Gag orders from your own government might have to be respected, as a practical matter. Respecting gag orders of a foreign government is another matter. But it is rather old news, as the NYT's credentials as a mouthpiece for Israeli propaganda are long established.
I disagree with the thesis that the rich rule America. As I see it, the money rules America and the rich are just hosts for the money. We've created powerful, largely automated, systems that operate on the 'meta-instruction' to create ever larger accumulations of money. Remove the current wealthy, and the system will simply find other 'hosts' to build its piles of money around. The 'lucky' parties (the 1%, who are actually as interchangeable as any low-level employee) will then find their own freedom of action constrained by the money that attaches itself to them. A sad denouement. As a race, we've already ceded our free-will to our creations.
One wonders where an Eocene-type peak topples over into a permanent lead-melting hell-storm like we see on Venus. Did that planet once resemble ours? We'll never know.
Well, no. Like a lot of things "cheap" natural gas is just a matter of shifting the real costs off to the side.
But if there's "cheap" natural gas, why the frenzy to frack? I expect the direct costs are subsidized and those frightening deferred costs are ignored.
Low-cost natural gas can only be maintained by unconstrained 'fracking' that poisons the water table and makes moonscapes out of bucolic forest land. It's clear at all that its increased use is good news
What's deeply saddening to me is that the only reason we can even have this discussion is that the guy was an American citizen.
The implication seems to be that our 'right' to visit mayhem of all sorts on any of the other 94% of the world's people, for any reason or no reason at all, is accepted as a given and of no consequence moral or otherwise.
While Buddhism is not prevalent overall in India, the key sites of the Buddha's life are still there and visited by many Buddhist pilgrims. Besides the Tibetans and Dalit converts mentioned, Mr. S.N. Goenka (http://vipassana.org), an Indian who grew up and learned Buddhist meditation in Burma and who now has a very large network of meditation centers worldwide, was active there when Jobs visited. Jobs could absolutely have encountered Buddhism in India and would have had the opportunity to 'comparison shop' with other traditions
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My experience, Christians in Myanmar (there are more of them than you might be thinking) share the exact same prejudice and hostility toward Muslims.
I can imagine that what's left of Afghan tolerance/collaboration with us, the uninvited guests who never left, will quickly come to an end.
Confused a little. If Maliki is the US's to 'force out', the implication is that Iraq is not actually a sovereign country. Say it ain't so!
Gag orders from your own government might have to be respected, as a practical matter. Respecting gag orders of a foreign government is another matter. But it is rather old news, as the NYT's credentials as a mouthpiece for Israeli propaganda are long established.
I disagree with the thesis that the rich rule America. As I see it, the money rules America and the rich are just hosts for the money. We've created powerful, largely automated, systems that operate on the 'meta-instruction' to create ever larger accumulations of money. Remove the current wealthy, and the system will simply find other 'hosts' to build its piles of money around. The 'lucky' parties (the 1%, who are actually as interchangeable as any low-level employee) will then find their own freedom of action constrained by the money that attaches itself to them. A sad denouement. As a race, we've already ceded our free-will to our creations.
One wonders where an Eocene-type peak topples over into a permanent lead-melting hell-storm like we see on Venus. Did that planet once resemble ours? We'll never know.
'Honkish', and proud of it.
Mebbe with a little negro in the wood pile
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Well, no. Like a lot of things "cheap" natural gas is just a matter of shifting the real costs off to the side.
But if there's "cheap" natural gas, why the frenzy to frack? I expect the direct costs are subsidized and those frightening deferred costs are ignored.
Sorry. Should be "..not clear at all..."
Low-cost natural gas can only be maintained by unconstrained 'fracking' that poisons the water table and makes moonscapes out of bucolic forest land. It's clear at all that its increased use is good news
Thank you, Juan. On this point you are making eminent good sense. I hope it helps.
What's deeply saddening to me is that the only reason we can even have this discussion is that the guy was an American citizen.
The implication seems to be that our 'right' to visit mayhem of all sorts on any of the other 94% of the world's people, for any reason or no reason at all, is accepted as a given and of no consequence moral or otherwise.
While Buddhism is not prevalent overall in India, the key sites of the Buddha's life are still there and visited by many Buddhist pilgrims. Besides the Tibetans and Dalit converts mentioned, Mr. S.N. Goenka (http://vipassana.org), an Indian who grew up and learned Buddhist meditation in Burma and who now has a very large network of meditation centers worldwide, was active there when Jobs visited. Jobs could absolutely have encountered Buddhism in India and would have had the opportunity to 'comparison shop' with other traditions
Tennessee and North Carolina will be surprised to learn they aren't part of the South
When did Japan get a particularly sunny climate? It's pretty much the same as the US east coast.
This would be an excellent set of points with which to govern the US.