23 December, 20011

The Silly Season

I don't know which is harder, keeping up with the months or keeping up with Mexico's ongoing drug war. Perhaps I need a page on the drug war.

In any case, we find Veracruz took another hit for homicide. Three U.S. citizens died along with other travelers when gunmen attacked buses in the eastern stae of Veracruz. They died this last Tuesday, 20 December, 2011.

Another attack occured at about the same time in the eastern state. Known for its oil export hub, it now serves as a firing range to kill for drug gang violence. The notorious Zetas and Gulf drug cartels continue to slaughter thousands of Mexicans. It's stranger than fiction and no one could think this stuff up. To think that crony capitalism found its way to Mexico in this horrific manner is beyond belief.

Adding this the crime scene cleanup anarchy, last Friday, December 23, 2011, 10 bodies of toruture victims were found in northern Veracruz.

In September, 35 bodies were dumped along a downtown highway in the Veracruz city of Boca del Rio.

More than 45,000 people have been killed in cartel-related violence since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006. That's still less than 10,000 per year, but more than 7,000 per year.

Is it any wonder the Mexicans want out of Mexico?

Stop the drug war to stop the killing requires stopping the war on drugs in the US.

If you think that Mexico has a crime scene cleanup problem, wait for Iraq's growing crime scene cleanup problems.

Postwar reconstruction for Iraq promises to create more problems.

Now it's time for Iran to take its logical place at the head of Iraq's government.

We supposedly left Iraq officially yesterday. Already a block has broken off from the offical government.

This terrible chaperter has a political crisis brewing at this moment. As the curds in the north claimed independence, so too have several cities.

The Iraqi people may choose another political system than that which our tax dollars helped to create. With the end of the occupation the US has about 15 thousand American contractors in the Green Zone: Cost? About 3.5 billion a year pays for this shadow army of mercenaries.

And what about an Arib spring for Iraq? They're exhausted from many years of war. Will they have the energy for an uprising to democratize their country? They've had a broken and corrupt country since Hussain's departure.

Can their disfunctional government continue to treat people brutally? The level of tragedy remains so high that people may not have enough energy to do much of anything outside of surviving.

Now with the US officially gone, but for the largest embassy in the world, more people will try to fix Iraq. American presence tended to slow reconstruction down.

Will the major split with the Sunis lead to a non-sectarian block in the future? As of now, it does. More of the same will help thwart greater political factions. Many Iraqis remain frustrated by their leaderships' questionable plans. A vote of no confidence against the Iraqi leadership may come in weeks, if all goes well.

The Sunis repreent many types of beliefs. Suni-Arib groups represent a large number of these people.

Overall, Iraqis are tired of sectarian politics. We might imagine why this is so. The Iraqi identity now has identities that never existed before 2003.

Iran supports Syria as Iran does, there's at least some hope of an important area of safety for those involved in a Syrian civil war. Full blown civil war will mean much more upheaval for the children of these suffering populations. Crime scene cleanup will continue and hospitals will continue to overflow.

Although bloodborne pathogen training does not receive much attention, many people in this part of the world become expert at crime scene cleanup as if they were in a hot Dallas, Texas unattended death cleanup.

OIL: Iraqi don't benefit because of domestic upuheaval and foreign occupation. The US intevention was a war to control Iraq's natural rescources, many of this country believe. The population of neighboring countries have 4 times the number of people and a higher standard of living. Keep in mind that before US intervention, Iraq had the highest standard of living in the area. It also had a high literacy level for both males and females; compare this to our allie, Saudi Arabia.

Iraq has greateer wealth as Egypt, Lemanon and other nearby countries, but their great wealth is not reaching the people. This alone should build a fire under the peoples' feet. A revolution to oust their ruling-elite and Oligarchs would do a lot for democratizing the great wealth of this once educated nation.

7 December 2011

Mninial generation -- four, generation's unique and unified in terms of its beliefs. Like the GI generation, they have distinctive beliefs of as much as 60 to 70 percent. The baby generation has an idealist and highly divided ideological belief configuration. Women now thought diffeerently than before. About evern eight decades a civic generation arises. Unique in ethnic composition and diversity, they're obviously in their beliefs and attitudes.

The GI generation created most of the institutions that we work in today. We see a debate similar to that of the original framers. The perfect scope and nature of government in society and the economy highlight these ideas. Older generations oppose the emerging generation's ideas. This civic ethos debate comes at the darkest times during these periods. The civil war shows us this type of minlinial geneation.

Obama's administration shows an interest in this generation divide.

Economic issues and working together show in their interests. Reforms for student loans, increase in programs for students, and a tendency to sympathetic to Occupy Wall Street.