Phong Tran" Wrote:> I was wondering if you were planning to include a generational
> historical breakdown of Vietnam, the same way that a breakdown for
> the history of Myanmar (Burma) was presented?

Phong Tran" Wrote:> Just one other thought about the book. I'm wondering if the sub
> title "How Vietnam became an economic powerhouse after the
> Vietnam War" may be a bit misleading as only Part II really
> talks about Vietnam's economic history and policies which is only
> about 10-15% of the book. Anyone purchasing the book based on the
> title might be expecting the topic to be at least 30-35% of the
> book.

• Fox News is focusing on the crisis at the southern border.
  This is an enormous crisis, which is growing worse every day, where
  thousands of migrants are simply walking in to the US. The children
  are locked up in storage containers, while the adults are put on buses
  to go wherever they want. According to sample tests, about 10% of
  them have Covid, and they're spreading it across the country.
  
  Another issue is that Mexican cartels are making huge amounts of money
  from this. They have complete control of the border, and they charge
  people who want to cross into America. The charge is around $5,000
  for someone from Central America, and $15,000 for someone from Europe
  or the Mideast. That doesn't even count the tons of drugs that are
  coming across the border and are being sent across the county.
  Democrats want this to continue so that the illegal immigrants will
  vote for Democrats.
  
  Needless to say, only Fox News is covering this. The mainstream media
  are totally silent about this.
  
  
• The mainstream media are focusing on Biden's speech last week, how
  wonderful and nurturing it was, and how it's preparing the country to
  be ready for get-togethers by July 4. I also saw discussions about
  how California is handling the Covid crisis properly, while Florida is
  not.
  
  There's also a lot of coverage about Andrew Cuomo and his seven sexual
  abuse accusers. This whole subject is a farce, since Democrats don't
  care about rape or sexual abuse by Democrats. The most obvious
  example of this is that something like a dozen women accused Bill
  Clinton of violent rape, but Democrats still treat him like a god, and
  the same for Hillary, who trashes any of Clinton's rape victims.
  Democrats love rape when the rapist is a Democrat.
  
  So the question I have is: Why are the Democrats throwing Cuomo under
  the bus? They could easily bat away Cuomo's accusers, just as they've
  batted away Clinton's accusers. I'm 100% certain it has nothing to do
  with sexual abuse or nursing home deaths, since Democrats don't even
  care about those. Most likely is that they want to replace Cuomo with
  an even loonier leftist.
  
  
• On CNN's Reliable Sources this morning, there was a long segment
  attacking Fox's Tucker Carlson. I recommend Carlson to everyone
  because he's been the most effective in exposing the loony leftist
  policies, such as saying that there's no difference between male and
  female, or teaching kids that all whites are racists, or ignoring the
  antifa-blm violence that's once again spreading, or the cancel culture
  lunacy. The fact that CNN is spending so much time attacking Carlson
  and trying to force him off the air shows how effective he's
  become.

DaKardii Wrote:> Exactly ten years after the civil war in Syria began under similar
> circumstances. Could history repeat [in Burma]? And if it does,
> could it drag in the US, China, and India into a proxy
> war?

• After ten years, Qatar seeks to become Syria war mediator
  
• Ten years of war have turned an affluent Syria into a country in ruins
  
• The remaining battleground in Idlib province
  
• Qatar's strategy in offering to mediate the Syrian war
  
• Syrian war timeline
  

• March 2011 -- The first big protests against Assad’s rule that
  began in Deraa in southern Syria spread across the country. Security
  forces respond with arrests and shootings.
  
• August 2011 -- Al-Assad began his policy of ethnic cleansing and
  genocide by attacking and cleansing the al-Ramel Palestinian refugee
  camp in Latakia, forcing 10,000 people to flee for their lives.
  Later, that region was repopulated by Iranian and Hezbollah Shias.
  This was the launch of genocidal attacks on many Syrian cities. The
  attack on the Palestinian camp was signficant because it
  internationalized the war, and eventually caused thousands of young
  Sunni males in 80 countries to travel to Syria to fight al-Assad,
  eventually forming ISIS.
  
• April 30, 2012 -- Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallad gave a
  televised speech committing Hezbollah's soldiers to enter Syria and
  fight on the side of al-Assad's army.
  
• May 2012 -- Syrian security forces stormed Aleppo University,
  breaking down doors and using machine guns and rifles against
  students. Al-Assad launched air raids on many cities and towns,
  killing thousands. This began a policy of targeting schools,
  hospitals, markets and residential neighborhoods, particularly
  targeting women and children.
  
• December 2012 -- US officials confirm that Syria has the precursor
  chemicals for deadly Sarin gas, and loaded the gas into bombs. Iraq's
  president Saddam Hussein's forces killed 5,000 Kurds with a single
  Sarin gas attack on Halabja in 1988. Barack Obama declared that use
  of chemical weapons would be a "red line" that would provoke a
  military response from the US.
  
• March 19, 2013 -- A Sarin gas attack killed 26.
  
• June 2013 -- Syria launched a Sarin gas attack on a densely
  populated rebel-held Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus
  killing hundreds of civilians, without triggering a U.S. military
  response.
  
• August 21, 2013 -- A Sarin gas attack on the densely populated
  Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus. Washington declares it
  to be use of chemical weapons violating its red line, without
  triggering a U.S. military response.
  
• January 2014 -- A jihadist group, later to be called ISIS, seized
  territory across Syria and Iraq, and declared a caliphate.
  
• April 13, 2014 -- First reported use of chlorine gas by al-Assad
  in barrel bombs targeting women and children in markets and
  residential neighborhoods.
  
• September 2014 -- US begins air strikes in support of the Kurds
  against ISIS
  
• May 2015 -- After suffering several major military defeats, and
  with his army near total collapse, al-Assad announces that he's losing
  the war.
  
• June 2015 -- Iran announces plans to deploy tens of thousands of
  troops to Syria in support of al-Assad.
  
• September 2015 -- Russia joins the war on al-Assad's side,
  deploying warplanes and giving military aid that, with the help of
  Iran, swiftly turns the course of conflict against the rebels.
  
• December 2016 -- After massive slaughter of residents of Aleppo by
  Syrian and Russian forces, al-Assad scores a "historic victory" in
  Aleppo.
  
• February 2018 -- Syria, Russia, Iran conduct full-on mass
  extermination of civilians in Eastern Ghouta
  
• April 2018 -- Donald Trump administration, allied with France and
  Britain, launch a missile attack on Syria in retaliation for crossing
  "red line" on use of chemical weapons. However, al-Assad continued to
  use chemical weapons anyway, with impunity.
  
• May 2018 -- Civilians in Eastern Ghouta and Douma are allowed to
  flee to Idlib province
  
• June 2018 -- Al-Assads begins massive slaughter in Daraa and
  Quneitra provinces.
  
• July 2018 -- Civilians in Daraa and Quneitra provinces are allowed
  to flee to Idlib province.
  
• August 2018 -- Al-Assad promised to slaughter all the 2.5 million
  people at that time.
  
• October 2019 -- Trump administration announced withdrawal of
  American troops. Turkey announced plan to invade Turkey to protect
  civilians in Idlib, and to keep Kurds under control in northeastern
  Syria.
  
• February 2020 -- Turkey sent tanks across border into Syria to
  confront al-Assad regime in Idlib

• Why has the Syrian war lasted 10 years? (BBC, 12-Mar-2021)
  
• Turkey, Russia, Qatar to push for political resolution in Syria (Reuters, 11-Mar-2021)
  
• ‘Turkey will defend Syria's territorial integrity’ (Anadolu, Turkey, 11-Mar-2021)
  
• Syria: A fractured state and a people displaced - counting the cost of a decade of war (Sky News, Australia, 15-Mar-2021)
  
• Qatar reactivates role in Syria amid hopes of regional influence (Arab Weekly, 26-Feb-2021)
  
• Egypt holds first meeting with Qatar since reconciliation deal (Arab Weekly, 28-Feb-2021)
  
• Qatar launches conservative media platform in US in soft power pursuit (Arab Weekly, 25-Feb-2021)
  
• Bashar al-Assad / Syrian president, wife test positive for coronavirus (AP, 11-Mar-2021)
  
• Qatar / QFFD, QRCS build medical capacity in northern Syria (The Peninsula Qatar, 7-Mar-2021)
  
• Yemeni government restores ties with Qatar after four years of boycott (Reuters, 7-Mar-2021)
  
• Syria's Idlib: What future for the rebel holdout? (AFP, 8-Mar-2021)
  
• Turkish military convoy enters Syria's Idlib (Mehr News, Iran, 11-Mar-2021)
  
• Local residents clash with militants in Syria’s Idlib (Tass, Moscow, 9-Mar-2021)
  
• Erdogan warns of military action in Syria, decries Russian strike (Al-Jazeera, 28-Oct-2020)
  
• Viewpoint: Why Turkey is flexing its muscles abroad (BBC, 16-Oct-2020)
  
• Turkey, Russia, Qatar push for unlikely new Syria peace track (Al-Monitor, 11-Mar-2021)
  
• Qatar will continue efforts to restore peace in Syria: FM (Qatar Tribune, 11-Mar-2021)
  
• Qatar, Russia, and Turkey announce new Syria peace initiative (New Arab, 11-Mar-2021)
  
• Timeline: Ten years of Syria conflict, from protest to war to economic decline (Reuters, 12-Mar-2021)
  
• Syria accused of covering up damage at Palestinian refugee camp (LA Times, 22-Aug-2011)
  
• Sergey Lavrov / Iran Deal, Syria Sanctions Lead Subjects on Top Russia Diplomat's Mideast Tour (Newsweek, 9-Mar-2021)
  
• As Biden Faces New Iran Crisis in Iraq, Syria Warns of 'Consequences' to U.S. Attacks (Newsweek, 3-Mar-2021)
  
• Syria's British first lady Asma al-Assad who shopped for £4,000 shoes while her country tipped into bloody violence 'faces war crimes prosecution in UK' (Daily Mail, London, 14-Mar-2021)

• Turkey sends tanks across border into Syria to confront al-Assad regime in Idlib (09-Feb-2020)
  
  
• Turkey, Russia and Greece face off in Syria, Libya and the eastern Mediterranean (26-Dec-2019)
  
  
• Syria, Russia veto humanitarian aid to Idlib as civilian massacre escalates (22-Dec-2019)
  
  
• Escalated bombing by Syria, Russia in Idlib sends tens of thousands to Turkey border (19-Dec-2019)
  
  
• Generational analysis of Turkey-Syria war and ceasefire agreement (18-Oct-2019)
  
  
• Evidence grows of Assad's 'final solution', extermination of Arab Sunnis in Syria (01-Dec-2018)
  
  
• Syria peace summit issues delusional call for political solution in Idlib (28-Oct-2018)
  
  
• Russia demands that US and EU pay to rebuild Syria (23-Aug-2018)
  
  
• US increasingly expresses total disgust with Syria regime for Bashar al-Assad's atrocities (21-Sep-2016)
  
  
• Turkey shoots down Russian warplane, evoking memories of many Crimean wars (25-Nov-2015)
  
  
• Turkey threatens Syria, as military attacks Palestinian refugee camp (16-Aug-2011)
  

Quote:> "CNN previously reported that children are alternating
> schedules to make space for one another in confined facilities,
> some kids haven't seen sunlight in days and others are taking
> turns showering, often going days without one, according to case
> managers, attorneys and Border Patrol agents. Bunk beds have been
> brought in to one of the processing facilities to help accommodate
> the influx of children, with one agent saying children are also
> sleeping on plastic cots and mats on the floor and
> benches."
> https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/21/politics/alejandro-mayorkas-border-closed-immigration-facilities-cnntv/index.html
>

• He stated without evidence that the Trump administration dismantled
  the border policies that Obama had set up.
  
  
• He said that Trump's policies were cruel, and that's why Biden
  rushed to dismantle all of Trump's policies on day one.
  
  
• He stated without evidence that they have a new plan. If they
  have a plan, nobody knows what it is, so it's pretty clear that they
  don't have a plan.
  
  
• It will take time to implement the new plan, and then everything
  will be dandy.

• Hate crimes against Asians are overwhelmingly done by blacks.
  
  "Hate crimes against Asian Americans are more likely than hate crimes
  against either African Americans or Hispanics to be committed by
  non-White offenders."
  
  
• Blacks may be motivated by their resentment of the success of
  Asians.
  
  "This finding may be attributed to animosity toward the “model
  minority” from other minority groups. As aforementioned, the “model
  minority” stereotype assuming Asian Americans’ success in economics,
  education, and other opportunities generates potential competition or
  threats by members of other racial groups, which in turn may lead to
  resentment to be further acted upon through hate crimes."
  
  
• Blacks may be motivated by fears that they'll lose their special
  privileges and financial welfare and other benefits because Asians
  will get the same benefits during downturns.
  
  "Offenders of other minorities of color targeting Asian Americans
  might fit the category of “reactionists." ... Instead of acting
  impulsively, the “reactionists” are motivated by protecting their
  resources from competitors.... This finding might also lend indirect
  support to the perspective of racial competition motivating hate
  crimes, which argues that when members of a racial group perceive that
  their access and privileges to material resources are threatened by
  other racial groups during economic downturns, racial conflict and
  hate crimes may occur."

• The increase in hate crimes against Asians in 2020 was not
  caused by Trump, but was caused by blacks fearing that they'll get
  less welfare payments, and Asians will get more.
  
  
• The attacks by antifa-blm fascists, burning down and trashing
  small businesses, may have been specifically an attack on Asian owned
  businesses.

Cool Breeze" Wrote:> Here's your problem, and why you can't think straight about this
> topic: everything is a bubble to you. You can't even differentiate
> value from a bubble, because your whimsical approach doesn't
> define what either is. Sorry, you don't get to just declare
> something is a bubble without any reasoning. Tell me something
> that ISN'T a bubble (for example, something that is increasing in
> price, just to make it a comparison) and why?

> I hope everyone notices the response to this, will yet again, be a
> nothing answer.

tim Wrote:> I remember when not that long ago the Left was claiming that
> Asians were not "people of color" and are actually "white".

> Cue a mentally ill white man murdering Asian women and the Left no
> longer claims that Asians are "white", but are now regularly
> victims of "white supremacy".

> https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/16/school-district-decides-asians-arent-students-of-color/

> https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sf-school-board-member-accused-asians-of-using-white-supremacy-to-get-ahead/

> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/29/how-the-asians-became-white/

• Book Announcement: World View: Vietnam, Buddhism, and the Vietnam War
  
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(03-22-2021, 09:37 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 22-Mar-2021 World View: Blacks and White Asians

tim Wrote:>   I remember when not that long ago the Left was claiming that
>   Asians were not "people of color" and are actually "white".

>   Cue a mentally ill white man murdering Asian women and the Left no
>   longer claims that Asians are "white", but are now regularly
>   victims of "white supremacy".

>   https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/16/school-district-decides-asians-arent-students-of-color/

>   https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sf-school-board-member-accused-asians-of-using-white-supremacy-to-get-ahead/

>   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/29/how-the-asians-became-white/

Thank you for posting those article links.

The NIH article that I referenced in my previous message, which NIH
posted in January of this year, makes it clear that anti-Asian hate
crimes are overwhelmingly perpetrated by blacks.  The NIH article
gives two reasons: that blacks are resentful of the economic success
of Asians, and that blacks feel that they are in competition with
Asians for resources, since Asians are another "minority."

The articles you've posted make it clear that both of these reasons
are highly prevalent.  One San Francisco school board member refers to
Asians as "house ni--ers" because she wants to "combat anti-black
racism."  I guess she feels that the anti-Asian racism is the best way
to combat anti-black racism.

One of the articles says "Asians have become white," which is likely
"to create nasty, corrosive, sometimes fatal battles over which racial
groups get the spoils."

So the issue of anti-Asian hate groups is really about black
resentment of Asians' success, and about competition among minority
groups (blacks and Asians) for resources.

(03-23-2021, 06:39 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: > Many white people appalled at the prospect of one of their
> offspring marrying a black person have far fewer qualms about
> their beloved son or daughter marrying and having children by an
> Asian or Asian-American. Very pale skin is commonplace among
> Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese.

(03-15-2021, 09:38 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:

• So the question I have is: Why are the Democrats throwing Cuomo under
  the bus?  They could easily bat away Cuomo's accusers, just as they've
  batted away Clinton's accusers.  I'm 100% certain it has nothing to do
  with sexual abuse or nursing home deaths, since Democrats don't even
  care about those.  Most likely is that they want to replace Cuomo with
  an even loonier leftist.
  

(03-26-2021, 09:41 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(03-15-2021, 09:38 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:

• So the question I have is: Why are the Democrats throwing Cuomo under
  the bus?  They could easily bat away Cuomo's accusers, just as they've
  batted away Clinton's accusers.  I'm 100% certain it has nothing to do
  with sexual abuse or nursing home deaths, since Democrats don't even
  care about those.  Most likely is that they want to replace Cuomo with
  an even loonier leftist.
  

The big news about Cuomo is that he killed thousands of people in nursing homes by requiring them to accept people who had covid, and who proceeded to infect the rest of the residents.  This has been known by conservatives for almost a year, but has only recently broken into the mainstream media.  It also applies to lots of other blue state governors, and it the main reason why New York's covid death rate is so much higher than Florida's.

The sexual harassment "scandal" is just a way to bury Cuomo's - and other blue state governors' - mishandling of covid.

(03-26-2021, 09:41 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(03-15-2021, 09:38 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: So the question I have is: Why are the Democrats throwing Cuomo under the bus?  They could easily bat away Cuomo's accusers, just as they've batted away Clinton's accusers.  I'm 100% certain it has nothing to do with sexual abuse or nursing home deaths, since Democrats don't even care about those.  Most likely is that they want to replace Cuomo with an even loonier leftist.

The big news about Cuomo is that he killed thousands of people in nursing homes by requiring them to accept people who had covid, and who proceeded to infect the rest of the residents.  This has been known by conservatives for almost a year, but has only recently broken into the mainstream media.  It also applies to lots of other blue state governors, and it the main reason why New York's covid death rate is so much higher than Florida's.

The sexual harassment "scandal" is just a way to bury Cuomo's - and other blue state governors' - mishandling of covid.