Quick notes: Rocket Force | Indian capitalism...

• China's Rocket Force is nullifying U.S. military primacy in Asia: This dramatic shift could render American carriers – the backbone of U.S. military supremacy – obsolete in a conflict with China.



• Indian capitalism needs to be saved from capitalists : Business “promoters,” have used a mix of personality cult and proximity to political power to terrorize the ultimate providers of outside capital
  
  
• Kickbacks for setting up fulfilment centres: Flipkart under Walmart lens for ‘kickbacks’ paid to govt officials



• Gorillas pose for selfie: "They are imitating the humans" - and standing on two legs is their way of "learning to be human beings".




• More catholics questioning their church: Sex abuse scandals prompt more to personally question ties to church.



• “Only Catholics live in Poland”: US ambassador accused of offending Poland for Passover wishes, some calling it a “provocation.” Poland was home to Europe’s largest Jewish population before the 1939 occupation by Nazi Germany



• CIA warning: Huawei is funded by Chinese state security



• Beyond Happiness And Unhappiness:

  The self is a story line that develops in the head, very much like a fictitious creation. Yet it forms the basis of most people’s sense of who they are, and that sense, of course, is reinforced by the surrounding world.
  
  You attack other people’s positions because you are defending a fictitious sense of self. You are so identified with your position that you feel the need to defend it as if it were your life. It’s not your life, of course . . . but that is what it feels like.
  
  The good news is that you don’t need another thousand years to become free. All you need is to become present to this moment; to open yourself up to the fullness that already is, now.