San Francisco Bay Area is getting the wrong kind of famous. News is going around the world about our lawlessness society. 美國和舊金山灣區陽名天下, 我們無法無天的社會新聞正在世界各地傳播.
Video: Add Peng Shuai’s disappearance to China’s Olympic controversies to come, but Peng Shuai not dead, Internet mocks media
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Video: US’s. World Order, Ruthless Murder equal Self Defense, apply nationally and internationally. 美國加州舊金山星島電視快評 霍詠強 ：武裝游走殺人屬於防衛、是美國一貫邏輯？
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一個美國人帶著重型武器，由他的母親開車，由伊利諾州去到威斯康星州，為的是保衛當地的商鋪免受搶掠，其間殺了兩個攻擊他的人，重傷了另外一個可能攻擊他的人。最後，以合法防衞被判無罪。聽起來難以理解？
全副武裝的美國人游走全國，為著自己的利益，以「保衞家園」為口號，用暴力保護自己的國家，從「美式邏輯」來説，這其實是很合理的。美國軍艦四處出沒，美國情報人員遍佈全世界，美國軍隊懷疑對方有大殺傷力消滅當地政權，美國政府為了保衛盟友而制裁對手。全副武裝的美國游走全世界，為著自己的利益，以「保衞世界」為口號，用暴力保護全球。聽起來是否差不多？
何況還有許多人相信，包括位高權重的領導人。所以當新加坡總理李顯龍説，亞太區仍然歡迎美國的到來，而不是視之為「醜陋的美國」(Ugly America) 時，只覺得「洗腦」這種東西，真是不分年齡、國籍、種族、知識和地位的，重點還是立場。李總理有否問問敘利亞、阿富汗、伊朗，願不願意？高不高興？美國醜陋不醜陋？
這是先進國家長期自我感覺良好，造成種族歧視和階級歧視的結果，所以，美國一天不能接受平視中國、平視非洲、平視世界，就沒法改變國內種族歧視的一天。
兩天前路透社發了一條Twitter短訊息。
「獨家：一名歐洲頂尖大學的中國教授與中國軍事實驗室合作，硏究猴子暴露在極端海拔條件的影響，以研發防止大腦損傷的新藥。」
但這篇文的配圖卻是一張截取自中國國防部網站的圖片。該圖片的新聞標題為「微壓氧艙落戶新疆軍區某邊防團天文點邊防連」。內文是說，新疆軍區結合官兵工作訓練實際，設置了微壓氧氣艙作為保健計劃。路透社的報導故意將軍人址上猴子實驗，這種指桑罵槐的嘲諷手段引起了網民反感，惹來了大量投訴。路透社隨後發文更正指：「可能會被解讀為具有冒犯性」刪除照片，但卻拒絕為事件道歉。
事實上路透社還發出了正文報導，內容同樣是充滿歧視性的陰謀論，將一個由丹麥哥本哈根大學的進化生物學的華人教授張國捷，領導的高原反應基礎研究，作為一項和軍事有關的硏究，並且炒作為中國軍方滲透歐洲。事實卻是哥本哈根大學經常和各地的軍方合作，包括了美國和丹麥。
這些年為了打壓中國的科技發展，美國在國內已經瘋狂針對華裔學者，令學術界風聲鶴唳，並且對本土的科硏工作帶來破壞。路透社的報道中更不諱言所以會關注張國捷，是因為項目由華大基因支持，而美國政界早已要求制裁所有中國創科企業，於是就乘機牽扯到中國軍方，華大基因和張國捷就成了戰靶。於是這種徹徹底底的嘲諷歧視，就不斷出現在這些西方媒體上。
不斷製造錯誤資訊，到頭來又是損害了誰的利益？
Video: How the thieves steal your car?
最新偷車手法，專業級別！真是防不勝防啊！
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San Francisco police caught robberies of Jewlery store at Union Square Sunday night Nov 19 2021. This is being replayed in cities throughout North America every night. We have 750 military bases around the world, maybe we should send some of the soldiers back home to keep us safe 英勇馬警·与拍當捉賊 周五晚联合广埸一高當珠宝店 洗劫事件
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SCMP Columnist: My Take – Western journos are truth-seekers, Chinese hacks are spies by Alex Lo
Call it double standard or an unspoken reporting rule in the mainstream Anglo-American press that Chinese journalists and academics who are investigated, detained, expelled, denied a visa or otherwise harassed by their Western host countries don’t deserve a free-press defence
“I knew some of the people involved,” said Nury Vittachi, the prominent Hong Kong journalist and author, “and the allegations were just ridiculous.”
He was referring to the US Justice Department’s demand, in late August, for five American subsidiaries of Sing Tao newspaper to register as foreign agents. The newspaper is Hong Kong’s oldest in the Chinese language.
I subscribe to its Canadian edition, read it every day and find it quite innocuous. Maybe the American versions are different, full of Chinese state propaganda and run by Chinese intelligence operatives. You never know!
In his YouTube clip on the channel Fridayeveryday, Vittachi refers to other incidents of Western state censorship and expulsion of Chinese journalists and academics. Strangely, he points out, you rarely hear about them.
The United States had limited visas for Chinese journalists to 90 days and stopped renewing them from May last year. However, China and the US have agreed to ease restrictions on foreign journalists working in the two countries following the virtual summit between presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden last week.
Last year, Australia cancelled the visas of Chen Hong, director of the Australian studies centre at East China Normal University in Shanghai, and Li Jianjun, also the director of the Australian studies centre at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Last June, agents of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) raided the home of the former head of Sydney’s Xinhua News Agency bureau, scared the living daylights out of his young daughter and confiscated electronic devices. The spy agency turned up nothing.
They also investigated the Australian bureau chief of China News Service (CNS) Tao Shelan and the Sydney bureau chief for China Radio International (CRI), Li Dayong.
If it were done in China, it would have been denounced as state intimidation and caused international outrage.
In Britain, three Chinese journalists were expelled last year. In February, the licence of the Chinese state broadcaster CGTN to operate in the UK was revoked.
Since they were all Chinese, they must be spies or criminals. They got what they deserved. But a reporter, Sue-Lin Wong, an Australian citizen, from the august British publication, The Economist, was denied visa renewal in Hong Kong last week. Now that’s big diplomatic and international news. What outrage! Thankfully, the Western mainstream news media again rises to the occasion and makes sure everyone knows about it.
Alex Lo has been a Post columnist since 2012, covering major issues affecting Hong Kong and the rest of China. A journalist for 25 years, he has worked for various publications in Hong Kong and Toronto as a news reporter and editor. He has also lectured in journalism at the University of Hong Kong.
This is a recent in depth interview with Schell on China (transcript and interview) I think he represents a large sector of elite views on China, and in particular in Xi Jinping
I think, though, that he is fairly representative of the mainstream of American academic attitudes about China. I think many people who were supporters of China in the ‘60s have had a hard time updating their consciousness. The idea that China simply went down the capitalist road took deep roots in the ‘80s, and the fashion of denouncing both China and the US as somehow equivalently problematic became the dominant perspective. How this has also been shaped by funding agencies and universities, etc, is perhaps also a question. The group Critical China Scholars is a good example of these tendencies. It should really be called Scholars Critical of China, but they think of themselves as progressives who maintain some kind of intellectual purity by looking down on both American imperialism and what they see as a capitalist and exploitive China.
I think many academics bought into the idea, too, that a “democratic” transition in China would be a good thing. I know some colleagues at schools across the country who have continued to see China more clearly, but who largely keep their views to themselves in the national climate of the past decade or so. I find all this rather disheartening. Schell clearly has no problem speaking out about his criticisms and objectively serving the interests of American capital.
I agree that the American elites are primarily concerned with maintaining the power of the U.S. as global hegemony. The foundational principle of American foreign policy is that a country which is open to U.S. capital is good, while a country which resists the penetration of U.S. capital is bad. Saudi Arabia good; Iran bad. Bangladesh good; Myanmar bad. Etc. But I do also think there is an ideological dimension to the antagonism between the U.S. and China, as there is with Cuba. The socialist vision of economic just and equality is antithetical to the American fantasy of free market capitalism. Not that the U.S. is actually a free market system, but that is the dominant false consciousness. The developing practical success of an alternative vision in China, with Xi Jinping promoting “common prosperity” and pursuing actually effective policies against poverty and the excesses of private businesses and their owners, threatens the continuing dominance of the corporate and political elites which have enriched themselves at the expense of everyone else. So I think it is a blend of the zero-sum mentality of seeing China’s rise as America’s decline and a realization of the profound difference of China’s political economic system and the threat to Elie power it constitutes which shapes the anti-China monster of American politics these days. Schell articulates this anxiety in the trappings of academic discourse.
Professor John V Walsh, MD in San Francisco:
I would add two; In the 60s an entire generation of males was threatened by the draft, and everyone in that generation turned against the War. And with that came a marked shift to the left by that generation.Everyone was against the War – even Bill Clinton!!As this threat receded, it became ever more acceptable in that generation to slip rightward – and there were career and financial rewards to do so.I suspect that is exactly what happened to Schell.
Second, I agree that there is an ideological overlay to the US assault on China – but it is just that, an overlay. Wolfowitz clarified it best – and he made no mention of ideology. And in fact why the antagonism to Russia, hardly a socialist country but one that is very protective of its sovereignty from past and recent historical experience?As far as penetration of US capital being the key, it seems that the Imperial Elite are trying to hinder US capital going to China but the bankers and hedge funds (Goldman Sachs and Blackrock, as examples) and big biz people (Apple and Tesla as examples) are anxious to do more business there.
At least that is how I see it.
KJ:
My two cents: I think Orville Hickok Schell Jr. has had an interesting life trajectory, characterized most significantly by spinelessness, shifty ethics, and moral turpitude.
He grew up in the family of Helsinki watch co-founder, his father and lawyer, Orville Schell. Helsinki watch was founded on a 400K grant from the Ford Foundation, and was created to wage information warfare against the Soviet Union by weaponizing human rights. It later morphed into Human Rights Watch (with a boost from the Soros Foundation), i.e. (Apple, Tree, Fall).
I’ve stated before that Schell was in Jakarta, Indonesia. He states more recently that he was there momentarily then left quickly, like the [film] “year of living dangerously”. In that he hints he knows that bad things were afoot. He was actually there for 2 years, 1964-1966, at exactly the time the Indonesian mass genocide was happening, when the blood was literally running rivers in the streets and the screams of torture were curdling the soul. 1-3 million innocents were tortured and massacred during this period, so the US could roll back a left-leaning government and appropriate Indonesia’s mineral and natural wealth for its corporations.
Schell worked for the Ford Foundation, which was an arm of the CIA, and Ford was instrumental in training the Indonesian military that committed this genocide. There’s a deafening silence–a total void–in his writings or reflections about this period.
Still, we can see this manifesting in tortuous, odd patterns in the rest of his life. Others have already mentioned his close affiliation with human sewer rats like Harry Wu or Larry Diamond. But there are other curiosities: after helming UC Berkeley’s sausage-making journalism machine, he operated–I kid you not–a slaughterhouse–a “humane”, liberal-sensitive, organic one–but a slaughterhouse nevertheless.
He also jumped into the last bastion of respectable liberal White racism–environmentalism–,an extraordinary irony given that the Indonesian genocide he enabled resulted in the neocolonial corporate decimation of Indonesia’s pristine jungles.
But above all, I see his repressed guilt in his constant projection onto China, the occluded, genocidal violence that he enabled projected onto the Asian other: Tibet, Xinjiang, HK; his lack of scruples projected onto Xi Jinping: he sees in others what he cannot face in the bloodied mirror: immorality, cowardice; fickle, corrupted loyalty; immense, unbridled savagery.
I’m also struck by the triviality of his writing and observations–his wikipedia-profound prognostications of the “loss of the mandate of heaven”. Or his claim in “Coming Home” that Bach and Mao (in his mind, Western enlightenment and Asian Despotism) can’t coexist.
He believes the moral, spiritual force of classical music cannot coexist with violence, and in that it is superior to the Chinese.This is trivial and stupid. Even without lending credence to this silly idea, the Nazis loved classical music, especially Bach and Beethoven, and played it at crematoria as Jews were being led to slaughter.
He claims, in his perplexed, twilight hours, that he has started a “new career in fiction”, the better to “tell–like Albert Camus–the deeper truths that only fiction can tell”. This is insulting claptrap. I believe he has always been an amoral, confabulating raconteur.
He has always written cheap, pulp fiction.
This is the first time he has honestly admitted to it.
Video: Trip to Lake Tahoe on 11-20-2021.
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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.
Video: How Americans bought US foreign policy to rob, steal, lies daily and ignore UN rules of laws took a practice run to a LV store in Chicago. Since it was successful, expect more in every US cities. 芝加哥黑哥们抢劫LV店，0元购，笑得眼泪都出来. 美國在全球去搶, 現眼報, 美國人有樣學樣, 在美國搶.
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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…!
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Must watch & western media would not broadcast it in order to hide the truth from their people (under the slogan freedom, democracy & human rights).
At the recent COP 26 conference in Glasgow, UK……the Indian historian/journalist, Vijay Prashad made a loud & clear statement.
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