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French president: All combat troops out in 2012
French President Francois Hollande for the first time provided details of his plan to pull France’s combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, saying Friday he would leave around 1,400 soldiers behind to help with training and logistics.
The new French leader, making good on one of the major foreign-policy promises of his campaign, confirmed in a one-day visit to Afghanistan that all of France’s 2,000 combat troops would be brought home by the end of this year — putting France on a fast-track exit timetable that sparked consternation among some allies at a NATO summit in Chicago early this week.
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Azealia Banks - Van vogue (New)
oh shit.
I actually have not heard a single song by her I haven’t loved.
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Politicians watch the Chelsea vs FC Bayern München soccer game during G8 summit in Camp David.
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Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
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The lama who passed away while I was in South India remained in what we call a meditative, post-death state for 15 days, as of last count. This is one of the little known secrets of our tradition.
Following death of the body, a high lama will often use the passage to elevate their consciousness toward higher realms of enlightenment. The death process is an opening for accelerated work toward buddhahood on behalf of all living beings.
At the invitation of His Holiness, neuroscientists have checked the body and brain of the lama and found that his body is, without question, functionally quite dead. No pulse, internal organ activity, or EEG activity in most parts of his brain.
However, the neuroscientists were surprised (closer to stunned) to find that one part of his brain, often associated with higher states of consciousness, was still firing with small signals, many days after bodily death. This is considered to be impossible by Western medical standards.
This is a picture of a another lama who passed away last night, still seated in a meditative posture and state. This photo was taken after his body died. Look into his face and see what you see.
His body will remain undisturbed until he is ready to move on. The monks around him will safeguard this passage
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