New Post (140) : T.I.M.SK in the footsteps of B.R.I.C.
New movers and shakers of the world economy are making their grand appearance and strong presence felt.
If BRIC is here can TIMSK be far behind ?
(.......or CRIB)
BRIC : Brazil, Russia, India, China
TIMSK : Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, South-Korea.
(.......or MITSK)
The order you stack them in is unimportant. What's important is that more players are getting their act together and making bigger n bolder moves now.
That should balance the globe a lot better. Good.
Charlie Brown
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Fake rice made, in part, out of plastic
New Post (139) : Fake rice made, in part, out of plastic
Good lord ! Could this be true ?
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Chinese companies are mass producing fake rice made, in part, out of plastic.
The "rice" is made by mixing potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic. The potatoes are first formed into the shape of rice grains. Industrial synthetic resins are then added to the mix. The rice reportedly stays hard even after being cooked.
A Chinese Restaurant Association official said that eating three bowls of this fake rice would be like eating one plastic bag. Due to the seriousness of the matter, he added that there would be an investigation of factories alleged to be producing the rice.
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What next ? ? ? ( I shudder to think)
Brings to mind: Charlie Chaplin’s, “Gold Rush”.
In one of the most famous of Chaplin's transpositions of objects—his conversion of one kind of physical object into another—the Tramp cooks a dinner for himself and his starving friend, Big Jim McKay. Lacking anything else to eat, the Tramp sacrifices one of his own symbols, his floppy shoe, which he boils carefully in a pot, testing it with a fork for tenderness. He then carves it like a roast beef, twirls the shoestrings around his fork like spaghetti and sucks on the nails like chicken bones.
I doubt if [even] the genius of a Charlie Chaplain could come up with---"Fake rice made, in part, out of plastic".
Charlie Brown
Good lord ! Could this be true ?
Quote: (open)
Chinese companies are mass producing fake rice made, in part, out of plastic.
The "rice" is made by mixing potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic. The potatoes are first formed into the shape of rice grains. Industrial synthetic resins are then added to the mix. The rice reportedly stays hard even after being cooked.
A Chinese Restaurant Association official said that eating three bowls of this fake rice would be like eating one plastic bag. Due to the seriousness of the matter, he added that there would be an investigation of factories alleged to be producing the rice.
Quote: (close)
What next ? ? ? ( I shudder to think)
Brings to mind: Charlie Chaplin’s, “Gold Rush”.
In one of the most famous of Chaplin's transpositions of objects—his conversion of one kind of physical object into another—the Tramp cooks a dinner for himself and his starving friend, Big Jim McKay. Lacking anything else to eat, the Tramp sacrifices one of his own symbols, his floppy shoe, which he boils carefully in a pot, testing it with a fork for tenderness. He then carves it like a roast beef, twirls the shoestrings around his fork like spaghetti and sucks on the nails like chicken bones.
I doubt if [even] the genius of a Charlie Chaplain could come up with---"Fake rice made, in part, out of plastic".
Charlie Brown
The malaise of Sub-national jingoism
New Post (138) : The malaise of Sub-national jingoism
Jingoism ---is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy". In practice, it refers to the advocating of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what they perceive as their country's national interests, and colloquially to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism.
Jingoism is bad enough.
Sub-national jingoism is worse.
Especially so, if it --- “runs contrary to the stated foreign policy direction of the nation”.
Not only is it moronic. It's a spoiler. It’s dangerous.
As an example:
The covert support & funding by certain arm-chair elements in Indian Tamil Nadu of the erstwhile now defunct LTTE against the Sri Lankan government and its majority people.
A totally misguided covert operation (all with a life of it's own) that had no support in India and it’s majority people. Whatsoever.
That “eventually” caused the assassination of a much loved popular young PM of India…on Indian soil in where else but Tamil Nadu He was then not in power. Visiting the state of Tamil Nadu. Without requisite security. Meeting common people with open arms. When the LTTE cowards acted in collusion with local collaborators of Eelam. Targeting him with a bomb concealed in a garland. …………A national shame and tragedy.
The vast majority of the Indian people have always seen the Sri Lankan people as sub-continental cousins. And vice versa. The relationship between the 2 neighbours, India & Sri Lanka, has survived…..the “myopic” subversive sub-national jingoism of a ---handful of educated yet politically-challenged Indian Tamils.
Similar examples of mis-guided behaviour abound in several countries all around the state of Israel. Preventing an enduring peace from emerging. A casualty of idle meddlers.
Charlie Brown
Jingoism ---is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy". In practice, it refers to the advocating of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what they perceive as their country's national interests, and colloquially to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism.
Jingoism is bad enough.
Sub-national jingoism is worse.
Especially so, if it --- “runs contrary to the stated foreign policy direction of the nation”.
Not only is it moronic. It's a spoiler. It’s dangerous.
As an example:
The covert support & funding by certain arm-chair elements in Indian Tamil Nadu of the erstwhile now defunct LTTE against the Sri Lankan government and its majority people.
A totally misguided covert operation (all with a life of it's own) that had no support in India and it’s majority people. Whatsoever.
That “eventually” caused the assassination of a much loved popular young PM of India…on Indian soil in where else but Tamil Nadu He was then not in power. Visiting the state of Tamil Nadu. Without requisite security. Meeting common people with open arms. When the LTTE cowards acted in collusion with local collaborators of Eelam. Targeting him with a bomb concealed in a garland. …………A national shame and tragedy.
The vast majority of the Indian people have always seen the Sri Lankan people as sub-continental cousins. And vice versa. The relationship between the 2 neighbours, India & Sri Lanka, has survived…..the “myopic” subversive sub-national jingoism of a ---handful of educated yet politically-challenged Indian Tamils.
Similar examples of mis-guided behaviour abound in several countries all around the state of Israel. Preventing an enduring peace from emerging. A casualty of idle meddlers.
Charlie Brown
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