Maybe capitalism and Liberal Democracy don't go hand in hand after all. And why should they? Capitalism is just an economic system. As the CEO of ADM, Dwayne Andreas, tells us, there are no free markets when it comes to big business, therefore, no capitalism. Only a socialist state for corporations. He also says democracy exists only in the speeches of politicians. Fascist governments regulate industries. In the U.S., industries regulate government. China regulates American industries without owning them. So does extreme left finally meet extreme right in China in a new hybrid economic-political system? > [Original Message] > From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 4/19/2006 6:26:07 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Yahoo! Nails Another Writer > > Yahoo accused of helping jail China Internet writer > > > BEIJING (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. may have helped > Chinese police to identify an Internet writer who > was subsequently jailed for four years for > subversion in the third such case, an advocacy > group for journalists said on Wednesday. > > News implicating Yahoo in the imprisonment of > Jiang Lijun in 2003 surfaced on the eve of a > summit between Chinese President Hu Jintao and > President Bush in Washington. > > It was the third such case involving the U.S. > Internet giant. > > Yahoo was accused of providing electronic records > to Chinese authorities that led to an eight-year > prison term for Li Zhi for subversion in 2003 and > of helping to identify Shi Tao, who was accused of > leaking state secrets abroad and jailed last year > for 10 years. > > The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said it > had obtained a copy of the verdict showing that > Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) helped Chinese police > to identify Jiang by confirming that the e-mail > account ZYMZd2002 had been used jointly by Jiang > and another pro-democracy activist Li Yibing. > > "Little by little we are piecing together the > evidence for what we have long suspected, that > Yahoo! is implicated in the arrest of most of the > people that we have been defending," the group said. > > http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=200 6-04-19T153749Z_01_PEK23834_RTRUKOC_0_US-RIGHTS-CHINA-INTERNET.xml&rpc=22 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html