[Buddha-l] FW: H-ASIA: Gandhi's Birthday

[jkirk]

Thanks for these, Joy. 
I can only explete, "Right-on" to it all.

Here MSNBC is already gloating over the great fun the disabled kids are
having at the disabled olympics in Beijing. They are all being used. But
then what is new about that? We do it all the time here. Look at how the
Bush admin. and the complicit media, even the so-called presidential
candidates of note (the top 3)  are drumming up ardor for bombing Iran
because the new line is Ahmadinejad is Hitler, redux. 

Joanna
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Christopher Hitchens seems to put all the control in China's mighty hands,
China is pulling the strings.

Maintained in China
Burma's foul regime depends on Beijing. 
By Christopher Hitchens

"Meanwhile, everybody is getting ready for the lovely time they will have at
the Beijing Olympics. If there could be a single demand that would fuse
almost all the human rights demands of the contemporary world into one, it
would be the call to boycott or cancel this disgusting celebration."
http://www.slate.com/id/2175047/

And talking about the Beijing Olympics, there is a graphic explanation of
its logo circling on the net.
http://www.betapolitique.fr/Jeux-olympiques-en-Chine-le-01698.html

As for Gandhi, the influential French intellectual, Jacques Attali (former
private secretary to President Mitterand) wrote a book on Gandhi, in which
he says how essential Gandhi is for our times, especially his doctrine of
non-violence. Gandhi is far from obsolete although most of India nowadays
finds him an "embarassing icon". For an interview in French about Attali's
book:

"Gandhi est-il important aujourd'hui? 
Oui, essentiel! Même si l'Inde l'oublie. Lors de mes premiers voyages
là-bas, il y a vingt ans, j'ai été surpris de voir que très peu de gens
s'intéressaient à Gandhi. Il est pour beaucoup une icône abstraite,
embarrassante."
http://livres.lexpress.fr/entretien.asp/idC=12942/idR=5/idG=8 

Joy

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