fulltimestudent
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What I learned from a cat ...
by fulltimestudent in.
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded?v=q34z5dcmc4m.
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What I learned from a cat ...
by fulltimestudent in.
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded?v=q34z5dcmc4m.
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Knife attack at Chinese school wounds 22 children
by puffthedragon inhttp://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/world/asia/china-knife-attack/index.html.
beijing (cnn) -- twenty-two primary school children were wounded in a knife attack friday in central china, authorities said.. the attack took place at the entrance to the chenpeng village primary school in henan province, according to the public information department of guangshan county, the area where the school is located.
an adult was also wounded, it said.. several of the children are in critical condition, the state-run website chinanews.com said, citing local authorities.. read more: malala is face of global attacks on schools.
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Stop arguing guys and start thinking ...
The American gun lobby, (which I am not supporting) is right, in that its not guns that do the killing, but people! However, they are wrong, to the extent that it is the gun that facilitates multiple deaths.
And, you do not need either guns or knives to kill, you only need faulty reasoning, as illustrated by this horrible single crime: Roderick Arlington, age 7, was beaten to death by his stepfather, for not reading the Bible (and bloody old Yahweh and his son did nothing to stop this murder, as usual).
So in an age when everyone thinks they have a right to untested opinions, how will this evil be ended?
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1iaG6a8cB9o#!
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Knife attack at Chinese school wounds 22 children
by puffthedragon inhttp://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/world/asia/china-knife-attack/index.html.
beijing (cnn) -- twenty-two primary school children were wounded in a knife attack friday in central china, authorities said.. the attack took place at the entrance to the chenpeng village primary school in henan province, according to the public information department of guangshan county, the area where the school is located.
an adult was also wounded, it said.. several of the children are in critical condition, the state-run website chinanews.com said, citing local authorities.. read more: malala is face of global attacks on schools.
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Its very difficult to understand this problem. And then this morning ( in Aussie land) I read of the terrible shooting of 28 kids plus adults (to a total of 27) in a school in Newtown, Connecticut.
I can (at least, to an extent) understand the social problems in China, a very old-established civilisation, fragmented by western penetration in the 19th century, and torn apart politicially in the twentieth century, and the further problems of social disharmony caused by the very rapid increase in national wealth that is notspread evenly through the community. And, I doubt that despite great progress in national health care, that there are adequate facilities for mental health care. (Not sure that mental health care is adequate in my own country).
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The End of Cheap Chinese Goods-What will it Mean for You?
by fulltimestudent inthe yahoo7 web-site (aussie version) carries an item with this heading.. find it at:.
its clear (to me, anyway) that big changes are coming, and have been in the pipe-line for at least 5 years.
it was about that long ago, that i noticed a news report saying that the guangdong (provincial) govt.
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Satanus, in response to your last question. Think about this. When the Spanish and Portuguese invaded the America's it did arouse some questions in the (Catholic) Universities of Europe. In particular, the question, "Is it right for one nation to invade another?" This was the beginning of "International Law," which I think you'll understand, was written by Europeans to suit European requirements.
The discussion went around and around, as such things tend to do, but out of it all came a conclusion: It's OK to invade another country, if that country had refused to accept the gospel of Jesus. Then you could invade and force them to become Christians. Of course, they were not as blunt about it as my summary, but in essence they said what I've said.
The evangelical Christians of the USA, did not originate this doctrine, but have been quite happy to borrow it. Its on record that a little church in England, faced with the moral dilemma that their "Christian" nation was warring on China to force them to import Opium, prayed (on paper) "Lord, we don't like the Opium bit, but we thank you that you've opened the way to convert these heathen.
Sorry, I cant give you references today, but I'll try to get around to it when I get my broadband connection back.
As, I've explained in my North Korea thread, it may be up to a week before I'm re-connected to the net. (And Australians think they've got the best system in the world!)
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Is North Korea Changing ?
by fulltimestudent inthere's a good chance that a process of change is occurring in nk, which i'll come back to, as first i'd like to briefly explain how korea became divided.. i've spent a lot of time this past calendar year on the history and development of korea, this last semester focussing on modern korea with all its sadness, commencing with the japanese takeover in 1905, and the full annexation and military occupation in 1910. .
many korean's (naturally) opposed the japanese occupation.
some actively fought the japanese as guerilla's in the mountains.
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If I do not post for a few days, do not worry I will return to respond and reveal.
I have been with the one telco for maybe 40+ years. I recently became (very) dissatisfied with what I get from them. Checking around I found much better deals, so this week commenced what I thought would be a 2-3 day process of changing fixed line, broadband and mobile service to other providers.
Hahahahhahahahaha!
It now appears that I will go off the air today, and maybe won't be back on for up to a week .....
If I was in the elite class in NK, I think I could do better.
But, I'm only a poverty stricken Australian student, in the grip of Australia's wonderfully efficient infrastructure.
So see you when I see you.
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Is North Korea Changing ?
by fulltimestudent inthere's a good chance that a process of change is occurring in nk, which i'll come back to, as first i'd like to briefly explain how korea became divided.. i've spent a lot of time this past calendar year on the history and development of korea, this last semester focussing on modern korea with all its sadness, commencing with the japanese takeover in 1905, and the full annexation and military occupation in 1910. .
many korean's (naturally) opposed the japanese occupation.
some actively fought the japanese as guerilla's in the mountains.
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further to my post responding to Nancy Drew's post.
Something quite sensational has happened in NK. (or, its sensational to NK watchers). A long time fixture on the waterfront in Pyongyang, has been the USS Pueblo. This ship, alleged to have been spying on the DPRK, (it was a USS Naval Intellgence gathering vessel) was captured by NK in 1968, and is the only commissioned USS Naval vessel in foreign (enemy?) hands. It's mooring place on the Taedong River is a Propaganda Museum to propogate the superiority of the DPRK and Kim Il-sung's philosophy of Juche.
The North Koreans are quite happy to give Americans a tour of the ship, and a US Naval Officer has posted photo's on the internet.
Now Nk.News.Org ( Not a NK News outlet, but a NK watcher) reports that the ship has disappeared from its usual mooring place.
www.nknews.org/2012/11/uss-pueblo-dissapears-from-pyongyang/
There is, naturally, speculation about the meaning of this disappearance. My guess is that its been moved to a dockyard for maintenance. All ships require dockyard maintenance periodically.
However, as NK.News.com reminds readers, in the year 2000 during talks in Pyongyang between NK and US Secretary of State (Madeleine Albright), NK offered to return the ship as part of a process to normalise diplomatic relations.
So now some are speculating that the ship's disappearance is linked to secret negotiations between Obama's US Administration and Kim Jong-un's NK administration. Is that view strengthened by the news of big changes in the NK power structure?
Little people like us can only stand and watch in awe at the antics of the powerful
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The End of Cheap Chinese Goods-What will it Mean for You?
by fulltimestudent inthe yahoo7 web-site (aussie version) carries an item with this heading.. find it at:.
its clear (to me, anyway) that big changes are coming, and have been in the pipe-line for at least 5 years.
it was about that long ago, that i noticed a news report saying that the guangdong (provincial) govt.
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But that's not all - under active consideration, is another rail link to the west.
This route would start in Shenzhen (near Hongkong) - a huge city that did not exist 40 years ago and cross 17 regions and countries and terminate in Europe.
The route will cross, Guangdong (Canton area), Guangxi, Yunnan (borders Myanmar) then cross into Myanmar, Bangladash, India, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey.
And, in parallel to the huge network that will be created by the existing and future freight rail links, there will be hi-speed (350+km/hour) passenger rail links whereever it can be justified.
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The End of Cheap Chinese Goods-What will it Mean for You?
by fulltimestudent inthe yahoo7 web-site (aussie version) carries an item with this heading.. find it at:.
its clear (to me, anyway) that big changes are coming, and have been in the pipe-line for at least 5 years.
it was about that long ago, that i noticed a news report saying that the guangdong (provincial) govt.
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Looking at the world, from the perspective of the map on the Polish-Chinese Chamber of Commerce site (in my previous post), gives us a sense of how the world is changing. Two customs unions brings you to the border of China. And, a rail link from China that makes Poland an important place in east-west trade.
While one super-power spends its wealth in killing and destruction, the other engages in activities that brings increasing prosperity to people. What makes more sense?
In the northern summer of 2011, something momentous happened in the Chinese city of Chongqing (population 30,000,000), located in the centre of China, the gateway to the poorer parts of China.
A train loaded with electronic products ( LCD tvs and laptops) from world brands, who have factories in the Chongqing area, began a journey to the west just as magical as the mythic journey in the Chinese epic. The train crossed Xinjiang, China's most western province, Kazakhatan, Russia, Belarus and Poland on its way to Duisburg and (soon) Antwerp. A new trade corridor opened that day for China and the inland provinces.
The former European Trade Commissioner Lord Mandelson, told a (British) Times reporter, that with the emergence of Chongqing as the "industrial and financial nexus of western China and even Central Asia," British businessmen had the "opportunity of a lifetime" to provide support services that would be needed in this area as the Global brands in electronics create this new centre that will be manufacturing 20% of (as an example) the world's laptops*.
These products are now arriving in Europe in a 1/3rd of the time and at a far lower cost than previously.
In China, this centre has already changed demographics. Migrant workers (ex-rural workers) will not have to travel so far for work. Many will re-locate to the Chongqing, which some reports suggest may grow to have a population of 50,000,000.
* Hewlett-Packard is one of the technology groups that opened a gargantuan factory in Chongqing. They set a condition for the Provincial government. We'll build a factory but we want a new cargo airbase nearby. HP got the air cargo base - built in record time.
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Is North Korea Changing ?
by fulltimestudent inthere's a good chance that a process of change is occurring in nk, which i'll come back to, as first i'd like to briefly explain how korea became divided.. i've spent a lot of time this past calendar year on the history and development of korea, this last semester focussing on modern korea with all its sadness, commencing with the japanese takeover in 1905, and the full annexation and military occupation in 1910. .
many korean's (naturally) opposed the japanese occupation.
some actively fought the japanese as guerilla's in the mountains.
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Blindnomore, your chosen nick for this site says a lot. In today's world, everyone is heavily indoctrinated. Look at the barrage of information that Americans had to try and make sense of during the recent Presidential election. And, unless you have the time and inclination to continually sort it out, it just becomes confusing. Truly we can be blinded by it all.
As, to the struggle facing NK defectors in a South Korea that has moved far from the 1950's, we only have to read the experiences of exJW's on this site to catch a glimpse of people with the same struggle.
And, then look at the people who went the other way and sense what's happening in their minds. Like this American Military defector, who still lives in NK, named James Dresnok. Sorry I can't give you the precise address (I've exceeded my web downloads for the month, and my provider has slowed me down, down, down) - but go to Youtube and search for Dresnok, crossing the line. There are six parts.