China’s territorial development plan

“China has issued its first strategic plan for territory development and preservation, outlining the protection of arable land reserves and islands.”

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/china/2017/china-170205-pdo02.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e1932%2eye0ao05v9c%2e1ryi

One of those things that, in literal sense, can mean anything to any reader. Could be a plan in “This is what we would like to do” or “This is what we will do” to “Get out of the way, unless you have tons of tourist or development dollars.” Might even be “We are no longer playing around with capitalist ideas.” Could be “Make China Great Again.”

Wiesensteig, Germany, postal code 73349, scene of witch executions

Population 31 December 2010: 2,138. Largest-ever population: 27 May 1970 --2,632.

First mentioned in 861, concerning a Benedictine monastery.

“Count Ulrich XVII of Helfenstein (1524-1570) and his brother Sebastian († 1564) introduced in 1555 the Lutheran confession in Wiesensteig. 1562/63 in the rule Wiesensteig a great witch-hunt took place in which at least 63 women and men were executed.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesensteig

Another site says 67 women were executed for sorcery. Ulrich von Helfenstein signed the warrants of execution. He was “originally Catholic, a Lutheran during the trial and converted to Catholicism in 1567, which thereby also turned the religion of the city. Wiesensteig experienced more witch trials in 1583 (25 dead), 1605 (14 dead), 1611 (5 dead).”

Wiesensteig in that time “suffered from religious turmoil, war, severe hail storms and epidemics.” Helfenstein blamed witches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesensteig_witch_trial

Here is another account, typos and all:

“Although poorly documented, the witch-hunt in the small southwestern German territory of Wiesensteig was one of the first in the great wave of witchhunting that swept Germany in the second half of the sixteenth century. In 1562, Wiesensteig was a Lutheran territory ruled by Count Ulrich vetn Helfen-stein. After a severe hailstorm on August 3, 1562, von Helfenstein had several women arrested as witches. Under torture, they implicated others, including several people from the neighboring city of Esslingen who they claimed to ha’e seen at the sabbat. Much to the chagrin of von Helfenstein and Esslin-gen’s Lutheran preacher Th(tmas Naogeorgius, this disclosure was not followed by a witch-hunt in Esslingen. Wiesensteig itself, where von Helfenstein cooperated with the local Lutheran leader Leonhard Cuimann, was a different story, of course, and a sensationalistic pamphlet dated 1563 claimed that Wiesensteig had executed hy burning no less than 63 witches. Under outside pressure, von Hclfcnstein converted to Catholicism in 1567, and nineteenth-centtiry German historians spent much time armiinp whether Wiesensteig was Catholic or Pn,)testant at the time of the witch-hunt. Althoufth it seems clear that durin, tt this hrst Wiesensteig witch-hunt the state and church were Lutheran, the hahit C)f witch-hunting survived von Helfenstein’s and the territory’s return to the Catholic fold. There were suhseeiuent flare-tips in 1583 (about 25 dead), 1605 (14 dead) and 1611 (5 dead).”

REFERENCE; H. C. Erik Midelfort. Witch-Hunting in Southivestern Hcrmany, 1562-1684- Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972.

http://www.worldhistory.biz/sundries/42796-wiesensteig-witch-hunt.html

Here's an internet poster that makes sense

I'd rather be tired than broke.

Somebody wrote somewhere: What colleges should teach -- You want to help people? Get a degree in something that will allow you to make lots and lots of money. You will help people.

Don’t mess with old people

It’s quite simple. We know we can’t outrun or out fight young dudes bent on robbery and such. That’s why we carry guns.

“Billy Dean Dickerson, 19, of St. Louis died Thursday morning when he and Perry A. Richardson, 23, tried to rob a 70-year-old man who was dropping off a friend at her house in the 200 block of Abbott Street in Venice, police said. The man is a Vietnam War veteran from St. Louis.

“The veteran and his friend were sitting in his car when Dickerson pulled his vehicle up next to the driver’s side, police said.

"Richardson, who was sitting in the passenger seat, pulled out his gun and demanded money.

“The veteran pulled out his gun and fired, hitting Dickerson in the head and Richardson in the arm and chest.”

http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=70107

Longer story: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/would-be-robber-charged-with-murder-in-metro-east-after/article_0319ba21-4914-560c-985d-26ef050af2d5.html

Well, that’s nice of you to keep your problems out of my face

Internet poster: “Emotionally: I’m in pain. Mentally: I’m depressed. Spiritually: I’m stressed. Physically: I smile.”

Me: I really don’t care. Find a solution.

And another, which I title “Let’s Keep It That Way.”

“My parents will never know how suicidal I am.”

An inadvertent funny on my screen

At The People’s Cube -- overlaid on a story entitled “Neo-Kulaks In Need Of Liquidation” is an ad for “Premium Tours to Russia.”

Yeah, I’ve heard that come-on before. Sign up here receive an open-ended, all-expense paid tour of a Siberian gold mine.

Dudes, Stalin died 64 years ago. (And most kulaks were murdered 90 years ago.)

So, thanks. But no thanks.

Coming after a rodeo near you

They got Ringling Brothers, now PETA is after rodeos. Zoos will be next. And then animal "owners."

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/01/31/peta-urges-rodeo-boycott-after-horses-deaths-in-fort-worth/

Link from maggiesfarm and moonbattery.com