The Natives are Restless

You know, we are lucky all of us that want to keep the pressure on China to be nicer to the Tibetans, that the Chinese authorities haven't even thought of conducting an information counter-campaign on the fates of America's Indian tribes. If the tables were turned and they were like us and we were like them, the Chinese television would be filled with movies and documentaries about the Trail of Tears, the cultural and literal genocides of countless native American tribes, the current state of Indian Reservations, and the fact that Native Americans are currently the poorest identifiable ethnic group in America. Just goes to show, they have a long way to go before being called a superpower.

The News Today

One conclusion I can draw from the news today is that China is several decades away from superpower status in this world, and it may actually never reach that status. This whole Tibet thing is so far behind the times that it just makes the Han Chinese look weak and paranoid. Of course, every other big power in the world is misbehaving too these days to some extent, but only one of them has a chunk of its territory as enormous as Tibet filled with a native population that wants outright independence. You'd think the Chinese would have the sense to look at examples of separatist movements in relatively tiny areas like Chechnya and Kashmir (and yes, even the somewhat related case of the recently acquired U.S. colony of Iraq), and then realize that the tough-guy approach can really sap the strength of even the largest governed countries. And the Chinese have two of these by the way, because Xinjiang (with its Uighur separatist movement) is almost as big as Tibet. What China needs to do is try to prove to these native populations that staying with China has benefits, which it could if China were more enlightened or even just more in tune with its own interests.

The until recently over-exuberant U.S. consumer is basically responsible for the Chinese economic miracle of the last ten years. Right now, that gravy train is breaking down and being stripped for scrap metal. Hence, with the demand for its manufactured goods about to drop through the floor, China is about to get such enormous social problems of its own that trying to keep Tibet and Xinjiang is going to become ruinous.

I Dig These Guys

These Pakistani demonstrating lawyers are the coolest thing to pop up in the news since the monks of Rangoon last year.

What Kind of Democracy

What kind of Democracy is it that a bunch of people who think they own the world (which they surely don’t!) tell someone else; who is doing better than them; they call him all kinds of names; they don’t want him in their fancy clubs, they just say that he should not have something which they ALL have, and they end up saying they want to proliferate in more sophisticated ways…? !

How in heaven can the US prove it is innocent after killing thousands of free people who were just living in their own homes?

In the name of What? In the name of Who?

The cowboys of Freedom Ranch and their legal advisers better stay and keep their cows back home, instead of wanting to bring freedom to other places outside their properties, showing off their killing machines and fancy toys. Their Freedom is only a means for them to kill as they please and their backwardness in understanding human civility and the fundamental rights (they seem to know nothing of ) will be their last historical achievement before the decline of their Empire….

The US and first lady Israel, and the rest of those who support them, should not be allowed to possess any weapons, not even a colt! Who knows what a mass murderer is capable of.

In a civilized world a serial killer should be stopped immediately, not a person who is forced to defend his legal sovereignty and basic rights. On March 5 in year 2008, a same day which the NPT, an international treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons entered into force back in 1970, those who are about to use their weapons to clean the face of earth of all “resistance”, will surely leave another stain on their own histories… and more blood on their dollars and non-sense…

Insanity has sunk too far in some brains as well as those sitting at the UNSC but they are not yet on the “terrorist lists”. All it needs is to be patient.

Democracy is dead. Long live Humanity.

Recycling Please!

Now that all of these SUV's are about to become too expensive to drive even by the most defiantly paranoid social eunuchs, the question arises as to what all of these soon-to-be derelict hunks of metal, plastic, and rubber should be used for? I guess that the best thing would be to separate out the components by material-type, melt them down, and then use them as raw materials for new, useful stuff like inexpensive bicycles, push-scooters, and little red wagons to drag to the grocery store and back.