Tibet

I was just reading that the Premier of China WenJiabo is accusing the Dalai Lama of "provoking violence to promote Tibetan independence."

The Dalai Lama has said that he will resign if the violence continues.

That the Dalai Lama should be accused of provoking violence is absurd. The Dalai Lama has been in training and extensive meditation since age 4 focusing on compassion and non violence.

China invaded and tookover control of Tibet in 1959. China is reputed to smother music, art, religion (and googling certain subjects) unless state approved. Thus the Dalai Lama's recent statement that "cultural genocide is occurring"'. China is currently arresting hundreds of Tibetans for supposed suspicion of involvement in the recent riots. Is it true? Difficult to judge, since China is also not allowing any reporters into Tibet.

So, let's see where we stand with China. For the last twenty years, China has been underselling all other nations in producing products. And doing it exceeding well-have you ever tried to get something made in China out of the box? Either Chinese people enjoy the unwrapping as much as the actual present, or they are overkilling us with finer details that most other countries would smirk at.

Well, brace yourselves, those of us that have picked cheaper, made better, made in China products for the last ten years. Now China has a corner on the market, prices are going to go up, and not necessarily because of the crashing dollar.

Speaking of the crashing dollar, why does Bush seem so happy lately? Well, oil is up to 110 a barrel. Wouldn't that make an oil man happy?

One side note on that oil price. Mostly American oil companies are the ones that have the ability to put in the oil wells and pipelines. When oil companies lease oil rights, or buy from another country, they pay about 12 cents on the dollar in royalties.

That means Exxon-Mobil pays about 14 dollars a barrel for that 110 oil.