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  • Why Wasn't Gandhi bestowed With the Nobel Prize?

    10/15/2009 11:16:59 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 19 replies · 802+ views
    DNA ^ | Sunday, October 11, 2009
    Many ardent fans of Mahatma Gandhi have won the Nobel Peace Prize with the latest being US president Barack Obama, but why was not the 'Apostle of Peace' bestowed with the honour despite being nominated five times? Though he was shortlisted thrice, the selection committees had given different reasons why Gandhi was not conferred the honour, like "he was too much of an Indian nationalist" and that he was "frequently a Christ, but then, suddenly an ordinary politician". One of the committees was also of the view that he was "no real politician or proponent of international law, not primarily...
  • U.S. owes a lot to Gandhi: Obama

    10/02/2009 6:19:45 PM PDT · by underthestreetlite · 53 replies · 1,369+ views
    WASHINGTON: An ardent admirer of Mahatma Gandhi, U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday joined Indians in praising the ‘apostle of peace’ on his 140th birth anniversary. In a special message on Gandhi Jayanthi, Mr. Obama said: “We must renew our commitment to live up to his ideals and to celebrate the dignity of all human beings.” “Gandhi’s teachings and ideals, shared with Martin Luther King Jr. on his 1959 pilgrimage to India, transformed American society through our civil rights movement,” Mr. Obama said. Noting that Americans owed a lot to Gandhi, Mr. Obama said the “America of today has its...
  • Van Jones is Gandhi's reincarnation, Obama is Lyman Trumbull's.

    09/03/2009 11:05:48 AM PDT · by machogirl · 34 replies · 754+ views
    Deccan Chronicle on the Web ^ | June 25, 2009 | Deccan Chronicle
    New Delhi: Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi has been reincarnated as Van Jones, the celebrated American civil rights and environmental activist who was named Time magazine's "environmental hero" in the US in 2008? "Objective evidence that forms the basis of past life studies prove that Jones is the reincarnation of Gandhi," world's leading past life researcher and best-selling author from the US Walter Semkiw told IANS in an interview. Jones' facial bone structure and features are the same as that of Gandhi's, Mr Semkiw said. "His manners and body language are also similar to that of the Indian freedom...
  • Microsoft’s Gates Gets Indira Gandhi Prize

    07/25/2009 8:35:08 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 8 replies · 211+ views
    AP Report ^ | July 25th 2009
    Microsoft’s Gates gets Indira Gandhi Prize Foundation has committed nearly $1 billion to India for health projects NEW DELHI - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Saturday received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development from India's president, a government statement said. The prize recognizes his work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It is awarded annually to individuals or organizations for creative efforts that promote peace, development and a new international economic order. As of this month, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had committed nearly $1 billion for health and development projects in India. Most of...
  • Low-Key Singh Wins High-Profile Indian Victory

    05/16/2009 6:30:15 AM PDT · by sukhoi-30mki · 4 replies · 403+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | MAY 16, 2009 | PAUL BECKETT & VIBHUTI AGARWAL
    Low-Key Singh Wins High-Profile Victory By PAUL BECKETT and VIBHUTI AGARWAL NEW DELHI--In January, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh handed over the reins of power to a deputy as he underwent heart bypass surgery. It seemed an apt metaphor for a leader struggling to deal with the aftermath of the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai and a rapidly slowing Indian economy. On Saturday, however, Mr. Singh was firmly back in control as his Congress Party turned in a surprisingly big victory in national elections that were held over the past month. The triumph virtually assures Mr. Singh a return to...
  • Mahatma Obama

    02/18/2009 8:26:43 AM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 14 replies · 1,607+ views
    FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    The screencap sums things up nicely. It portrays Joe Scarborough’s reaction to the news that Pres. Obama reminds the New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg of . . . Gandhi. It was the president’s bi-partisanship in the face of Republican partisan hostility that made Hertzberg think of the non-violent Indian leader in a column in the New Yorker’s current issue. For good measure, the New Yorker editor claimed to see a parallel—in the way Pres. Obama has reacted to Rush Limbaugh—to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s interaction with . . . Bull Connor [though Hertzberg was careful to state he was not claiming...
  • (Vanity) Theme song for 01-20-09

    01/18/2009 2:08:20 PM PST · by JRios1968 · 4 replies · 330+ views
    Living Colour ^ | Living Colour
    This song should be on continuous loop this coming Tuesday with the Usurpation by The One. Cult of Personality
  • When Mahatma Gandhi donned a British army uniform (volunteered in ambulance unit)

    01/05/2009 6:57:59 PM PST · by Cronos · 4 replies · 968+ views
    Thaindian news ^ | January 2nd, 2009 | IACNS
    The fact that Mahatma Gandhi, who used the tools of truth and non-violence in the fight for India’s freedom, donned an army uniform may startle many. But it is true that Father of the Nation wore the British Army’s uniform in 1899, although as a member of a voluntary ambulance unit during the Anglo-Boer War.The Mahatma, then known as Mohandas Karamchand, along with fellow Indians in South Africa decided to join the voluntary ambulance unit. The little known fact, reported in the magazine ‘Sainik Samachar’ (Soldier’s News), formerly called ‘Fauji Akhbar’, has been archived in the coffee table book “Soldiering...
  • Hillary Clinton and Gandhi (or: Bad time to be Sec of State)

    12/02/2008 4:32:38 PM PST · by AynN08 · 5 replies · 260+ views
    Anyone remember this? It's from a few years ago, but hopefully it's still relevant to some people. Hillary Clinton: "Mahatma Gandhi... He ran a gas station down in, uh, St. Louis... Lot of wisdom comes out of that gas station." Find the link to the video here.
  • Gandhi’s Love Letters to Hitler

    09/19/2008 11:58:53 AM PDT · by Victory111 · 5 replies · 214+ views
    Cross Action News ^ | 9-19-08 | Seth Frantzman
    On September 25, five American religious organizations plan to host a Ramadan dinner for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his upcoming visit to the United States. These include the Mennonite Central Committee, the Quakers, the World Council of Churches, and Religions for Peace. How is it that these Christian “peace” organizations are willing to break bread with a declared warmonger and Holocaust denier? An answer lies in the troubling history of these organizations – a history that includes a shameful alliance with Nazi Germany during World War II.
  • Gandhi and the Jews

    02/08/2008 7:07:11 AM PST · by forkinsocket · 17 replies · 73+ views
    Prospect Magazine ^ | February 2008 | Salil Tripathi
    Should the Jews, as Gandhi counselled, have submitted willingly to their Nazi oppressors? Sixty years ago, on 30th January, Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi. In May, Israel will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its controversial creation. These two narratives got unintentionally intertwined last month, raising questions about the universality of Gandhi's message as well as his views about Jews, the nature of the state and the limits of freedom of expression. The vehicle for this reflection was Gandhi's grandson, Arun, a mild-mannered 73-year-old writer and peace activist, who until recently ran the MK Gandhi Institute of Peace and...
  • Gandhi: Talk to the Snakes(Let the NAZIS kill you)

    01/18/2008 8:45:26 AM PST · by Para-Ord.45 · 63 replies · 384+ views
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com ^ | 01/17/08 | Rabbi Avi Shafran
    In a 1938 essay, Mohandas ("Mahatma") Gandhi, the spiritual and political leader of the Indian independence movement, counseled Jews in Nazi Germany to neither flee nor resist, but rather offer themselves up to be killed by their enemies, since their "suffering voluntarily undergone will bring them an inner strength and joy." When all hope is lost, a Jew about to be killed al Kiddush HaShem - as a Jewish martyr - is indeed to reach for serenity, even happiness, at the opportunity to give up his life because of who he is. When Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman, the great Lithuanian Jewish...
  • Gandhi’s grandson creates religious stir

    01/18/2008 4:20:41 AM PST · by Sammy67 · 7 replies · 137+ views
    By Bryan Roth, staff writer Brighton-Pittsford Post Thu Jan 17, 2008, 01:05 PM EST Brighton, N.Y. - To Pittsford resident Judy Braiman, remembering the Holocaust has always been an important part of her Jewish heritage. Despite the atrocities related with it, she believes it’s something nobody — Jewish or not — should ever forget. “Why should you give that up?” asked Braiman, who had family relatives who were killed in Germany during the Holcaust. “If we don’t remember the terrible things that happen, it will happen again. Everybody should remember terrible things to learn by it.” So, when she saw...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Nonviolence Nonsense. Gandhi, again

    01/14/2008 7:39:01 AM PST · by Tolik · 37 replies · 174+ views
    NRO ^ | January 14, 2008 | Victor Davis Hanson
    Those who do not necessarily associate the name Gandhi with either humanitarian brotherhood or wisdom, and those who remember Mahatma’s idiotic thoughts about those facing the Holocaust ought to examine the latest Gandhi take on “the Jews” in the online edition of the Washington Post, this time from one Arun Gandhi. He is self-identified as the “President and co-founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence” and “the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. He is president and co-founder of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, now at the University of Rochester in New York.”...
  • Mahatma Gandhi's grandson says that Jews exploit the Holocaust (BARF ALERT)

    01/09/2008 9:49:09 AM PST · by DFG · 52 replies · 864+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 01/09/08 | Arun Gandhi
    Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the holocaust experience -- a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends. The holocaust was the result of the warped mind of an individual who was able to influence his followers into doing something dreadful. But, it seems to me the Jews today not only want the Germans to feel guilty but the whole world must regret what happened to the Jews. The world...
  • TO EVERY BRITON

    12/29/2007 11:35:27 PM PST · by herecomesthesun · 11 replies · 142+ views
    Harijan ^ | July 6, 1940 | Mohandas K. Gandhi
    TO EVERY BRITON In 1896 I addressed an appeal to every Briton in South Africa on behalf of my countrymen who had gone there as labourers or traders and their assistants. It had its effect. However important it was from my viewpoint, the cause which I pleaded then was insignificant compared with the cause which prompts this appeal. I appeal to every Briton, wherever he may be now, to accept the method of non-violence instead of that of war for the adjustment of relations between nations and other matters. Your statesmen have declared that this a war on behalf of...
  • Nixon Called Indira Gandhi an 'Old Witch'

    Nixon Called Indira Gandhi an 'Old Witch' By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer Tue Jun 28, 6:59 PM ET WASHINGTON - President Nixon referred privately to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as an "old witch" and national security adviser Henry Kissinger insulted Indians in general, according to transcripts of Oval Office tapes and newly declassified documents released Tuesday. Nixon and Kissinger met in the Oval Office on the morning of Nov. 5, 1971, to discuss Nixon's conversation with Gandhi the day before. "We really slobbered over the old witch," Nixon told Kissinger, according to a transcript of their conversation released...
  • Sri Lanka Sank 6 N. Korean Ships Carrying Weapons between this Feb. and Oct. (w/ US help)

    12/15/2007 2:23:53 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 72 replies · 267+ views
    VOA News ^ | 12/14/07 | Sohn Ji-heun
    Sri Lanka Sank 6 N. Korean Ships Carrying Weapons between this Feb. and Oct. 12/14/2007 Sohn Ji-heun /begin my summary Six N. Korean ships were sunk by Sri Lankan Navy between Feb. 28 and late October of this year. They were shipping weapons for Tamil Tigers, which were designated as a terrorist organization by U.S. State Dept. Both N. Korean crews and Tamil terrorists were aboard the ships. They were all presumed to be killed. Sri Lankan Navy was able to sink them with the help of U.S., which passed on intelligence on the location of (N. Korean) ships in...
  • Ramchandra Gandhi found dead in IIC

    06/13/2007 8:15:10 AM PDT · by Calpernia · 12 replies · 707+ views
    IBNLive.com India ^ | June 13, 2007
    New Delhi: Dr Ramchandra Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and renowned philosopher and writer, was found dead at the India International Centre, Delhi, on Wednesday. His body was found in Room No 15 of the IIC. The cause of death was reportedly natural. Ramchandra was 70 years old. "As there was no response despite several calls, the room was broken open and he was found lying on the ground. Perhaps he died of a cardiac arrest," IIC secretary Venugopal said.
  • Hillary Clinton 'Truly Regrets' Gandhi Joke. Remarks Called Stereotypical, Racially Insensitive

    08/21/2007 6:17:55 PM PDT · by Laissez-faire capitalist · 48 replies · 1,712+ views
    CNN.com ^ | 1/7/2004 | Staff
    Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis, saying it was "a lame attempt at humor." ...The director of a U.S. center devoted to Gandhi's teachings called the remarks stereotypical and racially insensitive...