It's Already a War

I was listening to a news show the other night, and when it got to this part, I paused it, re-listened, and then set up so I could later transcribe it. Next morning, Mr. Spherical Model had seen the same news show, and when I told him a part had gotten my attention, he guessed it was this part. Let’s proceed before further comment.

The daily news broadcast is Crossroads, with Joshua Philipp, a production of The Epoch Times. This is from late Friday, August 21, 2020. CCP refers to Chinese Communist Party.

Joshua Philipp reporting on CCP role in US riots
screenshot from here

The Chinese regime may have played a hand in the mass protests and the riots that have been sweeping across the United States. They’ve allegedly identified and sent guidance to people who are aligned with Black Lives Matter and the far-left radical organization Antifa. This is according to a recent article by Radio Free Asia, which also noted the CCP’s actions played a role in the US ordering the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston.

According to the story, the CCP had sent soldiers from the Second Department of its General Staff Department to the Chinese consulate in Houston. They were equipped with fake IDs as well. From there they used data from a large video platform to identify people whose interests suggested that they may participate in protests around Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and then created and sent them customized videos on how to organize riots and how to spread their messages. The story does not name the companies that were involved in the operations.

Now, this is interesting from a few different angles. When it comes to the soldiers the CCP sent to the consulate, the General Staff Department is the war fighting branch of the Chinese military. The Second Department, the spy branch, operates alongside its Signals Intelligence Branch known for its military hackers, which is a Third Department. You might remember those individuals indicted during the Obama administration with unit 61398. Those were Third Department.

Now, why were spies from the war fighting branch of China’s military sent to the United States to stir up unrest?

It’s also interesting that soldiers from the CCP’s military spy agency were sent to the United States with fake IDs. This may relate to the recent announcement from US Customs and Border Protection that it seized close to 20,000 fake IDs in Chicago and said the majority of them had arrived from China.

When it comes to the CCP getting involved in the protests and riots in the United States, it’s also interesting to note that Russia was found to have done something very similar ahead of the US elections in 2016. And now that we move on to the 2020 elections, this is a big deal in that context. This is among the few points that were used as evidence of Russia meddling in the elections. The Russian trolls were exposed for buying advertisements in different social media platforms that promoted civil unrest.

And as Slate noted at the time, the findings emerged that “Russian trolls were obsessed with Black Lives Matter.” Part of this ties to long-running operations around ideological subversion. These were Soviet era methods of demoralizing and destabilizing a country. Part of the idea was to encourage and to accelerate what would have otherwise been grassroots unrest.

The CCP appears to have taken this even further, however, by deploying soldiers on American soil, then using big data technology to identify and target Americans directly, with their guidelines on how to organize riots.

In Shanghai, meanwhile, the personal information of more than 1.9 million Communist Party members was leaked. And The Epoch Times received Excel files containing details on CCP members in Shanghai’s municipal government institutions and businesses. The leaked records contain names, birthplace, ID numbers, home addresses, and communication information of the Shanghai members of the Chinese Communist Party. And Epoch Times was able to confirm the legitimacy of these documents. The leaked list of party members began to circulate online after the United States announced potential visa restrictions on CCP members and their families. While the documents were only leaked recently, it does appear they come from as early as July 2016.

And why does this matter? This adds to fear among CCP officials, both of the discussions are on travel restrictions on CCP members, and of the possibility that they could be hit by US sanctions for carrying out abusive orders from the Chinese Communist Party.

Interesting.

This is the Radio Free Asia story referred to, which I had Google translate for me: “The last straw that overwhelms the Houston Consulate.” Here’s a key statement:

According to reports, the Second Department of the General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army recruited people from a major Internet company, used false identities to go to the Houston consulate, used the background data of a major audio-visual platform in the powerful country [China] to assist BLM and ANTIFA, and sent "tailor-made" to African Americans. A promotional video for the riot organization; in a word, it is to "weaponize" big data.

Photo from Reuters profile, found here.

The Epoch Times is more attuned to China news than most outlets, and Joshua Philipp’s report in particular tends to cover China news before other world news. But wasn’t this a huge story that ought to be appearing elsewhere?

Earlier today I came across one other source. This is a story by Texas writer Bryan Preston for PJ Media, “Did China’s Consulate in Houston Use TikTok to Stir Up Antifa BLM Riots?” He refers to the same Radio Free Asia “ChinaScope” story, and observes this:

If this ChinaScope report is true, and the Houston Chinese consulate was the hub of unrest via TikTok, it makes sense of the recent events noted above. It also makes some sense of the riots themselves. Antifa got its start as the communists’ street fighters in Weimar Germany. Black Lives Matters’ leaders have openly stated they are trained Marxists. The strongest communist regime on earth today is the one in Beijing under its most authoritarian leader in decades, Xi Jinping. The rioters’ goal is not any particular policy outcome, but to subvert and weaken America. Destroying our cities, defunding law enforcement, agitating against ICE, and dividing America along racial lines all support the goal of weakening the United States, which happens to be China’s long-term foreign policy goal.

The part of the story that is not new related to TikTok, and Thousand Talents, a CCP effort to infiltrate and subvert US science and medical research. It related to the spying coming out of China's recently closed Houston consulate, among other consulates to be closed. Preston says this:

That talent plan is Thousand Talents, a large and sprawling effort on the part of the Chinese Communist Party to subvert top-level researchers in the United States and across the free world in a variety of key fields and buy their research, which is turned over to the People’s Liberation Army. That’s China’s ironically named military, which liberates no one, threatens its own citizens, and helps maintain the communists’ police state. Thousand Talents has been uncovered and several arrests have been made this year, including the high-profile arrest of Dr. Charles Lieber of Harvard. Lieber is one of the world’s top nanoscientists. The Department of Justice accuses him of secretly working for the communists in Beijing via the Wuhan University of Technology.

Someone passed along a video to me today, of a dad in California, whose child’s school lesson on day 4 was pro-Black Lives Matter, under the pretense of teaching against racism, which he got to see because they're doing distance learning. (This propaganda to kids is yet another reason to homeschool.)

Screenshot (flipped) from here

I was curious about that raised fist symbol, which I remember as a black power symbol over many decades. According to Wikipedia,

The black fist, also known as the Black Power fist is a logo generally associated with Black nationalism, defiance, solidarity, and socialism. Its most widely known usage is by the Black Panther Party, a socialist group, in the 1960s. 

Wikipedia also informs us,

Different movements sometimes use different terms to describe the raised fist salute: amongst communists and socialists, raised right fist is sometimes called the red salute, whereas amongst some African-American activists, especially in the United States it has been called the Black Power salute. The Rotfrontkämpferbund paramilitary organization of Communist Party of Germany used the right hand fist salute as early as 1924. 

Different organizations may add elements to use it for their purposes. One example is the hammer and sickle being combined with it, used as part of communist symbolism.

Interestingly, the raised fist is also used by officials in China when being sworn into office.

The symbolism is just another clue. These are the same forces fighting a war against our liberty for a very long time.

Black Lives Matter is Marxist. (And, I might as well add, so is Antifa, which is about as anti-fascist as Nazi Germany of the 1930s-1940s was.) BLM has been open about that on their website, and their founders brag of being “trained Marxists.” Who trains a Marxist? Somebody already steeped in that philosophy. Rumors have flown about George Soros funding. I wouldn’t discount that; he’s definitely an authoritarian, and a Marxist, with a stated intention of bringing down the United States, as well as other countries.

Another possibility is Russia. They’ve worked against the US since—well, probably since they became Marxist at the inception of the Soviet Union. But they’ve been weakened recently. And even in 2016 their efforts were a relatively minor continuation of ongoing disinformation practices.

Then there’s China—the largest and most threatening Marxist regime on the planet. We have a president who has stood up to them, and the US is both their biggest rival economically and philosophically. That is, the real America, with a constitution that is antithetical in every way to Marxist authoritarian rule. Wouldn’t it be in their interest to attempt to get the US to collapse from within?

Preston ends with this:

This report, if true, connects several dots and casts the riots of the past few months in a new light. It’s an effort on the part of a hostile regime to weaken our nation’s integrity. Its leaders and operators on U.S. soil are, knowingly or not, doing the bidding of a hostile foreign government.

To summarize, for clarity, the Chinese government has been conducting a war against the United States. At this point it is a cold war, rather than a full-on hot one, but a war nevertheless. They have put their military on US soil. And they have been targeting Americans to recruit to the anti-American side.

The protests you are seeing—the supposed peaceful ones, where it’s just about speaking out against racism—those are a propaganda movement. Those attending have been targeted through social media to have their opinions manipulated; their news has been controlled so they don’t see another side. What ought to be a reliable US media has been willfully complicit.

And what about the riots—the actual violence against property and people, such as has been going on for 13 weeks and counting in Portland, as well as elsewhere around the country? A few rioters might be opportunists. But mainly those are people targeted, recruited, and trained by our enemy, a Marxist authoritarian regime, in league with other Marxists around the world, intent on the overthrow of our Constitution and the subjugation of free American people.

Next time someone insists that you have to support Black Lives Matter or you’re a racist—let them know that you know the truth. If they’re really about making America better, they’ll hear you. If they won’t hear you, they’re among those targeted and recruited by our deadliest enemy.

Do you give up on such a person? It depends on how much you love and care about that individual, and how much energy you can devote to deprogramming them while we’re in a war in defense of our liberty, our lands, our families, and our religion[i].

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[i] Alma48:10 uses this list and calls it the cause of Christians.

Tyranny's Body Count Rises

Sometimes we talk about the overwhelming body count caused by communist regimes in the 20^th Century. But we’re two decades into the next century, and those numbers continue to add up.

We need to add every death from the SARS-COV-2, the COVID-19, also called the novel coronavirus, to the body count for the Chinese Communist Party.

Is it important to determine blame?

Think of it this way, using a simple society: your tribe is at war with a nearby tribe. You would rather not be at war; you are not the aggressor. But every night for a week, homes on the outskirts of your village have been attacked. The people within each home have been murdered. The signs of forced entry and violence are obvious. The aggressor tribe you’re at war with has threatened to do this violence. You set out scouts to watch the village perimeter. They report that intruders who appear to be dressed as your enemy tribesmen sneak in and out. In the morning additional households have been murdered.

Do you say, “Let’s not be hasty. We could have serial murderers among us. We don’t want to falsely blame our enemies and set in motion a need for action”? And then do you spend your time trying to find evidence of an internal serial murderer? Or do you start building a protective wall around the outer settlements—or some other protection against your enemy?

It’s helpful to know what’s actually happening so you can take the most appropriate actions to protect yourselves in the future.

In this case, the warring tribe against us is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It has declared war against us, the US in particular, the West in general, the rest of the world in all practical purposes.

Screenshot from "Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus"

The Crimes of China

China’s claim that the virus was a spontaneous mutation from wild animals—bats—that found its way into the population through a seafood market is now known to be a lie. It turns out, no one bought or sold bats at the Huanan Seafood Market. The bats that carry the coronavirus are specifically horseshoe bats, located in caves 900 km from the market—but captured and brought to the Wuhan Virology Lab where they were studied, just up the road from that market.

The logical assumption is—and the evidence shows—that this was a virus that was manufactured in a lab. The virus in nature does not transfer to humans. But a scientist at this lab, Shi Zhengli, had published as far back as 2010 on the methodology for getting these coronaviruses to infect humans. It was a matter of a lock and key. She replaced the key, the S-protein, in the SARS virus with one found in a bat coronavirus, and had plans to next experiment on primates. This woman has disappeared, but China says, “No, she’s fine,” but won’t show her, or even a new photo of her.

Shi Zhengli, speaking on cross-species infection in 2018
screenshot from here

At this point we don’t know the purpose of this research. It looks like creating a bioweapon is a possibility. But some funding for the research came from the US, which is puzzling if that was the only purpose.

We don’t yet have evidence that the outbreak was on purpose. It seems logical that they might have wanted to develop a vaccine first (which they would control distribution of), or they might have wanted to develop genetic engineering that would avoid affecting their own people. So, at this point I think it was an accidental leak.

But once it was out, the source was almost immediately known, as well as the virus’s ability to move person-to-person, and not just animal-to-human. They had the entire genome sequenced—which they provided to the world in February, months earlier than they would have been able to do in so short a time if this work had not already been essentially complete.

The CCP shut down any information about the virus. They destroyed evidence at the seafood market. They waited a full six weeks—and probably even weeks longer than that, to tell the world it was highly contagious—risking their own people by not closing down travel, and not taking containment measures, until mid-January, a full two months into the spread. Mid-January, before admitting human-to-human spread, they cut off Wuhan from the rest of China, but they did not cut off Wuhan from the rest of the world. 

A University of Southampton study found that the spread of Covid-19 could have been reduced by about 95% if China had been honest just three weeks earlier.

In February, when it was obvious they had long known about the contagion, they started claiming it was a bio-weapon placed in China by the Americans.

The WHO took China's word without question every step of the way. That is unconscionable.

As of today, 2,152,647 people worldwide have been confirmed to have contracted the virus (depending on testing, so that actual number is likely higher). The US has 667,801 cases.  Worldwide deaths are at 143,802. Every single one of these cases is to be laid at the feet of the CCP.

Sources

treating CCP virus patient in Wuhan, March 19
image from here

I expect you not to take my word for it. I am no expert. I just read and listen and try to piece things together. Here are some recommended sources to get you started:

The Epoch Times put out a special edition related to the virus for March/April 2020, which is full of information. Because the Chinese Communist Party has been at fault in endangering the world, they have made the editorial decision to consistently call it the CCP virus. This is a subscription paper, but some articles may be available online singly. I suggest “The Mysterious Origin of the CCP Virus”  and “How China’s Coverup Led to a Global Pandemic.” 

Also provided by The Epoch Times is a documentary on YouTube called “Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus,” posted April 7, 2020. Narrating the documentary is investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, who has spent over a decade writing about China’s espionage and unconventional warfare. The 54-minute documentary covers the origins, the forensic case, and the biology in a clear and reasonable way, providing documentation along the way. 

Another good source is a YouTube presentation by philosopher Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain, called “The Case Against China.” This 64-minute presentation lays out the case as you might a murder case. Our “murderer” (the CCP) waited 6 weeks to notify the “police”—the WHO. He lies (saying there is no human transmission). He refuses to allow the “police” (WHO) to question him. When the police bring a search warrant, they find he has destroyed evidence and records (at the Huanan Seafood Market). He attempted to collect “life insurance”—China steals a US patent that was given for free to attempt to treat the virus. He threatens anyone who knows anything—Chinese doctors disappear. He is found with the evidence—the bat studies in the virology lab. He previously declared that he hates his victim and plans to murder—China declared a “people’s war” against the United States in May 2019. The cause of death is found to be as expected—the bat virus being studied in the lab at the epicenter of the infection. How should the jury find the accused? Guilty.

Stefan Molyneux, presenting "The Case Against China"
screenshot from here

On his Friday night special three weeks ago, Glenn Beck went through the case, which he called “China Lied.” This is behind a paywall, but it’s worth it. Add to this his Wednesday night special a week ago, called “Arguing with (Chinese) Socialists,”  a smaller piece of which is available on Youtube. 

Screenshot from Glenn Beck, "Arguing with Chinese Socialists"

I’ve been following Bill Whittle’s daily updates on his video podcast The CoronaSphere Lounge. Episode 21 was titled, “Is theCoronavirus Man-Made?” It was in this one that he recommended “Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus.” A few days later, on episode 24, he recommended “The Case Against China.” Most of the time Whittle's daily updates have been optimistic about our coming out of this soon, and rebounding. Anyway, he lays out the information well himself, drawing from other sources.

Outcomes

This CCP-caused pandemic happened while China had a treaty to behave as other civilized nations do.  In Britain, legislators pointed out, “Legally binding international healthcare regulations require states to provide full information on all potential pandemics. It appears likely that in its early response to the outbreak, [China failed to] uphold its obligations.”

So, what can be done to hold them accountable? Every country should pursue the Chinese government through international courts for the billions or trillions of dollars in coronavirus compensation. The G7 should hold China accountable for the trillions in economic impact that would have been avoided if the CCP had been honest about the outbreak immediately.

One lawsuit, by Texas lawyer Larry Klayman, was filed for $20 trillion against the Chinese government—a higher amount than China’s GDP. In the suit he must defend the allegations about it being China’s fault. He believes he can.

What courts can be used? The International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hong Kong courts, resolution of disputes through bilateral investment treaties, or the World Trade Organization.

Another likely way is more organic. Without any orders from above, people will refuse to buy products from China. The money that companies used to save by using cheaper labor in China will no longer be a savings if it causes them to lose buyers of their products.

Let’s be clear about one thing: the Chinese regime is led by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese people did not perpetrate this crime.

Screenshot from Glenn Beck's "China Lied"

We know from our long dealings with Hong Kong and Taiwan—as well as the many many Chinese who have become Americans—that the Chinese people are worth supporting. After so many decades under this murderous tyranny, a best outcome would be that holding the CCP accountable for this pandemic—both in lives lost and in economic costs—might lead to the overthrow of the regime.

The CCP can no longer play on the world stage among civilized nations. They have lost that right. But their people have, over the past couple of decades, seen some small sample of what freedom brings to the rest of the world. Perhaps they will no longer stand for this tyranny when it removes them from the trade that has boosted their standard of living so significantly. It would be sweet justice if this led to freedom for the Chinese people—and freedom from the CCP for the whole world.