Kung Fu Tiger

I really had hoped that Viagra would help save the Rhino and Tiger. Why does the world continue to disappoint me.

The Beijing News quoted an unnamed zoo official saying between 40 and 50 tigers might have died at the privately operated zoo since 2000 and that it was an "open secret" that the zoo was producing tiger-bone liquor.

Tiger parts, such as penises and bones, have long been used in traditional Chinese medicine to increase sexual potency or treat certain illnesses.

Troubles at the zoo first came to light in November last year when two hungry tigers were shot and killed as they mauled a zoo worker, who survived.

Since then, 11 more tigers have died at the financially strapped zoo due to malnutrition and poor conditions, press reports have said.

Large vats of tiger-bone liquor have been produced at the zoo since 2005 and were given to high-level officials of the provincial forestry, parks, and police bureaux, the Beijing News reported.

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China is believed to have just 50 to 60 tigers left in the wild, including about 20 Siberian tigers.

Source: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/china-zoo-shut-amid-allegations-it-harvested-tiger-parts-20100317-qf2r.html

I do wonder who would be stupid enough to think that Tiger bones or penis will give them a better hard-on.

Adding this to the list of things I don't like about China.

Yay for Google

I'm proud of Google.

"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all"

See

• Google's Chinese search engine displays images of Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man'
  http://www.news.com.au/technology/google-defies-chinese-internet-censors-with-banned-images-of-tiananmen-square-tank-man/story-e6frfro0-1225819075307
• Google may quit China over filtering, cyberattacks
  http://www.news.com.au/technology/google-may-quit-china-over-filtering-cyberattacks/story-e6frfro0-1225818752682

Update from http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/01/researchers-identify-command-servers-behind-google-attack.ars

Researchers identify command servers behind Google attack
Citing sources in the defense contracting and intelligence consulting community, the iDefense report unambiguously declares that the Chinese government was, in fact, behind the effort. The report also says that the malicious code was deployed in PDF files that were crafted to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe's software.

You'll never be born here again.

Need to record this newest piece of evil as reported in Newsweek at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20227400/site/newsweek/

Aug. 20-27, 2007 - In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation."


But beyond the irony lies China's true motive: to cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual and political leader, and to quell the region's Buddhist religious establishment more than 50 years after China invaded the small Himalayan country. By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama, whose soul, by tradition, is reborn as a new human to continue the work of relieving suffering.

Makes me so angry. Oh for a free Tibet.