Mark Twain said this long, long ago when lying was not that rampant on the MSM. "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed". How true!
Of course the MSM and the powers that be, that wants to continue to control the minds of the public, will accuse Social Media of misinformation. Really? Those who are aware and stayed informed will never trust the MSM and the powers that be.
They were right in saying that politicians have to learn to and need to lie. Just look at the circus unfolding in the USA pertaining to the 2016 elections, where even contenders for the top job of President, sees it fit to lie and fabricate stories about the other side that were totally untrue. What kind of President will that make, with that kind of thinking and is going to run the country? It is indeed hilarious and can only happen in a third world country, not the USA. Perhaps they are slipping down to third world and have to learn third world tactics of how to govern a third world country.
In the lead up to the Iraq war, I believe people already found out who is really the biggest liar. And the fact that they can get away with such outrageous lies is another area worth noting. No one is able to take them to task or punish them and they are untouchable. Not the UN, not ICC, not Human Rights Watch, not anybody. Since they can get away with such heinous and fabricated lies and managed to kill millions of innocent Iraqi women and children and destroy the country, what is there for anyone to believe that they cannot fabricate more lies pertaining to the situation in other countries that they want to destablise?
Watch closely the MSM news on Russia, China and North Korea in particular. Nothing positive, all selectively negative, all downright hitting below the belt. When it comes to their side of the story about the war in Ukraine, everything bad about the war is thrown onto to Russia and every little Russian slip is a disaster. If you believe in the propaganda that Ukraine is winning, Eastern and Southern Ukraine should still be under Ukrainian control. Why is there now a Russia land bridge stretching all along the Azov Sea? The narratives can lie, but the truth cannot be hidden.
For those who want the truth, move away from the MSM. Read or watch them for entertainment if you need to. I know this is a no brainer advice but it helps in the process of educating more people.
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clean one. No malfeasance, the Rulers are honest, and honourable top talents. They are impeccable in all aspects.
Sinkies are bless.
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Mahathir is saying the obvious that the USA pacific summit is all about isolating China. It is not about forging ties to trade, security, alliances and all the hubris. The intention of the USA and the West is geared towards isolating China. Five eyes, QUAD and AUKUS fit in perfectly with that motive already. The USA is just recycling the same old wine in better looking bottles that have limited seller attraction except to the sycophants. There was even someone floating the idea that the rest of the world should join NATO. What a grand idea? Wonder what he was smoking?
ReplyDeleteThe USA knows going forward they are losing the plot to China, who will be overtaking them economically by the end of this decade, as predicted by many economist. Give and take a little variation due to the lockdowns, the impossible is becoming possible and they are nervous, paranoid and fearful. Losing the US$ Hegemony is going to turn them into a pauper state overnight. That is the stake.
Let's be honest. How many Pacific region countries depend on China in trade, the bulk of it? And the USA is thinking they can turn the tables around with empty promises and hollow words and not being able to be deliver in deeds. But not to worry, a USA promise is a USA promise. Such is the USA's modus operandi that even the promise by Biden of 'Build Back Better' is stuck in the mud. Biden has no time to resusticate that, but it does not matter after he leaves the White House.
How is the USA going to compete with much cheaper stuff that these Pacific region countries are now getting from China or able to produce themselves? Even Japan and South Korea depend on the Chinese market for much of their trade. They will be decimated if they isolate China by following the USA. The USA itself is not going to fare any better down the road by isolating China. How is the USA going to start rebuilding their manufacturing base that had been hollowed out over the last few decades?
Trump thought USA companies will move back to the USA when he started the trade war against China, but they went instead to Vietnam, Bangladesh, India and other Asian countries. They are now competing with the USA in many areas, taking over from China. Did USA win after all? Sure, some do go back to the USA, but how many? And the USA is repeating the same treatment they created against China towards countries like Vietnam, with tariffs galore as the USA could not compete.
Pacific countries are not going to wait three or five more years for USA to build up it's manufacturing base to produce goods competitive enough to push China out in their trade with the USA. The world would have moved beyond them in that three to five years, and they will find it difficult to catch up, like the USA itself. They would rather move along with China on the Chinese high speed train, and not wait for the sluggish USA train.
And what certainty can these countries expect from the USA that is mired in debts, domestic problems, political polarisation and infighting, rising cost of living and inflation. Many believe inflation is not at 8% but in double digits. But, trust me, they never lie. Think and think deeply about it.
Due to the huge population of Western expatriates and CECA Indians residing in Singapore, the MSM here has to consider their feelings and slant the bias in their commentary to anti-China . . .
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ReplyDeleteAs UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet's visit to China's Xinjiang region is coming to an end, overseas scholars, especially those who have visited the region, called on her to resist pressure from the US and anti-China forces' latest round of disinformation campaign against the region. They pointed out that the US' contradictory attitude and attack of Bachelet's visit showed it's freaking out, as the big lie of "Xinjiang genocide" is "absolutely ludicrous" and anyone with no malicious intent will have different views of Xinjiang than the US' smear the minute they step on the region.
At the end of her six-day official visit to China on Saturday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is scheduled to hold a news conference and issue a statement, according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Detailed information on where Bachelet has or will visit in Urumqi and Kashi Prefecture and who she has and will talk to is yet to be released, but the US, some Western countries and anti-China forces just can't wait to express their "concerns" over whether Bachelet will have necessary access to make a "full assessment of the rights situation" in Xinjiang. The US State Department even called her visit a "mistake."
However, it was the US and anti-China forces that urgently called on the UN mission to visit Xinjiang in the beginning. Such a U-turn attitude of the US government toward the UN human rights chief's visit to China raised the alarm among Chinese and overseas scholars, especially those who had visited the Xinjiang region during the past years. Some scholars from France, the US and Turkey reached by the Global Times said pressuring or attacking Bachelet will not make their lies or the "genocide" smearing on Xinjiang become real, but only exposes their malice.
Jeffrey Sachs, a professor of economics at Columbia University in New York and also a senior UN advisor, wrote in an email to the Global Times that he is "gratified" that Bachelet is taking this trip and "her UN mission should not be attacked or criticized by the United States Government even before the trip takes place!"
Issues of human rights under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights should be addressed through the UN processes and "not used to raise geopolitical tensions," said Sachs, expressing hope to get a thorough report that promotes the wellbeing of the population of the Xinjiang region and enables a discussion of the issues based on facts.
In April 2021, Sachs and William A. Schabas, a professor of international law at Middlesex University in London, released an article to oppose the US government's anti-China rhetoric of claiming a "genocide" in its Xinjiang region, as these allegations are "unjustified" and the inappropriate use of "genocide" devalues the historical memory of genocide such as the Holocaust.
The US is pressuring Bachelet to act like its puppet and neglect what she sees in the region to weave the conclusion of "genocide," analysts said, pointing out that it is the US that started and continued accusing China of "genocide" and has banned all products from Xinjiang, making itself the most radical and highly isolated country in the field.
William Jones, the Washington Bureau Chief for the Executive Intelligence Review and non-resident senior fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, told the Global Times the "total freakout from the US State Department" about Bachelet's visit indicates its potential significance."
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ReplyDeleteJones noted that the US is not interested in the truth about Xinjiang, but only wants support for its big lie about Xinjiang. They earlier thought that harping on the need for a UN "investigation" would support their allegations against China, "but when a visit now occurs, they probably feel that it could very well undermine all the bogus items raised by them."
"The accusation of 'genocide' in Xinjiang is absolutely ludicrous," Jones said, noting that the Uygur population is growing in Xinjiang and they are better educated and more prosperous than before.
"Both their [Uygur] language and their religion are well preserved and protected. Holocaust survivors should be protesting this distortion of what genocide really means - the physical destruction of a people and their culture," said Jones.
Michele Geraci is former undersecretary of state at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development who has travelled freely to the Xinjiang region many times and talked to many people and found there is nothing different in Xinjiang from other parts of China.
The accusations of genocide in Xinjiang are not true, the former Italian official told the Global Times, adding that Bachelet's visit shows China's willingness to show the outside world what is going on in Xinjiang.
However, some Western countries are dancing to the tune of the US on hyping Xinjiang topics. For example, British Ambassador to China Caroline Wilson also hyped "unfettered access to Xinjiang."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin responded at a press conference on May 24 that on the visit by the High Commissioner, the US, UK and other Western countries have put on one political farce after another.
They had publicly exerted pressure and vehemently demanded a visit to China's Xinjiang for the so-called "investigation" into China under the presumption of guilt, but are now going to great lengths to disrupt and undercut the outcome. They have come to criticize the visit, and set various preconditions for and obstacles to the visit.
"The flip-flops with self-contradictions only bring humiliation to the countries themselves. Are they really interested in human rights, or politicizing, weaponizing and instrumentalizing human rights issues?" Wang asked.
Maxime Vivas, a French writer and journalist who had visited the Xinjiang region in 2016 and 2018 and wrote books to debunk fake news of some Western media, also pointed out that the tone of the French media has become "worried," claiming that Bachelet's visit in Xinjiang is a "supervised trip" and she will see what China is "going to show her" and that "she is not neutral."
Vivas told the Global Times this shows "they are scared. She [Bachelet] will not see organ harvesting centers, child amputees, women's sterilization hospitals, evidence of genocide and torture, banned mosques, or Uygurs forced to eat pork or other lies they made."
Vivas said Bachelet will see China's efforts in fighting terrorism, separatism and religious extremism.
terilization, forced labor, oppression of ethnic groups, and genocide are part of the widely spread disinformation about Xinjiang made by notorious anti-China scholars, separatists and the US-backed World Uyghur Congress and Western media in recent years, and all have been debunked by the Chinese government and the Xinjiang regional government with evidence.
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ReplyDeleteWill Bachelet stand with truth and not bend to the pressure from the US and disinformation? Some overseas scholars expressed their high anticipation for the UN human rights chief to make an objective view and conclusion about Xinjiang.
"Michelle Bachelet is as free to tell the truth as I am, but she's not going to approve of all the media-political lies of recent years … In any case, Michelle Bachelet, if she tells the truth, as I did, will have a bad time. Will she have the courage? If so, welcome to the club," said Vivas, noting that he is "relatively optimistic" about this.
"Simply sticking to the truth and reflecting on the truth will refute all lies," since the real Xinjiang and the one depicted by the US and Western media are "as different as day and night," said Adnan Akfirat, president of the Turkish-Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association and Vatan Party representative to China. Akfirat has visited the Xinjiang region about 30 times.
"When a normal person with no malice goes to any part of Xinjiang, he can easily understand that The New York Times, BBC, and CNN are lying," Akfirat said, noting that the allegations made by US officials on the Xinjiang region are to distort the facts to blame China.
Some foreign visitors had expressed their surprise after seeing the developments in the region and many who knew about the previous severe situation on fighting terrorism also felt happy to see the fundamental changes in the region.
Jones said "I think just being there will give her [Bachelet] a new sense of the important things that are happening there with the local population."
However, it is difficult to say what her report will contain since she is "no doubt under pressure from the US" and perhaps from some at the UN to deliver a negative judgment and may "have herself some of the Western prejudices about China's system of governance."
"But if she retains any objectivity at all, as I have a feeling she will, I think the reality will also be expressed in her report," said Jones, expressing hope that Bachelet's report will "maintain some objectivity about the real situation in Xinjiang," as she should know the difference between repression and simply maintaining social order.
Aside from the US and some Western countries, anti-China forces, especially some notorious rumormongers, including Adrian Zenz and WUC, the US-backed network that seeks to split the Xinjiang region from China, have also been busy exerting pressure on the UN human rights chief by spreading disinformation.
Let us be honest. The USA and the West were the forerunners of genocide, human trafficking, climate change pollution before pushing the bad name to other countries and pretend they are angels, now doing humans a good deed by demonising countries that do the same things they did centuries ago. Putin hit the nail on the head when he said the USA and the West always accused others of doing what they already did long ago.
ReplyDeleteGenocides against the Native Americans stands out as the most inhuman act against mankind by any country, and they stole everything - land, resources, human rights of the Natives by keeping them like animals in concentration camps called reservations to protect them. Why need to protect them and against who? They did not need protection before the Whites landed in America. Fancy protecting them now against those who put them in the reservations, if that is what they mean.
Now the fake angel is going around fighting and accusing countries of engaging in human trafficking. What were the White Curse doing when they were kidnapping millions of Blacks from Africa to work as slaves in the USA. That is not human trafficking? The Whites were the forerunners of global human trafficking and they now pretending they are angels sent to close down the human trafficking scourge.
When drug was a great way to make money, the White Curse became greedy and even forced the Chinese to open up China to the drug trade. China had a horrible time fighting the opium addiction which weakened the Chinese people's hardworking trait and the Whites exploited it. They were the forerunners of the drug menace now screwing up the USA itself.
Before China's manufacturing rise, the USA was the biggest polluter in the world. They wanted to move their manufacturing to China to benefit from the cheap and abundant labour, with all their pollution stigma in tow, and succeeded, and China became the biggest polluter instead, while the USA enjoyed the cheap goods for nothing and just paid for in fiat money. When this became unsustainable, they turned the tables by claiming China stole their manufacturing jobs, but not their pollution baggage. How convenient! Did China forced the USA companies to set up shop in China by force or sanctions?
Enough said.
Again think and think deeply about it!
Bachelet said Saturday she was able to speak “unsupervised” with Chinese people. She said she’d visited a prison and a former vocational training and education center, and got to interact with a range of civil society organizations, academics, and community and religious leaders.
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