QuoteWhen it comes to China's international prestige, no price is too high, no measure too small.



With President Obama and other world leaders headed to Beijing this weekend for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, schools and government agencies have been shuttered. Half the city's cars have been banned from the streets. Much of the capital has gone into lockdown.



Couples seeking to marry (or divorce, for that matter) will have to stem their passions.



Even the dead will have to wait, as some mortuaries are forbidding a clothes-burning ritual at funerals until most foreign dignitaries leave town on Nov. 14.



To ensure blue, pollution-free skies, scores of factories across the region have been shut down, including the heating supply for the entire neighboring city of Tianjin, where nighttime temperatures in the mid-30s are forecast.



Preparations this time also have included questionable human rights tactics, with many petitioners and government protesters rounded up and arrested ahead of the meeting to prevent potentially embarrassing criticisms of the government.



And in Huairou, the northern Beijing suburb that is hosting the summit, almost 9,000 houses have been demolished and their residents relocated to build quaint, Disney-like streets of fake-ancient Chinese teahouses, an effort that began as early as three years ago, according to state-run media.



On the security front, Beijing has sent swarms of police officers onto the streets and has organized tens of thousands of security volunteers, elderly men and women dressed in standard-issue red-and-gray windbreakers, to report suspicious behaviors.



In recent weeks, the magnitude of overpreparation in state media reports has begun veering into the realm of bizarre.



To staff the conference, the government weeded through more than 8,000 candidates and chose 2,280 finalists, who had to endure rigorous training to relearn how to sit, stand, walk and even smile, according to the People's Daily, the party's official mouthpiece.



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Quote from: "Obvious Li"we need that kind of discipline in this country.....disband all unions and jail the leaders would be a good start.....then we start over and do it right....... ac_beating

Quote from: "cc li tarte"Indeed China is NOT!!

Quote from: "cc li tarte"Of course. I respect China for this. Funny, but the countries that best deal with radicals is the islamic counties themselves. Us? Not so much.

Quote from: "cc li tarte"LOL ... Multi-Cult  islamic countries don't count

Quote from: "cc li tarte"The Greater Essex County District School Board, which runs 75 schools in Windsor, Ontario, and other nearby towns, has circulated a memo to its schools saying that Remembrance Day ceremonies are optional for those children whose families might object to it.

QuoteEDMONTON — Dolls being sold in an Edmonton liquidation store are causing a stir for what's written on their packaging: "terrorist" dolls.



With memorials set across the country, and attacks in Ottawa and Quebec fresh in many minds, the word "terrorist" is a sensitive one for some.



Cheryl Ann Holtz first saw the dolls when her friend posted a picture of one on Facebook. The friend found them Sunday night at Bianca Amor's liquidation supercentre in Edmonton. Her Facebook post reportedly received so much attention, that she had to delete it.



Holtz says she sees the word as "racist" labelling; and believes it's offensive to all Canadians, regardless of their race.



"I think it just sends the wrong message and could be hurting a lot of people without people realizing that."



The dolls are made in China and look like a knock-off of Living Dead dolls, popular collection made in the U.S. These dolls even say the words 'Living Dead Dolls' on the package.



For Holtz, there's only one thing that should be done with them.



"I would like them taken off the shelves and taken off the market and banned."

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