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John Pilger RIP Jan 1 2024

10 VITAL QUOTES FROM THE LATE JOHN PILGER

John Pilger, the investigative anti-war journalist who spoke up for China and humiliated the western corporate media, had died—and every single report on this in the western media I have seen has carefully omitted this fact.
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Here are ten things he said that the world needs to know about the legendary journalist who died in London on Saturday, at the age of 84.

1) The west demonizes China to punish it for being good at business, Pilger said in a documentary, The Coming War Against China. Standing in modern Shanghai, he says to the camera: “Today, China has matched America at its own great game of capitalism – and that is unforgivable.”
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2) After his film was shown in 2016, he said: “The true story of China and America needs to be told, especially in Australia, where, fuelled by America, an anti-China propaganda campaign seems to be inviting a military reaction.”
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However, the western corporate media refused to follow his lead, instead choosing to double down on their part in what he saw as a global scam in which the US stirs up conflicts in places such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the South China Seas, while the western media makes sure China is blamed for everything.
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3) The Sinophobia of journalists and politicians in the global west was rooted in racism, he said. “The elite salivates for a deeply racist war against China,” he tweeted on a visit to Australia in March, 2023.

LISTEN TO INDEPENDENT VOICES
4) His main message in recent years has been about the importance of people developing scepticism about the narrative that the world is fed, and instead, realise we are being taught to hate the people America wants us to hate.
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“The United States dominates the Western world’s media. All but one of the top ten media companies are based in North America. The internet and social media – Google, Twitter, Facebook – are mostly American owned and controlled,” he told a conference audience in Norway on 6 September, 2022.
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Pilger regularly said that it was vital that the world’s public abandoned the western corporate media and turned to the new, small, independent voices rising up, using the internet to tell the truth about the world.

SPEAKING FOR ASSANGE
5) The Australia-born journalist was a major supporter of Julian Assange, whose Wikileaks organization in 2011 revealed a set of diplomatic cable messages which showed that there was no Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing in 1989.

While fighting occurred elsewhere in the city, the protesters left the square peacefully, diplomats on site reported to their masters.

Pilger regularly reminded the world how western leaders reacted when Assange revealed a series of important truths that punctured the “official” narrative.

“Vice President Biden called him a ‘hi-tech terrorist’,” Pilger noted. “Hillary Clinton asked, ‘Can’t we just drone this guy?’”

THE ‘BAD CHINA’ TROPE
6) In the 2022 speech, Pilger explained how the real China, an industrious community focused on itself, had been turned by the media into a fantasy-based monster trying to take over the world.
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“In less than a decade, a ‘good’ China has been airbrushed and a ‘bad’ China has replaced it: from the world’s workshop to a budding new Satan.”

7) He warned that journalists were leaving the most important elements out of their reports about China.

“News about China in the West is almost entirely about the threat from Beijing. Airbrushed are the 400 American military bases that surround most of China, an armed necklace that reaches from Australia to the Pacific and south east Asia, Japan and Korea. The Japanese island of Okinawa and the Korean island of Jeju are loaded guns aimed point blank at the industrial heart of China. A Pentagon official described this as a ‘noose’,” Pilger said.
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PERVERSE AND SQUALID
8.) The independent Australian journalist railed against the fact that the astonishing story of China’s successful battle to lift its people from extreme poverty was almost never mentioned in the mainstream narrative, a fact that left him disgusted.
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“Epic achievements, such as the eradication of abject poverty in China, are barely known. How perverse and squalid this is,” Pilger said in his 2022 speech in Norway.
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He told a UK radio interviewer: “Journalism is nothing if it’s not about humanity – it has to be about people’s lives.”
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DARK NARRATIVE
9) The problem was not just that the media was pushing a false narrative about countries in the east, like China and Russia, but that it was doing so at the behest of the world’s most dangerous nation.
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“In my lifetime, the United States has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, mostly democracies,” he told a conference audience. “It has interfered in democratic elections in 30 countries. It has dropped bombs on the people of 30 countries, most of them poor and defenceless. It has attempted to murder the leaders of 50 countries. It has fought to suppress liberation movements in 20 countries.”

And yet the western corporate media still shoehorns every story to reinforce the “west is best” narrative.

RACISM AGAINST THE CHINESE
10) In one of his last major speeches, in Sydney in March 2023, Pilger railed against the ridiculous diversion of hundreds of billions of dollars of Australian public money to the US war machine to protect the country against a non-existing invader.
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“China as the Yellow Peril fits Australia’s history of racism like a glove,” he said.

True to form, the very western media groups he condemned for leaving out key facts, are this week printing obituaries about his death—and leaving out the very insights that made him respected by the public as a man not afraid to speak truth to power.
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John Pilger will be missed. But his mission will be carried on by a thousand independent voices.
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RIP John Pilger – considered by all non Western Scholars and honest Journalists as a person of integrity – fighting and exposing the truth as opposed to the multitude of corrupted dishonest journalists and Western news media who are prepared to publish LIES and twisted facts creating wars and killing innocent civilians.

A Japan Airlines aircraft was engulfed in flames at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft, with the airline saying that all 379 passengers and crew had been evacuated.

Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed the the Airbus A350 erupt in flames as it skidded down the tarmac and fire crews feverishly tried to extinguish the fire.

The television footage showed flames coming out of windows and the plane’s nose on the ground as rescue workers sprayed it. There was also burning debris on the runway.

More than 70 fire engines were being deployed, NHK reported. It remained unclear whether anyone was injured.

Today is a bad day for the U.S. The BRICS alliance officially expanded, with 🇪🇬Egypy 🇪🇹Ethiopia 🇮🇷Iran 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, and 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates formally joining. Together these countries control a lions share of world oil & gas energy. Together they are working to end the dominance of the U.S dollar, which the U.S has too long used as a weapon.

Background of the US’s 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act? Some Chinese Leaders made you believe that the Act was repealed but in fact not. Dozens of Chinese Exclusion Acts were passed last 5 years, same bottle different wines. 美國1882年排華法案的背景知多少? 一些在美國華人領袖讓你相信該法案已被廢除，但事實上並沒有, 過去五年數十項排華法案通過, 同一瓶放不同的酒吧.

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. By Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley 1/1/24

Of late, you must have read about community commemoration or celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Acts in 1943. The act repealed 15 Chinese exclusion laws enacted by the U.S. Congress between 1882-1943 and granted eligible Chinese resident aliens in the U.S. the right of naturalization, The new law gave the impression that U.S. had finally ended the exclusion and discrimination against the Chinese and had granted them the right of naturalization like the rights and privileges accorded immigrants from European countries. It sounds too good to be true! The truth, in fact, is exactly the opposite, if we read the repeal legislation and the legislative history of the bill as it moved through the Congress. It was never the intention of the U.S. Congress to end Chinese exclusion! Let me elaborate.

First, the day the repeal law was enacted, there was NO celebration in Chinaowns with fire-crackers. It was just another day. However, President Roosevelt. and the U.S. Congress did receive some messages of gratitude from Chiang Kai-shek administration in Chongqing, Sichuan for the repeal. These messages were prompted by the spin-masters inside the Beltway who thought orchestrated messages of gratitude from China would help assure American politicians and public that the leaders of China appreciated the action taken by the U.S. Congress. Neither the Chinese nor the American government wanted Chinese in the U.S. and in China to know how the Repeal would extend the exclusion for another 22 years with profound adverse impact on Chinese America!

It is important to know just how the Repeal passed the U.S. Congress. First, President Roosevelt’s message to U.S. Congress in January 1943 made it clear his proposed legislation for the repeal was an urgent American wartime priority and strategy to first, defeat the Germans in Europe and then and only then, the Japanese in Asia. The strategy did not satisfy Chiang who was in dire need for American aids. The challenge was how to convince impatient and demanding President Chiang Kai-shek to militarily tie down and wear out Japan as much as possible in China and the Pacific region before the U.S. enter the Pacific war fully and whole-heartedly. Toward this end, President proposed three carrots to pacify Chiang at little or no cost: (1) repeal the Chinese exclusion laws so that Japan cannot use racist propaganda of American racist laws against Chinese to undermine the morale of Chinese soldiers and Chinese public and justified limited and delayed of U.S. military and economic aid to China; (2) to renounce all the “Unequal Treaties” between the U.S. and China since the Wangxia Treaty of 1844, most of which dealt with trade and investment; Nd (3) to booster Chiang’s ego and make him feel good, Roosevelt decided, against the wishes of Churchchill, to elevate Chiang international status by including him in the Big Four conferences for the settlements of WW II.

As anyone can see, there is neither substance nor cost to the U.S. in all three “concessions.” I already mentioned how insulting the first carrot was. Secondly, renouncing all unequal treaties at the time when Japan had already effectively sealed off and isolated China from any dealings with foreign countries, especially the U.S., including trade, investment, military aids, and travel. It sounded good, but it had zero impact on China. Finally, raising Chiang international standing equal to Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchchill had no substance nor power because Chiang did not have power to act as equals with the other three. In other words, Roosevelt’s pronouncement of Chiang’s elevated status had no substance nor impact, especially after WW II. His weakness was quickly exposed when he had to flee the Mainland and see U.S. protection in Taiwan.

By the way, the elite in Washington decided in early 1943 that the campaign to repeal the exclusion laws would also exclude Chinese American participation for fear that Chinese presence in the lobbying will cause racist backlash and undermine the chance of its passage. A Citizens Committee to Repeal the Exclusion Laws was formed and Pearl Buch, then at the height of popularity in the U.S., was asked to chair the campaign. The Committee decided to exclude Chinese to minimize political risks. The proposed legislation and the legislative process excluded the Chinese. In other words, there was no Chinese input on how the law should be fashioned and how Chinese interests should be reflected in the final legislation.

It is true that the 15 exclusion laws were repealed but only to be replaced by insidious provisions in the repeal. To make sure that the repeal would not open a floodgate for Chinese immigrants, especially after the defeat of Japan in China, Congress invoked the National Origin Quota Act of 1924 which assigned limited annual quotas for immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, meaning the non-Anglo-Saxton, non-Protestant countries. However, the 1924 law did not have quota assigned explicitly to already excluded immigrants from China. So the U.S. Congress decided to limit the number of Chinese immigrants to the U.S. to a quota of one-tenth of one percent, based on the total number of Chinese population in the U.S. in 1890. This translated to only 105 immigrants from China were eligible for immigration to the U.S. Not very sneaky way of continuing the exclusion.

Anyone interested in understanding the vulgarity and cruelty of how racism and anti-Chinese sentiment worked in the U.S. should read the Congressional floor debates before it was voted and passed. Even those in favor of repeal (the Liberal) were just as racist as conservatives across the political spectrum.

One last note, during WW II, some 15,000 Chinese out of the total Chinese population of about 70,000, to the best of my memory, heeded the call to join the U.S. Army to fight against the Japanese Imperial Army in China and the Asia-Pacific theater, some out of patriotism. while others, especially the permanent residents, joined the army on the promise of getting U.S. citizenship. After the war, thousand of Chinese American veterans took advantage of being in China already, married Chinese women before returning to the U.S. or in anticipation of the ordeals awaiting them because of anti-miscegenation laws across the U.S.. Again, the 105 quota, very much in effect in the 1950s, prevented thousands of their wives and children from entering the U.S. Even with the passage of the War Bride Act, wives of Chinese American GIs were subjected to long detention and interrogation in the crowded attic of U.S. Customs Building in downtown S.F., some of them for months, because the Chinese Immigration Station on Angel Island was turned into a prison for POWs.

This is why I refused to take part in any event associated with the Repeal in recent months.

What percentage of people are satisfied with their country according to research at Harvard University and Pew Pew Research Center? Satisfaction: China 93%, US 24%. 根據哈佛大學和皮尤皮尤研究中心的研究，有多少人對自己的國家感到滿意？ 滿意度：中國93%，美國24%

In China 93% are satisfied with their country. 在中國，93%的人對自己的國家感到滿意.

In the USA, just 24% are satisfied with our country. 在美國，只有 24% 的人對我們的國家感到滿意.

A few Americans, who are the most propagandized people in the world are likely to respond by saying Chinese folks are forced to answer that they’re are happy. As an American, who’s lived in China for 11 years, I assure you, the government in China simply does a better job of meeting the people’s needs. 一些世界上最受宣傳的美國人可能會回應說，中國人被迫回答他們很幸福。 身為一個在中國生活了11年的美國人，我向你保證，中國政府在滿足人民的需求上做得更好.

HK Patriotic law comes into effect, serves to create sound atmosphere for patriotism, catching & identifying foreign agents like Jimmy Lai in par with those in US, UK and Canada. 香港愛國法的生效，營造了良好的愛國氛圍，對黎智英這樣的外國特務的抓捕和查處，與美國、英國、加拿大等國的抓捕和識別是一樣的.

Taiwan US-China expert 2024 predictions video: Trump wins, Biden loses; US to abandon Zelenskyy; RMB & BRICS rises, G7 declines…台灣中美尊家2024國際十大預測視頻: 川普贏拜登輸, 美國放棄澤連斯基, 人民幣和金磚國家國際地位提升, G7下降…
https://rumble.com/v44he36-taiwan-us-china-expert-2024-predictions-video.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8CHQ1He/
full video https://www.youtube.com/live/dDkKDEvXymM?si=pi4bkOO0eics4kNW

Video: Celebrating Taiwan Province returning to her motherland in 2024 視頻: 慶祝台灣省2024年回歸祖國
https://rumble.com/v44f7g5-celebrating-taiwan-province-returning-to-her-motherland-in-2024.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8CP6PaN/

The DPP presidential candidate are successful American agents deeply trusted by the US. Taiwan independence workers 民進黨總統候選人是成功的美國特工 深得美國信任 台獨工作者

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