Dalai Lama, Mao And Me

As a generation born in 60's I remember my hippy father and mother debating heavily on the subject of China in Tibet. I grew up thinking that Dalai Lama and Tibet to be the down trodden and weak, and supported many petitions, demonstrations against the Chinese gov.

Little did I know that dalai Lama in his younger days was a Communist. Even Wiki page does not say anything about, Dalai Lama being a Maoist Communist. Now Dalai Lama is saying that, "I am a Maoist, and Mao treated me as a son." Need I say more? Is this a new trick by the holy man to become the new friend of China and slowly get independance? High politics is not for the meer mortals. If it is: it would be called another conspiracy theory.

Now how do I know this. Listen to this. And I searched a bit and found out a bit more of this new saga in Chinese politics.

This is from the Asia Times . You might have to mute your sound as there is advetrts which can not be stopped and gets on one's nerves.

The Dalai Lama said he was "attracted by some aspects of Communism," adding that Marxist theory had an "emphasis on equal distribution."

"When I was in China, I learnt Marxist economy theory, which has an emphasis on equal distribution, rather than just profit. Since we human beings created this (economic) problem, we also have the ability to overcome it. In spite of our difficulties, we should not give up our hope...we must keep our self confidence, that is very important," the Dalai Lama said.

  Utube video makes further alligations about the two with the CIA mixed in. According to this, Dalai Lama's Maoist views were considered to be not in line with the Tibetan rebels, against Chinese occupation. These rebels we all know were supported by the US via CIA and later dropped when US started the trade agreements with China.

If you are ready for a bit of confusion; read this and you might be, just like me, wondering where politics ends and politcs begins again. Reincarnation or what? There are few links on that page to see what the freedom fighters think about this. CIA connections. Ahhh! that's another conspiracy theory.

Yo North Americans, Do You Want To Get Depressed

Yeah I read this article and thought. Huh huh I am glad I am not in US. But you my delightful reader of this might like it. And please do forgive me, I said it might depress you. Well it starts like this:

Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and Quantitative Easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt every year via its budget deficits? Not long ago the Fed announced that it was going to continue this policy for another 2 or 3 years. Indeed, the Fed is locked into the policy. Without the artificially low interest rates, the debt service on the national debt would be so large that it would raise questions about the US Treasury’s credit rating and the viability of the dollar, and the trillions of dollars in Interest Rate Swaps and other derivatives would come unglued.

Do you really want to read it huh?  OK here is the link.