What’s Happening In The World

With all of our focus on the “election”, many of us have forgotten that there is a world outside our borders.

While George Bush was meeting with the Aussies about the G7, the conversation strayed to the G20. George the XLIII asked, “What’s the G20?”. We can only hope Obama wins.

Everyone thought that the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo was over after some three million people died in the early 2000s due to starvation and disease, well you thought wrong. We now have a quarter-of-a-million refugees who are fleeing refugee camps. Meanwhile in South Africa, election violence is feared as the ANC is in turmoil and Zimbabwe is still a freaking mess.

McCain’s favorite general, Genereal Petraeus, heads to Pakistan for a look-see, while in Bagdhad another car bomb was detonated killing six. While further east in Asia, Taiwan and China are in talks and South Korea begins a massive infrastructure project to boost its economy.

And finally, below our massive wall that stretches a few hundred feet in Arizona, eleven policemen were gunned down in Mexico. and Hube’s favorite Latin American leader says that talks could probably open with the United States if Obama wins. And in Brazil, Lewis Hamilton becomes the youngest F1 champion ever.