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The Wealth of Nations
Memo to the Obama administration, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is the no. 2 best selling imported business and investing title on Amazon.CN, according to the China Daily.
Xiamen
We took a hotel car out north of Xiamen today to the next district to visit a potential manufacturer. On the way to and fro we passed miles and miles of subsistence living, without amenities, comfort, or even glassed in windows to keep out the winter cold. Farm plots in this area are small and intensely cultivated with many hand tied bamboo support structures. The land appears rich and the people incredibly industrious, and everyone seems happy despite an absence of opulence and wealth. I didn’t shoot any pictures of the poor blocks and dwellings today. With so many working so hard to scratch out a living with only labor and very little capital, it didn’t seem fair to expose them to too much scrutiny. Maybe some day in the future.
The pics below are in the city, quite a different scene there.
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On the waterway between Gulang Yu and the city of Xiamen you can see lots of tour boats. Naturally you would expect some of them might offer dinner cruises since many look about the right size for that sort of thing. So we asked the concierge at the hotel if he could recommend a dinner cruise. This became a discussion among 4 or 5 concierge staff and us trying to explain what a dinner cruise was to them. The up shot of it was that if we wanted dinner on a boat, they recommended we should “take dinner” with us.
Gulang Yu, Xiamen, China 7-5-11
Gulang Yu 7-4-11
Shenzhen scenes, 7-3-11
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another Saturday night
One Document, Under Seige
This Time Magazine article is a frontal assault on the legitimacy and gravity of the Constitution in a news opinion article titled to alarm people over our Constitution “Under Siege.” Time Magazine is perpetrating a “Siege” on the Constitution while warning about it at the same time. This is a classic propaganda construct. [Read more…]
and another
Why Race Matters by Arnold Ahlert
Posted By Arnold Ahlert On June 16, 2011 @ 12:20 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage
On Memorial Day weekend, there were riots in Charlotte, Rochester, Nashville, Miami, Myrtle Beach and Boston. Last Friday, fighting broke out at Brighton Beach in New York City, where five people were shot and a young girl was killed. Flash mobs have been attacking people in Chicago on the streets and on public buses. The common thread? All of the mobs were black youths — and there’s been a concerted effort by the media to ignore that reality. [Read more…]
South Park
giant petrified wood stump
Pikes Peak from the North
once upon a time in the West
and another
and another
another sunset
travel
climbing out of Liberia
Looking off to the north while climbing out of Liberia. Nicaragua to the right.
Sunday soccer
Sunday is for soccer in all the villages in Costa Rica.