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I am back. I just thought that I should check in. I did not want do more on the Chinese, but shit just keeps happening. I was reading an article by Marcus Gee in the Globe and Mail on Friday. He echoed what I said about the Orwellian nature of the comment coming out of China. He did add that the government has found it easy to foment nationalism at its worst. They have been able to use China's history to bring back that "us vs. them" feeling. It draws up the worst of the Opium Wars and Japanese invasion in their eyes, that any dissent cannot be tolerated and assimilated.

That is why they are so "insane" about the Dalai Lama and the Western media. Pity a poor, sensitive nation of 1.8 Billion bitter souls. Grow the fuck up!

In any event, a point was made that history shows that you cannot hold a nation together by oppressing minorities and ruling with an iron fist. It did not work in the Yugoslavia, Rome, or the Soviet Union. Once it is shown that the emporer has no clothes on, and it always occurs, the shit just falls apart. This will be no different.

On a side I never thought I would see, protestors in London and France have doused the Olympic torch, further embarrassing the Chinese government (and in their eyes, by extension the people of China-though, how they equate the government with the people, like they have a choice, is beyond me). It is funny, though.

Well that is all for me today. Ciao!