Swapmeet Louie
Put some metal in yer eye....
dictator ship, great... so they went from bad to worse... Makes me want to endorse them even less...
The next Super power...
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Swapmeet Louie
Put some metal in yer eye....
I really wish people would stop spitting hairs with words and titles... Fucked up is fucked up!
Swapmeet Louie
Put some metal in yer eye....
If your on a 20" budget! ha!
As for being the next superpower, they are probably already there, in Africa they are the new colonialists, owning huge amounts of mining and exploration rights, along with forestry, chemicals and agriculture.
The blame does not only lie with us consumers, our leaders allow goods into our countries that are made without the environmental, health and safety, and workers rights we take for granted. If manufactures in Europe and the US have to abide by a multitude of legislation, environmental and employment guidelines, surely those wishing to sell to Europe and the US should have to meet the same criteria, otherwise the only way we can compete is if we scrap all of the safety measures and employment rights we have built up over the last hundred years, we should make others aim high and not sink to their level.
The fact is money talks, so any human rights and environmental concerns are pushed away, only small insignificant countries are given sanctions, the big boys can rape and pillage all they want as long as the cash keeps flowing. China is a monster, a communist state in name only, a true definition would be a totalitarian capitalist state, there have already been many riots as villagers are forcibly removed, without compensation, to make way for new factories, what would Mao or Karl Marx think of it all?
It seems everything's back to front at the moment, a communist state with massive capitalist expansion in the east, and in the west the banks and motor manufactures being baled out by the state (nationalisation/socialism?) if we truly believed in capitalism, would we not have left the incompetent banks and motor companies to die their natural death.
The blame does not only lie with us consumers, our leaders allow goods into our countries that are made without the environmental, health and safety, and workers rights we take for granted. If manufactures in Europe and the US have to abide by a multitude of legislation, environmental and employment guidelines, surely those wishing to sell to Europe and the US should have to meet the same criteria, otherwise the only way we can compete is if we scrap all of the safety measures and employment rights we have built up over the last hundred years, we should make others aim high and not sink to their level.
The fact is money talks, so any human rights and environmental concerns are pushed away, only small insignificant countries are given sanctions, the big boys can rape and pillage all they want as long as the cash keeps flowing. China is a monster, a communist state in name only, a true definition would be a totalitarian capitalist state, there have already been many riots as villagers are forcibly removed, without compensation, to make way for new factories, what would Mao or Karl Marx think of it all?
It seems everything's back to front at the moment, a communist state with massive capitalist expansion in the east, and in the west the banks and motor manufactures being baled out by the state (nationalisation/socialism?) if we truly believed in capitalism, would we not have left the incompetent banks and motor companies to die their natural death.
Re: Re: The next Super power...
It's no coincidence that the US opened it's first base in Australia recently and Japan changed it's story about wanting our military to leave. History does indeed repeat itself and China is following a path we've seen several times before. In the next 30 or so years China will attack a political rival and within the next 50 they will go for the title of THE world superpower.
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Frog said:
It's no coincidence that the US opened it's first base in Australia recently and Japan changed it's story about wanting our military to leave. History does indeed repeat itself and China is following a path we've seen several times before. In the next 30 or so years China will attack a political rival and within the next 50 they will go for the title of THE world superpower.
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think 50 years may be optimistic, 10 is more like it, the US and Europe are in Debt to China, China is also buying into infrastructure in Europe and around the world, such as water, energy and transport, as companies desperate for cash sell their souls and countries future for a few pieces of silver. They are quite happy to make deals with other corrupt states that the west has sanctions against, such as Zimbabwe, and tensions in the far east are high, especially regarding territorial disputes with Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam.
We have the potential to stop it, consumers could shun cheap foreign goods, our leaders could turn away from the belief that global capitalism and growing consumer consumption is the only course, of course they won't, because thinking long term and being selfless is no longer in our nature, greed is good, tomorrow never comes and self sufficiency, national pride and looking after your own are outmoded concepts.
We have the potential to stop it, consumers could shun cheap foreign goods, our leaders could turn away from the belief that global capitalism and growing consumer consumption is the only course, of course they won't, because thinking long term and being selfless is no longer in our nature, greed is good, tomorrow never comes and self sufficiency, national pride and looking after your own are outmoded concepts.
