Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Canada sends aid money to China. That’s what I’ve heard for years. There are a lot of human rights problems in China, but I doubt us sending money is making things better there. Here’s another situation where Canada is paying a country that abuses human rights. This looks fishy to me. Equatorial Guinea does not sound like a place we should be sending developmental money to. People may be needed to help them organize/democratize, but certainly not money to buy them anything.

The most dominant form of mass media in the country is the three state-operated FM radio stations. There are also five shortwave radio stations.

A July 2003 article from the BBC[15] points out there are no daily newspapers in the country and described how a Fang program called “Bidze-Nduan” (”Bury the Fire”) on a widely listened-to state radio station declared that Obiang was “in permanent contact with the Almighty”; a presidential aide on the show also said:
“ He [Obiang] can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account and without going to hell because it is God himself, with whom he is in permanent contact, and who gives him this strength. ”

Most of the media companies practice heavy self-censorship, and are banned by law from criticising public figures. The state owned media and the main private radio station are under the directorship of Teodorin Nguema Obiang, the president’s son. Some media-related statistics from The World Factbook are summarized in a section on communications in Equatorial Guinea.

Hmm, a President’s son in charge of the media? If Fox News is ever headed up by Jeb or George, maybe we’ll have an idea of what to expect in the States if we keep an eye on Equatorial Guinea.