Category Archives: China

Morning Awful: Russia’s “Last Chance” in Syria

Share the post “Morning Awful: Russia’s “Last Chance” in Syria”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Russia was one of the two UN Security Council members responsible for greenlighting the Assad regime’s crackdown on dissidents. Now Russia is reportedly losing patience with the ongoing massacres, as … Continue reading

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Walking In Deserted Wonderland

Share the post “Walking In Deserted Wonderland”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail China’s Potemkin economic growth has produced vast, empty apartment buildings, malls, neighborhoods, factories, and other developments. A theme park advertised as the Disney of the Far East was never finished, and now faces … Continue reading

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Sixty Four Kids In A Van

Share the post “Sixty Four Kids In A Van”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailAt least their van isn’t down by the river. Ah, the growing pains of modernization. This kinda puts those photos of tied-up toddlers in perspective, doesn’t it?

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Picking Winners And Losers

Share the post “Picking Winners And Losers”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail If I had an exciting, revolutionary new product that was going to change the world, help resolve critical problems, for which demand will only grow in the future, and that I wanted to … Continue reading

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Wages Of Denial

Share the post “Wages Of Denial”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe Economist reports: Between 1998 and 2010 there was a correlation of over 90% between changes in oil and wine prices. This encouraged the two economists to build an economic model to explain swings in … Continue reading

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CNN Reports What Glenn Beck Decides To Ignore

Share the post “CNN Reports What Glenn Beck Decides To Ignore”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIf Glenn Beck wanted to find some actual, real, non-imaginary communist tyranny, he’d need look no farther than his boss’s best friends. The Chinese communist party has activated its massive … Continue reading

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Chinese UFO Is Just A Rocket

Share the post “Chinese UFO Is Just A Rocket”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailDuring launch, a rocket produces a cone as it passes through the point of maximum dynamic pressure. The atmosphere bleeding off the shock cone is visible in this photo of a shuttle … Continue reading

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How to make $1000 a week with no experience.

Share the post “How to make $1000 a week with no experience.”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail 1. Be white. 2. Go to China. 3. Get hired as a “quality control” expert. 4. Profit!!!! Companies in China will hire Americans to pretend to be business … Continue reading

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GoDaddy Joins Google

Share the post “GoDaddy Joins Google”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The internet is leaving China one company at a time as government efforts to erect a Great Wall of Technology repel investors. First Google, now Danica Patrick: In December, China began to enforce a … Continue reading

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Globalizing Football

Share the post “Globalizing Football”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailRemember what I said a while back about the NFL’s (really rather clever) efforts to bring the game to China? The National Football League has tried and failed to build international audiences, but now they’ve set … Continue reading

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Morning Video

Share the post “Morning Video”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailHu Jintao reviews the troops. China has replaced Maoist ideology with nationalism…and utterly impractical whitewall track wheels on its tanks.

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