Another wee beastie 😻
https://mastodonapp.uk/@palmoildetectives/113527288631130834 palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk - The elusive and beautiful Marbled Cat is a small #wildcat found throughout #Asia. Near Threatened by #palmoil #deforestation #Chinese medicine and #hunting. Join the #Boycott4Wildlife to help them. https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/07/24/marbled-cat-pardofelis-marmorata/ via @palmoildetect
#Chinese #zodiac
https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-zodiac/years.htm
A little trick to recognize which element you belong to:
#china #element zodiac
#METAL: your year ends either with 0 or 1
#WATER: your year ends either on the 2nd or the 3rd
#WOOD: your year ends either on the 4th or the 5th
#FIRE: your year ends either on the 6th or the 7th
#EARTH: your year ends either on the 8th or the 9th
According to the report, Russia has flight-tested a new drone called the #Garpiya-3 (G3) in China with the help of local specialists.
Details of the project were revealed in a report by the company behind the project, IEMZ Kupol, a subsidiary of the #Kremlin-owned weapons company #Almaz-Antey.
Beijing has also emerged as one of Russia's leading sources of dual-use goods that feed the Russian defense industry.
In a comment to Reuters, China's foreign ministry denied knowledge of the #G3 project.
While #Russian, #Chinese, and #Iranian drones are easy to destroy using existing Western systems, the costs are prohibitive – ranging from $100,000 to $3 million per target. This unsustainable ratio is the result of decades of complacency and bureaucratic inefficiency.
No legacy Western contractor produces a cost-competitive anti-drone system – though several U.S. and Ukrainian startups are developing them now.
https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-ai-complacency-is-compromising-western-defense/
Just re-visiting a few favorite spots in Central Park, one of which is Bethesda Terrace, with its iconic Angel of the Waters Fountain and the nearby terrace beneath the park transverse, with exquisite ceiling, and acoustics.a
#music #Chinese #erhu #MusicalInstruments #CentralPark #Fenfotos #photography #music #musica #musique #musik
#chinese #bombers #intercepted #alaska
July 24, 2024
TWO CHINESE COMMUNIST BOMBERS FROM HELL
Intercepted by US and Canadian Defense near Alaska today.
The Xi'an H-6 (Chinese: 轰-6; pinyin: Hōng-6) is a twin-engine jet bomber of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The H-6 is a license-built version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 and remains the primary bomber aircraft of the People's Republic of China.
- Delivery of the Tu-16 to China began in 1958, and a license production agreement with the Soviets was signed in the late 1950s. By November 2020, the PLAAF had as many as 231, and continued to build the aircraft.
- The latest variant of the H-6 is the H-6N, a heavily redesigned version capable of aerial refueling and carrying air-launched cruise missiles. According to the United States Department of Defense, this will give the PLAAF a long-range standoff offensive air capability with precision-guided munitions.The Xi'an H-6 (Chinese: 轰-6; pinyin: Hōng-6)[a] is a twin-engine jet bomber of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The H-6 is a license-built version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 and remains the primary bomber aircraft of the People's Republic of China.
The latest variant of the H-6 is the H-6N, a heavily redesigned version capable of aerial refueling and carrying air-launched cruise missiles. According to the United States Department of Defense, this will give the PLAAF a long-range standoff offensive air capability with precision-guided munitions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_H-6
#russian #chinese #bombers #flying #near #alaska #intercepted
July 24, 2024
Unity is a main European advantage, Zelensky said, according to a Kyiv Independent reporter on the ground. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin may approach individual leaders to "tempt, pressure, or #blackmail" them so that one "betrays the rest."
The comments came in the wake of a recent series of high-level meetings that #Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban held with #Russian President Vladimir #Putin, #Chinese President #Xi Jinping, and #Republican presidential nominee Donald #Trump. Orban and Zelensky also met in a surprise visit by the Hungarian prime minister to Kyiv.
#StopRussianAggression #Putin #disinformation #RussianImperialism #Ukraine
♲ br00t4c - 2024-07-11 22:20:35 GMT
China Targets Near-Earth Asteroid for Upcoming Deflection Test#china #chinese
https://gizmodo.com/china-asteroid-deflection-test-2000469285
Small reminder needed though--before the US, there was France. The US picked up where France left off.
♲ Ms. Que Banh - 2024-06-16 23:26:23 GMT
#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.
My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.
We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.
My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Canto near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.
Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.
Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.
The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.
Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.
Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.
The USA bombed our #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.
Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to #IllegalOccupation by Israel.
You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.
Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.
At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.
Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.
I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.
Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.
The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.
Free Palestine!
#yellow #medicine #literature #chinese
- "The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine is a fundamental text of Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Written over 2,200 years ago by the legendary sovereign Huang Di, it describes a natural approach to healing in which the various aspects of the world are seen as either contributing to or depleting your life force energy. The season, the weather, your state of mind, foods eaten, relationships enjoyed (or not), sleep patterns, and movement practices are just some of the factors that influence your health."
When google thinks Chinese is math
#chinese #google
https://x.com/anastudiescn/status/1792602646727000196/photo/1
The Chinese Giant Salamander is being illegally hunted and used for meat marketing.
They also suffer badly from habitat loss, due to Pollution and trash being dumped in waters/rivers.
They can be extinct any time if we don’t stop the Chinese from hunting them.
These huge salamanders grow about 6 ft or 1.8 meters, komodo dragons are 10.3 feet, which means the salamander might be the 2nd most largest reptile.
About 50,000 of them are left, it is estimated that 2,000,000 died because of being hunted.
It is time to act now because they are critically endangered, which means their population is decreasing.
https://www.change.org/p/stop-illegal-hunting-the-chinese-giant-salamander
#Petition #Stop #Illegal #Hunting #Chinese #GiantSalamander
