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A political schoolhouse rock cartoon about terrorist/robbers/killers and US leaders.
Great effing video!! Pirates and Emperors. from www.piratesandemperors.com
Here are the lyrics: Well our
Story begins, you know, with old St. Augustine.
Way back in days of old he reported on this theme:
A mighty emperor had caught himself a pirate who
Was a-terrorizin’ people who were sailin’ on the open seas. Continue reading ‘Pirates and Emperors – directed by Eric Henry’
Anger smoulders in rebel city rubble
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7558619.stm
Russians losing propaganda war
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7562611.stm
Fox News: 12 Year Old Girl Tells the Truth about Georgia
****UPDATE****
Russia Today Reports:
Moscow has accused an American TV network of bias after a channel broke off from a live interview with victims of Georgian violence in South Ossetia. A 12 year old girl and her aunt were describing how Russian soldiers saved them from the Georgian attack — but were bizarrely cut off after just two minutes. The incident has sparked huge controversy over the issue of media impartiality, with Russian government officials calling it a violation of journalistic ethics.
LOL LOL LOL F U FOX NEWS
*****FAIR USE***** THIS VIDEO IS POSTED BECAUSE IT IS NEWS WORTHY AND EDUCATIONAL. UNDER FAIR USE RULES YOUTUBE IS NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE THIS DOWN. FOX NEWS CANNOT CLAIM A COPYRIGHT. FREE SPEECH IS A RIGHT AND NOT A PRIVILEGE.
12 Year Old Girl Tells the Truth on Fox News about Georgia. Fox News even had to cut them off right in the middle of the account of Georgian aggression even though they had just come from a commercial break 2 minutes prior to that. Fox News and corporate media do not want the truth out. The MSM wants to depict Russia as the Evil Russian Empire. What the population at large do not know is that the US is threatening Russia with a Missile shield defence in many countries. How would the US react if the reverse were true. Georgia poked the bear which is not a wise thing to do. Especially when the poking causes thousands of deaths. Every main stream news agency in the world feeds the world propaganda every day!!!!This is not just an American Flaw!!!!!!
A great funny portrait of Herzog & de Meuron, full article see Financial Times:
Men in the News: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
Also see an audio slideshow about
Quoted from James Reynold’s blog at BBC Website
47. At 4:23pm on 01 Aug 2008, Kyonko wrote:
James… excuse me? Click and wait? That’s not in the job description!
Anyway. Unblocking Wikipedia is certainly good, but Amnesty… Amnesty barks and bites for people who feed and clothe them, and it has rather soft teeth at that.
My relatives use the Internet quite extensively. From what I know, they rarely visit anything like Wikipedia or BBC Chinese. To them, Sina and Gov.CN has far more credibility than BBC Chinese or Wikipedia.
While I was in China in July and August 2007, I could visit Facebook without any problems, and it remained the main way of communication with my friends in Canada that circumvents the time lag.
Fact of the matter is, most people in China don’t give a thought to western media; they’ve always proven themselves to be literally incredible.
And media control isn’t as tight as you want to think. We’ve got numerous phone calls from a group named FaLunGong (maybe you’ve heard of it? I thought so.) while in China. Yes, WHILE IN CHINA. Intelligent people dismiss it as “obnoxious telemarketing”. And it is.
The people around me would call me “brainwashed by Communist propaganda”. But I’d say to them, “we realize what airs on CCTV is propaganda, while you, my friends, don’t realize what airs on CNN is also propaganda at its most subtle form.” And they’d put me off as “a fool who doesn’t understand the value of democracy.” What democracy? Is that something like the Little Red Bible in the Cultural Revolution?
My point is, people in China enjoy more freedoms than western media would like the masses in the west to believe. And most of them are smarter than you think.
24. At 01:42am on 31 Jul 2008, tarimbasin wrote:
James, thank you for the report.
I am now in Oxford University. I just found I can open Oxford University’s website much faster than the GOV.CN (China Communist Party official website) which you have demonstrated how fast you could open it in your video. Does it mean anything to you? Maybe you should consult an IT person for why you could open GOV.CN locally, i.e. in China, much faster than at anywhere else in the world. If you’ve tried the sina.com.cn (sina.com in China is like the yahoo.com in the US), you may find it is the same fast as the GOV.CN.
I am not saying internet users can enjoy total freedom of the Web in China but I doubt your deliberate choice of your example, looks like somebody was trying to create something for his readers.
BTW, FaLunGong has been judged illegal in China before its websites are banned. A similar case for your information: TOM Cruise is banned in Germany for he’s a Scientologist which is illegal in Germany.
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