"In ethnically diverse Los Angeles, many immigrants find that learning Korean, Spanish or Mandarin is more important than English."
Dalai Lama: Hopeful signs in China of interest in Tibetan culture
Newsday.com: Dalai Lama: Hopeful signs in China of interest in Tibetan culture: "Tibetan Buddhist practice is not incompatible with Western science and that both traditions can learn from each other. "
"The majority of Americans still believe that salvation is possible only through Jesus Christ," he said.
The Dalai Lama did not address Hough's remarks directly but said, "If you look at the life of the Buddha, he evolved in an atmosphere of religious plurality."
Mysterious 'Ball Of Fire' Seen In Fla. Skies
local6.com - News - Mysterious 'Ball Of Fire' Seen In Fla. Skies
Could this be a cause of the Hurricanes? Celestial Inferno, unexplainable (sic).
Pocatello Idaho State Journal: Forecaster leaves job to pursue weather theories\
Pocatello Idaho State Journal: Forecaster leaves job to pursue weather theories\: "the Yakuza Mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima."
HoustonChronicle.com -
HoustonChronicle.com -: "'I'm trying to make it a fairy tale so they won't panic,' said Nathan, who had four grandchildren in tow. 'I have to be strong for them.'"
Reality is not for the weakminded
Freedom Fighter of the Month
Axis of Justice | Freedom Fighter of the Month | Agatha Schmaedick: "In the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, 20-year old Gibson found an abandoned bus on the streets of New Orleans. Stranded in a ruined city, and low on supplies, Gibson decided to use this bus for a rescue mission."
The Clash of Fundamentalisms
"what we have experienced is the return of History in a horrific form, with religious symbols playing a part on both sides: ‘Allah's revenge,’ ‘God is on Our Side’ and ‘God Bless America.’"
Zapata of Mexico
"Zapata emboldened the zapatistas in their struggle to win back control of ancestral community lands."
Russia, China work together to form of new world order in 21st century
"At present, the Russian-Chinese relations are the highest point they have ever gotten to during the entire history of the bilateral contacts"
Turn Left: Liberal Unfriendly Places - Riverside
Turn Left: Liberal Unfriendly Places - Riverside: "Lovely Riverside. Once the playground of the Hollywood Elite, what Palm Springs is today, is now one of the many degenerating cesspools of the concrete suburban nightmare known to the rest of the world as LA. "
'new journalism order' ?!?!?!?
"politicians 'of every persuasion' had gotten better at applying pressure on the conglomerates that own the broadcast networks. He called it a 'new journalism order.'"
The War for Latinos
"'We were watching a puppet show when all of a sudden a military song is playing in the background. I thought that was weird but kept watching. A couple of minutes later, all of us were looking at pictures on a TV screen of people in the Army giving food and supplies to kids in Iraq. My friends and I thought that was really weird--and got out.'"
Fox offer to send Mexican laborers
Like I've said before, good for business bad for the people. Fox's noble idea to remain a whore to the United States Government is a cost effective idea.
ABC News: Chavez Criticizes U.N. Reforms in Speech
ABC News: Chavez Criticizes U.N. Reforms in Speech: "'This is very suspicious … tomorrow or sometime in the future, someone in Washington will say that the Venezuelan people need to be protected from the tyrant Chavez, who is a threat,' he said in a speech that was broadcast on state-run television in Venezuela.
Chavez said Washington's 'imperialist' policies threaten not only foreign governments but also U.S. citizens, noting that hundreds of Americans have died fighting in Iraq.
'The majority of them are blacks, most of them Latinos,' Chavez told the crowd of 250, which included Dominicans and Puerto Ricans."
Chavez: U.S. Plans to Invade Venezuela
"We are coming up with the counter-Balboa plan. That is to say if the government of the United States attempts to commit the foolhardy enterprise of attacking us, it would be embarked on a 100-year war. We are prepared." - Hugo Chavez
Viva Chavez!
Is L.A. next?
FEMA declared in August 2001 that the three mega-disasters most likely to hit the US were (1) a terrorist attack on New York City; (2) a Category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans; and (3) a major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault. Now we’ve had the first two. Is L.A. next?
For comment and analysis we turn to DAVID L. ULIN. His new book, The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith is out now in paperback. Mike Davis calls the book “a wry, hugely original, and scary exploration of the unstable boundaries between science and folk magic in California’s culture of disaster.” Dave Ulin is the new editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
ALSO: Does New Orleans have a future? ANDREI CODRESCU, the poet and novelist born in Romania who lives in Louisiana, says “New Orleans had a great period, and now it is going to sink into some kind of glorious mess, like Venice, and become just a tourist spot. People will come . . . to feel the grandeur of what was once there.”
PLUS: the life and music of Jimi Hendrix: CHARLES CROSS is the author of Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. Charles Cross will be reading and signing at Book Soup on Sunset Strip at 7pm Wed.
PLAYLIST: “Hey Joe” (Smash Hits); “All Along the Watchtower” (Experience Hendrix); “Room Full of Mirrors” (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
QUOTABLE: Bill Maher’s message to George Bush: “Mr. President, this job can’t be fun for you any more. There’s no more money to spend–you used up all of that. You can’t start another war because you also used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Now it’s time to do what you’ve always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company, and the baseball team. It’s time.”
RECOMMENDED: “This American Life: After the Flood.” GREAT interviews – listen online at http://www.thislife.org/ -- scroll down to “After the Flood” -- click on the Real Audio icon.
For more info, links and audio, check the show website www.JonWiener.com
ABC News: Plague-Infected Mice Missing From N.J. Lab
The begining of the end has arrived. Let the mice run amuck in every city and every town.- Death has arrived
Former Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha performing with Son de Madera
A discussion with Lawrence Scarpa, co-founder of Livable Spaces, and Sim Van der Ryn, UC Berkeley professor of architecture, will focus on sustainable building and design. The conversation with two of the country’s leading “green architects” is followed by a next generation fashion show showcasing young designers committed to fashion made from natural and sustainable materials.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
As bodies recovered, reporters are told 'no photos, no stories'
A demonstration in control of media warrented by infamous "superiors orders" scapegoat.
But of course, Mr. President; it's the easiest thing to do: Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders
It's also the least you can do, because you know are rich man because of it.
This is the page
As the cliche's go: a picture is worth a thousand words.
come to your own conclusion. What is necessity? What is right, what is wrong? What can we do.
Don't Divid and take sides, there too much to loose.
Castro: U.S. hasn't responded to Katrina offer
HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuban President Fidel Castro told more than 1,500 doctors Sunday night that American officials had made "absolutely no response" to his offer to send them to the U.S. Gulf Coast to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Castro, a longtime adversary of the United States, initially offered to send 1,100 doctors and at least 26 tons of supplies and equipment, but the Communist leader announced Sunday during a televised speech that he had increased the number of physicians to 1,586. Each doctor would carry about 27 pounds of medicine.
"You could all be there right now lending your services, but 48 hours have passed since we made this offer, and we have received absolutely no response," Castro said at Havana's Palace of the Revolution.
"We continue to wait patiently for a response. In the meantime, all of you will be taking intensive courses in immunology and also something that I should be doing -- an intensive brush-up course in English."
Besides Cuba, several other countries and international agencies have offered money and supplies to the hurricane victims. (Full story)
In the past, Cuba has refused U.S. offers of aid, the most recent following Hurricane Dennis. That storm killed more than 10 people in the Caribbean island nation in July.
At that time, Castro said he would not accept help from Washington because of the U.S. trade embargo against his country. The United States has no diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Castro has named the Cuban rescue team the Henry Reeve Brigade in honor of an American who fought with Cuba's rebel forces during the Cuban War of Independence against Spain that began in 1895.
The doctors who have been mobilized went to South Asia after the December tsunami and have worked in other disasters.
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