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Strategy Videogame Upsets Chinese, Gets Banned
An anonymous reader writes "China's State News Agency, Xinhua reports that China's Ministry of Culture has banned a computer game for 'distorting history and damaging China's sovereignty and territorial integrity'. Paradox's PC strategy game 'Hearts of Iron', was accused of distorting historical facts in describing Manchuria, West Xinjiang, and Tibet as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. 'All these severely distort historical facts and violate China's gaming and Internet service regulations,' the Ministry's Game Products Censorship Committee said. 'The game should be immediately prohibited.' [via China Digital]"
(This will probably get modded troll or flamebait, but I have karma to burn . . . )
This is one of many very conspicuous double standards on the Left. We have been bombarded with the Left's caterwauling about Israel's occupation of part of Palestine for several years now. Many lefties would go so far as to say 9/11 is America's fault.
That that reasoning is a bit like blaming a rape victim for being raped is beside the point. China is occupying Tibet and the other regions. Cuba is under the bloody dictatorship of Fidel Castro. The list goes on, but not a peep is heard from the Left. But when, for example, Israel defends itself in an aggressive war and wins the OTs fair and square, however, that's condemned in the most vitriolic of terms.
Not meaning to start a flamewar here, just want to bring some much-needed intellectual honesty to this issue.
2. The money to rebuild Iraq is being paid for from their own oil revenues. The cost to repair the damaged Iraqi infrastructure after Saddam Hussein invaded his neighbor Kuwait, destabilizing the Middle East and threatening to undermine the world's energy supply, starting GWI, United Nations-imposed sanctions, and Saddam Hussein refused to comply with the United Nations' GWI ceasefire terms and subsequent resolutions, necessitating GWII is, IIRC, about $36billion.
And with more being money lost in the graft and corruption endemic in contracts with US corporations than even was stolen through United Nations corruption in the oil-for-food program , signed without the Iraqi people's ratification because holding a nationwide referendum in a country which was a few months ago ruled by a genocidal dictator, to vote on terms for procurement contracts is a very realistic and practical idea , they're in a hole so deep that they'll be lucky if their grandchildren see daylight , considering all the oil-for-food money which Hussein wasted buying weapons from the French and Russians.
It might be easier for a citizen of the United States of America to understand the 'insurgents' actions in these term: the Iraqis are being taxed without representation by a colonial power , although fortunately the direct taxes to pay for all this are being levied upon United States citizens, not Iraqis, and the insurgents are actually Baathist loyalists and Iranian-backed Al-Qaeda who are desperate to prevent the establishment of a second democracy in the Middle East.
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