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George Clooney Is “The Antigenocide Paparazzi”

By Michael Scherer | @michaelscherer | December 28, 2010 | +

Mark Benjamin breaks some news with a TIME.com story about George Clooney’s plans (yes, that George Clooney) to hire private satellites to track troop movements in Sudan, in the hopes of stopping another genocide. He writes:

Starting Dec. 30, the Satellite Sentinel Project — a joint experiment by the U.N.’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme, Harvard University, the Enough Project and Clooney’s posse of Hollywood funders — will hire private satellites to monitor troop movements starting with the oil-rich region of Abyei. The images will be analyzed and made public at www.satsentinel.org (which goes live on Dec. 29) within 24 hours of an event to remind the leaders of northern and southern Sudan that they are being watched. “We are the antigenocide paparazzi,” Clooney tells TIME. “We want them to enjoy the level of celebrity attention that I usually get. If you know your actions are going to be covered, you tend to behave much differently than when you operate in a vacuum.”
Read the whole story here.
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  • apr2563

    ‘O.K., if you guys don’t want to do anything about it, that’s one thing,’” Clooney says. “But you can’t say you did not know.”
    .
    Most important statement in the interview. Thanks for the information Michael. Now I hope the media and US government takes advantage of this tool.

  • constantweader

    The word in your title should be “paparazzo,” which is the singular form of paparazzi. But kudos to Clooney.

    The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

  • michaelfury

    “If you know your actions are going to be covered, you tend to behave much differently than when you operate in a vacuum.”

    Precisely, Mr. Clooney.

    http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/critical-mass/

  • liberalmeltdown

    Who “operates in a vacuum”? To suggest that anyone on earth can get away with genocide because nobody cares is a weird statement. Who controls the message? Why it’s GE and NBC, and CBS, and MSNBC…what does a vacuum do? Yes, indeed; it sucks!
    .
    This pronouncement by Clooney is a against the MSM. Without the MSM ignoring genocidal murders, there wouldn’t be a vacuum, now would there? So, let’s criticize those that let millions of people die without telling the rest of the world our fabulous MSM you guys Suck! Did I say you guys Rock, NO I didn’t.
    .
    Perhaps Mr. Clooney will see the light someday. Someday.

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