Dr Rutledge Discussing the Upcoming Premiere of 3 Billion And Counting

Dr. Rutledge and his team take an in depth look into a disease that has killed more people than any disease ever known -- Malaria. They interview African, Indian, and US Governments, charitable organizations, scientists, politicians, doctors, clinics, victims, and survivors. They explore and expose the politics of domestic and international policies and find the evidence that the public never truly understood. What they find is astonishing. The greatest ecological genocide in the known history of man is laid bare -- the 1972 ban of an extraordinary life-protecting chemical DDT. This is politics -- the cold brutal crookedness that kills with a stroke of a pen. Shortsightedness of governmental and environmental policies is causing the deaths of millions and the suffering of billions. When the EPA, Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, and Sierra refused interviews, Dr. Rutledge knew he had touched a nerve.

The film also features an original song and score from Debbie Gibson.

For more information, visit: www.3BillionAndCounting.com

For ticket information:
Quad Cinema: World Awareness Through Cinema
www.quadcinema.com
34 West 13th Street
New York, New York 10011
p: 212-255-2243

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• DDT
• Debbie Gibson
• Deborah Gibson
• Rise
• Dr. Rutledge
• Malaria
• Howard Stern
• Bedbugs

[kshart32]

Is this guy serious? He wants to unleash an environmental disaster that will indiscriminately wipe out all insects (not just bedbugs or mosquitos), thus killing the birds that eat insects-- including peregrine falcons, which were almost brought to extinction by DDT. Apparently he has not read Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring."

[RocketeerAndRoll]

Bedbugs can actually transmit a number of diseases, namely the MRSA staph infection. Thought you might want to know that...

[bedbugscouk]

Pleased to see you are now focusing on DDT and Malaria, it does not and will not work for bedbugs and to try to garner publicity through association only exposes poor science.

David Cain

Bed Bugs Limited

[xmfclick]

@danjafilm #2: ... surroundings, have better sanitation and health care and consequently fewer children; but this isn't going to happen any time soon or by magic. So, in the meantime, use DDT (in combination with other methods, if you want) to reduce malaria and other vector-borne diseases. This will break the poverty spiral and enable Africans to work to become richer. (This ignores politics and corruption, of course, but that's another subject.)

[xmfclick]

@danjafilm: While it is true that malaria was reduced in the US through urbanisation (i.e. pouring concrete all over the landscape, and people moving to live in towns and cities) it still persisted in the countryside. This is where DDT was used to great effect, to mop up the remaining "pools" of malaria which would otherwise have acted as a reservoir for the disease to come back time and time again. Ultimately, the solution to the problem is to make Africans richer, so they live in better ...

[danjafilm]

@Lalla770

i left a iv part reply to your ddt-malaria question @ the youtube 3billionAndCounting via Dr. Rutledge

[danjafilm]

Part iV This is a true life genocide of innocent little people going up in smoke. There is no true reported Malaria death count in Africa. (poor records if any) but everyone I talk with has felt a Malaria death or more in family or know of many-most under age five.

[danjafilm]

Part III

It was first used for "inside" of WWII Army tents. It saved 100’s of thousands of our fighting men. This is not a hard figure because it is speculation or guessing...

With modern drugs-primarily babies and or children under age five die...teens and Adults simply take the drug much like we do aspirins and or build up a tolerance but remain with the disease...however, they become transfer positive stations...

[danjafilm]

Part II the harmless spray last about a year...it is an "indoor" spray that was banned in U.S. in 1972-It was Populace - Progressives first post V Nam war victories...i.e. The global health Org's followed ban in mind-set e.g. not using or recommending use of DDT. (Accept a few did roller coaster) The ban was based on out door water reports-I know the fellow by the way.

[danjafilm]

Yes, (Lalla) I work in Malaria clinics in "Africa"...I have seen and have held these "dead" babies...DDT did not eradicate Malaria in the U.S. A. e.g. Modern construction however did the job. DDT=repels approx. 90+ irritates 3% and kill rate is 2%-3% GO FIGURE! -