--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 29, 2005, at 7:41 AM, Leonard Matusik wrote:
> 
> >     2) what is the deal with this new trade agreement between India and
> > China? Is it there any substance to it? What effect will the mere
> > symbolism have? Should I learn to speak chinese as much as I need to  
> > learn
> > to speak spanish? What power could a NAFTA-like allience composed of  
> > 1/4
> > of the human population exert on the the other 3/4?
> 
> The trade agreement between India and China is surely nothing compared  
> to the trade agreement already extant between the US and China.

On the topic of China, The Atlantic had a cover story last month about the
"New Cold War" that we could have with China if things soured -
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200506/kaplan for the opening excerpt. 
Alas, I didn't buy a copy, and am not a subscriber, so I can't speak to the
quality of the article itself (even if it was written by Kaplan..)

> If you rate your self-worth solely on whether you have the latest  
> newest widget, you're never going to be happy. It's really that simple.

Henry Rollins has his own film review show now on IFC.  In one of his rants
about the way the world is, he started frothing about consumerism as
relates to films, something to the effect of "when I walk into a 7-11 and
don't blink an eyelash at a cardboard cutout of Darth Vader hawking
Cheez-its to me, things have gone too far!"

On Karma.. you don't "owe", but there are repurcussions to the forces you
exhert, yes?

-k-



                
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