JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

We held some here for you.

See also, Foreign Affairs, MAR/APR 2017 at 83: “China’s Great Awakening: How the People’s Republic Got Religion” by Ian Johnson.

Highlights of Foreign Affairs essay:

China uses “amalgam” feature and approach to religion in everyday practices, life [@ 86].

Destroying superstition [@ 87].

Communist Mao Zedong bans religion in the late 1950’s in China. [John Lennon brought it Stateside with Yoko Ono, of Japanese decent @ 88]

Document 19: [Reforms of 1982 still in place but change inevitable].

Five official religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholic, Protestant [religious organizations led and financed domestically granted more leeway; informal Protestant churches show most gains in temple, church, mosque numbers recently [at 88-92; Compare Judaism, synagogues].

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/the-souls-of-china-the-return-of-religion-after-mao-ianjohnson-2017

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/the-souls-of-china-the-return-of-religion-after-mao-ianjohnson-2017

Marbury v. Madison still the law. Re: Immigration Executive Order based on national origins.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/federallitigation-delay-is-substantive-justice-marburyvmadison-bobgoodlatte6

NECRO-NIXON: Maybe.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/cnndonlemon-he-donaldtrump-needed-money-and-he-went-to-russia-and-theukraine-to-get-it

@DailyMail @nytimes Saw a picture of a bailee. Got a vicarious thrill out of mocking him via @twitter. Is this actionable? @gov @GloriaAllred.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/fair-game-on-social-media-criminal-bailees-for-instance

@business It is important to #actually not be a biased critic or #judge. For example, #internationalwomensday; skin in game can be a negative too @jack.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/twitter-as-private-attorney-general

The U.S. Government, its agents, affiliates, actors and offshore-balancers steal; what else is new? #sistema

SufferingTogether added,

Russia Insider @RussiaInsider

Medvedev: Russia Prepared For Permanent Economic Divorce With West http://russia-insider.com/en/medvedev-russias-western-friends-want-make-sanctions-permanent-were-cool/ri19155?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter …

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/control-the-orbit

@politico @POTUS IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE RULES, make new 1’s. #ISIL is now #ISIS, until further notice. #MGM’s #WizardofOz may object in #RollerballTournament.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/norulesnotimelimit-le-bout-de-r-the-orbit

Like the Arab Spring of 2011, if one doesn’t keep up with technology, one becomes vulnerable to being pushed aside by the adept [or the regulators; law].

See, Book Reviews by John Waterbury, Foreign Affairs, MARCH/APRIL 2017 at 184.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/it-is-not-enough-to-have-and-use-technology-one-must-constantly-keep-up-with-it-johnwaterbury