Interview with a member of the Tibetan Youth Congress in Dharamsala, India, October 2007.
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A controversial public display featuring plastified human mummification has sparked quite
A controversial public display featuring plastified human mummification has sparked quite a bit of controversy in the United States. This came after ABC's 20/20 aired a report on 02/15/08 regarding the possibility of them being bought off the black market rather than being donated by the families for public display.
Whether or not the plastic mummies displayed in "Bodies: The Exhibition" were processed and are being displayed without consent is under investigation. ABC did, however, show some convincing evidence that the cadavers did not seem to come from an accredited institution. They also showed how a loophole was exploited to get the mummies quickly passed through customs. Judge for yourself.
Kind of reminds me of that old movie, The House of Wax. Kind of creepy to see something like that done in real life, huh? I do wonder why they are all done up in athletic poses, though.
China's government has come under scrutiny for the persecution and alleged torture of falun gung practitioners while citing political dissonance as a reason for it's outlaw in that country. It is also sometimes reported that unidentified bodies are found along some roads in rural parts of the country though I have never really seen the likes of this other than in videos from the usual small bits of middle east war footage that's taken from the ground or after a natural disaster such as a tsunami.
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A controversial public display featuring plastified human mummification has sparked quite
A controversial public display featuring plastified human mummification has sparked quite a bit of controversy in the United States. This came after ABC's 20/20 aired a report on 02/15/08 regarding the possibility of them being bought off the black market rather than being donated by the families for public display.
Whether or not the plastic mummies displayed in "Bodies: The Exhibition" were processed and are being displayed without consent is under investigation. ABC did, however, show some convincing evidence that the cadavers did not seem to come from an accredited institution. They also showed how a loophole was exploited to get the mummies quickly passed through customs. Judge for yourself.
Kind of reminds me of that old movie, The House of Wax. Kind of creepy to see something like that done in real life, huh? I do wonder why they are all done up in athletic poses, though.
China's government has come under scrutiny for the persecution and alleged torture of falun gung practitioners while citing political dissonance as a reason for it's outlaw in that country. It is also sometimes reported that unidentified bodies are found along some roads in rural parts of the country though I have never really seen the likes of this other than in videos from the usual small bits of middle east war footage that's taken from the ground or after a natural disaster such as a tsunami.
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Higher quality at http://utopianpsychosis.com/movies/backwardscomics/1/1.mov
The song is
Higher quality at http://utopianpsychosis.com/movies/backwardscomics/1/1.mov
The song is "Bar Barbaru" by the inimitable mykee, on their May the Folk Be With You album. If people like this, I'll do more. If people actually see it, I'll be amazed.
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Since y'all can't really hear me out of doors.
I'm a bit sick right now, my apologies.
Since y'all can't really hear me out of doors.
I'm a bit sick right now, my apologies.
The years are going by so fast it really is bewilderin'
And we'll be so-called "grown ups" and have mortgages and children
I hope we all gain worldliness, and wisdom, maturity
But I hope most of all that MySpace falls into obscurity
I hope our profiles all go dead, entombed in distant servers
A monument of your youth, although lacking its observers
Your page will be an empty shell, when no one is behind it
I hope your MySpace stays forever - and I hope that your kids find it
How I hope that you forget your MySpace
I hope it slips completely from your mind
And I hope it stays up long enough for the next generation to find
And I hope that it embarrasses your children
I hope their bratty friends all forward it around
And I hope that you forget your password
So you cannot take it down
If your kids think you vaguely square, it will be so much clearer
When they laugh at the pictures you took in your bathroom mirror
And all the bands you listen to, your kids will be exposin'
"Who is this Soulja Boy you reference, who's 'Uh Oh Explosion'?"
They'll marvel at how old you are, they'll "rofl" at your outfits
Your tastes may pass as "vintage" in the future - but I doubt it
I hope your cynical kids say, "Holy crap, this is great
these comments date all the way back to 2008."
I hope they dig through your pictures, and find some we might call compromising
I hope that seeing young Mom in a swimsuit or smoking a hookah isn't too traumatizing
But it will be past their comprehension
They'll ask "Did Grandpa not give you enough attention?"
[insert rocking out here]
They might poke at your top 8 friends, read your comments at the most
I only wish that they could see the inane bulletins you post
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Tibet's regional governor said security forces had exercised "massive restraint" to quell
Tibet's regional governor said security forces had exercised "massive restraint" to quell anti-China riots last week.
The main violence was in Tibet's capital Lhasa. But then demonstrations flared elsewhere as ethnic Tibetans began demonstrating across eastern China.
There are reports that some people were killed in clashes between protesters and police in Sichuan province. And rallies were also held in Qinghai province, where many ethnic Tibetans live.
In Gansu province, hundreds of protesters marched on government buildings and set fire to Chinese shops.
Tony Cheng is close to Tibet's border to gauge the mood.
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Iris Chang, the prominent Chinese American author and journalist who fueled an internation
Iris Chang, the prominent Chinese American author and journalist who fueled an international protest movement against Japan with her incendiary best-selling book, "The Rape of Nanking," was found dead from an apparent self- inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said Wednesday......Author of three books and many articles and columns, Chang's most famous work was her controversial 1997 book, "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II," which described one of the war's worst atrocities.
Japanese army troops massacred many Chinese in Nanjing (then called Nanking) in late 1937 and early 1938, and Chang not only believed that the horrible event was in danger of being forgotten but also accused Japanese society of collective denial about it. Translated into many languages, her book galvanized a redress movement in the United States. It was lauded in the U.S. media, drew criticism from several U.S. scholars on Japan and was vilified by right-wing publications in Japan. ......Chang's most recent book, "The Chinese in America," was named one of the best books of the year by The Chronicle. Her first book, "Thread of the Silkworm," told the story of the Chinese scientist who guided the development of China's Silkworm missile. Born in Princeton, N.J., Chang grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., where her parents are professors at the University of Illinois. Her grandparents' escape from Nanjing fed her early interest in what happened there. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois and worked briefly as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Associated Press before entering a master's program at Johns Hopkins University in 1990. She appeared on the cover of Reader's Digest as well as on many TV programs, including "Nightline" and "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," and she wrote for numerous publications, including the New York Times and Newsweek.
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Episode One : Out of Eden (Part 2 of 6)
Jared Diamond's journey of discovery began on t
Episode One : Out of Eden (Part 2 of 6)
Jared Diamond's journey of discovery began on the island of Papua New Guinea. There, in 1974, a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question:
"Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?"
Diamond realized that Yali's question penetrated the heart of a great mystery of human history -- the roots of global inequality.
Why were Europeans the ones with all the cargo? Why had they taken over so much of the world, instead of the native people of New Guinea? How did Europeans end up with what Diamond terms the agents of conquest: guns, germs and steel? It was these agents of conquest that allowed 168 Spanish conquistadors to defeat an Imperial Inca army of 80,000 in 1532, and set a pattern of European conquest which would continue right up to the present day.
Diamond knew that the answer had little to do with ingenuity or individual skill. From his own experience in the jungles of New Guinea, he had observed that native hunter-gatherers were just as intelligent as people of European descent -- and far more resourceful. Their lives were tough, and it seemed a terrible paradox of history that these extraordinary people should be the conquered, and not the conquerors.
To examine the reasons for European success, Jared realized he had to peel back the layers of history and begin his search at a time of equality -- a time when all the peoples of the world lived in exactly the same way.
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