Stranded whales – are they trying to tell us something? More than coincidence?
On December 29th Twenty adult female sperm whales were found washed up on a remote Australian beach but wildlife officials yesterday were unable to explain the third such mass stranding in the same area in a month. The whales, each between seven and 10 metres long, were discovered dead late on Monday on a beach near Strahan, 180km west of Hobart on the southern island state of Tasmania.
There are Two Kinds of People in this World – free men and slaves. Who are you?
Besides, you can depend on it, there are everywhere some people who will recognize your wisdom, truth and courage, and you will be well repaid by having won the appreciation of such people, even if you come back, as a result, out of a job and strapped…. These are the words of the old teacher before you again – get mad at me if you like – but it’s the same as I used to say when I was teacher and you were pupil, and it was such ideas, in which you then saught truth and value, that made you come to hear me. And it is because there are many people who are not fools and only want “to be shown”, but in spite of the convections of institutions, there has always been a place open for me, although there has never been a time that failure has not been predicted.
Zhao Ziyang dies: a man who stood up for freedom
RConversation: A moment of silence: Zhao Ziyang dies: In 1989 the communist party had a choice: open up the policy debate to a wider range of constituencies but also concede some power to them, or shore up their power…. In the short run, they can point to China’s juggernaut growth and claim they did the right thing (at the expense of perhaps a couple thousand people’s lives, though nobody quite knows because there was never a full count)…. Ways are found to let people blow off steam locally, on specific issues, before problems come to a head.
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