Afternoon Cup - 11/17/2006 (Fistulas, Condoms & Global Warming)
Over in the Congo atrocities are happening on an unprecedented scale. Woman are being raped en massee, and doctors are seeing something they’ve never seen before outside of complications due to childbirth… Rape Fistulas.
As horrid as that sounds, they unfortunately do not have enough oil over there in Congo to justify any sort of U.S. intervention, besides, Bush is doing enough to help woman in the United States by installing a Chrisofascist as the new chief of family-planning programs at the department of Health and Human Services who thinks birth control is “Demeaning to women”.
Outgoing Chairman of the Senate committee on Environment and Public Works, Republican James Inhofe has said not to worry about Global Warming, because “God’s still up there”, and that “George Soros, the Hollywood elitists, the far left environmentalists on the committee that I chair — all of them want us to believe the science is settled and it’s not.”.
I thought that would be a nice little reminder as to why we threw these bums out last week, Good job America!
restless — On 11-19-2006 at 12:27 pm
The High-Tech Genocide in the Congo is Number 5 in the top 25 Censored News Stories issued by Project Censored.
“The world’s most neglected emergency, according to the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, is the ongoing tragedy of the Congo, where six to seven million have died since 1996 as a consequence of invasions and wars sponsored by western powers trying to gain control of the region’s mineral wealth. At stake is control of natural resources that are sought by U.S. corporations—diamonds, tin, copper, gold, and more significantly, coltan and niobium, two minerals necessary for production of cell phones and other high-tech electronics; and cobalt, an element essential to nuclear, chemical, aerospace, and defense industries.”
So it’s not really about U.S. intervention being lacking. U.S. corporate is intimately involved.
“People need to realize, he says, that there is a direct link between the gadgets that make our lives more convenient and sophisticated—and the reality of the violence, turmoil, and destruction that plague our world.”
More here (www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#5).