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The most important public occurrence in the world currently is North Korea's attack today on South Korea.  Over 28,000 American troops are stationed in South Korea.

China is North Korea's patron and sole supporter.  The Chinese government is more bewildered than even it usually is in trying to deal with the world. The New York Times reported that "Officials gave the impression...that China was in the dark about the attacks." Related post:
http://publicoccurrenc.blogspot.com/search?q=War+with+North+Korea.

Photos: Top, New York Times.
Below, North Korean soldiers photographing American soldiers in the DMZ July, 2010 marking the anniversary of the 1953 armistice--Military Times.

Politics & Justice in the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office.

The Murder of Lynne Friend


With the permission of Ms. Tamara Heater the email exchange below is republished unedited.

Dear David,

From time to time I try to check to see if anything at all has happened in several friends from my life who succumbed to murder.  Lynne is on of those friends.  I spoke to her in the lunch line I suppose the day before she disappeared, as she spoke of moving to Nashville.  I find it difficult to just simply move on with my life when the numbers of people in my life, whose lives have suddenly stopped through no fault of their own, are becoming too many for one person to handle.

City confidential did a story on a child hood friend, it too was a husband, wife both from different small towns of which I lived in both and knew both people.  He was only sentenced to 12 years, and served less than that, and argued and sued the attorney over his legal bills.  He, I knew up to the 6th grade, and she, I knew from the 7th grade to adulthood.  He actually hired someone to kill her.  I had told both how lucky they were to be together when they got married.....

Lynne was one of the sweetest people I knew in Miami, and Parkway.

I am finally dealing with the fact that life means nothing any longer to anyone, and there are no laws that address one human killing another.

The only picture I have of her is one in my minds eye...of her going through her change purse to pay for her item ...talking about packing....and excited to move to Nashville...I walked back to the administration office with her as we talked before going on with my rounds....she was a friend to me

I think of her often.

You are not alone.

Tamara Heater

Oh God, Tamara. Such a beautiful, painful email. This case enrages me and I have been neglectful in writing about it. I hope the police and State Attorney's Office finally do the right thing, but it's been 17 years.

I am going to publish your email anonymously until and if you give me permission to use your name.

Thank you and please stay in touch.

-David

Absolutely, David!!

I also posted the information to my FB page.  It is very distressing to me ...I remember exactly where I was standing when they told me she was missing ...and the circumstances ...and my heart sank....

For many years there was absolutely zero information I could find on line.  It has only been in the last several years information has been coming up and much thanks to you to ensure it is there.  There is no reason this man could not be tried on circumstantial evidence..

Thank you for your work...

Tamara

Politics & Justice in the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office.

                                                                    

The thunder rolls.

In memory of Lynne Friend.

                                                                               

Photo: Convergence, Jackson Pollock (1952)

China

Look at this dope.

"Hi may I help you? I am Dope, spokesman for PARAMOUNT LEADER HU JINTAO!"

"Yes, next question from a**h*** Mr. Benjamin Harris."

"I am so self-controlled you could not stick needle between my buttocks cheeks."

"See, I can point this way...
... and I can point that way."

"Where did I learn these hand movements?"

Ugh.  I'm developing a bad attitude.

Seeking the Soul of China

                                                                

There is great pain in China. There always has been. The Yellow River, "China's Sorrow," ties that pain to the earth itself. It's not been a good earth to Chinese.

Chinese are bewildered. They have been bewildered since first contact with the West. They do not know what to do and spent the entire twentieth century trying to figure it out. They have failed, they know that they have failed, and they are humiliated because of it. With that pain comes sorrow. I see that sorrow and sometimes can feel it myself, in every contact I have with Chinese. It draws me in.

There does not seem to me to be any core of "Chinese-ness" that Chinese can fall back on in their bewilderment, no "soul" that they can take comfort in, to which they can return and say, "Whatever we are not, we are this." Mao Zedong claimed that the peasants--two-thirds of Chinese--were like "blank slates" and that therefore anything could be written on them, they could be made anew, in his image.

Maybe the peasants of China were blank slates, maybe the people of China were, when Mao took power in 1949, I don't know. I don't think so though, because I believe that all human beings have, and each human being has, a soul, a "this-ness" to which they can return. But I can't find it.

China today seems to me like a Potemkin village, a stage set only as deep as its facade. I have walked through the door of that stage set; there is no doubt in my mind of that. I have gone deeper into China than appearances. But in going through that door I can't find my way about. It seems I have stepped into thin air.

Seeking the Soul of China

Potemkin uniforms worn by Potemkin soldiers.
Seeking the real in China.

Seeking the Soul of China: "Women Hold Up Half The Sky."

                                                                  

Pretty, sexy, flirtatious--the young Chinese woman at top is all of those things. What she's not is a soldier.

Seeking the Soul of China: "Women Hold Up Half The Sky."

Red Guards have been replaced by color guards.

Seeking the Soul of China: "Women Hold Up Half The Sky."

Yep, that's exactly what it is. The Chinese military modeled their women's uniforms--hell their female soldiers whole look--after the stewardesses of the 1960's in the West.

                                           The Eastern Airlines Division

                          

The Pacific Southwest Airlines Division

Seeking the Soul of China: "Women Hold Up Half The Sky."

Oh, I see.
This is a theme.  More accurately, a fetish.  I didn't happen onto a photograph of the one Chinese military unit with hot, beautiful, female soldiers (although I am capable of that). There are units (plural), divisions, regiments, battalions, gaggles--whatever the military term--of them. This is just how women are portrayed in the Chinese military.

So taken together, i.e. as a theme, what do we have?  It looks for all the world like some Chinese guy had a fetish for American flight attendants ("stewardesses" as they were called then) circa 1960's. The mini-skirts, go-go boots, even the hats (TWA, I think). Do not try to tell me these are legitimate military uniforms. Aren't military uniforms supposed to blend in with the battlefield, like camouflage does? Where would these young ladies be fighting in their sky blue uniforms, in the sky?  Actually, their uniform blue is lighter than the sky in the background.

Nice shot. Could the cameraman get any lower to get a better candid up skirt?

Uh-huh. Great military uniform when fighting among bougainvillea.

Fly me.

Orange. Orange.

The bobby-socks and patent leather shoe brigade.  Chinese men have got a foot fetish, going back to foot-binding.

China

Paramount Leader Hu Jintao

1 Dungeon Place

Beijing, China

Dear Paramount Leader Hu,

How are you I am fine.

You never got back to me on my offer that you buy me.  That’s okay.

Guess what?  I’m coming back to China! J  You promise not to arrest me?

Just kidding, I know you’d never do that.

Paramount, I was reading up on the "diplomatic protocol" for my next visit.  For the Review of Troops I have been looking at photographs of your troops. I have looked at the Motorized Scooter Division,

        

The Army of the Potomac Division,

The Fellatio Mouth Exercises Division,

And the Miniskirt Boots Division.

And I think if the Miniskirt Boots Division is available I would like to review them.

As official Liason to coordinate my visit feel free to have #3 from the left contact my staff.

Or she can contact me directly.  You can give her my Personal cell phone number, 800-HOT-LINE (free call). Do you know her name? Do you know if she has a comrade-friend?  Please have your people forward to my people her name, phone number, email address, street address, GPS location, and skirt size.

Thank you, Paramount.

Your Friend,

Benjamin (the screw that never rusts) Harris

China

China's People's Liberation Army soldiers are the skinniest soldiers I've ever seen.

                                                        

Look at this guy's waist!  Hu Jintao obviously has never heard of "steroids."

And of course the PLA are ubiquitous: in Tienanmen Square standing guard next to the flag, in the art district, in the Forbidden City--everywhere. They stand wherever they stand absolutely motionless, like statues. I wanted to go up and squirt a water gun on their khaki pants to see if I could get a reaction or say something like, "Hey Peng Dehuai, I heard that Mao Zedong was gay, can you confirm?" 

                                                                

                                           Umm, I don't think you're standing straight enough.
   

                                   Really intelligent expression on this one's face.                

                                                   Hey! Nice weather we're having, huh?

At least this one's asleep. 

                                                What is this, the armored scooter division?

God, these guys irritate me.
I think I have a problem with authority.

HOLY S***!!!   Where were THEY when I was there???
Look...at...the...third...one...from...the...left.  Oh my..."THE EAST IS RED!  THE SUN IS RISING!  CHINA HAS BROUGHT FORTH A MAO ZEDONG!"

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...Statistics:"

"...[B]efore the adoption of the German term Statistik, [the work] was referred to, in English, as 'political arithmetic.' "


-The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand, p.186.

China's Great Wall of Silence

                                                                        

Below are links to two articles written by Dr. Youqin Wang of the University of Chicago and recently published in media in China.

http://nf.nfdaily.cn/epaper/nfzm/content/20101021/ArticelE23002FM.htm

http://www.yhcqw.com/html/qsp/2010/1010/101010112417DF54180554FA78I8KIHIGJ74.html

English:

http://tim.z.infzm.com/2010/10/27/%E6%96%87%E7%AB%A0%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91%EF%BC%9A%E2%80%9Cyou-set-a-good-example%E2%80%9D-a-red-guard-apology/

Dr. Wang is the world's preeminent scholar on "Red August" violence. She is routinely attacked by Red Guard apologists such as Dr. Weili Ye.  For many years Dr. Wang has maintained a website dedicated to the memory of Cultural Revolution victims: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/ywang/history/ .  Her website is blocked in the PRC.

Two points, briefly, so as not to detract from Dr. Wang's writing:  Published in China? Power is exercised arbitrarily. Remember the scene in Schindler's List where the Nazi is in bed with his Nazi-ess and decides arbitrarily to pick up his rifle and shoot a Jew in the courtyard of the concentration camp?  Power is arbitrary like that. Whenever the mood strikes. So Hu Jintao's internet police block Dr. Wang's American-based website and permit publication of two of her articles in prestigious outlets in China. The exercise of power is not logical. Maybe they'll get around to censoring the articles some day, maybe they won't. Or they can shut down the newspapers that published them, as they've done before.  Or not.  Who knows.

Second, when I met with Professor Xu Weixin in Beijing in November, 2008 we discussed ways Chinese could face the CR honestly. Trials? I suggested.  The government would never allow it, Professor Xu replied. Permit study by scholars and in universities?  Same. How about a Truth and Reconciliation Commission like they had in South Africa?  We were at lunch at the time, Professor Xu was seated to my right. Without looking up he raised his left hand in the air and pointed with his index finger. "That we could do," he replied. Dr. Wang writes about a new phenomenon that is occurring in China: the apology. Red Guards--like my friend in Red Art--are apologizing.  That is, categorically, wonderful.