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	<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>FOOTBALL, ROBBEN ISLAND &#38; THE RELATIVISM OF POLITICAL CRUELTY</title>
		<link>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/07/16/football-robben-island-the-relativism-of-political-cruelty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamyang Norbu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Well, the World Cup’s over and the teams and visitors have all gone  home, but the afterglow of achievement hasn’t entirely faded for South  Africans. The people of this struggling &#8220;rainbow nation&#8221;, especially its  new president Jacob Zuma, can be deservedly proud of having  successfully hosted this tremendous international sporting event. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FUNERAL GAMES*</title>
		<link>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/06/26/funeral-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamyang Norbu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Few pleasures can beat the funeral of someone you loathe. It is not, I admit, a very Buddhist sentiment, but I think karma (the hardcore, not the new age version) will, this once, overlook my rancor, when I add that the someone in question is the late... ]]></description>
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		<title>RANGZEN ALLIANCE, SWITZERLAND</title>
		<link>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/06/24/rangzen-alliance-switzerland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamyang Norbu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in Switzerland at the beginning of this month and gave a slideshow and talk at Zurich on Saturday the 5th, &#8220;Was Tibet an Independent and Sovereign State?&#8221;, based on my essay Independent Tibet – The Facts, but with a more polemical title. The talk was well attended by Tibetans. In fact the auditorium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TREMORS OF HISTORY: GYALRONG 2008 &#38; 1775</title>
		<link>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/05/20/tremors-of-history-gyalrong-2008-1775/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 19:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamyang Norbu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You would think that the first requirement in reporting a natural disaster would be getting the name of the geographical location right, especially in the case of an earthquake, which unlike unlike a messy flood or a roving tornado, has an identifiable epicenter.]]></description>
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		<title>KYEGU, ON MY MIND</title>
		<link>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/04/24/kyegu-on-my-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamyang Norbu</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/?p=1290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I saw photographs of the tough, determined looking monks digging through the ruins of Kyegu town, I was struck by a sense of helplessness and frustration. Probably, some of you readers felt that way too. I wanted to be out there with those monks, helping to find survivors in the rubble, or at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Earthquake at Jyekundo</title>
		<link>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/04/15/the-great-earthquake-at-kyikudo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamyang Norbu</dc:creator>
		
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To read something insightful about this terrible tragedy, and also respectful of Tibetan history and culture, readers should to go to http://www.rangzen.net/2010/04/16/to-die-with-dignity-in-your-own-land/
Webmaster Christophe also compiled a high-resolution satellite image of Jyekundo City prior to the earthquake of April 14, 2010, from around one hundred Google maps screenshots. This image of 12212 x 5596 pixels can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CULT OF VICTIMHOOD: TWO STUDIES</title>
		<link>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/03/31/cult-of-victimhood-two-studies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamyang Norbu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Gaza strip to Dharamshala, the cult of victimhood is embraced from a shortsighted perception of the advantages it seemingly confers on weaker parties in their disputes with more powerful foes]]></description>
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		<title>WAITING FOR MANGTSO III</title>
		<link>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/03/22/waiting-for-mangtso-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/03/22/waiting-for-mangtso-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamyang Norbu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ONE SMALL STEP FOR DEMOCRACY&#8230;
.
Some of you may have noticed. One reader pointed it out in a comment on Phayul.com. The title of this three-part essay was borrowed (and tweaked) from Samuel Becket’s famous play, Waiting for Godot – probably the ur script in the theatre of the absurd.  A quick summary of the plot: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INDEPENDENT TIBET – THE FACTS</title>
		<link>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/03/04/independent-tibet-%e2%80%93-the-facts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/03/04/independent-tibet-%e2%80%93-the-facts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamyang Norbu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a considerably revised and expanded version of the document, Losar Gift for Rangzen Activists, that I posted on Feb 25, 2009. This version has new information and illustrations. Last year when I was in India I gave a talk and powerpoint presentation based on this essay...]]></description>
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		<title>THE HAPPY LIGHT BIOSCOPE THEATRE &#38; OTHER STORIES (PART 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/02/22/the-happy-light-bioscope-theatre-other-stories-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2010/02/22/the-happy-light-bioscope-theatre-other-stories-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamyang Norbu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From their first encounter with the modern world Tibetans appear to have taken to such inventions as photography with relative insouciance – considering Tibet’s reputation as a “forbidden land”. We hear of a Tibetan using a camera, and even compiling a photography manual, around 1881-82. The cine-camera, of course, came a bit later.]]></description>
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