Spring Festival Chinese Opera party 春节戏曲晚会, 2016

A first step in getting out of a trapped life, to a real life, is to become free of toxic people. Nobody is perfect; but most people know, to some extent, their faults, feel empathy and try to be better. But some people cannot see their faults, lack empathy and are always 'right' - the most important thing to know is that they cannot be 'fixed', understood, or healed by you (only a highly skilled psychotherapist stands a chance, and that's partly because there is no life relationship). If you cannot (yet) get away, at least become aware that it is not your problem. One can sense some similarities in dynamics with geo-politics. A variety of voices on this topic - in no particular order (may need multiple viewings because it can take time to understand more than superficially) ...

Not just where the real power projections are coming from, but also the psychological projection - blame the 'hostile states' when the hostile states are really oneself.

漫山遍野的野菊花 真惹人喜歡，摘回來做成小米菊花粥和菊花茶

From the wonderful film Big Fish and Begonia ... Canon in D｜electric rock guitar｜8th birthday ... See you again ... 6 years old bossa nova - Fly Me to the Moon ...

China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty. These videos show recent examples of how this was achieved ...

With Professor Richard Wolff / Democracy At Work ... On the Occupy Wall Street movement ... On capitalism, with RJ Eskow ...

Bamboo (a grass) is fast-growing and sustainable, light and strong ...

Starting with a beautiful timelapse ... Followed by a look around the city, including Green Lake.

With Rafa Goes Around ...

Regarding term limits - President Xi is exceptionally well read and very much the right person at the right time, a period where China will (is) facing unprecedented attack for its success. Xi's plan is longer term and so requires a longer term limit; an extraordinary measure for extraordinary times.

With Brian Berletic and Danny Haiphong ... * In China, the people are family. * In the West, the people are livestock. With Angelo Giuliano - on Myanmar, the Philippines and Taiwan; how the West is trying to burn down south-east Asia to contain China to maintain its hegemony over the world (keep it down and plunder its resources) ...