Communist Propaganda Thread

[xinhui]

Oh no,

[gunnut]

Not Greenpeace Propaganda?

Damn hippies!!!

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same thing

[cdude]

You guys saw the Academy award winning Food INC?

Monstanto is no angle

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my coworker is one of those "issue-of-the-day" liberal. He swore he would never drink high fructose corn syrup ever again after watching that film, well, that lasted until the next lunch meeting.

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PLAN 61st anniversary photo essay.
Propaganda done right!

Last year the PLAN conducted an over-the-top dog-and-pony naval review to mark its 60th anniversary. This year’s celebration takes a much more low key approach by publishing a simple photo essay to the PLA Daily. The essay portrays a fairly standard PRC historical narrative -- from the "century of humiliation" at the hands of the seaborne imperialist, to the struggle of building a new nation after the revolution, to rejoining the world through openness and trade, and ultimately, to final revitalization.

The photography is professional and has been combined with traditional Chinese poems, making this one of the best propaganda attempts by the PLA Daily thus far.

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Part II

struggle of building a new nation

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Part III

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China Looks Askance at a New Satiric Novel - Forbes.com

's the year 2013: China has emerged triumphant from a second global financial crisis, more confident than ever that the Western model is broken and that its own brand of authoritarian capitalism is superior. Starbucks ( SBUX - news - people )-Wang Wang cafes (the Seattle company was bought out) are making Chinese-themed drinks popular around the globe. The dollar depreciates 30%, gold skyrockets to $2,000 an ounce and China takes over the world.

This scenario, maybe not so far-fetched, is the theme of a Chinese novel, The Fat Years, now popular among the intellectual and media elite in China, despite the fact that it is not legally sold on the mainland. Downloadable over the Internet and available on request at some highbrow bookstores, The Fat Years has sold some 17,000 official copies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and has reached thousands more readers online.

The author, Hong Kong citizen Chan Koon Chung, paints a dystopian view of China, tapping into the view that the nation is just a little too proud of itself. In the novel Chan has the government drug the water, making the populace forget a month of chaos and a brutal crackdown that restored order.

Hung Huang, a celebrity magazine publisher, put the Chinese title of the book, Shengshi Zhongguo 2013, on the cover of her February issue of iLook magazine, translating it into English as The Gilded Age, and gave away 200 copies of the book to new subscribers. She said she had to stop the giveaway after getting a warning. (Strictly speaking, the book has not been banned on the mainland because it has not been submitted for publication, but the author delicately reports that no one has offered to publish it.)

Chan was born in Shanghai in 1952, raised in Hong Kong and partly educated in the U.S. Chan says he's not at all sanguine about China's economy, thinking a hard landing may be coming (see related story, "Asia's Doctor Gloom"). In an interview near his Beijing apartment, Chan mentions with dismay the popular notion that the Tiananmen Square crackdown in June 1989 and the stability it supposedly brought to China paved the road for the economic boom. "There's no direct reason why there should be a June 4 incident in order for China to boom," Chan says.

An English translation is due to be published in Britain and the U.S. early next year.

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The vid has been removed from youtube due to copyright violation but it is still available from tudou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmMPH...eature=related

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PLA 'Beat It' video: Is being cheeky about China's military risky business?

'Beat It' video of China's People's Liberation Army groovin' to a Michael Jackson song goes viral. Will officials 'harmonize' the tribute?

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Screen shot of PLA 'Beat It' video from YouTube


By Peter Ford, Staff Writer / July 9, 2010
Beijing

Chalk up another viral video in the “Soldiers, music, inappropriate use of” category.



But if the Israeli soldiers dancing in the streets of occupied Hebron were controversial, this hilarious tribute to Michael Jackson, supposedly from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, is just cheeky.

Where it comes from, nobody knows. Even being cheeky about the PLA is a risky business in China. One of the many versions on the Chinese Internet carries a warning: “Watch this while you can, it will be harmonized sooner or later.”

(“Harmonized” is Chinese Internaut slang for “censored,” a reference to President Hu Jintao's favorite slogan, “harmonious society.”)

But the popularity of the video, which has gone viral here, would likely defeat any attempt the authorities might make to wipe it off the Web. It is everywhere, on videosharing sites, on chat rooms, and on blogs.

The music you hear is “Beat It,” apparently to mark the first anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death. The music the gentleman in the gray uniform with red PLA collar flashes was actually singing is from “The Long March” song cycle, a revolutionary piece of music composed in 1965 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Long March.

Everybody in the video, all wearing identical gray uniforms with red collar flashes, came from the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Beijing Military Region of the PLA.

This video is laugh-out-loud funny, even if you are a fan of neither Michael Jackson nor the PLA. I recommend paying especial attention to the electric guitar solo, apparently issuing from the mournful strings of a Chinese erhu, a long-necked two stringed instrument.

PLA 'Beat It' video: Is being cheeky about China's military risky business? - CSMonitor.com

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First headline from 2003 the three Gorge dam will stop the biggest flood in 10,000 years

2nd headline from 2007, the 3 G dam will stop the biggest flood in 1,000 years

3rd headline from 2008, the 3 G dam will stop the biggest flood in 100 years.

new headline from July 20th 2010, don't pin too much hope on the dam