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Originally posted by Bobaganoosh
Exaggerated or not, Americans who love to talk crap about the Chinese need to take a hint here. We have guns, and still, no protests. We have the freedom to do so, for now, and still no people taking to the streets in disapproval. The entire world is in upheaval, the USA has an alleged 24,262,768 unemployed to amass one hell of a "people's army", and still nothing. I guess we will just wait till everything is pointless to even react.
Originally posted by Bobaganoosh
Exaggerated or not, Americans who love to talk crap about the Chinese need to take a hint here. We have guns, and still, no protests. We have the freedom to do so, for now, and still no people taking to the streets in disapproval. The entire world is in upheaval, the USA has an alleged 24,262,768 unemployed to amass one hell of a "people's army", and still nothing. I guess we will just wait till everything is pointless to even react.
Originally posted by jude11
I believe the reason is that if you take a look at the nations that are fighting back against the machine, it has come to a point where the people have nothing left to lose.
Nothing will happen in America until it reaches that point. When the Luxury Cars, IPODs, Game systems, American Idol disappears, you will see people get angry.
When you see store shelves getting thin, $10 Big Macs, $10/Gal Gas, Universities and Hospitals shutting down, the people will get angry.
When it has finally dawned on people that Martial Law is a state of being and not just jackboots in the streets...People will stand up.
Until then, nothing will happen. But I believe that day is fast approaching.
The number of unemployed persons (13.9 million) and the unemployment rate (9.1
percent) were essentially unchanged in May. The labor force, at 153.7 million, was
little changed over the month.
Originally posted by buni11687
Heres the size of Inner Mongolia -
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Originally posted by fooks
reply to post by Ben81
it's migrant workers, not the general populous.
they get horrible treatment and are discriminated against.
the workers are rural people and are not very savy about city life.
like i said, that creates some real friction.
Originally posted by jude11
This why I fear to live anywhere that only the Govt, Army and Police have guns.
The protests and riots began last week when police told two migrant workers to stop selling goods in the street, and then proceeded to knock down one of the migrants who was pregnant. Video of the incident went viral and soon everyone was outraged. China has blocked Google searches for the word "Zengcheng". It has installed similar blocks on the country's most popular microblogs, including Sina and Tencent.Text
There is currently a bug on the google.com.hk homepage. When users based in China click the “Google.com in English” link at the bottom of the page they are redirected back to the google.com.hk domain. This bug is accidental, and it should be fixed within a few days.