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Pollution in China

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Here is yet another story about pollution in China. One of the many reasons our factories moved overseas is because it is so expensive for companies to be responsible from a pollution standpoint, and that’s pretty much a requirement in the US, while not so much in countries like China, India, Mexico, and Pakistan. I’m [...]

Internet Censorship

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

In case you don’t go somewhere today that is protesting the upcoming censorship legislation, I’d like to point you to some trusted sources who can explain it to you: google.com/landing/takeaction/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page mozilla.org/sopa/?WT.mc_id=strike wordpress.org If you go to Google.com today you’ll see a big black square over their logo. Wikipedia is closed for the day. A [...]

A Dream from 1963

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be 83 years old, if his life hadn’t been cut short, and if he’d managed to live that long. What would he say about our world today? How much of his Dream has come to pass? A good deal of it has, but we aren’t quite there yet. If [...]

Furious — Attacks on Jon Huntsman

Friday, January 6th, 2012

This post isn’t about politics, even though I’m showing an attack ad. I’m showing the attack ad because this just goes too far. Way too far. I know that since he’s a politician and has put himself into the spotlight that he has no legal recourse against this kind of thing… but I really wish [...]

Ai Weiwei back in the news

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

It seems those in charge of PR in China right now are having a hard time understanding public opinion. They are working hard towards keeping something like the recent jasmine uprisings from getting a foothold, but their actions seem to be sparking more and more resistance. A week ago they presented Ai Weiwei with what [...]

More Changes in China

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

After an intense internet campaign, Chinese officials cancelled the annual Dog Meat Festival in Jinhua. Dog eating in the Jinhua region in Zhejiang province goes all the way back to the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that one general who was planning to invade Jinhua was constantly getting his troops barked away by dogs in [...]