Kudos to Capitalist Communist China for accomplishing what we should have accomplished decades ago. You are witnessing our transfer of wealth overseas effected by our outsourcing, importing, and our brand of capitalism that rewards the manipulation of capital that benefits a few without any interest in most Americans.
As we borrow money from China to fight wars that blow things up, China uses their American windfall to invest in their infrastructure. As our infrastructure crumble, the Right wants to offer tax cuts to the wealthy. Interesting enough infrastructure investment with forgoing tax cuts to the rich would be much more economically multiplicative and provide a blast of employment.
That Americans continue to support enough of those that allow the maintenance of the policies that will institute our demise as a first world nation leaves most of us clear thinking citizens alarmed. For those who love this country and have not been indoctrinated by the Right, it is our civic duty to educate the masses. It is our civic duty to provide resistance at every turn to the oligarchs and plutocrats that are destroying our country. It is our civic duty to pester our politicians and make them uncomfortable with the sellout of the country. It is our civic duty to expose the causal lies and misinformation by tweeting, blogging, participating in talk radio, preparing chain emails, and engaging our low information brethren.
Absent our activism we lose the country. Absent our engagement, we leave a vacuum for the Right to fill with false narratives.
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China Unveils World’s Fastest High Speed Train (VIDEO)
BEIJING — A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour (486 kilometers per hour) Friday during a test run of a yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai, state media said.
The Xinhua News Agency said it was the fastest speed recorded by an unmodified conventional commercial train. Other types of trains in other countries have traveled faster.
A specially modified French TGV train reached 357.2 mph (574.8 kph) during a 2007 test, while a Japanese magnetically levitated train sped to 361 mph (581 kph) in 2003.
State television footage showed the sleek white train whipping past green farm fields in eastern China. It reached the top speed on a segment of the 824-mile (1,318-kilometer) -long line between Zaozhuang city in Shandong province and Bengbu city in Anhui province, Xinhua said.
The line is due to open in 2012 and will halve the current travel time between the capital Beijing and Shanghai to five hours.
The project costs $32.5 billion and is part of a massive government effort to link many of China’s cities by high-speed rail and reduce overcrowding on heavily used lines.
