"China factory plan draws protests; Demonstration in eastern city turns violent" by Didi Tang | Associated Press, October 28, 2012
BEIJING — Thousands of people in an eastern Chinese city clashed with police at a protest on the proposed expansion of a petrochemical factory that they fear will spew pollution and damage public health, residents said Saturday.
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Clearing Out the Chinese Smog
Powering Up This Post About China
I'm powering down on the Boston Globe.
It was the latest in a string of protests in China this year because of fears of health risks from industrial projects, as members of the rising middle class become more outspoken against environmentally risky projects.
Interesting, because as AmeriKa's middle class is eliminated they have become less vocal about things like fracking and other environmental issues. Of course, I suppose it doesn't help to have an agenda-pushing pos for a newspaper.
Past protests have targeted a coal-fired power plant in southern China, a wastewater pipeline in eastern China, and a copper plant in west-central China....
Residents said the protests involved thousands of people and turned violent after authorities used tear gas to dispel the crowds and arrested participants.
Ever notice all police behave the same?
‘‘It started with a peaceful petition but turned into a citywide riot,’’ said a local resident who gave only his family name, Ren, because he had come under police watch. He said he was called in by police because of his frequent online postings about the project, which would produce chemicals such as ethylene and paraxylene.
Interesting, because here in AmeriKa they just ignore us. The ma$$ media mouthpiece sure are taking note of Chinese bloggers, though.
Ren said the protests intensified Friday when young residents returned home for the weekend. He said 4,000 to 5,000 people blocked major road entrances to the district and that the public grew angry when police arrested three college students and used tear gas on the crowds.
He said demonstrators overturned a car, and some smashed the door of a fire truck that arrived to hose off leaked gasoline as well as to disperse protesters.
Thousands of protesters stormed a local police station, where they demanded the students’ release and a dialogue with district officials. Ren said the protesters also went to a traffic police compound, where they overturned police vehicles and private cars.
He said riot police moved in to form a shield to guard the traffic police compound and that protesters threw rocks and water bottles at the riot police.
Later Friday night, police began beating protesters and passersby with batons, Ren said.
On Saturday, protesters gathered in a large public square in Ningbo and shouted slogans against the project, Ren said. Many were taken away by police, he said.
Among the protesters was a businessman who said he was taken to a police station where he was forced to delete photos of the protest he had taken with his cellphone. He said he was released after an hour.
‘‘The police have my information, and I need to keep a low profile,’’ said the man, who gave only his family name, Wang.
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Related:
Clearing Out the Chinese Smog
Powering Up This Post About China
I'm powering down on the Boston Globe.
It was the latest in a string of protests in China this year because of fears of health risks from industrial projects, as members of the rising middle class become more outspoken against environmentally risky projects.
Interesting, because as AmeriKa's middle class is eliminated they have become less vocal about things like fracking and other environmental issues. Of course, I suppose it doesn't help to have an agenda-pushing pos for a newspaper.
Past protests have targeted a coal-fired power plant in southern China, a wastewater pipeline in eastern China, and a copper plant in west-central China....
Residents said the protests involved thousands of people and turned violent after authorities used tear gas to dispel the crowds and arrested participants.
Ever notice all police behave the same?
‘‘It started with a peaceful petition but turned into a citywide riot,’’ said a local resident who gave only his family name, Ren, because he had come under police watch. He said he was called in by police because of his frequent online postings about the project, which would produce chemicals such as ethylene and paraxylene.
Interesting, because here in AmeriKa they just ignore us. The ma$$ media mouthpiece sure are taking note of Chinese bloggers, though.
Ren said the protests intensified Friday when young residents returned home for the weekend. He said 4,000 to 5,000 people blocked major road entrances to the district and that the public grew angry when police arrested three college students and used tear gas on the crowds.
He said demonstrators overturned a car, and some smashed the door of a fire truck that arrived to hose off leaked gasoline as well as to disperse protesters.
Thousands of protesters stormed a local police station, where they demanded the students’ release and a dialogue with district officials. Ren said the protesters also went to a traffic police compound, where they overturned police vehicles and private cars.
He said riot police moved in to form a shield to guard the traffic police compound and that protesters threw rocks and water bottles at the riot police.
Later Friday night, police began beating protesters and passersby with batons, Ren said.
On Saturday, protesters gathered in a large public square in Ningbo and shouted slogans against the project, Ren said. Many were taken away by police, he said.
Among the protesters was a businessman who said he was taken to a police station where he was forced to delete photos of the protest he had taken with his cellphone. He said he was released after an hour.
‘‘The police have my information, and I need to keep a low profile,’’ said the man, who gave only his family name, Wang.
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Related: China vows to drop plans for plant’s growth
It's nice to see a protest actually succeed somewhere, even if it is in China.
"China imposes social risk test on big projects; Goal is to ease environmental demonstrations" by Keith Bradsher | New York Times, November 13, 2012
It's nice to see a protest actually succeed somewhere, even if it is in China.
"China imposes social risk test on big projects; Goal is to ease environmental demonstrations" by Keith Bradsher | New York Times, November 13, 2012
BEIJING — China’s Cabinet has ordered that all major industrial projects must pass a ‘‘social risk assessment’’ before they begin, a move aimed at curtailing the large and increasingly violent environmental protests of the past year, which forced the suspension or cancellation of chemical plants, coal-fired power plants, and a giant copper smelter....
Wow, talk about effective protest!
Wow, talk about effective protest!
When the environmental protests began, they drew mostly middle-age and older Chinese who had little to lose if the police put disparaging remarks about them into the files that the government maintains on every citizen.
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"CISPA creates an exception to all privacy laws to permit companies to share our information with each other and with the government in the name of cybersecurity. CISPA’s information sharing regime allows the transfer of vast amounts of data, including sensitive information like Internet records or the content of emails to any agency in the government including military and intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency or the Department of Defense Cyber Command."
Yeah, I have had it with s*** AmeriKan media. Haven't seen a word of it in my Globe (then again, haven't bought one for three days now), and if it is in there it's buried under some sort of deceptive headline or unrelated article.
Of course, it's all for our own protection and security here, and how dare you question the motives of this lying government?
But over the past several months, angry youths have gathered from several towns and have used social media to coordinate their activities during clashes with security forces — new trends that are certain to have dismayed the country’s political leadership....
AmeriKa's, too.
Related:
"CISPA creates an exception to all privacy laws to permit companies to share our information with each other and with the government in the name of cybersecurity. CISPA’s information sharing regime allows the transfer of vast amounts of data, including sensitive information like Internet records or the content of emails to any agency in the government including military and intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency or the Department of Defense Cyber Command."
Yeah, I have had it with s*** AmeriKan media. Haven't seen a word of it in my Globe (then again, haven't bought one for three days now), and if it is in there it's buried under some sort of deceptive headline or unrelated article.
Of course, it's all for our own protection and security here, and how dare you question the motives of this lying government?
But over the past several months, angry youths have gathered from several towns and have used social media to coordinate their activities during clashes with security forces — new trends that are certain to have dismayed the country’s political leadership....
AmeriKa's, too.
Zhou Shengxian, the environment minister, said at the news conference that mass protests tended to happen because societies inevitably become more aware of environmental issues as they develop, and this is happening in China. He took a fairly sympathetic tone to the protesters, changing tack only once, when he used a derogatory term for those who object only to the proximity of a project and not to its environmental fundamentals. ‘‘We are beginning to see a ‘not in my backyard’ phenomenon,’’ he said.
Related: Occupy
The Chinese government is kinder to its protesters than my mouthpiece media is to its?
Related: Occupy
The Chinese government is kinder to its protesters than my mouthpiece media is to its?
China has paid a heavy environmental price for its growth.
Related: That's the price you paid for Empire, 'murkns!
Acrid smog coats most large cities for much of the year, while many lakes and rivers are contaminated with heavy metals and toxic chemicals.
I already cleared that out, and do they water laced with prescription drugs like us?
Related: That's the price you paid for Empire, 'murkns!
Acrid smog coats most large cities for much of the year, while many lakes and rivers are contaminated with heavy metals and toxic chemicals.
I already cleared that out, and do they water laced with prescription drugs like us?
Thousands of young protesters fought with the riot police for two nights in early July in Shifang, in western China, prompting the local government to announce the cancellation of a huge copper smelter that was seen by the demonstrators as a pollution threat.
I get the feeling the corporate paper doesn't see it that way.
I get the feeling the corporate paper doesn't see it that way.
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Related: China's Classroom Inculcation
On to Hong Kong then:
"Hong Kong clings to an identity distinct from mainland China" by Andrew Higgins | Washington Post, October 09, 2012
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Bullshit! We are told they are highly sensitive to such things!
Btw, WHEN do the LIES f***ing STOP, HANH??????!!!!!!!!!
In AmeriKa it's all for safety and security -- and they STILL CAN'T PROTECT US!!!
Related: China's Classroom Inculcation
On to Hong Kong then:
"Hong Kong clings to an identity distinct from mainland China" by Andrew Higgins | Washington Post, October 09, 2012
HONG KONG — The appearance of old emblems of empire among demonstrators with gripes against Beijing has been a propaganda gift to China’s ruling Communist Party, which has long dismissed protests in Hong Kong as the work of traitorous conspirators loyal to foreign powers, particularly Britain and the United States....
You hear pot hollering kettle?
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Because it's the greatest propaganda operation ever invented.
Beijing used to denounce its critics here and elsewhere as anticommunist but now vilifies them as anti-China, an insult that turns any challenge to the ruling party into an assault on the Chinese nation....
And how often do see the term anti-American in my pos pre$$, huh?? Talk about INSULTS!
The protest rally held at Sheung Shui railway station had an ugly, almost xenophobic tinge, with crudely insulting placards demanding that mainlanders ‘‘go home’’ and ‘‘get lost.’’ But it reflected a growing resentment in Hong Kong toward fellow Chinese from across the border.
Looks like CONTROLLED OPPOSITION PROTEST by WESTERN ASSETS to me.
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"Thousands march in protest over Hong Kong’s leader" by KELVIN CHAN | Associated Press, January 02, 2013
HONG KONG — Tens of thousands of people marched in Hong Kong on the first day of 2013 to call for the city’s Beijing-backed leader to step down over allegations he was untruthful about illegal renovations at his mansion and to press for full democracy....
I can't read this anymore, people.
One demonstrator was dressed as a wolf wearing a Communist Red Guard uniform, a reference to fears over the leader, Leung Chun-ying’s close ties to China’s leaders. Many waved Hong Kong’s British colonial-era flag.
Would that be a "lone" wolf?
In the evening, members of a small radical group briefly blocked several roads after they were stopped by authorities from marching to Leung’s official government residence.
The day of protest came half a year after Leung took office after being chosen by a committee of mostly pro-Beijing elites. Leung won the job of Hong Kong’s leader after a scandal over an illegal basement brought down his rival. But illegal structures were later discovered at Leung’s house, prompting lawmakers to accuse him of covering it up and calling for his impeachment.
"Beijing’s South China Sea rivals protest passport map" November 24, 2012
TAIPEI, Taiwan — China has enraged several neighbors with a few dashes on a map, printed in its newly revised passports that show it staking its claim on the entire South China Sea and even Taiwan.
Inside the passports, an outline of China printed in the upper left corner includes Taiwan and the sea, hemmed in by the dashes. The change highlights China’s longstanding claim on the South China Sea in its entirety, though parts of the waters also are claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei, and Malaysia.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: China Maps Out WWIII
Sorry, U.S. war planners beat you to it.
China’s official maps have long included Taiwan and the South China Sea as Chinese territory, but the act of including them in its passports could be seen as a provocation since it would require other nations to tacitly endorse those claims by affixing their official seals to the documents.
Ruling party and opposition lawmakers alike condemned the map in Taiwan, a self-governed island that split from China after a civil war in 1949. They said it could harm the warming ties the historic rivals have enjoyed since Ma Ying-jeou became president 4½ years ago.
‘‘This is total ignorance of reality and only provokes disputes,’’ said Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, the Cabinet-level body responsible for ties with Beijing....
I know what you mean.
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Yeah, that's them.
Too bad China deosn't have good reporters like the AmeriKan ma$$ media:
TAIPEI, Taiwan — China has enraged several neighbors with a few dashes on a map, printed in its newly revised passports that show it staking its claim on the entire South China Sea and even Taiwan.
Inside the passports, an outline of China printed in the upper left corner includes Taiwan and the sea, hemmed in by the dashes. The change highlights China’s longstanding claim on the South China Sea in its entirety, though parts of the waters also are claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei, and Malaysia.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: China Maps Out WWIII
Sorry, U.S. war planners beat you to it.
China’s official maps have long included Taiwan and the South China Sea as Chinese territory, but the act of including them in its passports could be seen as a provocation since it would require other nations to tacitly endorse those claims by affixing their official seals to the documents.
Ruling party and opposition lawmakers alike condemned the map in Taiwan, a self-governed island that split from China after a civil war in 1949. They said it could harm the warming ties the historic rivals have enjoyed since Ma Ying-jeou became president 4½ years ago.
‘‘This is total ignorance of reality and only provokes disputes,’’ said Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, the Cabinet-level body responsible for ties with Beijing....
I know what you mean.
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Yeah, that's them.
Too bad China deosn't have good reporters like the AmeriKan ma$$ media:
"Chinese journalists bolstered in strike against censorship; Hundreds attend rally; support comes from Web" by Edward Wong | New York Times, January 08, 2013
BEIJING — Hundreds of people gathered outside the headquarters of a newspaper office in southern China on Monday to show their support for journalists who had declared a strike to protest what they called overbearing censorship by provincial propaganda officials.
Setting an example for AmeriKan reporters?
Related: Journalists confront China censors over editorial
Setting an example for AmeriKan reporters?
Related: Journalists confront China censors over editorial
Here the paid agents are sure to con$tantly $hovel the party line.
The journalists, who work for Southern Weekend, a relatively liberal newspaper that has come under increasing pressure from officials, also received support on the Internet from celebrities and well-known commentators....
They aren't under pressure here. It's a full-on intelligence operation, with reporters already having inculcated the values of their masters.
The journalists, who work for Southern Weekend, a relatively liberal newspaper that has come under increasing pressure from officials, also received support on the Internet from celebrities and well-known commentators....
They aren't under pressure here. It's a full-on intelligence operation, with reporters already having inculcated the values of their masters.
The angry journalists at Southern Weekend have been calling for the removal of Tuo Zhen, the top propaganda official in Guangdong, whom the journalists blame for overseeing a change in a New Year’s editorial that ran last week and was supposed to have called for greater respect for rights enshrined in the constitution under the headline ‘‘China’s Dream, the Dream of Constitutionalism,’’ according to the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong.
The editorial went through layers of changes and ultimately became one praising the current political system, in which the Communist Party exercises authority over all aspects of governance.
A well-known entrepreneur, Hung Huang, said on her microblog that the actions of a local official had ‘‘destroyed, overnight, all the credibility the country’s top leadership had labored to re-establish since the 18th Party Congress,’’ the November gathering in Beijing that was the climax of the leadership transition....
The Boston Marathon Bombing is what did it here.
The Boston Marathon Bombing is what did it here.
It was unclear how many employees in the newsroom had heeded the calls for a strike....
Pfft!
I've typed it before, and I'm sure I'll type it again: I'm sick of agenda-pushing media.
Pfft!
I've typed it before, and I'm sure I'll type it again: I'm sick of agenda-pushing media.
"China memo warns against protests of state censorship; Communist control called ‘unshakable’" by Keith B. Richburg | Washington Post, January 09, 2013
BEIJING — Declaring that Communist Party control over Chinese media is “unshakable,” the government’s main propaganda organ appeared to take a hard line Tuesday against anti-censorship protesters at the offices of the Guangdong newspaper Southern Weekly, and warned darkly that mostly unnamed foreign agitators were behind the unrest....
What did WaPo say about being a propaganda organ?
What did WaPo say about being a propaganda organ?
Hundreds of anticensorship protesters donned masks, chanted slogans, and left flowers at the newspaper’s Guangdong headquarters Monday, and smaller crowds protested Tuesday. But they were met by some of the so-called new leftists, who carried pictures of Mao Zedong and voiced support for government control. The groups clashed verbally.
Police in Guangdong have largely stayed on the sidelines and allowed the protests, a rarity in China, where public demonstrations are normally not allowed.
Bullshit! We are told they are highly sensitive to such things!
Btw, WHEN do the LIES f***ing STOP, HANH??????!!!!!!!!!
But on Tuesday, police installed security cameras around the paper’s headquarters, presumably to film the protesters.
In AmeriKa it's all for safety and security -- and they STILL CAN'T PROTECT US!!!
The Central Propaganda Department memo ordered all media and websites in China to “prominently republish” a hardline editorial that appeared Tuesday in the Global Times, a nationalist tabloid owned by the party’s main mouthpiece, People’s Daily.
(I can't do this anymore, readers. This is such SHIT "journalism" it is literally making me sick. F***ing WaPo mouthpiece has some gall)
(I can't do this anymore, readers. This is such SHIT "journalism" it is literally making me sick. F***ing WaPo mouthpiece has some gall)
The Global Times editorial appeared to maintain that the kind of intrusive censorship that happened at Southern Weekly was a routine occurrence in China. “Realistically speaking, many Chinese media outlets have experiences of major reports being altered by officials,” the editorial said....
"Deal defuses standoff over Chinese censors" by Didi Tang | Associated Press, January 10, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China — A deal to keep propaganda officials from rewriting articles in an influential weekly newspaper defuses a standoff that became an unexpected test of the new Chinese leadership’s tolerance for political reform.
The Propaganda Department, which controls all media in China, chiefly relies on directives, self-censorship by editors and reporters, and dismissal of those who do not comply to enforce the party line....
We call them newspapers.
We call them newspapers.
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Yeah, that's New England's flagship.
"Chinese editor suspended for article" New York Times, April 02, 2013
BEIJING — A well-known editor of an influential Communist Party journal said Monday that he had been suspended after writing an article for a British newspaper saying that China should abandon its ally North Korea.
The editor, Deng Yuwen, told the South Korean paper Chosun Ilbo that the Foreign Ministry had called the Communist Party’s Central Party School in Beijing to complain about his article in The Financial Times.
In the article, Deng argued that China’s strategic alliance with North Korea was ‘‘outdated’’ and that the wayward ally was no longer useful as a buffer against US influence.
Indeed, Deng wrote in the article, published Feb. 27, that once Pyongyang had nuclear weapons, the regime could use them against China.
Deng wrote the article as deputy editor of Study Times, a weekly journal of the Central Party School, which trains rising officials. Because of Deng’s stature, the article garnered attention in Washington and Europe and was taken by some as a sign that perhaps the new government led by President Xi Jinping was fed up with North Korea after its third nuclear test in February and would modify its support.
In a telephone interview with Chosun Ilbo, Deng was quoted as saying: ‘‘I was relieved of the position because of that article, and I’m suspended indefinitely. Although I’m still being paid by the company, I don’t know when I will be given another position.’’
Deng declined to comment Monday afternoon.
Chinese government policy makers have shown little sign of paying heed to Deng’s advice on Pyongyang.
China backed a new round of UN sanctions imposed following the third nuclear test. But as is often the case with sanctions, the question became how seriously China would enforce them.
Official Chinese statements routinely say that sanctions are not the solution to the North Korean problem.
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It's time to prote$t the AmeriKan media, and I am.
Yeah, that's New England's flagship.
"Chinese editor suspended for article" New York Times, April 02, 2013
BEIJING — A well-known editor of an influential Communist Party journal said Monday that he had been suspended after writing an article for a British newspaper saying that China should abandon its ally North Korea.
The editor, Deng Yuwen, told the South Korean paper Chosun Ilbo that the Foreign Ministry had called the Communist Party’s Central Party School in Beijing to complain about his article in The Financial Times.
In the article, Deng argued that China’s strategic alliance with North Korea was ‘‘outdated’’ and that the wayward ally was no longer useful as a buffer against US influence.
Indeed, Deng wrote in the article, published Feb. 27, that once Pyongyang had nuclear weapons, the regime could use them against China.
Deng wrote the article as deputy editor of Study Times, a weekly journal of the Central Party School, which trains rising officials. Because of Deng’s stature, the article garnered attention in Washington and Europe and was taken by some as a sign that perhaps the new government led by President Xi Jinping was fed up with North Korea after its third nuclear test in February and would modify its support.
In a telephone interview with Chosun Ilbo, Deng was quoted as saying: ‘‘I was relieved of the position because of that article, and I’m suspended indefinitely. Although I’m still being paid by the company, I don’t know when I will be given another position.’’
Deng declined to comment Monday afternoon.
Chinese government policy makers have shown little sign of paying heed to Deng’s advice on Pyongyang.
China backed a new round of UN sanctions imposed following the third nuclear test. But as is often the case with sanctions, the question became how seriously China would enforce them.
Official Chinese statements routinely say that sanctions are not the solution to the North Korean problem.
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It's time to prote$t the AmeriKan media, and I am.
