Warning Graphic: Chinese Dog Butchers

The kitchens where dog carcasses are piled ready to be skinned, diced, sliced, and cooked in front of patrons are all over China.

Koreans still cherish memories of dog eating.  The North no doubt must eat them given their food shortages, but did you know about Chinese canine cuisine?

China is stuck between a brutal past and a promising future.  So why are they still eating their pets?

Many Chinese not only eat dog regularly but they also practice the brutal act of beating dogs to death to release the blood into the muscle before slaughtering - live tenderizing.

But don't be too quick to judge, the USA once ate horsemeat and may again given Obama's recent okay regarding Nevada mustangs.  American Indians on reservations were often starved ruthlessly by US Government agents so the camp dogs quickly disappeared as a consequence.

When food is scarce people will eat just about anything. The Chinese do it, and you would too if you were competing for food in a country where nearly half the world's population is crammed into a smog ridden toxic wasteland of a country.

As China becomes wealthier, no doubt the practice will be banned. Then the Chinese can join the USA getting fat on McDonald's pink-slime instead.

Japan On Path To Ruin And Extinction

Japan is folding it's pagoda.  The island nation that once tried to jail all of asia is collectively, day by day, disaster by disaster, culturally and spiritually choosing national hara kari.  Why?

The 1930s may have been the high water mark of the Japanese empire.

Japanese imperialist ambitions tore their past and future from the Japanese like a Sumo wrestler throwing Madonna over a rail.  After devastating acts of barbarianism against other Asian nations, and their subsequent annihilation by the US, Japan seemed to rise from their ashes to become the world's second largest economy

But that was then, now is now. After two decades of recession, earthquakes, tsunamis, and young males running from copulation,  the Japanese dying.  The population of the country has taken a nosedive, and in about 100 years all Japanese will disappear from the planet.

Of 117 million today, just 14 million are kids under 14.  The population is aging and not reproducing.  The birthrate has fallen to 1.35 per fertile woman, almost half the replacement figure.  And more than 20% of Japan's people are aged 65 or over, one of the highest proportions of elderly in the world.  Another reason the crushing impact and cost of medical and reduced productivity is looming large in Japan.

Theories abound, but the reality is set.  A cruel irony given the ferocious spirit once prevalent in a tiny nation that once wanted to rule half the world.