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Foley has opened Pandora's Box. This man has been lusting after young men for years while everyone looked the other way. You aren't going to tell me this is a surprise to Jeb Bush. He and Foley were involved on many issues regarding Missing and Exploited Children.
Florida has a completely horrible record regarding children and attracting pedophiles. This is huge. Years of systematic evasion of law enforcement. I don't know. It seems much larger than just a resignation. It doesn't track well with this level of negligence at all levels of government including Florida government.
It's smells all "W"rong to me.
I want children to be safe, young Pages to be safe. It just seems as though not knowing how demented Foley actually is leaves a large 'gap' in knowing where to turn to begin. The Page Program needs to be in contact 'confidentially' to be sure they aren't having issues. To know that they are doing well or at least not affected by any of this influence.
I am worried. Very worried. Pedophiles, and we don't know whom he covets exactly, (A warrant to search Foley's residence should be conducted.) don't easily resolve their fetishes.
I just don't feel good about this. It's leaves too many unanswered questions. Years of them.
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Anderson, where is George Clooney?
Sweden's PA gains 85% of Congo oil licence
Sweden's PA Resources has agreed to buy ADECO Congo BVI, whose subsidiary ADECO Congo SA owns 85% of an oil production sharing agreement offshore the Republic of Congo, the Oslo-listed energy firm said on Tuesday.ADECO Congo SA holds the stake in the production sharing contract in the offshore block Marine XIV, which is an area of about 265 square km, PA Resources said. The national oil company of Congo, SNPC, holds the remaining 15% interest."Marine XIV lies in shallow water, in the heart of the main producing region of Congo Brazzaville, where adjacent field production is currently around 75 000 barrels of oil per day (bopd)," PA Resources AB said in a statement.PA Resources said earlier exploration on the block made at least one oil discovery, testing at rates of 1 500 bopd."The discovery was estimated by an independent auditor to contain probable reserves of 45-million barrels of oil," it said."Given rig availability our plan is to develop this block as soon as possible," PA Resources Chief Executive Ulrik Jansson said in the statement.
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/eng/news/today/?show=94856
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Deaths in eastern DR Congo attack ITURI,Congo (bbc) -- Fourteen people have been killed in fighting between rebels and government forces in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A local army commander said 12 militiamen and two soldiers were killed during an attack by the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Front (FRPI).
In July three rebel groups in Ituri agreed to a ceasefire ahead of the first round of presidential elections.
The second round is due to take place at the end of October.
United Nations officials had hoped the east would remain quiet ahead of the second round.
"The fighting was very serious and lasted seven hours," General Nsiona Mbuayama told Reuters news agency by phone from near Bunia. "The militia fled in the end, taking some dead, but they left at least 12 bodies."
Some of the worst fighting during DR Congo's conflict has taken place in the north-eastern Ituri region, where local ethnic conflicts have been fuelled by clashes over minerals.
The FRPI militia, led by a man known as Cobra Matata, is one of several groups that has not joined the peace process. President Joseph Kabila and ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba are contesting the run-off polls on 29 October.
The UN is spending $1bn a year on its 17,000-strong peacekeeping mission in DR Congo - the largest in the world.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/4/2006&Cat=4&Num=005
Yeah, a lot of people have died. What are you doing about it beside adding celebrity status to the issue. I mean everyone at CNN ridiculed Daryl Hannah when she stood up for the people over landowners in Southern California citing her millions vs. what she was doing with those millions. So, what do you say, Anderson? What are you doing about this mess.
You want to know why the rebellions? You want to know the people that are making differencess? Look at this.
Church see progress in reporting on Republic of Congo's oil revenues
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0605494.htm
Dieudonne Serge Mounthou, program director of the justice and peace commission of the Diocese of Pointe-Noire, Congo, said that in 1999 his bishops asked: "How can one understand that during the last three decades the frequent discovery and start-up of oil wells, always important, has not been accompanied by any kind of visible sign of economic transformation or rectification of the social situation of our population? Our oil must be an instrument for the life and not the death of our people."
IMAGINE THAT. Catholic Bishops seeking justice for people with programs paid for by the revenues of their governments income from oil. Hm.
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It's easy to state facts about a country. Population. Terrain. Impoverished dominant economy, but, it's really far more interesting to understand HOW it all got so stupid and people end up being rebels in their own country to stop corrupt governments from killing them.
All the African countries are dominated by impoverished agriculture and untouchable oil wealth of government. "Let them eat cake, I suppose."
Congo's economy consists mainly of village agriculture, an urban informal sector or "grey economy" (i.e. unregulated business, commercial, and service activities), and an industrial sector dominated by oil and oil-related services with few linkages to the rest of the economy. Since the 1980s, the oil industry has provided the major share of government revenues and exports, replacing timber production and exports as the principle growth sector. Oil accounts for about 67% of Congo's real gross domestic product (GDP)-about 78% of the government budget-and about 95% of Congo's export earnings.
In spite of its oil wealth, Congo has experienced budgetary shortfalls as a result of public sector expenditures, slumps in world oil prices (1998-1999), and armed conflicts (1997, 1998-1999, and 2002). Congo's business and administrative infrastructure was badly damaged during the recurrent fighting, increasing the petroleum sector's dominance of the economy (since oil production was not directly harmed by the fighting). Rebel attacks and subsequent shut-downs along the CFCO railway, which runs from the port of Pointe Noire to the capital Brazzaville and the interior, severely curtailed the movement of goods and people. Economic activity was further hampered by the fact that over 800,000 Congolese, nearly 30% of the population, fled their homes during the conflicts.
The Congo is the fifth largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Oil accounts for a large portion of Congo's GDP and the majority of the country’s exports. Current proven reserves are estimated to be 1,291 million tonnes of crude and large reserves of associated natural gas exist. Congo is one of the West African countries where Energy Africa is active.
The downstream oil industry is also an important element in the country's economy. The oil industry is predominantly run by foreign companies and is centred on the coastal city of Pointe Noire where the Congolaise de Raffinage (Coraf) operates the 21,000 bpd Pointe Noire refinery. The refinery has been out of commission for four years and has only recently started operating again.
The labour situation in the Congo is sensitive and investors should consider this. Obligations on employers are considered onerous and political restructuring is largely dictated by organised labour. Despite the potential barriers to investment in the Congolese oil industry, however, the sector is experiencing a period of growth.
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CORRUPTION. The world is full of corruption laced in inextricably with Big Oil.
It's far too simple to 'pit' one ethnicity against another as a way to create a warfare that gives the populous a faux sense of 'purpose' in the war leaving the oil companies innocently on the sidelines while they rape the country of oil and wealth while 'the politics of the day' states 'what a shame it is the people of these oil countries just can't get their act together and rather be hate filled of each other.'
THE TRUTH is that villages of impoverished farmers end up being militias to stop the killing of innocents who protest the policies of their corrupt government elite who are the only members of the society that benefit for the paltry royalities by oil companies while even the oil companies pay government police and military to kill protesting villagers.
The sequela that results on a social scale is ethnic hatred, resulting in senseless killing, rapes and basically dehumanized populous who after generations have forgotten what started the hatred in the first place.
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Where is George Clooney? At least he tries to do something about it.
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The local villagers try to create tourism as an appreciation of their land.
http://www.gocongo.com/
CITY TRIP KINSHASA 7 – DAYS
Discover Kinshasa and its surroundings with Go Congo Tour Operator . Kinshasa, the capital of the D.R.Congo, used to be referred to as "Kin La Belle" - meaning "Beautiful Kinshasa". The many years of turmoil have broken down on this image. But slowly and surely, Kinshasa is regaining its splendour. Some of the major sites include the "Grand Marché", the tomb of former President Laurent Kabila, the "Gare Central" and” Symphonie des Arts” for those who like African art, the rapids of Kinsuka just downstream from the city and the Bonobo Reserve, a sanctuary for orphaned Bonobo-monkeys, one of the five Great Apes, and the closest to mankind.
More info
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/299.shtml
These tours aren't necessarily for light weights. They can have their rewards.
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Get your act together Anderson. YOU ARE A LIAR. A PATHETIC pandering liar ! The Janjaweed are Darfur, NOT, Congo. Got to tell these people everything and they are the ones with the contacts, the cameras and the money. They have the contacts because of their cameras and money. They are propagandists with meaningless messages.
Africa: Let's Run Africa's Murderous Old-Style Rulers Out of Town
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610030639.html
What the African Union and the world need to do is take a chance and do something about Darfur that could well be disastrous - attack the Khartoum and Janjaweed forces in Darfur. If the Sudanese government decided to fight it out, then take the war to it in Khartoum.
HELLO? Anyone out there?
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The exposure of gorrillas to humans started with Dian Fossey in 1978 with the bonding that occured between she and Digit.
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International\
http://www.gorillafund.org/
We all know the sad story about Digit. It was wrong but it occurred because the senseless wars don't even esteem people, citizens, yet alone Mountain Gorillas.
Tourism. It works in Kenya.
I am sure you know Kenya, Anderson. Elsa, the lion and the folks that gave Kenya a place in the hearts of millions of Americans so long ago in the movie called "Born Free."
Elsa.
Nice lion everyone loved.
BUT.
I am sure just to be whiney and contrary you'll find some scandal about Elsa's offspring and the Democrats.
http://www.magicalkenya.com/
AAaaahhhhhhhhHHHHH...... these people are so pathetic !
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Blah, blah, blah. The ONLY way Bush can exonerate his party at this point is to personally 'water board' Foley on National television.
enough.
No George Clooney.
Anderson Cooper is a liar and a CHEAT !!!
