conspiracy

chinatrade.foreignpolicyblogs.com — Black helicopters, U.N. conspiracies and shadowy cabals of all-powerful financiers - this is the stuff that fixates in the feverish imagination of a certain segment of the American populace. In one of those wonders of globalization (and ideological indoctrination), those same shadowy cabals do double duty as the object of much Chinese paranoia.

www.npr.org — One hundred years ago Friday, a crime was committed behind the imposing oxblood-red walls of Beijing's Forbidden City. It was the ultimate crime: the murder of an emperor. But it remained a rumor or had been covered up. Until now. He was just 38 years old at the time of his death. He had been the victim of a palace coup following political differences with his aunt, the Empress Dowager Cixi.

www.zonaeuropa.com — A great post on ESWN about the disappearing knife man from the riots in Lhasa. Was he a Chinese cop in Tibetan clothing or a Tibetan rioter craftily removed from the photos so FLG-lead Epoch Times could cry conspiracy? I tend to agree with Roland - the Epoch Times lost all cred a long time ago.