How many are watching the President Carter Funeral proceedings.
I have my complaints about the US and US politics and news but I wanted to watch some of this event just to see this historic event. Of all the modern US presidents, living and recently deceased, Carter was one of the most respected of them all.
Reported as “Not World News”, allowing it due to Carter’s involvement with Habitat for Humanity.
https://www.habitat.org/where-we-work
“Habitat for Humanity works in more than 70 countries grouped into five regions — we have helped more than 59 million people improve their living conditions since 1976.”
Thanks for that … like I mentioned to friends and associates in public and online … I thought it was just important to highlight the event as he was US President, and also most long lived US President at 100 years of age … and the fact that after his retirement, he did so much international aide organization work, either to support or to just lend his name and personality to it.
It’s becoming a rare thing to see a world leader honestly, publicly and through their own actions actually join in and take part in grass roots organizations and even get down and dirty to the point of working at an actual construction site, not just for a single photo op but on a regular basis whether cameras were rolling or not.
Name another US President sincerely interested in eliminating the guinea worm… Seriously…
When Carter got involved, there were millions of cases every year. Last year? 14.
Not million, not thousand, 14. Period. Full stop.
https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html
“In 1986, the disease afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people a year in 21 countries in Africa and Asia. Today, thanks to the work of The Carter Center and its partners — including the countries themselves — the incidence of Guinea worm has been reduced by more than 99.99 percent to 14 provisional* human cases in 2023.”
Watching right now, Biden is getting a little lost in his speech atm
True to form if we’re being honest
Not like he has to give a shit at this point.
Does this really need to be livestreamed?
No … if people want to watch it live go ahead … if not they can read the news story.
I just thought it was a significant world news story of a fairly good person who was able to have some international influence and use it for good causes … a type of individual that we are sorely lacking in the world these days.
