Saturday, November 5, 2005Securities Act of 1933Makes for an interesting read and answers a lot of questions I had previously. There's a pretty good securities law primer here. posted @ 04:51 AM PST [link] Friday, November 4, 2005Calistoga, Carmel and ChinaLast weekend, Wendy and I went off to Calistoga to relax. While the hot springs were nothing like Tabacon, Costa Rica they were relaxing nonetheless. We did the whole mud bath, jacuzzi, body wrap, facial treatment thing and then had pretty good BBQ for dinner (Buster's BBQ- yum yum). This weekend we're probably going off to Carmel since some of the hotels there allow dogs in the rooms. We're dogsitting for one of Wendy's old high school friend who just moved up to the Bay Area and figure this'll be a great way for us to travel w/our pets. Definitely need some more R&R, I feel really tired for some reason. Not sleeping all that well lately. (I started the below as just in other news, but evidently I felt pretty strongly about it and it's turned into a rant-- caveat emptor) In other news, I was reading Forbes online and was appalled at the way that the Chinese government is handling their business ventures via torture, extortion and strong-arm tactics. http://www.forbes.com/business/free_forbes/2005/1114/142.html It saddens me that the Chinese government treats "Chinese-Americans" and "Chinese-nationals" with such tactics, whereas few, if any, Caucasian Americans have been detained and extorted. This type of racial profiling exemplifies a government gone bad. Ironically, the communist government of China was supposed to bring about equality and fairness as compared to the monarchies of the past. Communism in its simplest form was supposed to be about socio-economics, about sharing wealth and power among all people. Somehow its real-world implementation has fallen entirely flat on its proverbial face. Instead of spreading wealth and equality, Communist China has become a government that is even more oppressive than the imperialists before them. In fact, communist systems in the real world appear to do the opposite of their socio-economic theory. In both the USSR and China, real-world communist systems appear to create government bodies with absolute powers to censor, detain, torture, and imprison used with impunity on the very people these systems were supposed to protect. In the case of China, government officials now starve their own people of information, religion, and wealth while basking in the opulence that their power affords them. What's even more upsetting is that other countries are propping up the Chinese government by trading with it. Driven by greed and global expansion, companies ignore their role in propping and bartering with a government that oppresses its own people. Businesses are well aware that the Chinese workers they employ are often working in inhumane conditions, for exploitative wages-- but they don't care because profits are up. Has China forgotten that their citizens brought about regime change in the fight for workers rights, for the common man, for freedom of the very conditions they are subject to today? To the people of China I beg you to wake up from this nightmare. Rise, stand up, throw off your oppressive shackles! When you have finally risen and see the aftermath, I hope that you ask for retribution. Retribution from the government that has stifled your very breaths, and retribution from companies that have exploited you, taken your youth, your freedom and supported your oppression. posted @ 07:36 AM PST [link] |
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