Me hice disidente

Disidencia es la mas alta forma de lucha, usando como únicas armas la razon, la inteligencia y la palabra. El último hilo de voz en un sistema asfixiado que no deja espacio para el discurso y el criterio propio.

Me hicieron disidente cuando me quisieron cambiar el nombre, cuando llenaron mi casa de muebles viejos y sucios, recojidos en un basural vecino. Me hicieron disidente cuando sirvieron en mi mesa una racion de conformismo como único alivio a mi hambre de futuro.

Me hice disidente porque la otra alternativa pesaba tanto como un costal de papas, valia tanto como un kilo de arroz, pero costaba toda una conciencia.

Soy disidente porque crecí con ideales propios, con héroes que yo mismo escogí y con discursos que pude comprender porque aún tenian sentido.

Seré disidente mientras pueda decidir serlo. Que creer o en quién creer siempre estará basado en mis propios juicios, sin manipulaciones, sin sobornos de pan seco, cocteles de gasolina y franelas teñidas sangre.

Se hace disidente el que no renuncia a su dignidad, el que todavia puede verse al espejo sin sentir verguenza, aquel al que la palabra ignorancia todavia le ofende.

Se hace disidente el valiente con su pluma, el agresivo con su pincel, el que se alza con la voz fuerte para decir "ya basta" a aquel cobarde que lo amenaza con plomo, hambre y miseria mental.

Soy disidente porque es la única libertad que me queda.

R-Evolución

Sr Dictador, a usted nadie lo invitó

Señores dictadores, a ustedes nadie los invitó a esta fiesta, encontraron un chance, se tumbaron la tarjeta de invitación y se colearon.

Borrachos de paltó prestado que se metieron a codazos en la fila, le cojieron el gusto a los pasapalos caros y a los brindis con burbujas y con la jeta hinchada se montaron en la tarima, con micrófono en mano y con la poca verguenza que le queda al ébrio imprudente interrumpieron a la orquesta para declarar "esta fiesta es mia".

El Problema es que la gente que si fué invitada a la fiesta no sabe y no quiere saber como lidiar con semejante gentuza.

El Problema es que tomamos, bailamos, comimos, gozamos y nos acostumbramos a ser simplemente invitados, pero nunca anfitriones.

Y ahora nos jodimos, porque el coleao de paltó prestado se esta cojiendo a la novia a la fuerza y aparentemente no hay quien lo detenga.

13 Chinese cities giving hybrid vehicles subsidies

In an unprecedented turn, 13 cities have become ‘test cities’ for the introduction of subsidies for hybrid vehicle purchases. Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Changchun, Dalian, Hangzhou, Jinan, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Hefei, Changsha, Kunming and Nanchang have signed up for the test, which will see the various city governments offer subsidies not only to private hybrid buyers, but also government buyers, which will include sedans for government use, but will also see subsidies available for hybrid public buses, and hybrid taxis etc.

The subsidies will be given once to the buyer, and it will be also available for LPG/CNG/ vehicles, pure electric vehicles, as well as hybrids. The subsidy will be based on the vehicle price, as well as the technology employed, this might actually lead to a ladder system where possibly CNG/LPG vehicles receive the smallest subsidy, and pure electric vehicles receive a larger amount. The exact subsidy amounts have yet to be announced.

The Chinese hybrid market still remains extremely small when compared to Western markets, less than a 1000 hybrids cars were sold in 2008.

Source: China Car Times

China's labor unrest worse than suspected

Independent researchers have published findings about China's labor unrest, saying that it is much more widespread than it ever has been before, and that the state is cracking down on independent union organizers who seek to ameliorate the dismal wages and working conditions, with torture and intimidation:
[A] growing number of economists say the unrest proves that it is not the exchange rate but years of sweatshop wages and income inequality in China that have distorted global competition and stifled domestic demand. The influential Far Eastern Economic Review headlined its latest issue “The coming crack-up of the China Model”.
Yasheng Huang, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said corruption and a deeply flawed model of economic reform had led to a collapse in personal income growth and a wealth gap that could leave China looking like a Latin American economy.

Richard Duncan, a partner at Blackhorse Asset Management in Singapore, has argued that the only way to create consumers is to raise wages to a legal minimum of $5 (£3.50) a day across Asia – a “trickle up” theory.

The instability may peak when millions of migrant workers flood back from celebrating the Chinese new year to find they no longer have jobs. That spells political trouble and there are already signs that the government’s $585 billion stimulus package will not be enough to achieve its goal of 8% growth this year...

A legal advocate for migrant workers, Xiao Qingshan, told a tale of violent intimidation by the state in collusion with unscrupulous businessmen.

On January 9, Xiao said, 14 security officers from the local labour bureau broke into his office, confiscated 600 legal case files, 160 law books, his computer, his photocopier, his television set and 100,000 yuan in cash.

“That evening I was ambushed near the office by five strangers who forced a black bag over my head and then threw me into a shallow polluted canal,” he said. His landlord has since given him notice to quit his rented home.

Xiao said he was defying bribery and threats to speak to the foreign media because he wants international businesses to know what is really happening in “the workshop of the world”.

POSTED BY CORY DOCTOROW, FEBRUARY 2, 2009 1:03 AM