From the book Bill Ayers ghost-wrote for Obama:
It had taken me less than six months to learn Indonesia’s language...With Lolo, I learned how to eat...dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy).
Posted on 08/09/2015 12:04:08 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Tibetan Mastiffs: From Guard Dogs to Status Symbols to Hot Pot
by Steve Lambert on Saturday, May 2, 2015
Foreign Media: Chinese Anti-Corruption Campaign Continues, Once High-Priced Tibetan Mastiffs Now Being Used for Hot Pot
Not long ago, Chinese people had gone crazy for Tibetan Mastiffs, where dogs like Nibble here, with drooping eyes and drooling mouths on their big heads, fetched prices upwards of 200,000 USD, roaming around the suburban houses of coal bosses.
But at the beginning of 2015, Nibble and 20 other Tibetan Mastiffs down on their luck found themselves locked in cages, with 150 other dogs, on the back of a truck.
If this truck had not been intercepted by Beijing animal rights activists, Nibble and the other dogs would have been taken to a slaughterhouse in the Northeast and sold for about 5 USD a head as hot pot ingredients, imitation fur, and linings for winter gloves.
Tibetan Mastiffs aren’t the only luxury goods that went from popular to the poorhouse in China. Black Audis, Omega watches, high-end baijiu sorghum liquor and high-rise apartments in third－tier cities are all victims of the slowing economy, and some are also victims of the ongoing campaign against corruption.
(Excerpt) Read more at chinasmack.com ...
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I have two Lhasas. The Tibetan monks uses them to guard the inside of the Temple while the Mastiffs are used to guard the outside. If you ever want a watch dog that doesn’t have to be taken for long walks get a Lhasa.
Now, that doesn’t have anything to do with the subject but....
If China is in that bad a shape they’re going to have to stop loaning us money and may call the debt.
Then there's the ingredients some companies (none whose products I use) used in U.S. pet foods which caused beloved pets here to suffer lingering deaths. There is the world wide slaughter of endangered species and the extremely cruel confinement of animals like bears in small cages with stents surgically implanted to get their gall, etc. One would think with their teeming population that Chinese men do not need to kill every rare animal on the planet so that they can engage in more sex.
There is (I know it's for another thread) the Chinese copying everything we originate here by industrial espionage. There are Chinese originated cyber attacks. Etc. Etc.
I'm rooting for another SARS breakout to take out more of these inhuman pieces of filth.
“If you ever want a watch dog that doesn’t have to be taken for long walks get a Lhasa.”
So, in other words, they’re a vocal breed?
Call the debt? How does one do that? Can a bank loan you money to buy a house and then ask for it back when it changes its mind?
From the book Bill Ayers ghost-wrote for Obama:
It had taken me less than six months to learn Indonesia’s language...With Lolo, I learned how to eat...dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy).
Did he say what breed he ate?
“Nibble”. Poor pooch’s name was almost his doom.
Well, they sure can do it with business loans.
Really? How about T-bonds?
They can ask for the remainder of the debt owed on the house. Or they can take the house. I don’t know what we put up for collateral wit the Chinese.
How does that work, exactly? I take out a $100K mortgage on a property I want to buy, make a few payments, and the bank can ask for $95K back right away?
The Chinese are pretty much in trouble themselves.
Yeah, that’s about it.
“About it?” LOL
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