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To: TobagoJack who wrote (76293)	7/12/2011 11:33:57 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219648

Canada let's in the most useless people and instead of welcoming this guy with open arms is ready to send him back to China. The Chinese are an under appreciated part of Canada, they built the railways, the highways, hotels, restaurants and laundries. Bring in the Chinese by the millions if possible. In my opinion what Canada needs is Chinese. China's most wanted fugitive released from Canadian custody By Andy Ivens, Postmedia News July 12, 2011 10:02 PM Chinese fugitive Lai Changxing, shown here in Burnaby in 2001, could be deported at the end of the month after Chinese government officials assured Canadian authorities Changxing would not be tortured or executed on his return.Photograph by: Jon Murray, PNGVANCOUVER — China's most wanted fugitive, Lai Changxing, was ordered released from custody on Tuesday pending his next court appearance July 21 in Federal Court. Immigration and Refugee Board member Leeann King decided Lai, who came to Canada in 1999 and claimed refugee status, was not a flight risk. Lai was arrested by Canadian Border Services Agency officers on Thursday after receiving a negative decision in his application for a stay of his removal, a decision that was four years in the making. His lawyers are fighting for him to stay in Canada arguing that assurances the Canadian government extracted from China that Lai will not be tortured or arbitrarily executed if he is found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars are not adequate. Canada has no extradition treaty with China. If the judge rules against him on July 21, he will likely be deported on July 25. If the judge grants the stay, he will likely remain in legal limbo, although free in Canada, indefinitely. Conditions of his release include Lai posting a surety of $70,000, providing CBSA officials with his phone records and reporting to an officer every Thursday. King also ordered him not have any contact with two men and one woman she described as members of the Big Circle Boys criminal group or their associates — Huang Xiao Yan, Ting Yan Wah (a.k.a. Henry Ting) and Tam Kwok Chung. Kevin Boothroyd, the Immigration Ministry lawyer who argued for Lai's continued detention pending the outcome of his case, told King that Lai had been in contact with the accused criminals, a breach of conditions from his earlier release. But King said Boothroyd provided no evidence to show that Lai knew the men were Big Circle Boys. Lai, who lives in downtown Vancouver, was allowed to continue contact with his girlfriend Lin Ping Ping. King ruled there is no evidence that Lin is involved in criminal activity. A mortgage on Lin's Richmond, B.C., property was paid off by Ting's wife. Lai stands accused of running a $10-billion smuggling operation in which Chinese customs officials were bribed with liquor and prostitutes at Lai's seven-storey pleasure palace in China. His lawyer David Matas said 15 people have been convicted and sentenced to death in the case, and that at least eight of them have been executed. Lai's brother and accountant have died in prison under suspicious circumstances, said Matas. theprovince.com

To: TobagoJack who wrote (76293)	7/13/2011 1:48:09 AM
From: studdog	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219648

TJ ----gold helps the righteous---- Like most everyone here, I have been struggling to decide what to do with my hard earned do-re-mi. There aren't many strategies I can be confident in right now,but one strategy I can believe in is the elimination of personal debt. I feel so good about this strategy that I have been wracking my brain to come up with the logical extension of this concept once zero debt has been achieved. So I ask myself, if I am completely out of debt, which I am, what can I do to go further down that road? if debt is to be shunned, what is the next step once you are debt free? At first I think maybe the natural next step is to be a lender but I come to my senses and realize that being a lender is still playing in the debt sandbox and that sandbox is full of catshit. I think and think and think and then I remember " Getgold". it comes to me that "mineralizing wealth" is the next step in debt repudiation. It is the road to travel once Debt Free City has been reached. Nine years ago I just had a feeling gold was a good investment. I couldn't really articulate why, just that most everything else looked sketchy and your arguments on SI were pretty compelling. So, I gotgold. I stopped accumulating a while ago because with the appreciation, I had what i thought was a reasonable allocation. However, now that I have come to appreciate ""Getgold" from my own logical perpective, I believe I will "Getmore". Studdog

To: TobagoJack who wrote (76293)	7/13/2011 3:25:28 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219648

These people are not getting gold while the going is good. <Qualcomm Licenses Chips to Over 50 Mainland Handset Vendors IT-Times, 7/11/11 In a recent interview, secretary-general Wang Yanhui of the China Mobile Phone Alliance said that Qualcomm had signed patent licensing agreements with more than 50 mainland handset companies at fees of approximately USD 5 mln per company, clearly indicating that these companies have decided to begin making smartphone handsets. Wang also revealed that Qualcomm has set up an R&D team of roughly 1,000 people in Shanghai. According to Wang, a number of Chinese handset makers spent the first half of 2010 establishing smartphone R&D teams, on average numbering between 30 and 40 engineers per company. > Feel The Force of Phragmented Photons. OFDM rulz ok. They are surging into Cyberspace, where real men are going adventuring while Girly Men play politics, which is largely for ladies these days, and scaredy Luddite men stay home on the farm, growing sugar cane, corn and pigs, and whimpering atavistic Aztecs dig for gold, fearfully fondle it, then hide it, or make hats, and baubles. Back in Shanghai, my grandfather's home base at 1 The Bund, I have returned, providing gainful employment and magical miracles of mobile Cyberspace. Following me will be grandson Sebastian Chan, whose other grandfather fled Mao's maelstrom, swimming for freedom to NZ which took him in [he swam to Hong Kong then caught more modern transport which China didn't provide at the time. He didn't swim all the way to NZ]. Sebastian's great great great grandfather Winn was born and died in London, with his 4 orphaned children sent to NZ with an aunt to have a go at surviving there. Which they did not all do, though 3 did. I wonder where all 32 great great great grandparents were from [assuming 32 and there was no overlap]. 23andme or Complete Genomics will be able to say. GNOM - worth more than gold which is worth less. The surging tides of history flow on. Mqurice