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Chinese criminal societies have begun to show up all over the globe, with reports of ties in the United States, Japan, South America, the Philippines, and Italy. The increasing ability to create international ties allows the spread of influence. Drug smuggling has been a consistent finance producer. Major amounts of Heroin are exported every year. Amphetamines and the legal ephedrine became an attractive business adventure with corrupt pharmacists shipping it worldwide.

Human smuggling is another major gang adventure, with 100,000 Chinese people alone coming into America each year. Gangs charge a substantial fee for their service. In the 90s, many local officials would have people smuggled out to help unemployment numbers. With close to 60 million Chinese living outside of China, there are many cities of just Chinese people. These places lend themselves to the same organized crime units of China, with racketeering and extortion.


More at: http://internationalbusiness.wikia.com/wiki/Chinese_Triad

Chinese Mafia The Triads Of China #4

Not long after the communists took power in mainland China, many of the Triads moved their base of operation to British controlled (at that time) Hong Kong, where they could have a lot more freedom. To this day Hong Kong is still the main hub of triad activity. In 1994 Hong Kong went as far as making a law that being a member of the Triads was in itself a crime.

Triads are a far "looser" organization than other cultures counterpart societies, like the "Mafia". There is also a swearing in and oaths for life, similar to many hierarchical organized crime syndicates. There is a certain extent of nominal top down control, but there is not as much of a leadership when it comes to direct control of actions. The actions of small subgroups are left in their own hands for the most part.

For a person to simply "be" a Triad does not mean that someone is even necessarily a criminal. There are many Triad members who do not engage in criminal activity.

From an organization that got started as opposition part to the Qing Dynasty to an Organized Crime syndicate that has tentacles all over the world, the History of the Triads is long one and one full of only one thing, resisting the people in charge. Even with many government task forces and laws being passed around the world to curb the illegal power of the Triads it is unlikely that this powerful organized crime unit will disappear anytime soon.


http://www.omikz.com/top-10-most-famous-mafias-in-the-world

Triad (simplified Chinese: 三合会; traditional Chinese: 三合會; pinyin: Sānhéhuì; literally "Triad Society") is a term used to describe many branches of Chinese criminal organizations based in Mexico, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, and also in countries with significant Chinese populations, such as Malaysia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.

The earliest triads started as resistance/rebel forces who opposed Manchu rule in China during the Ming Dynasty, as the Manchu ethnic group were regarded as foreign invaders in the predominant Han Chinese society of China then. In the 1760s, the Heaven and Earth Society (天地會) was founded, with its objective to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and restore Han Chinese rule in China. As the society's influence spread throughout China, it branched into several smaller groups with different names, one of which was the Three Harmonies Society (三合會). These societies adopted the triangle as their emblem, usually accompanied by decorative images of swords or portraits of Guan Yu. The term "triad" was first coined by British authorities in colonial Hong Kong, as a reference to the triads' use of triangular imagery. While never proven, it is "highly probable" that triad organizations either took after or were originally part of the revolutionary movement called the White Lotus Society.


More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_%28underground_society%29

Triad

Term used variously for secret societies in Qing-dynasty China (and sometimes earlier), for modern Chinese crime gangs, and for crime gangs of other Asian nationals operating in their own countries or abroad. A secret society with the name Triad started operating in the early 19th century in southern China, where it took root and spread. In the 1850s Triad rebellions threatened Shanghai and Xiamen (Amoy) and contributed to the revolution of 1911. Chinese secret societies have in common the swearing of an oath to join, strict rules, a family relationship among members, the duty of mutual help, a hierarchy of functions, and hereditary membership within families.


http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/604528/Triad

He he, bungoton ra ba ang pianist...

Sharing confidences...

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 08:48:04 AM
aahhh, naa na diay tay bag-ong g.r.o. karon?  o di ba gituwa dayon ning hasanga sa manok aron manambok ang tinaig manok.

Mao ni hasang, ay. Unsa kaha diay pasumbingay ani...

Ganahan ka mosul-ob ani nga sapatos?

Nindot ning trident design, morag tiil sa baki. Pwede gamiton para sa mga batakbatak...

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 09:13:01 AM
morag bungoton na siya mao nga gipatuwad.

Supermartyrdom diay kon maohon...

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 09:11:56 AM
si bugsay nga nagtakoban:



Paddle Cactus (Opuntia)
bol-anon term kuno:  bugsay nga kaktus (commonly cultivated as unique flora in valencia, though sightings in china have been reported) 

obviously, wa gyod hinooy molahutay kun mabunalan ani.  ga-bodybuilding god.

Bwahaha! Basin naay maunay ani nga katagilungsod ha!

SLEEP
by Sir Philip Sidney


Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace.
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw:
O make in me those civil wars to cease;
I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.
Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,
A chamber deaf to noise and blind of light,
A rosy garland and a weary head;
And if these things, as being thine by right,
Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,
Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 08:56:56 AM

Kinsa kaha diay tawon ang biktima aning clean-cut torturers...

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 08:56:56 AM
disclaimer:  siya nang gigamit paglatos, dili nang gilatos ug nanglatos. 

He he, kaluoy sa bugsay, unsa kahay nasimhot...

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 08:45:22 AM
okay, klaro nga nakorekan na nimo (kalimot ko nga makakorek man diay ka ug quoted na kay gatekeeper man, hehe.)  unsaon, magdalidali man aron lang gyod maka-perfect ug post ug hasang...  maayo tingali manghimasa una ka sa sunod ha?

Unsa gud ning "hasang" nga gisigi nimog balikbalik? Wa ko kaibot...

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 08:41:57 AM
hahaha!  di lang diay ka kolol blaynd, form blind sad.  imagination to dat, ang tinai mahimong rose sa imong tinan-awan?  wa na lang sa color of roses; blue baya na sila indi bayolet.

Gilukotlukot man, burag petals and resulta... 

Wow! Fantastic! 

The Stairs Have Eyes... 





Hmm, pwede pud tingaling The Stairs Have Stares...

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 07:08:16 AM
diin man nipadung ang hasang?

He he, nahalin dayon, gi-bargain man gud...

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 07:04:57 AM
who is the man and who is the woman?

Bwahaha! Daghan nang laig sabaw!

Quote from: islander on April 04, 2011, 11:43:32 PM
without love, no flying segbin.

Without Flying Segbin, no questions from under the sea...

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 12:41:00 AM

Hmm, celebrity nga bungoton? 

Quote from: islander on April 04, 2011, 11:30:42 PM
to be honest, i cannot imagine moses and michael jackson in the same hall of fame.

Bwahaha! There are indeed different kinds of superpowerdoms...

Quote from: islander on April 04, 2011, 11:42:19 PM
maybe so, as long as you offer your loved one as a bargain like, say, buy one take all.

Whether it can be deemed a bargain or not depends on how much you have abused the item under consideration...

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 12:03:56 AM


manotbras usa ko.  akong super toothpaste kay wasabi.

Medyo OK ra na. Ayaw lang jud inom og moisturizing milk...

Lisod lang ning tahod nga Titi kon tua tas Manila...

Quote from: islander on April 04, 2011, 11:46:22 PM
ot:  tan-awa nang imong quotation, wa na magkadimao tungod kay hasang ray naa sa imong hunahuna, hahaha!

OK na, Ms. Islander Grammar-Nazi, or more correctly, Ms. Islander Grammar-Punctuation-Syntax-Spacing-Nazi-Fascist-Mutawa...

Klaro ang superhighborndom aning Ms. Isle kay septuple-barrelled man jud ang pangalan... 

Quote from: islander on April 05, 2011, 12:12:48 AM
si bugsay karaan?  asa man ana si bugsay?

Hahay, bisag unsa na lang bugsaya ang akong ipaon, di man jud mokubit ang imong katagilungsod!

Quote from: hofelina on April 05, 2011, 04:17:34 AM


First round, points for ....?

Bwahaha! Rote Karte na man lagi na, Ms. Hof. Kinsa man diay ang na-foul kay wa magkadimao ang tirada?

Quote from: islander on April 04, 2011, 11:38:13 PM
aw, tinaig manok unta imong gipakita.

Aw, abi nakog tinaig manok to nga gibalit-ad unya gibuliskad unya gipormang rose as in roses are violet...

The Battle off Samar was the centermost action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles in history, which took place in the Philippine Sea off Samar Island, in the Philippines on 25 October 1944. As the only major action in the larger battle where the Americans were largely unprepared against the opposing forces, it has been cited by historians as one of the greatest military mismatches in naval history.

Adm. William Halsey, Jr. was lured into taking his powerful 3rd Fleet after a decoy fleet. Thus only three escort carrier groups of the 7th Fleet remained in the area. A powerful Japanese surface force of battleships and cruisers that were thought to have been defeated and in retreat instead turned around unobserved and stumbled upon the northernmost of the three groups, Task Unit 77.4.3 ("Taffy 3"). Taffy 3's destroyers and destroyer escorts desperately attacked with 5 in (130 mm)/38 cal guns and torpedoes, while carrier aircraft dropped bombs and depth charges. While U.S. vessels leading the counterattack suffered heavy personnel losses, they sank or disabled three Japanese cruisers and caused enough confusion to persuade the Japanese commander, Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, to regroup and ultimately withdraw, rather than advancing to sink troop and supply ships at Leyte Gulf. --Wiki

Hmm, burag paingon nga mahimong maskulado pero wa ta kahibawo basin mabayot diay tawon ning bataa.. 

Kini hinuon, wagtang jud dayon ang sakit sa ngipon...

Kini, kinsay nakaila ani nga celebrity?

Updated on: 04/04/201
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/RSS/tabid/69/smid/414/ArticleID/155735/Default.aspx


MOGADISHU (AFP): Somalia’s Islamist movement Hezb al-Islam has ordered men in Mogadishu to grow their beards and trim their moustaches, officials said Monday, further imposing the strict Sharia form of Islamic law.

The latest edict by Hezb al-Islam follows a similar order issued late last year by the al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab group. The two groups control most of Somalia.

“Men are ordered to grow their beards and trim their moustaches and anyone found violating this law will face the consequences,” senior Hezb al-Islam official Moalim Hashi Mohamed Farah told reporters.

“To grow one’s beard is a moral teaching left by our Prophet Mohamed, peace be upon him, so it is a duty to keep this religious practice alive and punish men who shave their beards and grow their moustaches,” he said.

Mogadishu’s male population appeared resigned to the new law, arguing that avoiding the wrath of the country’s hardliners was worth the time and effort of a little extra facial grooming.

“The new law will affect almost every household in Mogadishu because most men don’t grow beards here,” said Hasan Muse, a clean-shaven Mogadishu resident.

“Personally, I don’t have a problem growing a beard, it’s just that you actually need more time to look after a proper beard than to simply shave,” he argued.

Sabriye Mohamed, for his part, said he would continue to choose his own facial hair style because he lived in one of the few neighbourhoods still controlled by the Western-backed transitional federal government.

“I have heard the news about the law ordering men in Mogadishu to grow beards but it will have no impact on me because I live in the government-controlled area,” he said.

Such rules are already being implemented in some parts of the city and other regions of Somalia by the Shebab group, which has a dedicated religious police branch known as “Jaysh al-Hisbah” (Army of morality).

Units from the movement’s “social mobilisation brigades” can often be seen criss-crossing busy areas on pick-up trucks and blaring instructions through loudspeakers to join the jihad and respect a pure Islamic clothing style.

Some of the other edicts imposed on Mogadishu by Islamist insurgent groups include a ban on watching World Cup games in public, as well as bans on Western music, DVDs and video games.

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. --Oscar Wilde

Self-immolation refers to setting oneself on fire, often as a form of protest or for the purposes of martyrdom or suicide. It has centuries-long traditions in some cultures, while in modern times it has become a type of radical political protest. Michael Biggs compiled a list of 533 self-immolations reported in western media from 1960s to 2002.

Etymology

The word "immolate" is used in British English when denoting consumption by fire, whether autonomously or imposed. The Latin-based English word immolate, which for centuries was rarely used, means sacrifice, without any reference to burning, so more generally self-immolation means suicide without specifying the method. The word itself comes from the Latin "immolare", to sprinkle with meal, in reference to the ritual sprinkling of the heads of sacrificial victims with wine and fragments of mola salsa.

It was Western media coverage of Buddhist monks immolating themselves in protest of the South Vietnamese regime in 1963 that introduced the word "self-immolation" to a wide English-speaking audience and gave it a strong association with fire. The alternative name bonzo comes from the same era, because the Buddhist monks who immolated themselves were often referred to by the term bonze in English literature prior to the mid-20th century, particularly when describing monks from East Asia and French Indochina. This term is derived via Portuguese and French from the Japanese word bonsō for a priest or monk, and has become less common in modern literature.


More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation

When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight on Dec. 17, he sparked flames far greater than the ones that would ultimately kill him. The Tunisian man, an unemployed college graduate with children to feed, had tried finding work hawking vegetables, but was thwarted by police, who confiscated his cart. So in a grisly act of protest and anguish, Bouazizi doused himself in gasoline and set himself ablaze.

The act of self-immolation not only triggered the current political crisis in Tunisia, which ousted the president Jan. 14 and has led to a complicated political impasse. It also inspired copycat self-immolations across North Africa, who attempted this very sensational form of suicide as statements of their own desperation and frustration with the authoritarian regimes in their countries. The latest count of protesters who have set themselves on fire in North Africa is up to eight, with four in Algeria, two in Egypt and one in Mauritania, as well as Bouazizi's act in Tunisia.

Legends of people of committing the act of self-immolation date back centuries. The first instance is said to come from Sati, one of the wives of the Hindu god Shiva. According to myths, she married against her father's wishes and then burned herself to death after her father insulted her husband. This story is often linked to the practice of sati, which was a custom in some parts of India where a widow would burn herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband. The practice was outlawed in India in 1829. History through the ages in various parts of the world is lined with tales of female spouses, consorts and concubines being consigned to the flames, often against their will, to join some deceased warrior king or chieftain.

The first and most famous moment of self-immolation as agitprop was that of Thich Quang Duc in 1963. Under the rule of Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam largely advanced the agenda of the country's Catholic minority and discriminated against Buddhist monks. In one of the most dramatic instances of individual protest, Quang Duc doused himself in gasoline in the middle of a Saigon street and lit himself ablaze.

Journalist David Halberstam, who witnessed the monk's self-immolation and won a Pultizer Prize for his war stories, remembered the moment in one of his books, The Making of a Quagmire: "Flames were coming form a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning flesh. ... Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think."

Afterward, four more monks and a nun set themselves ablaze protesting Diem before his regime finally fell in 1963. Rather suddenly, setting oneself on fire became a political act. As the American presence increased in Vietnam in the mid- to late 1960s, more and more monks committed self-immolation, including thirteen in one week. It even took place in the U.S., right outside the Pentagon, when Norman Morrison, an American Quaker burned himself to death while clinging onto his child as a mark of his rejection of the Vietnam War. (His child survived, and Morrison was revered in Vietnam for his purported martyrdom.)

The grim tactic has spread across the globe: Czechoslovaks did it to protest the Soviet invasion in 1968; five Indian students did it to protest job quotas in 1990; a Tibetan monk did it to protest the Indian police stopping an anti-Chinese hunger strike in 1998; Kurds did it to protest Turkey in 1999; outlawed Falun Gong practitioners did it in Tiananmen Square in 2009, at least according to authorities in Beijing.

Only within the last few weeks have such acts of self-immolation caught on in North Africa. They seem to all come out of moments of urgency and helplessness. And sometimes they light fires in the minds of countless others in their midst.


http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2043123,00.html

Quote from: Vistabel on April 04, 2011, 05:30:28 PM
kuyawa gud ani bai Hubs, nia nasab imong gipakita, ang ako lang basin may maghiromentado kay gustong mouli  motilaw ug kinilaw.

Kay ngano man diay, di ba pwedeng maghimog kinilaw kon asa ka mahimutang?

He he, ang problema kon masobrahan makatindog pa ba kaha...

He he, bura man nig surgical mask diay...

Professional bikers...

He he... 

Quote from: lgbluer on April 04, 2011, 06:21:49 PM

weeee......!!!!!mao jud...

Salamat sa imong pag-uyon, Ms. LG. Burag you are also the self-sacrificing kind, methinks...

By Ransdell Pierson â€" Sat Apr 2, 7:44 pm ET


NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) â€" Consistent lifelong exercise preserves heart muscle in the elderly to levels that match or even exceed that of healthy young sedentary people, a surprising finding that underscores the value of regular exercise training, according to a new study.

The first study to evaluate the effects of varying levels of lifelong exercise on heart mass was presented on Saturday at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans.

It suggested that physical activity preserves the heart's youthful elasticity, showing that when people were sedentary, the mass of their hearts shrunk with each passing decade.

By contrast, elderly people with a documented history of exercising six to seven times a week throughout adulthood not only kept their heart mass, but built upon it -- having heart masses greater than sedentary healthy adults aged 25 to 34.

"One thing that characterizes the aging process by itself is the loss of muscle mass, particularly skeletal muscle," said Dr. Paul Bhella, a researcher from John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas who presented the study at the conference.

"But we are showing that this process is not unique to skeletal muscle, it also happens in cardiac muscle," he said. "A heart muscle that atrophies is weaker."

The study enrolled 121 healthy people with no history of heart disease. Fifty nine were sedentary subjects recruited from the Dallas Heart Study, a large multiethnic sample of Dallas County residents.

Some 62 lifelong exercisers, all over age 65, were recruited mainly from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study, which had documented their exercise habits over a period of 25 years.

In the new study, exercise was assessed by the number of aerobic exercise sessions per week, rather than intensity or duration. Subjects were broken down into four groups: non-exercisers; casual exercisers (two to three times a week); committed exercisers (four to five times a week) and master athletes (six to seven times a week).

Heart mass measurements, taken using MRIs, showed that sedentary subjects had diminished heart mass as they aged, while lifelong exercisers had heart mass expansion with increasing frequency of exercise.

"The data suggest that if we can identify people in middle age, in the 45 to 60 year range, and get them to exercise four to five times a week, this may go a very long way in preventing some of the major heart conditions of old age, including heart failure," said Benjamin Levine of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who headed the study.

(Reporting by Ransdell Pierson and Bill Berkrot; Editing by Paul Simao)


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Quote from: fdaray on April 03, 2011, 12:49:33 PM
Ang batas ay batas, dapat tuparin kahit anong lahi ang nagkasala. Walay balaod ang Pilipinas bahin sa drug related
cases, Kon naay makasala ato lang e deport. Maoy nakalami sa Pinas, mao nga ang atong nasud gihimong  factories and destributing center sa mga drugs.