02/06 - Happy Waitangi Day

Maori Waka at Waitangi

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~~ Maori Waka at Waitangi

Waitangi Day is the national day of New Zealand and the anniversary of the 1840 signing of Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding Document. I should just leave it at that because I am so vastly ignorant of the matter, but my cursory reading in a feeble attempt to understand the whole thing left me wondering why, after the Maori had written and transmitted a formal declaration of independence, they would then sign a treaty giving the British control over their islands, their lands, and their persons. Of course, being of largely Hibernian descent, I readily understand why Britain, having received a document declaring the official independence of an actually independent populace would immediately send somebody aboard an armed vessel to take control of it.

At any rate, Waitangi is where the treaty was signed, hence Waitangi Day and all the celebrations, including such things as traditional feasts and the use of the waka and, of course, planty of haka.

It is also International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. Should not be an isolated day, but a permanent mindset and lifestyle, imho, but that's just me it seems.

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On this day in history:

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1819 -- Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded Singapore. Slings were presumably slung.

1820 -- 86 African Americans left New York to colonize what is today Liberia.

1840 -- New Zealand became a British colony.

1899 -- The US Senate ratified the Treaty of Paris between the US and Spain

1900 – The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague was created

1918 -- British women over 30 who met minimum property qualifications got
the right to vote, the rest remained serfs.

1919 – The five-day Seattle General Strike began

1922 -- The Washington Naval Treaty was signed limiting the naval armaments of the US, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

1952 -- Elizabeth II became queen

1959 -- Jack Kilby filed for the first patent of an integrated circuit.

1973 – The Ms 7.6 Luhuo earthquake struck Sichuan Province

1976 – Lockheed Corporation admitted paying $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.

1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, began

1981 -- The National Resistance Army of Uganda started the Ugandan Bush War

1987 -- Justice Mary Gaudron became the first woman appointed to the Australian High Court

2012 -- A 6.9 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines

2013 -- A 8.0 magnitude earthquake in the Solomon Islands

2016 -- A 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan

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Some people who were born on this day:

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

~~ Robert La Follette Jr.

1465 – Scipione del Ferro, mathematician, solved the morose depressed cubic equation
1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, mathematician and theorist
1726 – Patrick Russell, surgeon and zoologist
1802 – Charles Wheatstone, physicist and cryptographer
1811 – Henry Liddell, priest, author, and academic; Alice's Dad
1879 -- Othon Friesz, Fauvist painter
1890 – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, activist and politician
1895 – María Teresa Vera, singer, guitarist and composer
1895 - Robert La Follette Jr., politician, co-founder of the progressive party
1898 -- Harry Haywood, politician, activist, CPUSA member
1902 -- George Brunies, trombonist
1903 -- Claudio Arrau, pianist and composer
1913 -- Mary Leakey, archaeologist and anthropologist
1927 – Gerard K. O'Neill, physicist and astronomer
1932 -- François Truffaut, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1939 – Jair Rodrigues, Brazilian singer
1940 -- Tom Brokaw, journalist and author
1941 – Stephen Albert, pianist and composer
1942 -- Sarah Brady, gun control activist and author
1943 – Fabian Forte, pop singer and actor
1944 -- Willie Tee, singer, songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1945 -- Bob Marley, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1946 -- Richie Hayward, drummer and songwriter
1946 -- Kate McGarrigle, musician and singer-songwriter
1947 -- Bill Staines, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1949 -- Mike Batt, singer, songwriter and producer
1950 -- Natalie Cole, singer, songwriter and actress
1950 – Punky Meadows, rock guitarist and songwriter
1956 – Jerry Marotta, drummer (orleans/still the one)
1957 -- Simon Phillips, drummer and producer
1962 -- Axl Rose, singer, songwriter and producer
1964 -- Gordon Downie, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1966 -- Rick Astley, singer, songwriter, nothing to see here
1967 -- Anita Cochran, country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1967 – Izumi Sakai, singer and songwriter
1975 – Tomoko Kawase, singer, songwriter, and producer

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Some people who died on this day:

Art is a line around your thoughts.

~~ Gustav Klimt

1378 -- Joanna of Bourbon, not to be confused with Joanna of Rye or Scotch
1804 -- Joseph Priestley, chemist and theologian
1918 -- Gustav Klimt, painter and illustrator
1976 -- Vince Guaraldi, singer, songwriter and pianist
1981 -- Hugo Montenegro, composer and conductor
1990 -- Jimmy Van Heusen, pianist and composer
2007 -- Frankie Laine, singer, songwriter and actor
2011 -- Gary Moore, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
2016 -- Dan Hicks, singer, songwriter and guitarist
2022 – Lata Mangeshkar, singer and music composer

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (United Nations)
Waitangi Day, celebrates the founding of New Zealand in 1840.

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Today's Tunes

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María Teresa Vera

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George Brunies

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Jair Rodrigues

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Claudio Arrau

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Willie Tee

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Bob Marley

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Richie Hayward

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Kate McGarrigle

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Bill Staines

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Mike Batt

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Natalie Cole (Gives erroneous song history, actually by Moe Kaufman, as an instrumental, Tito covered it on Swinging Shepherd Blues (Goes Latin) then Ella added vocals )

Simon Phillips

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Axl Rose

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Gordon Downie

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Rick Astley

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Anita Cochran

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Vince Guaraldi

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Hugo Montenegro

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Jimmy Van Heusen

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Frankie Laine

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Gary Moore

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Dan Hicks

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Lata Mangeshkar

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Bonus: Moe Kaufman

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Tito Puente

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Ella Fitzgerald added vocals

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Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?

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Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com

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with Janis B's post today. With a bit of a leap of imagination.

a major teutonic plate is shifting in Turkei and Syria
shaking things down on the surface

Love the Dan Hicks hot licks. Sounds like a precursor to Weather Report's
Manhattan Transfer vocalizations.

[video:https://youtu.be/cZHvsaVTrzQ]

thanks for the OT!

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@QMS

for making sure that I didn't miss Janis' post.
Thanks for the MT, especially Birdland even though I'm still I'm still doing the morning ritual here:

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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exceptional country on the planet do this? And always remember
we do this as god blesses the united states of amerikkka

If not properly trained the life expectancy on the front in
Bakhmut is 4 hours

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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there are innumerable ways to be exceptional and we are exceptional mostly in the number of ways that we are exceptionally bad, unethical, immoral, elitist, and generally nasty and evil.

As to gawd, they are innumerable too, and the one that smiles upon us seems to be a certain jealous, greedy, patriarchal, imperialist, war god.

thanks for the clip.
be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Anybody remember Balloon Boy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax

Not really worth the brain cells. But speaking of balloons does anybody remember Hainan Island and the letter of two sorries? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

I soon expect a letter of 3 or 5 or ? sorries and a new balloon because some fat cat somewhere will lose money and DEMAND the government do something so they can keep pulling in the bucks.

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@Snode balloon boy hoax and also, iirc, somebody else "proof of concept" successful attempt to get airborne using a crapload of some sort of balloons.

Don't recall the Hainan dust-up, but am not surprised. The US is always in hostilities mode, pushing the envelope as to what it thinks it can get away with and shit will happen. That we didn't follow up with shooting down a Chinese commercial airliner is a bit of a surprise, all it took was for a gunboat to fire warning shots near a US helicopter invading Iranian airspace and waters to harrass some Iranian patrol boats for the Vincennes to retaliate by downing Iran Air Flight 655.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

@enhydra lutris Then again, there are so many like it.

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@#4...of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

I also remember the attack on the North Korean embassy in February 2019 five days before the Hanoi Summit. The evidence suggested that Adrian Hong, and the other nine people involved, were sponsored by a resourceful intelligence organization. Hong had a previous relationship with NGOs assisting North Korean defectors. Two South Korean national security analysts concluded the CIA was involved. The people who led the attack provided the files and electronic devices they stole from the embassy to the FBI as soon as they returned to the US.

The previous DPRK ambassador to Madrid, Kim Hyok-chol, was one of the principal negotiators for North Korea leading up to the Hanoi summit. The former South Korean NIS analyst I followed at the time on Channel A News believed that the Madrid embassy break in played a role in the failure of the Hanoi summit. Of two identified members of group involved, Adrian Hong was a former Yale student, was allegedly a Mexican national, and the other, Christopher Ahn was described as a former US Marine. North Korean defector groups routinely have ties to intelligence organizations. Hong had formed his own group LINK earlier to assist North Korean defectors.

Analyst, Sin In-kyun doubted that the group Free Chosun's web site was written by actual Koreans with a mastery of written Korean. Adrian was put on a FBI wanted poster after he came back to the US immediately after the embassy takeover. Spain wanted extradition for various felonies committed in the embassy attack by the group's members. Ahn was apprehended in the US and the District Court's decision to certify the extradition is being appealed.

According to this report as of Dec. 2022, Hong is in hiding. I don't think anyone is looking for him very hard.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1702962/kim-jong-un-north-korea-nuc...

Then there was there was the incident over the South China Sea between a Chinese fighter and a US RC-135 on Dec 21, 2022. I find these reports rarely go into enough detail to judge the event. I linked this report because it presents the Chinese view of the incident without editing out the key phrases in the Chinese military statement.

The Chinese military has presented a conflicting account of the incident. Releasing its own video, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theater Command accused the U.S. of deliberately misleading the public, distorting facts, blaming the innocent, and attempting to fool the international community. According to an article published on Jan. 1 by China Military Online, PLA spokesperson Col. Tian Junli stated that Chinese aircraft were deployed to track and monitor the U.S. aircraft, which was conducting close-in reconnaissance near the Paracel Islands (Chinese: Xisha Qundao; Vietnamese: Quần đảo Hoàng Sa). Tian alleges that the U.S. aircraft disregarded repeated warnings from the Chinese pilot, abruptly changed its flight attitude, and forced the Chinese pilot to evade. Tian demanded that the U.S. “restrain the operations of front-line air and naval troops, strictly abide by relevant international laws and agreements, and prevent any accidental event at sea and in the air.” In a press conference on Dec. 30, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin accused the U.S. of frequently deploying ships and aircraft to conduct close-in reconnaissance of China, which jeopardizes Chinese national security. Wang stated that the United States’s “provocative and dangerous moves are the root cause of maritime security issues” and urged the U.S. to stop deflecting blame on China. He affirmed that China will continue to “resolutely defend its sovereignty and security.”

This is the real issue:

While China considers the Paracel Islands part of its sovereign territory, the U.S. considers them merely “occupied” by China and their sovereignty disputed between China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. In furtherance of its commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific and with the aim of keeping sea lanes open for international navigation, the U.S. routinely transits ships and aircraft through disputed areas. China views these freedom of navigation operations as provocations harmful to the peace and stability of the region. In response, the Chinese military has developed a pattern of aggressively intercepting ships and aircraft operating in the vicinity of its maritime claims.

You have to scroll down the page to get this subject:
U.S. and China Spar Over Close Maneuver
https://www.lawfareblog.com/water-wars-japans-defense-buildup-signals-sh...

Yes, when US military warships or military aircraft approach within 12nm of Chinese "islands" in the South China Sea, they will be intercepted and the Chinese will attempt to divert them from the territorial boundary. Usually, the issue is the lack of a defined boundary on an artificial islands created by filling reefs or shoals in China's claimed maritime EEZ. UNCLOS doesn't recognize any territorial claim to an "artificial island." In the past, I've seen video of a US military aircraft approaching close to one of these artificial islands getting warned (in English) by a control tower on the island. Man made islands are treated the same as an oil rig by the US. They get a 500meter zone around them and that's it under UNCLOS. The same thing happens with US military surface vessels, if there is a Chinese warship in the area and will intercept the US warship and attempt to force it to change course at the 12nm limit.

They are not freedom of navigation operations, they are attempts by the US to inject itself into disputes among the states in the region, primarily affecting the Exclusive Economic Zone claims in the area. The US freedom of navigation claims have little to do with freedom of navigation at all. China rarely interferes with passage of commercial maritime trade or flights. It's against their interests to do so. Most interceptions involve fishing vessels in their claimed maritime zone by states with competing claims, or hydrographic surveys which may have a military purpose. China also doesn't want nuclear powered vessels or vessels with nuclear weapons operating in its EEZs.

(edited to correct one error, Adrian Hong went to Yale, but reportedly did not graduate; and one typo, the Chinese fighter aircraft and RC-135 incident was Dec. 21, 2022)

The video below, ALi No One Else, was the OST for the Kdrama of the same name. I thought it was pretty good. There are good English subs.

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@soryang

Chinese embassy, and can't reall if I even ever knew about the Korean embassyh attack.

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Some say that except for Turkey and Syria this is just a normal day.

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@humphrey

the recorded ones over a certain magnitude. You never see anybody reporting any of magnitude 2.0 or less and, lower than that you get into an intensity range such that tons are happening every day.

Most Californians pretty much ignore anything 3.0 or less, except to verify it happened, and for many of us that cut-off is 4 unless it's right under your house or job.

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