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By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON | Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:50pm EDT (Reuters) - Senate plans to vote next week on legislation to crack down on China's currency practices, despite concerns that could heighten trade tensions and further threaten global economic growth. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he planned to bring up the legislation next week when lawmakers return from a break. "I don't think there is anything more important (as a) jobs measure than China trade. That is what we are going to work on next week," Reid told reporters on Monday, saying the measure had support from both Republicans and Democrats. "I feel very confident that we are going to pass it," Reid said. A key provision of the Senate bill would instruct the Commerce Department to treat undervalued currencies as a subsidy under U.S. trade law, allowing companies to ask for countervailing duties against imports on a case-by-case basis. The Congressional Budget Office estimated a similar measure passed last year by the House of Representatives would collect about $125 million in new tariff revenues over ten years, based on its conclusion that a "small share" of imports from China and other countries would qualify for the relief. Opponents acknowledge Reid probably has the votes to pass the legislation, but hope House Republican leaders will prevent the bill from reaching President Barack Obama's desk by refusing to bring it up for a vote. However, with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney promising to get tough on China currency from his first day in office, "momentum seems to be building with U.S. politicians to send a message to China," one U.S. industry aide said. The Obama administration has so far declined to comment on the bill, which Senators Charles Schumer, Sherrod Brown and other Democrats and Republicans unveiled last week. US TREASURY REPORT The lawmakers argued China's currency is undervalued by as much as 25 percent to 40 percent against the U.S. dollar, giving Chinese companies an unfair price advantage and destroying millions of American jobs. China rejects the criticism and last week a Chinese foreign ministry official urged the United States to "not politicize the renminbi's exchange rate because of U.S. domestic economic problems." Renminbi is the formal name for China's currency, which is also called the yuan. It has risen about 3 percent in value so far this year and 6.7 percent since its peg to the dollar was loosened in June 2010. Still, policymakers are already worried Europe's debt crisis could undermine global growth. A trade war between the United States and China would be more trouble. However, current House Republican leaders have not been anxious to pursue China currency legislation. The Senate will hold a procedural vote on Monday to clear the way for action on the bill. Lawmakers hope to finish the Senate's work on the bill by the end of the week. Meanwhile, the Treasury Department faces an October 15 deadline for its semi-annual report on whether any country is manipulating its currency for an unfair trade advantage. In five previous reports, the Obama administration has urged China to move faster to revalue its currency but has declined to label it a currency manipulator. The Senate bill would require the Treasury Department to identify countries with "fundamentally misaligned" currency, a less incendiary designation. If past behavior is any guide, the Treasury Department likely will delay its upcoming currency report until after the Group of 20 and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meetings in the first two weeks of November. High-level bilateral talks known as the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade are also expected in early November. (Additional reporting by Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Vicki Allen and Jackie Frank) http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/us-usa-china-currency-idUSTRE78Q4Y720110927

Maine has lost 9,545 jobs to China since the Communist nation entered the World Trade Organization (WTO) ten years ago. That's according to a report by the Alliance for American Manufacturing, which figures that China's unfair economic subsidies, currency manipulations and inhumane labor practices have resulted in 2.8 million U.S. jobs either lost or displaced. The report concluded that 1.45 percent of lost jobs in Maine were due to trade with China. Other states in the region fared worse. New Hampshire lost 19,700 jobs, or 2.84 percent of employment and Vermont saw 2.39 percent of jobs slip away. Overall, around 170,000 jobs in New England were eliminated from trading with China; that's greater than the population of Portland, Lewiston and Bangor, Maine's three largest cities, combined! Recently, as we reported on the Exception Magazine, Senator Olympia Snowe and Congressman Mike Michaud both called on President Obama to make sure America's trading partners play by the rules. Michaud has also introduced a bill to give the government more power to fight back against countries like China that keep their currencies artificially low so that their products seem cheaper on the global market. “Now is the time to act on this bill,” said Michaud. “It received bipartisan support when it passed the House last year and it’s beyond me why congressional leaders won’t take it up this year. This is a jobs bill that won’t cost the taxpayers a dime and could substantially reduce a trade deficit that has devastated our economy.” http://exceptionmag.com/vocations/making-it-maine/0002210/china-took-almost-ten-thousand-jobs-maine

Target Stores Won't Fund Veterans Projects-Fiction! Target Stores are Owned by the French-Fiction! Target Stores Won't Allow Collections for the Marine's Toys For Tots Campaigns-Fiction! Target Stores Won't Allow Reservists Called for Active Duty to Maintain Insurance-Fiction! Summary of the eRumor There are different messages urging you to avoid buying anything at Target stores because the company turned down a request for funds for a Vietnam veterans memorial wall, is owned by the French, won't allow collections for Toys For Tots at Christmas, and won't give reservists call for active military duty continued health insurance coverage. The Truth This is quite an assault on Target stores and is becoming an example of how a rumor can mushroom and pick up momentum along the way. It started with a man named **** Forrey. He is listed as being with Howard County Vietnam Veterans in the state of Indiana. He says that he did have the experiences both with the local Target store and the Target corporate offices as is described in one of the stories and did originate an email expressing his displeasure. It is not true, however, that Target categorically refuses to fund Veteran's projects and even Forrey is upset with how large this eRumor has spread. The Target company is sending a written response to people who inquire about the Forrey story that says that Target gives $2 million per week in the communities where stores are located. The Target letter says a veteran (referring to Forrey) approached a local store in March, 2002 for a $100 donation to a "moving wall" project. The response says that any donations by local stores are not in cash but in gift certificates or volunteer time. Cash is given by the corporate office and in response to official requests for grants. The letter says that the veteran who asked for the donation should have been given grant information from the store, but was not. The Target response also says that the company makes donations in three general areas: education, arts and family violence prevention. The company is happy to donate to any veterans causes that would fit within those guidelines. So while it's true that donations would not be given to a veterans project per se, they would be given if the veterans project is within the guidelines. Regarding Target's ownership, the company is on record as a U.S. firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and always has been. There is no foreign ownership in its past or present that we've been able to find or been presented with evidence about. Regarding benefits for reservists on active duty, this has been a big issue since so many reservists were called in for service in the Middle East and the National Committee for Employer Support of the National Guard and Reserve has been a watchdog of companies and how they treat reservists. They list target in the "Outstanding Employer" category which means it has "gone above and beyond the requirements of the law in support of their National Guard and Reserve employees." So how did such a completely false email come into being? It's easy to suspect a conspiracy or organized effort against Target but from our viewpoint this appears to have gotten started with the **** Forrey letter and as others read it and got angry over it, they added other false charges in order to stack the deck. Last updated 1/24/04 A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/t/target-viet.htm http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/target.asp

and you have prof of all this because they(the white hats) don't . sounds a lot like AC. The order was processed by Geithner, using his position as Secretary of the Treasury, and the US Treasury facilities to move 30 Billion Dollars, using new US Dollars printed in England. so we sent are ink and paper to England to print money? :rolleyes:

I have a Question? Why do you think it can’t RV just because they have an auction ,one really has nothing to do with the other, from what I have been told.

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Viet Nam Dong (VND) 1million = 48.58 usd http://coinmill.com/VND_calculator.html#comments 1,000,000 VND = 50 USD http://themoneyconverter.com/VND/EUR.aspx

all the ex-presidents have a secret service detail also

"Martial Law" In House of Representatives Posted by on September 28, 2008 Washington Under the martial law procedure, long-standing House rules that require at least one day between the unveiling of significant legislation and the House floor vote on that legislation — so that Members can learn what they are being asked to vote on — are swept away. Instead, under “martial law,” the Leadership can file legislation with tens or hundreds of pages of fine print and move immediately to debate and votes on it, before Members of Congress, the media, or the public have an opportunity to understand fully what provisions have been altered or inserted into the legislation behind closed doors. This is the procedure that the Leadership intends to use to muscle through important bills in the next two days. http://burgess.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=103976

Rumors about Donald Trump's making a substantial investment - $30 million - in Iraqi Dinar have circulated and re-circulated on the internet for at least five years now. Yet no credible source or documentation of this transaction seems to be available. An internet search turns up numerous mentions of Trump's "Big Buy", but nothing of substance. The most frequently cited "source" is a grammatically-botched piece from something called the Black Hills Today Global Digital News Syndication. Here's a quote from the article that doesn't inspire much confidence: "We now confirm is the Trump Big Buy Into Dinar rumor, and true to his statement It’s time for all of us to diversify our assets and take back the American dream” Donald may well obtain another American Dream of turning 30 million into 30 billion!" So, Did Donald Trump Buy Iraqi Dinar? http://www.iraqidinars.org/resources/did-donald-trump-buy-iraqi-dinar/

now its back to the presidents fault lol whatever

this is the same person(ac) that said repeatedly for three years that the IQD was a scam and that you could not take the paper dinar out of Iraq and yet people still believe what he has to say

below is the only place that i could find any mention of gold over the counter and its only from forex they say strange thing is its date and time From: FOREX.com <info@forex.com> Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM three hours after closing for the weekend Subject: Important Account Notice Re: Metals Trading from truth squad.tv So far we have only received this warning from Forex.com. We are waiting to see which other dealers inform their customers that trading gold and silver over the counter will soon be illegal. It appears that Forex.com’s interpretation of the law stems primarily from Section 742(a) of the Dodd-Frank act which “prohibits any person [which again includes companies]from entering into, or offering to enter into, a transaction in any commodity with a person that is not an eligible contract participant or an eligible commercial entity, on a leveraged or margined basis.” Hedge Funds Review Reports: “There is a lot of stuff buried in Dodd-Frank and in other rules that have come out as a result of the Act that people need to pay attention to. Collectively these things have a lot of extra-­territoriality impact,” warned Gary DeWaal, senior managing director and group general counsel at Newedge. In mid-July, 175 Dodd Frank provisions are scheduled to go into effect automatically unless Congress or the regulators – the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – change the deadline. More provisions are scheduled to go into effect on September 14 while there are around 66 proposed rules, concept releases and interim final rules proposed by the SEC and the CFTC. The Obama Administrations assault on precious metals began with the passage of Obamacare. Section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act amended the Internal Revenue Code to expand the scope of Form 1099. Currently, 1099 forms are used to track and report the miscellaneous income associated with services rendered by independent contractors or self-employed individuals. Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Form 1099s will become a means of reporting to the Internal Revenue Service the purchases of all goods and services by small businesses and self-employed people that exceed $600 during a calendar year. Precious metals such as coins and bullion fall into this category. Not only does the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill now outlaw over the counter precious metals, the IRS is requiring dealers who sell more than $600 in precious metals to the government, giving them a database of potential outlaw gold buyers. Will Gold be completely outlawed like it was during The Great Depression? Another interesting note, when the Dodd-Frank rules were announced in Oct 2010 some astute investment advisers started telling their clients to “short the U.S. dollar.” Some prehistory from Hedge Fund Law Blog: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Act”) has changed a number of laws in all of the securities acts including the Commodity Exchange Act. Two specific changes deal with certain transactions in commodities on the spot market. Specifically, Section 742 of the Act deals with retail commodity transactions. In this section, the text of the Commodity Exchange Act is amended to include new Section 2©(2)(D) (dealing with retail commodity transactions) and new Section 2©(2)(E) (prohibiting trading in spot forex with retail investors unless the trader is subject to regulations by a Federal regulatory agency, i.e. CFTC, SEC, etc.). According to a congressional rulemaking spreadsheet, these are effective 180 days from the date of enactment. We provide an overview of the new sections and have reprinted them in full below. New CEA Section 2©(2)(D) – Concerning Spot Commodities (Metals) The central import of new CEA Section 2©(2)(D) is to broaden the CFTC’s power with respect to retail commodity transactions. Essentially any spot commodities transaction (i.e. spot metals) will be subject to CFTC jurisdiction and rule making authority. There is an exemption for commodities which are actually delivered within 28 days. While the CFTC wanted an exemption in which commodities would need to be delivered within 2 days, various coin collectors were able to lobby congress for a longer delivery period (see here). It is likely we will see the CFTC propose regulations under this new section and we will keep you updated on any regulatory pronouncements with respect to this new section. New CEA Section 2©(2)(E) – Concerning Spot Forex The central import of new CEA Section 2©(2)(E) is to regulate the spot forex markets. While the section requires the CFTC to finalize regulations with respect to spot forex (which were proposed earlier in January), it also, interestingly, provides oversight of the markets to other federal regulatory agencies such as the CFTC. This means that in the future, different market participants may be subject to different regulatory regimes with respect to trading in same underlying instruments. A Wall Street Journal article discusses the impact of this with respect to firms which engage in other activities in addition to retail forex transactions. The CFTC’s proposed rules establish certain compliance parameters for retail forex transactions, requires registration of retail forex managers and requires such managers to pass a new regulatory exam called the Series 34 exam. We do not yet know whether the other regulatory agencies will adopt rules similar to the CFTC or if they will write rules from scratch. Next, from Henderson & Lyman: The prohibition of Section 742(a) does not apply, however, if such a transaction results in actual delivery within 28 days, or creates an enforceable obligation to deliver between a seller and a buyer that have the ability to deliver, and accept delivery of, the commodity in connection with their lines of business. This may be problematic as in most spot metals trading virtually all contracts fail to meet these requirements.As a result, although the courts’ interpretation of Section 742(a) is unknown, Section 742(a) is likely to have a significantly negative impact on the OTC cash precious metals industry. Here too, it is essential that those who offer to be a counterparty to OTC metals transactions seek professional help to discuss possible operational and regulatory contingency plans. The actual rule language exempts a transaction if it “results in actual delivery within 28 days or such other longer period as the Commission may determine by rule or regulation based upon the typical commercial practice in cash or spot markets for the commodity involved;” Alas, the commission has decided not to intervene and keep the exemption status window so small as to affect virtually all exchanges which transact in the gold and silver spot market. More here: Elimination of OTC Forex Effective 90 days from its inception, the Dodd-Frank Act bans most retail OTC forex transactions. Section 742© of the Act states as follows: …A person [which includes companies] shall not offer to, or enter into with, a person that is not an eligible contract participant, any agreement, contract, or transaction in foreign currency except pursuant to a rule or regulation of a Federal regulatory agency allowing the agreement, contract, or transaction under such terms and conditions as the Federal regulatory agency shall prescribe… This provision will not come into effect, however, if the CFTC or another eligible federal body issues guidelines relating to the regulation of foreign currency within 90 days of its enactment. Registrants and the public are currently being encouraged by the CFTC to provide insight into how the Act should be enforced. See CFTC Rulemakings regarding OTC Derivatives located at the following website address, under Section XX – Foreign Currency (Retail Off Exchange). It is essential that OTC forex participants seek professional help to discuss possible operational and regulatory contingency plans. Elimination of OTC Metals As for OTC precious metals such as gold or silver, Section 742(a) of the Act prohibits any person [which again includes companies]from entering into, or offering to enter into, a transaction in any commodity with a person that is not an eligible contract participant or an eligible commercial entity, on a leveraged or margined basis. This provision intends to expand the narrow so called “Zelener fix” in the Farm Bill previously ratified by congress in 2008. The Farm Bill empowered the CFTC to pursue anti-fraud actions involving rolling spot transactions and/or other leveraged forex transactions without the need to prove that they are futures contracts. The Dodd-Frank Act now expands this authority to include virtually all retail cash commodity market products that involve leverage or margin – in other words OTC precious metals. The prohibition of Section 742(a) does not apply, however, if such a transaction results in actual delivery within 28 days, or creates an enforceable obligation to deliver between a seller and a buyer that have the ability to deliver, and accept delivery of, the commodity in connection with their lines of business. This may be problematic as in most spot metals trading virtually all contracts fail to meet these requirements. As a result, although the courts’ interpretation of Section 742(a) is unknown, Section 742(a) is likely to have a significantly negative impact on the OTC cash precious metals industry. Here too, it is essential that those who offer to be a counterparty to OTC metals transactions seek professional help to discuss possible operational and regulatory contingency plans. Small Pool Exemption Eliminated Pursuant to Section 403 of Act, the “privateadviser” exemption, namelySection 203((3) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers Act”), will be eliminated within one year of the Act’s effective date (July 21, 2011). Historically, many unregistered U.S. fund managers had relied on this exemption to avoid registration where they: (1) had fewer than 15 clients in the past 12 months; (2) do not hold themselves out generally to the public as investment advisers; and (3) do not act as investment advisers to a registered investment company or business development company. At present, advisers can treat the unregistered funds that they advise, rather than the investors in those funds, as their clients for purposes of this exemption. A common practice has thus evolved whereby certain advisers manage up to 14 unregistered funds without having to register under the Advisers Act. Accordingly, the removal of this exemption represents a significant shift in the regulatory landscape, as this practice will no longer be allowable in approximately one year. Also an important consideration, the Dodd-Frank Act mandates new federal registration and regulation thresholds based on the amount of assets a manager has under management (“AUM”). Although not yet underway, it is possible that various states may enact legislation designed to create a similar registration framework for managers whose AUM fall beneath the new federal levels. Accredited Investor Qualifications Section 413(a) of the Act alters the financial qualifications of who can be considered an accredited investor, and thus a qualified as eligible participant (“QEP”). Specifically, the revised accredited investor standard includes only the following types of individuals: 1) A natural person whose individual net worth, or joint net worth with spouse, is at least $1,000,000, excluding the value of such investor’s primary residence; 2) A natural person who had individual income in excess of $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with spouse in excess of $300,000 in each of those years and a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year; or 3) A director, executive officer, or general partner of the issuer of the securities being offered or sold, or a director, executive officer, or general partner of a general partner of that issuer. Based on this language, it is important to note that the revised accredited investor standard only applies to new investors and does not cover existing investors. However, additional subscriptions from existing investors are generally treated as requiring confirmation of continuing investor eligibility. On July 27th, 2010, the SEC provided additional clarity regarding the valuation of an individual’s primary residence when calculating net worth. In particular, the SEC has interpreted this provision as follows: Section 413(a) of the Dodd-Frank Act does not define the term “value,” nor does it address the treatment of mortgage and other indebtedness secured by the residence for purposes of the net worth calculation…Pending implementation of the changes to the Commission’s rules required by the Act, the related amount of indebtedness secured by the primary residence up to its fair market value may also be excluded. Indebtedness secured by the residence in excess of the value of the home should be considered a liability and deducted from the investor’s net worth. http://truthsquad.tv/?p=586

Transparency & Accountability for Exotic Instruments: Eliminates loopholes that allow risky and abusive practices to go on unnoticed and unregulated -- including loopholes for over-the-counter derivatives, asset-backed securities, hedge funds, mortgage brokers and payday lenders Bringing Transparency and Accountability to the Derivatives Market Closes Regulatory Gaps: Provides the SEC and CFTC with authority to regulate over-the-counter derivatives so that irresponsible practices and excessive risk-taking can no longer escape regulatory oversight. Central Clearing and Exchange Trading: Requires central clearing and exchange trading for derivatives that can be cleared and provides a role for both regulators and clearing houses to determine which contracts should be cleared. http://banking.senate.gov/public/_files/070110_Dodd_Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_comprehensive_summary_Final.pdf

funny how ak news has nothing on this article that is to have been their source Kurdish news agency (Rn) http://www.aknews.com/en/<br

this was found a couple months ago it seems that on the weekend it does this then goes back to normal

and you being from Canada would know all about sheep ay

Congress > LegislationH.R. 1540:National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2012 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. hmm might need to loosen the tinfoil hat ay http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-1540

you might want to spend a little time reading his voting record and not the bs he says it isn't the same here is a few Senior and Social Security Issues (Back to top) Date Bill Title Vote Outcome 12/08/2010Seniors Protection Act HR 5987NBill Failed - House (254 - 153) 11/19/2009Revising Medicare Physician Fee Schedules and Reinstatement of PAYGO HR 3961NBill Passed - House (243 - 183) 07/15/2008Medicare Bill HR 6331NVeto Override Passed - House (383 - 41) 06/24/2008Medicare Bill HR 6331NBill Passed - House (355 - 59) 05/15/2008G.I. Bill Expansion and Other Domestic Provisions HR 2642NConcurrence Vote Passed - House (256 - 166) 03/13/2008Substitute Amendment for the House Budget Resolution H Amdt 972YAmendment Rejected - House (157 - 263) 03/13/2008Concurrent Budget Resolution H Con Res 312NResolution Passed - House (212 - 207) 02/07/2008Economic Stimulus Plan HR 5140NConcurrence Vote Passed - House (380 - 34) 07/28/2006Pension Reform Bill HR 4NBill Passed - House (279 - 131) Veterans Issues (Back to top) Date Bill Title Vote Outcome 09/24/2008Continuing Appropriations HR 2638NConcurrence Vote Passed - House (370 - 58) 06/19/2008GI Bill, Funding for Midwest Flood Cleanup, Extension of Unemployment Benefits, and Other Provisions HR 2642NConcurrence Vote Passed - House (416 - 12) 05/15/2008G.I. Bill Expansion and Other Domestic Provisions HR 2642NConcurrence Vote Passed - House (256 - 166) 03/13/2008Concurrent Budget Resolution H Con Res 312NResolution Passed - House (212 - 207) 02/07/2008Economic Stimulus Plan HR 5140NConcurrence Vote Passed - House (380 - 34) 01/16/2008Defense Authorizations Bill HR 4986NVBill Passed - House (369 - 46) 12/12/2007National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 HR 1585NVConference Report Adopted - House (370 - 49) 05/10/2006Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act of 2005 HR 4297YConference Report Adopted - House (244 - 185) 12/08/2005Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act of 2005 HR 4297YBill Passed - House (234 - 197) 11/21/2003Department of Veterans Affairs Improvement Act of 2003 S 1156YBill Passed - House (423 - 2) 05/10/2002National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2003 HR 4546NBill Passed - House (359 - 58) 11/08/2001Veterans Affairs and HUD Appropriations Act of 2002 HR 2620NConference Report Adopted - House (401 - 18) 10/14/1999Veterans Affairs and HUD Appropriations bill, FY 2000 HR 2684NConference Report Adopted - House (406 - 18) 09/21/1999Veterans' Millennium Health Care Act HR 2116NVBill Passed - House (369 - 46) 09/09/1999Veterans Affairs and HUD Appropriations bill, FY 2000 HR 2684NBill Passed - House (235 - 187) Women's Issues <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=296#Top">(Back'>http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=296#Top">(Back to top) Date Bill Title Vote Outcome 01/27/2009Employment Discrimination Law Amendments S 181NBill Passed - House (250 - 177) 01/09/2009Employment Discrimination Law Amendments HR 11NBill Passed - House (247 - 171) 01/09/2009Employment Discrimination Law Amendments HR 12NBill Passed - House (256 - 163) 07/31/2008Employment Discrimination Law Amendments HR 1338NBill Passed - House (247 - 178) 12/17/2007Inclusion of Consolidated Appropriations HR 2764NVConcurrence Vote Passed - House (253 - 154) 07/31/2007Equal Pay Bill HR 2831NBill Passed - House (225 - 199) 05/03/2007Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 HR 1592NVBill Passed - House (237 - 180) 05/23/2006Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA Appropriations Act HR 5384NBill Passed - House (378 - 46) http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=296

Shanghai surprise: Piers Morgan Piers Morgan is pomp’s a## but this is something that if WE the people don’t do something about WILL continue and could turn the USA to a third world country in the yrs to come and taken over with out a shot fired Immune to the recent world wide recession, Shanghai is a city on steroids. Piers immerse himself in this city's world of the super rich, where Rolls Royce’s are snapped up in seconds and there are 118,000 millionaires. Look around your house. I bet half your stuff says: Made in China. And most of that would have been shipped from one place - Shanghai. Within 20 years, China will become the world's No1 economic superpower. And when it does, Shanghai will lead the way as the biggest, mightiest, richest city on Earth. I spent ten days there and was stunned by what I found. Forget all the antiquated views you might hold about a communist-run, creativity-devoid bunch of State-controlled androids. The modern China is a vibrant, dynamic monument to capitalism. And nowhere is that more glaringly obvious than in Shanghai, a city housing 118,000 billionaires and multimillionaires who modestly call themselves the 'bao fa hu', or 'explosive rich'. Many are the children of people who led oppressed, characterless lives under Chairman Mao's brutal Cultural Revolution. And they're determined to make up for lost time. I met one extraordinary young tycoon called Charlie (that's his Western name) Zhang, who looked me straight in the eye when I asked how successful he thought he could be, and replied: 'Twice as big as Bill Gates.' Then he paused for dramatic effect, and smirked before adding: 'And there are millions more like me!' Forget the ludicrous bravado for a moment. What impressed me most about Charlie was that his ambition knew no bounds and he was bursting with excitement and energy. The modern Chinese businessman is hungry for success. When Britain ruled the world, it did so in the name of God, Queen and Country. While the Americas have been ruling the world, they've done it in the name of 'democracy and freedom'. When the Chinese rule the world, it will be in the name of a much simpler premise - money. The Chinese don't want to tell you how to run your life, they just want to sell you everything you need to run your life. What's going on right now in places like Shanghai reminds me of Victorian Britain. You have vast swathes of incredibly poor people living side by side with an increasingly large number of incredibly wealthy people, all of them caught up in a gigantic Industrial Revolution propelling China to the summit of the world's power list so fast that it makes you breathless just looking at it. As we took a boat down the Huangpu river that bisects the city, my guide explained to me that the huge Manhattan-style area of skyscrapers on the Pudong side didn't even exist 15 years ago - it was marshland. Shanghai has increased in size six-fold since 1995 and doubled its population to 20million in that period. Many of the new residents are from the countryside, desperate to join the gold rush. But Shanghai doesn't bog itself down in red tape or bureaucracy. They just draw up outlandish plans and get on with it. The positivity is contagious. Recent surveys showed that 83 per cent of Chinese believe tomorrow will be a better day than today. And the difference between here and somewhere like Dubai is that this optimism is based on real economic growth and stability. An annual GDP increase of at least eight per cent over the past few years - with many experts convinced that is a gross understatement - tells its own story in a time when recession has left the rest of the world, including America and Britain, with little or no growth at all. And with that money has come a rampant desire for all the trappings of Western success. Shanghai's high streets are full of Gucci, Prada, Armani - and Barbie shops. And in the latter, it's the classic blonde Western-looking dolls that command 80 per cent of sales, compared with just 20 per cent for Chinese dolls. Young Chinese girls are extraordinarily liberated. They wear the latest designer clothes and lashings of make-up, share trendy flats, date numerous men and hit the nightclubs hard. They can also walk the streets in perfect safety at any time of day or night. My fiancée Celia said she'd never felt so unthreatened in any modern city, whether it was midday or midnight. Attacks on women are almost non-existent. And the most popular cosmetic operation among young Shanghai ladies? Changing the shape of the eyes to become more Western. I spent a fascinating morning at a plastic-surgery clinic, talking to several teenagers who were spending £700 (around three months' wages) on the op. One girl called Yujan told me she wanted to 'look more beautiful, like Victoria Beckham', and believed she would 'get a better job if my eyes look more round'.The general lifestyle in Shanghai is superb. Food in China has been the butt of many a British joke, but the reality is that it's varied, exotic and extremely tasty. I choked on a few bird feet, and avoided the donkey phallus delicacy, but I never got even the semblance of an upset stomach while I was there, despite some nights eating in tiny back-street restaurants. We might laugh, as I did loudly, at their tendency to mix their Chateau Petrus with Coca-Cola to sweeten the taste in one of their many high-class restaurants, but they giggle at us when we put milk in our tea.I liked the Chinese sense of humor, too. They laughed at a lot more of my jokes than the Americans ever do, displaying a keen understanding of irony and sarcasm, or plain old British-style Mickey-taking. On a slight downside, they don't 'do' personal space, turning a walk down a busy street or a trip on an underground train into a heaving, bustling, physical ordeal, not helped by their insistence on spitting on the hour, every hour. But they don't chew gum, so you don't spend your days raking Wrigley's spearmint off your shoes. The young rich here adore Western symbols of success. I enjoyed a most amusing trip to the local Rolls-Royce showroom, which had no cars in it at all. Every one had been sold, the last one going that very morning. And they're not cheap - a Roller here will cost you £ 700,000, double the UK price. Drive round town for a few hours and you'll see Porsches, Ferraris and Lamborghinis everywhere, usually driven by young guys in Armani shades and Diesel jeans, and sporting very big grins. My tycoon, Charlie, explained why he bought his Cadillac. 'I saw it in the movie Matrix and thought, "I'm having one of those."' Just as well he hadn't been to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The burning need to be No1 spurs everyone on here. When the Shanghainese saw enormous hotels sprouting up in places like Dubai and Korea, they scoffed and simply built a bigger one. The Park Hyatt, at 93 storey’s high, is the tallest hotel in the world, and went up in two years. If you fancy the real high life, then book the Chairman's Suite, which will set you back £8,000 a night but offers you a butler, private pool, kitchen, steam room and just about every other capitalist luxury you could wish for. However, bask too long in the astonishingly bright glare of Shanghai's flash, glitzy economic boom and it's easy to forget that it's all been engineered by a totalitarian regime that believes in glorified slave labor to bring goods to the greedy world, and every time we buy something 'Made in China' we are complicit in that process. In Shanghai, working conditions seemed pretty good. But stray into any of the outlying country areas and you'll see giant factories staffed by thousands of people on criminally low pay, working criminally long hours and living in appalling conditions. The rewards are obvious. There are cities in China that I'd never heard of which have extraordinary monopolies in global household markets - for example, making 85 per cent of the world's duvets or 90 per cent of the world's buttons. They don't just want to be successful, they want to be No1. In the bad old days, if you wanted to film a documentary like mine in China, you'd have a bureaucratic nightmare, with endless form-filling and a coterie of beady-eyed government officials following your every move. I had none of that, a fact I tested by shouting 'What's happening in Tibet is an outrage!' at the top of my voice in a shopping centre - to deafening apathy. You can still get in big trouble for organizing controversial political or religious rallies or - as we saw recently - if you try bringing kilos of heroin through their airports. But I was struck by how outspoken many Chinese people I met were in conversation. The internet has caused the communist leaders perpetual sleepless nights. These days nothing, as we've seen in Iran, can stop the people reaching the truth through the click of a button on a computer or phone. They've tried to control it, employing-30,000 people to regulate and censor the net. And how these killjoys try, by banning access to social networking sites like Face book and Twitter. But the kids are always one step ahead, using foreign proxies to get the sites anyway. The youngsters I spoke to laughed when I asked if they were worried about being caught. 'They wouldn't know how to catch us!' was the general response. But progress has come at a price. All over the old part of Shanghai, you'll see big red crosses daubed in paint on the walls of houses. These mean the government wants to reclaim that property for the State, and redevelop it. The unsuspecting inhabitant is then ordered to move to a new apartment, often miles away. There's no petition, right of appeal, or campaign by the local newspaper. This is still Communist China, pal, and you're out. I stumbled upon one 50-year-old man who had received this housing death sentence, and was moving his worldly goods out in a van. 'Are you sad?' I asked, through an interpreter. 'Very sad. I've lived here all my life,' he said, tears welling in his eyes. 'Do you feel angry with the government for doing this to you?' His eyes dried up instantly, his back stiffened, and he said firmly: 'I am happy to make this sacrifice, like all Shanghainese, to make way for the new building.' He seemed to genuinely mean it - and it is a philosophy shared by most of the poorer locals I met, who all appeared thrilled by what was happening to their city and their country. I can just imagine the response from most British homeowners if Gordon Brown tried this little stunt on them! Many UK companies are now active in Shanghai, led, unsurprisingly, by Tesco - which has 28 branches in the city already and is expanding fast. The one I visited sees 14,000 customers stream through every day and looked pretty similar to its British counterpart, with the exception of the live-eel tank and the lengthy rows of frankly quite disturbing aphrodisiacs. Chinese men will try anything to promote their virility and, trust me, Viagra is the least of their tools. What's changed dramatically in China is how much greater the domestic consumer market has become. It's now the second largest spender on luxury goods in the world, which seems incredible for a country where only a few decades ago everyone wore identical Chairman Mao uniforms. I'm told that Nike now has 3,000 stores in China, a sure sign of where the future lies for Western businesses. Far more remarkable than even that statistic was my discovery of a secret factory on the outskirts of Shanghai making London black cabs. It seems that this quintessential symbol of Britain is a hot property in the Far East, where the young rich like nothing better than whizzing around in them. Those cabs, like everything else made in Shanghai and much of the rest of China, are shipped out through the world's largest port. It was the most mind-blowing of many mind-blowing things I saw in the city - mile upon mile of cargo containers, giant ship after giant ship floating in and out all day and night. I interviewed a beautiful young Chinese woman called Sabrina Chao, who was educated at Charterhouse public school in Surrey and, at 36, now runs the 30-strong £400million fleet of vessels owned by Wah Kwong Shipping. She exemplified the Red girl-power dominating many aspects of modern Chinese business --liberated, Westernized, but fiercely proud of her country and determined to make it the greatest on the planet. 'We want to be the most successful nation in the world,' she said, simply. Such overwhelming industrialization comes at an environmental cost, of course. Air pollution kills 400,000 people a year in China and in Shanghai, despite two-thirds of all the journeys still being made on bicycles, cars are choking the city and smog fills the sky most days. But give the new Chinese rulers a problem like this and they will fix it fast. A decade ago, there was barely any metro system in the city. Now it carries three million people a day, and by 2020 it will be twice the size of London's Underground, which is currently the world's largest. By the end of my stay in Shanghai, I was exhausted by the sheer scale of what I'd seen. It is a staggering city, yet I didn't feel overly threatened by this apparently terrifying rise of Chinese power. Nowhere did I get the sense that they want to invade the world and instill their communist ideals on everyone. They just want to sell us everything and make a fortune doing it.And that, folks, is called capitalism! Travel Facts Kuoni (01306 747008, www.kuoni.co.uk) offers five nights in Shanghai on a bed and breakfast basis from £812 including return flights with Virgin Atlantic from Heathrow with private transfers. 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