Fascinating. And typical of the unusual Chinese seesaw that has occurred
throuout the aeons between hyper-strict centralized control and something
approaching a lite version of anarchy. There's no good mapping of this into
Western ideas of fascism, marxism, and economics.
Interesting too that
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/11/09/business/yuan.html
China's wealthy bypass the banks
By Keith Bradsher The New York Times
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
WENZHOU, China The Wenzhou stir-fry is not a dish you eat. But it is
giving indigestion to Chinese
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
At 7:11 PM -0800 11/8/04, Chuck Wolber wrote:
cet is an HTMl element
Wrong again. Mere hyperlatinate British public school affectation, =
et, and, um, all that...
Strange, you called that a rudimentary part of modern culture. Are you
aware of any
Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 23:30 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yesid=5652
Declaration of Expulsion: A Modest Proposal
It's Time to Reconfigure the United States
Chuckle-worthy, if not outright funny. Interestingly, I could see
With Ashcroft going, America's a bit safer,
unless of course his successor is just as bad.
One of the candidates for Ashcroft's successor is
Bush's White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales,
who's been responsible for several memos suggesting that
POWs from Afghanistan aren't protected by the
At 9:54 AM -0800 11/10/04, Chuck Wolber wrote:
redirecting
Ah. Yes. *That's* the word I was looking for...
Plonk!
There. That should stop the bandwidth leak...
Cheers,
RAH
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James A. Donald wrote:
So far the Pentagon has
shattered the enemy while suffering casualties of about a thousand,
which is roughly the same number of casualties as the British empire
suffered doing regime change on the Zulu empire - an empire of a
quarter of a million semi naked savages mostly
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Tyler Durden wrote:
Fascinating. And typical of the unusual Chinese seesaw that has
occurred throuout the aeons between hyper-strict centralized control
and something approaching a lite version of anarchy. There's no good
mapping of this into Western ideas of fascism, marxism, and
Oh No
Way overly simplistic. Also, you are comparing apples to bushels of wheat.
However Confucianism vs Daoism/Taoism is rather different from what
you would get in the west. Confucianism is somewhat similar to what
you would get if western cultural conservatives allied themselves with
At 9:00 PM + 11/10/04, ken wrote:
Be fair. They had a trained and disciplined army. Most of whom
would obey orders to the death. That's worth a hell of a lot in
battle.
Yeah, but the zulus had the wrong end of, well, the stick.
Take a look at, again, Hanson's Carnage and Culture for a nice
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