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POPSChinese Premier Wen Jiabao Is Worried About US Debt? As North Korea shakes the nuclear sabre, Iran threatens Israel's existence and the modern world cowers before medieval Islamists, what leverage do we have to gain China's cooperation? None, of course. Instead, China has all the leverage to make us bend to their will. What other choice do we have but to obey our new master? Thousands of years ago, a wise man wrote that "the borrower is the slave of the lender." Anyone who has racked up debts understands this concept all too well. When your money belongs to someone else, they get to tell you what to do. When Treasury Secretary/Tax Cheat Tim Geithner reassured a Chinese audience that their "investments" in America were safe, they laughed in his face. Before long, our new master will notice the whip he's been handed and the laughter will stop. The world is about to get a lot more dangerous.
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POPSshoes fly again "Throwing a shoe at someone is considered an insult in India." ................not just in India, I'd say!
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POPSChina Seeks Safeguards on US Investments To think the ChiComs understand our economy better than OBAMA and his ilk do. They are worried that Obama's plans is going to deflate the US Currency and cause an inflation which adversely effect their US holdings. Hey Obama do you suppose you could FORCE CHINA to rewrite the US LOANS like you are doing for delinquent mortgage holders?
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POPSWho's Century Will It Be?
Will this shift in the balance of power be a re-centering de-hegemonization of power or will it move the center to a new capital? The Reagan-Bush paradigm had us spend many years of social and ecological “savings”, basic social and environmental investments were tapped into and turned into cash and everyone had a good time. It was sort of like being given an inheritance and throwing a huge party. At the end we’ll remember these days as full of wealth but there will be an empty shell of a social safety net, food that is not safe to eat, drugs that may be dangerous or do nothing. We are massively in debt and beholden to China. Our middle class has shrunk and we now have the largest wealth discrepancy of the developed world. Our ignore-ance of the problems of fossil fuels has given us rising sea levels and acidifying oceans. These are the fruits of the grand party we’ve thrown ourselves for the last 29 years. What is now obvious is that the Reagan-Bush economic doctrine, cou
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POPSIf China Stops Lending Us Money, Look Out But in Beijing on Friday, Premier Wen Jiabao told reporters that he was worried about the U.S. becoming something of a, well, deadbeat. "We have made a huge amount of loans to the United States. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I'm a little bit worried," Wen said. "I would like to call on the United States to honor its words, stay a credible nation and ensure the safety of Chinese assets."
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POPSGlobal Television for Our Future Global Leader “the media voices we think of as international” coming from London (the BBC), Qatar (Al-Jazeera) or Atlanta (CNN). BBC is known for its anti-American programming, Al-Jazeera for its pro-terrorist slant, and CNN for its left-wing and pro-Democratic bias. It will take “innovative public-private funding” to bring this new network into being, apparently meaning that the taxpayers in the U.S. will have to be soaked in order to help bring this about. Elsewhere in the report (page 31) the idea of “international taxation” is proposed for “global action” of various kinds. Perhaps this is a vehicle for raising revenue for the new “global voice.” “In a world where there are calls for global governance as a response to a global financial crisis, where scientific research, capital flows and production chains are globalized, the media and the communities in which we imagine ourselves remain fiercely localized.”
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POPSIsraeli ambassador hit by shoe continues: Dagan himself and officials at the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm could not be reached for comment. Last December, an Iraqi journalist hurled both shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush when he was on a farewell visit to Iraq in December. Then last Monday a protester threw a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University in England. The Foreign Policies Association student group in Stockholm issued a statement on its web site deploring the incident. "Violence is never a solution," it said. A video posted on the Internet purporting to depict the event showed objects being hurled across a lecture hall towards a group of people at the front, who then hurried out of the room. A part of the video was blacked out and it was not possible to see who had hurled the objects.
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POPSCan You Recognize Him? Zhao Ziyang speaks on 19 May 1989. Behind him, the State Council Premier, Wen Jiabao, is present (2nd from right in black). This was Zhao's last public appearance before he was placed under house-arrest, where he remained until his death.
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POPSChina Tells Rich Polluting Nations To Change Lifestyle China wants technology aid to feature in that pact, which negotiators hope to seal in Copenhagen late next year. Climate officials gathered in Beijing welcomed China's growing activism on the issue but questioned its proposal, especially with an economic downturn draining coffers. "It is undeniable that the financial crisis will have an impact on the climate change negotiations," said Yvo de Boer, who heads the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat. "If we go to citizens under the current circumstances ... and say 'I'm increasing your tax burden in order to pay for climate policy', that might not go down very well," he told Reuters. But Beijing will wait to see what U.S. President-elect Barack Obama offers in greenhouse gas goals and aid before showing more of its own bargaining cards, said Hedegaard. Full article: http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSPEK56602
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POPSNatural Disaster In Beichuan: A Vision Of Hell Anger, too, is growing about the poor quality of buildings. In Mianzhu, an apartment block collapsed on itself. The flats had been built using contributions from a local work unit, a group of workers organised by the Communist Party at a factory or office. Residents searching for survivors said it was because corrupt officials had demanded so much in kickbacks that the building fell. The neighbouring buildings had not collapsed, including one which housed cadres from the Communist Party. "Show me the structural steel in that building," said one woman, whose mother is missing in the rubble. "It all went into some official's pocket," she spat. The foreign media have a poor image in China This makes reporting the disaster difficult; before the anti-Chinese riots in Tibet, and the sympathetic view of Tibetans in the Western media, foreign journalists were popular. Now we are seen as a threat.
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