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9729. arkymalarky - 9/25/2016 7:09:06 PM Oops. Wrong thread. ;) 9730. Trillium - 12/6/2016 6:49:42 PM Xinjiang uprising and violence
"A Han Chinese businesswoman from Kashgar, which administers Yarkand, said that more than 1,000 people, including Hans and Uyghurs, could have died from the violence which she charged was caused by armed Uyghurs.
"If you add up our own [Han casualties] with the gangsters, including those of us who died for no reason, it's more than 1,000," she told RFA’s Mandarin Service.
"It’s because a lot of the East Turkestanis … attacked people with great, big chopping knives," she said, referring to the Uyghurs. “It's a bit like Iraq over here.”
"Some of them were local Uyghurs from around here, while some were from overseas," the businesswoman said, adding, "We have five border crossings to Pakistan around here."
Many Uyghurs refer to Xinjiang as East Turkestan, as the region had come under Chinese control following two short-lived East Turkestan republics in the 1930s and 1940s." 9731. Trillium - 1/10/2017 7:37:06 AM Interesting prediction from Deutsche Bank
CNBC projects GDP growth under new administration 9732. arkymalarky - 1/10/2017 8:30:07 PM Deutsche Bank and Trump 9733. judithathome - 1/10/2017 9:37:42 PM Arky, to read more than the teaser first paragraph of that article, you have to subscribe... 9734. arkymalarky - 1/10/2017 9:49:19 PM For the reason I posted it that's all that it takes. 9735. arkymalarky - 1/10/2017 9:57:16 PM You can also google and get similar info elsewhere, inclucing DB issues. I was reading about it the other day. 9736. judithathome - 1/10/2017 10:19:00 PM I've known about the Deutsche Bank and BAnk if China debts for a long time...back when he had his first Republican debate...I was surprised no one on that panel of upstanding Republicans brought it up.
Then again, I wasn't because I think they secretly either admired him and/or thought he'd have no chance, anyhow. 9737. judithathome - 1/10/2017 10:19:42 PM Before we know it, he'll sell the Statue of Liberty to Vlad... 9738. Trillium - 1/12/2017 6:57:59 PM https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-troops-enter-poland-1st-deployment-russias-doorstep-103725752.html
Huge deployment of US Troops to Poland and Baltic states today 9739. judithathome - 1/13/2017 10:43:44 PM Here's a hyperlink to that story: Troops Enter Poland 9740. Trillium - 1/14/2017 1:30:16 PM Interesting article that refers to "Kaliningrad", formerly "Königsberg"
Konigsberg/Kaliningrad
"Königsberg...renamed Kaliningrad...was the easternmost large city in Germany until it was captured by the Soviet Union on 9 April 1945, near the end of World War II.
"A university city...Königsberg developed into an important German intellectual and cultural centre, being the residence of Simon Dach, Immanuel Kant, Käthe Kollwitz, E. T. A. Hoffmann, David Hilbert, Agnes Miegel, Hannah Arendt, Michael Wieck and others."
That poor city experienced a monster ethnic cleansing at the end of WWII. I've had nightmares from secondhand stories about the 1945 evacuation of Königsberg that I heard when I was younger. I hope the small fry residents are not scheduled for more violence at the hands of distant political powers
9741. Trillium - 1/14/2017 1:50:24 PM Metgethen was a suburb of Konigsberg
Metgethen 1945
Nemmersdorf was a nearby town
Nemmersdorf 1945
Cuban-born Human Rights attorney Alfred de Zayas was willing to investigate the war crimes Alfred de Zayas
9742. arkymalarky - 1/14/2017 9:54:04 PM interesting note on de zayas in this
"I hope the small fry residents are not scheduled for more violence at the hands of distant political powers"
Who? Can you be more specific wrt your concerns? 9743. Trillium - 1/14/2017 11:25:10 PM Interesting article which casts shade on de Zayas because he describes Germans as "victims". Many Germans *were* victims. A former German national who had been a prisoner of war in Russia (at age 16) began to cry as he tried to begin to describe it, then broke down even trying to begin to communicate about it. I felt horrible for even being close to the topic that triggered his PTSD.
In general, people don't want to hear stories from the "wrong" nationality. Those who want to hear the gory details of Auschwitz/Buna often don't want to know what happened to ordinary people elsewhere in Dresden, Nemmersdorf, etc. It is awful to be powerless and condemned to be silent about your witness to atrocity.
I disagree with de Zayas about Israel. Then again I disagree with quite a number of academics and religious leaders who also want to make Israel into the "bad guy" while ignoring the rest of the violent neighborhood. 9744. arkymalarky - 1/14/2017 11:34:04 PM Mark Twain was right about man being the only animal who needs to blush, but you didn't answer my question. 9745. Trillium - 1/15/2017 6:39:30 AM What is your question? 9746. arkymalarky - 1/15/2017 7:10:54 AM At the bottom of 9742 9747. Trillium - 1/15/2017 5:47:19 PM not clear. Try again 9748. arkymalarky - 1/15/2017 9:25:43 PM It's your quote. Either you can explain it or you can't.
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