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A Chinese/Muslim alliance may echo the Nazi/Russian alliance but, it would probably also be just as short lived. In my estimation, China would more likely side with India against Pakistan and other Muslim nations. China shares philosophical history with India as well as having a historical adversity to religious fanaticism - the premise of Muslim war efforts. Japan on the other hand; a small bruise to the ego-economy could send the country reeling for an anti-American and pro-National cause. Not only is Japan already predisposed to dislike North Americans, but traditionally Japan has fought to rule China. This could be the sentimental goal that fuels the propaganda of a war effort. What else could the Muslim nations ask for?
Sam
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As you probably noticed, my article "Chinese/Muslim Alliance" has purely archival value. It doesn't fit reality at all. My predictions simply were wrong -- the world has gone in another direction since 1995. Probably facing the New World Order, no other power game can be envisaged in the predictable future. WM
I read in your article, "Barak resigned" in November, your remark that Hitler wiped out Jewish people with their vibrant Yiddish culture. Nobody will ever know how vibrant it was. I believe it was in the 30s that the opera, "Hunchback of Notre Dame" was created and performed in Yiddish in Poland. I was too small personally to have seen it but remember somebody singing little parts the mother in the play sang to her baby Esmeralda, something like: "Sleep my baby, your mother will protect you from the mean world." I remember bits of melody as well. I am married to a Christian. Your note about Yiddish culture brought me those childhood memories and tears in my eyes.
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A small misprint: On page 23 "I was..." should read "I saw..." WM
Here I quote somebody who related this story to me in Polish. He didn't want to write so I am passing it along. WM
Your point that weakness is the major stimulus for attack is well taken. I can quote certain examples to support that.
People who travel by land from country to country, say that if you want to avoid control all you have to do is, while presenting your passport, open your wallet with a lot of money showing. The cops almost automatically let you go as if they were trained only to hunt the poor. One young Frenchman told me that he always wears a hand crocheted tie when going through customs. He says he looks like some rich mama's boy and they just wave him past. I myself saw that if somebody crossed the border dirty, tired, miserable, he was surrounded by a pack of angry customs officers telling him to open his luggage.
One grim example: During the war I was in Plaszow Concentration camp. The prisoners were Jews mostly but also there were Poles, men and women, and as far as I know, petty criminals or victims of round ups on the streets. Most were young but there was one little old man among them, all bent over and senile. How he got there? Probably taken in a roundup he didn't have proper documentation, couldn't explain himself, so they jailed him with the rest. He just walked around behaving like a child, nobody paid attention to him, and they called him 'grandpa. One night, maybe shortly before dissolution of the Plaszow camp, the Poles in their barracks were singing all night; they'd been told they would be free in the morning. Morning came and they were loaded into the wagons. They'd been lied to and they probably went to Auschwitz. After they were taken away, we saw 'grandpa' walking slowly surrounded by those big uniformed guards with their guns. Perhaps he didn't realise that everybody was gone. You could see he'd gotten a good beating because he walked slower than ever. They shot him at the edge of the camp. Why would those armed athletes torment a little old man before killing him? Just because power excites like cocaine.
One fellow who was in the army during the war (if I remember well it was in Italy) told me that he was warned by colleagues that such-and-such is on guard in the little tower and as it was totally dark, I'd better go near and say hello to him. I approached and said "Hi, it's me" and didn't get an answer. The atmosphere was sort of sinister. Afterwards, I asked him, "Why didn't you say something to me?" He answered, "I was tense, excited, I was ready to kill. It was stronger than me." Again, drunk with power facing the weaker in the dark.
This is how the Jews, Gypsies, excited their murderers. Power against weakness and weaker the enemy is -- old, sick, child -- more excitement for killing.
I agree with you about the 'humanitarian gauleiters.' Sustained by their power they make a deliberate decision who is good who is bad and act accordingly.
(Name withheld)
Very interesting article you wrote.
I was born in Montreal, I lived there until I was 7 or so and then my
parents moved to Toronto...SO I was raised there for about another 7 or so
years...I am an Anglo. I am Canadian. A Patriotic one. I am an "Angry Anglo"
as well...The indignation Canadians face in Montreal is atrociously
unbearable and should not go unpunished. Quebec's current state of
instabilty warrants Martial Law. If the day comes where Quebec will separate
from Canada, Every little section (riding...) that was loyal...should remain
Canadian territory. If I was Prime Minister in that time...I would cut all
form of ties with Quebec and make it suffer dearly for all the injustice it
has done to Canada. The rebels are nothing but swine and should be treated
as such...Canada, rightfully so should enact its vengeance upon Quebec for
all its years of evilness and disloyalty...
Cheers
(Name removed at reader's request)
We note partnership/unification trends among established states simultaneous with separation trends among those who aspire for statehood. Probably what holds Switzerland together is that Switzerland, being small, each canton may be too tiny to exist independently. If the proverbial Swiss prosperity ever crashed, then, who knows, the latent Romand-Germanic antagonism regularly manifested in referendums may break Swiss unity. In Quebec, as francophone and anglophone territories are entwined, separation would probably have to be accompanied by some complicated territorial divisions. Quebec is not Yugoslavia and no 'humanitarian justice' would chase away one local population to please the other. WM
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