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---

Dalai Lama Sends Love to K-State through Visiting Tibetan Monks; Gathering to Pray for Japan

Pictures and Video of the Sand Mandala do not do it justice. Nevertheless, here are some on the day that a couple hundred Kansas State University students /staff /faculty gathered to support K-State's Japanese students and all those affected. Over $2000 was donated and
the Monks prayed.
 BTW there are many many Pray for Japan Videos on youtube. Its a Global thing that we feel more connected suddenly. Thank you, Radiation.

every human, every Man who is a Man, should be walking about as if a monk.

This is not a time to be juvenile, pleasure-seeking, self-loving.

If you are Real 

If i am a Real man

Am i not through sorrow become wise?

shall we not be absorbing the sorrow of others 

shall i keep practicing my [oscar pulitzer acceptance] speech or

is it time to man up and see

What is About.

Are you fiddling on the titanic

for the enlightenment and encouragement of others

or are you just fiddling with yourself?

the Good Schwan



a couple videos: click twice to view larger on youtube.

i purchased some incense,

two cards made by tibetan refugees now in india,

here is one:

and the other: click to enlarge

Peace.

Thinking About Japan here in the Flint Hills

It is a small connected Globe. I cannot stop thinking of the Japanese people, many of whom are cut off from media and have little idea of all that is happening.
Is anyone coming to help us with water, food, has the earthquake hit tokyo, are we alone? Some may have No Idea what is happening for the past days.
Our students here, how are they coping?
Sadness.

The Flint Hills help me realize how close we all are.

click on pics to enlarge

The Fukushima 50: Kamikazes for Peace and Life As It Were

Who are the heroes in Japan? click: here are tweets and family information.
The Fukushima 50 are not afraid to die, so says  Jim Axelrod:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/15/eveningnews/main20043554.shtml

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/two-of-the-fukushima-50-missing-in-reactor-as-new-fire-breaks-out-20110316-1bw9e.html

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/japan-tsunami/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503051&objectid=10712802

What a moment. Is the international collection of nations preparing lead sarcophagus/sarcophagi for the worst case scenario? or only nail biting and scaring people with maps of fault lines and reactors in our countries known for years and years? Are we going to come together like a JFK moon moment, or freak out with wide eyed news casts that do not help? MORE HERE

This is the moment where politicians need to Man Up. They did not do it when the people rose up against Qaddafi, they left them to hang. Where is the UN? Do only rescue dog teams and recovery workers know how to work together? where is the spirit of cooperation? The newscasters think letting someone use their cell phone to phone home is a huge inspirational moment. no.

Where is the leadership in really "taking advantage of a catastrophe" to make something good happen? i spit on the media. no wait, i try not to leave my dna laying around.

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/fukushima%E2%80%99s-heroes

Excerpt from : http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=42332

They have become known as the “Fukushima 50.” They even have their own Twitter hash tag, #fukushima50. This group of courageous technicians has remained at their posts throughout the reactor crisis in Japan, evacuating only briefly when radiation levels spiked during a procedure to cool the reactors with seawater.

The technicians have been rotated through the danger zone to reduce the risk of sustained exposure. Fox News reports the Japanese government has raised the dosage of radiation they can be asked to endure from 100 to 250 millisieverts. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the global yearly average dose of radiation is 1.3 millisieverts (mSv). Most nuclear plant workers soak up an extra mSv or two per year. 250 mSv is the recommended maximum limit for exposure to cosmic radiation during a space mission, and five times what American nuclear technicians can be legally subjected to. These technicians are eating a lifetime of radiation with every passing day. Some experts have compared it to getting hit by a chest X-ray every couple of hours.

Their task, as described in the New York Times, involves “crawling through labyrinths of equipment in utter darkness pierced only by their flashlights, listening for periodic explosions as hydrogen gas escaping from crippled reactors ignites on contact with air.” To accomplish this task, “they breathe through uncomfortable respirators or carry heavy oxygen tanks on their backs.” They must sometimes work quickly in environments that could kill them in a matter of minutes.
A CBS news report on the Fifty relates that one of them told a Japanese official he was “not afraid to die” because “that was his job.” Most of them had family living near the reactor complex, but everyone within 20 miles has been evacuated. They fight now for the lives of people beyond the horizon.


Today the Tokyo Electric Power Company sent in another fifty technicians to provide reinforcements. The Japanese government is quietly worried about finding replacements for these people, if they are no longer able to perform their duties. Such courage is rare and priceless in any corner of the globe.

There has been a lot of hysterical media coverage of the Japanese nuclear crisis, but one thing is certain: the valiant efforts of these technicians have kept a lot of worst-case scenarios in check. The brightest moments in human history have occurred when too much was asked of brave men and women… and they gave even more. When the history of the twenty-first century is written, the Fukushima 50 will stand among its greatest heroes.

More video and pics HERE and HERE

from the first link above:

"I fought back tears when I heard that my father, who is to retire in six months, had volunteered," @NamicoAoto wrote. "At home, he doesn't seem like someone who could handle big jobs…but today, I was really proud of him," she wrote. "I pray for his safe return."

@nekkonekonyaa said her mother wept when her father left work to head to the nuclear plant. "Please dad come back alive," she said in her tweet.

Power plant employees were running out of food, read one e-mail from a worker's daughter.

"He says he's accepted his fate. Much like a death sentence," the e-mail said, which was read aloud on the national television network, NHK.

Praying for Japan is Praying for Yourself

It is a small connected globe.
click Here for the images and videos.
Here is the best show/videos summary re the earthquake and tsunami: NOVA
More sad updates Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Haunting-images-

One story of Two Dogs: HERE

and a more publicized one HERE http://www.npr.org/2011/03/19/134679845/a-tale-of-two-dogs-is-testament-to-japans-humanity

Earthquake and Tsunami 2011; It Is a Small Connected Globe

Sadness. horriifying video below. Pictures HERE, including Water on Fire. The full story, pictures and videos of the onslaught of the tsunami HERE; the drivers a mile away are unknowingly driving right to it. Live Audio and video here. Some raw video and live blogging audio HERE

this video is chilling.

from http://www.theblaze.com/stories/evolution-watch-the-japanese-tsunami-travel-from-sea-to-countryside/

Best summary-  videos and pics HERE: Nova