If Grown-Ups Were Running the World (Where is the Meta-Prioritizing?) Herod and Khadafy: Twin Sons of Different Mothers? Redux

 Earthquakes. Hurricanes, TORNADOES. Bombs.

The Japanese disaster of "biblical porportions',

as Glen Ifill called it just now on Washington Week,

should give the humans "running things" a  real chance to show where we are in our Human Development.

That is, by now, here in the enlightened age

 of the two thousand and teens?

...when we are GLUTTED with Wise men all the

Pulitzer Prize Winners running around,

full of Enlightened Opinions, when we have magical technology

and unequalled access to one another; when we can Whip Up a City to host the Olympics, making in spectacular manner the Great Altar to the $port god$, --spare no cost!-if it isn't LOOTED out by then...-surely we are thinking ahead, taking care of everything. Surely our leaders are able to think ahead, help out, prioritize, figure it out, make it happen.

So, in dealing with for example,
1. bombing libya

King Herod

Moammar Kadafi  - Colonel

2. reaction to
 radiation possibilities e.g. worst case scenario:
are the Countries all done preparing the lead or concrete etc sarcophagus sarcophagi that Japan will need in a few days if things go south? 
3. Salt from Japan--
surely Our Leaders are thinking, "what is the larger view?"
"hmmm.. Let'see, OK, in another few days this land or that water; these goods, those structures will be no good due to radiation. so, lets harvest what we can before it is wasted. let's move, keeping ahead of the worst case or any case,  consequences... "Yes?"
Uh
i don't see any evidence of competent long term planning with swift intervention when needed..
if media is evidence,
 the answer is no.
The Media, however, surely are running the show. Give us a human interest story about the Fukushima 50 to make us cry,
 give us their tweets
but don't report.
Don't report-
your job is To Tease.

TV is the Opiate of the Masses.

On a global level, where is the cooperation? If you say, even with a red face, it's suppose to be the United Nations, one bursts into
Laughter that ends in Anger.
 this is the gathering of good men?, the Best, those driven by peace, even self sacrificial men, this is the non-corrupt group, the one that will punish others for being corrupt!-- this is the best, our brightest men and a coupla women in power could come up with?
Don't get me started on the UN.
If one's job was to write a rousing piece about the Glorious United Nations--(you know, insert music from decades ago, that lovely uplifting music that signified a Modern Good United Group that would not allow any bad things to go unaddressed- Swift justice for the Offending Nation: Yay! The U.N.! ----)
See how crazy that sounds! The laughter that ends in Anger.

There is no Meta Prioritizing happening. Where is the Meta Organizing!?

Herod and Kadafy- twin sons of different mothers?

Libya, similarly problematic.
 The time is over, are you KIDDING?
What good is movement to "save the people" after the slaughter? Fucryin out loud.
it is no longer an uprising it has become a civil war. who knows where the violence we now inflict will end?

David Brooks PBS NewsHour acted almost mildly surprised that America used to be country taking the lead and now we are not taking the lead. I think bush did that. Did Brooks forget what the current president ran on? we allow our leaders to do what we want them to do or we don't. Give Voice much to your leaders? Rangel and Brownback, did they get your thanks regarding Darfur? Where?
Everyone who is even partially a reporter wonders, why so late on libya, it might have been better, like, um if we moved during the people's uprising? even a peaceful intervention then might have worked.  I'm no military expert or humanitarian prize winner but,

Things change, things remain the same.

by the way,
A womans body is worth less than a dead rat/
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/rape-in-congo-womans-body-is-worth-less.html

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Are you your brother's Keeper?

 when we don't intervene on individual levels,

 due to uneasy ambivalence re privacy and walls; the same is manifested when as groups

 we allow a madman

to mow down a bunch of humans because they are

HIS people in HIS country- YiKes! His?

(If his name was Jared Lee Loughner he would have been stopped by now---

NPR Interview - Congo Mass Rape and the Traumatization of a Village Part 2

A chilling interview about the mass rapes in congo and the traumatization of the entire villiage was on NPR last night -with the sexual assault advocate who works with International Medical Corps.

She called it Public Rape and since there were infants and children as victims, i cannot bear to go into detail. Surely there is a hand of mercy restraining Divine Justice for such Malevolence.
Listen to the interview here, if you dare.
 FULL STORY            Part one HERE





http://topics.npr.org/article/08iAayj7AV2Vg?q=World


MELISSA BLOCK, host:

U.N. peacekeepers in Congo are being accused of a slow response to reports that women were raped en masse in Eastern Congo one month ago. More and more women are emerging from hiding in the forest to report that they were gang raped by rebels in a mass assault. The number of women treated for rape now stands at 242. They range in age from 16 to 75.

Earlier, I reached Miel Hendrickson in Goma in Eastern Congo. She's regional coordinator for International Medical Corps, which is treating the victims.

Ms. MIEL HENDRICKSON (Regional Coordinator, International Medical Corps): Most of the women said that they had been raped by men from anywhere from two to six in number. And this was in the presence of their husbands and children watching while they were being raped, and that the perpetrators were some times using their hands, as well, saying that they were searching for gold.

BLOCK: Searching for gold. This area is known as being mineral rich, rich in gold as well. They were using that as an excuse for the rapes.

Ms. HENDRICKSON: Yes, that is correct. This particular small pocket is one of those that has the most minerals that are used for powering electronics.


BLOCK: What kind of treatment are you able to offer these women? What sorts of injuries are you seeing?

Ms. HENDRICKSON: The injuries vary, depending quite a bit on the age of the woman - of the survivor - as well as the means that was used. We use a prophylaxis for treatment on prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections, as well as emergency contraception. However, in this case, because the fighting lasted so long and people were not able to respond and come to a health facility during the window of opportunity when you can use that treatment, most of the women did not actual receive the standard rape kit treatments that is normally provided.


However, basically since the case, we've been treating and providing medications for management of sexually transmitted infections.

BLOCK: What about psychological counseling, Miel?

Ms. HENDRICKSON: Psychological counseling is both at the individual level, as well as the community level because it's basically essential for the entire community to come together, particularly after an event of this kind and this scale. Because you have a specific number of survivors but you have a much larger - basically the entire community has been affected.

BLOCK: And, as you mentioned, the rapes were carried out publicly in front of not just husbands, but also children.

Ms. HENDRICKSON: Yes, exactly. And the use of rape in Eastern Congo has been prevalent and documented for the last - more than a decade. And, you know, now we're seeing sort of the next generation who are affected by the abuses that they've seen.

BLOCK: Has International Medical Corps seen a mass rape on this scale, the numbers of women who were raped during these attacks?

Ms. HENDRICKSON: We've never experienced mass rapes of this magnitude. The issue however is that cases like this can often happen, but the actual confirmation and recorded cases never takes place. So women may potentially be reporting but it's not all en masse, or they may not have anywhere to report to. So I would be shocked if it was the first of its kind in Eastern Congo. But it is one the first very well documented cases of mass rape like this.

BLOCK: What is the village of Luvungi like now? How traumatized are the people who live there?

Ms. HENDRICKSON: Luvungi is definitely traumatized and definitely a community in recovery. Unfortunately, it's not atypical of villages similar to it in Eastern Congo. In other areas adjacent to Luvungi, there have been massacres within the last year, as well as rebel groups basically menacing the area for more than a decade.


BLOCK: Miel Hendrickson, thank you very much.


Ms. HENDRICKSON: Thank you.


BLOCK: Miel Hendrickson is regional coordinator for International Medical Corps, speaking with us from Goma in Eastern Congo.

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