U.N. Fails Darfur Again »
Posted By Spadecaller 10 months, 1 week ago in NewsHundreds of thousand of lives are at stake in Darfur, the century's first genocide. The only way to stop the holocaust is by putting intense, continuing pressure on China, the chief buyer of Sudan's oil.
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Spadecaller10 months, 1 week ago
The upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic "could face a rash of bad publicity."
"...there is now a campaign targeting the corporate sponsors of the Summer Gamesâ;;companies like General Electric (which paid $900 million for the broadcast rights), Coca-Cola, and Johnson & Johnson. Once again, there's apprehension in Beijing."
"How can corporate sponsors avoid getting hit?" asked correspondent Mei Fong of Wall Street Journal on November 15.
Meanwhile: "We have many reports of babies, male babies being killed, sometimes having their penises sliced off so that they would bleed to death in their mothers' arms. . . ."
The value of human life is secondary to these corporations; only if they may lose money on their projected investments in the Beijing Olympic Games would the Darfur holocaust pose a problem.
We must not standby and remain silent.
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Teech10 months, 1 week ago
Good post, Spade.
Sad to say that I don't believe that the Chinese government or U.S. corporations give one sh!t about how many people get killed in Darfur. It won't cost either one of them one dime! The Chinese do not view human life as we do, and most Americans are more concerned with who will be the next American Idol. A few hundred thousand or a million slaughtered people. To Big Oil or China, so what,? There's no shortage of people in Darfur, but oil is precious!
99 out of 100 Americans think Darfur is a judge on Dancing with the Stars...or some kind of new healthy cereal.
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blowback10 months, 1 week ago
The crisis is not only in Darfur or Sudan, but also in
neighboring Chad.
I can't help but question why both countries have found
themselves in the grip of humanitarian disasters ever
since it became obvious that they were both oil rich
nations.
If I didn't know better, I'd say both of these countries,
like a few others I can think of, have become the
battlegrounds for external, clandestine forces, including
ours, to covertly fight over the world's most sought after
and rapidly depleting resource.
It wouldn't surprise me if these forces have had a hand in
engineering this crisis.
Sudan's president has no objection to UN peacekeeping
forces assisting in resolving the crisis, however he
has been quite specific that this not be a non-African
contingent.
Whatever you may think of him, it's clear he is fearful
that external forces will use the UN to gain a foothold
in Sudan for reasons of espionage and to advance their
imperial agendas in pursuit of oil. Deja vu?
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McOrmic10 months, 1 week ago
Spadecaller you are so right.
For years now we have been hypnotized with tv shows and ads and we never stood against such crimes against humanity.
Wake up people. There are more valuable things than diamonds and gold.
Be alerted!
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Spadecaller10 months, 1 week ago
China owns oil fields in and around Darfur, buys 70 percent of Sudan's oil...
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Spadecaller10 months, 1 week ago
China's state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. is the largest foreign investor in Sudan's oil sector, according to Brookings Institution China Energy Fellow Erica Downs. The country's Greater Nile Petroleum Operation Co. is the largest overseas project for any Chinese firm in terms of production.
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Spadecaller10 months, 1 week ago
The tragedy in Darfur is beyond comprehension.
After understanding the motives behind this horrific human tragedy, we should support a boycot of Coke Cola products, JOhnson & JOhnson and G.E.
Let them get our message, that they share a moral responsibility to confront China and to bring pressure to help stop the rape, plundering, and killing. They are investors with and supporters of China's injustices against humanity.
What are we allowing our country to become?
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Spadecaller10 months, 1 week ago
When Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the White House, among other things, President Bush urged Hu to cooperate with the U.S. government in its effort to end the ongoing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.
Urging and actually doing something about it are not the same. Only lip-service for humanity, but action for power and money...
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Natureboy10 months, 1 week ago
Funny how liberals are cheerleading for the invasion of Sudan under the guise of "peacekeeping."
They might have gone for the invasion of Iraq, if it had been marketed similarly.
Rarely is the question asked, "where are the rebels, a bunch of busted-ass broke, nomadic goatherders, getting all their high-tech weaponry?"
Look to the US and Israel.
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donald5110 months, 1 week ago
STupid, stupid, stupid! They haven't asked for invasion... just a little demonstrated concern and involvement from the leader of the world's last superpower.... the freaking reborn christian who would rather see the UN fail in everything rather than work with it to stop this genecide!
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Spadecaller10 months ago
Natureboy:
I haven't read a single poster that has advocated invasion. Who are you referring to?
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Natureboy10 months, 1 week ago
Read here to get started unfolding the big picture of war by proxy and genocide for oil--
http://www.321energy.com/editorials/engdahl/eng...
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Natureboy10 months, 1 week ago
And then start reading up on the Pan Sahel Initiative and the Trans-Saharan Counter-Terrorism Initiative (TSCTI).
Sub-Saharan Africa is being militarized by the U.S., and for good reason - the area is rich in oil. Sudan has not only oil, but a port from which the petroleum from the Pan-Sahel region can be shipped to Europe.
This is why we have been after Sudan for the last two decades.
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Spadecaller10 months, 1 week ago
"Eight percent of China's oil now comes from southern Sudan. China takes up to 65% to 80% of Sudan's 500,000 barrels/day of oil production. Sudan last year was China's fourth largest foreign oil source. In 2006 China passed Japan to become the world's second largest importer of oil after the United States, importing 6.5 million barrels a day"
IN addition, China supplies the Sudanese government with weapons an manufacturing facilities for weapons... weapons being used to kill the civilians of Darfur.
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Natureboy10 months, 1 week ago
And Darfur is only the latest battlefront in the U.S. backed efforts to destabilize Sudan - please, have a careful read -
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/30/071.html
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Bkumm10 months, 1 week ago
Well, let's be clear about several things. Firstly, the US corporations supporting the Chinese in their effort to get oil are only part of the problem. Lest we forget, the US gets oil from some pretty horrific places as well. Has everyone forgotten Nigeria? What about Tajikistan? So, we definitely need to clean up some messes, but it isn't just the Chinese, we're (the US) also to blame.
Secondly, until the UN isn't dominated by the Security Council and the veto of the permanent members the UN will continue to be a crippled organization. It needs reform. Badly.
Thirdly, this is absolutely a religious conflict. To claim otherwise is to ignore the facts. Yes, Darfur has some devout Muslims. So does New York, but that doesn't change the fact that the Sudanese government is controlled by Islamists and they are trying to 'cleanse' their nation of those who fight Sha'ria law.
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Mutainia10 months, 1 week ago
The last century's genocide was Hutus killing Tutsis, killing nearly a million in just a couple of weeks. Surprisingly, I don't think Hutus are Muslim at all...just little guys with attitude, apparently. When the Tutsis finally turned on the Hutus, the Hutus ended up in a giant camp and started starving. My grandma sent them our wheat and rice. After what they did to the Tutsis, I felt like our food was wasted. Of course, the Hutus were supposedly made to feel inferior to the tall, beautiful, Tutsi people, but, oh well. That food COULD have been saved later for the Darfur people. Instead, it went to the Hutus. For one thing, wheat keeps. Oh... well.
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Natureboy10 months, 1 week ago
Purely bollocks.
The U.S. press has tried to frame this as a religious conflict, and an ethnic conflict, but neither contention is true- Darfur is home to some of Sudan's most devout muslims-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
This is an oil war by proxy.
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