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 A Bloody Crackdown in ChinaPosted on Jul 6, 2009
It is now estimated that at least 156 people have been killed, more than 800 injured and some 700 arrested as the Chinese government cracks down on protesters who are demanding justification for the death of two Uighur workers in restive Xinjiang province. Here is some video footage of the protests taking place. YouTube: Advertisement Elsewhere: . CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment
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By PSmith, July 6 at 10:06 pm #
THIS IS HOW ‘THEY’ DO IT
Alan Francovich, the filmmaker who made CIA - On Company Business—Is _very_ informative on how and why ‘they’ do it.
ALAN FRANCOVICH FORETELLS THE ‘WAR OF TERROR’. IN 1982. (ER, officially, it’s war ‘on’ terror).
US Presidents and deniability - the CIA in Iran, El Salvador, Cuba, Chile. Alan Francovich, filmmaker and creator of CIA - On Company Business, speaks from beyond the grave—suicided at Houston airport, according to one version.
@30:38 ‘I’ll predict ... using the justification of fighting terrorism ... and they are going to be encouraging, they are going to be publicising terrorism in order to get everyone nervous. You are going to see them start doing things inside this country to control people that, eh, they’ve been preparing to do for some time’.
‘The War of (on?) Terror’ foretold in 1982. That was quite a crystal ball. For 1982.
CIA methods, techniques and history. Today’s same old same old. Very relevant to William Blum’s article _if_ information is the antidote to the shock doctrine now being applied to US.
@33:40 Now illegal (1982) to even reveal an attempted entrapment and _encitement_to_terrorism_ by a planted government agent / stooge.
@ 35:40, 37:10, 42:10 Iran - CIA analysis from 1971 - ‘Complete collapse of the Shah, the ‘King of Kings’. Savak. ‘If we can keep making $300m a year for five years we don’t care what happens afterwards (1977 dollars?). CIA running the country.
CIA running lots of countries.
Mexico. ‘If he was Minister of the Interior in any Latin American country he had a relationship with the CIA’.
‘A lot of the work of the CIA is dealing with the press. If they can provide the views of the issue they can control it’.
‘It’s like a confidence game. You are the mark. They have a plan for you that you know nothing about’.
‘A lot of the people who got out - Philip Agee, John Stockwell - got out because they couldn’t take the betrayal, the beatings and the killings, of those that they had relationships with in these countries’.
‘They are like insurance executives. They never have to face the moral consequences of their actions. They outsource ... it’s the third world ... there is huge poverty, and it’s much cheaper to find people to pull the trigger’. Paraphrased.
@56:00 The banality of (evil) ‘You’re dealing with a rotary club version of the Gestapo’.
Alan Francovich Interview - http://www.archive.org/details/AV_167-MAKING_A_MOVIE_ABOUT_THE_CIA
Alan Francovich - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Francovich
Naomi Klein - Shock Doctrine - http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
CIA - On Company Business - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3YH_ggYdc
Information Clearing House - William Blum, and Comments - http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22985.htm
Why, it is almost as if Cheney still rules. - “Mein Fuhrer” - Peter Sellers version -
@ 5:55 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJn0QJPaoc
Report thisBy PSmith, July 6 at 9:57 pm #
Your (US) tax dollars at work.
Iran. Honduras. Now Xinjiang. For a while there it looked like the Ne. 0c. 0ns just wanted the money when they looted $10-12T (T as in Trillion) from the US treasury AND ITS TAXPAYERS.
So glad to see that they are using it wisely. Or not.
Report thisBy Truthdigger, July 6 at 9:50 pm #
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The video shows the victim of Uigyrs riots rather than police crackdown. Anybody who speaks mandarin can tell.
Well, the content of this news, “It is now estimated that at least 156 people have been killed, more than 800 injured and some 700 arrested as the Chinese government cracks down on protesters who are demanding justification for the death of two Uighur workers in restive Xinjiang province.”, tells opposite story, anybody who speaks English can tell this. This story implies “156 died” is caused by government crackdown.
This kind of distortion happens very frequently in Western media, as sadly in Truthdig as well. When western media hope the pervasive availability of Internet could promote transparency and democracy in China, they forgot it also promotes transparency of their own words as well. The reality is, unfortunately, western media fails first.
This demonstrates the fundamental reason of the divorce of western ideas and China’s younger generation, so called post-80s. With stronger confidence of their own future, this generation discovers the massive bias of western opinions on China. Everybody is well connected by Internet, right? China’s internet forum is by far more intensive than of the outside. The youth obtains facts not only from state media, but also from mouth of words. Another example, when most American rely on Youtube, China has more than a dozen similar sites widely used by netizens.
I hope westerns could understand the implications of this trend. China will be the dominant force in global politics no matter how western shouts. Without throughout understanding of the future power, your life won’t be easy in the coming decades. Just as most countries have to accommodate their behavior to adapt United States for the last century, western countries have probably to do the same thing. As the first step, drop your colored glass first.
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