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The stock market is not going to crash in a hyperinflation.
Why did the New York Times not translate those two protest banners pulled down by the CCP?
You'd think they would, what with their (nominal) devotion to the cause of "freedom-and-democracy" (in some places, but not others: including, evidently, China—and, in fact, the USA) ...
Here, then, is the translation that the Times did not provide (but that a former student sent one of my colleagues):
“No Covid test, we want to eat. No restrictions, we want freedom. No lies, we want dignity. No Cultural Revolution, we want reform. No leaders, we want votes. By not being slaves, we can be citizens."
"Go on strike at school and work, remove dictator and national traitor Xi Jinping."
Why, then, no full translation in the Times? Did its editors consider one not “fit to print” because it doesn’t really matter what the protest said? Or did they decide that that full protest wasn’t “fit to print” because it matters greatly, and not just to the Chinese people? After all, would not that first, and longer, protest resonate with millions in the world’s “democracies,” who also want not to be slaves, but citizens, respected by their governments? Perhaps somebody at the Times (or CIA) did not want that full protest sparking “protest chatter” over here (and elsewhere in the West)—“chatter” which our “Internet censors” would then have to “quell.”
Was that full protest translated anywhere? If so, please let us know. In any case, let’s do our best to share it far and wide.
Rupa Subramanya
@rupasubramanya
20h
Mayor Watson had claimed protestors ripped masks off people's faces.He's asked if he personally saw this. He says,"No I saw it reported in the media". Another instance of the tail wagging the dog.Politicians cite the media, and media cite the politicians. North Korea territory.
Sarah Fischer
@SarahFischer__
3h
Canadians and Conservatives have known about the Trudeau government buying the media, but it’s nice to see him finally admit it…even if he does think it’s a laughing matter.
https://nitter.pussthecat.org/SarahFischer/status/1584169677193809920#m
Sarah Fischer
@SarahFischer__
3h
Canadians and Conservatives have known about the Trudeau government buying the media, but it’s nice to see him finally admit it…even if he does think it’s a laughing matter.
Liam Deacon
@LiamDeacon
53m
That time of year again.
But remember, journalists giving each other endless awards for publishing the 'right' type of stories is a huge driver of the crippling groupthink in our media.
Many great reporters who break stories that really matter boycott these love-ins altogether.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Following months of silence regarding threats and attacks against churches and pro-life groups, legacy corporate media outlets have confirmed that the attack on Paul Pelosi warrants resuming coverage of political violence.
"To anyone who doesn't speak out against this politically-motivated attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, I will say only this: your silence is deafening." Joe Scarborough of MSNBC addressed his viewer this morning in his first recent coverage of political violence amid several months of firebombed pregnancy centers and churches, an assassination attempt on a sitting Supreme Court Justice, and the running down of 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson in a truck for being a Republican.
The reason that journalists went from traditionally hating censorship to absolutely loving it is that journalists are now part of the state.
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