Shut Down the CIA’S Pied Piper Program
It’s time to stop China bashing especially in educational institutions
Public Domain - Artist: Kate Greenaway (1846–1901)
Summary
The American disinformation machine is illegal interference in the affairs of other nations. It is illegal by American and international law. I was looking through the internet sites of some foreign universities in China recently and found links to disturbing American government funded articles that are part of the “Color Revolution” movement the US has used in many countries to overthrow governments. In this article I refer to the original template program called “Pied Piper.” It’s been “upgraded” but it’s the same illegal interference in other nations. Generally speaking, during the 1st Cold War there were some rules, like keeping families out of it at least most of the time. This new American driven Cold War takes direct aim at families. It is concluded Americans with a moral conscience need to be much more politically active to end these horrible abuses of power and waste of American tax payer money. Cutting the world in two is not a solution to problems in the USA. The US has to fix itself before preaching to other nations how to govern their own nations, and attacking families and youth is vile and illegal.
The Pied Piper Program and so-called “color revolutions”
July 13, 2021 The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a classic tale in which the people of Hamelin hired a rat catcher, the Pied Piper, to rid the town of disease carrying rats. However, after he accomplished this task, the dishonorable townspeople refused to pay him. So, the Pied Piper then lured all the town’s children away with the magical power of his musical instrument.
The CIA originated the Pied Piper program in the 1950s, e.g., the Hungarian Revolution. That kind of thing did not shorten the Cold War by a minute but did get a lot of people killed. Is this the kind of thing the US will continue indefinitely?
The goal is to turn the children of target nations against their nation, as the US tried – and continues to try to do - in Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, all the other big cities and in many or most other countries.
Usually these days the phrase: “color revolution” is used, but the original program was, and continues to be, the Pied Piper. It’s what you call “old school,” but it is, in the land of smoke and mirrors, the classic template.
For those not familiar with “the land of smoke and mirrors,” it refers to the world of spies. I know pretty much about them because I traveled a huge amount from a very young age in 1963. The fact is they are impossible to avoid if you travel a lot. Most will smile in your face – for they are sometimes, charming, funny, and/or highly intelligent, but in the end they will always betray their “best friends” because that’s what they’re paid to do. Their job is to get inside the target foreign culture, turn people against their own government, culture and parents, and then leave, laughing all the way to the bank.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/perfecting-the-method-of-color-revolutions/32261
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-wont-succeed-provoking-another-color-revolution-china/5747342
https://www.globalresearch.ca/colored-revolutions-a-new-form-of-regime-change-made-in-the-usa/27061
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/15/the-neds-useful-idiots
The Pied Piper Program in your home
Suppose your son or daughter is just crazy about playing the violin. To make him or her happy you hire a famous violin tutor for your beloved child. Strangely however the violin teacher starts nailing posters on your living wall painting you, a loving parent as a horrible villainous character doing all kinds of terrible things you just don’t do. Then you find out there is a bizarre cult of haters that have a multi-billion industry designed to destroy your reputation, cut off all of your communications, smash and destroy your business connections and plant teachers inside your house to corrupt your children! OMG! How exactly would you react?
Welcome to the American made lie machine that has been viciously turned against China.
Luckily China is China and not some other places. Why? The Chinese have at least 2,500 years of practicing harmony as a philosophy of life and don’t just jump up and start killing people that offend them. As a general rule, they are usually quite patient and try, really try to work out differences, and be – harmonious!
They also have considerable practice at defending themselves from American aggression and lies. Unfortunately, and illegally, the USA keeps throwing billions of tax payer dollars into the monstrously huge American made lie machine. And thus, we have the following:
New High in Perceptions of China as U.S.'s Greatest Enemy, by Mohamed Younis, March 16, 2021
“Forty-five percent of Americans now say China is the greatest enemy of the U.S., more than double the percentage who said so in 2020. That year, Americans were equally as likely to say either China or Russia was the U.S.'s greatest enemy. The current shift coincided with a period when the global economy and human activity were severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China.”
https://news.gallup.com/poll/337457/new-high-perceptions-china-greatest-enemy.aspx
A western University teaching hate in China
Many western universities have branches in China.
On July 5, 2021 I was looking at the internet site of a Canadian university in China. On the front page I found links to scurrilous stories that paint the Chinese government as a horrible villainous character doing all kinds of terrible things they just don’t do. There was also front and center - a link to a story about the June 11 – 13 2021 G7 meeting, painting it as a reasonable thing, which it was not. China was the primary topic of that meeting, and “containing” and “confronting China” was the primary reason for that meeting.
I chose one of the other “minor” articles insulting China to “fact-check.”
Probably the most disturbing linked article on that university’s site was titled: “How China is turning religion into another state-controlled tool to support its Communists ideals” by Nathan VanderKlippe. It was published in the Canadian “Globe and Mail,” Canada’s most widely read newspaper.
The reader might note that article was dated June 30, 2021, the day before the Chinese Communist Party’s Centennial Anniversary.
I also took some screenshots of the Globe and Mail article.
I have been to Xinjiang and found it very nice. I have many friends in Xinjiang, prayed at several Masjids, and saw no signs of problems. I have also researched the American propaganda about Xinjiang. It has all proven to be false.
US State Department accusation of China ‘genocide’ relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue by Gareth Porter and Max Blumenthal, February 18, 2021
The Trump and Biden administrations have relied on the work of a right-wing religious extremist, Adrian Zenz, for their “genocide” accusation against China. A close review of Zenz’s research reveals flagrant data abuse and outright falsehoods… https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-genocide-relied-on-fraudulent-far-right-researcher/
The latest Western sanctions are based on a report by a shady Washington-based think-tank Newlines Institute of Strategic Policy by Finian Cunningham March 30, 2021
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/03/china-aces-western-hypocrisy/
‘Independent’ report claiming Uyghur genocide brought to you by sham university, neocon ideologues lobbying to ‘punish’ China by Ajit Singh, March 17, 2021 …Newlines’ report relies primarily on the dubious studies of Adrian Zenz, the US government propaganda outlet, Radio Free Asia, and claims made by the US-funded separatist network, the World Uyghur Congress. These three sources comprise more than one-third of the references used to construct the factual basis of the document, with Zenz as the most heavily relied upon source – cited on more than 50 occasions. Many of the remaining references cite the work of members of Newlines Institute’s “Uyghur Scholars Working Group”, of which Zenz is a founding member and which is made up of a small group of academics who collaborate with him and support his conclusions. As The Grayzone has reported, Zenz is a far-right Christian fundamentalist who has said he is “led by God” against China’s government, deplores homosexuality and gender equality, and has taught exclusively in evangelical theological institutions. A careful review of Zenz’s research shows that his assertion of genocide is concocted through fraudulent statistical manipulation, cherry-picking of source material, and propagandistic misrepresentations. His widely-cited reports were not published in peer-reviewed journals overseen by academic institutions, but rather, by a DC-based CIA cut-out called the Jamestown Foundation and “The Journal of Political Risk,” a publication headed by former NATO and US national security state operatives…
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/17/report-uyghur-genocide-sham-university-neocon-punish-china/
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1186692.shtml
Also see:
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/31/china-uyghur-gun-soldiers-empire
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ned-uyghur-network-cair-director-rally-around-china-propaganda/276663/
NED has been used again and again by the CIA and affiliated American government and private intelligence organizations in attempts to overthrow governments. This is patently illegal by international law, yet, mainstream American, Canadian and British “news” presents their predetermined finding without checking the sources of their “information.”
The non-intervention rule is a principle of international law that restricts the ability of outside nations to interfere with the internal affairs of another nation. At its core, the principle is a corollary to the right of territorial sovereignty possessed by each nation.
http://www.judicialmonitor.org/archive_spring2014/generalprinciples.html
Was there a problem with terrorism in Xinjiang? There certainly was and police still have to be vigilent. Part of the problem is Washington DC routinely works with a large variety of terrorist groups including those originally from Xinjiang who they sent to Syria for training and then released so they can return to Xinjiang! It’s unbelievable but that’s what happened and is still going on. Still, Xinjiang is far safer than most American cities. If all that horrible things was really going on, why are the 30 million Muslims here quiet about it? I would have heard something. I am a magnet for such things! Rarely do I ever have to look for news. It almost always comes to me.
Meanwhile in the USA, what is happening?
As homicides soar nationwide, mayors see few options for regaining control, by Griff Witte and Mark Berman, June 22, 2021
The killings rolled over the country like a fast-moving storm. From Savannah to Austin, from Chicago to Cleveland. In six hours one night this month, four mass-shooting attacks. And in their wake, a sober recognition from city leaders that they don’t have many options left for curbing a surge in homicides that is traumatizing communities nationwide.
One city 'ready to explode' as US murder rates surge in pandemic by Nathan Layne Rochester, N.Y., June 25, 2021 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/one-city-ready-explode-us-murder-rates-surge-pandemic-2021-06-25/
More than 230 people fatally shot in shootings over the Fourth of July weekend, by Emma Tucker, Omar Jimenez and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Updated 3:00 PM ET, Tue July 6, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/05/us/us-shootings-july-fourth-weekend/index.html
As for tearing down mosques, some were not well preserved and had to be torn down and rebuilt for the safety of those who pray there. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1221463.shtml
I have personally visited several mosque reconstruction sites and interviewed local Muslim leaders. In all cases I know of the mosques get rebuilt much larger and even more beautiful than before. They do a nice job! In all cases that I know of the Mosque officials themselves are in charge of this operation. I know because I’ve worked as a journalist and interviewed some of them in different cities in China. Incidentally, there are geologic fault lines in China, and earthquakes are not something to ignore. Frankly I prefer a nice solid building that’s not going to fall down on me in the case of an earthquake. Even here in Beijing over the years a few times at least my very solid apartment building got a pretty surprising shaking from geologic tremors. Frankly I love ancient cultural landmarks and in most cases I say: Preserve them(!), but when it comes to protecting life, I have to hold protecting life first. Some ancient monuments, as wonderful as they are cannot really be safely restored without rebuilding.
Yep, that’s me in the middle with Imam Ma, and Construction Manager Ma at the construction site of the Dunhuang Masjid. I spent a couple of lovely hours interviewing them in their construction office. Behind is a large new religious school. The rebuilding of the mosque has since been completed. (Photo taken July 17, 2017)
Same construction site as above, and yes, construction is an equal opportunity occupation in China. And no, I didn’t have an appointment so these photos could not have been staged.
American fake “humanitarian” interventions
New Cold War is Built on Humanitarian Interventionist Lies and Dismissal of Actual War Crimes, by Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor, 17 Mar 2021
To manufacture consent for its own constant aggressions the US claims its competitors are guilty of even greater crimes – sheer inventions that never happened.
“Humanitarian interventionist lies represent the most dangerous form of misinformation currently fueling the U.S.’s New Cold War.”
A revolutionary’s first commitment is to the truth. But deciphering the truth has become a difficult task in the United States, not least because the misinformation apparatus is both enormous and tied directly to the imperatives of imperialist state itself. Whatever separation that existed between the military industrial complex and the U.S. corporate media is a thing of the past.
U.S. imperialism has spent much of the last decade gradually escalating a New Cold War with China and the media has manufactured consent for each and every one of its aggressive policies…
The U.S. public is bombarded with anti-China media headlines from across the political spectrum. Humanitarian interventionist lies represent the most dangerous form of misinformation currently fueling the U.S.’s New Cold War. Most prominent is the fable that a “genocide” is being committed against Muslims in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region...
The world should be laughing at the lies
The situation with the USA making accusations against the government of China in regards to Islam is ironic.
The Entire World Should Be Laughing at America for Pretending to Care About Muslims In China, by Caitlin Johnstone, 27 March 2021
“…just think about that for a second. The US government, the government of the United States of America, has been melodramatically rending its garments over the wellbeing of Muslims. Muslims! Of all the populations they could possibly have chosen to cynically spearhead their campaign against China, they went with the one where they have the least possible number of legs to stand on.
“This would after all be the same religious population which the US has been cheerfully slaughtering by the millions in its campaigns of military mass murder, just since the turn of this century. The same religious population the US has displaced by the tens of millions in its campaign of terrorism called the "war on terror", also just since the turn of this century. The same religious population the US has sadistically tortured in facilities like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. The same religious population who was terrorized by an escalation in hate crimesin the United States itself due to propaganda campaigns for George W Bush's wars, wars which were enthusiastically supported and facilitated by the current invalid-in-chief.”
Foreign teachers are the biggest collection of spies in China
USA
§ https://merip.org/1985/10/harvard-and-the-cia/
§ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp88-01315r000300090040-9
UK
Cambridge University
§ https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/nov/12/davidkelly.highereducation
§ https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/3180
§ https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/500-years-cambridge-spies
Oxford University
Past heads of MI6 consist almost entirely of Oxbridge alumni, and ... was recently revealed to be a recruiter of Soviet spies in the University.
§ https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2013/01/24/oxford-spies-and-the-secret-service
§ Many believe the Clintons were recruited by the CIA while at Oxford and that the first operation they worked on was called Operation Chaos.
I’ve seen these foreign intelligence “teachers” at work here in Beijing. When I first came here in February 2009 there were 30 foreign teachers at my school. Only five that I knew for sure were foreign intelligence officers. And even they were fairly easy going back then. That changed in 2014, and then got much worse in 2015. By the time I stopped teaching in 2019 there isn’t any doubt whatsoever that 80% of the foreign teachers were working for some foreign intelligence organization. How do I know? Ha! I’ve known those people my whole life. Most are not good liars, and they are virtually all amateurs – children playing at an adult game and completely transparent to an old guy like me. What was their job? That’s easy: Promote the infinite superiority of American everything, while urinating all over everything Chinese. During my last few years of teaching some arrived speaking Chinese quite well. Some could articulate great admiration for China. But that was a thin cover on an altogether different agenda. Some were subtle. They don’t have to say anything bad about for example the Chinese government.
Micro-expressions reveal the true emotions
True emotions are communicated in the micro-expressions of the face and body language. We all read those micro expressions but few of us are consciously aware how powerful those communication systems are.
To the unconscious mind those micro expressions are as loud as a jet airplane. The really amazing part of those US and Canadian funded programs is they are so cheap and effective. Look at Hong Kong.
Global Times, July 2, 2020 – Did CNN really present balanced reporting from Hong Kong? No. It did not. Did you see that video on CNN? I rather doubt it.
The Constancy Bias
There is something called the Constancy Bias. The mind expects everything to be normal. We even perceive symmetry when it’s not there. Yes, things may get a bit strange, but unconsciously we all expect everything to return to “normal” soon. This is hardwired into the brain. It’s what gives us hope. It’s a good thing, right?
Sometimes yes and sometimes no.
Since Richard Nixon’s trip to China in 1972 so many, the vast majority of Chinese have loved America! music, movies, NBA, technologies, just about everything. That was almost 50 years ago. Given most people have babies in their 20s, that’s two generations.
But now, especially since the Orange Man, everything is different. Was President Trump really responsible for this huge change? Not really, he was just the sales person for the real power in the USA, the corporate CEOs. They control who becomes president, and can completely control exactly how popular they are, or are not, using the media they almost entirely control.
In any case Chinese are still hungry for American education. Got a problem? The Americans have the answer! It’s so deeply ingrained.
President Trump only started the Trade War in 2018. It was only three years ago that Chinese have starting to realize: “Wow! Something’s changed!” One of the challenges China faces now is overcoming that 49-year belief that: “The USA really is our friend!” No doubt many American still do like Chinese, but they’re afraid to admit it loudly in public in the USA. The “herd instincts” in large groups of people keep what is now a “minority opinion,” quiet. It’s dangerous to voice liking for a group of people the American government has targeted for attack. Still, so many Chinese are planning to go to the USA for university. The problems are 1) Is it safe now in the USA for Chinese? And 2) How long will this hate US government driven “hate-China” last? There are no signs yet that President Biden is going to stop the massive disinformation war against China, and reverse it. Presidents don’t actually have as much power as people think. They only care about money; the big corporations have the money, and the big corporations profit from wars.
The American tragedy
It is so tragic American policy makers feel so inferior to China they cannot compete fairly and have to resort to criminal activities to remain a world power. China is often accused of censoring news, and indeed in some ways it does, at least those publications that reliably attack it with false and misleading information.
On the other hand, the USA most certainly censors news much more heavily and lies about it, knowing full well those activities are again, outrageously illegal. Evidence? See for example my article: A brief review of American censorship mechanisms and law. The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable.
As for the webmaster of that foreign university’s China branch site in China I’m not surprised he/or she believes they can be so rude to the host nation as to feature two rather provocative stories on their internet site’s front page. Why? Arrogance is a constant feature of American and its allies’ criminal Modus Operandi. That university incidentally was of Canadian origin.
When was the last time I was personally affected by an illegal Candian operation?
I suppose January 3, 2017. I was lucky I was in Pakistan at the time. Get a copy of “The Dawn” newspaper, January 3, 2017, (National edition, p. 4) story title: “Senate body to approach FO for Complaint against Canadian citizen,” by Kalbe Ali. In short, a Canadian Paki named Abdul Rashid started a riot that killed - burned to death - several Ahmadi Muslims in Chakwal. Abdul Rashid is also my name. A flood Pakistani police came pounding on my hotel door. Alhamdullilah they were Pakistani! If they were American I would have been shot to death. As it was a cup of tea settled the matter. I’ve often wondered if they ever caught that guy. Probably not. The reader does not want to know what a Canadian did in South Korea in 2008… and how that affected my life…
Canada is the CIA’s number 3 partner in international crimes
FYI the British and French are numbers 1 and 2. But, Canada is a heavyweight, no doubt about that.
For example, Canada is still “holding” Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei and the company's CFO hostage. If one were to ask her father if he thought Canada was being arrogant holding his daughter hostage, he would definitely think “YES!” but I doubt he would say it, as riling up his daughter’s hostage takers doesn’t seem like a real good idea.
She was arrested at Vancouver's airport in late 2018. For what? Huawei does business with Iran. That is not a crime, however the USA makes its own laws and expects everyone in the world to kowtow to American political decisions. That is illegal by international law, in addition to being morally bankrupt and just darned mean.
Huawei is by no means the only company that has continued to do business with Iran in spite of American sanctions. In late November 2019 quite a number of European nations joined “Instex” as a “SWIFT alternative” to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iran. Those nations include: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. The founding members of Instex were France, Germany and the United Kingdom in January 2019. And yet Canada isn’t arresting family members of the decision makers in each of those countries. Why not? Maybe because they’re white? Or is it just because they’re not Chinese? Who knows? In any case the USA has clearly become a rogue criminal nation (since the end of WWII if the truth be told) and Canadian authorities are apparently happy to serve as its obedient lapdogs.
Probability analysis and geometry
Does this mean or suggest that the webmaster of that foreign University’s China branch site is acting as an agent of USA diabolical plans to destroy China? It looks that way to me. However, there’s an old rule in statistics: “In any complex equation with many unknown variables the best one can calculate the odds is 50/50.
On the other hand, there is a rule in geometry called Occam’s Razor which posits that “the simplest explanation is usually the best one.”
Were I to follow the dictates of Occam’s razor I would be forced to suggest there is a reasonably high likelihood the webmaster of that foreign University’s internet site is acting as an agent of the American war machine’s diabolical plans to destroy China by corrupting the youth by spreading malign false information via its website.
That kind of disinformation makes people hate; in this case hate the government of China. What a terrible government! Everyone who has never been China will conclude that, even though most of the article was based on fictions specifically created to paint China as a horrible nation of monsters.
All that aside, in my opinion one of the biggest differences between western capitalist democratic governments and China’s socialist government was described by President Xi in his Centennial Speech July 1.
Special interest control of government in the USA vs. China
“The Communist Party of China has always represented the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. It has no special interests of its own, and has never represented the interests of any interest group, any powerful group, or any privileged class.”
Excerpt from President Xi Jinping’s Centennial Speech, July 1, 2021.
In China the government has the power. In the USA and Europe, large corporations and other special interest groups have usurped the power. They have highly paid lobbyists that can persuade politicians to do anything, including start wars. Likewise, unlimited anonymous political donations in the USA have significantly added to government corruption in the American government. Even mega-corporations that paid little or no tax spent hundreds of millions on buying politicians in the USA.
In the US, members of Congress and the Senate directly profit from the wars they start.
“The Members of Congress Who Profit from War, Here are the senators and representatives who own stock in Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and other top defense contractors,” by Donald Shaw, David Moore, January 17, 2020
https://prospect.org/power/the-members-of-congress-who-profit-from-war
So, when President Xi boasts in his speech that: “It (the CPC) has no special interests of its own, and has never represented the interests of any interest group, any powerful group, or any privileged class” that means something. That is powerful and should make westerners think: Who controls my government? It isn’t the voters, that’s for sure.
China does not start or escalate wars
China’s only role in any war during past decades has been as peacekeepers. China is not expansionist.
China is not a colonial power.
China respects the sovereignty of other nations. China does not twist arms for investment money demanding countries install “neoliberal economic policies” that starve the poor. Can the USA or its partners in G7 and Canada say the same?
Canada now even has a special “head tax” specifically targeting Chinese and only Chinese. Is that legal? With the planet’s biggest gangster in your pocket, who cares about legal?
At the end of the above article in the Globe and Mail newspaper it announced the writer, Nathan VanderKlippe was ending his eight-year post as The Globe and Mail’s Asia correspondent and would begin his new post as a U.S. correspondent, focused primarily on the West.
It seems likely the CPC might not be sorry to see him go, however given the vast amount of money put into the China bashing Strategic Competition Act of 2021 – almost $4 billion - there is little doubt other rather aggressive China bashing writers be lined up to follow.
Will the webmasters and foreign teachers in China link to their articles and teach racist China-bashing hate, luring the children away with their magical instruments? Only time will tell.
Selling the “China Virus” lie
It was so easy. CIA people in Langly Virginia are still laughing. They’ve got most of the USA and Western Europe consciously and unconsciously blaming China for COVID-19 even though the disease was in Italy months before it was detected in China.
COVID-19 was found in Italy several months before it was identified in China.
SARS-CoV-2 was circulating in Italy before China recognized its existence, By Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, Nov 17 2020
The Italian team of scientists found severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies in people across several Italian regions as far back as September 2019.
This study, published in the Tumori Journal, sheds light on the possibility that the virus had been spreading in Italy well before the outbreak was officially reported in Wuhan, China.
Researchers find coronavirus was circulating in Italy earlier than thought, By Giselda Vagnoni, ROME (Reuters) - The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy in September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that it might have spread beyond China earlier than thought. By Giselda Vagnoni November 16, 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-timing-idUSKBN27W1J2
Now, I’m not a math genius, but isn’t September three or four months before December when COVID-19 was first identified in China? So, the virus probably didn’t start in China, but rather it was just China that identified it first, right?
What’s even more shocking is it was also found in the USA before China.
Given the deadly dangerousness of this disease, shouldn’t people be thanking China for identifying it? All the COVID-19 Variants are the result of “liberal democracies” letting the disease run wild. China didn’t do that. Who is to blame? Ignorant western leaders that profit from hate instead of taking care of their own nations.
A friend of mine was telling me about Tok-tok the other day. I mentioned videos are too slow for me because I can read at 10 – 20 times the speed of human speech. She said: “Nobody reads anymore.” The sad fact is, she’s almost right. Smaller and smaller percentages of people are reading every year. So, video-based mass media rules the world. And unfortunately, it’s “information lite.” They don’t put references on videos. There’s usually no way to easily check the truth of what they present in those videos. In my opinion, 95% of those videos are basically “mind candy.” They taste good; are sweet, or sexy or funny, or may even seem profound, but they can’t easily be used for researching the most profound questions of our age.
I see the failure to read as the main reason so many Americans and western Europeans don’t know that COVID-19 was in Italy so long before China. They just believe President Trump instead of reading published research.
Even if it really first appeared in Italy, should everyone in the world really hate victims of some mysterious disease? That’s not very nice. In any case, Trump’s big huge “China virus” lie spread a hate disease potentially far deadlier than COVID-19. And “incidentally,” the US has a long history of testing biological and chemical weapons on Americans: https://scheerpost.com/2021/07/06/lee-camp-americas-impressive-history-of-bioweapons-attacks-against-its-own-people. And… didn’t Sec. of State Pompeo threaten Italy regarding signing on to the Belt and Road Initiative shortly before COVID-19 appeared there? Mmm. Motives, Methods, Opportunities are all there.
Why does it matter?
It is all too easy for visitors from western lands to incorrectly assume their ideas, philosophies, politics, economics and so on are somehow superior to Chinese, when in fact none of that is necessarily true at all. Take the G7 for example. Yes, they are the richest countries in the world, but they’ve all engaged in absolutely brutal colonialism too. It was the rewards from that brutal colonialism that gave them the money they needed to become highly industrialized in the first place.
To quote the Arms Control Association:
No One Wins an Arms Race or a Nuclear War https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2020-03/focus/no-one-wins-arms-race-nuclear-war
The nuclear arms race is back … and ever more dangerous now by Simon Tisdall, Aug. 17, 2019 http://www.ipsnews.net/2021/06/21st-century-nuclear-arms-race/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-growing-dangers-of-the-new-nuclear-arms-race
That is not a proud legacy, or it shouldn’t be any more than a treacherous violin teacher trying to profit from destroying your beautiful and wonderful family.
Where the USA is going with its China-bashing is hard to say, but the direction, speed, increasing momentum and viciousness of it is disturbing.
The old Cold War had some rules, like generally speaking: keep families out of it.
The New American-driven Cold War intentionally targets children and families.
That just ain’t right and it’s illegal by American and international law. Interfering in the affairs of other nations under the guise of “humanitarian” intent is worse than a sick joke because it is so deadly. Attacking families is just pure evil.
American voters with a moral conscience simply have to be more politically active. What happens when an unstoppable force meets in immovable object? Nothing good. It is in the “enlightened self-interest” of Americans to regain control of the government, clean up political campaign finance putting an end to corporate and foreign control of the US government, and finally put an end to American terrorism around the world. That would go a long way to Making America Great, maybe for the first time. Political campaing finance reform is just one of many changes that must be made quickly. There are many other changes that need to be made. Please click here to get a list of 17 of them.
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Yes, I just had a Eureka moment. The 18th way to make America great!
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Never lose your sense of humor. The more it hurts, the more ya gotta smile. Every fighter knows that. THE MORE IT HURTS - THE MORE YA SMILE...