[05#4] 05.1.4=2: Diary:[bohemian_club]RECA,"ChinaCrsstlk':WorldPeaceGoddess,Koo Chen-fu; Peace; US Politics; Tsunami; China-US #3; Iraq!#3

[05#4] 05.1.4=2: Up early, to Fremont Toyota/Scion, 5851 Cushing Pkwy, 252-5100, 252-5400's Kaye: advised me to get extra steps above 30,000 miles (now 35,780) Major Maintenance of $288.88 to $688.88x10%off, sent back to house for rent, tel repeatedly, no answer, tel A-Mei at Sonic checking roof leak, tel Ame Home Shield, no coverage, tel home again & Lung answered, walk back to computer & breakfast, tel State Farm Ins. 97-QE-5924-3's Mr. John Hsieh 784-7341 no either. Email [bohemian_club]'s http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2004/041204bohemianclub.htm "Redwood Empire Chinese Association's Dragon Used in 2002 Play" moved me here, then "A Relative Advantage: Sociology of the San Francisco Bohemian Club", A Doctoral Dissertation (1994), by Peter Martin Phillips : http://www.recacenter.org/newsletter08_02.htm#art10 http://libweb.sonoma.edu/regional/faculty/phillips/bohemianindex.html Monica just tel from BART station, given up tel waiting for Dish Network hoping to get some free Chinese-language tv stations for both here and o.h. Soon young Chinese couple, new here? and well-educated? came and perhaps gave up. Walked soon back, Frmt Toyota tel my car ready, Lung left. noon now. KTSF 26 re-broastcasting Chinese program of "China Crosstalk", hosted by Jay Stone Shih: http://www.ktsf.com/ktsf_e/programs/jay_stone_bio.html featuring Chinese artist Yao Yuan's World Peace Goddess at Normandy(1st:photo): http://www.dreamstime.com/goddess(france)-image17084 http://en.ce.cn/Life/arts&heritage/t20040426_745409.shtml http://www.chinaartnetworks.com/news/show_news.php?id=2070 http://www.newssc.org/gb/Newssc/meiti/cdrb/chengduweekly/userobject10ai317244.html Lung have gone out & now back with his lunch as usual, now 1:45, after 3) Tsunami, 3 below. Microoven 399 cooked, but Toyota driver came, 2 of us, I tip $1, repair $639.52 United Mileage Plus Visa, Kaye lunch, dir. lead me around, ordered 2 type D, 42621-AA070 wheel caps, for visa $216.15. To Little Taipei, picked up 2 days' "The Epoch Times"(3-4 days/wk?) & "World Journal" dailies: http://english.epochtimes.com/ http://www.worldjournal.com/About_us-e.php The big news is the passing of Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫): http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/Politics/2005/01/04/1104803636.htm http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2005/01/04/2003217992 http://english.www.gov.tw/index.jsp?action=cna&cnaid=5789 Home late lunch warmed 77, Shelley? tel for 5:30, young mum with 3 children taking rent application form for tomorrow. Bk of Am tel from Orange Co. then from here, mortgage increase to $200,000 from over $180,000, but postponing Line of credit (not to increase and lower interest as suggested here). Jun and A-Mei home complaining about AHS ins again. Furiously catching up with emails past midnight! [G]King Daevid MacKenzie sad story and leaving? 1) Peace 1. "The Future of Peace: On the Front Lines with the World's Great Peacemakers", by Scott A. Hunt "Kindness is alive and well, and we have good reason to be hope about the future..." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0062517414/qid=1104872897/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7690483-1496032?v=glance&s=books 2. Peace Alliance Foundation: http://www.peacealliancefound.org/ 3. North American Peace Alliance http://www.dopcampaign.org/events/novconf.htm 4. The Peace Company: http://www.thepeacecompany.com/ 2) US Politics 1. Citizens For Legitimate Government: http://www.legitgov.org/ 3) Tsunami: "Geologist gave repeated alerts", Jonathan Leake: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1422669,00.html 1. "" "Earthquake: Coincidence or a Corporate Oil Tragedy?", Dec. 28, 2004 By: Andrew Limburg Independent Media TV "" http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=10211&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported 2. "" "Foreknowledge of A Natural Disaster: Washington was aware that a deadly Tidal Wave was building up in the Indian Ocean", by Michel Chossudovsky, www.globalresearch.ca 29 December 2004 "": http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO412C.html 3. "" Steve Human Engineered Earthquakes, Tue Dec 28, 2004 15:56, 64.140.158.104 "Human Engineered Earthquakes", by Ray Bilger "": http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=73477;show_parent= 4. "" "Was the Christmas/Boxing Day 2004 Earthquake-Tsunami Event Caused by Seismic (Tectonic) Warfare?" http://www.ecologynews.com/ecologynews103.html 4) China-Russia #3 & Lat. Am.: 1. "This is the Chinese century", by William Rees-Mogg, Jan. 3, 2005, UK Times on Line: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1052-1424254,00.html "" America may believe it is still at the heart of events, but the future is being shaped on the margins THE 18TH and 19th centuries were the British centuries, in which industrial, political and imperial development in Britain shaped the world. The 20th century was the American century; the United States changed the world, providing a margin of victory in two world wars, and developing all the major new technologies: telephones, automobiles, television, jet aircraft, the internet and so on. "" "" Clearly, the United States is still by far the largest and most powerful economy on earth, with the most powerful defence technology. Yet it is China, not the United States, that is changing the global economy. "" 2. "" "Russia looks East as West disappoints", By Arkady Ostrovsky, Published: January 3 2005 02:00 Last updated: January 3 2005 02:00 "", FT.com, Financial Times, London times: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3a2326f4-5d2c-11d9-bb9c-00000e2511c8.html "" "Russia orders oil pipeline to Pacific", 12-31-2004, 19h45, Copyright © 2004 Agence France Presse 3. Latin America & Terrorrism? "Terrorist Threat in the Tri-Border Area: Myth or Reality?" U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection: http://www.army.mil/professionalwriting/volumes/volume3/january_2005/1_05_4.html 5) Iraq! #3 1. War Profiteering: http://www.southernstudies.org/reports/findoutmore.pdf 2. "" "The victims of the tsunami pay the price of war on Iraq: US and British aid is dwarfed by the billions both spend on slaughter", George Monbiot, Tuesday January 4, 2005, The Guardian "" http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1382857,00.html