ArtfromArk

The only “incident” that occurred during my school days in the ’60s and ’70s was when some doofus phoned in a “bomb scare” to the junior high because he wanted to skip school so he could spend the day with his girlfriend. I was in gym class at the time and we had to hurriedly leave the gym and stand outside in various stages of undress while the…[Read more]

Hindsight is 20/20. I really don’t think most Americans had any idea just how bad the Nazis were in 1936. I think the real horror of the Nazi regime (just barely) started to hit home after the 1938 Kristallnacht incident. At least, that’s the impression I got from my German seminar.

Damn. Anther effing mass shooting.

Lots of money goes into building facilities for the Olympics that can be used long after the Olympics are over. For example, some facilities from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics were still in use 60 years later. But this time, Tokyo’s getting screwed because Tokyo, and Japan in general, were supposed to benefit greatly from ticket sales and accommodations…[Read more]

So who the F do you support then?

I work for one of them.

So the question therefore is, which ones of those do you trust?

I think Beijing is the only city to host both a Summer and Winter Olympics.

“We’re better than the ”Master Race”, as would be exemplified by Jesse Owens. Also note that the “Night of the Long Knives” (Kristallnacht) was still 2 years into the future

Those in high positions who want to sabotage it must be removed from office.

You’re just asking for trouble if you do that.

Brazil has a long history of being a crime-stricken land. Sao Paolo, Rio, Fortaleza, Salvador, etc., have a history of being among the world’s most dangerous cities. I recently met a Brazilian couple, and one reason why they’re here in Japan is because of the low crime rate here.

But I can’t remember ever having read about the race riots– although, admittedly, I only read the Sunday edition.

At least I’m glad that my home state isn’t the butt of jokes anymore, as it was in the ’60s and earlier (like the “Arkansas Chug-a-lug” in the “Wacky Races” cartoon, the “Hillbilly Hare” Bugs Bunny Bunny cartoon, and the use of the whistled “Arkansas Traveler” song to represent yokels in earlier cartoons)/

“are far more American troops and mercenaries in Africa than there are Chinese”? I really don’t think you know all that much about the Chinese presence in Africa.

As I said, I’ve been involved with this for more than a decade. I was involved in trying to get Japanese contracts for Mauritanian minerals. My company had sent several delegations to…[Read more]

because of South Sudan’s OIL RESERVES.

file:///Users/mac/Downloads/OBS_Chine_201701-NA14-Chine%20Sud%20Soudan.pdf

You mean, African *dictators* welcome Chinese *payoffs* for mineral resources. I’ve been researching this for more than 10 years. The Chinese just want to be the new colonial powerhouse in Africa. They don’t give a crap about local populations, as long as they can get what the want.

“For African governing elites, China’s presence represents an o…[Read more]

Like their military base in Djibouti.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_People%27s_Liberation_Army_Support_Base_in_Djibouti

Like the coup in Mauritania that gave them more favorable access to Mauritanian oil reserves.

Would you rather live in North Korea or South Korea?