Posted on 09/29/2009 5:48:47 PM PDT by RobinMasters
New York's Empire State Building will light up red and yellow tomorrow to honor the 60th anniversary of communist China, according to the skyscraper's official website.
The Chinese Communist Party has been in continuous power longer than any other current government in the world, the Associated Press reported.
Chinese ambassador Peng Keyu and other officials will be present for the lighting ceremony. The skyscraper is scheduled to display the colors until Thursday.
The Empire State Building website states, "All special lighting requests are considered based on the merit of their cause, the benefit of their use of the special lighting and their treatment of the Empire State Building's iconic image for the event and on an ongoing basis."
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I’m sure the people in charge of this learned about how wonderful the cultural revolution was from their college professors.
According to Wikipedia, the North Korean regime was established on September 1, 1948. The Chicoms did not establish their government until 1949 and the article did use the term 'government'. I will grant that they were establishing it by conquest but they did not expel the Nationalist forces until 1949.
This is just plain ignorance and laziness on the part of AP. They cannot be trusted to do their basic homework, which is why we should NEVER trust what they say.
Oops! This is WND, not AP. The error is still rather egregious.
Amen to that! My wife gets tired of me saying, "There's something every day! It doesn't stop! What are we (America) going to do?" The 9/12 March was a wake up call. I swear if this keeps escalating, there will be secession, a civil war or something. Not fomenting here, just a gut feeling that real Americans will not just sit by and see the country taken over by Communists and turned into the U.S.S.A.. .
Maybe that's what Obama wants. Alinsky, crisis and all of that. He's going to be surpirsed though when the Military doesn't follow his martial law orders. . . That's what people I know in ther military are saying. . .
Well, hell, the typical New York City liberal female will lift her skirt for anything red, communist or red-coat, two or four legged.
The one big mistake made by the Founding Fathers is not burning NYC to the ground, and not running the traitors back to England.
Tell that to the millions that Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Che, and many others MURDERED!
Surreal. Unbelievable disgrace. What’s wrong with these people?
Disgusting.
Let me see if I have this right. We have the Empire State Building (an Icon of Capitalism) lit up celebrating the anniversary of the People’s Revolution and the triumph of communism in China.
Clearly the Chinese government has chosen to use this to send a message: “WE OWN YOU”. The particulars of why this was agreed upon may be of lesser importance in the grand scheme of things. The Russian expression would be roughly translated: “checkmate”.
As the expression goes, “May you live in interesting times.”
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