Normally I would have probably written a little something on penal politics in honor of Sean Bell. However, my mundane expression could do little if any more given the inordinate post I have read on this since the verdict was passed down. But It is like what did one expect? This is America, this is not a democracy- what did you expect (this is why studying history is important, for it tells us we should have expected such)?Instead, I am reminded of the time when I used to play games, all kinds of games from four square, to any sport, to kickball and checkers and chess. But there was one game I could never get, and the strange thing was that seemed like me and all my friends had it - Chinese Checkers. Now I may be sating myself but it came with every game of checkers ever sold.
To connect the dots, I keep hearing that the Cold War is over. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. I do know that they, Russia, formerly the USSR does not exits anymore. But if you asked me - which no one has, I would like to suggest that the cold war is alive and kicking.
Just like Dusty Rhodes versus Ric Flair, the U.S. and China have been locking horns and doing battle like it was for a championship belt. And it seems as if China is winning, or at least has the upper hand. Starting with the yuan and the way they have pegged the currency to how they assist in creating higher gas prices based on us being one of the biggest exporters of refined oil to them; and don’t even mention how they crushed our steel industry back in the day. But I won’t get into that for its enough new info on the latter for food for thought.
Now aside for the “knock this off my shoulder shit”, like picking on them for Tibet and Dafur, or them picking on us because of Iraq, there is some major stuff going on that I never see and barely read in the news - I guess that’s a function of having a zillion debates and candidates saying the same thing over and over and such being considered news.
First it was their disagreement with the U.S. Steel energy report that suggested China had supported its steel industry with energy subsidies of 27.1 billion U.S. dollars from 2000-07. Thus why it was a big issue in the Penn primaries, given non of the democratic hopefully could thoroughly address the issue.
Yep China is winning. Not only do they make bird flu, and scare the shit out of US and make toys and baby cribs that can be considered as booby traps that harm and mutilate, even kill our children, now they are hitting us with tainted drugs. According to the USFDA, there may be at least 81 deaths across the country that may be related to contaminated blood thinner made in China. The FDA has been engaged in a bitter battle with the Chinese government over this. The agency publicized that the active ingredient in Heparin sold by Baxter Pharmaceutical was contaminated at Chinese manufacturing facilities, with a dietary supplement made from animal cartilage called chondroitin sulfate. Heparin is a polysaccharide that is found in the human body with the greatest concentration in tissues around the liver. It is used to prevent blood clots from forming.
I tell you, the cold war is not over, I mean, just because the name of the enemy is changed, don’t mean jack to me. So Like in Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, we may need to learn how to fight the Chinese at their own game, maybe not with learning how to play video games as in the aforementioned book, but maybe by learning Chinese checkers, so get the kids ready folk.
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