Who's The Biggest Murderer? - Fuss in European Parliament over China and Olympics

[magbana]

Why So Much Fuss in the European Parliament Over the Chinese and the Olympics?

Alberto Montero Soler - Rebelión and La Otra Economía

"Last Friday (April 11, 2008), in another exercise in cynicism and redundancy to which we're becoming accustomed, the European Parliament approved a resolution in which it urges Beijing to negotiate with the Dalai Lama over the situation in Tibet.

It followed a debate full of high-sounding phrases such as "the free world should not shake hands with murderers," without, at least as far as I was concerned, making very clear who the "free world" is, who are the "murderers" and the reasoning behind such qualifications.

When I began to think about it, certain questions kept coming forward about what seems to me excessive certainty with which some are qualified as belonging to the "free world" and others disqualified as "murderers."

For instance, the Chinese are the murderers because theirs is the country with more death penalty executions - forgive the black humor - than any other country in the world, yet isn't the United States right behind them? Or does the European Parliament consider an execution in the United States less serious than one in China?"

MORE AT:
http://machetera.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/whos-the-biggest-murderer/

http://snipurl.com/25z69

[malaise]

1. The European parliament should be debating whether

they will boycott the Olympics if the war criminals are participating. That they can discuss China while ignoring the genocide in Iraq tells me all I need to know about 'the white man's burden'.
The Western establishment is exposing itself as the greatest burden on the rest of humanity.

[magbana]

2. Punishing China

Since I didn't get clobbered on the first post, I'll add this.

Further Explanation of the Boycott of the Olympics in Beijing

Alberto Montero Soler - Rebelión and La Otra Economía

Translation: Machetera

In case anyone still harbors any doubt about why Europeans and North Americans are trying to water down the Olympics hosted by the Chinese, yesterday (April 18, 2008,) the World Trade Organization published a report about the evolution of international trade in 2007, from which just about anyone could easily find arguments which help to explain the reasoning behind the present offensive against China.

In any case, in order to save you the trouble, I'll sum it up for you:

a) For the first time, China surpassed the United States as worldwide exporter of products and is rapidly approaching Germany, the world's main exporter.

b) For the first time, China replaced Canada as the United States' leading supplier. Chinese imports grew by 12%, more than double the rate of total imports, and this despite the fall in domestic U.S. demand.

c) For the first time, the volume of Chinese trade (export and import) surpassed the combined volume of trade of Japan and South Korea, the second and third largest traders in Asia.

d) Since 2001, the year in which Beijing was approved as the Olympic site and China joined the WTA, its exports and imports have grown by an average of 25% yearly, more than double that of world trade. Since 2004, China's trade (exports and imports) has surpassed that of Japan, and in 2007, as we've said, surpassed that of the United States.

http://machetera.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/punishing-china/

http://snipurl.com/25za7

[sam sarrha]

3. They have 2 ongoing Genocides, 1.25 million Tibetans murdered, and DarFur >LINK>>

http://dolphinarium.blogspot.com/2008/03/dispatches-tonight-torture-and-mobile.html

http://www.tibettruth.com/birthcontrol.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=brutal+forced+tibetan+abortions&btnG=Google+Search

ecocide
http://www.davekopel.com/env/entibet.htm