Activists are using the Olympics to press China to reform. Now Beijing unleashes its own PR blitz.
Comment: The 1936 Olympics were given to a Nationalist Socialist Germany in the hopes Hitler would be a nice guy. We all know what he did to the Jews, the Romani (Gypsies) and even Jazz lovers. Now, the Olympics is being held by a nationalistic socialist state. No one helped the Jews, will history repeat itself???
Comment: Since the tragedy of Myanmar is that its population is being used as a human stage prop in a drama scripted in Washington by ....., why did the military government in Burma not to use similar scenario? It does not matter who win the sovereignty on the land, but how!
Comment: I believe what you wrote here. A small newspaper in my home country Malaysia recently out of the blue commented on Myanmars shorcoming, wrritten by a friend who is known for writing articles for a fee. He has never been in Myanmar, never talks about Myanmar before, out of the blue he wrote a lengthy reports very much like we see everywhere in the nets media. I have been wondering who pay his tab ths time.
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Comment: We can dismiss rather quickly the idea that the U.S. has genuine concern for democracy, justice, human rights for the oppressed population there. Iraq and Afghanistan are sufficient testimony to the fact Washington's paean to democacy is propaganda cover for another agenda.
The tragedy of Myanmar is that its population is being used as a human stage prop in a drama scripted in Washington by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the George Soros Open Society Institute, Freedom House and Gene Sharp's Albert Einstein Institution, a US intelligence asset used to spark "non-violent" regime change around the world on behalf of the US strategic agenda.
Myanmar's "Saffron Revolution" is a well-orchestrated exercise in Washington-run regime change, down to the details of "hit-and-run" protests with "swarming" mobs of monks in saffron, Internet blogs, mobile SMS links between protest groups, well-organized protest cells which disperse and re-form. CNN made the blunder during a September broadcast of mentioning the active presence of the NED behind the protests in Myanmar.
In fact the US State Department admits to supporting the activities of the NED in Myanmar. The NED is a US government-funded "private" entity whose activities are designed to support US foreign policy objectives, doing today what the CIA did during the Cold War. As well, the NED funds Soros' Open Society Institute in fostering regime change in Myanmar. In an October 30, 2003 press release the State Department admitted, "The United States also supports organizations such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the Open Society Institute and Internews, working inside and outside the region on a broad range of democracy promotion activities." It all sounds very self-effacing and noble of the State Department. Is it though?
In reality the US State Department has recruited and trained key opposition leaders from numerous anti-government organizations in Myanmar. It has poured the relatively huge sum (for Myanmar) of more than $2.5 million annually into NED activities in promoting regime change in Myanmar since at least 2003. The US regime change effort, its Saffron Revolution, is being largely run, according to informed reports, out of the US Consulate General in bordering Chaing Mai, Thailand. There activists are recruited and trained, in some cases directly in the US, before being sent back to organize inside Myanmar. The US's NED admits to funding key opposition media including the New Era Journal, Irrawaddy and the Democratic Voice of Burma radio.
The concert-master of the tactics of Saffron monk-led non-violence regime change is Gene Sharp, founder of the deceptively-named Albert Einstein Institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a group funded by an arm of the NED to foster US-friendly regime change in key spots around the world. Sharp's institute has been active in Myanmar since 1989, just after the regime massacred some 3,000 protestors to silence the opposition. CIA sp
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Comment: The article does not do a good job at explaining how the Olympic games is related to Darfur, and how that responsibility should lie upon China. There are lots of injustices being done everywhere. A metaphor for this protest is like saying I will boycott Greece for not taking any action to get USA out of Iraq. The reason why Greece is responsible for getting America out of Iraq would make as much sense as China's responsibility for Darfur.for D
Comment: The article does not do a good job at explaining how the Olympic games is related to Darfur, and how that responsibility should lie upon China. There are lots of injustices being done everywhere. A metaphor for this protest is like saying I will boycott Greece for not taking any action to get USA out of Iraq. The reason why Greece is responsible for getting America out of Iraq would make as much sense as China's responsibility for Darfur.for D
Comment: The Chinese government should learn to be benign and tolerate. The proecters would do well in understand the legitimate desire of the China people to have a successful Olympics. And there is nothing wrong to round up druggies in your city, heavy-handed or not.
Comment: The protesters need to understand that the Chinese government, with strong popular support in this case, has a legitimate and deeply vested interest in seeing the Olympics to operate smoothly and to meet the expectations of success. If China can give a little to the various protesting groups in order to reduce the resistance and harassment, it will --but not at the expense of the games themselves.
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