Posted on 02/18/2007 10:14:56 AM PST by grey_whiskers
Cheers!
As always, suitable for lining birdcages, at least until avian flu comes around.
Your bandwidth may vary.
Sorry for the delay, but my PC crashed in the middle of the night and I had to re-type the entire article largely from memory: the Microsoft Word recovery program could not rescue the file.
Cheers!
"lipstick on a Pig"
Has anyone noticed that today's (Feb 18, 2007) Google search page has PIGS ON IT?????????
Kind of undermines the first two?
I'm hardly supportive of a Chinese expansion, but he has to reconcile that statement to the whole series.
Cheers!
I wonder if Google Arabia or whatever also have piggies on it today?! Somehow I doubt it.
In addition, this article may also be of interest to the people. It is written by a Chinese insider:
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/6-11-7/47852.html
Ping
Thanks so much for posting this interesting food for thought.
As to whether it is real, I throw up my hands. It could be.
That was an interesting link. The Chinese are caught in a squeeze play of their own devising...
And Bird Flu tangentially relates to the highlighted paragraphs...China is reporting only a handful of human cases, and insisting that through vaccination all the chicken in the entire country is safe, yet their information is suspect, their practice as occult as usual, a Chinese citizen is the head of WHO and is not being transparent as promised.
If/when Bird Flu becomes pandemic, whatever the case fatality rate, China will most certainly be badly affected and will most certainly hide knowledge of the impact of Bird Flu on its citizens, and the rest of the world may smolder and perhaps burst into flame...
Just thinking strange thoughts here, as I watched the end of the Daytona 500. Everyone please ignore me.
I don't know what you'll make of this, but thought you might like to look at it.
FWIW, I wholeheartedly agree, well, at least with the stuff I skimmed. :')
The one item I've always understood to be completely wrong is this whole idea of "currency manipulation."
The Chinese government isn't really depressing the value of their currency by pegging the yuan to the dollar -- they are inflating it.
Without this direct link between the two currencies, the yuan would be completely worthless.
I agree with most all of what you have written. I think the chinese leadership understands this, but they also are using an almost fascist approach to their economy to sustain it much longer than the old Lenin, Stalin, or Mao models allowed for.
The problem with fascism is that it can develop to a point of not only being sustainable, but of being a powerhouse if its people get behind it. Reference the Germans, who put out in shear numbers and technology, as a relatively small nation, a wartime economy that it took the combined mass of the rest of the developed nations (outside of Italy and Japan) to put down.
If that ever happens with the 1.3 billion Chinese...well, the prospect is frightening. But I think something along those lines is exactly what the CCP is working towards.
So, how will they do it? The Nazis did it during very severe financial times by instilling pride in the people in being Germans. Old areas were reincorporated into the Reich (Sudetland, Austria, Czeck, etc.), major infrastructure building (highways, waterworks, etc.), etc.
Watch out for these in China...their nationalsim and cultural pride is something that can be exploited by their leaders, just like the Germans were exploited by their leaders.
In the mean time, the window is there...how long they will be able to keep it open, and how they will go about maintaining their position should it begin to close is anyone's guess...but it is not likely to be pretty IMHO.
Did you read the footnote about the biological weapons attack...? How seriously do you regard those threats?
Cheers!
I do not believe they are our friends in the least (the Chinese government, not the chinese people as a whole), but I do believe they are using us and need to continue using us for some time to come to help keep their economic engine firing towards self sufficiency...when and if they can obtain it.
But make no mistake, they are trying to make it and in the process they are preparing to overtly confront us politically, economically and militarily once they are in a position to do so. Right now, it is more of a sparring match as we mutually depend on one another and feel each other out. But that's just my opinion.
Year of Pig will bring plagues, disasters and unrest: Chinese fortune-tellers
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