April Fools’ Day Letter To Hu Jintao

Dear Hu Jintao,

Don’t play with fire!

  

Did you get that?   I said don’t play with fire, you fool! 

Photo from The Age

You’re still not listening.    Here, let Jiminy Cricket explain it to you in his instructional video, “Don’t Be A Fool With Fire”

Kazakhstan Gives China Half an Army Division

Well not exactly. But why in God’s name is Kazakhstan devoting 5000 armed police to guard China’s torch as it passes through Almaty?

5000 is approximately half an Army division. Are we supposed to believe this gesture from Kazakhstan to China is about nothing other than a torch?

Incidentally, that report in the Central Propaganda Department’s English language rag, China Daily, stated a historical error pregnant with meaning:

Almaty is Kazakstan’s largest city. It is also the first time in history for the city along the ancient Silk Road to welcome the Olympic torch.

The subliminal implication is that Kazakhstan, by way of its very tenuous historical connections with the ancient Silk Road, has “always” been a part of the Greater Chinese Empire in the same way that Tibet is argued to have been.   But Almaty was never part of the Silk Road. Almaty did not exist until the Russians built it in the 19th century. So what’s next? China’s “peaceful liberation” of Kazakhstan? Almost half of the people of Kazakhstan are Russians, not exactly a placid or unbelligerent nationality, and never great fans of any peoples of the Far East.

The Olympic Torch was Conceived and Born as a Nazi Symbol

A handful of incisive words by Mary Beard in the Times:

Hardly any commentator stops to mention that this silly torch ceremony has nothing to do with the ancient Greeks, and was really invented to be a magnificent shot in Leni Riefenstahl’s movie (choreographed by Carl Diem). This is one of Hitler’s most pervasive legacies.

Yes, that’s right.  The Olympic Torch has nothing to do with Ancient Greece.

The Olympic Torch was conceived and born as a Nazi symbol, in accord with the Nazi Party’s habit of holding torchlight parades.

Now one must wonder, if any of the Western ‘public relations’ consultants in Beijing –by which I mean, those who were closely involved with the public relations of the Torch – ah, did any of those Western “public relations” consultants in Beijing, hesitate even for a moment to consider, or to research, the history of the Olympic Torch and its conception and birth as a Nazi propaganda tool?

Olympic Whores, Part Two: Zhang Ziyi Partners With Fox News Pimp’s Wife

 

In the comments section of yesterday’s post on Zhang Ziyi’s new career as a Beijing “journalist”, our friend Adriana “spoke truer than she purposed”, as Shakespeare would say:

 

Ah, the lady would seem to have a bright future in Fox News, in their “sluts R’ us” news division.

 

Well, dear, wise Adriana, you really were onto something. 

Beijing Journalist Zhang Ziyi: “Me Love You Long Time!”

Sometimes the drones at Beijing’s Central Propaganda Department are so good at self-parody that I almost wonder if it’s intentional, because even a master satirist couldn’t make up some of this stuff.  But as having no sense of humour is their principal job requirement, Occam’s Razor says the best explanation for what they do is “fathomless stupidity.”  And its fathomlessness would pose yet another philosophical puzzle beyond the capacities of Occam or Abelard to solve.

The “face” (multiple entendre intended, and not all above the waist) of Chinese journalism at the torch lighting ceremony in Athens was the Beijing born actress/object-of-worldwide-salacious-google-image-searches, Zhang Ziyi, one of whose most recent (and one might speculate, most appropriate) movie roles was as a prostitute.    

The Communist Party rag, People’s Daily, writes:

 

Invited by the Greek Olympic Committee, the Beijing-born actress will attend the torch lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics in Athens… Zhang also will work as one of the journalists of the 2008 Games’ official website.

 

The Iron Curtain Envelops Nepal

From Reliefweb:

 

Earlier this week, the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) singled out the Maoists for increasing violence against other parties in the run-up to the elections.  The head of UNMIN, Ian Martin told UN Radio that there has been a great deal of obstruction by the Maoists of the campaigns of other political parties:

 

“The Maoists themselves have suffered more killings of their cadres, but they have engaged in a pattern of preventing other parties from campaigning in what they regard as their base areas.  They have great difficulty in accepting that royalist parties also have a right to campaign and that’s lead to far too many instances of violence.”

And from the Times of India:

 

KATHMANDU: At least 300 Tibetans were rounded up on Monday as hundreds of Tibetan refugees staged demonstrations against China in the Nepalese capital at two different places including one near the United Nations office….CPN-Maoist chairman Prachanda has extended support to Chinese government’s suppression of the Tibetans saying that it is China’s duty to control separatist violence.

 

“We cannot term the Chinese government’s step to check violence unleashed by the separatists in Tibet as ‘crackdown,’”  he said.

 

Ah, I see.  In accord with China’s Propaganda Department, Nepal’s Maoist party chairman has adopted the Orwellian Newspeak redefinition of a crackdown as, well “not a crackdown.”

If it’s not a “crackdown”, then what the hell is it?

Anschluss: Reports of China’s Invasion of Nepal

As we’ve been blogging about repeatedly for the past two weeks or so, the Olympic Torch’s planned path up Mount Everest is a symbolic expansion of China’s borders, a public demonstration that Nepal is now China’s prison-bitch.

And now our friend the inestimable Tom in Hong Kong has come up with this bit about Chinese troops in Nepal.

What’s next?   Will China’s next move be to “peacefully liberate”  India?

 

Boycott the 2012 London Olympics

Are the British government and Britain’s international trading partners representing the 2012 London Olympics as some kind of “coming out party” for Britain, which, if boycotted, would “hurt the feelings” of the British people? Does anyone expect the 2012 Olympic Torch to be taken defiantly through the Catholic areas of Belfast?

Of course those are absurd rhetorical questions. But those absurdities – and the possibility which at least I anticipate of similarly absurd worldwide protests against Britian’s “human rights” record in 2012 – demonstrate how the perceived significance of the Olympics as a whole has degenerated perhaps beyond the point of redemption.

Maybe it’s time to give the Olympics a decent burial, before the carcass begins to stink even more.

 

Olympic Torch Host Cities: Be Careful What You Pick Up

So the Olympic Torch relay has begun under ominous clouds promising an endless series of public relations disasters for Beijing.

Hey all you Olympic Torch host cities out there.  Take some instruction from those experts in self-destruction, the “Happy Tree Friends”, and be careful what kinds of fetishes you take into your hands:

China’s Olympic Torch Was Made By Nazi Money

China’s Olympic Torch belongs to Lenovo.

Lenovo is the successor of IBM.

IBM was instrumental in the Holocaust, and Auschwitz.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. IBM, in China, is now “Lenovo”, and as IBM participated in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, now today, IBM’s successor in China, “Lenovo”, the corporation to whom the Olympic Torch belongs, is, well, a continuation of the same corporation which made the Holocaust happen…..

…more to come soon. Watch this space, watch this blog, for more details about the collaboration between IBM/Lenovo, and the gas chambers of the Nazis, and “public relations” in China, and that GOD DAMNED Olympic Torch which has inflammed Tibet, now inflamming the entire world in the most unforgivably STUPID, UNTHINKING ways….

…more to come soon….

…but meanwhile, Catherine and I must ask, WHAT does Richard of TPD think about all this?   After all, he IS an American “public relations” consultant in Beijing, who is, by his own admission, involved in the public relations of the Beijing Olympics.   (And maybe the Olympic Torch too?    We’re just guessing, for now…)

…Watch this space in the next few months, for more information and more questions….