Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsUK to cut foreign aid to rich Indiaclipped by: tabseyclippers remarks: Maybe the Poms should go further and ask for a little help. LONDON: Under pressure to reduce its foreign assistance, PM David Cameron may scale down the £250 million British aid given to India annually, saying wealthy local people could do more to help their poor countrymen. International development secretary Andrew Mitchell has signalled that the "£250 million of public money spent annually on nuclear-armed India could be scaled back." He said the rich NRI population of Britain could do more to help their countrymen. Besides, the £40 million spent by the Department for International Development (DFID) in Vietnam, now regarded as an Asian "tiger" economy, will be axed. It follows the disclosure that development funding to China and Russia would be withdrawn. Mitchell told the Sunday Times: "India is more complex and more difficult than China. But this is a (aid) programme I am looking at in detail." He defended the governments decision to ring-fence overseas aid while most other departments face savage cuts. Tags: economics Tomgram: Nick Turse, American War Versus Real Warclipped by: ratilfarclippers remarks: Left screen center was usually the American platoon, a kind of ?lost patrol? in an alien land, part of what, even during the war, was regularly referred to as an American -- but not a Vietnamese -- ?tragedy.? From Oliver Stone?s Platoon and Stanley Kubrick?s Full Metal Jacket to Robert Zemeckis?s Forrest Gump, Vietnamese suffering became, at best, a distant backdrop for American suffering, and the war?s conflicts essentially took place among Americans within that platoon. (A rare exception was Good Morning, Vietnam, but you would never again, in all those post-war years, see a scene like the first one in Peter Davis?s Oscar-winning 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds, which opens on a Vietnamese village, quiet and peaceful, before you notice the silhouettes of soldiers entering -- intruding on an emerald green land, really -- from the edge of the screen.) One striking aspect of the Vietnam years -- and the antiwar movement of that era -- was the degree to which you could see images of Vietnamese civilian suffering here in the United States. Among the iconic images of that war, for instance, was Nick Ut?s photo of a young girl, burned by napalm from an air strike, running down a road screaming. And among war images, it was by no means alone. There were, of course, the horrific shots Army photographer Ron Haeberle took of what became known as the My Lai massacre as it was happening. After a long and tortuous journey, those photos finally appeared as a ten-page centerfold-from-hell in LIFE magazine (even if an African antelope was on its cover). Strangely enough, though, in the American screen war that followed the real war by some years, Vietnamese suffering largely disappeared. Revenge of the Weedsclipped by: thisnamecantbetakenclippers remarks: ?We?re so hell-bent on maintaining our voracious consumption habits, that we?ll engage the services of the defense industry,? . . . All in the name of productivity, efficiency, convenience ? profit.? But time appears to be running out on monoculture and many other standard practices of agribusiness, just as it is on so many of the thoughtless ways the civilized world does business. Whether geopolitically, agriculturally or in the privacy of our relationship with ourselves, we come out fearful and fighting. Is there another way? ?Permaculture?s sensible answer,? writes Mary DeDanan, ?is for humans to ally themselves with nature instead of trying to control nature. . . . Permaculture insists on the whole picture, from soil microbes to global weather patterns. It takes advantage of every relationship and synergy. It uses local resources, or grows its own. It wastes nothing.?  We can?t keep playing conquering fool, arrogantly ordering the world to our liking by killing everything that doesn?t fit into it. We can?t keep throwing more of the same at our problems. We can?t keep fighting nature, or one another, and expect somehow to win in the end. ?Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of drug-resistant supergerms, American farmers? near-ubiquitous use of the weedkiller Roundup has led to the rapid growth of tenacious new superweeds,? Thus to eradicate the ?superweeds? that have evolved in response to the widespread use of Roundup, other chemical companies are scrambling to develop alternative herbicides and genetically modified seeds that can resist them, including, the Times notes without irony, Dow Chemical Co., which hopes to market seeds resistant to 2,4-D, a component of Agent Orange ? the defoliant we used to ravage Vietnam between 1962 and 1971. Yeah, we?re still at war, and not only in Afghanistan and Iraq. On being labeled as racistclipped by: jatflaclippers remarks: FTA: "the tea party has its fringe. President Barack Obama?s domestic terrorist friends from the 1960?s anti-war past never represented the Americans of good conscience who opposed the Vietnam War. In a similar vein, the racist posters of a few at a Tea Party rally do not represent the feelings or behavior of Americans who believe in this movement." One commenter at another newsgroup said that now-a-days its like being called a poopie-head. Silly, childish, irrelevant, bullying. On being labeled as racistAccording to liberals, if you disagree with their thinking, and if you disagree with the Obama administration, you are not only wrong, you are a ?racist.? The latest strike by the left comes from the NAACP, which has resolved that the tea party movement is inherently ?racist.? If you are a conservative ? including a conservative African-American ? there is no room for you at the NAACP. If you have opinions that differ from the NAACP and the liberal establishment, and if you are African-American, you are an ?Uncle Tom,? a ?negro,? ?not black enough? and ?against our people.? Bill Clinton was smeared as a racist by the Obama campaign when Hillary Clinton was running for president. First, members of the tea party movement were called disgruntled voters Next the Democratic National Committee relased an ad calling us an ?angry mob.? Now, we?re being called racist. All these attacks have failed because they are untrue and the American people know it. 1 Minute of Stupidityclipped by: CrazyRedHead[Video] I was sent this video of Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee?s announcement of the survival of South Vietnam to the present era with a simple ?Words escape me.? For the benefit of any natural born damned fools that may have wandered in: there is no South Vietnam anymore. It was conquered by North Vietnam in 1975, shortly after a Democratic Congress ? yes, the same political party as Rep. Jackson-Lee?s ? defunded the defense of South Vietnam let us dispose of this right now: she?s not talking about North and South Korea. We know this for three reasons: Second, North and South Korea are not anywhere near the point of having normalized relations. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. 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2010/07/16
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