THE COMING ISRAELI AND U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN - MUST READ!
‘The Prime Directive: U.S. War Plans Targeting Iran Are All About
"Protecting" Israel’
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12827

'Target: Iran? On Israel's 60th Birthday, The Jewish State May Be
Readying For Its Biggest Fight Yet. What That Could Mean For The Next
American President.'
http://www.newsweek.com/id/136065

(I don't agree with its 'Irresistible Push For War' premise, but this
article makes some valid points - so wake up and GET ACTIVE to
massively protest and prevent this next planned war crime!) 'Why All
of Our Efforts Won’t Stop the Attack on Iran'
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/why-all-of-our-efforts-won%%E2%%80%%99t-stop.../

- o O o -

IRAN ATTACK: THE WARNINGS KEEP MULTIPLYING
‘Backing Into War: Israel's Strike on Syria, a Precurser To Iran
Holocaust’
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?200297

On May 12, 7:02 am, tion...@126.com wrote:

Origin of Chinese spoken languages

Part 1.

Around the world, spoken languages eventually leaded to development of
various writing systems. An exception is Chinese spoken languages.
Contrary to other spoken languages, they were generated and evolved from
a writing system, called Hanja or Hanzi, and not vice versa.

Chinese spoken language is probably unique in that they were evolved from
written languages. It is comparable to a hypothetical scenario where a
spoken language is evolved from mathematical expressions, which is
universal. Despite language barriers, scientists and mathematicians
around the world can communicate with mathematical equations, although
the pronunciations of the mathematical symbols may be radically different
depending on their spoken languages. This is why Chinese people can
communicate by their unique writing system, but may not understand each
other by different spoken languages called Chinese dialects.

I have been curious about the origin of Chinese spoken languages, They
are radically different from neighbouring languages, especially Altaic.
The Chinese grammar is more similar to Indo-European rather than Altaic.
How could this have happened?

http://tinyurl.com/5zn989

Chinese student in US targeted after Tibet protest
Sun, 11 May 2008 12:44p.m.
Grace Wong

The build-up to this year's Olympic Games in Beijing has been
disrupted by protests over China's treatment of the Tibetan people.

In one clash at Duke University, North Carolina USA, a Chinese student
tried to be a peacemaker and found her life turned upside down.

As pro-China and pro-Tibet protesters clashed at the university, Wong
tried to mediate and get the two sides to communicate with each other.
Photos that appear to show her siding with the pro-Tibet group
surfaced and enraged the Chinese community around the world.

Grace Wong has become the target of an international smear campaign
with offensive messages, images and videos of her broadcast over the
internet. Her home address and Chinese ID number have been made public
in the campaign.

Messages calling her a traitor have appeared online and her parents'
home in China was vandalised - someone painted the Chinese for "kill
everyone in this home" on the house.

The US has been playing a nasty political game...blaming the Myanmar
government for the cyclone Nargis.
While other nations in Asia, China, India, Indonesia... started
immediately pouring in aid, the USA got the UN to withhold western
aids to the victims, unless Myanmar issue visas to foreign workers as
"damage assessment teams". Myanmar refused.
After a week, the UN flew in a few plane loads of tents, and food BUT
foreign workers were NOT allowed into Myanmar without visa. Local aid
workers took over the food for distribution.The foreign workers had to
fly back to Bangkok. The US claimed that Myanmar government hijacked
the food.
How stupid the USA could be.

The US exaggerated the number of homes destroyed and the number of
victims killed, as if some how the Myanmar government were responsible
for killing the victims or destroying their homes...

It is strange that Aunn San Suu Ky kept silent on the devious USA
actions in making political capital out of the miseries of the victims
of cyclone Nargis

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2008/05/11/5531951-sun.html

Sun, May 11, 2008
Olympic torch ignites dialogue over Tibet
By LISA VAN DUSEN

Notwithstanding what you might have heard on the street, the Dalai
Lama doesn't play hardball.

The 72-year-old Buddhist spiritual leader, portrayed by the government
of China as a stealthy, Machiavellian "splittist," devotes as much of
his meditation to the people of China -- and their government -- as to
the plight of his own people in Tibet and elsewhere.

That same compassion is what puts the Dalai Lama and his envoys at a
fundamental disadvantage in their dealings with China.

Of all the ethnic, religious, political and territorial intra-national
disputes of the past two decades, China's feud with Tibet begs more
than most for a United Nations-appointed mediator.

http://dailysalty.blogspot.com/2008/05/tibet-has-better-case-for-independence.ht...

SUNDAY, MAY 11
Tibet has a better case for independence than Kosovo
Now this should put the cat amongst the pigeons, lol, I warned about
this. The EU and USA's frankly stupid foreign policy will get it into
major hypocritical and stupid situations. So, the writer, Paul Harris,
is a barrister and was founding chairman of Hong Kong Human Rights
Monitor and he wrote this article. I quote:

Does Tibet have a right to self-determination under international law?
There are strong legal grounds to show that it does and that this
right is being denied by China. As the recent protests in Tibet and
the disruptions to the Olympic torch relay have demonstrated, Tibet is
an international problem crying out for a solution.

they glow like soothing 3 or 4 colors for like 2 weeks.... then they crap
out. or if they sit on the shelf for a year... they crap out. so no
collectability... but plenty of israeli trippers trippin' out on the colors.

Cheers!
Doc

$50 bucks apiece. but they gloww.

Let's start from the top:

- http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/laura-bush-katrina-burma/

Laura Bush’s Katrina Amnesia: Slams Burmese Govt. For Ignoring
‘Warnings’ Of Impending Natural Disaster

In an “unusual foray into foreign policy” yesterday, First Lady Laura
Bush admonished the Burmese government for its “inept” response to the
recent cyclone that killed over 20,000 people. The First Lady heaped
particularly harsh criticisms on the Burmese government for not
adequately warning residents about the incoming storm
...
In fact, equally harsh criticism could be leveled at President Bush.
As Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in 2005, Bush was on vacation,
and the White House ignored warnings about the dangers ahead

- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/warnings-went-ignored-as-bush-slashed...

Warnings went ignored as Bush slashed flood defence budget to pay for
wars

By Geoffrey Lean

The percentage of women in the workplace is on the rise since hitting
an all time low in March of 2005. Social Science experts think the
drop was due to a cultural shift. Those women that are now going back
to work are considered to be part of the baby boomer generation that
should be heading into retirement.

In contrast, some scholars are now saying that a younger generation of
women who were raised by working mothers are less likely to pursue a
career while raising a family. But that does not really seem to be the
case. In July, 60.8%% of women age 20 and older were working or seeking
employment. That is a pretty good percentage since the last highs were
in April of 2000 and June 2003. Then the all-time peak was at 61%%. The
number had fallen to 60%% in March of 2005 so as we can see, there has
been a small increase.

The fact that women have declined in the work force is a very
important discussion. Vicky Lovell, of the Institute for Women's
Policy Research, said “women have been the workers fueling economic
growth”. So this increase, no matter how small is definitely a step
forward. But there is a great deal of concern that this increase could
just be a short term situation.