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China syndrome: Media sanitizes brutal spacecraft return

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Photo: Mike Licht/Flickr CC

In case you’d forgotten how weird and controlling the Chinese government is, and how much of the news in China is the product of stagecraft, there’s this reminder, from The Raw Feed:

According to the official, Yang was subject to enormous G-forces during re-entry, splitting his lip and covering his face with blood. When the hatch was opened and the crew saw his bloody face, they cleaned him up, strapped him back in the seat and did a do-over for the cameras. The sanitized version of the hatch opening was presented to the Chinese viewing public as the live first-opening of the hatch.

via How China staged space capsule opening – The Raw Feed.

Copycat killers use knives, where guns are scarce

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Consumerism doesn't work for everyone. Photo: Ernie/Flickr CC

The latest attacks suggest that middle-aged men are struggling to cope in capitalist China. — MB

Loren Coleman suspects the wave of school killings by older males that horrified the Chinese in April, hasn’t ended:

“I have pointed out that in China and Japan, due to their strict firearms laws, such countries tend to manifest their ‘copycat school violence’ in terms of ‘stabbing’ series. Will this current stabbing spree spread to Japan or other Asian nations?”

The attacks, as Coleman suggests (noting what precipitated the attacks, and how they ended), probably reflect an increase suicidal behavior amongst Chinese men, many of whom are struggling to get ahead within their new, ruthless, economy.

Japan and South Korea already lead much of the world in suicides.

Alas, the most recent World Health Organization data for China is 11 years old.

In 1999, the suicide rate for men over 65 was four-to-five times higher than for their middle-aged cohorts. My bet is that the 40-something set has been closing that gap.

via Twilight Language: 3 Days, 3 Attacks.

Eugenics: Blame it on the Chinese

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Photo: CC/Andy Chang

Before you say, “those crazy foreigners, with their crazy foreign ways,” are bringing eugenics to the United States, remember that a generation or two ago, it was not rare for parents to be pulling for a boy (or, sometimes, a girl).

Such cultural pressures may explain the recent findings. A Columbia University study suggests that Chinese, Indian and Korean immigrants have been using medical technology, most likely including abortion, to assure their later children were boys. And a soon-to-be published analysis of birth records by a University of Texas economist estimates there were 2,000 “missing girls” between 1991 and 2004 among immigrant families from China and India living in the U.S. — children never born because their parents chose to have sons instead.

via It’s a boy! Asian immigrants use medical technology to satisfy age-old desire: a son – San Jose Mercury News.

Mad scientists and marketers plan to make us all "One"

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Hand signs for the endtimes, created by self-appointed healers

(We reach: “One is the beginning,” the space-hippie leader Dr. Sevrin said, in the 1969 Star Trek episode, “The Way to Eden.” Marketeer Philip McMaster also thinks “One” is a great place to start. McMaster is traveling the world, encouraging people to flash his hand sign, which, like Sevrin’s, symbolizes “Oneness” with an environment that needs saving. Credit: Philip McMaster, under a Creative Commons license)

By Mark Baard:

17 years ago — long before Al Gore told us we were destroying the Earth — a small, extremely powerful group of scientists, diplomats and royals planned their crackdown on the planet’s human population. which they feared were growing mistrustful of their leaders.

The plan: to tighten control of the people to such a degree that they will act “as a single nervous system,” with an unwavering faith in their governments and political parties.

Today, marketing people are answering the call from that same elite group, the self-appointed Council of the Club of Rome, to launch grassroots campaigns promoting the Council’s “we are one” concept.

The marketers are also making enemies of anyone who opposes their environmental cause.

In the 1991 book “The First Global Revolution,” the Club of Rome lays out its plan to blame humans for all water shortages, diseases and famine, caused by “global warming.” The book suggests that too many humans are consuming too much food and fuel, and can be blamed as the primary cause of climate changes.

In other words, the “real enemy” of humanity will be “humanity itself,” Club of Rome founder Alexander King and secretary-general Bertrand Schneider write in “The First Global Revolution.”

“The First Global Revolution” is the same global warming propaganda manifesto Alan Watt often cites on his radio programs.

Most mainstream reporters have never bothered to read the book.

Perhaps that is why no one bats an eye when someone like the Canadian marketer Philip McMaster launches a grassroots movement — with its own, Masonic-looking hand sign — encouraging all humans to “Act as One, Care as One, Project as One, and Be One.” (See link and excerpt, below.)

If you dare to demand your birthright as an individual, by the way, God (or gods) help you: There is no life for you outside the “One.”

McMaster, for example, calls those that are One, “the good-guys,” an obvious slight to those of us who don’t get his global warming message.

The Club of Rome itself sees “the good guys” as those willing to participate in collectivism. (King and Schneider applaud the rise of “the people’s power,” and “collective values.”)

Human depopulation is another virtue to be embraced, according to the authors of “The First Global Revolution.”

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Royal Institute mulls a "world without rules"

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(Outside Chatham House, the home of the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Image: Chatham House website)

NATO, Britain, India and global business leaders will meet at Chatham House next week will discuss the “new (global) economic order,” dominated by the BRIIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and Indonesia). Journalists at the event must observe the Chatham House Rule, which prohibits them from quoting any participant by name. — mb

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Are the rules of the game changing as the balance of the global economy shifts from Europe and the USA to include India, China, Russia and others?

At The New Politics of the Global Economy: a world without rules?, leading thinkers from governments, international organisations and corporates globally will discuss:

* the impact of changes in the global economy on investment, trade, and the environmental framework
* whether new rules will operate across borders
* the global security issues raised by the interdependencies of this new economic order
* the business strategies that will succeed in this new environment.

U.S. vs. China: already at war?

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Trojans from Tianjin? Lead toys from Lanzhou? Parallelnormal reader Bob suspects the Chinese are deliberately firing bad products our way.

by Mark Baard

Parallelnormal reader (and close friend), Bob, from Northern California, writes: “Do you think the Chinese are at war with us and we don’t even know it?”

Recent incidents with a Chinese angle read like a recipe for asymmetric warfare.

Bob writes:

contaminated/poisoned toys, fake and even poisonous medications, bad tires, and now a Trojan (embedded at the factory) on Chinese-made Maxtor hard drives (see excerpt and link, below)…

Bob also notes the fact the crew that spilled 58,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay were all Chinese nationals.

Researcher Alan Watt this week on his Cutting Through the Matrix radio program suggested a war with China may already be planned.

If the trouble is already starting, then it appears that those responsible want it to appear that the Chinese started it.

More from Bob:

The Chinese certainly are an ancient civilization and take a very long-term view. We, on the other hand, want “Always Low Prices.” It makes a lot of sense that all one would need to do is poison/detrimentally affect the minds of America’s kids, wait 30 years (or less), and take over–probably through a cyber war.

clipped from www.channelregister.co.uk
Chinese Trojan on Maxtor HDDs spooks Taiwan
Confirmation that a Maxtor hard disk drive was infected with a Trojan by a manufacturing sub-contractor in China is spooking Taiwanese authorities, one of the countries where examples of the infected kit have begun to appear.