Mail Order Chickens — Disturbing. Which is the point. No chickens were harmed in the making of this site. 12 April, 2005 — As part of the Global Week of Action, hundreds of poultry, rice and cotton farmers from all over Ghana marched through the capital demanding fairer trade rules yesterday. 36,000 tons of subsidised frozen chicken pieces, mainly from Belgium and Holland, flood the Ghanaian market. Together the farmers chanted:
‘Yeni abre koo’ – ‘Our eyes are red. We mean business’
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Samadhi, or concentration of the mind, is the second of the three parts of the Buddha’s teaching, namely Sila (morality), Samadhi (concentration), and Panna (insight/wisdom). It has been taught by the Buddha using 40 different objects of meditation, such as mindfulness of breathing (anapanasati). Upon development of Samadhi, one’s mind becomes purified of defilements, calm, [...]
Ariana Huffington’s Blog is up — and I’ve not yet gone through it comprehensively because I can’t get past Day One and the featured post by John Cusack on Hunter S. Thompson’s memorial service. I hear his voice (Cusack’s, not HST’s) and find that instead of gazing up from the kitchen table at [...]