http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/596 The Kingdom from another angle. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:13:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/596/comment-page-1#comment-886 jg Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:36:58 +0000 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/?p=596#comment-886 Unfortunately Mark, this is not an isolated situation, nor is it something that is specific to the minority folks involved in this situation, though they seem to get more than their share of this sort of thing. This seems to happen across the board: petty officials forever picking at the scabs, ensuring that everyone always bleeds. Unfortunately Mark, this is not an isolated situation, nor is it something that is specific to the minority folks involved in this situation, though they seem to get more than their share of this sort of thing. This seems to happen across the board: petty officials forever picking at the scabs, ensuring that everyone always bleeds.

]]> http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/596/comment-page-1#comment-885 Mark Jungels Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:53:29 +0000 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/?p=596#comment-885 Jim, Thats awesome that you were able help out with the water project. Your blood must boil when you think of that B@$*&@ coming in and demanding money. Keep at it! Jim,
Thats awesome that you were able help out with the water project. Your blood must boil when you think of that B@$*&@ coming in and demanding money.
Keep at it!

]]> http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/archives/596/comment-page-1#comment-878 JL Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:53:43 +0000 http://rudenoon.com/absalletc/?p=596#comment-878 a nice post, something in it reminds me of a comment a journalist made to me once about that yak-herding region: If Chinese taxpayers weren't so mypically focused on one particular issue and its attendant bogeymen, they might be a little angier about the way it's become a total black-hole for tax-yuan that get poured into "development projects" like the one you mention. a nice post,
something in it reminds me of a comment a journalist made to me once about that yak-herding region: If Chinese taxpayers weren’t so mypically focused on one particular issue and its attendant bogeymen, they might be a little angier about the way it’s become a total black-hole for tax-yuan that get poured into “development projects” like the one you mention.

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