Posted in seeker on April 30, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Female living Buddha condemns Dalai Lama:
The twelfth Samding Dorje Phagmo said that since Tibet’s incorporation into Communist China it had been transformed from the backwards feudal society of largely illiterate serfs with little medical care that she knew as a child.
“Old Tibet was dark and cruel, the serfs lived worse than horses and cattle,” [...]
Posted in seeker on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I'll keep posting to my LiveJournal, but I won't be using Blog It unless they make some improvements. It send text to wordpress that it or wordpress converts into code, which looks fine on my wordpress blogs, but becomes a mess in my rss feeds.
The current version of ScribeFire makes it easy enough for me [...]
Posted in seeker on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Biofuels crime against humanity - UN | Video | Reuters.com
United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the right to food Jean Ziegler says massive switch of agriculture to biofuels’ production is a crime against humanity which throws millions into poverty.
Due to the instability of food prices, farmers are switching to the increasing biofuel market.
(Thanks, [...]
Posted in seeker on April 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
From Surviving the Workday » Blog Archive » Borrow your email?
In a battle about the living wage for tomato pickers, Burger King VP used his middle school daughter’s email account to trash talk the tomato pickers.
Posted in seeker on April 29, 2008 | 18 Comments »
From the New York Times, Heinrich Harrer, 93, Explorer of Tibet, Dies:
In 1997, a film titled “Seven Years in Tibet,” starring Brad Pitt, dramatized his book of the same name, a best seller in the United States in 1954.
Just months before the movie’s release, the German magazine Stern added a startling and disagreeable new dimension [...]
Posted in seeker on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love this guy. Play it to the end. He understands the Jesus of Luke’s Gospel, the Jesus who just doesn’t take shit. He also understands Martin Luther King. Can I vote for him for Pope?
via Never Say Never to Your Traveling Self
Posted in seeker on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
via saoba at the shadow unit message board
Posted in seeker on April 28, 2008 | 26 Comments »
Documents present picture of brutal past has a fascinating look at Tibet under the Dalai Lamas. It includes details like this:
A certificate, written in the old form of the Tibetan language, used before 1959 and kept as No MC 1015 File at the Archives of the Nationalities Cultural Palace, reads: “Being unable to [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged donor on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
There are marrow donor drives in many places—here are two coming up soon:
April 26: Derbyshire, UK
April 28: Boston
CW added a comment recently:
Dear Potential Registrants:
There’s one thing I didn’t make clear:
The place my sister & I registered for free in Sugar Land (Texas) is =not= on the bone marrow registry website!
It’s a subsidiary of one of [...]
Posted in seeker on April 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve spent the last two days giving comments on a novel and two stories, so editing is on my mind. What follows is based on some correspondence from that:
As teachers and editors, Emma and I work with three kinds of writers: those who reject most comments, those who accept most comments, and those who use [...]
