I came home last night from playing about the worst game of duplicate bridge EVER. I'd like to think it was that I was wheezing when I got there and had to inhale albuteron to stop hacking, so my brain was in overdrive. But when your brain is in overdrive you're supposed to play better not worse. And I definitely played worse.
So then I sat down to watch the news. The usual crises were being featured, Syria, Egypt, Japan's nuclear disaster. But then there was a piece on China's latest way to treat millions of people like cattle. The Chinese government wants to move millions of people off the farms and into cities. Never mind that they don't want to come. Never mind that all those millions of people are feeding the country, or at least themselves. Never mind that a small city in China is over a million people, and that they already have huge ghost cities that have been built and are standing empty - because no one wants to go, and can't afford to anyway. The Chinese government wants to urbanize China, and if the government wants it to happen, it will happen. It's dreadfully amazing. Want to hear more about it? Here's a link to a You Tube piece about China's Ghost Cities from Australia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InqAzvX6UrI. )
I am always amazed at the uncaring, dehumanization of it's citizenry by the modern Chinese government . This is just another example of it. Why don't all those millions of people just rise up and say No! Hell No! We Wont Go! Shaking my head, I went to bed.
(As a supplementary piece, I am going to post Larry's article: Eminent Domain in China - more on the less than civilized way China runs it's real estate world - on our joint post... Larry and Patrice Stevens ... if you'd care to read it.)
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