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 Pema Chodron "Trungpa Rinpoche is famous for a quote where he said, 'The job of the spiritual friend is to insult you. And if you ask why that's so, it's because in order to become a completely loving person, a flexible person you have to see where you're hookable.
"You have to see where your shempa arises so that you can work with it. So, in the Vijiana tradition there's actually a whole practice and teaching that you can do which is called 'heightened neurosis' where you actually..., the situation is created by certain practices you do where your neurosis gets heightened to you. And the idea is if you don't see it, if you don't first see where you're hookable and where you get provoked, with a complete honesty and directness without guilt but just a straight look at where you get stuck..." |
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 Jim Jubek "But the economy isn't going gang-busters. Growth is about 1%, maybe a little more, over this time period. So, what's going on? Well unfortunately what seems to be going on is that people are putting more and more of their daily purchases on their credit cards. As the price of gasoline goes up, as the price of food goes up, as the price of just about everything goes up, people are putting more and more of their daily expenses on their credit cards as a way to bridge the gap between those rising prices and basically stagnant family incomes.
"So rather than this being a sign of good health for the economy, this is a sign that the economy is in trouble..." |
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 Food Crisis Profits "In the midst of all this, in the global food system that's been created over the past few decades you have some corporations that sit in the middle of it all and who have taken a stronger and stronger position in managing the food system. They're the ones who are profiting immensely now from this food crisis.
"So, even though we're in a situation where millions of people can no longer afford to fill their basic food needs you have corporations making record profits. A company like Cargill which is one of the world's biggest grain traders - there are only small number of companies that control the trade in basic cereals - and Cargill's one of these companies, and it's profits are higher than they've been in years..." |
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 Cenk Uygur But overall, They Suck! They Suck! They let people like Senator Lieberman, John Bolton and all these guys in the Bush administration and make these claims that we're getting hit by Iran when there is not one shred of evidence. In fact I'm shocked at how little evidence they have. I would imagine some weapons used inside Iraq would come from a neighboring country like Iran. I'm shocked that they haven't got a single piece of evidence. They don't have a single weapon made in Iran. And instead of hearing that, we hear absolute utter propaganda. |
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 Barack & Yoda "In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger... That is the choice our nation must make. And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
Barack Obama: "This is a defining moment in our history. Our nation is ar war and our planet is in peril. Even as we speak their are those who are preparing to divide us..."
Hillary: "Senator Obama's remarks are elitist and out of touch."
Barack: "No..., I'm In Touch." |
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