Eric Arnow

Angry Uncle Sam. His plot failed again

5 Big Victories: Vladimir Putin Wins Landslide Election

Curses, Foiled Again! Western Attempts to Oust Vladimir Putin and Subjugate Russia Fail Again–Big Time! Well, it’s really teeth gnashing time, big time. Vladimir Putin wins in a landslide election. It’s Putin’s 5th election win.  And Uncle Sam, who’s been diligently trying to undermine the ‘evil dictator’ Vladimir Putin, has failed, with the Russian President re-elected yet again, and this time with an overwhelming 87% Yes vote, in a record 77% turnout. The Communist Party, which usually comes in second in Russian elections, scored only about 4%. The next best result was the New People’s Party, which scored slightly less. …

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Dualistic thinking. compared with Oriental thinking (nondualistic)

Dualistic Thinking and Ego: The Roots of Global Conflict

Dualistic Thinking and Ego: The Roots of Western Conflict “Liars, Murderers, all of you liars! You’re only happy when you see something die..why don’t you kill yourselves and be happy…You and your ‘God’s country…Freedom’! I pity you!…you’re three DEAD Men!”                                                                                    –Marilyn Monroe, in her last movie, The Misfits, 1962. She watched as Clark Gable tied up a horse to …

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toxic people

Many Toxic People: Remembering Victoria Nuland, AKA ‘Toria the Terrible’

On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland Remembering Victoria Nuland   Washington DC has been called the Swamp. It looks to be filled with toxic people. Victoria Nuland first came into my consciousness with the notorious intercepted phone call with the US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in February, 2014. It was bad enough that she was planning a coup, which was obvious from the discussion of which puppet would run the country. But her crude remark overriding any sentiments of the EU—’ And you know, Fu(k the EU’, was so undiplomatic, to use a mild …

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pervasive feeling of anxiety and panic among western leaders

Western Leaders, So Smug a Year Ago, Are Feeling Anxiety and Panic

Anxiety and Panic Have Seized the Formerly Smug Nato Western Elites Before I left the USA in 2004, I asked myself, “Is America redeemable?” And the answer I came up with, was ‘no’. While the Western leaders put on a brave face, in fact, they are increasingly anxious and panicking, as they lose control, not just of the situation but of the narrative as they pull the wool over the eyes of their people.   When Things Are Out of Control, Withdraw I was also introduced to Confucian basics in a little Zen group one day seminar. I was struck …

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10 Reasons Why Jill Stein Is the Best Candidate for 2024

What Chance Does Jill Stein Have to Be POTUS in 2024?   Here We Go Again—Another Edition of the Presidential Soap Opera Here we are in 2024, and the quadrennial US Presidential fiasco is gaining steam. And let’s be frank: Jill Stein has got the slimmest of chances this year of being elected President. What’s more, if she were elected, she’d have to deal with the “Washington DC Blob”. So why waste time writing an article about Jill Stein and why she’s the best candidate for 2024?   Bleak US political Situation Here are a couple of notable quotes I …

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Does America hate china? American bald eagle and chinese dragon glaring at each other

6 Reasons Why You Should Hate China–Sarcasm or Propaganda?

There Are 6 Reasons Why You Should Hate China   There’s a big controversy these days in the West over who is the real Boogey Man, you know, evil incarnate. Lex Luthor or even Satan himself….or maybe even China?? So I am going to make it easy for you in this article to explain why you should hate China…not that Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Syria, aren’t about to wreck our great Western, and especially American (that is the United States of America) way of life. The two Coke or Pepsi political parties we have to choose from, …

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My China Pilgrimage started with meeting Xiao Jun Jie and Meio Guang Fashi, my first two Chinese friends

My China Pilgrimage: The Greatest Experience of My Life

Background to My Talk   My China Pilgrimage was the most transformative experience of my life.  On January 21st, 2014, I gave a talk to a group of monks at Wat Suan Dok, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. They are students at a University associated with the temple, Wat Suan Dok. These monks come from Nepal, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao. After I gave my presentation, there was a question and answer session for about an hour. Here are some of the thoughts I expressed at the meeting. First, I told them that I had studied basic traditional Buddhism at the San …

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A Fun Day in Irkutsk, The ‘Cool’ Capital of the Irkutsk Oblast (Region)

  Where in the World Is Irkutsk? As you can see according to the World Atlas, Irkutsk is midway across the vast country of Russia, which itself spans multiple time zones. It’s north of Mongolia, and directly north of China, Thailand and Southeast Asia. Because of this, it is a crossroad of various cultures, both Mongolian, Central Asian Turkic, Slavic and numerous indigenous communities. Russia comprises well over 100 different ethnic groups and languages. All recognized and supported. By Pablitto, Marcin Konsek, Ася Волкова, Vaiz Ha, Fanzuga, Вячеслав Ребров.Pablitto – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57146326. Pictured above are some …

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Eric sitting in front of an old Chinese temple

Why Sit?

What Is This Thing About Sitting Meditation?   Sometimes I wonder what it is that makes me sit and practice, and after all, why lots of people throughout history have done so. Most people, especially Westerners think that meditation is something weird or even dangerous. Years ago, I visited a community not too far from my university. This was a time of burgeoning spirituality in 1970.  I was talking with one of the members of the community and when I told him I was interested in meditation, he replied that meditation was a sin. Since when has breathing while being …

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Political corruption. Politicians and the Capitol awash with cash

Is Trump the Answer: 18 Historical Facts about Trump

Here We Go Again Well, here we are again in another Presidential electoral circus. I so recall the horror that people felt about a possible Trump reelection. And why Biden represented the ‘sane alternative’ (presumably). As for Trump fans, if the record presented here suits you, I have nothing more to say. Now, many who foolishly voted for Biden, thinking he would be an improvement over Trump, think that Trump will be an improvement over Biden. Never mind Biden’s mental state, his numerous betrayals of the people (breaking railroad worker strikes, making student loan forgiveness a shadow of what’s needed, …

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