Kevon B

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:27:32 +0700

In this most difficult of economic times, where the world economy seeing its worst nightmares come true. We must learn certain basic life principle that can go along the way that will help one in having a peaceful and fulfilling life even the economic situation gets worsen and worsen. It is just a normal tendency for each one if us to think something for future especially when it comes to financial issue. A lot of people probably didn't see the stock market crash coming. It is really easy for people to get caught up in what is called groupthink, and it would easily apply to those heavily involved in the stock market. Investment no longer seems like the sound and proper planning it once was, and getting cash advance loans seem to be a better idea than talking to a broker to buy stock. The way it seems to work on Wall Street seems to be that when things look good, everyone's happy and does everything they can to make things stay that way but once they inexorably change, the stock market and all its agents and otherwise begin to panic.

idasein

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:27:57 +0700

Glad to see the gay crackdown getting some print. It's hard to pinpoint exactly, because these places are getting raided ostensibly for other reasons... drugs, noise, overcrowding, but the fact that all the big gay clubs in Beijing and Shanghai (Destination, Deep, Pinkhome, and even the brandnew MSeven) have been raided over the past few months indicates a pattern. The biggest loss was Deep, arguably the best club in Shanghai, gay or straight, which was closed because of drugs on Halloween. And who knows, maybe cracking down on drugs is the real reason for all the closures, since gay clubs almost always have a higher concentration of drugs than straight places. The Chinese government probably doesn't get too worked up about Columbian powder going from Nigerian pockets to Russian nostrils in the Bar Rouge toilets, but in Deep and other gay venues, it's Chinese heads that are shaking. Drug and gay subcultures are both very strong, and clubs mean large groups. Being gay is legal in China, and the government is pleased if it means less kids, but organized subcultures (like the Dalai clique) are not their friend. I was in MSeven on Saturday, the new big gay club which only opened a week ago. At 2pm, 10 cops in riot gear barged in and shut the place down. I imagine it will be open again next week, but it's disturbing to know that the place is already getting bullied.

Shanghaiist: A big gay crackdown in Beijing?

Kevon B

idasein