Dear List, Please look at this video, it's amazing! http://youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk (the link was kindly provided by Dr. Sunthar Visuvalingam) How would...
[Now that this got to the Moderators' window, I see that Francesco has himself sent the link in. Let me send mine through anyway, since it contains some...
Sure, Francesco, amazing and not an April 1 joke. The video is making the rounds these days. However, if you take a look at the other u-tube Thai elephant...
Elephant painters have been around for years, my wife saw some in Thailand more than 40 years ago raising money for a zoo Sheers John ... [Non-text portions of...
Dear List Seeing as the list is slow and we are on a trained animal theme today I pose Ta-hui's (d. 1163) favorite exercise assigned to his students as coming...
Dear Doris, the Chilas II inscription was published for example in Jettmar/Thewalt "Zwischen Gandhara und den Seidenstraßen" Mainz 1986 Photo 17. There you ...
dear Benjy, All the beings of the six gaitis have Buddha-nature. A manifestation of Avalokitesvara, the Triyag yoini Buddha, appears in the realm of animals to...
I give here a PDF of the full text of the 81 page legal brief on the legality of torture that was just released today. It was written in 2003 by John Yoo, then...
... How beautiful, and simultaneously taking a burden from my shoulders. For quite a time I have been endeavering to find an answer as to the true nature of...
There is a music CD too -- the Thai Elephant Orchestra, Mulatta Records #MUL004: http://www.mulatta.org/thaieleorch.html Looks like they've released a second...
Thanks for calling our attention to this, Steve. I hadn't heard about the release yet. Squirming around to make torture "legitimate" is such an insidious and...
dear friends, being myself "buddhadharma oriented", i was further inspired by the video towards the respect for animals as ("clever") sentient beeings. just...
James Ward wrote (on the secret US Justice Dept. torture memo declassified yesterday), discussed (with a link to the full memo) in this post from last night: ...
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the US is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, which absolutely forbid torture. Under such circumstances, your...
As I recall, Bush unilaterally declared the US and US military outside the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice. Isn't it what considers ...
... Quote below from the link shown Joanna ... http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2004-09-30/news/bush-s-crimes/ In May, after the appalling photos of Abu Ghraib...
[Mod. note. The links to the reservations in signing the accords were incomplete, Rodo. I fixed them, turned them into tinyurls, and edited a few words for...
... The United States was in fact sued by the Nicaraguan government in the International Court of Justice -- the principal legal arm of the United Nations --...
Here is a reference guide to the Geneva Conventions: <http://www.genevaconventions.org/> All the mentioned texts can be read there. _Please note that Iraq is...
[Mod. note. Yes, only governments of signatory states can sue other signatory countries. See http://tinyurl.com/ywal4r - SF.] Steve Farmer: (...) The United...
Joanna, you are talking about the Court in Hague, and it is correct that the US did not want to participate in that. But as Rodo has shown, the US is a...
Dear list, Here is a link from Slate Magazine featuring a number of recent legal bloggers on the Yoo torture memo; some questioning the internal legality...
Dear List, A ground-breaking book about the Hurrian society in Alalah has just appeared in the SCCNH series: Eva von Dassow, STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE LATE...
Dear Bjarte, Whatever the truth, so far as I can see, your post simply pits the views of one writer you agree with (Eva von Dassow) against the opinion of...
Dear List, So far as we know, counting in all premodern civilizations began with counts of fingers and then moved on to other body parts. E.g., the Yupno of...
[Mod. note. I probably should have more safely said "embodied" rather than "started with fingers", Patrick. I don't know about *na and 'one' & 'nose' in...
