Comments on: “That Lonely Thorn Tree”: An Asian Obsession Funds Killing in Zimbabwe http://themoderatevoice.com/24760/that-lonely-thorn-tree-an-asian-obsession-funds-killing-in-zimbabwe/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:33:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: river http://themoderatevoice.com/24760/that-lonely-thorn-tree-an-asian-obsession-funds-killing-in-zimbabwe/comment-page-1/#comment-166285 river Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:10:50 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/death/24760/that-lonely-thorn-tree-an-asian-obsession-funds-killing-in-zimbabwe/#comment-166285 This comes from the Tao Te Ching chapter 50. . . in modernity the predators have changed places. . .one can flip this one several ways and find irony. . .<br><br> Death enters man. . .<br> The limits of man:<br> Thirty years of growth;<br> Thirty years of decay;<br> Thirty years in between; <br> So death and life reproduce themselves.<br><br> He who would prolong his life<br> Will not meet tigers or rhinoceros in the wilds,<br> Nor soldiers in battle<br> So the rhinoceros finds no place in him for its horn,<br> The tiger no place for its claw,<br> The soldier no place for a weapon;<br> So death finds no place to enter his life. This comes from the Tao Te Ching chapter 50. . . in modernity the predators have changed places. . .one can flip this one several ways and find irony. . .

Death enters man. . .
The limits of man:
Thirty years of growth;
Thirty years of decay;
Thirty years in between;
So death and life reproduce themselves.

He who would prolong his life
Will not meet tigers or rhinoceros in the wilds,
Nor soldiers in battle
So the rhinoceros finds no place in him for its horn,
The tiger no place for its claw,
The soldier no place for a weapon;
So death finds no place to enter his life.

]]> By: archangel http://themoderatevoice.com/24760/that-lonely-thorn-tree-an-asian-obsession-funds-killing-in-zimbabwe/comment-page-1/#comment-166160 archangel Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:40:08 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/death/24760/that-lonely-thorn-tree-an-asian-obsession-funds-killing-in-zimbabwe/#comment-166160 thank you river for the link to help people see more of the story.... I've been sent so much on the dictator Mugabe from the people who live there, or who visited, invested, and love Zimbabwe. He and Than Shwe in Burma seem nearly interchangable.<br><br>dr.e thank you river for the link to help people see more of the story…. I've been sent so much on the dictator Mugabe from the people who live there, or who visited, invested, and love Zimbabwe. He and Than Shwe in Burma seem nearly interchangable.

dr.e

]]> By: river http://themoderatevoice.com/24760/that-lonely-thorn-tree-an-asian-obsession-funds-killing-in-zimbabwe/comment-page-1/#comment-166140 river Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:41:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/death/24760/that-lonely-thorn-tree-an-asian-obsession-funds-killing-in-zimbabwe/#comment-166140 Dr. E. thanks for bring this story to us. . .what a sad tragic story. . . could so feel the heart of these courageous souls trying to preserve the inexpressible grandness of the creatures in Zimbabwe. . .viewing the Zimbabweans at this time one could have understanding if it where for meat and their trying to ward off starvation. . .but his is fueled, by the all to sad much darker hunger, where greed dances with ignorance. . .How very sad for the people of Zimbabwe and her animals. . .i wish everyone world could see this country and her creatures. . .they are sooooo. . .very amazing and grand. . .Mugabe has brought such "great night" to Zimbabwe. . .<br><br>After reading the story of Makeba a few weeks ago found this on UTube. . .this short video was produced by the Pulitzer Center and shown on Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria about the poaching in Zimbabwe. . . and it illustrates so much of this story Dr. E. . .<br><br>In Focus Zimbabwe: Poaching Paradise<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJMhdlbKmpY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJMhdlbKmpY</a> Dr. E. thanks for bring this story to us. . .what a sad tragic story. . . could so feel the heart of these courageous souls trying to preserve the inexpressible grandness of the creatures in Zimbabwe. . .viewing the Zimbabweans at this time one could have understanding if it where for meat and their trying to ward off starvation. . .but his is fueled, by the all to sad much darker hunger, where greed dances with ignorance. . .How very sad for the people of Zimbabwe and her animals. . .i wish everyone world could see this country and her creatures. . .they are sooooo. . .very amazing and grand. . .Mugabe has brought such “great night” to Zimbabwe. . .

After reading the story of Makeba a few weeks ago found this on UTube. . .this short video was produced by the Pulitzer Center and shown on Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria about the poaching in Zimbabwe. . . and it illustrates so much of this story Dr. E. . .

In Focus Zimbabwe: Poaching Paradise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJMhdlbKmpY

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