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Obama to Neocons over Ukraine: Screw You!

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Sal

Sal

Markle wrote:You know, the one who promised to close GITMO and then realized there are some really bad people in the world, NO ONE WANTS.

Bedwetters in Congress spurred on by betwetters such as yourself is why GITMO remains open.

What is happening in Iraq after President Obama pulled out all our troops?

The same things that were happening before we pulled out, except it's not our guys getting blown away.

2seaoat



What is happening in Iraq after President Obama pulled out all our troops?



Exactly what would be expected, unless we made Iraq our 51st state. You are too funny. Gee, how do you think those girls are doing in Cleveland who were held and abused for years......I know......When the bad guy pulled out and did not hold em anymore.....the girls were pretty messed up.....Markle's solution......just keep abusing them.....they would never know any different, and besides it serves Mr. Markle's handlers who profit off war and exploitation.

Floridatexan

Floridatexan

Markle wrote:
2seaoat wrote:We leave Afghanastan in 2014 as promised.  President Obama did not put us there, but he will get us out.   When he does, you will be the first to argue we have surrendered.   Sorry,  he will get us out.....just like he promised.

Didn't he promise to have us out in 16 months?  Or was that another President Barack Hussein Obama?  You know, the one who promised to close GITMO and then realized there are some really bad people in the world, NO ONE WANTS.

What is happening in Iraq after President Obama pulled out all our troops?

I know you will pretend not to remember the Republican outrage that the prisoners from GITMO might be brought to the United States to stand trial. You do remember that, don't you? Republicans have blocked every attempt by the President to close GITMO, while still trying to blame him for...wait for it...not closing GITMO. Who exactly do you think you're fooling?

Floridatexan

Floridatexan

Markle wrote:
Floridatexan wrote:
Markle wrote:
2seaoat wrote: Basically Obama is just letting putin run all over that country, even killing people.

Obama is doing that......ok, you are president......please tell us your solution.  It is easy to talk chit about things you have not the slightest idea, but we all await your brilliance.  Somebody might want to copy and paste your answer and email it to the President.

As you well know, it started with President Barack Hussein Obama's grand apology tour and has not slowed down a bit.  Leaders of other countries ridicule our President for "drawing a red line", then dividing it into 12 pink lines inviting everyone to walk all over him.  President Obama was even caught sending a message to Vladimir Putin that after his re-election, he (President Obama) would be free to do nothing.

How is Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Ukraine, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS, AP, NSA and now the VA hospitals working out?

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NO IT DIDN'T YOU SHAMELESS TROLL...claiming to be a Christian...what claptrap.  It started long before...here's some Reagan history for you...refute it...you can't.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/27/1251119/-Hoaxes-101-Losing-241-at-Beirut-in-1983-Didn-t-Happen-No-More#

 Prescott Bush directly financed the Nazis in WWII.  That is documented.  Now you warmongering idiots want to start WWIII.

The DAILYKOS...really?

And you also know that Prescott Bush did not directly finance the Nazis.  You Progressives are SO easy!

Union Banking Corporation

Bush was one of seven directors (including W. Averell Harriman) of the Union Banking Corporation (holding a single share as a director), an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate Fritz Thyssen.  In July 1942, the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders.  A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations but confirmed the Thyssens' control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II.

According to journalist Joe Conason, Prescott Bush's involvement with UBC was purely commercial and he was not a Nazi sympathizer.  The Anti-Defamation League and historian Herbert Parmet agreed with that assessment.

So who are the idiots and are you so desperate that's all you can do?  Behave like a little kid on the playground?




http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

"Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president.
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him. But now the multibillion dollar legal action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks re-election..."

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Markle

Markle

Floridatexan wrote:
Markle wrote:
Floridatexan wrote:
Markle wrote:
2seaoat wrote: Basically Obama is just letting putin run all over that country, even killing people.

Obama is doing that......ok, you are president......please tell us your solution.  It is easy to talk chit about things you have not the slightest idea, but we all await your brilliance.  Somebody might want to copy and paste your answer and email it to the President.

As you well know, it started with President Barack Hussein Obama's grand apology tour and has not slowed down a bit.  Leaders of other countries ridicule our President for "drawing a red line", then dividing it into 12 pink lines inviting everyone to walk all over him.  President Obama was even caught sending a message to Vladimir Putin that after his re-election, he (President Obama) would be free to do nothing.

How is Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Ukraine, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS, AP, NSA and now the VA hospitals working out?

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 ShrinkMilitary_zpsf141c8b5

NO IT DIDN'T YOU SHAMELESS TROLL...claiming to be a Christian...what claptrap.  It started long before...here's some Reagan history for you...refute it...you can't.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/27/1251119/-Hoaxes-101-Losing-241-at-Beirut-in-1983-Didn-t-Happen-No-More#

 Prescott Bush directly financed the Nazis in WWII.  That is documented.  Now you warmongering idiots want to start WWIII.

The DAILYKOS...really?

And you also know that Prescott Bush did not directly finance the Nazis.  You Progressives are SO easy!

Union Banking Corporation

Bush was one of seven directors (including W. Averell Harriman) of the Union Banking Corporation (holding a single share as a director), an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate Fritz Thyssen.  In July 1942, the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders.  A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations but confirmed the Thyssens' control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II.

According to journalist Joe Conason, Prescott Bush's involvement with UBC was purely commercial and he was not a Nazi sympathizer.  The Anti-Defamation League and historian Herbert Parmet agreed with that assessment.

So who are the idiots and are you so desperate that's all you can do?  Behave like a little kid on the playground?




http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

"Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president.
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him. But now the multibillion dollar legal action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks re-election..."

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Ohhhhh...it's a secret.
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Wordslinger

Wordslinger

Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English. He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle. The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.

Markle

Markle

Wordslinger wrote:Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English.  He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle.  The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.  

So easy for you to lie. I guess, by now, it just comes naturally to you. You must be so proud.

Obviously your own prejudice and racism that of two black figures, you see one as white and the other as black. Is that part of being a Socialist/Communist?

Wordslinger

Wordslinger

Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English.  He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle.  The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.  

So easy for you to lie.  I guess, by now, it just comes naturally to you.  You must be so proud.

Obviously your own prejudice and racism that of two black figures, you see one as white and the other as black.  Is that part of being a Socialist/Communist?


Well Herr Markle, it was you who found and used the racist poster, I didn't.

Markle

Markle

Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English.  He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle.  The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.  

So easy for you to lie.  I guess, by now, it just comes naturally to you.  You must be so proud.

Obviously your own prejudice and racism that of two black figures, you see one as white and the other as black.  Is that part of being a Socialist/Communist?


Well Herr Markle, it was you who found and used the racist poster, I didn't.

Which black is black and which black is white? I get confused, I'm sure you can explain the difference.

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 Peoplewhoworkforaliving

Heavier meds?

Wordslinger

Wordslinger

Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English.  He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle.  The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.  

So easy for you to lie.  I guess, by now, it just comes naturally to you.  You must be so proud.

Obviously your own prejudice and racism that of two black figures, you see one as white and the other as black.  Is that part of being a Socialist/Communist?


Well Herr Markle, it was you who found and used the racist poster, I didn't.

Which black is black and which black is white?  I get confused, I'm sure you can explain the difference.

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 Peoplewhoworkforaliving

Heavier meds?


Thank you for running your racist poster again and proving my point!!

Markle

Markle

Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English.  He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle.  The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.  

So easy for you to lie.  I guess, by now, it just comes naturally to you.  You must be so proud.

Obviously your own prejudice and racism that of two black figures, you see one as white and the other as black.  Is that part of being a Socialist/Communist?


Well Herr Markle, it was you who found and used the racist poster, I didn't.

Which black is black and which black is white?  I get confused, I'm sure you can explain the difference.

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 Peoplewhoworkforaliving

Heavier meds?


Thank you for running your racist poster again and proving my point!!

So once again my good friend Wordslinger. Which black is black and which black is white? How can you tell if they're Hispanic or maybe from Cuba?

Wordslinger

Wordslinger

Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English.  He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle.  The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.  

So easy for you to lie.  I guess, by now, it just comes naturally to you.  You must be so proud.

Obviously your own prejudice and racism that of two black figures, you see one as white and the other as black.  Is that part of being a Socialist/Communist?


Well Herr Markle, it was you who found and used the racist poster, I didn't.

Which black is black and which black is white?  I get confused, I'm sure you can explain the difference.

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 Peoplewhoworkforaliving

Heavier meds?


Thank you for running your racist poster again and proving my point!!

So once again my good friend Wordslinger.  Which black is black and which black is white?  How can you tell if they're Hispanic or maybe from Cuba?



Note that the "worker" who is shoveling has no facial features whatever.  But the kid on the stoop is wearing basketball-style shoes, has his baseball hat on backwards, and has the detailed profile features of an African-American.

Take as many guesses as you want as to why the non-worker's shoes, clothing and profile features were detailed by the artist.

The rest of us know exactly why.

And since you knew where to look to find the poster online, and you loved it enough to feature it here ....  if the shoe fits, la la la ...

Nothing new at all Herr Markle, we all knew you are a racist.

Why don't you just come out of the closet and admit it?



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Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob



There are genocides going on all over the world and we stand by and do nothing to help. Its good to know the left's idea of human rights ends at the border. Not that I disagree with that, just it doesn't fit the " save mankind" mentality the left pretends to portray.

I'm sure glad the neocons are opposed to all that.

Sal

Sal

Wordslinger wrote:


Note that the "worker" who is shoveling has no facial features whatever.  But the kid on the stoop is wearing basketball-style shoes, has his baseball hat on backwards, and has the detailed profile features of an African-American.

Take as many guesses as you want as to why the non-worker's shoes, clothing and profile features were detailed by the artist.

The rest of us know exactly why.


I especially like the sagging pants.

Real subtle.


lmao

Sal

Sal

Smile


You can call me a fool today, but 10 years from now or perhaps sooner when this little tid bit of history plays out, and it always does, I wont be a fool then.


You'll always be a fool, Chrissy.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Markle

Markle

Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English.  He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle.  The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.  

So easy for you to lie.  I guess, by now, it just comes naturally to you.  You must be so proud.

Obviously your own prejudice and racism that of two black figures, you see one as white and the other as black.  Is that part of being a Socialist/Communist?


Well Herr Markle, it was you who found and used the racist poster, I didn't.

Which black is black and which black is white?  I get confused, I'm sure you can explain the difference.

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 Peoplewhoworkforaliving

Heavier meds?


Thank you for running your racist poster again and proving my point!!

So once again my good friend Wordslinger.  Which black is black and which black is white?  How can you tell if they're Hispanic or maybe from Cuba?



Note that the "worker" who is shoveling has no facial features whatever.  But the kid on the stoop is wearing basketball-style shoes, has his baseball hat on backwards, and has the detailed profile features of an African-American.

Take as many guesses as you want as to why the non-worker's shoes, clothing and profile features were detailed by the artist.

The rest of us know exactly why.

And since you knew where to look to find the poster online, and you loved it enough to feature it here ....  if the shoe fits, la la la ...

Nothing new at all Herr Markle, we all knew you are a racist.

Why don't you just come out of the closet and admit it?

THANK YOU!

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 Happy-jump-happy-animation-animated-smiley-emoticon-000360-large

YOU are the one who use racial stereotypes to identify the race of DRAWINGS.

Keep up the good work! I do so enjoy watching you expose yourself, your hate, prejudices and wishes for a far poorer country.

Guest


Guest

Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English.  He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle.  The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.  

So easy for you to lie.  I guess, by now, it just comes naturally to you.  You must be so proud.

Obviously your own prejudice and racism that of two black figures, you see one as white and the other as black.  Is that part of being a Socialist/Communist?


Well Herr Markle, it was you who found and used the racist poster, I didn't.

Which black is black and which black is white?  I get confused, I'm sure you can explain the difference.

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 Peoplewhoworkforaliving

Heavier meds?


Thank you for running your racist poster again and proving my point!!

So once again my good friend Wordslinger.  Which black is black and which black is white?  How can you tell if they're Hispanic or maybe from Cuba?



Note that the "worker" who is shoveling has no facial features whatever.  But the kid on the stoop is wearing basketball-style shoes, has his baseball hat on backwards, and has the detailed profile features of an African-American.

Take as many guesses as you want as to why the non-worker's shoes, clothing and profile features were detailed by the artist.

The rest of us know exactly why.

And since you knew where to look to find the poster online, and you loved it enough to feature it here ....  if the shoe fits, la la la ...

Nothing new at all Herr Markle, we all knew you are a racist.

Why don't you just come out of the closet and admit it?

THANK YOU!

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 Happy-jump-happy-animation-animated-smiley-emoticon-000360-large

YOU are the one who use racial stereotypes to identify the race of DRAWINGS.

Keep up the good work!  I do so enjoy watching you expose yourself, your hate, prejudices and wishes for a far poorer country.

I know right. I'm not sure what world these people are living in, but either one of those silhouettes could be numerous male figures in my family.

Do they really live in a secluded locked up world where they associate backwards hats with black people? How odd.

Markle

Markle

Smile
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English.  He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle.  The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.  

So easy for you to lie.  I guess, by now, it just comes naturally to you.  You must be so proud.

Obviously your own prejudice and racism that of two black figures, you see one as white and the other as black.  Is that part of being a Socialist/Communist?


Well Herr Markle, it was you who found and used the racist poster, I didn't.

Which black is black and which black is white?  I get confused, I'm sure you can explain the difference.

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 Peoplewhoworkforaliving

Heavier meds?


Thank you for running your racist poster again and proving my point!!

So once again my good friend Wordslinger.  Which black is black and which black is white?  How can you tell if they're Hispanic or maybe from Cuba?



Note that the "worker" who is shoveling has no facial features whatever.  But the kid on the stoop is wearing basketball-style shoes, has his baseball hat on backwards, and has the detailed profile features of an African-American.

Take as many guesses as you want as to why the non-worker's shoes, clothing and profile features were detailed by the artist.

The rest of us know exactly why.

And since you knew where to look to find the poster online, and you loved it enough to feature it here ....  if the shoe fits, la la la ...

Nothing new at all Herr Markle, we all knew you are a racist.

Why don't you just come out of the closet and admit it?

THANK YOU!

Obama to Neocons over Ukraine:  Screw You! - Page 2 Happy-jump-happy-animation-animated-smiley-emoticon-000360-large

YOU are the one who use racial stereotypes to identify the race of DRAWINGS.

Keep up the good work!  I do so enjoy watching you expose yourself, your hate, prejudices and wishes for a far poorer country.

I know right. I'm not sure what world these people are living in, but either one of those silhouettes could be numerous male figures in my family.

Do they really live in a secluded locked up world where they associate backwards hats with black people? How odd.

Obviously that is one of 2seaoat's and Wordslinger's boldest expression of their vile racism and bigotry.

Not that this is any secret, they have been segregating and pigeon holing different minorities of our citizens for decades. They then advance any possible way to pander to that individual group with handouts and promises.

Markle

Markle

Wordslinger wrote:Herr Markle says Nazis and DDT are good, and most American workers earning minimum wages do not speak English.  He also enjoys showing cartoon posters that depict a white man working with a shovel, and a black youth sitting on a stoop, swigging from a bottle.  The poster says the worker's money is being taken by people on welfare.

Reality.  

You love the Nazis' you even use Hitler's personal train as your signature.

As for DDT, your ignorance is common among Progressives. I'm always happy to inform the radically uninformed. You know, folks like yourself and, of course, your comrade 2seaoat.

DDT is safe: just ask the professor who ate it for 40 years
Daily Telegraph ^ | originally: 07/19/2001 | Terence Kealey

Posted on ‎7‎/‎3‎/‎2002‎ ‎7‎:‎09‎:‎24‎ ‎AM by backhoe


Culture/Society Editorial Editorial
Source: The Telegraph (U.K.)
Published: 07/19/2001 Author: Terence Kealey

THE World Health Organisation, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, the UN environmental programme and its development programme, USAID, and almost all the other international representatives of the great and the good now campaign against DDT.

But, perversely, the Third World still uses it. To those who believe that America under George W Bush and his gas-guzzling, permafrost-drilling accomplices is the source of all global pollution, this Third World defection is disappointing. Where are the virtuous blacks when we need them?

DDT was introduced as an insecticide during the 1940s. In Churchill's words: "The excellent DDT powder has been found to yield astonishing results against insects of all kinds, from lice to mosquitoes."

And astonishing they were. DDT was particularly effective against the anopheles mosquito, which is the carrier of malaria, and people once hoped that DDT would eradicate malaria worldwide. Consider Sri Lanka. In 1946, it had three million cases, but the introduction of DDT reduced the numbers, by 1964, to only 29. In India, the numbers of malaria cases fell from 75 million to around 50,000.

But, in 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, the book that launched the environmental movement. In that book, Carson showed how DDT was imperilling wildlife, particularly predators at the top of the food chain that accumulated the chemical in their fat and in their thinning egg shells.

Within a decade, the developed countries had banned DDT, as did some developing countries, to the detriment of their health. In Sri Lanka, cases of malaria soon rose to 500,000. Worldwide, malaria has returned with a vengeance, accounting annually for 300 million cases and, sadly, one million deaths, mainly of children.

As the Third World now knows, there is no ready substitute for DDT. The spraying of houses with DDT prevents malaria because most people are infected after dusk as they sleep indoors. DDT permeates the walls of buildings, and a single spray will provide indoor protection for months.

Other chemicals are available, but they are generally less effective, shorter-acting and - most importantly for the Third World - more expensive. And DDT is extraordinarily safe for humans. Prof Kenneth Mellanby lectured on it for more than 40 years, and during each lecture he would eat a pinch.

Nor need DDT imperil wildlife. The destruction that Carson described was caused by the agricultural use of DDT as a mass insecticide in vast quantities on crops. But the discriminating application of DDT indoors involves only a tiny, contained, environmentally tolerable, reversible fraction of the dose. That is why some international health (as opposed to environmental) agencies, including Unicef, still support the judicious use of DTT. Even the WHO is now softening its stance.

Malaria was once endemic in Britain. Cromwell died of it and both Pepys and Shakespeare described it. Until the 1930s, it was still active in Essex. But we are lucky in our frosty climate, which kills anopheles, and we have eradicated the disease. Yet Greenpeace and other environmental agencies resist the appropriate use of DDT in the tropics.

Politics has long bedevilled malaria. Its first effective cure was quinine, which was discovered by Jesuit missionaries in South America during the 1630s, but for decades Protestants preferred to die rather than swallow "Jesuit's Powder". Today, Third World health is endangered by comfortable Western environmentalists, some of whom, discreetly, view black natives as threats to the local wildlife.

Supporting those black natives, however, are two researchers, Richard Tren and Roger Bate, whose Malaria and the DDT Story, recently published by the Institute for Economic Affairs in London, shows how to foster both a healthier and an environmentally friendlier Third World. Greenpeace, in its self-assurance, embodies a contemporary cultural imperialism as offensive as any Jesuit's.

•The author is the vice-chancellor of Buckingham University

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The Daily Telegraph is a British Newspaper; a far cry from a source substantiated by scientific studies.

Markle should stick to things he knows about. An expert on pesticides and their effects on human health and the environment he is not.

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ZVUGKTUBM wrote:The Daily Telegraph is a British Newspaper; a far cry from a source substantiated by scientific studies.

Markle should stick to things he knows about. An expert on pesticides and their effects on human health and the environment he is not.

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