central bhutan, a hidden valley not many have seen
this is padmasambhava's temple, kings
central bhutan, a hidden valley not many have seen
this is padmasambhava's temple, kings and queens bones are buried in the courtyard, there is holy water available behind the temple, walk a big circle around it (like me) to gain more merit
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Bush has declared war on the environment - says
Richard Nixon's former head of the Enviro
Bush has declared war on the environment - says
Richard Nixon's former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Russel Train.
"We're at war in Iraq. They tell us we're at war against terrorism. I'd say that George W. Bush has declared war on the environment. And I think that people ought to stand up and be counted in opposition to that.
The first National Park, Yellowstone, was created in 1872. Now that was a Republican year, right after the Civil War. General Grant, then the president, was the person you have to give credit to for Yellowstone. You can go back to Teddy Roosevelt and say he Roosevelt was a great conservationist. He created our National Forest and our national wildlife refuges and he took a strong interest in conservation. You get to Richard Nixon and you get a fantastic blooming of environmental interest and initiatives on the part of the administration. The EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, was a creature of Richard Nixon. The Clean Air Act of 1972, the Clean Air Act of 1970, ocean dumping controls, clean drinking water, the Noise Control Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, you name it.
So, during the Nixon administration and the Ford administration we accomplished a great deal. I was never officially part of the administration of George H.W. Bush -- Bush the First. We were good personal friends and our families were friends. He asked me for advice on the environment; he asked me to explain the environment to him, although that wasn't exactly an easy thing to do in a short while, but we sat down and talked in Florida for an hour or so. He really wanted to know. He entered the presidency with the intention of being a good environmental president. He sponsored the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, and that's the law under which we live today. He had a very good environmental record, and his heart was very much in the right place on the issue.
I feel George W.'s heart is in the wrong place on this issue. Calling something the Clean Air Act, the Healthy Forest Act when what you're really doing is opening up the forest to logging. It's almost an ideological antagonism. And there's no understanding, I feel, of the importance of this issue. It's addressed from the standpoint of, "What is such-and-such a regulation going to do to a particular industry that is a pretty good contributor to our campaign cause. And I think that's what's motivated its approach to environmental matters.
There has been a tendency on the part of this administration, this White House, to -- some call it -- distort science. And if they don't like the science, they take out that particular finding. As I understand it, the EPA did do a study -- at least a preliminary study, in New York, which showed some very troublesome, hazardous air pollutant problems. And they were told by -- I don't know whether the White House or the Council on Environmental Quality -- to change those results.
I think this administration is not a conservative administration. I think it's a radical administration. It represents a radical rollback of environmental policy going back to a period many, many years ago. It's backward."
USA Today - Courts mow down development strategy
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-10-federal-l ands_x.htm
Court rulings on environment go against Bush administration
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070415/NEWS/70415005
Learn more about the Bush administrations evironmental record.
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/2005.asp
Earthjustice: Environmental Law
http://www.earthjustice.org/news/index.jsp?page=1
Greg Palast Journalism and Film
http://www.gregpalast.com/
The Junk Science of George W. Bush
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040308/kennedy
Bad Science and the Bush Record
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/science/default.asp
Go/Left TV
http://www.goleft.tv/
Go/Left TV
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of GoLeft.tv and Air America's Ring of Fire gives a speech at the 2007 Live Earth concert in New Jersey.
http://goleft.tv/view.asp?v=260
Go/Left TV: Mainstream Media is Dead
Mike Papantonio talks about how Mainstream Media is dead, but there is a new rise of the "citizens' media".
http://goleft.tv/view.asp?v=36
theREALnews network
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php
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Lodrowolung Monastery Part 6: Marpa Lotsawa Pagoda was rebuilt on 2007
http://www.lodrowo
Lodrowolung Monastery Part 6: Marpa Lotsawa Pagoda was rebuilt on 2007
http://www.lodrowolung.com/
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The Life of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
This film is an authentic portrait of Dilgo Khyents
The Life of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
This film is an authentic portrait of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of Tibet's great contemporary teachers, considered to be a "Master of Masters" among the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Renowned as a great meditator, guru, poet, scholar and as one of the main teachers of the Dalai Lama, the Nyingma Lama Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche died in 1991. Ten years in the making, this film began in 1989 when translator Matthieu Riacrd and Vivian Kurz began taping extensive footage of their teacher. Shot in rarely filmed Kham, Eastern Tibet, as well as Nepal, Bhutan, India and France, the film shows the rich and intricate tapestry Of Tibetan Buddhism and is a witness to the strength, wisdom and depth of Tibetan culture.
Narration by Richard Gere with music by Philip Glass.
May all beings be happy
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an insert from 'A Spiritual Journey in a Turbulent Life' -a film biography of Radra Lama C
an insert from 'A Spiritual Journey in a Turbulent Life' -a film biography of Radra Lama Chime Rinpoche who is one of the first of Tibetan Tulku Lamas who arrived to the West after the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959.
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HH the 16th Karmapa -- Hwayue Film
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