China and memories:

Here is the evidence that the Chinese have long memories. They have not forgotten the whupping they got at the hands of the Mongols and to be prepared for their resurgence that they may thus have to face:

http://english.people.com.cn/90786/7754750.html

Then their latest whuppings were at the hands of the imperial powers for which they had to cede Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories and millions of acres of land to the Czar in her unequal treaties with him plus the rule of vast areas of China under the Japanese Imperial Army. The memory of all these wounds are   still fresh to the Chinese. In preparation for any resurgence in this area they are preparing themselves thus:

http://english.people.com.cn/90786/7753269.html

Some people view such preparations as China's unfolding agression and belligernce. Othes see it as following Baden Powell's advice to his boy scouts:

Be Prepared.

If this true, they will have to be really prepared for the United States as Obama has now declared that the U.S. will now assert its hegemony over the Eastern Pacific. How indeed would the U.S. respond, if China were to declare that it intends to assert its hegemony over the Western Pacific?

Check this. It was sent to me by a cousin in Malaysia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=HW_yXhxitzo

A statistic.

At the height of Buddhist Lamasrism I read that:



over 90+%  of the male population entered the lamaseries to be monks. The rest were serfs  to serve the High Lamas and landed aristocracy.

Is there an illogicality here?

Check this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9122961/Gay-marriage-is-like-slavery-Catholic-leader-says.html

This cardinal is man-of-a-special class, to wit a priest of the RC Church.

Men of his class have pursued homosexual relationships in the style of rampant libidinous flippant and uncommitted trysts with boys, youths and men.

However, when an attempt is made to engage in a permanent, loving relationship he condems it?!

Where is the difference - with the former, I have never read of a formal condemnation by the RC Chuch of its miscreants, but with the latter he voices his negativity.

Perhaps someone can illume me as to this anomaly - as I see it!

Now here is a point of view?

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid949801312001?bckey=AQ~~%2cAAAACEco_Vk~%2c9bOat4XcfB_88ri1a3UMdKnLpH9aM8Fv&bclid=0&bctid=1271237687001

AMAZING!

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-02/27/c_131434467.htm

And if you have seen them running and hopping about the face of mountain cliffs, then it is possible to see how they can do this.

Is this sane?

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-02/27/c_131434497.htm