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I am an old timer, trying hard to sound hip. My English is poor. My word choice is still not up to par and I sound like a punk from the street. But, I believe my ideas are quite fresh and deserve some thoughts.

Berkeley Commies (hippies who will cringe at the first sight of a real Commie) have done serious damage in Korea as well. June once quoted a Berkeley professor who thinks the Jeju uprising is a justified People’s movement against the Yankee mayor.

I don’t know the details of his assertions but I don’t trust anything a Commie says. And, Berkeley Commies are not real Commies at all. Now, I may respect a true die-hard Commie for his conviction’s sake, but a pseudo-Commie is a piece of s*** to me.

A taste:
“The GDP Myth

So, just what is it that makes the Chinese economy so irresistible to investors and Western businessmen that they would be willing to toss integrity out the window? Frank Xie, an assistant professor of marketing at Drexel University in Philadelphia and an expert on the Chinese economy, says that foreign investors are lured to the Chinese economy by the steady growth rate the country boasts every year of 7 to 8 percent GDP annually.

But Xie, like many other China scholars, warns that there may be more to China?€™s budding GDP than meets the eye, pointing out that ?€œthere exist many puzzling contradictions, inconsistencies, and even deceptions in Chinese economic life.?€?

One of the more anomalous inconsistencies in the Chinese economy was revealed by Dr. Thomas Rawski, a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Rawski studied the Chinese economy from 1996 to 1999. During that period of time, accumulated GDP of China grew by 25.6 percent. One would expect that the rate of energy consumption would increase correspondingly. However, despite the 25.6 percent GDP growth, energy consumption during the same three year period actually dropped by 12 percent.

Obviously, says Xie, these numbers don?€™t add up.”

China: A paper tiger?

Here’s a link to their own web site describing their origins:
http://news.pacificnews.org/ne.....page_id=47

PNS was founded in the university town of Berkeley CA (a place I knew well back in the 1970’s). In one paragraph from this link, PNS describes how they founded a Youth Magazine outlet in 1991:

“The founding of YO! marked a major turning point for PNS because it integrated young people ?€“ mainly from high-risk backgrounds ?€“ into our office on a daily basis. With a homeless punk from the suburbs and a rapper from the inner city sitting alongside a prize-winning journalist or respected scholar, we discovered that conversations in our office were as revealing and informative as the news stories we were sending out…”

Yo, Baduk, these chaps don’t quite sound like your cup of tea but of course we’ve never met; maybe deep down inside you’re really a Korean ethnic punk rapper type at heart. I can’t tell for sure as I tend to avoid the more “far-out” posts by the Marmot on current Korean pop culture (not my “cup of tea”).

This would almost be worth it to me, just for the opportunity to read your posts then. (With one condition: that the Marmot is still online so I can refer back to his archives, to compare and contrast what you will then be saying to what you are saying now).

What’s the phrase — about how “consistency is a preoccupation of small minds”, something like that? Considering how much Clinton deferred to the PRC and to North Korea while he was in office, I’m astonished that you’re a fan.

Maybe it’s the Korean in you; you must have liked the way Clinton flew over Japan that one time without stopping in order to make a visit to and from the PRC. Can’t remember the year now.

I’m utterly amazed that you seem to think the US can sustain a presence in the ROK while withdrawing totally from Japan, in order to get out from under the upcoming Sino-Japanese war. It’ll be rather hard for the US to support a future troop presence in the ROK from Australia, mate.

I meant China. I firmly believe NK is China’s dog. It barks when the master tells it to. You seemed to have no idea about the Chinese ambition. They are lions just waking up. They WILL challenge the US (continental US) when they get strong enough. Maybe in twenty years.

Yeah, I miss Clinton,too. He knew how to balance the budget and cut welfare. Much better president that Bush in national affairs, even though I like Bush’s proactive stance in Iraq. Maybe Bush showed a intensional slow response to save money; he spent way too much in Iraq. Big chunk of money going to his Texas buddies, Dick including.

Mmmmmm. Dominoes….pizza. Yup, first North Korea gets the south, then Japan, then the world! They’re only fooling us with this ‘million dead from starvation’ thing. What a cunning stunt!

Speaking of liberals not thinking ahead, you’ll get a kick out of this article.

However, moving the troops to Korea has some advantage as well. When China and Japan butt their heads and China wins, China will become the power bigger and stronger than the US.

It is nice to keep the dagger.

Did we just up and forget about the United Kingdom? Last time I checked they had at least three times as many troops in Iraq as Korea does.