I tried to add/reply to my own post ('China Holds Mortgage -' down a ways), but that didn't work, and it went here as a post, so I might as well just leave it.
I don't really want to be a bigot, but these questions and feelings just occur. As Sr Aloysius cried, 'I doubt! I DOUBT!!' Woe is we.
'...and, yes, I know that there are many races / subracial types, in the morphological / physical / genetic sense...' Unlike current Tea Party Repub Senate candidate Sharron 'BS & Backtracking' Angle, who's presently trying to spin her way out of challenging the propriety of a Hispanic interest group in her audience, because a lot of them looked Asian to her. We are so schizoid, so multifariously whack on the subject of RACE. How can we make any progress when the word itself, and all that pertains to it, is so individually understood (in the sense of being pertinently different in concept to how the same is understood by others, especially if those others aren't just tunnel-visioned 'truthiness' raging bigots)? It doesn't help for airy idealists to try to wish it away, or for one bunch of scientist to say that DNA scientists prove it's an illusion while others (calling Prof. Gates and his TV show -among others!) use DNA markers to 'prove' you're this or that much of some 'race' because you had ancestors who sometime clustered and bred on one of three continents... Even though all those continents have always, in human history and prehistory, have each had folk of the full span of human coloration and morphology...Which is one way we mean 'race', while (especially outside the present English-speaking world), the word has like been used to mean 'ethnicity as national/tribal affiliation and culture'. We all just don't know what we really mean by 'race'.
I wonder if this is true:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_aboriginals
'Reports from American envoys and others suggest that Taiwanese aboriginals under Qing rule were treated extremely harshly. Presbyterian missionary George Leslie Mackay in From far Formosa (1896) reported that "if a savage is killed inland, the heart is eaten, flesh taken off in strips, and bones boiled to a jelly and preserved as a specific for malarial fever" (Mackay 1896:276). American consul James W. Davidson described in The Island of Formosa (1903) how the Han Chinese in Taiwan ate and traded in their aboriginal victims' flesh (Davidson 1903:255), a practice also mentioned by Owen Rutter in Through Formosa (1923), whose account bears some similarities to Davidson's (Rutter 1923:224–225). Sangren, in History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community (1987) mentions Davidson's account, adding that elderly Ta-ch'i informants had corroborated his claims (Sangren 1987:223).'
Soooooooooooooo un-PC of me (and the above 'Yellow Peril' era quotes may be abominable false witness for political agendae) but it does seem that what (used to?) be called 'the Mongoloid Race' has tended to slip a little more easily into exigent or inimical cannibalism than the other so-called 'races'. If this is so, I wonder if it might be because 'race scientists' have said the characteristic 'Mongoloid' morphology originated as adjustments to arctic conditions: Which until recent times = a long season of STARVATION. (We know that the tall, pale, hairy, beaky-nosed 'Euroids' of Scandinavia and Russia went Androphagi in the same circumstances) This might well also relate to the comparative lack of food taboos had by Mongoloid people, particularly the frequent cultural readiness to eat dogs, cats, and primates, which other races tend to think of as 'family member' species.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Too Many Obits: Gallery 2010 as All Souls Approaches
Started this blog attentive of obituary salutes and trying to stay away from whining and snarling and politics~ have failed bigtime at both... But here's a link to a picture gallery of some famous deceased in this year so far. A few perhaps would have been 'better to have had millstones attached to their necks and been drowned in the depths of the sea' than to have caused the harm they did, but most of them, ahhhhh... You were a part of our lives; a good and willing exchange of life and energy. Your ghosts, and so very many other friendly phantoms, ever welcome in the spacious tabernacles of our tattered hearts: Take another piece of our hearts with you to those everlasting green pastures of blissful peace!!!
http://www.aolnews.com/entertainment/article/barbara-billingsley-beaver-cleavers-tv-mom-dies/19677013
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Scariest Movie in America
"Crumbling of America" "History Channel" - Forestle search = about 3,490.
http://us.forestle.org/en/search.php?q="Crumbling%20of%20America"%20"History%20Channel"
This documentary is the most truly horrifying movie in America. Combine the mega-disasters of Katrina-Rita, firestorms across the world in recent years, the BP spill and the toll of our Middle Eastern wars, and that still would be relatively trivial compared to the only-a-matter-of-time global catastrophe, hydra-headed threat to our CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE.
For at least the last 40 years, presidential candidates have been promising 'elect me and I'll fix the infrastructure' (while 'creating jobs for Americans', 'getting free of [foreign-at-least] fossil fuel dependency', stopping pollution, etc.), and blowing it all to the wind in favor of war, 'wars' over tax-break favoritism, and endless campaigning once they're actually in office. We citizens, en masse, show our concern by hanging on every detail of meta-addicted plutocrat poptarts' latest court-plea fashion statements--
And let the TRILLIONS of dollars, billions of tons of materials, and armies of manpower we need to fix it get devoured in foreign lands and in outrageous wanton waste here at home.
It would not be good enough to to really be righteous if we put our hideous, awesomely vulnerable power grid (poles, skeletal 'towers', etc., ever more cable-webworking out the sky and necessitating the mangling or eradication of our life-giving urban forest) underground (with all manner of security protocols actually employing competent loyal natural American citizens), and dredge out dams below depths that make them such downstream flood hazards, while using the soil and rock removed to (with more advanced construction engineering, free-energy onsite electrical safety/warning devices, etc.,) raise levees, thicken fill-dam walls, fill sinkholes, berm erosion, restore islands, and such, but it would be immeasurably better than what we have been doing - or not doing, unless you consider IGNORING LIKELY APOCALYPTIC DANGERS an 'activity'.
http://us.forestle.org/en/search.php?q="Crumbling%20of%20America"%20"History%20Channel"
This documentary is the most truly horrifying movie in America. Combine the mega-disasters of Katrina-Rita, firestorms across the world in recent years, the BP spill and the toll of our Middle Eastern wars, and that still would be relatively trivial compared to the only-a-matter-of-time global catastrophe, hydra-headed threat to our CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE.
For at least the last 40 years, presidential candidates have been promising 'elect me and I'll fix the infrastructure' (while 'creating jobs for Americans', 'getting free of [foreign-at-least] fossil fuel dependency', stopping pollution, etc.), and blowing it all to the wind in favor of war, 'wars' over tax-break favoritism, and endless campaigning once they're actually in office. We citizens, en masse, show our concern by hanging on every detail of meta-addicted plutocrat poptarts' latest court-plea fashion statements--
And let the TRILLIONS of dollars, billions of tons of materials, and armies of manpower we need to fix it get devoured in foreign lands and in outrageous wanton waste here at home.
It would not be good enough to to really be righteous if we put our hideous, awesomely vulnerable power grid (poles, skeletal 'towers', etc., ever more cable-webworking out the sky and necessitating the mangling or eradication of our life-giving urban forest) underground (with all manner of security protocols actually employing competent loyal natural American citizens), and dredge out dams below depths that make them such downstream flood hazards, while using the soil and rock removed to (with more advanced construction engineering, free-energy onsite electrical safety/warning devices, etc.,) raise levees, thicken fill-dam walls, fill sinkholes, berm erosion, restore islands, and such, but it would be immeasurably better than what we have been doing - or not doing, unless you consider IGNORING LIKELY APOCALYPTIC DANGERS an 'activity'.
Friday, September 17, 2010
ABATEMENT: local; long-needed
(Quickies:)
EPA proposes $69.2 million plan to contain 4.2-mile-long contaminated underground water plume from Whittier to Norwalk
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_15966083?source=rss
also~
Number of illegal immigrants in U.S. now declining
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_15965391
Had to happen eventually. Took all the jobs left in the US - the rest were outsourced (often by the same frequently FOREIGN-on-US-soil / formerly American businesses who hired - or even brought them in and doubled their lawscoffing by keeping them in various kinds of illegal and immoral thralldom), and now, like their anchor-babies who grow up with other native-born Americans, have the career choices of (1.) Killer Cannon-Fodder for Endless War. (2.) Crime. ...Bridging these two, of course, are the few (but still utterly too many), the (satanically) proud executive and demagogue lackeys of the insatiable bloodsuckers who exploit it all.
...Not for me to judge, but I can't help thinking that the tubes sticking out of Dick Cheney's chest are uh, }}ahem! {{ KARMA's piquant way of saying, 'Now more like Vladimir Harkonnen than ever!!'
EPA proposes $69.2 million plan to contain 4.2-mile-long contaminated underground water plume from Whittier to Norwalk
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_15966083?source=rss
also~
Number of illegal immigrants in U.S. now declining
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_15965391
Had to happen eventually. Took all the jobs left in the US - the rest were outsourced (often by the same frequently FOREIGN-on-US-soil / formerly American businesses who hired - or even brought them in and doubled their lawscoffing by keeping them in various kinds of illegal and immoral thralldom), and now, like their anchor-babies who grow up with other native-born Americans, have the career choices of (1.) Killer Cannon-Fodder for Endless War. (2.) Crime. ...Bridging these two, of course, are the few (but still utterly too many), the (satanically) proud executive and demagogue lackeys of the insatiable bloodsuckers who exploit it all.
...Not for me to judge, but I can't help thinking that the tubes sticking out of Dick Cheney's chest are uh, }}ahem! {{ KARMA's piquant way of saying, 'Now more like Vladimir Harkonnen than ever!!'
'Appalling' Surveillance of Peaceful Demonstrators
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/pennsylvania-governor-ed-rendell-appalled-at-states-tracking-of-peaceful-activists/19634948?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%7C171105
And even this neo-totalitarian effort at 'homeland security' is OUTSOURCED; the name of the agency is 'Institute of Terrorism Research and Response'. Forestle Search it, whydoncha. Here's the 'nonprofit' ={{{koff - yeahright -koff}}}= link on it:
http://www.terrorresponse.org
You, too, can be suspect with a dossier 'n' stuff, and have secret warnings sent out about you. Go ahead and protest anything! ANYthing!
And even this neo-totalitarian effort at 'homeland security' is OUTSOURCED; the name of the agency is 'Institute of Terrorism Research and Response'. Forestle Search it, whydoncha. Here's the 'nonprofit' ={{{koff - yeahright -koff}}}= link on it:
http://www.terrorresponse.org
You, too, can be suspect with a dossier 'n' stuff, and have secret warnings sent out about you. Go ahead and protest anything! ANYthing!
Chinese hold Mortgage on USA; Swoop Up American Forclosures
Among many articles:
http://www.topix.com/forum/business/real-estate/T6EAMFCET6HKSJKJ3 (Focusses mostly on the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County - as well it might, regarding private home purchases - but it's all over, including many big famous businesses, rural properties, etc.).
I have nothing against people who are racially Chinese - indeed, the Han seem to produce more exquisite beauty and brilliant brains than most of the rest of us (and, yes, I kow that there are many races / subracial types, in the morphological / physical / genetic sense, in China), and there are innumerable honorably admirable things about Chinese culture (is it the OLDEST of all?)... But there are pervasive traditional aspects of it so coldly ruthless and insularly arrogant that I dread them more than the violence and wantonness of the Western and African world, the Sharia extremists and dhimmi-jihadists of the Islamic world, or fulfillment of the reconquistadores de Aztlan's most aggressive dreams. It may be irrational, bigoted, paranoid.......But nothing says LOST to me more than Chinese takeover.
http://www.topix.com/forum/business/
I have nothing against people who are racially Chinese - indeed, the Han seem to produce more exquisite beauty and brilliant brains than most of the rest of us (and, yes, I kow that there are many races / subracial types, in the morphological / physical / genetic sense, in China), and there are innumerable honorably admirable things about Chinese culture (is it the OLDEST of all?)... But there are pervasive traditional aspects of it so coldly ruthless and insularly arrogant that I dread them more than the violence and wantonness of the Western and African world, the Sharia extremists and dhimmi-jihadists of the Islamic world, or fulfillment of the reconquistadores de Aztlan's most aggressive dreams. It may be irrational, bigoted, paranoid.......But nothing says LOST to me more than Chinese takeover.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Insane Transmission Tower Lines
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_16008367?source=rss
Edison's new power scheme is an abomination. It recalls T. Edison's ruthless thievishness and relish to electrocute man and beast for monopolistic profit.
Nothing is more vulnerable to terrorist efficacy or natural disaster than our exposed power grid. It has also been proven that illness and deformity increase in areas near electrical transmission towers. God only knows what damage is done to body, mind and spirit as trees are butchered or forbidden so that we may be ever more trapped under the cross-hung webwork of wire!
If we really cared about a safe, employed America, we would stop feeding all we have to war profiteers and other government contract bloodsuckers, and start a grand project to PUT POWERLINES AND GOODS TRANSPORTATION UNDERGROUND; WELL-GUARDED.
And~ What power might be generated if even ONE transmission tower was hung full of louvered-reel generators and photoelectric cells?
Edison's new power scheme is an abomination. It recalls T. Edison's ruthless thievishness and relish to electrocute man and beast for monopolistic profit.
Nothing is more vulnerable to terrorist efficacy or natural disaster than our exposed power grid. It has also been proven that illness and deformity increase in areas near electrical transmission towers. God only knows what damage is done to body, mind and spirit as trees are butchered or forbidden so that we may be ever more trapped under the cross-hung webwork of wire!
If we really cared about a safe, employed America, we would stop feeding all we have to war profiteers and other government contract bloodsuckers, and start a grand project to PUT POWERLINES AND GOODS TRANSPORTATION UNDERGROUND; WELL-GUARDED.
And~ What power might be generated if even ONE transmission tower was hung full of louvered-reel generators and photoelectric cells?
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