Comments by "D W" (@DW-op7ly) on "Living in China"
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Yes Philippines made a claim in the 1960s go read up on it
Using the maps from the 15th century from their former Spanish Colonizers
China made a claim in the 12th Century before the Philippines was even made a country by their Spanish colonizers
But then get your facts straight
The Philippines makes a proximity claim and disputes the Chinese historical claim. Arguing against a historical claim and using proximity as its argument
The irony is the Philippines makes a historical claim against Malaysia over Sabah land given to them by a previous Sultan for their participation in a war
That’s because Sabah is attached to Malaysia and there is a sea that separates the Philippines from Sabah
Plus if we are talking proximity
I would argue there are a few islands controlled by the Philippines right now that are closer to Malaysia than they are the Philippines
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The two main sultanates in the region at the time were Sulu and Brunei. In 1658, the Sultan of Brunei gave Sabah to the Sultan of Sulu - either as a dowry or because troops from Sulu had helped him quell a rebellion.
More than 350 years later, the sultan's heirs have come to remind Malaysians that they still consider Sabah to be part of Sulu and, by extension, part of the Philippines.
"Sabah is our home," they said simply when asked why they had come.
But history is not that simple and of course Malaysia has no intention of giving up Sabah to this little band of Filipinos.
The crux of their disagreement lies in a contract made in 1878, between the Sultanate of Sulu and the British North Borneo Company.
Under this contract known as pajak, the company could occupy Sabah in perpetuity as long as it paid a regular sum of money.
Even today, Malaysia pays about 5,000 Malaysian ringgit (£1,000, $1,500) a year to the Sultanate of Sulu.
But the British and, after that an independent Malaysia, interpreted pajak to mean sale, while the Sulu Sultanate has always maintained it means lease.
"In my opinion, this is more consistent with a lease rather than a sale, because you can't have a purchase price which is not fixed and which is payable until kingdom come," said Harry Roque, a law professor at the University of the Philippines.
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Chinese should really think twice about coming to. Canada
A life sentence in Canada is 25 years, then you are eligible for parole
Obviously most of these murderers don’t get out after 25 years
But some have
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Supreme Court strikes down ‘degrading’ parole ineligibility law for mass murders
By Betsy Powell Courts Reporter
Fri., May 27, 2022
But in Friday’s much-anticipated ruling, Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Section 745.51 of the Criminal Code violates section 12 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in a way that cannot be justified in a free and democratic society. Section 12 guarantees the right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.
“ What is at stake is our commitment, as a society, to respect human dignity and the inherent worth of every individual,” the decision states.
Striking down the law should not be seen as devaluing the lives of innocent victims, the court said.
“Everyone would agree that multiple murders are inherently despicable acts and are the most serious crimes, with consequences that last forever. This appeal is not about the value of each human life, but rather about the limits on the state’s power to punish offenders, which, in a society founded on the rule of law, must be exercised in a manner consistent with the Constitution.”
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FIRST READING: The heinous offenders Canada has freed in just the last three months
Despite assurances that Robert Pickton will never obtain parole, it's not entirely beyond the realm of possibility
This month, one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers officially became eligible to apply for day parole.
Published Feb 28, 2024 • Last updated Feb 28, 2024 • 8 minute read
It was 22 years ago that Robert Pickton was first arrested at his Port Coquitlam pig farm under suspicion of being personally responsible for scores of women disappearing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Convicted for the second-degree murder of six women, Pickton has confessed to killing as many as 49.
But under Canadian criminal law, there is zero mechanism to sentence an offender to life imprisonment. While Pickton was technically handed a “life” sentence, that just means his parole conditions never expire. Like any convicted murderer, he can apply for day parole just 22 years after his arrest, and full parole after 25 years.
On the day before Pickton’s parole eligibility, families of his victims gathered outside the farm where he had committed the murders. Speaking to the Canadian Press, they said lawyers had assured them that Pickton would never be paroled, but that they had few reasons to believe them. “I don’t trust the system. There’s always going to be that fear,” said Lorelei Williams, cousin of Pickton victim Tanya Holyk.
While Pickton may yet remain a special case, the Canadian justice system has indeed granted parole to any number of heinous criminals that the public assumed would never get out, including mass shooters, serial killers, cannibals, cop-killers and the murderers of children.
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* 27 books
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Why was China erased from Western memory
The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory?
Article by 龙信明
Introduction
Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West.
Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery.
Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery.
Myth and Misrepresentation
It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West.
All the myths about China and the Chinese being good at 'memorising and passing exams', but being unable to think independently or to be imaginative and creative, are just that - myths. Those stories were never true, not then and not now.
This isn't a simple matter of gunpowder and fireworks, but encompasses the entire range of human knowledge from endocrinoloy to mathematics, from agriculture to astronomy.
How could such facts have been hidden from the entire Western world for so long? And why were they withheld?
Needham made his discoveries in the 1940s, but our Western education has never made reference to them, never acknowledged them.
We Westerners were taught that virtually all inventions and discoveries arose in Europe but, thanks to Joseph Needham, we have clear documentation proving they existed in China often 1,000 or more years before the Europeans copied them.
In all of the above, Needham has published not only old Chinese texts, but photos of old drawings that clearly depict all of these items, from texts that can be accurately dated. These are not wild claims or
supppositions; the evidence is both conclusive and striking, and is there for anyone to examine.
Where has the world been, for so many years? How could all of this have remained hidden? How - and Why - did the West so thoroughly erase China from the world's current historical memory?
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