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Analyze This - Obama's China Visit | Newsweek.com
Fascinating.
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Shambaugh thinks China's armed police should train Afghan cops, for example. But Beijing shuns anything close to putting boots on the ground. "Every foreign power that goes in has failed—so why should China join the list of failures?" as Tsinghua University foreign-policy expert Yan Xuetong says. One Chinese Netizen put it more tartly in a chatroom posting: "Now NATO wants China to help wipe it's ass."
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Within Chinese government circles, explains Shambaugh, there is an escalating debate over whether the country should assume the role of a "responsible big power" or just continue practicing the late Chinese strongman Deng Xiaoping's more veiled and ambiguous strategy of "biding time, hiding capabilities, but doing some things." Skeptics in the Beijing leadership believe China simply isn't ready to take on much greater global responsibilities—and yet "some people want Beijing to overextend itself precisely so that Chinese growth will be stifled," says Professor Yan. "China is terribly conflicted internally over this issue," Shambaugh says, quipping that when Chinese and American leaders meet next week "maybe there should be a third chair for a psychiatrist to analyze these two psychologically wounded, ambivalent, schizophrenic countries."
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Neocons Say, Beware of China | Crooks and Liars
China spends a tenth of what the USA does on its military, and American neocons are calling this a threat.
Free Thought Manifesto: One Nation, Under Illusion
Reminds me of the Qing neo-Confucianists.
Conservatives Are Rewriting the Bible to Free It From "Liberal Bias" | | AlterNet
and doing it on a wiki. Fascinating.
Ali A. Rizvi: Are Evolution-Deniers any Different from Holocaust-Deniers, Birthers, or Truthers?
Great and timely anecdote about a history teacher being shouted down by Holocaust-denying parents -- analogy for trying to teach science in some cultures, including America's.
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"Imagine you are a teacher of recent history, and your lessons on 20th-century Europe are boycotted, heckled or otherwise disrupted by well-organised, well-financed and politically muscular groups of Holocaust-deniers...
Holocaust deniers really exist. They are vocal, superficially plausible and adept at seeming learned. They are supported by the president of at least one currently powerful state, and they include at least one bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
Imagine that, as a teacher of European history, you are continually faced with belligerent demands to 'teach the controversy', and to give 'equal time' to the 'alternative theory' that the Holocaust never happened but was invented by a bunch of Zionist fabricators.
...Fashionably relativist intellectuals chime in to insist that there is no absolute truth: whether the Holocaust happened is a matter of personal belief; all points of view are equally valid and should be equally 'respected'."
INDOlink - Analysis: End of the American Era is Inching Closer
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I feel that while Obama has regained the confidence of the allies yet he is not able to convince many Americans who are not willing to accept either the global realities or the fact that the American style of capitalism is not working and needs a fundamental change. These people are blaming Obama to be a socialist or a Marxist and even some are calling him a fascist and comparing him to Hitler. For too long the Americans have been made to believe that their system is the best in the World and the rest of the World, particularly the European allies, have given up on the puritanical capitalism and have adulterated it with socialist pollution. Many Americans continue to hold onto their beliefs in spite of the overwhelming evidence that America lags behind all the industrialized countries both in the field of healthcare as well as in education. Healthcare and education are the two fundamental pillars of any social system. Obama is the first American president who has come close to admitting the reality rather than continuing to live under illusion. However, for admitting the truth, he has to face the growing wrath of many people, particularly of many white people.
Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away | Media and Technology | AlterNet
Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
The economic and political connections to the social movement: a comparison.
Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism? | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
Brownshirts and Teabagger mobs, and more.
Orcinus: Fascist America: Are We There Yet?
Pretty frightening, and well-researched and analyzed. It's a good time to be living abroad.
Talk To Action | Jack Hayford Backs Odd Theory: Sex With a Demon Drove Down Japanese Stock Market
The danger of Foursquare megachurch. Orcinus blog notes the group fits the Brownshirt profile in Weimar.
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At Ted Haggard's church, as described in Speigel's 1997 public radio episode, church members were "prayer walking" Colorado Springs block by block, praying for all the city's inhabitants. They were also methodically identifying demons, which were associated in one case, described by Spiegel, with a high school playground area frequented by drama students whose free-thinking had invited down demons who then infested the playground area.
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the first Transformations video presented the claim that Christians could effect dramatic declines in crime rates, addiction, and traffic accidents, as well as cause miraculous reversal of environmental degradation, by driving demon spirits and individuals accused of witchcraft and sorcery from cities, towns, and geographic areas.
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Real Time New Rules June 19, 2009 | Democrats are the New Republicans
One of Maher's best: US has no progressive party, media gives us Gingrich while acting like Kucinich, Chomsky, Nader are "loons."
The Ideology of Unfettered Capitalism Is Crumbling -- It's a Huge Opportunity for Alternative Economics | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
Staggering.
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According to 2006 IRS data reported in the New York Times, “the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans. Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980."
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But his most chilling observation concerned where he thought we were: “We are at a critical fork in the road. We can either create the millions of jobs needed for the 30 million who are right now effectively unemployed, or we can bail out Wall Street, again. We can either re-grow the incomes of the 300,000 richest Americans, who for many years have earned half the nation’s income, or we can build an economy that serves the employment and income needs of the 150 million hard working Americans who earn the other half. For more than three decades we’ve focused on the 300,000, through ‘trickle down’ and other discredited economic practices. That’s been easy, although horribly unfair. The hard but fair thing to do is to manage our economy so that it responsibly serves the 150 million.”
Obama's trail of broken promises | Salon
Bad title. The death of integrity is closer to the article's essence.
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