Manipulated News from China and Al Sharpton

Manipulated News from China and Al Sharpton

When we used to think of “news,” we thought of contemporary developments that somehow could affect us, the country, our neighborhoods, etc. Lately, news has become far more manipulated, serving, as with the MSM, more as a vehicle for propagandizing than for the dissemination of actual information.

International “news” has long been that way, propagandistic, especially if it emanated from behind the late, unlamented Iron Curtain, Cuba, the People’s Republic of China, et al. None of that group have really changed much in presenting real news, they’ve just gotten a tad more subtle and they lie better than in the past.

Case in point is China which has just announced, via a “top diplomat,” that it ”does not want to ‘replace’ [sic] the United States from its dominant role in the world, and the world should not fear China’s rise.”

Said diplomat, Dai Bingguo, wrote in an essay carried on the Foreign Ministry’s website, which gave it an official imprimatur and which was lapped up by Reuters, “The notion that China wants to replace the United States and dominate the world is a myth. Politically, we . . . respect the social systems and development path of the different peoples of the world [and] economically, we wholeheartedly want to continue to develop. Militarily, we are not engaged in an arms race:” http://tiny.cc/k9rp8

Those statements are commendable, not for their truth and sincerity, but for the achievement of perpetrating four monumental, blatant lies within the span of three sentences!

No interest in supplanting the U.S. which China now virtually owns? No need for the world to fear China’s meteoric rise and its economic incursions into Africa and Latin America? Respect for the different peoples of the world even as China fails to show respect for its own people by forced abortions? No arms race while China engages in an unprecedented build-up of its land and air power while establishing the first modern navy in its history?

That was indeed a marvel of attempted news manipulation, Mr. Bingguo, who also threw in a veiled warning: “The international community should welcome and not fear China’s peaceful development, help it and not hinder it, support it and not hold it back.” But the world also needed to “understand and respect China’s reasonable interests and concerns.”

The next thing we may expect could be a demand that all peoples of the planet begin eating with chopsticks.

I don’t know if the Reverend Al Sharpton is adept at using chopsticks but he’s certainly marvellously skilled in distorting news events. IOwntheWorld.com featured a brief story and video clip of the Reverend Al in action.

Sharpton grants no quarter to the Chinese when it comes to news manipulation. . .
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Mean-spiritedness on the UAW, Terrorists, and Walter Cronkite

Mean-spirited Views on the UAW, Terrorists, & Cronkite

If what follows seems un-Christian and unforgiving, so be it.

UAW Woes: Times are tough in Detroit and wherever else United Auto Workers live or used to work. I have great empathy for anyone, UAW member or no, who have lost their jobs and who may never regain them.

The UAW people most probably will never get another job with the pay scales and bennies they reveled in at GM, Chrysler, and Ford.

Hourly pay in excess of $70, unrivalled health care, sick days, and pensions, right of refusal to transfer, 80% salary when they so refuse, even a UAW country club to help make their cares go away, were just the tip of the iceberg of life as an autoworker who typically earned his position by graduating high school.

The UAW knowingly drove their companies into bankruptcy with their rapacious demands and even then produced vehicles notorious for shoddy workmanship that all but begged the Japanese, Germans, and South Koreans to come on over and win the allegiance of the American car-buyer.

The foreigners obliged, eventually overcame the bloated aristocracy and over-indulged peons of the UAW and captured larger and larger slices of the American car-pie market. Then GM and Chrysler went bust and Ford is now treading water.

Undismayed, the companies turned to whom else but the guy they had bought in the last election and he paid them back. Obama gave GM to the UAW and helped give Chrysler to the Italians: http://bit.ly/7qZIy.

Recall the days not very far back when the judicious car-buyer was warned not to buy a vehicle which rolled off assembly lines on a Monday or Friday when subs filled in for the thousands of absent UAW members? Payback can be a bitch, but not always in the USA.

Times are tough all over but the UAW and the auto narons brought on their own plight. Many workers may end up repairing fridges or servicing Fiats but all can take solace in the knowledge that the American taxpayer bailed out their profligacy.

Even temporary victory must be sweet.

Terrorist Ultimata: Last week brought some distressing news. ”The Guantanamo war court stalled again overnight when the five men accused of the Sept 11 attacks refused to leave their cells for a hearing at the remote US base in Cuba. ”

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and his trusty comrades in arms, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, are accused of conspiracy to murder civilians on September 11th, 2001 and have proudly admitted their responsibility. However, in a semi-final act of sheer contempt for America, they’re being un-cooperative.

Oh, really?

These (accused) dregs of humanity thought it all over and decided they will not make an appearance before an American court of justice? These (alleged) murderers of thousands of Americans chose not to attend their hearings unless they were permitted to make opening statements? These (suspected) terrorists are allowed to dictate their own terms?

Excuse me?

I don’t know who is more unbelievable in this farce. Is it the American government and prosecutors who entertained the thought of that boycott for more time than it took them to recover from guffawing or the snarling terrorists who sought to ridicule and abuse our justice system?

Since we can’t do this to those Americans, I suggest we shackle, muzzle, and drag the accused kicking and screaming beneath . . .

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The Real News Behind the News

The Real News Behind the News

We all know that the mass media and government today, especially today with government’s new role as nanny to the nation, spoon feed to the public what they think we can handle, what they want us to know, and hide what they want hidden.

However, thanks to a long-awaited technological breakthrough by Professor Klem Kadiddlehopper at the University of Hard Knocks, Burbank, we now have heretofore un-explained explanations of all the crap news we’ve been fed lately.

Incredibly, Burbank’s Professor Emeritus has succeeded in delving into the minds and mental processes of newsmakers and can reveal their true, unexpurgated thoughts. It’s a tad scary but very revelatory breakthrough.

The prof’s methodology and formularies are being kept secret for now but Kadiddlehopper has agreed to release some of his findings on what’s behind recent news, which we will call the “K-view:“

News Story: Pelosi Won’t Give Public a Week to Review Text of Health-Care Bill Before House Votes on It: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50229.

K-View: Damn, we don’t read major, or minor, legislation before we vote on it! Why should the public have a chance to read it? Those dimwits put us, ME, in power so why question what we do? Let them just eat cake, shut up, and act like the sheep we know they are: (thought by Nancy Pelosi)

News Story: Congressmen Say They Didn’t Have Chance to Read Full 1,200-Page Climate Change Bill Before Vote: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50234.

K-View: What the hell is wrong with these people? They’re actually voting to make our country a second or third-rate power! And they didn’t “have a chance to read” this pile of sh*t? (thought by Rep. John Boehner)

Boehner is such a scaredy cat. . . .

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