Hope Springs Eternal

[babe]

So this is from my email box, just arrived today from a little band of culty socialists. . . .who agree with me on issues of technology and a lot of other general things. . . . .

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inspires America
September 29, 2014 • 8:47AM
In a groundbreaking event beamed nationwide from New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Narendra Modi brought the spark of the BRICS and associated nations' fight, and electrified the United States. A leading LaRouche organizer said afterwards that he had seen "optimism unlike anything I've seen in my life. It was not just rah-rah, although that was there as well. Especially older people expressed a deep pride linked with optimism about the future." The signs he and his fellows carried said, "LaRouche Welcomes Modi to the United States," "India Leads Humanity," and "Namaste Mangalyaan," the latter the name of India's spacecraft now circling Mars. Others of our signs said, "This is the End of British Geopolitics," and, "The British Empire Must be Impeached!" People had flown in from all over the country to pack Madison Square Garden with 20,000 participants; many more gathered outside; 1,500 watched on a giant television screen in Times Square, and satellite events were held throughout this country and some in India.
Watch: Narenda Modi Speech at Madison Square Garden
Watch: Narenda Modi Speech in Central Park Global Citizen Festival (7 minutes; in English)
When Modi had called at the United Nations to replace the G-8, G-20, and the like with a "G-All," he was expressing the same concept as Helga Zepp-LaRouche had in her article, "We Need a New, Inclusive, World Security Architecture." The movement Narendra Modi represented at Madison Square Garden is the antidote to war and terrorism, as Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez and Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff pointed out at the United Nations just last week.
Modi moved many of his listeners fundamentally; the effect was compared with that of Dr. Martin Luther King. Modi spoke of the "Indian Dream," as Xi Jinping has spoken of the "Chinese Dream." Even more than King, for many, he brought to mind the life's work of Lyndon LaRouche, which has led over many decades to the development of the BRICS system today, now with its sudden dawn of fervent and justified optimism among actually billions of people. That idea has become reality.
This is the contagion of optimism that cannot be stopped. This is how America can be saved.

It's from LaRouchePAC, an organization dedicated to FDR-style democratic government, with liberal doses of socialism.

 

[babe]

So, as always, I look for another report on Narendra Modi's "inspirational" event:

[video]https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/sep/29/india-pm-narendra-modi-new-york-video

 

[franklin]

So, did you get that picture of how much territory the evil Brit overlords have lost in the last 100 or so years? From what looked like 90% of the globe down to a little island that makes Japan look huge. I don't think the conspiracy is going too well for them.

 

[babe]

Modi is visiting at a time when India and the United States are each seeking big things from the other. Theirs was supposed to be what Mr. Obama once called the defining “partnership” of the 21st century. The relationship has withered since then, though, and both Washington and Delhi are trying urgently now to repair it, showering each other with the diplomatic equivalent of Champagne and roses during Mr. Modi’s five-day visit to America.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/world/asia/narendra-modi-madison-square-garden-obama.html?_r=0

 

[babe]

So, did you get that picture of how much territory the evil Brit overlords have lost in the last 100 or so years? From what looked like 90% of the globe down to a little island that makes Japan look huge. I don't think the conspiracy is going too well for them.

Along this line of thought, one of my favorite anecdotes is the one about the exchange between FDR and Churchhill, when discussing the future of India during one of the WWII planning meetings. . . . . FDR apparently intimated that India should be "free", to which Churchhill disdainfully stated that India was just too divided to ever be an actual country, and would always "need" British "help". . . . .. to which FDR replied to the effect. . . . .

I dunno. . . . . seems to me like you folks thought the same thing about those thirteen colonies in America. . . ..


On the other hand, don't fail to comprehend the methods of geopolitical manipulations which are still used with unparalleled adroitness by those alpha Brits.

 

[franklin]

On the other hand, don't fail to comprehend the methods of geopolitical manipulations which are still used with unparalleled adroitness by those alpha Brits.

I can lend you a bit of cred there. Kingdom's know how to hold their crown. Royal children are taught from a young age a much different perspective than the rest of us. They're taught diplomacy and practicality, and that a crown lies on your head and not your heart. It's not intuitive for most humans to think that way.

The British crown has long lost so much power and influence that it's laughable to think they're somehow behind the scenes pulling strings and manipulating world events. Sure, a kingdom will grasp to regain power long after losing it, but at this point there's nothing left for the Queen other than a cultural identity that views the family as grown men do a sport or Americans do reality tv.

They can try their "methods" and democracy will laugh at them. Welcome to the 20th century, babe. Let me know when you're ready for the 21st.

 

[PearlWatson]

I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions but it is a nice feel good quote.

 

[babe]

I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions but it is a nice feel good quote.

OK, so I'm bored again.

The chess match thread is losing steam because nobody in here has nothing to do except play chess. . . .

So Pearl, who is this guy with the authoritative look?

good and evil virtues? I take the definition of "virtues" as falling entirely within the "good" portion of the Venn diagram.

Let's do better with this idea:

Every person has good and evil notions, and sometimes it may seem like the evil ones produce results. . . . say more income, a better house, car, and vacation. . . . . but virtue is its own reward. Those who chose virtue attain something we call "good character". Jesus was all about our personal responsibility for our character.

I think this character in the pic has presumed as much, and defined "success" as the attainment of good character.

A quaint notion in our time, with our New World Order and all.