BOB2 Wrote:
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> Well, on the scale of pure bs to holy writ, where
> exactly does this fall? Wh6 5s beh5nd Ch5na
> "Uncensored(?)" (by whom and for whom?), what is
> their agenda, who pays for it, and what are they
> really selling?
>
> It is an interesting "narrative" with some juicy
> tidbits. And, poor Thomas, and evil Sir Topham
> hat building that simply awful and clearly
> inferior British trains....just awful. Tsk tsk,
> Thomas!
>
> This kind of narrative sounds a lot like something
> one more often sees or hears on Faux or RT....
> And, that is why I still mostly rely on source
> like YouTube for entertainment and train videos,
> not necessarily unbiased journalism (although
> Kurdish English language TV has some of the best
> Iraq coverage...).
>
> And then, there are those "evil" Chinese, engaged
> in that "evil" conspiracy to loan some of these
> countries billions of dollars to modernize things
> like railways, roads, electricity,
> telecommunications, and irrigation in the part of
> the African continent that has long poor countries
> that have finally been seeing annual real growth
> in GDP growth of up to 10% for the last decade, or
> so.....? Obviously, bloodsucking capitalist
> pigs.....or complete fools, right? So based on
> this clearly well focused and unbiased analysis,
> which is it?
>
> And, ain't that kind of like when America was a
> huge debtor nation during the industrial
> revolution, until 1914, to finance those stupid
> railroads, steel mills, electricity, and even
> cotton planting and slave in the old south, with
> loans from those "perfidious" British swine......
> And, didn't we have terrible issues to deal with
> like slavery, poor working conditions and labor
> unrest, abuses of power, monopolies, and
> corruption (Credit Mobilier???), as those
> enterprises were built in America......? And, as
> a result of that awful "debt" we incurred to do
> that, hasn't everything just turned out so
> dreadfully awful.....as a resFalunTell ya what. As long as China keeps harvesting organs from Falun Gong members, and acting belligerent in the S.China sea, I will continue to watch Chris Chappel. Granted this is not the PBS News Hour.