What's Wrong with a Swine Farm??? Damn it !!
Hey Folks,
Here’s an example of our problem.
If we are to have a real world, we must deal with reality! Unfortunately, society works overtime to create illusions, to pull the wool over our eyes, to “sell” us. Here is a perfect example.
Since before WW II we have been inculcated by invasive waves of propagandistic crap about the evil enemy of godless, insane, arbitrary, oppressive communism.
And that’s all we’ve heard. What else could we believe? Well, it’s embarrassing to see an actual product of all those years of brainwashing (see the last section of this posting). It is so shallow, stupid, and insulting to one’s intelligence – if one has been giving any thought to the bullshit that passes for reporting – as to be nauseating.
This report on the death of the last surviving member of the Gang of Four drips with mindless rhetoric. It reports the terrorization of THOUSANDS of Chinese in a nation of a Billion – as if we haven’t terrorized thousands HERE in a population of 300 million.
It uses the term “purge” for its negative connotations rather than the more positive “remove.” Those who are “purged” rather than “removed” are called – positively - “Moderate party officials”- rather than, negatively, “enemies of the people,” or neutrally “opponents.”
Yao Wenyuan, the focus of the piece, is damned for being a “killer with a pen” by the “state media” – i.e. the official mouthpiece of the faction that won the struggle calls what Yao (of the losing side) said “propaganda” and describes his words as murderous.
As one would expect – if one thought about it – EVERYTHING about the LOSING side is negative. None of it is positive. The reader will find it impossible – based upon this article – to grasp any understanding of what this “Gang of Four” business is all about. The reader WILL be certain, however, that the Gang of Four were despicable people and that the Cultural Revolution was a dastardly and tragic episode – no explanation – no argument – no evidence. It’s nothing but propaganda.
As ALWAYS, my favorite example of self-serving, capitalistic crap is again presented:
“PROFESSIONALS WERE FORCED TO WORK ON SWINE FARMS!!!!” (actually in this particular case: “forced a generation of intellectuals to work in the countryside”).
This is a disgusting comment, but it has been made over and over again – Oh, the tragedy of accountants and lawyers and physicists having to work on FARMS – often even on SWINE FARMS!!!
Well, where did these fucks think the sweet and sour pork they ordered in their fancy restaurants came from – ledger books? Court rooms? Laboratories?
No! These fucks got their pork from SWINE FARMS!!
And the evil, godless communists made thousands (out of the billion) of these fucks – who wouldn’t be caught dead even pissing on a peasant - go work along side them!! What a FUCKING TRAGEDY !!!
And that shit is put out on a regular basis - and with a straight face!!!
Below, I took a recent Yahoo news posting and adjusted it a bit, hopefully to aid a more balanced understanding of just how ignorant and/or compliant the press has become. Posted last is the actual AP story.
- Uke Man
Last Survivor of Colonies “Indian Band” Dies
By JOE McDONALD, King George Press Writer Fri Jan 6, 10:04 AM ET
PHILADELPHIA – Benjamin Franklin, the final surviving member of the “Indian Band” that terrorized the colonies during the violent 1776 “American Revolution” by persecuting thousands of people, has died, the government said Friday. He was 230.
Franklin's death on Dec. 23 was blamed on diabetes, the New York Times, the paper of record reported. It didn't say where he died or explain the delay in reporting his death.
The “Indian Band”, reportedly given its name by then-king George III, directed the purge of tea, Tory officials and royal-sympathisers during the “American Revolution.” Franklin was the group's propagandist, later dubbed the killer with a penis by Fox media.
Led by former British officer George Washington, the “Indian Band” and its allies inflicted physical and emotional damage that still reverberates in British society, despite Margaret Thacher’s tightened social controls and economic reforms that have raised the living standards of the privileged class.
Nearly every American city dweller who was alive at the time can tell of a relative or friend who was beaten, harassed or driven to suicide, often by rebel tormenters who took advantage of the unrest to avenge grudges.
The violence pitted neighbor against neighbor, seriously impacted the income of the King and his retainers and forced a generation of intellectuals to work in the countryside along side of the ill-clad and ignorant settlers they had formerly reviled from a distance.
A month after Washington's death in 1976, the “Indian Band” members were arrested, marking the end of the “American Revolution.”
Franklin, a Philadelphia journalist, was convicted of trying to gain power by persecuting Tory officials and members of the public sympathetic to England and spent 20 years in prison before his release in 1996. It was not known what he did in the 10 years after his release.
Evidence at his televised trial included a diary entry in which he asked: "Why can't we shoot at them from behind trees and rocks? After all, taxation without representation is dictatorship."
On Washington's orders, Franklin fired the first salvo of the Cultural Revolution, writing a review condemning a popular Broadway play as an attack on John Hancock. He was rewarded with a seat at the band's Constitutional Convention .
Franklin later confessed to falsifying evidence (with the aid of discredited journalist Dan Rather) against George W. Bush , whom he had depicted as an uneducated, moronic slacker but who emerged as America's supreme leader in 2000.
"His weapon to kill people was the pen," the National Review reported in 1981 after Franklin's conviction.
Washington died in 1991 in custody, reportedly by suicide. Another member, Thomas Jefferson, died in 1992. A third member, John Hancock , died last May of tendonitis, leaving a large family of dependants penniless, having invested in worthless insurance policies.
The “Indian Band” received most of the official blame for the political violence as the British government tried to shift attention away from the role played by greedy bastards in the homeland, including thousands of government officials and the landed aristocracy sitting there on its dead ass.
Franklin served his sentence at Tonofguano Prison, where the “Indian Band” once held victims loyal to the crown in solitary confinement.
The Times didn't give any details of survivors or funeral arrangements.
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Last Survivor of China's Gang of Four Dies
By JOE McDONALD, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 6, 10:04 AM ET
BEIJING - Yao Wenyuan, the final surviving member of the Gang of Four that terrorized China during the violent 1966-76 Cultural Revolution by persecuting thousands of people, has died, the government said Friday. He was 74.
Yao's death on Dec. 23 was blamed on diabetes, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It didn't say where he died or explain the delay in reporting his death.
The Gang of Four, reportedly given its name by then-Chinese leader Mao Zedong, directed the purge of moderate party officials and intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution. Yao was the group's propagandist, later dubbed the killer with a pen by state media.
Led by Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, the Gang of Four and its allies inflicted physical and emotional damage that still reverberates in Chinese society, despite loosened social controls and economic reforms that have raised living standards.
Nearly every Chinese city dweller who was alive at the time can tell of a relative or friend who was beaten, harassed or driven to suicide, often by tormenters who took advantage of the unrest to avenge grudges.
The violence pitted neighbor against neighbor, wrecked the economy and forced a generation of intellectuals to work in the countryside.
A month after Mao's death in 1976, the Gang of Four members were arrested, marking the end of the Cultural Revolution.
Yao, a Shanghai journalist, was convicted of trying to gain power by persecuting officials and members of the public and spent 20 years in prison before his release in 1996. It was not known what he did in the 10 years after his release.
Evidence at his televised trial included a diary entry in which he asked: "Why can't we shoot a few counterrevolutionary elements? After all, dictatorship is not like embroidering flowers."
On Jiang's orders, Yao fired the first salvo of the Cultural Revolution, writing a review condemning a popular Beijing play as an attack on Mao. He was rewarded with a seat on the party's ruling Politburo.
Yao later confessed to falsifying evidence against Deng Xiaoping, who was purged during the Cultural Revolution but emerged as China's supreme leader in 1978.
"His weapon to kill people was the pen," a government magazine said in 1981 after Yao's conviction.
Jiang died in 1991 in custody, reportedly by suicide. Another member, Wang Hongwen, died in 1992. The third member, Zhang Chunqiao, died last May.
The Gang of Four received most of the official blame for the political violence as the government tried to shift attention away from the role played by others, including thousands of officials.
Yao served his sentence in Qincheng jail outside of Beijing, where the Gang of Four once held victims in solitary confinement.
Xinhua didn't give any details of survivors or funeral arrangements.
Here’s an example of our problem.
If we are to have a real world, we must deal with reality! Unfortunately, society works overtime to create illusions, to pull the wool over our eyes, to “sell” us. Here is a perfect example.
Since before WW II we have been inculcated by invasive waves of propagandistic crap about the evil enemy of godless, insane, arbitrary, oppressive communism.
And that’s all we’ve heard. What else could we believe? Well, it’s embarrassing to see an actual product of all those years of brainwashing (see the last section of this posting). It is so shallow, stupid, and insulting to one’s intelligence – if one has been giving any thought to the bullshit that passes for reporting – as to be nauseating.
This report on the death of the last surviving member of the Gang of Four drips with mindless rhetoric. It reports the terrorization of THOUSANDS of Chinese in a nation of a Billion – as if we haven’t terrorized thousands HERE in a population of 300 million.
It uses the term “purge” for its negative connotations rather than the more positive “remove.” Those who are “purged” rather than “removed” are called – positively - “Moderate party officials”- rather than, negatively, “enemies of the people,” or neutrally “opponents.”
Yao Wenyuan, the focus of the piece, is damned for being a “killer with a pen” by the “state media” – i.e. the official mouthpiece of the faction that won the struggle calls what Yao (of the losing side) said “propaganda” and describes his words as murderous.
As one would expect – if one thought about it – EVERYTHING about the LOSING side is negative. None of it is positive. The reader will find it impossible – based upon this article – to grasp any understanding of what this “Gang of Four” business is all about. The reader WILL be certain, however, that the Gang of Four were despicable people and that the Cultural Revolution was a dastardly and tragic episode – no explanation – no argument – no evidence. It’s nothing but propaganda.
As ALWAYS, my favorite example of self-serving, capitalistic crap is again presented:
“PROFESSIONALS WERE FORCED TO WORK ON SWINE FARMS!!!!” (actually in this particular case: “forced a generation of intellectuals to work in the countryside”).
This is a disgusting comment, but it has been made over and over again – Oh, the tragedy of accountants and lawyers and physicists having to work on FARMS – often even on SWINE FARMS!!!
Well, where did these fucks think the sweet and sour pork they ordered in their fancy restaurants came from – ledger books? Court rooms? Laboratories?
No! These fucks got their pork from SWINE FARMS!!
And the evil, godless communists made thousands (out of the billion) of these fucks – who wouldn’t be caught dead even pissing on a peasant - go work along side them!! What a FUCKING TRAGEDY !!!
And that shit is put out on a regular basis - and with a straight face!!!
Below, I took a recent Yahoo news posting and adjusted it a bit, hopefully to aid a more balanced understanding of just how ignorant and/or compliant the press has become. Posted last is the actual AP story.
- Uke Man
Last Survivor of Colonies “Indian Band” Dies
By JOE McDONALD, King George Press Writer Fri Jan 6, 10:04 AM ET
PHILADELPHIA – Benjamin Franklin, the final surviving member of the “Indian Band” that terrorized the colonies during the violent 1776 “American Revolution” by persecuting thousands of people, has died, the government said Friday. He was 230.
Franklin's death on Dec. 23 was blamed on diabetes, the New York Times, the paper of record reported. It didn't say where he died or explain the delay in reporting his death.
The “Indian Band”, reportedly given its name by then-king George III, directed the purge of tea, Tory officials and royal-sympathisers during the “American Revolution.” Franklin was the group's propagandist, later dubbed the killer with a penis by Fox media.
Led by former British officer George Washington, the “Indian Band” and its allies inflicted physical and emotional damage that still reverberates in British society, despite Margaret Thacher’s tightened social controls and economic reforms that have raised the living standards of the privileged class.
Nearly every American city dweller who was alive at the time can tell of a relative or friend who was beaten, harassed or driven to suicide, often by rebel tormenters who took advantage of the unrest to avenge grudges.
The violence pitted neighbor against neighbor, seriously impacted the income of the King and his retainers and forced a generation of intellectuals to work in the countryside along side of the ill-clad and ignorant settlers they had formerly reviled from a distance.
A month after Washington's death in 1976, the “Indian Band” members were arrested, marking the end of the “American Revolution.”
Franklin, a Philadelphia journalist, was convicted of trying to gain power by persecuting Tory officials and members of the public sympathetic to England and spent 20 years in prison before his release in 1996. It was not known what he did in the 10 years after his release.
Evidence at his televised trial included a diary entry in which he asked: "Why can't we shoot at them from behind trees and rocks? After all, taxation without representation is dictatorship."
On Washington's orders, Franklin fired the first salvo of the Cultural Revolution, writing a review condemning a popular Broadway play as an attack on John Hancock. He was rewarded with a seat at the band's Constitutional Convention .
Franklin later confessed to falsifying evidence (with the aid of discredited journalist Dan Rather) against George W. Bush , whom he had depicted as an uneducated, moronic slacker but who emerged as America's supreme leader in 2000.
"His weapon to kill people was the pen," the National Review reported in 1981 after Franklin's conviction.
Washington died in 1991 in custody, reportedly by suicide. Another member, Thomas Jefferson, died in 1992. A third member, John Hancock , died last May of tendonitis, leaving a large family of dependants penniless, having invested in worthless insurance policies.
The “Indian Band” received most of the official blame for the political violence as the British government tried to shift attention away from the role played by greedy bastards in the homeland, including thousands of government officials and the landed aristocracy sitting there on its dead ass.
Franklin served his sentence at Tonofguano Prison, where the “Indian Band” once held victims loyal to the crown in solitary confinement.
The Times didn't give any details of survivors or funeral arrangements.
************************************************
Last Survivor of China's Gang of Four Dies
By JOE McDONALD, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 6, 10:04 AM ET
BEIJING - Yao Wenyuan, the final surviving member of the Gang of Four that terrorized China during the violent 1966-76 Cultural Revolution by persecuting thousands of people, has died, the government said Friday. He was 74.
Yao's death on Dec. 23 was blamed on diabetes, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It didn't say where he died or explain the delay in reporting his death.
The Gang of Four, reportedly given its name by then-Chinese leader Mao Zedong, directed the purge of moderate party officials and intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution. Yao was the group's propagandist, later dubbed the killer with a pen by state media.
Led by Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, the Gang of Four and its allies inflicted physical and emotional damage that still reverberates in Chinese society, despite loosened social controls and economic reforms that have raised living standards.
Nearly every Chinese city dweller who was alive at the time can tell of a relative or friend who was beaten, harassed or driven to suicide, often by tormenters who took advantage of the unrest to avenge grudges.
The violence pitted neighbor against neighbor, wrecked the economy and forced a generation of intellectuals to work in the countryside.
A month after Mao's death in 1976, the Gang of Four members were arrested, marking the end of the Cultural Revolution.
Yao, a Shanghai journalist, was convicted of trying to gain power by persecuting officials and members of the public and spent 20 years in prison before his release in 1996. It was not known what he did in the 10 years after his release.
Evidence at his televised trial included a diary entry in which he asked: "Why can't we shoot a few counterrevolutionary elements? After all, dictatorship is not like embroidering flowers."
On Jiang's orders, Yao fired the first salvo of the Cultural Revolution, writing a review condemning a popular Beijing play as an attack on Mao. He was rewarded with a seat on the party's ruling Politburo.
Yao later confessed to falsifying evidence against Deng Xiaoping, who was purged during the Cultural Revolution but emerged as China's supreme leader in 1978.
"His weapon to kill people was the pen," a government magazine said in 1981 after Yao's conviction.
Jiang died in 1991 in custody, reportedly by suicide. Another member, Wang Hongwen, died in 1992. The third member, Zhang Chunqiao, died last May.
The Gang of Four received most of the official blame for the political violence as the government tried to shift attention away from the role played by others, including thousands of officials.
Yao served his sentence in Qincheng jail outside of Beijing, where the Gang of Four once held victims in solitary confinement.
Xinhua didn't give any details of survivors or funeral arrangements.
1 Comments:
Hi Tom,
I plead ignorance about many of these people you wrote about. However, I have lived on a dairy farm and a swine farm. I do appreciate people who do that work. Sondra
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