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Make no mistake as to why Bush refuses to boycott the Bejing olympics. OIL is the key factor in this decision as it is in every decision by these oil and blood soaked criminals. The genocide in Darfur began as an environmental disaster (that continues) that has now evolved into a fight for its oil. Just like in Iraq and other places around the world, Darfur will now be a central point in a power struggle for the oil that lies below Sudan and Chad, coincidentally (?) where the genocide has taken place. Lots of land were cleared off in the burning of the towns and everything was lost by the inhabitiants there to clear the land for Chinese oil companies to come in and drill. Women have been raped, villagers terrorized and murdered, children starving, all for the sake of Chinese and American oil speculation.

If there was ever a reason to have a global climate treaty that gets this world OFF OIL it is this. To think of the inhumanities spawned by the greed of these people and that Bush will now use these Bejing olympics to make business deals rather than stand up for the human rights of millions around the world who have suffered and are suffering atrocities due to the insatiable greed for oil is unconscienable.

I am BOYCOTTING the Bejing olympics. I will not watch it, and I will no longer purchase any products from any sponsors of it if I do now. The human species will drown itself in its greed for oil as our planet balances itself precariously on the climate edge. How any world leaders can sit in Bejing and smile knowing what has transpired by the government of China and their own even against their own people shows they are no better. I as an American who believes in Human Rights and freedom denounce the Bejing olympics for what it really is to those in the Chinese government: propaganda to cover the tracks of monsters.
JanforGore

51 responses // Darfur, Sudan, Oil, America and China

  • http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleu...
    Hi JanforGore,

    I am like you and see this greed for oil as unconscionable.

    Yet, look what we have created in our society, and the world overall is getting more dependent upon these products.

    Chemical companies create so much toxic waste, and their employees are subjected to all sorts of cancers,(not to mention the consumers) yet we consume so many of the products created by oil. Where does this end?



    A partial list of products made from Petroleum (144 of 6000 items)

    One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline. The rest (over half) is used to make things like:
    (see link)
    queenofit
  • 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.
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    JanforGore
  • 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?
    queenofit
  • http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article22546
    From the Sudan tribune: China Focuses On Oil, Not Sudanese Needs
    JanforGore
  • http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0819-26.htm
    War of the future: Oil Drives the Genocide in Darfur
    JanforGore
  • 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.
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    JanforGore
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  • http://en.beijing2008.cn/bocog/sponsors/sponsors/
    List of sponsors for Bejing olympics I will now be boycotting.
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    JanforGore
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  • 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
    mo1y
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  • 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.
    JanforGore
  • http://action.savedarfur.org/campaign/savedarfurcoaliti...
    Help stop the genocide in Darfur.
    JanforGore
  • China is responsible for funding the regime in Khartoum but to blame it directly for causing the genocide in Darfur is misleading, and to blame oil for strarting Darfur is wrong. Darfur started because of water, and because farmers were clashing with nomads about land and wanted more respect from the government in Khartoum.

    If anything, the oil discoveries could lead to peace, since both the Sudanese government as well as foreign countries want to get the oil out as easily as possible.
    http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/111885...
    dgold0101
  • 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.
    JanforGore
  • 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?
    JanforGore
  • No, I agree with you completely about Bashir. I just didn't want people to get the wrong idea about why it started.

    Also, I never stated I supported what China is doing in Darfur. I was just pointing out that there could be a positive unintended consequence of the discovery of oil. Unfortunately, when it comes to interstate wars, foreign powers rarely get involved unless there are natural resources involved. Therefore, the discovery of oil attracts them, and they in turn put pressure on both sides of the conflict to negotiate a treaty so they can move in and take advantage of the oil, which is what happened in Southern Sudan.
    dgold0101
  • 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.
    stone246
  • What makes this more outragous is that I haven't heard one single thing about this on any American news medias!
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    Future_America
  • I wonder who here is against stopping genocide and holding countries involved in it accountable.
    JanforGore
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  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXAcDf2Tboo
    Mia Farrow speaks on Bejing olympics and genocide in Darfur
    JanforGore
  • That's because the American media is supported by the same sponsors that support the Olympics. They do not want to piss them off.
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    uroborus8
  • 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.
    3rdEye
  • oil isn't evil, oil isn't our problem. humans are the problem
    diode
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  • 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.
    huntre
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  • http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5...
    The USA is as guilty as China, and maybe even more so - it has been providing weapons, money and training to the rebels, because it covets the biggest and richest oilfield in southern Darfur of which China happens to have the concession. Click on the link for the details.
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    Vierotchka
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  • 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.
    Ice_cream_Man
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  • 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!"
    jjmaster
  • 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.
    tagz
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  • 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.
    Satyagrahi
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    List of Johnson & Johnson products.
    JanforGore
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    List of Coca Cola brands.
    JanforGore
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    GE products which includes NBC television.
    JanforGore
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    Atos Origin services.
    JanforGore
  • 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.
    JanforGore
  • To understand this further, watch "The Devil Came On Horseback".
    http://www.thedevilcameonhorseback.com/
    onechance
  • Global Climate Treaty


    We need this very badly.
    jubal
  • bravo an awakened person


    but is it enough