BTW, Thomas Crampton has visited my blog and commented on a post. *ORGASM*

The recent Tibet unrest has been huge in Western media as of late. Western coverage (CNN, Fox, BBC, …) hasn’t merely been biased against China, but downright against China. A lot of lies and misinformation was spread. For instance, the protests were labeled as “peaceful”, when many Tibetans, even monks, were caught on tape with weapons destroying property or beating Police.

When they found this wasn’t working well for them, they then spread the false news that the Chinese Army (PLA) had set the riots up, dressing as monks. A picture was even provided as evidence, but only hours after the report that picture was also found to be fake. The photo was taken during a 1994 movie shooting. Chinese movie companies often use students or the military for low skilled acting as they are much cheaper than professional actors. Also, the PLA uniform was changed long ago, the picture showed them with the old version.

I find it funny that Western media outlets, that often speak poorly of China’s state controlled media are responsible for such a catastrophic level of journalism. Clearly, they are at least as bad as their Chinese “propaganda-spreading” counterparts.

The central government also acted with extreme caution this time, as they knew that separatist camps as well as the Western media was watching closely for any form of aggression. Despite of this, several journalists have stilled called for a 2008 Olympics Boycott, one prominent journalist even compared the 2008 Olympics to the 1936 Nazi Olympics.

On German TV, people saw videos of how Nepalese Police beat monks at the same time as reporting as reporting the Tibet unrest in China. If I was an average German citizen, I sure as hell would hate China after watching the news too. All the false, bad press about China has caused major demonstrations outside the Chinese embassies throughout the entire Western world.

After all this media hype, I decided to do some digging on my own, on the root of the problem; the Dälai Läma. My own research shows that he is a hypocrite, and has no right to (and doesn’t) advocate peace. He is sponsored by CIA. I won’t go into details as it will take up too much space. If you are interested, you can dig it up yourself. Information against him can even be collected from commercial Western media, such as the New York Times.

Despite all this, China won.

This is the information age, and as Chinese citizens now are better educated and use English more proficiently, they also learn ways to bait the media. First, a Chinese student collected photos of how Western news reports wrongly told this story. Chinese news websites quickly picked the photos up, and not long after, even Chinese old media started reporting on this. When the Chinese mainstream got to know about this, they were furious at all the lies. Even students, who often disagreed with the actions of the central government embracing Western thinking, were now fully supportive of how the government handled the situation.

China unites, and fights back. All over the internet, one could see Chinese citizens posting on English message boards in their best English trying to explain their truth. Not long after, students set up a website, Anti CNN, to show the various “lies” that the Western media used to turn the story against China. If you are interested in learning more about Tibet, or how Chinese people feel about the situation, I strongly urge you to check the website.

Also, it’s funny to note that the Chinese government has noticed that the internet can not only work against them, but in favor of them too. After years of inaccessibility from the Middle Kingdom, the BBC, which was responsible for many of the so called lies, was suddenly unblocked in the midst of chaos so that everyone in China could see how they reported. I was shocked at fist, but now believe it was a very smart move.

Maybe it’s because the Chinese people are starting to tell their versions of what’s happened, that the overall tone online has changed. Ten, or even five years ago, if something like this happened, people all over the world would agree in unison that China was evil. Now, it’s different. More and more Westerners, especially those with higher education, are not so sure about their position anymore. Some have even started to support China and condemn their own media on this matter.

The times have changed indeed.

In China, beggars are professionals and will take measures, such as wearing dirty clothes and adding dirt to their body in order to maximize profits.

• Incident 1. A month ago, I was in the buffet section of a Macau casino offering some of the world’s best buffets. Sitting by a table was a beggar from Zhuhai whom I’ve seen numerous times on the streets looking very poor now enjoying a great meal.
• Incident 2. During the Chinese New Year celebrations we were outside setting off fireworks. A beggar, male crippled with only one arm disturbed me for a few minutes asking for money. After the fireworks, on the way home I saw the same man, wearing the same dirty clothes, but now carrying a smart citybag walking home rapidly. He now had two arms and was enjoying a cigarette after a hard days work.
• Incident 3. A friend one told me of how he was standing in the line of a bank behind a Guangzhou beggar who deposited 200,000 CNY (approx $45,000 USD) at the counter. When the beggar was walking out of the bank, my friend glanced at his bank statement which now showed more than a million CNY! A regular hardworking Chinese can’t make a million in a lifetime.
• Incident 4. Yesterday I heard a street vendor ask a beggar who was missing an arm how business was going. The beggar said, “Not bad.” Beggars see themselves as businessmen.

Another type of business model used by beggars here is to buy crippled people (normally children) and send them out to beg. At the end of the day, the owners come and pick them up and take all the money. If the cripples don’t manage to get a certain amount of money, they will be beaten or not given food.

So you see, no matter which kind of beggar you decide to give money to, it is a complete waste. If you have money to throw away, give it to some regular hard working person who needs and deserves it more.

I’ve had the concept in my mind for a while, and was inspired by the logos of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Bank of China which I liked a lot.

The basic shape is of an ancient Chinese coin, and upon further inspection one can find my initials on it. There is a opening on the top, but none at the bottom. With this, I hope my life will be filled with good things, that none of the good will drain away. The logo was made entirely in Photoshop.

From: Chase ******* <*****.*******@kcsg.com>
To: ME
Subject: Scams
Date: 18/01/08 17:37

I know you have been sending fake IRS emails and setup a fake IRS set to
collect my information such as SS number and credit card number. I have
reported you to the local authorities in Stockholm and they are on there
way to pick you up for fraud. Have fun in jail. Peace.

–
Chase *******
KCSG News, IT

At first, I thought this was some kind of prank. Then I remembered my web host mentioning to me over MSN, in a non-serious manner, that someone reported to him that one of my domains was used for phishing. I asked him if it was something I was responsible of doing, he said no. I was confused but had other things to do and didn’t think about it more.

I search for my domain on Google and find that it indeed was used for phishing, and the phish was already published on the anti-phishing website Castle Cops. By now I started to panic.

Checking through my email, I found more messages of the same kind. I immediately called the Swedish Police, but unfortunately their IT department only works on weekdays, so I’ll have to call again tomorrow. I’ve also emailed GoDaddy and various other people.

Additional Info:
- The phishing email was sent out at the 17th (3 days ago).
- The domain folder shows a CHMOD of 775, unchangeable.

Phishing Email Header: (from one of those emails I got)

Received: from mail.pegaprecision.com ([71.158.242.2]) by mail.decossas.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:14:50 -0600
Received: from User ([151.12.152.26]) by mail.pegaprecision.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:12:31 -0800
Reply-To: <no_reply@usa.gov>
From: "Internal Revenue Service U.S.A"<service@usa.gov>
Subject: Notice From IRS
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13.13.29 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Bcc:
Return-Path: service@usa.gov
Message-ID: <JUPITERvmkBgAusejaa000027ef@mail.pegaprecision.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jan 2008 12:12:31.0718 (UTC) FILETIME=[3C56B060:01C85902]
X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.0.0.1345-5.0.1023-15672.002
X-TM-AS-Result: Yes-28.070100-8.000000-1

Any help is appreciated!

Currently, I’m still very confused about what to do and would appreciate if anyone knowledgeable in the field would give a few suggestions. It would be nice if you could link to this post hopefully to attract people who know what to do.

For me, the only way that could be possible was if he edited the video. Do you guys have any ideas?

Edit: Explanation can be found here. He really got me!

Sucked, to be honest.

China’s president Hu Jintao embarked on an official state visit to Sweden yesterday. I had the rare chance to wait in the Swedish royal palace to witness him being welcomed by representatives of Sweden. And it was just what I did, waited.

After waiting for around two hours on a warm summer day in formal attire (full suit & tie), Hu finally enters the palace grounds in a traditional Swedish horse cart. I was sweating, my feet and shoulders hurt from standing still & straight. Luckily, it wasn’t only I who waited. The king, the royal family and all major Swedish politicians waited as well. What’s better is that they waited on the other side under direct sunlight while I waited in the shade.

After the cart leaves, Hu and his associates (wife, Chinese army general, and some random people) shake hands with their Swedish counterparts and proceeds to inspect the royal guards together with the Swedish king. Finally, the band plays the Chinese national anthem followed by the Swedish and Hu leaves. He is a pretty short guy in person. The president did not stay for more than 10 minutes in total and not once did he wave or even look at me, it was hardly worth the wait. But then again, being in the proximity of one of the World’s most powerful man isn’t so bad either.

The climax of the even was when Hu made his way to check on the guards, at one point which he was within 20 meters of me. Listening to the national anthems was also good. The only other remotely interesting thing that happened during the entire two hours was that one guard fainted and fell to the ground and had to be taken away because of the warmth. When other guards tried to help, the general shouted “Stand still! Stand still!“.

Was this a good experience? Well, now I can at least say that I have seen Hu live, so yes, it was probably worth the wait. Would I do it again? No.

If I ever see Hu live again, it would be under circumstances where he will at least shake my hand.

I’m so hyped right now to graduate from High School tomorrow, I started this name meme on MSN. Ta studenten is Swedish for graduate.

In Sweden, we do all the normal stuff and then jump on a truck for 60 people with music and scream and jump for 3 hours, and then do the normal stuff again.

Saving all the analysis for a later day.

If you haven’t already watched it, it’s definitely a recommended watch!

[Via Engadget]