Post-Quake Nepal Is Still Reeling 1 Year Later—For All the Wrong Reasons

Nepal's Lost Horizon?

Post-Quake Nepal Is Still Reeling 1 Year Later—For All the Wrong Reasons

Big Sky Butter Tea

Setting my sails for a sky-trek to all points Big Sky Idaho (aka, Idahome), anon…

...searching for a home, home on the range in the Himalaya of North America.

Requesting from Nepal the dispatch of a small convoy of shaggy Himalayan yaks (and naks) in order to fix up a genuine cuppa solja (butter tea) and fend off high plains flurries while reminiscing of golden-emerald pahaaD (hills) and the snow-capped peaks towering above them into nirvana.

Euphonious Interlude...

Wild monkeys are staging a half-hearted yet full-fanged takeover of the ashram...in the meantime, chaos on the streets with righteous pilgrims on the way for a steep climb to Neelkanth Temple--'Bam! Bam! Bhole!!!'

Time for a homemade, full-cream milk coffee...ahhhhh, Samsara...

Literally dying to be politically correct?

So much is happening over the globe these days that might fit under this rubric, and many people have heads bowed and muted to social pressures and other pressures...

…including, without passing any judgments here—illegal immigration which typically takes bread-and-butter work away from the poorest citizens of a country (their jobs are displaced first and foremost) and creates tension in the fabric of a nation as well as greater humanity.

Any brilliant solutions out there?

Neo Stasi?

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The following was the prognosis of The Church Committee in 1975--assembled to 'Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities'. It was chaired by Idaho's own son Senator Frank Church (D-ID) and apparently not dire enough for the madding crowd then as well as now:

"The United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air...at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide.

...the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology...

I don't want to see this country ever go across that bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."

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The Intercept reported on July 1st, 2016, Secret Rules Make it Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists...What are the FBI's goals with a deep invasion of journalist privacy? Obviously, it silences sources and whistle-blowers…anti-democratic Neo-Stasi tactics?

More related to this topic here, Chinese-Style Censorship

#NeoStasi #FBI #NSA #CIA #ShadowGov #gestapo

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Chronic Politician?

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Career public servant in the USA…worth tens of millions of dollars (if not hundreds of millions)...does that add up to integrity in public service?

Now, if a career politician in Nepal (where I was lucky enough to have been posted in the US Peace Corps) was found to be worth millions of dollars, and essentially, s/he had done nothing beyond politics his/her entire career—it would be clearly evident--high chances of hanky-panky, graft and corruption squeezed out of a dysfunctional system. 

The widespread pox of corruption is actually lethal in Nepal. Long-suffering people bear the consequences of a stifling lack of progress and development (despite decades of indefinite aid) and face chronic poverty and its many ills including an inordinate amount of suffering from bone weakening hunger and lack of hygiene and health care to lack of education, human rights and opportunity and much more beyond a lack of basic fundamental necessities.

There seems to be a different gauge in the USA for measuring such malfeasance. At any rate, someone who has been a public servant virtually an entire career and has amassed tens of millions of dollars (if not much hundreds of millions)…

Well, isn’t it obvious?

More on this subject here:

Unavoidable Royals of the United [Kingdom] of America

and

Chronic Politician

#CancerousPolitician #CannibalisticPolitician #ChronicPolitician #CronyMilitarist #CronySocialist

Guess Who Else are not in the Vaunted European Union...

None other than two of the top ten economies in the world...and countries among the most desirable places to live in Europe for quality of life including natural environment, opportunity and personal liberty...

Both are at the peak of the UN's Human Development Index (2015 estimates based on 2014 data puts them at #1 and #3) and both rank in the top ten by GDP (Gross Domestic Product) / PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) per capita (according to two indices, a International Monetary Fund 2015 projected index and a World Bank index using data from 2011-2014).

They are the only two European countries listed in the top ten by GDP/PPP other than tiny Luxembourg (which is in the European Union).

Neither Norway nor Switzerland are part of nor ever have been part of the vaunted European Union. 

Switzerland never had a referendum...Norway rejected it--twice.

Great Britain seems to have set its sails for good company. 

Further reading about the #EUref and #Brexit here, 
Whingeing Pommies?
and
Why Give Distant, Faceless Bureaucrats any Power?