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In the China-Vietnam war, China invaded in retaliation to Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia. And the war lasted for a month. The US was in Afghanistan for 20 years. China claims Tibet was part of past Chinese empires, and when they took over Tibet was still a feudal society. The US took the West from the Indians and the Mexicans by force. The sino-indian war was a border dispute. In the Korean war, China had a legitimate security concern of having a US backed power on its border. In all these cases, China is asserting its claim to territory as a regional power.

It's not a ruling. It's a settlement which is a binding agreement between two parties to resolve the dispute.

It should be noted that these weren't just any lies. But lies that strikes at the legitimacy of democracy and consequently the legitimacy of the government itself. They were lies that caused a riot at the capital. That’s the reason why its important to preserve a record, inform the public, and penalize the transgressor.

Alot of time, money, and effort went into discovery to factually document all the lies and corruption. It would be nice to have this laid down as a permanent public record that everyone could access. The whole purpose of a judicial trial is to establish what is true. But, that is why Fox settled - so these facts don't become revealed to the public. Look at how much they were willing to pay. This is the value that they placed on silence.

Promoting simplistic stereotypes and demonizing China is really a bad idea and spreading ignorance. It is what the neocons do whenever they want to start another war. Look at the lies they told to get America involved in Iraq. The fact is that China has become a major power and it is not going away. We can either cooperate with each other or end in a nuclear war. The neocons are committed to hegemony and China, with its history of being colonized by the West, is going to insist on being an equal power in a multipolar world. So far, it has been the US that has been the more antagonistic. When Chairman Mao came to power he wanted to meet with the president of the United States and was rebuffed. He wrote two letters to Harry S. Truman seeking to establish diplomatic relations. Also, Mao decided not to pursue a nuclear weapons program because he thought it was a waste of money. The nukes were developed by his successor. It seems that most people still don’t understand how dangerous this rhetoric is.

The only quality distinction here is that lying is wrong and defamation is an actionable tort.

You are uncritically believing Western Propaganda, and the Western corporate media which is beating the war drums again, this time for China. Beware of any Westerner who thinks he understands China.

Wim Hof has been able to conquer the cold, and has used it as an ally for spiritual advancement.

You are confusing pain with suffering. Everyone feels pain. Pain is sensation generated by our bodies to help us survive. Even the Buddha had a painful death. Suffering is the mental resistance to what is which includes pain. Suffering = Pain x Resistance.

It’s unfortunate that this case didn’t go to trial. The public needed to see all the evidence layed out on how this corporate media entity intentionally lied to people for profit and ratings. That’s why Fox settled. It will now be quickly forgotten and the cash settlement really won’t hurt them in the long term.

Your confusion is in the erroneous assumption that the CCP is low consciousness. The US has two parties that follow the same foreign policy. The CCP has one party, but has demonstrated great flexibility in developing new policies. The US is aggressive and determined to be the hegemon of the world. The China policy, which is to be a regional power, is actually modest and reasonable for a country their size. China also has shown forward thinking in their development of trade agreements with Africa and Latin America, while the US spends trillions of dollars in senseless wars in the Middle East. China shows respect for the countries they deal with by keeping out of their politics.

The is an eye-opening documentary. It covers the history and background including the tests on Marshal Islands which caused significant environmental and health damage to the local population. From the description: The Coming War on China, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn’t – that the world’s greatest military power, the United States, and the world’s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war. Nuclear war is not only imaginable, but planned. The greatest build-up of NATO military forces since the Second World War is under way on the western borders of Russia. On the other side of the world, the rise of China is viewed in Washington as a threat to American dominance. To counter this, President Obama announced a ‘pivot to Asia’, which meant that almost two-thirds of all US naval forces would be transferred to Asia and the Pacific, their weapons aimed at China. A policy which has been taken up by his successor Donald Trump, who during his election campaign said “We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country and that’s what they’re doing”. Filmed on five possible front-lines across Asia and the Pacific over two years, the story is told in chapters that connect a secret and ‘forgotten’ past to the rapacious actions of great power today and to a resistance, of which little is known in the West.

Try to step outside of the social media matrix for a second and just notice that we are spending valuable time and resources discussing whether it is appropriate to stick out your tongue or not. When you are caught in the matrix the emotions create a psychodrama out of it and make it seem real. This is an opportunity to awaken from the dream. The Dalai Lama is just doing his job as a spiritual teacher.

Apparently this video is several months old. I looked at it briefly and the whole interaction only lasted for a few seconds. If people saw this without commentary most wouldn’t have noticed anything special. The video is released with a negative interpretation, which influences other people to see the same interpretation, and it goes viral. It’s important to note that the Dalai Lama was a political leader and has enemies, particularly the CCP, that want to discredit him. Who released the video and for what motive? This is all about people feeling better by putting down another human being who has been placed on a pedestal and found to have feet of clay. This is the kind of thing that goes viral. Gossip is corrosive to the human soul and makes you even more miserable. The Dalai Lama is still happy. And social media still sucks.

People evaluating the video should first ask themselves how much of their interpretations are actually projection from their own impure minds. Especially, if you have any emotional charge. And if you are not familiar with the culture and have not interviewed the child. You should also become familiar with the McMartin preschool trial. This was a huge case in the 1980s where day care sitters where charged with sexual abuse. It created a massive hysteria in America resulting in bizarre allegations, and the trial which lasted several years ultimately resulted in no convictions. But many now believe they were innocent. America is a toxic culture with regards to sexuality. The really dangerous tongues are the ones that wag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial

The Dalai Lama is extremely respectful of Western sentiments and doesn’t go out of the way to create controversy. But sometimes he misjudges the extent of pettiness, in which case he just apologizes. He keeps his beliefs and practices private, which would be considered bizarre or strange to a Western audience. The other factor is that he was a head of state. In the 1970s he was a friend of the conservative Jesse Helms, who was a vocal supporter. I doubt that his political views would be acceptable to his liberal supporters if he fully disclosed them. He did get in trouble for saying that Europe is for the Europeans.

Keep in mind that Tibetan Buddhism is a combination of Buddhism and Tibetan Shamanism, and the Dalai Lama is the head shaman. If he ever fully unleashed himself, the PC crowd would go apoplectic. No humor or joy is allowed.

Dalai Lama also got in trouble with the PC crowd when he said that it would be good if the next Dalai Lama is a woman because she would be more attractive looking. These self-appointed critics are low consciousness miserable people and have no sense of humor.

Tibetan monks are taken from their mothers when they are still children and made to meditate long hours in isolation, probably with little affection. It’s a radically different paradigm. I talked to a Westerner who was in a Tibetan monastery for a year, and he said that the higher level Rinpoches are like children, spontaneous and playful. They don’t take the world of illusion seriously. They have nothing to prove. They have no egos to defend.

This only shows the stupidity of the self-appointed guardians of Western culture and says nothing about the Dalai Lama. He apologizes because someone at his level sees direct confrontation of rigid beliefs and fixed customs to be unproductive, and he has no ego to preserve.

I find that psychedelics activate the imagination. Everything you experience is you. In that way, it is similar to a dream. But 5-meo is different. It reaches outside the mind to the present moment.

Yes, AI will just serve man.

The instinct for survival is a set of behaviors driven by emotions and feelings. When you fear, you flee or freeze. When you have rage, you fight. When you feel pain you withdraw. The feeling brain uses the left-brain like a tool to execute strategies in accordance with its will. A robot can be programmed to defend itself, but this is not an instinct for survival, it is an algorithm. The robot is no more sentient than a hammer.

Humans have a survival instinct, but millions die in wars, and the world is on the brink of nuclear destruction. It’s not the rational calculating part of the brain that causes that. It’s the reptilian – domination, greed, hate, fear. Think about it and you will see that you can’t have the motiviation for “manipulation” and “deception” without emotions. We have enough left-brain intelligence to solve our problems and enough resources if they are used wisely. That isn’t where the problem lies.