{"id":26053,"date":"2013-02-25T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=26053"},"modified":"2013-02-25T13:12:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:12:50","slug":"the-world-as-seen-from-mt-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/02\/the-world-as-seen-from-mt-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"The World as Seen from Mt Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Weekly Mirror<\/i>—www.weeklymirror.com.np<\/a>–published Mondays in Kathmandu is a remarkable mirror of the world seen from above.\u00a0 Prem Kumari Pant, the editor, is a Nepali in the country where Buddha was born in Lumbini. Buddhism, now 9% as against hinduism-brahmanism 80%, migrated to India, and was forced south to Sri Lanka where 5th century buddhist monks invented the Mahawamsa<\/i> doctrine.\u00a0 They were the “chosen people”, by the Buddha, to make Sri Lanka a home for buddhism.\u00a0 They had not only the right but the duty to eliminate Tamil claims on a part of the land: Go home to where you came from; Sri Lanka is our homeland, language, religion; no buddhist nonviolence and compassion.<\/p>\n

She is also chairperson of the Nepal-China society. Tibet is seen less as suppressed part of China and more as home of Tantric buddhism–a strong link to the giant neighbor to the North.\u00a0 Nepal’s majority is India-oriented, but the Weekly Mirror<\/i> takes a world view from high up, and that highest peak, Mt Everest, is closer to China.\u00a0 Somebody once climbed it, “because it is there”, to get a closer look at China.<\/p>\n

Look at some samples from articles, with as little guarantee for the veracity as for the mainstream media down there in the plains:<\/p>\n

* Latin America’s economic stability aroused the envy of EU at the CELAC (33 members)-EU (27 members) summit meeting–Spain shrank 0.6% in 2012, Chile grew 5.5%, “Latin Americans–do not face contradictions of the sort between Merkel and Rajoy”;<\/p>\n

* Chilean president formally handed the CELAC presidency to Castro:\u00a0 “You will have the total and absolute support of everybody here”.\u00a0 Castro pledged that he would work to fulfill the dream of Simon Bolivar of unity within diversity.\u00a0 Next summit in La Habana in 2015″;<\/p>\n

* The dispute over the ownership of the Senkaku-Diaoyu islands reignited in 2012 when the Japanese government purchased three of the islands from the private Japanese owners”;<\/p>\n

* “What is the eventual outcome of putting society’s basic human needs last? Poor mental and physical health, poor educational opportunities, a poorly trained work force, underemployment, drug use, hopelessness, suicidal, homicidal, addictive behavior, domestic abuse, street gangs, prostitution–a desire to retaliate against a system of government and corporate control.” And, “Wasteful war industry jobs cost twice as much to generate as jobs in health care, education, infrastructure repair”;<\/p>\n

* China’s foreign trade was sluggish in 2012, up only 6.2%–exports 7.9%, imports 4.3%, trade surplus 49.2%–but the trade structure changed.\u00a0 EU is still no. 1 and USA no. 2 for export, but more growth with emerging economies; much more export from mid-Western regions of China, more growth for export of mechanical and electrical products, more import increase in resources other than energy, reforms coming;<\/p>\n

* Japan’s LDP-Liberal Democratic Party policy is “the military unshackled from constitutional restraints matched by a unilateral monetary policy aimed at weakening the yen and expanding exports–expanding the inflation target from 1 to 2 percent in line with US Federal Reserve’s “quantitative easing”–read printing money–“in 2012 Japan experienced the largest ever trade deficit–exports plunged 5.8% overall and 15.8% to China amid sharp tensions–import increased, particularly of energy after Fukushima”;<\/p>\n

* in Mali, according to researcher Christopher Bollyn, the much desired gold mines are the property of the unavoidable Rothschild–the French soldiers basically defend the interests of Areva, the French nuclear crumbling giant” and “the Areva uranium production in Niger”;<\/p>\n

* “The Gulf war and the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade jarred China. Military technological research and development, which mainly started after the 1990s, are witnessing a sudden surge.”;<\/p>\n

* Indian farmers, with a noose of debt around the neck, takes his or her life on the average every thirty minutes, 300,000+, the largest in human history, with 400 attempts daily on the average”;<\/p>\n

* Evo Morales’ Bolivia is “pluri-national”, with equal rights for all;<\/p>\n

* “In short, apart from not having solved a single diplomatic issue, Hillary Clinton leaves the diplomatic arena far worse off than it was when she took office”;<\/p>\n

* “CIA’s secret prison: Poland dragging out investigation”;<\/p>\n

* “Nepal links China with 1.3 billion with South Asia with 1.5 billion for trilateral coordination with great opportunities for all three”;<\/p>\n

* “Thousands rally against Munich Security Conference”;<\/p>\n

* “US Dollar Collapse: Where is Germany’s Gold?–Germany wants 50% o its total gold reserves back in Frankfurt–including 300 tons from the US Federal Reserve.\u00a0 The Fed refused to submit to an audit of its holdings.\u00a0 The popular explanation: the same bullion is earmarked as collateral for a host of different lenders–.\u00a0 And don’t forget China. Once the biggest purchaser of US bonds, it is now a net seller of Treasuries, while simultaneously gobbling up gold”;<\/p>\n

* “Do US war-makers want their wars to end?\u00a0 Perhaps if they can end without slowing the flow of war spending, and can end violently”;<\/p>\n

* “Remembering Stalingrad victory–claiming nearly 2 million lives”;<\/p>\n

* “China unveils reform guidelines for a more transparent, fair and reasonable income distribution–for people to share the development”;<\/p>\n

* “Two thirds of India’s 1.1 billion live on less than one dollar a day”; “Globalization: Stealing wealth and health in India”;<\/p>\n

* “America’s foreign policy: Have war lovers learnt anything?”;<\/p>\n

* “Nuclear test: What follows Pyongyang’s dangerous atomic gambit”;<\/p>\n

* “US-Saudi funded terrorists sowing chaos in Pakistan-Baluchistan”;<\/p>\n

* “Austerity can’t solve crises of capitalism–most dangerous are cuts in federal spending, including cuts to Social Security benefits”.<\/p>\n

Did you learn something? Not unknown but not up front.\u00a0 Add, say, International Herald Tribune<\/i> for mainstream views and a reader becomes well informed.\u00a0 The world becomes more transparent, seen from high up.<\/p>\n

____________________<\/p>\n

Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU<\/a>. He is author of over 150 books on peace and related issues, including \u2018<\/i>50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives,\u2019 published by the TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgment and link to the source, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, is included. Thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nepal – Tibet is seen less as suppressed part of China and more as home of Tantric buddhism–a strong link to the giant neighbor to the North. Nepal’s majority is India-oriented, but the Weekly Mirror takes a world view from high up, and that highest peak, Mt Everest, is closer to China. Somebody once climbed it, “because it is there”, to get a closer look at China. The world becomes more transparent, seen from high up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}