Tandoori Tatanka

Does one’s experience of reality depend upon one’s notion of existence? From The Spooky World of Quantum Entanglement:

One of the leading figures of quantum physics, David Bohm, had a more deterministic approach, arguing that the quantum world can exist independently of the human mind: “In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that are confronting us today.” The Buddhist Mahayana Sukta says: “All such notions as causation, succession, atoms, primary elements, that make up personality, personal soul, Supreme Spirit, Sovereign God, Creator, are all figments of the imagination and manifestations of mind.”

FROM THE ARTICLE:

We don’t have to be paranoid about Arab males; we just have to avoid the opposite: Being fearful of coming across as Islamophobic, and thereby failing to look straight at a situation.

We don’t have to be paranoid about Arab males; we just have to avoid the opposite: Being fearful of coming across as Islamophobic, and thereby failing to look straight at a situation.

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The integration compact depends on a broad trust that the immigrant’s desire to be American can happily co-exist with his other forms of racial/cultural/religious identity. Once that trust doesn’t exist, America faces a problem in need of urgent resolution.

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Let the first lesson of the Hasan atrocity be this: The U.S. Army has to be a PC-free zone. Our democracy and our way of life depend on it.

I’m #1!

Let’s suppose that CO2 emissions are an accurate measure of an individual’s and by extension a nation’s overall greenliness score. This measure includes all energy consumed by an individual both directly (leaving lights and TVs on, driving to the market) and indirectly (consider the energy used in manufacturing and transporting myriad electronics, food, clothing and various whatnot).

Framed as a measure of environmental responsibility on a personal and national scale, the issue of CO2 emission control sheds the shackles of the Climate Change controversy and makes room for other controversial subjects e.g. Population Control.

From the report titled Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, commissioned by the Optimum Population Trust:

Contraception is almost five times cheaper than conventional green technologies as a means of combating climate change.

The study, based on the principle that “fewer people will emit fewer tonnes of carbon dioxide”, models the consequences of meeting all “unmet need” for family planning, defined as the number of women who wish to delay or terminate childbearing but who are not using contraception. One recent estimate put this figure at 200 million. UN data suggest that meeting unmet need for family planning would reduce unintended births by 72 per cent, reducing projected world population in 2050 by half a billion to 8.64 billion. Between 2010 and 2050 12 billion fewer “people-years” would be lived – 326 billion against 338 billion under current projections.