China time

Sweatin' in the shop

While PT's busy packing I feel compelled to do a China post. A Google search indicates there are people still wringing their hands over horrible conditions in Chinese sweatshops. I'll admit I wouldn't want to work in one even if that woman in the purple bikini was working beside me. However, it should be mentioned that there's well over twenty million workers in China who still can't find a shop to sweat in.

Everyone knows that enterprising Chinese emigrants have historically settled over much of the world in search of opportunity. According to Jim Rogers that's been a blessing for mainland China as over 80% of all investment in the country comes from Chinese living overseas. I suppose it compares to Mexican immigrants in the U.S. sending money home for their families to spend in Mexico.

Jim Rogers is well known for traveling all over the world in search of investment opportunities, and for showing investors that they needn't be traders with nerves of steel to invest in the commodity market. I'll have to take his word for it because I don't have any experience in investing due to a lack of...well that list is too long to get into now. The point is that he sold his house in the U.S. and moved his wife and two daughters to Singapore to be closer to where the action is. He's still an American citizen and still pays taxes here but has found our government to be increasingly hostile to business. (Clik title for a good Rogers interview.)

China's Communist government, on the other hand, likes capitalists and makes it comparatively easy to do well there. After Mao Zedong was buried a new slogan became popular: "It's glorious to be rich." While capitalists appear to enjoy greater freedom in China than here, ordinary Americans are still living with more liberty than their Chinese counterparts, but for how long?

What I'm really wondering is whether there will eventually be an exodus of youthful American entrepreneurs looking for some glorious wealth that they feel could best be created in another country. If that should happen hopefully they - like the Chinese and Mexicans - would send some of their new riches to the "old country" because I think we're going to need it.

Anyone remember Tiananmen Square?

Wounded Demonstrators

It was twenty years ago today that the Tiananmen Square Massacre (referred to in China as the June Fourth Incident was perpetrated by the Red Chinese People's Army. Read a fine post by Michael Laprarie at Wizbang about the incident. Click the photo and the title for more.

Tea party demonstrators and the like here in the US need not be concerned. It can't happen here.

Need a Vise-Grip tool? Buy the cheap imitation instead.

Made in China

I like the Vise-Grip tools. The old feeder is shy a few fingers, and the locking feature of these (until now) well-made, heavy-duty, chrome-plated tools make them very useful around the house and shop.

There have always been cheaper imitations, but I always bought the genuine article. The cheap ones will rust or are so flimsy they seem sure to fall apart under heavy use.

Now, you might as well save your money and buy the cheap imitations. The fools that run the company have decided to move all their production to China. I guess they weren't clever enough to sell their customers on the real value of Made in the USA quality. Now the renowned Vise-Grip tools will themselves be cheap Chinese imitations. Your Vise-Grip tool dollars will help prop up a totalitarian communist state that enslaves its people.

I feel sorry for the over 300 workers that are losing their jobs here in DeWitt, Nebraska. As for myself, I'm going to buy all the Vise-Grip tools I need now, before they are replaced with crappy junk on the store shelves. I hope the Vise-Grip company goes broke.

2 out of 3 people worldwide

The AP reports that 2 out of 3 people worldwide tuned in for Olympics. I wasn't one of them. Not for one second. I'm not sorry. I plan to keep saying no to China until the Chinese people give up communism. Marxist thought stinks on ice. That stink rubs off on everything that China touches. --- Addendum: A Canadian reader sends this 'so true' cartoon from Time magazine. Cop a laugh!

Yet another reason to skip the Chinese Olympics

Man's Best Friend off the menu (risky click)

If the human rights abuses, pollution and slime don't keep you from visiting or supporting the 2008 Olympics in Peking (Beijing for appeasers with double jointed tongues), this news ought to help make up your mind: "Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month's Olympics."

No dog meat? Why bother to travel to the other side of the Earth only to have succulent dog meat unavailable? What will be next, no chopsticks?
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Not all the Chinese Olympics culinary news is bad. The ever-popular donkey meat will remain on the Olympic restaurant menus. (Don't look in the Feed Trough if you are squeamish.)

Free Tibet? Why not Free China?

Free China and you free Tibet. It isn't about the Olympic racket. Its about communist slavery, oppression and hegemony. Marxist thought stinks on ice.

ChiCom Olympics - Worse than Berlin in 1936

Support the Chinese Communist Slave State?

In my opinion, Red China can't clean up enough to qualify for hosting the Olympics. However, the Olympic organizers don't care; Hitler hosted the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 in spite of his national socialist plans for the rest of the world.

Hitler removed signs stating "Jews not wanted" and similar slogans from the main tourist attractions. Hitler desired to clean up Berlin, the German Ministry of Interior authorized the chief of Berlin Police to arrest all gypsies and keep them in a special camp.

Similarly, the Chinese Communist government is trying to spiff-up Peking to trick foreign visitors into believing their jack-booted, murderous, freedomless, totalitarian communist regime is a mainstream democracy. As lies go, this one should be too big for anyone to swallow.

Whats wrong with Red China? Where do I start. Censorship? Oppression? Inhumanity? Barbarism? Here is just one illustration. What do you suppose the Chinese Communist state police soldiers are training for in this photograph? Click the photo to learn.

ChiCom Rifle Range?

Here is where the training pays off! Should you be found guilty of one of over 70 capital offenses while attending the Beijing (Peking) Olympics, your sentence will be carried out swiftly by skilled executioners. Click the picture below to watch the whole process.

"Open your mouth!" (reduces messy splash-back)

From the executioners: "Sometimes, the brain tissue of the prisoner may splash back onto our faces and that is really disgusting. --- We tell them to open their mouths because if the bullet passes through their mouths, they won't look too bad afterwards."

She should have opened her mouth

As for staying away from the Olympics, its up to you. The only Americans I would expect to visit Red China for the Olympic games are those losers you see wearing Che Guevara t-shirts. I hope they all like the worker's paradise so well that they decide to stay. But...

Its a real dilemma: the Olympic Games are a good thing; Red China is a bad thing. The athletes aren't to blame for the horror that is Red China. I don't think President George Bush or any other US government figure should attend the opening ceremonies. To her credit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel isn't going to add her blessing to the Chinese masquerade. What else could we do?

US to shoot down spy satellite - message to Red China?

Update: Bill Gertz
Satellite shoot-down shows missile muscle


Saber Rattling in Space

This unexpected news just fell into my inbox:

NEWS ALERT
from The Wall Street Journal

Feb. 14, 2008

The Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite that was expected to hit the Earth in early March, according to the Associated Press. U.S. officials said that the option preferred by the Bush administration will be to fire a missile from a U.S. Navy cruiser, and shoot down the satellite before it enters Earth's atmosphere.

Note that the US and other nations were critical of the People's Republic of China when they destroyed one of their satellites with a missile. Some cats claimed China's actions then constituted saber rattling, sending a message to the US and Russia. Others were concerned about the large amount of space junk that remains in orbit from the explosion.

I don't know how the US will avoid the same criticisms. Seems like Cold War II is getting started.
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Read more here.

What is Madeleine Albright doing in China?

I dare you.

A headline about dirty Chinese chopsticks caught my eye. China Factory Recycled Dirty Chopsticks. I'm no fan of Communist China. The recent spate of stories about poisoned dog food, contaminated toothpaste, and toxic kiddie clothing coming from Red China only confirms my belief that Marxism in any form brings forth the most corrupt aspects of human nature.

I use chopsticks, mostly as cooking tools; bamboo ones that I wash and re-use. So I read the article. No surprises there: of course the godless commies have no moral compunction against poisoning their neighbors for profit.

What did surprise me was to see that, out of the blue, the Reuters story linked here mentions former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as being present at a meeting in Peking with Mr. Bo, the ChiCom Commerce Minister! I quote:

No country can guarantee their food to be 100 percent safe, but if one in 100 or even in 1,000 of our products has quality problems, we will deal with it seriously,' Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said on Tuesday when meeting former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

What is this horrible woman doing in China? Why is she hanging out with a twisted Marxist like Mr. Bo? I hope she is just visiting old pals in between her PR jobs for North Korea's Dear Kim Jong Il. Otherwise, one might suspect that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has plans to put the old bat back to work for Hillary's New Marxist America.

Chinese toy boss 'kills himself'

Another inscrutable story from China, via the BBC:

Zhang Shuhong, who co-owned the Lee Der Toy Company, was reportedly found dead at his factory in southern China. About 1.5 million toys made for Fisher Price, a subsidiary of US giant Mattel, were withdrawn from sale earlier this month. Many were made by Lee Der.

You remember the lead-paint scare. If you believe this cat wasn't either encouraged or helped to hang himself, I've got some colorful toys and transplantable Chinese organs you might want to buy.
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I can't decide if the name of the dead cat's company, Lee Der, is a clever phonetic distortion of Leader, or a transliteration of Chinese characters. If the latter, how do you suppose it translates? Probably means something like "Eat lead!"
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Update: As Mr. Creosote says, "There's still more!" From the WSJ, August 14th: Mattel Recalls 8.8 Million More Toys. I wonder if there will be any more 'suicides'?