And National Geographic takes you to Suzhou (one of my favourite cities) to see how your (artificial) chrissie tree is made:
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Got your Chrissie decorations up yet? Where's all this stuff come from?
by fulltimestudent inthe answer is, from a small city (by chinese standards) of about one million people, named yiwu (pronounce it as eeewooo) in zhejinag province, roughly 2 hours south of shanghai (if you travel on the very fast train, at up to 300 km/hour).. in this city, some 750 factories churn out the baubles that make jesus happy.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orpcyl8jvy0.
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Got your Chrissie decorations up yet? Where's all this stuff come from?
by fulltimestudent inthe answer is, from a small city (by chinese standards) of about one million people, named yiwu (pronounce it as eeewooo) in zhejinag province, roughly 2 hours south of shanghai (if you travel on the very fast train, at up to 300 km/hour).. in this city, some 750 factories churn out the baubles that make jesus happy.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orpcyl8jvy0.
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The answer is, from a small city (by Chinese standards) of about one million people, named Yiwu (pronounce it as eeewooo) in Zhejinag Province, roughly 2 hours south of Shanghai (if you travel on the Very Fast train, at up to 300 km/hour).
In this city, some 750 factories churn out the baubles that make Jesus happy.
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So romantic - Guys, if you really liked a girl, for how long would you chase her?
by fulltimestudent ina segment from (in english) if you are the one?
one of china's most popular tv shows, it can have up to 50 million viewers.. its chrissie time, so we can be sentimental (smile).. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teic1sk8epy.
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Sorry! The sub-titles have disappeared, and I don't know how to get them back.
Wait, switch through to Youtube and the subs are there!!
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So romantic - Guys, if you really liked a girl, for how long would you chase her?
by fulltimestudent ina segment from (in english) if you are the one?
one of china's most popular tv shows, it can have up to 50 million viewers.. its chrissie time, so we can be sentimental (smile).. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teic1sk8epy.
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A segment from (in English) If You Are the One? One of China's most popular TV shows, it can have up to 50 million viewers.
Its Chrissie time, so we can be sentimental (smile).
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Social Media in China
by fulltimestudent inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbsjllxorlw&list=plcd2898dbc1440b4c&index=7.
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King of Jordan on Charly Rose: WW3 in progress, Islam extremism is a generational conflict. --
by prologos inan eloquent major figure questioned, well worth listening to: on the multi continental conflict among muslims and their push against the secular world.. can be heard on you-tube.. .
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which gives the return of the survivors a slight legitimaticy for their re- occupation of part of the last land that they inhabited as a nation,
Except that in this case, the Jews had last occupied that territory some 1900 years ago***.
We can think of the complications that can be caused by a consideration of Australia. The white settlers in Australia argued that the "savages" that lived here had no legal right to the land and they were subsequently dispossessed. Not many years ago, the Australian High Court recognised that the original Australians DID HAVE A LEGAL OWNERSHIP TO THE LAND, after all, but they could not confront current ownership.
In Palestine, descendents of the owners of the first century, claim they have a legal right to ownership and can dispossess contemporary owners.
Do you wonder that this is a major problem?
Do you wonder that after 100 years of confrontation between Europeans and Muslims, each succeeding generation becomes more hostile to the west? Do you wonder why young hot-heads, aware of the injustices burdening their spiritual brothers, become more radical?
This is not a new problem, the problems go back more than 1000 years. The problems will still make life dangerous for the grand-children of today's new-born, because the Europeans do not get it.
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***one small caveat - we do not know what the lowest level of people did at the time. Did they die somewhere else as refugees? Make new homes on some unused land somewhere? Or, did they give up their religion, left the phallus of the son(s) intact and re-enter the land, presenting as non-jewish? In that last case we would expect some genetic similarities between newly arrived Jews and the dispossessed peoples, now tagged as Palestineans. At least some genetic studies do show similarities. If that situation can be confirmed, then the Jewish/Palestinian problem can be see as brother attemtpting to dispossess brother:
Comparison with the genetic heritage of non-Jewish populations.
Palestinians
Further information: Palestinian people#DNA and genetic studiesMany genetic studies have demonstrated that most of the various Jewish ethnic divisions and the Palestinians and other Levantines, like theDruze [12] [13] [18] [38] and Bedouin, [12] [13] are genetically closer to each other than the Palestinians or European Jews are to non-Jewish Europeans or Africans. [12] [13] [96] One DNA study by Nebel and colleagues found genetic evidence in support of historical records that "part, or perhaps the majority" of Muslim Palestinians descend from "local inhabitants, mainly Christians and Jews, who had converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century AD". [96] They also found substantial genetic overlap between Muslim Palestinians and Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, though with some significant differences that might be explainable by the geographical isolation of the Jews and by immigration of Arab tribes in the first millennium. [96]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Jews
Note: I've left wikipedia end-notes numbers intact, for the convenience of those who want to check sources.
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King of Jordan on Charly Rose: WW3 in progress, Islam extremism is a generational conflict. --
by prologos inan eloquent major figure questioned, well worth listening to: on the multi continental conflict among muslims and their push against the secular world.. can be heard on you-tube.. .
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But before we can understand what's happened to Judah and Jerusalem, let's look at the background of King Abdullah.
How did he come to be part of the picture?
To understand that we have to see the 1914-1918 Great war in its true setting or European, and not in the setting that the JWs (and others) place it as the first world war. Its true that this was affected many places in the world, but that was because during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, European powers had been busy trying to establish colonies in other countries. Many scholars argue that the 1914-1918 war was essentially another European war, part of series of wars that had been occurring for many centuries and which often brought change of ownership to the overseas colonies that European powers had established. Some argue, that this process is still occurring, and that we can view the USA-Russia altercations as part of the endless bickering as part of a process to establish a pecking order among the European (now including the USA) elites.
At the end of the 1914-1918 war, peace treaties were negotiated which attempted to portion out the spoils of war among the (primarily) European victors. Europe was transformed in a process that is still affecting European politics:
Look at this map (below) and think of the areas that are still part of world crisis points. Much of the pink areas, are territories formerly part of the Russian Empire and given up by the new Soviet government in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Not part of the Versailles negotiations)
After the Central Powers launched Operation Faustschlag on the Eastern Front, the new Soviet Government of Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany on 3 March 1918. This treaty ended the war between Russia and the Central powers and annexed 1,300,000 square miles (3,400,000 km 2 ) square miles of territory and 62 million people. This loss equated to one third of the Russian population, 25 per cent of their territory, around a third of the country's arable land, three-quarters of its coal and iron, a third of its factories (totalling 54 per cent of the nation's industrial capacity), and a quarter of its railroads.
But our focus is on Western Asia. Here the British and French had the major say and carved up the territories of the former Ottomon empire. The Empire itself had collapsed during the war, with the centre transforming itself into Turkey. But most of the remainder was divided between Britain and France. France got the section that became Syria, and the British took Iraq and Palestine and established suzerainty over Egypt, Sudan and Iran.
To rule their new territories, the British endeavoured to establish the local elites and King Abdullah's family was one of the elite families that gained a major benefit. So does anyone think that what he's saying is unusual for someone in his position. That's not to argue that he's wrong in what he says. I merely point out that there will be many people in the area, without the advantages of being one of the elite, that will disagree with him.
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King of Jordan on Charly Rose: WW3 in progress, Islam extremism is a generational conflict. --
by prologos inan eloquent major figure questioned, well worth listening to: on the multi continental conflict among muslims and their push against the secular world.. can be heard on you-tube.. .
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His Kingdom occupies land that was included in the "original" Israely territorry, the East Bank*
"Original," According to what? Isn't it 'according to," a few people who set out to create a 'foundation myth' about their origins?
And in our times, this 'foundation myth' is trotted out to provide a so-called legal foundation, to the illegal seizure of land from people who once lived in what is now the Israeli state, and who are now dispossessed by modern Jews. Isn't that one of the crunch points in this conflict?
Let's go back to some irrefutable facts. The year 70 CE, saw the Roman state smash the Jewish theocracy and destroy the temple of Jehovah.
Painter David Roberts imagines that event (Source-Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_%28AD_70%29
And, these stones are supposed to be part of Stones from the Western Wall of the Temple Mount t hrown onto the street by Roman soldiers on the Ninth of Av, 70 CE as they razed the city. (Wikipedia)
Josephus describes the destruction and the slaying of some million people:
"Now as soon as the army had no more people to slay or to plunder, because there remained none to be the objects of their fury (for they would not have spared any, had there remained any other work to be done), [Titus] Caesar gave orders that they should now demolish the entire city and Temple, but should leave as many of the towers standing as they were of the greatest eminence; that is, Phasaelus, and Hippicus, and Mariamne; and so much of the wall enclosed the city on the west side.
... And truly, the very view itself was a melancholy thing; for those places which were adorned with trees and pleasant gardens, were now become desolate country every way."
This happened again in
The city was still a ruin in 130 CE, when the Emperor Hadrian wanted to have the city re-built. However, the Jews were still rebellious and revolted for a second time in the war known as the Bar Kokhba revolt (132-136).
Hadrian was incensed at this second revolt, but went ahead with his re-building plan, with provisions that were intended to erase Judaism from the province. No Jews were allowed to live in the city, by a simple regulation that said that only males with intact prepuces could enter the city. Removal of the prepuce became illegal throughout the former Jewish territories, and the province was re-named Syria Palaestina.
The NEW JERUSALEM was renamed COLONIA ÆLIA CAPITOLINA (Colonia- a colony of - Aelia, from Hadrian's own name, and Capitolina - meaning that the city was now dedicated to the Roman God, Jupiter Capitolinus, whose temple was built on the site of the former temple of Yahweh).
So if you prefer the new name was, The Roman Colony of Jupiter Capitolinus as dedicated by Hadrian's family.
It's important to note this important fact. That the Jewish province of Judea, conquered by the Romans in 63BCE (when Pompey beseiged Jerusalem -again haha) was now completely Roman. Jews (circumcised males) were expelled from the province, and no circumcised male could enter. If they did, they were executed.
We have some idea of what it looked like, as a mosaic floor has been found as part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George at Madaba, Jordan. The Madaba Map is a map of the Middle East. Part of it contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem. The church was dedicated in 542 CE, so the mosaic was likely constructed at that time.
and a closer view of the city of COLONIA ÆLIA CAPITOLINA, shows typical Roman style town planning.
Why is all this important to contemporary problems?
We shall try to understand.
But note that for around 700 years Jerusalem and Judea were Roman.
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What do you want for Christmas?
by Hortensia init's ok to share your xmas wishes here -- none of us is going to buy you anything, anyway!.
i have a list of books on my wishlist at amazon, some about critical thinking, some about knitting, some about yurok indian basketry.
i wouldn't mind getting any of those.
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Can't be bothered with all that rubbish. Not worrying about chrissie stuff is one of the few good things I retain from Yahweh's mob.
This year, I'm going to Katoomba (in the mountains, west of Sydney) with some like minded friends for the day. We'll have a picnic lunch somewhere, restaurant meals are too expensive.
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China's 'Little Africa' in Guangzhou
by fulltimestudent inincreasing business relationships between african nations and china has also brought migration between the two areas.
chinese people move to africa, and african people move to china.
south china, in particular guangzhou is a favourite location for africans in china:.
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Another reason that may make Guangzhou popular with Africans is the long contact with Islam, The Huaisheng mosque, pictured below, has a tradition that it was built in 627AD by Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas who was an uncle of Muhammad, and supposedly came on his first Muslim mission to China in the 620s. It is certainly true that contact between west Asia and China dates back earlier than that, but there doesn't seem to be much data to confirm that claim.
The tower, that westerners know as a minaret, is known in Chinese as a 'calling tower.'
