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I am Shawn Liu. I weigh about 145 pounds.
I co-founded Harvest. I update this blog sometimes.
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  dihard:

  Steven Spielberg has decided to withdraw as the artistic advisor to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing stating “my conscience will not allow me to continue with business as usual.” Activists are looking for other corporate sponsors to respond in the same way.

  Why? Because of China’s ties to Sudan, whose military conflict has killed between 200 and 400 thousand and displaced over 2.5 million in Darfur. China currently receives oil from Sudan, and in turn sells weapons and aircraft to the Sudanese government. A UN investigation shows that the majority of the weapons used to attack civilians were of Chinese origin (or so I’ve read, I can’t find the actual UN report).

  Right.  And Mr. Spielberg has no problem working for/in a country that, well, invaded and ruined another nation.  It’s the Chinese fucking up the world, people.  Not only selling weapons to Darfur, they’re screwing up the weather too with all that pollution.  Oh wait, all that pollution comes from factories that are making my cheap shoes?  My bad.  Go ahead, China, it’s all good.

  15 Feb 2008