On India, this is from Arundhati Roy's The Doctor & the Saint: the debate between BR Ambedkar and MK Gandhi:
" After the fall of the Soviet Union, India ... repositioned itself as a 'natural ally' of the US and Israel. In the 1990's the Indian government embarked on a process of dramatic economic reforms, opening up a previously protected market to global capital, with natural resources, essential services and national infrastructure that had been developed over fifty years with public money now turned over to private corporations.
"Twenty years later, despite a spectacular GDP growth rate, the new economic policies have led to the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands. Today, India's one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of its celebrated GDP. In a nation of 1.2B, more than 800M people live on less that Rs 20 a day."
Operation Green Hunt is authorized terrorism to herd 85% of India's population off the land, where they're in the way of mining MoU's, and into cities. They state this goal.
Gandhi was certainly credited with the victory of non-violent resistance AFTER the armed resistance had made the British defeat inevitable. He thought the caste system was the 'genius' of India. Arundhati writes about the 'Gandhification' of NGOs, where we give neither funding nor verbal support to armed resistance movements like Hamas, Hezbollah, the Zapatistas and the Maoists/ Naxalites.
Was the Theosophical Society pretending to be for Indian Home Rule but really for a more surreptitious form of economic power and proxy governance? That seems entirely possible. But no propaganda is successful without mixing truth and lies. In Gandhi's autobiography he writes, "I used to think that God was Truth. Now I see that Truth is God. You'll understand immediately the difference."
There is a contradiction, I think, between Alex's statistic that the vast majority of sexual child abuse is by a member of the immediate family and his belief that raising children without a husband or other man is the problem.
On India, this is from Arundhati Roy's The Doctor & the Saint: the debate between BR Ambedkar and MK Gandhi:
" After the fall of the Soviet Union, India ... repositioned itself as a 'natural ally' of the US and Israel. In the 1990's the Indian government embarked on a process of dramatic economic reforms, opening up a previously protected market to global capital, with natural resources, essential services and national infrastructure that had been developed over fifty years with public money now turned over to private corporations.
"Twenty years later, despite a spectacular GDP growth rate, the new economic policies have led to the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands. Today, India's one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of its celebrated GDP. In a nation of 1.2B, more than 800M people live on less that Rs 20 a day."
Operation Green Hunt is authorized terrorism to herd 85% of India's population off the land, where they're in the way of mining MoU's, and into cities. They state this goal.
Gandhi was certainly credited with the victory of non-violent resistance AFTER the armed resistance had made the British defeat inevitable. He thought the caste system was the 'genius' of India. Arundhati writes about the 'Gandhification' of NGOs, where we give neither funding nor verbal support to armed resistance movements like Hamas, Hezbollah, the Zapatistas and the Maoists/ Naxalites.
Was the Theosophical Society pretending to be for Indian Home Rule but really for a more surreptitious form of economic power and proxy governance? That seems entirely possible. But no propaganda is successful without mixing truth and lies. In Gandhi's autobiography he writes, "I used to think that God was Truth. Now I see that Truth is God. You'll understand immediately the difference."
Ideas should be judged on their own merit.
There is a contradiction, I think, between Alex's statistic that the vast majority of sexual child abuse is by a member of the immediate family and his belief that raising children without a husband or other man is the problem.