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Perspective on issues in Asia. Mostly this is to write about China. I do not know what to write yet. The government is so insecure and hypocritical that they would be funny if they were not so cruel. More to come. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Friday, April 30, 2010
10:59 PM
However, that does not control anything or anyone. It's a much deeper problem than that. Most people in China are smart enough to see that, which makes the propagandist response all the more stupid.
Mao wrote that all political power comes from the barrel of a gun. What he failed to realize is, there are too many people in China to intimidate with guns. The propaganda is such a wild stretch of the imagination that few Chinese people familiar with the way that political system operates will believe it, nor should they. They are free to question what's really going on.
So, similarly, should we feel free in the USA to ask what really happened on 9/11/2001 - and without immediately jumping to a conclusion that our own government was responsible. Everyone must keep asking questions. The questions are the important part. The prevalent attitude in the USA that free people are not entitled to seek answers to unanswered questions about 9/11, and the carefully constructed "alternative" theory that the U.S. government was responsible, are used to box thinking people into the label "truthers," furthering the propagandist agenda to make the masses believe that people who seek truth are nuts. The parallel is clear.
It's all so trite, and my heart, for one, has broken in two for the USA, which used to be going places. Instead, Americans of limited brainpower are given unlimited credit, fast cars, big houses and the illusion of power and told to keep the best of us down, to beat us down if possible, and to kill us. Then they throw silver to an army of Judas Iscariots to turn the "counter-culture" into a bunch of irrational, drugged out morons, feeding them disunionist lies, preying on the downtrodden instead of lifting them up. All those inexpensive electronics like 3-D televisions are just strings of shiny beads like the Dutch used to swindle Manhattan from the natives.
It's obvious who benefits from our own refusal to admit the possibilities.
In China, the disconnect between government and reality is far more grave. These children are dead. If the Chinese government set up these copycat school attacks, or they were done by independent ideological loyalists, they have still died for nothing. The communist government cannot stop the Chinese people from looking into their own souls to understand how such a thing could happen, and how to stop it. The answer is something much more than censorship or other government power. Neither dead philosophers nor dead soldiers can heal the sorrow of the living.
We must do the same here, as killings of children, and suicides, are more frequent because of things so stupid as worry over money and fear of the unknown future. Faith is absolutely necessary to human survival. We cannot know the future, but we are drawn toward it without any control. If we fight the inexorable tide of time for control, we do ourselves harm. If we have faith that future is there, and is good, then we will find ourselves in it. That is an essential part of the deeper spiritual miracle of human existence.
Violent revolution is not the answer in China, because the "revolutionary government" has a monopoly. The answer is simple: love. It will come in fits and starts, here and there, a kind word, a simple glance, a hug, a flower. Then it will flood China all at once, and the next day will break a beautiful dawn. Love is the only thing that can heal their hearts. No empire can stand in the way of love any more than it can stand in the way of history. If they embrace love, God will heal them.
school attacks in china used to promote state control of media
Chinese propaganda officials have been saying that "copycat" attacks are because someone saw the trial of a school killer a year ago and "got an idea" to do the same thing. Now they have silenced the media, saying they are doing so to control the problem.However, that does not control anything or anyone. It's a much deeper problem than that. Most people in China are smart enough to see that, which makes the propagandist response all the more stupid.
Mao wrote that all political power comes from the barrel of a gun. What he failed to realize is, there are too many people in China to intimidate with guns. The propaganda is such a wild stretch of the imagination that few Chinese people familiar with the way that political system operates will believe it, nor should they. They are free to question what's really going on.
So, similarly, should we feel free in the USA to ask what really happened on 9/11/2001 - and without immediately jumping to a conclusion that our own government was responsible. Everyone must keep asking questions. The questions are the important part. The prevalent attitude in the USA that free people are not entitled to seek answers to unanswered questions about 9/11, and the carefully constructed "alternative" theory that the U.S. government was responsible, are used to box thinking people into the label "truthers," furthering the propagandist agenda to make the masses believe that people who seek truth are nuts. The parallel is clear.
It's all so trite, and my heart, for one, has broken in two for the USA, which used to be going places. Instead, Americans of limited brainpower are given unlimited credit, fast cars, big houses and the illusion of power and told to keep the best of us down, to beat us down if possible, and to kill us. Then they throw silver to an army of Judas Iscariots to turn the "counter-culture" into a bunch of irrational, drugged out morons, feeding them disunionist lies, preying on the downtrodden instead of lifting them up. All those inexpensive electronics like 3-D televisions are just strings of shiny beads like the Dutch used to swindle Manhattan from the natives.
It's obvious who benefits from our own refusal to admit the possibilities.
In China, the disconnect between government and reality is far more grave. These children are dead. If the Chinese government set up these copycat school attacks, or they were done by independent ideological loyalists, they have still died for nothing. The communist government cannot stop the Chinese people from looking into their own souls to understand how such a thing could happen, and how to stop it. The answer is something much more than censorship or other government power. Neither dead philosophers nor dead soldiers can heal the sorrow of the living.
We must do the same here, as killings of children, and suicides, are more frequent because of things so stupid as worry over money and fear of the unknown future. Faith is absolutely necessary to human survival. We cannot know the future, but we are drawn toward it without any control. If we fight the inexorable tide of time for control, we do ourselves harm. If we have faith that future is there, and is good, then we will find ourselves in it. That is an essential part of the deeper spiritual miracle of human existence.
Violent revolution is not the answer in China, because the "revolutionary government" has a monopoly. The answer is simple: love. It will come in fits and starts, here and there, a kind word, a simple glance, a hug, a flower. Then it will flood China all at once, and the next day will break a beautiful dawn. Love is the only thing that can heal their hearts. No empire can stand in the way of love any more than it can stand in the way of history. If they embrace love, God will heal them.
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Friday, April 9, 2010
2:30 PM
This is not a uniquely American trait. We face major threats here at home from traitors who want to seize power, but this groundswell of democracy in Asia should remind them that the people can regain control of their government at any time. In the light of the Word, no number of guns can keep the people down.
In Thailand, the government will not allow free speech and independent media, saying that they will not allow the independent station to broadcast "until it agrees to tell the truth." But no small group of people in power can possibly know the full extent of "the truth." It is impossible. The people of Thailand know this, and they won't be denied.
However, there is a danger in Thailand, especially considering the adoption of the color red by the protest movement. Let us hope they also know that communist China is not everything it pretends to be, that its government does not allow dissent any more than the corporate media moguls running Thailand, and is not any more a government of free people than the fascists on the other "side" of the false dilemma of authoritarian politics.
In Kyrgyzstan, the news couldn't be better. The people spoke, and threw out a corrupt group of a small number of people who raided the government until it went broke.
The U.S. Congress should take these lessons to heart. If U.S.A. goes broke, everything good thing our country has ever done will be in jeopardy. The people may revolt, but the fascists will be in position to manipulate their anger as they are doing in the Tea Party, tricking people into a cause against their own best interests.
How does this differ from Honduras? Checks and balances form a stable government. In the case of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya was a single person looking to consolidate power for himself, with a group of vocal protestors who were nonetheless still a minority - very much like the Tea Party. The Honduran Congress, when they impeached Mr. Zelaya, was the body of more distributed democratic power, and therefore they won. The Honduran people were not forgotten; they simply did not all agree that Zelaya's personal power was worth the risk to their ongoing safety and prosperity. They are still very able to control their own Congress through participation and new elections. When they all agree and realize their own power, everything will change for the better all at once, as it did just now for the people of Kyrgyzstan.
However, handing that power to one person or a small number of people will always fail, just as it did for Zelaya, just as it did for Kurmanbek Bakiyev in Kyrgyzstan, just as it appears to be failing for Abhisit Vejjajiva in Thailand, whose party lost the 2007 elections yet remains in power.
In Thailand, let's pray that most people agree, shedding blood to maintain the personal power of a few people in opposition to the will of the people is not worth it. The only way forward - for all of Asia - is freedom and democracy.
democratic revolution in Kyrgyzstan and Thailand
This is an exciting time - intelligent people begin to realize they can work together to figure out the best ways to govern their own countries. People are starting to see that mass participation in civil society does not mean chaos because it interrupts control of power, but just the opposite - by involving everyone fairly, any nation can prosper in freedom.This is not a uniquely American trait. We face major threats here at home from traitors who want to seize power, but this groundswell of democracy in Asia should remind them that the people can regain control of their government at any time. In the light of the Word, no number of guns can keep the people down.
In Thailand, the government will not allow free speech and independent media, saying that they will not allow the independent station to broadcast "until it agrees to tell the truth." But no small group of people in power can possibly know the full extent of "the truth." It is impossible. The people of Thailand know this, and they won't be denied.
However, there is a danger in Thailand, especially considering the adoption of the color red by the protest movement. Let us hope they also know that communist China is not everything it pretends to be, that its government does not allow dissent any more than the corporate media moguls running Thailand, and is not any more a government of free people than the fascists on the other "side" of the false dilemma of authoritarian politics.
In Kyrgyzstan, the news couldn't be better. The people spoke, and threw out a corrupt group of a small number of people who raided the government until it went broke.
The U.S. Congress should take these lessons to heart. If U.S.A. goes broke, everything good thing our country has ever done will be in jeopardy. The people may revolt, but the fascists will be in position to manipulate their anger as they are doing in the Tea Party, tricking people into a cause against their own best interests.
How does this differ from Honduras? Checks and balances form a stable government. In the case of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya was a single person looking to consolidate power for himself, with a group of vocal protestors who were nonetheless still a minority - very much like the Tea Party. The Honduran Congress, when they impeached Mr. Zelaya, was the body of more distributed democratic power, and therefore they won. The Honduran people were not forgotten; they simply did not all agree that Zelaya's personal power was worth the risk to their ongoing safety and prosperity. They are still very able to control their own Congress through participation and new elections. When they all agree and realize their own power, everything will change for the better all at once, as it did just now for the people of Kyrgyzstan.
However, handing that power to one person or a small number of people will always fail, just as it did for Zelaya, just as it did for Kurmanbek Bakiyev in Kyrgyzstan, just as it appears to be failing for Abhisit Vejjajiva in Thailand, whose party lost the 2007 elections yet remains in power.
In Thailand, let's pray that most people agree, shedding blood to maintain the personal power of a few people in opposition to the will of the people is not worth it. The only way forward - for all of Asia - is freedom and democracy.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
2:25 PM
Maybe Israel bombed his house. Maybe he did support the Iranian opposition and the government of Iran killed him. Neither party has enough credibility to make a claim, which makes the man's story all the more sad - no one will even know why he died.
Perhaps that's why he died the way he did... so no one would know why. It's possible Mr. Alimohammadi was an extremely dangerous man. His work in mathematics concerns complex vector models derived from quantum probabilities.
The world is up in arms, tied in knots over Iran's uranium enrichment program, but this may be a red herring. Let's face it: there are some bad eggs out there, and we can smell them, but we're not sure where they are, what they look like or what they are up to.
Mr. Alimohammadi's work with high-dimensional statistical mechanics and probability trees could have led to a discovery of a quantum chain reaction.
Perhaps someone already knew about this and this is the plan for the LHC, to let it go off, thinking "hah hah, stupid westerners blew themselves up;" Mr. Alimohammadi discovered this and was killed so the "bomb machine" goes off according to plan.
Perhaps someone already knew about a quantum chain reaction, and it is being or is already weaponized, like phaser beams or quantum disruptors from Star Trek, and when Mr. Alimohammadi discovered this independently and tried to be open with the world academic community, for the good of humanity, he was killed by whoever already controls the technology.
Perhaps Mr. Alimohammadi discovered something else entirely. Maybe he was going to give it to Iran to take over the world. Maybe he was going to tell everyone and give the world free energy from some new source. Who knows.
The sad thing is that the people who killed Mr. Alimohammadi do not realize that freedom of knowledge is inevitable. If Mr. Alimohammadi was killed for something he discovered, other scientists in the world will likely figure it out soon. Then, the people of the world will have to grow up and learn to live with it, or we'll blow ourselves up trying.
Freedom in general is also inevitable: the people are always going to think freely and complain about the government, and egotistical government people getting fussy and violent about it just makes the whole society look like primitive savages. YOU have to grow out of it, or we will all die.
So, Mr. Alimohammadi's death was pointless, as all death by war is pointless. The advantage gained is so fleeting, so temporary. What is the reason for so much blood? There is none.
RIP Masoud Alimohammadi
Masoud Alimohammadi was a physicist who studied how complex predictive models fit into model systems built from observing stars and particle interactions. Perhaps he did not have his eye on a telescope or a circle of rocks like sages of antiquity from Persia or many other ancient human civilizations, but he was one of those sages nonetheless.Maybe Israel bombed his house. Maybe he did support the Iranian opposition and the government of Iran killed him. Neither party has enough credibility to make a claim, which makes the man's story all the more sad - no one will even know why he died.
Perhaps that's why he died the way he did... so no one would know why. It's possible Mr. Alimohammadi was an extremely dangerous man. His work in mathematics concerns complex vector models derived from quantum probabilities.
The world is up in arms, tied in knots over Iran's uranium enrichment program, but this may be a red herring. Let's face it: there are some bad eggs out there, and we can smell them, but we're not sure where they are, what they look like or what they are up to.
- BIG: Uranium - big atom - splitting starts chain reaction
- BIGGER: Hydrogen - smaller protons and neutrons - fusing starts chain reaction
- BIGGEST? smallest quantum particles - chain reaction destroys world?
Mr. Alimohammadi's work with high-dimensional statistical mechanics and probability trees could have led to a discovery of a quantum chain reaction.
Perhaps someone already knew about this and this is the plan for the LHC, to let it go off, thinking "hah hah, stupid westerners blew themselves up;" Mr. Alimohammadi discovered this and was killed so the "bomb machine" goes off according to plan.
Perhaps someone already knew about a quantum chain reaction, and it is being or is already weaponized, like phaser beams or quantum disruptors from Star Trek, and when Mr. Alimohammadi discovered this independently and tried to be open with the world academic community, for the good of humanity, he was killed by whoever already controls the technology.
Perhaps Mr. Alimohammadi discovered something else entirely. Maybe he was going to give it to Iran to take over the world. Maybe he was going to tell everyone and give the world free energy from some new source. Who knows.
The sad thing is that the people who killed Mr. Alimohammadi do not realize that freedom of knowledge is inevitable. If Mr. Alimohammadi was killed for something he discovered, other scientists in the world will likely figure it out soon. Then, the people of the world will have to grow up and learn to live with it, or we'll blow ourselves up trying.
Freedom in general is also inevitable: the people are always going to think freely and complain about the government, and egotistical government people getting fussy and violent about it just makes the whole society look like primitive savages. YOU have to grow out of it, or we will all die.
So, Mr. Alimohammadi's death was pointless, as all death by war is pointless. The advantage gained is so fleeting, so temporary. What is the reason for so much blood? There is none.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
10:51 AM
I feel the same way about Fox News. This one announcer was interviewing some financial analyst. The announcer said everyone was worried that the instability could cause problems with getting the oil out of the ground in Iran, and that could drive up prices. Then the announcer stated that was why the Iranians were out protesting in the first place, because they were concerned about oil prices. Excuse me? What? The Iranians are protesting because a bunch of fascist jerks are lying to them. Does this Fox News announcer want the same thing to happen someday in Los Angeles, millions of people marching on his door in Bel Air with torches and pitchforks? Because that's the kind of utterly selfish lie that causes wars.
I remember a 2000-year old story about religious dictators who were hypocrites....
The Iranian masses have realized that they outnumber the dictators and the fascists and murderers who follow them. Conscript soldiers, throw off your chains, burn your draft cards, and join the protests!
The fascists, whose sole interest is their personal power, will try to use the chaos of the peoples' rebellion to make the case against democracy, that democracy is too unstable, that Iranians cannot have a democracy to lead themselves into the unknown future of humanity.
But precisely the opposite is true - Iran is unstable because a bunch of fascist jerks are more interested in personal power than enabling Iranians' personal struggles for peace of mind and peace in the world. Iran is unstable because its people are intelligent but it is not a democracy.
Indeed the various peoples of South Asia are not stupid, I would say that I even agree with some of their mainstream conclusions about the intellectual history of the West, that the philosophers of antiquity in the West were in fact misguided and incoherent in a spiritual way, that Aristotle and others took their systematic and mathematical proofs for fact, when, however useful those models are, their conclusions are inevitably derived from their own presupposed rules. Whereas, any spiritual being immediately knows by the nature of perception that there is something in the real world beyond the scope of mechanistic logic.
The Iranians understand that their national peace cannot be achieved by foreign military intervention, and the rest of the world understands that as well. Most of the world is pretty sick of hearing about the violence. Like the Iranian people, we want to be free to explore all that God has given us, out in the world, but most importantly in own minds, and deep in our souls.
The violent anger that Ahmadinejad, Khomeni and his ilk drum up is the only thing they know how to do. In this way, the controlling forces of Iran's government are much stupider than the Iranian people, who know how to direct their lives.
The fascist brigands who use Islam as their excuse of the day to wield the knife of murder also stoke the anger of Muslims in Europe and the rest of the world. Just as the Iranian people should be free to live their lives openly and in honest freedom, without the lies that drip with blood, Muslims around the world must learn to control their own anger. Just as the Iranians should be free to openly participate in and control their own governments, so people ought to be free to draw cartoons of the prophets and even the messiah. It is said that God will only hold blasphemy against the spirit against us... and you can't draw a cartoon of something you cannot see. Besides, good humor is necessary to a heart open to God... God likes to laugh.
Similarly, I ought to be free to hold the opinion, which I do personally, that Muhammad is the False Prophet mentioned in Revelation, just as the sinfulness expressed in the partially free western world is the opposite character, Babylon, Mystery, and as polar opposites of cultural force, their interaction is used by the Beast and the Dragon to levy death upon the good people who live with God everywhere among us and in every religion -- but even though I hold this opinion personally, I certainly have no reason to hurt anyone because they do not believe the same way I do. (I also have no reason to hurtfully make fun of what other people believe by drawing immature cartoons.) That's the thing -- no one knows the details of God's plan, not us, not even the angels. When you turn to the light of the Lord, it is so interesting to the mind in and of itself, that what other people believe ceases to have any importance.
God does not want us to hate each other or to be angry about what we cannot control. The sword of death cannot control people even in death; when wielded by governments, inevitably the government slips and cuts its own throat. Thus good people courageously step forward without weapons, with only love to guard them. That is the story of the world, that is the way it always plays out. So, we might as well live the good dream while we are still dreaming in God's mind. I hope all the people of Iran choose the good dream. We may never reach perfection in our lives, but it is easier than you think to let it live in your heart.
Iranian revolution
Some stations have covered the anger Iranians feel that Ahmadinejad and the religious dictators insult their intelligence, claiming the election was not a fraud and that Iran is the "most stable country in the world." Iranians are not stupid. They know they are human and often err in the struggle with their selves, each other and the rest of us out in the world.I feel the same way about Fox News. This one announcer was interviewing some financial analyst. The announcer said everyone was worried that the instability could cause problems with getting the oil out of the ground in Iran, and that could drive up prices. Then the announcer stated that was why the Iranians were out protesting in the first place, because they were concerned about oil prices. Excuse me? What? The Iranians are protesting because a bunch of fascist jerks are lying to them. Does this Fox News announcer want the same thing to happen someday in Los Angeles, millions of people marching on his door in Bel Air with torches and pitchforks? Because that's the kind of utterly selfish lie that causes wars.
I remember a 2000-year old story about religious dictators who were hypocrites....
The Iranian masses have realized that they outnumber the dictators and the fascists and murderers who follow them. Conscript soldiers, throw off your chains, burn your draft cards, and join the protests!
The fascists, whose sole interest is their personal power, will try to use the chaos of the peoples' rebellion to make the case against democracy, that democracy is too unstable, that Iranians cannot have a democracy to lead themselves into the unknown future of humanity.
But precisely the opposite is true - Iran is unstable because a bunch of fascist jerks are more interested in personal power than enabling Iranians' personal struggles for peace of mind and peace in the world. Iran is unstable because its people are intelligent but it is not a democracy.
Indeed the various peoples of South Asia are not stupid, I would say that I even agree with some of their mainstream conclusions about the intellectual history of the West, that the philosophers of antiquity in the West were in fact misguided and incoherent in a spiritual way, that Aristotle and others took their systematic and mathematical proofs for fact, when, however useful those models are, their conclusions are inevitably derived from their own presupposed rules. Whereas, any spiritual being immediately knows by the nature of perception that there is something in the real world beyond the scope of mechanistic logic.
The Iranians understand that their national peace cannot be achieved by foreign military intervention, and the rest of the world understands that as well. Most of the world is pretty sick of hearing about the violence. Like the Iranian people, we want to be free to explore all that God has given us, out in the world, but most importantly in own minds, and deep in our souls.
The violent anger that Ahmadinejad, Khomeni and his ilk drum up is the only thing they know how to do. In this way, the controlling forces of Iran's government are much stupider than the Iranian people, who know how to direct their lives.
The fascist brigands who use Islam as their excuse of the day to wield the knife of murder also stoke the anger of Muslims in Europe and the rest of the world. Just as the Iranian people should be free to live their lives openly and in honest freedom, without the lies that drip with blood, Muslims around the world must learn to control their own anger. Just as the Iranians should be free to openly participate in and control their own governments, so people ought to be free to draw cartoons of the prophets and even the messiah. It is said that God will only hold blasphemy against the spirit against us... and you can't draw a cartoon of something you cannot see. Besides, good humor is necessary to a heart open to God... God likes to laugh.
Similarly, I ought to be free to hold the opinion, which I do personally, that Muhammad is the False Prophet mentioned in Revelation, just as the sinfulness expressed in the partially free western world is the opposite character, Babylon, Mystery, and as polar opposites of cultural force, their interaction is used by the Beast and the Dragon to levy death upon the good people who live with God everywhere among us and in every religion -- but even though I hold this opinion personally, I certainly have no reason to hurt anyone because they do not believe the same way I do. (I also have no reason to hurtfully make fun of what other people believe by drawing immature cartoons.) That's the thing -- no one knows the details of God's plan, not us, not even the angels. When you turn to the light of the Lord, it is so interesting to the mind in and of itself, that what other people believe ceases to have any importance.
God does not want us to hate each other or to be angry about what we cannot control. The sword of death cannot control people even in death; when wielded by governments, inevitably the government slips and cuts its own throat. Thus good people courageously step forward without weapons, with only love to guard them. That is the story of the world, that is the way it always plays out. So, we might as well live the good dream while we are still dreaming in God's mind. I hope all the people of Iran choose the good dream. We may never reach perfection in our lives, but it is easier than you think to let it live in your heart.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
4:48 PM
If Tamil child soldiers do need rehabilitation, the last people who should give it to them are the soldiers who just crushed the rebellion. Handing over these children to soldiers who just waged a vicious war to suppress a violent revolt is, on its face, giving them as prizes of war to be brutalized.
This is one of those things that is so shocking that we don't want to think about it. Well, it is way over there, and besides, what can we do? Well, what can we do? All the arm waving in the world may not help. But what is the alternative? Drop bombs on Columbo and widen the conflict? That certainly would not go well with India.
Well, saying something is a start. Visit The Government of Sri Lanka and find a way to communicate, call your local representative and senator, or donate or volunteer to an aid organization. But will that really help? Pray? What fixes this? What saves those kids?
I am at a loss, and sad for them, but I honestly don't know what to do about it. There's nothing positive to do, in the end, but pray that people in the Sri Lankan government and military will do the right thing. Maybe that's not likely. Maybe that's not the way the world is "supposed" to happen. But it's possible.
sri lanka's tamil children
Following the brutal termination of Sri Lanka's civil war, many children of 200,000+ Tamil refugees have been taken from the concentration camps by the military and/or paramilitary groups to secret "re-education" camps without access by anyone - their parents, the Red Cross, or the U.N.If Tamil child soldiers do need rehabilitation, the last people who should give it to them are the soldiers who just crushed the rebellion. Handing over these children to soldiers who just waged a vicious war to suppress a violent revolt is, on its face, giving them as prizes of war to be brutalized.
This is one of those things that is so shocking that we don't want to think about it. Well, it is way over there, and besides, what can we do? Well, what can we do? All the arm waving in the world may not help. But what is the alternative? Drop bombs on Columbo and widen the conflict? That certainly would not go well with India.
Well, saying something is a start. Visit The Government of Sri Lanka and find a way to communicate, call your local representative and senator, or donate or volunteer to an aid organization. But will that really help? Pray? What fixes this? What saves those kids?
I am at a loss, and sad for them, but I honestly don't know what to do about it. There's nothing positive to do, in the end, but pray that people in the Sri Lankan government and military will do the right thing. Maybe that's not likely. Maybe that's not the way the world is "supposed" to happen. But it's possible.
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
10:28 PM
This person says that America's founding fathers would have supported spy cameras in churches and other places of worship to monitor who adheres to what religion.
"...it is debatable whether or not the Founding Fathers wanted America to follow their Masonic beliefs." It is? This person does not understand. The founding fathers set up a system that would be stable while allowing the emergence of new beliefs.
What a joke. What a jerk. We're on to you, China. We're not stupid.
Fascist jerks!
insane chinese propaganda
Check this one out... this site is based in Hong Kong from a parent company with no web site - only a 'sysop@cenal.com' contact address.This person says that America's founding fathers would have supported spy cameras in churches and other places of worship to monitor who adheres to what religion.
"...it is debatable whether or not the Founding Fathers wanted America to follow their Masonic beliefs." It is? This person does not understand. The founding fathers set up a system that would be stable while allowing the emergence of new beliefs.
What a joke. What a jerk. We're on to you, China. We're not stupid.
Fascist jerks!
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
9:42 AM
Take a step back for a second, and consider who benefits from keeping Pakistan busy with pressure from India, and India busy with fear of Pakistan?
Pakistan borders Afghanistan on the north. Military analysts say that Pakistan can't wait to fill the power vacuum when the Americans decide Afghanistan is not worth the cost anymore. (Or when we simply run out of money.)
Who has had the interest in controlling Afghanistan since before 9/11? Saudi Arabia and China. Afghanistan's Kyber Pass is the crucial link of the future pipeline to transport oil from the world's largest reserve to the world's largest energy consumer.
Like the Taliban, if the formal government of Pakistan has aspirations for influence in Afghanistan, they would need to be given something else to keep them busy.
So they find some poor Pakistani nut-cases coming off heroin, brainwash them with tales of thirty virgins and give them training and guns, and send them to Mumbai.
Similarly, with India occupied by war with Pakistan, China would be free to expand its southern borders into the Himalayas as the chaos unfolds.
who benefits by keeping pakistan busy?
The recent hostage shooting attacks in Mumbai, India put the governments of India and Pakistan at odds with each other, distrusting each other, and fully focused on each other as the most immediate threat to their national security.Take a step back for a second, and consider who benefits from keeping Pakistan busy with pressure from India, and India busy with fear of Pakistan?
Pakistan borders Afghanistan on the north. Military analysts say that Pakistan can't wait to fill the power vacuum when the Americans decide Afghanistan is not worth the cost anymore. (Or when we simply run out of money.)
Who has had the interest in controlling Afghanistan since before 9/11? Saudi Arabia and China. Afghanistan's Kyber Pass is the crucial link of the future pipeline to transport oil from the world's largest reserve to the world's largest energy consumer.
Like the Taliban, if the formal government of Pakistan has aspirations for influence in Afghanistan, they would need to be given something else to keep them busy.
So they find some poor Pakistani nut-cases coming off heroin, brainwash them with tales of thirty virgins and give them training and guns, and send them to Mumbai.
Similarly, with India occupied by war with Pakistan, China would be free to expand its southern borders into the Himalayas as the chaos unfolds.
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