This year, starting on Feb 14th, Spring Festival coincides with Valentine's Day.
Even the animals get into the mood. This is the season to make preperations for the coming new year, visit family, and enjoy special food and traditions.
Although most folks refer to the Chinese following the "lunar" calandar, in fact, they follow the solar-lunar calandar. This is a 60 year cycle. Originally used by farmers to plan planting, the wonderful calandar, with famous ox pictures, is not unlike the Old Farmer's Almanac.
In two weeks the New year festival will conclude with the Lantern Festival, and young folks, who pine to be with their lovers, instead of family, will be together then.
Above is the TV special, from Beijing, look for more additions here, to be posted soon.
BaoBao, precious treasure, Children are considered, in China to be like flowers, they are to be treasured, as they are the China's future.
And above is the begining of the end of the propaganda proping up "Cash My Check," the US supported Green gang thug, who is responsible for dividing Taiwan from China, and who refused to fight the Japanese, leading, instead, the US funded Chinese Civil War, against his very own people.
Above, General Joe Stillwell in China, rare footage of the dixie Mission with Mao. Unfortunately, the US ignored Stillwell and the Foreign Ministry and others making the greatest US foreign policy mistake of the 20th century.
. Rebiya Kadeer is the President of both WUC (World Uighur Congress) and UAA (Uyghur American Association
This video documents the elaborate advanced planing that was used to plan and instigate the deadly race riots in Xinjiang Province, China. On July 5th, Some Uighurs, incited by Ribiya Kadeer, president of the World Uighur Congress, and the Uighur American Association, staged "peaceful demonstrations," to attract police, then "killing squads" raged through side streets in Han Chinese neighborhoods, slaughtering dozens of people that "looked Asian." Uighurs are a caucasian ethnic Turkish speaking people. not all Uighurs living in Xinjiang, China support Ribyia's seperatism. Uighurs are not the only minority nor only Muslims living in Xinjiang.
The US Government funds Ribiya Kadeer primarily through the NED. US Congressmen support her racial hatred groups. The US Congress, and the Uighur seperatist and terror groups, together, spread disinformation about Xinjiang, Uighurs and China.
For example, they like to say that China invaded Xinjiang, the Uihgur homeland. You see, they are counting on your ignorance, indifference, and latent racist attitudes toward "Asian looking people." In fact, Uighurs migrated into Xinjiang, China, some 1000 years AFTER the Han Chinese.
Another lie the Uighur seperatists like to spread is that China is destroying Uighur culture. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth! China is the only country in the world that has preserved the writen arabic script of the Uighur language. In all other countries, including Turkey, Uighurs write their language either in Latin or Russian based scripts.
I have often wondered why the US continues to engage in such violent covert activities. I assume our government knows this is bad, evil, and unlawful, which is why they lie to Americans about what is actually going on. Is it lawful for the US gov to propagandise the American people? What about the People's Right to Know?
In the US, 1 in every 31 adults is in prison, jail or on supervised release. geath by guns every yrer is more that US deaths in Wars overseas. Yet, the right to own guns continues, while those how incite using guns to kill do not have free speech protection, and can and are prosecuted.
Watch in this video, as a Coffee Klatch, neighbors question prospective DA about their fears about Philly being the wild west, and more dangerous that either detroit or Baltimore. The man speaking, a caucasion, refers to white people as "people like us," and to Affrican Americans as "animals."
Phildelphia is the City where the police actually droped a bomb on the hose of MOVe members, and allowed it to burn, destroying a whole city block, in 1985.
Tension between the "oppressive" police and the "oppressed African American" community continues.
many Affrican Americans contend that "Whites" are making money on black on black violence, by selling durgs and guns into economically depressed inner city neighborhoods.
Recently, a group of Affrican American kids were refused the right to swim at a privat pool, even though they had paid priveliges to do so. White folks left the pool, claiming that they felt afraid of the "black" children that looked different from them.
Since Nixon paved the way for recognition of China, more and more attention has been focused on how China deals with dissent. Western media make a huge issue out of what is called china's reppression od dissent, and the use of crackdowns, while at the same time covering up their own practices od opressing dissent in their own countries. From time to time, I hope to att to this topic.
France crushes riots, sends rioters to jail with long harsh sentances.
"With the memory of their sacrifice in mind, let us here dedicate ourselves to the task of bringing into reality the ideals for which they died, that their sacrifice will not have been in vain..."
That is so beautiful, and so inspireing.
What a great leader, and hero he was.
In Beijing, on June 29th, in the meeting hall of the former residence of Soong Ching Ling, The "70th Anniversary Celebration of the ICCIC" was held.
The "Gung Ho" marine, Lt. Col. Evans F. Carlson of the U.S. Marine Corps was honoured, when all the guests joined a chorus in singing the National Anthem of the People's Republic of China, and guests from the United States sang the "The Marine Corps Hymn."
Background: The History of the ICCIC
The Gung Ho movement was started in 1937 in Shanghai by Rewi Alley of New Zealand and some other foreigners together with a group of Chinese patriots. To win support from abroad, collect funds for development and ensure the proper use of foreign aid, the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (ICCIC) was founded in Hong Kong in January 1939. It is an international nongovernmental organization that aims to promote Chinese industrial cooperatives. Soong Ching Ling was elected as honorary chairperson. The work of the committee soon won support among the overseas Chinese and people worldwide.
It suspended its work in 1952 and revived it in 1987. Since that year, the ICCIC has supported a large number of cooperatives in different provinces in China for cooperative principle training, environment improvement and poverty alleviation.
The success of ICCIC's projects has strengthened its ties with other cooperative organizations at home and abroad.
http://sclf.cri.cn/1/2009/07/03/2s1125.htm
"Those who do not learn from the past, are condemned to repeat it. The purpose of this film is, thus, educational. We have no hatred for the Japanese people."
From 1931 onward, the US responded to increasing japanese agression in China with verbal "condemnations," while continuing to provide material support to Japan.
In 1932, photos of the bombing of Shanghai, shown bombs with "Made in the USA" on them.
As Japan continued to build their Navy, and move deeper into China, and word of horrendous atrocities reached Washington, the US continued to provide material support to Japan, in the face of this agression, even after the all out war against China, the second Sino Japanese war, support for Japan contin ued. Roosevelt confined himself to moral requests to business not to sell war materials to Japan.
October 7th, 1939, a Colliers editorial asked ... "We're idealist american enough to base this motion for a war materials embargo against Japan chiefly on moral grounds, It is not decent, it is not right, at least by moral standards, for the US to be selling the japanese materials for the slow and merciless enslavement of a peacible nation. This is dirty money."
By 1937 American magazines sensational reports that 55.4% of material support for Japanese agression against China came from America. That included materials that were unavailable from any other source, including hi grade steel, machery and lubricating oils.
Dec 9th Japanese take Nanjing
http://www.usspanay.org/attacked.shtml
November of 1937 found the Japanese Army racing towards Nanking, its troops operating on the southern bank of the Yangtze and in the river delta. As Iris Chang recounts in The Rape of Nanking, the Japanese army left a swath of destruction in its path, murdering helpless civilians, committing countless rapes, and conducting wanton atrocities. The fall of the city would prove to be one of the bloodiest episodes in WWII, with more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers killed in a mere six weeks.
The death toll, Chang notes, “exceed(ed) that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined”.
(but only Chinese were killed, as Europeans, Americans and Nazi's looked on with much hand wringing)
On Dec 12, 1937, the Japanese bombed and sank the US Gunboat panay, in the Yangze river near Nanjing.
The Nanjing Massacre began on Dec 13th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoW2WYdOsvg
Still the US continued to provide war materials to the Japanese for their war against China.
October 7th, 1939, a Colliers editorial asked ...
"We're idealist american enough to base this motion for a war materials embargo against Japan chiefly on moral grounds, It is not decent, it is not right, at least by moral standards, for the US to be selling the japanese materials for the slow and merciless enslavement of a peacible nation. This is dirty money."
In July 1940, the Japanese demanded britan close the Burma Road, and the US moved it's Naval Fleet from the west coast to pearl harbour. In september japan forced the Vichey government to asccept japanese Army bases to cut the supply routs to China. 11days later Japan signed the AXIS agreements.
Only then did Washington embargo more metals, aviation fuel and aviation techknowledgies.
Japan then signed a non agression treaty with the soviets, so they could focus on the conquest of China and So east Asia.
In 1941, ignoring US warnings not to do so, Japan moved troops into XSo Indochina.
Finally, Roosevelt froze Japanese assets, and the sales of all strageic war materials, including oil, leaving Japan with reserves for a two year war.
August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchil met at sea off Newfoundland, the Atlantic Charter.
Dec 7th, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbour.
At the same time they started south, and the western colonial possesions fell like dominoes. Within 6 months Japan had subjigated the great crescent of so east asia.
WWII became a global war for survival from AXIS agression.
Lt Col. Evans Carlson had warned Rosevelt not to trust Japan, and that he feared Japan would attack the US, but Rousevelt brushed aside this warning and Colson had to leave the Marines.
Carlson was returned to service immediately after hes "intelligence" was demonstrated to be spot on. He gave birth to Carlsons Raiders.
Chai Ling's confession of foreign involvement in an interview has been removed from Youtube!
Chai Ling suew maker of this video, Gate Of Heavenly Peace, and it has been removed! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6221258.ece The lawsuit against Long Bow makes no mention of this interview.
Since its release in 1995 the film has drawn the anger of both the Chinese authorities and several student leaders and has become a significant source of material on the movement.
However, the makers now fear that the aim of Ms Chai is to put Long Bow, a non-profit organisation, out of business by bankrupting them through legal costs.
Their appeal says: “We believe that in commemorating the events of 1989 20 years on, it is important to reflect also on the value of independent thought, unfettered historical research, the collection and protection of archival materials and the freedom of speech in our own environment.” ......................... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_Heavenly_Peace_(documentary)
Folks, this video of a confession by Chai Ling, one of those "students" who falsly claimed there was a massacre in Tiananmen, and which was translated into English, has been removed from Youtube! In fact, this tiny piece, whas Chai Ling in her very own voice, explaining why she left before the massacre, because as she said her handlers in Hong Kong had encouraged Her, and the students to stay in the Sq after the students had voted to end the protests and return to there respective colleges, and suffer bloodshed at the hands of the Chinese, was the only way to get thge world's attention.
Folks, you really gotta T H I N K about this.
No one was shot, killed, or run over by a tank in Tiananmen in June 1989. That is a proven fact, and Spanish TV as well as the Chinese Government have video to prove it.
From Wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Ling The Gate of Heavenly Peace documentary contains footage, dated May 28, 1989, in which Chai says to American journalist Philip Cunningham:
"The students kept asking, 'What should we do next? What can we accomplish?' I feel so sad, because how can I tell them that what we are actually hoping for is bloodshed, for the moment when the government has no choice but to brazenly butcher us. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes. Only then will they really be united. But how can I explain this to my fellow students? And what is truly sad is that some students, and famous well-connected people, are working hard to help the government, to prevent it from taking such measures. For the sake of their selfish interests and their private dealings they are trying to cause our movement to collapse and get us out of the Square before the government becomes so desperate that it takes action." This gave rise to the public perception that the student leaders were making use of the students' lives and well-being to further their personal careers and financial interests.[1]
Chai claims that she was misquoted in that documentary.[20] In a letter in her defense submitted to the creators of The Gate of Heavenly Peace, a group of students also involved in the 1989 protests in Beijing say that filmmakers and other critics used "selective quotes and interpretive and erroneous translation" in their portrayal of Ling, and that she and the other student leaders remained united right up until the end of the protest when they fled the Square in the last hour.[21]
Chai and her firm have launched multiple lawsuits against the non-profit organization that created this film. An initial suit, in which Chai alleged defamation, has been dismissed. An additional ongoing suit claims that the organization infringed upon Jenzabar's copyright by mentioning the firm's name on its website. The filmmakers believe that the firm's intention is to bankrupt them through legal costs, irrespective of the merits of the cases.[22] Columnists for the Boston Globe and the New Yorker have argued that this represents a surprisingly undemocratic action by a leader of China's 1989 protests.[23][24] Chai claimed to have offered to drop the suit in June 2010.[25] However, the Boston Globe, in reporting the decision granting summary judgment dismissing the trademark suit, deemed the claim not credible. [26] ..........................
Last week, Ling Chai — a key leader in China’s 1989 prodemocracy movement — was in Oslo to see this year’s Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident and free-speech advocate Liu Xiaobo. While she was in Norway, a Superior Court judge put a stop to Chai’s protracted assault on free speech here in Massachusetts.
With her husband, Chai now runs a Boston software company called Jenzabar Inc. And for three years, she has been trying to use the courts to go after two local filmmakers because she doesn’t like some material cited on their website.
The dispute between Chai and the filmmakers goes back to 1995, when Chai objected to the way she was characterized in their documentary about the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989. The film, “The Gate of Heavenly Peace,’’ contains an interview with a very young, exhausted Chai near the end of the standoff, in which, according to the translation, she says student leaders “are actually hoping for bloodshed. . . .Only when the square is awash in blood will the people of China open their eyes.’’
Chai said the interview was mistranslated and taken out of context. The filmmakers, Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon, stand by their work.
Since the film’s release, the filmmakers have maintained a website that includes updates on Chai and Jenzabar and links to articles, including several from the Globe, that are unflattering.
Chai and her company sued the filmmakers and their company, the Long Bow Group, for defamation and trademark infringement. The trademark claim seeks to bar the filmmakers from using “Jenzabar’’ as a keyword on their website, which would prevent the nonglowing stories from coming up when somebody Googles the software company. The defamation charge was quickly thrown out. The trademark dispute dragged on until a judge dismissed it last week.
The suit is a transparent attempt to shut down negative publicity. Jenzabar hasn’t disputed the facts in the stories. It’s merely trying to make it more difficult to find them.
It’s no fun to have people write negative things about you, and to have those things live forever online. That’s a downside of the First Amendment. But free expression is vital to democracy, and it shouldn’t be vulnerable to endless legal maneuverings.
Going after websites using trademark law is the kind of tactic that deep-pocketed companies have been deploying more and more frequently to shut down negative commentary about them, said Paul Alan Levy, the filmmakers’ attorney and founder of the Internet Free Speech project at Public Citizen, a citizen advocacy nonprofit. Even if the plaintiffs in these cases don’t prevail in court, they can stifle their opponents by bleeding them of cash. Hinton and Gordon dropped $250,000 on private lawyers. If Public Citizen hadn’t stepped in to represent them pro bono, they would have been ruined by Jenzabar.
“The trademark case is an excuse to punish the filmmakers for having the audacity to portray Chai and others in a not completely favorable light,’’ said Levy.
Jenzabar’s general counsel sent along a statement yesterday making the ludicrous claim that it’s the financially-strapped filmmakers who prolonged the dispute — by not caving in, judging from the legal documents.
Levy is certain Jenzabar will appeal both the trademark and defamation losses, and the Jenzabar statement seems to promise just that, calling the dismissal “just one more step in a lengthy legal process.’’
Chai, who was unwell and couldn’t speak to me Friday, does good work through her Jenzabar Foundation, and she still pushes for democracy in China. But her fight should begin here at home.
Liu, serving an 11-year sentence for subversion, could not be in Oslo to accept his Nobel Prize. In his place, actress Liv Ullman read his last public statement.
It reads, in part: “To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.’’
Was Chai listening?
Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at abraham@globe.com
When I was a kid we used to dig holes in the back yard. Our mom would say, "My, what a big hole, you must be digging for China!" That is how my interest in China started.
When I first got my library card I discovered very little information about China. How I educated myself about China and continue to expore my understanding of all thinge Chinese is what this blog is all about.
