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  • Chinas All-Seeing Eye : Rolling Stone

    Shenzhen the crack cocaine of capitalism. "The theory behind the experiment was that the "real" China would keep its socialist soul intact while profiting from the private-sector jobs and industrial development created in Shenzhen. The result was a city of pure commerce,... more

    Reviewed by Reasonablib Jul 15 2008, 11:58pm ( 16 reviews ) • rollingstone.com

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  • Rated by dracoaus on Jul 31 2008, 6:04am

    With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.

  • Rated by Akamaiwahine on Jul 16 2008, 1:30am

    Remember how we've always been told that free markets and free people go hand in hand? That was a lie. It turns out that the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state, fortressed with American "homeland security" technologies, pumped up with "war on terror" rhetoric. And the global corporations currently earning super profits from this social experiment are unlikely to be content if the lucrative new market remains confined to cities such as Shenzhen. Like everything else assembled in China with American parts, Police State 2.0 is ready for export to a neighborhood near you.

  • Rated by Reasonablib on Jul 15 2008, 11:58pm

    Shenzhen the crack cocaine of capitalism. "The theory behind the experiment was that the "real" China would keep its socialist soul intact while profiting from the private-sector jobs and industrial development created in Shenzhen. The result was a city of pure commerce, undiluted by history or rooted culture -- the crack cocaine of capitalism. It was a force so addictive to investors that the Shenzhen experiment quickly expanded," "American commentators like CNN's Jack Cafferty dismiss the Chinese as "the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years." But nobody told the people of Shenzhen, who are busily putting on a 24-hour-a-day show called "America" -- a pirated version of the original, only with flashier design, higher profits and less complaining. This has not happened by accident. China today, epitomized by Shenzhen's transition from mud to megacity in 30 years, represents a new way to organize society. Sometimes called "market Stalinism," it is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarian communism -- central planning, merciless repression, constant surveillance -- harnessed to advance the goals of global capitalism..."

  • Rated by malcolmlklein57 on Jul 15 2008, 6:55pm

    check out the environmental destruction from space in google earth- http://na.unep.net/digital_atlas2/webatlas.php?id=41

  • Rated by g3nt00r on Jun 02 2008, 7:59am

    Interesting.

  • Rated by Mystakaphoros on Jun 02 2008, 6:32am

    From the page: "The crackdown in Tibet has set off a wave of righteous rallies and boycott calls. But it sidesteps the uncomfortable fact that much of China's powerful surveillance state is already being built with U.S. and European technology."

  • Rated by BiosyntheticLife on May 31 2008, 10:11am

    Naomi Klein exposes how China is doing massive social engineering experiments to improve their police state capabilities to maximize profits and to eliminate protest or dissent.