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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">“Tell me how this ends.”
–David Petraeus, March 2003</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">How does it end?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The dictator dies, shrivelled and
demented, in his bed;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">he flees the rebels in a private
plane;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">he is caught hiding in a mountain
outpost,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">a drainage pipe,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">a spider hole.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He is tried. He is not tried.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He is dragged, bloody and dazed,
through the streets,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">then executed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The humbling comes in myriad forms,
but what is revealed is always the same:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the technologies of paranoia,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the stories of slaughter and fear,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the vaults,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the national economies employed as
personal property,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the crazy pets, the prostitutes, the
golden fixtures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Instinctively, when dictators are
toppled, we invade their castles</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">and expose their vanities and
luxuries—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Imelda’s shoes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the Shah’s jewels.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We loot and desecrate, in order to
cut them finally, futilely, down to size.</span></span></div>
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</span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After the fall of Baghdad, I visited
the gaudiest of Saddam’s palaces,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">examined his tasteless art,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">his Cuban cigars,</span></span></div>
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</span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">his private lakes with their
specially bred giant fish,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">his self-worshipping bronze effigies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I saw thirty years’ worth of bodies
in secret graves,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">along with those of Iraqis</span></span></div>
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</span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">bound and shot just hours before
liberation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In Afghanistan, Mullah Omar,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">a despot of simpler tastes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">left behind little but plastic
flowers,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">a few Land Cruisers with CDs of
Islamic music,</span></span></div>
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</span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">and an unkempt garden where he had
spent hours </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">petting his favorite cow. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">--Jon Lee Anderson November 7, 2011<span> </span>New Yorker</span></span></div>
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<b>The Villain We Love to Hate</b><br />
Watching Shakespeare's character
lie, manipulate, and murder his way to the English throne is a lot like
watching the Grinch steal Christmas or Sue Sylvester humiliate the Glee
Club: we know we're witnessing the actions of an unapologetic villain,
but we just can't help but be enthralled and even amused by it.<br />
...<br />
This is partly because he's smart, suave, and politically savvy. He
also has quite a sense of humor. It's a sick sense of humor, sure, but
it can be pretty compelling. (When the hired murderers promise to make
Clarence suffer, Richard quips "I like you lads".) <b>More important, Richard also has a habit of
confiding in his audience, making us his confidants. This has the effect
of drawing us in and making us complicit in his evil schemes.</b><br />
...<br />
<b>Richard and the "Vice" Figure Tradition</b><br />
Richard is considered
a throwback to the stock character of "Vice," a common figure in
medieval morality plays. The "Vice" character is basically a
personification of evil and/or an agent of the devil who spends most of
his time trying to corrupt mankind. Vice figures would often address the
audience directly and would sometimes run around in the audience
heckling people. This character can be a lot of fun but is also pretty
one-dimensional. Vice doesn't have any psychological motives – he's just
pure, concentrated evil, kind of like a Decepticon Transformer.<br />
<br />
Obviously
Shakespeare had all of this in mind when he created his villain.
Richard is unapologetically wicked and is even accused of being an agent
of the devil. ... Richard even refers to himself as a "Vice" when
he describes his actions: <br />
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<em>Thus, like the formal Vice, Iniquity,<br />I moralize two meanings in one word. </em><br />
<br />
Although
Richard definitely has some roots in the Vice tradition, his character
is a lot more complex than the flat, stock figure from the old morality
plays. Whereas Vice figures have no psychological motives, we can argue
that Richard does. In his opening speech, he tells us that he's aware
of his physical deformities and feels insecure, inadequate, and isolated. In other words, Richard's got psychological depth from the
very beginning of the play.<br />
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P.S. Shakespeare's character <a href="http://www.shmoop.com/othello/iago.html" title="Iago">Iago</a> (<em>Othello</em>) also has some roots in the old Vice figure tradition. <br />
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More than rich, more than famous, more than happy – I wanted to be great.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Bruce Springsteen </i></span></div>
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I've been reading Acts of the Apostles. I read somewhere that
this is the only source on the first 50 or so years of the Jesus Movement. I
use that term because the book itself marks the time and spot where the term “Christian” was
coined. Antioch or Corinth, I forget.</div>
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One thing I notice is that they take a lot of boats. Every
episode begins with someone making landfall, doing stuff, then taking passage
someplace else, sometimes one step ahead of an angry mob. These were merchant vessels, of course. I wonder what they were
like and what the travel times were. I always wondered where these guys got enough money to
support all this travel. I think I figured that out.</div>
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The book begins pretty much the day after the Resurrection.
In this telling, the Jews killed Jesus. Pilate found no fault in him, after all. Jesus
does not do much. he hangs out being Risen and therefore the Messiah, but there
are no memorable parables or confrontations. Throughout the book the main point
the Jesus people make is “He rose from the dead so he is the Messiah”. That’s
the pitch. And they say over and over that he revealed himself to Mankind; Mankind being, well, his followers. They make no claim
that anyone outside the movement ever witnessed the risen Jesus.</div>
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Now, I have always wondered about the healing ministry of Jesus.
That term healing ministry is one I got from a documentary about evangelical
faith healers in the US in the 20<sup>th</sup> century, “Marjoe”. And, like
Oral Roberts and the early Billy Graham and legions of “put you hand on the
radio” tinhorn preachers, Jesus was a faith healer. Assuming Jesus existed, its
seems the most likely explanation for his after-crucifixion popularity was that
he was a really good preacher. These days, by which I mean the last 500 years or so, not a lot is made
of Jesus' career as a faith healer, beyond a couple of the more
impressive miracles, which are treated as anecdotes. </div>
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In the first sections of Acts, we follow Jesus’ protegee,
Peter, for a while, and it is plain that Peter has taken over the ministry. He
goes around healing people, including raising one person from the dead. Always,
just as the faith healers in the modern era, saying he has no special power, it
is in Jesus name that people are healed. The healings got Peter big crowds to
whom he could deliver the Big Message: Jesus rose, so he is the Messiah and by
believing in Jesus your sins can be forgiven, all of this was foretold in
scripture, there is an afterlife, and these are the end times. Better get right
with God, time is running out.</div>
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Entirely absent from the book is any component of Jesus'
message: nothing about not casting the first stone, loving enemies, accepting
sinners, turning the other cheek, visiting the imprisoned, the
meek/mourning/poor in spirit/peacemakers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>inheriting anything, or any of the stuff that by my lights make the New
Testament worth reading. No virgin birth, no voices from the sky proclaiming
fatherhood. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">No glowing doves. Nothing against money changers, for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think a likely explanation
for this is that Acts is the last book of the Bible, but was the first New
Testament book to be actually written down. The propagandists had not yet made
up all those stories about Jesus. Or maybe more precisely, had not yet re-purposed
Greek, Roman and Egyptian legends that were already floating around to the
Jesus movement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Also there are a lot of explicit references to prophecy in the New Testament. For example, Jesus riding an ass into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, refers back to </span>Zechariah 9:9, saith the internet. Much of the action between the Apostles and the various Jewish communities in Acts involves the Apostles wanting to sit down with the scholars and prove their case for Jesus by reference to prophetic scripture. Again, just like evangelists to the present day. Jesus was of the house of David, as foretold, and so on. For the most part they failed to convince the rabbis, and the book is pretty harsh to the Jews as a result. Acts is not all that specific about the references, and the NT fixes this in a way that remained, it seems, unconvincing to the rabbis.<br />
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The financing of the Jesus movement is well explained, as it
was not in the New Testament. The arrangement was: you get converted,
you sell everything you have and lay it at the feet of the apostles (they use
that phrase repeatedly) and you join the commune. Not that different from the Rajneeshees.
And it makes sense, because Jesus, the Messiah, will be right back, he is just giving
the Jews time to get their shit together. The end is near so we do not need
land and possessions or money. There is one incident where a particular couple, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Ananias and Sapphira, </span>
sold everything, but held some back for themselves when they went to lay it at
Peter’s feet. Peter gave them a hard stare and they dropped dead on the spot, first one and then later the other.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Death of Ananias, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael" title="Raphael">Raphael</a></span></div>
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indication that he asked himself, “What would Jesus do?” Except, probably he did think about that. Given
that this is how the ministry was conducted right off the bat, it seems likely that this was the blueprint created by Jesus before his death. If Jesus was Billy Graham, Peter was Jim Jones.<br />
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The worship services were very tent revival type affairs.
The samples of Peter and Paul's oratory are pretty well crafted, and one can just about hear the evangelical cadences ("Ju-ee-zus sa-yez..ah!"). The Holy Spirit would come upon the people, they would be swept up in ecstatic prayer,
they would roll about speaking in tongues. Lots of complaints from the
neighbors, especially among the Jews. The Gentiles ate it up. Women
were plainly full participants in the services, not very Jewish, but very Roman.</div>
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So, whether the apostles were honest believers or not, they
conducted themselves pretty much exactly like the shitheels of today who bilk
vulnerable people out of their life savings with nutty, emotional religious
appeals. As proof here is an incontrovertible fact: the world did not end. </div>
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Absent also from Acts is the suggestion that Jesus was God. Makes
sense, the traditional notion of the Messiah was never that he would be God
incarnate, I don’t think. The Holy Spirit makes many appearances, but is never
referred to as a deity, or even necessarily as a specific actor like, say, a
particular archangel. As I read it the term is more like the Irish <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“craic”, the good energy generated by the
people in the room. The early Christians had very good craic.<br />
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Jesus <u>was</u>, according to Acts the Son of God, but he was not God, the Son. The dominant religion of the day, paganism, had lots and lots of sons of gods, so that was anything but a tough sell. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demigods" target="_blank">Here's a list.</a> <br />
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Given a choice between $50 now and $100 in a month, many people would
take the money<br />
now. But offered $50 in a year, or $100 in 13 months,
they'd wait the extra month to double<br />
their money.<br />
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Another example from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_inconsistency" target="_blank">This Wikipedia page</a><br />
<i>In the experiment, subjects of the study were offered free rentals of
movies which were classified into two categories - "lowbrow" (e.g. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakfast_Club" title="The Breakfast Club">The Breakfast Club</a>) and "highbrow" (e.g. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List" title="Schindler's List">Schindler's List</a>)
- and researchers analyzed patterns of choices made. In the absence of
dynamic inconsistency, the choice would be expected to be the same
regardless of the delay between the decision date and the consumption
date. In practice, however, the outcome was different. When subjects had
to choose a movie to watch immediately, the choice was consistently
lowbrow for the majority of the subjects. But when they were asked to
pick a movie to be watched at later date, highbrow movies were chosen
far more often. Among movies picked four or more days in advance, over
70% were highbrow.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_inconsistency#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></i>TOBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348701584800339009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174354747785135317.post-73552163756304697202012-08-12T21:47:00.001-07:002012-08-12T21:47:36.594-07:00First Samuel Chapter 8<span class="text 1Sam-8-3" id="en-KJV-7373"></span> <br />
<br /><span class="text 1Sam-8-10" id="en-KJV-7380"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>And Samuel told all the words of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> unto the people that asked of him a king.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-11" id="en-KJV-7381"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>And
he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you:
He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots,
and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-12" id="en-KJV-7382"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>And
he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties;
and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to
make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-13" id="en-KJV-7383"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-14" id="en-KJV-7384"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-15" id="en-KJV-7385"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-16" id="en-KJV-7386"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>And
he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your
goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-17" id="en-KJV-7387"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-18" id="en-KJV-7388"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will not hear you in that day.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-19" id="en-KJV-7389"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-20" id="en-KJV-7390"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-21" id="en-KJV-7391"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span><br />
<span class="text 1Sam-8-22" id="en-KJV-7392"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>And the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>
said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And
Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.</span>TOBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10348701584800339009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174354747785135317.post-319186249079557892012-08-01T19:41:00.000-07:002012-08-01T19:41:20.739-07:00SinicaThis is my favorite new podcast. Podcast URL is <a href="http://popupchinese.com/feeds/custom/sinica">http://popupchinese.com/feeds/custom/sinica</a>. <span style="color: black;">Blog site is at</span> <a class="feed-info-header-a" href="http://popupchinese.com/lessons/sinica">http://popupchinese.com/lessons/sinica</a>
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I first heard of this via This American Life (<a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/467/americans-in-china">http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/467/americans-in-china)</a> wherein the main Sinica guy, named Kaiser something, was extensively interviewed about being an expat living in China for many many years. Kaiser is joined by two or three other very smart, very engaging vernacular English speakers who know China and Chinese extremely well. They are the young, smart, into-their-thing, well educated ones who write scholarly articles and occasionally get stories into the Guardian or Wall Street Journal. They go over the big news stories in China and then focus in on two or three of them, I am pretty sure beer is present. Or they do a historical retrospective on some aspect of Chinese history. My favorite dialog from the current episode, in a discussion of the Manchus (all quotes approximate):<br />
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"I don't really know what Manchu [language] sounds like"<br />
"It sounds a lot like Romulan to me"<br />
"You are such a nerd"<br />
"Right, I'm the guy on a podcast talking about the Manchu dialect, what was your first clue?"<br />
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When I say big news stories in China, I mean big to the Chinese, not to us. I did not know that Peking recently had major flooding and 34 people died, nor that the Ming Dynasty waterworks held up just fine, but the stuff from the 20th Century pretty much collapsed, nor that this prompted widespread speculation about why the Mayor of Peking's resignation was announced (deep, hall of mirrors Chinese government stuff here). Nor did I know that their health care system sucks. The docs and nurses are very poorly paid and demand bribes for every little thing, you have to buy an appointment from a ticket scalper and patients get treated like shit. The story was deemed important on the "if it bleeds it leads" (they used this very phrase) basis that there is an outbreak of enraged patients murdering doctors, Chinese going postal.<br />
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Its not all as big a downer as these stories suggest, especially since they were treated with great sympathy toward both the regular people and for the problems of being a government for such a huuuuuggge number of people. Also, they have a good sense of humor.<br />
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<i>This is a true footnote character from history. I'm reading google news and there is a story about a potential war between China and other countries over ownership of the ecologically sensitive, oil-rich South China Sea and it mentions a battle between South Vietnam and China in 1974, just after the US had cut and run from Vietnam but before the North won the war. Thats interesting, so I look it up on Wikipedia, and there is Gerald Emil Kosh.</i> <i>That is an unusual name so I was able to track down a lot of weird stuff. Kissinger talked to the Chinese, the government later denied he was an employee, his military record is listed ambiguously. He went on to live a quiet life, and this incident was not mentioned in his obit. His name got tossed out to Obama by a South Vietnamese dead-ender waving the bloody shirt. To this day he is on E-bay and possibly Facebook.</i></div>
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The Battle of the Paracel Islands was a military engagement
fought between the naval forces of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the
Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) in the Paracel Islands on January 19, 1974.</div>
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A potential diplomatic crisis was averted when China quietly
released an American prisoner taken during the battle. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Gerald Emil Kosh</span>, 27, was a former US Army
captain captured with the Vietnamese on Pattle Island. He was described as a
“regional liaison officer” for the US Embassy, Saigon, on assignment with the
South Vietnamese Navy. China released him from custody on January 31 without
comment. Kosh is sometimes described as having been a civilian employee of the
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<b>[Secretary
Kissinger]</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there are only two points I
wanted to make with respect to the Paracel Islands issue.<a href="" name="fnref2"></a><a href="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18/d66#fn2"><span style="mso-bookmark: fnref2;"><sup>2</sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: fnref2;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: fnref2;"></span> The South Vietnamese government is making a
number of representations to international organizations, to SEATO as well as
to the United Nations. We wanted to let you know we do not associate ourselves
with those representations. We are concerned, however, about the prisoners, and
we noted that your government has indicated that the prisoners will be released
at an appropriate time. We wanted to urge that this appropriate time be very
soon, especially as there is an American included in that group. And that would
certainly defuse the situation as far as the United States is concerned. That's
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Ambassador <span class="teipersname">Han [of the PRC]</span>: …<br />
As for when the prisoners will be released, our statement said that at an
appropriate time they will be released. It was the Foreign Ministry statement.<br />
But as a personal observation, I would just like to express surprise that
there should be an American citizen at that particular area at that particular
time.<br />
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Ambassador <span class="tei:persName">Han</span>: With regard to <span class="tei:persName">Mr. Hummel's</span> suggestion whether to
publicize this to the media would this be quickly, right away?<br />
The Secretary [Kissinger]: We can wait. What do you want? You report to Peking. Not
having said anything up to now, we can survive another 24 hours. We can
take the heat. We will give it until Friday morning,<a class="footnote" href="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18/d66#fn3" name="fnref3"><sup>3</sup></a> but the more quickly you can let
us know, the better. Eventually, we will have to say that we have talked
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Ambassador <span class="tei:persName">Han</span>: After we have reported to the
government, we will see what the reply is.<br />
<span class="tei:persName">Mr. Hummel</span>: All we have in mind
is to say that we have talked, not to make the other points that the
Secretary raised.<br />
The Secretary: We will wait until Friday. We can give you until Friday
a.m. to see whether you get an answer. We have been accused of so many
things, we can be accused of neglecting an American interest for a
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B Company 3/12 4th Infantry<br />
Gerald Emil Kosh, 56, died Sunday.<br />
He was born Oct. 25, 1946, in Philadelphia. An Army veteran of the Vietnam
War, he was a journeyman wireman, a 17-year resident of Las Vegas and a member
of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 357.<br />
He is survived by his wife, Susan; daughter, Jennifer; and son, Jonathan,
all of Las Vegas; brother, Gabe of Blue Bell, Pa.; and sister, Arlene McElree
of Lafayette Hill, Pa.<br />
Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. today at Palm Mortuary-Eastern, with
services at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Anne's Catholic Church. Graveside services
will follow at noon at Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery.<br />
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President Barack Obama</div>
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The White House</div>
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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW</div>
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Dear Mr. President,</div>
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Chinese forces had also captured an American, Captain Gerald Emil Kosh, during
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