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Saturday, March 22 - 2:28pmSanction this postReply
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So I googled on "China, Tibet, riots, olympics,

And, Number 1 on the list - indicating worldwide support for China's actions in dealing with those dastardly dissidents:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/22/content_7836298.htm

So, my question:  How is it that a pure propaganda puff piece like this piece of garbage makes it to the number one spot on Google?  While of course within China there is a virtual news - including internet - blackout on the riots in Tibet...




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Saturday, March 22 - 3:05pmSanction this postReply
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I just posted a similar news article -- citing that 100 countries support the Chinese "Leviathon." My guess is that China has become economically instrumental to these 100 countries -- and they are willing to pay the piper ...

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Saturday, March 22 - 3:35pmSanction this postReply
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I just posted a similar news article -- citing that 100 countries support the Chinese "Leviathon." My guess is that China has become economically instrumental to these 100 countries -- and they are willing to pay the piper ...

Ed
 Interesting which countries are cited by the China propaganda mill.  In order:

the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
Mongolia
Nepal
Bangladesh
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Georgia
Siria
Zambia
Sierra Leone
Benin

China has for 2 or 3 thousand years pillaged its neighbors by sending representatives to bribe or coerce key members of the ruling elite into doing whatever Beijing desires - most recently perhaps in Indonesia.  Then the people responsible take the money and run, once they've bankrupted the country and there are riots in the streets and innocent Chinese shopowners are hung from the lampposts.  My take: America is victim number one in the latest round of Chinese "diplomacy."  I suspect that it isn't that "China has become economically instrument to these... countries, but rather that China has bought and paid for key members of the ruling elite in most cases.  It will be the rest of "these ... countries" who end up footing the bills.




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Sunday, March 23 - 1:00pmSanction this postReply
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This came up on Objectivist Living.  (Internet censorship, Fascism is here)
    
Journalist Who Exposes U.N. Corruption Disappears From Google
Monday, February 18, 2008
By Michael Y. Park
NEW YORK  —  How big do you have to be to earn the wrath of the United Nations and Internet giant Google?

If you're journalist Matthew Lee, all it takes are some critical articles and a scrappy little Web site.  [http://www.innercitypress.com/]
Lee is the editor-in-chief, Webmaster and pretty much the only reporter for Inner City Press, a pint-sized Internet news operation that's taken on Goliath-sized entities like Citigroup since 1987.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331106,00.html

Google is in bed with the government of China.  That has been known for years.  One poster here on RoR (femino) often uses odd "lete-speak" like titles for his posts, supposedly to get them past the automatic blocks against words like "democracy" and "freedom" on China's internet providers.


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(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 3/23, 1:13pm)




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Monday, March 24 - 3:08pmSanction this postReply
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hm, Michael, "in bed with" the government?

Which is better: the people of China having limited access to Google (and therefore, the information of the world), or none at all because Google "refuses to compromise"?

Better half a loaf than no loaf at all.



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Monday, March 24 - 3:30pmSanction this postReply
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And there are always ways of getting around - nothing is foolproof to technological growth  >;-))



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