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Had a word jousting match on FB yesterday, which ended with the following. It seems to kind of work, in this context.
Dissonance
Resonance
yes I am
Renaisance?
Assonance
asinine
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Yes! We have got to Chomsky. Now it's all on.
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Yes, yes, Ok, I'm guilty as...
Here's PCMAG article on the original topic, although nothing new I think.
And here's one on Google apologising to the Chinese Writer's Association for copyright infringement. Now that's the kind of irony I could get excited about.
Sorry if there are links to this above, but I lost the plot some time back, and this is the best I can do.
PS. It's California that's going for secession. More Irony, on topic, the headline banner on that page was 'Learn Chinese Online with Beijing's Best teachers.'
PPS Can I get some 'Fush 'n' Chups'. See below. I'm bending the time space continuum.
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Somebody alerted me to this earlier this morning - Things to remember while helping Haiti. Enjoy.
Holy cow, batman, that's a stinking pile of dog turd!
PS I used the word 'frankly' twice in a post! Surely there are rules against that sort of sanctimonious grandstanding. Frankly, who cares... D'oh!
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In this paper I demonstrate that the PRC's authorities make considerable efforts to win the loyalty of the overseas Chinese and to organise them in a strong and loyal ethnically con- scious and politically sympathetic pro-Beijing front of Chinese people who are concentrated outside the sovereignty of the PRC.
So? Frankly I didn't find anything in that paper that was particularly sinister, or certainly nothing to indicate they were planning to utilise their 'overseas Chinese' as a forward offensive for military invasion. Of course, in the event of War, that may be a different matter, but that seems so unrealistic I still can't even imagine it.
When the All Blacks play in London, we quite like our 'nationals' to go completely nuts too, and our Government supported PR campaign to this effect could be seen as subversive in this light. God help them if they go and support the Poms, or, and I'm prepared to go to war for this, the Australians!* And frankly, at least in my experience, a group of 'overseas Chinese nationals' parading during Chinese New Year is far more 'culturally enhancing', and 'nation-building', and altogether less sinister, than a bunch of Rugby heads on a bender.
*(Sorry, we love you all, but, ya know, it's Rugby)
overseas Chinese nationalism is essentially accommodating and inward-looking. Despite its similarity with the overseas nationalist movement in the pre-War decades in terms of its reactive nature, the new nationalism is unlikely to develop to the scale of its historical precedent and become a movement with a coherent regional/global following.
All seems pretty innocuous to me, but I'm just a stupid, delusional fool, according to various posts above, so I'll go get ready for the BDO. Whoops I mean 'work' ;-)
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And then we realise it's nearly 10pm and the other guy still believes China is about to invade and we are never going to convince them otherwise.
Yes, and with that we say, good night and good luck. I doubt he's watching anyway, or maybe he's collecting references? I'm going to the BDO tomorrow, so that will save me from more debasement.
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This is my second Doobie Brothers post of the day. Hey, sometimes I just need some Doobies, brother...
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I kind of lost it half way through I think. Danielle did come in with a WTF warning, but I'd been sucked into the vortex by that stage, and was letting my self-guided reductive missile get the better of me.
And we now know that the Death Star response is a much safer option, although I'm thinking the 'fucking big toaster' could have a future role also, in a Hitchhikers Guide sort of way.
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If you watch 'The War on Democracy' you can see how the American regime goes about trying to destabilise and infiltrate dissident groups to achieve it's 'altruistic' and 'democratic' goals in Venezuela. Interesting.
Oh, but that's by John Pilger. What does he know?
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Following protests and unrest which began in March in Lhasa the government originally detained over 1,000 people. Hundreds remained in detention or were unaccounted for at year’s end.
From here.
The United Nations estimates that there are about 4.5 million displaced Iraqis -- more than half of them refugees -- or about one in every six citizens. Only 5 percent have chosen to return to their homes over the past year, a period of reduced violence. . . . According to Unicef, many provinces report that less than 40 percent of households have access to clean water. More than 40 percent of children in Basra, and more than 70 percent in Baghdad, cannot attend school.
The mortality caused by the war is also high. Several household surveys were conducted between 2004 and 2007. While there are differences among them, the range suggests a congruence of estimates. But none have been conducted for eighteen months, and the two most reliable surveys were completed in mid-2006. The higher of those found 650,000 "excess deaths" (mortality attributable to war); the other yielded 400,000.
From here.
Nationwide, one in every 20 black men over the age of 18 is in prison. In five states, between one in 13 and one in 14 black men is in prison. This compares to one in 180 white men.
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