Pub Philosopher expresses his thoughts about how his blog is banned in China.  They mirror mine. In fact, that’s why I moved to WordPress, to try and circumvent the censors.  No luck, I pinged China via the GreatChineseFirewell.com, and I’m still blocked.  But I love WordPress a gazillion times more than my old site, so I’m staying here.  Anyway, here’s what he says.  Imagine hearing devious chuckling as you read the first paragraph paragraph– for that’s what I’m doing everytime I realize the Chinese government censored me!

“This site was banned a couple of years ago when the Chinese authorities blocked most blogs but now that they have loosened the controls, it’s heartening to know that my ramblings are still pissing someone off in Beijing’s corridors of power. Stuff like this, this and this might have had something to do with it.

Still, there is no room for complacency and as I now have a position to uphold, I should make a few things clear.

The Chinese government is a fascist dictatorship that brutally controls and exploits one fifth of the world’s population.  It presents not only an economic threat to the rest of the world but also a military and political one. China’s support for African dictators is just one indication of these imperialist aims. Anyone who is concerned about torture, the suppression of free-speech, industrial servitude, genocide, land-grabs and the rule of armed bully-boys, anywhere in the world, should be an opponent of the Chinese regime.

Unfortunately, most of the great and the good in the West do not see the threat and are quite happy to do deals with China, deliver only token rebukes to its rulers and give the regime legitimacy by awarding it the Olympic Games. Seventy-two years after Hitler’s Olympics, the games will once again be a showcase for a rising totalitarian power.”

Yup, there’s a lot going on with Russia these days.  Only I haven’t been blogging it because I am practically already writing a book about it.  To properly blog it, it’d be quite a long blog, or a series of blogs about Russia, and Russia’s connections with China, and why the two of them are/going to be a HUGE problem, and the United States needs to get this whole ’star wars’ thing resolved before bad, bad things go down.  Quite a simplistic summary of my rather long-winded and complex thoughts on Russia, and the Russian-Chinese alliance, but trust me, the more intellectual bits shall be revealed all in good time.

Until then, I’ll enlighten everyone as to one thing: I don’t always agree with John McCain, but at least he gets it when it comes to Russia and China.

So, y’know…

Kudos to you, Senator.