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Microcap & Penny Stocks : GTCI - get in before the news hits -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Francois Goelo who wrote (701)	2/17/1999 10:47:00 PM
From: ztect	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1541

Not Long or Short....Just Information so "investors" can answer my questions... Some more excerpts that mute your enthusiasm...or make GTCI's purported exclusivity......make you ask exclusive of what? "...no one knows the true size of Internet use in China...... because many users share accounts...." "...14,000 Internet service providers, of which 3,550 were based in Beijing..." "...China Internet, known as C.I.C., is only one of dozens of companies throughout the country that are racing to put China on line....." "...Internet executives here say the Government is still drawn to the idea of creating a vast intranet within the country. Such a network could tap the Web's riches but remain walled off from features deemed subversive -- like pornographic sites, postings from dissidents or anything about Taiwan or Tibet...." "...extensive female illiteracy, rural poverty and an increased incidence of domestic violence..." "...'I simply cannot believe the total bullshit propaganda on this Web site," the hacker wrote. "China's people have no rights at all, never mind human rights. I really can't believe our government deals with them. They censor, murder, torture, maim, and do everything we [thought] left the earth with the middle ages.'..." "...Chinese authorities routinely block access to the sites of scores of foreign and Hong Kong-based human rights groups, as well as those advocating Tibetan autonomy, Taiwan independence, or representing political dissidents. China's cybercops use a firewall to filter out sites that criticize Chinese policies or that document human rights abuses by the Communist government...." "...Beijing sees cyberspace as opening vast new opportunities, it also casts a wary eye on what could pose a threat to its power. China routinely blocks Internet sites of major news organizations and has teams of "cyberpolice" who scour the Net for subversive and pornographic material...." "...Internet users in Beijing cough up 34.8 percent of their monthly salaries on high fees..." "...Dai drifted back to Chongqing, where he now earns between $35 and $45 a month (a healthy wage...)..." "...The rural population of 900 million still labors mostly by hand. In long hours on the road, I saw no farm machinery and only an occasional water buffalo roaming a paddy. And the urban minority of 400 million travels mostly by bike. Yet the streets and highways are clogged with taxis and automobiles that enterprises confer upon the privileged ''few'' ....rear-seat riders are the beneficiaries of huge foreign investments and generous or larcenous sell-offs of national assets. They and their educated employees form a new class whose living standards are centuries beyond those of China's still half-literate peasantry...." "...scams typify the fleece-the-foreigner mentality rampant among middle-ranking Chinese officials. Far worse, however, is the way the same provincial deadbeats-largely beyond the control of the central government shovel resources into state-owned white elephants (and bribes into their own pockets) while doing their best to drag down China's homegrown entrepreneurs...." "...The core of this rotten system must be seen to be believed..." "...Zhu must also deal with China's self-policing one-party state, which is now rotten to the core. In November, for example, the country's two leading anti-corruption prosecutors were sacked for what else? -- corruption. Twenty years after Deng's coup, the socialist market has become a CHinese variant of crony capitalism. That's cause for alarm, not reason to celebrate."