China
January 19, 2009
- On December 10, 2008, more than 2000 Chinese citizens released a signed petition they called Charter 08 to mark the 60th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The name, Charter 08, came from the famous Charter 77 dissident group formed in cold war Czechoslovakia. The Chinese document calls for an end to one party rule, to be replaced by a system based on human rights ...
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December 9, 2008
- BEIJING, China...Dec. 9...a top-secret report prepared for China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) predicts that none of President-elect Obama's appointees will be in office at the end of his first term. They are all qiao zong huo fan," the anonymous author says, using the Chinese term for bridge burners. "They will depart, leaving flames in their wake." The report, which was ...
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December 2, 2008
- Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor of paranoiaisfact.com answers readers' questions.Dear Igor, My Western Civ. prof, Leon Notsky says Obama is not the saviour we have been hoping for, but just a counter swing in the dialectical pendulum from right to left. He says nothing will change in Washington but the faces. Is this paranoia or fact?Hopeful,Berkley, CADear Hopeful, This is fact. Obama can ...
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November 17, 2008
- Let's stop discussing Obama. We agree that we disagree on his significance and his promise of change. Certainly he will be the leader of a country that has lost its hegemony! The G7, a sad legacy of colonialism, is finally over. It was augmented to G8 within the illusion of having finally tamed Russia, now is up to G20, perhaps will settle at G14 or something of the like, but finally the West ...
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November 7, 2008
- GREENPOINT, Bklyn, Nov.7...Toasts and cheers resounded at Golubchik's tavern last night as Obama euphoria kept the party floating two days after the historic election. "To change," people shouted, raising their glasses. "To peace." This was too much for Ivan Yopsvoyomatsky, recent immigrant from Pinsk and senior scholar at the Greezhnizihd Think Tank. ...
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October 9, 2008
- Washington, DC (October 9, 2008): Yesterday, I had a fascinating lunchtime discussion with a group of journalists from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore who are visiting the United States as part the Edward R. Murrow Project for Journalists, a government-funded program. As you might expect a lot of their discussion and questions were about the upcoming Presidential elections, but at ...
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September 4, 2008
- Forget the male/female card, folks, think geography, think strategy!By now, both men and women across the U.S. will have read feminist Gloria Steinem's assessment of Sarah Palin: "the only thing she shares with Hillary is a chromosome" (www.latimes.com). Her article was scathing, and, sadly, I agree with most of it. Like many of you, I watched the Republican Convention last night ...
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August 26, 2008
- From the manner in which the Chinese athletes win and lose, you can see the degree of freedom the people of the Middle Kingdom truly have. “The agony of defeat” is far more excruciating if the gymnast has yet to earn the home she has been promised, should she win gold. If the home is taken away because of her defeat, she and her family are demoted to the poverty of countryside. The ...
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August 20, 2008
- Febrero 2008. Estoy viendo el mar Pacífico por mi ventana. Eso, por ejemplo, no lo podía hacer ayer. Ahora puedo ver puentes delgaditos a la distancia, justo debajo de nubes como popcorn chicken de KFC que delinean el horizonte. Cómo amo los puentes -- como por qué, no sé. Tienen algo con mi cámara, como que tienen buena química. Pero la cagué, la metí en la maleta por boba, por hacerle ...
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August 20, 2008
- August 8th, 2008 is a day this generation of Chinese people will never forget. Aside from being the most auspicious date thinkable in Chinese culture (the number 8 is considered good luck), for China, the commencement of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics are in fact the closure to a race against time. China has been preparing tirelessly since it won the bid for host country back on July 2001. It ...
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