It was 183 miles from our home set the GPS to Tahoe House Bakery as recommended by our friend George Koo, about 90 miles from destination major accident, highway closed, after repeated tries, GPS unable to take us to alternative routes, so we decided skip Tahoe House Bakery to have an early lunch at nearby town. It looks like a Republican country, no face masks, no vaccines records required, no one checking temperatures. In fact we looks odd with face masks entering the restaurant. After early lunch we double check on Waze (bought by Google better than the GPS in our cars) to make sure the route does not show red, red meant roads to avoid. There were no more red, so we continued set GPS for Lake Tahoe look out. Arriving at the look out 2 hours later, parking lot was packed but we were Lucky to find a parking in 5 minutes. Majority of the people there were young people or under age 40 types. Groups of Chinese were there during our half hour stay. Temperature was slightly above zero. We did not attempt to climb up and down the rocks nor took a long walking trail down to the lake as we have 80 years old folks with us. Everything we have expected except if you are not coming here for skiing, very disappointing. Lake Tahoe lack the dynamics of collaboration attractions like the West Lake in China to make it a fun place for all ages and all seasons. The chances for us to come back again is almost nil. After Lake Tahoe, we drove 184 miles to Oakland’s Poeny restaurant to have some real food with a rest stop at Costco about 100 miles from Oakland to get some ice cream and filling the gas tank.
Vijay Prashad made a loud & clear statement…It is most scathing, revealing, torn apart the Veil of hypocrisy, White supremacy of the nasty, ugly colonial powers..the Yanks, the Brits & the French in particular…! 一個響亮而清晰的聲明…這是最嚴厲，最暴露，最撕碎虛偽的面紗，令人討厭，醜陋的殖民大國的白人至上……尤其是美國佬，英國人和法國人…!
ANOTHER MSM MUGGING – Here’s the full story of what did (and didn’t) happen between Peng Shuai and Zhang Gaoli.
Infinitely more sordid was the gigantic fraud spun by Western MSM — to smear China, of course.
If Peng hadn’t made her untimely post, the Empire would have had to invent from scratch something similar. The Beijing Winter Olympics are imminent.
From the Moon of Alabama account below (link):
“And that’s it folks. Zhang Gaoli and Peng Shuai had a years long affair. They loved each other. But after three years they broke up. Peng Shuai has trouble to get over it. Hours later she makes a public post about the issue which she, minutes later, deletes. That’s it.
“Read her post yourself. Nowhere is there any claim of an ‘sexual assault’ in it.
“Nor is there evidence, as the New York Times insinuates, that the somewhat embarrassing post was taken down by a censor and not by Peng Shuai herself. The New York Times makes all that just up.
“The story then made the rounds through other ‘western’ media. To no one’s surprise Peng Shuai has since avoided the public. But that only encouraged the continuation of the ‘western’ media onslaught. Ten days later some self-important person from the World Tennis Association (pushed by whom?) got involved…”
AJ: I read with interest your “Peng adds to China’s troubles” story.
A translation of Peng Shuai’s original post is accessible here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/qmn69a/full_translation_of_peng_shuais_weibo_post/ The relationship between Peng Shuai and Zhao Gaoli is emblematic of power relationships in any country, and in any field (sports, politics, business, government, academia, private relationships). We can see the power dynamics play out in our own personal lives. Due to cultural differences, I think that using power relationships for sexual advantage is probably much more common in the US than in China (JFK? Clinton? Trump? Hollywood casting couch? Jock culture?). Furthermore, China has a history of punishing sexual misconduct by officials severely, unlike here. I don’t agree with the censorship of Peng’s Weibo post. It was dumb for them to do so. On the other hand, it’s deplorable for the Western media to inflate the Peng issue into an overall unnuanced condemnation of China. It’s part of the New Red Scare hysteria. I applaud you for supporting Black Lives Matter and Colin Kaepernick. Unfortunately, you revert back to racist anti-Chinese stereotypes that are so deeply entrenched in the American psyche in your Peng story. I doubt very much that you have knowledge of the real China (as opposed to the racist American image of China), or the history of US-China relations. You repeat all the unfounded, exaggerated stereotypes of China. Your perception and “knowledge” about China probably consists of what is repeated in the Establishment’s mainstream media echo chamber. Your piece refers to Hong Kong, Uighurs, Taiwan. Yet you don’t really know the truth because your understanding/misunderstanding has been skillfully molded by the “Manufacture of Consent”; and not by objective analysis and factual information! For comparative purposes, Nancy Pelosi concluded that the HK protests (actually, rioting that included extensive vandalism and destruction of public property, not to mention physical violence to HK citizens with whom they disagreed, including burning a man alive!) was a “beautiful sight”. On the other hand, the January 6, 2021 pro-Trump invasion of Congress was an “insurrection”. HK protesters did major physical damage and vandalism to the HK Legislative Council which was described as a “beautiful sight”, while it was an “insurrection” in WDC. You end your piece with “Does the US, scheduled to host the 2028 Olympics, have any moral authority that allows it to shame other Olympic hosts?…not really.” You are correct in this formulation……but for insufficient reasons. You fail to bring up how our own country has started wars and has spread death and destruction in places like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Korea, Vietnam. If you call for a boycott of Beijing Olympics, you should–for consistency’s sake–call for a boycott of our own Olympics because our own crimes far exceed any crimes/misdeeds of China.
A racist nation that demonize Chinese, Chinese Americans and China everyday flooded with guns murdered Zheng outside U of Chicago grad Shao Xiong ‘Dennis’ Zheng remembered for ‘extraordinary impact’ at memorial.
“I went abroad for the first time in my life not to attend your graduation ceremony, let alone your wedding celebration, but to attend your funeral,” she [his mother] said. “You said you wanted to take me to see the world. You wanted me to witness your dreams. You wanted us to look forward to the future together.”…
“I am going to bring you home”.
Zheng’s parents came from China for the service. Zheng was the couple’s only child.
Zheng’s mother’s remarks were translated for ABC7 by the Chinese American Service League:
My dearest son, I carried all my tears, all my longingness for you and all my sadness, and traveled all the way and finally arrived at the University of Chicago, where you chased your dream. This is the first time that your mom ever traveled outside of China. But this is not for sightseeing, not for attending your graduation, and not for your wedding, but for your funeral, what a cruel tragedy!
I can still vividly see the joy on your face the day you started out on your journey. You told me that you are going to show me the world in the future. You wanted me to witness your dream come true and you wanted us to look forward to the future. However, look at what happened now, we are separated by heaven and earth. I have desperately been trying to call you by your name again and again. Son, tell me why when I just begin to see hope I was thrown into hell a moment.
My poor son, when the evil bullet hit your young chest, when you were lying with blood all over your body on a foreign soil, you must felt so helpless in that cold street. Helplessness, hopelessness and anger must have filled in your heart. You were only 24 years old! Your dream of science, your dream of astronomy, your dream of math and your dream of love, all of those were shattered at that moment. You and your longingness for life, your love for your family, and your care for your fellow students, all disappeared entirely from my life with that murder’s bullet.
And people worry about authoritarian Chinese surveillance. In US we do it in the name of freedom democracy human rights and rules of law. 人們擔心中國專制的監視。 在美國，我們以自由民主人權和法治的名義監視美國人民.
Amazon collects data on consumers through its Alexa voice assistant, its e-commerce marketplace, Kindle e-readers, Audible audiobooks, its video and music platforms, home-security cameras and fitness trackers. Alexa-enabled devices make recordings inside people’s homes, and Ring security cameras capture every visitor.
Such information can reveal a person’s height, weight and health; their ethnicity (via clues contained in voice data) and political leanings; their reading and buying habits; their whereabouts on any given day, and sometimes whom they have met.
One reporter’s dossier revealed that Amazon had collected more than 90,000 Alexa recordings of family members between December 2017 and June 2021 – averaging about 70 daily. The recordings included details such as the names of the reporter’s young children and their favorite songs.
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