Glen L.

China Continues to Funnel U.S. Dollars into Commodity Investments

For investment purposes, I can think of nothing better than following the Chinese example: get out of the US dollar for now, and invest in commodities and the currencies/equities of commodity-rich nations. In fact, that's basically what investors such as Jim Rogers and Peter Schiff have been saying for years.

As far as China's politics and suppression of human rights... yes, they have a dismal past record to live down and atone for eventually, but they're moving now in the opposite direction we are in the U.S., which is not mere coincidence; more economic freedom always leads to more personal freedom. But personal freedom should not be confused with democracy, which is all too often just dictatorship by majority.

The standard U.S. view of the massacre at Tainamen Square, with the students as innocents mercilessly mowed down by the godless commies, is fundamentally flawed. Go to antiwar.com and search for Justin Raimondo's classic piece on this incident - it may open your eyes. While there is of course no excuse for the massacre, the students were Maoists and hardly the blameless babes the American media portrayed them as. The continuing hostility to China, which poses no military threat to us, owes much to the Tianamen propaganda we've all been subjected to.

Let's insist on regaining our freedom here in America before setting out to remake the rest of the world. We are on the verge of a complete socio-fascist takeover here, and almost no one seems to care.