The problem is we have wealthy interest that own too many news organizations and can thus determine what is newsworthy according to how it benefits these wealthy business interests financially.
Yes, another war rages. Another war that the US needs to stay out of. Perhaps staying out of wars that are not ours will lead by example. How can we expect other countries to stay out of wars if we do not?
Certainly the horror of war in all countries effects all mankind. But, we have international organizations whose job it is to settle these conflicts. Getting involved in these wars is NOT OUR JOB. Haven't we learned anything from our conflicts in the Middle East? Are we ready to repeat these mistakes in Africa as well?
Responding to Renee Palmer, to reporting with out separation with empathized statement. This sounding similar to WWll as 'indifference unknowingness' stress w brackets cus historical genocides. The attitude of not my problem Or, is this unrealness response for those not near metropolitan areas or urban vs remote regions.
Took recent notes of starvation of 300 millions don't to quote on? Then again 7 million to date died globally from Covid19. The USA were in amount of 1.3 million to die of Covid. The Sudan temperature drought concerning, monsoons from varies were brought up in LinkedIn . As l reported on graduate work and thesis the call from Congo unknowing then of dynamics internal to genocide. Furthermore the mineral exploitation from the East, smartphone EV battering. Late night, as lookup Ukraine's regional name, looked up. What could report quickly was frightening to think of strategy report to Rather. Russia had quickly strategicized while they escorted not too long out of long Island. I never met Rather yet through of osmosis we gather. Am not a report.
So much sadness in the world right now now. I ask myself what is wrong with us? So, instead of me making a comment, I'd like to quote from two books I just finished. The first, by Neil MacGregor is titled, Living with the Gods, On Beliefs and Peoples."
"To the left of hell are nine oddly shaped naked human figures. Every other segment of the wheel (The Buddhist Wheel of Life), even hell, has a bright abundant landscape, but these figures, known in Buddhism as the hungry ghosts, are in an almost featureless realm of dull grey. Madeline Bunting, a writer and religious commentator, shaped by both Catholic and Buddhist traditions, finds them especially worth pondering:
The have hug pot-bellied tummies and, famously, pinhole mouths. The point about the hungry ghosts--and I feel I see them every day of my life--is that these are people who would love to experience a depth and richness of life, but cannot. They are hungry, hungry, hungry, but they don't know how to absorb the joys of existence. They seem to me to embody the T.S. Eliot line: 'We had the experience and missed the meaning'. The question this section of the wheel asks is: how do you open your mouths so that you can take in the nourishment that a life can bring--connection to other people, sheer gratitude for the astonishing beauty of the world, and compassion for others, to help wherever and whenever you can."
Here are a couple of quotes from the second book, David Michaelis' Eleanor, a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt.
"At last, at 3 A.M. on December 10, 1948, at the Palais de Chaillot, after thirty-two straight months of the committtee's work, forty-eight nations cast their votes for the Declaration. Two were absent and eight abstained: South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet bloc, which opposed it on the grounds that the Declaration did not condemn Fascism. No votes were cast against it, and the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Moments later, Eleanor walked into the General Assembly, quietly dressed, wearing no makeup, briskly taking the podium. The entire Assembly got to its feet. Her fellow delegates then accorded her something that had never been given before and would never be given again in the United Nations: an ovation for a single delegate by all nations."
And this to a young Allard, Lowenstein who was anxious to solve all of the world's problems at once:
"Eleanor had looked her protege sternly in the eye.
'Well, Allard,' she said, summing up five decades of political wisdom, 'you must remember you can't flush all the toilets.'"
All of it matters and the region has always been heyday for sexual violence especially. Appalling. And why? What do these people deserve this treatment for? For the feeling of power and perceived control. That's all sexual violence is. That's all violence of any kind ever is. A means of exerting some sort of power and control.
David Muir asked us to put our money on the line to help feed the children when he broadcast from Sudan via the WORLD FOOD PROGRAM. YOU CAN HELP BY CONTACTING THEM AND SETTING UP A MONTHLY PAYMENT. takes about 30 seconds. Do it now please, they are starving to death.
The first time I realized that people in other parts of the world were starving was around the age or 7 when my dad would say to me, "Never put on your plate what you can't or don't eat. There are children in Africa that are starving." I'm 79 years old, and remember this clearly and always clean my plate.
Sadly, this is how long Africa has been starving. We need to figure out why Africa can't solve its problems. Why do Africans continue to get the rulers they get. Feeding a few more children is not the solution to these ongoing problems.
Why does Africa continue with this horrible tribal warfare?
Is this what you had in mind.
Thank you for bringing this war to our attention again. Sudan definitely matters. The whole world feels as if it is in conflict right now.
The problem is we have wealthy interest that own too many news organizations and can thus determine what is newsworthy according to how it benefits these wealthy business interests financially.
I only saw the brief story about the ISIS violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda on national news but not Sudan.
Thank you Dan for jolting our conscience !
Lest we forget- and we do…thank you for the reminder
Thanks Dan and Elliot.
Yes, another war rages. Another war that the US needs to stay out of. Perhaps staying out of wars that are not ours will lead by example. How can we expect other countries to stay out of wars if we do not?
Certainly the horror of war in all countries effects all mankind. But, we have international organizations whose job it is to settle these conflicts. Getting involved in these wars is NOT OUR JOB. Haven't we learned anything from our conflicts in the Middle East? Are we ready to repeat these mistakes in Africa as well?
It absolutely matters, but as long as it’s brown people we are discussing, way more Americans than I’m comfortable admitting won’t think it does. :(
Responding to Renee Palmer, to reporting with out separation with empathized statement. This sounding similar to WWll as 'indifference unknowingness' stress w brackets cus historical genocides. The attitude of not my problem Or, is this unrealness response for those not near metropolitan areas or urban vs remote regions.
Took recent notes of starvation of 300 millions don't to quote on? Then again 7 million to date died globally from Covid19. The USA were in amount of 1.3 million to die of Covid. The Sudan temperature drought concerning, monsoons from varies were brought up in LinkedIn . As l reported on graduate work and thesis the call from Congo unknowing then of dynamics internal to genocide. Furthermore the mineral exploitation from the East, smartphone EV battering. Late night, as lookup Ukraine's regional name, looked up. What could report quickly was frightening to think of strategy report to Rather. Russia had quickly strategicized while they escorted not too long out of long Island. I never met Rather yet through of osmosis we gather. Am not a report.
So much sadness in the world right now now. I ask myself what is wrong with us? So, instead of me making a comment, I'd like to quote from two books I just finished. The first, by Neil MacGregor is titled, Living with the Gods, On Beliefs and Peoples."
"To the left of hell are nine oddly shaped naked human figures. Every other segment of the wheel (The Buddhist Wheel of Life), even hell, has a bright abundant landscape, but these figures, known in Buddhism as the hungry ghosts, are in an almost featureless realm of dull grey. Madeline Bunting, a writer and religious commentator, shaped by both Catholic and Buddhist traditions, finds them especially worth pondering:
The have hug pot-bellied tummies and, famously, pinhole mouths. The point about the hungry ghosts--and I feel I see them every day of my life--is that these are people who would love to experience a depth and richness of life, but cannot. They are hungry, hungry, hungry, but they don't know how to absorb the joys of existence. They seem to me to embody the T.S. Eliot line: 'We had the experience and missed the meaning'. The question this section of the wheel asks is: how do you open your mouths so that you can take in the nourishment that a life can bring--connection to other people, sheer gratitude for the astonishing beauty of the world, and compassion for others, to help wherever and whenever you can."
Here are a couple of quotes from the second book, David Michaelis' Eleanor, a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt.
"At last, at 3 A.M. on December 10, 1948, at the Palais de Chaillot, after thirty-two straight months of the committtee's work, forty-eight nations cast their votes for the Declaration. Two were absent and eight abstained: South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet bloc, which opposed it on the grounds that the Declaration did not condemn Fascism. No votes were cast against it, and the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Moments later, Eleanor walked into the General Assembly, quietly dressed, wearing no makeup, briskly taking the podium. The entire Assembly got to its feet. Her fellow delegates then accorded her something that had never been given before and would never be given again in the United Nations: an ovation for a single delegate by all nations."
And this to a young Allard, Lowenstein who was anxious to solve all of the world's problems at once:
"Eleanor had looked her protege sternly in the eye.
'Well, Allard,' she said, summing up five decades of political wisdom, 'you must remember you can't flush all the toilets.'"
Onward.
All of it matters and the region has always been heyday for sexual violence especially. Appalling. And why? What do these people deserve this treatment for? For the feeling of power and perceived control. That's all sexual violence is. That's all violence of any kind ever is. A means of exerting some sort of power and control.
The world is descending into a chronic Twilight Zone episode.
Thank you Dan Rather. Directing your attention to this conflict is a step in the right direction. Too bad that it's such a lonely hike!
David Muir asked us to put our money on the line to help feed the children when he broadcast from Sudan via the WORLD FOOD PROGRAM. YOU CAN HELP BY CONTACTING THEM AND SETTING UP A MONTHLY PAYMENT. takes about 30 seconds. Do it now please, they are starving to death.
The first time I realized that people in other parts of the world were starving was around the age or 7 when my dad would say to me, "Never put on your plate what you can't or don't eat. There are children in Africa that are starving." I'm 79 years old, and remember this clearly and always clean my plate.
Sadly, this is how long Africa has been starving. We need to figure out why Africa can't solve its problems. Why do Africans continue to get the rulers they get. Feeding a few more children is not the solution to these ongoing problems.
Why does Africa continue with this horrible tribal warfare?
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