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To: TobagoJack who wrote (12920)	12/24/2006 2:01:15 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 220075

Tibet is not a nation, and never was, and never will be, but Hong Kong is now, was in the beginning, and always will be? Very interesting. No wonder you like fantasy games so much. The truth of the matter is that Tibet was, and will be, a sovereign nation. As you say, the Chinese are not into global domination. For that matter, Taiwan is a sovereign nation, as well. Was before, is now, and will continue to be so. Again, as you say, the Chinese are not into global domination. Hong Kong, on the other hand, was a colony of the British empire, and is now part of the PRC. Well, I guess the Chinese are willing to practice a little global domination now and then, at least towards an island you can reach by railroad. And you're a subject of the PRC. I could say "lacky" but that would be inflammatory. And it's the holidays, so we're being polite, aren't we?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (12920)	12/24/2006 2:07:51 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 220075

I was always baffled by initiatives of developed countries toward the underdeveloped. I studied that over 8 years in Africa. Those UN outfits. Those volunteer organizations, those “aid” programs all useless. They have cunning shrewd people on command and an army of naïve doing the leg work. They use the troublesome areas for marketing purposes. You remember the concert for Bangladesh? It started with it. Any decadent entertainment start can get the limelight and sell if he engages in “saving” some hungry fellow or if it puts the poster of a hungry kid. It is disgusting to see this today. If you want to be loved, just get some money for malaria or land in Kampala. Man, I’ve seen people in Austria ready to donate money to buy a tree in the Amazon to “save” the forest!!! Now this people really believe they are contributing to “solve” a problem that they don’t know what it is. Perhaps the Tibet initiative is the same. The normal folk are not bad people, intrinsically. The human being need to do something meaningful, once he is sheltered, fed and free form danger. The problem is, in this modern world, the problems affecting the world are way beyond the comprehension of the normal folk. That complexity, bar them from doing anything meaningful to affect in any positive manner the problem affecting the world. You can’t go to someone seeing hunger and say that that what he’s seeing is politically-induced hunger and that assisting you would be contributing to problem and not to the solution. Case in point European countries dumping subsidized milk into hunger affected areas to make room for more subsidized milk in their stores in Europe, thus making those hungry people dependent on handouts. You can’t explain that for the average person. You can’t wake up in the morning, grab a flyer on the street, go to the Internet and do a Google and think you can make a difference. You cannot. You are only prey to the shrewd people preying on the incautious and naïve.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (12920)	12/25/2006 7:50:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220075

Good point. There's some property I believe should be returned to me [my family anyway if not me personally - rumour has it, but I'd have to locate the details somewhere]. Right of return and all that. <why not 'friends of shanghai' ? it is another place in china.> Mqurice