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A Word About Karma
By Thomas Leichardt, MTCM, DMQ (China) About Tom
A few weeks ago, a student asked me a question about karma. I avoided her email for a long time, thinking about the volumes that could be written on this topic. While writing, I thought about sharing my response with you all, and was grateful that she inspired me to contemplate her question. A portion of the answer follows…
According to Amma my spiritual teacher, there are 3 types of karma. The first type of karma can be easily erased by simple remedial actions. The second type of karma can be remedied, however, it is never fully removed and can reoccur. It is sometimes likened to a tumor that can be successfully surgically removed, however, it can reoccur after some time. Finally, there is the third type of karma that cannot be remedied. This is like a completely incurable form of cancer. This type of karma can only be endured.
Our attitude makes all the difference. According to Amma, there are three beneficial ways of looking at karma.
Firstly, see the experiences as necessary to make us more aware. Stepping on a thorn in the road may hurt, but it will make us more careful with our feet so that we don't fall into the ditch later.
Secondly, see the experiences as necessary to exhaust our accumulated negative karma.
And thirdly, see the experiences as necessary to awaken our latent potential and inner strength.
We should always strive to respond to our karmic experiences with the right attitude, understanding that it is the subtle laws of cause and effect that are bringing our own actions back to ourselves. Try to see the people in the various scenarios of our life, as being only the messengers that bring our own karma back to us. Rather than blaming the messengers themselves, we should look at ourselves as the source of these experiences, and try to learn from them. In taking care not to "shoot our messengers," we avoid creating further negative karma, and, we also neutralize whatever karma ripens on us in each moment. When we learn the karmic lesson, we need not experience that karma again – or if we do, we continue to transcend it with a light attitude, rather than getting caught up in endless cycles of violent behavior, retribution, power plays or negativities, whether overt or subtle.
Remedial actions to work with karma include spiritual practices of all varieties. A few examples include qigong, meditation, puja, and selfless service. Qigong and meditation neutralize karma in that these practices bring more awareness into our lives. More awareness brings healthier choices that are in greater alignment with Dharma (or the natural order of a higher good) which in turn neutralizes our negative karma. Puja, a form of ritual worship to a specific deity or power, is also very effective. Pujas can be done to alleviate specific karma, or to bring more auspiciousness into our lives. In either case, they strongly connect the practitioner to the deity or power being worshiped, which in and of itself is precious. Selfless service, known as Karma Yoga, is a powerful way to burn up karma. In this practice, the fruits (or beneficial results) of our actions are surrendered, and we focus on the action itself, bringing our full awareness and attention to it with utmost care.
Doing good things for others puts us in touch with the creative intelligence of the whole, and in turn the whole responds favorably to us. Amma sums this up beautifully by saying it is our actions that come back to us as God's grace. She further says that it is God's grace that brings things together in a favorable way. So we need to recognize that there is something far greater than our little ego running the show. To put it another way, when we get out of our little "me and only me" mode of consciousness, and actually think of others and do things for the good of the whole, we fall into a more beautiful synchronicity with the whole. Life becomes more like a beautiful symphony. Each individual piece of music expresses itself fully, and yet adds to a much greater synchronistic whole. The whole symphony, in turn, immeasurably adds to the beauty of each individual piece of music, giving each piece a magnificent field upon which it can express its individual self. However, in the "little me" mode of consciousness, we short change the bigger symphony, trading the good of the whole for short sighted personal agendas. This brings harm to the integrity of the whole, which in turn does harm to each individual that is a part of that whole.
About the author: Thomas Leichardt is available for consultations in all things energetic and spiritual. As a holistic medical practitioner, he applies various modalities to help restore his patients' natural alignment with health, vitality, joy, and clarity. Thomas has an acupuncture and energy medicine clinic in San Jose, CA. He also teaches classes in energy medicine and is faculty at Five Branches University. Make an online appointment, or for more information, visit the author's main site.


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Everyone has gathered at Dalmorton Castle in Scotland for a crime writers' conference, including Kimberlee Kalder, the publishing industry's 'It' girl. Totally hot and couture-clad, this bestselling chick-lit mystery writer has captured the envious - and resentful - attentions of all. Rumour has it that prima donna Kimberlee is shopping around for a new agent (and the best deal for her latest book), and there are some who would stop at nothing to steal her as a client. Then Kimberlee turns up dead at the bottom of the castle's bottle dungeon. With the help of his lovely sidekick, Portia, Detective Chief Inspector St. Just is hot on the trail of the true killer in a castle full of cagey mystery connoisseurs who live and breathe malicious murder and artful alibis.
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Aren't you glad Jesus speaks English? When I think of Jesus, I think of Him as an English-speaker. Which is amazing when I stop to think about how far my daily common language actually is from the Aramaic and Hebrew Jesus of Nazareth used during His ministry on Earth. But He does speak English. And He speaks French, and Swahili, and Berber, and Hindi and Cantonese. Jesus is truly Lord of All Nations.
This is a big weekend for us as a church as well as for the city of Colorado Springs. It begins with CityServe. Tonight, I and many of our staff will join with other church and ministry leaders to hear from Mayor John Suthers as he answers one simple question, "What could the churches of this town do to bless Colorado Springs?" Friday night, a Citywide Worship service will be held at Discovery Church (4304 Austin Bluffs at 6:30 p.m.) with guest speaker Michael Frost, a nationally known specialist in mobilizing Christians to love and serve their neighbors. Saturday we hit the streets on dozens of different service projects, loving and serving those around us with no strings attached. Then comes Sunday!
Sunday we take a break from our Ten Commandments series to look at the Great Commission and celebrate that Jesus is Lord of All Nations. If you come Sunday, you will have a number of different opportunities to participate in the mission of Jesus extending from our front door around the world. The COS I Love You partnership of churches, which is now the governing board of CityServe, is gathering a special offering to support Springs Rescue Mission in its effort to finish a dining complex that will relocate the noon meal out of the downtown core district and onto the SRM campus. To support this effort, designate your offering to "Springs Rescue Mission" (or "SRM") on the memo line of a check or designate "Missions" and comment "SRM" when you give online.
Compassion International will also be here with tables set up to promote child sponsorship—vital partnerships that release children from poverty in Jesus' name. We have a growing relationship with ministry partners in Guatemala who host a Compassion Child Development Center. We will send a team later this month to visit them again. Our desire is to also build a strong connection to Guatemala through Compassion sponsorships (as we once enjoyed in India before Christian organizations were expelled). I can't say enough about the health and Christian commitment of Compassion, and hope you will pray about starting a relationship with a child living on less that two dollars a day in Guatemala.
Jesus speaks English, but He also speaks Spanish, Arabic and Mongolian. He is Lord of All Nations, and it is good to know His rule no matter what language, what country, what culture you come from. He is Savior and Lord in every nation and in every language. He is Savior and Lord for your neighbor here in Colorado Springs and He is Savior and Lord for a little girl in Guatemala wondering if she will eat today. When we worship this Sunday, we will come to the table of the Lord to celebrate World Communion Sunday. We remember as we eat that the children of God are coming to this very same table, to this very same family, in a thousand different languages and customs. What a beautiful scene! What an opportunity Jesus has given us to share in something truly global, truly universal, to the glory of His name.
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HBO has reportedly offered Rachel McAdams the lead female role in the second season of "True Detective" and Variety indicates she's locking down the role right now.
McAdams would join the currently confirmed Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn in the series, with the fourth lead role expected to go to Taylor Kitsch. McAdams appears to have beaten out the likes of Jessica Biel and Malin Akerman for the role.
The main issue has been one of scheduling with McAdams about to start the Catholic Church sex scandal "Spotlight". In the past day or so, a deal has apparently been worked out so the actress could do both projects.
Justin Lin is set to direct the first two episodes of the HBO drama's second season which revolves around three police officers and a career criminal who navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder.


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-A.S. More from Hollywood week. The intro montage makes it seem like the drama will start tonight.
7:02 Group round seems intense. It's like Kindergarden all over again. Cliques are forming and the crazy girl is bossing everyone around.
7:03 I'm pretty sure that group was just doing the Oompah Loompah dance.
7:04 Rose, the hippie chick, is bummed out by the pretty girls making it all about looks. She wants us to look past the bikini and see what's on the inside. That's so much more kind spirited and less dirty than it sounds.
7:09 Am I the only one that is confused as to how the blind guy learns choreography? That may make me an ass, but at least I didn't try to high five him.
7:12 Tatiana Nicole Del Toro (left) is totally psycho. She's way past the Vicky Mendoza line into the crazy side of the crazy/hot scale.
7:15 Bikini girl is crying and proving to be a total diva, but not as big of a diva as Nathaniel Marshall.
7:23 We're almost 25 minutes into the show and yet to hear a single performance. Seriously American Idol?
7:25 My brother Rob: "That was the most pointless between commercial breaks ever." I think it's a new low for television when you have to call the show part of the hour the "between commercial breaks." I have to agree. There was nothing of value that just happened.
7:29 CAT FIGHT!?!?! Somebody just said cat fight!
7:30 Group one sounds great singing "I Want You Back." Kara and Paula are standing and dancing along. They all advance to cheers of White Chocolate.
7:32 Some of these people are atrocious. I can't imagine how they made it this far.
7:34 Ann Marie's group is losing it towards the end, but she sounds as great as usual. Kara is laughing at them. It's the end of the line for New Pink. I'm not going to miss her.
7:35 Loving the totally pointless Paula evil eyes. If you're going to waste my time with non performance footage, at least make me laugh.
7:40 Crate has to be a British measurement. That's the second time this season Simon has used it to describe an amount of something. This time is was how much Advil he'd need to get over the awful performances.
7:41 Danny Gokey (right) is so good. 100% my favorite. He's got a great story and a killer set of pipes. His friend Jamar Rogers sounds great too. This whole group is good. I hope at least three of them make it to the final four.
7:43 The "Some Kind of Wonderful" group sounds excellent too. The non-assassin is really a talented singer. I'll root for him, and not just because I think he'll kill me otherwise.
7:44 Has Rose Flack wore shoes yet on this show? Katrina and Rose didn't sound so great, but Jasmine Murray is ripping it up. She has to be the only one advancing.
7:47 I'll pour one out for the loss of bikini girl. So long, Katrina Darrell. Over under on two months before she poses naked in Playboy?
7:52 Oh my gosh, the Osmond is gone. Are you the first one ever not to succeed?
7:52 Tatiana, the crazy girl, is not good. She's still singing, even when they're done. The judges shot that down pretty quick. Please don't send her to the next round.
7:53 BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! More crazy chick…BOOOO!!
7:54 Tatiana's group members are laughing at her over dramatic praise Jesus moment.
7:55 Compromise is singing "Mercy." Nathaniel Marshall is really pretty good. He makes me laugh, and he can sing. I hope he sticks around for a while. Kristin McNamara sounds great too.
7:58 They're ending tonight with a crying montage. Zack is missing out.


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Truth & Liberty, Episode 1
The Loss of Liberty's Underlying Principles
A public school system, in itself, is indeed of enormous benefit to the race. But it is of benefit only if it is kept healthy at every moment by the absolutely free possibility of the competition of private schools. A public school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficient achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument of tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective. Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.\
… but the signs of the times are all contrary to the maintenance of this halfway position; liberty is certainly held by but a precarious tenure when once its underlying principles have been lost. For a time it looked as though the utilitarianism which came into vogue in the middle of the nineteenth century would be a purely academic matter, without influence upon daily life. But such appearances have proved to be deceptive. The dominant tendency, even in a country like America, which formerly prided itself on its freedom from bureaucratic regulation of the details of life, is toward a drab utilitarianism in which all higher aspirations are to be lost.
No, The Ark Encounter is Not Scientific… And That's OK
Bill Nye recently toured the Ark Encounter, the new exhibit created by Answers in Genesis as part of the Creation Museum. Unsurprisingly, Nye's evaluation was unfavorable.
Nye's position is that the exhibit is unscientific. He believes it to be a tool of brainwashing that is hindering the progress of scientific education in our country, particularly as it pertains to combating climate change.
As an atheist, Nye's worldview is full of holes, logical contradiction, and truths borrowed from the Christian worldview which he seeks to debunk. He can give no rational assurance to himself or anyone else why the claims of science or even his own senses or reason are to be trusted without begging the question. Such is always the case of one who believes that we evolved by random chance through undirected scientific processes over billions of years.
So it is hardly worth our time rebutting him. There is some value in it, but there is danger as well.
But for the sake of our thinking, what are we to say about his claim that the Ark Encounter is unscientific?
Well this all depends on what you mean by scientific.
Answers in Genesis founder and president Ken Ham has poured a great deal of effort into advancing the distinction between Observable science and historical science. This was the crux of his position in the 2014 debate against Nye.
The argument, which has a high degree of merit and yet has not been addressed by Nye or any other critics of creationism, goes that you simply can't apply modern scientific methods to testing historical claims because they are claims about one-time events that happened in the distant past. You simply can't use the scientific method here. You can't conduct an experiment to try to reproduce it in a lab. You can't peer review the Bible.
Of course here's the point. The Bible doesn't need to be peer reviewed. It wasn't written to be peer reviewed. Because God doesn't have any peers!
So Ham's argument is that when Nye and others say that the Bible is unscientific, they are expecting it to meet the same rigors as claims about the efficacy of new drugs, or the physics of gravity/the general theory of relativity, or biology, or chemistry, or any other of the hard sciences we have today.
But because history – not just biblical history – doesn't work that way, we can't apply those same rigors. Sure we can do archeology, and we can examine manuscripts. But that usually creates more questions than answers. It certainly leaves large gaps, and what we fill those gaps with is determined more by our presuppositions than hard science.
Nye would probably object that he fills in the gap with hard science. In one sense this is reasonable, but there's an unprovable presupposition there that this is always appropriate. More to the point, he has to presuppose that the particular facts he imports from hard science are the appropriate ones and are arranged in the appropriate way.
So when it comes to whether the claims of the Bible are true, they simply can't be tested with the scientific rigor Nye wants them to be.
Should we expect them to be? Here's what bothers me a bit about creation science. The flood is not only an historical event that took place thousands of years ago, it was a divinely orchestrated event.
The Scriptures are full of things like this. They tell of everything being created from nothing in six days. They tell of a catastrophic worldwide flood. They tell of fire from heaven destroying a city, of the waters of the Red Sea being parted so the Hebrews could cross on dry ground, of the sun standing still, of a man living in the belly of a fish for three days and nights, and of a multitude of people being raised from the dead.
These are not claims of science. They are the mighty acts of the God given to display his transcendent power over the natural world which he created and scientists study . This is the God who made the laws that scientists rely on. He therefore can suspend or change them when he wishes.
These claims require no scientific proof, not that any could ever be forthcoming.
This is not to say that the evidence of science cannot be arranged in a way that demonstrates how it does not actually contradict these claims, as is so often and vociferously argued by Nye and his ilk.
[As an aside…. My own criticism of the Creation Museum was that I wish they would do more of this, or at least would make a more prominent feature of their museum. When I went through it felt like I was walking through a life size diorama of Sunday School illustrations. There are some science bits, but they were tucked off to the side and I had to go looking for them intentionally.
[They also spent a lot of time trying to make it look like atheists are this big conspiracy out to try to attack God and his people. While we know that such a conspiracy is true in one sense – the enemy who has darkened their understanding certainly wages war against God and his people! – individual scientists aren't necessarily consciously trying to do this. Are they contributing to that war? Sure, but they don't realize it and wouldn't claim to be doing that. They are as much victims of it as they are participants in it, and when you accuse them like this, it constitutes an ad hominem or a poisoning of the well. That does sort of put a toe into the brainwashing territory. At the very least in undermines credibility. But I digress.]
But let us not think that by showing how the claims of the Bible are not debunked by science we are somehow proving God's existence. He doesn't need us to, and it would be impossible anyway.
That's not because he doesn't exist, but because trying to prove God by scientific means is a rigged game and the house always wins.
When we engage in attempts to prove God's existence to an atheist by scientific means, we enter his home turf and of necessity must employ means that he controls. We must present him with evidence he would consider compelling, but since he is the arbiter of what is compelling, he is going to set that standard such that it is impossible for us to meet.
Better to defend his attacks by showing how he begs the question in trying to disprove God.
Better still to try to deconstruct his worldview to show that it is inherently self-contradictory and relies on the worldview he seeks to debunk in order to make his arguments.
Best of all to love him in Christ, live the light of the gospel out before him, preach the good news to him whenever possible, and pray that God would open his eyes of faith.
Lexington, Concord and Dallas
Recent events have troubled me, as they should trouble us all. It seems that the hits just keep on coming, and now they're coming rapid fire. Three incidents in one week!? That's crazy.
Between Philandor Castile, Alton Sterling, and the Dallas shooting, there's so much to cover. I'm not here to cover the facts of those case. What can be know, can be learned elsewhere, and there is still much that hasn't come out yet.
But regardless of the facts of the case, what we are left with is seven men who are no longer among the living and a sickening feeling in our stomachs. Do you feel it? I sure do. All seven of these deaths are, from what I can gather, senseless and unjustified. I don't know, maybe facts will come out to change that, but I always start with this presumption.
It doesn't matter the situation. Death is never the ideal outcome. Aggression is never the prescribed course of action. De-escalation is always to be preferred to escalation. These situations all went seriously wrong at some point when someone chose to act with aggression and escalate the situation, and the result was death. Death for an innocent or death for the guilty? We may never know, and if we can know, only time will tell. In any case, I'm left sickened.
But there's another feeling deep inside me, and that is a feeling that I need to address. It's the feeling that things are happening. The stuff is hitting the fan, so to speak. I can't help but feeling that this shooting in Dallas may be a signal of history repeating itself. Could this be the next Lexington and Concord?
It could very well be. Only time will tell, but we may be witnessing history unfold before our eyes. Certainly if the government wants a civil war, they can pretty much guarantee it by their response here. And it would be just what you expect. They will use this as reason to beef up the police state, sowing the seeds of future conflicts with citizens. They will even point to this as justification for the pre-existing police state, ignoring all cause and effect that lead up to it.
How will the State respond to this shooting? Will they escalate? Will they come for guns? Will they enter homes? Will they institute martial law? Will they further militarize police? Willthey involve the police/national guard?
If they do all that, how will Americans respond? In short, is America gonna America?
I can't help but feel like history is repeating itself, and that a civil war is coming. Maybe not this year, maybe not in the next five years. But can this current conflict go on and continue to escalate without blowing up? I say no. It can't.
So I find it necessary to clarify that I in no way condone the actions of the sniper. This was a horrible, despicable act of violence that should never be tolerated in civil society. However I may sympathize with his motivations (I don't know those motivations for certain, not having spoken to him), this is not the way you go about making your point.
These cops were not your enemy. There's a deep problem in the system. There's a lot of disagreement about what exactly that problem is or where it comes from, but it cannot be denied that there's a deep problem in the system. And some cops are part of the problem.
But these cops were not. In fact, they were part of the solution.
I find it necessary to clarify this because many might assume that I'm on his side. I'm not exactly pro-cop. Many people take me for anti-cop. I'm neither. I'm anti-aggression no matter who is involved. A lot of what earns me the "anti-cop" moniker is the way I try to point out that the problems with the system come from even having a system at all. This, naturally, causes people to say, "well then if the problem is with the system itself, then everyone in the system is automatically a part of the problem."
In one sense you're right. But in another very important sense, you're wrong. Dead wrong.
Yes, it'd be awesome if the good guy cops would stand up to the State's unjust laws and refuse to enforce them, like the midwives in Egypt. It'd be awesome if they would report the misdeeds of their fellow officers to internal affairs and if internal affairs would actually investigate them thoroughly to fully resolve the matter rather than sweeping them under the rug.
In this way, the fact that good cops don't hold each other or the system accountable is unfortunate, and in one sense could be said to be a part of the problem.
But the problem is much deeper than them. It still lies with the State and the departments they are employed by. I insist that 99.9% of cops out there are among the most upstanding individuals you can find in society who joined the police force out of a genuine desire to bring justice to those who harm the innocent. This is to be commended and honored. Are there bad apples in the bunch? Sure. But it doesn't mean that the rest are all bad too.
But that doesn't mean that the system they work for is good. It doesn't mean that there isn't a problem with the State itself and the departments these officers are forced to work for because of the monopolies maintained by the State.
Good cops are in bad situations because of bad laws.
These officers who were gunned down in Dallas were examples of those good cops. They were stellar examples to boot.
They were shot while on duty serving peacefully to help protect protestors at a demonstration that was being held to protest the police.
Think about that sentence and let it soak in. These were the best of the best, guys. I need to have a word with the shooter here. What do you think you accomplished by shooting these men? What justice do you think was served?
I'm all for justice being served. But this. isn't. it.
These cops were not the ones who shot Philandro Castile. They didn't shoot Alton Sterling. They didn't kill Tamir Rice or Eric Garner. But they were to helping protect the people who were protesting them! And you gunned them down. How shameful and cowardly of you.
And to all you liberty minded folks out there who might be tempted to applaud this, remember: our revolution cannot be waged on any battle field. Our battle cannot be won by force of arms. Why? For two reasons.
The first is that our fundamental principle is Non-Aggression, and War is the exact opposite. We can't advance the cause of liberty through aggressive means. There's something to be said for defending ourselves when attacked, but initiating conflict is never to be done, encouraged, or applauded.
Second, cops are not the problem, as I've already said. They are not our enemy. The system that uses them as its enforcers is, but that system will use them as front lines of any war we might try to wage. The result would be a catastrophic loss of innocent life on both sides.
Yeah, you'd hope the cops would never go along with the State's orders, but you gotta remember how strongly they believe in the goodness of the State, and how hard it would be for them to question anything the State says. All the State has to do is call us terrorists or whatever, and that will be all the justification they ever need. Because why would the State ever lie about that? We know they would. Cops, unfortunately, don't believe that.
Cops are not our enemy. They are a crucially important servant in our society who exists to bring criminals to justice. Except for the handful of bad ones out there, cops generally want to do that job well.
No, cops aren't the problem. The State is. But what is the State really? I mean, where does it get its power? How does it keep getting away with these attrocities? Because there are far too many people out there who refuse to question the State. The vast majority of people believe that these heinous atrocities committed by the State are somehow justified and necessary.
I mean there's a lot of outrage that Castile and Sterling were killed. But where's the outrage about the drug war that imprisons plenty of men and women who weren't killed. Society is plenty fine with lesser aggressions, because they believe the States' justifications for them. They're plenty fine with bombing children in other countries because they're the enemy.
No the State is not even really the problem. The State is a tiny entity compared to its people. If we simply seceded and withdrew our support from the State, there would be nothing they could do about it.
The problem is the people. Ordinary every day Americans who think that the State is this benevolent agency that only does good things. I mean, we don't like it when the other party is in power, but even what they do is better than not having a State at all. I mean, who would build the roads, right?
So here's the point. If Cops aren't the enemy, but people who continue to believe in the State are, and we're going to go shoot the enemy, who are you going to shoot? Are you going to shoot your neighbor who's voting for Hillary? What about the guy who works down the hall who's voting for Trump?
This is not the way!
No, our "war", our "revolution", if it is to succeed, must be won by persuasion. We must peacefully spread the ideas of liberty to those around us. Then, and only then, would the peoples' support for the State evaporate, and then, and only then, will society find a better way.
This, of course, all casts the best of motives on the shooter. Who knows? Maybe he was just a terrorist? Maybe he was in ISIS? Maybe he was in the mod or from the drug cartel? Who knows?
But it doesn't matter, because even in the best of cases, we should decry this as senseless and heinous. Also, the result will be the same, nonetheless. The State will likely use this as an excuse to further beef up the Police State. To what extent? We shall see. What will happen as a result? Time will tell.
Was this another Lexington and Concord? Was this a shot heard round the world? I seriously hope not. I would love to live in a truly free society, but war is not the way to achieve that. Plus there's no guarantee we wouldn't end up with a Robespierre on the other side.
I would rather these matters can be resolved peacefully. I would rather people come to realize that the State is unnecessary and simply withdraw their consent wherever and however peacefully possible. But I have a strong feeling that the pieces are already in motion, and I think it wise to begin to gird our minds for the coming conflict.
So what should our mindset be as Christians? Which side should we be on here? If there is a war, what should we do? Should we join in on either side?
I say no. We should not choose either side. This is not our war. Our battle is not against flesh and blood. For us, all of this is secondary to our great commission to make disciples. Peter calls us to live as free men, and so we will no matter what.
There's definitely a common interest between the gospel mission and the liberty revolution, which is why I am a Reformed Libertarian. There's also a common interest between the gospel and the peace that can be had in society when criminals are brought to justice, as the police, ideally, do. We cannot favor one side or another of this coming conflict. We owe allegiance to neither. Our allegiance belongs to Jesus Christ alone, and his kingdom is not of this world.
While we're here in the world, though, what should we be doing? Making disciples. Liberty would give us the freedom to that in peace, a privilege we have enjoyed for a long time in this country.
Many have sensed a change in the winds, and as long as the State remains unchecked, those winds will continue to change. So what do we do? Do we make it our mission to check the State? I say no. Our obedience to our great commission is not dependent upon favorable conditions. We are called to faithfulness no matter what.
Further, our battle is not against flesh and blood. We are called to honor the emperor (1 Peter 2) and be subject to his authority (Romans 13).
But let us never confuse this with an obligation to capitulate to his demand that we call evil good and call good evil. We must, as the pillar and buttress of the truth, reserve the right to speak the truth. And when his evils cause the weak to be oppressed around us, shall we remain silent? I say no.
So as long as we have latitude to do so, I say we must proclaim the cause of liberty. It is secondary to the gospel, but it is critically important nonetheless. The two go hand in hand, I believe, for where Christ is regarded as King, allegiance to earthly kings ought rightly to subside.
Our message must begin and end with Jesus as Lord and Savior. But in the middle what are we saying? Are we calling good good and evil evil? I do hope so.
Be wise and vigilant.
Undermining the Theonomist Syllogism
It seems to me that the Theonomist argument can be boiled down to the following Syllogism:
P1) God does not change.
P2) If the Law has been abrogated, then God has changed.
C) The Law has not been abrogated.
The Reformed Libertarian objection is with P2. This is not necessarily true. If the purpose for giving the law in the first place was so that it would be a typological and eschatological foreshadow of things to come with the intention all along that it would be abrogated when those things came to fulfillment, then it is not a matter of God changing for him to abrogate the law now that those things have come to be. Rather it is a symptom of God NOT changing that he would be faithful to fulfill that plan.
For example, when Israel committed the sin of the golden calf at Mount Sinai and God was going to wipe them out, Moses interceded for them. He reminded God of his promises, and God appears to change his mind. It almost looks like God is a nearly unhinged human person who Moses talks sense to until he calms down. It even uses a word that is very similar to "repent" for what God does here.
So did God change? Certainly his course of action did! Does this mean he is no longer immutable? No longer simple?
Of course not. It meant that his purpose all along was to evoke this intercessory ministry from Moses. He never really intended to destroy Israel because he knew and sovereignly ordained what would happen. One major reason for this was because it gives us an amazing picture of Jesus' intercessory work for us.
The same idea or pattern holds here. The judicial/civil Mosaic Law for Israel was meant, in large part, to foreshadow the coming greater Kingdom of Christ. That Kingdom is now here in a different sense, and that sense clearly does not involve using the sword against outsiders (1 Corinthians 5).
So the theonomist argument is not proven by this syllogism. Rather it begs the question of whether God's purpose was for the law to be a type/foreshadow or whether it was intended to be set in stone for all ages.
And the answer to that question will inform our interpretation of what Jesus means by what he says in Matthew 5:17-18.
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished."
What is meant here by these words "abolish", "fulfill" and "accomplish"? What we understand the original purpose of the Law to be will inform the definition of those terms, won't it? It will lead us to a certain view about whether and to what extent Christ's life, death and resurrection fulfilled and accomplished some or all of it.
The Reformed Libertarian position, from considering the whole of Scripture and especially the whole of the New Testament, is that yes the Law is typological. It has indeed NOT been abolished, but has been, in large part, fulfilled and accomplished by Christ and the New Covenant which it was foreshadowing. There are nuances to this view, but the overall point is the same: The New Covenant is the Covenant of Grace, the Old Covenant (including Abraham's) were all Covenants of Works with Grace coming retroactively from the New as a foreshadow. All the preceding Covenants were typological of the New and all must be interpreted in light of that typology, including elements like the Law of Moses.
No the Law has not been abolished. Certainly the moral principles of the Law (the standard of God's holiness it sets forth for all people and especially his covenant people) is very much the same today as it was then, and the Law is inestimably valuable at teaching it to us, for it is God's holy, infallible, inerrant, and sufficient revelation of it.
Yet it's application to the New Covenant must take into account the ways in which Christ has fulfilled and accomplished the typology of the way it was applied in the Old Covenant. Therefore the practical application will of necessity look different today (1 Corinthians 5 gives us a hint of this).
And whatever else we believe about baptism or sabbath keeping or the second commandment or whatever…. One thing is crystal clear to us Reformed Libertarians: the standards of the Law are no longer to be enforced in exhaustive detail with the sword by the civil magistrate. For God's covenant community no longer takes the form of a civil nation. Instead, the purpose of the sword bearing magistrate is to defend the life, person and property of those who "do good" (Romans 13).
The Theological Reasoning Behind Reformed Libertarianism
This is a cross post from Facebook, but I thought I would preserve it. Somebody asked me for the Theological Reasoning Behind Reformed Libertarianism. So here it is:
1) Man was made in the image of God, the primary characteristic of this being the dominion mandate, meaning that God has given men a stewardship responsibility over their lives and the portion of creation under their control. We are to exercise this dominion in accordance with God's law and for his glory.(Gen 1, Matt 25)
2) Since other men are conspicuously absent from the rather exhaustive list of things man is to have dominion over, and seeing as how men are to consider the lives (Gen 6:9, Ex 20:13) and property (Ex 20:15,17) of other men to be off-limits, and since God holds each person individually accountable (Matt 25, Ezek 18, 2 Cor 5), it can therefore be concluded that the dominion mandate falls on each person individually.
Therefore each person has the individual responsibility of self-stewardship (which the secularists call self-ownership). This grants each person the duty and human right to exercise the authority incumbent in the dominion mandate over his own life, person and property. To restrict a man's dominion over such is to offend against the image of God in him, which is really to offend against God. (psst: this is the Non-aggression Principle)
Because sinful men love to offend against God and therefore have no respect for their neighbors, God communicated these standards, first in seed form as part of the Noahic Covenant (Gen 9:6) and later in fuller detail in Exodus 20-24 (though they were clearly in force by the first generation after the fall (Gen 4) though we have no inspired record of them being communicated).
In doing so, God set forth a principle of justice for this fallen world that those who do wrong to their neighbor should be harmed in equal measure to the harm they caused (Ex 21:23-25).
Thus property rights are to be seen as the foundational principle on which the apparatus of justice in a civil society is to be constructed, and by which justice in a civil society is to be measured and evaluated.
As part of that apparatus, God has instituted the role of magistrate in society. The magistrate is anyone who serves other men by bearing the sword against those who wrong their neighbor. (Romans 13:3-4). In doing so, he is not to be "a terror to good conduct", meaning he is only to bear the sword against those who do evil, as God has defined his role.
Thus, the very maximum any government has theological authorization to do is to serve citizens by aiding them in defending their life, liberty and property and bringing vengeance upon those who agress against them.
Any government that uses its power to break God's law is a corrupt and invalid government in God's eyes. Any government that abuses its position to take away the rights of those who's rights it is tasked with protecting, is no true government at all, but a criminal organization.
We Christians are still called to be ordered under such a government (even Nero), but that does not make such government valid. And in as much as we have influence in the government, as officials or as voters, we ought to use our influence to direct government to follow God's standard.
The only governments God considers morally valid are the ones who use their sword against wrong doers and only against wrong doers.
Ultimately the only government that will prefectly meet that qualification is King Jesus.
Justice under the sun is always going to be imperfect. However that should not stop us from upholding the perfect standard as the target we are aiming for in our political action.
Now, as stated here, this is a very broad tent under which many forms of government might fit including certain forms of theonomy and a constitutionally limited republic (provided that the constitution is actually founded on these principals and the republic is actually limited by such constitution.)
I believe further logical and exegetical analysis would swing the balance around to favor anarcho-capitalism much more strongly, but I'll save that for a future post.
For now, it is not so much my aim to convince the world to be Anarcho-Capitalists, though I would love it if that were so. For the time being, it would be sufficient if everyone could simply agree to the founding theological framework I have described here as the grounding for all analysis of government. I think MOST Christians, certainly Reformed ones, DO agree to this, though many have not fully thought through the logical implications of it, and thus are not Anarcho-Capitalists. I think the primary reason for that is a lack of knowledge and clarity about what Anarcho-Capitalism actually IS and what it is not. See Al Mohler for an example of such confusion.


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Before I start this review, can we just stop for a moment to appreciate how beautiful the cover of this book is? One of the things I enjoy most at work is unpacking new releases, and when I got my hands on this one, I knew I was going to buy it before I even knew what it was about. I am unashamed to admit that I definitely judge books by their covers and am often swayed into buying a book because of its design – although I usually read the description first. With Ink, I didn't even bother to do that. As it turns out, I didn't need to – it was right up my street.
In a rather saturated dystopia/fantasy YA market, it is becoming increasingly difficult to be original, and yet Alice Broadway has pulled it off wonderfully. In a society that is a strange yet intriguing blend of modern and archaic, governed by myths and legends passed down from generation to generation, the people of Saintstone are tattooed, or 'marked', with their every deed, achievement and sin. When they die, their skin is removed and bound, the story of their life literally transformed into an open book, to be read and judged. If deemed worthy, your book is treasured by your descendants, honoured, remembered. Otherwise, it is consigned to the flames and to mention your name becomes heresy. This is the world Leora knows. The world she trusts. It is simple. To be marked is to have a story. To have a story is to have a soul. But what if your skin tells a story you don't want to be told?
It may simply be personal preference, but when I read fantasy I prefer to be thrown in at the deep end, launched into a world that the author assumes you understand already, and if you don't, it's your job to simply work it out. I spent the first quarter of V. E. Schwab's This Savage Song, for example, scrambling to keep up and endeavouring to work out the world I found myself in. I have to say that Ink leaned a touch too much towards the overly explanatory side for me. Some of the sections describing how Leora's world worked and explaining the concepts of marking, skin books and the traditions so revered by the community were quite lengthy and at times repetitive. Having said that, and although the writing was very simple in style, this in no way prevented it from being evocative and compelling, and the various interweaving strands of the plot soon took over and had me turning the pages.
I really enjoyed the way that the seemingly idyllic society, in which Leora has absolute trust, is slowly revealed to be something more sinister and insidious. Is it reassuring to have one's deeds clearly visible for all to see – or the ultimate method of control? The cracks really begin to show when Leora finds out that her beloved Dad, who has just died, was a "forgotten", marked with a tattoo indicating a crime so heinous that it would have condemned him immediately to the flames – if it had not disappeared from his skin book. As she slowly begins to uncover the truth, her unquestioning conviction in the infallibility of the system slowly begins to crumble. This book asks so many questions of the reader: What does it mean to have faith? How do we remember those we have lost? Are people more than the sum of their deeds? And who has the right to judge – our loved ones or the state? Broadway's depiction of the persecution of a minority community called the "Blanks", who have eschewed the system of official marking and who have been banished from Saintstone as a result, is also highly thought-provoking, drawing many parallels with real-life history.
This is imaginative, captivating writing; Leora's passage from innocence to realisation makes for a gripping plot. Broadway strips away the layers of black and white to reveal a world that is colourful in its complexity and imperfection. The fiery copper of the cover design and its contrast with the black and white girl lends itself perfectly to the book's message: nobody is "blank", and nobody is perfect. As for me, I'm holding out for the sequel.
Star Rating: 4/5


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Yoga has a world wide following. You can learn yoga anywhere in the world now. Why come to India and learn it? Is there a difference?
I'd like to introduce you to this fun, chirpy and varied blog http://www.chaiacupoflife.com/ . It's always positive, interesting and well written. The author's insightful thoughts on learning yoga in India as opposed to somewhere else in the world are bang – on.
See what she says at
" One of the biggest shocks was how different yoga was taught here than what it is in Australia and even in the US, where I lived for a short period of time. I noticed in Australia, yoga is more 'westernised'. In other words, there is only certain aspects of yoga taught. There is a lot of emphasis on asanas only and perfecting a posture; taught in a much more systematic way. However, Since starting classes & through the teacher training programme, I have learnt so much more than what I thought I would. For example, it was my first time in experiencing, practicing and learning the benefits of pranayama. Honestly, previously all I knew is that it had something to do with breathing! One of the other things that surprised me was learning that chanting 'OM' after practice was a must. I have also gained a better understanding of the benefits if each posture and how it affects our body. I can now understand why so many foreigners travel all the way here to learn yoga."
She's hit the nail on the head about the difference in the way yoga is taught in the West and in India. Sadly India is going the western way. So many people ask me if I won't teach them power yoga instead of the usual 'boring' yoga 😦
I've never found yoga boring and when I need to pump it up I go to the gym for a while instead, or take dance classes.
When you think of yoga is this what you're looking for
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Do you see the difference? In the first picture the emphasis is on gymnastics and in the second it's on finding balance while challenging yourself as you honour the inherent spirituality of yoga.
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Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at: Apr 20, 2015 The FBI director's larger message on the Holocaust
QUOTE: this effort to blame the Holocaust solely on the Germans — and soon, I bet, only on those Germans who were Nazis — is a historical whitewash. The Nazis originated and implemented the murder of Jews. Still, they had help, less in Poland than in some other nations — France, are you paying attention? — and they were often operating in areas where Jews had already been dehumanized.
Washington Post Mar 05, 2015 Companies Turn Tables on Human Rights Lawyers
QUOTE: mounting difficulties facing a small group of plaintiffs' lawyers who have carved out a niche suing multinational corporations on charges that they violated human rights overseas. The biggest setback for this kind of litigation came two years ago when the Supreme Court sharply limited the use of an obscure law adopted in 1789, the Alien Tort Statute, to bring international claims in American courts. Meanwhile, a number of controversies involving Mr. Collingsworth and other lawyers have cast a shadow over the field and made it possible for companies to mount counterattacks.
New York Times Sep 15, 2013 The Banality of Systemic Evil (THE STONE)
QUOTE: Clearly, there is a moral principle at work in the actions of the leakers, whistle-blowers and hacktivists and those who support them. I would also argue that that moral principle has been clearly articulated, and it may just save us from a dystopian future. In "Eichmann in Jerusalem," one of the most poignant and important works of 20th-century philosophy, Hannah Arendt made an observation about what she called "the banality of evil." One interpretation of this holds that it was not an observation about what a regular guy Adolph Eichmann seemed to be, but rather a statement about what happens when people play their "proper" roles within a system....A good illustration of this phenomenon appears in "Moral Mazes," a book by the sociologist Robert Jackall that explored the ethics of decision making within several corporate bureaucracies.
New York Times Jul 31, 2013 White House Closes Inquiry Into Afghan Massacre – and Will Release No Details
QUOTE: Soon after taking office, President Obama pledged to open a new inquiry into the deaths of perhaps thousands of Taliban prisoners of war at the hands of U.S.-allied Afghan fighters in late 2001. Last month, the White House told ProPublica it was still "looking into" the apparent massacre. Now it says it has concluded its investigation – but won't make it public.
ProPublica Jan 02, 2013 U.N.'s Syria death toll jumps dramatically to 60,000 plus
QUOTE: It's "truly shocking" and shameful, said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who blamed the international community for inaction. "Collectively we have fiddled at the edges while Syria burns," she said. "While many details remain unclear, there can be no justification for the massive scale of the killing highlighted by this analysis."
CNN (Cable News Network) Aug 17, 2012 Anti-Putin Stunt Earns Punk Band Two Years in Jail
QUOTE: Three young women who staged an anti-Putin stunt in Moscow's main Orthodox cathedral, and whose jailing became a cause célèbre championed by artists around the world, were convicted of hooliganism on Friday and sentenced to two years in a penal colony. In the most high-profile rights case here in years, the imprisonment and trial of the women, members of a punk band called Pussy Riot, drew worldwide condemnation of constraints on political speech in Russia.
New York Times Sep 02, 2011 Group Says It Has New Evidence of Cisco's Misdeeds in China
QUOTE: An advocacy group that accuses Cisco Systems of aiding the Chinese government in monitoring and apprehending members of the banned Falun Gong organization said Friday that it had new evidence to suggest that Cisco specifically tailored its technology for that purpose.
New York Times Jul 20, 2011 Stopping wartime sexual abuse - of men
QUOTE: the United Nations (UN) and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) "barely acknowledge" the pervasive sexual violence against men that occurs in modern war....of roughly 4,000 NGOs addressing wartime sexual violence, only 3% mentioned male victims (and usually only in passing).
CNN (Cable News Network) Jun 22, 2011 Dissident Chinese Artist Is Released
QUOTE: Mr. Ai was the most prominent of hundreds of people detained since China intensified a broad crackdown on critics of the government in February, when anonymous calls for mass protests modeled after the revolutions in the Arab world percolated on the Chinese Internet. China's move to douse any flicker of dissent was the harshest in years outside of the restive ethnic regions in the far west, and the vast majority of those detained in the crackdown were, like Mr. Ai, held in secret locations for weeks with no legal justification.
New York Times Jun 12, 2011 Some Police Recruits Impose 'Islamic Tax' on Afghans
QUOTE: The American-financed program aims to convert insurgents into village self-defense forces called Afghan Local Police, distinct from the existing national police force....aroused concern among aid workers and United Nations officials, who say it risks empowering local warlords who have little regard for human rights or proper behavior.
New York Times May 31, 2011 'Frozen Conflict' Between Azerbaijan and Armenia Begins to Boil
QUOTE: Since the early 1990s, Azerbaijan has been trying to regain control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly ethnic Armenian enclave within its borders, and secure the return of ethnic Azeris who were forced from their homes by war. A cease-fire has held since 1994...
New York Times May 25, 2011 Irish Church's Forgotten Victims Take Case to U.N.
QUOTE: An estimated 30,000 women were sent to church-run laundries, where they were abused and worked for years with no pay... No one has taken responsibility for what happened in the laundries.
New York Times May 11, 2011 A Rite of Torture for Girls
QUOTE: (Infibulation) is one of the most pervasive human rights abuses worldwide, with three million girls mutilated each year in Africa alone... The challenge is that this is a form of oppression that women themselves embrace and perpetuate.
New York Times May 04, 2011 North Korean Prison Camps Massive and Growing
QUOTE: Former inmates at the political labor camp... said they were frequently tortured and had been forced to watch the executions of fellow prisoners... the North's network of political prisons is estimated to hold 200,000 inmates.
New York Times Apr 27, 2011 Great Leap Backward
QUOTE: First, the government is arresting not only dissidents and Christians but also their family members and even their lawyers. Second, after a long period in which police would torture working-class prisoners but usually not intellectuals, the authorities are again brutalizing white-collar dissidents.
New York Times Apr 27, 2011 China's brutal repression
QUOTE: China is governed by a violently repressive regime. And the United States, through its economic policies, is helping it stay that way.
Washington Post Apr 26, 2011 The Milk of Resistance
QUOTE: THOUGH Libyan government forces have killed and wounded hundreds of civilians in their siege of the western city of Misurata, one of the most telling examples of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's wrath has been the bombing and destruction of a dairy plant there.
New York Times Apr 20, 2011 A Return to the Cultural Revolution?
QUOTE: This episode reveals not only the essence of a system where the individual has no rights, but also the evolution of a new brand of repression: the perverted "rule by law" instead of the "rule of law." In other words, the application of legal loopholes to violate human rights instead of protect them.
New York Times Apr 15, 2011 As Bahrain stifles protest movement, U.S.'s muted objections draw criticism
QUOTE: "The kingdom has largely silenced the opposition, jailing hundreds of activists in a crackdown that has left the Obama administration vulnerable to charges that it is upholding democratic values in the Middle East selectively…"
Washington Post Apr 02, 2011 Author of Israel-Hamas report: Would reconsider findings
QUOTE: The chairman of a U.N. commission whose report accused Israel of "actions amounting to war crimes" against Hamas says he would have reached different conclusions if the Israeli military had been more forthcoming and if he had known the results of subsequent investigations. "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document," wrote Richard Goldstone, a former South African jurist, in a Washington Post op-ed column Friday.
CNN (Cable News Network) Mar 09, 2011 Revolts Raise Fear of Migration in Europe
QUOTE: Morocco, Tunisia and particularly Libya sometimes used brutal tactics to keep immigrants from ever getting near European shores... In a report published in 2009, Human Rights Watch said that migrants who eventually made it to Malta and Italy described being beaten and robbed of valuables and their documents while in detention in Libya.
New York Times Jan 27, 2011 Ugandan Who Spoke Up for Gays Is Beaten to Death
QUOTE: Many Africans view homosexuality as an immoral Western import, and the continent is full of harsh homophobic laws. In northern Nigeria, gay men can face death by stoning. In Kenya, which is considered one of the more Westernized nations in Africa, gay people can be sentenced to years in prison.
New York Times Jan 03, 2011 Afghan women speak out on abuse from behind mask
QUOTE: ...Afghanistan's new revolutionary TV show called "Niqab," meaning "The Mask."...."I was not very sure about the concept and the format, but I was very sure about the mask, you know. Because in Afghanistan, it's very difficult for women to talk about their difficulties and their problems, and the violence they are facing in their home."
CNN (Cable News Network) Dec 29, 2010 Rights Groups Tie Pakistan to Disappearances of Insurgents
QUOTE: ...Pakistan's security services have rounded up thousands of people over the past decade, mainly in Baluchistan, a vast and restive province far from the fight with the Taliban, and are holding them incommunicado without charges. Some American officials think that the Pakistanis have used the pretext of war to imprison members of the Baluch nationalist opposition that has fought for generations to separate from Pakistan.
New York Times Dec 10, 2010 Chinese dissident awarded Nobel Peace Prize
QUOTE: hina has responded furiously since the Nobel committee announced on October 8 that Liu Xiaobo would be its peace prize winner. Officials have repeatedly called Liu a common criminal and declared the award a Western plot against China....While Chinese officials have said the prize represents a Western perspective, Jagland said, human rights activists in China "represent the world's common values and standards."
CNN (Cable News Network) Jun 21, 2010 Court Affirms Ban on Aiding Groups Tied to Terror
QUOTE: In a case pitting free speech against national security, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a federal law that makes it a crime to provide "material support" to foreign terrorist organizations, even if the help takes the form of training for peacefully resolving conflicts.
New York Times Jun 03, 2010 Russia Turns a Deaf Ear as Killing Cries for Justice
QUOTE: Magomed Yevloyev was openly feuding with the region's leader, Murat M. Zyazikov, when the two men happened to board the same flight from Moscow. Barely half an hour after the police escorted Mr. Yevloyev, 36, off the plane, he was dropped off at a hospital with an execution-style wound....Almost two years later, the case serves as a lesson in how the legal process can be strangled.
New York Times May 24, 2010 What's behind Rand Paul's confusion
QUOTE: [Rand] Paul thrust us into one of thorniest corners of that larger question: What's the government's role in regulating how private actors -- private individuals and the private sector -- treat people of another race. The framers of the 14th Amendment wouldn't go there; in 1868, America wasn't ready for it.
CNN (Cable News Network) Apr 21, 2010 Secret Baghdad Jail Held Sunnis From the North
QUOTE: An Iraqi security force under Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's direct command held hundreds of detainees from northern Iraq in an undisclosed prison in Baghdad, torturing dozens of them, until the country's human rights minister and the United States intervened late last month...
New York Times Apr 01, 2010 Serbia's Honest Apology
QUOTE: The resolution, therefore, is a political landmark. And even if it fails to mention "genocide," it makes it still harder to insist that the massacre never happened or that the number of victims has been grossly inflated. Yet the Serbian government finds itself caught in a position of being damned if you do, damned if you don't.
New York Times Mar 04, 2010 Somali official's immunity case raises legal, policy issues
QUOTE: The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) protects foreign states and their "agencies and instrumentalities" from lawsuits, with a few limited exceptions. But the Torture Victim Protection Act authorizes lawsuits, and was passed specifically to ensure that those "who avail themselves of the protections and privileges of residency in the United States also bear responsibility for their actions, especially actions as significant as torture," according to a brief filed by its congressional sponsors.
Washington Post Oct 28, 2009 As US seeks closer ties with Turkmenistan, government cracks down on students
QUOTE: those efforts [of better relations between the US and Kyrgyzstan] are being complicated by a government campaign against students seeking to study at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA)... Some students have been barred from travelling abroad to the school and others have been subject to surveillance and harassment when they come home.
Oct 21, 2009 US congressional hearing highlights Colombia rights abuses
QUOTE: ...United Nations Special Rapporteur Margaret Sekaggya, who visited Colombia in September, expressed her continued concern over what she has called a "pattern of harassment and persecution against human rights defenders" in Colombia, and challenged President Álvaro Uribe to "genuinely address" concerns for their safety.
Christian Science Monitor Sep 30, 2009 Portable pain weapon may end up in police hands
QUOTE: THE Pentagon's efforts to develop a beam weapon that can deter an adversary by causing a burning sensation on their skin has taken a step forward with the development of a small, potentially hand-held, version. The weapon, which is claimed to cause no permanent harm, could also end up being used by police to control civilians.
New Scientist Sep 19, 2009 Some Chinese parents say their babies were stolen for adoption
QUOTE: [in China] some parents are beginning to come forward to tell harrowing stories of babies who were taken away by coercion, fraud or kidnapping -- sometimes by government officials who covered their tracks by pretending that the babies had been abandoned.
Los Angeles Times Sep 19, 2009 Is a second execution attempt cruel and unusual?
QUOTE: The aborted execution [of Romell Broom in Ohio] has renewed concerns about lethal injection, and raises the question of whether a second execution attempt would violate the 8th Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
Los Angeles Times Sep 17, 2009 A vicious intolerance: Homophobia in Jamaica
QUOTE: Openly gay people [in Jamaica] must contend with the constant fear of violence.
Economist Sep 11, 2009 Report Notes Sexual Misconduct by Prison Workers
QUOTE: Reports of sexual misconduct by prison staff members with federal inmates doubled over the past eight years, and government watchdogs called Thursday for more training and sensitivity to combat the growing problem.
Washington Post Sep 03, 2009 Korea Investigates Atrocities in Race Against Time
QUOTE: It is a race against time. The investigators, from the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, are tapping into the memories of a dwindling number of survivors as they pursue their mission of examining some of modern Korea's most traumatic moments. They also face the possibility that their mandate, which expires next year, could be ended or drastically curtailed under the conservative government of President Lee Myung-bak.
New York Times Sep 02, 2009 Dugard case: Is California's parole system overstretched?
QUOTE: criminal justice experts say the arrest of Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender who was under GPS monitoring, for Ms. Dugard's 1991 abduction is just one example of why the state's [California's] parole system needs to be overhauled.
Christian Science Monitor Aug 29, 2009 Long-range Taser reignites safety debate
QUOTE: THE manufacturer of the Taser stun gun is sparking new controversy with the commercial launch of a long-range version that can be fired from a 12-bore shotgun.
New Scientist Aug 25, 2009 In a flu pandemic, what can the government do to you? A report by the Centers for Disease Control, released Tuesday, raises concern about Washington's potential response to the H1N1 virus.
QUOTE: Since 9/11, pandemic planning has taken a more authoritarian tone that harks back to the pre-vaccine days of forced quarantines during outbreaks, according to an American Civil Liberties Union report...
Christian Science Monitor Aug 21, 2009 Detainees Said to Be Shown Photos of C.I.A. Agents
QUOTE: he Justice Department is investigating whether three military defense lawyers for detainees at the Guantánamo prison illegally showed their clients photographs of C.I.A. interrogators...
New York Times Aug 18, 2009 Mexico Drug Fight Fuels Complaints
QUOTE: Mexico's fight against drug traffickers generated a sixfold increase in human rights complaints against the Mexican military between 2006 and 2008, and it is unclear that any of those complaints resulted in prosecutions, according to a State Department report on the effort.
New York Times Aug 17, 2009 Gay Men Targeted In Iraq, Report Says: Militias Blamed for Scores of Killings
QUOTE: Human Rights Watch will urge in a report to be released Monday that the Iraqi government do more to protect gay men, saying militiamen have killed and tortured scores in recent months as part of a social cleansing campaign.
Washington Post Aug 17, 2009 Officials Say Detainee Fatalities Were Missed
QUOTE: More than one in 10 deaths in immigration detention in the last six years have been overlooked and were omitted from an official list of detainee fatalities issued to Congress in March, the Obama administration said Monday.
New York Times Aug 13, 2009 Unleashing the laws of war: The Geneva conventions at 60
QUOTE: some inevitably question whether the Geneva conventions and their later protocols are really suited to today's conflicts.
Economist Aug 12, 2009 Use of drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan: deadly, but legal?
QUOTE: the US – and allies like Pakistan – will have to confront important questions about their [Predator drones] legality. Who, exactly, controls the [Predator] drones? And by what laws are they governed?
Christian Science Monitor Aug 12, 2009 A Window Into C.I.A.'s Embrace of Secret Jails ("Interrogation Inc. part 2 of 2)
QUOTE: The existence of the network of prisons to detain and interrogate senior operatives of Al Qaeda has long been known, but details about them have been a closely guarded secret... [The former European supply chief for the C.I.A. Kyle D. Foggo] Mr. Foggo acknowledged a role, which has never been previously reported.
New York Times Aug 11, 2009 Pro-Democracy Leader in Myanmar Is Convicted
QUOTE: A court in Myanmar sentenced the pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months of additional house arrest Tuesday, drawing widespread condemnation from around the world.
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Photograph 2 – Assignment 3 – Landscape
Obviously set with St Paul's Cathedral in the background, I felt this was a powerful image in the series and one I had been contemplating and hoping would materialise in the form of a photograph, ever since I had come up with the idea of turning a space into a place in this manner.
I had observed many caramelised peanut sellers located on or around different London bridges, particularly the Millennium Bridge as I had been photographing different landscapes in London. I had also often noticed how still they were standing as they waited for prospective customers (mainly tourists) coming over bridges like the Millennium Bridge. Because of these facts, when I came up with this theme for Assignment 3 – 'Spaces to Places', I recognised quite soon this would be a strong contribution to the theme; provided I could get the shot.
Here is some information about the Millennium Bridge, upon which I took the photograph. 'Opposite Tate Modern, the new Millennium Bridge – a footbridge designed by Norman Foster with the sculptor Anthony Caro and engineered by Ove Arup – arcs gracefully over the river [Thames] to St Paul's' – (Godfrey-Faussett, 2001). I chose the angle looking towards St Paul's (designed in 1675 by Sir Christopher Wren) from the Millennium Bridge, mainly because it was more iconic in my eyes, than the Tate Modern.
The very modern aesthetics of the Millennium Bridge contrasts with the old, iconic building of St Paul's; yet at the same time, the bridge leads the viewer's eye towards the cathedral neatly and then back to the caramelised peanut seller in the corner (where the bridge ends within the frame). Again, similar to Photograph 1 for this assignment, the worker (the peanut seller) remains still; patiently waiting for customers while the other people in the form of ghostly, long exposure figures, stream by. Due to his placement in the corner of the frame, it almost appears as though he is looking in the wrong direction for customers, which I felt added a bit of humour to the photograph (of course there were many other potential customers in the other direction too). Also his dark clothing, compared to the medium tones of the tourists rushing by and then finally the much lighter St Paul's (incidentally catching the Sun's light) in the distance, showed his stationary, solid form yet temporary position on the bridge, in comparison to the moving tourists. In fact, the tourists almost acted as a link in between St Paul's and the seller.
The Millennium Bridge was originally dubbed the "Wobbly Bridge" – 'when it opened in the summer of 2000 its experimental design caused an alarming wobble'- (Godfrey-Faussett, 2001). I found it hadn't been fully corrected. As I was attempting to take the long exposure shots for the flow of people, I noticed the long exposures were quite shaky; despite me using a sturdy tripod and a cable release. This, I deduced, was because the bridge was moving slightly. I had to be careful which parts of the long exposure I 'painted in' on a layer mask for the long exposure layer in post processing. This was in order to ensure that everything apart from the flow of people (and to a lesser degree the clouds), appeared sharp.
Camera settings for Photograph 2 were:
Because I took multiple exposures and combined them (one for the caramelised peanut seller and a handful for the long exposures of the tourists passing by), I have written down the settings separately for firstly the photograph to 'freeze' the caramelised peanut seller and then a setting representative for one of the long exposures.
Caramelised peanut seller exposure:
f/8, 1/250s, ISO 100, focal length 35mm and no neutral density filter. A tripod and cable release were used.
Long exposure:
f/11, 16 seconds, ISO 160, focal length 35mm and a 10 stop neutral density filter. A tripod and cable release were used.


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It was a twist of fate that brought me to Beijing, a city in which I spend long stretches at a time. A magnificent, fertile experience. China has proved an inexhaustible source of inspiration – and fun. Wherever I go, wherever I look, I come across odd characters, alien landscapes, and madcap, charming anecdotes.
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Mongolian Wind
A detective novel written as a parody and political satire. A Spanish geologist goes missing in Beijing. His disappearance unleashes a veritable earthquake across the diplomatic community. With no police cooperation agreement in place, the consulate's hands are tied. Every move must stay off the record and be carefully calculated. A Spanish detective and a scholar studying in China set out to solve the mystery, and avoid a major diplomatic crisis.
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Depravity (Shanghai rapture)
Dear Jose Maria, you thought only you and Nuria were allowed to go around in a stroller? Well here's your Dad and he wander and rides through the streets of Shanghai the same way you wander around the garden. What do you think, would you like a ride in it too? Kisses from Dad
What was this gentleman from Barcelona doing in Shanghai? And in the middle of World War I, no less? His eyes are fixed on the camera and he seems oblivious to the handful of scruffy children watching him. His driver's face has been blurred as have those been blurred those of the kids hovering behind the rickshaw. No one in the picture is smiling. And only he is wearing shoes.


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HACKENSACK, a town and the county-seat of Bergen county, New Jersey, U.S.A., on the Hackensack river, 13 M. N. of Jersey City. Pop. (1890), 6004; (1900), 9443, of whom 2009 were foreign-born and 515 were negroes; (1905) 11,098;(1910) 14,050. It is served by the New York, Susquehanna & Western, and the New Jersey & New York railways, both being controlled by the Erie Company; and indirectly by the West Shore (at Bogota, z m. S.E.). Electric lines connect Hackensack with Newark, Passaic and Paterson, and with New York ferries. The town extends from the low bank of the river W. to the top of a ridge, about 40 ft. higher up, from which there are good views to the S. and E. Hackensack is principally a residential town, though there are a number of manufacturing establishments in and near it. Silk and silk goods and wall-paper are the principal manufactures. In 1905 the value of the town's factory product was $1,488,358, an increase of 90•.3 % since 1900. There are an historic mansion-house and an interesting old Dutch church, both erected during the 18th century; and a monument marks the grave of General Enoch Poor (1736-1780), an officer in the War of Independence, who was born at Andover, Mass., entered the Continental Army from New Hampshire, and took part in the campaign against Burgoyne, in the battle of Monmouth and in General Sullivan's expedition against the Iroquois. Hackensack was settled by the Dutch about 164o, and was named after the Hackensack Indians, a division of the Unami Delawares, who lived in the valleys of the Hackensack and Passaic rivers, and whose best-known chief was Oritany, a friend of the whites. Hackensack is coextensive with the township of New Barbad6es, first incorporated with considerably larger territory in 1693.End of Article: HACKENSACK
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Louis Vuitton "Alma Bag" Spring/Summer 2013 Campaign
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Louis Vuitton "Alma Bag" Spring/Summer 2013 Campaign
The new campaign from Louis Vuitton Alma Bag starring Karlie Kloss, Daria Strokous, Jac Jagaciak and iris Strubegger, Styled by Ludivine Poiblanc and photographed by Steven Klein, the models carrying the yellow, blue and red lavish bag with New York, Shanghai and Paris background.
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