GoK was once lively, contentious, at times abusive but also interesting, entertaining and always informative. The goal of harmony resulted in policy of forced moderation and eventual censorship. Only approved opinions and discourse was allowed. As the hand on the tiller grew heavier, GoK lost the wind.
Sorry for getting nautical but I bought a home less than a kilometer from the ocean in California and have been relaxing, enjoying my dotage, sailing, and the Kunming like weather here. I miss China and Kunming. American food is boring.
In the US we are being told that getting vaccinated will end the supply chain problem. Biden’s Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm on skyrocketing prices of goods:
"[Economists say] there is a transitory nature to the inflation problem…We wanna make sure we get everybody vaccinated so we can unclog the bottlenecks that we’ve been seeing.”
Found an interesting video (48 min) on the COVID pandemic and the vaccines being pushed. The mRNA vaxx are still experimental and controversy is raging on who should get the shot. I got the two Pfizer shots as I am 78 with additional high risk problems.
This is the link and there are many (100+ ?) links to additional resources.
"UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan implemented worldwide to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world. INVENTORY AND CONTROL."
——Rosa Koire
Sounds like central planning to me. Local implementation of a global "agenda" remains "planning." Interesting concept, injecting Adam Smith's "invisible hand" into a collectivist agenda thinking it will solve the conceit of the elites problem.
Good intentions all around, no doubt, but we know where that road leads.
In the late 60's I was able to see a bit of Scott's Zomia. Travel by foot, humping tools of war and being sneaky gives one a great appreciation for the peoples of Zomia.
I bought Scott's book to try to understand how the mountain people came to be and why they would tolerate us but not the lowlanders that often wished to exterminate them.
Sadly, I only read part of the book and it didn't make back to the US with me.
In about 1965, in the central highlands of Vietnam, my weekly copies of Newsweek and Time weekly magazines caught up with me. I sat outside reading when a Mike Force leader, a Rhade man, stopped and asked if he could read the magazines. Thinking he would enjoy the pictures, I handed him a couple of issues.
I was surprised to see him actually reading English. Soon he explained the French missionaries sent him to university in France. The American missionaries sent him to Lehigh University where he got a Masters in Civil Engineering. I naively asked if he couldn't help his people more as a engineer, but, no, he assured me, the best way to help the Rhade was by killing Vietnamese, Communist or not. In this, his rep was very high.
I can buy into Scott'd thesis that the mountain folk just didn't to share space with lowlanders. We found support and help which in the end seemed to be motivated by "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Chinese military has been under pressure to close or restrict business activity since at least 1999. The subject has come up from time to time over the years along with allegations of corruption involving of senior officers being reported in the Western press.
What tenants the military will no longer rent to will migrate to other landlords. TIC
Be aware they will push whatever they are selling. Some of the staff have no idea about the technical side of appliances.
I went there to buy a stove. I repeatedly told them I would be using bottled gas. They sold me a stove. When I went to my local gas guy, I learned there are at least three kinds of gas sold. Luckily, B&Q did not deliver as promised. I went back to the store and discovered they had sold me a stove they needed to be hooked up to the gas main. I got my money back.
The sales lady was almost in tears, 没有问题！I don't know if it a safety or design issue, but I would think B&Q would know and care.
Subway starts at 9am. I have no idea where to catch an airport express bus. Eight taxis refused to go to the airport. After almost an hour standing on Beijing Lu took a black taxi, this dude drives slower than my mother, 120 yuan.
Flight back was delayed so I learned the subway stops running at 6:10pm.
Getting a taxi back was easy, more taxis than customers. Taxi was 87 yuan including 1o yuan toll, airport to Beichen area. Yes, he took a longer route than necessary.
Kunming imagines being a gateway for international travelers. New airport but hard to get to and from it.
Earth's budget deficit at 160%, hope stems from trees
发布者Here is one take on Agenda 21:
"UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan implemented worldwide to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world. INVENTORY AND CONTROL."
——Rosa Koire
Sounds like central planning to me. Local implementation of a global "agenda" remains "planning." Interesting concept, injecting Adam Smith's "invisible hand" into a collectivist agenda thinking it will solve the conceit of the elites problem.
Good intentions all around, no doubt, but we know where that road leads.
Friction of terrain: Cycling through Zomia (part III)
发布者Is "gokunming" a gerund?
Mushroom lost for 164 years rediscovered
发布者How delicious can a 164 year old fungus taste?
Friction of terrain: Cycling through Zomia (part I)
发布者In the late 60's I was able to see a bit of Scott's Zomia. Travel by foot, humping tools of war and being sneaky gives one a great appreciation for the peoples of Zomia.
I bought Scott's book to try to understand how the mountain people came to be and why they would tolerate us but not the lowlanders that often wished to exterminate them.
Sadly, I only read part of the book and it didn't make back to the US with me.
In about 1965, in the central highlands of Vietnam, my weekly copies of Newsweek and Time weekly magazines caught up with me. I sat outside reading when a Mike Force leader, a Rhade man, stopped and asked if he could read the magazines. Thinking he would enjoy the pictures, I handed him a couple of issues.
I was surprised to see him actually reading English. Soon he explained the French missionaries sent him to university in France. The American missionaries sent him to Lehigh University where he got a Masters in Civil Engineering. I naively asked if he couldn't help his people more as a engineer, but, no, he assured me, the best way to help the Rhade was by killing Vietnamese, Communist or not. In this, his rep was very high.
I can buy into Scott'd thesis that the mountain folk just didn't to share space with lowlanders. We found support and help which in the end seemed to be motivated by "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
No clear timetable for Kundu business closures
发布者Chinese military has been under pressure to close or restrict business activity since at least 1999. The subject has come up from time to time over the years along with allegations of corruption involving of senior officers being reported in the Western press.
What tenants the military will no longer rent to will migrate to other landlords. TIC