Xpost from LBN: Coup in Mauritania!

[ColbertWatcher]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3425968&mesg_id=3425968

[Greyhound]

1. and this is relevant to us how? n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Did you follow the link?

According to the http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7544834.stm">BBC:

Mauritania is one of the world's poorest nations as well as its newest oil producer.

Another excuse to raise gas prices.

[tekisui]

3. A failing government, largely due to soaring food prices.

We all live on the same planet and are connected.

Food riots and coups ripple.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Some people believe if it's not happening in their own pants, it doesn't matter. n/t

[KharmaTrain]

5. American Myopia In Action

Wanna bet you get 100 Americans and give them a map and none could find the general area this country is located.

There's been an on-going food crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, but unless Sally Struthers cries about it, no one cares.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. You forgot the "on TV" part. She has to cry about it on TV. n/t

[Greyhound]

12. Some people like to pretend relevance where one exists. It is just one of many African basket cases

caused by French colonialism that has been ruled by military kleptocracy since it's designation. It is largely uninhabitable and produces little food, yet they have a birth rate 3 times their death rate. It was taken by the military in 1980 and has "enjoyed" a civil government for just over a year and the only reason this got any coverage at all is... wait for it... oil.

What Europe (mostly) has done to Africa is a horrible crime, but since the first world has granted itself immunity there is little hope anything will change there in our lifetimes.

Your sanctimony and crocodile tears for this country you probably never heard of until you ran across this article is simply pathetic when your only real concern is that the price of gas may go up a few cents a gallon.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mr.html

[ColbertWatcher]

14. I mentioned the oil, because it seemed no one cared.

But, thank you for your presumptuousness.

And if you're done with it, allow others to engage in this conversation.

[YOY]

8. Concerned citizens watch not just their own shores but others

For we are all citizens of the world.

Now the Paris Hilton/Lindsey Lohan shit or Amy Winehouse's antics? Yeah...I could give a lesser flying f***.

[uppityperson]

10. world citizenshipness eom

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Link to related Poll Q!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3737969&mesg_id=3737969

[Robb]

9. Security concerns in Mauritania

...were the reason the Lisbon-Dakar rally is being moved to South America this year.

[malaise]

11. Haven't been following developments there

but it will be interesting to see if it's the same group that failed in Equatorial Guinea a few years back.

[Doctor Cynic]

13. It's also the last country to ban slavery...in 1980.