Archive for April 11th, 2008
I don’t think the protests are going to bring anything beneficial to the people of Tibet. I don’t think Beijing cares or will care. And the Olympics will go on. And China and Russia and the USA will win the most medals.
Unfortunately, I don’t ever see independence or autonomy for Tibet. Never. China is too powerful and Beijing holds all of the world’s economic cards. And like it or not, Tibet is too closely linked with China (as we all are in a globalized world) at this point that they will never be truly free of China.
In the coming decades it will become increasingly clear that what Beijing says directly effects every country, every person. What Beijing says goes. And China ain’t going anywhere.
The flip side is that China’s political landscape is evolving just as its economic landscape is. China won’t always be communist and repressive. Democracy has sprouted in the hearts and minds of the Chinese people and not too long from now democracy will hold court in Beijing. And Tibet will find its voice in this new democratic wilderness. We just have to be patient.
Iran is still playing chicken with American warships in the Persian Gulf! When are these mullahs going to wake up?! None of us (the citizens of America and Iran) want a showdown between our two countries. Come on now, let’s work this out already!
Our poor salmon friends in the Pacific Northwest are being wiped out. Help a fish out and start taking supplemental vitamins for goodness sake.
The pot might boil over in Iraq if someone (Sistani?) doesn’t step in to diffuse the situation after today’s assassination. We need to institute something like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa. Who could play Desmond Tutu? Calling Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani …
Obama is going to edge out, barely edge out, Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination.
Then McCain is going to wipe the floor with Obama in the general election.
Just a hunch.
Why? We haven’t seen the last of Obama’s Jeremiah Wright scandal. My gut tells me that there is a lot more where this came from.
If Hillary manages to out-maneuver Obama? Well, then we’ve got ourselves a race.
President Bush is being accused of passing the “Iraq Debacle” buck onto the next administration.
“He [Bush] is just dragging this [Iraq War] out so he can put it at the doorstep of the new president [Hopefully a Dem, but looking like it might be McCain] of the United States,” says Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Bush irresponsible, treading water, incompetent? Ridiculous!!!
But CDC/ATSDR officials do not want the public to know!
They have kept the study under lock-and-key for almost a year.
Why? Most likely because the government is in bed with the chemical industry.
“It’s not good because it’s inconvenient,” Canadian biologist Michael Gilbertson said.
It’s inconvenient for the public to sit in the dark any longer. Call and write your elected officials to sound the alarm!
Question: who exactly is ordering the CDC/ATSDR to keep this study from going public? This could point all the way to the top.
Shouldn’t we Americans be setting the example, the highest standard, for the rest of the world? Isn’t the old parable: “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”? Bush, Cheney and their cronies have done everything but by governing with fear, deception, intimidation and yes: torture. Torture is un-American. Maybe someone should tell that to the Vice President.