----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Liberman" Subject: OT: The world is over
> Hi! > > I went today to one of the local shops to buy me a pair of trousers. > Apparently the shelves were almost empty. So, I asked salesperson, when > do you expect a new shipment? We don't was the answer. The Olympics in > China are the reason. > > I chuckled and went out of the shop... I did a quick survey a while back, and concluded that it is now virtually impossible to live without Chinese manufactured goods, as there are, in many instances, no options to buy non Chinese manufactured products. What this means to me is that it is very difficult to not buy products manufactured in what I consider to be a human rights nightmare. I prefer to support economies that are not built on slave labour, I would rather not support regimes that use an iron fist to squash freedom of speech and association or legitimate protest against the governing power. What this also means is that China now has the economic clout to pretty much shut down any country that crosses it by protesting the way it mistreats it's citizens (the onging abuses in Tibet as an example) by cutting off trade to that country. Don't chuckle too much... William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
