state control

its very funny how when I read the news here in new zealand and my gf reads the chinese news about new zealand we get a compleatly different story. I read about how someone got murdered or something. she reads about many murders, rapes, and mindless volience. I also didnt notice that there is 2 police helecopters hovering above my city all night untill she found it on a chinese news web site and i went and had a look. i really feel that NZ is hiding a lot of facts from our citizens and more importantly our tourists. I think we as citizens don't really know whats really going on and as our national income relies on it we hide it from the world.

I trust that was a good dooby mate. You should try the rest of the world if you're into conspiracy theories.

Have done. I trust you "see the world" and open your eyes.

Yep, I think you've either forgotten to take your prescription or you've had a bit too much of the non-prescription stuff. You're not a Raelian by any chance are you?

i'd say there's not enough 'state control' as far as the op's concerned!
either that or he needs more drugs....................................

I'm more inclined to believe that the Chinese papers manufacture information than the NZ ones conceal it.

Herb, get a grip my man. The paranoia is setting in. This can happen when you closet yourself indoors and go into bucket bong lockdown. Put the business away in a safe place for a couple of days, hopefully you won't remember where, and step outside for a spell. Now, find a fast flowing stream somewhere, immerse your good self in it and try to wash out the THC residue that's obviously oozing from every pore in your being.

quality post. Mad as cheese but entertaining all the same. Don't be put off by the above comments, you stick to your guns and keep posting.

But I've nothing more to add.

Proof that prolonged marijuana consumption causes psychotic episodes.

You're completely correct, Herb. State control is such in China that the media is a very whacky phenomenon. Reading The People's Daily does indeed give a skewed view of the world. The reports in the Chinese press in the past week about slave labour were apparently one of the (if not the) frst instance of investigative reporting exposing the truth in China.

I'm still waiting for a good investigative journalism piece on illegal organ harvesting in the Beijing Bugle.

Journalists, reporters, newspapers, TV stations are the same all over the world.

They all dish out rubbish to frighten you.

When something good is done...it is always too little too late.
When people get hurt.....they are always women and children.

I receive several calls from friends and relatives abroad telling me to lie low and be alert for a lose gunman who had shot THREE backpackers, TWO lawyers and assistants and a beautiful woman (who was wearing a..................dress and had long black hair........, model, real beaut....).

And the gunman is looking for more innocent victims and police were not able to locate the gunman. A background report told of so many drive by shootings abd so many gunmen on the loose in the City, One was arrested by the Greek Polce and he was with a beautiful woman (who was wearing a.......dress and had long hair brunnete but esearch showed she had blonde hair.........hair dresser, model and a real beauty..........).

One relative was so worried as there was a police chase down a freeway that she thought ran pass my home. The Aboriginal was caught. She also advice me to stay clear of pubs having heard a football star king hit a politician at a bar when he bare his bottoms to a beautiful woman (who was wearing a......................dress and had long black hair........model and very attractive in her knee high boots.).

In the minds of journos, Australia is about the size of Wales or maybe even geographically smaller than Singapore.

Don't belive what you read unless the writer had been given Agent 86's truth serum.

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5% of GDP...

look herb you've got to get out more, i know it's winter and there's snow up to the window sills but you can't sit around all day smoking dope and reading the 'shanghai press' on the internet

we're all in the same sinking ship, the weather's crapped out, it's dark, the power is unreliable, the green's seem to have taken over politics, no one's got any money and we might not win the america's cup so the best thing to do is make for the nearest bar and some local bonhomie:)

But you do realise that this was the same 'Uncle Herb' who was building a holiday home and was concerned about high power bills while he was overseas for long periods. It almost sounded as if he lived overseas almost permanently. The two don't quite add up.

dune, I think your right. Care to join me? what city/village are you in?

aimlach, overseas students $3 billion a year.