is sound advice.
Dispatcher instruction consisting of chest compression alone did not increase the survival rate overall, although there was a trend toward better outcomes in key clinical subgroups. The results support a strategy for CPR performed by laypersons that emphasizes chest compression and minimizes the role of rescue breathing. (Funded in part by the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine and the Medic One Foundation; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00219687.)"
The now-classic observations of Eisenberg et al. were that among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation, 43 percent survived to leave the hospital if CPR was initiated by a bystander within four minutes and if definitive therapy was delivered within eight minutes.1 Survival decreased to less than 7 percent if basic CPR was not initiated until 8 minutes, and no patient survived after 16 minutes of untreated ventricular fibrillation."
I don't know about the video but Lancet says:
"Cardiac-only resuscitation by bystanders is the preferable approach to resuscitation for adult patients with witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, especially those with apnoea, shockable rhythm, or short periods of untreated arrest."
BBC Says:
"They checked their theory by looking at the outcomes of more than 4,000 adult patients who had been helped by bystanders.
They found chest-compression-only resuscitation was the clear winner compared with conventional CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or mouth-to-mouth breathing together with chest compressions).
Colin Elding of the British Heart Foundation said a number of studies had shown it could be as effective as combined mouth-to-mouth ventilation and compression in many cases.
But he said it was right for CPR guidelines to still include mouth-to-mouth.
He added: "The current guidelines state, however, that for 'lay person' CPR, if the rescuer is unwilling or unable to give rescue breaths they should give chest compressions only and that these should be continuous at a rate of 100 per minute. The BHF believes this is sound advice.
"Cardiac arrests are a serious problem in the UK, which is why the BHF recently launched its Doubt Kills campaign, to encourage people experiencing potential heart attack symptoms to call 999.""
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RESULTS
Data were analyzed for 241 patients randomly assigned to receive chest compression alone and 279 assigned to chest compression plus mouth-to-mouth ventilation. Complete instructions were delivered in 62 percent of episodes for the group receiving chest compression plus mouth-to-mouth ventilation and 81 percent of episodes for the group receiving chest compression alone (P=0.005). Instructions for compression required 1.4 minutes less to complete than instructions for compression plus mouth-to-mouth ventilation. Survival to hospital discharge was better among patients assigned to chest compression alone than among those assigned to chest compression plus mouth-to-mouth ventilation (14.6 percent vs. 10.4 percent), but the difference was not statistically significant (P=0.18).
CONCLUSIONS
The outcome after CPR with chest compression alone is similar to that after chest compression with mouth-to-mouth ventilation, and chest compression alone may be the preferred approach for bystanders inexperienced in CPR."
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation by Chest Compression Alone or with Mouth-to-Mouth Ventilation
Alfred Hallstrom, Ph.D., Leonard Cobb, M.D., Elise Johnson, B.A., and Michael Copass, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2000; 342:1546-1553May 25, 2000
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RESULTS
Of the 1941 patients who met the inclusion criteria, 981 were randomly assigned to receive chest compression alone and 960 to receive chest compression plus rescue breathing. We observed no significant difference between the two groups in the proportion of patients who survived to hospital discharge (12.5% with chest compression alone and 11.0% with chest compression plus rescue breathing, P=0.31) or in the proportion who survived with a favorable neurologic outcome in the two sites that assessed this secondary outcome (14.4% and 11.5%, respectively; P=0.13). Prespecified subgroup analyses showed a trend toward a higher proportion of patients surviving to hospital discharge with chest compression alone as compared with chest compression plus rescue breathing for patients with a cardiac cause of arrest (15.5% vs. 12.3%, P=0.09) and for those with shockable rhythms (31.9% vs. 25.7%, P=0.09).
CONCLUSIONS
CPR with Chest Compression Alone or with Rescue Breathing
Thomas D. Rea, M.D., Carol Fahrenbruch, M.S.P.H., Linda Culley, B.A., Rachael T. Donohoe, Ph.D., Cindy Hambly, E.M.T., Jennifer Innes, B.A., Megan Bloomingdale, E.M.T., Cleo Subido, Steven Romines, M.S.P.H., and Mickey S. Eisenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
N Engl J Med 2010; 363:423-433July 29, 2010
"This article has no abstract; the first 100 words appear below.
The major determinants of survival after witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation include whether a bystander initiates cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and how quickly defibrillation is accomplished.
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation — Strengthening the Links in the Chain of Survival
Gordon A. Ewy, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2000; 342:1599-1601May 25, 2000
Sancte Philomena Ora Pro Nobis!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
This is so much better.......easier to remember.........let's share it.
Subject: NEW CPR METHOD
Sure is a lot more likely that someone would do this than the old method.
THIS IS WORTH SHARING WITH ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY
interesting email doing the rounds, from some country or other
Article by Marc Aupiais
I must note, that I do not believe in corporate punishment, and I am not endorsing or opposing this email, but it should make one think! ...about what? About the effect societal messages have on children; they may not always be the proximate cause of murder, suicide etc, but they may well be a cause without which these would not happen in many circumstances, it has also been proven that condom distribution and education in schools, is less effective than abstinence education for the purposes it claims to promote:
"WOW, WHAT A WAKEUP CALL!!
Dear God:
Why didn't you save the school children at ?. ..
Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamp, Arkansas 12/15/97
Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98
Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
Santee, California 3/ 5/01
El Cajon, California 3/22/01but can in Prison."AndBlacksburg, Va.4/16/07
Sincerely,
Concerned Student
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Reply:
Dear Concerned Student:Sorry
I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely,
God
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How did this get started?...
Let's see,
I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained
She didn't want any prayer in our schools.
And we said, OK.
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Then, someone said you better notRead the Bible in school;
The Bible that says
'thou shalt not kill,
Thou shalt not steal,
And love your neighbors as yourself,'
And we said, OK...
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Dr. Benjamin Spock said
We shouldn't spank our children
When they misbehaved
Because their little personalities
Would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem.
And we said,
An expert should know what he's talking about
So we won't spank them anymore..
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Then someone said
Teachers and principals better not
Discipline our children when they misbehave.
And the school administrators said
No faculty member in this school
Better touch a student when they misbehave
Because we don't want any bad publicity,
And we surely don't want to be sued.
And we accepted their reasoning...
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Then someone said,
let's let our daughters have abortions if they want,
And they won't even have to tell their parents.
And we said, that's a grand idea.
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Then some wise school board member said,
Since boys will be boys
And they're going to do it anyway,
let's give our sons all the condoms they want,
So they can have all the fun they desire,
And we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school.
And we said, that's another great idea...
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Then some of our top elected officials said
It doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.
And we said,
It doesn't matter what anybody, including the President,
Does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is good....
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And someone else took that appreciation a step further
And published pictures of nude children
And then stepped further still by
Making them available on the Internet.
And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech....
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And the entertainment industry said,
let's make TV shows and movies that promote
Profanity, violence and illicit sex...
And let's record music that encourages
Rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes...
And we said,
it's just entertainment
And it has no adverse effect
And nobody takes it seriously anyway,
So go right ahead.
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Now we're asking ourselves
Why our children have no conscience,
Why they don't know right from wrong,
And why it doesn't bother them to
Kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.
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Undoubtedly,
If we thought about it long and hard enough,
We could figure it out.
I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...
'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW'
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Pass it on
If you think it has merit!
If not then just discard it...
But if you discard this thought process,
Then don't you dare sit back and complain about
What bad shape this country is in!!
Why is it our children can not read a Bible in school,
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Monday 13 September 2010
Another favourite from a Scripturelink Correspondent: 9/11 through Canadian Eyes
Article by Marc Aupiais
My response was similar, New York seemed closer than Cape Town, Bloemfontein or Pretoria, or Johannesburg for that matter (given that I used to live in Randburg).
From showing her intimacy with her children in the beginning: their crawling into her bed for hugs and protection in the mornings, to her need to protect her children from the horrific news, God Blessed Me With a Saint, our Canadian Correspondent shows her horror over 11/09/2001: 9/11 as the Americans and Canadians call the day:
"Each child at that time would wake up and come down the hall and crawl into my bed. Or sometimes stand on my side of the bed and stare at me till I opened my eyes and seen a child looking at me, I would sense this and just smile scooping them into my arms.
I had taken both boys to school that morning. Both children attended the morning classes at their school, one would have been in Junior Kindergarten and the other Senior Kindergarten, both grades were only half days. They were 4 and 5, I was still in my Thirties :)
I had just come back home from dropping them off at school and started to make a cup of tea, unload my dishwasher when I went to turn off the tv from earlier, yes we left it on while hurrying out the door.
That's when I seen newsflashes all over the tv, it was mind boggling what I was witnessing. At first I thought it might be a commercial for a new movie out. It wasn't and I sat starring at the tv screen.
I was stunned and shocked. I was also very scared. I had never seen such horror or terrorized victims in my life. This was the States, New York City, that's not far from home. A busy financial district that many people I knew attended conferences etc., in those twin towers on a regular basis.
As I watched I just felt sick inside, frightened. I immediately just wanted my kids home with me, I didn't know what was happening in the world and I needed them to be near. I continued to watch for a bit and then decided enough, I needed to go and get them from school and bring them home. I didn't care if I was over-reacting, the strongest emotion inside me was for my boys to be with me at that time. I needed to hold my family close.
The rest of the day was just normal for my children who I shielded and were unfazed by this terrorized monster who had shook the world. They played while I tried to listen to newscasts etc., and understand what was truly happening.
I watched newscast after newscast of the terror of that day and how that vile man and his army scared the hell out of my world. Remember we who live in bubbles always thinking it can't happen in our world. It did and nobody will ever forget it.
God bless those who died that day and God bless their families who survived. Thank you God for always protecting me and mine."God Blessed Me With A Saint (My favourite Catholic read; Independent of the Canadian State; Canadian; Affiliated with our Scripturelink Service)12 / 09 | September / 2010: "Where was I on 9/11"
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US Flag burnt in London, as Muslims show how they feel about Qur'an burnings
Article by Marc Aupiais
[video may cause offence: "American US flag burned set on fire at US embassy in London 9/11/2010 by muslim radicals protesters": an American station shows footage by Iran's Press TV; HT to God Blessed Me With A Saint, for the link to this video!]
One of my acquaintances is Iranian, and independently I know of Press TV, this video is stolen from the state propaganda/television news station of Iran, which makes it interesting to me. It is certainly the sort of video which spurs up both sides. Iranians for instance, will see the western response to burning the American flag, and the obscenities and will say: yes, but they can burn our Qur'an?
Individual low key low scale American "Koran" burnings did take place according to Russia Today, including one burning on the site of Ground Zero, as I reported yesterday.
Flag burning is quite common in the Muslim world. In South Africa we often have interesting protests between the Muslims and Zionist Jews. Muslims, even dress up for it, and they dislike one another. The burning of the American flag, represents the burning of America, at least to those shouting that America must burn. It also represents a rejection of America.
The protesters rightly point out, that many more civilians, and innocents etc have died from American aggression, and American strategy since 11/09/2001 or as the Americans render it 9/11.
The British Bobbies on the Beat (policemen), are of course protecting the protesters' rights to protest.
I personally find Lady Gagga's new music video more insulting than a bunch of angry men airing their disapproval of Qur'an burnings in a civil and more than proportional manner.
A North American Correspondent of Scripturelink, My favourite read on the blogosphere: writes of this, while linking to it:
"Potentially offensive ...
What is wrong with these people to burn the American flag? "God Blessed Me With A saint (Catholic pure and simple; Independent of the State; Canadian; My favourite read on the blogosphere)12 / 09 | September / 2010: "London, England ... Muslims burn American Flag"
That is exactly the response they wanted. They were doing it to make a statement about their own religious texts. Sad, inappropriate, but effective!
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Sunday 12 September 2010
3 low scale Qur'an / Koran burnings, one by Ground Zero, as Americans note 9/11
Article by Marc Aupiais
" Anti-Islam sentiment has been running high in the U.S. on that anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In New York, a man set fire to pages of the Koran just feet away from Ground Zero. Two pastors in the State of Tennessee are also said to have set light to copies of the Muslim holy book. Tension has also flared in New York over plans to build a mosque and Islamic Community Centre just blocks from the site of the World Trade Centre. Around a thousand people gathered near Ground Zero to support the construction, while several hundred demonstrators opposed to it, rallied nearby."Russia Today (Head-quartered in the Russian Federation; Interesting relationship with Russian State; Secular/General Russian Interests News)12 / 09 | September / 2010: "Man burns Quran at Ground Zero on 9/11 as mosque protests rock NY"
It appears as though there have been only three (3) incidents of Qur'an burnings in the whole of the United States of America, on the anniversary of the World Trade Center terror tactic attacks. It has been warned however, that American nationalist sentiments, ignited since the 11 September 2001 seem to have taken the form of anti-Islamic special interests promotion.
Very few services have mentioned that many who died in the Trade Center, were international citizens.
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