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Renewing America’s Promise

Julie Soller, graduate student UCL says to LOS ANGELES TIMES: “I would like America to be the leader of free speach!” … I would like it too. But I do not think it will happen. See the video here:

http://www.latimes.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=3359057

Is YANG the best?

One of the six classical schools of Chinese philosophy is the Yin-Yang. Its basic concept was that the events in the universe are governed by two forces which balance each other – the dark, passive yin, and the bright, positive, active yang.
None of these forces may take the upper hand, both must always be with and balance. Today we live in a world with too much activity and light. I think is time to calm down a bit. Just let the night embrace us and start breathing again, slowly, without rush. Let us stay in our rooms for a few days and just eat of each others flesh and liquids. let us love without inhibitions, as it would be the last time it happened…

The Iranian Revolution

Nobody can say it better than Roger Cohen:

“The Great Satan is great also in his power to exert fascination. “Death to America” has become background noise, as interesting as piped elevator music.
The revolution freed Iranians from the brutality of the shah’s secret police, Savak, and delivered a home-grown society modeled on the tenets of Islam in place of one pliant to America’s whim. But like all revolutions, it has also disappointed. Freedom has ebbed and flowed since 1979. Of late, it has ebbed.”

Read his column at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/opinion/12Cohen.html?_r=1

Can the (rich) students stop Chavez?

The last week thousands of students have protested in several Venezuelan cities against the President’s ambition and strategy to get re-elected one more time.

According to Hugo Chavez, this “group of students, which mostly belong to very rich families and private universities”, are deliberately used as marionettes by those interested in putting Venezuela on fire.

I have the feeling Hugo Chavez’s time is about to end, but not by the effort of the (rich) students but by his own failure to bring together most of the Venezuelan people around a credible vision.

Hugo Chavez should have put more energy into the task of reaching consensus. Instead, he talked too much. Like a foolish dragon lost in time and space, he let to many incendiary words leave his jaws.

When it comes to the crunch, it appears like King Carlos of Spain was not that much wrong when he commanded the Great Commander of Venezuela to shut up.