Nury Vittachi
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Ex-SCMP, ex-Far Eastern Economic Review, ex-Reader’s Digest, ex-op-ed writer for NYT, etc, author of 40+ books; now running Hong Kong’s ‘Friday’ news project
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![THE PLANNED U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN has a hitch: most of the missile-targeting crew are queuing for toilets on the lead vessel, the USS Gerald R Ford. This is not a joke. A set of emails was obtained by NPR, a US public broadcasting group, revealing that toilet wars have broken out on board the most expensive ship the US Navy ever built. The Wall St Journal followed up to confirm the tale today. TLDR Summary: There are too few functioning toilets for 4,600 sailors and the problem is worsening daily—there’s no chance of fixing the system without returning the ship to the US dockyards. . BIG PROBLEMS TO DISCHARGE Problem one: Design planners screwed up by including too few toilets for 4,600 sailors, leading to 45-minute queues on a daily basis. Problem two: Engineers screwed up by installing a fragile vacuum system in which a single valve breakdown on one toilet can stop all the toilets in an entire department functioning—making the queues even longer. Problem three: Some of the temporary repair operations (such as using an acid flush to clear out calcium build-ups) can only be done while the ship is docked: no prospect of that. But with so many toilets out of order, too much pressure is put on the ones still working, so the problem will just spread. . KEY PLAYER IN U.S. ATTACKS And the issues have been gradually mounting for more than a year. “A March 18, 2025 email from the engineering department sent out to all chiefs on the ship said there were 205 [toilet] breakdowns in four days,” the NPR reported. The ship is at the heart of US overseas attack operations, working for months in waters near Venezuela, to support the abduction of the country’s president and the seizing of ships carrying oil to customers, and is now heading the planned regime change operation in Iran. Israel wants a pro-Netanyahu leader installed, as the US has done in many other countries. But how can they attack Iran while staff are queuing for the loo? . WAR OF WORDS ON BOARD One result of all this is war between sailors and on-board sewage staff (called Hull Technicians, or HTs). One sewage engineering head complained that the sailors put all sorts of problematic material down the toilets, including t-shirts: “Our sewage system is being mistreated and destroyed by Sailors on a daily basis. My HT's are currently working 19 hours a day right now trying to keep up with the demand.” Sigh. And the US taxpayer spent US$13 billion on the ship. On the plus side, it would be delightful if the carrier’s desperate lack of functioning toilets caused the attack on Iran was cancelled or postponed.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2025829366765383685/amplify_video_thumb/2025827466586267648/img/Vog4z4V6aTocvUxd.jpg)
THE PLANNED U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN has a hitch: most of the missile-targeting crew are queuing for toilets on the lead vessel, the USS Gerald R Ford. This is not a joke. A set of emails was obtained by NPR, a US public broadcasting group, revealing that toilet wars have broken out on board the most expensive ship the US Navy ever built. The Wall St Journal followed up to confirm the tale today. TLDR Summary: There are too few functioning toilets for 4,600 sailors and the problem is worsening daily—there’s no chance of fixing the system without returning the ship to the US dockyards. . BIG PROBLEMS TO DISCHARGE Problem one: Design planners screwed up by including too few toilets for 4,600 sailors, leading to 45-minute queues on a daily basis. Problem two: Engineers screwed up by installing a fragile vacuum system in which a single valve breakdown on one toilet can stop all the toilets in an entire department functioning—making the queues even longer. Problem three: Some of the temporary repair operations (such as using an acid flush to clear out calcium build-ups) can only be done while the ship is docked: no prospect of that. But with so many toilets out of order, too much pressure is put on the ones still working, so the problem will just spread. . KEY PLAYER IN U.S. ATTACKS And the issues have been gradually mounting for more than a year. “A March 18, 2025 email from the engineering department sent out to all chiefs on the ship said there were 205 [toilet] breakdowns in four days,” the NPR reported. The ship is at the heart of US overseas attack operations, working for months in waters near Venezuela, to support the abduction of the country’s president and the seizing of ships carrying oil to customers, and is now heading the planned regime change operation in Iran. Israel wants a pro-Netanyahu leader installed, as the US has done in many other countries. But how can they attack Iran while staff are queuing for the loo? . WAR OF WORDS ON BOARD One result of all this is war between sailors and on-board sewage staff (called Hull Technicians, or HTs). One sewage engineering head complained that the sailors put all sorts of problematic material down the toilets, including t-shirts: “Our sewage system is being mistreated and destroyed by Sailors on a daily basis. My HT's are currently working 19 hours a day right now trying to keep up with the demand.” Sigh. And the US taxpayer spent US$13 billion on the ship. On the plus side, it would be delightful if the carrier’s desperate lack of functioning toilets caused the attack on Iran was cancelled or postponed.
Nury Vittachi4,780,066 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
![JAPANESE CONFUSED THAT U.S. SAYS CHINA WAS THEIR 'ALLY' IN WW2 “This man is your friend” – that’s a message to the American public from their government, in these [WW2] posters about the Chinese and about Russians. I’ve dug them up, and some others, because I was sorry to hear that some people in Japan were confused to hear that China and the US were allies in world war 2. Here’s a headline about it – and another one. And a few others. Let me solve the confusion of our Japanese friends. The US says China was an ally in World War 2 because it was an ally in World War 2. It was an ally against you. You Japanese people invaded China and killed a lot of people. China fought back, giving up more than 20 million lives in the fight. Russia’s sacrifice was even larger. UK and US were also good allies on the same side, losing about 500,000 lives each. . GOOD MATERIAL The Americans produced some good material to help people in the west understand that China and Russia were their most important allies in this battle. [“China: First to fight’] “Help China, China is helping us” – the picture was created in 1938, but was turned into a poster about three years later. “This man is your friend” was published in 1942 by the US Office of Facts and Figures. “He fights for Freedom,” it says. And the British made a poster to make it clear where the problem came from. “Smash Japanese Aggression” their poster said. So I hope that helps our friends in Japan to stop being confused. Peace. . .](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2105848558994010391/amplify_video_thumb/2105848340810440704/img/XhBfWgFfZ-VxROxo.jpg)
JAPANESE CONFUSED THAT U.S. SAYS CHINA WAS THEIR 'ALLY' IN WW2 “This man is your friend” – that’s a message to the American public from their government, in these [WW2] posters about the Chinese and about Russians. I’ve dug them up, and some others, because I was sorry to hear that some people in Japan were confused to hear that China and the US were allies in world war 2. Here’s a headline about it – and another one. And a few others. Let me solve the confusion of our Japanese friends. The US says China was an ally in World War 2 because it was an ally in World War 2. It was an ally against you. You Japanese people invaded China and killed a lot of people. China fought back, giving up more than 20 million lives in the fight. Russia’s sacrifice was even larger. UK and US were also good allies on the same side, losing about 500,000 lives each. . GOOD MATERIAL The Americans produced some good material to help people in the west understand that China and Russia were their most important allies in this battle. [“China: First to fight’] “Help China, China is helping us” – the picture was created in 1938, but was turned into a poster about three years later. “This man is your friend” was published in 1942 by the US Office of Facts and Figures. “He fights for Freedom,” it says. And the British made a poster to make it clear where the problem came from. “Smash Japanese Aggression” their poster said. So I hope that helps our friends in Japan to stop being confused. Peace. . .
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AS CHINA AND NEPAL TEAM UP to rescue victims trapped in a tunnel, extraordinary video is emerging of the moment when an ocean of mud and rocks moving at 100 kilometers an hour slammed into buildings with the strength of major bombs. While several thousand people are dead or missing, many astonishing stories were revealed in which children and adults escaped tragedy by seconds. .
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THE BIGGEST COUNTRIES in the world yesterday stood up for Iran and for the people of Palestine. The attack on Iran is illegal, they declared. And Palestinians need justice. But western mainstream media outlets ran an astonishing news blackout on the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, with most outlets giving it zero coverage. . ATTACK VIOLATES INTERNATIONAL LAW Leaders of China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Iran and other countries declared that the US attacks on Iran “violate the UN Charter and the principles and norms of international law, posing a serious risk to world peace, security, and stability”. The lack of coverage from most western mainstream media outlets is bizarre. The SCO is more than three times the size of NATO. The pro-peace Eastern organization covers 42.5 per cent of humanity, compared to NATO’s 13 per cent. . MODI SIGNED While China is seen as the de facto leader of the organization, much of the attention was on India’s Narendra Modi, who has been cozying up to Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu And Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has also been trying to play both sides. But both turned up and signed the declaration. . MOURNING THE DEAD Leaders at the huge gathering of nations also used the opportunity to condemn the murder of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and his family by the United States and Israel. In an unprovoked attack on 28 February this year, they killed 40 people, including the leader’s granddaughter Zahra, aged 14 months. Other victims, the same day, included 120 children at a primary school. . NO MILITARY ANGLE Participants also reminded the world of the difference in character between itself and NATO. NATO focuses on diverting public cash to weapons and the military. SCO is non-military, and promotes friendly relations between countries through mutually beneficial trade and shared pro-peace policies. . .
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ELBOW SISTER WINS AGAIN Basketball star Li Qinchun dressed in red for a video on China National dDay. Li, sometimes known as Elbow Sister because of her aggressive playing style, has been going viral internationally. But commentators in the west are puzzled as to whether she really is unusually tall—or just tall in the Asian context, where people tend to be between 1.52m and 1.78m (5ft and 5ft 10in). The answer is that she is 1.82m (just under 6ft), so she would be above the average height of a woman on a global basis. But Li, who comes from Ningbo, in China’s Zhejiang province, is also clever and creative, and celebrated for defeating male counterparts. In Asia, just like in the west, basketball players tend to be taller than the average person, so when playing against men, she doesn’t look unusually tall. International audiences can follow her on Instagram. Sports unites humanity. . .
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"The American empire is over," Richard D. Wolff, U.S. professor of international affairs, tells Al Jazeera. Already the biggest economic power on the planet is not the US and its allies, but China and the BRICS. But no U.S. politician dares to tell the people: "It's over."
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EVERYTHING JAPANESE IS REALLY CHINESE. Seriously? Well, yes. I mean, this title is clearly a generalization, so what it means is that the main cultural items that are widely assumed across the world to be Japanese actually come from China. . 1. Ramen Raman is a Chinese noodle dish, not Japanese. It was brought to Japan by Chinese travellers in the late 1800s. The original Japanese name for it was “shina soba” meaning Chinese noodles. . 2. Japanese writing The Japanese writing system known as Kanji has a name formed of two elements. Kanji literally means Han Writing. Han is the biggest ethnic group in China. . 3. The Kimono This was an adaptation of the type of draped silk clothing from China known as Hanfu. After the start of the Heian period in Japan in 794 AD, it became popular in Japan and started to acquire unique Japanese elements. . 4. Blossom trees Japan’s famous cherry blossoms actually come a tree indigenous not to Japan, but to the Himalayas, which border southwest China—in fact a long way from Japan. The practice of celebrating the annual blossoming of beautiful trees such as the cherry blossom and the plum blossom spread from southwest China to Korea and Japan, taking several centuries to make that journey. . 5. Sushi Sushi is fish with vinegared rice. It is vinegared to give it a pickled taste which is a clue towards its origins: a Chinese pickled dish in which salted fish was wrapped in fermented rice. Even today in Japan, a sushi kitchen is called a tsuke-ba, which means ‘pickling place’. . 6. The Japanese language Japan has its own language, sure – but statisticians say that at least 60 per cent of Japanese vocabulary comes from Chinese origins. . 7. Being ruled by an Emperor In the early 7th century, the Japanese adopted the title of Emperor from China for their own leaders. They used the same Chinese characters, and the same concept that the leader, by definition, was the Son of Heaven. This new rank was then retroactively applied to all past Japanese rulers, who all become emperors and sons of heaven. . 8. Bonsai. The practice of growing miniature trees and creating tiny landscapes developed in China, more than 1,500 years ago. It was known as penjing. The technique was introduced to Japan in the 7th century. . 9. Sashimi It was the Chinese rather than the Japanese who realized more than 1800 years ago that the flesh of certain fish was delicious eaten raw – no cooking necessary. Food historian Jacqueline Newman says that raw fish consumption began in southern China before 200 AD. It came to Japan about 11 hundred years later. . 10. The tea ceremony The tea ceremony originated in China during the Tang Dynasty, which is 600 to 900 AD, as a meditative health practice, before evolving into artistic ritual by the time of the Song Dynasty, which started in 960 AD. It was then taken to Japan by monks, like many Chinese cultural practices. . 11. The board game called GO In western culture, Go is a game associated with Japan. In reality, it is the world’s oldest known board game, originating in China about 4,000 years ago, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. The game was taken from China to Japan in 500 AD, which is “comparatively recently” in Chinese terms. . 12. Green tea Green tea, or matcha, comes from China and has been consumed for probably 4,000 years. It was brought to Japan by monks during the 8th and 9th centuries—very recently by Chinese standards! Two holy men, Saichō and Kukai, are credited with bringing it over the waters to Japan. . 13. Architecture The Japanese admired China’s extraordinarily long-lasting structures made of interlocking wooden elements and there was a lot of temple-building based on Chinese innovations in sixth century Japan. The Japanese capital, Nara, copied the checkerboard street layout of the Chinese capital, Chang’an. But, it must be said, the Japanese afterwards developed many of their own unique architectural elements. . 14. The Asian super-sword It was actually Tang dynasty scientists in China who revolutionized sword-making in the 7th century with a blade called the baogangfa – they fused high carbon steel (which enable sharpness) with low-carbon iron (which provided strength). The result was a blade that could slice through samurai armor. Japanese envoys brought Chinese swords back to Japan in the 700s. To give them due credit, the Japanese improved both the recipe and the design, to eventually come up with the curved katana sword. . 15. Cultural figures One of the most famous pop culture items from Japan is Dragonball. The creator of Dragonball fully admitted that his story was simply a retelling of the Chinese classic Journey to the West. Pokemon, another Japanese modern classic, has many ancient Chinese elements, too – research the nine-tailed fox for example. . 16. Zen An Indian monk named Bodhidharma came to China around 520 AD. His teachings became combined with Chinese philosophies such as Daoism. That led to the development of a practice called Chan, which is how the word Zen was originally pronounced. Records indicate that Chinese Chan Buddhism reached Japan in the 7th century but was not firmly established in that country until the 12th century. . CONCLUSIONS? Okay, there are 16 items – things assumed to be Japanese by many people, but which are rooted in Chinese culture. But there are others. So feel free to add more. Or shoot down the ones I have listed, if you prefer. Why do so many Japanese items come from China? Well, for much of history, China was the cool place, the happening place, the creative place, the dominant cultural center of the most highly populated part of the world. So naturally people wanted to visit it. One ancient record show that between AD 603 and AD 839, the Japanese alone sent at least 17 diplomatic missions to the Tang Dynasty royal courts in China. And I am going to add one more item to my list. Do the Japanese people themselves come from China? A short discussion of that somewhat controversial question comes at the end of the video. Read widely. Peace.
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Iran's supreme leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei, is suddenly cool. How come? For one reason, people have discovered his old tweets. He thinks women are amazing. He thinks the British did bad things in Ireland. He says Muslims must respect Christian figures like Jesus and Mary. Those old stories that he got his secret police to beat women to death for wearing their hijabs wrong have been disproved as US propaganda. And what about nukes? He wants nuclear power because it creates clean energy but he actually issued a fatwa forbidding the production of all kinds of weapons of mass destruction.
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![HONG KONG people are hiring boats to catch their dinners in the central harbor—the once dead piece of water is now WRITHING with fish. It’s a Chinese miracle -- I’ve lived on the waterfront for years, and I’ve never seen anything like this before. A decent-sized fish can easily cost the equivalent of a hundred US dollars—and some of shoals of fish in the harbour are so large they’re worth a fortune. You can see how the surface of the water is affected by the sheer volume of fish below it. . OUT ON BOATS Now, many residents are hiring proper fishing boats to go out on the water. Look at this scene -- there’s one there, another one there, a third one over there and more over to the left. For many years, waterfront dwellers like me would only see the occasional old rowing boat with one or two people with rods—people like this. [image] But it’s very different now. Public fishing boats in the harbor are suddenly commonplace. Or you can just fish from the promenade. Entire schools of fish can be seen just under the surface. And sometimes they leap right out. . WATER FILLED WITH HUGE FISH Check this out. I walked down to North Point and there was this huge shoal of large fish. You can imagine the value of this lot. This is remarkable given that the harbor used to be famously filthy. In the past, people who fell into the water were taken away for medical check-ups. I filmed THIS part in the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, which used to be even dirtier than the rest of the harbor. Now look at it! . THE STATISTICS In 1997, when Hong Kong passed to Chinese sovereignty, only 26 of Hong Kong’s 41 beaches met cleanliness targets. By 2010, all 41 passed the test. How did the Chinese manage to clean the harbor? At the turn of the century, engineers dug the world’s deepest sewage tunnels, as deep as a 50-storey building. The tunnel transfers waste water from Hong Kong island and Kowloon to a hi-tech treatment plant on Stonecutters Island for disinfection. To be scrupulously fair, the project was built this century but some of the planning started in the British colonial era. The clean water makes a very nice result for human beings and for the fish – except of course the ones which are caught for dinner. Bon appetit! .](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2103034620405244348/amplify_video_thumb/2103029847543197697/img/8_aSvqDfiUvsJwZn.jpg)
HONG KONG people are hiring boats to catch their dinners in the central harbor—the once dead piece of water is now WRITHING with fish. It’s a Chinese miracle -- I’ve lived on the waterfront for years, and I’ve never seen anything like this before. A decent-sized fish can easily cost the equivalent of a hundred US dollars—and some of shoals of fish in the harbour are so large they’re worth a fortune. You can see how the surface of the water is affected by the sheer volume of fish below it. . OUT ON BOATS Now, many residents are hiring proper fishing boats to go out on the water. Look at this scene -- there’s one there, another one there, a third one over there and more over to the left. For many years, waterfront dwellers like me would only see the occasional old rowing boat with one or two people with rods—people like this. [image] But it’s very different now. Public fishing boats in the harbor are suddenly commonplace. Or you can just fish from the promenade. Entire schools of fish can be seen just under the surface. And sometimes they leap right out. . WATER FILLED WITH HUGE FISH Check this out. I walked down to North Point and there was this huge shoal of large fish. You can imagine the value of this lot. This is remarkable given that the harbor used to be famously filthy. In the past, people who fell into the water were taken away for medical check-ups. I filmed THIS part in the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, which used to be even dirtier than the rest of the harbor. Now look at it! . THE STATISTICS In 1997, when Hong Kong passed to Chinese sovereignty, only 26 of Hong Kong’s 41 beaches met cleanliness targets. By 2010, all 41 passed the test. How did the Chinese manage to clean the harbor? At the turn of the century, engineers dug the world’s deepest sewage tunnels, as deep as a 50-storey building. The tunnel transfers waste water from Hong Kong island and Kowloon to a hi-tech treatment plant on Stonecutters Island for disinfection. To be scrupulously fair, the project was built this century but some of the planning started in the British colonial era. The clean water makes a very nice result for human beings and for the fish – except of course the ones which are caught for dinner. Bon appetit! .
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![THREE SHOCKING THINGS in today’s attack on China in the UK Guardian: 1. The Guardian quotes what it says is a Tibetan group. But it’s not Tibetan—we traced its real address. 2. The paper hides any mention of that group’s funding—a fact that makes all the difference. 3. The paper highlights a quote from a woman in the United States—a woman who doesn’t seem to exist Actually, there’s a fourth thing: when you see the name of the journalist who wrote it, that in itself tells a story. . ADDRESS OF “TIBETAN GROUP” First, the report in the Guardian: “China is concealing scale of flood disaster, say Tibet campaigners”, the headline says. The article is based on a statement from what the paper says is “a Tibetan advocacy group”. Except it isn’t a Tibetan advocacy group. It’s a group listed at this address. [see video] Let’s take a look. Oh it’s in Washington DC, right near the White House. What a surprise. . A U.S. GOVT OP Who funds it? When we go through funding documents we see an intimate, long-term relationship with the US government, and particularly the notorious National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA spin-off which the US government itself described as a body which works around the world to “destabilize sovereign governments” – that’s from the 2027 budget proposal. I note that it is associated with Radio Free Asia, which has nothing to do with radios, freedom or Asia. It’s an anti-China propaganda unit also from Washington DC. Now if the Guardian had the honesty to include these facts, it would immediately tell the reader the correct way to interpret this report. So why are these facts hidden? Why is it that the Guardian doesn’t want its readers to know the truth? . WOMAN WITH NO FACE The paper then quotes “Maya Wang” of Human Rights Watch. Maya Wang does not appear to exist. There are no photographs of her, no videos, and she makes speeches in front of various audiences but does not seem to allow photography. Why? Her former contacts in Hong Kong tell me she uses the fake name because she is really Yatman Kern, wife of the infamous yellowface hoaxer Brian Kern. . OPPORTUNITY Now, I’ve made that point publicly several times, and no one from Human Rights Watch has ever denied it. It would be easy to do. So this is ANOTHER opportunity. If a person genuinely named Maya Wang works at HRW, please tell me. I am all ears. Brian Kern became infamous when he pretended to be a Hong Kong-born Chinese and gave quotes to all the western mainstream media speaking on behalf of the Hong Kong people during the riots of 2019. He was exposed as a white guy in yellowface by this reporter and the Grayzone. Here’s a headline: “Western Media's Fav Hong Kong 'Freedom Struggle Writer' is American ex amnesty staffer in yellowface.” . FOREIGN JOURNALISTS The UK paper says foreign journalists are refused entry visas by the Chinese. Well, big deal. Chinese journalists are refused entry visas by the UK—that happens regularly. Why doesn’t the reporter cover that topic? Let’s look at the reporter: Danny Vincent of Hong Kong. He’s been in the news in Hong Kong recently. That’s because he’s associated with the leadership of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. That group used to represent Hong Kong Journalists, but is now seen as a group allied to western bodies hostile to China. Too many international journalists produce work that OMITS KEY INFORMATION, misleading their readers. This is the perfect example – it should be used in journalism schools. Don’t be fooled. The truth matters. Peace.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2094609188169363598/amplify_video_thumb/2094608423988211712/img/8EH56DG3Jaexof0l.jpg)
THREE SHOCKING THINGS in today’s attack on China in the UK Guardian: 1. The Guardian quotes what it says is a Tibetan group. But it’s not Tibetan—we traced its real address. 2. The paper hides any mention of that group’s funding—a fact that makes all the difference. 3. The paper highlights a quote from a woman in the United States—a woman who doesn’t seem to exist Actually, there’s a fourth thing: when you see the name of the journalist who wrote it, that in itself tells a story. . ADDRESS OF “TIBETAN GROUP” First, the report in the Guardian: “China is concealing scale of flood disaster, say Tibet campaigners”, the headline says. The article is based on a statement from what the paper says is “a Tibetan advocacy group”. Except it isn’t a Tibetan advocacy group. It’s a group listed at this address. [see video] Let’s take a look. Oh it’s in Washington DC, right near the White House. What a surprise. . A U.S. GOVT OP Who funds it? When we go through funding documents we see an intimate, long-term relationship with the US government, and particularly the notorious National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA spin-off which the US government itself described as a body which works around the world to “destabilize sovereign governments” – that’s from the 2027 budget proposal. I note that it is associated with Radio Free Asia, which has nothing to do with radios, freedom or Asia. It’s an anti-China propaganda unit also from Washington DC. Now if the Guardian had the honesty to include these facts, it would immediately tell the reader the correct way to interpret this report. So why are these facts hidden? Why is it that the Guardian doesn’t want its readers to know the truth? . WOMAN WITH NO FACE The paper then quotes “Maya Wang” of Human Rights Watch. Maya Wang does not appear to exist. There are no photographs of her, no videos, and she makes speeches in front of various audiences but does not seem to allow photography. Why? Her former contacts in Hong Kong tell me she uses the fake name because she is really Yatman Kern, wife of the infamous yellowface hoaxer Brian Kern. . OPPORTUNITY Now, I’ve made that point publicly several times, and no one from Human Rights Watch has ever denied it. It would be easy to do. So this is ANOTHER opportunity. If a person genuinely named Maya Wang works at HRW, please tell me. I am all ears. Brian Kern became infamous when he pretended to be a Hong Kong-born Chinese and gave quotes to all the western mainstream media speaking on behalf of the Hong Kong people during the riots of 2019. He was exposed as a white guy in yellowface by this reporter and the Grayzone. Here’s a headline: “Western Media's Fav Hong Kong 'Freedom Struggle Writer' is American ex amnesty staffer in yellowface.” . FOREIGN JOURNALISTS The UK paper says foreign journalists are refused entry visas by the Chinese. Well, big deal. Chinese journalists are refused entry visas by the UK—that happens regularly. Why doesn’t the reporter cover that topic? Let’s look at the reporter: Danny Vincent of Hong Kong. He’s been in the news in Hong Kong recently. That’s because he’s associated with the leadership of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. That group used to represent Hong Kong Journalists, but is now seen as a group allied to western bodies hostile to China. Too many international journalists produce work that OMITS KEY INFORMATION, misleading their readers. This is the perfect example – it should be used in journalism schools. Don’t be fooled. The truth matters. Peace.
Nury Vittachi123,952 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
![NEPAL FLOOD: CHINA LAUNCHES RESCUE MISSION; NED GROUPS SEIZE OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONIZE CHINA The first pilots from the China rescue mission to reach the Nepal Border Station were stunned at what they saw. Nothing. The border building had gone. The office building had gone. The car park full of coaches and cars was gone. The roads were gone. But most shocking, the people had gone – literally hundreds of people who used the border crossing or worked there – it had all been swept away. All that remained was bare rock, with not one brick left standing on another. . RESCUE OPERATION LAUNCHED A huge operation had been launched to save people after a fast-moving ocean of mud and rock had slammed through a valley on the border of China and Nepal. More than 450 bodies had been found and more than 1,000 more people were still missing, with at least 500 missing on the Tibet side of the border. . NED’S TIBET GROUPS SPRING INTO ACTION But while rescue workers from China and elsewhere were hard at work, something else had happened. The China demonizers swung into action, trying desperately to politicize the tragedy. These people were not expressing sadness for the lost individuals or care for the survivors. They were openly hunting for a way to blame China. Nepalese citizen Gus Ferguson, a musician, was one of many who spotted this. He wrote: “Empathy and Sympathy for the Victims of this Catastrophe? Not. a. Word. Just anti China propaganda.” . EXAMPLES [on the video] International Campaign for Tibet, and the groups associated with it, are not showing no care for the victims, they’re mainly just happy to have an opportunity to take a dig at China. Same with others, like this And this And this And this And this. . WHO FINANCES THEM? Who finances International Campaign for Tibet? Oh look, it’s the NED, described by the US government as a body that “destabilizes sovereign goverments”. Who finances Students for a Free Tibet? Oh look, it’s also the NED. Don’t let them fool you. Stay smart – stay skeptical. . .](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2093295184180400379/amplify_video_thumb/2093294521111240704/img/vBSPJSrUKeROy_1S.jpg)
NEPAL FLOOD: CHINA LAUNCHES RESCUE MISSION; NED GROUPS SEIZE OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONIZE CHINA The first pilots from the China rescue mission to reach the Nepal Border Station were stunned at what they saw. Nothing. The border building had gone. The office building had gone. The car park full of coaches and cars was gone. The roads were gone. But most shocking, the people had gone – literally hundreds of people who used the border crossing or worked there – it had all been swept away. All that remained was bare rock, with not one brick left standing on another. . RESCUE OPERATION LAUNCHED A huge operation had been launched to save people after a fast-moving ocean of mud and rock had slammed through a valley on the border of China and Nepal. More than 450 bodies had been found and more than 1,000 more people were still missing, with at least 500 missing on the Tibet side of the border. . NED’S TIBET GROUPS SPRING INTO ACTION But while rescue workers from China and elsewhere were hard at work, something else had happened. The China demonizers swung into action, trying desperately to politicize the tragedy. These people were not expressing sadness for the lost individuals or care for the survivors. They were openly hunting for a way to blame China. Nepalese citizen Gus Ferguson, a musician, was one of many who spotted this. He wrote: “Empathy and Sympathy for the Victims of this Catastrophe? Not. a. Word. Just anti China propaganda.” . EXAMPLES [on the video] International Campaign for Tibet, and the groups associated with it, are not showing no care for the victims, they’re mainly just happy to have an opportunity to take a dig at China. Same with others, like this And this And this And this And this. . WHO FINANCES THEM? Who finances International Campaign for Tibet? Oh look, it’s the NED, described by the US government as a body that “destabilizes sovereign goverments”. Who finances Students for a Free Tibet? Oh look, it’s also the NED. Don’t let them fool you. Stay smart – stay skeptical. . .
Nury Vittachi135,620 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
MI6 PLAN TO CUT CHINA INTO THREE COUNTRIES BREAKING NEWS: Unearthed documents show that MI6, the British spy service, planned to cut China into three separate countries. The British plan was formulated as recently as the 1990s—and part of it is STILL RUNNING NOW. This is an extraordinary story which researchers uncovered from historical documents, and which was presented at a university conference recently. Full details with sources are in the video report. Summary of 15 key points are below. 1.) In the early 1990s, agents at British spy agency MI6 consulted UK academic Gerald Segal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs on how to chop China into three countries. 2.) The UK’s key players would be Uyghur separatists. “Xinjiang has long been a target of British intelligence— with London hoping to manipulate the Uighur refugees from Xinjiang and Uighurs still there, into cannon fodder for London's plans to break up China…” (Journal of Strategic Studies). 3.) Enter a real-life secret agent—a Turkish man named Catli of the Grey Wolves, who shared MI6 goals in Xinjiang. A book about a related CIA venture called Operation Gladio said Catli “helped the Uyghurs… mount insurrectionary attacks that killed 162 people”. 4.) To understand this story, it’s vital to know that the west falsely presents an image of Xinjiang as a place where one ethnic group are prisoners and the other are oppressive overlords. Not true. In Xinjiang, people with Uyghur background can commonly be found as police officers, army soldiers, and local officials, including the ones right at the top—chairman of the regional government. 5.) In March 1992, the chairman of the regional government, Tomur Dawamat, issued a warning: “Hostile forces, both at home and abroad, have stepped up their infiltration, subversion and sabotage.” 6.) At the time, the CIA was backing separatist Isa Yusef Alptekin, another backer of the Grey Wolves. In a 1992 speech he said: "The time for collapse and dissolution has arrived for the Chinese empire.” 7.) The Americans gave his son Erkin Alptekin a job in US anti-China propaganda. In the 1990s, he worked for Radio Liberty, a US media propaganda unit, part of the Radio Free Asia cluster. 8.) By 1994, academic Gerald Segal had finished the map showing how to cut China into three countries. The US had already circulated stories of a “Tibetan genocide” to prepare for this. 9.) As part of their Central Asian program, the US had devoted hundreds of millions of dollars to get the mujahideen rebels to train groups of guerilla fighters. They added hundreds of Xinjiang separatists to join the training. (This project eventually backfired for the Americans – the central Asian guerilla groups they were financing give birth to al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban.) 10.) Western forces worked further with secret agent Catli, who created more trouble in Central Asia and China. But he made lots of enemies and was killed in a suspicious car crash in Turkey in 1996. 11.) From 1996 to 2002, other agents continued to train Uyghur separatists in China, who went on to make multiple terrorist attacks. FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds later wrote: “Between 1996 and 2002, we, the United States, planned, financed, and helped execute every single uprising and terror-related scheme in Xinjiang.” (This US government denies this.) 12.) Problems arose for the western agents: UN data showed that the Tibetan population was growing faster than other Chinese groups– the opposite of a genocide. Also, there was also growing public knowledge that the “Tibet exiles/ Dalai Lama” project in India had been set up and financed by the CIA. So the “cut-China-into-three” plan became “cut-China-into-two”. 13.) In 2004, the US hosted the founding of East Turkistan as “a country”. For convenience, they decided to have the prime minister in Washington DC instead of China, selecting a man named Anwar Jusuf Turani from Fairfax, Virginia. The new “country” did not get international recognition by anyone – not even the United States! 14.) Between 2007 and 2014, there were a large number of terrorist attacks in China by members of the East Turkistan project the west had encouraged into being. In a 2009 operation, separatists used Facebook to co-ordinate a massive attack in which 197 people died. In another, a huge car bomb in Urumqi killed 43 people and wounded 94. At Kunming’s train station, an attack by eight knife-wielding terrorists killed 29 people and wounded 140. Xinjiang’s leaders, with help from the central government, sent in police officers and soldiers to halt the carnage—and, against extraordinary odds, succeeded. 15.) In the 20-teens, it was time for the Americans to use their superpower – narrative control. They needed to do three things: i) Get journalists and academics to cut all mentions of MI6 or CIA involvement in Chinese Uyghur stories. ii) Trick the public into seeing the terrorists who had killed so many innocent people as the oppressed victims. iii) Mislead everyone into believing that the authorities trying to stop the murder of innocents were the root cause of the problem. Creating this new, upside-down narrative may sound like a tall order – but, incredibly, they managed to attain all three goals. They did this by relentless circulation of mainstream media news reports which painted a picture in which “oppression” by “the Chinese” had “created” the violence. (See the video for detailed examples.) The US then organized a 2019 meeting in Washington to relaunch the debunked “Tibet genocide” narrative as a Uyghur genocide hoax. The story continues.
Nury Vittachi882,241 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
![REVEALED: Israeli spy agency Mossad sold Donald Trump a plot to instantly take out Iran—but it had one fatal flaw. And that one little mistake has put the United States firmly in the crosshairs of a war it cannot win—and is creating global panic over oil prices. . The top secret dossier, sold to the US by Mossad director David Barnea had a clear argument, that we can summarize as a four part narrative. One: A network of fake “Iranian NGOs” in the west would circulate a story that Iran had massacred 30,000 or more peaceful protesters, The story would be spread in order to manufacture consent for the west to launch a war against Iran. Two: The Americans would demand to have negotiations with the Iranians to distract them, by having them focusing on peace plans. Three: During this distraction, the US and Israeli air forces would then launch an attack that would take out the entire government of Iran, leaving all seats of power empty—including the peace negotiators. Four: Radical extreme opposition members in Iran, cultivated by Mossad, the CIA, and the NED, would then take control of the country—and install US puppet Reza Pahlavi as a proxy for Washington and Tel Aviv. . IT WORKED. AT FIRST And you know what? Every part of that plan worked perfectly. Except there was one key detail they had got wrong. And that brought the whole edifice crashing down. . ONE: DEMONIZING IRAN The story really starts in January. Mossad and the CIA worked with radical opposition members in Iran to launch a coup at the start of January in which armed men destroyed 700 shops, 305 ambulances and buses, 414 civil service buildings and 750 banks. [SEE VIDEO] They attacked 350 mosques, which is very strange for supposedly Muslim rioters– but they attacked not one synagogue. This was a major insurrection in which people on all sides lost their lives, with more than 3,000 dead after the coup was put down. But this armed coup was repackaged by fake NGOs in the west as a massacre of at least 30,000 peaceful protesters - or maybe 50,000 or 70,000 - by “the regime”. Mossad wanted the fake number to be more than the actual number of people the IDF killed in Gaza. This part worked perfectly. Here’s Time magazine [video] reporting that 30,000 died. Most of the western media supported this. Not one of them reported that the funding for these NGOs could be traced back to western political propaganda groups such as the NED, a CIA spin-off group. . TWO: FAKE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS Part Two of the plan also went better than they could have hoped for. The Americans not only successfully held "peace negotiations", but the Iranians actually made multiple concessions, giving Washington virtually everything it wanted. So the Americans could simply have proceeded with those and got what they wanted anyway. But the US and Israel decided to go ahead with Part Three anyway. (More 'fun'?) . THREE: KILLING GOVERNMENT LEADERS And you know what? That also worked perfectly, from beginning to end – in a surprise, unprovoked attack, the US and Israel killed not just the leader, but 40 members of the Iranian government. Now just imagine the outrage if any country took out the entire government of the UK or Germany or Canada or Australia. The world’s media would be writing editorials about it for years, literally years. . FOUR: THE PUPPET The Mossad-CIA plot was going exactly as planned. All they needed to do was achieve part four: the transfer of power to a US Juan Guaidó figure—a man already selected and waiting in the wings. The western media found supporters of the opposition in Iran to film expressing happiness, and tried to pretend that this was “all” the Iranians. But this was clearly not true. The vast majority of Iranians, including people involved in the violent protest of January, were horrified. . FATAL FLAW Now here’s where the fatal error showed up. Mossad’s plan failed to take into account one thing. There had been a change of attitude last year. Between June the 13th and the 24th of 2025, Israel attacked Iran, killing nuclear scientists, politicians and civilians, as well as members of the armed forces. That was also, clearly an illegal, unprovoked attack. No western leader cared—but the people of Iran, all the political parties, did care. They were outraged. Why are Israel and the United States allowed to just murder people in other countries and get away it? Support for the Iranian government rose dramatically. Mossad assumed that because their contacts, the extreme radical members of the opposition groups, still opposed the government, that many Iranians did. But that just was not true. The Iranians in general had become far more supportive of their government, and opposed to the US and Israel, than Mossad believed. . IRANIANS UNITED Donald Trump told the Iranian people that it was now over to you – signalling that part four should go ahead: a takeover by people allied to Washington and Tel Aviv. But it didn’t happen. So part four of the plan did not work. The Iranians drew together and fought back. Under United Nations law, they had full legal rights to respond to an illegal attack. They made defensive forays to take out the military bases around the gulf which were attacking them, and they closed the Strait of Hormuz. Trump was horrified and furious – not with the Iranians but with Netanyahu and Barnea, the Mossad chief. And this explains why he kept making contradictory statements – he kept saying things that implied the war would be over very quickly, as the original plan said, while also acknowledging that the opposite was true. Remember how he used the phrase “short term excursion”. He also said the war would last four days only. And he also said the war was “already over”. And so on. So we can see that the plan, as sold to him, was a quick in-and-out operation, just as it had been in Venezuela – so that was what he had in his head. . IF YOU SHOOT THE KING… Netanyahu, deeply embarrassed to have helped sell a war to Trump that had spiralled out of control, went into hiding—he was so deep undercover that rumours circulated that said he was dead. For Mossad and the CIA, the plot failed. There’s an ancient saying that all plotters know. “If you are going to shoot at the king, you better kill the king.” What the US and Israel did was shoot the leadership of Iran. But they failed to kill the leadership of Iran. So now they are in trouble. And you know what? I don’t think there is any sympathy for them.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2039179026221412863/amplify_video_thumb/2039176773934718976/img/hQ3kr3u-DgesZ2RN.jpg)
REVEALED: Israeli spy agency Mossad sold Donald Trump a plot to instantly take out Iran—but it had one fatal flaw. And that one little mistake has put the United States firmly in the crosshairs of a war it cannot win—and is creating global panic over oil prices. . The top secret dossier, sold to the US by Mossad director David Barnea had a clear argument, that we can summarize as a four part narrative. One: A network of fake “Iranian NGOs” in the west would circulate a story that Iran had massacred 30,000 or more peaceful protesters, The story would be spread in order to manufacture consent for the west to launch a war against Iran. Two: The Americans would demand to have negotiations with the Iranians to distract them, by having them focusing on peace plans. Three: During this distraction, the US and Israeli air forces would then launch an attack that would take out the entire government of Iran, leaving all seats of power empty—including the peace negotiators. Four: Radical extreme opposition members in Iran, cultivated by Mossad, the CIA, and the NED, would then take control of the country—and install US puppet Reza Pahlavi as a proxy for Washington and Tel Aviv. . IT WORKED. AT FIRST And you know what? Every part of that plan worked perfectly. Except there was one key detail they had got wrong. And that brought the whole edifice crashing down. . ONE: DEMONIZING IRAN The story really starts in January. Mossad and the CIA worked with radical opposition members in Iran to launch a coup at the start of January in which armed men destroyed 700 shops, 305 ambulances and buses, 414 civil service buildings and 750 banks. [SEE VIDEO] They attacked 350 mosques, which is very strange for supposedly Muslim rioters– but they attacked not one synagogue. This was a major insurrection in which people on all sides lost their lives, with more than 3,000 dead after the coup was put down. But this armed coup was repackaged by fake NGOs in the west as a massacre of at least 30,000 peaceful protesters - or maybe 50,000 or 70,000 - by “the regime”. Mossad wanted the fake number to be more than the actual number of people the IDF killed in Gaza. This part worked perfectly. Here’s Time magazine [video] reporting that 30,000 died. Most of the western media supported this. Not one of them reported that the funding for these NGOs could be traced back to western political propaganda groups such as the NED, a CIA spin-off group. . TWO: FAKE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS Part Two of the plan also went better than they could have hoped for. The Americans not only successfully held "peace negotiations", but the Iranians actually made multiple concessions, giving Washington virtually everything it wanted. So the Americans could simply have proceeded with those and got what they wanted anyway. But the US and Israel decided to go ahead with Part Three anyway. (More 'fun'?) . THREE: KILLING GOVERNMENT LEADERS And you know what? That also worked perfectly, from beginning to end – in a surprise, unprovoked attack, the US and Israel killed not just the leader, but 40 members of the Iranian government. Now just imagine the outrage if any country took out the entire government of the UK or Germany or Canada or Australia. The world’s media would be writing editorials about it for years, literally years. . FOUR: THE PUPPET The Mossad-CIA plot was going exactly as planned. All they needed to do was achieve part four: the transfer of power to a US Juan Guaidó figure—a man already selected and waiting in the wings. The western media found supporters of the opposition in Iran to film expressing happiness, and tried to pretend that this was “all” the Iranians. But this was clearly not true. The vast majority of Iranians, including people involved in the violent protest of January, were horrified. . FATAL FLAW Now here’s where the fatal error showed up. Mossad’s plan failed to take into account one thing. There had been a change of attitude last year. Between June the 13th and the 24th of 2025, Israel attacked Iran, killing nuclear scientists, politicians and civilians, as well as members of the armed forces. That was also, clearly an illegal, unprovoked attack. No western leader cared—but the people of Iran, all the political parties, did care. They were outraged. Why are Israel and the United States allowed to just murder people in other countries and get away it? Support for the Iranian government rose dramatically. Mossad assumed that because their contacts, the extreme radical members of the opposition groups, still opposed the government, that many Iranians did. But that just was not true. The Iranians in general had become far more supportive of their government, and opposed to the US and Israel, than Mossad believed. . IRANIANS UNITED Donald Trump told the Iranian people that it was now over to you – signalling that part four should go ahead: a takeover by people allied to Washington and Tel Aviv. But it didn’t happen. So part four of the plan did not work. The Iranians drew together and fought back. Under United Nations law, they had full legal rights to respond to an illegal attack. They made defensive forays to take out the military bases around the gulf which were attacking them, and they closed the Strait of Hormuz. Trump was horrified and furious – not with the Iranians but with Netanyahu and Barnea, the Mossad chief. And this explains why he kept making contradictory statements – he kept saying things that implied the war would be over very quickly, as the original plan said, while also acknowledging that the opposite was true. Remember how he used the phrase “short term excursion”. He also said the war would last four days only. And he also said the war was “already over”. And so on. So we can see that the plan, as sold to him, was a quick in-and-out operation, just as it had been in Venezuela – so that was what he had in his head. . IF YOU SHOOT THE KING… Netanyahu, deeply embarrassed to have helped sell a war to Trump that had spiralled out of control, went into hiding—he was so deep undercover that rumours circulated that said he was dead. For Mossad and the CIA, the plot failed. There’s an ancient saying that all plotters know. “If you are going to shoot at the king, you better kill the king.” What the US and Israel did was shoot the leadership of Iran. But they failed to kill the leadership of Iran. So now they are in trouble. And you know what? I don’t think there is any sympathy for them.
Nury Vittachi367,478 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
This girl is SERIOUS. The martial arts movements of a little Chinese girl from Zhejiang, East China, went viral around the world—with most people simply labelling it as “kung fu”. But actual practitioners knew that she was showing a high level of skill. “This is the 32 movement form of the Chanq Quan style. She's doing pretty well,” said Stevemaster392 on social media. When a video like this spreads, it’s a good opportunity to spread some Chinese culture, so here are some pointers. . DON’T SAY ‘KUNG FU’ This group of Chinese arts not really defined as “Kung fu”, a term which caught on in the west through dramas starring Bruce Lee and David Carridine in the 1970s. But it just means “achievements” or “mastery”. The correct term for “combat arts” in China is “Wushu”. Then we have the subdivisions. The word “Taolu” is used to describe forms in which the movements are made without an opponent (which is what this girl is doing). “Sanda” is fighting with physical adversaries. So the girl is a student of Wushu Taolu (opponent-free combat arts) and has learned the basic 32 movements of the Chang Quan style. . SHAOLIN ORIGINS The traditional style of Wushu is often referred to as “Shaolin”. This word, which means “small forest”, comes from the ancient forest of Mount Shaoshi in Henan Province, China, where the famous Shaolin Monastery was built in 495 AD. It is seen as the cradle of Chinese combat arts. Steve notes that some forms are classified as “Weijia”, which covers movements known as“external style” because they are fast and acrobatic. The opposite is "Neijia", which is “internal style”, which is more meditative and fluid. If anyone would like to add other terms in the comments, go ahead. .
Nury Vittachi29,834 görüntüleme • 13 gün önce