UN & France Exposed - Be warned of grusome pictures

I agree wholeheartedly. But how do we get to the next level in our thinking and doing, so we don't become the" continent that once was"?

I am sure collectively we can find the answer to this if we try hard enough. But using a different way of doing things and solving our own problems first.

We need men and women with bright ideas to help us please answer some of these questions and put them in practice , not just theory-as we currently do so well.

The obstacles are so many but this is not unique to Africans alone. If others got themselves out of their hell holes, I think we too should be motivated to do same.

Politics is in the way; economics is in the way; wrong education is in the way; hunger is in the way; self hate is in the way; hero worship is in the way; everything seems to be in the way. Etc

How can these ideas come to fruition and be implemented? Do we need a Jerry Rawlings or a Julius Nyerere to help with these questions as we continue to sink (ie. drinking and sinking)? I am just wondering.

I sincerely believe though that if we believe that oft-repeated saying the first humans originated in Africa, then we too as Africans should the first originators of the solutions to our African problems instead of always looking to first, second, third, fourth anthropological derivatives from Africa who had long since settled elsewhere (eg. Europe, Asia, etc) and have practically forgotten Africa, except to come back to exploit and extract minerals for their new found lifestyles that they must support by hook or crook.

The more I think about this conundrum, the more I come to realize that we as Africans have not properly contextualized and compartmentalized the cardinals vices of greed, lust, and envy. Further, we have fallen to money,power and luxury, forgetting that these are tools that should be understood and used appropriately and not to be used or abused by them, etc.

There is too much confusion; our morals too sandwiched and too much noise in the market, so to speak, that we got all our priorities twisted and in the end, we fall to morbid selfishness and then internal and external chaos no matter how much we accumulated materially in the process.

I am still think about your thought provoking comments. You got me thinking.

Thank you.

Zumo


All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

(Paraphrase: All happy nations are alike; each unhappy nation is unhappy in its own way)

"There is no justice on the earth, they say.
But there is none in heaven, either. To me
That is as plain as any simple scale.---Mozart and Salieri, Scene 1, para 1.

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From: Williams, Roberta B

Doc, thanks for sharing as always, but if we (Africans) love and respect each other and our lands, we wouldn’t have a need for the UN now would we? The problem is us Doc, we are our own problems and enemies.
Most Africans in African countries that are in power don’t want to give it up. Most that are in charge of funds, steals most of it; most that are in charge of caring for children, rape the kids; most that are in charge of lands, sell it and put the money in their pockets. The number one thing an African man love more than himself is power, funny thing is, as soon as they get it, they abuse it and forget about their people. Remembered the saying: “All my mother’s children, I love myself the best and when I get my stomach full, I don’t care for the rest”………we practice this saying everyday in African!

The UN can live in these African countries until the end of time that will not change us, we have to want change and practice it everyday!

Oh by the way, in the UN, the ones that is on the ground and the ones giving the orders to the one on the grounds are of different races, which do you think is sent on the ground? They know we don’t love and respect each other or our lands so why not send the self-hater, makes perfect sense to me, not so?

Roberta Williams

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From Dr. Zumo

See below . And compare with other information coming from "the grounds" wherever UN is or has been stationed. You can choose to use two eyes or four eyes, as you like.

FYI

Zumo

Ivory Coast attack further complicates UN presence in Africa
From impotence in Rwandan genocide to helicopter strike on presidential palace, UN walks a fine line across continent
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o David Smith in Johannesburg
o guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 5 April 2011 17.26 BST
UN peacekeepers patrol the streets in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Photograph: Jane Hahn/AP
The United Nations attack on Ivory Coast's presidential palace and military barracks marks a new chapter in the organisation's often chequered history in Africa.
Most notorious was its impotence during the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which 800,000 people died. The UN security council failed to reinforce the small peacekeeping force in the east African country.
Kofi Annan, head of UN peacekeeping forces at the time, admitted later: "The international community failed Rwanda and that must leave us always with a sense of bitter regret."
Between 1948 and 2007, about 40% of the UN's peacekeeping and observer missions took place in Africa. In 2009, about 70% of its personnel were deployed on the continent. The current missions are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Darfur in Sudan, southern Sudan, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Western Sahara.
After the massacres in Rwanda and then Bosnia, the UN added the protection of civilians as a priority for each mission. But the question of how far it is willing – and able – to go to intervene remains delicate and politically charged.
The UN runs the world's biggest peacekeeping mission in Congo at an annual cost of $1.35bn (£865m) but it is constantly overstretched in the vast country. It has been accused of supporting Congolese army units responsible for grave atrocities.
Last year there were claims that peacekeepers ignored appeals for protection just days before more than 240 villagers were raped by rebels. There have been similar charges in the past, blamed on lack of equipment, manpower and intelligence capacity. UN peacekeepers in Darfur have been accused of failing to stop violence that resulted in civilian deaths.
Major General Patrick Cammaert, a Dutch marine and UN peacekeeping veteran, told the New York Times in 2009: "They can't start a war against a host government like a well-organised Sudanese campaign. That goes beyond protecting civilians; it is on a magnitude that a UN mission cannot deal with."



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From: ZumoAmos@aol.com


"Hesitancy to murder has never been the hallmark of imperialism"..Franz Fanon (1925-1961)

"As a continent, Africa will always haunt the UN Peacekeeping Missions (DPKO)"..Eeben Barlow, former South African Defence Force intelligence officer, CEO, Executive Outcomes Intl.

See FYI below:

http://www.liberianforum.com/Articles/Historical-Context-and-Real-time-projections-for-Successes-in-Africa.html

Zumo


From: Morris Kanneh

There is this tendency of people casting blame on the place they fell forgetting that the place they slipped is the principal cause of the fall in the first place. I thought it was Gbago who is more than been exposed for clinching on to power even at the precious lives of the Ivorians. But God willing he will pay for his deed in not a distance future.
Sekou

--- On Tue, 4/5/11, J. NAN LARSAH wrote:

When the UN denied these deaths early yesterday and Outtara dismissively denied said act as "nonsense" lies, it this what the UN/France/US/Outtara rebel forces "international community is hurriedly attacking Gbagbo for so as to get rid of him quickly?

Massacre in Ivory Coast



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