Tonto, you are not authorized to write here because you not have apologized for your barbarian ways. It's good that you follow TJ around like a puppy, but you must stay home when he comes roaming over here to taunt the illustrious if somewhat wild of manner Shades Inc. en.wikipedia.org Note the gold mining, the evil doer [that could be Shades].
China's conquest of Angola, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and many other places continues apace, and with 1,300 million people, huge piles of money and much technological ability, China can conquer a LOT of the world, where what China has to offer would be a great benefit.
The confluence of history is interesting. Portugal got hold of Angola, Mozambique, attempted Congo, Brazil and had regional HQ in Goa, Macau, Nagasaki, leaving portuguese as an important language in Brazil, Angola and I suppose Mozambique, giving Tonto economic value in those places and with english skills, everywhere else too.
Meanwhile, the Anglo empire spread around the world and is now most obvious in the USA which invents a huge number of things and has enabled optical fibre and mobile cyberspace.
China dumped the Maoistic Mania and got on with being the old totalitarian place of Emperors and courtiers that it always was. The owners changed and all property and much life was confiscated so now the new Emperors are wealthy beyond belief.
My grandfather tried to help the local yokels to see the light but they preferred Japanese invasion, Mao's mantra and the best part of a century of horrible poverty and murder. TJ's grandfather, having been educated to modernity by the British, bit the hand that fed him, helping in the overthrow and decline to destruction, only recently recovering. That happened around the world as the British withdrew, leaving the local yokels to learn that self-management is not just a matter of wearing the hat, the braid, marching around being saluted and grabbing all the loot.
The Anglo HQ shifted to the United States of America from London. The Empire continues. With a click of my mouse, I switched allegiance [and assets].
Now, we have you, speaking portuguese from Brazil, Ping speaking english from China [surely not portuguese], Huawei with many workers and much technology, Angolans wanting modernity and with minerals with which to pay, fibre from the USA and CDMA/OFDM from Qualcomm. Globalstar will launch in October the start of the second constellation which will cover Africa [and everywhere else] with those magical anodyne phragmented photons enabling cyberspace everywhere.
The confluence is working well.
Soon I shall shut this EeePC Made in China, with XP from Seattle and Google from Cyberspace, Zenbu from NZ, arise, get myself a coffee [from Africa I guess], a green tea [perhaps from Sri Lanka] and read the paper edition of herald.co.nz I'll eat a banana from a banana republic somewhere and read about the litany of welfarism and crime in NZ and the doings elsewhere. Then I'll drive somewhere in my Japanese car, fueled with petrol from Saudi Arabia. I'll deliver a lot of Zenbu leaflets to a magazine distributor so that tourists from around the world can travel NZ while still handy to cyberspace.
When China takes over NZ, there should be a cultural improvement as there was when the English taught the Maoris to stop murdering and eating each other, and log on to cyberspace instead.
I like the way 6 billion people are Gung Ho in cyberspace and globalized this and that. It's vastly better than the horrors of the first half of the 20th century, and a good part of the second half too. It would be really annoying to have to get a gun, go on a ship, hunt you down and shoot you, and TJ, while Shades shoots me and somebody else shoots him and you and The Lone Ranger shoot fleeing Tibetans in the back.
We the cyberspacoids and It will not have patience with such barbarianism. It will disconnect your credit card if you get uppity.
That's all very nice, but meanwhile, you are NOT allowed to be a tourist here. Brazilee Go Home!! We bomb your embassy. Leave this place.
Now, I try to help TJ see the light, but he's a naughty boy and is, like his grandfather, thinking in terms of dark interregnum and chaos with a questionably "excellent situation". However, he has been seduced by CDMA/OFDM and carries his de-vice everywhere [while he ignores his gold and wife left home alone with each other and TJ jaunts through cyberspace]. There is yet hope that this time we'll have him bound up in peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love.
Noblesse oblige,
Mqurice
PS: To find out what Made in China colonization will be like, why don't you try getting control of "your" stream back again from TJ. Once they have control, it's Game Over for the local yokels. Look at Tibet [no voting to be independent again as the British Empire allowed the likes of NZ]. Check out Taiwan and what China promises to do to them. |
