Free Enterprise. WE Win!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

The path of least resistance.. Right ?

Lets see how Amidjadiba's buddy is doing.

Venezuela out of recession, but doubts remain
www.dailyfinance.com/rtn/press/venezuela-out-of-recession-but-doubts-remain/rfid417716364/?channel=pf

UH OH!!

I always like to keep tabs on old Amidjabidba himself..

Iranian Opposition Schedules New Protests:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703905404576164511144132674.html

Senegal - Iran: From friendship to diplomatic war:
www.afrik-news.com/article19020.html

UH OH!!!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Iraqi is erupting. The Islamics are making a good name fore themselves by killing Muslims protesting for better rights.

Plus this.

Revolution talk spurs China to block LinkedIn:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F02%2F24%2FBU4T1HU26Q.DTL

Vietnam hikes fuel prices by up to 24 percent:
www.dailyfinance.com/rtn/press/vietnam-hikes-fuel-prices-by-up-to-24-percent/rfid417763625/?channel=pf

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

UH OH!!

Fears mount over N Korean food supplies:
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/21a97880-4092-11e0-9140-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Ex7Lgs8v

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

An interesting chain of events is unfolding in Asia!

Chinese Businesses Pour into N.Korea's Rajin-Songbong:
english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/02/26/2011022600387.html

South Korea Prods North by Dropping Leaflets Telling of Mideast Protests:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-25/south-korea-prods-north-by-dropping-leaflets-telling-of-mideast-protests.html

Isolated protests break out in North Korea:
www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_638328.html

Is North Korea Next?:
the-diplomat.com/2011/02/26/is-north-korea-next/

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

UH OH!!

Russian opposition protest against prime minister
www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=417110&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Democracy, democracy, everywhere.

China authorities block democracy campaigns:
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/803542c6-4137-11e0-bf62-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1F7VI6dkf

Chinese authorities have put up big blue metal fences demarcating a “construction site” on a pedestrian street in the capital where campaigners have called for a protest to be held on Sunday, the latest sign of official nerves in the wake of the revolutions in the Middle East.

New media challenges old politics:
www.thestarphoenix.com/opinion/media+challenges+politics/4351867/story.html

Bottom-up socio-economic movements pushing ideals from the abolition of the HST in British Columbia to stemming the sprawl in Calgary to searching for a better way to govern Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec have been taking to social networks to raise money, exchange ideas and heighten public interest, Mr. Manning pointed out in a Globe and Mail opinion piece this week.

These sorts of movements aren't new. In the past they would either fade away, remain on the edges with such tactics as those used by the Greenpeace or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or would morph into political parties determined to take the establishment on head to head.

What is different, these pundits suggest, is the power of social media to give a sense of community and empowerment to take on the elites.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Again, things aren't going to be the same in our side of the world. Socialism is not having a very good go of it anymore....

Reclaiming the banks: Activists turn British banks into creches, classrooms and launderettes in protest over public service cuts:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360925/Activists-turn-40-British-bank-branches-creches-classrooms-shelters-job-centres-protest-bonuses-cuts.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Whatever though Free Enterprise will ensure that one day we will all have a little.

'Facebook Generation' continues Mauritania protests:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/26/mauritania.protest/

Calls on Facebook to oust Syria's Assad:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i5uwEMVSEiout9Ym8FGRiKkUGGEw?docId=CNG.6009b45dafd3ffa1601b90a867dbe4be.bb1

Oman reshuffles cabinet to halt protests:
www.presstv.ir/detail/167266.html

AND SO IT BEGINS!

A man is arrested by police after calls for a "Jasmine ...:
www.2space.net/news/article/339658-1298791802/

Libya inspired protest in Shanghai China ( Uyghur ):


Oh and apparently there are reports coming in from Wangfujing indicating that a large group of undercover police are gathering in support of protest!!!!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Some people have some interesting things to say about peoples ability to take away the Internet on us.

Humans Are The Routers:
techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/humans-are-the-routers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

Free communications is an essential human right. The 21st Century will be defined by the idea that no Government, no power shall ever block or filter the right of all men and women to communicate together again. It is my dream that within my lifetime that dictatorship shall be banished from this planet and unfiltered and true democracy shall flourish everywhere. It is time that our Faustian bargains with brutal dictators for short-term concerns end and a new covenant directly made with citizens everywhere seeking freedom will take its place.

Democracy catching on

Will China Be the Next Libya?:
blogs.forbes.com/helenwang/2011/02/25/will-china-be-the-next-libya/

Perhaps now is the time for the Chinese government to let go of control. A nation cannot be truly prosperous if its people cannot freely express themselves. The Chinese people know that, as many have told me, “the trend of democracy is unstoppable.” The Chinese government should know it too.

Changes.

China plans sweeping economic change:
www.arkansasonline.com/news/2011/feb/27/china-plans-sweeping-economic-change/

Saudi intellectuals call for sweeping reforms:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_saudi_reforms

India to unveil budget as inflation, state elections weigh:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/27/india-economy-budget-idUSSGE71Q00G20110227

NKorea isn't happy about the leaflets on old man Kim's birthday.. Cry babies!

North Korea threatens to attack South Korea, US:
www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/02/27/general-as-koreas-clash_8328535.html?feed=rss_asia

Some worlds from the Chinese people!

China tamps down Middle East-inspired protests before they can gain momentum
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/27/AR2011022703709.html

"I came here today to see how people protest against the government, which is corrupt and rules in an authoritarian way," said a 71-year-old man who asked that only his family name, Cao, be used. "Democracy is the trend in the world. No country in the world can be an exception to the process."

Another man, named Xia, 64, said that there were 400 to 500 people gathering at People's Square when he arrived around 1 p.m. but that they were dispersed by the spray from the water truck. He said he would keep returning to try to protest because he was already in his 60s and not afraid.

"Ordinary Chinese people have no power, and we can only express requests through gatherings like this," Xia said. "When there are more people gathering, these will become a serious warning to the government."

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

I like to see progress and more people shouting for rights!

Yemen opposition hands president peaceful transition map amid protestsý:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-03/03/c_13758271.htm

Manama gripped by pro- and anti-regime protests:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jVnZgGfwSnqrvUHHiUq5kSREUAKQ?docId=CNG.4103fec93a330f1c195d92e86c2ce8c3.211

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This is exactly why listening to the media reports about this great rise in China, and China overtaking the US in 10 yrs, are so far over blown, it's funny.

China’s High-Speed Rail, Highly Suspect:
blogs.forbes.com/timferguson/2011/03/02/chinas-high-speed-rail-highly-suspect/

Chinese move to prevent reporting on protests:
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014368770_china02.html

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Ahh yes China Daily has picked up on the fact that wages are driving China to a consumer based economy..

Asia's chains that bind:
www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/project/2011-03/03/content_12109266.htm

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

The Heat is ON!!

China state media warn against protest calls in capital
www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/05/china-unrest-idUSTOE72400420110305

[midwesterner (banned)]

Ahamburger, before I was rudely banned I tried to explain that yes things are changing around the world, but your taking a situation and getting ahead of yourself. I hope as you that it does turn out well, and democracy takes hold, unlike Afghanistan and Iraq with western intervention and puppet presidents preselected.

Have you studied the French Revolution at all? A very well meaning and positive movement hijacked by a mad man with delusions of grandeur and domination of the continent of Europe. No, not Hitler, but Napoleon. Remember the Napoleonic wars? I suggest you read this passage carefully before answering. Sure sounds like a that was also a major hornets nest that got a pretty good whack!

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts declared against Napoleon's French Empire and changing sets of European allies by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionized European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription. French power rose quickly, conquering most of Europe, but collapsed rapidly after France's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat resulting in the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France. The wars resulted in the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire and sowed the seeds of nascent nationalism in Germany and Italy that would lead to the two nations' consolidation later in the century. Meanwhile, the Spanish Empire began to unravel as French occupation of Spain weakened Spain's hold over its colonies, providing an opening for nationalist revolutions in Spanish America. As a direct result of the Napoleonic wars, the British Empire became the foremost world power for the next century,[1] thus beginning Pax Britannica.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars

Oliver Cromwell also comes to mind as someone that had replaced the old, with something not so new. We all wish to believe that Democratic revolutions always work out like the USA, which is a textbook example of best case scenario. This is not how it works in real world. We also have western pressures to put in puppets friendly to western needs, not to the peoples needs. Saddam Hussein was a Allie to USA for some time when Iran and ayatollahs were a bigger threat. We support not countries that are Democratic or should I say top globalist leadership doesn't, but those that can keep the flow of oil coming or serve a purpose to us.

Point being, it's very premature to be cheering and happy, this is spreading, and is not just based on displeasure of governments, but inflationary pressures which are causing people to become hunger in this poorer nations. I liken it to taking a baseball bat (inflation) and whacking a hornets nest (middle east). Without the baseball bat was still a problem, but more of less contained. Inflation or the baseball bat just stirred up some pissed off hornets.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

First mid thanks for your level headed post. I'm not being prematurely happy. I'm just excited to see a group of people trying to stand up for their rights. I'm aware of the Revolution as to you speak.. A very interesting time in history indeed. Not unlike today.

You see mid, it's not just the ME. It' s everywhere that doesn't have freedom. It's a snowball effect. People want the ability to do what we do. We aren't the French in the 1780's, nothing against their cooking, just wouldn't want to live there. We are the human race of the 21st century. We have the power to communicate with each other like never before, and we are trying to help each other like never before. Never forget that 60-70% of the economy is US. China has to move that way, big time. Wage for common folk like us rose 100% from 1865 to 1918 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_1865%E2%80%931918). At this point in time there are fewer and fewer slaves. The only way for companies to grow profits is to pay us more. By us I mean everyone in the entire world. We are all connected you know?

Check it.

Lebanon: Protests Against the Sectarian Regime:
globalvoicesonline.org/2011/03/04/lebanon-protests-against-the-sectarian-regime/


China's Jasmine Revolution protests just 1 of 100,000 per year:
www.ibtimes.com/articles/119076/20110304/china-jasmine-revolution-port.htm

[texasredneck]

sunrnr I read a report over 2 months ago saying Iran had operatives in every country surrounding Saudi Arabia to start revolutions. They have succeeded in the west bank, and Lebanon. Egypt, Syria, southern Iraq, Kuwait. Bahrain, UAE, and others are a work in progress. Most of these countries are ruled by a different sect of Muslims separate from those ruling Iran. Their goal is to choke off the flow of oil and eventually take over Saudi Arabia.

[midwesterner (banned)]

Mar 5, 2011 1:30:03 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

First mid thanks for your level headed post. I'm not being prematurely happy. I'm just excited to see a group of people trying to stand up for their rights. I'm aware of the Revolution as to you speak.. A very interesting time in history indeed. Not unlike today.

You see mid, it's not just the ME. It' s everywhere that doesn't have freedom. It's a snowball effect. People want the ability to do what we do. We aren't the French in the 1780's, nothing against their cooking, just wouldn't want to live there. We are the human race of the 21st century. We have the power to communicate with each other like never before, and we are trying to help each other like never before. Never forget that 60-70% of the economy is US. China has to move that way, big time. Wage for common folk like us rose 100% from 1865 to 1918 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_1865%E2%80%931918). At this point in time there are fewer and fewer slaves. The only way for companies to grow profits is to pay us more. By us I mean everyone in the entire world. We are all connected you know?

Check it.

Lebanon: Protests Against the Sectarian Regime:
globalvoicesonline.org/2011/03/04/lebanon-protests-against-the-sectarian-regime/


China's Jasmine Revolution protests just 1 of 100,000 per year:
www.ibtimes.com/articles/119076/20110304/china-jasmine-revolution-port.htm

Ahamburger, I agree with you on the movement is growing. I don't believe it one cause, but obviously the discontent has been there for a long time. The internet is like the coffeehouses and pubs of old where the sharing of ideas like Voltaire, Jefferson, and Thomas Paine were discussed then. The people around the world have new media, and is very much the reason much of what I speak here is shunned often because now the internet has given a platform for these ideas in which the mainstream media hasn't.

I think this is world wide rejection of globalism, Anglo Saxon banking cartel, and rejection of the old way of few manipulating the many. Where I think we agree is it's all well meaning, but where I differ is that the globalist hijack these movements of peace, and can spur violence, or install puppet governments.

Question is, is the situation getting out of hand for them, and people in nations will see them for who they are, or will they get their way again?

My personal feelings is that this revolutionary movement is not much unlike the French Revolutionary times. "Let them eat cake" attitude is widespread in many nations, inflationary pressures are hurting people making 2 bucks a day, need to feed families somehow. The inflation is the tipping point which I believe did this, and the internet is their weapon of choice to fight back by organizing and peaceful demonstrations.

I also differ on the French comments, and would say to you "Viva La France". I always rejected the Neo Cons French and German Bashing, and feel outside of some major dictators in their histories they have wonderful countries and culturally rich with art, music, cuisine, history, and the people are wonderful.

Might I remind anyone bought into the Freedom Fries BS, that we as USA would not be a nation as we were if not for those much hated French. Some respect is due I think.

Franklin, dispatched to France in December of 1776 to rally his support, was welcomed with great enthusiasm, as numerous Frenchmen embarked for the Americas to volunteer for the war effort. Motivated by the prospect of glory in battle or animated by the sincere ideals of liberty and republicanism, volunteers included the likes of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and La Fayette, who enlisted in 1776.

Up against the British power, the young United States lacked arms and allies, and so turned towards France. France was not directly interested in the conflict, but saw it as an opportunity to contest British power by supporting a new British opponent. Through negotiations conducted by Benjamin Franklin, France engaged first in covert support of the American cause.

Secretly approached by Louis XVI and France's foreign minister the comte de Vergennes, Pierre Beaumarchais was given authorization to sell gunpowder and ammunition to the Americans for close to a million pounds under the veil of the Portuguese company Rodrigue Hortalez et Compagnie. The aid given by France, much of which passed through the neutral Dutch West Indies port of Saint Eustatius, contributed to George Washington's survival against the British onslaught in 1776 and 1777. French ports accommodated American ships, including privateers and Continental Navy warships, that acted against British merchant ships. France provided significant economic aid, either as donations or loans, and also offered technical assistance, granting some of its military strategists "vacations", so they could assist American troops.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War

Now I do understand some of these effort were because of being anti British, but still without French support we would have failed long ago.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Mid you are 100% correct that the French Revolution is why we have freedom today. They spread the English out so that the USA could break off and start bringing change to the world for good. If Iran is so organized why are the people in Iran rioting??

I agree Sunrur the media has done a great job smearing fear all over this. Do you have an idea of who might be able to seize power in all of this? There is no single leader so far. They are rioting everywhere. No leader that exist right now holds the influence to rise up and seize it from the people. Again they are rioting in Iran and Lebanon now. If people are thinking Osama, I highly doubt the people are going to get behind the latest criminal that has brought war to their lands. I would like to hear a theory aside from the generalization on Islamic fundamentalist fear.

I see a scenario where the people in the Middle East continue to do what they are doing until they get what we have here; it will most likely be a separation of worship and state. It’s not just the Muslims that are protesting. People of all faiths are. Will they still hate and want to kill the west. No. Why? Dollars.

Our society allows Muslims to practice their faith more openly than theirs does right now. Not the extreme kind, but the peaceful kind that really isn’t allowed there right now. The Muslim world carried the sciences for the 1000 yrs right AD, when we were really oppresses as a western civilization. Now they are shunned by the extremist leaders of a few of the countries in that area, that still have a capitalist system set up to generate money.

It has only been the last while that you are seeing thing like what is going on in Europe with the clamping down on Islam. Why? Extremism and corruption, exactly what the people are protesting. Iran erupted in ’09, this has been building for a long time. Just remember a lot of hard line Islamic extremist have been saying the west is Rome. It’s falling, ect. We have started to rebuilt, that wasn’t part of their plan, the people were told that wasn’t going to happen.

The world is watching now, this has never happened before.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

When I said this has never happened before I was talking about how the Internet and people are communicating. This is why I am so confident in freedom and free enterprise. This is just the second wave of communism falling. China tried the first time. If they succeed this time, there will obviously not be a third.

Revolutions of 1989:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989

The Revolutions of 1989 (also known as the Fall of Communism, the Collapse of Communism, the Revolutions of Eastern Europe and the Autumn of Nations[1]) were the revolutions which overthrew Soviet-style communist states in Eastern-bloc European countries.

The events began in Poland,[2][3] and continued in Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania. One feature common to most of these developments was the extensive use of campaigns of civil resistance demonstrating popular opposition to the continuation of one-party rule and contributing to the pressure for change.[4] Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country to overthrow its Communist regime violently.[5] The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 failed to stimulate major political changes in China. However, powerful images of courageous defiance during that protest helped to spark a precipitation of events in other parts of the globe.

Oh ya there is this.

IRAN: Opposition websites encourage supporters to join hands with activists on International Women's Day, call for fresh protests:
latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/03/iran-women-protests-march-8-green-movement-security-mousavi-karroubi.html

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Just in case anyone was wondering what the Chinese people have in store for the Chinese meetings that are taking place this week.

China: Open letter: non stop jasmine revolution everywhere in China:
www.speroforum.com/a/49691/China---Open-letter-non-stop-jasmine-revolution-everywhere-in-China

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

China needs us more than we need them!!


China sees positive trend in ties with US:
www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/03/06/1902534/china-sees-positive-trend-in-ties.html

China Looks to Lift Imports:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703386704576185912187367574.html

China can't rule out the possibility that it may run a trade deficit for a few months this year, he added

Meanwhile some very encouraging things are going on Stateside.


US plant will commercially produce biofuels from waste:
www.theengineer.co.uk/news/us-plant-will-commercially-produce-biofuels-from-waste/1007369.article

From 2012 a US plant will produce advanced biofuels from waste on a commercial scale with plans to licence the technology worldwide.

Ineos Breaks Ground on First Commercial Biofuel Plant in U.S.:
inhabitat.com/ineos-breaks-ground-on-first-commercial-biofuel-plant-in-u-s/

Military power: Trash to energy, that is:
www.elpasotimes.com/opinion/ci_17552338?source=rss

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Dejavu? China need US more than we need them

Boeing sees China driving Asia aircraft demand:
www.moneycontrol.com/news/world-news/boeing-sees-china-driving-asia-aircraft-demand_528139.html

This one is for the . I'll ginve it another mention!

Boeing Wins China Wide-Body Orders at $10 Billion List Price:
www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-08/boeing-wins-china-wide-body-orders-at-10-billion-list-price.html

Of course..

China promises sweeping economic change:
www.dailyfinance.com/rtn/press/china-promises-sweeping-economic-change/rfid421074286/?channel=pf

Got to luv those war bonds...

Gulf Arab states to discuss regional aid plan-UAE:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/07/gulf-plan-idUSLDE72625W20110307

A trend?

Frugality new way of life?:
www.journalgazette.net/article/20110308/BIZ/303089945/-1/BIZ09

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Things can always get better, as long as smart people want to succeed in this world!!!


Eco-farming can double food output by poor: U.N.:
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=eco-farming-can-double-food-output

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

More health middle class that will need things..

China promises to improve public hospitals:
washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/2011/03/china-vows-push-health-care-reforms

UH OH!!!

Vietnam arrests activist accused of urging strikes:
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cd723880-432d-11e0-aef2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1G9zMm9cn

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

There we go, sooner than some thought I bet..

China trade swings to largest deficit in 7 years:
www.chinapost.com.tw/business/asia-china/2011/03/10/294160/China-trade.htm

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

China taking an active role in the ME..

China hopes IAEA continues objective, impartial position on Iran:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/09/c_13769489.htm

Then into the ME and Iran we find this happening.

Ebadi says Arab-style revolt certain soon in Iran:
af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE72814L20110309

"As to what will spark that fire and when, it is difficult to predict. But I can say with certainty that it won't be long in coming," she said

Women Will Lead to Bring Freedom to Iran and The Middle East:
ncr-iran.org/en/news/women/10047-women-will-lead-to-bring-freedom-to-iran-and-middle-east

Lebanese women defy Hezbollah, demand justice:
arabnews.com/middleeast/article306073.ece

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This is how you know this is about the people. Not the crazies gaining power. I mentioned earlier that Chavez was in trouble...

Human rights group say more Venezuelans turning to hunger strikes as form of protest:
www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hQw4Cz3pTU3p_XoN61sosybYn1yg?docId=6209650

[kman]

hunger strikes. Now that is dedication. The Venezuelan people are wonderful to be around. I think the last time I was in Venezuela was the early 90s...great time...gas was 8 cents a gallon...a beer was 20 cents. The people were amazing. A lady owed me some change from a purchase and I said keep it. She left her stand went through the crowd, to give me the change. Did I mention the topless beaches.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

I think you mentioned the topless beaches. Most people in most places are decent I find. It's these asshole leaders out there that are the problems. Freedom through oppression is the strangest concept that I have ever heard of.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

You got to love when Time magazine publishes an article that backs up what your saying about things.

Can China compete with American manufacturing?:
curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2011/03/10/can-china-compete-with-american-manufacturing/

This is really cool. A recent chain of events that shows the "butterfly effect" of the situation of rising wages in China.

We know that..

Rising China wages hurt firms, help economy - minister:
in.reuters.com/article/2011/03/08/idINIndia-55401520110308

That is making it so that..

U.S. firm to move Operations to lower cost nations:
www.plasticsnews.com/china/english/headlines2.html?id=1299276239

Not only that but this is also happening, which is something that the time article mentions. A revival in the west of manufacturing things like toys.

Rising wages in China send shockwaves through toy industry (Feature):
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/business/features/article_1616084.php/Rising-wages-in-China-send-shockwaves-through-toy-industry-Feature

Plus those jobs that are going to other countries are making it so that..

India set for world-beating double-digit wage increases:
www.bworldonline.com/content.php?title=India%20set%20for%20world-beating%20double-digit%20wage%20increases&id=27820

So lets never forget that..

In China, to get rich is not always glorious:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/10/china-development-environment

...and!

The Great China Jugger-Not:
seekingalpha.com/article/257378-the-great-china-jugger-not

Too many “analysts” project China’s growth in a straight line from the recent past through today into the infinite future. Britain did not grow in such a straight line. Germany did not. The US did not. No nation does. I believe it will happen in China the same way it did in the nations that have already experienced it.

So never forget to ask yourself..

Will China's 'Have-Nots' be the next to rebel?:
www.dailyfinance.com/story/will-chinese-poor-be-next-to-rebel/19871592/

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Some interesting developments.

In China, Activists Watch and Cheer:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704823004576192642010298086.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The Middle Eastern protests soundly rejected the claims that countries with Islamic traditions cannot embrace democracy and that people in developing countries only desire material subsistence." For activists in China, the revolution in the Arab world has rendered obsolete the familiar argument that democracy is unsuited to certain cultures.

The Chinese, especially young people, are no less wired than their Tunisian and Egyptian counterparts, and they are deft at climbing over the "Great Firewall" erected by government censors. Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are banned in China, but activists find ways to use them. More important and popular are domestic social-media services like QQ and Sina.com.......

........The Chinese people have not yet turned Tiananmen Square into Tahrir Square, but China's impersonal one-party rule is not so different from other dictatorial regimes that have collapsed in recent decades under the weight of popular demands for political participation. "The Chinese are materially better off today," said one dissident who lives under soft detention in Beijing, but "this makes them more, not less, determined to express their opinions and to have their say in decision-making." That is why, he explained, "we are experiencing one of the harshest crackdowns in more than a decade.".

The backlash against democracy:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031105795.html

Not least, the Middle East activists made powerful use of the Internet and social networks, which have spread to all regions, albeit unevenly. These technologies were used not just for popular mobilization but also for raising public consciousness. The protests in Tunisia would not have erupted the way they did after street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire if public opinion had not already been inflamed by widespread knowledge of official corruption and abuse.

Autocratic regimes will employ all the means at their disposal to prevent the use of the Internet by their opponents. But they cannot change the underlying reality, which is that there is a sharpening contradiction between closed and repressive states and increasingly networked, informed and awakened populations, which is in itself creating a revolutionary crisis of the political order.

Rome wishes it was the USA. IF Rome were as good as the US, then everyone would have wanted to change and be like the Romans in their own little ways. People would have wanted to help rebuild Rome instead of destroying it all those years ago. The rest of the world wants to be a networked, informed and awakened just like we are, and we are now seeing what that leads to.. To quote the article above.. .increasingly networked, informed and awakened populations are creating a revolutionary crisis of the political order.

Lets not forget... UH OH!!

Trouble in North Korea?:
themoderatevoice.com/103252/trouble-in-north-korea/