Manifestations against World Cup in Brazil: Clash between rebels and police

PressTV has published a news regarding to the actual situation in Brazil, caused by the FIFA World Cup. According to this, opposers to this event gathered in Sao Paulo, more specifically in the suburb of Guarulhos, to demand better life conditions. They also said that the police started throwing tear gas and stunt grenades at them, whose response was to throw ignited fireworks at the security forces over there. A video of this violent manifestation can be seen at the link of this news.

This news could not be found in any brazilian newspaper I read. No matter how much you look into it, Brazil doesn't want to make a lot of fuzz about these kind of problems regarding the World Cup. This is right now the most anticipated event for most of the people in the world, therefore is only natural that brazilian government wants to hide this kind of setbacks from their foreign customers (who are pretty much the biggest income these days).

On the other hand, brazilian government also has their hands full with the police protests, therefore this could be another reason to "justify" the fact that they didn't publish this news. Rebellious policemen are in the streets because of a lack of a fair salary and at the same time people opposing to the WC are fighting the very few "loyal" officers because of lack of decent life conditions; this doesn't precisely say a good thing about the actual government. If all of this fuzz gets to the mass media, people will stop relying on the actual government and are going to think that the country is reaching way out of their hands, therefore chaos will only become bigger and bigger and then the actual government would have to resign one way or another.

Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/17/362955/sao-paolo-police-clash-with-protesters/

Two sides of the story: Talks in Venezuela

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Colombian paper El País says that venezuelan talks between Maduro's government and the opposition reached a dead end. According to them, it's quite complicated that any agreement might be reached because both parts are not willing to give in.

This news also says that, according to a MUD lecture, government has not only dishonored the commitments taken over a month ago, but also that they don't even know the consequences this has done to the internal situation of the country.

Another important point to consider from this paper is that both sides seem to have different views about these debates. Maduro's government see them as a space to debate about the country's internal problems, while the MUD want those dialogues to go beyond retorics and expect to actually see results.

On the other hand, Terra news says that Maduro has told the media news that dialogues with the opposition are "frozen", as the opposers would say, but they are "hotter" than ever.

Maduro says that the conversation is really hot right now because there are governors of all the country debating an endless flux of topics. He also says that the MUD was invited to the talks but they froze those by themselves because of lack of results.

From what I've read, I can tell that MUD is quite right in some points. Those conversations seem to be a lot like ... well, every single politics conversation ever made; a lot of people tirelessly defending their own ideas about the problems of the country without reaching a common veredict. 

I also noticed that Maduro uses the word "opposer" to describe pretty much everyone who's not part of his political view while the newspaper El País limited the use of this word to the MUD, therefore both sides are actually telling the truth about conversations being dead or alive, which is kinda paradoxical if you ask me.

Sources: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/05/20/actualidad/1400552224_091772.html
http://noticias.terra.com.br/mundo/america-latina/maduro-diz-que-dialogo-com-oposicao-esta-mais-quente,5f19353f9c616410VgnCLD2000000ec6eb0aRCRD.html

China Hacking US: Two countries, two versions

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According to USA Today, these five chinese military members hacked various U.S. enterprises to steal volumes of trade secrets and intellectual property. These companies are: Westinghouse Electric, U.S. Steel, SolarWorld, United Steel Workers Union, Allegheny Technologies Inc.and Alcoa.

They also say that they were using military and intelligence resources to download a massive quantity of data, such as strategic plans, prices, designs, costs from these industries, which include nuclear power, solar power and metals.

Of course China was prompt to react. According to China Daily, "Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang described the US move as "based on fabricated facts" and "grossly violates the basic norms governing international relations and jeopardizes China-US cooperation and mutual trust"."

China also defend itself by saying that USA did not say if the "hacking" was or not for military security purposes, pretext that has been used by the US to hack many other countries like China, in which case, not only government has been targeted by cyber spies, but also their companies and universities, as Snowden revealed.

Let's be honest here, am I the only one who thinks US government is being absolutely cynical? The NSA has been known to invade the virtual privacy of most countries in the name of security. Therefore, I'm not sure if USA has the right of making such a big fuss over this.

About China, well, I can't say they did or that they did not hack those companies and stole that amount of information. I don't have any proof to condemn or save them. Both USA and China are the ones that need to talk and see how they can solve this, because, if they don't, this could be a huge step into returning to an era of Cold War.

Sources: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/19/us-accuses-china-of-cyber-espionage/9273019/
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/us/2014-05/20/content_17519691.htm

Is Japan brainwashing kids?: China Daily appears to think so

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According to China Daily, Japan is brainwashing kids by changing the texts in schools so the chinese Diaoyu islands are known as the japanese Senkaku islands.

Daily China also says that "The fact-twisting textbooks for schools will teach Japanese students a false version of history,which risks breeding generations of confrontation, says a Xinhua News Agency commentary" and that "Keeping Japan's younger generations, the future of the nation, ignorant of the truth of history shows the recklessness of the Abe administration and its willingness to gamble regional peacefor its own shameful aims."

As you would expect, there's nothing about such a thing in any japanese newspaper. I personally think this is not precisely because of a need to hide the truth but because it was a pointless argument to counter-attack. Even though the Senkaku (Diaoyu) islands conflict is still not solved and both countries have actually something to prove their sovereignity over this territory, this article is so poorly written and argumented that is a complete waste of time for any serious reporter to say something about it. This article shows more the unilateral, unchangable, point of view of the writer than a serious investigation been made about this "brainwashing", therefore it just makes no sense debating about it.

Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/China-Japan-Relations/2014-01/30/content_17327188.htm