A totalitarian Gov’t w/2 warring factions controlled by 1% elites, Fortune 500 companies and military industrial complex.
美國是假民主獨裁國家由二個黑幫控制,利字行頭,你死我活,合作:天荒夜談

The proper term is karma. A majority of the 1,000 cases reported to the Gov’t can be explained by environmental causes, undiagnosed medical conditions or stress, CIA officials said. 恰當的術語是美國壞事做盡的報應, 天收你. 在向政府報告的 1000 例病例中，大多數可以用環境原因、未確診的醫療狀況或壓力來解釋，C.I.A. 官員說，描述了一項綜合研究的中期調查結果.

Video: What Do American Athletes Think of Beijing Olympics ? Adrian Adams | Team USA Bobsled 美國運動員如何看待北京奧運會？ 阿德里安·亞當斯 | 美國雪橇隊

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In today’s video I sit down with Team USA Member Adrian Adams who has traveled to Beijing for the Olympics test event and shares his thoughts on Beijing 2022. Thank you to Boentiancheng Sports Consultants for sponsoring this video and supporting Olympic athletes.

Asian Times: NYT* equates China’s health workers with Adolf Eichmann, a twisted narrative by a paper unhinged by China’s success with Covid-19 《亞洲時報》：《*紐約時報》將中國的衛生工作者等同於阿道夫·艾希曼一篇因中國在新冠病毒上取得成功而精神錯亂的論文扭曲了敘述. By JOHN WALSH, MD, JAN 19, 2022

In a article on the front page of The New York Times on January 13, reporter Li Yuan equated the public health and medical personnel behind China’s successful battle against Covid-19 in the city of Xian to Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Holocaust. The article’s opening sentence views these personnel as typical of “the millions of people who work diligently toward” containing Covid-19 in China.

The anti-Covid campaign in Xian, a city of 13 million, has terminated the spread of Covid-19 without a single death and limited its spread to about 2,000 cases. The Nazi Holocaust designed and managed by Eichmann resulted in the extermination of millions of Jews.

The piece takes aim at the millions of Chinese who have worked tirelessly to do the rapid mass testing, tracing, quarantining and vaccinations and to staffing the lockdowns including ensuring that those under lockdown were supplied with necessities of life.

As a result of their work China has reported about 100,000 cases Covid-19 and fewer than 5,000 deaths. The mortality count has been verified by a count of excess deaths in a peer-reviewed article by a team from Oxford University and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the prestigious British Medical Journal; it is summarized here for the layman.

Peter Hessler, who was living and teaching in Chengdu, Sichuan, during the first of the lockdowns, described these workers as follows in a New Yorker piece in March 2020:

“When I asked if there had been much resistance to the new policies, he [the Communist Party official in charge of the lockdown in Hessler’s neighborhood in Chengdu] shook his head. ‘Ninety percent of the population agrees,’ he said. ‘We have some people who think it’s not convenient, and they want to go out and play mah-jongg or something. But most people follow the rules.’

“From what I had seen, he wasn’t exaggerating. The overwhelming compliance was one of the most impressive features of the lockdown, along with the dedication of grassroots officials. In Wuhan, the government had sent 1,800 teams of epidemiologists, each consisting of at least five people, to trace the contacts of infected citizens. The WHO report noted that the containment effort had been possible because of ‘the deep commitment of the Chinese people to collective action.’” (Emphasis added.)

Contrast that with this from Wikipedia’s entry on Eichmann:

“Eichmann and his staff became responsible for Jewish deportations to extermination camps, where the victims were gassed. Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, and Eichmann oversaw the deportation of much of the Jewish population. Most of the victims were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where about 75% were murdered upon arrival.

“By the time the transports were stopped in July 1944, 437,000 of Hungary’s 725,000 Jews had been killed. Dieter Wisliceny testified at Nuremberg that Eichmann told him he would ‘leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had 5 million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction.’”

How can the NYT’s Li Yuan equate the two? The polemic used to justify the equation deserves examination, because it demonstrates how the paper’s construction of the narrative of the day often works.

The tone and target are set by the online headline, which reads ominously, “The Army of Millions Who Enforce China’s Zero-Covid Policy, at All Costs.” (Emphasis added.) Later the case for the Eichmann equation begins as follows:

“The government has the help of a vast army of community workers who carry out the policy [of dynamic zero Covid] with zeal…. The tragedies in Xian have prompted some Chinese people to question how those enforcing the quarantine rules can behave like this.”

What are these tragedies? The author comes up with three presented near the very beginning of the piece.

First was a man with chest pains whose hospital admission was delayed by six hours and later died of a heart attack; the bureaucratic delay related to his living in a medium-risk district.

Second, a pregnant woman whose admission was also delayed because her Covid test appeared invalid; after admission she miscarried.

Third, a young man who was violating a curfew and got into an altercation with security guards.

Certainly, each of the first two these events is a tragic and unacceptable error. The third is hard to judge – if it is true. But in a city of many millions threatened with a deadly outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid, there were bound to be some mistakes. And if these are the worst of them, then it would seem that praise should be heaped on Xian’s hospital and public health workers.

Nevertheless, the first two of these incidents caused an outcry far and wide over the Internet, leading officials to take action. (Note that the disclosure and widespread discussion online belie the idea that there is no opening for criticism in China.)

The mass complaints led to the temporary closure of the hospitals to examine their procedures and ultimately to the punishing of those in charge. A national declaration made it clear that no patient was to be turned away from a hospital under any circumstances.

Building on these three anecdotes and neglecting any context up to this point, reporter Li continues:

“‘The banality of evil’ is a concept Chinese intellectuals often invoke in moments like Xian. It was coined by the philosopher Hannah Arendt, who wrote that Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, was an ordinary man who was motivated by ‘an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement.’

“Chinese intellectuals are struck by how many officials and civilians – often driven by professional ambition or obedience – are willing to be the enablers of authoritarian policies.”

Who are these unnamed “intellectuals”? That is not clear. Certainly, there are a good many Chinese intellectuals in the country and abroad who are proud of China’s handling of the pandemic.

In summary, the anatomy of the article is a headline, then a cherry-picked set of anecdotes to set the tone. It is important that this mood be set as arrestingly and strikingly as possible. The most outrageous exceptions to the rule must be presented as though they are the norm. Finally based on these anecdotes, far-fetched conclusions are drawn based on the assumption that the anecdotes are representative.

Later on, buried deep in the article some context may be slipped in as a way to cover the writer’s derriere. Noam Chomsky many years ago suggested reading the NYT’s articles beginning with the end, since that is where the real information may lie. Often, any such qualifications are left out, resulting in a giant lie of omission.

That is how it is done.

There is a bright spot, however. Many if not most of the comments posted online, at least at the time of my reading, found Li’s polemic to be baseless, even downright absurd. Americans are not so easily deceived as the NYT editors may think. This is heartening, because the daily demonization of China in the US mass media, relentlessly and prominently so in the NYT, is a prelude to conflict and war.

As author Caitlin Johnstone tells us, “Before they drop the bombs, they drop the narrative.” The NYT is carpet-bombing us Americans with an anti-China narrative these days.

One must ask in the end, what is the animus that drives this anti-China diatribe? Is it fear of the loss of the US role as global hegemon? Is it the self-righteousness and arrogance of the Exceptionalists? Or is it simply careerism in the service of an evil agenda, the very thing Hannah Arendt deplored?

John V Walsh, until recently a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has written on issues of peace and health care for Asia Times, EastBayTimes/Mercury News, LA Progressive, Antiwar.com, CounterPunch and others.

Video: China’s Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon 国产战机歼-20像一把尖刀, 要发挥好尖刀的作用, 首先得练就刀尖, 空军航空兵某旅, 就是这样一支尖刀部队, 在磨砺“尖刀”的路上, 旅长李凌和他的“刀尖” 经历了什么？
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Both WhatsApp and Instagram owned by Facebook will turn over address-book contacts for a targeted user as well as other WhatsApp users who have the targeted individual in their contacts, according to the FBI. 據 FBI 稱，Facebook 旗下的 WhatsApp 和 Instagram 都將為目標用戶以及其他聯繫人中包含目標個人的 WhatsApp 用戶提供通訊錄聯繫人。

They also provide backdoors to NSA to spy on anyone, domestic and foreign without a court warrant.

*WhatsApp has another problem, image and video will eats up your smart phone storage.

Based on discussion with technology experts, all US made network equipments have backdoors including all smart phones.

The reason why US banned Huawei Equipments are 1) Huawei equipments do not have backdoors 2) If friends and foes adopted Huawei equipments, US could no longer spy on everyone and anyone at will.

Telegram does not have all of the above problems.

他們還為美國國家安全局提供後門，以便在沒有法庭令的情況下監視國內外的任何人。

WhatsApp 還有一個問題，圖像和視頻會佔用你的智能手機存儲空間。

我們根據與技術專家的討論，所有美國製造的網絡設備都有後門，包括所有智能手機。

美國禁止華為設備的原因是1）華為設備沒有後門2）如果美國朋友和敵人都採用了華為設備，美國就不能再隨意監視每個人和任何人了。

*Telegram 不存在上述所有問題。

Illegal Gambling Rooms Keep Springing Up throughout Hawaii. But Police Have Few Tools To Shut Them Down (really!?) 非法賭博室在整個夏威夷不斷湧現。 但是警察沒有什麼工具可以關閉他們（真的!?) By Jacob Geanous

Gambling is illegal in Hawaii, but local police have few tools to crack down on the increasingly common backroom operations that provide access to slot machines and table games.

It’s not illegal to own or even use a gaming machine unless money changes hands, so little can be done to stem the flow of gambling machines to the island.

It’s also time consuming for local authorities to enforce the law. An investigation into just one game room can take weeks while officers gather enough evidence for a judge to sign a search warrant for a raid.

And when raids take place, data provided by the Honolulu Police Department shows that not all raids result in arrests and even when they do, they don’t often lead to the apprehension of the individuals running the game rooms.

When US adopted the knock-off 5G, not the original Huawei 5G, that is what you should expect / The Hill: Airlines cancel, change flights despite 5G rollout delays (China’s Huawei 5G don’t have same problems) 當美國採用山寨版 5G，而不是原來的華為 5G 時，這是你應該期待的 / The Hill：航空公司取消，儘管 5G 推出延遲，但改變航班（中國的華為 5G 沒有同樣的問題) By CAMERON JENKINS

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/aviation/590334-airlines-cancel-change-flights-despite-5g-rollout-delays

Multiple airlines canceled or delayed flights to the United States ahead of an anticipated 5G rollout scheduled for Wednesday even though wireless carriers agreed on Tuesday to pause the deployment around some airports, Reuters reported.

Airlines including Emirates canceled flights with Boeing 777s due to the Federal Aviation Administration’s warning that 5G interference could affect height cockpit readings.

Will Lee: Chinese tech giant Huawei announced on 2/21/2020 that it has so far been awarded 91 commercial 5G contracts and shipped over 600,000 5G Massive MIMO Active Antenna Units (AAUs). Ryan Ding, Executive Director of the Board and President of Huawei’s Carrier BG (business group), released Huawei’s new 5G products and solutions and launched the 5G Partner Innovation Program at the company’s product and solution launch event in London. “5G has developed beyond imagination in terms of deployment, ecosystem, and experience,” said Ding. As a leading global 5G supplier, Huawei is committed to developing the best end-to-end 5G solutions, which will include the industry’s highest-performance 5G base station that supports all scenarios and the Blade AAU with the industry’s highest level of integration, according to Huawei. A base station is a piece of machinery that is used to connect mobile phones to fixed-line networks carrying internet traffic. Popular among telecoms providers, Mobile base stations from Huawei are widely considered among the best for the price.

JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Scandal of US Prisons – huge prison labors? The head of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons was forced to step down last week as scandals swept through the vast U.S. prison system. 美國監獄醜聞 – 巨大的監獄勞工。 由於醜聞席捲美國龐大的監獄系統，美國監獄局局長上週被迫下台.

Michael Carvajal, director of the Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons (BOP), resigned in disgrace last week after being overwhelmed by scandals, none of which were necessarily of his doing so much as they were a result of his unwillingness or inability to make changes to the Justice Department’s largest and best-funded bureau. The scandals—and his resignation—reinforce the conventional wisdom that the BOP is broken and must be overhauled dramatically.

The Associated Press reported that Carvajal, a Trump appointee, was forced to resign after more than 100 BOP employees had been arrested for or convicted of crimes during his short two-year tenure. The employees were prosecuted for crimes ranging from smuggling drugs and cell phones into prisons to sell to prisoners, to theft, to a warden raping a prisoner. Following the rape arrest, the House Judiciary Committee investigated Carvajal and Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) demanded that he resign.

Carvajal’s tenure illustrates the problem with promoting a lowly BOP officer to a leadership position. He began his BOP career as a prison guard in 1992, worked his way up through the ranks, and was named a warden in the early 2000s. He then went to work at BOP headquarters in Washington, and finally became the BOP’s director. Good for him, right?

The problem, though, is that he brought literally no outside expertise to the job. He had never worked anywhere in his adult life other than the BOP. There would be no bold, new programs, no new ideas for reducing recidivism, no move to train prisoners to lead productive lives outside of prison. There was nothing.

Perhaps worst of all, Carvajal failed utterly to address the Covid-19 pandemic as it raged inside the walls of the country’s federal prisons in 2020. Indeed, many observers contend that his unwillingness to act cost dozens of prisoners their lives. Certainly, individual wardens could be criticized for their own inattention, but the buck has to stop somewhere.

Covid cases spread unabated at the federal prison at Fort Dix, NJ in early 2020, with 1,500 of the prison’s 3,000 inmates testing positive. Carvajal finally reassigned the warden, but only after two US senators and 10 state legislators demanded that he act.

At the federal prison hospital at Terminal Island, CA, officials ignored the rapid spread of Covid after an employee brought it into the prison. Within weeks, half of the prisoners, who tend to be elderly and have pre-existing conditions, were infected. The death rate was more than three times that of society in general. And in the meantime, of the 256 prisoners who applied for compassionate release, only five releases were granted. Another 10 of those died of Covid while still incarcerated.

At the federal prison in Lompoc, CA, two guards introduced Covid to the inmate population. Three months later, in July 2020, more than 1,000 of the 1,750 prisoners had been infected. Even after Attorney General William Barr had ordered the BOP to make “liberal use” of home confinement because of the pandemic, only 34 prisoners were sent home from Lompoc.

Even earlier, on April 3, 2020, Barr ordered Carvajal to “move with dispatch” to release prisoners from the federal prison at Elkton, Ohio to home confinement because of the quickness with which Covid was spreading there. Not only did he fail to do so, but Carvajal defended against a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union demanding compassionate release for prisoners, losing in the federal District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

The federal prison at Oakdale, LA has the indignity of being the “most Covid-infected” federal prison in America. Of its 2,400 prisoners, 23 died of Covid during the first two months of the disease’s spread. And of those 2,400 prisoners, only 80 were even given a Covid test.

As I said, the buck has to stop somewhere. In this case, it has to stop at the desk of Michael Carvajal. But it’s not right that Carvajal should just be fired. He should also be prosecuted. His failure to take action to protect prisoners from Covid constitutes depraved indifference: “Behavior so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime.”

Carvajal belongs in prison.

Does anyone at the Justice Department have the guts to take that first step?

John Kiriakou is a former C.I.A. counterterrorism officer and a former senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act—a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his attempts to oppose the Bush administration’s torture program.

Video: What ‘boycott’? US applying for 46 visas with diplomatic passports in support of Beijing Olympics 什麼“抵制”？ 美申請多達46人持外交護照前往中國支持北京冬奧
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MASTV: According to reports, China has granted visas to 46 US government officials to work in China during the Beijing Winter Olympics. Most of them are from the Department of State. Can you confirm that? Do you think the US visa applications for these officials are contradictory to its earlier claim that it would not send official or diplomatic representation to the Games?

Zhao Lijian: I can confirm that the Chinese side has granted visas to some members of the US team composed of government officials. The US delegation for the Beijing Winter Olympics comprises a large number of government officials, including those from the Department of State, and many of them hold diplomatic or service passports.

We hope the US side will earnestly act upon the Olympic spirit and work together with the Chinese side to create sound atmosphere for all athletes’ participation in Beijing 2022.

On your question whether the US visa applications for its diplomats and officials contradict its previous claim of not sending official or diplomatic representation to the Beijing Winter Olympics, I suggest you ask the US side.