Amazing Afghan Buddha discoveries (video)

Brent E. Huffman; Wisdom Quarterly via TheWorld.org

"The Buddhas of Aynak" (teaser) by archeologist and filmmaker Prof. Brent E. Huffman, Northwestern University.

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Hooray, Lesser-of-Two-Evils wins! (video)

Wisdom Quarterly (EDITORIAL) Updated

Dalai O'Lama (elephantjournal.com)

Strippers don't lie. Exactly as predicted, President Obama wins by a landslide. Why? Because we have the best democracy money can buy. It didn't matter what citizen voters, We The People, were going to say: The Electoral College system ensured that the MIC got their man, that Wall Street got their man, that the system got its man. I wish we had our man. What does it mean for the country and the world? Four more years of the same thing, only worse -- wars, hypocrisy, and crashing individual currencies and the world economy [a word which used to mean "household management" not "business" outside the home]. Of course Barry Soetoro Obama was better than Mormon Bishop Willard Romney; that's why he was selected to run as a patsy straw man against a popular president and a great orator, perhaps the best this country has ever had. (Republicans would probably say the actor Reagan was better at reading the teleprompter and uttering sweet inaccuracies about the economy, but be that as it may).

"Non Sequitur" by Wiley Miller (gocomics.com)

• VIDEO: US Electoral College system explained
• President Obama's victory: 6 conservatives behaving like sore losers
• Mitt Romney's disastrous ground game and 7 other behind-the-scenes revelations
• GOP's Boehner: "As a political party, we’ve got some work to do"  
• Karl Rove on why white Romney lost: black Obama was "suppressing the vote"

It's over, and we're in five wars staring down the barrel of an Internet-telephony gun aimed at Iran. So let's see, American armed forces under the control of the MIC, CIA, Pentagon, NSC, NSA, and shadow government are waging war -- our only real export -- against Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Libya...and China (but only covertly since our leaders only believe in asymmetrical warfare). The American economy is NOT taking a dive; it's being pushed off the cliff like a diver in Acapulco. Obama is a good man, potentially a great man, but only if WQ, Smiley and West, and others keep his feet to the fire to rise to his greatness and stop being a convincing mouthpiece for everything that's wrong with government, corporate interests (like pharmaceuticals and entertainment), and the military. (How much do you suppose Romney was paid to be such a miserably poor candidate propped up by the rightwing media? Does anyone think the Obama Administration will stop killing people with drones or start piping tar sands, stop spying on citizens and threatening them with indefinite detention or oppose corporate atrocities?)

Epic Rap Battles: Romney vs. Obama (with Abraham Lincoln)

What's wrong with B.S. Obama?

• Will Obama veto indefinite detention bill? No way. But he said he would. In secret he wanted a more draconian bill
• Successfully suing President Obama over torture, detention of US citizens
• ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) trashes B.S. Obama 
• Indefinite detention of "suspects," torture continues in US prisons 

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O, iPhone, how dost thou enslave me?

Let Me Count the Ways

(AatmaStudio) Five amazing iPhone 5 concepts and holographic technology

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• Foxconn's Taiyuan plant reopened, no impact on supply 
• Foxconn China plant closed after 2,000 riot
• Cracking your PIN code is easy 
• China factory unrest a fresh headache for Fox...
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  • Foxconn plant reopens after riot (Reuters)
    Foxconn plant closed in China after workers brawl

But isn't Samsung's Galaxy 3S better?

When seeing is still not believing

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China rockets into space (video)

Steve Chao, Al Jazeera English, June 16, 2012

GOBI DESERT - China's latest space mission has successfully lifted off with the country's first female taikonaut. It is the next step in China's strategy to build a permanently-occupied space station of its own. It is now in a position to reveal the truth about the Moon, its archeological artifacts, stations, and occupants. The West's military-industrial complex must negotiate with the world's largest country and quite possibly its strongest economy if it has any hope of it maintaining the silence.

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Buddhists in Space: China's female astronaut

Maxim Duncan, Reuters; MSNBC.com

View of Buddhism's First Heaven (catumajhrajika akasha deva loka) near Earth space ESA Christer Fuglesang at ISS STS 128 spacewalk (NASA handout 9-5-09/Reuters)

  

Female astronaut Liu Yang (Jason Lee/Reuters)

JIUQUAN (Reuters) - China is sending its first woman into outer space this weekend, prompting a surge of national pride as the rising power takes another step toward putting a space station in orbit within the decade. 

   

Liu Yang, a 33-year-old fighter pilot, will join two other astronauts aboard the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft when it lifts off from a remote Gobi Desert launch site on Saturday evening (6:37 pm Beijing time, 6:37 am ET).

   

They will attempt a crew-controlled docking for the first time with the uncrewed Tiangong 1 module, which was launched last September as part of China's exploratory preparations for a space lab. The module is now orbiting 213 miles (343 km) above Earth.

   

Rendezvous and docking exercises between the two vessels will be an important hurdle in China's efforts to acquire the technological and logistical skills needed to run a full space lab that can house astronauts for long stretches.

  

China's aspirations

Last October, China launched a robotic Shenzhou 8 module that successfully performed a remote-controlled docking with Tiangong 1 ("Heavenly Palace") in preparation for this month's crewed mission. Space program spokeswoman Wu Ping told reporters that Shenzhou 9 would make two dockings with Tiangong 1 -- the first by remote control, and the second under manual control. More

• VIDEO: Who is the first spacewoman?
• Women in Space: A Gallery of Firsts
• China sending first woman in space

A Great Buddhist in Space

Daw Mya Tin, M.A., Dhammapada 219-220 (What-Buddha-Said.net)

While residing at Isipatana, the Buddha uttered these verses with reference to Nandiya, a rich man from Varanasi. After listening to the Buddha's discourse on the benefits of building monastic residences, he built the great monastery at Isipatana. The building was pinnacled and fully furnished. As soon as the monastery was offered to the Buddha, a corresponding "mansion" came up for him in Tavatimsa, deva space world.
   
One day, Great Moggallana visited that space world and saw the mansion. On his return from Tavatimsa, the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, Great Moggallana asked the Buddha:

"Venerable sir, for those who perform meritorious deeds, do they have mansions and other riches prepared in the deva realm even as they live in this world?" 

   

The Buddha replied: "Why do you ask? Have you yourself not seen the mansion and riches awaiting Nandiya in Tavatimsa? The devas await the coming of good and generous beings the way relatives await the return of one long absent. When good ones die, they are welcomed joyously in the abodes of the devas." Then he uttered these verses:

One who has long been absent then
returns home safely from a distance

is welcomed with joy by relatives,
friends, and well-wishers on returning. 

In the same way, one's good karma
will receive one who has done good
when going from this world to another,
as relatives receive a dear one returning.

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