Rice Appoints Political Sycophant To Head U.S. Foreign Aid Efforts
Rice Appoints Political Sycophant To Head U.S. Foreign Aid Efforts
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced a controversial restructuring of U.S. foreign aid efforts “to serve its foreign policy goals better“: merging the the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) into the State Department. But this move may mean USAID “will lose some of its independence, and development will become purely politicised.”
To head the administration’s politicization of foreign aid, Rice has appointed Randall Tobias as USAID administrator. Tobias, currently Coordinator of the Office of Global AID, is also a former pharmaceutical executive and Bush campaign donor.
Tobias has consitently put the Bush administration agenda before science and facts in the global fight against AIDS, acting as the “front man for Bush’s ideology-driven policies on prevention and on treatment (of AIDS).”
His HIV-prevention policies have focused on “abstinence-only-until-marriage” leaving “large segments of the population at immediate risk of HIV infection.” He has also made inaccurate public statements on the effectiveness of condoms in AIDS prevention and has funded questionable organizations supported by President Bush, but lacking in technical competency in HIV prevention.
Tobias has also continually gone to the mat for Bush, criticizing people who want Bush to do more to fight HIV and AIDS:
[Bush] is doing so much, [yet] a lot of the critics are saying, ‘You should do more.’
The nerve of those critics.
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I suppose this is also meant to punish USAID for their recent report that describes the situation on the ground in Iraq as a security nightmare. These reports can now be filtered through the State Department and lined up with the Bush Administration’s talking points.
January 20th, 2006 at 10:28 amOF COURSE HE IS IN FAVOR OF ABSTINENCE TEACHING IT RESULTS IN MORE CUSTOMERS FOR HIS AIDS DRUGS….JUST ANOTHER RACIST LOOKING TO MAKE A BUCK OFF THE POOR AND ILL.
January 20th, 2006 at 10:33 amAHHHH. A kinder gentler, passive aggressive executioner. Does he have anything in his medical bag for jaundice? If so, take it.
January 20th, 2006 at 10:36 amOf course the state dept is like a second home for those ‘genii’ like a second home for Neo-kooks that fled AEI, I guess Condi and bush need some new Sword Fallers.
January 20th, 2006 at 10:41 amWell, there you go – I’ve been joking for months that the day might come when I’d be arrested for teaching Science… and look what happens…
First Hitler shut down the Golden Era in German culture by targetting intelligence, burning books and passing ‘moral’ decrees. We already have that happening. Next, he sent artists, scientists, liberals and intellectual dissenters to gulags… looks like that is in the works with this appointment.
January 20th, 2006 at 10:47 amYaY Condi Has Privatized the STaTe Department! Oh YaY
For let us fall on our Knees to the great Misleader oh Condi!
Oh Condi whose Russian Trips were a Failure!
Oh Condi Whose lies still havent stopped!
Oh whose words have led to many lives halted abrupt
Oh Condi, what is it like to be the Bringer of death and Lies to the World?
Is this what you call Success, or a Career? Condi?
Oh Great Condi, use that Great Brain, see what your words have done! Children Killed, lives taken, bombs dropped, the Earth Shaken, for what Condi? For Osama? That still roams free? The Mission Accomplished, landing on Carriers?
Oh Condi what a Travesty this has become, your Schooling, all for naught! Lies for Bush shall get you caught.
January 20th, 2006 at 10:49 amA culture of life. Pffftt…., only if you are white, American and wealthy……. or for elections sake, American unborn. Lets see, that does not even come close to .5% of the world’s population.
January 20th, 2006 at 10:50 amUnbelievable google TAC marks
Mr Ho kno
January 20th, 2006 at 10:53 amMr. Ho… not getting anything that seems relative… stuff about trail marks and trademarks…
January 20th, 2006 at 11:00 amLoyalty over competance. It’s what this adminsitration is all about.
January 20th, 2006 at 11:08 am40.
Ryan,
Read the Letter I posted closely from the IRD to the NCCC about the Falwellian frends called the Radical Right Neo-Cons. (Mr. Tooley and Edgar)
“Abolition of Min wage, Harvesting, Poor Farms, pretty much the Abolishment of government vis a vis abolishment of our constitutionâ€
This Letter is factual, Bushco seem to think that ‘Liberals’ are simply to be left out in the cold, or harvested at poor farms.-AJ
I have a copy of that NCCC letter, and this is WHAT is says, so the ‘conspiracy’ theory is not mine. Im repeating what was on that Letter. Make of it what you will.
January 20th, 2006 at 11:14 amTACKAMARKS back of highway signs are directions
January 20th, 2006 at 11:16 amLoyalty and Incompetence
January 20th, 2006 at 11:16 amUnder “OPERATION CABLE SPLICER” all local government agencies will be confiscated and placed under FEMA control. All sheriff and police agencies will be under new management with military supervision. CLICK PHOTO >>> View “tacmar” with reflective red lettering on the marker.”FEMA” DISASTER ROUTES AND “STAGING AREAS” FOR MARTIAL LAW.
January 20th, 2006 at 11:18 amThis page gives info on the clever way military decipher the markers from their vehicles and route navigation to staging areas using clever sign set-ups. “Our road signs have secondary meanings”.
Our road signs have secondary meanings
January 20th, 2006 at 11:20 amYupp they sure do
Mr ho go eat now. mr ho say where IRI
January 20th, 2006 at 11:21 amMr ho like IRI. IRI call mr HO fi fi fo-fo fo fi fi
John Bolton is at the UN what does any expect?Mr. Ho your distillation#13 was great and right on topic. Thanks.
January 20th, 2006 at 11:23 amit’s shameful that they’re willing to go as far as to allow people to die in order to stay on message with their own agenda… sex, like greed and graft, isn’t going away anytime soon…
January 20th, 2006 at 11:29 amDemocrats appoint political sychophants too. So if Democrats can do, so can Republicans. Fair is fair right, Think Progress?
January 20th, 2006 at 11:57 amOr Lyle, maybe no one should?
What’s bad is when the sycophancy costs lives.
January 20th, 2006 at 12:03 pmI’ll bet if we waved enough money at him, junior would resign.
January 20th, 2006 at 12:29 pmAren’t you all glad katrina happened? Not against New Orleans but for the flushing out to the very top the pure cronyistic apparatus that is spelled GOP. Again look at John, I do Lunch With James Dobson, Bolton. Un reps hanging out with and consulting Fundamentalist Christian leaders. Also lyle this blog is WAY over on the Democrats did it too thing. Are you ready to instantly hand over the power back to the Democrats? Of course not, so I respect his power. Now all The President has to do is prove he can use it to the extent that he has. You can’t have it both ways man.If you’re going to hold others accountable , do they same for who you and the rest of the other 1/2 of the elctorate placed in office.
January 20th, 2006 at 1:49 pm#19 – At least Democrats appoint sycophants that have the ability to do the job, unlike ‘Master of disaster’ Brownie. (You’re doing a heckova job, Brownie!)
Try again, only this time don’t drink the kool-aid. It helps with the thinking process when you use your brain for something other than keeping your head from caving in.
January 20th, 2006 at 2:00 pmThis page gives info on the clever way military decipher the markers from their vehicles and route navigation to staging areas using clever sign set-ups. “Our road signs have secondary meaningsâ€.
Comment by Mr. Ho — January 20, 2006 @ 11:18 am
That’s pretty alarming. Wonder what else does… Or if we’ll just wake up one morning and the barbed wire barricade will be in place???
January 20th, 2006 at 2:07 pm#1, Brian
January 20th, 2006 at 2:23 pmI read the same report and I to wonder if this has anything to do with that “unfavorable” (actually it was scathing) report.
Bush and Condi Rice love to appoint Brownie type imbeciles to government positions! They adore ass-kissers > lol.
January 21st, 2006 at 12:34 amGod…I’m sick of these scheming, lying, scamming sons-of- bitches…vote! vote !
January 21st, 2006 at 4:19 pm“Bush] is doing so much, [yet] a lot of the critics are saying, ‘You should do more.’
The nerve of those critics. ”
He certainly is not doing enough. He ought to open up the state mental hospitals and get the homosexual cocktail drinking repeat infectors off the streets.
January 21st, 2006 at 10:16 pmBye to this thread > lol.
January 22nd, 2006 at 8:08 pmHe ought to open up the state mental hospitals and get the homosexual cocktail drinking repeat infectors off the streets.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — January 21, 2006 @ 10:16 pm
But then what would we ever do without your intellectual repartee in here?
Seriously though, underneath the foul language, you do realize that the notion of having sex offenders (regardless of sexual preference) in a mental health facility rather than jail is NOT a neocon idea… far from it in fact. It’s recognizing a need based on psychiatry rather than bars and orange jumpsuits. Did you bang your head this weekend?
January 22nd, 2006 at 8:29 pmActually this article is completely inaccurate. The Bush administration does not support an abstinence only policy and you should all take the time to do a little research from the source rather than listening to everything that ever gets printed. Check out their website at http://www.state.gov/s/gac and you’ll realize that more money goes to condoms than to abstinence programs
January 25th, 2006 at 5:34 pm