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

[Joy Vriens]

And the headlines on Burma are gradually disappearing from the international screens and newspapers. When it's not in the media, it doesn't happen anymore, the society of the spectacle... The olympics in Beijing will definitely happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRxgc0KDNjY

Disgusting brutal behaviour and courage and dignity at the other side. Would this have happened without Gandhi's exemple?

  
>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