Jiang Yu, China Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman is an Idiot

From the New York Times: 

. . . China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, denounced both the self-immolations and the solidarity prayers for them during a regular press briefing in Beijing. “As we know, such splittist activity at the cost of human life is violence and terrorism in disguise,” she told reporters.

Having never been to China nor Tibet I still think she is an absolute idiot.  The whole world knows what China is doing to Tibet - systematic repression and destruction of a culture.  Jiang Yu is a liar and I'd clap her in prison for calling self immolation - 'splittist'.  Maybe we should do to her family what Chinese authorities are doing to Tibet and Tibetan families.

Violence and terrorism?  The US has much of a lock on this of course but justifies it for national security as do most countries.  But China?  Now there is a real scam artist - they may be destined to run the world for awhile as America fades from the scene but to deny that they perpetrate violence and terrorism is just plain stupid.  Is terror and violence perpetrated by the State allowable or preferable to non-State actors?

So China heads down the path of the United States - mass consumption, little regard for the common person, abuse of the environment and liars as leaders.

The winds of change will always be blowing across the planet and I hope I am alive to see China fall along with the US because of the evil that is perpetrated in the name of the State.

Aloha -

It's increasingly evident to me that I do not wish to continue to live in three separate places in a vagabond fashion. I rent a room in San Francisco that I like and the house is owned by a slumlord that does the minimum to keep it up. I hate that part of it, the dirtiness, unkemptness, dark and sad. The plus side is that I park in tohe garage and don't drive the whole week. Yet the place is not mine.

Tonight I drove to my family home on Seaview Ridge. Such a sense of homecoming and peace. Yet I walk in the door and the toilet has a slow leak for a long time o to the floor and the walls are wet from soaking up the (clean) water. So now I have a major reconstruction / remodel on my hands.

Other weekends I must sometimes spend in Sebastopol. So am at neither place I call my own. I really want One Place, a place of ones own as Virginia Wolf wrote.

To to reconcile this separate and disparate state of affairs? Buy a place in San Francisco? Yet my application to Tripler Army Hospital is still extant. My application to the CDC's polio eradication program is going in next week and those are three to four month contracts. I work Monday with the VA's human resources to consider a TDY assignment with the ultimate goal of joining the epidemiology intelligence service - the 'disease hunters'.

David

For now though I am faced with more mundane matters!