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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">It is mooncake day in China, practiced widely by exchanging
cakes. Xi Jinping is curtailing the
corruption it spawned. We are lauding the effort, but we will go directly to
Obama's IS-cake. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">ISIS is a terrorist group by the western media, a "terrorist"
defined as anyone against the U.S. started during the War on Terror by Cheney
and company while George II Bush sat upfront. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">With the emergence of Sunni and Shia fundamentalists, the
word "terrorist" was further refined to be synonymous to "Islam",
unless one is a sheik with oil under his control available and accessible to refinery
and shipping lords, in which case, he is a Muslim of <i>dawa </i>(social services), a friend of the Red Crescent!</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">The Brits called American militia in Boston terrorists, too,
in the same way as the Han brands fiery Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz as waging a
war on terror. The Zang of Xizang
self-immolate with gas <i>sans </i>explosives
but Vietnam takes moveable oil derricks near their shore as unfriendly and light
up their Mahayana gas on plants and factories of foreign investors. Historically, Yue of Indochina is not
friendly to Han, cousin of old Chang'an.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">Chinese derisively refer to any Japanese as a bandit <i>(wokou)</i>, more so now that Shinzo Abe
drums up Nippon militarism. Manchukuo memory
in Manchurian consciousness is aflame again.
China recently played up the lessons it learned from Meiji Japan's
aggressions. That marquee will play
awhile. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">Current mythmakers/destroyers cornered themselves into calling
the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria by the acronym ISIS. The Egyptian goddess <i>Isis</i> played a very prominent role in the history of Egypt down to
the much-adored mother and child motif in Rome.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;"><i>Isis </i>was the
consort of <i>Osiris </i>who birthed the powerful
god <i>Horus</i>, later decried by
missionaries as a pagan whore! Isis
enabled the resurrection of Osiris when the latter was dismembered to death; we
hear echoes of that in the empty tomb of Gethsemani evolving into bodily
resurrection. The image of Isis suckling
Horus is no less than the revered Christian picture of Mary suckling the infant
Jesus! </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">ISIS is the hand behind journalists Farley and Sotloff's
head losses, becoming the demonized dartboard of the US and Israel; ISIS is not
a foreign child to a suckling American Madonna.
An inheritor of the al-Qaeda mantle, ISIS directly leads to the
mujahedeen we armed against the Russians in the Khyber Pass from whom one of its
famous practitioners was Saudi Osama bin Laden.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">The Levant gave us Moses of the Zion of Eretz Israel, Paul
of Tarsus whose efforts led to the idolatry of Iesu, and the transcendent
mystery of the no-thing al-lah from the vision of the Prophet in the desert. Gaza paid dearly to the sacrificial altars of Abram
recently. Christian soldiers are again crusading
to war, while Mahmoud's followers assert themselves in the politics of oil. No one has clean hands. Like Vietnam's Montagnards who scrambled when
US forces pulled out, the Yazidi of Iraq is seen as enemies of ISIS in their
collaboration with the infidels against Sharia law! Israel just land grabbed 4
square km. of Palestinian land!</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">Since the earthrise of '68, I appropriated the gifts of
Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and moved on.
In my time, the planet birthed democracy's promise of universal suffrage
(the nomination process is the current bone of contention in Hong Kong), a communist
culture in search of justice, and socialist economics of promised equity that hover
over the industrialization of the planet in obeisance to oil. The health of our finances is measured on the
rise and fall of the traded commodity.
It is also the basis of the local conflicts that flares now and then
around pumps and refineries in Sudan, the whole Near East, and South China Sea.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">We know of conservative socialist democrat Obama, and Deng
Xiaoping, the free enterprise socialist with unadulterated Chinese
characteristics bent on reform-and-opening-up of the bamboo curtain. The capitalist-socialist-communist spectrum shades
my time and I judge the value of any system on its workable combination in
bringing justice and welfare to common folks.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;"><i>Cui niu bi </i>is a
"dirty" word in Chinese, used on one who talks big but no one
believes. ISIS threatens US Obama and UK
Cameron. They've been posturing to do
something about it. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">What has become clear now is that the terrorist/liberator
divide is not a useful dichotomy as one's terrorist is another's
liberator. Indeed, in many parts of the world,
the Caucasian soldier and those under its command are regarded as
terrorists. One Kievan Rus unreported
aspect of Ukraine is its "Christian" root; the separatists from
eastern Ukraine are pro-Russians so they are "terrorists". </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 18px;">Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba of the US Armed Forces
investigated the Abu Graib tortures and told the Senate Armed Services
Committee of findings. He was ordered to
retire shortly thereafter. Liberating US
warriors have been determined practitioners of terror. Ask Congress. </div>
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<div style="font-size: 18px; clear: both;"><i>j'aime la vie</i><br>
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<div><i>yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today. participate. In all, celebrate!</i></div>
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