Mon 13 Dec, 2010
I hate children.
I’ve got standardized testing all week at work so things might be a little slow around here. But in the meantime enjoy this article about China and the United States DPing the world.
Tags: China, Climate Change, It's So Fucking Cold Now, Testing, United StatesWed 2 Sep, 2009
General Motors has signed up to a 2bn yuan ($293m; £180m) joint venture with the Chinese state-owned carmaker FAW to make light trucks and vans.
GM has recently emerged from bankruptcy protection in the US and has seen its sales fall year-on-year in most of its Western markets, so China is a key area of growth.
Why the fuck am I reading about this on the BCC’s website and not on CNN, MSNBC and/or Fox News’ website? Why am I not hearing about this on talk radio? Why am I not watching some TV pundit screaming about this?
Because this is America and the we’re too busy talking about some stupid fucking white girl who couldn’t get away from a creepy old man that was holding her prisoner for 18 years. I mean, why would Americans care about a company that begged for a 139 billion dollar loan in order to save American jobs, cut 10 percent of it’s work force, then opened a car company in China when there’s a HUGE story about a white woman who has raped and tortured for the past 18 years?
God this country is fucked up. We bitch about proving health care to everyone, but say jackshit about giving billions of dollars to a corporation that lays off thousands of Americans in order to save money so they can build a car plant in another country.
Goddammit…I can’t fucking wait until the Afghan war bleeds us dry.
Thu 23 Apr, 2009
Do any of you know what WW2-era Germany and Italy and present-day Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Peru, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, North Korea, and China have in common with the United States? It isn’t torture. And it isn’t the slaughtering of thousands of innocent people either. Give up?
It’s propaganda!!!
What propaganda? The propaganda David Barstow reported on and won a Pulitzer Prize for.
Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.
Of course some people will say, “The White House telling the Pentagon to hire retired high-ranking generals and putting them on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN, and having them read talking points that the Pentagon prepared just for them so they could drum-up support for the Iraq war, which in turn helped the companies they worked for, isn’t called propaganda. It’s called patriotism.”
And those people are fucking wrong.
You see, propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of people. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.
It’s what the White House used to gain support for the Iraq war. It’s what the Germans used to gain support for the Holocaust. It’s what North Korea uses to make its citizens think Kim Jong il pisses gold. It’s what China and Russia uses to control their populations.
Of course those countries don’t admit to using propaganda. They like to hide behind the “patriotism” statement just like retarded Americans do.
So if you’re one of those people who doesn’t believe our government uses propaganda, and the Main Stream Media really cares about America – please do the world a favor and follow in David Kellermann’s footsteps. Because we don’t need dumb motherfuckers like you reproducing.
Tags: China, David Barstow, Iraq War, Pentagon, Propaganda, White House
