Sustainability and Politics: Obama vows toughest sanctions yet on Iran - Political Hotsheet

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Obama vows toughest sanctions yet on Iran - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

Obama vows toughest sanctions yet on Iran - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

I hope so... see sidebar left, below, on my blog.
Sanctions like an ever-tightening noose, equally as devastating as bombs, with not a drop of blood shed.

Iran could be solved bloodlessly

And so this continues, on, and on. But we (and Iran's 'allies' Russia and China, really) still don't have the balls for tough enough sanctions. Fuck.

Here's an unpublished version:
"On Saturday in Berlin, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei urged the international community to continue to engage with Iran diplomatically.

We must steadfastly urge negotiations, with Russia and all our UN allies, and impose sanctions such that the eventual tradeless, isolated island of Iran is forced to cooperate. The sanctions must be like a noose, equally devastating as bombs but with not a drop of blood shed."

Which expresses probably the best course of action imo. We should DO THIS NOW. If some of the citizens of Iran have to suffer, stop voting for Ahmedinejad and sidestepping the UN.
The post below this one is of the published version from the SF Chronicle.

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.