The Economic Fallout of the Clinton Curse. The United States needs the Blessings of the Lord God Creator

I reviewed the opinions of nine global thinkers on the issue of the economic fallout of the Coronavirus pandemic. None of the nine global thinkers mentioned about the need for the Blessings of the LORD God Creator. In my analysis, no man, and no nation can ever hope to be self-reliant. Both the individual entity, and the national entity will only exist if and only if the existence is granted by the LORD God Creator’s Mercy, Grace, and Compassion.

How the Economy Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic

The economic fallout of ‘The Clinton Curse’. The United States needs the Blessings of the LORD God Creator: In this graphic, Julie Peasley shows how many one-dollar bills it would take to stack up to the total U.S. debt of $31.4 trillion. ***Americans will give attention to my words after they fail to resolve the Economic Crisis through either Liberal or Conservative Spending Plans to revive the National Economy.***

**The economic fallout of ‘The Clinton Curse’. The United States needs the Blessings of the LORD God Creator.** ***Americans will give attention to my words after they fail to resolve the Economic Crisis through either Liberal or Conservative Spending Plans to revive the National Economy.***

**The economic fallout of ‘The Clinton Curse’. The United States needs the Blessings of the LORD God Creator.** Whole Dude – Whole Plan: Americans will give attention to my words after they fail to resolve the Economic Crisis through either Liberal or Conservative Spending Plans to revive the National Economy.

The Clinton Curse. America in Crisis. No Economist can Save the US from the present day economic downfall. Americans will give attention to my words after they fail to resolve the Economic Crisis through either Liberal or Conservative Spending Plans to revive the National Economy.

In my analysis, the Economic Policy of President Bill Clinton is fundamentally flawed for it violated the principles of Natural Law that make America a proud and prosperous nation in the world. The economic downfall of the United States is relentless and is almost unstoppable. There can be no healing and no recovery without the Blessings promised by God and living up to the Official Motto “IN GOD WE TRUST.”

**THE CLINTON CURSE. THE RETURN OF ORIGINAL SIN. THE UNITED STATES IS CURSED TO RUN ITS GOVERNMENT WITH BORROWINGS FROM FOREIGN NATIONS.**

The pandemic will change the economic and financial order forever. We asked nine leading global thinkers for their predictions.

BY JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, ROBERT J. SHILLER, GITA GOPINATH, CARMEN M. REINHART, ADAM POSEN, ESWAR PRASAD, ADAM TOOZE, LAURA D’ANDREA TYSON, KISHORE MAHBUBANI APRIL 15, 2020, 5:10 PM

**BRIAN STAUFFER ILLUSTRATION FOR FOREIGN POLICY. The Clinton Curse. The United States needs the Blessings of the LORD God Creator.**

After many weeks of lockdowns, tragic loss of life, and the shuttering of much of the global economy, radical uncertainty is still the best way to describe this historical moment. Will businesses reopen and jobs come back? Will we travel again? Will the flood of money from central banks and governments be enough to prevent a deep and lasting recession, or worse?

This much is certain: The pandemic will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later.

To help us make sense of the ground shifting beneath our feet, Foreign Policy asked nine leading thinkers, including two Nobel-Prize-winning economists, to weigh in with their predictions for the economic and financial order after the pandemic.

We Need a Better Balance Between Globalization and Self-Reliance

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Economists used to scoff at calls for countries to pursue food or energy security policies. In a globalized world where borders don’t matter, they argued, we could always turn to other countries if something happened in our own. Now, borders suddenly do matter, as countries hold on tightly to face masks and medical equipment, and struggle to source supplies. The coronavirus crisis has been a powerful reminder that the basic political and economic unit is still the nation-state.

The coronavirus crisis has been a powerful reminder that the basic political and economic unit is still the nation-state.

To build our seemingly efficient supply chains, we searched the world over for the lowest-cost producer of every link in the chain. But we were short-sighted, constructing a system that is plainly not resilient, insufficiently diversified, and vulnerable to interruptions. Just-in-time production and distribution, with low or no inventories, may be capable enough of absorbing small problems, but we have now seen the system crushed by an unexpected disturbance.

We should have learned the lesson of resilience from the 2008 financial crisis. We had created an interconnected financial system that seemed efficient and was perhaps good at absorbing small shocks, but it was systemically fragile. If not for massive government bailouts, the system would have collapsed as the real estate bubble popped. Evidently, that lesson went right over our heads.

The economic system we construct after this pandemic will have to be less shortsighted, more resilient, and more sensitive to the fact that economic globalization has far outpaced political globalization. So long as this is the case, countries will have to strive for a better balance between taking advantage of globalization and a necessary degree of self-reliance.

This Wartime Atmosphere Has Opened a Window for Change

by Robert J. Shiller

There are fundamental changes that happen from time to time—often during times of war. Though the enemy is now a virus and not a foreign power, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a wartime atmosphere in which such changes suddenly seem possible.Though the enemy is a virus and not a foreign power, the pandemic has created a wartime atmosphere in which fundamental changes suddenly seem possible.

This atmosphere, with narratives of both suffering and heroism, is spreading with the disease. Wartime brings people together not only within a country, but also between countries, as they share a common enemy like the virus. Those who live in advanced countries can feel more sympathy with those suffering in poor countries because they are sharing a similar experience. The epidemic is also bringing us together in countless Zoom get-togethers. Suddenly the world seems smaller and more intimate.

There is also reason to hope that the pandemic has opened a window to creating new ways and institutions to deal with the suffering, including more effective measures to stop the trend toward greater inequality. Perhaps the emergency payments to individuals that many governments have made are a path to a universal basic income. In the United States, better and more universal health insurance might just have been given new impetus. Since we are all on the same side in this war, we may now find the motivation to build new international institutions allowing better risk-sharing among countries. The wartime atmosphere will fade again, but these new institutions would persist.

The Real Risk Is Politicians Exploiting Our Fears

by Gita Gopinath

Over only a few weeks, a dramatic chain of events—tragic loss of life, paralyzed global supply chains, interrupted shipments of medical supplies between allies, and the deepest global economic contraction since the 1930s—has laid bare the vulnerabilities of open borders.People may self-assess their individual risks and decide to curtail travel indefinitely, reversing 50 years of rising international mobility.

If support for an integrated global economy was already declining before COVID-19 struck, the pandemic will likely hasten the reassessment of globalization’s costs and benefits. Firms that are part of global supply chains have witnessed firsthand the risks inherent in their interdependencies and the large losses caused by disruption. In future, these firms are likely to take greater account of tail risks, resulting in supply chains that are more local and robust—but less global. In emerging markets, whose embrace of globalization included a steady opening to capital flows, we risk seeing capital controls being reimposed as these countries scramble to shield themselves from the destabilizing forces of the sudden economic stop. And even as containment measures gradually come off worldwide, people may self-assess their individual risks and decide to curtail travel indefinitely, reversing half a century of rising international mobility.

The real risk, however, is that this organic and self-interested shift away from globalization by people and firms will be compounded by some policymakers who exploit fears over open borders. They could impose protectionist restrictions on trade under the guise of self-sufficiency and restrict the movement of people under the pretext of public health. It is now in the hands of global leaders to avert this outcome and to retain the spirit of international unity that has collectively sustained us for more than 50 years.

Another Nail in the Coffin of Globalization

by Carmen M. Reinhart

World War I and the global economic depression in the early 1930s ushered in the demise of a previous era of globalization. Apart from a resurgence of trade barriers and capital controls, an important explanation for this demise is the fact that more than 40 percent of all countries at the time entered default, cutting many of them off from the global capital markets until the 1950s or much later. By the time World War II ended, the new Bretton Woods system combined domestic financial repression with extensive controls of capital flows, with little resemblance to the preceding era of global trade and finance.Pandemic-induced recessions may be deep and long—and as in the 1930s, sovereign defaults will likely spike.

The modern globalization cycle has faced a series of blows since the financial crisis of 2008-2009: a European debt crisis, Brexit, and the U.S.-China trade war. The rise of populism in many countries further tilts the balance toward home bias.

The coronavirus pandemic is the first crisis since the 1930s to engulf both advanced and developing economies. Their recessions may be deep and long. As in the 1930s, sovereign defaults will likely spike. Calls to restrict trade and capital flows find fertile soil in bad times.

Doubts about pre-coronavirus global supply chains, the safety of international travel, and, at the national level, concerns about self-sufficiency in necessities and resilience are all likely to persist—even after the pandemic is brought under control (which may itself prove a lengthy process). The post-coronavirus financial architecture may not take us all the way back to the pre globalization era of Bretton Woods, but the damage to international trade and finance is likely to be extensive and lasting.

The Economy’s Preexisting Conditions Are Made Worse by the Pandemic

by Adam Posen

The pandemic will worsen four preexisting conditions of the world economy. They will remain reversible through major surgery but turn chronic and damaging absent such interventions. The first of these conditions is secular stagnation—the combination of low productivity growth, a lack of private investment returns, and near-deflation. This will deepen as people stay risk-averse and save more following the pandemic, which will persistently weaken demand and innovation.

Second, the gap between rich countries (along with a few emerging markets) and the rest of the world in their resilience to crises will widen further.Economic nationalism will increasingly lead governments to shut off their own economies from the rest of the world.

Third, partly as a result of flight to safety and the apparent riskiness of developing economies, the world will continue to be over-reliant on the U.S. dollar for financing and trade. Even while the United States becomes less attractive for investment, its attraction will increase relative to most other parts of the world. This will lead to ongoing dissatisfaction.

Finally, economic nationalism will increasingly lead governments to shut off their own economies from the rest of the world. This will never produce complete autarky, or anything close to it, but it will reinforce the first two trends and increase resentment of the third.

More Than Ever, the World Looks to Central Bankers for Deliverance

by Eswar Prasad

The economic and financial carnage wrought by the pandemic could leave deep scars on the world economy. Central banks have stepped up to the challenge by tearing up their own rulebooks. The U.S. Federal Reserve has bolstered financial markets with asset purchases and provided dollar liquidity to other central banks. The European Central Bank has declared “no limits” to its support of the euro and announced massive purchases of government and corporate bonds, and other assets. The Bank of England is financing government spending directly. Even some emerging-market central banks, such as the Reserve Bank of India, are considering extraordinary measures—all risks be damned.Central bankers, once considered cautious and conservative, have shown they can act with agility, boldness, and creativity.

Fiscal stimulus by governments, on the other hand, has proved to be politically complicated, cumbersome to implement, and often difficult to target where the need is greatest.

Central bankers, once considered cautious and conservative, have shown they can act with agility, boldness, and creativity in desperate times. Even when political leaders are unwilling to coordinate policies across borders, central bankers can act in concert.

Now and for a long time to come, central banks have become entrenched as the first and main line of defense against economic and financial crises. They may come to rue this immense new role and the unrealistic burdens and expectations it will impose on them.

The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back

by Adam Tooze

As the lockdowns began, the first impulse was to search for historical analogies—1914, 1929, 1941? Since then, what has come ever more to the fore is the historical novelty of the shock we are living through. There is something new under the sun. And it is horrifying.

The economic fallout defies calculation. Many countries face a far deeper and more savage economic shock than they have ever previously experienced. In sectors like retail, already under fierce pressure from online competition, the temporary lockdown may prove to be terminal. Many stores will not reopen, their jobs permanently lost. Millions of workers, small-business owners, and their families are facing catastrophe. The longer we sustain the lockdown, the deeper the economic scars, and the slower the recovery.

The longer we sustain the lockdown, the deeper the economic scars, and the slower the recovery.

What we thought we knew about the economy and finance has been radically disturbed. Since the shock of the 2008 financial crisis, there has been a lot of talk about the need to reckon with radical uncertainty. We now know what truly radical uncertainty looks like.

We are witnessing the largest combined fiscal effort since World War II, but it is already clear that the first round may not be enough. There are few illusions about the unprecedented acrobatics that central banks are performing. To deal with the accumulated liabilities, history suggests some radical alternatives, including a burst of inflation or an organized public default (which would not be as drastic as it sounds if it affects government debts held by central banks).

If the response by businesses and households is risk-aversion and a flight to safety, it will compound the forces of stagnation. If the public response to the debts accumulated by the crisis is austerity, that will make matters worse. It makes sense to call instead for a more active, more visionary government to lead the way out of the crisis. But the question, of course, is what form that will take and which political forces will control it.

Many Lost Jobs Will Never Return

by Laura D’Andrea Tyson

The pandemic and subsequent recovery will accelerate the ongoing digitalization and automation of work—trends that have eroded middle-skill jobs while increasing high-skill jobs during the last two decades and contributed to the stagnation of median wages and rising income inequality.Many low-wage, low-skill, in-person service jobs, especially those provided by small firms, will not return with the recovery.

Changes in demand, many of them accelerated by the economic dislocation wrought by the pandemic, will change the future composition of GDP. The share of services in the economy will continue to rise. But the share of in-person services will decline in retail, hospitality, travel, education, health care, and government as digitalization drives changes in the way these services are organized and delivered.

Many low-wage, low-skill, in-person service jobs, especially those provided by small firms, will not return with the eventual recovery. However, workers providing essential services such as policing, firefighting, health care, logistics, public transportation, and food will be in greater demand, creating new job opportunities and increasing the pressure to raise wages and improve benefits in these traditionally low-wage sectors. The downturn will accelerate the growth of nonstandard, precarious employment—part-time workers, gig workers, and workers with multiple employers—leading to new portable benefits systems that move with workers and broaden the definition of employer. New low-cost training programs, digitally delivered, will be required to provide the skills required in new jobs. The sudden dependence of so many on the ability to work remotely reminds us that a significant and inclusive expansion of Wi-Fi, broadband, and other infrastructure will be necessary to enable the accelerating digitalization of economic activity.

A More China-Centric Globalization

by Kishore Mahbubani

The COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate a change that had already begun: a move away from U.S.-centric globalization to a more China-centric globalization.

Why will this trend continue? The American population has lost faith in globalization and international trade. Free trade agreements are toxic, with or without U.S. President Donald Trump. By contrast, China has not lost faith. Why not? There are deeper historical reasons. Chinese leaders now know well that China’s century of humiliation from 1842 to 1949 was a result of its own complacency and a futile effort by its leaders to cut it off from the world. By contrast, the past few decades of economic resurgence were a result of global engagement. The Chinese people have also experienced an explosion of cultural confidence. They believe they can compete anywhere.

Consequently, as I document in my new book, Has China Won?, the United States has two choices. If its primary goal is to maintain global primacy, it will have to engage in a zero-sum geopolitical contest, politically and economically, with China. However, if the goal of the United States is to improve the well-being of the American people—whose social condition has deteriorated—it should cooperate with China. Wiser counsel would suggest that cooperation would be the better choice. However, given the toxic U.S. political environment toward China, wiser counsel may not prevail.

THE CLINTON CURSE vs UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME

A universal basic income is a government guarantee that each citizen receives a minimum income. It is also called a citizen’s income, guaranteed minimum income, or basic income. The intention behind the payment is to provide enough to cover the basic cost of living and provide financial security.

**The Clinton Curse vs Universal Basic Income.**

In my analysis, the problem of ‘The Clinton Curse’ will not allow the United States to embrace the concept of a Universal Income. The social inequity, the unfair, and the unjust Welfare Reform Act (PRWORA) introduced by President Bill Clinton in 1996 must be revoked, repealed, replaced, abrogated, and abolished to save the country from the bondage of foreign indebtedness. The US is living on a slippery slope.

Simon Cyrene

By Ishaan Tharoor
with Ruby Mellen

The pandemic strengthens the case for universal basic income

**The Clinton Curse vs Universal Basic Income. People wait in line to file for unemployment benefits in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on April 6. (Nick Oxford/Reuters)**

Just a year ago, the argument for “universal basic income” (UBI) still seemed a fringe theory. It was the pet project of a coterie of libertarian academics and some left-wing activists, and the subject of an economic experiment among a small group of people in Finland. The idea that governments should cut a monthly check to every citizen was largely scoffed at by mainstream conservatives ideologically opposed to handouts (that is, at least, to average citizens) and rankled left-leaning intellectuals, who were wary of diverting resources from already cash-strapped, means-tested programs for the poor.In the United States, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang made UBI the cornerstone of his electoral bid, arguing that, in an era of technological disruption and increasingly precarious labor markets, governments needed to provide people more of an immediate cushion. Despite a cult following, Yang remained an outlier in the race and suspended his presidential campaign in mid-February.

Then came the coronavirus. Pandemic-induced lockdowns and stay-at-home orders have sent economies into free-fall. On Wednesday, the World Trade Organization warned that some projections for the ongoing drop in global trade could mean a new Great Depression. More than 17 million Americans have filed jobless claims in the past four weeks — a staggering, unprecedented figure. International humanitarian advocacy group Oxfam warned in a new study that the pandemic may force 500 million people around the world into poverty if urgent government action does not alleviate their plight.

As governments plot stimulus measures, UBI has become a central part of the discussion. “Across the globe, businesses are going to the wall; jobs are being lost; the self-employed are without work; mortgages are being defaulted; savings are being run through; and rent cannot be paid,” noted an open letter signed by more than 500 academics around the world, which called on governments to look beyond “traditional welfare policies” in this time of crisis. “Societies where a large majority of the population works in the informal sector will be hit especially hard — beyond earnings, there is next to no safety net.”

This week, Spain’s center-left government became the first to unveil plans regarding some form of guaranteed income to a large segment of its population. Though details remain unclear, with one report suggesting monthly payments of around $475, Spanish officials believe there’s broad legislative consensus behind the effort. And there also appears to be political will to ensure that payments continue beyond the passing of the pandemic.

“We’re going to do it as soon as possible,” Nadia Calviño, Spain’s minister of economic affairs, said in a radio interview Sunday. “So it can be useful, not just for this extraordinary situation, and that it remains forever.”

In the United States, elements of Yang’s platform have in the space of two months gone from being dismissed out of hand in Washington to winning broad bipartisan agreement. At the heart of the $2 trillion stimulus passed by Congress last month was a commitment to cut checks of around $1,200 to Americans below a certain income bracket, though many Democratic critics, including Yang, argue that a one-off payment is insufficient for the crisis. Though a permanent and universal monthly payment is not yet on the table, the political appetite for it may be building.

“All of a sudden, the cost of a UBI isn’t nearly as big a worry as it was even a month ago,” Matt Zwolinski, director of the Center for Ethics, Economics and Public Policy at the University of San Diego, told NPR’s Marketplace. “Americans across the political spectrum are calling for the government to spend very large sums of money to keep families on their feet, to keep small business afloat, and to keep the economy from collapsing. And there is a growing recognition that cash grants do that in a way that provides maximum flexibility in a time of drastic uncertainty and rapid change.”

For Yang, — who has given a flurry of interviews over the past few weeks — it’s an unfortunate, if not unexpected, reckoning. “We are in a generational public health and economic crisis and universal basic income or a version of it is going to become the obvious solution to getting money into the hands of Americans and people around the world,” he told Today’s WorldView. “What seems to some to be marginal or overambitious is going to become common sense pretty quickly.”

Yang argued that such measures were especially necessary in Washington. “The coronavirus is more lethal and devastating to people who have preexisting conditions and vulnerabilities,” he said in a Thursday phone interview. “And it turns out that the U.S. had a set of preexisting conditions that made us more vulnerable: A dysfunctional government, a polarized media, inaccessible health care and pervasive financial insecurity and need.”

He also insisted that UBI, or at least programs that guarantee income to those in particular need, shouldn’t be seen as a panacea, but a baseline government effort that “improves Americans’ day-to-day lives.” In the long run, he believes issues of health care, housing and climate change will require more sweeping political solutions.

“Much of northern Europe has been ahead of the U.S. on providing health care for their citizens, on having a strong, robust safety net, on having people feel if their job is eliminated that they’re not going to be left high and dry,” he said. “We should be moving toward having a much more solid safety net here in the U.S. beyond universal basic income.”

The pandemic is not a great leveler. What links Yang with a growing body of commentators and politicians elsewhere is a shared understanding that the ravages of the virus have only intensified the pain felt by those already at a disadvantage in societies where inequality is rife.

In a widely circulated Wednesday evening segment, BBC presenter Emily Maitlis gestured at the need for some form of UBI or other ambitious social spending amid the pandemic.

“This is a health issue with huge ramifications for social welfare, and it’s a welfare issue with huge ramifications for public health,” she said, before asking: “What kind of social settlement might need to be put in place to stop the inequality becoming even more stark?”

Yang’s answer, or modified versions of it, could be what many governments elect to pursue. On Thursday, Yang said he doesn’t have any regrets about suspending his campaign, but added that, “certainly, it seems that the energy around the ideas of my campaign has just shot up dramatically.”

**The Clinton Curse vs Universal Basic Income. December 19, 1998. President Clinton was impeached for the wrong reasons.**

March 31. Chakrata Karma. The Beginning of Life in Exile

On March 31, 1959, I was living in Danavaipeta, Rajahmundry, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India. I was a student of Danavaipeta Municipal High School which is renamed as Danavaipeta Municipal Corporation High School. On March 31, 1959, I was blissfully unaware of the fact of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s arrival in India. However, my Destiny started making the preparation for my Journey to Chakrata.

The event of March 31, 1959, the Beginning of the Dalai Lama’s Life in Exile did predetermine the Beginning of my own life in Exile. I am a Refugee. Who is My Refuge?

Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada

SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE-ESTABLISHMENT NO. 22-VIKAS REGIMENT

March 31, 1959. Dalai Lama begins exile

**March 31. Chakrata Karma. The Beginning of Life in Exile. The Dalai Lama was received by India at the very first Indian post at Chuthangmu, north of Tawang, then part of the Kameng Frontier Division.**

The Dalai Lama, fleeing the Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet, crosses the border into India, where he is granted political asylum.

Born in Taktser, China, as Tenzin Gyatso, he was designated the 14th Dalai Lama in 1940, a position that eventually made him the religious and political leader of Tibet. At the beginning of the 20th century, Tibet increasingly came under Chinese control, and in 1950 communist China invaded the country. One year later, a Tibetan-Chinese agreement was signed in which the nation became a “national autonomous region” of China, supposedly under the traditional rule of the Dalai Lama but actually under the control of a Chinese communist commission. The highly religious people of Tibet, who practice a unique form of Buddhism, suffered under communist China’s anti-religious legislation.

After years of scattered protests, a full-scale revolt broke out in March 1959, and the Dalai Lama was forced to flee as the uprising was crushed by Chinese troops. On March 31, 1959, he began a permanent exile in India, settling at Dharamsala in Punjab, where he established a democratically based shadow Tibetan government. Back in Tibet, the Chinese adopted brutal repressive measures against the Tibetans, provoking charges from the Dalai Lama of genocide. With the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China, the Chinese suppression of Tibetan Buddhism escalated, and practice of the religion was banned and thousands of monasteries were destroyed.

Although the ban was lifted in 1976, protests in Tibet continued, and the exiled Dalai Lama won widespread international support for the Tibetan independence movement. In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in recognition of his nonviolent campaign to end the Chinese domination of Tibet.

**March 31, 1959. Chakrata Karma. The Beginning of Life in Exile.**

**March 31. Chakrata Karma. The Beginning of Life in Exile. My Life’s Journey to live in Exile took me across this Railway Bridge during July 1970.**

The Great Tibet Problem. The Balance of Power. 1. The King vs The Priest, or 2. The Man vs Mother Nature

In Special Frontier Force-Establishment No. 22-Vikas Regiment, I am often identified as the Doom Dooma Doomsayer. The concept of Doom,Apocalypse, Calamity, Catastrophe, or sudden Disaster is shared by people of various cultures apart from Tibetans.

The Great Tibet Problem is not about balancing the power of the King or the Priest. Tibetans enjoy a sense of Freedom, a gift granted by Mother Nature. Over thousands of years, Natural Forces, Natural Factors, Natural Causes, and Natural Conditions shaped the Tibetan Existence. For example, the creation of Tibetan Plateau demonstrates the Power of Nature.

I coined the phrase Tibet Equilibrium to describe a new Theory of Balance of Power in International Relations. I am describing the issue as Nature vs Man. In my analysis, a sudden, unexpected, natural calamity will restore the Balance of Power across the Tibetan Plateau to grant the Natural Freedom that the denizens of Tibet enjoyed during their entire history.

Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada

Special Frontier Force-Establishment No. 22-Vikas Regiment

From the biography: How the Dalai Lama combines a rationalist’s view with a spiritual outlook

An excerpt from ‘The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life’ by Alexander Norman.

In April 2011 the Dalai Lama announced his full retirement from office as leader of the Tibetan government in exile. Henceforth it would be headed by a democratically elected first minister. In thus handing over political power, the Precious Protector brought to an end three and a half centuries of theocratic rule – albeit that power had for long periods been vested in regents acting in the name of the Dalai Lama.

It was a reform not universally applauded by Tibetans, but it had clearly been among the Precious Protector’s plans from the moment he decided in favour of democracy on first coming into exile.

The Dalai Lama effected extraordinary change with this move. When Altan Khan, the Mongol strongman of sixteenth-century Central Asia, pro- claimed Sonam Gyatso, abbot of Drepung, to be Taleh (the Mongolian term for ocean, from which the word “Dalai” is derived) Lama, the Tibetan was head of a monastery comprising several thousand monks. But although this conferred immense prestige and great wealth, the direct political power attaching to him personally was limited to the sway he held over the Gelug establishment in general and over Drepung and its sister monasteries and their estates in particular.

It was not until the Great Fifth secured the patronage of another of the Khans that the institution of the Dalai Lama attained such prestige that, in combination with his viceroy and backed by the military might of the Mongols, he could exercise political power across the Tibetan Buddhist world as a whole. In so doing, the Great Fifth forged the Tibetan people into a broadly harmonious society in a way that had not been seen since the fall of the religious kings in the ninth century.

Moreover, his imaginative recapitulation of the Tibetan empire brought the spiritual realm of gods, demons, and protectors together with the earthly realm of human beings, their landed property, and their possessions, and made both answerable to a single authority.

What the present Dalai Lama brought about with his retirement was thus not just his withdrawal from politics but the end of the dispensation whereby, in effect, the Dalai Lama united within himself the functions of both priest and patron.

This, it will be remembered, was the paradigmatic relationship whereby the priest, or lama, guaranteed the legitimacy of the king, while the king in turn supported the lama temporally. Under the new dispensation, the Dalai Lama continues to rule the supernatural realm while earthly matters are placed under the authority of a secular establishment. What is especially innovative about this manoeuvre is the elevation of the people themselves to the role of patron.

The withdrawal of the Dalai Lama’s authority from the temporal realm was almost as important for its psychological as for its political value. No longer should Tibetans look to the Dalai Lama for answers to every question of a practical nature that, in theory at least, they had hitherto been free to put to him. Instead, they would stand on their own feet.

The Dalai Lama and his successors could thus concern themselves with what they are actually trained for, namely, spiritual direction, even if, to the end of this life, he would remain a symbolic figurehead for his people.

Given that the Precious Protector’s every word is held by most of his people to have divine authority, it presumably takes considerable restraint on his part not to speak out on earthly matters from time to time. But save for his handling of the Shugden controversy, insofar as it is a political matter, the Dalai Lama has so far shown little inclination to intervene in affairs of state. Instead, the former leader has dedicated himself to fulfilling what he describes as his three “main commitments.”

These are, first, as a human being, by helping others to be happy; second, as a Buddhist monk, by working to bring about harmony among the world’s various religious traditions; and third, as a Tibetan, by helping to preserve his country’s unique language and culture. In this last, he emphasises the enormous debt the Tibetan tradition owes to what it inherited from the Indian scholar-saints of Nalanda, the Buddhist monastic university that flourished from the fifth to the twelfth century and provided the blueprint for the monastic universities of Tibet.

A major component of these commitments is the Dalai Lama’s dedication to the environmentalist cause. The destruction of wildlife in Tibet since 1950 is a continuing sorrow to him, though his attitude toward the environment generally is neither sentimental nor a function of his religiosity. There is nothing “sacred or holy” about nature, he writes in his autobiography; rather, “taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses.”

Similarly, while he is a ready advocate of compassion in farming and has said on occasion that he would like to be the “world spokesman for fish,” he does not go so far as to deny categorically the possibility that animal experimentation might, in certain circumstances, be justifiable – provided that the motive in doing so is altruistic. It is characteristic of the Buddhist approach to avoid absolutes.

Also to the dismay of some, the Dalai Lama, though he has often spoken in favour of vegetarianism, is, as we have seen, not a vegetarian himself. Moreover, he recognises the difficulty of living in an environmentally responsible way and does not make a fetish of doing so. While eschewing baths, he admits that, in taking a shower morning and evening, there might be little difference in his water consumption.

With respect to his commitment to helping others find happiness, the Dalai Lama includes scientific research as an important component in the human search for felicity. To this end, he continues to meet and to engage in dialogue with scientists from around the world. Whether a consequence of this is that he has himself “become one of the world’s greatest scientists,” as Robert Thurman has suggested, may be open to question. It is certainly not a claim he would make for himself.

But his patronage of a compendium of Buddhist scientific texts demonstrates his wish to see Buddhist inquiry, especially into the nature of consciousness, given serious consideration by outsiders. Noting the congruence between the Buddhist and the scientific worldviews, the Dalai Lama wonders why “the impulse for helping and kindness are not recognised as drivers for human behaviour and… flourishing?” If scientists were to ask these questions honestly, he believes that they would find the answers provided by Buddhist thinkers compelling.

In the field of interreligious dialogue, the Dalai Lama has, since retiring from office, continued to meet and to pray with religious leaders and prominent spiritual figures from around the world. Setting aside his vow to refrain from intoxicating beverages, he once partook of Holy Communion administered by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. On another occasion, he donned an apron to serve food in a church-run homeless shelter in Australia.

Despite hostility from some quarters, the Dalai Lama has visited Israel more than once; in 2006, he met with both the Sephardi and Ashkenazi chief rabbis. He has also visited several Islamic countries, notably Jordan, again more than once, meeting with Prince Ghazi bin Mohammed, a leading figure in Islamic interfaith dialogue, later that same year.

Besides advocating pluralism with respect to other religions, it is evident that the Dalai Lama also wishes to strengthen his followers in their faith. As a rule, he counsels people to remain within their own faith tradition, remarking that if a person is a poor practitioner of one, changing to another will do nothing to improve matters.

Referring to his visit to the monastery of Le Grand Chartreuse, where he noticed the monks’ feet cracked with cold from wearing only sandals, he praises the dedication of followers of non-Buddhist religions. At the same time, he speaks of his concern about Tibetan teachers abroad who live luxuriously or flout their vows.

Yet his concern about behavior inappropriate to prelates is not confined to Buddhists. When Pope Francis removed a German ecclesiastic for the ostentatious restoration of his residence, the Dalai Lama wrote to congratulate the Roman pontiff. Whether or not it is true that, of all the other religions, the Dalai Lama feels closest to Catholicism is an open question.

On the one hand, for him it is given a priori that there is no creator. On the other hand, the superficial similarities between many of the liturgical practices of Rome and Lhasa cause him to wonder if there was not earlier contact between the two traditions. Both religions practice ritual eating and drinking, and both venerate the relics of saints. It is also true that the Dalai Lama has been hosted many times by ecumenically minded Catholic organisations, and if he is not mistaken, the Dalai Lama enjoys divine approval for fostering links with the Catholic Church.

On a visit to Fatima in 2001, he experienced a vision of the Virgin Mary, whose statue turned and smiled at him. In this context, it is not entirely clear how we are to interpret his remark that one of the biggest surprises of his life came when Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed the indispensability of reason to religious faith. In the Dalai Lama’s view, if people would only think hard enough, they would come to see the truth of how things really are – and thus the falsity of the pope’s position and the correctness of his own.

Excerpted with permission from The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life, Alexander Norman, HarperCollins India.

The Great Tibet Problem. The Balance of Power. 1. The King vs The Priest, 2. The Man vs Mother Nature, or 3. David vs Goliath. THE BATTLE OF RIGHT AGAINST MIGHT. Just like David who defeated the Philistine Champion Goliath, Tibet will prevail in its just battle against the military might of the man.

The Dalai Lama Review. Alexander Norman Dead Wrong. Indian Prime Minister Nehru was not petrified of upsetting Mao Zedong

In my analysis, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was never petrified of upsetting Chairman Mao Zedong. In fact, Nehru made no attempt to avoid upsetting Mao Zedong. China is fully aware of all of Nehru’s initiatives in support of the Tibetan Resistance Movement that began in 1949.

Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada

Special Frontier Force-Establishment No. 22-Vikas Regiment

The Dalai Lama Review. Alexander Norman Dead Wrong. Indian Prime Minister Nehru was never petrified of upsetting Mao Zedong. HISTORY OF THE US-INDIA-TIBET RELATIONS . Prime Minister Nehru with the US president Eisenhower in December 1959. :

‘The Dalai Lama’ Review: Bodhisattva of Compassion

A Westerner with rare access to his subject writes an authorized biography of one of the world’s most feted, and charismatic, ﬁgures.

**The Dalai Lama Review. Alexander Norman Dead Wrong. Indian Prime Minister Nehru was never petrified of upsetting Mao Zedong.The Dalai Lama in 2016.**
PHOTO: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

By Tunku Varadarajan Feb. 26, 2020 7:27 pm ET Mr. Varadarajan is executive editor at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

**The Dalai Lama Review. Alexander Norman Dead Wrong. Indian Prime Minister Nehru was never petrified of upsetting Mao Zedong.**

On July 6, 1935, was born a boy to a family of peasants in the village of Taktser in the far northeast of Tibet. Its inhabitants spoke a coarse dialect that was incomprehensible in Lhasa, Tibet’s storied capital. The boy, Lhamo Thondup, was one of only seven siblings, out of 16, who survived into adulthood.

Although the village was remote, it was not godforsaken. At barely 2 years of age, Lhamo Thondup was identified as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, who had died in 1933. Solemn portents and divinations had led a party of monks to Taktser, where the lively little mite convinced his visitors that he was next in a line of Tibetan Buddhist god-popes stretching back 600 years.

In “The Dalai Lama,” a biography written with generous access to its subject, Alexander Norman describes the scene. With the monks looking on, the boy picked out, unprompted, a series of objects that had belonged to the Great Thirteenth. Locals spoke of a rainbow appearing over the boy’s house at the time of his birth. “This was a theogony,” writes Mr. Norman, “the coming of a god.”

A rival candidate was in contention, a well-born child in Lhasa; but there could be no doubt that the boy from Taktser was the next Dalai Lama, the paramount monk who is Tibet’s spiritual and temporal leader. It is an office like no other on earth: “The profundity of the emotional connection Tibetans have with the Dalai Lama,” Mr. Norman writes, “is beyond anything that others can easily imagine.” The one in whom “the bodhi—the awakened mind of the Buddha—resides is not merely a monarch. He is someone who connects, in himself, the seen world with that unseen.”

The subtitle of Mr. Norman’s book, “An Extraordinary Life,” is an understatement. The 14th Dalai Lama, regarded as divine when he could barely speak, was enthroned at the age of 4. After a childhood in which he had no friends and was forbidden to play soccer, he took on full political duties at 15, outgrowing his oppressive regents. At 23, he fled to exile in India, crossing the border, Mr. Norman tells us, on the back of a dzo, a cross between a yak and a cow: “And it was on this humble form of transport that the Precious Protector, the Victor, Lion Among Men, Wish-Fulfilling Jewel, Ocean of Wisdom . . . quit his homeland.”

That journey occurred in 1959, when it became clear that Communist China intended not merely to obliterate Tibet’s culture but to imprison the Dalai Lama himself. Exile from Tibet—which continues to this day—was not just personally devastating to the Dalai Lama; 80,000 Tibetans fled to India in that year alone—to the consternation, Mr. Norman notes, of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s prime minister, who was petrified of upsetting Mao Zedong.

The Tibetan diaspora numbers 150,000, most of them (including the Dalai Lama) residing in India. The population of the Chinese-occupied Tibet Autonomous Region is put at three million, of which 90% is ethnic Tibetan, according to Beijing’s own reckoning, which certainly undercounts the Han Chinese interlopers. Given that China’s “ascent as a world superpower looks set to continue into the foreseeable future,” laments Mr. Norman, fewer countries “will dare risk their trading relations with China for the sake of a few million Tibetans.”

Mr. Norman knows the Dalai Lama better than most, having helped him to write his autobiography. His new book is rich, sometimes heaving, with detail; his supple prose, often beautiful, is as adept at explaining Tibet’s theology as it is at describing its spiritual world. “Every feature of the landscape and every creature dwelling within it,” he writes, “falls under the aegis of some sprite or spirit or deity. Even the bolts of lightning in a storm were said to issue from the mouths of celestial dragons.”

Yet the most potent forces against which the Dalai Lama has grappled have been infernal. His two regents were, Mr. Norman says, martinets who coveted the power they enjoyed when he was a minor. The first was jailed by his successor and, as one account has it, killed by having his testicles crushed. Remarkably, the man who emerged from these dark beginnings has proved to be a serene statesman, known for his beatific smile and ecumenical diplomacy.

The Dalai Lama is among the world’s most feted figures. Mr. Norman explains how he has done more to promote Buddhism in the Western world than any person in history and stresses that it is his charismatic wisdom, even more than his campaign for freedom, that makes him a darling in the West. His appeal transcends ideology, and he has had admirers as diverse as Allen Ginsberg, the Beat poet, and George W. Bush, along with Hollywood stars galore. Mr. Norman’s book, while respectful, is not adoring: He doesn’t flinch from offering examples of his subject’s behavior that are awkward. These include an instance in Norway when the Dalai Lama giggled and told a teenager she was “too fat.” His views on homosexuality are not in lockstep with those of Western progressives, and no one can deny that his judgment faltered when he granted audiences to the leader of a cult that went on to murder people with sarin gas in Tokyo.

If he has shown himself to be fallible, on occasion, his understanding of China cannot be faulted. The horrors heaped on Tibet during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution abated with Mao’s death, but it is still a land that lives under brutal subjugation. A realist, the Dalai Lama has stated for decades that he would accept China’s sovereignty over Tibet in exchange for autonomy. But China dismisses him as a separatist under the sway of “hostile foreign forces.”

In 2011, the Dalai Lama announced his retirement as leader of Tibet’s government in exile, giving the role to a democratically elected minister. The next Dalai Lama may well choose to undo this political reform, and yet, in thus “handing over political power,” writes Mr. Norman, “the Precious Protector brought to an end . . . centuries of theocratic rule.” It was the act of a thoroughly modern monk—the first democrat to lead Tibet’s people. It breaks the heart that he has, in China, a foe so all-consuming.

The Dalai Lama Review. Alexander Norman Dead Wrong. Indian Prime Minister Nehru was never petrified of upsetting Mao Zedong. The history of Special Frontier Force-Establishment No. 22: 1957 was a turning point in the history of Tibetan Resistance Movement.

To open the Door to the Dalai Lama, India has to keep the Window open for the Russian Support to safeguard Kashmir

In my analysis, Alexander Norman’s forthcoming book “The Dalai Lama — An Extraordinary Life” has utterly failed to reveal the reason for not granting political asylum to the Dalai Lama during his first visit to India in 1956.

India-Tibet relations cannot be discussed without mentioning Kashmir. Since 1947, India is facing the challenge of defending Kashmir from aggression by Pakistan sponsored by the United Kingdom, and the United States. To open the Door to the Dalai Lama, India has no choice other than that of keeping the Window open for the Russian support to safeguard Kashmir.

**To open the Door to the Dalai Lama in 1959, India has to keep the Window open for the Russian Support to safeguard Kashmir. HISTORY OF THE US-INDIA-TIBET RELATIONS: SEPTEMBER 04, 1959 .**

Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada

Special Frontier Force-Establishment No. 22-Vikas Regiment

‘Nehru wasn’t keen on sheltering Dalai Lama’

Alexander Norman’s book throws light on spiritual leader’s dilemma

**In 1956, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was not keen to open the Door to the Dalai Lama for India has to keep the Window open for the Russian Support to safeguard Kashmir.**

Tribune News Service

Shimla, , February 22

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was reluctant to grant political asylum to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, claims Alexander Norman in his latest biographical account of the Nobel laureate, prior to his arrival in India in 1959.

**To open the Door to the Dalai Lama in 1959, India has to keep the Window open for the Russian Support to safeguard Kashmir.**

Norman’s forthcoming book “The Dalai Lama — An Extraordinary Life” provides a glimpse into the Tenzin Gyatso’s first visit to India in 1956 on the invitation of Nehru when he was in his early 20s.

Norman, closely associated with the 14th Dalai Lama for decades, gives a detailed account on the dilemma he faced while deciding whether to return home or ask Nehru for asylum.

The author says Nehru, refusing to make any commitment, lest it harmed India’s ties with China, advised the Dalai Lama to hold the Chinese forcefully to the 17-point agreement. He gives a vivid account of the massive turnout in Sikkim to catch a glimpse of the Dalai Lama and to seek his blessings.

There is an account of the Dalai Lama’s visit to Bodh Gaya during his 11-week stay in India, including at the Chinese Embassy. Norman claims that had he been a little more certain of Washington’s intentions of championing the Tibetan cause, he may have considered not returning to Tibet.

Referring to the Dalai Lama as the “Precious Protector”, the book reveals how China tactically ensured that Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai would be in India at the same time.

WHAT IS TIBET EQUILIBRIUM? A NEW BALANCE OF POWER THEORY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Balance of power, in international relations, the posture and policy of a nation or group of nations protecting itself against another nation or group of nations by matching its power against the power of the other side.

**What is Tibet Equilibrium? A new Balance of Power Theory in International Relations.**

When all the forces that act upon an object are balanced, then the object is said to be in a state of equilibrium. … If an object is at equilibrium, then the forces are balanced. Balanced is the key word that is used to describe equilibrium situations. Thus, the net force is zero and the acceleration is 0 m/s/s.

What is Tibet Equilibrium? SPIRITUALITY SCIENCE – WHOLE DYNAMICS – WHOLE EQUILIBRIUM: THE CAR IS IN DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM BECAUSE IT IS MOVING AT CONSTANT VELOCITY. THERE ARE HORIZONTAL, AND VERTICAL FORCES, BUT THE NET EXTERNAL FORCE IN ANY DIRECTION IS ZERO.

What is Tibet equilibrium? SPIRITUALITY SCIENCE – WHOLE DYNAMICS – WHOLE EQUILIBRIUM: IT WILL BE INCORRECT TO ASSUME THAT A STATIONARY PERSON IS IN A STATE OF EQUILIBRIUM. LIFE IS A DYNAMIC EVENT. THE LIVING BEING IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING. THE THING OR BODY CALLED LIVING BEING IS ALWAYS IN MOTION AND THE FACT OF MOTION BRINGS CHANGES EVEN WHEN THE OBJECT IS NOT MOVING IN ITS EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT.

I am not concerned about China’s growing military power in Tibet. I am not concerned about balancing the military power of China by compensating India’s military power with the addition of the military power of other countries. My concern is entirely about the role played by the Four Fundamental Forces of Nature that always operate on all that we do.

In my analysis, Love is a Fundamental Force. In the Land of Tibet, the denizens enjoy Freedom and have pursued an independent style of living over thousands of years as their Freedom is the gift of Nature and it prevails as a Natural Condition for it is the product of the influence exerted by Natural Forces, Natural Mechanisms, Natural Causes, and Natural Factors. The man’s attempt to upset the Natural Equilibrium in Tibet to compromise the Natural Freedom will be counteracted by the Fundamental Force of Love sustaining human existence.

Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada

Special Frontier Force-Establishment No. 22-Vikas Regiment

Why China’s Growing Military Might in Tibet Should Worry India

The rising tempo of Chinese deployments in Tibet should be of concern to New Delhi.

By Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan

March 03, 2020

Last month, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) engaged in a major military exercise in the Tibet region. The engagement showcased some of the latest weapons in the Chinese military inventory and also spotlighted its deployments in the region more generally.

According to reports, the exercise last month in Tibet witnessed the deployment of several key aspects of Chinese military capabilities, including the Type 15 light battle tank and the new 155 mm vehicle-mounted howitzer. A Chinese military analyst speaking to the Global Times said that both “had powerful engines, allowing them to maneuver efficiently in Tibet’s terrain.” The same Global Times report also stated that the PLA Tibet Military Command had deployed helicopters, armored vehicles, heavy artillery, and anti-aircraft missiles across the region, from Lhasa, which has an elevation of around 3,700 meters, to border defense frontlines at an altitude higher than 4,000 meters.

These developments were by no means surprising. Indeed, the PLA has been beefing up its overall combat proficiency in the last few years by engaging in training and joint exercises, especially in high-altitude regions, with implications for how China’s military operates and how other actors in the Indo-Pacific region respond in kind.

With respect to Tibet in particular, the PLA has been doing a number of exercises in Tibet, and the frequency seems to be increasing. Close to a decade ago, in 2011, the PLA conducted two joint exercises at the group army level in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), with the goal of practicing employing a division-size force in a truly integrated manner, involving armor, artillery, and the PLA Air Force (PLAAF). There were also reportedly network-centric operations in a high-intensity electromagnetic environment practiced during this exercise. A J-11 regiment was sighted engaging in night-combat training in Tibet in August 2015.

Beyond individual exercises and more broadly, these developments demonstrate the growing air infrastructure in the TAR, including civilian airports, many of which are used by the PLAAF. These exercises have continued to grow bigger and more sophisticated. Even amidst the Doklam crisis in 2017, the PLA was engaged in a joint military exercise on the Tibetan plateau to test agility and combat proficiency in tasks such as assaults on enemy positions.

China’s engagements are part of an effort to step up their combat proficiencies in Tibet. More specifically, they address a significant lacuna of the PLA – lack of recent operational experience. These exercises have also focused on bringing about true jointness and integration in military operations. In addition to these exercises, there are other indicators of increased PLA activity in the TAR. For example, from 2013 onwards, PLAAF aircraft and helicopters have been sighted doing increased patrolling. Since 2013, troops coming to sectors opposite the Ladakh sector have been instructed to only travel by air and not by road, though the implications of this is unclear. Since April 2015, there have been increasing PLAAF activities, with J-11 and Su-27 aircraft of the PLAAF engaged in periodic exercises in the TAR.

From an Indian perspective in particular, China’s military efforts in the TAR are of grave concern. Even though this was the first major exercise of the PLA in 2020, there has been a significant increase in PLA engagements in terms of military training and exercises in the TAR over the last decade. The fact that Beijing has established all-weather physical border infrastructure in these areas has enhanced its ability to project military power in the region.

Additionally, the PLA is also known to have set up many military camps close to the border areas with periodic deployment of forces in these camps. This would imply that the PLA remains relatively acclimatized to the high-altitude conditions prevalent in the region, whereas on the Indian side, most forces responsible for the Sino-Indian border areas are in the plains of Assam.

This is a challenge in itself, but the bigger worry for New Delhi should be the growing number of Chinese military exercises in the TAR. The PLA has been engaged in many single-service and joint military exercises to validate several operational concepts.

The increase in the frequency and complexity of the PLA exercises in the TAR could also be an indicator of things to come. The fact that the Chinese state-run media are publicizing these exercises in Tibet is possibly an effort to send a signal to India and a demonstration of the overall better combat proficiency of the PLA. New Delhi cannot afford to ignore them.

Clearly, the tempo of China’s military activities in the TAR is growing, and it is likely to lead to even greater efforts on the Indian side. Though the Doklam confrontation ended peacefully, the preparations being undertaken by both sides suggest that the next one may have a different outcome.

CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan

Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan is Distinguished Fellow and Head of the Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), one of India’s leading think tanks.

What is Tibet Equilibrium? A new Balance of Power Theory in International Relations. SPIRITUALITY SCIENCE – WHOLE DYNAMICS – WHOLE EQUILIBRIUM: HUMAN EXISTENCE DEMANDS A BALANCE OR HARMONY TO MAINTAIN A STEADY STATE CALLED DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM OR “WHOLE EQUILIBRIUM.”

March 03, World Wildlife Day. The principle of unity underlying the biodiversity

SPIRITUALITY SCIENCE – IMPERISHABLE, IMMUTABLE, AND IMMORTAL PRINCIPLE OPERATING ALL LIVING THINGS

Living Things are made up of 1. Living Matter, and 2. Physical Form. The Form or Morphological Appearance of Living Things is used in their identification and for classification.

**Spirituality Science – Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle of all Living Things. Living Things Change Under Influence of Time. Changes of Growth and Development.**

Theory of Evolution carefully records similarities between different living things and claims that living things are constantly changing and descend into new forms of living things that are again identified by their morphological appearance. Change is a Natural Phenomenon. Things in Nature change under influence of Time.

Protoplasm or Cytoplasm is the clear, soft, gelatinous living substance found inside all living cells. A most striking characteristic of Protoplasm is its vital property of Nutrition. Nutrition is the power which Protoplasm has of attracting to itself the materials that provide energy and are necessary for its growth and maintenance.

However, the problem of biodiversity is not resolved by Theory of Evolution. Living things change in appearance due to natural process called Growth and Development or due to aging process. Changes in Genetic Code called Mutation does not affect Chemical Composition of Living Matter while it may cause change in form or appearance.But any such observed change in appearance is possible if and only if Living Matter retains its basic chemical composition and behaves as if it is operated by Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle.

Spirituality Science – Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle of Living Things. Chemical components of living cells such as Bacteria remains same unaffected by Mutations which may change Genetic Code.

All living things exist in nature by consuming other living things or consuming products made by other living things. All living things appear to be varied and yet consist of the same kind of Chemical Compounds. To a great extent, Chemical Elements retain their attributes as if they are imperishable, immutable, and can even said to be immortal. This unchanging nature or Spiritual attribute helps formulation of Fundamental Laws of Matter described by classical Physics and Chemistry. Over billions of years, Living Matter retained its basic Chemical Composition as Chemical Elements and Chemical Compounds governed or operated by imperishable, immutable, and immortal or Spiritual Principle not influenced by time or changes in climate, or other variable external conditions.

Spirituality Science – Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle of Living Things. The Organic Material called Protoplasm or Cytoplasm exhibits Nature that can neither be created nor destroyed. There is no ‘Evolutionary Change’.

The Organic Material called Protoplasm or Cytoplasm exhibits Nature that can neither be created nor destroyed. Its Nature is not subject to ‘Evolutionary Change’.

Spirituality Science – Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle of Living Things. This Ray Finned Fish shares the same characteristics found in all Living Things without significant variation in Chemical Components.

In my analysis, Theory of Evolution is fundamentally flawed for its focus on change in morphological appearance does not take into account the Unchanging Nature of Chemical Elements and Chemical Compounds. There is no evolution for the chemical composition of the living matter has essentially remained the same.

Spirituality Science – Concept of Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) and Tree of Life.

Biological Diversity is reflected by the number of Living Animal and Plant species. All of these lifeforms are operated by the same Unchanging Spiritual Principle. I explain Biological Diversity is the product of a creative mechanism that formulates the morphological appearance of living things while they are essentially made up of the same Living Substance. Every living thing fundamentally exists as an Individual with Individuality. There are no two perfectly identical living things. For there is such vast diversity of living things, for purposes of convenience, they may be grouped and classified using principles shared by Taxonomy. Some Forms of Life became extinct over course of time but Life has not perished and Living Matter continues to exist as before. Indeed all varied Forms of Life are formed by the same Chemical Elements.

Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA

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World Wildlife Day
3 March

**Illustration for the March 03, 2020 World Wildlife Day campaign under the theme “*Sustaining all life on Earth.*” Credit: World Wildlife Day/Patrick George.**

The incalculable value of wildlife

The animals and plants that live in the wild have an intrinsic value and contribute to the ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic aspects of human well-being and to sustainable development.

World Wildlife Day is an opportunity to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora and to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that their conservation provides to people. At the same time, the Day reminds us of the urgent need to step up the fight against wildlife crime and human-induced reduction of species, which have wide-ranging economic, environmental and social impacts. Given these various negative effects, Sustainable Development Goal 15 focuses on halting biodiversity loss.

Sustaining all life on Earth

The theme of World Wildlife Day 2020, “Sustaining all life on Earth”, encompasses all wild animal and plant species as a component of biodiversity, as well as the livelihoods of people, especially those who live closest to the nature. This aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals 1, 12, 14 and 15, and their wide-ranging commitments on alleviating poverty, ensuring sustainable use of resources, and on conserving life both on land and below water to halt biodiversity loss.

Earth is home to countless species of fauna and flora – too many to even attempt counting. Historically, we have depended on the constant interplay and interlinkages between all elements of the biosphere for all our needs: the air we breathe, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the materials we need for all purposes. However, unsustainable human activities and overexploitation of the species and natural resources are imperiling the world’s biodiversity. Nearly a quarter of all species are presently at risk of going extinct in the coming decades.

The year 2020, known as “biodiversity super year,” will host several major global events that place biodiversity at the forefront. It provides a unique opportunity to deliver transformative progress for the conservation and sustainable use of the species of wild animals and plants.

Get involved

Share what you’ve learned with your friends and family.

CSpread the word, especially to children and youth. They are the future leaders of wildlife conservation and they deserve a future where we humans live in harmony with wildlife that share the planet with us.

Remember to use the hashtags #WorldWildlifeDay #WWD2020 #SustainingAllLife #Biodiversity2020 #SustainableUse

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Let us remind ourselves of our duty to preserve and sustainably use the vast variety of life on the planet. Let us push for a more caring, thoughtful and sustainable relationship with nature. António Guterres

**March 03, World Wildlife Day. The principle of unity underlying biodiversity.**

**Spirituality Science – Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle of Living Things. Lobe-Finned Fish often called ‘Living Fossil’ remains Unchanged over millions of years.**

Spirituality Science – Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle of Living Things. Extinct Form of Fish called COELACANTH. Some forms of life became extinct, but life has not perished for Living Matter continues to exist as before.

**Spirituality Science – Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle of Living Things. Lobe-Finned Fish continues to live while some forms of Life became extinct during course of time.**

Spirituality Science – Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle of Living Things. Lobe-Finned Fish belongs to Order Sarcopterygii. No distinction between Living Things can be made on the basis of their Chemical Components.

Spirituality Science – Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle of Living Things. Lungfish. While individual living things are born and die, Life continues without change in Chemical Components.

Spirituality Science – Imperishable, Immutable, and Immortal Principle of Living Things. Extinct Form of Lobe-Finned Fish. Individual Living Things experience Birth and Death while Life continues as before with same Chemical Components.

February 28. My Musings on the discovery of the chemical structure of DNA Molecule

DISCOVERY OF CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF DNA – FEBRUARY 28, 1953

**Discovery of Chemical Structure of DNA on February 28, 1953. “Life is Knowledge in Action.”**

DNA is found mostly in the cell nucleus, but another type of nucleic acid, RNA, is common in the cytoplasm. Watson and Crick proposed that RNA must copy the DNA message in the nucleus and carry it out to the cytoplasm, where proteins are synthesized. Crick also predicted the existence of an “adaptor” molecule that reads the genetic code and selects the appropriate amino acids to add to a growing polypeptide chain. This proposed flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to protein became known as the “Central Dogma.”

As it turned out, several types of RNA are involved in the utilization of genetic information. In the nucleus, the DNA code is “transcribed,” or copied, into a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule. In the cytoplasm, the mRNA code is “translated” into amino acids. Translation is orchestrated at the ribosome — itself partly composed of RNA — with transfer RNA playing the role of adaptor.

**The Discovery of Chemical Structure of DNA on February 28, 1953.**

**Discovery of DNA Chemical Structure on February 28, 1953 by Cambridge University Scientists James Watson and Frances Crick. “Life is Knowledge in Action.”**

On this day, February 28, 1953, James Watson and Frances Crick announced their discovery of chemical structure of DNA. It is important to recognize DNA molecules as source of biological information, genetic information, or innate knowledge that enables living cells to perform a variety of guided, sequential, purposeful, and goal-oriented ‘immanent’ actions. It helps me to define term ‘Life’ as, “Life is Knowledge in Action.”

**The Discovery of the Chemical Structure of DNA on February 28, 1953.**

However, DNA molecules do not acquire energy from an external source. Cytoplasm or Protoplasm has power called ‘Nutrition’ with which it attracts matter found in external environment of cell. For this reason, Viruses that are basically constituted by DNA or RNA molecules are not capable of independent existence and their living functions such as replication demand assistance from a living host cell.

WHO AM I? This question must be answered by applying a reasoning process to Inferential Knowledge about Cell Structure(ANATOMY) and Cell Functions(PHYSIOLOGY). Life is defined as “Knowledge in Action.” February 28. My Musings on the Discovery of the Chemical Structure of Dna.

DNA is an important biomolecule for it directs protein synthesis and yet it does not qualify as the vital, animating principle found in all living organisms.

Animal cells contain three main regions: plasma membrane, nucleus, and cytoplasm. The nucleus is a cell’s central organelle, which contains the cell’s DNA. The cytoplasm is composed of two parts, the cytosol and organelles. Cytosol, the jelly-like substance within the cell, provides the fluid medium necessary for biochemical reactions. An organelle (“little organ”) is one of several different types of membrane-enclosed bodies in the cell, each performing a unique function. Just as the various bodily organs work together in harmony to perform all of a human’s functions, the many different cellular organelles work together to keep the cell healthy and performing all of its important functions.

In my analysis, I use the term ‘Spiritual’ to describe the harmonious interactions between the plasma membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, and the various intracellular organelles in the performance of various living functions. These harmonious interactions are possible on account of the ‘Spiritual’ Nature of the Corporeal Substance or the Living Matter called Protoplasm or Cytoplasm.

Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada

Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA
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LIFE IS KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION

Feb 28

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

The artistic depiction of the Double-Helix structure of the DNA molecule. The DNA molecule always exhibits individualistic variation in its behavior. In other words, with a natural, or synthetic genome, two living entities will always exist as Individuals with Individuality. Life as such is a created phenomenon, with or without patent, no individual, or corporation has the ability to transgress this fundamental Law of Nature.

This Day In History: 02/28/1953 – DNA Structure Discovered

On February 28th many historical events occurred. These events are recapped by Russell Mitchell in this video clip from “This Day in History”. The discovery of DNA by James Watson and Frances Crick being a major one for the scientific community. Not only was DNA discovered on this day, but the Republican Party was founded in Wisconsin. The well-known album Thriller by Michael Jackson won eight Emmy awards as well.

1953

Watson and Crick discover chemical structure of DNA

On this day in 1953, Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announce that they have determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.
Though DNA–short for deoxyribonucleic acid–was discovered in 1869, its crucial role in determining genetic inheritance wasn’t demonstrated until 1943. In the early 1950s, Watson and Crick were only two of many scientists working on figuring out the structure of DNA. California chemist Linus Pauling suggested an incorrect model at the beginning of 1953, prompting Watson and Crick to try and beat Pauling at his own game. On the morning of February 28, they determined that the structure of DNA was a double-helix polymer, or a spiral of two DNA strands, each containing a long chain of monomer nucleotides, wound around each other. According to their findings, DNA replicated itself by separating into individual strands, each of which became the template for a new double helix. In his best-selling book, The Double Helix (1968), Watson later claimed that Crick announced the discovery by walking into the nearby Eagle Pub and blurting out that “we had found the secret of life.” The truth wasn’t that far off, as Watson and Crick had solved a fundamental mystery of science–how it was possible for genetic instructions to be held inside organisms and passed from generation to generation.
Watson and Crick’s solution was formally announced on April 25, 1953, following its publication in that month’s issue of Nature magazine. The article revolutionized the study of biology and medicine. Among the developments that followed directly from it were pre-natal screening for disease genes; genetically engineered foods; the ability to identify human remains; the rational design of treatments for diseases such as AIDS; and the accurate testing of physical evidence in order to convict or exonerate criminals.
Crick and Watson later had a falling-out over Watson’s book, which Crick felt misrepresented their collaboration and betrayed their friendship. A larger controversy arose over the use Watson and Crick made of research done by another DNA researcher, Rosalind Franklin, whose colleague Maurice Wilkins showed her X-ray photographic work to Watson just before he and Crick made their famous discovery. When Crick and Watson won the Nobel Prize in 1962, they shared it with Wilkins. Franklin, who died in 1958 of ovarian cancer and was thus ineligible for the award, never learned of the role her photos played in the historic scientific breakthrough.

**Discovery of Chemical Structure of DNA on February 28, 1953. Thanks to Rosalind Franklin for her contribution. “Life is Knowledge in Action.”**

**Discovery of Chemical Structure of DNA on February 28, 1953. Thanks to Scientist Rosalind Franklin and the photographs she provided. “Life is Knowledge in Action.”**

**The Discovery of the Chemical Structure of DNA on February 28, 1953. The role of DNA in Protein Synthesis.**

**Discovery of Chemical Structure of DNA on February 28, 1953. DNA provides the range of information used in Protein Synthesis by living organisms. “Life is Knowledge in Action.”**

**Discovery of chemical Structure of DNA on February 28, 1953. DNA is source of biological or genetic information used in directing Protein Synthesis. “Life is Knowledge in Action.”**

Chakrata Karma. My Life Journey From Freedom in Chakrata to Slavery in the United States

I use the phrase “CHAKRATA KARMA” to account for my Life Journey from Freedom in Chakrata to Slavery in the United States. I am a Refugee. But, who is my Refuge?

Chakrata Karma. My Life Journey From Freedom in Chakrata to Slavery in the United States. The 14th Dalai Lama sitting on the throne in this photo image of 1956-57 while Tibet came under Communist China’s military occupation during 1950. With military assistance from the United States and India, Tibetans had revolted against the Communists and the Dalai Lama fled into exile when the massive Tibetan Uprising failed during March 1959.

The Dalai Lama lives in India. We clearly know that India was unwilling to grant asylum to the Dalai Lama during his first visit to India in May 1956. In March 1959, the Dalai Lama could escape from Tibet to live in Exile in India as the United States gave the firm assurance to India to act without any fear of China’s military power to retaliate against India’s decision to grant the political asylum.

Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada

Special Frontier Force-Establishment No. 22-Vikas Regiment

Tibetans Mark 80th Anniversary of Dalai Lama Enthronement

By VOA NewsFebruary 21, 2020 08:09 PM

FILE PHOTO: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures as he arrives at a hotel in Darmstadt, Germany, September 18, 2018… — **Chakrata Karma. My Life Journey From Freedom in Chakrata to Slavery in the United States.**

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is celebrating the 80th anniversary of his enthronement Saturday.

The 14th Dalai Lama, who was born Lhamo Thondup, was just a toddler when he was identified as the reincarnation of his predecessor. Tibetan Buddhists believe that senior Buddhist monks can after death choose to be reborn in the body of a child.

The Dalai Lama was enthroned as Tibet’s most important spiritual leader on Feb. 22, 1940, at the age of 4.

Since then, he has been a spiritual leader to Tibetans, strongly advocating nonviolence and winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his efforts to bring about an autonomous Tibet.

Born in Tibet in 1935, the 85-year-old spiritual leader has spent most of his life in neighboring India. The Dalai Lama fled Tibet following a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959 and now lives in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala, where his supporters run a government-in-exile.

The Dalai Lama said he is seeking greater autonomy for his remote mountain homeland and not independence, while China accuses him of being a dangerous separatist. China has used its influence on the world stage to urge international leaders not to meet with the spiritual leader.

In April 2019, the Dalai Lama was admitted to the hospital in the Indian capital of New Delhi with a chest infection and has since reduced his public audiences. However, aides said he is doing well.

The question of the next Dalai Lama’s reincarnation has political implications. China has said its leaders have the right to approve the Dalai Lama’s successor, as a legacy inherited from China’s emperors.

However, the Dalai Lama’s own website said that a person who reincarnates has “sole legitimate authority” over where the rebirth takes place and how the reincarnation is recognized.

The Dalai Lama himself has made several statements about his next rebirth, saying he might choose not to be reincarnated at all, and also saying that if he does choose to take rebirth, it will be in a free country.

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March 31, 1959. Dalai Lama begins exile

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In Special Frontier Force-Establishment No. 22-Vikas Regiment, I am often identified as the Doom Dooma Doomsayer. The concept of Doom,Apocalypse, Calamity, Catastrophe, or sudden Disaster is shared by people of various cultures apart from Tibetans.

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From the biography: How the Dalai Lama combines a rationalist’s view with a spiritual outlook

An excerpt from ‘The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life’ by Alexander Norman.

What the present Dalai Lama brought about with his retirement was thus not just his withdrawal from politics but the end of the dispensation whereby, in effect, the Dalai Lama united within himself the functions of both priest and patron.

The Dalai Lama and his successors could thus concern themselves with what they are actually trained for, namely, spiritual direction, even if, to the end of this life, he would remain a symbolic figurehead for his people.

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‘Nehru wasn’t keen on sheltering Dalai Lama’

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1953

Watson and Crick discover chemical structure of DNA

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