Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House

toggleflipflop writes "In China, a returning satellite crashed into a house. No one was hurt. More details in this article. Apparently inhabited by an eternal optimist: 'The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we'll have good luck this year,' the tenant of the wrecked apartment was quoted as saying by the newspaper. According to the People's Daily's article on the subject nothing seems to have gone wrong."

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Re:Definitely insured

[Nutria]

China is communist, the government will repair the home.

China is a fascist regime. The government will repair the apartment if the dwellers kiss the block captain's ass and bribe:

• the block captain
  
• 5 city officials
  
• the building contractor.
  

earlier references

[zogger]

prison abuse stories broke earlier than that with the general (General Rick Baucus) in charge of the prison (camp x ray) at guantanamo basically getting fired/quitting because he wouldn't condone torture. It was released in government spin doctor speak but that's what it said in essence. I remember reading about it. Also a lot of reports of torture and summary executions of prisoners, including a pretty large incident involving thousands at one go, during the early stages of the afghan war, many spooky types and specops fingered as being in attendance while the NA troops did the deeds. Maybe you remember, POWs locked in shipping containers, left out in the sun for a week, then the containers machine gunned, then opened up and any one remaining re-machine gunned, then your regular bulldozers and mass grave scene.

I think what would be more accurate is that US based mainstream establishment media first reported "officially" that perhaps some "abuse" of "dee-tain-EEs" occurred at abu ghabrib around such and such a date as indicated. That would be more correct. The US establishment press is *very* careful to never use the terms torture or prisoners of war, and is usually about a year to forever behind the scenes of real events. We get a pretty mild and uber massaged press experience in this nation. IMO of course. I'm a serious news junky since the late 50's, that is my take on it, we get at best the marshmallow fluff version of "the news", even on so called "investigaive journalism" shows and in print media reports. It's an opinion I have,nothing but, but I'll state it's at least a well formed one based on decades of anecdotal and experience, both reading/researching and a little bit of fourth estate action myself..

On the other hand, if you read or listen to US alternative and/or foreign press, such charges and news stories, etc have been reported since the very beginnings of the two for one respective middle eastern wars, and have been steadily arriving and have been quite common. Direct torture and execution, "outsourcing" of torture by arranging "detainees" to be flown to more "cooperative" countries, and so on. and I guess it's a bit of a quibble to call "collateral damage" torture, but that happens as well. Now ME, I'd call it torture, but that's also not something most americans want to admit to, especially officials. So they call it "collateral damage", although lately they even stopped doing that, it's just "today, xx insurgents and terrorists were reported killed".. and etc.

Anyway, nothing new, quite common, I got several aquaintainces pretty familiar with "harsh interrogation methods" back in the nam years. Further back you go the fresher guys memory was, it was not unusal in th e least to hear of such actions over a brew or two, now it's almost universally denied, especially in public for mass consumption, as the guys are much older and all respectable citizens and like that. Funny how time changes things I guess... It goes on. Oh well.

What would be "news" would be if it didn't occur.

Busted Media Logic.

[Mulletproof]

How'd this ever get rated insightful? He's comparing a country with more independent media outlets- corporate and otherwise -than you can shake a stick at to a country who has an iron grip on journalistic freedom. Or have we already forgot the internet censorship stories from last week? Fucking duh you shouldn't ever trust one source completely. But how you can ignore the fact that their are several to choose from means you either really don't get out much or you're a slanted idiot with an axe to grind. And we haven't even began counting the hundreds of independent papers circulating throughout the US, let alone websites based there.

Now if the US had a central state/corporate-run media, we'd would have a valid point. Instead, the parent makes a point that has nothing to with anything while making an implication that is so far from the truth it's scary. Hey, wake me up when you see something like a major media outlet attacking the Presidency with forged Guard paperwork in China, kay?

And we modded this guy insightful. Riiiiiiight...

Re:Commnunist is not equivalent to evil

[BobTheAtheist]

Still better than being an american.