"I believe in freedom for everyone not just the Black man." ---Bob Marley

Why China's Currency issue is Different...Wm Kai Stephanos

China is different because most countries don't rely on the consistent use of forced labor , nearly forced labor and child labor to build up their currency. The Yuan is still not a "hard" currency, and that is only true because of the devaluation the CCP places on it artificially in order to support favorable trading profits coupled with incredibly low wages and terrible environmental policies. This is how/why China has made most of its foreign money in the last 20 years. That and its ever increasing real estate bubble. And, everyone knows it!

"spiritual revolution" Quote by The Dalai Lama

My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution, nor for a way of life that is otherworldly - still less to something magical or mysterious. It is a call for a radical reorientation away from our habitual preoccupation with self, a call to turn toward the wider community of beings with whom we are connected, and for conduct which recognizes others’ interests alongside our own.

Gatē gatē pāragatē pārasamgatē bōdhi svāhā

Gatē gatē pāragatē pārasamgatē bōdhi svāhā
गते गते पारगते पारसंगते बोधि स्वाहा།
ག༌ཏེ༌ག༌ཏེ༌པཱ༌ར༌ག༌ཏེ༌པཱ༌ར༌སཾ༌ག༌­ཏེ༌བོ༌དྷི༌སྭཱ༌ཧཱ།
Gone,gone,gone beyond,completely gone beyond,Enlightenment hail!
All hail! Gone, gone, gone beyond altogether beyond, Awakening, fulfilled!

China's Rustbelt Rage!

Poignant studies of the U.S. rustbelt reveal comparable outrage among individuals who have been cast aside as state-corporate programs close plants and destroy families and communities.

An acute sense of betrayal comes readily to people who believed they had fulfilled their duty to society in a moral compact with business and government, only to discover they had been only instruments of profit and power.

Striking similarities exist in China, the world's second largest economy, investigated by UCLA scholar Ching Kwan Lee.

Lee has compared working-class outrage and desperation in the discarded industrial sectors of the U.S. and in what she calls China's rustbelt—the state socialist industrial center in the Northeast, now abandoned for state capitalist development of the southeast sunbelt.

In both regions Lee found massive labor protests, but different in character. In the rustbelt, workers express the same sense of betrayal as their U.S. counterparts—in their case, the betrayal of the Maoist principles of solidarity and dedication to development of the society that they thought had been a moral compact, only to discover that whatever it was, it is now bitter fraud.

Around the country, scores of millions of workers dropped from work units "are plagued by a profound sense of insecurity," arousing "rage and desperation," Lee writes.