[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] Fw: My Experience in Cuba

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

Not quite yellow journalism but heavily spun.

Just south of the China Agriculture University there is a delapidated 
community
called Xiao Jia He that is being torn down.  Lots of small brick 
buildings being knocked
down.  Nothing historic about it just cheap storefronts etc.

Anyway it looks like some sort of war zone or natural disaster.  My
friends and I have been thinking to take some pictures of it and
make up some sort of story about the Recent Earthquake or Tornado or
something like that.  "Due to Government Cover-up, Few people know about 
the earthquake that
has struck northwest Beijing."

Beijing is in the flat plain and surrounded by mountains on 3 sides.
Its generally sort of dry high pressure zone lots of sunshine but
occasionally flooding.  The flood last year may have been bigger.

It rained hard all day a couple of days ago.  The basement in our apt 
complex had
standing water in it.  We live on the 16th floor so it was only a bit damp.

I have seen the water up to the hub of the bicycle wheels on the lanes
in China Agr Univ back in the 90s.  it runs off pretty quick but
can get deep temporarily.



more later


On 07/23/12 8:32, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Apparently a good time to be away from Beijing -
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/world/asia/beijing-rains-leave-dozens-dead.html
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> Would love to hear your impressions of both cities.  --CGE
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> On Jul 22, 2012, at 4:58 PM,<ewj at pigsqq.org>  <ewj at pigsqq.org>  wrote:
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>> By the way, I am writing this from my hotel room in Yuenan Huzhimin Shi (Ho Chi Minh City - Saigon).
>> I am here for a few days teaching about trace mineral nutrition for pigs and chickens
>> particularly Selenium and Vitamin E deficiency issues.
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