extraHotwithFoam

for years i drank my coffee extrahot with foam-wimpy stuff that a mermaid company practically patented. seattle is now lucky enough to have a ceo who said "china rocks." maybe he skipped studying the east in college? maybe the fact that people are still being oppressed, spied upon by their neighbors & aren't allowed the internet without government controls? the Nikefactor (manufacturing products for 90% less than what they retail.) & are still afraid to speak out about their conditions to western media.

china's history is a mixed bag, from the dynasty that ruled it's providences by using water; rivers to manipulate it's people. the Shih Huang-ti's dynasty's people got a nice dose of government censorship pre-AD. "in 212b.c., for instance, more than 460 scholars at the capital were found to have 'slandered the emperor' & 'spread heretical ideas confuse the public,' & were all sentenced to be buried alive, while those in the provinces, who had been accused of committing similar crimes, were exiled to the frontiers as soldiers." during this totalitarian regime china was in a bitter war with mongolia; who had started invading the northern borders of still unstable unified china.

a friend of mine over a decade ago said that china would rise up and have economic power, i remember looking @ him like he was an idiot. it was the year of a student standing in front of a tanker in a square asking for human rights. the same year taiwan encountered a few weapons fired from china's soil. cause you know china rocks @ total control; irregardless of who's in the white house. a certain ceo had thePresident of china over for dinner. china wants control over how it runs it's operating system-ascertaining more control over it's population on home soil (domestic spying without the patriotAct.)

it's not the only american internet company to do so; the top 3 got slapped by the senate for cooperating with china over it's email & internet provider service. it's the fact that chinese have to use a shadow drivers when they want to enter sites the government doesn't permit it's public to access. back to the nikeFactor, a few years ago this mormon conglomerate decided that american workers wanted too much: healthInsurance, better pay & hours-they came upon this great idea, outsourcing. why not slash a few american jobs; close a few towns & leave people barely making it. walmart began a trend that has continued with dell, gap inc...

china may have mcdonalds, mermaid foam & is again ruling hongKong-but hungry for more. it's history is painted with amazing art work, the great wall-& a society that was far more advanced than it's european counterparts. now manipulates it's people by working for embarrassingly low pay in horrid conditions. sowing farms-usually poorly lit & workers having to work 12-16 hour days for that oldnavy shirt you bought cause it was cheap. the $12 you bought it for was 3days of work. i'll take my chinese history without the foam, or the excuses; & i'd never have henrykissinger over for latte's.

Quotes & Resources
The Ageless Chinese A History, Third Edition: Li, Dun J. Copyright 1978 Charles Scribner's Sons.

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