The 'sense' thread

And I always thought that I would find peace if I eloped to a Buddhist temple in the Himalayas for a few years....


Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims?

Non-violence is central to Buddhist teaching but Oxford University historian Alan Strathern says some monks in Burma and Sri Lanka have been promoting aggression.

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BBC News - Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims?
 
I wonder if it has to do with some fundamentalist muslims such as the Taliban destroying ancient Buddha's which are hundreds if not 1000s of years old.
 
I especially love this quote: "The Bureau told the BBC that any American could make a gun for their own use, even on a 3D printer, but selling it required a licence." What a weird law.



US orders removal of 3D-gun designs

The US government has demanded that designs for a 3D printed gun be taken offline, citing fears over arms-control laws

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BBC News - US government orders removal of Defcad 3D-gun designs
 
3D printing is the future, though any gun made out of complete polymer isn't going to last long. Now printing all the parts but the barrel/action and buying real ones would be the smartest thing.
 
I love the smell of corruption in the morning. :D


Who are the Guptas?

Following the recent outrage in South Africa when a plane carrying Indian guests to a Gupta family wedding landed at a military air base, the BBC's Milton Nkosi asks: Who are the Guptas and how close are their links to President Jacob Zuma?

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BBC News - Who are the Guptas?
 
Most of the famous raids from the 2nd World War were just that - strategically unnecessary - The Doolittle Raid, the Raid on Santa Anna, the Great Raid were all for morale both in the Allied militarily's and public.
 
tschandler71 said:
Most of the famous raids from the 2nd World War were just that - strategically unnecessary - The Doolittle Raid, the Raid on Santa Anna, the Great Raid were all for morale both in the Allied militarily's and public.
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Agreed. I especially like the last line of the article: "The most important impact of the Dambusters raid may indeed have been in convincing people on both sides that the Allies were winning, and that, often, is how wars are won and lost."

The rescue of Mussolini by German paratroopers, I find to be extremely interesting, but we rarely hear fantastic stories about the losing side.
 
tschandler71 said:
Most of the famous raids from the 2nd World War were just that - strategically unnecessary - The Doolittle Raid, the Raid on Santa Anna, the Great Raid were all for morale both in the Allied militarily's and public.
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I Googled this, but only found reference to a Comanche chief.
 
nanoboy said:
I Googled this, but only found reference to a Comanche chief.
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yeah Santa Anna is Spanish it would be St Anne which was a fairly insignificant maneuver by the allies (actually American African American segregated units with Italian partisans) but in the process they discovered evidence of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre in which the Nazi's killed a bunch of Italian partisans and civilians. Like I said it was strategically insignificant but the propaganda value is what was taken from it. They made a historical fiction movie based on it and other events.
 
tschandler71 said:
yeah Santa Anna is Spanish it would be St Anne which was a fairly insignificant maneuver by the allies (actually American African American segregated units with Italian partisans) but in the process they discovered evidence of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre in which the Nazi's killed a bunch of Italian partisans and civilians. Like I said it was strategically insignificant but the propaganda value is what was taken from it. They made a historical fiction movie based on it and other events.
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Oh I see! I have read of the massacre. In a prolonged war, massacres seem to be the norm, and news of them barely rustles a feather. That reminds me of a recent article I read that I shall now post.
 
You know I am a Social Studies teacher right Nano? After the American Civil War (don't blame me I'm southern), the 2nd World War is my favorite section of history. I often read a lot of primary sources and books that show the Australians worked closely with the American/Canadian forces (in fact often in integrated command structures). Being a modern Australian, do you know if the attitude of the times was that the Aussies were just more pro American or did they see working with the US military as "leverage'? Because New Zealand, India, and other parts/former parts of the British Empire more often integrated into the armies of what is now the UK. Why did the Aussies go more pro American? Just battlefield strategy or were politics maybe even an anti British sentiment at play?
 
tschandler71 said:
You know I am a Social Studies teacher right Nano? After the American Civil War (don't blame me I'm southern), the 2nd World War is my favorite section of history. I often read a lot of primary sources and books that show the Australians worked closely with the American/Canadian forces (in fact often in integrated command structures). Being a modern Australian, do you know if the attitude of the times was that the Aussies were just more pro American or did they see working with the US military as "leverage'? Because New Zealand, India, and other parts/former parts of the British Empire more often integrated into the armies of what is now the UK. Why did the Aussies go more pro American? Just battlefield strategy or were politics maybe even an anti British sentiment at play?
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Man, what a complicated set of questions! :D

I am afraid that I cannot answer any of them, actually! I'll let some of the older or better-read Aussies have a crack at answering that.
 
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