Month March 2008

A long, hot Chinese summer

Anyone ready for the wave of protests that are likely to reignite in Burma right around the time of the Olympics? How about a round two in Tibet? In Turkic China? Why not even in Shanghai? The eyes of the…

Another antiwar protest flops

“River to River: Join Hands for Peace” in NYC organized by UFJP needed 2500 people to stretch hands fingertip to fingertip across the width of Manhattan to make some pointless symbolic Cumbaya gesture, but got nowhere close to that. Those…

Lhasa riot

The video shows mobs destroying small stores in Lhasa. I saw the same kind of mob violence watching the LA riots on TV as city blocks a few miles away burned and a store down the street got firebombed. Nor…

Wave power for Maui

Maui will soon have Hawaii’s first wave power project. May there be many more. Maui has also been developing sizable amounts of wind power. Makes sense for an island to produce their own clean power rather than ship in oil…