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George Clooney has taken to The Daily Beast to report about the violence-ridden region of Darfur.
The 47-year-old actor, who will return to the small screen on E.R. later this year, writes, “Last week, I visited a camp in Chad—a camp of about 12,000 refugees and internally displaced persons. I was there three years ago. The violence there is nowhere near the scale that is going on just miles across the border in Sudan.”
Clooney continues, “I think what was most disturbing about the place was how little it had changed. ‘Normal’ is 800 calories a day, sickness, threats of rebel violence, or just crime. When you see their faces, the hope that was there three years ago was all but gone. There are still moments. We walked through a village where children would follow me and chant the name ‘Obama.’ His promise of “hope” having such a different meaning here. But there’s too little hope. Time and time again they’ve seen the convoy of white trucks and even whiter faces pull up, drag out their camera crew and pull aside the most damaged family they can find. We film them as they give honest answers to questions no person should have to answer. ‘What happened?’ ‘How did you lose that arm?’ ‘Were you raped?’ ‘By how many?’ Then, just as they’ve seen time and time again, we jump back in our vehicles and run to the next place. ‘Not really tragic enough,’ is said out loud (probably by me). ‘Maybe there’s somebody that’s been attacked more recently.’ It’s all been covered before.”
He ended with, “I visited a school in a camp in Goz Beida. The name above the door had been changed to “Obama.’ It seems this message of ‘hope’ is catching on.”
Read Clooney’s full entry at TheDailyBeast.com.
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yeah I know there are more people around like this.. but in their everyday life everybody becomes so selfish and all that..
but i think it’s true what you say… any color from any culture.. it doesn’t matter.. they’re all children.. have a great day too…:)
i just saw in the news paper today that george clooney is filming his new movie here “Up in the Air” in st. louis. he is filming on top of the arch! they are getting it ready right now. i wouldn’t have signed up for anything that would make me stand on top of that darned thing. the winds today here are gusting at 40mph. looks like they are using a bucket truck
Sir douche bag Too bad he didn’t stay in Chad.
He has such a good heart.
Only for intelligent people!!!
Exodus-Darfur=War!!!
Exodus
3 The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.
Psalms 144
1 A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
Matth. 5
17 “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them.
18 For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.
19 Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matth. 5
37 Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
Exodus
3 The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.
Mk. 9
42 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
Mk.16
16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
Luke 17
2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung round his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
Luke 19
27 But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.
John 15
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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