China and India preparing for war (WSJ)

A billion people here, another billion there

(WSJ) How China is quietly bracing for war with India. Pakistan is delighted. How much money will Israel and its affiliated arms dealers make from selling weapons in this conflict? How will the CIA angle for long-term advantage (full spectrum dominance) in the region? And does the 14th Dalai Lama regret taking sides and affiliating himself with The Company (aka the CIA)?

• WSJ Coordinates, The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Underground Railroad stories (video)

K-State College of Education, May 17, 2016; Crystal Q., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dawn of Day: Stories from the Underground Railroad

The horrors of all-American slavery

Dawn of Day is a historical documentary about the Underground Railroad -- the route followed by blacks escaping legal slavery, usually moving from the South to the northern free states -- in Kansas. It brings to light Wabaunsee County’s unsung heroes, who traversed one of the most turbulent times in the nation’s history. Faith, family, and politics united a community of neighbors who lived and died to ensure Kansas was a free state. Richard Pitts, director of the Wonder Workshop in Manhattan, Kansas, narrates the film and interviews educators, historians, and descendants of abolitionists, whose shared heritage lives on in the freedom we enjoy today.

May 11, 2020: Richard Pitts, the narrator of this film, passed away. His life was spent working with youth, teaching and inspiring them to make a difference in the world around them.

Produced by Debbie K. Mercer, College of Education, Kansas State University. Directed by Rusty Earl. Music Licensed from firstcom.com. Cooper Reflected Motion. Elias_Trevino Coastal Divide. Pollard_Salkeld Brittle Bones. Bohn_Worsey Spiral Galaxy. Bohn_Worsey Sapphire Sky. Hill_Burrows Standing Strong. Elias_Trevino Wandering Revelation. Hoo Redemption and Grace. Cooper Aurora Skies. Elias_Trevino Return of Light. Bohn_Worsey Wild Flower. Elias_Trevino Tight Embrace. Bohn_Worsey Shallow Waters. Salisbury_Taylor Where Life Begins. Elias_Trevino Hearts Content. Pollard_Salkeld Awaken a Thought. Pollard_Salkeld Rain in my Heart. Sheppard Enchanted Moment. Elias_Hoo Hometown Magic. Hoo Redemption and Grace. Elias_Trevino American Rivers.

Heaven's Gate and Glass Skywalk (video)

Because We Camp, Nov. 18, 2014; CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Tianmen Mountains, Heaven's Gate and Glass Skywalk 天门山

Like what Because We Camp does? Donate-to-the-camps. Heaven's Gate is the reason we traveled to Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China. It was once desktop wallpaper, so we had to see it for ourselves. And it did not disappoint. Tianmenshan Mountain Park has a 4,700 foot high Glass Sky Walk. The world's longest cable car takes us up in a gondola, the 99 bend road, and Heaven's Gate itself is a favorite destination. With so much extreme man-made and natural engineering, it's no wonder that it's a Redbull Wonderland, a favorite of Wingsuiters. Wingsuit competitions are held here. They fly through the hole that is Heaven's Gate. And if they miss, they get to heaven very quickly. There's a lot of GoPro footage to check out online!

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Thanks for watching The Tianmen Mountains, Heaven's Gate, and Glass Skywalk 天门山. Watch "Exploring an abandoned part of Zhangjiajie National Park in China"

Gateway to Tibet: World's highest airport

Wisdom Quarterly; AP Beijing; TheGuardian.com, Sept. 17, 2013

Potala Palace, Lhasa, Himalayas, the heart of Vajrayana Buddhism and Tibetan culture

Tibetans taking pictures at Daocheng Yading, part of China's plan to stabilize area (EPA).

  

Tibetan protest in Washington, D.C.

Daocheng Yading airport, 14,472ft (4,400 meters) above sea level, opens as China aims to boost tourism and clamp down on dissent. 

 

China has begun flight operations at the world's highest civilian airport in an effort to boost tourism and tighten political control over the country's restive west.

 

At such an elevation, Daocheng Yading Airport replaces the previous highest, Bangda Airport in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, which sits at 4,334 meters.

 

The (Han) People's Army of China

The region is a Gateway to Tibet, one that Beijing has sought to promote for tourism as a way of dampening dissent among the native Tibetan Buddhist population and stabilizing the area through economic development.

 

Beijing has peppered the region with little-used airports and spent $3.68bn (£2.3bn) building the world's highest rail line over permafrost to Tibet's capital, Lhasa.

 

State media said flights from Daocheng Yading Airport, which began on Monday, will slash travel time from Daocheng Yading to Sichuan's provincial capital of Chengdu from two days by bus to just 65 minutes. Other routes are due to begin by the end of the month. More

China does everything better (even Bigfoot)

October is "Monster Month" on Wisdom Quarterly

China's Yiren, "Wild Man," in Buddhist lore a Yakkha, "ogre," like the Himalayan Yeti

There's an expression about "giving the devil his due." China may be the devil in this case -- atrocities in Tibet and other ethnic provinces and getting ready to consume the consumer world -- and it deserves its due. It does everything better nowadays. It crushes the US economy (by our unpayable debt), rules exports, builds staggering supercomputers, dams, bullet trains, space programs, railroads in the Himalayas, and even accepts WalMart's penny pinching prices.

• China boasts world's fastest supercomputer, beating US

Now it undertakes a fame-making, legend-busting breakthrough -- proving that Bigfoot exists once and for all. Except in China Bigfoot is known as the Wild Man. [We maintain these creatures found around the world are yakkhas, ogres in Buddhist cosmology, a kind of intelligent ape, gorilla, simian somewhere between a human and a bonobo.] Recent discoveries of a new kind of monkey in Burma and a langur in Indonesia may be news to science, but it isn't news to the locals.

Inhabitants of mountains and forests know abominable Bigfoot creatures exist as guardians of the natural environment and possess intuition or a sixth sense that has allowed them to evade confirmed detection. Not that any proof short of many corpses and endless DNA samples, acceptance by "experts" and officials, will really convince anyone at this point. We don't really want to believe. And when we're forced to, we'll say we knew all along.

China to search for elusive "Bigfoot"

(Fox News) North America has its Sasquatch "Bigfoot," [Nepal has its Yeti, "Abominable Snowman"], and China has its [Yiren] "Wild Man."

A group of Chinese scientists are on the hunt for the Yeren, the Chinese equivalent of our Bigfoot. Scientists and international researchers refer to the Yeren as "Wild Man" and are on a renewed quest to find him.

"We are destroying life on Earth," UN conference claims

Thirty years ago, China's Academy of Science sent three teams of researchers looking for the mysterious creature. Those teams turned up surprising results: hair, excrement, footprints, and a possible "Wild Man" sleeping nest. Alas, those findings weren't conclusive, so they areat it again.

This time around the members of the Hubei Wild Man Research Association are hoping to collect donations to help catch the legendary creature. They need $1.5 million to kick off the project.

This research is not without its merits. Over the years people have reported400 sightings of a reddish hair ape-like man that looks a lot like an Orangutan but stands nearly 7ft tall. Nicholas Redfern, one of the world's leading cryptozoologists, thinks this newest expedition in China is worthwhile because of the fossil record.

"A lot of monster stories can be traced back to myth and folk lore. What people don't know is that in this instance we actually have the fossil record of a large ape-like creature that lived in that area over 300,000 years ago," Redfern told FoxNews.com.

In fact, primatologists have jaw bones, teeth and other bones from a creature found in that area known as Gigantopithecus that would've measured nearly 9ft tall (but probably hunched like an ape). More>>

India by Train (adventure travel)

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Dream Destination: Tibet

KATHMANDU (chinaview.cn) - As a journalist based in Nepal, Sudeshna Sarkar was excited when the world's highest railway service connecting Beijing with Lhasa was inaugurated two years ago. "I wished I could have been part of the first historic journey but was unable to go," she said, when interviewed by Xinhua on Monday.

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However, three years later, when she received an invitation from the Chinese government to visit Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, she was "thrilled." "It was like a dream coming true," the Indian journalist said. "Tibet is a dream destination for Indians. Every year, thousands of Indian pilgrims brave high altitude sickness and the biting cold to undertake the parikrama of the sacred Kailash mountain in Tibet." More>>