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  A Difference between Chns News and West.News- (Warning-Graphic Content)

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  if you do not like seeing death as real - do not read on:.

  i've noticed this difference before, in western (anglosphere) media outlets, the news is sanitised, with views of death removed.

  a consequence is that war is not quite real to many living in the anglosphere.

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  A Difference between Chns News and West.News- (Warning-Graphic Content)

  by fulltimestudent in

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  if you do not like seeing death as real - do not read on:.

  i've noticed this difference before, in western (anglosphere) media outlets, the news is sanitised, with views of death removed.

  a consequence is that war is not quite real to many living in the anglosphere.

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  A Difference between Chns News and West.News- (Warning-Graphic Content)

  by fulltimestudent in

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  if you do not like seeing death as real - do not read on:.

  i've noticed this difference before, in western (anglosphere) media outlets, the news is sanitised, with views of death removed.

  a consequence is that war is not quite real to many living in the anglosphere.

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  A Difference between Chns News and West.News- (Warning-Graphic Content)

  by fulltimestudent in

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  if you do not like seeing death as real - do not read on:.

  i've noticed this difference before, in western (anglosphere) media outlets, the news is sanitised, with views of death removed.

  a consequence is that war is not quite real to many living in the anglosphere.

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  IF YOU DO NOT LIKE SEEING DEATH AS REAL - DO NOT READ ON:

  I've noticed this difference before, in Western (Anglosphere) media outlets, the news is sanitised, with views of death removed. A consequence is that war is not quite real to many living in the Anglosphere. In the Chinese media, graphic showing dead bodies is more common (not everyday, but more frequently compared to anglosphere media - can't compare to other western, non-English news sources).

  This series of photographs is from today's web-edition (English) of the People's Daily and illustrates the horrors of war graphically. Who is involved is not explained. Just that its in Ukraine.

  My guess, considering that it seems to be current, and the combatants do not look like regular soldiers, is that it's in the Russian speaking, eastern area of Donetsk.
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  'The Acts of John' - Jesus as the 'Dancing Queen'

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  i hope everyone remembers the abba hit, "dancing queen.

  " here's an extract from the lyrics:.

  friday night and the lights are low .

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  I hope everyone remembers the Abba hit, "Dancing Queen." Here's an extract from the lyrics:

  Friday night and the lights are low
  Looking out for the place to go
  Where they play the right music, getting in the swing
  You come in to look for a King
  Anybody could be that guy
  Night is young and the music's high
  With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
  You're in the mood for a dance
  And when you get the chance
  You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
  Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine

  So how does Jesus tie into that? Well, we need a slight gender change and a dose of whimsy and some information from the Biblical Archeological Society.

  A current entry on their website, has some research by Paul Dilley (Assistant professor at the University of Iowa, in the departments of religious studies and classics.). And it all ties into a study unit I'm taking this semester entitled, Early Christian Literature and Thought.

  Dilley connects the early Christian document, The Acts of John, to some Christian cultic practises in Coptic Christianity.

  In one section of The Acts of John, the apostle John recalls how, on the night before his arrest and crucifixion, Jesus commanded the apostles to form a circle around him, and to dance as he sang a hymn to which they responded in a series of “Amens.”

  Was this later story (written and read by 2nd/3rd generation Christians) a 'foundation story' for a developing liturgical practise? Dilley suggests there is evidence that some Christians developed a practise of liturgical dancing.

  For example, the quasi-Christian Manicheans allude to such a practise in one of their Psalms.

  And, a team of Polish archeologists have found in the Monastery of Anthony the Great at Old Dongola, capital of the central Nubian kingdom Makuria, this image

  

  which suggests that dance played an important role there as well. Some of the dancing figures are masked, and others play musical instruments.

  If you'd like to know more, the post can be found at:

  http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/post-biblical-period/jesus-as-lord-of-the-dance/?mqsc=E3777116&utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=BHD+Daily%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=E4B811
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  The Chinese Military

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  every year since i started my china studies program, i've noted western pollies asking for the chinese government to be more transparent in regard to the chinese military.. i'm not quite sure what 'being transparent' means, does it mean giving the west access to all military secrets?

  during my recent visit to china i can't recall seeing one soldier.. but, due to the cica - asian security conference, held in shanghai while i was in china, there were lots of extra police on the streets, maybe because the russian president putin attended.

  but the most exciting thing to happen was (apparently) the finalisation of negotiations on the supply of russian energy to china.

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  A CHINESE NAVY UNIT VISITS SAN DIEGO

  Source: http://english.people.com.cn/n/2014/0811/c90786-8768095.html

  

  

  Chinese navy's Task Group 171, which include missile destroyer Haikou, missile frigate Yueyang and supply ship Qiandaohu, with a ship-borne helicopter and more than 700 soldiers and officers, anchors at Naval Base San Diego the United States, Aug. 10, 2014. The Chinese flotilla arrived at Naval Base San Diego on Sunday for a five-day visit after its debut in the world's largest maritime military drill. (Xinhua/Yu Lin)

  

  Commander of Chinese Navy's Task Group 171 Rear Adm. Shen Jinlong delivers a speech during a welcome ceremony at Naval Base San Diego, the United States, Aug. 10, 2014. The Chinese flotilla, which include missile destroyer Haikou, missile frigate Yueyang and supply ship Qiandaohu, with a ship-borne helicopter and more than 700 soldiers and officers, arrived at Naval Base San Diego on Sunday for a five-day visit after its debut in the world's largest maritime military drill. (Xinhua/Hu Kaibing)

  

  A welcome from local American Chinese.
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  Pyongyang today-Apologies - duplicated post

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  apologies- duplicated post.

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  Apologies- duplicated post
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  Pyongyang today

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  a recent production:.

  enter pyongyang is another stunning collaboration between city-branding pioneer jt singh and flow-motion videographer rob whitworth.

  blending time-lapse photography, acceleration and slow motion, hd and digital animation, they have produced a cutting-edge panorama of a city hardly known, but one emerging on the visitors landscape as north koreas opening unfolds.. .

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  A recent production:

  Enter Pyongyang” is another stunning collaboration between city-­branding pioneer JT Singh and flow-motion videographer Rob Whitworth. Blending time-lapse photography, acceleration and slow motion, HD and digital animation, they have produced a cutting‐edge panorama of a city hardly known, but one emerging on the visitor’s landscape as North Korea’s opening unfolds.

  http://vimeo.com/102051605

  With acknowledgements to Leonid Petrov's FB page:

  https://www.facebook.com/leonid.petrov?fref=tl_fr_box
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  Interesting re-thinking of Chinese Emperors.

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  somehow, i don't think mao would have approved:.

  http://english.cntv.cn/2014/08/09/vide1407515159186661.shtml.

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  Dis-member:

  The animated Kama Sutra was the possible inspiration for this I suspect.

  Anything is possible in a converging world, Dis-member.

  My perspective is: Does it distort what we can establish about the life and personality of the subject?

  As, I commented in my first post:

  Somehow, I don't think Mao would have approved:

  Which question was meant to examine the difference between the use of information for propaganda purposes and what we may discern to be "truth."

  In the late 40s and early 50s PRC propaganda may have distorted the lives of Emperors, whatever Mao may have known from a historian's viewpoint.

  Mao's life has been distorted by Cold war propaganda in the west. What a struggle it is to achieve a perspective that is balanced.

  This web-site demonstrates the sdame problem.
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  Interesting re-thinking of Chinese Emperors.

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  somehow, i don't think mao would have approved:.

  http://english.cntv.cn/2014/08/09/vide1407515159186661.shtml.

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  Somehow, I don't think Mao would have approved:

  http://english.cntv.cn/2014/08/09/VIDE1407515159186661.shtml