Posts by Jeremy Eade
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We argueably have a better picture of what North Korea is and it's
pretty distressing. Starving your nation is one thing, brianwashing them at infancy to unswervingly accept the divine words of the 'dear leader" is literally a form of imposed madness, a calculated imposition.It's very sick. -
..immediate attention i meant to say although "intent" is relevant here too.
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"how can the world encourage china to care about human rights?"
There's a place in cuba that might need some immediate intention.
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"More pertinent to this discussion might be: What's New Zealand in relation to China?"
Sure, but I was trying to put my world citizen hat on here.
Is freedom achievable for China in my lifetime and what would that look like?And would that impact the slow general march of the world’s population into freer more harmonious societies.
I mean is anything ticking at the moment that good international diplomacy might defuse? might speed up? and so on....
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"and yet even with this supposed sham Christianity he is able to be compassionate, humble and humanitarian, and understand being your brother's keeper."
Great point. He sure acts like a christian whose read the christ bits quite closely, and that's more than most christian politicians.
"Obama has basically very little religious beliefs and attends church to advance his political career."
It's not implausible.We may be facing a new horizon with a female or black president but there's not going to be an atheist president for a long,long time.
As pauls post points out he's giving christianity a good name by at least trying to practise a bit of the old jesus philosophy.As long as he plans rather than prays for victory
surely he gets a pass. It's the U.S.in 2008. He's trying to float the idea of democracy there. -
"Maybe I'm a communist or something, but I don't think Jeremiah Wright's preaching inhabited Crazyville. It was on Slightly Unbalanced Highway to Dodgytown with the HIV stuff (although: Tuskeegee, people), but really, the rest of it was pretty mild. Even 'God damn America', in context, makes perfect sense to me."
Great point, and any new president regardless of colour is going to have to deal to the aspirations of the U.S black community. It's a political issue that is well overdue for purposeful remedy. I don't think that makes you a communist , a progressive i think they like to call that kind of point of view these days.To deal with reality or not to deal with reality?
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“Do I wait until I have such an understanding before deciding people killing / maiming others is a bad idea? I don't think so.”
I don’t think that’s really up for debate.
“If they did stand back and let the rioters blow off steam, that may well be a sign that they have learned some of what they need to know to settle people down rather than squash them down.”
This kind of contradicts your statement above. As far as I have gathered from discussion so far killing, violence and maiming occurred because they ( the chinese authorities) stood back and waited. Death isn’t a bigoted concept. It’s standard across bloodlines. I don’t think anyone’s going to argue that present day China will ever stand glowingly as a nation with a commitment to the freedom of it’s people, although I’d struggle to show you many governments/ nations that inspire the democratic freedom fighter in me.
I guess the excellent posts on this thread do ask new questions . What is China? Where is the aspirational temperament of the Chinese people. Is it Yugoslavia? How much does the collapse of china worry its citizens more than the progress of its minorities and is their a widespread belief internally that they are linked. It’s a moral default position to worry about the rights of individuals anywhere but it’s hard to negotiate even conceptual solutions without at least understanding the motivations of all parties, especially motivations that have been formed outside the general European/Pacific experience.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink triangles”
And still a whole bunch of people vote “Taliban” on sexual issues including something as natural as orientation. I can’t believe our quiet retardedness when it comes to matters of sexuality and I never knew that happened in concentration camps , and it’s incredibly sad to kill innocent people because of who their dna says they are. Taliban man, they should run here solely on the sex issues , they’d certainly get 5%. (lol)
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Not trying to offend anyone here but that youtube clip was amazing.
That Love for that nation, thousands of years of love . Fundamentally indigineous. My whitelady / hairy fucking iceman mishmash dna is only clocking 100 for New Zealand. Beautiful,fucked up and angry . The only way your going to understand this thing is to get your head around the passion of being identified so strongly to a large part of the eastern earth. That’s quite hard to appreciate when people seem to be quitting N.Z and the AllBlacks after 110, the allblacks !!!!!it’s the only sacred thing we have in New Zealand goddammit , bring back terry wright.
“that China will not leave Tibet until all Europeans leave Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the United States and return it to "the natives".
Keith Locke should ask this question in Parliament and he should ask it to Winston Peters.
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"It's SkyKiwi, although its audience is younger than ours.
Anyone who can read it and would be minded to provide a digest in translation should, of course, go right ahead."
I was thinking of a china with a free press but you're right , someone should translate skykiwi so we can see how our local chinese brothers and sisters are seeing everything.What the hell is china today anyway? Could it split up naturally , violently, peacefully? Would it be soon?