WEEKLY OUTLOOK FOR 9.28
Weekly Outlook for September 28: This week’s outlook reports on Honduras and their shutdown of 2 broadcasters aligned with Zelaya; Obama flies to Copenhagen in support of Chicago for the 2016 Olympics; Newsweek looks at Somalia and a world’s apathy; China’s Young Communists speak out; and Scientists announce a trove of fragile new species in Mekong. Click Read More for the full report.
The Weekly Outlook is an editorial briefing for wejetset’s online magazine. Each week we scan international news and aggregate the stories that will likely impact their respective region and possibly the world. From economic issues to politics, we strive to deliver news links that will be useful to our readers as they navigate their local and global spaces.
pic credit: R. Abd Honduras Police outside of Radio Globo
Honduras isn’t joking. “The de facto government shut down two broadcasters on Monday and prevented a demonstration in support of the deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, as sweeping restrictions on civil liberties took effect…”
If feels far away – but the 2016 Olympics are just around the corner. “President Barack Obama will fly to Copenhagen on Friday to support Chicago’s bid to stage the 2016 Summer Olympics, adding formidable weight to U.S. efforts in a contest that is seen as too close to call….”
Somalia exists within an enormous humanitarian crisis, but is anyone listening or acting? “Picture Mogadishu in 1992. Marauding militias loyal only to Somali clan leaders stalk the city, looting aid shipments bound for the 1.8 million Somalis facing starvation. Then, from the green-blue Indian Ocean waters, there materializes a flotilla of U.S. transports bearing aid and armed men to deliver it. In the skies overhead, U.S. attack helicopters appear, providing cover for food shipments, while an American spy plane circles the city night and day gathering intelligence on militias trying to disrupt the rescue effort. Flash forward 17 years to the same city, still surrounded by squalid refugee camps. More than twice as many Somalis are now teetering on the brink of starvation in what many view as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Militias of heavily armed young men still stalk the city hijacking aid shipments. This time, though, no one’s coming to the rescue…”
CNN interviews China’s Young Communits: “When we requested an interview with members of the Communist Youth League, I expected an army of suits with well-rehearsed answers. Instead, we met three students casually dressed in jeans, just 18 to 23 years old. The interview was arranged by the State Council Information Office, in advance of the upcoming 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Unlike many government-sanctioned shoots, it was not carefully choreographed or closely monitored. The students did arrive with a “minder” of sorts, but he was no older than them and didn’t interrupt the conversation…”
Infinite ideas for undiscovered species popped into our head when we read the following sentence. “Right now, bird-eating frogs with fangs wait for their prey in the streams of eastern Thailand. Technicolor geckos scurry up trees on the Thai-Malaysian border, and ruby-red fish — previously only found in the Ukrainian ornamental fish trade — are swimming in the rivers of Burma. These are three of the 163 species discovered by various researchers in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia last year, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) announced on Sept. 25…”
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