Darfur, Sudan, Oil, America and China

bravo an awakened person

but is it enough ?

boycott cars , cheese , meats , cooking oil , wheat , rice all blood money and all ill gotten gains

in other words grow your own

peace

Global Climate Treaty

We need this very badly.

To understand this further, watch "The Devil Came On Horseback".
http://www.thedevilcameonhorseback.com/

Satyagrahi: I can almost be sure American athletes were told to keep quiet. Afterall, there is a a lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ at stake and that is more important than peoples' lives. If I were an athlete I would refuse to go.

It upsets me that the athletes aren't speaking up about this problem. I mean... they are informed, aren't they? I almost hope they aren't, because ignorance can be cured - apathy usually cannot be.

i don't know where the woman in that interview gets her facts, but she certainly seems to have ignored the genocide going on there, in favor of a blame it all on america and corporations spin.

"china is helping the people of sudan develop..."

That's a laugh... china prevented the UN from "intervening" in Darfur for YEARS so that it could continue lining the pockets of the dictator there for his oil, while said dictator murdered and raped hundreds of thousands of people.

Between Fox news and this Rubbish, i don't know if there is hope for television at all.

It's hard to hear that the U.S. is still.... Oh jeeps, knowing of so many many problems going on everywhere, I can only conclude that we just keep on screwing everything up... Will it ever cease? This is modern day colonialism... "THE DEVIL IS LAUGHING AT US!"

The athletes have nothing to do with it. Let them play the games. Protest all you want but dont ruin it for the athletes that have worked so hard to get where they are.

Let's not forget that the US owes China an insanely huge debt that will never be fully repaid. This means that the US is under China's thumb and can't wiggle out.

oil isn't evil, oil isn't our problem. humans are the problem

With everything in the world about power and being the front-runner in the world.....no governments want to take a stand first and stand up for this. As the old adage goes.."You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"...No one wants to step on China's toes as they are making bounds in their economy and on a run for the power.

That's because the American media is supported by the same sponsors that support the Olympics. They do not want to piss them off.

I wonder who here is against stopping genocide and holding countries involved in it accountable.

What makes this more outragous is that I haven't heard one single thing about this on any American news medias!

This is an important issue that should be getting a lot more coverage around the world. thanks for posting this janforGore. Also like the way you added a link to help support the victims of the genocide and also help stop it. I would like to point out though that you got this story from aljazeera tv network which as i recall was and is labeled as a terrorist supporter by the bush administration and some states have banned the network. interesting. and to see such quality journalism on television is incredibly rare in America . but non the less this should be a top priority for the world and is leaders. with increased pressure though , I believe that since Sudan now has a fiscal interest to the world the public can significantly challenge the oil companies to do something in terms of improving darfur's situation. but the public must be actively involved to achieve this.

And to add: If you watched this video it shows that the Chinese pipeline is already pumping the oil to CHINA as is the other one to the US. How are the Sudanese people being raped and exterminated benefitting from that if they still live in abject poverty in an environmentally dessimated hell?

I didn't blame oil for starting this. If you read my original comment I stated it started out as an environmental disaster which continues. Nothing you can say wil change my opinion on this.The presence of the Chinese government in Sudan and its fervor to take its oil in cooperation with Bashir who I see as a clear human rights abuser is not something to be supported. And please, did this government's stealing Iraq's oil from its people lead to peace? OIL will not lead to PEACE, because if that were true we wouldn't be AT WAR with the world over it.

I DO BLAME CHINA for what is going on in Sudan, and I blame the international community including this government for turning a BLIND EYE to it. And biofuels IN GENERAL are not causing food prices to go up. ETHANOL has and also the destabilization of poor government economies around the world by the WORLD BANK and IMF in order to introduce US and EU imports and GM foods.

Before we condemn China, our Biofuel are causing the price of food to go up around the world. Maybe the moto for Biofuels should be, "Biofuel your SUV, and starve a child"

By Biofueling you will be following the Green moto, "Biofuel locally and starve children globally."

Thank you Green Nazi's

Yes, everytime we buy an item made in China we support genocide in Darfur with our dollars. I know it is hard to avoid since this country now prefers to outsource jobs to make cheap China crap, but I am trying my hardest to not buy anything made in China. I'm sick of it.

I agree completely with you JanforGore, indeed!

My only reason for the list of products, is that we should review our (society) own part in all of this. Certainly human life should not be put before our comforts? As a species, we have lost perspective!

I know I am going to hear flack from this, because someone is going to attack me for the plastic computer I am using right now. I just ask again, where does this greed end?

This is a moral issue... to think humans think $$$$$$$$$$ more important than human life is something I simply cannot wrap my head around! They shouldn't be drilling for oil in Sudan, they should be bringing those people solar energy and homes, and food, water, peace, and security! And President Bashir should be brought to the Hague for crimes against humanity. But then, I live in an alternate universe.