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...noted that in some instances, colonists intentionally infected Native Americans with smallpox. “But the vast majority of the suffering that was visited on the Native American population as the Europeans came was not a plan or an attack,” Summers said in the speech. “It was in many ways a coincidence...Nobody’s plan...
...Dirty War (Jan. 24, 9 p.m. E.T.), about a dirty bomb (a device packed with radioactive material that renders an area uninhabitable with its fallout) set off in London. The film was co-written and directed by Daniel Percival, a one-man VSDM industry; he also created Smallpox, a chilling mockumentary that aired this month on FX. Dirty War opens on a sight familiar from the news, an attack-simulation drill. The test is a sham--the responders are badly underequipped, and the casualty numbers are fudged--but the Minister for London (Helen Schlesinger) reports success, to "protect" the people...
This is an odd book. Much of it consists of gorgeous, very precise descriptions of the hideous misfortunes that befall the people who surround Ella and Franco. They suffer diphtheria, syphilis, scalding, torture, drowning, stabbing, smallpox, gunfire and, in a couple of instances, grisly botched amputations. None of that bothers Ella and Franco much. They are like cruel children: dreamy, whimsical, pleasure loving, utterly lacking in remorse or the kind of inward reflection one hopes for from characters in novels. In one scene Franco viciously whips a dog because it resembles a dog that bit him when he was little...
...look at the land. They look at the livestock numbers." The land conflict is but the latest chapter in the troubled history of the Masai. The 1904 treaty was theoretically meant to protect them. By the late 1800s, the tribe had been devastated by civil war and smallpox. With a new railroad making it easier to access remote lands, the British government created reservations that would be off-limits to white settlement. The treaty set aside as Masai lands 23,000 sq km in two regions: the Laikipia plateau and an area south of Nairobi. This left the fertile Rift...
Supporters of the inoculation program say the danger of a smallpox attack is still real. The CIA stands by its 2002 assertion that North Korea may have the smallpox pathogen--though U.S. officials tell TIME that intelligence is even less reliable than what the CIA had on Iraq's smallpox program. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz last month ordered an expansion of the Pentagon's smallpox-inoculation program. And HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson vowed as recently as January to continue pushing civilian smallpox vaccinations. But that may not last. A senior Thompson adviser, Donald Henderson--who ran the World...