Wednesday, May 21, 2008

China Cracks Down On Media

I get tired of the sanctimonious, self-righteous arrogance of the Zionist-controlled Western MSM, readers, I really do.

Gonna start you with this extracted gem
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".... The authoritarian government appeared to be moving to rein in the unusually free reporting it allowed in the disaster's first week. Most major newspapers carried near-identical photographs on their front pages of President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders with their heads bowed - a uniformity that is typical when state media censors direct coverage...."

And that is DIFFERENT from the AmeriKan MSM HOW?

Please, regal me with stories on how the AmeriKan press has ferreted out all the lies and corruption of this administration.

Please tell me how they have exposed George W. Bush as a liar on Iraq.

Please tell me how the AmeriKan MSM is getting the facts out on Iran.

Please tell me... oh, never mind. You get my point, right?


"China asks for aid as millions of quake victims seek shelter"

"by Tini Tran, Associated Press | May 21, 2008

AN XIAN, China - China is grappling with the next massive task in the aftermath of its earthquake - how to shelter the 5 million people left homeless.

Many were living in tent cities yesterday like one at the base of Qianfo mountain in the disaster zone, offering some stability - along with food and medical care - to those whose lives were upended.

"After the quake, we couldn't sleep for five days. We were really, really afraid," said Chen Shigui, a weathered, 55-year-old farmer who climbed for two days with his wife and injured father to reach the camp from their mountain village. "I felt relieved when we got here. It's much safer compared to my home."

But there's not enough room to go around.

Yesterday, the government issued an urgent appeal for tents and brought in the first foreign teams of doctors and field hospitals, some of whom were swapping out with overseas search and rescue specialists.

The move underscored a shift in the response to China's worst disaster in three decades from an emergency stage to one of recovery - and for many, enduring hardship.

On the second of a three-day national mourning period....

This is where my teaser quote extract was located, readers.

Nothing like kicking someone when they are down, huh?

The May 12 earthquake's confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000, with at least 10,000 more deaths expected to be reported, and officials said more than 32,000 people were missing. The State Council, China's Cabinet, said 80 percent of the bodies found in Sichuan province had been either cremated or buried.

Authorities rushed to dispose of corpses, burning them or laying them side by side in pits. Vice Minister for Civil Affairs Jiang Li said officials had begun collecting DNA samples from bodies so their identities could be confirmed later.

Rescues, becoming more remarkable by the hour, continued on the eighth day since the quake, but the trickle of earlier days had slowed to a drip.

A 60-year-old woman was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed temple in the city of Pengzhou 195 hours after the quake, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Wang Youqun suffered only a hip fracture and bruises on her face during her eight days in the rubble, Hong Kong-based Phoenix Satellite Television reported, citing an air force officer, Xie Linglong.

Jiang said 5 million people were homeless and that the government was setting up temporary housing for victims unable to find shelter with relatives. He said nearly 280,000 tents had been shipped to the area and 700,000 more ordered, and that factories were ramping up to meet demand. Sichuan's governor said 3 million tents were needed.

In this encampment in An Xian, hundreds of large blue tents dot the flat farmland where rice and barley are being grown. The dried furrows provide orderly markers, lining up the temporary shelters with military precision in the fairly tidy area the size of a football field.

Some 4,600 people are being housed here, 90 percent of them from the mountains around Chaping village, about 20 miles away, which remains cut off by road, said the camp's director, Yang Jianxin.

"All these refugees have lost their homes - their clothes and possessions are buried," he said. "We are doing what we can to help them."

As he spoke, the ground rumbled with the latest of what he said were hundreds of aftershocks felt in the past week.

Refugees nearby gasped, and some ran from their tents in confusion, before calm settled after the 10-second tremor.

The entire quake zone is jittery. The Sichuan Seismological Bureau, one day after triggering a panic in the provincial capital of Chengdu by issuing a public warning of major aftershocks, said in a statement yesterday the city was not a high risk area and was strong enough to withstand big tremors.

In the An Xian camp, more people are expected to show up in the next few days as more survivors make their way down from the mountains, Yang said. Some 500 people are either dead or missing from the Chaping area's main town, which still has about 1,800 survivors living in the mountains, he said.

Many of them, like Chen, made the 10-hour-plus hike down from the mountains with only the clothes they were wearing.

"We didn't sleep until we got here," Chen said. "I carried my father on my back part of the way, and then others helped me carry him down."

The camp has a clinic, food distribution points, toilets, a trash dump, and even plans for a temporary school. A red banner reads "Love is all around. We never feel lonely."

A giant, colorful pile of donated clothing lies in one corner, and dozens of women looked through it. Men in red vests regularly sweep and clean the area. Another area is a donation drop-off for a stream of well-wishers.

Each person in the camp receives regular daily rations: three bottles of water, a package of instant noodles, bread, and some crackers. Families also received small radios and copies of the local Mianyang Daily newspaper.

Loudspeakers regularly blare announcements about hygiene and reminders to get daily health checks - a precaution against possible disease outbreaks.

The clinic is staffed by eight physicians and six nurses, all volunteers with China's Red Cross. Running from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., the medical staff sees about 1,000 patients a day, said Dr. Ye Mao, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon from Guangdong province.

WOW!!! That sounds SO MUCH BETTER than AmeriKa's reaction to Katrina!!!

Could it be that, despite its flaws, the Chinese actually CARE about THEIR PEOPLE?!?

What a NOVEL IDEA for a GOVERNMENT, 'eh, Amurkn?

No wonder AmeriKa's shit MSM is savaging the Chinese press -- because THEY ARE BETTER than OURS!!!!

"The biggest problem is the density of the camps. If an infection breaks out, it can spread very quickly," he said. No outbreaks have been reported.

After initially refusing foreign help, China is now allowing in medical and rescue teams.

A Russian mobile hospital arrived yesterday in the provincial capital of Chengdu, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said, and other medical teams were headed in from Taiwan, Germany, Italy, and Japan."

Nobody from the U.S.?

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Gee, for a CENSORED media the Zionist-controlled "news" organization sure printed a lot of information in this article, huh?

Open up, Zionist-controlled AmeriKan MSM!!!

Pfffffffffffttttttttt!!!!

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