Mob beats Chinese steel factory executive to death

Thousands of workers had gathered in northeastern rust belt city of Tonghua to protest the takeover of their company and threatened layoffs.
July 27, 2009

Chinese state media confirmed Monday that a steel factory executive was beaten to death after thousands of workers gathered to protest the takeover of their company.

Chen Guojun, an executive at Jianlong Steel Holding Co., died Friday after an angry mob in the northeastern rust belt city of Tonghua beat him and then blocked ambulances from reaching him, according to the China Daily.

The protesters worked at the state-owned Tonghua Iron and Steel Group, which was going to be sold to Chen's privately owned Jianlong Steel. Chen sparked the riot by announcing 30,000 workers would be laid off, the newspaper said.

They dispersed later only after they were assured by authorities the sale would not go through.

-- David Pierson

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-mob27-2009jul27,0,3235364.story

That's so true Richard, especially a white police officer who feels he is an expert in racial profiling!

Well, the only good thing that comes of stuff like this is that we learn the bits and pieces of the constitution that are outdated and need to be changed. We need to change the "Natural Born Citizen" requirement but most of us haven't thought about that requirement since fifth grade. I still don't understand really. So is John McCain considered a natural born citizen? If President Obama were born in Kenya and his mom was a citizen, would he be a citizen but not a natural born citizen? If you are in the military do you retain your natural citizenship but if you are a born in another country to one American parent then you are just a citizen or are you not even a citizen then?

So if his mother was American, Barack would be an American no matter where the mother was.

If an American give births in France, her child is not an American?

I'm convinced that these birthers are racists.

They just can't come-to-grips that a brown guy can be a real American, let alone be president.

I love the completely controlled, respectful tone Thom uses with the nutyanks. The "birther" thought he really had Thom by saying that if we don't check on President Obama's birth certificate we could lose other rights -- First amendment, yada yada... It was like a kid the very first time he learns to turn his parents' own arguments against him to defend something crazy... and doesn't do it very skillfully. That was hilarious.

I wonder who came up with this one? Who was the first person to get this crazy idea?

Here's an example of subtle racism from the news at the top of the hour: "The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court."

No, they've approved her to be an Associate Justice occupying the 4th seat on the Supreme Court. Her job title will not be "first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice".

That s what the Republicans do. The deflect their own infirmaries by accusing the other side of exactly what their own shortcomings are. Class Rove. Mc Cain was born outside the USA, so therefore, they deflected that by accusing Obama of the same.

The Hartford arrest case drives me crazy, once again.

While many white people will acknowledge a problem with racism in arrests, they will NEVER EVER acknowledge it in a specific case.

Even if there is proof-positive video of white cops beating the crap out of unarmed black guy, they will say "but you don't know what he might have whispered to the cop" or some other ridiculousness.

Maybe there was no reason to discuss the FACT that State of Hawaii IS a farging State and his mother was an American citizen.

McInsane was born to American citizens on property leased to the United Stated of America.

Both of these corporatist pukes were citizens who have sold out to corporate entities . . .

Food Fascist,

And in city's, individual neighborhoods could become ecovilllages. People are starting by planting up the parking strips with vegetables, mapping fruit trees that have fruit that goes to waste. Our individual houses, with our individual everything that we could be sharing more, is part of the problem, I guess. Every neighborhood could have a tool library. We have one or two tool libraries for all of Portland but we could have one house in each neighborhood for all of the shared belongings, the free boxes, the big huge garden that everyone works in. That would be more fun, too. A community garden every two or three blocks.

States' Projected Budget Gap: $166 Billion. AIG Bailout to Cover Gambling Debts: $180 Billion. Portion that Went to Foreign Banks: $40 Billion.

Arianna Huffington writes:

America's states are facing a projected cumulative budget gap of $166 billion for fiscal 2010. Even more budget gaps are expected for fiscal 2011. Total shortfalls through 2011 are estimated at $350 billion to $370 billion -- and could be even higher if unemployment continues to rise.

These are massive numbers. But when you remember that we spent $180 billion to bail out AIG ($12.9 billion of which went straight to Goldman), you realize that that alone would be more than enough to close the 2010 budget gap in every state in the union.

What Huffington fails to mention is that $40 billion of the AIG bailout money went to foreign banks. That is more than enough to cover the budget gap of California and several other states.

Both AIG and the foreign banks (and Goldman) were paid so they could recoup their bad gambling debts - bets on credit default swaps, which add nothing to the stability of the economy but actually destabilize the economy, and which help prematurely drive companies into bankruptcy.

So - literally - the federal government covered bad gambling debts and is letting the states go bankrupt.

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/