Hakka blues
Hakka blues52 year old Hakka singer Ms. Lo Si-rong embraces the traditions of her culture’s music and infuses it with new energy in 2013 and beyondBy Ho Yi / Staff reporterMarch 25, 2013Page 12 of...
View ArticleClimate Etc Open Thread Praises and Critiques the POLAR CITIES IDEA
When DANNY BLOOM asked the OPEN THREAD at Judith Curry's very good blog CLIMATE ETC, they replied as follows: QUESTION: Could I ask readers here if they have heard about my pioneering workabout “polar...
View ArticleDO MALE EDITORS IN NEWSROOMs ENABLE RAPE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE?
DO MALE EDITORS IN NEWSROOMs ENABLE RAPE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE? - see 155 comments toohttp://tv.yahoo.com/news/kind-culture-accepts-media-violence-toward-women-205048051.html
View ArticleFears Over Radiation in Food Linger After 2011 Tsunami in Japan - NYT Op-Doc...
Japan is sadly an undemocratic semi-police state masquerading as a democratic nation. In fact, the 125 million people are in straitjacket of govt control, and no one dares stick out and complain, so...
View ArticleMargolit Fox obit writer at NYT gets smoke and date wrong
You may be interested in Peter Kubicek's correspondence about this obit with the world's foremost authority on Buchenwald. Rabbi Herschel Schacter, Who Carried Word of Freedom to Buchenwald, Dies at 95...
View ArticleEmoji are "emotion kanji" from the Japanese word KANJI for Chinese character
So take the English word EMOTION or EMOTICON and add Japanese word KANJI and the portmanteau word is EMO-Ji or just EMOJI.......So an emoji is a Japanese emoticon or a Japanese emotional kanji system...
View Article"The Father of Global Warming" -- Charles Keeling, 1928-2005
He died at the age of 77 from a heart attack in 2005, but he led a life of huge importance on those 78 years (including that one year inside his mom's womb).Yes, Charles KEELING is the father of global...
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DESPERATELY SEEKING VICKY
THE HAPPY COUPLE HOLDING HANDS IN AN EMBRACE WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG LOVERS Retired journo Paul Brinkley-Rogers, in his early 70s now, lifelong newsman, in the biz for over 50 years, started out in the...
View ArticleWang Chien-ming, or Chien-ming Wang?
Wang Chien-ming, or Chien-ming Wang?An American expat in Taiwan Boston asks in aletter to the editor to the Taipei Times:Dear Editor,Why is Wang Chien-ming’s (王建民) name in US newspapers and on US...
View Article"Occupy [Life]" - a cli fi novel by Willia M Badrick
''Occupy [Life]'' is a cli fi novel concerned with the nature/animal/human balance. It uses the device of telepathy, employed by animals, to re-connect humankind with its role as part of the natural...
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What If Your Life Depends on Hiding?
''Odette’s Secrets'', another Holocaust novel written by a non-Jewish author, Maryann Macdonald, oi... NOTE OF CAUTION: A Holocaust survivor in NYC, 83, says: ''Yes, it's true, re this book's theme,...
View ArticleThe Pope Smokes Dope and Does the Impossible, Kisses the Feet of 3 Girls
Pope Francis has won over many hearts and minds worldwide, even non-Catholics, with his simple style and focus on serving the world's poorest, but he has devastated traditionalist Catholics with his...
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Populaire’ a disappointingly unfunny look at a period ripe with potential
January 29, 2013By Edgar Chaput''Populaire''Written by Régis Roinsard and Daniel PresleyDirected by Régis RoinsardFrance, 2012 Worldwide 2013The products, habits and social norms which define the ever...
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Circa founding editor David Cohn: Journalists must debunk misinformation,...
FAKE Norwegian glacier PHOTO ALLEGEDLY shows Mother Nature cryingAND Scott Sutherland falls for this hoax!PostsEmailBy Scott Sutherland | AND Geekquinox also falls for this FaKE BS! in 2013 after 2009...
View ArticleNobel laureate Daniel Kahneman DID NOT SUFFER heart attack in Taiwan
Daniel Kahneman DID NOT suffer suspected heart attack in Taipei UPDATE: earlier news report on FTV TV in Taiwan on air and website was INCORRECTDaniel Gilbert, a professor at Harvard, who i contacted...
View ArticlePope Francis waxes antisemitic in his Easter speech comparing the inferior,...
In his Urbi et Orbi message for Easter Sunday, March 31, Pope Francis extended his greetings to the world, offering the hope of Easter joy “especially where the suffering is greatest, in hospitals, in...
View ArticleIn a recently embedded news report by Communist China planted inside a...
Headline: THE CHINESE DREAM - subheadline "China's new president wins respect and trust of his nation, a Taiwanese newspaper reports. Is this NEWS or PROPAGANDA paid for by the Chinese Communist Party...
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A new tourism flag for international visitors to Taiwan
This a new tourism flag for TAIWAN and it is not connected to any political or govt group but is part of an imaginative advertising concept created for tourism-related groups worldwide. Please view...
View ArticleLiam Neeson takes 'Walk Among 'The Tombstones’
Liam Neeson is on novelist Lawrence Block's mind a lot these days. The New York novelist is chock-a-block with anticipation as one of his novels, "A Walk Among the Tombstones," is being filmed on the...
View ArticleROGER EBERT DIES AT SEVENTY - 1942 to 2013 - HE LIKELY WENT OUT PEACEFULLY...
http://open.salon.com/blog/danbloom/2010/05/29/pokkuri_roger_ebert_the_celebrated_film_critic
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