Hillary, Our Nation’s and Our World’s Lonely Eyes Turn to You …
By SusanUnPC on November 22, 2008 at 3:25 AM in World News
… to help heal the deep wounds from the Bush years. The unending wrongs around the world seek your careful attention. We know you cannot begin to solve all that ails the world’s people, but we know that you care deeply and that you will do all that you possibly can. We also know that your mission to begin to restore the U.S.’s image around the world will also help the world’s people. We will try our hardest to help you by publicizing your endeavors. May we suggest you have a blog? A YouTube channel? An invitation to “citizen journalists” like us who are eager to learn what you are doing and how we can help you?
BELOW, a smattering of just SOME of the issues facing the world, and the challenges facing Hillary Clinton. All first-world nations take from poorer countries, but imho the worst offender is China, as you will see below:
All while China pillages the riches of DR Congo (the Democratic Republic of Congo), and abets the rebel thugs and rapists:
Learn more about what China is doing in DR Congo (and, for that matter, ALL of Africa without an iota of TRUE interest in any human rights or help for the countries’ citizens):
General Laurent Nkunda, rebel leader of the National Congress for People’s Defence (CNDP), has said he wants to re-examine a $5bn dollar deal the Congolese government has struck with China.
The deal gives China access to Congo’s vast mineral riches in exchange for infrastructure development, including hospitals and football arenas.
However, critics say China is behaving just like the imperial powers of the past.
Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston reports.
It’s back to the WORLD AT LARGE:
This episode of The Listening Post is a special show that explores some of the worst places in the world for journalism.
Every year, the French media campaign group Reporter Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) publishes its Press Freedom Index.
Looking specifically at press freedom violations, rather than broader human rights issues, the index represents an exhaustive survey of factors affecting the ability of media to operate in every country in the world, considering factors such as violence, censorship and corruption. The results make disturbing reading.
The Listening Post’s Salah Khadr introduces the Index, and gives an overview of some of the ‘unchanging hells’ at the foot of the table.
The difficulties of reporting from some of the most closed countries that RSF describes are hard to appreciate from outside their borders. Over the last 12 months, The Listening Post’s Simon Ostrovsky has travelled to a selection of the most paranoid and isolated nations. This week we present some of the ‘highlights’ of his trips: including Alexander Lukashenko’s Soviet throwback, Belarus, General Than Shwe’s junta in the jungle, Myanmar, and the restrictions still being imposed on the media in Russia.
HERE, the “Listening Post” focuses on the U.S. newspaper industry’s problems:
The Listening Post’s Robin Armstrong reports on the ailing US newspaper industry.
This is a chronic affliction – both advertising revenue and readership are shrinking, and newspapers across the country are performing something of a disappearing act. Moreover, US newspapers have seen their share value drop more than any other sector in the media industry, papers are haemorrhaging staff. They are faced with a choice: either migrate to the internet, or die.
The Listening Post goes to California, home of one of America’s oldest and best-known titles, the San Francisco Chronicle, to see if the US newspaper industry is about to publish its own obituary.
In Newsbytes, we look at a cartoon saga in South Africa; an inflammatory DVD about Islamic extremism; media coverage of the forthcoming Belarusian parliamentary elections; a tightening of the grip on the media in China and Russian PM, Vladimir Putin, who is said to be fuming that an exclusive interview with CNN was heavily edited.
Closing our show with this week’s Video of the Week is a quirky viral showing North Korea’s Dear Leader Kim Jong Il as an animated video game character. Created by a German entertainment show, the video puts Jong Il through a Super Mario-like sequence, complete with hostile enemy countries and nuclear bombs.
, the basis for the Best Motion Picture Nominee (Golden Globes) starring Brad Pitt.
, the novel by John Le Carre, a new motion picture starring Gary Oldman and Colin Firth.
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