giving the new world order

Stopping the truth is like trying to prevent the world from turning:

Speaking during a gathering of foreign diplomats last month in Banjul, The Gambia, the 42-year-old Jammeh had startled his guests by declaring that he cures not just Hiv/Aids but also asthma.

What was even more astonishing was his assertion that the whole cure would be complete in three days flat and that persons infected if examined, would be found negative.

It was not the first time that a cure has been claimed by some herbalists, homopathic medical practitioners and the likes in Africa since the Hiv/Aids pandemic broke out in the later part of the 20th century without an apparent cure. Most of these claims have been found as, at best, exaggerated.

But coming from chief of a state like President Jammeh, the cure claim has become of more than incidental interest to the global community.

good order rests upon a hair trigger

2 JAN 2006

ot = 06:10:49.55 +/- 0.23 EAST OF SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS
lat = -60.809 +/- 8.3
lon = -21.451 +/- 7.1 MAGNITUDE 7.4 (HRV)
dep = 10.0 (assigned)

345 km (215 miles) SE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands
565 km (350 miles) SE of Visokoi Island, South Sandwich Islands
1155 km (720 miles) SE of Grytviken, South Georgia
3270 km (2030 miles) N of South Pole, Antarctica

nph = 94 of 340 se = 1.21 FE=732 A

error ellipse = ( 25.2, 0.0, 11.2;115.2, 0.0, 8.7; 0.0, 0.0, 0.0)

mb = 6.5 ( 31) ML = 0.0 ( 0) mblg = 5.7 ( 2) md = 0.0 ( 0) MS = 7.3 (124)

sta phase arrival res dist azm amp per mag amp per mag sta
HOPE P 06:13:17.20 -1.0 10.4 302 HOPE
PMSA iPd 06:15:17.44 0.2 19.6 240 g:2.0+0 .95 5.8 b:9.6+2 .40 6.4 PMSA
TRIS iPd 06:16:08.90 0.5 24.5 18 g:1.6+0 1.1 5.7 b:1.2+4 2.1 7.2 TRIS
TRQA iPc 06:17:31.51 -1.6 34.0 293 b:1.1+3 1.1 6.7 TRQA
MAW ePc 06:17:36.72 -0.8 34.5 138 b:2.5+0 .45 4.4X MAW
PLCA iPc 06:17:46.86 -2.4 35.9 281 b:1.5+0 .45 4.2X PLCA
VNDA ePc 06:18:39.61 0.2 41.9 181 b:1.2+3 1.6 6.4 VNDA
MBAR LR 06:45:01.55 72.0 56 MBAR
KMBO LR 06:46:06.42 74.2 63 S:2.3+2 21. 7.4 KMBO
RAO LR 06:52:45.12 88.2 200 S:7.3+1 20. 7.1 RAO
RAR LR 06:54:21.55 91.6 218 RAR
BBSR LR 06:58:01.65 99.3 324 S:1.2+2 22. 7.3 BBSR
DWPF LR 06:58:50.85 101.1 309 S:7.5+1 22. 7.2 DWPF
AFI LR 06:59:13.62 101.8 209 S:9.1+1 21. 7.3 AFI
BILL P 06:30:48.70 -7.9X 172.0 339 BILL
PALK LR 06:59:24.84 102.2 97 S:2.2+1 20. 6.7 PALK
GOGA LR 07:01:28.03 106.6 310 S:1.6+2 20. 7.6 GOGA
LRAL LR 07:01:57.35 107.6 307 S:1.9+1 22. 6.6 LRAL
CBN LR 07:02:28.26 108.7 317 S:1.3+2 21. 7.5 CBN
FUNA LR 07:02:36.92 109.0 202 S:5.7+1 22. 7.1 FUNA
TZTN LR 07:02:48.25 109.4 311 TZTN
PMG LR 07:02:49.83 109.4 168 PMG
NATX LR 07:02:55.05 109.6 300 S:4.7+1 22. 7.0 NATX
KULM LR 07:03:01.29 109.8 116 KULM
OXF LR 07:03:01.54 109.8 306 S:1.1+2 22. 7.4 OXF
HNR LR 07:03:05.33 110.0 182 S:9.9+1 20. 7.4 HNR
BRYW LR 07:03:11.49 110.2 322 BRYW
KSM LR 07:03:17.65 110.4 127 KSM
WES LR 07:03:21.84 110.6 323 S:1.3+2 21. 7.5 WES
QUA2 LR 07:03:27.87 110.8 322 QUA2
MCWV LR 07:03:29.53 110.8 315 S:8.6+1 22. 7.3 MCWV
LTX LR 07:03:49.01 111.5 292 S:8.2+1 19. 7.3 LTX
MIAR LR 07:03:50.65 111.6 302 S:6.3+1 22. 7.2 MIAR
HNH LR 07:04:04.41 112.1 323 HNH
LBNH LR 07:04:15.28 112.4 323 S:1.5+2 20. 7.6 LBNH
ACSO LR 07:04:15.45 112.4 313 S:6.6+1 22. 7.2 ACSO
NCB LR 07:04:27.95 112.9 321 S:1.0+2 21. 7.4 NCB
LONY LR 07:04:47.82 113.6 321 LONY
ESK LR 07:06:16.30 116.7 12 S:2.6+1 20. 6.8 ESK
KKM LR 07:06:21.26 116.8 131 KKM
ANMO LR 07:06:39.98 117.5 293 S:9.1+1 22. 7.3 ANMO
GLA LR 07:07:45.81 119.8 285 GLA
DAV LR 07:08:19.20 121.0 141 S:2.3+1 21. 6.8 DAV
EYMN LR 07:08:53.22 122.2 312 S:9.3+1 20. 7.4 EYMN
MWC LR 07:08:57.00 122.3 283 MWC
GSC LR 07:09:05.05 122.6 285 GSC
ISA LR 07:09:35.99 123.7 284 S:2.2+1 21. 6.8 ISA
BORG LR 07:10:20.39 125.2 0 S:2.7+1 20. 6.9 BORG
ULM LR 07:10:33.74 125.7 310 S:1.2+2 21. 7.5 ULM
SAO LR 07:10:41.77 126.0 282 S:3.4+1 21. 7.0 SAO
QIZ LR 07:10:43.81 126.0 119 QIZ
LSA LR 07:10:53.99 126.4 94 LSA
KWAJ LR 07:11:29.46 127.7 191 S:1.4+1 22. 6.6 KWAJ
HOPS LR 07:11:54.48 128.6 283 S:4.9+1 21. 7.2 HOPS
SFJD LR 07:12:15.67 129.3 346 SFJD
WDC LR 07:12:22.74 129.5 284 S:5.0+1 21. 7.2 WDC
KIP LR 07:12:47.51 130.4 237 S:6.1+1 19. 7.3 KIP
YBH LR 07:12:50.56 130.5 285 S:4.0+1 20. 7.1 YBH
GUMO LR 07:13:27.84 131.8 162 S:5.1+1 20. 7.2 GUMO
HAWA LR 07:13:49.81 132.6 291 S:8.5+0 21. 6.4 HAWA
NEW LR 07:13:58.77 132.9 295 S:1.5+2 20. 7.7 NEW

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‘As we sat there upright on the bed
Data scrolling on a screen filled my eyes.’