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A popular children’s website today is for Webkinz toys, at: http://www. webkinz. com. Webkinz are small, cute and cuddly stuffed animals, only a little different because each bears a secret code on the label that can be used by the animal’s owner at the Webkinz website.
Once children enter the Webkinz toy’s code, the can set up a free account for their beloved Webkinz pet and enjoy all types of online activities there:
1) They can then interact with fellow Webkinz owners in cyber-space.
2) Children can have fun being new owners of a variety of Webkinz pets. Online Webkinz pets not only give you the option to buy plus keep them in your cyber bedroom, they also give you the opportunity to be a part of their new virtual world where you can interact and play together 24/7, even on rainy days. Thus children can enjoy a chance to play with different pets online, getting to know more about them.
3) There are a bunch of different kinds of pets available at Webkinz, and of course children like them all. These range from cats, and big cats, to dogs, horses, hippos, pigs, ducks, frogs, bears, monkeys, rabbits, koala bears, elephants, cows and more. Some of these are also known as Lil Kinz.
Time to take a look at some of the more popular Webkinz animals. These categories and pets include:
Bears: Bears are represented by formidable Black Bear, icy Polar bear and laid back Panda.
Big Cats: Have some feline fun with little cats and BIG cats, from lions, representing the most regal part of Big Cats at Webkinz, to leopards, those strong and friendly beasts, to Tigers who invite you to adopt it.
Cats: There are cats with different names. The clever Alley Cat now lives in Kinzville. Black and White cat likes to play games. Cheeky Cat is always devoted to its owner while Persian cat comes with soft fluffy hair and sweet winning smile. Gray and White cat has a personality with as many facets as a rainbow.
Dogs: Enjoy games with all types of canines ranging from Dalmatians, to Basset Hounds, Pink Poodles, Bull Dogs, Chihuahuas to Golden Retrievers and other canines. You name it and they are all there, each representing the characteristic of its race.
Frogs: There are cold blooded Frogs, leaping Tree frogs and Bull Frogs in search of a new abode. They are all good enough to make your day.
Horses: Each toy in the horse category boasts its own quality and legend associated with it. For example, Pegasus has glimmering wings. Unicorn lives behind mountains. Clydesdale has adventurous spirit and heart of gold. Pink Pony is one of the prettiest.
Monkeys: Play with Cheeky Monkeys and intelligent Gorilla’s.
Rabbits: Run into snow white Rabbits and sweet Sherbert Bunny to choose from.
In addition to these categories, there are other Webkinz animals like big and lovely elephants, big hearted Hippos, little Pigs, shy and mysterious Googles ducks, super cool cows and adventurous koalas to choose form. There are pets available in all categories and types. Thus there is a huge variety of Webkinz animals for the kids to select from. In fact,buy all of them if you like.

 

Woodruff’s approach seemed very promising at first.   He went to four different continents and countries in order to assess the global impacts of China, the countries being Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, and the United States.

The Angolan segment highlighted China’s economic development model in Africa.   The myth perpetrated in this segment is that the development has actually provided a net benefit to the people of Africa.

In fact, the real truth China is practicing a very sophisticated 21st century version of imperialism in which China loans African countries billions of dollars in exchange for encumbering natural resources.   These resources range from oil and natural gas to copper, cobalt, and titanium.   As part of its debt encumbrance strategy, China gets to reduce its unemployment rate by using a large Chinese construction workforce to actually do the work – rather than relying so much on the native population.

In this segment, Woodruff makes repeated references to corruption.   However, in a glaring omission, he fails to make explicit just how much of the billions in Chinese aid is actually siphoned off into offshore bank accounts held by the African elites.   Nor does Woodruff highlight the intense poverty in the countriesChina is supposed to be “benefiting” — other than offering a few images of slums.

That said, the absolute worst omission of the African segment is Woodruff’s failure to mention the Darfur genocide in the Sudan.   Instead, the only thing we get is a passing reference to Chinese aid to the Sudan in exchange for oil.   In fact,China regularly trades its veto power at the UN for African resources in exchange for shielding African despots from UN interventions.

What made Woodruff’s omission all the more galling is that Woodruff did an extensive interview with China’s United Nations Ambassador Wang Guangya.   This is the same reprehensible “diplomat” who has repeatedly blocked UN action on Darfur.  (Wang also has blocked action following the sham Zimbabwe election and the attempts of the West to sanction Iran for its nuclear development).     The failure to confront Wang on the Darfur question was tantamount to appeasement — or, far worse, simple ignorance.

Woodruff’s omissions were equally in evidence in his Brazil segment.   The theme Woodruff drew here is that China’s increasing consumption for soybeans is leading to deforestation of the Amazon and potential environmental problems.   The biggest problems with this segment were a lack of visual imagery to portray the destruction of the Amazon, and the lack of science and statistics to explain how deforestation in the Amazon is likely to affect the global environment and crop production.

In fact, most of the Amazon’s deforestation occurs during the dry season in an orchestrated slash and burn campaign that fouls the skies throughout South America.   Showing that massive environmental carnage — instead of a few big trees being felled — would have made for a far stronger presentation.   Missing, too, was any good explanation of why we should care about the Amazon.   In fact, theAmazon River basin and its rainforest are absolutely critical to the global ecology because they are considered to be the “Lungs of our Planet. “  By recycling carbon dioxide, the rainforest in particular provides more than 20 percent of the world’s oxygen.

Already, more than 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed while the World Wildlife Fund warns that more than half of the forest will be gone by 2030.    According to many scientists, this destruction of the rainforest has the potential to create severe drought conditions not just in South America but also as far north as the American and Canadian farm belts.   The result may well be a global food crisis — high irony indeed given that the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is occurring in the name of increased food production.

Turning to the third segment on Cambodia, Woodruff does a good job tagging the Chinese with at least some responsibility for the Khmer Rouge genocide of millions.   Missing in this segment, however, was any insight into the real reason why China is setting up so many sweat shops in Cambodia.   Too bad Woodruff didn’t get his cameras into some of these sweat shops to expose the slave labor conditions!

My other big beef with the Cambodian segment was the failure of Woodruff to mention how China is using its upstream positioning on the Mekong River to dam that river with bullying impunity.  China’s dam-happy Mekong River design will eventually include 15 mega-dams.   These mega-dams are likely to create economic and environmental effects that are vast and far-ranging — and Cambodiais at the front lines of this onslaught.

To understand the problem, consider the impacts of China’s dams on one of the world’s most fascinating ecological treasures, the legendary Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia. For much of the year, the lake is only a yard deep with a footprint of only a bit more than 1,000 square miles. During the rainy season, however, flow from the Mekong River helps deepen the lake to roughly 30 feet and increases the area of the lake more than five-fold. This turns Lake Tonle Sap into one of the best breeding grounds for fish in the world.

The obvious problem facing the Tonle Sap is that the China’s mega-dams are evening out the flow of water and thereby preventing the world’s most fertile natural fishery from realizing its full depth and breadth in the critical fish breeding season. Already, fish catches have declined dramatically.   This is already having a significant negative effect on Cambodia’s fishing economy.

Woodruff clearly saved the worst for last in his discussion of the impacts of Chinaon the American economy. He leads off the segment by helping to perpetuate the myth that China’s emergence as the world’s factory floor is the result of cheap, hard-working labor.   (The mouthpiece here is Evan Osnos, Beijing Bureau Chief for the Chicago Tribune — an otherwise cogent voice. )

In fact, my research has clearly shown that cheap labor is only a small part of the China puzzle.   Much of China’s advantage in world markets comes from five unfair mercantilist trade practices that include a complex web of illegal export subsidies, blatant currency manipulation, counterfeiting and piracy that lowers production costs, and lax environmental and health and safety standards that likewise lower production costs.

That China blatantly manipulates its currency seems to be totally lost on both Woodruff and the seemingly clueless Fareed Zakaria.   Indeed, it is Zakaria who helps perpetuate the myth that the Chinese are more frugal savers than American consumers and that’s why China helps the U. S. with its debt by buying U. S. treasury bills.

Note to Woodruff and Zakaria: The purchase of U. S. treasury bills is an integral part of the currency manipulation process.   To maintain China’s fixed peg to the dollar and keep the yuan grossly undervalued, China must recycle dollars back into the U. S.    Of course, individual Chinese citizens have no say in this matter; rather they are merely press-ganged into their frugality by China’s central bank — which wants to keep exports to the U. S. cheap and imports into China dear.   (It’s no accident the U. S. trade deficit regularly hits record highs. )

The failure of Zakaria to understand this currency manipulation process (and the broader role of unfair trade practices in China’s grab of American markets) makes it perfectly understandable why Zakaria ignorantly advises that the U. S. has only two options  with China: “either ride the wave or drown in it. ”  In fact, what theU. S. government should be doing to prevent the loss of American jobs is cracking down on China’s unfair trade practices.   Leveling the playing field would go a long way towards bringing jobs back to the U. S.

On that note, it is useful to point out perhaps the biggest myth of the documentary – one perpetuated by none other than Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York.   His Honor piously insists that “the jobs that [China] is creating are low-priced jobs” and “that’s not the kind of jobs we want for our citizens. ”

Note to the Mayor: While you’ve apparently been sleeping, China has moved steadily up and across the value chain into everything from autos and biopharma to commercial aircraft.   It’s not just about cheap toys and sneakers anymore.

My bottom line is that I would love to see an in-depth, fair and balanced critical look at the economic, environmental, military, political, and social impacts of China on rest of the world.   All that we have gotten so far from TV is a bunch of puff pieces that miss many of the major points and keep perpetuate a set of very dangerous myths.

©2008 Peter Navarro

Author Bio Peter Navarro a business professor at the University of California-Irvine, is the author of the best- selling investment book If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks and the path-breaking management book, The Well-Timed Strategy. Professor Navarro is a widely sought after and gifted public speaker and a regular CNBC contributor. Prior to joining CNBC, he appeared frequently on Bloomberg TV, CNN, and NPR, as well as on all three major network news shows. He has testified before Congress and the U. S. -China Commission and his work has appeared in publications ranging from Business Week, the L. A. Times, and New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review.

 

 

Woodruff’s approach seemed very promising at first.   He went to four different continents and countries in order to assess the global impacts of China, the countries being Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, and the United States.

The Angolan segment highlighted China’s economic development model in Africa.   The myth perpetrated in this segment is that the development has actually provided a net benefit to the people of Africa.

In fact, the real truth China is practicing a very sophisticated 21st century version of imperialism in which China loans African countries billions of dollars in exchange for encumbering natural resources.   These resources range from oil and natural gas to copper, cobalt, and titanium.   As part of its debt encumbrance strategy, China gets to reduce its unemployment rate by using a large Chinese construction workforce to actually do the work – rather than relying so much on the native population.

In this segment, Woodruff makes repeated references to corruption.   However, in a glaring omission, he fails to make explicit just how much of the billions in Chinese aid is actually siphoned off into offshore bank accounts held by the African elites.   Nor does Woodruff highlight the intense poverty in the countriesChina is supposed to be “benefiting” — other than offering a few images of slums.

That said, the absolute worst omission of the African segment is Woodruff’s failure to mention the Darfur genocide in the Sudan.   Instead, the only thing we get is a passing reference to Chinese aid to the Sudan in exchange for oil.   In fact,China regularly trades its veto power at the UN for African resources in exchange for shielding African despots from UN interventions.

What made Woodruff’s omission all the more galling is that Woodruff did an extensive interview with China’s United Nations Ambassador Wang Guangya.   This is the same reprehensible “diplomat” who has repeatedly blocked UN action on Darfur.  (Wang also has blocked action following the sham Zimbabwe election and the attempts of the West to sanction Iran for its nuclear development).     The failure to confront Wang on the Darfur question was tantamount to appeasement — or, far worse, simple ignorance.

Woodruff’s omissions were equally in evidence in his Brazil segment.   The theme Woodruff drew here is that China’s increasing consumption for soybeans is leading to deforestation of the Amazon and potential environmental problems.   The biggest problems with this segment were a lack of visual imagery to portray the destruction of the Amazon, and the lack of science and statistics to explain how deforestation in the Amazon is likely to affect the global environment and crop production.

In fact, most of the Amazon’s deforestation occurs during the dry season in an orchestrated slash and burn campaign that fouls the skies throughout South America.   Showing that massive environmental carnage — instead of a few big trees being felled — would have made for a far stronger presentation.   Missing, too, was any good explanation of why we should care about the Amazon.   In fact, theAmazon River basin and its rainforest are absolutely critical to the global ecology because they are considered to be the “Lungs of our Planet. “  By recycling carbon dioxide, the rainforest in particular provides more than 20 percent of the world’s oxygen.

Already, more than 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed while the World Wildlife Fund warns that more than half of the forest will be gone by 2030.    According to many scientists, this destruction of the rainforest has the potential to create severe drought conditions not just in South America but also as far north as the American and Canadian farm belts.   The result may well be a global food crisis — high irony indeed given that the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is occurring in the name of increased food production.

Turning to the third segment on Cambodia, Woodruff does a good job tagging the Chinese with at least some responsibility for the Khmer Rouge genocide of millions.   Missing in this segment, however, was any insight into the real reason why China is setting up so many sweat shops in Cambodia.   Too bad Woodruff didn’t get his cameras into some of these sweat shops to expose the slave labor conditions!

My other big beef with the Cambodian segment was the failure of Woodruff to mention how China is using its upstream positioning on the Mekong River to dam that river with bullying impunity.  China’s dam-happy Mekong River design will eventually include 15 mega-dams.   These mega-dams are likely to create economic and environmental effects that are vast and far-ranging — and Cambodiais at the front lines of this onslaught.

To understand the problem, consider the impacts of China’s dams on one of the world’s most fascinating ecological treasures, the legendary Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia. For much of the year, the lake is only a yard deep with a footprint of only a bit more than 1,000 square miles. During the rainy season, however, flow from the Mekong River helps deepen the lake to roughly 30 feet and increases the area of the lake more than five-fold. This turns Lake Tonle Sap into one of the best breeding grounds for fish in the world.

The obvious problem facing the Tonle Sap is that the China’s mega-dams are evening out the flow of water and thereby preventing the world’s most fertile natural fishery from realizing its full depth and breadth in the critical fish breeding season. Already, fish catches have declined dramatically.   This is already having a significant negative effect on Cambodia’s fishing economy.

Woodruff clearly saved the worst for last in his discussion of the impacts of Chinaon the American economy. He leads off the segment by helping to perpetuate the myth that China’s emergence as the world’s factory floor is the result of cheap, hard-working labor.   (The mouthpiece here is Evan Osnos, Beijing Bureau Chief for the Chicago Tribune — an otherwise cogent voice. )

In fact, my research has clearly shown that cheap labor is only a small part of the China puzzle.   Much of China’s advantage in world markets comes from five unfair mercantilist trade practices that include a complex web of illegal export subsidies, blatant currency manipulation, counterfeiting and piracy that lowers production costs, and lax environmental and health and safety standards that likewise lower production costs.

That China blatantly manipulates its currency seems to be totally lost on both Woodruff and the seemingly clueless Fareed Zakaria.   Indeed, it is Zakaria who helps perpetuate the myth that the Chinese are more frugal savers than American consumers and that’s why China helps the U. S. with its debt by buying U. S. treasury bills.

Note to Woodruff and Zakaria: The purchase of U. S. treasury bills is an integral part of the currency manipulation process.   To maintain China’s fixed peg to the dollar and keep the yuan grossly undervalued, China must recycle dollars back into the U. S.    Of course, individual Chinese citizens have no say in this matter; rather they are merely press-ganged into their frugality by China’s central bank — which wants to keep exports to the U. S. cheap and imports into China dear.   (It’s no accident the U. S. trade deficit regularly hits record highs. )

The failure of Zakaria to understand this currency manipulation process (and the broader role of unfair trade practices in China’s grab of American markets) makes it perfectly understandable why Zakaria ignorantly advises that the U. S. has only two options  with China: “either ride the wave or drown in it. ”  In fact, what theU. S. government should be doing to prevent the loss of American jobs is cracking down on China’s unfair trade practices.   Leveling the playing field would go a long way towards bringing jobs back to the U. S.

On that note, it is useful to point out perhaps the biggest myth of the documentary – one perpetuated by none other than Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York.   His Honor piously insists that “the jobs that [China] is creating are low-priced jobs” and “that’s not the kind of jobs we want for our citizens. ”

Note to the Mayor: While you’ve apparently been sleeping, China has moved steadily up and across the value chain into everything from autos and biopharma to commercial aircraft.   It’s not just about cheap toys and sneakers anymore.

My bottom line is that I would love to see an in-depth, fair and balanced critical look at the economic, environmental, military, political, and social impacts of China on rest of the world.   All that we have gotten so far from TV is a bunch of puff pieces that miss many of the major points and keep perpetuate a set of very dangerous myths.

©2008 Peter Navarro

Author Bio Peter Navarro a business professor at the University of California-Irvine, is the author of the best- selling investment book If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks and the path-breaking management book, The Well-Timed Strategy. Professor Navarro is a widely sought after and gifted public speaker and a regular CNBC contributor. Prior to joining CNBC, he appeared frequently on Bloomberg TV, CNN, and NPR, as well as on all three major network news shows. He has testified before Congress and the U. S. -China Commission and his work has appeared in publications ranging from Business Week, the L. A. Times, and New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review.

 

 

Woodruff’s approach seemed very promising at first.   He went to four different continents and countries in order to assess the global impacts of China, the countries being Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, and the United States.

The Angolan segment highlighted China’s economic development model in Africa.   The myth perpetrated in this segment is that the development has actually provided a net benefit to the people of Africa.

In fact, the real truth China is practicing a very sophisticated 21st century version of imperialism in which China loans African countries billions of dollars in exchange for encumbering natural resources.   These resources range from oil and natural gas to copper, cobalt, and titanium.   As part of its debt encumbrance strategy, China gets to reduce its unemployment rate by using a large Chinese construction workforce to actually do the work – rather than relying so much on the native population.

In this segment, Woodruff makes repeated references to corruption.   However, in a glaring omission, he fails to make explicit just how much of the billions in Chinese aid is actually siphoned off into offshore bank accounts held by the African elites.   Nor does Woodruff highlight the intense poverty in the countriesChina is supposed to be “benefiting” — other than offering a few images of slums.

That said, the absolute worst omission of the African segment is Woodruff’s failure to mention the Darfur genocide in the Sudan.   Instead, the only thing we get is a passing reference to Chinese aid to the Sudan in exchange for oil.   In fact,China regularly trades its veto power at the UN for African resources in exchange for shielding African despots from UN interventions.

What made Woodruff’s omission all the more galling is that Woodruff did an extensive interview with China’s United Nations Ambassador Wang Guangya.   This is the same reprehensible “diplomat” who has repeatedly blocked UN action on Darfur.  (Wang also has blocked action following the sham Zimbabwe election and the attempts of the West to sanction Iran for its nuclear development).     The failure to confront Wang on the Darfur question was tantamount to appeasement — or, far worse, simple ignorance.

Woodruff’s omissions were equally in evidence in his Brazil segment.   The theme Woodruff drew here is that China’s increasing consumption for soybeans is leading to deforestation of the Amazon and potential environmental problems.   The biggest problems with this segment were a lack of visual imagery to portray the destruction of the Amazon, and the lack of science and statistics to explain how deforestation in the Amazon is likely to affect the global environment and crop production.

In fact, most of the Amazon’s deforestation occurs during the dry season in an orchestrated slash and burn campaign that fouls the skies throughout South America.   Showing that massive environmental carnage — instead of a few big trees being felled — would have made for a far stronger presentation.   Missing, too, was any good explanation of why we should care about the Amazon.   In fact, theAmazon River basin and its rainforest are absolutely critical to the global ecology because they are considered to be the “Lungs of our Planet. “  By recycling carbon dioxide, the rainforest in particular provides more than 20 percent of the world’s oxygen.

Already, more than 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed while the World Wildlife Fund warns that more than half of the forest will be gone by 2030.    According to many scientists, this destruction of the rainforest has the potential to create severe drought conditions not just in South America but also as far north as the American and Canadian farm belts.   The result may well be a global food crisis — high irony indeed given that the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is occurring in the name of increased food production.

Turning to the third segment on Cambodia, Woodruff does a good job tagging the Chinese with at least some responsibility for the Khmer Rouge genocide of millions.   Missing in this segment, however, was any insight into the real reason why China is setting up so many sweat shops in Cambodia.   Too bad Woodruff didn’t get his cameras into some of these sweat shops to expose the slave labor conditions!

My other big beef with the Cambodian segment was the failure of Woodruff to mention how China is using its upstream positioning on the Mekong River to dam that river with bullying impunity.  China’s dam-happy Mekong River design will eventually include 15 mega-dams.   These mega-dams are likely to create economic and environmental effects that are vast and far-ranging — and Cambodiais at the front lines of this onslaught.

To understand the problem, consider the impacts of China’s dams on one of the world’s most fascinating ecological treasures, the legendary Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia. For much of the year, the lake is only a yard deep with a footprint of only a bit more than 1,000 square miles. During the rainy season, however, flow from the Mekong River helps deepen the lake to roughly 30 feet and increases the area of the lake more than five-fold. This turns Lake Tonle Sap into one of the best breeding grounds for fish in the world.

The obvious problem facing the Tonle Sap is that the China’s mega-dams are evening out the flow of water and thereby preventing the world’s most fertile natural fishery from realizing its full depth and breadth in the critical fish breeding season. Already, fish catches have declined dramatically.   This is already having a significant negative effect on Cambodia’s fishing economy.

Woodruff clearly saved the worst for last in his discussion of the impacts of Chinaon the American economy. He leads off the segment by helping to perpetuate the myth that China’s emergence as the world’s factory floor is the result of cheap, hard-working labor.   (The mouthpiece here is Evan Osnos, Beijing Bureau Chief for the Chicago Tribune — an otherwise cogent voice. )

In fact, my research has clearly shown that cheap labor is only a small part of the China puzzle.   Much of China’s advantage in world markets comes from five unfair mercantilist trade practices that include a complex web of illegal export subsidies, blatant currency manipulation, counterfeiting and piracy that lowers production costs, and lax environmental and health and safety standards that likewise lower production costs.

That China blatantly manipulates its currency seems to be totally lost on both Woodruff and the seemingly clueless Fareed Zakaria.   Indeed, it is Zakaria who helps perpetuate the myth that the Chinese are more frugal savers than American consumers and that’s why China helps the U. S. with its debt by buying U. S. treasury bills.

Note to Woodruff and Zakaria: The purchase of U. S. treasury bills is an integral part of the currency manipulation process.   To maintain China’s fixed peg to the dollar and keep the yuan grossly undervalued, China must recycle dollars back into the U. S.    Of course, individual Chinese citizens have no say in this matter; rather they are merely press-ganged into their frugality by China’s central bank — which wants to keep exports to the U. S. cheap and imports into China dear.   (It’s no accident the U. S. trade deficit regularly hits record highs. )

The failure of Zakaria to understand this currency manipulation process (and the broader role of unfair trade practices in China’s grab of American markets) makes it perfectly understandable why Zakaria ignorantly advises that the U. S. has only two options  with China: “either ride the wave or drown in it. ”  In fact, what theU. S. government should be doing to prevent the loss of American jobs is cracking down on China’s unfair trade practices.   Leveling the playing field would go a long way towards bringing jobs back to the U. S.

On that note, it is useful to point out perhaps the biggest myth of the documentary – one perpetuated by none other than Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York.   His Honor piously insists that “the jobs that [China] is creating are low-priced jobs” and “that’s not the kind of jobs we want for our citizens. ”

Note to the Mayor: While you’ve apparently been sleeping, China has moved steadily up and across the value chain into everything from autos and biopharma to commercial aircraft.   It’s not just about cheap toys and sneakers anymore.

My bottom line is that I would love to see an in-depth, fair and balanced critical look at the economic, environmental, military, political, and social impacts of China on rest of the world.   All that we have gotten so far from TV is a bunch of puff pieces that miss many of the major points and keep perpetuate a set of very dangerous myths.

©2008 Peter Navarro

Author Bio Peter Navarro a business professor at the University of California-Irvine, is the author of the best- selling investment book If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks and the path-breaking management book, The Well-Timed Strategy. Professor Navarro is a widely sought after and gifted public speaker and a regular CNBC contributor. Prior to joining CNBC, he appeared frequently on Bloomberg TV, CNN, and NPR, as well as on all three major network news shows. He has testified before Congress and the U. S. -China Commission and his work has appeared in publications ranging from Business Week, the L. A. Times, and New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review.

 

 

Woodruff’s approach seemed very promising at first.   He went to four different continents and countries in order to assess the global impacts of China, the countries being Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, and the United States.

The Angolan segment highlighted China’s economic development model in Africa.   The myth perpetrated in this segment is that the development has actually provided a net benefit to the people of Africa.

In fact, the real truth China is practicing a very sophisticated 21st century version of imperialism in which China loans African countries billions of dollars in exchange for encumbering natural resources.   These resources range from oil and natural gas to copper, cobalt, and titanium.   As part of its debt encumbrance strategy, China gets to reduce its unemployment rate by using a large Chinese construction workforce to actually do the work – rather than relying so much on the native population.

In this segment, Woodruff makes repeated references to corruption.   However, in a glaring omission, he fails to make explicit just how much of the billions in Chinese aid is actually siphoned off into offshore bank accounts held by the African elites.   Nor does Woodruff highlight the intense poverty in the countriesChina is supposed to be “benefiting” — other than offering a few images of slums.

That said, the absolute worst omission of the African segment is Woodruff’s failure to mention the Darfur genocide in the Sudan.   Instead, the only thing we get is a passing reference to Chinese aid to the Sudan in exchange for oil.   In fact,China regularly trades its veto power at the UN for African resources in exchange for shielding African despots from UN interventions.

What made Woodruff’s omission all the more galling is that Woodruff did an extensive interview with China’s United Nations Ambassador Wang Guangya.   This is the same reprehensible “diplomat” who has repeatedly blocked UN action on Darfur.  (Wang also has blocked action following the sham Zimbabwe election and the attempts of the West to sanction Iran for its nuclear development).     The failure to confront Wang on the Darfur question was tantamount to appeasement — or, far worse, simple ignorance.

Woodruff’s omissions were equally in evidence in his Brazil segment.   The theme Woodruff drew here is that China’s increasing consumption for soybeans is leading to deforestation of the Amazon and potential environmental problems.   The biggest problems with this segment were a lack of visual imagery to portray the destruction of the Amazon, and the lack of science and statistics to explain how deforestation in the Amazon is likely to affect the global environment and crop production.

In fact, most of the Amazon’s deforestation occurs during the dry season in an orchestrated slash and burn campaign that fouls the skies throughout South America.   Showing that massive environmental carnage — instead of a few big trees being felled — would have made for a far stronger presentation.   Missing, too, was any good explanation of why we should care about the Amazon.   In fact, theAmazon River basin and its rainforest are absolutely critical to the global ecology because they are considered to be the “Lungs of our Planet. “  By recycling carbon dioxide, the rainforest in particular provides more than 20 percent of the world’s oxygen.

Already, more than 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed while the World Wildlife Fund warns that more than half of the forest will be gone by 2030.    According to many scientists, this destruction of the rainforest has the potential to create severe drought conditions not just in South America but also as far north as the American and Canadian farm belts.   The result may well be a global food crisis — high irony indeed given that the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is occurring in the name of increased food production.

Turning to the third segment on Cambodia, Woodruff does a good job tagging the Chinese with at least some responsibility for the Khmer Rouge genocide of millions.   Missing in this segment, however, was any insight into the real reason why China is setting up so many sweat shops in Cambodia.   Too bad Woodruff didn’t get his cameras into some of these sweat shops to expose the slave labor conditions!

My other big beef with the Cambodian segment was the failure of Woodruff to mention how China is using its upstream positioning on the Mekong River to dam that river with bullying impunity.  China’s dam-happy Mekong River design will eventually include 15 mega-dams.   These mega-dams are likely to create economic and environmental effects that are vast and far-ranging — and Cambodiais at the front lines of this onslaught.

To understand the problem, consider the impacts of China’s dams on one of the world’s most fascinating ecological treasures, the legendary Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia. For much of the year, the lake is only a yard deep with a footprint of only a bit more than 1,000 square miles. During the rainy season, however, flow from the Mekong River helps deepen the lake to roughly 30 feet and increases the area of the lake more than five-fold. This turns Lake Tonle Sap into one of the best breeding grounds for fish in the world.

The obvious problem facing the Tonle Sap is that the China’s mega-dams are evening out the flow of water and thereby preventing the world’s most fertile natural fishery from realizing its full depth and breadth in the critical fish breeding season. Already, fish catches have declined dramatically.   This is already having a significant negative effect on Cambodia’s fishing economy.

Woodruff clearly saved the worst for last in his discussion of the impacts of Chinaon the American economy. He leads off the segment by helping to perpetuate the myth that China’s emergence as the world’s factory floor is the result of cheap, hard-working labor.   (The mouthpiece here is Evan Osnos, Beijing Bureau Chief for the Chicago Tribune — an otherwise cogent voice. )

In fact, my research has clearly shown that cheap labor is only a small part of the China puzzle.   Much of China’s advantage in world markets comes from five unfair mercantilist trade practices that include a complex web of illegal export subsidies, blatant currency manipulation, counterfeiting and piracy that lowers production costs, and lax environmental and health and safety standards that likewise lower production costs.

That China blatantly manipulates its currency seems to be totally lost on both Woodruff and the seemingly clueless Fareed Zakaria.   Indeed, it is Zakaria who helps perpetuate the myth that the Chinese are more frugal savers than American consumers and that’s why China helps the U. S. with its debt by buying U. S. treasury bills.

Note to Woodruff and Zakaria: The purchase of U. S. treasury bills is an integral part of the currency manipulation process.   To maintain China’s fixed peg to the dollar and keep the yuan grossly undervalued, China must recycle dollars back into the U. S.    Of course, individual Chinese citizens have no say in this matter; rather they are merely press-ganged into their frugality by China’s central bank — which wants to keep exports to the U. S. cheap and imports into China dear.   (It’s no accident the U. S. trade deficit regularly hits record highs. )

The failure of Zakaria to understand this currency manipulation process (and the broader role of unfair trade practices in China’s grab of American markets) makes it perfectly understandable why Zakaria ignorantly advises that the U. S. has only two options  with China: “either ride the wave or drown in it. ”  In fact, what theU. S. government should be doing to prevent the loss of American jobs is cracking down on China’s unfair trade practices.   Leveling the playing field would go a long way towards bringing jobs back to the U. S.

On that note, it is useful to point out perhaps the biggest myth of the documentary – one perpetuated by none other than Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York.   His Honor piously insists that “the jobs that [China] is creating are low-priced jobs” and “that’s not the kind of jobs we want for our citizens. ”

Note to the Mayor: While you’ve apparently been sleeping, China has moved steadily up and across the value chain into everything from autos and biopharma to commercial aircraft.   It’s not just about cheap toys and sneakers anymore.

My bottom line is that I would love to see an in-depth, fair and balanced critical look at the economic, environmental, military, political, and social impacts of China on rest of the world.   All that we have gotten so far from TV is a bunch of puff pieces that miss many of the major points and keep perpetuate a set of very dangerous myths.

©2008 Peter Navarro

Author Bio Peter Navarro a business professor at the University of California-Irvine, is the author of the best- selling investment book If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks and the path-breaking management book, The Well-Timed Strategy. Professor Navarro is a widely sought after and gifted public speaker and a regular CNBC contributor. Prior to joining CNBC, he appeared frequently on Bloomberg TV, CNN, and NPR, as well as on all three major network news shows. He has testified before Congress and the U. S. -China Commission and his work has appeared in publications ranging from Business Week, the L. A. Times, and New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review.

 

Here’s an easy, effective method that anyone can use to make some quick affiliate marketing cash. All it takes is a bit of free time, a free blog that takes just minutes to set up, and a little information about the latest current events in the news.

Note: in order to use the method I’m about to show you, you should already be signed up with an affiliate marketing network - preferably one that has a selection of CPA (cost per action) offers, such as Azoogle Ads, Clickbooth, or NeverBlueAds. You’ll need to be able to quickly select offers to promote based on current events in order to make this work. You can search online for more information about CPA affiliate offers, but the jist of it is that you can get paid from these offers without your customer having to actually “buy” anything, so you’ll make more conversions then you would with a standard offer. However, this method can also work with a more standard affiliate like Clickbank, it’s just that your conversions will be lower. Okay, so once you’ve gotten that out of the way. . .

Step 1. Go to Google Trends and find out what topics are “hot” and in the news today. (If you’re not familiar with Google Trends, it’s a service offered by Google that shows what topics people are searching for on a given day). Make note of a few topics that are in the “hot trends” category. Once you’ve identified some phrases people are searching for, go to the regular Google search engine and check to see what competition there is for that phrase. For this example, I’m using the phrase “South Park Fish Sticks”, because that’s one of the topics that came up when I did a search in Google Trends just now. When I search for this phrase with quotes as above, Google returns only 10 websites. That means that only 10 other websites are ranking for that exact phrase in Google, so I should have a pretty good chance of ranking highly for it. In general, you want to only focus on phrases that have under 10,000 results when you search using quotes. while it’s true that people searching for this phrase won’t be using quotes when they search, i’ve found that as long as there’s a low number of exact matches for it, I can usually still rank very highly.

Step 2. Choose an affiliate offer that will appeal to people searching for that topic. As mentioned above, CPA offers will usually have the best chance of converting into commissions off this type of “trend traffic”, but you should decide based on the type of visitors you think you’ll be getting based on the hot topic. For our example above of “South Park Fish Sticks”, referring to the cartoon South Park, I would look for an offer that relates to the show, such as a ringtone offer that pays me when someone submits their contact information through my affiliate page. If I’m unable to find one, then I’d just use a very general offer that appeals to a lot of people, such as an offer to win a new iPod. The only time I’d use a niche-specific offer is if I had a good reason to believe the visitors would have a strong interest in that offer. For example, if I knew the visitors would be interested in information on weight loss, then I might promote a healthy weight loss guide from Clickbank.

In addition to your blog title, post titles and URL, you can use social bookmarking and other methods to help ensure a high ranking for your new “hot topic” blog. Ultimately, you want your blog showing up on the first page of results when people search for the topic. Because you’re building your site around a sudden trend, rather than an established topic, ranking well can be extremely easy even for a new site.

Step 3. Build a website around the affiliate offer and search engine optimize it so that it achieves good rankings. Free Blogger blogs work great for this. Basically all you need is to use the “hot topic” search term in the url of your blog as well as in your blog title. Then make a few short posts about the “hot topic”, remembering to include the search terms in the blog post title and in the body of the post. Within the actual post, you can include a link to your affiliate offer, and when people click on your link and perform the required action (sign up, submit, etc. ), you’ll get paid.

Step 4. When people search for the “hot” topic, they’ll come across your site and if you have the site monetized well, you’ll likely make affiliate commissions.

Step 5. Repeat it again with another “hot” topic. By nature, this is a profitable but very short-lived method for making money. Usually, either the trend will begin to die out and your site’s traffic will diminish along with it, or more sites will be indexed in the search engines and your site will be bumped off the first page of results (unless you do additional SEO to maintain your ranking). Either way, if you continually keep searching for trends, you can continually make money from this method by setting up site after site.

So there you have it - an easy, fast and free way to make money just by paying attention to what’s in the news. Not only is this a great way to earn affiliate cash, but it can also be a lot of fun!

 

Woodruff’s approach seemed very promising at first.   He went to four different continents and countries in order to assess the global impacts of China, the countries being Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, and the United States.

The Angolan segment highlighted China’s economic development model in Africa.   The myth perpetrated in this segment is that the development has actually provided a net benefit to the people of Africa.

In fact, the real truth China is practicing a very sophisticated 21st century version of imperialism in which China loans African countries billions of dollars in exchange for encumbering natural resources.   These resources range from oil and natural gas to copper, cobalt, and titanium.   As part of its debt encumbrance strategy, China gets to reduce its unemployment rate by using a large Chinese construction workforce to actually do the work – rather than relying so much on the native population.

In this segment, Woodruff makes repeated references to corruption.   However, in a glaring omission, he fails to make explicit just how much of the billions in Chinese aid is actually siphoned off into offshore bank accounts held by the African elites.   Nor does Woodruff highlight the intense poverty in the countriesChina is supposed to be “benefiting” — other than offering a few images of slums.

That said, the absolute worst omission of the African segment is Woodruff’s failure to mention the Darfur genocide in the Sudan.   Instead, the only thing we get is a passing reference to Chinese aid to the Sudan in exchange for oil.   In fact,China regularly trades its veto power at the UN for African resources in exchange for shielding African despots from UN interventions.

What made Woodruff’s omission all the more galling is that Woodruff did an extensive interview with China’s United Nations Ambassador Wang Guangya.   This is the same reprehensible “diplomat” who has repeatedly blocked UN action on Darfur.  (Wang also has blocked action following the sham Zimbabwe election and the attempts of the West to sanction Iran for its nuclear development).     The failure to confront Wang on the Darfur question was tantamount to appeasement — or, far worse, simple ignorance.

Woodruff’s omissions were equally in evidence in his Brazil segment.   The theme Woodruff drew here is that China’s increasing consumption for soybeans is leading to deforestation of the Amazon and potential environmental problems.   The biggest problems with this segment were a lack of visual imagery to portray the destruction of the Amazon, and the lack of science and statistics to explain how deforestation in the Amazon is likely to affect the global environment and crop production.

In fact, most of the Amazon’s deforestation occurs during the dry season in an orchestrated slash and burn campaign that fouls the skies throughout South America.   Showing that massive environmental carnage — instead of a few big trees being felled — would have made for a far stronger presentation.   Missing, too, was any good explanation of why we should care about the Amazon.   In fact, theAmazon River basin and its rainforest are absolutely critical to the global ecology because they are considered to be the “Lungs of our Planet. “  By recycling carbon dioxide, the rainforest in particular provides more than 20 percent of the world’s oxygen.

Already, more than 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed while the World Wildlife Fund warns that more than half of the forest will be gone by 2030.    According to many scientists, this destruction of the rainforest has the potential to create severe drought conditions not just in South America but also as far north as the American and Canadian farm belts.   The result may well be a global food crisis — high irony indeed given that the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is occurring in the name of increased food production.

Turning to the third segment on Cambodia, Woodruff does a good job tagging the Chinese with at least some responsibility for the Khmer Rouge genocide of millions.   Missing in this segment, however, was any insight into the real reason why China is setting up so many sweat shops in Cambodia.   Too bad Woodruff didn’t get his cameras into some of these sweat shops to expose the slave labor conditions!

My other big beef with the Cambodian segment was the failure of Woodruff to mention how China is using its upstream positioning on the Mekong River to dam that river with bullying impunity.  China’s dam-happy Mekong River design will eventually include 15 mega-dams.   These mega-dams are likely to create economic and environmental effects that are vast and far-ranging — and Cambodiais at the front lines of this onslaught.

To understand the problem, consider the impacts of China’s dams on one of the world’s most fascinating ecological treasures, the legendary Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia. For much of the year, the lake is only a yard deep with a footprint of only a bit more than 1,000 square miles. During the rainy season, however, flow from the Mekong River helps deepen the lake to roughly 30 feet and increases the area of the lake more than five-fold. This turns Lake Tonle Sap into one of the best breeding grounds for fish in the world.

The obvious problem facing the Tonle Sap is that the China’s mega-dams are evening out the flow of water and thereby preventing the world’s most fertile natural fishery from realizing its full depth and breadth in the critical fish breeding season. Already, fish catches have declined dramatically.   This is already having a significant negative effect on Cambodia’s fishing economy.

Woodruff clearly saved the worst for last in his discussion of the impacts of Chinaon the American economy. He leads off the segment by helping to perpetuate the myth that China’s emergence as the world’s factory floor is the result of cheap, hard-working labor.   (The mouthpiece here is Evan Osnos, Beijing Bureau Chief for the Chicago Tribune — an otherwise cogent voice. )

In fact, my research has clearly shown that cheap labor is only a small part of the China puzzle.   Much of China’s advantage in world markets comes from five unfair mercantilist trade practices that include a complex web of illegal export subsidies, blatant currency manipulation, counterfeiting and piracy that lowers production costs, and lax environmental and health and safety standards that likewise lower production costs.

That China blatantly manipulates its currency seems to be totally lost on both Woodruff and the seemingly clueless Fareed Zakaria.   Indeed, it is Zakaria who helps perpetuate the myth that the Chinese are more frugal savers than American consumers and that’s why China helps the U. S. with its debt by buying U. S. treasury bills.

Note to Woodruff and Zakaria: The purchase of U. S. treasury bills is an integral part of the currency manipulation process.   To maintain China’s fixed peg to the dollar and keep the yuan grossly undervalued, China must recycle dollars back into the U. S.    Of course, individual Chinese citizens have no say in this matter; rather they are merely press-ganged into their frugality by China’s central bank — which wants to keep exports to the U. S. cheap and imports into China dear.   (It’s no accident the U. S. trade deficit regularly hits record highs. )

The failure of Zakaria to understand this currency manipulation process (and the broader role of unfair trade practices in China’s grab of American markets) makes it perfectly understandable why Zakaria ignorantly advises that the U. S. has only two options  with China: “either ride the wave or drown in it. ”  In fact, what theU. S. government should be doing to prevent the loss of American jobs is cracking down on China’s unfair trade practices.   Leveling the playing field would go a long way towards bringing jobs back to the U. S.

On that note, it is useful to point out perhaps the biggest myth of the documentary – one perpetuated by none other than Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York.   His Honor piously insists that “the jobs that [China] is creating are low-priced jobs” and “that’s not the kind of jobs we want for our citizens. ”

Note to the Mayor: While you’ve apparently been sleeping, China has moved steadily up and across the value chain into everything from autos and biopharma to commercial aircraft.   It’s not just about cheap toys and sneakers anymore.

My bottom line is that I would love to see an in-depth, fair and balanced critical look at the economic, environmental, military, political, and social impacts of China on rest of the world.   All that we have gotten so far from TV is a bunch of puff pieces that miss many of the major points and keep perpetuate a set of very dangerous myths.

©2008 Peter Navarro

Author Bio Peter Navarro a business professor at the University of California-Irvine, is the author of the best- selling investment book If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks and the path-breaking management book, The Well-Timed Strategy. Professor Navarro is a widely sought after and gifted public speaker and a regular CNBC contributor. Prior to joining CNBC, he appeared frequently on Bloomberg TV, CNN, and NPR, as well as on all three major network news shows. He has testified before Congress and the U. S. -China Commission and his work has appeared in publications ranging from Business Week, the L. A. Times, and New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review.

 

Adventure Island – Tampa

 Adventure Island at Tampa is close by to Busch Gardens and is packed with excitement and adventure.   It offers around 34 30 acres of water rides and other attractions.   There are picnic and sunbathing areas, along with outdoor cafes, snack bars and gift shops.

For people who love thrills, the Wahoo Run plunges up to five riders at a time, more than 15 feet per second as this half-enclosed tunnel twists and turns more than 600 feet to a waiting splash pool below.   Wahoo Run has been called the “fastest tunnel river raft in the world,” Here, you will corkscrew through spins and spirals propelled by more than 10,000 gallons of water.  

The Tampa Typhoon will also have you screaming as you “free-fall” seven stories down a 76 foot water slide on one of the most heart-pumping rides in the park.

Other thrill rides include the Splash Attack, Caribbean Corkscrew, Runaway Rapids, Aruba Tuba and the Gulf Scream, a huge 210-foot body slide that whisks you into the waiting pool below at 25 mph.

Also try Paradise Lagoon. This is a 9,000 square foot attraction, which features several individual attractions.   These include a rope walk, a cable drop, several slides and a 20-foot platform jump for cliff jumping.

The Endless Surf is Adventure Island’s 17,000-square foot wave pool that generates waves up to five feet high for hours of total fun at the coolest and wettest place in Tampa.

For those who prefer a more relaxing and quieter ride, there is Rambling Bayou where you can drift around Paradise lagoon in a car tyre inner tube (beware of the sun though as the water seems cool but the sun is very hot).

Adventure Landing: Shipwreck Island Waterpark - Jacksonville Beach

Adventure Landing and Shipwreck Island Water Park is a combination water park and amusement park located between Jacksonville Beach and the Intercoastal Waterway.

It is the largest amusement complex in northeast Florida, and offers family fun for all ages.   Shipwreck Island, is the interactive waterpark, and includes a variety of water attractions such as a wave pool, slides, inner tubing and a very unique uphill waterslide. The Shipwreck Island Play Village is the main centrepiece for children, and includes multiple attractions for young guests of all ages.

Adventure Landing/Shipwreck Island Water Park has three “extreme” slides. The newest ride is the Hydro Half Pipe, where single, double and triple-tube riders experience a sudden, nearly vertical, drop of 40 feet, and are then propelled through a pool of water to another ramp on the other side.

The Rage is an “uphill/downhill” water slide and The Eye of the Storm is a once in a lifetime ride, that is only for the most risky thrill seekers. You must be a strong swimmer and at least 48” tall to take on The Eye of the Storm.

The park also features a half-million gallon wave pool.

The Shipwreck Island Play Village, designed with children in mind, contains waterfalls, multiple small slides and water cannons that will keep children entertained for hours. Be prepared to enjoy non-stop action on Adventure Landing’s dry side.

Start your adventure with the Adventure Speedway Go-Karts, where a twisting quarter mile go-kart track with live racing has results posted on a finish-line leader board. The park advertises that “it is as close to NASCAR racing as you get. ”

For those looking for something a little calmer, Adventure Golf has two unique 18-hole miniature golf courses designed for fun and relaxation in mind. The two courses challenge all skill levels as they wind through tunnels, over waterfalls and “mountains. ”

The multi-level Arcade has over 100 interactive games, and kids especially love Laser Tag, an indoor battle arena with “out of this world” lighting and sound.

For a thrill of a lifetime, the MaxFlight Coast Simulator takes guests on an adventure into the world of virtual reality. This ride has a 360-degree range of motion that allows you to physically feel what can only be imagined in the “real” world. You must be in good health to ride the MaxFlight Simulator, not pregnant and it is not recommended if you suffer from claustrophobia.

The Wacky Worm Roller Coaster is for people of all ages, and the Frog Hopper is an adventure ride for younger children.

Adventure Landing also offers Batting Cages, for hardball, softball, slow or fast pitch. It’s great for individual or team practice.

If you feel hungry after all that fun, there a two themed snack bars that have all kinds of food, snacks and drinks.

Adventure Landing’s Shipwreck Island Waterpark is located at 1944 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville Beach.

Aquatica - SeaWorld Orlando

Aquatica is Florida’s newest water park which opened in April 2008.

This park offers a new twist in water play with animal interactions, as in the Dolphin Plunge which is the most popular ride in the park.   Two side-by-side enclosed tube slides send you racing through an underwater world that is home to a playful pod of beautiful black-and-white Commerson’s Dolphins.

Try the Taumata Racer if you are looking for the biggest thrill in the park.   This is a high speed competitive mat ride where eight racers rip down a staggeringly steep hill, head first.

Loggerhead Lane – take a load off your feet and hop on a lazy river ride down Loggerhead Lane.   This leisurely raft ride takes you through an underwater world colored by exotic tropical fish.

Tassie’s Twisters is one of the wackiest rides ever imagined. In fact, getting there is part of the fun.   From the Loggerhead Lane lazy river, you’ll make your way to the island in the center and climb to the tower.   Once you get to the top, lightning fast tubes shoot you into a giant bowl, where you’ll spin, and spin, and spin, until you’re finally spun back out into the lazy river. You’ve never seen or felt anything quite like it.

Whanau Way is a quadruple slide tower and is one of the most popular rides in the park.

Walhalla Wave & HooRoo is a is a thrilling ride for the whole family, zooming you through a 6-story maze of twists, turns, and tunnels before you surge back out into daylight.

Walkabout Waters is one of the most talked about places in the park for children. This towering, 60-foot-tall rain fortress is bursting with color, excitement, and adventures waiting to begin.

Cutback Cove & Big Surf Shores - one thing or should we say two things that makes Aquatica so unique are the giant, side-by-side wave pools you won’t find anywhere else in the U. S.   At Cutback Cove, the waves are always rolling, and the action’s always high. At Big Surf Shores, the surf can be high or slow and easy. What kind of wave do you feel like catching today? Two separate pools let you decide.

Roa’s Rapids race you along an action river ride through the white waters of Aquatica.   Get ready for an awesome adventure through a roaring sea of high tides, swirling whirlies, and gushing geysers- all at speeds that leave ordinary river rides eating this one’s wake.

Aquatica is located across the street from SeaWorld Orlando on International Drive and is open year round.

Blizzard Beach at Disney World - Kissimmee

Blizzard Beach is one of Walt Disney World Resort water parks and has a Winter theme.

For a really “cool” time, this 66-acre water adventure park has all the atmosphere of a major ski resort – but it is strictly tropical.

Here, visitors can slip and slid down “snow-capped” mountains amid a snowy scene (a visual effect only – temperatures actually remain a controlled tropical level year-round,).   Waterslides look a lot like slush cascading down the mountainside, and a “ski lift” takes guests to the top of Mt. Gushmore. Disney’s Blizzard Beach.   It contains 21 slides, a wave pool, and a separate area for pre-teens and children.

As you enter the park, the first thing you see is the 90-foot snow-capped mountain, Mt. Gushmore. It is home to the newest waterslide called Downhill Double Dipper, a side-by-side racing water slide that stands 50 feet high and 200 feet long. Riders travel up to 25 mph as they twist and turn before shooting out through a blast of water.  

Other adventures at Mt. Gushmore include slalom courses, toboggan and water sleds and the 120-foot high Summit Plummet, a breathtaking 60-mph plunge straight down to a splash landing at the base of the mountain.  

The Teamboat Springs is the world’s longest family white water raft that ride takes six-passenger rafts down a twisting 1,200 foot series of rushing water falls.

The Toboggan Racer is an 8-lane water slide that sends guests racing over exhilarating dips as they descend the “snowy” slope.

Snow Stormers has three flumes descending from the top of the mountain and following a switchback course through ski-type slalom gates.

Runoff Rapids is an inner tube run, where riders can careen down three different twisting, turning flumes.

Chair Lift is where wooden bench chair lifts carry guests over the craggy face of Mt. Gushmore, from its base at the beach, to its summit.

At Cross Country Creek, you can float on a tube along a lazy river that encircles the entire park. On the way, you will float through a cave where you’ll be splashed with “melting ice” from overhead. “Melt-Away Bay” is a 4,000 square foot (one-acre) wave pool that is nestled against the base of Mt. Gushmore and is constantly fed by “melting snow” waterfalls. Tike’s Peak is a smaller version of Mt. Gushmore, just for children. It includes short water slides, a snow-castle, fountain play area and a squirting ice pond.

The Ski Patrol Training Camp is designed for pre-teens; equipped with inner tube slides and a challenging ice-flow walk along floating icebergs.

Typhoon Lagoon at Disney World - Kissimmee

Typhoon Lagoon is Walt Disney World’s 56-acre water park that includes a man-made watershed mountain and eight twisting, turning water slides and roaring streams. It is also home to a two-and-a-half-acre wave pool, one of the worlds largest (where the waves are as big as six feet and come at you every one and a half minutes)

The park features a water playground for children, a white sand beach and a lazy stream that surrounds the 95-foot Mount May Day.

Mount Mayday, is the 95-foot volcano on top of which is perched a shipwrecked shrimp boat.   At the summit of Mount May Day, guests can choose from several exciting water slides. At the base of the mountain is one of the world’s largest wave pools, complete with a white sandy beach and some of the most powerful artificial waves in Orlando. Also bordering the Lagoon is Castaway Creek, a 2,100-foot river that carries guests leisurely around the perimeter of the park. You can even go snorkelling amid tropical fish and other exotic marine life. Typhoon Lagoon is the main wave pool that is two-and-a-half- acres, and holds 2. 75 million gallons of water. There are two sets of waves that are produced in this pool. The first set are gentle bobbing waves that come on a continuous basis, like a normal wave pool. However, every half hour a loud horn will sound and that means that the waves will be changing.  At this point, get ready for waves as large as four feet that come at you with a lot of speed and force, every 90 seconds.

Castaway Creek is the lazy river that travels around the park. Take an inner tube and float along. The river is only 3-4 feet deep and runs on a slow current. As you float down the river on this 2,000-foot journey, you will see banana trees, palm trees, tropical birds and flowers. You will slowly drift through caves, under waterfalls and cool mists, and through tropical forests, and around all the other attractions at the park. If you choose, you can get off Castaway Creek at one of the many stops along the way. Disney’s first ever water coaster, the Crush n’ Gusher is a thrilling experience that defies gravity as powerful jets propel passengers on rafts through every surprise filled turn until they splash land in the pool below.

Three water slides await you at Humunga Kowabunga, which sends you zooming through enclosed tubes at 30 mph to a splashing surprise ending.

Storm Slides is another set of three slides where you will twist and swirl through caves and tunnels.

Mayday Falls is the longest waterslide in the Park that takes guests aboard their own personal inner tube down the side of the mountain in the shadow of the famed shrimp boat. One of the most dramatic attractions at Typhoon Lagoon is Shark Reef, a massive saltwater pool and manmade coral reef, where you can snorkel among swarms of exotic marine life. For those who don’t want to get wet, there is a sunken tanker with portholes that provide stunning views of the underwater activity. Ketchakiddie Creek is Typhoon Lagoon’s play area, especially for children aged two to five. There is a small pool and water slide, fountain and bubblers, interactive water boats, and even a pint-sized white water rafting adventure. An adult must accompany all children. Wet-n-Wild

Wet-n-Wild in Orlando, was voted by the Amusement Business Magazine as America’s “number one water park,” and also honoured by Aquatic’s International as the country’s “first true water park. ” 

Wet ‘n Wild is, indeed, the oldest water park in the area, but it is continually adding new rides and is loaded with slides and other attractions for the entire family. It includes a 7-story water slide, various tubes, wave pools, and a Lazy River tube ride around the park and more, including a rather elaborate children’s area.  

Over a dozen thrill rides in all at Wet ‘N Wild (including several multi-person/family rides) will keep even the most discriminating amusement park aficionado entertained. Wet ‘N Wild is also fully staffed with certified lifeguards and all the pools are seasonally heated.  

One of the newest attractions at Wet ‘N Wild is Disco H2O, a multi-million dollar retro slide that showcases the 1970s disco nightlife. Like other bowl rides, this one sends passengers on a four-person cloverleaf “raft” down a slide and into a large funnel where it swishes and spins to the sounds of the hits of the 70s, before splashing out the bottom. Inside the ride are flashing lights and a mirror “disco” ball. Other rides include the Bubba Tub, a four-person raft that takes passengers on a rollicking ride on a triple dip slide.  

The Surge sends five passengers at a time through a never-ending maze of twists and turns, and The Blast sends groups of two through a colourful maze with sound effects and then ends with a final plummet into the water.  

Experience the thrill of The Bomb Bay, where the floor actually falls out from underneath you in a bomb-like capsule, 76-foot high vertical slide. (Get ready to feel your stomach drop to your feet in this one!).  

Thrill seekers will want to try out The Flyer, which begins its’ descent from a vantage point located 40 feet above the park. This exhilarating ride sends passengers racing through 450 feet of banked curves and speedy straightways.  

Another of the park’s most popular rides is the Blue Niagara, where you’ll race, twist and splash through 300 feet of intertwined looping tubes that start at six stores above the park and end with a big splash landing. Wet N Wild also features a winding Lazy River where you can enjoy a relaxing ride as you drift slowly through bubbles to an enchanting spring with a waterfall spilling over a rocky hillside.  

Wet ‘n Wild’s newly upgraded 17,000 square foot Surf Lagoon Wave Pool features some of the most powerful waves found at any water park.

Just for children, Kid’s Park at Wet N Wild, is complete with a giant sandcastle, kiddie pool and specially sized beach chairs. The Bubble Up is a large, multi-collared balloon that is crowned with a mushroom-shaped fountain that sprays water all over the balloon’s surface. Kids can climb to the top (with the aid of a rope) and then bounce down the side of the balloon into a three-foot deep pool below.  

Shipwreck Island Water Park – Panama City 

Shipwreck Island Water Park is the only water park located within 300 miles of Panama City Beach.  

Six acres in size, Shipwreck Island is designed for family entertainment and offers rides, slides, a lazy river and a large wave pool, set amid lush tropical landscaping.  

Rides at Shipwreck Island include thrill rides, family rides and a special “Tadpole Hole” section just for children.  

The Raging Rapids, Tree Top Drop and the huge double slide Pirates Plunge are just a few of the exciting thrill rides at the park.  

The White Knuckle River Ride, Shipwreck Island’s newest ride, takes guests in large, three-to-five passenger inner tubes swishing and swirling down a 660-foot long, six-story high flume in an exciting, white knuckle experience.  

The Ocean Motion Wave Pool at Shipwreck Island has been said to be “the closest thing to the beach without actually being on the beach. ” It contains 500,000 gallons of water and is the coolest thing around on a hot summer day.  

Visitors who prefer to take things slow can enjoy floating gently downstream in inner tubes on the Lazy River.  

Kids enjoy the Great Shipwreck and the Zoom Flume and even toddlers can get in on the action with the rides at Tadpole Hole, including the Frog and Pelican Slides.

Shipwreck Island is located at 12001 Middle Beach Road, Panama City Beach, FL 32407Big Kahuna’s Lost Paradise – Destin 

Big Kahuna’s Lost Paradise is a combination waterpark and amusement park that is located in Destin on Florida’s beautiful Emerald Coast. This fun family adventure park covers more than 25 acres and boasts more than 40 water attractions, plus an arcade, roller coaster and miniature golf. Dozens of slides, three rushing rivers, white water tubing, two wave pools, a children’s area and the “biggest man made waterfall in the world,” makes Big Kahuna’s one of the most exciting and diverse waterparks in the state.  

The most impressive attraction at Big Kahuna’s is Tiagra Falls, the largest man-made waterfall in the world, which pumps 30,000 gallons of crystal clear water per minute over 250 feet of massive granite rock.  

Glide your way down the Lazy River through caves and other smaller waterfalls, around beautiful, lush tropical landscaping on your way to Tiagra Falls.  

Big Kahuna’s has it all – three rushing rivers, speed slides, body flumes, white water tubing, two large wave pools, and fun fountains.  

The thrill rides include the Maui Pipeline Speed Slides and Jumanji, a long snake of a ride that twists and spins you all the way to the bottom for a spectacular splash landing. There are four children’s areas at Big Kahuna’s with kid-sized slides and variable depth pools.  

Pleasure Island is a child-sized paradise complete with a pass-thru waterfall, low-depth pools and a wacky octopus that sprays them with water. Youngsters also enjoy the Pirate Ship and Crocodile Flats, which offers twirling slides that plunge them into the basin below where an abandoned ship awaits with a “bubbly surprise. ” If you prefer dry land, Big Kahuna’s Adventure Park offers several fun options. Enjoy the thrill of racing at the Grand Prix Raceway or take a turn on the Sky Coaster, a heart-thumping ride that puts you 100 feet into the air. The Pakali Arcade offers a variety of games and Tropical Mini Golf is Big Kahuna’s miniature golf course that boasts 54 challenging holes on three unique courses. Beautifully landscaped with tropical flowers, sculpted trees and several waterfalls, each course winds over wooden bridges, through caves and dense flora.

Big Kahuna’s Lost Paradise is located at 1007 Highway 98 E, Destin, FL 32541

Rapids Water Park

Rapids Water Park is one of South Florida’s premiere family parks.   The Rapids features a full day of fun for the entire family whether you make a splash in the cool blue waves, take a thrilling ride down any of our 29 water slides, or just float around the lazy river. Rapids Water Park has 25 acres of action packed attractions, with something fun for everyone.

Big Thunder is the largest water ride in Florida is at Rapids Water Park in West Palm Beach! Accelerate in a four-person tube to over 20 miles per hour and be propelled high up the walls of the Big Thunder funnel.

Black Thunder - take a spin in the dark inside Black Thunder’s gigantic funnel! Up to four riders may enjoy a fast ride in the pitch black darkness on the Black Thunder raft ride!

Body Blasters - get swept away in a flood of water as you blast through 1,000 feet of darkness. With nothing to hold onto but your swimsuit, you soar through heart-pounding drops and pulse-racing dips and curves.

Pirates Plunge is not for the faint hearted. It’s two speed slides with twists, turns, dips and a 7-story drop. It’s a splash you’ll never forget!

Raging Rapids - twist and turn through the darkness and then burst back into the light to enjoy two sharp drops before splashdown on the Raging Rapids! Up to four riders may enjoy the fast and dark Raging Rapids raft ride!

Riptide Raftin’ is a tube ride that accommodates up to five people.

The Superbowls – two super water slide rides, Baby Blue and Big Red, that spin, twirl and send you plummeting into a heart stopping splash landing!

Tubin’ Tornadoes - dare to ride out the storm in this totally tubular ride. Grab a tube and travel in the dark at the speed of light before plummeting downward in 1,000 feet of tunnel. Thunder through whirlwind twists and turns before plunging into a pool for a cool landing.

Big Surf - catch a wave in this 25,000 square foot wave pool with waves that can go up to six feet.

Criss Crossing - challenge yourself to make it across the floating ice cubes, fruit and alligators at Criss Crossing!

Other rides include Dancing Fountains, Lazy River, Little Splash Hill, Water Flumes, Alligator Alley, Splish Splash Lagoon, Tadpool.

Rapids Water Park is located at 6566 N. Military Trail, Riviera Beach, FL 33407

This article was written by Phil Cornish.   Designer and owner of Florida private rental villa web sites http://www. floridasuntime. com and also http://www. simply-florida. com.

 

Woodruff’s approach seemed very promising at first.   He went to four different continents and countries in order to assess the global impacts of China, the countries being Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, and the United States.

The Angolan segment highlighted China’s economic development model in Africa.   The myth perpetrated in this segment is that the development has actually provided a net benefit to the people of Africa.

In fact, the real truth China is practicing a very sophisticated 21st century version of imperialism in which China loans African countries billions of dollars in exchange for encumbering natural resources.   These resources range from oil and natural gas to copper, cobalt, and titanium.   As part of its debt encumbrance strategy, China gets to reduce its unemployment rate by using a large Chinese construction workforce to actually do the work – rather than relying so much on the native population.

In this segment, Woodruff makes repeated references to corruption.   However, in a glaring omission, he fails to make explicit just how much of the billions in Chinese aid is actually siphoned off into offshore bank accounts held by the African elites.   Nor does Woodruff highlight the intense poverty in the countriesChina is supposed to be “benefiting” — other than offering a few images of slums.

That said, the absolute worst omission of the African segment is Woodruff’s failure to mention the Darfur genocide in the Sudan.   Instead, the only thing we get is a passing reference to Chinese aid to the Sudan in exchange for oil.   In fact,China regularly trades its veto power at the UN for African resources in exchange for shielding African despots from UN interventions.

What made Woodruff’s omission all the more galling is that Woodruff did an extensive interview with China’s United Nations Ambassador Wang Guangya.   This is the same reprehensible “diplomat” who has repeatedly blocked UN action on Darfur.  (Wang also has blocked action following the sham Zimbabwe election and the attempts of the West to sanction Iran for its nuclear development).     The failure to confront Wang on the Darfur question was tantamount to appeasement — or, far worse, simple ignorance.

Woodruff’s omissions were equally in evidence in his Brazil segment.   The theme Woodruff drew here is that China’s increasing consumption for soybeans is leading to deforestation of the Amazon and potential environmental problems.   The biggest problems with this segment were a lack of visual imagery to portray the destruction of the Amazon, and the lack of science and statistics to explain how deforestation in the Amazon is likely to affect the global environment and crop production.

In fact, most of the Amazon’s deforestation occurs during the dry season in an orchestrated slash and burn campaign that fouls the skies throughout South America.   Showing that massive environmental carnage — instead of a few big trees being felled — would have made for a far stronger presentation.   Missing, too, was any good explanation of why we should care about the Amazon.   In fact, theAmazon River basin and its rainforest are absolutely critical to the global ecology because they are considered to be the “Lungs of our Planet. “  By recycling carbon dioxide, the rainforest in particular provides more than 20 percent of the world’s oxygen.

Already, more than 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed while the World Wildlife Fund warns that more than half of the forest will be gone by 2030.    According to many scientists, this destruction of the rainforest has the potential to create severe drought conditions not just in South America but also as far north as the American and Canadian farm belts.   The result may well be a global food crisis — high irony indeed given that the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is occurring in the name of increased food production.

Turning to the third segment on Cambodia, Woodruff does a good job tagging the Chinese with at least some responsibility for the Khmer Rouge genocide of millions.   Missing in this segment, however, was any insight into the real reason why China is setting up so many sweat shops in Cambodia.   Too bad Woodruff didn’t get his cameras into some of these sweat shops to expose the slave labor conditions!

My other big beef with the Cambodian segment was the failure of Woodruff to mention how China is using its upstream positioning on the Mekong River to dam that river with bullying impunity.  China’s dam-happy Mekong River design will eventually include 15 mega-dams.   These mega-dams are likely to create economic and environmental effects that are vast and far-ranging — and Cambodiais at the front lines of this onslaught.

To understand the problem, consider the impacts of China’s dams on one of the world’s most fascinating ecological treasures, the legendary Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia. For much of the year, the lake is only a yard deep with a footprint of only a bit more than 1,000 square miles. During the rainy season, however, flow from the Mekong River helps deepen the lake to roughly 30 feet and increases the area of the lake more than five-fold. This turns Lake Tonle Sap into one of the best breeding grounds for fish in the world.

The obvious problem facing the Tonle Sap is that the China’s mega-dams are evening out the flow of water and thereby preventing the world’s most fertile natural fishery from realizing its full depth and breadth in the critical fish breeding season. Already, fish catches have declined dramatically.   This is already having a significant negative effect on Cambodia’s fishing economy.

Woodruff clearly saved the worst for last in his discussion of the impacts of Chinaon the American economy. He leads off the segment by helping to perpetuate the myth that China’s emergence as the world’s factory floor is the result of cheap, hard-working labor.   (The mouthpiece here is Evan Osnos, Beijing Bureau Chief for the Chicago Tribune — an otherwise cogent voice. )

In fact, my research has clearly shown that cheap labor is only a small part of the China puzzle.   Much of China’s advantage in world markets comes from five unfair mercantilist trade practices that include a complex web of illegal export subsidies, blatant currency manipulation, counterfeiting and piracy that lowers production costs, and lax environmental and health and safety standards that likewise lower production costs.

That China blatantly manipulates its currency seems to be totally lost on both Woodruff and the seemingly clueless Fareed Zakaria.   Indeed, it is Zakaria who helps perpetuate the myth that the Chinese are more frugal savers than American consumers and that’s why China helps the U. S. with its debt by buying U. S. treasury bills.

Note to Woodruff and Zakaria: The purchase of U. S. treasury bills is an integral part of the currency manipulation process.   To maintain China’s fixed peg to the dollar and keep the yuan grossly undervalued, China must recycle dollars back into the U. S.    Of course, individual Chinese citizens have no say in this matter; rather they are merely press-ganged into their frugality by China’s central bank — which wants to keep exports to the U. S. cheap and imports into China dear.   (It’s no accident the U. S. trade deficit regularly hits record highs. )

The failure of Zakaria to understand this currency manipulation process (and the broader role of unfair trade practices in China’s grab of American markets) makes it perfectly understandable why Zakaria ignorantly advises that the U. S. has only two options  with China: “either ride the wave or drown in it. ”  In fact, what theU. S. government should be doing to prevent the loss of American jobs is cracking down on China’s unfair trade practices.   Leveling the playing field would go a long way towards bringing jobs back to the U. S.

On that note, it is useful to point out perhaps the biggest myth of the documentary – one perpetuated by none other than Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York.   His Honor piously insists that “the jobs that [China] is creating are low-priced jobs” and “that’s not the kind of jobs we want for our citizens. ”

Note to the Mayor: While you’ve apparently been sleeping, China has moved steadily up and across the value chain into everything from autos and biopharma to commercial aircraft.   It’s not just about cheap toys and sneakers anymore.

My bottom line is that I would love to see an in-depth, fair and balanced critical look at the economic, environmental, military, political, and social impacts of China on rest of the world.   All that we have gotten so far from TV is a bunch of puff pieces that miss many of the major points and keep perpetuate a set of very dangerous myths.

©2008 Peter Navarro

Author Bio Peter Navarro a business professor at the University of California-Irvine, is the author of the best- selling investment book If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks and the path-breaking management book, The Well-Timed Strategy. Professor Navarro is a widely sought after and gifted public speaker and a regular CNBC contributor. Prior to joining CNBC, he appeared frequently on Bloomberg TV, CNN, and NPR, as well as on all three major network news shows. He has testified before Congress and the U. S. -China Commission and his work has appeared in publications ranging from Business Week, the L. A. Times, and New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review.

 

 

Woodruff's approach seemed very promising at first. He went to four different continents and countries to assess the overall impact of China, the countries are: Angola, Brazil, Cambodia and the United States.

The Angolan segment highlighted the economic development model of China in Africa. The myth perpetrated in this segment is that development has provided a net benefit to the people of Africa.

In fact, the truth is that current Chinese practice a very sophisticated version of imperialism in the 21st century in which China loans African countries billions of dollars in exchange for taxing natural resources. These resources range from oil and natural gas for copper, cobalt and titanium. As part of its strategy of debt, China is able to reduce its unemployment rate with a labor intensive Chinese construction actually work - rather than rely so heavily on the native population.

In this segment, Woodruff makes repeated references to corruption. However, a glaring omission, fails to explain how billions in Chinese aid is actually diverted to offshore bank accounts by the African elites. Woodruff and highlights the immense poverty countriesChina must be "eligible" - In addition to providing some images of the slums.

However, the absolute worst part is the lack of African Woodruff mention the Darfur genocide in Sudan. Instead, all we have is a passing reference to China's aid to Sudan in exchange for oil. In fact, China regularly trades its veto in the UN for African resources in exchange for protection African despots UN intervention.

What made Woodruff's omission even more irritating is that Woodruff did an extensive interview with the United Nations Ambassador Wang Guangya. This is the same reprehensible "diplomat" who often has blocked UN action in Darfur. (Wang also has blocked action following the sham elections in Zimbabwe and western attempts to punish Iran for its nuclear development). The inability to deal with Wang on the Darfur issue is tantamount to appeasement - or, worse, simple ignorance.

Woodruff also apparent omissions in its sector in Brazil. The issue here is Woodruff noted that the rising consumption of China for soybeans is leading to deforestation of the Amazon and the potential environmental problems. The biggest problems with this sector are the lack of visual images to represent the destruction of the Amazon, and the lack of statistical science and explain how deforestation in the Amazon is likely to affect the global environment and agricultural production.

In fact, most of the Amazon deforestation occurs during the dry season in an orchestrated slash and burn campaign that fouls the skies throughout South America. Showing that it is cutting the mass slaughter of the environment - instead of a few large trees - have become a much more significant. Missing, too, had a good explanation of why we should worry about the Amazon. In fact, the basin of the Amazon river and its absolutely essential to global ecology, since they are considered the "lungs of our planet." By recycling carbon dioxide, the rainforest, in particular, provides more than 20 per cent oxygen on the planet.

Currently, over 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed, while the World Wildlife Fund reports that more than half of the forests will be gone by 2030. According to many scientists, the destruction of the rainforest has the potential to create severe drought conditions, not only in South America but also in the north to the U.S. Farm Belt and Canada. The result may well be a global food crisis - the irony really high, since the destruction of the Amazon rainforest has made on behalf of increased food production.

As to the third segment on Cambodia, Woodruff does a good job tagging the Chinese with at least some responsibility in the Khmer Rouge genocide of millions. Missing in this sector was however no indication of the real reason why China is set for many sweatshops in Cambodia. Too bad Woodruff did not have his camera in some of these workshops to expose the working conditions of slaves!

My other beef with the segment of Cambodia was the failure of Woodruff to talk about how China is using his high position of the Mekong river to stop the intimidation with impunity. Mother of China and happy to finally design the Mekong River include 15 mega-dams. These mega-dams can create economic and environmental effects are huge and powerful - and Cambodia at the forefront of this offensive.

To understand the problem, the study of the impacts of dams in China one of the ecological treasures of the world's most fascinating, the legendary Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia. For much of the year, the lake is three feet deep with a footprint of just over 1,000 square kilometers. During the rainy season, however, the flow of the Mekong River helps deepen the lake about 30 feet and increased the lake's surface, more than five times. This makes the Tonle Sap lake in one of the best courses in fish farming in the world.

The obvious problem facing the Tonle Sap is that China mega-dams are out of the water flow and prevent the natural fisheries of the world's most fertile reach its full depth and breadth in the critical fish breeding season. Already, catches have declined drastically. This is already a significant negative effect on Cambodia's fishing economy.

Woodruff clearly saved the worst for last in his analysis of the impact of the U.S. economy Chinaon. He leads the segment, helping to perpetuate the myth that China's emergence as the world's factory is the result of low prices, hard work. (The bill by Evan Osnos, Bureau Chief in Beijing for the Chicago Tribune - an otherwise cogent voice.)

In fact, my research has clearly shown that cheap labor is only a small part of the puzzle of China. Much of China's advantage in global markets five unfair mercantilist trade practices that includes a complex web of illegal export subsidies, blatant counterfeiting currency manipulation and piracy that lowers production costs, and lax environmental standards and health and safety and lower production costs.

That China manipulates its currency openly seems totally lost on both Woodruff and the seemingly clueless Fareed Zakaria. Indeed, it is Zakaria who helps perpetuate the myth that the protectors of the Chinese are more frugal U.S. consumers and that's why China helps the U.S. with its debt by purchasing U. S. Treasuries.

Note to Woodruff and Zakaria: The purchase of Treasury of the United States is an integral part of currency manipulation. To maintain parity with the dollar and China to keep the yuan grossly undervalued, China must recycle dollars in the U. S. Of course, Chinese citizens have nothing to say about this and are instead pressing simply forced into frugality by China's central bank - which wants to maintain exports to the United States and cheap imports expensive in China. (This is not an accident, the U.S. trade deficit has reached record levels regularly.)

The failure of Zakaria to understand this process of currency manipulation (and the broader role of unfair trade practices in China to grab U.S. market), it is perfectly understandable that ignorance Zakaria, who advises States United only has two choices with China, "or riding the wave or drown in it. "In fact, theU. S. Government should do to prevent the loss of U.S. jobs is cracking down on unfair trade practices in China. Level the playing field to go a long way to the back door of jobs in the U.S.

In that sense, it is useful to recall perhaps the greatest myth of the documentary - one perpetuated by none other than Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York. His Honor piously insists that "jobs that [China] is creating jobs are cheap" and "this is not the kind of jobs we want for our citizens. "

Note to the Mayor: As you've apparently been sleeping, China has gained little by little and the whole value chain in everything from automobiles and biopharmaceutical products for commercial aviation. This is not just about cheap toys and sneakers.

My conclusion is that I would see a critical look complete, fair and balanced economic, environmental, military and social policies of China in the world. Everything we've come so far from the TV is a lot of puff pieces that miss many important points and maintain a continuing series of dangerous myths.

© 2008 Peter Navarro

Author Bio Peter Navarro, a business professor at the University of California at Irvine, is the best-selling author of investment if it's raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks and the pioneering book on management, the appropriate strategy. Professor Navarro is highly sought after and gifted speaker and a regular contributor to CNBC. Before joining CNBC, which appears frequently on Bloomberg TV, CNN, NPR, and the three main programs of the new network. He testified before Congress and the US-China Commission and his work has appeared in publications ranging from Business Week, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Harvard Business review.