Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (74442)	8/6/2019 2:23:29 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Never wrote it is fixed. It is in the right direction. A country is a complex entity that deals with people and their interests. The today's TJ is puerile. He used to have a sharp brain up to late 40s. Then he deteriorated. It can be a result of illness and medication but he is not what he used to be. Can happen to anyone HK is an anomaly. Anomalies such as these, do not last long. HK is a convenient anomaly for mainland The people who have the money in HK wants HK to continue, well, to be HK. HK matters to TJ but in the whole scheme of things HK does not matter. As I wrote before, HK one country 2 systems has been a show case to attract Taiwan back to the fold peacefully. The present events have thrown this out forever. but there is more: China wanted RMb to become word currency. They can forget it now. And this is the biggest blow that trade war inflected into China.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (74442)	8/6/2019 2:33:22 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

We call our western system a resulting mix Christian Judaic, Greek, Roman See, religion plays a big role on how our western culture was formed. I am not passing a judgement. Not saying it is good nor bad. I am just saying it is. The Chinese because they dumped religion, they lack a component in the formation of their culture (their powers that be aimed for purity) that appears when we look to how the 'Chineseness' (for lack of better word) is. That 'Chinesess' is strange for us westerners because they were not forged the way we were. See? pure culture is bad. Mix of culture is good. I, for one, wouldn't like to Chinese for a millisecond. And please do not construe this as an personal offense They have their culture I have mine. So it will be But to pretend, as TJ does, that there will be an end of everything and a superpower will raise to dominate all tells a lot about the Chinese mentality. And it is puerile

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (74442)	8/6/2019 3:35:19 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

It's certainly a sad story how China fell under the control of the current warmongering Stalinist thugs running the place. The Pooh Xi gang will never agree to give up theft as a cornerstone of their economy for a mere trade deal. People who have thought otherwise were hopefully misinformed. There was some hope China would develop of a more free and western society when former Deng Xiopeng became the leader of China and re-mooring the grim socialist foundation of China with new slogans like: "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and a more blunt "To get rich is glorious!" By opening to the global market, Deng made China the fastest growing economy in he world, albeit from a very low base. But hardliners took control of China's leadership following the Tiananmen Square massacre. Following the massacre, Deng's deputy Bo Yibo fought hard to keep Deng's economic liberalization but not his move to increased individual freedom personal. During this post Tianamen period China fell into post-Soviet Russia style gangsterism with government officials taking a percentage of most deals. The People's Liberation Army found they could use the talents of their smartest officers working as hackers online, first with credit card and bank transfer crime, and finally focusing on stealing intellectual property and selling it to Chinese companies. Inoffensive toads like Jiang Zemin became nominal leaders during this period, leaving everyone in government unmolested in their own crime schemes. Others in China's leadership openly called Jiang "a flower pot", something decorative but largely useless. Social hardliners increasing took control, institutionalizing IP theft and rolling back private ownership. Bo's son Bo Xilai and his second wife, Gu Kailai, were typical of the new corruption during the gangster period while he was Mayor of Dalian, then Governor of Liaoning and finally Commerce Secretary of China. Gu Kailai was later sentenced to death for poisoning her British political-fixer / bribe collecter Neil Heywood. Bo Xilai was sentenced to life in prison for corruption - corruption of the sort which could send virtually all of China's leaders to prison, including those who prosecuted him. Whether you were one of those prosecuted depended exclusively upon your allegiance to the new militaristic, warmongering, gangster-hardliners, who Jay Chen collectively calls China's Deep State. This Stalin-style purge is a typical frightener in totalitarian societies to command complete loyalty and obedience. Business is now evolving along the lines of Putin's socialist theory of CEO's that "Those who sit on the egg deserve to be rewarded, just so long as they never come to believe it's their egg." In former East Germany KGB Lt. Colonel Vladimir Putin burned files as the Berlin Wall fell and left for Russia with little more than a new washing machine and his wife in his plastic automobile. China's leaders, like Putin, blame their own failures and past humiliations on the 'nebulous' West, which is enshrined as their justification to continue basing their economy on theft, imperialism and the abuse of their own people. The most abusive and unjust leaders are always people who perceive themselves as victims who now get to dish out 'payback' to every innocent they happen upon.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (74442)	8/6/2019 3:37:29 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

China's latest preposterous lie is they have almost all of the world's gallium production. It's another sad example of how the warmongering lunatics in China have convinced themselves they have the world economy under their control by offering to sell metals below the price of competitors by operating environmentally catastrophic mining and smelting operations. By itself gallium is a messy toy, and used as an alloy in thermometers to replace mercury. But Gallium Arsenide chips were created for the US military in 1973, because electrons run five times faster than through silicon. The first consumer use was in 1978 to create MOFSET chips for air conditioners. Although gallium is cheap at $90 a pound and readily available, gallium arsenide chips, although much cheaper than in 1973 are still more costly than silicon to produce. There are no gallium mines in the world. All gallium is produced as a byproduct of smelting aluminum, zinc or copper.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (74442)	8/21/2019 7:15:08 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

The two Chinese who kow tow Jackie Chan, Mulan star get flak for comments Aug 18, 2019, 5:00 am SGT Several actors have come under fire online for their remarks regarding the Hong Kong protests, including Jackie Chan and Liu Yifei. Chan, well known for his action movies, is an outspoken member of China's top political advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In an interview with the state-owned CGTN, Chan said recent events in Hong Kong have made people "sad and depressed". "Hong Kong is my birthplace and my home, China is my country; I love my country and my home. "I really hope Hong Kong can return to peace soon," he said. In response to the interview, pro-democracy Twitter account Hong Kong World City wrote: "Hong Kong hates you." Twitter user JP wrote: "When we tell you we're from Hong Kong, please never ask us about Jackie Chan ever again." Meanwhile, Chinese-American actress Liu made a comment supporting Hong Kong police as clashes between protesters and the police continue in the city. Liu, who will star as the titular heroine in Disney's live-action remake of Mulan, posted her comment last Sharing a post from the state-run People's Daily, which had an image with the words "I support Hong Kong's police, you can beat me up now", the China-born Liu added the hashtag "IAlsoSupportTheHongKongPolice". As of last night, the post had attracted 111,000 "likes" and 78,000 shares. Many outside China slammed the posts, with some calling for the public to boycott the Mulan film. Twitter user Cheuk Ting Ho wrote that she was disappointed to see the actress who will play the character "not empathise with the protesters in Hong Kong". "They are fighting for their homeland like Mulan," she said in her post, which included the hashtag "BoycottMulan". Twitter, along with other social media sites like Facebook and Instagram, is banned in the mainland.