http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3219548376600109729 20 years since the Tiananmen Massacre, and China is a different world. Far more permissive financially, and – if possible – even more repressive technologically. This is a documentary worth watching, both to commemorate those struck down by the army, and to understand how insidious the success of New China is. (The complicity of […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_re_as/china_miners_escape_4;_ylt=AiJTvc0BralpnnihlxWvKF4E1vAI Two Chinese miners clawed their way out of a cave-in with the help of a cell phone light, coal snacks, and copious amounts of Urine-Ade. One wonders, though, if the happiness one’s wife felt was tempered somewhat by his statements to the press: Despairing, Meng Xianyou said: “I told my brother, your wife is […]