http://www.uglychinesecanadian.com/?p=3976
Follow the link above to see video on Chinese living in Kolkata (Calcutta). Interesting for a few reasons below.
Note 1:
It is interesting to know that the Chinese in India are so much like the Chinese elsewhere in the world except for a few things: they speak like Indians and they like tandooris. Even when they have moved on to Canada, the Chinese that went there from India still sing their Indian songs and crave for the chicken tandoori they grew up with. May be the 'dust of history' is indeed not easy to remove.
When asked by Lee Kuan Yew why India could not do away with the problem of castes in India, Indira Gandhi said that it was not easy as we are all 'covered by the dust of history'.
Similarly, a Chinese songwriter wrote, 'our ancestors engraved it in our hearts long ago' (apes lost in history excepted) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77WQj18rDA4&feature=related
Note 2:
Recently, there was a big hoohah in Singapore about some recent Chinese immigrant complaining to the authorities about the strong curry smell from their Indian neighbour's cooking. They had to go for 'voluntary arbitration' and the Indian family agreed to cook curry only when the Chinese family are not at home! I suppose those Chinamen would bang on their Chinese gong when they go out.
If I was the arbitrator, I'd suggest that Chinaman go live in Kolkatta for a few years instead. Or, like what neighbours I used to grow up with in Malaysia did, the Indian family should regularly give those Chinamen some of their curry treats and vice versa. Then those Chinamen would be craving for curry wherever they go after that! (Actually there are easier solutions. E.g. both houses can install a set of exhaust fans or they can buy their own 1-acre properties but that would be less 'integrative').
This is a real story. About 25 years ago, when I was a young Andersen employee working on a project in Jakarta (Indonesia) my company assigned a similarly young Australian kid from Sydney to the project. Back then in Indonesia of Suharto (the animal that killed hundreds of thousands of ethnic Indonesians that supported Sukarno, and large numbers of Chinese when he was in power), nothing foreign was allowed. So no western food like MacDonalds etc outside of foreign owned hotels. Thus everyday, lunch was Indonesian fares that inevitably came with sambal (a mix of chilli and prawn paste). Although the sambal was too much for him, the Aussie had no choice but to start having them. Within the first week, that Aussie was down with stomach problem (as the case with most of us). After his component of the IT system went live a year later, the Aussie was assigned to Mauritius. But a month later he was back for a week to look into some problem in the component that he built. When it was time for lunch on his first day back, he said he really missed those Indonesian sambal and he must go and have it for lunch! The rest of us had a good laugh.
It was a nice story and one can say it is an example of how food can make the world a better place for humanity.
But can you imagine what happens when you have people who think that some one else's food or cooking are beneath them and therefore not even touchable as is the belief of some idiotic people in some parts of the world? Worse thing is when that belief is pat of their religion. Then you have a world where idiots go round feeling full of themselves (like Omar Khayyam said 'they got the secret') but wondering why other people cannot get along with them! Yah, other people have to be nice to you not just on your terms but by doing so to also accept the implication that their cooking of thousands of years are untouchable or dirty? Very unlikely, esp if that culture has little to show or contribute to the rest of the world. Worse when others know that more of their cookings were copied from the Indians rather than the religious master race they think they are aping...
Note 3:
The Chinese in Kolkatta seem to be Hakkas, the dialect group that people like me belongs to. In Chinese, 'Hakka' literally means 'guest family'. That name came about because they were considered as non-locals wherever they ended up at in China i.e. they were guests to the other Chinese.
Their place of origin is unclear but are generally thought to be from the northern part of China i.e. north of the Huang He (Yellow River), the cradle of the Chinese civilisation. Although commonly considered today as a part of the Han (main Chinese) race group, some people think they were related to the Xiongnus (a Mongol or Turkic people) that used to invade northern China more than 2,000 years ago.
Over time, they were dispersed all over China as a result of the never ending wars that happened in northern China - that was why the Great Wall was built over northern China by successive Chinese empires.
[According to history, to get rid of the Xiongnu's perennial threat to China, the Han emperor Wu Di sent a huge force to whack the Xiongnus about 2,100 years ago and drove them westward into today's Central Asia, and never to threaten China again. May be the Hakkas were Xiongnus caught inside the Great Wall and had no choice but to go south instead of west....] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Han
Today, the Hakkas are generally found in Southern China, Southeast Asia and forms a significant part of the oversea Chinese pouplation. My grandparents came from a village town near Guangdong called Zeng Cheng (about 60 km north of Shenzhen Bo An airport).
In the past, wherever they 'set up camp' in China the Hakkas would build houses that form round fortresses as protection from attacks by the other locals who understandably felt threatened by their 'invasion'. Even in China, they lived out of the grace of the other Chinese, thus the term for them was somewhat fitting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_people
That is perhaps the reason why Hakkas form a significant part of the oversea Chinese population. Wherever they go, they are 'guest familes' anyway. So what the heck...
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The Legend of Fat Mama
“The Legend of Fat Mama” is a bittersweet story of the Chinese community in Kolkata, India, intertwined with the nostalgic journey in search of a woman who once made the most delicious noodles in the city’s Chinatown district. Kolkata once had a thriving community in its Chinatown, engaged in different trades, like medicine shops, food and shoemaking.
Though a small number of Chinese still live there, many of them left India in the aftermath of the 1962 India-China war. Thriving street food, disappearing family-run eateries, mahjong clubs, a Chinese printing press that has shut down and its handwritten counterpart that continues to deliver the news every morning, and the first all-woman dragon dance group preparing for the Chinese New Year make up the Chinese heritage in Kolkata.
About the director:
Rafeeq Ellias is an internationally known photographer. As a cinematographer, he has shot three documentaries: ‘The Nectar of Immortality’, a Channel Four film on the Kumbh Mela; ‘Slum Mumbai’, on Mumbai’s pavement-dwellers; and ‘Steps in Time’, on the Asiatic Society, Mumbai. ‘The Legend of Fat Mama’, made for BBC World, was Ellias’ first documentary as director and scriptwriter.
“The Legend of Fat Mama” won the Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film at the 52nd National Film Awards.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
40 Years of Dollar Destruction
Wrong title. Should be 'Celebrating 40 Years of Living Off the Rest of the World'
40 years ago Nixon told the world that the US would stop convertibility of the US Dollar to gold 'temporarily'.
The sharp people of the world then knew that those liars did not mean what they said - the 'temporarily' part of it. One of the result was the 'oil crisis' of the 1970s where countries with oil started demanding more dollars for their 'black gold'.
Well, 40 years later Nixon's 'temporarily' is still temporary. In that time however, their 'dollar' has lost 98% of its value in gold terms. After they 'won the war' and till 1971, they guaranteed the world that 35 of their 'beautiful gold' (that's the term chinamen call the US dollar till today) would be exchangeable for 1 troy ounce of gold. Today, an ounce of gold costs 1,800 US dollar.
In other words, anyone keeping their money in that currency for the last 40 years would have lost 98% of their wealth.
A year or so ago, their Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told his audience in a Chinese university that China's US dollar holdings are safe. The Chinese students broke into loud laughter. Those Chinese students know their Confucius - that man had an advice whose popular English equivalent is 'talk is cheap, show it by your action'.
2,500 years ago, when Confucius was asked what would be the first thing he would do to improve public administration. Confucius said 'to ensure the correct use of terms'. Everyone was surprised. How could that be the key to the well running of a state?
His answer was something along this line (my interpretation only lah - me no handy bible to quote from) : When words do not reflect reality, people would be confused. When people are confused, business cannot be conducted in a fair manner. When business cannot be conducted in a fair manner, there will not be true justice. When there is no true justice, the state is doomed...
They deploy many tricks to keep that Dollar Bluff of theirs going - the longer it lasts the more they can live off the rest of the world.
Here is one of those tricks:
12 years or so ago, Joseph Stiglitz (then chief economist with the World Bank) wrote about how the IMF's 'standard formula' for helping to 'revive' 3rd world countries in financial crisis are actually meant to help creditors take advantage of those poor countries.
The standard IMF formula says that the only way out of financial crisis is to maintain a strong currency so that foreign investors would continue investing in those countries. To keep the value of their currency strong, countries must maintain sufficient foreign reserves so that those reserves can be used to buy back their currencies when their value drops. [A sharp kid with some history would quickly realise that the US itself does not follow that IMF standard formula - they don't hold foreign reserves and instead of keeping it strong, they had been continuously devaluing their currency throughout its 100 year history!]
The IMF loans were to be denominated in USD and have interest rates of 10% (because those countries have low credit ratings). Since those countries have insufficient reserves, they should use those USD loans to buy US Treasuries that pay 5% interest (because those papers are the best around and have very good credit ratings).
As result, those poor coutnries end up with a 5% interest cost for loans whose money they cannot use! (because those loans were immediately passed to the US government who ended up being the real user of those money!). [On top of that, the value of those foreign reserves would go down per above!]
From the perspective of the creditors, their so-called 'loans' come out of their left pocket and goes right back into their right pocket - 5% interest earnings at no risk of losing their capital!
Celebrating 40 Years of Dollar Destruction
By Sean Hyman, Editor,Currency Cross Trader
Dear Sovereign Investor,
This week, we’re celebrating the anniversary of the greatest heist in recorded history.
Exactly 40 years ago yesterday, President Nixon severed the dollar’s ties to gold forever.
It was a government game so the politicians could easily pay off their debts with “cheaper dollars” for the foreseeable future.
In reality, this one decision effectively stole all our dollars’ value for decades to come. And you and I are the ones still paying for this mistake.
Strangely this decision also created the $4 trillion Forex market...and eventually sent gold racing above $1,800 an ounce.
But these profitable side effects were not Nixon’s intention...
You see, up until 1971, each dollar was physically backed by gold.
Gold was $35 an ounce and every dollar in circulation could be redeemed for gold. So every dollar was backed by the power and security of gold.
But when Nixon removed us from the gold standard, that responsibility flew out the window - along with the dollar’s long-term value.
It’s the reason the dollar has lost massive purchasing power against other currencies in the last four decades (and gold has risen 51-fold against the buck).
And get this: the worst is still yet to come for the dollar.
I’ll explain how to protect your savings in just a moment. First, let’s take a closer look at how our dollar has lost that much in value.
The Greenback Is Backed By the “Hot Air” of Washington, D.C.
Given that the dollar has lost so much value, backing dollars with gold simply wouldn’t fly today.
In fact, it’s estimated that if you took all of the gold that has ever been mined in the world, it would only come up to about $5 trillion.Well we print trillions of dollars and run up over $14.6 trillion in debt all by ourselves in the U.S. (and that’s just one country of the world).
All these dollars are only worth something if the U.S. government says so. It’s backed by the U.S. government promise, “we’re good for it.” In other words, our dollars are basically backed by hot air straight from Washington.
But the harsh truth is they couldn’t back all of the dollars in circulation right now even if they wanted to.
Even worse, the more investors realize how shaky our currency is, the more they start looking elsewhere for more fundamentally sound currencies.
That’s one reason why the U.S. just raised our debt ceiling for the 75th time in 50 years. It’s also why the Standard & Poor’s just downgraded our debt.
Toss in the Fed’s nasty habit of creating money out of thin air anytime we need extra resources, bailouts and stimulus packages - and the dollar is in serious trouble.
The Government has Two Choices and Both are Bad...But Here’s What They Will Choose
Our economy is in shambles, and our currency is losing clout every single day. And we are no longer competitive with the rest of the world in terms of exports. We really only have two choices left to stay competitive with the rest of the world.
Either the government can allow “wage devaluation” or “currency devaluation.” In other words, they can let wages fall or let the currency drop in value.
Do you really think Americans will elect politicians that force them to take pay cuts? Heck no! So if the guys in Washington want to keep their jobs, they really only have one choice - devalue our dollars further.
As you can imagine, voters pay closer attention to how many dollars are in their paycheck than how much those dollars buy. (In fact, most Americans don’t even understand the concept of the dollar losing purchasing power anyway.)
That’s why it’s almost too easy for Washington to dilute our currency and accomplish their “cheap dollar” agenda.
A Glimpse Into the Future...
So here’s how all of this is going to play out. The U.S. will continue to stack on more debt and dilute the dollar by creating more money. Call it QEIII or just ridiculously low interest rates until 2013, but either way, this can only end one way.
The dollar is sinking in value, and central bankers around the world know it.
Therefore, they are “ever so quietly” shifting their central bank reserves slowly away from dollars and into currencies that aren’t being diluted, that have superior fundamentals.
Some, like China and India, are even buying up commodities for their reserves (like gold, silver, iron ore, etc.).
This practically guarantees there will be a constant shift away from dollars through the years - especially as our politicians believe the quick solution is “dollar dilution.” But no country in history ever brought themselves to prosperity by continually diluting their currency.
Therefore, you won’t really be able to “protect your dollars” because of the government’s overall agenda.
So what can you do? Well, you can protect your money - your wealth - by taking your money (dollars) and investing them in other currencies that aren’t playing the debt-stacking, currency dilution game.
You can also buy the traditional forms of “hard money” including gold.
Dollars...On Sale...50% Off!
Now remember when I said that our currency will have to be diluted even further?
One well-respected hedge fund manager ran the numbers and said that the dollar would have to be devalued by another 50% to make us competitive with the world again.
That means, if you’re paying $5 for your Starbucks coffee...you’ll be paying $10 in just a few short years. If you’re paying $400 for your car payment now, better get used to $800 payments.
Do you think “wage growth” is going to keep up with that? Hardly!
In fact, Ben Bernanke flat-out admitted last year that it will likely take five years or more to get our unemployment rate back down to 5-6%.
So if there is a glut of unemployed people, there’s no need for employers to raise wages when there’s an everlasting supply of employees willing to work for peanuts.
So the bottom line is: you’ve got to get positioned into currencies that aren’t “singing the same tune” as America.
That includes places like Switzerland, Norway and Singapore. All three have stronger currencies that can shield you from the dollar’s long-term destruction, and even provide some measure of safety as stocks drop.
So before the greenback devalues another 50% over the upcoming years...shift into something that will retain its value and grow through the years. And do it while the buck is still worth something!
Have a Nice Day,
Sean Hyman
Editor,Currency Cross Trader
40 years ago Nixon told the world that the US would stop convertibility of the US Dollar to gold 'temporarily'.
The sharp people of the world then knew that those liars did not mean what they said - the 'temporarily' part of it. One of the result was the 'oil crisis' of the 1970s where countries with oil started demanding more dollars for their 'black gold'.
Well, 40 years later Nixon's 'temporarily' is still temporary. In that time however, their 'dollar' has lost 98% of its value in gold terms. After they 'won the war' and till 1971, they guaranteed the world that 35 of their 'beautiful gold' (that's the term chinamen call the US dollar till today) would be exchangeable for 1 troy ounce of gold. Today, an ounce of gold costs 1,800 US dollar.
In other words, anyone keeping their money in that currency for the last 40 years would have lost 98% of their wealth.
A year or so ago, their Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told his audience in a Chinese university that China's US dollar holdings are safe. The Chinese students broke into loud laughter. Those Chinese students know their Confucius - that man had an advice whose popular English equivalent is 'talk is cheap, show it by your action'.
2,500 years ago, when Confucius was asked what would be the first thing he would do to improve public administration. Confucius said 'to ensure the correct use of terms'. Everyone was surprised. How could that be the key to the well running of a state?
His answer was something along this line (my interpretation only lah - me no handy bible to quote from) : When words do not reflect reality, people would be confused. When people are confused, business cannot be conducted in a fair manner. When business cannot be conducted in a fair manner, there will not be true justice. When there is no true justice, the state is doomed...
They deploy many tricks to keep that Dollar Bluff of theirs going - the longer it lasts the more they can live off the rest of the world.
Here is one of those tricks:
12 years or so ago, Joseph Stiglitz (then chief economist with the World Bank) wrote about how the IMF's 'standard formula' for helping to 'revive' 3rd world countries in financial crisis are actually meant to help creditors take advantage of those poor countries.
The standard IMF formula says that the only way out of financial crisis is to maintain a strong currency so that foreign investors would continue investing in those countries. To keep the value of their currency strong, countries must maintain sufficient foreign reserves so that those reserves can be used to buy back their currencies when their value drops. [A sharp kid with some history would quickly realise that the US itself does not follow that IMF standard formula - they don't hold foreign reserves and instead of keeping it strong, they had been continuously devaluing their currency throughout its 100 year history!]
The IMF loans were to be denominated in USD and have interest rates of 10% (because those countries have low credit ratings). Since those countries have insufficient reserves, they should use those USD loans to buy US Treasuries that pay 5% interest (because those papers are the best around and have very good credit ratings).
As result, those poor coutnries end up with a 5% interest cost for loans whose money they cannot use! (because those loans were immediately passed to the US government who ended up being the real user of those money!). [On top of that, the value of those foreign reserves would go down per above!]
From the perspective of the creditors, their so-called 'loans' come out of their left pocket and goes right back into their right pocket - 5% interest earnings at no risk of losing their capital!
Celebrating 40 Years of Dollar Destruction
By Sean Hyman, Editor,Currency Cross Trader
Dear Sovereign Investor,
This week, we’re celebrating the anniversary of the greatest heist in recorded history.
Exactly 40 years ago yesterday, President Nixon severed the dollar’s ties to gold forever.
It was a government game so the politicians could easily pay off their debts with “cheaper dollars” for the foreseeable future.
In reality, this one decision effectively stole all our dollars’ value for decades to come. And you and I are the ones still paying for this mistake.
Strangely this decision also created the $4 trillion Forex market...and eventually sent gold racing above $1,800 an ounce.
But these profitable side effects were not Nixon’s intention...
You see, up until 1971, each dollar was physically backed by gold.
Gold was $35 an ounce and every dollar in circulation could be redeemed for gold. So every dollar was backed by the power and security of gold.
But when Nixon removed us from the gold standard, that responsibility flew out the window - along with the dollar’s long-term value.
It’s the reason the dollar has lost massive purchasing power against other currencies in the last four decades (and gold has risen 51-fold against the buck).
And get this: the worst is still yet to come for the dollar.
I’ll explain how to protect your savings in just a moment. First, let’s take a closer look at how our dollar has lost that much in value.
The Greenback Is Backed By the “Hot Air” of Washington, D.C.
Given that the dollar has lost so much value, backing dollars with gold simply wouldn’t fly today.
In fact, it’s estimated that if you took all of the gold that has ever been mined in the world, it would only come up to about $5 trillion.Well we print trillions of dollars and run up over $14.6 trillion in debt all by ourselves in the U.S. (and that’s just one country of the world).
All these dollars are only worth something if the U.S. government says so. It’s backed by the U.S. government promise, “we’re good for it.” In other words, our dollars are basically backed by hot air straight from Washington.
But the harsh truth is they couldn’t back all of the dollars in circulation right now even if they wanted to.
Even worse, the more investors realize how shaky our currency is, the more they start looking elsewhere for more fundamentally sound currencies.
That’s one reason why the U.S. just raised our debt ceiling for the 75th time in 50 years. It’s also why the Standard & Poor’s just downgraded our debt.
Toss in the Fed’s nasty habit of creating money out of thin air anytime we need extra resources, bailouts and stimulus packages - and the dollar is in serious trouble.
The Government has Two Choices and Both are Bad...But Here’s What They Will Choose
Our economy is in shambles, and our currency is losing clout every single day. And we are no longer competitive with the rest of the world in terms of exports. We really only have two choices left to stay competitive with the rest of the world.
Either the government can allow “wage devaluation” or “currency devaluation.” In other words, they can let wages fall or let the currency drop in value.
Do you really think Americans will elect politicians that force them to take pay cuts? Heck no! So if the guys in Washington want to keep their jobs, they really only have one choice - devalue our dollars further.
As you can imagine, voters pay closer attention to how many dollars are in their paycheck than how much those dollars buy. (In fact, most Americans don’t even understand the concept of the dollar losing purchasing power anyway.)
That’s why it’s almost too easy for Washington to dilute our currency and accomplish their “cheap dollar” agenda.
A Glimpse Into the Future...
So here’s how all of this is going to play out. The U.S. will continue to stack on more debt and dilute the dollar by creating more money. Call it QEIII or just ridiculously low interest rates until 2013, but either way, this can only end one way.
The dollar is sinking in value, and central bankers around the world know it.
Therefore, they are “ever so quietly” shifting their central bank reserves slowly away from dollars and into currencies that aren’t being diluted, that have superior fundamentals.
Some, like China and India, are even buying up commodities for their reserves (like gold, silver, iron ore, etc.).
This practically guarantees there will be a constant shift away from dollars through the years - especially as our politicians believe the quick solution is “dollar dilution.” But no country in history ever brought themselves to prosperity by continually diluting their currency.
Therefore, you won’t really be able to “protect your dollars” because of the government’s overall agenda.
So what can you do? Well, you can protect your money - your wealth - by taking your money (dollars) and investing them in other currencies that aren’t playing the debt-stacking, currency dilution game.
You can also buy the traditional forms of “hard money” including gold.
Dollars...On Sale...50% Off!
Now remember when I said that our currency will have to be diluted even further?
One well-respected hedge fund manager ran the numbers and said that the dollar would have to be devalued by another 50% to make us competitive with the world again.
That means, if you’re paying $5 for your Starbucks coffee...you’ll be paying $10 in just a few short years. If you’re paying $400 for your car payment now, better get used to $800 payments.
Do you think “wage growth” is going to keep up with that? Hardly!
In fact, Ben Bernanke flat-out admitted last year that it will likely take five years or more to get our unemployment rate back down to 5-6%.
So if there is a glut of unemployed people, there’s no need for employers to raise wages when there’s an everlasting supply of employees willing to work for peanuts.
So the bottom line is: you’ve got to get positioned into currencies that aren’t “singing the same tune” as America.
That includes places like Switzerland, Norway and Singapore. All three have stronger currencies that can shield you from the dollar’s long-term destruction, and even provide some measure of safety as stocks drop.
So before the greenback devalues another 50% over the upcoming years...shift into something that will retain its value and grow through the years. And do it while the buck is still worth something!
Have a Nice Day,
Sean Hyman
Editor,Currency Cross Trader
Saturday, August 13, 2011
All In God's Service...
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-naw-warren-jeffs-guilty-20110804,0,5668344.story
Apparently, this fella had numerous charges against him for years and this is the latest one that 'sticked'.
According to him and his followers (inspired by some 'great book'), he is the "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" of their church. And like other distant fellow 'men of the book' of theirs, they believe in polygamy and 'arranging celestial marriages between married men and teenage girls' (normal people call that 'child sexual abuse' which is what that idiot is convicted of this week).
That fella even recorded his acts, one of which (see above LA Times report) had him claiming that he 'perform this service in the name of... his deity' (that one nailed to wood I talk about) while performing his animal act. Presumably, that holy bastard was recording his acts for the benefit of his god - may be as proof of his great 'services' to his deity in case that all-knowing and all-powerful deity of his loses some of those abilities.
According to today's BBC report, the parents of those children were actually happy with what that fella did because they also believed that their children were 'servicing god'.
That is the problem when animals and idiots are given 'holy' excuses to do the stupidest and wildest things (and they think they are smarter than apes). Religion fits that bill perfectly. With those 'celestial' claims, both idiots and animals find their respective excuses easily - 'if some one says he is godly and he is doing it in the name of their god, then it must be okay' is how the stupid reasoning goes.
That is why those reports of more than 90% of the churches (they call them 'house of god') in the US having cases of child sexual abuses are most telling.
Imagine 90% of all households in the world having fathers (which is what they call their church leaders) sexually abusing their children? I am not sure such a thing is as prevalent even among apes and monkeys. And you will certainly not find that among the great civilisations (go see if 90% of Indian and Chinese families are like that).
So young chilren reading this mail, don't ever believe those people that go round telling others that their book is a 'book of god' and their book 'has only good effects on people'.
The above is one (of many reasons) why I call Chinamen that do that complete idiots.... (analogy: a blindman claiming the rope he is holding is an elephant does not make that rope an elephant. It only makes him an idiot).
p.s.
For Chinese children: one of the reasons why you will never see 90% of Chinese households having the kind of things above is because of the teachings of people like Confucius, Mencius and thousands of years of moral teachings coming out of the Chinese civilisation. We are all fortunate inheritors of those teachings. So, go read about the history of our people, their books (none of them arrogant enough to claim to contain 'words of god') and their teachings.
Only yellow fools full of themselves reading some one else's book that among others say that, at worst, chinamen do not exist and, at best, are rungs below the Jews, would go round telling others that their book is a 'great book of god'. And they think they are very sharp.
Yah, their ancestors were all useless half-child half-devil (as Kipling famously called them in his Whiteman's Burden) waiting for some whtiemen to bring those civilising 'words of god' to chinamen - chinamen not worth even the effort of one of people's many 'god messengers' so burden went to whitemen - and only they are sharp enough to 'get it'...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Jeffs
http://topics.cnn.com/topics/warren_jeffs
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs found guilty of child sex abuse
Prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Warren Jeffs fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl and played an audio recording of what they said was him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. They also played audio recordings in which Jeffs was heard instructing young women on how to please him sexually.
From the Associated Press
August 4, 2011, 3:08 p.m
A Texas jury convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault Thursday in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls "spiritual marriages."
The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stood stone-faced as the verdict was read.
Jeffs, who acted as his own attorney, faces up to life in prison. The jury went immediately into sentencing proceedings. They had deliberated on a verdict for more than three hours.
Prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Jeffs fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl and played an audio recording of what they said was him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. They also played audio recordings in which Jeffs was heard instructing young women on how to please him sexually.
Jeffs has claimed he was the victim of religious persecution. The FLDS, which has at least 10,000 members nationwide, is a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism. The church believes polygamy brings exaltation in heaven and that Jeffs is God's spokesman on earth.
Police had raided the group's remote West Texas ranch in April 2008, finding women dressed in frontier-style dresses and hairdos from the 19th century as well as seeing underage girls who were clearly pregnant. The call to an abuse hotline that spurred the raid turned out to be a hoax, and more than 400 children who had been placed in protective custody were eventually returned to their families.
But authorities brought charges against several men from the group, with Jeffs by far the highest-profile defendant.
Jeffs stood mute and expressionless, staring at the floor, for all but a few seconds of the half hour he was allotted for a closing argument on Thursday. At one point he mumbled, "I am peace," and said no more.
The only noise in the courtroom was the creaking of wooden benches brimming with spectators.
Prosecutors said the case had nothing to do with his church or his beliefs.
"You have heard the defendant make repeated arguments about religious freedoms," said lead prosecutor Eric Nichols. "Make no mistake, this case is not about any people, this case is not about any religion. It is about one individual, Warren Steed Jeffs, and his actions."
Prosecutors relied heavily on information found during the raid on the compound and after a traffic stop in Nevada in 2006, when Jeffs was arrested. Much of the material was discovered in a vault at the end of a secret passageway in the temple and another vault in an annex building.
"You might have asked yourselves," Nichols said, "a lot of people may ask, why would someone record sex? ... This individual considers himself to be the prophet. Everything he did, hour after hour, he was required to keep a record of that."
On one of the tapes played at the trial, Jeffs made a reference to "drawing close" or "being close," which authorities testified is how church members refer to sex. Two female voices said "OK."
"A good wife is trained for her husband and follows the spirit of peace," Jeffs was heard saying.
Another audio tape included Jeffs and the younger girl from a recording made in August 2006 at the Texas compound, according to testimony from Nick Hanna, a Texas Ranger involved in the 2008 raid.
Played in court, it was difficult to decipher, but Jeffs' and a female voice are heard. He says, "I perform this service in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen," then mentions the alleged victim by name. When she says something, he responds, "don't talk while praying." Several minutes of heavy breathing followed.
The jury wore headphones to better hear the recording and also followed a transcript. One female juror covered her face with her hand as she listened.
Jeffs represented himself after firing seven attorneys in the six months leading to the trial. He broke his courtroom silence with an objection marked by a nearly hourlong speech defending polygamy, and twice threatened the judge and the court with warnings of punishment from God.
He refused to cross-examine the state's witnesses, and delayed giving an opening statement until he began presenting his own defense. In that statement, he evoked images of the civil rights movement and mentioned former Mormon leader Joseph Smith Jr. He also asked the jury to remember constitutional guarantees of religious freedom.
The lone defense witness Jeffs called, church elder JD Roundy, spent about 10 minutes on the stand Thursday discussing FLDS history after 4½ hours of testimony Wednesday evening.
Jeffs failed three times to remove state District Judge Barbara Walther from the case, the last rejection coming even without a hearing. He claimed Walther was biased because she issued the warrant for the original raid and was frequently updated as it progressed.
Eleven other FLDS men were charged with crimes including sexual assault and bigamy. All seven of those who have been prosecuted were convicted, receiving prison sentences of between six and 75 years.
[Below is exchange with one of the recipients of above]
From: Long
To: CCK
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2011 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: All in god's service....
When we all die, our real eternal lives begin. We will not be judged on the colour of our skin or our cultural heritage. Here is a real testimony of a man who died and came back from Hell to tell the world the truth.
A logician will clearly listen and watch and compute the probability that Jesus is the God: even 10% chance based on his computations justify an insurance policy. becase the cost, if real, is infinitely costly.
http://www.baptizingfire.com/apps/videos/videos/show/14313968-christians-that-wound-up-in-hell-by-caramelo-brenes
From: CCK
To: Long
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2011 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: All in god's service....
Ya, people whiteman can go from earth to hell and back but chinamen like your ancestors so useless and cannot do the same (that's why only non-chinamen get to be holy prophets and messengers in people's book - chinamen more useless than you think).
Hah, luckily that white idiot forgot to bring his videocam along with him - more idiotic than Warren Jeffs. Which is where you chinaman has a great opportunity to 'out-shine' all of them.
I'd believe it when you bring your Sony videocam and your family with you on a similar trip and your whole ching gang return to show me what hell looks like. Then I'd lead the entire chinese race to brag about the 'great feat' of you chinaman. (Don't try that cheap 'aiyah I forgot my SD card lah' trick on us hor?)
And if your 'insurance policy' is too good for hell then you can always do a round-trip to heaven. Many chinamen will be all the happier with that greater feat. Imagine, after thousands of years we finally have a chinaman with abilities anywhere close to that of some other non-chinamen in your great book?
And why worry since you have your 'insurance policy'? Even if you end up being considered by your deity to be too low class to do that holy return act and cannot make it back, you'd still get to start your 'eternal life' that billions of other past and present chinamen cannot get to - what privilege...
And oh, in case your skin color finally does not matter to your deity (after those thousands of years of irrelevance) and you get to make that return trip, don't forget to bring back an updated version of that great book of yours with your great feat and name included. Then a chinaman would finally get to 'star' in that book (instead of me looking high and low for you in Noah's queue list and still cannot find. Which category are you under?)
If your deity considers your act too cheap for his edtitorial bother, you can always ask him to part Andromeda (or an equivalent) for you to cross on your way back to earth. Preceded, of course, by a huge supernova event to ensure the entire world would not miss that deitical show with you in starring role. Wah, then your tribe would look more impressive than the one for whom a small sea was parted hor?
I have more ideas inspired by your book for you to show off with but would rather not bother an as yet deitical nonenity with too much trouble. Show me some of the above first...
From: Long
To: CCK
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: All in god's service....
This is what happens to a sensible Malaysian who lives in Singapore for too long....inferiority complex and xenophobia about the world, split into wise chinaman, white chinaman and white masters and slaves.
Be a scientist and test your assumptions/belief by the testimony of real honest people. it takes more than this hallucinatory drivel to make any solid case against Christianity. Even Einstein could not imagine a personal God because he couldnt copy and improvised the cosmic idea as much as he did with relativity.
From: CCK
To: Long
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2011
Subject: Re: All in god's service....
Ya, you are the sharpest deitical chinaman in history - billions of chinamen including your ancestors over thousands of years could not get it but you can. And without your smart insurance policy they are all in hell now.
Which is why you should be the 'star' in the scientific test I suggested. I'd love to more than listen to your honest testimony after that 'round trip' experiment - like confucius said before your doll got nailed, talk is cheap, show it - that video clip would provide a more scientific prove. Those pictures of you, your ancestors and billions of past chinamen swimming in hell would be very convincing.
What more, with you being a deitical star in that new edition book, billions of future chinamen would feel very superior. So don't let your inferiority complex get to you (if that whiteman can do it you can), come star in my scientifc experiment.
Unlike you, Einstein also cannot get it hor? But just a few months back you said that he was a great example of why Jews are smarter than other races and therefore special. Now he has lost his smartness and specialness, and you chinaman are now sharper than him? Is it because I told you that he said people like you are child-like? Aiyah, that smart Jew cum scientist didn't know what he was talking about... you 50 year old child sharper.
And do you think that unto such as you;
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew:
God gave the secret—and denied it me?
Well, well, what matters it? Believe that, too.
- Rubaiyat, Omar Khayyam
Apparently, this fella had numerous charges against him for years and this is the latest one that 'sticked'.
According to him and his followers (inspired by some 'great book'), he is the "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" of their church. And like other distant fellow 'men of the book' of theirs, they believe in polygamy and 'arranging celestial marriages between married men and teenage girls' (normal people call that 'child sexual abuse' which is what that idiot is convicted of this week).
That fella even recorded his acts, one of which (see above LA Times report) had him claiming that he 'perform this service in the name of... his deity' (that one nailed to wood I talk about) while performing his animal act. Presumably, that holy bastard was recording his acts for the benefit of his god - may be as proof of his great 'services' to his deity in case that all-knowing and all-powerful deity of his loses some of those abilities.
According to today's BBC report, the parents of those children were actually happy with what that fella did because they also believed that their children were 'servicing god'.
That is the problem when animals and idiots are given 'holy' excuses to do the stupidest and wildest things (and they think they are smarter than apes). Religion fits that bill perfectly. With those 'celestial' claims, both idiots and animals find their respective excuses easily - 'if some one says he is godly and he is doing it in the name of their god, then it must be okay' is how the stupid reasoning goes.
That is why those reports of more than 90% of the churches (they call them 'house of god') in the US having cases of child sexual abuses are most telling.
Imagine 90% of all households in the world having fathers (which is what they call their church leaders) sexually abusing their children? I am not sure such a thing is as prevalent even among apes and monkeys. And you will certainly not find that among the great civilisations (go see if 90% of Indian and Chinese families are like that).
So young chilren reading this mail, don't ever believe those people that go round telling others that their book is a 'book of god' and their book 'has only good effects on people'.
The above is one (of many reasons) why I call Chinamen that do that complete idiots.... (analogy: a blindman claiming the rope he is holding is an elephant does not make that rope an elephant. It only makes him an idiot).
p.s.
For Chinese children: one of the reasons why you will never see 90% of Chinese households having the kind of things above is because of the teachings of people like Confucius, Mencius and thousands of years of moral teachings coming out of the Chinese civilisation. We are all fortunate inheritors of those teachings. So, go read about the history of our people, their books (none of them arrogant enough to claim to contain 'words of god') and their teachings.
Only yellow fools full of themselves reading some one else's book that among others say that, at worst, chinamen do not exist and, at best, are rungs below the Jews, would go round telling others that their book is a 'great book of god'. And they think they are very sharp.
Yah, their ancestors were all useless half-child half-devil (as Kipling famously called them in his Whiteman's Burden) waiting for some whtiemen to bring those civilising 'words of god' to chinamen - chinamen not worth even the effort of one of people's many 'god messengers' so burden went to whitemen - and only they are sharp enough to 'get it'...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Jeffs
http://topics.cnn.com/topics/warren_jeffs
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs found guilty of child sex abuse
Prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Warren Jeffs fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl and played an audio recording of what they said was him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. They also played audio recordings in which Jeffs was heard instructing young women on how to please him sexually.
From the Associated Press
August 4, 2011, 3:08 p.m
A Texas jury convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault Thursday in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls "spiritual marriages."
The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stood stone-faced as the verdict was read.
Jeffs, who acted as his own attorney, faces up to life in prison. The jury went immediately into sentencing proceedings. They had deliberated on a verdict for more than three hours.
Prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Jeffs fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl and played an audio recording of what they said was him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. They also played audio recordings in which Jeffs was heard instructing young women on how to please him sexually.
Jeffs has claimed he was the victim of religious persecution. The FLDS, which has at least 10,000 members nationwide, is a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism. The church believes polygamy brings exaltation in heaven and that Jeffs is God's spokesman on earth.
Police had raided the group's remote West Texas ranch in April 2008, finding women dressed in frontier-style dresses and hairdos from the 19th century as well as seeing underage girls who were clearly pregnant. The call to an abuse hotline that spurred the raid turned out to be a hoax, and more than 400 children who had been placed in protective custody were eventually returned to their families.
But authorities brought charges against several men from the group, with Jeffs by far the highest-profile defendant.
Jeffs stood mute and expressionless, staring at the floor, for all but a few seconds of the half hour he was allotted for a closing argument on Thursday. At one point he mumbled, "I am peace," and said no more.
The only noise in the courtroom was the creaking of wooden benches brimming with spectators.
Prosecutors said the case had nothing to do with his church or his beliefs.
"You have heard the defendant make repeated arguments about religious freedoms," said lead prosecutor Eric Nichols. "Make no mistake, this case is not about any people, this case is not about any religion. It is about one individual, Warren Steed Jeffs, and his actions."
Prosecutors relied heavily on information found during the raid on the compound and after a traffic stop in Nevada in 2006, when Jeffs was arrested. Much of the material was discovered in a vault at the end of a secret passageway in the temple and another vault in an annex building.
"You might have asked yourselves," Nichols said, "a lot of people may ask, why would someone record sex? ... This individual considers himself to be the prophet. Everything he did, hour after hour, he was required to keep a record of that."
On one of the tapes played at the trial, Jeffs made a reference to "drawing close" or "being close," which authorities testified is how church members refer to sex. Two female voices said "OK."
"A good wife is trained for her husband and follows the spirit of peace," Jeffs was heard saying.
Another audio tape included Jeffs and the younger girl from a recording made in August 2006 at the Texas compound, according to testimony from Nick Hanna, a Texas Ranger involved in the 2008 raid.
Played in court, it was difficult to decipher, but Jeffs' and a female voice are heard. He says, "I perform this service in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen," then mentions the alleged victim by name. When she says something, he responds, "don't talk while praying." Several minutes of heavy breathing followed.
The jury wore headphones to better hear the recording and also followed a transcript. One female juror covered her face with her hand as she listened.
Jeffs represented himself after firing seven attorneys in the six months leading to the trial. He broke his courtroom silence with an objection marked by a nearly hourlong speech defending polygamy, and twice threatened the judge and the court with warnings of punishment from God.
He refused to cross-examine the state's witnesses, and delayed giving an opening statement until he began presenting his own defense. In that statement, he evoked images of the civil rights movement and mentioned former Mormon leader Joseph Smith Jr. He also asked the jury to remember constitutional guarantees of religious freedom.
The lone defense witness Jeffs called, church elder JD Roundy, spent about 10 minutes on the stand Thursday discussing FLDS history after 4½ hours of testimony Wednesday evening.
Jeffs failed three times to remove state District Judge Barbara Walther from the case, the last rejection coming even without a hearing. He claimed Walther was biased because she issued the warrant for the original raid and was frequently updated as it progressed.
Eleven other FLDS men were charged with crimes including sexual assault and bigamy. All seven of those who have been prosecuted were convicted, receiving prison sentences of between six and 75 years.
[Below is exchange with one of the recipients of above]
From: Long
To: CCK
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2011 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: All in god's service....
When we all die, our real eternal lives begin. We will not be judged on the colour of our skin or our cultural heritage. Here is a real testimony of a man who died and came back from Hell to tell the world the truth.
A logician will clearly listen and watch and compute the probability that Jesus is the God: even 10% chance based on his computations justify an insurance policy. becase the cost, if real, is infinitely costly.
http://www.baptizingfire.com/apps/videos/videos/show/14313968-christians-that-wound-up-in-hell-by-caramelo-brenes
From: CCK
To: Long
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2011 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: All in god's service....
Ya, people whiteman can go from earth to hell and back but chinamen like your ancestors so useless and cannot do the same (that's why only non-chinamen get to be holy prophets and messengers in people's book - chinamen more useless than you think).
Hah, luckily that white idiot forgot to bring his videocam along with him - more idiotic than Warren Jeffs. Which is where you chinaman has a great opportunity to 'out-shine' all of them.
I'd believe it when you bring your Sony videocam and your family with you on a similar trip and your whole ching gang return to show me what hell looks like. Then I'd lead the entire chinese race to brag about the 'great feat' of you chinaman. (Don't try that cheap 'aiyah I forgot my SD card lah' trick on us hor?)
And if your 'insurance policy' is too good for hell then you can always do a round-trip to heaven. Many chinamen will be all the happier with that greater feat. Imagine, after thousands of years we finally have a chinaman with abilities anywhere close to that of some other non-chinamen in your great book?
And why worry since you have your 'insurance policy'? Even if you end up being considered by your deity to be too low class to do that holy return act and cannot make it back, you'd still get to start your 'eternal life' that billions of other past and present chinamen cannot get to - what privilege...
And oh, in case your skin color finally does not matter to your deity (after those thousands of years of irrelevance) and you get to make that return trip, don't forget to bring back an updated version of that great book of yours with your great feat and name included. Then a chinaman would finally get to 'star' in that book (instead of me looking high and low for you in Noah's queue list and still cannot find. Which category are you under?)
If your deity considers your act too cheap for his edtitorial bother, you can always ask him to part Andromeda (or an equivalent) for you to cross on your way back to earth. Preceded, of course, by a huge supernova event to ensure the entire world would not miss that deitical show with you in starring role. Wah, then your tribe would look more impressive than the one for whom a small sea was parted hor?
I have more ideas inspired by your book for you to show off with but would rather not bother an as yet deitical nonenity with too much trouble. Show me some of the above first...
From: Long
To: CCK
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: All in god's service....
This is what happens to a sensible Malaysian who lives in Singapore for too long....inferiority complex and xenophobia about the world, split into wise chinaman, white chinaman and white masters and slaves.
Be a scientist and test your assumptions/belief by the testimony of real honest people. it takes more than this hallucinatory drivel to make any solid case against Christianity. Even Einstein could not imagine a personal God because he couldnt copy and improvised the cosmic idea as much as he did with relativity.
From: CCK
To: Long
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2011
Subject: Re: All in god's service....
Ya, you are the sharpest deitical chinaman in history - billions of chinamen including your ancestors over thousands of years could not get it but you can. And without your smart insurance policy they are all in hell now.
Which is why you should be the 'star' in the scientific test I suggested. I'd love to more than listen to your honest testimony after that 'round trip' experiment - like confucius said before your doll got nailed, talk is cheap, show it - that video clip would provide a more scientific prove. Those pictures of you, your ancestors and billions of past chinamen swimming in hell would be very convincing.
What more, with you being a deitical star in that new edition book, billions of future chinamen would feel very superior. So don't let your inferiority complex get to you (if that whiteman can do it you can), come star in my scientifc experiment.
Unlike you, Einstein also cannot get it hor? But just a few months back you said that he was a great example of why Jews are smarter than other races and therefore special. Now he has lost his smartness and specialness, and you chinaman are now sharper than him? Is it because I told you that he said people like you are child-like? Aiyah, that smart Jew cum scientist didn't know what he was talking about... you 50 year old child sharper.
And do you think that unto such as you;
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew:
God gave the secret—and denied it me?
Well, well, what matters it? Believe that, too.
- Rubaiyat, Omar Khayyam
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Sugar Coated Satan's Sandwich
One of their congressmen that happens to be a pastor said that their political 'deal' to increase their country's debt limit (see Note 1) and cut spending is a 'sugar coated satan sandwich'. The reason that 'holy' fella said that was because he is afraid that those pending cuts would affect medicare, social security etc which according to him is 'anti-thesis to the teachings of all the great religions of the world which say that less fortunate people should be helped' (see video in below link). Wah, so righteous...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-rep-emanuel-cleaver-calls-debt-deal-a-sugar-coated-satan-sandwich/
What that holy lying or dumb fella does not say or know is they had for centuries been making their satan sandwiches from other people's flour! And they sugar coated it so well that many a fool around the world thought that those satan sandwiches were made out of their country's greatness and not out of conduct anti-thesis to the teachings of their own religion (as if it mattered). See Note 2.
Anyone from places like Africa that see Americans collecting social benefits and free medical care would be scratching their heads wondering how those 'poor' Americans got to be so fat if they are so poor. For those that had not seen real poor people in Africa and India etc., really poor people in those places are 'skin and bones only' hor (may be because they don't get to eat sugar coated satan sandwiches).
The explanation for that 'contradiction' is best summed up by the Russian leader Vladimir Putin who said that that country is a 'parasite on the world' living on credit from the rest of the world.
http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/Putin-US-parasite-world-afpsg-1485206393.html?x=0
The more hosts a parasite can feed off the fatter it gets - Parasite Principle number 1.
Parasite Principle Number 2? Keep the parasitic act going for as long as possible (dead hosts are of no use to parasites). That's what 'extending the debt ceiling' essentially means.
At the ASEAN meeting a few weeks ago where leaders from Asia were present, Hilary Clinton was asked by reporters whether the debt limit issue will be 'resolved'. Her confident reply was 'it will be resolved'. The smirk in her face was more telling. That smirk said 'of course we will, that way we can screw you fellas some more...' (the biggest creditors for that parasite are Asian countries).
Note 1:
The US has a 'law' set in the first half of the 20th century that requires its government to get approval from its legislature (i.e. parliament) before it can borrow more money beyond the limit previously approved. Depending on which report you read, they have extended that limit by 80 to 100 times in less than a century! They do it so often they have lost count of it. It is also psychologically 'good' for thieves not to remember (at least pretend to forget) the not so pleasant things they did.
One president alone extended it 18 times in 8 years! It is not a coincident that that country's debt grew the most during that fella's presidency. But that did not seem to be such a big deal then - the whole world was busy crying over some 'Sept 11' and supporting their 'wars on terror'. You can say, the world was too shocked and awed by that bully to know what was happening behind the curtains. But, as many people said, those wars were just excuses for them to raid others' wealth to pay for their 'parasitic growth' and perhaps to distract others from what was really happening to their debt driven economy. It is not a coincident the 2008/9 financial crisis happened at the end of the same idiot's 8-year presidency.
Note 2:
Anyone that knows their history knows that they started off by robbing the lands of others a few hundred years ago (like Chinamen in Malaya/Singapore, they were just losers from Europe looking for 'paradise').
In fact, it was so good they decided to keep the spoils to themselves by whacking their British lords and send them packing to concentrate on India, Asia and Africa - only suckers think it was because of some dispute over tea (there is always more to Tea Parties...)
By then they already were in debt (for whacking the greatest empire of that time is not cheap hor) and you know how they pay those debts off? They settled their 'war bonds' by exchanging them with titles to 'worthless' lands belonging to.... the Red Indians (that's why it was worthless). Sound like selling Facebook shares?
After 'independence', they were free to do what they liked. So, when they needed to grow they just grabbed more and more lands belonging to...the Red Indians again (according to the British they had more respect for the indigenous people and used to stop indiscrimate land grabs...of course).
Every 'agreement' they signed with the Red Indians did not mean anything to them. Basically, each time they wanted more land, they got the Indians to agree to cede more. When the Indians did not agree and decided to fight back, they just called them savages and killed them off and sign a new agreement. Then repeat the cycle again and again until nothing left (don't know how but the Red Indians and their land just disappeared - may be they read some great book and turned white).
A few decades later they grew big enough to whack their biggest competitor left in that continent - the 'Mexicans' who were really Spanish bastards with tiny amounts of Aztec blood to qualify them as 'savages' and thus deserving of gringo's domination.
That was how that country 'grew' from the east coast to the west coast of North America - they called it their Manifest Destiny (which is not very manifest to many till today).
Then supposedly to get them from east to west quicker, they decided to build rail roads (pony express too slow). But to do that they needed cheap labour which Chinamen had huge supply of (better and cheaper than black slaves). So a fella (who later started a famous university) lobbied their government to allow him to import large numbers of chinamen workers.
But those chinamen soon found out that those rail roads were also meant to get gringo to some gold mines at a place chinamen soon called 'gold mountains'. That was also why they whacked the Mexicans (don't believe? go watch Zorro). So when the rail road jobs were done, those half-child half-devil (according to the English writer Rudayrd Kipling in his poem - below link) chinamen turned to competing with great free whitemen for those gold which is of course a no-no (people had to whack the Mexicans for that right and you chinamen get it free?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
So the same fella that imported cheap chinamen railroad labour then sponsored a 'bill' called the Chinese Exclusion Act to get rid of those idiotic chinamen who then had no choice but to go to places like Singapore and Malaya to 'star' as coolies while that whiteman got filthy rich on railroad and Mexican gold....rich enough to start his 'great' Stanford University. (Canada and Australia also adopted similar legislations to ban Chinamen - can see why they all are such 'coveted' places for Chinamen idiots of today?)
But even that vast Mexican land and gold grab was not enough to satisfy those bastards and they ended up fighting each other for the right to boss over that by then 'huge empire' . There was nothing civil about their civil war. And only half-childs reading children history books think that it was all about freeing slaves.
After they sorted out whether the blue or the red gang become the boss, they decided that Spanish north America was not enough and declared that the remainder of Spanish America is their 'sphere' (Monroe Doctrine). After that, any one in Central or South America that did not listen to them (i.e. let them boss around and take their resources on the cheap) would get popped. Only in the last decade or so (as gringo empire stealth collapses) did those half countries got some real freedom.
Then, even Spanish Americas were not enough. They wanted all of Spain's colonial possessions. That's how islands from Hawaii to Guam to Philippines got to be 'part of USA'.
Then came the World Wars where everyone else just killed each other off while gringo pretended to play nice guy while selling arms and other supplies to some of them. After all the other major powers were left half-dead, they stepped in to become 'leader of the free world' where anyone around the world (not just Americas) that did not listen to them were not allowed to trade with others by way of various excuses like being communists, leftists etc.
With such history you think they really believe in freedom, fair trade and free markets?
[Guardian Report]
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 August 2011 19.45 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/01/us-debt-republicans-smell-victory
It was easy wandering round the corridors of Congress yesterday to spot who had won the debt standoff. In huddles with party colleagues or heading off to caucus meetings to discuss the details of the deal or standing in front of TV cameras, it was the Republicans who had all the smiles.
Democratic members of Congress looked uneasy, at times shifty; and some downright were angry. "If I were a Republican, this is a night to party," Emanuel Cleaver, a Democratic member of the House from Missouri, told MSNBC. Cleaver, a Methodist pastor and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, which met to discuss its reaction to the deal, dismissed it as a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich".
Even the Democratic leader in the House, Nancy Pelosi, who helped negotiate the compromise with Barack Obama and the Republican leaders at the weekend, had serious reservations. Pelosi, a Californian on the liberal wing of the party on many issues, picked up on Cleaver's food metaphor and expanded on it. The deal, she told ABC, was a "Satan sandwich with Satan fries on the side". She voted last night for the bill to raise the debt ceiling, which passed by 269 to 161, but told colleagues in advance she would leave it to their consciences how they voted. Democrats came into the House chamber in a subdued mood, walking slowly as if at a funeral. The near silence on their side of the chamber contrasted with the noise on the Republican side, as members chatted away and hugged one another.
The 15-minute vote began at 6.50pm. Unlike parliament, there is a screen above the chamber with all the names of members in lights and their votes recorded electronically with either a green Y or red N. The Republicans watched cheerfully; the Democrats could barely watch.
Republicans aligned to the Tea Party movement voted against but even they did not appear unhappy with the deal. In return for Congress raising the debt ceiling, normally a routine matter, the Republicans have secured more than $2 trillion in spending cuts and forced the Democrats to do this without any tax rises. The Tea Party Republicans did not get all they wanted but they got most of it, and sacrificed almost nothing in return.
The decisive day in Congress after weeks of a standoff was Sunday, when the Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, in negotiation with Barack Obama, reached agreement on the broad outline of a deal. Congress itself was eerily quiet. The Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, warned his fellow Democratic senators to remain on Capitol Hill. "I would not suggest [going to] a ball game," he said.
Even though they were around, the place was far from full of frantic politicians running up and down staircases and corridors, as might have been expected in a major crisis. Congress felt almost empty, occupied mainly by journalists, sitting at the foot of the statues of dead politicians and military leaders waiting for the leaders to come out.
By yesterday the place was packed, and there was excitement, the staircases and corridors filled with politicians discussing the merits of the deal and the looming votes. Obama opted against marching from the White House up Pennsylvania Avenue to Congress, as Jed Bartlet did in the West Wing, and instead sent vice-president Joe Biden, a Senate veteran. His job was to sell the deal to disenchanted members in the Senate and the House.
Getting the vote through the Senate was regarded by the Republican and Democratic leaderships as relatively easy. The House was the potential problem, with a revolt on the Republican side by Tea Party Republicans and a revolt from Democrats fearful of the impact on the poor. One of the left-leaning Democrats in the House, Raul Grijalva, from Arizona, reflected the view of many of his party colleagues, that the White House had surrendered too much: "This deal trades people's livelihoods for the votes of a few unappeasable right-wing radicals, and I will not support it. This deal weakens the Democratic party as badly as it weakens the country.
"We have given much and received nothing in return. The lesson today is that Republicans can hold their breath long enough to get what they want."
What is galling for Democrats is that they hold the White House and the Senate while the Republicans hold only the House, the more junior of the two chambers. And yet is it the House that appears to be dictating events.
The House, which saw the Republicans take control in November, when there was an influx of members backed by the Tea Party movement, secured a win earlier this year when it threatened to shut down the federal government and Obama gave in. Now it appears he has again. "Capitulation" and "Cave-in" summed up the mood of many left-leaning Democrats.
One of the few independents in the Senate and one of the few American politicians to describe himself as a socialist, Bernie Sanders from Vermont, voted against. Expressing worry about the impact on social security, Medicare, Medicaid, community health centres, education and other programmes, he said he could not support a proposal that "balances the budget on the backs of struggling Americans while not requiring one penny of sacrifice from the wealthiest people in our country".
The House Speaker, John Boehner, addressing his own members, said that while the Republicans had not got everything they had wanted (such as an assurance that the Pentagon will not be a major victim of spending cuts), they had got most of it and changed the debate in Washington.
But his stance failed to sway the Tea Party Republicans, such as Michele Bachmann, the Congresswoman who is seeking the party's nomination to take on Obama for the White House next year. She voted against.
"Throughout this process the president has failed to lead and failed to provide a plan," she said. "The 'deal' he announced spends too
much and doesn't cut enough. Someone has to say no. I will."
Boehner had better luck with other potential rebels. First he used policy arguments, but he saved his best for last: He told his colleagues that if they voted for the bill they could embark on a five-week holiday immediately afterwards. For a few waverers, that might have done the trick.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-rep-emanuel-cleaver-calls-debt-deal-a-sugar-coated-satan-sandwich/
What that holy lying or dumb fella does not say or know is they had for centuries been making their satan sandwiches from other people's flour! And they sugar coated it so well that many a fool around the world thought that those satan sandwiches were made out of their country's greatness and not out of conduct anti-thesis to the teachings of their own religion (as if it mattered). See Note 2.
Anyone from places like Africa that see Americans collecting social benefits and free medical care would be scratching their heads wondering how those 'poor' Americans got to be so fat if they are so poor. For those that had not seen real poor people in Africa and India etc., really poor people in those places are 'skin and bones only' hor (may be because they don't get to eat sugar coated satan sandwiches).
The explanation for that 'contradiction' is best summed up by the Russian leader Vladimir Putin who said that that country is a 'parasite on the world' living on credit from the rest of the world.
http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/Putin-US-parasite-world-afpsg-1485206393.html?x=0
The more hosts a parasite can feed off the fatter it gets - Parasite Principle number 1.
Parasite Principle Number 2? Keep the parasitic act going for as long as possible (dead hosts are of no use to parasites). That's what 'extending the debt ceiling' essentially means.
At the ASEAN meeting a few weeks ago where leaders from Asia were present, Hilary Clinton was asked by reporters whether the debt limit issue will be 'resolved'. Her confident reply was 'it will be resolved'. The smirk in her face was more telling. That smirk said 'of course we will, that way we can screw you fellas some more...' (the biggest creditors for that parasite are Asian countries).
Note 1:
The US has a 'law' set in the first half of the 20th century that requires its government to get approval from its legislature (i.e. parliament) before it can borrow more money beyond the limit previously approved. Depending on which report you read, they have extended that limit by 80 to 100 times in less than a century! They do it so often they have lost count of it. It is also psychologically 'good' for thieves not to remember (at least pretend to forget) the not so pleasant things they did.
One president alone extended it 18 times in 8 years! It is not a coincident that that country's debt grew the most during that fella's presidency. But that did not seem to be such a big deal then - the whole world was busy crying over some 'Sept 11' and supporting their 'wars on terror'. You can say, the world was too shocked and awed by that bully to know what was happening behind the curtains. But, as many people said, those wars were just excuses for them to raid others' wealth to pay for their 'parasitic growth' and perhaps to distract others from what was really happening to their debt driven economy. It is not a coincident the 2008/9 financial crisis happened at the end of the same idiot's 8-year presidency.
Note 2:
Anyone that knows their history knows that they started off by robbing the lands of others a few hundred years ago (like Chinamen in Malaya/Singapore, they were just losers from Europe looking for 'paradise').
In fact, it was so good they decided to keep the spoils to themselves by whacking their British lords and send them packing to concentrate on India, Asia and Africa - only suckers think it was because of some dispute over tea (there is always more to Tea Parties...)
By then they already were in debt (for whacking the greatest empire of that time is not cheap hor) and you know how they pay those debts off? They settled their 'war bonds' by exchanging them with titles to 'worthless' lands belonging to.... the Red Indians (that's why it was worthless). Sound like selling Facebook shares?
After 'independence', they were free to do what they liked. So, when they needed to grow they just grabbed more and more lands belonging to...the Red Indians again (according to the British they had more respect for the indigenous people and used to stop indiscrimate land grabs...of course).
Every 'agreement' they signed with the Red Indians did not mean anything to them. Basically, each time they wanted more land, they got the Indians to agree to cede more. When the Indians did not agree and decided to fight back, they just called them savages and killed them off and sign a new agreement. Then repeat the cycle again and again until nothing left (don't know how but the Red Indians and their land just disappeared - may be they read some great book and turned white).
A few decades later they grew big enough to whack their biggest competitor left in that continent - the 'Mexicans' who were really Spanish bastards with tiny amounts of Aztec blood to qualify them as 'savages' and thus deserving of gringo's domination.
That was how that country 'grew' from the east coast to the west coast of North America - they called it their Manifest Destiny (which is not very manifest to many till today).
Then supposedly to get them from east to west quicker, they decided to build rail roads (pony express too slow). But to do that they needed cheap labour which Chinamen had huge supply of (better and cheaper than black slaves). So a fella (who later started a famous university) lobbied their government to allow him to import large numbers of chinamen workers.
But those chinamen soon found out that those rail roads were also meant to get gringo to some gold mines at a place chinamen soon called 'gold mountains'. That was also why they whacked the Mexicans (don't believe? go watch Zorro). So when the rail road jobs were done, those half-child half-devil (according to the English writer Rudayrd Kipling in his poem - below link) chinamen turned to competing with great free whitemen for those gold which is of course a no-no (people had to whack the Mexicans for that right and you chinamen get it free?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
So the same fella that imported cheap chinamen railroad labour then sponsored a 'bill' called the Chinese Exclusion Act to get rid of those idiotic chinamen who then had no choice but to go to places like Singapore and Malaya to 'star' as coolies while that whiteman got filthy rich on railroad and Mexican gold....rich enough to start his 'great' Stanford University. (Canada and Australia also adopted similar legislations to ban Chinamen - can see why they all are such 'coveted' places for Chinamen idiots of today?)
But even that vast Mexican land and gold grab was not enough to satisfy those bastards and they ended up fighting each other for the right to boss over that by then 'huge empire' . There was nothing civil about their civil war. And only half-childs reading children history books think that it was all about freeing slaves.
After they sorted out whether the blue or the red gang become the boss, they decided that Spanish north America was not enough and declared that the remainder of Spanish America is their 'sphere' (Monroe Doctrine). After that, any one in Central or South America that did not listen to them (i.e. let them boss around and take their resources on the cheap) would get popped. Only in the last decade or so (as gringo empire stealth collapses) did those half countries got some real freedom.
Then, even Spanish Americas were not enough. They wanted all of Spain's colonial possessions. That's how islands from Hawaii to Guam to Philippines got to be 'part of USA'.
Then came the World Wars where everyone else just killed each other off while gringo pretended to play nice guy while selling arms and other supplies to some of them. After all the other major powers were left half-dead, they stepped in to become 'leader of the free world' where anyone around the world (not just Americas) that did not listen to them were not allowed to trade with others by way of various excuses like being communists, leftists etc.
With such history you think they really believe in freedom, fair trade and free markets?
[Guardian Report]
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 August 2011 19.45 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/01/us-debt-republicans-smell-victory
It was easy wandering round the corridors of Congress yesterday to spot who had won the debt standoff. In huddles with party colleagues or heading off to caucus meetings to discuss the details of the deal or standing in front of TV cameras, it was the Republicans who had all the smiles.
Democratic members of Congress looked uneasy, at times shifty; and some downright were angry. "If I were a Republican, this is a night to party," Emanuel Cleaver, a Democratic member of the House from Missouri, told MSNBC. Cleaver, a Methodist pastor and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, which met to discuss its reaction to the deal, dismissed it as a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich".
Even the Democratic leader in the House, Nancy Pelosi, who helped negotiate the compromise with Barack Obama and the Republican leaders at the weekend, had serious reservations. Pelosi, a Californian on the liberal wing of the party on many issues, picked up on Cleaver's food metaphor and expanded on it. The deal, she told ABC, was a "Satan sandwich with Satan fries on the side". She voted last night for the bill to raise the debt ceiling, which passed by 269 to 161, but told colleagues in advance she would leave it to their consciences how they voted. Democrats came into the House chamber in a subdued mood, walking slowly as if at a funeral. The near silence on their side of the chamber contrasted with the noise on the Republican side, as members chatted away and hugged one another.
The 15-minute vote began at 6.50pm. Unlike parliament, there is a screen above the chamber with all the names of members in lights and their votes recorded electronically with either a green Y or red N. The Republicans watched cheerfully; the Democrats could barely watch.
Republicans aligned to the Tea Party movement voted against but even they did not appear unhappy with the deal. In return for Congress raising the debt ceiling, normally a routine matter, the Republicans have secured more than $2 trillion in spending cuts and forced the Democrats to do this without any tax rises. The Tea Party Republicans did not get all they wanted but they got most of it, and sacrificed almost nothing in return.
The decisive day in Congress after weeks of a standoff was Sunday, when the Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, in negotiation with Barack Obama, reached agreement on the broad outline of a deal. Congress itself was eerily quiet. The Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, warned his fellow Democratic senators to remain on Capitol Hill. "I would not suggest [going to] a ball game," he said.
Even though they were around, the place was far from full of frantic politicians running up and down staircases and corridors, as might have been expected in a major crisis. Congress felt almost empty, occupied mainly by journalists, sitting at the foot of the statues of dead politicians and military leaders waiting for the leaders to come out.
By yesterday the place was packed, and there was excitement, the staircases and corridors filled with politicians discussing the merits of the deal and the looming votes. Obama opted against marching from the White House up Pennsylvania Avenue to Congress, as Jed Bartlet did in the West Wing, and instead sent vice-president Joe Biden, a Senate veteran. His job was to sell the deal to disenchanted members in the Senate and the House.
Getting the vote through the Senate was regarded by the Republican and Democratic leaderships as relatively easy. The House was the potential problem, with a revolt on the Republican side by Tea Party Republicans and a revolt from Democrats fearful of the impact on the poor. One of the left-leaning Democrats in the House, Raul Grijalva, from Arizona, reflected the view of many of his party colleagues, that the White House had surrendered too much: "This deal trades people's livelihoods for the votes of a few unappeasable right-wing radicals, and I will not support it. This deal weakens the Democratic party as badly as it weakens the country.
"We have given much and received nothing in return. The lesson today is that Republicans can hold their breath long enough to get what they want."
What is galling for Democrats is that they hold the White House and the Senate while the Republicans hold only the House, the more junior of the two chambers. And yet is it the House that appears to be dictating events.
The House, which saw the Republicans take control in November, when there was an influx of members backed by the Tea Party movement, secured a win earlier this year when it threatened to shut down the federal government and Obama gave in. Now it appears he has again. "Capitulation" and "Cave-in" summed up the mood of many left-leaning Democrats.
One of the few independents in the Senate and one of the few American politicians to describe himself as a socialist, Bernie Sanders from Vermont, voted against. Expressing worry about the impact on social security, Medicare, Medicaid, community health centres, education and other programmes, he said he could not support a proposal that "balances the budget on the backs of struggling Americans while not requiring one penny of sacrifice from the wealthiest people in our country".
The House Speaker, John Boehner, addressing his own members, said that while the Republicans had not got everything they had wanted (such as an assurance that the Pentagon will not be a major victim of spending cuts), they had got most of it and changed the debate in Washington.
But his stance failed to sway the Tea Party Republicans, such as Michele Bachmann, the Congresswoman who is seeking the party's nomination to take on Obama for the White House next year. She voted against.
"Throughout this process the president has failed to lead and failed to provide a plan," she said. "The 'deal' he announced spends too
much and doesn't cut enough. Someone has to say no. I will."
Boehner had better luck with other potential rebels. First he used policy arguments, but he saved his best for last: He told his colleagues that if they voted for the bill they could embark on a five-week holiday immediately afterwards. For a few waverers, that might have done the trick.
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