Podcast: Mark Blum

Mark Blum from SUNY Albany presented a talk on "Environmentalism, Buddhism and Transcendentalism;" on April 3rd, 2008 as part of the Buddhist Studies Seminar at Columbia University. He explores how views of ecology among modern Eco-Buddhists might be grounded more in the philosophies of Transcendentalists such as Emerson and Thoreau than in Buddhist traditions. A recorded version of this lecture is available for download:

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[Journalist]

JOURNALISTS

The journalism we want is the only true one: inform the facts to the People of UK.

Freedom of Press is an illusion in UK, because it is a slave of Gordon Brown. Consequently, it never publishes that which is against its profits, that is, against announcements paid by the transitory government of Gordon Brown.

China is slaughtering Buddhist Monks and Nuns with the official approval of Gordon Brown, therefore, freedom of press about the true facts in Tibet is an impossibility in UK, because Gordon Brown, for money, refused Human Rights to all.

Business with China being Gordon Brown chief aim, even at the price of genocide.

UK signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to all people in the world, to the People of Tibet, too. UK signed the International Convention for the Prevention of Genocide, anywhere in the world, in Tibet, too.

However, Gordon Brown broke the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention for the Prevention of Genocide.

Therefore, China is now slaughtering Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Tibet with the approval of Gordon Brown.

Such being the fact, the time has come when British Journalists must strive to own their newspapers, journals and magazines. Or Freedom of Journalism, together with Journalists, are dead in UK.

Journalists blogs in paper, newsletter size, advertised by way of Internet as well, or by any other means available, even by word of mouth, presenting classifieds announcements, accordingly, and sold by yearly subscription, win by presenting the facts to the People of UK, and to Humanity as well.

A journalist who labours in the path of facts, shall always be a winner in his career, and will have thousands of faithful readers, yearly signing pre-paid subscriptions of their favorite journalists.

Awaken, British Journalists!

[Robert]

I thought this was an excellent talk. I just published some notes on it at the supplied URL.

(The previous poster's comment seems to be comment spam unrelated to the topic of the post, BTW. I hope someone will delete it.)

[Robert]

BTW, does anyone care if I set up the podcast URL for this lecture as an enclosure in my RSS feed? Might make it a little easier to access but I'm not sure if that's OK according to your policies. Please send me email or leave me a comment letting me know. Thanks.