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Burma, Iran, North Korea but not Saudi Arabi and China

11/28/2010

 
What gets me in the US media is their selective reporting on countries: The dictatorships that are supported by the US foreign policy makers are hardly criticized and sometimes not even mentioned if their names show up in lists with other countries that do not get their orders from Washington.

A case in point is the recent editorial piece by Jennifer A. Marshall of the Heritage Foundation. Ms. Marshall cites the 2010 State Department report on religious freedoms around the world. She takes great care and mentions Iran, North Korea, and Mura but refrained from naming the other five countries.

In alphabetical order, they are: Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan, making them the 2010 CPSs, “countries of particular concern."

The main US allies in this list are: Saudi Arabia and China. Yet, Ms Marshall did not get name them in her editorial piece, which has been published in many newspapers around the country. Such selective naming, that of removing the names of US allies, is clearly a disinformation and does not allow the America people from reading in their local papers that the US allies do not secure religious freedom for their citizens.

One particular country cited in the report but not in Jennifer Marshall’s list is Egypt, which has received almost $40 billion in U.S. military aid since 1980, and $28 billion in economic and developmental aid since 1975– received low marks on religious liberty.  That is $68 billion of American taxpayers’ money.

Saudi Arabia has also about to finalize its largest arms deals in American history when it will buy $60.5 billion in military hardware in 2010. I bet Ms. Marshall does not want the American people to know that the US arms the same countries whose repressive policies are in contradiction to American values of freedom, liberty and justice.

Isn't this hypocrisy? It's a someone who claims not to steal, lie, or kill but then asscoiates with killers, liers and thiefs.

It is time for the US government to "walk the talk." 
Did I read somewhere that America has no credility whatsoever for follow its claims of supporting human rights, justice, and liberty abroad?


Sleeping at my desk

11/21/2010

 
I find it very hard to close my PC and go to sleep even when it is late at night.
Sometimes, I feel very tired and I still refuse to quit and go to bed.
Very recently I refused to sleep. The last time I remember looking at the time, It was 11h40 PM.

Well, the next thing I know is I woke up and noticed several pages of the letter G in my Microsoft Word document. I must have rested my head on my hand and it had been pressing the letter G all nigh long.

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