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As ALL EYES were glued on allegations of Trump-Russia collusion, Joe Biden and the Obama admin- istration were involved in a series of events that led to the ousting of a Ukrainian president.

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A sum of $6.5 MILLION in bribe money was paid by a Chinese billionaire with links to the Chinese Communist Party to gain admission for his daughter into Stanford University.

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After An investor looks at stock price movements on a screen at a securities company in Beijing on May 6, 2019. FACEBOOK ANNOUNCED TRADE WAR a ban on “dangerous indi- viduals and organisations,” President Trump blasted a warning at the social media giant for its censorship of Chinese Stock Market Tumbles conservative commentators. US | A7 After Trump Tariff Announcement

CHRISTIANS While state media is mostly silent, some Chinese ‘netizens’ celebrate the are being persecuted at ‘near genocide’ levels according to news of increased pressure on the regime a U.K. Government report and are now facing ‘extinction’ in JENNIFER ZENG parts of the Middle East. wo tweets by President Donald Trump about 25 percent on May 10, and tax the currently reacted quickly on May 6, with the Shang- WORLD | A3 raising tariffs on Chinese goods caused Chi- untaxed $325 billion of Chinese goods at a rate hai Composite index closing down about 5.6 nese stock markets to tumble and media to Chinese of 25 percent “shortly.” percent, which marked its worst one-day loss speculate that the trade negotiations with netizens are In a second tweet, Trump said: “The Trade since a 6.4 percent slump in February 2016. T China wouldn’t go forward. Deal with China continues, but too slowly, as The smaller-cap Shenzhen Composite index And while Chinese official media have been celebrating they attempt to renegotiate. No!” plunged 7.4 percent, also its worst one-day silent on Trump’s decision to raise tariffs, and calling Trump’s new stance apparently has taken percentage fall since February 2016. Hong Chinese netizens are celebrating and call- Chinese officials by surprise, who were hop- Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 2.8 percent. The ing Trump the “Great Savior” of the Chinese Trump the ing that a deal would be reached soon. combined losses of the Shanghai and Shen- people. “Great Saviour” zhen markets reached 2.8 trillion yuan ($420 On the morning of May 5, Trump wrote in of the Chinese Markets Drop billion), with a net outflow of foreign capital a tweet that he would raise tariffs on $200 Although the Chinese official media failed of 8.19 billion yuan ($1.22 billion). U.S. President people. DONALD TRUMP’S billion of Chinese goods from 10 percent to to report the story, Chinese stock markets Continued on A4 pick for the Federal Reserve ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Board of Governors, Stephen ELECTION WORLD Moore, reveals to The Epoch Times why he withdrew from Pro-Euthanasia Brian Owler Could US Carrier Strike the candidacy. Become Health Minister Under Group Deployment US | A6 Labor Government a Response to ‘Credible Threat’ MELANIE SUN Association (AMA) president by Iran, Pentagon LIES and face of the “Don’t Rush” Brian Owler, a respected road safety campaign in NSW Chief Says are used to conceal decades neurosurgeon who was instru- could be tapped by Bill Shorten of intellectual property theft mental in helping pass assisted for the position of Australia’s PETR SVAB and unfair trade practices suicide legislation in Victoria health minister. Beijing has used against the in November 2017, is believed “Mr. Medicare [Owler] is com- The Trump administration’s to be a top Labor candidate ing to Canberra to ensure we put deployment of an aircraft car- West, and some Western me- for health minister if elected Medicare and health care right rier strike group and bombers to dia are playing along. in Bennelong along with a up the top,” Shorten told the the Middle East is a response to Shorten government on May 18. media in October last year after a “credible threat” by Iran, said A 92-year-old man holds the hand of his carer at an elderly There has been speculation that flying in to announce his new acting Defense Secretary Patrick OPINION | A10 home. the former Australian Medical Continued on A2 Shanahan. He wrote on Twitter on May 6 that he approved the deploy- INSIDE ment on May 5, calling it “a OPINION prudent repositioning of assets in response to indications of a AU...... A2 The Muslim Brotherhood Is a Terrorist Organisation With Socialist Roots credible threat by Iranian re- World...... A3 gime forces.” China...... A4 “We call on the Iranian regime US...... A6 JOSHUA PHILIPP spite the fact that the Brother- a system of theocratic to cease all provocation,” he Opinion...... A10 This allows the hood opposes every “progres- socialism, and has from added in a following tweet. “We Commentary socialist tyrants sive” trend those movements the get-go pushed for “of- will hold the Iranian regime ac- SPECIAL EDITION As the Trump administration claim to believe in—is that they fensive jihad” to spread countable for any attack on US Mind & body...... B1 moves to designate the Mus- to kill critics all believe in the same basic the- this system of totalitarian forces or our interests.” Home...... B9 lim Brotherhood as a terrorist and political ories of totalitarian governance. governance. The administration declined to organization, it’s important to opponents, The Muslim Brotherhood is A main model of socialist specify what prompted the de- know its roots and what it’s re- under the guise not a form of traditional Islam. theocracy was the invention of A pro- ployment, but tensions between Don’t delay. Subscribe today. ally about. The reason that the The organization started in 1928 Sayyid Qutb, who is considered testor the two countries have been ris- Tel: 02 8988 5600 Muslim Brotherhood and its in- of defending as a “modernization” movement to be the founding father of the in Cairo, ing as the United States applies ternational model enjoy support religion. that merged Islam with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Aug. 30, pressure on other countries to from socialist movements—de- ideas of socialism. It promotes Continued on A12 2013. Continued on A3

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Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten (left) and local Labor candidate for the seat of Bennelong Brian Owler arrive for a visit to PRP Diagnostic Imaging at the Ryde Medical Centre in Sydney, on April 12, 2019. Pro-Euthanasia Brian Owler Could Become Health Minister Under Labor Government

CONTINUED FROM A1 dementia are calling for that extension. Some dis- I have never seen a dying patient whose physical abled people are calling for it, ‘You’ve excluded us.’ suffering was untreatable.” Bennelong candidate. “By an incremental creep, it will extend. As I But Owler told the National Press Club in 2017 The announcement meant that Owler was replac- say, it’s discriminatory for it not to. It’s either a that while he is a “passionate supporter” of pallia- ing the locally-endorsed candidate Lyndal Howi- right for no one or a right for everyone, and that’s tive care, he believes that it “is not the answer for son, which drew some criticism from Bennelong where it goes. everyone,” give the 5 percent of people for whom residents as the surgeon lives in Wahroonga in “Laws should be about protecting the majority suffering at the end of life cannot be relieved. “This the neighbouring electorate of Bradfield, accord- and safeguards are difficult,” she said. is acknowledged within the palliative care commu- ing to SMH. Rachel Carling-Jenkins, who was a Victorian Sen- nity. It is for these people this legislation provides Margaret Tighe, president of the pro-life advo- ator at the time the Victorian bill was being debated, a choice,” Owler said. cacy group Right to Life Australia, told The Epoch told The Epoch Times that she was alarmed that her Owler revealed in June 2017 that it was the “ter- Times that Bennelong voters should be informed colleagues in the Greens party had not been allowed rible death” of his father who suffered dementia of Owler’s views on euthanasia. a conscience vote on the Victorian bill. that factored into his support for “assisted dying,” “A vote for Owler and Labor may mean a health “The Greens do not have a free vote on so-called The Guardian reported. minister who believes in physician-assisted sui- social issues like abortion and euthanasia,” Car- Carr said that while she can empathise with cide,” she said. “Labor now is the party of social ling-Jenkins said. “They must vote the party line those on the other side of the debate, she believes engineering.” which is anti-life, at least anti-human life.” that introducing assisted suicide legislation won’t Owler was the lead architect in drafting Victoria’s She said that she did not support the govern- successfully eliminate all the suffering either. framework for voluntary euthanasia—the Volun- ment’s bill and would never support a bill to intro- “It’s tough,” she said. “The people who were tary Assisted Dying Act—that will grant eligible duce euthanasia under any circumstance. She out- driven to pass these laws have seen some horrific Victorians permission from the state to end their lined a number of concerns with the bill, including things, they’ve seen the people that they love die.” lives using a lethal drug from June 19. that there had been no definition of suffering in the But legislation won’t change that, she said. “Leg- Under the new laws, Victorians over 18 years old legislation. “There is absolutely no requirement for islation doesn’t get rid of bad deaths, and assisted deemed to be “suffering” in a way that “cannot be the person to be experiencing pain or other physi- suicide isn’t also necessarily a good death. They can relieved in a manner that the person considers cal symptoms.” be ugly. They’re not always, but they can be. They tolerable” by two independent doctors will be able There is “nothing to exclude forms of existential can take hours—it’s not quick necessarily. to register to receive a dose of lethal drugs. The ap- Legislation suffering such as loss of autonomy, lack of capacity “In the Oregon model, it’s lauded that people plicant must be terminally ill, within 6 months of to enjoy former hobbies, feeling a burden on fam- get prescriptions. It’s 100 capsules and they can death, and of sound mind. doesn’t get rid ily or financial concerns to be the only suffering make you sick. The legislation, which includes 68 safeguards of bad deaths, experienced,” she said. “Death is always going to be messy whether we as recommended by Owler’s report, was nar- have assisted suicide laws or not.” rowly passed after the government rushed the bill and assisted Quality Palliative Care Carr said that given the tough reality that both through Parliament in two marathon all-night Palliative care experts also voiced their opposi- palliative care and euthanasia will fail for some debates. suicide isn’t also tion to the Victorian legislation. They say those people, a useful question for her has been, “What Before the Andrews Labor government in Victo- necessarily a ready to turn to assisted suicide had likely been is worse? Killing someone who does not want to ria appointed Owler to lead the ministerial advi- scarred by experiences where their loved one did be killed, or killing someone who does want to sory panel to develop the above Act, Owler had told good death. They not get quality palliative care, but that the pro- be killed.” The Age in 2016: “I think it’s important that we do fession has “advanced tremendously in recent get legislation that is both safe but also compassion- can be ugly. decades.” Warning to Other States ate, and allows people in particular circumstances Dr. Mark Yates, a geriatrician and clinical as- Legal experts warn that the passing of “assisted to access assisted dying.” sociate professor at Deakin University who was dying” legislation in Victoria sets the precedent AMA Victoria president from 2005 to 2007, told The for similar legislation to be adopted in other states One Case is Too Much Australian that “expert palliative care” can almost across the nation. But British comedian, actress, and disabled rights always meet the pain and psychosocial needs of Queensland and Western Australia are already advocate Liz Carr had told the Victorian Parliament those nearing the end of their lives. considering their own “assisted dying” legislation, in an address in 2017 that any safeguards were “Lots of patients express the wish to die at the but not only for the terminally ill. Those states are “an acknowledgement of risk in the first place” very end of their life, which is symptomatic of the also open to considering the needs of those with and that “the risk of getting it wrong in one case fact that their needs aren’t being met,” Yates said, chronic illness or neurological conditions. is too much.” referring to the psychosocial needs of patients. After his role in Victoria, Owler had actively lob- Carr warned lawmakers that although the leg- “If we had ­appropriate palliative care, then all of bied for the federal government to allow Austra- islation always starts off being targeted for use by those needs could be met … expert palliative care lian territories to revisit their euthanasia laws, The a specific group of people, extension laws always can almost always remedy that.” Australian reported. follow, as has been seen in other jurisdictions like Dr. Karen Hitchcock, a physician at Victoria’s “What Victoria has may well be a blueprint for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Canada, where eu- Alfred Hospital, wrote in The Monthy: “Over the other pieces of legislation, but it’s still a matter thanasia has also been legalised in different ways. 12 years that I have worked as a doctor in large for each jurisdiction to make up their own mind “It’s done in the name of equality,” she said. “So public hospitals, I have cared for hundreds of dy- and so it shouldn’t be a matter of just copying the if you introduce a law in this state for those with ing patients. No one has ever died screaming or legislation from Victoria, because everyone needs only terminal illness, I’ll tell you what will happen begging for me to kill them. Patients have told to look at it, ” Owler told The Australian. next is people with other conditions will want to me they want to die. My response to this is ‘Tell The Victorian government has allocated A$6.5 be included in that definition. me why.’ million over four years to implement the Voluntary “And that’s already happening. The law hasn’t “It is rarely because of pain, but it is often be- Assisted Dying Act. Doctors in palliative care argue even been enacted to its full extent in Canada yet, cause of despair, loneliness, grief, the feeling of that this money is better-spent on funding greater but already people with dementia or impending worthlessness, meaninglessness or being a burden. access to palliative care services.

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CUCUTA, Colombia—Armed groups who have clamped down on migration warring for control of Colombia’s busiest flows since the Venezuelan opposition’s border crossing with Venezuela opened Feb. 23 attempt to push humanitarian aid fire on one another on May 3, leaving a into Venezuela against Maduro’s orders. woman hospitalized and hundreds fearing Following the incident, queues of frus- for their lives. trated families snaked back down the The woman caught in the crossfire bridge as migration officials limited -mi wasn’t affiliated with the two rival gangs, gration flows, and many who usually take officials from Colombia’s migration -au the illegal dirt tracks decided to take the thority said. bridge’s official migration route out of fear. Members of the Colombian military “You can run, but what about the chil- and police forces told The Epoch Times dren?” said Maryluz, who was waiting that paramilitaries loyal to Venezuelan with her son and daughter under the beat- regime leader Nicolás Maduro, known as ing sun. colectivos, were involved in the shootouts, although this wasn’t confirmed by Colom- Armed Groups Strengthen bian migration officials. The Colombian–Venezuelan border is The illegal pedestrian bridges connect- a hotspot for drug-trafficking, contra- ing the two countries are dangerous but band, and extortion, and thus a hotbed for increasingly popular, due to Venezuelan conflict between armed gangs, including border restrictions recently becoming Colombian paramilitary groups such as more stringent for the 25,000 who are the Gulf Clan, and guerrillas such as the estimated to make the trip into Colombia National Liberation Army. each day. Colombia’s director for migration, Between 3,000 and 5,000 Venezuelans Christian Kruger, made an impromptu now take illegal routes run by armed visit to the bridge following the shootout. groups into Colombia each day, fleeing He admitted that policing over 2,200 kilo- their crisis-stricken country or seeking meters (1367 miles) of porous border was basic goods either unavailable or unaf- impossible, but said that such incidents fordable in Venezuela, according to Co- are increasingly common since Venezuela lombian officials. began suffering its economic, social, and On May 3, hundreds queuing at Simón political collapse. Bolívar bridge in Cúcuta, to re-enter Ven- “It has nothing to do with the efforts to ezuela ducked for cover and screamed as control the crossings … this owes to the Colombian military forces arrive at the Simón Bolívar Bridge in Cucuta to restore order on May 3, 2019. automatic gunfire was rapidly exchanged corruption and disorder in that country in the illegal crossings below, video footage (Venezuela),” the official said, adding that A high-ranking military official told The Adam Isaacson, director at the Washing- showed. The skirmishes lasted more than this was the fourteenth incident of gunfire Epoch Times on condition of anonymity ton Office on Latin America. half an hour, according to eyewitnesses. in the illegal crossings recorded this year. As security conditions that the National Guard couldn’t admit A historic peace agreement signed in “This was not just a few bullets, these Kruger said it was too early to identify any involvement of pro-Maduro groups as 2016 between the Colombian government were heavy machine gun bursts,” said the “criminal groups” responsible, but a continue to decline and those very groups had infiltrated the Na- and the country’s largest guerrilla-insur- Jerso Montoya, who was returning to number of Colombian police and military illegal crossings become tional Guard and were surveilling them. gency, known as the FARC, was supposed Venezuela via the “trocha” after taking members alleged that colectivos, dressed more lucrative, it is As security conditions continue to de- to usher in a new chapter of peace in the his daughter to school in neighboring in all black and masked in balaclavas were hard to pinpoint who is cline and illegal crossings become more country. But homicide and displacement Colombia when the groups clashed. “We involved. Colectivos are backed by the lucrative, it is hard to pinpoint who is re- are currently growing in remote areas of haven’t seen this in years, how can they do Maduro regime and granted impunity and responsible for violence at sponsible for violence at the border, secu- Colombia. that with so many people around?” funding while they pledge allegiance to the border. rity analysts say. There is also a tendency Along with the difficulty in implement- Some 1,500 children now travel to Co- the socialist revolution and to violently for local gangs to regularly switch alle- ing the peace accord, the continuous op- lombia each day to study as their own quash growing opposition-led protests giances to national organizations without eration of the guerrillas is also blamed education system has collapsed. Many which have rocked Venezuela. any real significant change on the ground. on the rapid deterioration of neighboring of those take the illegal crossings to save Members of Venezuela’s National Guard The area is “up for grabs and there may Venezuela, which has become a safe haven time, or for fear of not being permitted controlling the border blamed the incident be Venezuelan and other smaller Colom- for the rebels who exploit illicit economies entry by the Venezuelan National Guard, on guerrillas and paramilitaries. bian gangs popping up all the time,” said in tandem with Maduro’s military.

Persecution of Christians US Carrier Strike Group Deployment Worldwide Near ‘Genocide’ Levels, a Response to ‘Credible Threat’ by Iran, Pentagon Chief Says Says Report for British Government

Pressure Up ATUL LOKE/GETTY IMAGES CONTINUED FROM A1 SIMON VEAZEY President Donald Trump has been in- comply with sanctions on the Islamic re- creasing pressure on Iran’s leaders, espe- The persecution of Christians around gime. cially since he quit the Iran nuclear deal in the world is a near “genocide” levels, The deployment was first announced on May 2018 and gradually reimposed sanc- according to a report for the British May 5 by national security adviser John tions on the country in an effort force the government. Bolton, who said the intention was “to Islamic regime to change a plethora of Christians are now the most persecut- send a clear and unmistakable message activities the administration finds unac- ed religious group in the world, accord- to the Iranian regime that any attack on ceptable. ing to the report for the British Foreign United States interests or on those of our The administration demands that Iran Office, with acts of violence and intimi- allies will be met with unrelenting force.” halts not only its nuclear technology de- dation becoming more widespread. “The United States is not seeking war velopment, which the Obama administra- The British foreign secretary said he with the Iranian regime, but we are fully tion’s nuclear deal attempted to delay, but was “shocked” by the findings, and prepared to respond to any attack, wheth- also its ballistic missile program, support that a culture of political correctness in er by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary for terrorists and militias in the region, Western nations had left them “asleep Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces,” and other destabilizing activities. on the watch.” he said. In April, Trump announced he would Christianity faces extinction in parts Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told me- designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary of the Middle East where it first blos- dia on May 6 that “it is absolutely the case Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terror- somed, according to the report findings. Sri Lankan local people pray near to St. Anthony Church on the that we’ve seen escalatory action from the ist organization—the first time the United “Evidence shows not only the geo- evening of April 23, 2019, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Iranians,” but he also said he couldn’t be States has marked a branch of a foreign graphic spread of anti-Christian perse- more explicit. country’s military as such. cution but also its increasing severity,” 1.7 million in 2011 to below 450,000 “I don’t want to talk about what under- Trump also announced in April that the said the report, which was commis- and in Iraq, Christian numbers have lays it, but make no mistake. We have good government won’t renew waivers from the sioned before the suicide bombings slumped from 1.5 million before 2003 It forces us in the West to reason to want to communicate clearly sanctions for countries importing Iranian targeting Christians in Sri Lanka that to below 120,000 today. Christianity is ask ourselves some hard about how the Iranians should understand oil in an effort to completely shut down left more than 250 dead last month. at risk of disappearing, representing how we will respond to actions that they Iranian oil exports, which are a lifeline The report author, Bishop Phil- a massive setback for plurality in the questions, not the least may take,” he said. of the regime. ip Mounstephen, said in a statement, region.” of which is this: Why have He did clarify, though, that the reason “Through my previous experience of British Foreign Secretary Jeremy we been so blind to this is separate from the recent rocket attack Threats the global church in Asia and Africa Hunt noted that the persecution of situation for so long? on Israel from the Gaza strip. Iran says its missile program is only de- I was aware of the terrible reality of Christians happens for different rea- The strike group, headed by the aircraft fensive, but has repeatedly threatened to persecution, but to be honest in prepar- sons in various parts of the world, but carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, departed disrupt oil shipments through the Strait ing this report I’ve been truly shocked said that they had gone unchallenged BISHOP PHILIP MOUNSTEPHEN, on April 1 from Norfolk, Virginia, and of Hormuz if the United States tries to AUTHOR OF BRITISH FOREIGN by the severity, scale, and scope of the due to a broader culture of “political OFFICE REPORT was on its way to transition from the At- throttle Iranian oil exports. The strait is problem. It forces us in the West to ask correctness.” lantic to the Pacific fleet, which means it a major choke point between the Persian ourselves some hard questions, not the “I think we’ve all been asleep on the would have eventually ended up passing Gulf and the Gulf of Oman through which least of which is this: Why have we been watch when it comes to the persecution through the Middle East anyway. Penta- about a fifth of the world’s oil shipments so blind to this situation for so long?” of Christians,” he told reporters in Ad- gon spokesperson declined to comment passes. “It is also ironic that many Western dis Ababa, reported ITV. “I think there on timing of the strike group deployment. In November 2018, an IRGC commander secularists, Islamic extremists, and is a misplaced worry that it is somehow It’s not clear whether the administration threatened that U.S. bases in Afghanistan, authoritarian regimes share a common colonialist to talk about a religion that hastened or modified the planned deploy- the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, and erroneous assumption—that the Chris- was associated with colonial pow- ment. U.S. aircraft carriers in the Gulf were tian faith is primarily an expression of ers rather than the countries that we Last year, the administration dropped within range of Iranian missiles. white Western privilege. In fact, Chris- marched into to as colonizers.” the previously permanent carrier deploy- In July 2018, Saudi state oil company Ar- tianity is primarily a phenomenon of “That has perhaps created an awk- ment to the Persian Gulf, only sending a amco stated that two of its tankers had the global south and the global poor.” wardness in talking about this issue— strike group intermittently, the Military been attacked by Yemen-based Houthi The report notes that in some regions, the role of missionaries was always a Times reported. The John C. Stennis Car- militia, who are backed by Iran and sup- the level and nature of the persecution controversial one and that has, I think, rier Strike Group just left the Middle East- pressed by the Saudi military. is close to meeting the United Nations also led some people to shy away from ern region in April, joining the Abraham Pompeo made clear that the United definition of genocide. this topic,” continued Hunt. “What Lincoln Strike Group for operations in the States will hold “Iranian leadership di- The main impact of those “genocidal” we have forgotten in that atmosphere Mediterranean Sea. Stennis is on its way rectly accountable” for “attacks on Amer- acts is an exodus, according to the of political correctness is actually the to Norfolk, switching home ports with ican interests” by Iranian proxies, be it report. Christians that are being persecuted Lincoln, which heads for San Diego. the Houthis, a Shia militia group, or the “Christianity now faces the possibil- are some of the poorest people on the Bolton also spoke of “a bomber task Lebanese Hezbollah. ity of being wiped-out in parts of the planet.” force” deployment “which suggested the Middle East where its roots go back The report states that Christian wom- Pentagon is deploying land-based bomber Update: The article has been updated furthest. In Palestine, Christian num- en are more likely to suffer persecution. aircraft somewhere in the region, perhaps with additional information about the bers are below 1.5 percent; in Syria, the The full findings of the report will be on the Arabian Peninsula,” said the Mili- Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group Christian population has declined from published in the summer. tary Times. deployment. A4 | CHINA MAY 9-15, 2019 Chinese Stock Market Tumbles After Trump Tariff Announcement

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Over 1,000 stocks dropped 10 percent in to the United States to negotiate.” value, the point at which trading is auto- According to South China Morning Post, matically stopped. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He could still lead Just ahead of Shanghai’s open, China’s the 100-person delegation that planned to central bank moved to stimulate the travel to Washington on May 8. economy by cutting reserve requirement ratios for 1,000 rural commercial banks, Media Silent; Netizens React which will make it easier for small and mi- According to Chinese political and eco- cro companies to borrow. This amounts to nomic analyst Qin Peng, after Trump’s making available for borrowing about 280 surprising tweets, the first two Chinese billion yuan ($41.57 billion) in funds. departments that reacted were the Chinese Propaganda Ministry and Central Cyber- Negotiations space Affairs Commission. They sent out Although there have been media reports emergency notifications in the middle of about Beijing considering pulling out of the night, Beijing time, that forbade cover- trade negotiations after Trump’s an- age and discussion of the tariff increases on nouncement, the regime’s official news official media and social networks. agency, Xinhua, reported on May 6 that That’s why on websites inside China, vir- “the Chinese delegation is preparing to go tually nothing about the latest twist in the An image by an unknown man Mao as the “great savior” of Chinese to the United States to negotiate.” trade war has been discussed, and some Chinese netizen depicting people. But Mao’s photo is replaced with According to Xinhua, foreign ministry have been making off-track speculations President Donald Trump as Trump’s, with a Chinese slogan saying, I do applaud this president. Like I said, spokesperson Geng Shuang responded to about why the central bank suddenly de- “Trump Is the Great Savior of the Chinese “The Great Savior” of Chi- he’s gone further than any in modern a question related to Trump’s tariff hike cided to cut the reserve requirement ratios. nese people. People.” With a careful look, one can see announcement at a regular press confer- On Twitter and Facebook, which are in the image a very typical “revolutionary history regarding China. ence on May 6. banned in mainland China, savvy Chinese peasant” woman, holding a sign that says “Similar situations in which the U.S. netizens who know how to “jump over the “We Love Trump.” REP. SCOTT PERRY threatened to pose tariffs on Chinese goods Great Firewall” that censors the Chinese in- Another meme shows Trump in the have occurred multiple times before ... We ternet are getting uncensored information. White House proudly signing a document still hope that the U.S. and China can work Many of the Chinese on these platforms are that says, “It is I who knocked down the together, walk towards each other, and try celebrating and praising Trump’s decision. Chinese stock markets.” Chinese leader Xi flation. to reach a mutually beneficial agreement One tweet by user “Swedenhermit,” Jinping appears looking somewhat help- 4. The CCP is eager to make peace with based on mutual respect,” Geng was quoted translated from the original Chinese, reads: less and lost. the United States to prevent foreign funds as saying. “What I can tell you here is, that “After Trump tweeted about raising tariffs from escaping China. the Chinese delegation is preparing to go (on Chinese goods), Chinese netizens on Analysis Qin Peng said he agrees with Cao Ji’s Twitter are all celebrating and praising this. According to Cao Ji, a former professor views and that the CCP has no way to fight CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES I also sincerely hope that this negotiation at a university in Shanghai who currently back. will fail and tariffs will be raised (as an- lives in Taiwan, Trump suddenly decided At a recent “Committee of Present Dan- nounced by Trump). I also hope that more to accelerate the trade war for the follow- ger: China” event in Washington, Rep. Scott tariffs will be imposed on all remaining ing reasons: Perry (R-Pa.) said he believes that Trump untaxed goods. Thus, the Chinese Com- 1. U.S. stock markets have gone too high should go beyond trade itself. munist Party will run out of money soon. and need to be corrected so that the Fed can “I do applaud this president. Like I said, Even if these things really happen, regard- decide to cut rates and restart quantitative he’s gone further than any in modern his- ing Trump, I still want to say, ‘Tactically, he easing in June. tory regarding China,” Perry said, “How- is very smart; but strategically, he is not as 2. The United States will soon roll out a $2 ever, we also should be mindful of the great as people expect him to be.’ He is an trillion infrastructure plan. By accelerating time that this president has. ... We expect ‘America First’ president. All his attacks are the trade war with China, Trump can effec- immediate results. We can’t even wait for for the purpose of defense. However, as long tively prevent the CCP from participating this trade deal.” as he perseveres to the end, that’s enough!” in this plan. Perry said with the CCP’s “you might Some other Chinese netizens are posting 3. Bothered with the difficulties caused have the watch, but we’ve got the time” memes about Trump on Facebook. by an outbreak of African swine fever and mentality, the United States needs to adopt President Donald Trump at the White One meme was created based on a famous economic downturn, the CCP is eager to very robust and more significant actions to House on May 6, 2019. CCP propaganda image depicting Chair- make concessions to prevent further in- force China into good behavior.

Pakistan Busts Prostitution Ring That Sent Young Christian Women to China

K.M. CHAUDARY/AP PHOTO LAHORE, Pakistan—Pakistani are often a front for human trafficking. authorities have arrested 12 suspected Last month the embassy said China members of prostitution ring taking He said several gangs was cooperating with Pakistani law young Pakistani women to China, part enforcement agencies to crack down on of a growing human trafficking problem were believed to be illegal matchmaking. It denied reports often based on fake marriages, officials that the women were being trafficked for said on May 6. operating, mainly the sale of their organs. Those arrested included eight Chinese targeting members of Ahmad said a police raid he led on nationals and four Pakistanis, said Jameel a wedding ceremony last week in the Ahmad, a top official at Pakistan’s Federal Pakistan’s Christian eastern city of Faisalabad was a major Investigation Agency (FIA), which deals breakthrough in the investigation. with human trafficking. minority. He said a man and a woman from China “We busted the gang after the FIA and a fake priest were arrested at the received information about increasing ceremony where a Christian girl was to smuggling of Pakistani woman to China be married. where they are thrown into prostitution,” “The gang members confessed that Ahmad told Reuters. they have sent at least 36 Pakistani girls He said several gangs were believed to allegations were disturbingly similar to China where they are being used for be operating, mainly targeting members to the pattern of trafficking of “brides” prostitution,” he said. The majority were of Pakistan’s Christian minority. to China from at least five other Asian Christians from different districts in The arrests came a week after Human countries. eastern Punjab province, he said. Rights Watch said Pakistan should be Muqadas Ashraf who was married off by her parents to a Chinese The Chinese embassy in Islamabad alarmed by recent reports of trafficking man when she was 16 speaks to The Associated Press in Gujranwala, has also raised the alarm over illegal, By Mubasher Bukhari of women and girls to China. It said the Pakistan, on April 14, 2019. cross-border matchmaking services that From Reuters

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SUBSCRIBE TODAY 02 8988 5600 MAY 9-15, 2019 CHINA | A5 Images Show Construction on China’s Third and Largest Aircraft Carrier: Analysts

CSIS/CHINAPOWER/MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES 2019/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS HONG KONG/BEIJING—Construction is consistent with what is expected for the of China’s first full-sized aircraft carrier People’s Liberation Army Navy’s third is well underway, according to satellite aircraft carrier,” said CSIS’s ChinaPower images obtained and analyzed by a U.S. analysis, published to its website on May 7. think tank. CSIS analyst Matthew Funaiole told The images from April, provided to Reuters that images taken in late 2018 were Reuters by the Center for Strategic and inconclusive, but now the work underway International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, is clear. reveal considerable recent activity during “From what we can see there has been a the past six months on a large vessel at the lot of activity in the last six months or so,” Jiangnan shipyard outside Shanghai. he said. “It would appear that it is the third China has not formally confirmed it is carrier, and if it is not, it’s hard to envisage building a third carrier, despite recent hints what other large vessel it would be.” in state media, and the timing and extent The Pentagon’s annual report on China’s of its carrier program remain state secrets. military modernization, issued last May 3, The Pentagon said last week that work noted that the third carrier would probably had begun, but no images have emerged be larger than the first two and fitted with until now. a catapult launch system to accelerate Both Asian and Western militaries and aircraft during takeoff. regional security analysts are seeking “This design will enable it to support information on the carrier, which is additional fighter aircraft, fixed-wing expected to be China’s first large, modern early-warning aircraft, and more rapid platform capable of leading a full range of flight operations,” the report said. strike group operations. Funaiole and other analysts said it was The effort to build a large, locally designed unclear what kind of catapult—traditional carrier is seen as a core part of China’s steam-powered or a more cutting-edge A satellite image shows what appears to be the construction of a third Chinese aircraft carrier at the Jiangnan extensive military modernization drive. electromagnetic system—would be used. Shipyard in Shanghai, China on April 17, 2019. The CSIS images show a bow section that It also remains unclear whether the Type appears to end with a flat 98-foot front and 002 would be nuclear-powered. China has China’s first two carriers are relatively month, Chinese state media said the ship a separate hull section 41 meters (134.5 10 nuclear-powered submarines, but so far small, with space for only up to 25 aircraft, “is starting to play a combat role following feet) wide, with gantry cranes looming no surface ships with nuclear propulsion; less than half the number aboard U.S. recent modifications and intensive training overhead. some analysts think China is not ready to Once completed, it will carriers, and have jump ramps built into exercises.” That suggests a vessel, which China has make that step. their bows. That configuration limits not The second carrier has been undergoing dubbed Type 002, somewhat smaller than Singapore-based regional security analyst outclass any warship just the types of aircraft that can fly off sea trials from its base in northern Dalian 110,000-ton U.S. carriers but larger than Ian Storey said a full-sized carrier would from any Asian country, them, but how much weaponry and fuel and is not expected to enter service until France’s 46,800-ton Charles de Gaulle, make some of China’s neighbors nervous including India and Japan. they can carry. 2020. analysts say. and highlight the importance of their Its first carrier, the Liaoning, was China’s state media have quoted experts Fabrication halls the size of several soccer strategic relationship with the United States. IAN STOREY a Soviet-era Ukrainian ship bought as saying China needs at least six carriers. pitches have been built nearby, and work “Once completed, it will outclass any ISEAS YUSOF ISHAK INSTITUTE secondhand in 1998 and refitted in China. A The United States operates 11 carriers. appears to be continuing on a floodable warship from any Asian country, including REGIONAL SECURITY ANALYST still-unnamed second carrier based on that China’s Ministry of Defense did not basin, possibly to float the finished hull into India and Japan,” said Storey, of the ISEAS design, launched in 2017, was built locally. respond to a request for comment. the nearby Yangtze River estuary. Yusof Ishak Institute. “It is yet another The Liaoning had been seen as more of a “While details regarding the Type 002 indication that China has emerged as Asia’s training platform for teaching personnel By Greg Torode & Ben Blanchard are limited, what is observable at Jiangnan paramount naval power.” the tricky art of carrier operations. But last From Reuters

Father Behind $6.5 Million Payment to Get Daughter Police Surveillance App Targets 36 Types Into Stanford Has Close Ties to Chinese Regime of ‘Problematic’ People in Xinjiang

NICOLE HAO JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES NICOLE HAO The father of a Chinese student who was A surveillance app used by Chinese Authorities have created a system recently revealed to have gained admission authorities in the northwestern province of to Stanford University in California through Xinjiang designates 36 types of people who that considers individuals suspicious a reported bribery payment of $6.5 million is may be tagged for investigation and sent to based on broad and dubious criteria, a billionaire who has close ties to the Beijing internment camps as part of the regime’s and then generates lists of people regime. suppression of Turkic Muslims in the region, to be evaluated by officials for The student’s father, Zhao Tao, one of Chi- according to a Human Rights Watch report. na’s entrepreneur billionaires, works closely In a report published May 1, Human detention. with the Chinese Communist Party’s United Rights Watch analyzed a mobile app used Front Work Department, an agency that ral- by Xinjiang authorities to collect personal HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH lies Chinese abroad to promote Beijing’s in- information from Uyghur Muslims and terests. Meanwhile, his business or former other Muslim minorities, file reports on employees have been convicted at least seven activities they find suspicious, and carry out Private Networks, and foreign messaging times of bribing local Chinese officials. investigations on people the system flags as apps such as Viber, WhatsApp, and Telegram. problematic. “In Xinjiang, authorities have created a Statements From Parents The app is linked to the Integrated Joint system that considers individuals suspicious Zhao Yusi, 19, also known as Molly, be- Operations Platform (IJOP), one of the main based on broad and dubious criteria, and then gan studying at Stanford University in 2017. The Stanford logo is displayed on a track on the Stanford University systems the regime uses for mass surveillance generates lists of people to be evaluated by She was expelled on April 2 after revelations campus in California on March 12, 2019. in the region. According to the report, the officials for detention,” the report said. emerged that college consultant William IJOP system surveils and collects data on “Rick” Singer—the central figure in the U.S. the millions of Xinjiang residents through Cases college admissions scandal—after receiving ports, Buchang Pharma has participated in CCTV cameras, some of which have facial Human Rights Watch interviewed several bribes from her parents, arranged for Zhao Beijing’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initia- recognition or night-vision capabilities, a vast Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities who to be accepted by claiming that she was a tive since at least 2015 by donating medicine Zhao Tao is vice chairman network of checkpoints, and through “Wi-Fi shared their experience being monitored by competitive sailor fit for the school’s sail- and medical care to participant countries. of the China Overseas sniffers,” which collect unique identifying the IJOP platform. ing program. The initiative is the Chinese regime’s flag- addresses of computers, and smartphones. A former detainee identified only as Ehmet Singer was charged in federal court in ship project for building geopolitical clout Chinese Entrepreneurs With data mined in this system, the IJOP was released in 2017, but soon found out Massachusetts, pleaded guilty, and has through investments in countries through- Association, a Chinese can then identify “problematic” people for that he was banned from leaving his local cooperated with authorities in gathering out Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, and regime front group. investigation and detention in the region’s area. “When I tried going out of the region, incriminating evidence against co-conspir- Latin America. sprawling network of internment camps, my ID would [make a sound] at police ators, consisting of parents, school coaches, Zhao Tao is also vice chairman of the the report said. checkpoints....I was blacklisted.” and testing instructors. China Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs The U.S. State Department and rights Alim was released from a police detention Zhao’s father, Zhao Tao, is the richest man Association (COCEA), a group that on its groups estimate that more than 1 million center after spending several weeks there on in Shandong Province. He currently lives surface promotes ethnic Chinese entrepre- Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities are charges of “disturbing social order.” Alim in Beijing. After the revelations about his neurs operating outside China. being detained in such camps, where they told Human Rights Watch that while visiting daughter, he published a statement on his In fact, the group’s website clearly states are forced to undergo political indoctrination a mall, a nearby alarm went off. The police company’s website on May 3: “I’m the ac- that COCEA is led by the Overseas Chinese and renounce their faith. Former detainees escorted him to the local police station right tual controller of Buchang Pharma, and I Affairs Office of the State Council—which is, have recounted torture, abuse, and rape in away. “The police told me: ‘Just don’t go to hereby state that my daughter studying in in turn, an agency of the United Front Work the facilities. any public places.’” the United States is only a private action of Department. The United Front uses front The Chinese regime has justified the For Nur, his status as a foreign national my family, and the funding has no relation organizations such as COCEA to promote detention and mass surveillance using the upon fleeing Xinjiang means his family with Buchang Pharma.” Beijing’s interests and execute its orders. pretext of combating terrorism. members back home are also implicated: The company didn’t respond to a request In June 2017, Buchang Pharma posted a “[My family] said their ID cards have been for comment at press time. photo of Zhao Tao with U.S. President Don- IJOP App making noise when going through the On May 2, the student’s mother, Zhao ald Trump and first lady Melania Trump. The rights organization said it was able to checkpoints ever since I was taken away [by Xiaohong, sent a statement in both English The company wrote in the post that Zhao reverse-engineer the IJOP app to allow it to police].” and Chinese via her Hong Kong lawyer Vin- Tao was there to promote the OBOR initia- examine the type of personal information it The IJOP platform is itself against cent W.C. Law to the state-run newspaper tive in the United States. collects, and identify the kinds of behavior the Chinese constitution and laws. The Beijing Youth Daily, in which Mrs. Zhao and people the authorities target. constitution guarantees people’s “privacy claimed that her daughter entered Stan- Shady Business The app collects a wide range of personal of correspondence,” while laws stipulate ford through ordinary channels, and that Zhao’s company has also engaged in brib- information, including a person’s blood type, that only criminal investigators can collect she donated $6.5 million to Singer in order ery. According to information on an online height “down to the precise centimeter,” and suspects’ DNA samples and phone numbers to support his charity. Prosecutors have said court docket database run by China’s su- the color and make of their car, the report upon obtaining a “search warrant.” Singer used his Key Worldwide Foundation preme court, Buchang Pharma was involved said. The information then is fed into the IJOP to run the scheme. in bribery at least seven times from 2015 to system and linked to the person’s national JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES “Mrs. Zhao has come to realize she has 2018. Five of the cases involve sales represen- identification card number. been misled, her generosity has been taken tatives of Buchang Pharma bribing hospital The report also found that the app identifies advantage of, and her daughter has fallen presidents or doctors to sell its medicines. 36 types of people considered “suspicious.” victim to the scam,” the statement said. Buchang’s representatives paid sums rang- These include seemingly innocuous behavior ing from 60,000 to 110,000 yuan ($13,000 such as “returned from abroad,” “does not A Regime-Friendly Company to $23,000) each time. socialize with neighbors,” “seldom uses According to Buchang Pharma’s annual In a court verdict by the Beijing First In- front door,” “collected money or materials report, its revenue was 13.66 billion yuan termediate People’s Court, Zheng Xiaoyou, for mosques with enthusiasm,” or “household ($2.03 billion) in 2018, with profit of 1.9 bil- a former director at China’s Food and Drug uses an abnormal amount of electricity.” lion yuan ($280 million). The company listed Administration from 1998 to 2006, was The app also alerts authorities to carry out on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2016. found guilty of accepting bribes from Bu- “investigative missions” into people flagged Zhao Tao, 53, is chairman of Buchang chang Pharma. In exchange, Zheng would as problematic, which involves gathering Pharma. After the college admissions scan- help the company get its “Brain and Heart even more personal information. dal emerged, photos began circulating on Vessel Cleaning” medicine approved. During one such mission, an official may be A policeman gesturing as Muslims the Chinese internet of Zhao Tao meeting Zheng was sentenced to death in May required, for example, to check the person’s arrive at the Id Kah Mosque in the old with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. 2007. But the company and Zhao haven’t phone and log whether they use any of the 51 town of Kashgar, in the Xinjiang region According to multiple Chinese media re- received any penalties. “suspicious” internet tools, including Virtual of China, on June 26, 2017. A6 | US MAY 9-15, 2019 Grey’s Anatomy Star Isaiah Washington Calls for Los Angelenos to #WalkAway

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LOS ANGELES—Almost one year after the launch of a social media campaign to Washington said his encourage people to leave the Democratic political views and verbal Party, #WalkAway founder Brandon Straka hosted a town hall targeting black support of President Americans in downtown Los Angeles on Donald Trump have had May 1. “It’s really up to us I think to reclaim the an impact on his acting narrative, which has been hijacked by the left that anybody’s who’s not a liberal and work in Hollywood. anyone who’s not a Democrat is a racist, a bigot, a homophobe, a sexist, a monster, and supports the second coming of Hitler,” million people who are Republicans, who said Straka at the event. did vote for the president?” Actor Isaiah Washington joined the panel Villa said that, fortunately, she has been discussion at the event, which also included blessed for her bravery at the Grammys singer Joy Villa, rapper Anomaly, author and that her music quickly hit No. 1 on the Angela Stanton-King, radio host Jesse Lee charts. Peterson, and Pasadena mayoral candidate While she does experience other hassles Major Williams. They discussed their own because of her views, she said it’s been stories of walking away after a screening completely worthwhile. of the movement’s short film, “The Great “Every time I step out, every time I tweet, Awakening: Breaking the Chains of the I do get death threats. That’s the reality,” Democratic Party.” she said. “But the freedom I feel is unreal. The former “Grey’s Anatomy” star said he I would never go back to being closeted walked away from the liberal establishment anything. You’re never free if you’re holding in 1980. But he said he’s always been a little yourself back.” rebellious. Straka said more events will come “I like being contrarian,” he said. “I love up soon, including the anniversary of it. I like going left when everybody wants the #WalkAway campaign at Trump me to go right, I like going right when International Hotel in Washington from everybody’s going left.” May 17 to 19. Washington said his political views and Isaiah Washington in Los spirited, and a bit toxic.” The hairdresser and actor from New York verbal support of President Donald Trump Angeles on March 2, 2016. “I’m not really sure where the animus “I said I have to go 100 percent, because City emphasized that the events were not have had an impact on his acting work in is coming from,” he told Fox. “Especially once I commit, I commit,” she said during only for people planning to abandon the Hollywood. when you have someone like myself and the event. “This man, what he’s saying is liberal ideology. “I just was given a wonderful job recently,” Brandon who are only trying to help truth and he’s fighting for all Americans. “I don’t want to do an echo chamber,” he he said, “[but] they were concerned about people.” And it’s unfair what they say to him and said at the event. “I want to actually engage my politics. I wasn’t sure if I was just going Villa said she walked away from the unfair what they say about him. in open dialogue. I want to hear from to be bought out of my contract and they’d liberal establishment more recently “If they say that about the president, Democrats and liberals, and I want to have tell me to stay home.” than Washington but just in time to vote who’s a billionaire, who they loved just a a conversation and have a chance to say our Washington told Fox Business at the for Trump in 2016. She said she didn’t even few short years ago, right, what are they piece and listen to people say their piece event that he originally decided to join the tell her family she was a Trump supporter going to say about me? What are they going and have an open and respectful dialogue, #WalkAway campaign because Democrats until she wore her famous Make America to say about you? What are they really because I think that’s really missing in have become “a bit over-the-top, mean Great Again dress to the 2017 Grammys. saying about Americans and the over 65 America right now.”

Nunes Seeks Documents on Maltese Professor Moore Explains Why He Withdrew at Genesis of Russia Probe From Consideration for Federal Reserve

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House Intelligence Committee ranking Economist Stephen Moore said on May member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is looking 6 that he withdrew from consideration to learn more about Joseph Mifsud, the for the Federal Reserve because his I was surprised that the left was so mysterious Maltese professor whose voluminous controversial comments over stirred up by this. statements reportedly trace back to the years would make him an easy target the origin of the FBI’s Russia-collusion for Senate Democrats. STEPHEN MOORE investigation. “I withdrew because it was going to be ECONOMIST Nunes wrote a letter on May 3 to the heads death by a thousand cuts,” Moore told The of the FBI, CIA, the State Department, and Epoch Times. “I have a 2000-page paper the National Security Agency requesting all trail and 500 speeches. I’ve given hundreds documents related to Mifsud. and hundreds of media appearances and it booms and busts. The central bank has In the indictment against Trump was just too easy. I was too easy a target for failed to prevent several major booms campaign aide George Papadopoulos, the left to pick out things that I had said.” and busts since its creation. Critics of the special counsel Robert Mueller portrayed President Donald Trump announced Fed suggest its policies may have resulted Mifsud as a Russian asset. In the letter, Nunes on May 2 that Moore had withdrawn in the booms and busts it was created to points to evidence of Mifsud’s extensive ties House Select Committee on Intelligence ranking member Devin his confirmation. At the time of the prevent. to Western governments and intelligence, Nunes (R-Calif.) confers with Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) (back withdrawal, none of the Republican In 2018, Trump repeatedly criticized the including the U.S. Department of State and to camera) during a hearing concerning 2016 Russian interference senators explicitly opposed his Federal Reserve for raising interest rates. the FBI. Nunes argues that Mifsud’s true tactics in the U.S. elections, on Capitol Hill, on March 28, 2019. nomination, but a handful expressed The president has said that the central allegiance should be ascertained. concern. Less than two weeks prior bank is a bigger problem than China and “If Mifsud has extensive, suspicious closely connected to some elements within to Moore’s withdrawal, Herman Cain, the biggest problem facing the United contacts among Russian officials as the Italian intelligence services.” another Trump loyalist, also withdrew States economy. Moore called on the chair portrayed in the Special Counsel’s report, Nunes also points to open-source evidence Alternately, if Mifsud from consideration. of the Federal Reserve to resign after the then an incredibly wide range of Western showing Mifsud’s ties to government is not, in fact, a Moore said he was surprised by central bank raised interest rates again institutions and individuals may have been officials and organizations in Malta, counterintelligence the opposition he triggered from the in December. compromised by him, including our own Slovenia, the United Kingdom, Qatar, and Democrats and establishment media. In late April, Trump called on the Fed State Department,” Nunes wrote. the United States. threat, then that would “I was surprised that the left was so to cut interest rates by 1 percent. Moore “Alternately, if Mifsud is not, in fact, The special counsel interviewed Mifsud cast doubt on the Special stirred up by this. It actually is a little bit believes a 0.25 percent cut to reverse the a counterintelligence threat, then that in February 2017, more than six months Counsel’s fundamental flattering really,” Moore said. hike in October 2018 is appropriate. would cast doubt on the Special Counsel’s after starting an investigation for which he “I think they were worried that I would While he regrets to not be able to “change fundamental depiction of him and his served as the origin. Mueller’s report alleges depiction of him and be able to persuade the folks that govern the world” through his service on the Fed, activities, and raise questions about the that Mifsud lied to the investigators during his activities, and raise over there of the fact that we need a new Moore said he is still happy where he is. veracity of the Special Counsel’s statements that interview. Unlike Papadopoulos—who questions about the model and a way they could really promote “I thought maybe I could, but I’m going and affirmations.” served time in prison for lying to the FBI veracity of the Special free enterprise and stable prices,” he to continue to fight like hell to make sure In April 2016, Mifsud told Papadopoulos about his contacts with Mifsud—the special added. “I do feel a little bit sad about that that Donald Trump gets reelected because I that Russia had dirt on rival presidential counsel never charged Mifsud with a crime Counsel’s statements because I think the Fed has made a lot of think it really is the most important thing candidate Hillary Clinton in the form for lying to the bureau about his contacts and affirmations. mistakes and those are unforced errors for our country right now,” he said. of thousands of emails. Weeks later, with Papadopoulos. that do damage to the economy.” Moore believes the opposition to his Papadopoulos repeated that claim to Nunes points to the relatively late date of REP. DEVIN NUNES The White House was considering nomination was fueled by opponents of Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, the FBI’s interview with Mifsud to ask how additional candidates for the Federal Trump who don’t want the president to who then passed the information to the FBI knew to question Papadopoulos Reserve before Cain and Moore withdrew. succeed. U.S. authorities. The FBI, in turn, used about Clinton’s emails repeatedly in 2016 Moore believes Trump can still successfully “I’ve been more right than I had been this conversation between Downer and and 2017. Papadopoulos vehemently nominate a loyalist and critic of the Fed. wrong on the economy and they don’t Papadopoulos as the reason to start the denies having told Downer anything about “It wasn’t so much my criticism of the want Trump to be successful,” Moore Russia investigation, according to the final Clinton’s emails, claiming he had only Fed,” Moore said. “It was controversial said. “They’re threatened by these ideas report by the special counsel. mentioned to the Australian diplomat that things I said about my divorce and things of letting the Fed adopt the policy of stable The special counsel finished his Russians had “dirt” on the former secretary like that.” prices. And if you put that on top of tax investigation in March, concluding that of state. Trump is considering “excellent cuts and less regulation and a pro-business there is no evidence of collusion between Nunes suggests the FBI could only be people” for the post who have similar atmosphere in Washington, the sky is the the Trump campaign and Russia. The final posing questions about emails if the bureau “philosophical grounding” to himself, limit in terms of how much this economy report shows that Mueller’s team did not find “already somehow received the information Moore said. He suggested that Judy can grow.” any evidence that Papadopoulos informed directly or indirectly from Mifsud himself.” Shelton, an economic adviser to Trump, GAGE SKIDMORE/CC BY-SA 2.0 the campaign about what he learned from On May 2, The New York Times is an ideal nominee. Mifsud. identified a second spy who approached “I think she’s just fantastic. She’d be Nunes points out that Mueller’s final the Trump campaign in 2016. The woman, better than me on the Fed, frankly. She’s report includes many details on Mifsud’s whose pseudonym is Azra Turk, asked an expert on monetary policy,” Moore ties to Russia but omits entirely the trove Papadopoulos in London whether the said. “Judy would be an excellent choice.” of evidence on Mifsud’s extensive ties to Trump campaign was working with Russia. Similar to Trump, Moore, and Cain, Western governments and intelligence. For Turk pretended to be an aide to Stefan Shelton is a critic of the Federal Reserve’s example, the special counsel’s report cites Halper, the professor identified last year as current monetary policy. She wrote an an article by The Guardian to establish that an FBI spy. op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on April Papadopoulos met Mifsud at Link Campus The letter by Nunes is part of several 21 arguing for a system in which the value University in Rome. The report quotes the inquiries looking at the origins of the FBI’s of the dollar is pegged to gold or another Guardian to describe the university as “a investigation of the Trump campaign. reliable commodity. Trump believes the for-profit institution headed by a former Attorney General William Barr, Justice gold standard is superior to the current fiat government official,” but omits reporting Department Inspector General Michael currency system maintained by the Fed. from the same article suggesting that the Horowitz, and the Senate Judiciary Congress established the Fed to keep Author Stephen Moore at a fundraiser university “had a reputation for being Committee are conducting related inquiries. inflation in check and prevent economic in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Oct. 1, 2016. MAY 9-15, 2019 US | A7

SAMIRA BOUAOU/THE EPOCH TIMES interviewing several black Trump supporters. Trump Denounces “So great to watch this!” Trump said. Facebook, Twitter Who’s ‘Dangerous’? A Facebook spokesperson explained that part of the reason Jones, Yiannopoulos, Loomer, Censorship and Watson were banned was that they interviewed or publicly PETR SVAB “How can it be possible praised Gavin McInnes, Tommy that James Woods (and many Robinson, and/or Faith Goldy—all President Donald Trump others), a strong but responsible previously labeled as “dangerous” came to the defense of popular Conservative Voice, is banned by Facebook. conservative commentators from Twitter?” Trump said in Facebook Community who have been censored by tech another tweet. “Social Media & Standards prohibit content that companies in a series of 13 tweets Fake News Media, together with “supports” individuals and groups and retweets between May 3 and their partner, the Democrat Party, marked “dangerous,” but there May 4 after Facebook banned have no idea the problems they are seems to be no written policy several influential figures from causing for themselves. VERY to ban accounts of people who its social media platforms the UNFAIR!” express such support. previous day. Trump repeatedly has accused The spokesperson also indicated Trump warned that he is social media companies of having that even people who don’t call for monitoring “the censorship of a bias against conservatives. violence or engage in “organized AMERICAN CITIZENS on social While Silicon Valley’s workforce hate” can be labeled “dangerous” media platforms.” is known to lean overwhelmingly by Facebook, but didn’t explain “This is the United States of left, the companies have denied what part of the Community America—and we have what’s the workers’ political biases seep Standards informs users of such known as FREEDOM OF SPEECH!” into their content policing. a risk or how to avoid it. Facebook he said. “We are monitoring and However, there is mounting looks at different indicators, the watching, closely!!” evidence to the contrary. The President Donald Trump speaks at the CPAC convention in National Harbor, Md., on March 2, 2019. spokesperson said, including He also reposted commentary activity on Facebook and in real on the alleged censorship life, to make the determinations. from several prominent right- NOAH BERGER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES McInnes, co-founder of Vice wing figures, including The Social Media & Fake News Because I dare criticize a belief magazine, is a comedian and Daily Wire Executive Producer Media, together with their system.” the founder of the somewhat Jeremy Boreing, journalist partner, the Democrat Party, Watson is a chief reporter at satirical Proud Boys men’s club and activist Lauren Southern, have no idea the problems they InfoWars who, in recent years, that describes itself as “Western and commentator Paul Joseph are causing for themselves. has focused on critiquing chauvinists,” a term coined by Watson—who were among those postmodernist culture. Videos on McInnes to mean “a proud and purged by Facebook. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP his YouTube channel have been unabashed proponent of Western “So surprised to see viewed more than 380 million Civilization.” Conservative thinkers like James companies’ intensifying focus on times. Some of its members go to Woods banned from Twitter, banning “hate speech” is itself a “The support for me has been right-wing rallies and events to and Paul Watson banned from partisan position, based on the incredible,” he said in a May 4 “do free security for conservative Facebook!” Trump said in another 2017 Cato survey, which showed tweet shared by the president. speakers,” its website says. Some tweet. that Democrats were much more “This could actually lead to some members have been involved in Woods, a Hollywood actor and likely to call a variety of statements genuine change. Keep up the fights with members of violent producer who is politically vocal “hateful,” while Republicans were pressure. Don’t let it rest.” leftist groups such as Antifa. on Twitter, discovered his account more likely to call them “offensive, Alex Jones’s InfoWars news and Robinson is a British activist was suspended over a tweet of but not hateful.” commentary channel were kicked advocating for UK sovereignty, his that advocated for the death off Facebook, Twitter, iTunes, lower immigration, and against penalty for those who commit Lumping Conservatives With Facebook’s “War Room” in Menlo Park, Calif., on Oct. 17, 2018. YouTube, and other platforms Islam. Last year, he was jailed for treason. Terrorists last year. Facebook has now also 13 months over alleged contempt “‘If you try to kill the King, you Facebook said on May 2 that it removed his personal profile, of court for live-streaming outside better not miss.’ #HangThemAll,” was banning InfoWars founder events associated with the banned label to describe individuals and and is apparently removing any an ongoing court case involving he said, adopting a quote from Alex Jones, right-wing speaker individuals, both on its core social groups involved in terrorism, InfoWars content, even posted by accused Muslim child-rape 19th-century U.S. poet and Milo Yiannopoulos, conservative network and its photo-sharing mass or serial murder, organized other users. gangs. He was released on bail philosopher Ralph Waldo journalist and activist Laura app, Instagram. It says it bans any crime, human trafficking, and Jones, a longtime radio host, after an appeal judge decided the Emerson. 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JEFF CARLSON as fumbling a major corruption case and “hindering an investigation into two As Ukraine underwent dramatic changes high-ranking state prosecutors arrested in 2014, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden played on corruption charges.” a critical role in the Obama administration’s The United States pushed for Shokin’s involvement in the revolution that ousted removal, and Biden led the effort by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. personally threatening to withhold $1 Following the revolution, Biden would billion in loan guarantees. In an interview use his influence to help force the creation with The Atlantic, Biden recalled telling of the troubled National Anti-Corruption Poroshenko: “Petro, you’re not getting Bureau (NABU). Notably, during the 2016 your billion dollars. It’s OK, you can keep election campaign, information leaked the [prosecutor] general. Just understand— from NABU about Trump campaign we’re not paying if you do.” Shokin was manager Paul Manafort that helped to removed by Poroshenko shortly thereafter, create the false narrative that Trump in early 2016. colluded with Russia to win the election. But according to reporting by The Hill, Biden also would use the threat of at the time of his firing, Shokin had withholding $1 billion in U.S. loan been investigating Burisma. Shokin’s guarantees to pressure Ukrainian President investigation into Burisma had previously Petro Poroshenko to fire the prosecutor been disclosed in June 2017, by Front News general. At the time, the prosecutor had International. been investigating Burisma, a Ukrainian Burisma is owned by Nikolai Zlochevsky natural gas giant that had appointed (also known as Mykola Zlochevsky), the Biden’s son, Hunter, as a board member. former minister of ecology for Ukraine. President Donald Trump’s personal According to Front News, Zlochevsky lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, recently said, issued a “special permit for the extraction “Keep your eye on Ukraine.” In his of a third of the gas produced in Ukraine” comments to the Washington Examiner, to his own company, Burisma. Giuliani highlighted the “plot to create an According to the Ukrainian nonprofit investigation of President Trump, based Anti Corruption Action Center, Zlochevsky on a false charge of conspiracy with the owns 38 permits held by 14 different Russians to affect the 2016 elections.” companies—with Burisma accounting for the majority with 33 of the permits. JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Zlochevsky left Ukraine after Yanukovych fled to Russia during the Ukrainian Revolution known as Euromaidan. Then-Vice President Joe “Two cases regarding the extraction Leshchenko also served as a source for Biden (L) and Ukrainian of licenses by Zlochevsky’s companies various individuals, including journalist Investigation Into Burisma then-Prime Minister and embezzlement of public funds at Michael Isikoff and Democratic National In the spring of 2014, the Ukrainian Arseniy Yatsenyuk the ministry’s procurements during Committee (DNC) operative Alexandra Prosecutor General’s Office opened an following talks in Kyiv, on Zlochevsky’s Ministerial tenure remain Chalupa. In addition, Leshchenko served investigation at the behest of the UK Dec. 7, 2015. active and are investigated by NABU.” as a direct source of information for Fusion prosecutors office, which was investigating They also claim that “none of the criminal GPS—and its researcher, former CIA money laundering allegations against proceedings against Burisma were closed contractor Nellie Ohr. Zlochevsky and had just frozen $23.5 by NABU.” They acknowledged that the case Another Ukrainian-related meeting million in assets allegedly belonging to concerning illegal issuance of licenses to also took place in January 2016 when him in early April 2014. Shokin, who extract natural resources were transferred Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American, informed wasn’t appointed as general prosecutor to NABU in December 2015, but claim that an unknown senior DNC official that she until February 2015, wasn’t yet involved SAP missed procedural deadlines for a believed there was a Russian connection in the case. lawsuit on canceling those licenses. with the Trump campaign. Notably, this Ukrainian businessman Victor Pinchuk Ukrainian prosecutors refused to provide The politics within Ukraine are extremely theme would be picked up by the Clinton in Paris on March 27, 2013. the UK with needed documents, and in complicated, and corruption is endemic, campaign in the summer of 2016. Chalupa January 2015, a British court ordered the often leading to conflicting accounts of also told the official to expect Manafort’s Obama Administration’s 2014 assets unfrozen. This action was pointedly events. involvement in the Trump campaign. Involvement called out in a speech by Pyatt, who stated, How Chalupa knew to expect Manafort’s On or shortly before Feb. 4, 2014, “In the case of former Ecology Minister US Pressure to Investigate Manafort involvement with the Trump campaign Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary Mykola Zlochevsky, the UK authorities In January 2016, top Ukrainian in January remains unknown, but her for European and Eurasian affairs in had seized $23 million in illicit assets that corruption prosecutors and officials from forecast proved prescient, as Manafort the Obama State Department, had a belonged to the Ukrainian people.” Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), reached out to the Trump campaign conversation with the U.S. ambassador Instead of receiving cooperation from FBI, State Department and Department of shortly after, on Feb. 29, 2016, through a to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, which was Ukrainian prosecutors, they “sent letters Justice (DOJ) met in Washington, according mutual acquaintance, Thomas J. Barrack intercepted and leaked. to Zlochevsky’s attorneys attesting that to an April 26 article by The Hill. Jr. According to Manafort, he and Trump In the call, Nuland and Pyatt appeared there was no case against him. As a result, The meeting, which was reportedly billed hadn’t been in communication for years to be discussing the ouster of Yanukovych the money was freed by the UK court, and as “training,” apparently also touched on until the Trump campaign responded to and the installation of opposition leader shortly thereafter the money was moved two other matters—the revival of a closed Manafort’s offer. Arseniy Yatsenyuk as prime minister. to Cyprus.” investigation into payments to U.S. figures As The Epoch Times previously reported, Nuland favored opposition leader WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES from Ukraine’s Russia-backed Party of on May 30, 2016, Fusion GPS contractor Yatsenyuk over his main rivals Vitali Regions and the closure of an ongoing Nellie Ohr sent an email to her husband, Klitschko and Oleh Tyahnybok, telling Ukrainian investigation into Burisma. high-ranking DOJ official Bruce Ohr, and Pyatt: “I think Yats is the guy who’s got According to The Hill’s reporting, the three other DOJ officials to alert them of the economic experience, the governing Ukrainian Embassy confirmed that the discovery of the “Reported Trove of experience. He’s the ... what he needs is meetings were held, but said it “had no Documents on Ukrainian Party of Regions’ Klitschko and Tyahnybok on the outside.” record that the Party of Regions or Burisma ‘Black Cashbox.’” It was this discovery that Toward the end of the conversation, then- cases came up in the meetings.” led to Manafort’s resignation from the Vice President Biden was discussed as being A Jan. 22, 2016, NABU press release Trump campaign in August 2016. willing to help cement the changeover in confirmed that NABU Director Artem On Aug. 14, 2016, The New York Times Ukraine: Sytnyk was in Washington from Jan. 19 published an article alleging that payments Geoffrey Pyatt: “We want to try to to 21. to Manafort had been uncovered from the get somebody with an international At the same time as the NABU meeting Party of Regents’ “black box”—the 400- personality to come out here and help to with Obama officials, Vice President Biden page handwritten ledger released by midwife this thing. The other issue is some also met with senior Ukrainian officials. On Leshchenko. The article proved to be a fatal kind of outreach to Yanukovych, but we Jan. 21, 2016, Biden met with Poroshenko, blow for Manafort, who resigned from the probably regroup on that tomorrow as we the president of Ukraine. According to Trump campaign just days later. see how things start to fall into place.” the White House release, the two leaders Victoria Nuland: “So, on that piece Geoff, On Feb. 10, 2015, Shokin was appointed Paul Manafort, then- agreed “to continue to move forward on NABU Ties to FBI when I wrote the note [Biden’s national prosecutor general of Ukraine, and he campaign manager for Ukraine’s anti-corruption agenda.” Following the successful overthrow security adviser Jake] Sullivan’s come back picked up the investigation into Burisma, Just six days earlier, on Jan 15, 2016, Biden of Yanukovych, Joe Biden had a direct Republican presidential to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need which reportedly continued until his had met with Ukrainian Prime Minister hand in the formation of the National Biden, and I said probably tomorrow for formal resignation in February 2016. candidate Donald Trump, Volodymyr Groysman, promising to Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), as he an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] Around the same time that Zlochevsky’s at the Republican National commit $220 million in new assistance to personally “pushed for the creation of to stick. So Biden’s willing.” assets were being frozen in the UK, Convention in Cleveland on Ukraine that year. an independent anti-corruption bureau Nuland and Pyatt met with Ukrainian Burisma appointed Hunter Biden to July 17, 2016. Notably, several months later, Sytnyk and to combat graft,” according to an Oct. 30, opposition leaders Klitschko and its board on April 18, 2014. Hunter’s Ukrainian Member of Parliament Serhiy 2016, article by Foreign Policy. Yatsenyuk, along with then-President compensation had never been disclosed Leshchenko would publicly disclose the NABU was formally established in Yanukovych, just days later on Feb. 7, 2014. by Burisma, which is a private company, contents of the Ukrainian “black ledger” October 2014 in response to pressure Events then moved swiftly. On Feb. but Ryan Toohey, a Burisma spokesman, to the media, which implicated Trump’s from not only the U.S. State Department 22, 2014, Yanukovych was removed as told The New York Times that Biden’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort. The and Biden, but also by the International president of Ukraine and fled to Russia. compensation was “not out of the revelation would force Manafort from the Monetary Fund and the European On Feb. 27, 2014, Yatsenyuk, the candidate ordinary” for similar board positions. campaign. Commission. favored by Nuland, was installed as prime However, according to The Hill’s Despite the international push, the minister of Ukraine. Klitschko was left out. reporting, Hunter Biden’s firm, Rosemont SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES fledgling anti-corruption unit took more Notably, Yatsenyuk would later resign in Seneca Partners, was receiving regular than a year to actually become a functioning April 2016 amid corruption accusations. payments—“usually more than $166,000 unit. During this time, NABU officials a month”—from Burisma. The payments began establishing a relationship with the Biden’s Involvement in Ukraine ran from the spring of 2014 through the FBI. In early 2016, NABU Director Sytnyk In April, Biden would get personally fall of 2015 and reportedly totaled more announced that his bureau was very close involved, as would his son, Hunter. On than $3 million. to signing a memorandum of cooperation April 18, 2014, Hunter Biden was appointed The Hill article included a written with the FBI and by February 2016, the FBI to the board of directors for Burisma–one answer from Shokin, who told Solomon had had a permanent representative onsite of the largest natural gas companies in that his investigation into Burisma had at the NABU offices. Ukraine. included plans for “interrogations and On June 5, 2016, Sytnyk met with U.S. Four days later, on April 22, 2014, Vice other crime-investigation procedures Ambassador Pyatt to discuss a more President Biden traveled to Ukraine, into all members of the executive board, formalized relationship with the FBI and, offering his political support and $50 including Hunter Biden.” on June 30, 2016, NABU and the FBI entered million in aid for Yatsenyuk’s shaky new According to Ukrainian Prosecutor into a memorandum of understanding that government. Poroshenko, a billionaire General Yuriy Lutsenko, following allowed for an FBI office onsite at NABU politician, was elected as president of Shokin’s forced dismissal, the Burisma offices to focus on international money Ukraine on May 25, 2014. investigation was transferred to Sytnyk’s laundering cases. The relationship was Biden became close to both men and NABU, which then reportedly closed the renewed for an additional two years in helped Ukraine obtain a four-year, $17.5 investigation sometime in 2016. June 2017. billion IMF package in March 2015. The Kyiv Post on March 27 published an NABU has repeatedly refused to make In October 2016, Foreign Policy wrote editorial written by three members of the the memorandum of understanding with a lengthy article, “What Will Ukraine Anti-Corruption Action Center in Kyiv the FBI public and went to court in 2018 Do Without Uncle Joe,” which described that disputed Lutsenko’s interview with Ukrainian politician Serhiy Leshchenko holds pages showing allegedly to prevent its release. After receiving an Biden’s role in the removal of Ukraine’s The Hill. They claim that two cases relating signings of payments to Paul Manafort from a shadow accounting book unfavorable opinion from the Kyiv District general prosecutor, Victor Shokin. Shokin, to Burisma are still being investigated by of the party of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Kyiv, on Administrative Court, NABU appealed the choice of Poroshenko, was portrayed NABU: Aug. 19, 2016. the ruling, which was overturned in its MAY 9-15, 2019 US | A9

MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/GETTY IMAGES favor by the Sixth Administrative Court funds used to pay fees of Skadden in pro- of Appeal. ducing their report into the trial and con- Sytnyk, along with parliamentarian viction of Yulia Tymoshenko. He was in Leshchenko, became the subject of an no way responsible for those costs. Neither investigation in Ukraine and in December Mr. Pinchuk nor companies affiliated with 2018, a Kyiv court ruled that both men him have ever been a client of Skadden. “acted illegally when they revealed that Mr. Pinchuk and his team had no role in Manafort’s surname and signature were the work done by Skadden, including in found in the so-called black ledger of the preparation or dissemination of the ousted President Viktor Yanukovych’s Skadden report.” Party of Regions,” the Kyiv Post reported Pinchuk is the founder of Interpipe, a on Dec. 12, 2018. steel pipe manufacturer. He owns Credit The court noted the material was part of Dnipro Bank, several ferroalloy plants and a pre-trial investigation and its release “led a media empire. He is married to Elena to interference in the electoral processes of Pinchuk, the daughter of former Ukrai- the United States in 2016 and harmed the nian President Leonid Kuchma. interests of Ukraine as a state.” Pinchuk has been accused of profiting Leshchenko had publicly adopted a immensely from the purchase of state- strong anti-Trump stance, telling the owned assets at severely below-market Financial Times in August 2016 that “a prices through political favoritism. Trump presidency would change the pro- Between April 4 and April 12, 2016, Ukrainian agenda in American foreign Ukrainian parliamentarian Olga Bielkova policy” and that it was “important to had four meetings, with Samuel Charap show not only the corruption aspect, but (International Institute for Strategic that he is [a] pro-Russian candidate who Studies), Liz Zentos (National Security can break the geopolitical balance in the Council), Michael Kimmage (State De- world.” Leschenko noted that the majority partment), and David Kramer (McCain of Ukrainian politicians were “on Hillary Institute). Clinton’s side.” FARA documents filed by Schoen In December 2017, Ukrainian Prosecutor showed that he was paid $40,000 a month General Lutsenko accused Sytnyk of by Pinchuk—in part to arrange these meet- allowing the FBI to conduct illegal ings. operations in Ukraine, claiming that the Schoen attempted to arrange another 72 “U.S. law enforcers were allegedly invited meetings with congressmen and media. without the permission required and It’s unknown how many of these meet- in breach of the necessary procedures.” ings, if any, took place. Lutsenko continued by asking, “Who Schoen also helped Pinchuk establish actually let the foreign special service act ties with the Clinton Foundation. The Wall in Ukraine?” Street Journal reported on March 19, 2015, Taras Chornovil, a Ukrainian political how Schoen connected Pinchuk with se- analyst, also questioned the FBI’s activities, nior Clinton State Department staffers in writing that “some kind of undercover order to pressure former Ukrainian Presi- operations are being conducted in Ukraine dent Yanukovych to release Tymoshenko– with direct participation (or even under a political rival of Yanukovych–from jail. control) of the FBI. This means the FBI And the relationship between Pinchuk operatives could have access to classified and the Clintons continued. According data or confidential information.” Then-President Barack Obama and Ukraine’s then-President Petro Poroshenko during a U.N. Climate Change to the Kyiv Post: Lutsenko called for an audit of NABU, Conference in Le Bourget, outside Paris, on Nov. 30, 2015. “Clinton and her husband Bill, the 42nd claiming to “possess information U.S. president, have been paid speakers at of interest to the auditors” and the annual YES and other Pinchuk events. was pushing for Sytnyk’s assistance to #Ukraine, including security not included in the “Black Ledger” leak They describe themselves as friends of resignation, along with that assistance.” from Leshchenko and Sytnyk. Pinchuk, who is known internationally of Nazar Kholodnitskiy, the Sytnyk remains in his position as NABU’s The indictment notes that “a wealthy as a businessman and philanthropist.” Specialized Anti-Corruption director. private Ukrainian” was fully funding the Although exact numbers aren’t clear, Prosecutor’s Office (SAP). report. In a recent YouTube video, Craig reports filed by the Clinton Foundation According to reporting by Pinchuk’s Ties to Leshchenko, Clintons publicly stated that “it was Doug Schoen indicate that as much as $25 million of Euromaidan Press, Lutsenko’s On April 11, 2019, Greg Craig, Obama’s who brought this project to me, and he Pinchuk’s donations went to the Clinton efforts failed “thanks to the former White House counsel and a part- told me he was acting on behalf of Victor organization. reaction from Ukraine’s American ner at law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Pinchuk, who was a pro-western, Ukrai- Pinchuk also has ties to Leshchenko, partners.” Then-Assistant Meagher & Flom LLP, was indicted for nian businessman who helped to fund the the Ukrainian MP who leaked the infor- Michael Carpenter, an adviser to Joe Secretary lying about and concealing his work in project.” mation on Manafort. Leshchenko had Biden, personally issued a public warning of State for Ukraine. Craig, who reportedly worked “The Firm understood that its work was been a frequent speaker at the Ukrainian to Lutsenko and others pushing for Sytnyk’s closely with Manafort, was paid more than to be largely funded by Victor Pinchuk,” Breakfast, a traditional private event held European and removal, stating, “If the Rada votes to $4 million to produce an “independent” Skadden wrote in recent FARA filings. at Davos, Switzerland, and hosted by the dismiss the head of the Anticorruption Eurasian Affairs report justifying Ukraine’s trial and con- Pinchuk put out a statement on Jan. 21, Victor Pinchuk Foundation and has also Committee and the head of the NABU, I will Victoria Nuland. viction of the former prime minister, Yulia denying any financial involvement: been pictured with Pinchuk at multiple recommend cutting all U.S. government Tymoshenko. Notably, Craig’s name was “Mr. Pinchuk was not the source of any other events.

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Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used intellectual property theft, currency manipulation, state subsidies, tariffs, and manipulations of the legal system for decades to give Chinese companies an unfair edge over foreign companies. Behind this is its publicly stated goal to “catch up fast” and “surpass” the United States. Now that the Trump administration is meeting the challenge head-on to stop the CCP’s unfair trade practices, legacy news outlets have portrayed the idea of the “trade war” with China like it’s a new phenomenon. In reality, it’s a war that has been taking place for decades, but the United States has only now begun doing something about it. This historical amnesia has strategic value. For the CCP, it can use the public’s forgetfulness or lack of a clear understanding of its past to frame itself as the victim of a “Trump trade war.” And some of the legacy news outlets, which have a policy of absolute opposition to anything done by Trump, have been willing to play along with China’s charade to eliminate historical context. On April 28, the CCP pulled out a tactic to capitalize on the lack of clarity on its history of trade war: It simply denied it ever happened. Shen Changyu, head of China’s National Intellectual Property Administration, said that critics of the CCP’s intellectual property policies “lack evidence.” “Some countries’ criticisms of China’s IP protection lack evidence and are nonspecific,” he Chinese police officers watch a cargo ship at a port in Qingdao, China, on March 8, 2018. said, according to South China Morning Post. Of course, there is plenty of evidence. Estimates of the cost of China’s intellectual property theft looks to foreign collaboration and technologies to In addition to these operations, the CCP also runs against the United States range from $13 billion to cover key gaps.” large-scale networks for overt espionage under its $400 billion a year. Some estimates place the loss The CCP has since added to the mix its China 2025 United Front Department, which includes tapping of economic value in the trillions. policy, which builds on Project 863. The program networks for economic theft. It runs student The CCP has used a massive system—including outlines 10 tech-related sectors for the CCP to groups, such as the Chinese Student and Scholar military hackers, spies, researchers, students, and dominate—by hook or by crook. The CCP has Associations, to strategically place Chinese students businesses—to steal intellectual property from U.S. After intellectual property is stolen, the in targeted positions and industries. companies. This includes the infamous CCP military CCP reverse engineers it through its National used a massive And the CCP has used state subsidies, legal hackers in Unit 61398, who were indicted during the Demonstration Organizations, also known as system— punishments of foreign firms, and industrial Obama administration for stealing U.S. intellectual China’s National Technology Transfer Centers. espionage to undercut and disable foreign property. According to Hannas et al., the CCP launched these including competition. An example of this is the CCP’s While the CCP has since reorganized the military operations in 2001 and directed them more heavily military “Operation Night Dragon” cyberattacks, uncovered operations under its new Strategic Support Force, in 2007 through its National Technology Transfer in 2013, which the CCP was using to spy on at the time, Unit 61398 was just one of 22 known Promotion Implementation Plan. hackers, spies, competitors in the energy industry, enabling it to operational bureaus dedicated to similar operations. The CCP runs 202 of these transfer centers as under-bid them on contracts. It was under the Third Department under the “models for emulation by other transfer facilities.” researchers, The CCP’s strategy to alter perceptions of the scope CCP’s warfighting department, the General Staff These include the State Administration of Foreign students, and and impact of its aggressive intellectual property Department. The Third Department, which focused Experts Affairs under the State Council, the Science theft is simple yet effective. Its operations for on cyber operations, worked with the Second and Technology Office under the Overseas Chinese businesses—to economic theft use a “death by 1,000 cuts” approach Department that ran human spy networks. Affairs Office, and the National Technology Transfer and have a massive state system behind it. It’s a Since 1986, the CCP’s Project 863 has directed its Center under the East China University of Science steal intellectual crime that has been perpetrated against the United policies for economic theft. Additional programs, and Technology. property from States for decades. such as its Torch Program, its 211 Program, and its “Their charters explicitly name ‘domestic 973 Program, directed similar operations. According and foreign technology’ as targets for U.S. companies. Views expressed in this article are the opinions to the book “China’s Industrial Espionage” by ‘commercialization,’” the authors state in “China’s of the author and do not necessarily reflect the William C. Hannas et al., “Each of these programs Industrial Espionage.” views of The Epoch Times

Trump’s Risky Iran Strategy

SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES JAMES GORRIE likely - the U.S. dollar could lose both countries see that a big part its status as the world’s reserve of both their futures involves As the Trump currency. That could potentially deepening their relationship administration seeks lead to the devaluation of dollar- on both a commercial and a to achieve its goals on denominated assets around strategic level. Mideast peace, nuclear the world and a crisis in the Therefore, as the United States security and other American economy. That may continues its trade war with objectives involving well explain Trump sticking by China, as well as its Iranian Iran and beyond, some Saudi Arabia in the wake of the containment policy, its key policy objectives may actually brutal and notorious killing of ally in the Arab world for both be working at cross purposes journalist Jamal Khashoggi. of those objectives, as well as a with one another. The sanctions major factor in Trump’s Mideast against Iran are only a small Trump’s “Deal of the Century” peace plan, is turning eastward part of a very complex ballet of Mideast Peace Plan to China. China, therefore, will power and diplomacy between With all the focus on the seek to leverage its growing the United States, Israel, Saudi Russia collusion hearings, relationship with Saudi Arabia, and China. Trump’s peace plan for Israel Arabia to its own advantage and the Palestinians has been against the United States to Trump’s Iran Policy: Risky developing for the past two serve their greater objective But Necessary years. Reports are that the so- of supplanting America as the Iran’s intention is to become called, “deal of the century” global hegemonic power. the dominant player in the involves some very creative There are several Middle East. To the mullahs in ideas and is expected to be opportunities and areas in Tehran, that means acquiring announced in June after the which to do so. For example, nuclear weapons. It also means Islamic observance of Ramadan. would China encourage eliminating Iran’s two main Saudi Arabia has reportedly and support the Saudis in adversaries in the region—Israel withdrew from it and re-applied is also China. At the same time, offered Palestinian leader abandoning the petrodollar? President and Saudi Arabia—both of which the trade sanctions in November the United States has become Mahmoud Abbas $10 billion At some point, most certainly. are allies of the U.S. Of course, of 2018. Donald the world’s top producer of oil to accept Trump’s plan, which Would Saudi Arabia be neither of these outcomes are However, certain waivers to Trump signs equivalents, outpacing even may call for the Arabs living vulnerable to China buying even thinkable, much less the sanctions were granted to a document Saudi Arabia’s production. In in the Palestinian territory to oil from another provider? acceptable, to the United States specific countries that relied reinstating fact, the recent explosion in return to their original home Absolutely. or the targeted nations. on Iranian oil. Those waivers sanctions U.S. oil and gas production has countries. But does China have an Therefore, the Trump policy expired this week. Trump’s against led to a substantial challenge But there will also be a security interest in seeing Trump’s peace is to contain Iran is a very decision not to renew them Iran after to OPEC, the energy cartel and military component for plan fail? If it meant further necessary one to stop a wider will make it more difficult announcing that has dominated the world Israel that will potentially chaos, a defeat for American Middle East war from erupting. for Iran to sell its oil and for the U.S. fossile energy market since the involve cooperation with Saudi prestige and influence in the This involves reducing Iran’s its customers to buy it from withdrawal 1970s. As a result, Saudi Arabia’s Arabia. This triangulation region, as well as the potential influence through its proxy them. Violators could face from the Iran economy is on a much weaker seems sensible and beneficial for access to Israel’s newly fighters Hezbollah and Hamas as punitive consequences against Nuclear deal footing than it was even a few for all sides. Saudi Arabia wants discovered oil and natural gas well as thwarting Iran’s nuclear their dollar-based assets and at the White years ago. Israeli intelligence, military, reserves, the answer is “yes”. ambitions. It also involves heavy banking transactions. China is House in But it’s not only a decline in and technological support in History shows the rise of sanctions. It’s no secret that one of those countries, as well Washington, U.S. imports of Saudi oil that’s addition to that of the United competing powers leads to the civil unrest in Iran is rising. as the European Union. D.C. on May posing a direct threat to Saudi States to counter Iran’s efforts rise of multi-polarity and its The people are fed up living in 8, 2018. Arabia’s economy. The growing against them. As for Israel, it inherent instability. Our times a pariah state with no future China, Saudi Arabia, and the support in the U.S. Congress would welcome the Saudis as are no exception and one can for the younger generation. Petro Dollar for NOPEC (No Oil Producing an ally in the region. imagine some very negative Economic sanctions, painful That’s where things get and Exporting Cartels Act) outcomes. As President Trump for the masses, only add to that complicated. Iran’s biggest legislation that would apply Saudi Arabia Pivots to China is finding out, containing Iran unrest. oil customer is China. And, U.S. anti-cartel laws to the This set up leaves China in is just the beginning of a long You may recall that the with U.S. tariffs against China OPEC cartel has led Saudi policy a very strategic position. Last chain or possible scenarios. Obama administration dropped already in place, U.S. oil exports makers and their OPEC partners year saw a 32 percent rise the sanctions against Iran as a to China have all but dried up. to consider abandoning the in trade between China and James Gorrie is a writer based bargaining chip in the Iranian What’s more, with China’s oil petrodollar. Saudi Arabia in areas such in Texas. He is the author of nuclear deal. Supposedly, this imports from Iran falling 25 That’s a very big deal. For the as commerce, security, and “The China Crisis.” was Barack Obama’s top foreign percent from March of 2018 to first time since the mid-1970s, defense. And earlier this year, policy achievement. But in light March of 2019, China must find OPEC is considering accepting President Xi and Saudi Crown Views expressed in this article of Iran’s repeated violations of oil from other suppliers. other currencies in place of the Prince Mohammed bin Salmon are the opinions of the author the conditions of the agreement, Enter Saudi Arabia. The top U.S. dollar for their oil sales. If signed 12 new agreements for and do not necessarily reflect the Trump administration importer of Saudi Arabian oil that happened – though not yet cooperation. In other words, the views of The Epoch Times. MAY 9-15, 2019 A20 | OPINION OPINION | A11SEPTEMBER 6–12, 2018

Lillian Fan, Publisher SPECIAL SERIES Stephen Gregory, Publisher Jasper Fakkert, Editor-in-Chief Jasper Fakkert, Editor-in-Chief Melanie Sun, Regional Editor Gigi Fu, Layout Artist Channaly Philipp, How the Specter of Communism Food, At Home, Travel Editor Chrisy Trudeau, Mind & Body Editor ABOUT US Is Ruling Our World Sharon Kilarski, Arts & Culture Editor The Epoch Times is a media organisation dedicated to seek- ABOUT US ing the truth through insightful Mass Killing in the East and independent journalism. The Epoch Times is a media The Epoch Times here serializes a translation from the Chinese of a new book, organization dedicated to seek- Standing outside of politi- “How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World,” by the editorial team of the ing the truth through insightful cal interests and the pursuit of Chapter Three (Cont.) and independent journalism. profit, our starting point and our “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.” goal is to create a media for the Standing outside of politi- public benefit, to be truly respon- cal interests and the pursuit of sible to society. profit, our starting point and our 2. The Slaughter of the Working that military commander Mikhail The Gulag: Inspiration for Hitler’s In the winter of 1932–1933, the goal is to create a media for the We endeavor to educate read- Class Tukhachevsky fight the “hooligans” Death Camps Soviet government cut off food sup- public benefit, to be truly respon- ers about today’s most impor- From Karl Marx’s theories to the with poison gas. Tukhachevsky’s On Sept. 5, 1918, Lenin ordered plies to Ukraine and set up security sible to society. tant topics, seeking to broaden rhetoric of the totalitarian com- use of chemical weapons, combined the establishment of the first fences along the borders of the and uplift minds. We believe that munist regimes, all were replete with fires that burned across the Soviet concentration camp on the republic. At first, Ukrainians sur- We endeavor to educate read- rational, balanced debate is key with the principle of reliance on the region, rendered much of Tambov Solovetsky Islands for the incar- vived on the stored vegetables and ers about today’s most impor- for fostering a healthy democ- proletarian workers and peasants, completely desolate. An estimated ceration, torture, and slaughter of potatoes in their homes, but these tant topics, seeking to broaden racy and a compassionate and promises to represent their 100,000 Tambov peasants who political prisoners and dissidents were soon requisitioned by Party and uplift minds. We believe that society. interests. But in practice, it was the took part in the resistance and their who opposed the October Revolu- authorities. A large number of rational, balanced debate is key working class that sustained the relatives were imprisoned or exiled. tion. The CPSU followed this up farmers starved to death. In desper- for fostering a healthy democ- greatest abuses under the commu- Around 15,000 people died in the with a constellation of concentration ation, people turned to cannibalism As an independent media out- racy and a compassionate nist system. insurgency. camps across the Soviet Union—the and eating the dug-up carcasses of let, we use our freedom to inves- society. tigate issues overlooked—or The widespread slaughter in the notorious gulag labor camps of the cats, dogs, and livestock. avoided—by other media outlets. a. Suppressing the Soviet Workers Soviet Union served as a compre- Stalinist era. The authorities prevented vil- As an independent media out- We seek to highlight solutions and Peasants hensive model for the CCP’s coming The gulag system (the term “gu- lagers from traveling to the cities let, we use our freedom to inves- In 1918, after Vladimir Lenin persecution of the Chinese workers lag” being an abbreviation in Rus- and what’s good in society rather in search of food. Many people tigate issues overlooked—or illegally disbanded the Constituent and peasants. sian for the Main Administration of starved to death as they walked than what divides us. avoided—by other media outlets. Assembly, it was the workers who Corrective Labor Camps and Settle- along the railways. We seek to highlight solutions were the first to resist the com- b. Following the Soviet Model ments) grew to a monstrous scale The Holodomor famine turned We report respectfully, compas- and what’s good in society rather sionately, and rigorously. munist dictatorship. Protesting the China has a broad and profound under the leadership of Stalin as the more than 1 million Ukrainian dissolution of the assembly, tens of culture with a history of 5,000 CPSU intensified its political terror children into orphans. Many of than what divides us. thousands of workers from Petro- years. Its people are steeped in the and carried out ever greater purges. them became homeless and had We stand against the destruc- We report respectfully, compas- grad and Moscow held parades and tradition of worshipping gods and By the time of Stalin’s death in no choice but to beg for food in the tion wrought by communism, sionately, and rigorously. including the harm done to cul- demonstrations. Bolshevik soldiers revering the divine. The specter of 1953, there were 170 gulag admin- cities. To eliminate this embar- tures around the world. cracked down on the unrest with communism, incapable of con- istrations containing over 30,000 rassment, Stalin signed orders We stand against the destruc- lethal force, gunning down dem- quering 5,000 years of tradition individual camps scattered across authorizing police to shoot children tion wrought by communism, onstrators and filling the streets of using conspiracy alone, dealt with the Soviet Union, in what Alek- as young as 12. We are inspired in this by our including the harm done to cul- Petrograd and Moscow with the traditional Chinese culture using sandr Solzhenitsyn would famously Estimates of the death toll during own experience. The Epoch tures around the world. Times was founded in 2000 to workers’ blood. systematic violence. describe as “the Gulag Archipelago” the Holodomor range from about bring honest and uncensored The country’s largest labor union, The CCP targeted the elites of in his book by the same name. 2.5 million to 4.8 million. During We are inspired in this by our news to people oppressed the All-Russian Union of Railway- society who served as the bearers In his documentary work, the famine, bodies of the victims own experience. The Epoch men, announced a strike to protest of traditional culture, destroyed Solzhenitsyn listed 31 different could be seen all over the streets of by the lies and violence in Times was founded in 2000 to the Bolshevik coup and gained the the physical artifacts of Chinese methods that the Soviet secret police Kharkov, the Ukrainian capital. communist China. bring honest and uncensored broad support of many other labor civilization, and severed the connec- used to exhaust their prisoners’ news to people oppressed We still believe journalism is a organizations. As it did with the tions between the Chinese people strength and force them to confess The Great Terror Turns on the workers of Petrograd and Moscow, and their gods. China’s traditional to any crime.II Soviet Elite by the lies and violence in noble vocation, but only when it communist China. genuinely seeks to serve its com- the CPSU put down the strikers heritage was replaced with a “Party Those sent to the gulag suffered The purpose of the communist with its armed forces, and the All- culture” to be spread among the from a constant shortage of food specter is to destroy all mankind, munities and help them to flour- We still believe journalism is a Russian Union and other indepen- survivors of the CCP’s mass killings, and clothing while being forced including eventually its own follow- ish. In all that we do, we will hold noble vocation, but only when it dent unions were banned. turning the young into treacher- to perform heavy labor 12 to 16 ers. This was played out during the ourselves to the highest stand- Remaining labor organizations ous “wolf cubs” who serve as the hours a day in the freezing cold of Stalinist era, as the CPSU carried genuinely seeks to serve its com- ards of integrity. This is our were gradually forced under the specter’s pawns in the continued the Russian winter. The death toll out bloody purges across its own munities and help them to flour- promise to you. control of the CPSU. In the spring destruction of humanity. was enormous. Many people were ranks. Beginning in 1928, Stalin ish. In all that we do, we will hold of 1919, starving workers in cities Immediately after taking power, imprisoned along with their entire targeted the upper echelons of the ourselves to the highest stand- CONTACT US across Russia went on strike several the CCP began to invent enemies, families, with husbands incarcer- communist leadership. ards of integrity. This is our times to demand the same rations beginning with the murder of elites. ated and wives exiled. Even the Out of the 1,966 delegates to the promise to you. as Red Army soldiers, the rights to In the countryside, it slaughtered elderly, some already in their 80s, 17th Congress of the CPSU in 1934, Australian Epoch Times Ltd. free speech and democratic elec- landlords and gentry. In the cities, were not spared. The condemned 1,108 were arrested on charges of 49A Treacy St, tions, and the abolition of political it killed businessmen, creating an ranged from high-ranking Party counter-revolutionary activity. Of CONTACT US Hurstville NSW 2220 privileges afforded to the commu- atmosphere of terror and looting the elites, state leaders, and military the 139 members of the Central Epoch Times Inc. 02 8988 5600 nists. 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According Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, Alexei Letters to the Editor August 1918, peasants in the Penza In March 1950, the CCP issued to former Soviet military intelli- Rykov, Mikhail Tomsky, and Leon [email protected] region rose up in an armed revolt, the Directive on the Strict Suppres- gence officer and popular historian Trotsky—were executed or assas- and the uprising quickly spread to sion of Counter-Revolutionary Ele- Viktor Suvorov, before World War sinated by 1940. the surrounding areas. The CPSU ments, also known as the Campaign II, Hitler sent Gestapo officers to No section of society was spared sent troops to suppress the upris- to Suppress Counterrevolution- Russia to tour and study the experi- in the Great Terror—repression ings, and Lenin sent a telegram aries, which focused on killing the ences accumulated by the Soviets in in the religious, scientific, educa- to the Penza Bolsheviks. Here is landlords and rich peasants in the building the gulag. tional, academic, and artistic fields British historian Robert Service’s countryside. The CCP announced According to conservative esti- preceded the purges that gutted translation of the original Russian that by the end of 1952, more than mates, over 500,000 prisoners per- the military and political elite. The telegram: 2.4 million “counterrevolutionaries” ished in the gulag system between main victims of Stalin’s terror were had been eliminated. In fact, more 1930 and 1940, during the years of ordinary Soviet citizens. 1. Hang (and make sure that the than 5 million people, account- Stalin’s prewar terror. The gulag How many were arrested, killed, hanging takes place in full view ing for nearly 1 percent of the was disbanded in 1960. In 2013, a imprisoned, or exiled by Stalin in of the people) no fewer than total Chinese population, had been website of the Russian state media the Great Terror? Even today there 100 known landlords, rich men, murdered. reported that more than 15 million are no complete records or answers. bloodsuckers. After killing the landlords and people had been sentenced and im- On the eve of the dissolution of the 2. Publish their names. rich peasants in the countryside, the prisoned in the gulag labor camps, Soviet Union in June 1991, KGB 3. Seize all their grain from them. CCP launched the Three-Anti and and more than 1.5 million died. chief Vladimir Kryuchkov said that SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE 4. Designate hostages in accor- Five-Anti campaigns to slaughter between 1920 and 1953, about 4.2 dance with yesterday’s telegram. wealthy urbanites. In Shanghai Killing by Famine million people were “suppressed,” alone, 876 people committed suicide Communist regimes often killed 2 million of whom during the TODAY TODAY Do it in such a fashion that for during the movement from January people through famine. Between Great Terror. hundreds of kilometers around, to April 1951, according to incom- 1932 and 1933, the Ukrainian region Alexander Yakovlev, a reformist the people might see, tremble, plete statistics. Among them, many suffered from a genocidal mass star- politician in the Soviet and Yeltsin Get the know, shout ...I capitalists committed suicide with vation, known as the Holodomor, eras, said in a 2000 interview that Get the all of their family members. caused by the Soviet regime. the victims of the Stalinist repres- independent news Before the October Revolution, The CCP did not stop with the After the civil war, the CPSU’s sion numbered at least 20 million. you won’t find independent news Tambov was one of the richest prov- extermination of landlords and imposition of collective farming you won’t find inces in Russia. 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KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES CONTINUED FROM A1 tion.” Socialist and communist movements His books, “Milestones” (1964) and “In the were spreading in Saudi Arabia, with Shade of the Quran” (written 1951–1965), calls for “Egyptian reforms” to replace played a large role in creating the new the traditional form of conservative mon- Islamic regimes that have swept the Arab archy. Among those movements were the world. Central Committee of Arabian Workers, Qutb also was an advocate for “offensive the Organization of Saudi Communists, jihad,” which helped spur the creation of and the National Liberation Front, which tyrannical regimes under this new form later became the Communist Party of of “Islamism.” Saudi Arabia. According to Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, presi- A group of Saudi princes joined these dent of the American Islamic Forum for movements, which led to the “Free Democracy, Qutb’s revisions to Islam Princes” movement. The head of it was warped the concept of sharia (Islamic the father of modern Saudi progres- law) to merge socialist politics into a sivism, Al-Waleed bin Talal, who was system of theocratic government. He known as “The Red Prince.” They were explained in a previous interview that labeled as a form of veiled communism, Qutb “evokes a lot of Islamic ideology to and their attempted coup was thwart- push for theocracy.” ed. Despite this, however, individuals Jasser explained that, under this mod- such as bin Talal were still pushing for el, criticisms of the government become its agenda. synonymous with attacks on the religion. Saudi Arabia has since designated the This allows the socialist tyrants to kill Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist orga- critics and political opponents, under the nization, as has Bahrain, Egypt, Russia, guise of defending religion. Syria, and the United Arab Emirates. It’s likely because of its political roots The United States soon may do the same, that socialist tyrants in the West push for despite heavy pushback from legacy news the Muslim Brotherhood’s acceptance, outlets and socialist politicians. despite its almost blanket contradiction White House press secretary Sarah to their talking points. Beneath the sur- Sanders said in a statement, “The presi- face is the same drive for social control dent has consulted with his national se- and political power. curity team and leaders in the region who This new brand of Islam “concerns itself share his concern, and this designation with communism, socialism, national- is working its way through the internal ism, liberalism, and all the currents from Jordanian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood set fire to a mock Israeli tank during a protest to celebrate the process.” the West,” according to the 2005 book “Gaza victory” in the war against Israel, in the capital Amman on Aug. 8, 2014. Muslims who oppose the Muslim Broth- “The Saudi Enigma: A History” by Pas- erhood theocratic model have backed the cal Ménoret, which cites leftist Islamic in 2003 that, “at the heart of that single have since become victims of this tyran- decision. Mohamad Tawhidi, a reformist scholar Ali al-Umaym. school of thought stood, until his execu- nical system of religious socialism. imam and peace advocate, wrote on Twit- Meanwhile, this blend of socialism and Founding father Sayyid tion in 1966, a philosopher named Sayyid And have you noticed that, despite the ter: “If President Trump designates the Islam was a key factor behind modern Qutb’s brother mentored Qutb—the intellectual hero of every one fact that socialists in the West support Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist org, Islamist terrorism. Part of this was from of the groups that eventually went into international Islam, those same socialists it will be the biggest hit to the global Is- the Soviet Union’s “liberation front” Osama bin Laden, and Al Qaeda, their Karl Marx (to put it that seem to oppose the Saudi Arabia model? lamist movement. [Muslim Brotherhood] movements, such as Yasser Arafat’s Pal- Qutb’s ideas helped way), their guide.” This is likely because the Saudi model has the most organized network of in- estinian Liberation Front. Another key inspire the terrorist group If you look at countries such as Iran never fully adopted socialist Islam—it stitutions, politicians & banks. This will part was from the Muslim Brotherhood’s and Afghanistan before this new form adopted some parts of it, but mostly kept shake their empire. Do it. Asap.” influence behind the terrorist group al- al-Qaeda. of socialist theocracy took root, you may the older conservative model. Qaeda. notice something interesting: The cities During the 1950s and 1960s, the Mus- Views expressed in this article are the Qutb’s brother mentored Osama bin looked like those in Western countries. lim Brotherhood’s “Egyptian model” for opinions of the author and do not nec- Laden, and Qutb’s ideas helped inspire Women there dressed similarly to women Islamism came to the doorstep of Saudi essarily reflect the views of The Epoch al-Qaeda. The New York Times reported in the United States in the 1970s. They Arabia under the banner of “moderniza- Times.

How Media Narratives Became More Important Than Facts

ANGELA WEISS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES SHARYL ATTKISSON as “conservative.” Later, when asked if he’d ever actually seen the program, he Commentary admitted he hadn’t. It’s not that it would The day that I told CBS be difficult to—well—actually do a little News I wished to leave bit of reporting rather than repeat a my job as investigative narrative: My weekly program is on at correspondent ahead least a half-dozen times each week in the of my contract, I didn’t city where this reporter is based, and it’s give a reason. I didn’t posted online. see the point because the As easy as it was for him to do some problem wasn’t fixable. first-hand reporting, he chose to repeat Nor was it isolated to CBS News. the narrative. My own take is that—as our industry Lara Logan, who recently left CBS has changed in ways that have become News, has also been speaking out about undeniable to most—I was a bit of the her observations regarding the decline canary in the coal mine. By that, I mean of fair and objective journalism. She’s I believe I was among the first to really likewise been attacking the narratives. pay attention to the increasingly effective As such, she has been subjected to operations to shape and censor news—the them. That’s how it works. Obviously movements to establish narratives rather (says the narrative), she is a disgruntled than follow facts—and to see the growing conservative who is not to be believed. influence of smear operations, political Or (says the narrative), she’s perhaps a interests, and corporate interests on the little unbalanced. (You know, all that war news. reporting and stress. Poor Lara.) It’s not that I’m smarter than my peers, The truth is, Lara is extremely clear- and I’m surely far less smart than many, eyed on these issues. And she and I are but my particular brand of off-narrative far from alone in our views on the state reporting happened to draw the intense of the media. We agree there is terrific attention of the smear operators and journalism being committed on a daily propagandists, so I began to study it. basis at organizations from The New York A case in point: the smear that was Times to local news stations. However, we promulgated when I left CBS. It was agree that national media has also largely often incorrectly reported that I told CBS become co-opted by powerful interests management I was quitting due to liberal who understand how to direct the news media bias. That false story turned out to landscape in a way that services certain be convenient for both political sides, and narratives and agendas. largely survives today. It simply wasn’t The CBS logo at the CBS undercover investigation into Republican are revealing themselves when they I have heard support from hundreds of rooted in fact. And I don’t recall reporters Building in New York on fundraising. selectively apply labels in a one-sided journalists, college professors, and media even asking me whether it was true. Once Aug. 6, 2018. But the narrative requests—nay, fashion. They are servicing a narrative, observers during the last several years. a few articles reported that it was, others requires—that we forget all that. We even if unintentionally. I have been reached out to by reporters simply copied the claim and adopted it must focus on the supposed miraculous When I worked at CNN, it was owned in print and on TV, by national and local as if established fact, eventually without metamorphosis. Depending on who’s by a billionaire Democrat donor (Ted news, by students and a Pulitzer Prize attribution. Now there would be no point spinning, they may insist I was a rational Turner)—a good boss, by the way. When winner. in trying to clarify it. After all, Wikipedia journalist who went crazy one day and I worked for CBS, the management The effort to expose flaws and conflicts says it’s true. No going back from that. flew to the dark side of conservatism. (Sumner Redstone, Les Moonves) were in media reporting is growing stronger, Powerful smear groups and certain Or they may say I used to be a devoted rich Democrat donors—also, a great not weaker, despite the narratives. The interests—including some within CBS liberal, but decided the big money was company to work for during most of my desire to affect improvements is building. at the time—started the narrative that in pandering to Republicans, so I sold 20 years there. Make no mistake: Not all of us are free to I was “conservative,” not because they National media out. The details aren’t important. You are Sinclair has likewise been a terrific speak publicly, but there are a lot of us. necessarily believed it, but as a tool to has also largely simply to come away with the notion that employer to date. They haven’t forced And we aren’t going away. “controversialize” the reporting I was my reporting is now politically conflicted. editorial biases in the reporting on doing that was contrary to powerful become co-opted by Another example of this narrative: my program. The program is mostly Sharyl Attkisson is The New York Times interests. The idea is that if I can be powerful interests Many news reports comment that I apolitical, addressing topics such as the bestselling author of “Stonewalled,” portrayed as a partisan, then my who understand how work for the “conservative” Sinclair underreported dangers of MRI dye or how a five-time Emmy Award winner, reporting can be more easily dismissed. Broadcast Group. Fair enough—Sinclair American farmers are suffering under the and the host of Sinclair’s national to direct the news is run by a family that’s made no secret current trade war with China. When we investigative television program “Full The Narrative Requires landscape in a way of their conservative political leanings. address politics, you are as likely to see Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.” She In fact, prior to the operation to push But the reporters who note this political an interview with Rep. Eric Swalwell, a is a recipient of the Edward R. Murrow the narrative that I was “conservative,” that services certain connection apparently fail to recognize Democrat, as you are to see Sen. Lindsey Award for investigative reporting and my reporting had been lauded by a narratives and agendas. the inherent conflict in the fact that they Graham, a Republican. has reported nationally for CBS News, diverse group of observers, including eagerly label the conservative group; yet PBS, and CNN. the likes of Rachel Maddow, who once I don’t think they reported that I worked Improvements delivered an entire monologue on an for the “liberal” CNN, the “liberal” PBS, But there’s the narrative ... Views expressed in this article are investigative expose I did on the “charity” or the “liberal” CBS. When a national print media reporter the opinions of the author and do not of then-Rep. Stephen Buyer (R- Ind.). Some reporters lack the self-awareness wrote about my program a couple of necessarily reflect the views of The My most recent Emmy award was for an and objectivity to understand they years ago, he incorrectly referred to it Epoch Times. C6 THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2019

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ODYSSEUS AND THE ENNEAGRAM WELLBEING | DIET | FITNESS THURSDAY,MAY APRIL 9-15, 11, 2019 B1 Finding the True Self Part 2 The Sin of Sloth Odysseus forcing his men off the island of the Lotus-Eaters. An 18th-century French engraving.

9 JAMES SALE The nine-point ignore reality and act as if illusion or delusion making driving immediate action—just do it! It 8 1 Enneagram. were where it would be better to be. is with the clear order to row, even though at In this multipart series, “Finding the True Apathy rules, and one is resigned to life at a this point Odysseus is not even sure to where— LIFESelf,” we will discuss nine types of person- low level of nonachievement. only through this expedient—that they can alities and their flaws, and show how Od- escape the grip of sloth. MIND &ysseus, through his adventures, overcameBODY Overcoming Sloth What sloth as a deadly sin manifests is the them to find his way back home. 7 2 The deadly sin here, which all Nines must con- terrible and terrifying idea of a life unlived, a front if they are to escape it, is sloth. How easy sort of permanent state of being divorced from n Part 1 of this series of articles, we in- it is for Odysseus’s men to fall for it and to think reality. At perhaps its less extreme level, sloth troduced the nine types of personal- they have found paradise! becomes an acceptance of things as they are: ity that constitute the Enneagram and Odysseus immediately grasps the enormity the failure to want to innovate, to improve, invited you to consider what your own 6 3 of the danger he and his crew face and swings whether it be the world or, primarily, oneself. number type is. But we also said that into action. Indeed, action here is the key. It is a sort of fatalism that saps the will to the “Odyssey,” through its narrative, He does not “experiment” with the lotus do, to achieve, and ultimately to succeed in Ireveals the Enneagram numbers as challenges 5 4 himself; he does not reason, “Well that’s a life. And the ultimate success, of course, is to to Odysseus and that in each case he had to valid point of view”; and he does not enter- get “home”—for the mind to find its own true overcome it. How he overcomes each number in medias res, or in the thick of things, so that tain the idea that his men have the right to soul and so be enraptured by its own beauty. is indicative of how each of us, perhaps, might we don’t start at the beginning but in the their own opinions and that he should thereby This is what Odysseus cannot forget: In Itha- also overcome our own besetting “deadly sin.” middle. It is only later, in Chapter 9, that we leave them to it. ca, his wife, his soulmate and also symbolically Odysseus encounters the sins in reverse or- learn that on leaving Troy, one of Odysseus’s For one thing, he fully gets the implication of his literal soul, awaits him. No sacrifice must der, so starting at type Nine, we travel round and his crew’s earliest encounters is with the their behavior on himself and all their families be spared to get there, as we shall see. with Odysseus until at last we encounter the Lotus-Eaters. awaiting them back in Ithaca. And instead, Keep in mind that Odysseus sets off with 12 sin of type One. Unlike the traditional enemies that they he issues decisive commands to those of his ships and full crew complements, but all of his MONKEY BUSINESS IMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK Thus, in this Part 2, we start at the end and have met before—typically, kings and soldiers crew still unaffected and forces them all back men and his ships are lost on the voyage; he look at type Nine. As a reminder, Nines on the who wish to kill them—the Lotus-Eaters mean to the ships. There, he lashes them into their alone makes it home. That is why, to be a hero Enneagram’s wheel of types see themselves them no harm at all. Rather, they offer them seats and demands that they row like mad to or heroine, we must adapt, as Odysseus did as “I am content.” They wish to experience the “honey-sweet fruit”—the Lotus—that they get off the island. (remember the man of “twists and turns”?) to wholeness and be peaceful people. At their themselves are eating. This fruit immediately The antidote to sloth is willpower: decision- each of the deadly sins that besets us. best, Nines are empathetic, reliable, and har- banishes all their worries, concerns, fears, and In our next episode, we find Odysseus at monious; at their worst, they are apathetic, yes, even their desires. Those of his crew who number Eight, encountering a deadlier and listless, and stubborn, because their deadly sin eat the fruit lose all desire to return to Ithaca, much more ferocious enemy than sloth: the is what the ancients called acedia—the inability to home. Cyclops, Polyphemus, and the sin of lust. Here, to take effective action. Part of this inactivity is In a way, this temptation is a most brilliant “just doing it” would be precisely the wrong due to their ability to see both sides of a posi- example from the ancient world of what we are strategy to overcome the sin. Read Part 3 to tion, and so to fail to choose either. almost too familiar with in Western culture: find out how Odysseus twists and turns to The Nines must overcome the deadly sin our numbing out. overcome its irresistible strength. of sloth. Instead of being truly alive, we prefer our Note that I am strongly indebted for many drug and drink options, or our sex and gam- ideas here to Michael J. Goldberg’s wonderful The Lotus-Eaters bling obsessions, or even more low-key still, book, “Travels with Odysseus,” and I strongly Odysseus has spent 10 years fighting in Troy our addictions to TV and today’s net surfing or recommend it for those seeking more detailed and has at last, through his cunning and social-media imbibing (really doing nothing information, although, curiously, Goldberg stratagem of the Trojan Horse, succeeded in at all), or workaholicism (never stopping the does not directly draw parallels with the En- overcoming the walls of Troy. What all the di- doing of something). neagram and only mentions it in the endnotes rect aggression of Achilles and the other great In the 1960s, as the West began its long de- of his book. Greek fighters failed to do, Odysseus man- scent into nothingness, Timothy Leary, the aged, because he, as Homer says, is the “man American academic, put it this way: “Drop James Sale is an English businessman and of twists and turns,” and of whom Zeus says, Out—detach yourself from the external social “The Lotos- the creator of Motivational Maps, which op- “Great Odysseus excels all men in wisdom.” drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Eaters,” by erates in 14 countries. He has authored over It is this sense of resourcefulness, wisdom, Turn On—find a sacrament which returns you W.E.F. Britten. 40 books from major international publish- and resilience that is the key marker in under- to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of An illustration for ers, including Macmillan, Pearson, and standing how Odysseus is able to overcome your mind. Get high. Tune In—be reborn. Drop “The Early Poems Routledge, on management, education, and what appear to be overwhelming odds. back in to express it. Start a new sequence of of Alfred, Lord poetry. As a poet, he won first prize in The The “Odyssey” itself begins in what is called behavior that reflects your vision.” In short, Tennyson.” Society of Classical Poets’ 2017 competition.

The Dividends of Practicing Patience Learning to wait can ease your mind, improve your options, and uplift your outlook

CONAN MILNER you later regret. way, but if we use our strengths and approach the Taking that What makes practicing patience such a pain is problems that allow us to get better, the results will atience is the ability to wait. If that moment to that we must put our agenda on hold to do so. And take care of themselves.” sounds easy, then you’re fortunate. hold back can when we’re focused on a goal, that’s the last thing In other words, if you want to win, focus on the When you’re in a hurry, waiting can be be trying, but it we want to do. process of training and practice that will allow you especially frustrating. Unexpected wait can also be the to overcome the problems or shortcomings in your time can feel as if the universe refuses best thing you Patient Achievements performance. Pto cooperate with your schedule, wasting resources do—or don’t According to Dr. Rob Bell, a sports psychologist and Yet so often we have it flipped. We’re so driven you don’t have with hassles you don’t need. do—all day. author of several books on cultivating mental tough- by getting what we want when we want it, that we But patience teaches a valuable lesson: when cir- ness, to understand patience you have to put your become intolerant of anything that gets in our way. cumstances are beyond your control, it’s time to goals in proper perspective. We fail to use problems to elevate. shift your focus to what you can control. A patient A goal is just a motivator, says Bell. It gives you Bell says that, unlike our desire for a particular mindset can give you the power to address obstacles something to aim for, but obsessing over it won’t outcome, the process is something we can control. and setbacks in the calmest, kindest, and most ef- lead you to success. In the end, the process is all we have. That includes fective way possible. “A focus on winning doesn’t lead to winning,” our mental reaction to each setback. If you lack patience, the wait seems even longer Bell said. “You have to focus on the process, not and more annoying. You may even say or do things the results. There are going to be setbacks along the Continued on B2B4 B4B2 THURSDAY,MAY APRIL 9-15, 11, 2019 The Dividends of Practicing Patience Learning to wait can ease your mind, improve your options, and uplift your outlook

Continued from B1 at any age is bound to play a positive role. should never be confused with procrasti- may even be blind to the progress we’ve “Imagine if you were able to just walk nation or idleness—all of which have a lack made, because it’s not the dramatic change And focusing on the process is also more away with no negative feelings when of action within them but the intention we envision. But according to Hoffman, rewarding. A worker who does the job someone does something to slight you,” and execution is different.” the quickest way to help a frustrated client simply for the paycheck will not be as she said. “Imagine going through life just Meditation is a tried and true method of develop patience is to show them some fulfilled as the one who tries to complete being happy and accepting of others.” developing patience, but any opportunity evidence, no matter how their duties well and finds meaning in the we take to slow down and focus on the small, that they are indeed service they delivered to their company Age of Instant Gratification moment can contribute to this strength. on the right track. and clients. Unfortunately, the opportunities for daily However, if we fail to practice, our pa- “By giving them a small That’s because achieving the goal we’ve patience practice are getting harder to tience won’t grow. Whipping out your win that they can experi- been striving for doesn’t give us lasting come by. According to Dr. Russell Thac - phone during tedious moments means ence or see, it reminds them satisfaction. So we need to find satisfaction keray, a licensed clinical psychologist you never have to wait—you always have that every step of the pro- in the effort to get there as well. specializing in patience, people become a distraction to pass the time. But Bell be- cess is necessary and better “Even though what we want is the re- “hard-wired for immediate gratification” lieves our devices can rob of the lessons times are just around the corner,” he said. sults, it’s not fulfilling. How we go about as a result of our convenience culture. we need to cope with life. When you realize that a little outside it, the passion we have for it, that’s what’s Thackeray describes how the modern “The way we improve our mental health encouragement can help with your own fulfilling, because that’s what lasts,” Bell world caters to our needs like never before. confidence, be sure to share this gift with said. “Even with sports, it’s really about In the past, before we could order virtually others as they learn new skills. the relationships we build along the way. anything we wanted over the Internet on a That’s what matters.” credit card, every aspect of life took more Growth Time time. People were used to waiting because The modern world According to Donna Cameron, author of Gaining Patience Through Practice they had to. Today, a webpage that takes caters to our needs like “A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Some people seem to have boundless longer than five seconds to load seems like Change Your Life and the World Around patience, while others lose their cool at a small eternity. Even getting up to grab never before. You,” we often get impatient when some- the slightest inconvenience. your credit card for an online order can one does something slowly or awkwardly. Luckily, practice can make seem like a hassle. is by learning how to handle adversity,” It’s especially frustrating when they’re patience. “I think we find it so hard to delay grati- Bell said. “If I never have to deal with it doing something that seems ridiculously According to Nickia Low- fication because of the societal norms that because I can distract myself all the time, easy to us. Think of trying to teach your ery, a licensed professional are created,” Thackeray said. “It reinforces then I’m not getting mentally healthy. I’m grandmother how to use the internet. counselor and certified anger this idea that we do not need to wait for actually getting sicker.” “It’s human nature that once we learn management specialist, no- anything.” something, we often forget how hard body is born with patience. Nobody wants to wait, but there can be Patience Is Confidence it was to learn,” Cameron said. “Once Our base instinct is to get our needs met. value in being forced to do so. Obstacles Patience is often compared to mindful- something becomes routine (driving a The ability to wait is a learned behavior. may impede our plans for the moment, but ness. Both concepts ask you to focus on stick-shift or using new technology), we “You have to be taught to be considerate they can also give us a chance to pause, life in the moment rather than the agenda forget that it wasn’t always ingrained in of others and delay gratification,” Lowery reconsider, and reassess, leading us down in your head. our brains or muscle memory, and we lose said. “If you are raised to always get every- roads we otherwise wouldn’t have taken, But patience shares similarities with patience for those who are struggling to thing you want, you likely will not be as and granting us ideas we never would another concept: confidence. learn.” patient as someone who has had to wait have considered. According to Bell, people become im- Sometimes we reason that it’s easier on getting their needs and wants met.” “We gain perspective and insight with patient because they fear things won’t to do things ourselves than to wait for a But patience doesn’t just come from go- patience,” Thackeray said. “Building a work out. newbie to get it right. While that may be ing without. You also need to embrace set- product line, growing a company, build- “They believe that in order to be success- true, Cameron says the kind and help- backs with the right attitude—calm, ing relationships—all require ful they need everything to go their way,” ful reaction is to stand by patiently, offer relaxed (or at least restrained), time to work and mature.” he said. “But you show me any competent help if asked, and encourage the learning and kind. Responding to loss With enough patience, athlete and I’ll show you someone who is process. with jealousy and spite won’t you can see every unpleas- patient. Because they are confident that She says that instead of lead to patience, but manipu- ant moment as an oppor- success is still going to be there, they just getting impatient with a lative and coercive means to tunity to calmly observe, don’t know when it’s going to happen.” beginner, we should hold even the score. and consider your next But for many of us, it’s hard to have a space for them to grow. “If you never received what move. In some cases, the confidence and trust the process when A few moments of our pa- you want, this may lead to best response may be no we don’t see results right away. Trainer tience could soon reward us feelings of resentment and move at all. and fitness expert Kyle Hoffman says his with more free time. rebellion, where you learn to “Sometimes things clients often get upset when “If our work colleague, spouse, or child take what you want or lash just need time to play his diet and workout pro- masters a new skill, they may be able to out in order to get what you out,” Thackeray said. grams don’t create changes lighten our own load at some time in the want,” Lowery said. “However, patience fast enough. future,” Cameron said. “There are gifts Lowery believes it’s “When this happens, in patience if we take the time to look for best to teach pa- they’re quick to point them.” tience to children fingers at me or give Patience is the ability to wait, but it when they’re up altogether,” Hoff- doesn’t take much waiting to harness young, but she man said. this power. Cameron’s tip to bolster our says practic- If we lack patience, we patience is to learn to pause. Giving your- ing patience self a little moment to consider your ac- tions when you feel irritated can help you make better, more patient decisions. “Think about what expressing impa- tience will gain you,” she said. “Think about whether you are likely to regret uttering sharp words, and think about who you want to be and how you’d like this interaction to advance.”

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Spinal Manipulation Can Help Ease Low Back Pain

U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO BY AUDREY ACUNA Spinal manipulation therapy isn’t routinely lation treatments, but the evidence was low- recommended as the initial treatment for low quality, Rubinstein’s team notes in The BMJ. back pain, but a research review suggests this About half of the studies looked at side ef- approach may work as well as interventions fects of spinal manipulation and found little that doctors typically prescribe first. evidence to conclude whether or not this is safer Based on data from 47 previously conducted than other approaches. In one study, research- trials involving a total of 9,211 mostly middle- ers found one serious adverse event that could aged adults, spinal manipulation eased lower potentially have been associated with spinal back pain as much as exercise, non-steroidal manipulation. anti-inflammatory drugs, and painkillers. One limitation of the analysis is that the Spinal manipulation also appeared better for studies of spinal manipulation were done in improving short-term function. different settings, tested different techniques “At the moment, spinal manipulation is con- and measured the effectiveness of this interven- sidered a second-line or adjunctive treatment tion in different ways, the study authors note. option in international guidelines,” said lead “Spinal manipulation may decrease pain study author Sidney Rubinstein of the Vrije from muscle strain, inflammation and spasm Universiteit in Amsterdam. in your back muscles and/or impact the way “These results would suggest that spinal ma- that your body perceives pain through either nipulation is certainly on-par with these other the brain or the spinal cord,” said Christine recommended therapies, and can be considered Goertz, chief executive officer of the Spine -In an option,” Rubinstein said by email. stitute for Quality in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Lower-back pain is one of the leading causes Lower-back pain is one of the leading causes of disability and doctor visits for adults worldwide. “The most common side effects resulting from of disability and doctor visits for adults world- spinal manipulation are mild to moderate joint wide. It often goes away within a few weeks. ally moving joints, massage, and exercise. This ized controlled trials that compare outcomes or muscle pain and/or stiffness,” Goertz, who But when it persists, lower-back pain might be type of treatment is designed to relieve pressure for patients who are randomly assigned to a wasn’t involved in the study, said by email. treated with spinal manipulation, medications on joints and curb inflammation and it’s often specific treatment or to a dummy treatment “These symptoms generally go away on their such as painkillers or muscle relaxers, heat, used for back, neck or shoulder pain, as well or no treatment at all. own within a day or two.” exercise, or physical therapy. as for headaches. Spinal manipulation worked better for pain Spinal manipulation is often done by chiro- For the current study, researchers focused on relief than non-recommended interventions like By Lisa Rapaport practors but may also be offered by physical the gold standard for determining the effective- light tissue massage, the current analysis found. therapists or physicians. It can include manu- ness and safety of medical treatments: random- It also worked better than sham manipu- From Reuters MAY 9-15, 2019 B3

SVETLANAFEDOSEYEVA/SHUTTERSTOCK For Busy Mums Self-Care in 5 Minutes a Day

CHANNALY PHILIPP For example, don’t let your kids throw in two boxes of sugary cereal; they can have one, and ime-pressed moms can find inspi- you can have your self-care! ration in a new book from men- tal skills coach Sara Robinson. Get Up 15 Minutes Early She packs more than 150 ideas Mornings can be chaotic when you have kids, in “Self-Care for Moms” (Adams even if you’re organized and have routines TMedia, $15.99) for mothers looking to incor- in place. Once everyone is up, especially on porate ways to take care of themselves into weekdays, it’s usually about checking things their routine. off the list so you can get out the door. Instead The activities are organized by how much of starting your day with everyone else, con- time you need, from 5 minutes all the way to sider getting a head start. Waking up even 15 a whole day. They range from gentle, quick minutes before your family can make a huge mental resets like lighting candles or listening difference in how the morning activities go, to a favorite song (5 minutes each) to longer and that can influence the rest of your day. activities such as giving yourself a facial or (That said, if you have a kid who is a super- planning a date night (30 minutes each). early riser and keeps busy in the morning, you Here are three helpful ideas excerpted from don’t need to get up 15 minutes before that kid; Robinson’s book. The first takes five minutes, get up 15 minutes before the day really starts the second 15 minutes, and the last 30 minutes. at your house.) Use your extra 15 minutes in whatever way Add Flowers to Your Home is best for you. Do a self-care activity with For moms, flowers often come for special oc- this time: sit in silence, do some breathing casions, but why not give every day a burst exercises, or pray, and start your day feel- of color and happiness? Get in the habit of ing grounded. Another option is to check a picking up an inexpensive bouquet on your practical task off your list, like balancing your weekly shopping trip (many stores have $5 checkbook or getting things situated around bouquets), or cut flowers from your backyard. the house so that the morning flows better. Arrange the flowers in a vase or in multiple Basically, your goal is to start your day off in vases if you prefer, and place them in spaces the way you want, rather than being influ- where you’ll see them often but also are out enced by the amped-up (sometimes moody) of the way of your kids. Remember, toddlers energy that can happen once kids are awake A few simple can usually reach further than you think they and everyone is trying to get out of the house. flowers can make can, and older kids still throw balls in the a noticeable house even when you remind them not to. Put Get Out of the House difference. the flowers on your bedside table to help make If you’re one of the many moms who work your room more of a personal sanctuary, or set from home (either with a paid job or as a stay- them in a family space for all to enjoy. at-home mom), you’re home a lot. Sometimes This is easy self-care because you’re already you just need to get away. Even if you work When we spend too much time at home, one to watch them, try to find ways to spend out shopping. It only takes an extra minute out of the house, you might sometimes feel even when things are pleasant and running some time outside alone. For example, sit in or so to walk to the floral section and pick like you’re spending a lot of time at home. And well, being indoors, in the same space all your backyard or on the front steps while your out the bouquet, and only a couple minutes when you do go out, it’s typically with your day, can begin to feel suffocating. Changing kids nap. This may not be truly getting away more at home to put them in a vase. But the kids and you’re on a mission to accomplish up your scenery allows for mental and emo- from the house, but this self-care doesn’t have emotional self-care benefits can last for days something. Plan 30 minutes in your schedule, tional self-care. When you go out, it can be to be an all-or-nothing activity. ... hopefully until your next trip to the store, when your partner is home or when a neighbor helpful to get some social interaction, even when you can pick up another bouquet. If can watch the kids, or even when you might be if it means interacting with people you don’t Excerpted from “Self-Care for Moms” by finances are tight but you like the idea of fresh home without the kids but normally would be know. Whether or not you interact with oth- Sara Robinson, MA. Copyright 2019 by Si- flowers, ask the florist for a small bouquet of doing chores, and just leave the house. Take a ers, it’s useful to remove yourself physically mum & Schuster Inc. Used with permission carnations and baby’s breath, or replace one walk, drive to get coffee, or simply get a chore and mentally from your house from time to of the publisher, Adams Media, a division of unnecessary grocery item with some flowers. done, like grabbing some milk. time. If your kids are young and you have no Simum & Schuster. All rights reserved.

MELANIE CHAN

Facetime, Skype, Whatsapp, and Snapchat, have replaced significant amounts of face-to-face conversation for many people. [We] forget how essential These apps allow us to converse with each other quickly and easily—overcoming distances, face-to-face conversation time zones, and countries. We can even talk to is to our relationships, our virtual assistants such as Alexa, Cortana, or Siri—commanding them to play our favorite creativity, and our capacity songs, films, or tell us the weather forecast. for empathy. These ways of communicating reduce the need to speak to another human being. This has led to Sherry Turkle, professor of social some of the conversational snippets of our daily studies of science and technology lives now taking place mainly via technological devices. So no longer do we need to talk with shop assistants, receptionists, bus drivers, or essential face-to-face conversation is to our even coworkers, we simply engage with a screen relationships, our creativity, and our capacity to communicate whatever it is we want to say. for empathy.” But then “we take a further step In fact, in these scenarios, we tend to only and speak not just through machines but to speak to other people when digital technology machines.” doesn’t operate successfully. For instance, hu- In many ways, our everyday lives now in- man contact occurs when we call for an assis- volve a blend of face-to-face and technologically tant to help us when an item is not recognized mediated forms of communication. But in my at the self-service checkout. teaching and research, I explain how digital And when we have the ability to connect so forms of communication can supplement, quickly and easily with others using devices rather than replace face-to-face conversation. and applications, it is easy to start to over- At the same time though, it is also important look the value of face-to-face conversation. It to acknowledge that some people value on- seems easier to text someone rather than meet line communication because they can express with them. themselves in ways they might find difficult through face-to-face conversation. Bodily Cues My research into digital technologies indi- Look Up From Your Phone cates that phrases such as “word of mouth” or Gary Turk is a spoken word poet whose poem “keeping in touch” point to the importance of “Look Up” illustrates what is at stake by be- face-to-face conversation. Indeed, face-to-face coming entranced by technological ways of conversation can strengthen social ties: with communicating at the expense of connecting our neighbors, friends, work colleagues, and with others face-to-face. other people we encounter during our day. It Turk’s poem draws attention to the rich, sen- Screen-based devices consume our attention while acknowledges their existence, their human- sory aspects of face-to-face communication, distancing us from the bodily sense of being with others. ness, in ways that instant messaging and texting valuing bodily presence in relation to friend- do not. ship, companionship, and intimacy. The central Face-to-face conversation is a rich experience idea running through Turk’s evocative poem is that involves drawing on memories, making that screen-based devices consume our atten- connections, making mental images, associa- tion while distancing us from the bodily sense tions and choosing a response. Face-to-face of being with others. conversation is also multisensory: it’s not just Ultimately the sound, touch, smell, and ob- about sending or receiving pre-programmed servation of bodily cues we experience when The Dying Art of trinkets such as likes, cartoon love hearts, and having a face-to-face conversation cannot be grinning yellow emojis. fully replaced by our technological devices. When having a conversation using video Communicating and connecting with others you mainly see another person’s face only as through face-to-face discussion is valuable Conversation— a flat image on a screen. But when we have a because it is not something that can be edited, face-to-face conversation in real life, we can paused or replayed. look into someone’s eyes, reach out and touch So next time you’re deciding between hu- Has Technology Killed Our them. We can also observe the other person’s man or machine at the supermarket checkout body posture and the gestures they use when or whether to get up from your desk and walk speaking—and interpret these accordingly. All to another office to talk to a colleague—rather Ability to Talk Face-to-Face? these factors, contribute to the sensory inten- than sending them an email—it might be worth sity and depth of the face-to-face conversations following Turk’s advice and engaging with the Devices and apps can help us communicate we have in daily life. human rather than the screen. Speaking to Machines Melanie Chan is a senior lecturer in media, around the globe, but they are blocking our Sherry Turkle, professor of social studies of communication, and culture at Leeds Beckett science and technology, warns that when we University in the UK. This article was first direct connection to those nearby first “speak through machines, [we] forget how published on The Conversation. B4 MAY 9-15, 2019 I Don’t Like Meditating. Here’s Why I Do It Anyway

When I meditate regularly, my health improves, stress drops, and problems seem smaller

MIMAGEPHOTOGRAPHY/SHUTTERSTOCK JASON BRICK through and over you without tak- ing root, so you can continue your As much as I loathe to admit it, I’m meditation for as long as you wish. not a fan of meditation. It comes un- Speaking of “as long as you naturally to me, despite my 36 years wish….” of martial arts study and interest in self-improvement, health-hacking, It Doesn’t Have to Be for and general enlightenment. Very Long I realize this speaks poorly of Yes, I read the stories about Gichin me as a person, kind of like my Funakoshi (aka the father of mod- opinions on aikido, jazz music, ern day karate) meditating for an pumpkin pie, and “A Prairie Home entire day while standing under a Companion.” That I’m not fond of waterfall, and about retreats where them doesn’t mean they’re bad, it people spend the entire weekend in means I’m not as good as I could be. some kind of a trance. And prob- Worse yet, when I do regularly ably, some of those stories are true. meditate, I find my life is better. No, they don’t mean you have to Stress is lower, my health improves. meditate for hours to get anything I can focus more on my work, and out of meditation. am less likely to say things I re- The studies mentioned above had gret to my friends, colleagues, and subjects meditate for less than an loved ones. Problems seem smaller. hour, in most cases less than 15 I seem bigger. minutes, and even those sessions And I’m not alone. Over the past resulted in significant improve- few decades, a host of research has ments to physical, emotional, and supported the conclusion that med- psychological health. itation is good for us, and that we Some of the masters go one should all meditate a few minutes further, advising us to start with each day. just one minute of meditation per day. That won’t be enough to reap • Meditation has been found again, huge, long-lasting benefits, but it and again (and again) to reduce has two advantages: stress, with all the physical, so- cial, and emotional benefits that 1. You will succeed. Anybody can it provides. meditate for a minute, no matter • Multiple studies have found how busy or distractible they are. meditation can reduce feelings 2. You’ll be pleasantly surprised of depression and anxiety. how much of a difference it • In 2003, researchers learned makes for the next 10 minutes that regular meditation helped of your life. to boost immune function. • Meditation can help control pain, I personally found those two fac- according to several studies, in- tors combined to be an excellent cluding studies in 2016 and 2017. motivator. Under the powerful motivation of immediate success That’s just the tip of that particular and feeling the short-term impact iceberg. Bottom line: meditation is of that minute, I committed more good for me, and for you, no matter fully to learning how to meditate. how much we may or may not want Meditating isn’t just for hippies anymore, and it doesn’t have to look like something from a Buddhist statue. to do it. Kind of like eating a veg- Any ‘Type’ of Person Can etarian meal once or twice a week. Meditate So, from one resistant but learn- Yoga offers similar benefits. tions of the meditation). Then you Meditation has shed the new age ing meditator to others, here’s what • Listening mindfully to music, es- can allow that background noise or ‘hippie’ reputation it once had. I’ve learned about meditation and pecially music without lyrics, can to filter out and let you rest. That’s Anyone can do it. Here’s an incom- how to make it part of improving produce the impacts of medita- There’s a kind of why exercise can be meditative: at plete list of groups that actively your life. tion by allowing you to be trans- meditation that a certain point, you’re only able to practice meditation or encourage ported by the sounds, away from think about the exercise. their people to meditate regularly: You Don’t Have to Just stray and extraneous thoughts. works well with your But along the way, throughout Sit Around • Daily task meditation is where needs, tastes, and each session of meditation, your • professional athletes in the NFL, Non-practitioners sometimes imag- you take the process of a task— thoughts are going to keep zooming NHL, and UFC ine meditation to be boring—and like doing dishes, cooking a meal, general outlook. in and trying to distract you. This • actors including Hugh Jackman, perhaps if not done a certain way, or getting dressed—and focus on happens all the time in the begin- Clint Eastwood, and Arnold it can be. But there’s more than one it the way a kung fu master might ning, but here’s a secret: It happens Schwarzenegger kind of meditation available, so you focus on forms. all the time to the masters, too. • SEAL Team Six and other spe- can easily find one that suits you. The trick with meditation isn’t cial forces branches of U.S. and Here are just a few alternatives: Those are just a few examples, there to totally eliminate those stray worldwide militaries are countless others from zazen to thoughts. It’s to let them pass • an impossibly long list of CEOs • Walking meditation calms your Falun Gong, Kundalini, breathing through your mind without you and entrepreneurs like Richard mind when you focus on your meditation and so on. grabbing hold of them. Branson and Elon Musk strides rather than, say, focus- The point is there’s a kind of med- In the first stages of learning, ing on your breath. Walking in a itation that works well with your you’ll fail a lot of the time. You’ll be If Randy Couture and the guy who labyrinth is a centuries-old prac- needs, tastes, and general outlook. meditating for a while and sudden- plays Wolverine meditate, you can tice of contemplation common It’s just a matter of finding the right ly realize you stopped somewhere do it too. It only takes a minute— among many spiritual faiths, match. along the way to think about your literally—and you can start today. including Catholicism. to-do list and what you’re making • Kata is the formal practice of Your Brain Might Mess for dinner that night. Jason Brick is a freelance writer martial arts, including tai chi. With You Eventually, that will happen less and journalist who came to that The motions of tai chi are so Meditating is supposed to be a and less, and you’ll start distracting career after over a decade in the complex it becomes impossible quieting of the mind, where you yourself by getting frustrated that health and wellness industry. to think of other things, allowing think about nothing in particu- the thoughts intrude at all. You will This article was first published on for profound meditative focus. lar (or nothing other than the ac- ultimately be able to let them pass Healthline.

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“Land of the Lotos Eaters,” 1861, by Robert Seldon Duncanson.

ODYSSEUS AND THE ENNEAGRAM Finding the True Self Part 2 The Sin of Sloth Odysseus forcing his men off the island of the Lotus-Eaters. An 18th-century French engraving.

9 JAMES SALE The nine-point ignore reality and act as if illusion or delusion making driving immediate action—just do it! It 8 1 Enneagram. were where it would be better to be. is with the clear order to row, even though at In this multipart series, “Finding the True Apathy rules, and one is resigned to life at a this point Odysseus is not even sure to where— Self,” we will discuss nine types of person- low level of nonachievement. only through this expedient—that they can alities and their flaws, and show how Od- escape the grip of sloth. ysseus, through his adventures, overcame Overcoming Sloth What sloth as a deadly sin manifests is the them to find his way back home. 7 2 The deadly sin here, which all Nines must con- terrible and terrifying idea of a life unlived, a front if they are to escape it, is sloth. How easy sort of permanent state of being divorced from n Part 1 of this series of articles, we in- it is for Odysseus’s men to fall for it and to think reality. At perhaps its less extreme level, sloth troduced the nine types of personal- they have found paradise! becomes an acceptance of things as they are: ity that constitute the Enneagram and Odysseus immediately grasps the enormity the failure to want to innovate, to improve, invited you to consider what your own 6 3 of the danger he and his crew face and swings whether it be the world or, primarily, oneself. number type is. But we also said that into action. Indeed, action here is the key. It is a sort of fatalism that saps the will to the “Odyssey,” through its narrative, He does not “experiment” with the lotus do, to achieve, and ultimately to succeed in Ireveals the Enneagram numbers as challenges 5 4 himself; he does not reason, “Well that’s a life. And the ultimate success, of course, is to to Odysseus and that in each case he had to valid point of view”; and he does not enter- get “home”—for the mind to find its own true overcome it. How he overcomes each number in medias res, or in the thick of things, so that tain the idea that his men have the right to soul and so be enraptured by its own beauty. is indicative of how each of us, perhaps, might we don’t start at the beginning but in the their own opinions and that he should thereby This is what Odysseus cannot forget: In Itha- also overcome our own besetting “deadly sin.” middle. It is only later, in Chapter 9, that we leave them to it. ca, his wife, his soulmate and also symbolically Odysseus encounters the sins in reverse or- learn that on leaving Troy, one of Odysseus’s For one thing, he fully gets the implication of his literal soul, awaits him. No sacrifice must der, so starting at type Nine, we travel round and his crew’s earliest encounters is with the their behavior on himself and all their families be spared to get there, as we shall see. with Odysseus until at last we encounter the Lotus-Eaters. awaiting them back in Ithaca. And instead, Keep in mind that Odysseus sets off with 12 sin of type One. Unlike the traditional enemies that they he issues decisive commands to those of his ships and full crew complements, but all of his Thus, in this Part 2, we start at the end and have met before—typically, kings and soldiers crew still unaffected and forces them all back men and his ships are lost on the voyage; he look at type Nine. As a reminder, Nines on the who wish to kill them—the Lotus-Eaters mean to the ships. There, he lashes them into their alone makes it home. That is why, to be a hero Enneagram’s wheel of types see themselves them no harm at all. Rather, they offer them seats and demands that they row like mad to or heroine, we must adapt, as Odysseus did as “I am content.” They wish to experience the “honey-sweet fruit”—the Lotus—that they get off the island. (remember the man of “twists and turns”?) to wholeness and be peaceful people. At their themselves are eating. This fruit immediately The antidote to sloth is willpower: decision- each of the deadly sins that besets us. best, Nines are empathetic, reliable, and har- banishes all their worries, concerns, fears, and In our next episode, we find Odysseus at monious; at their worst, they are apathetic, yes, even their desires. Those of his crew who number Eight, encountering a deadlier and listless, and stubborn, because their deadly sin eat the fruit lose all desire to return to Ithaca, much more ferocious enemy than sloth: the is what the ancients called acedia—the inability to home. Cyclops, Polyphemus, and the sin of lust. Here, to take effective action. Part of this inactivity is In a way, this temptation is a most brilliant “just doing it” would be precisely the wrong due to their ability to see both sides of a posi- example from the ancient world of what we are strategy to overcome the sin. Read Part 3 to tion, and so to fail to choose either. almost too familiar with in Western culture: find out how Odysseus twists and turns to The Nines must overcome the deadly sin our numbing out. overcome its irresistible strength. of sloth. Instead of being truly alive, we prefer our Note that I am strongly indebted for many drug and drink options, or our sex and gam- ideas here to Michael J. Goldberg’s wonderful The Lotus-Eaters bling obsessions, or even more low-key still, book, “Travels with Odysseus,” and I strongly Odysseus has spent 10 years fighting in Troy our addictions to TV and today’s net surfing or recommend it for those seeking more detailed and has at last, through his cunning and social-media imbibing (really doing nothing information, although, curiously, Goldberg stratagem of the Trojan Horse, succeeded in at all), or workaholicism (never stopping the does not directly draw parallels with the En- overcoming the walls of Troy. What all the di- doing of something). neagram and only mentions it in the endnotes rect aggression of Achilles and the other great In the 1960s, as the West began its long de- of his book. Greek fighters failed to do, Odysseus man- scent into nothingness, Timothy Leary, the aged, because he, as Homer says, is the “man American academic, put it this way: “Drop James Sale is an English businessman and of twists and turns,” and of whom Zeus says, Out—detach yourself from the external social “The Lotos- the creator of Motivational Maps, which op- “Great Odysseus excels all men in wisdom.” drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Eaters,” by erates in 14 countries. He has authored over It is this sense of resourcefulness, wisdom, Turn On—find a sacrament which returns you W.E.F. Britten. 40 books from major international publish- and resilience that is the key marker in under- to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of An illustration for ers, including Macmillan, Pearson, and standing how Odysseus is able to overcome your mind. Get high. Tune In—be reborn. Drop “The Early Poems Routledge, on management, education, and what appear to be overwhelming odds. back in to express it. Start a new sequence of of Alfred, Lord poetry. As a poet, he won first prize in The The “Odyssey” itself begins in what is called behavior that reflects your vision.” In short, Tennyson.” Society of Classical Poets’ 2017 competition. B6 THURSDAY, JANUARYMAY 9-15, 10, 2019

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LITERATURE Five Famous Shakespeare Quotes

You’re Probably Taking Out of Context SHUTTERSTOCK

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Shakespeare is often quoted in a way that makes him sound like his works were incredibly serious and philosophical. While it is true that Shakespeare inter- acts with deep and compelling themes, and some of his plays do have a very somber tone, it’s interesting to see how many of his oft-quoted lines actually ap- pear in moments of comic relief. Perhaps we would be wise to take more of these comic lines to heart … in their proper context.

1. ‘Though she be but little, she is fierce.’ For the sake of full disclosure, I have this quote on a coffee tumbler. Taken from Shakespeare’s “A Mid- summer Night’s Dream,” it’s often used as something of a compliment when it appears on decor. In context, however, this line was certainly intended as an insult. Thanks to some moonlight madness and fairy juice, four lovers find themselves mixed up and in love with the wrong people. When Hermia realizes that the man she loves is suddenly in love with Helena, things get a little violent between the two ladies. Helena entreats the protection of others, exclaim- ing, “When she is angry she is keen and shrewd. She was a vixen when she went to school, and though she be but little, she is fierce.”

2. ‘Be not afraid of greatness.’ This quote comes from “Twelfth Night” and is argu- ably the funniest moment in any of Shakespeare’s this quote might be more compelling if it were not A lithograph 5. ‘If music be the food of love play on!’ plays. Malvolio (whose name literally means “ill will”) uttered from the mouth of Falstaff, one of the most image This quote is also from “Twelfth Night” and happens is a surly, pompous household steward who enjoys comical (and occasionally crass) characters in Shake- depicting a to be from another character who has a thing for bossing the other servants around and reprimand- speare’s canon. It doesn’t help that the reason for scene from Olivia. Or at least, that’s what he says. Count Orsino ing Sir Toby and Sir Andrew, both of whom outrank Falstaff’s observation on valor is that he is attempt- Twelfth- claims to be madly in love with Olivia, but in his “If him. In retaliation, Toby, Andrew, Maria, and Feste ing to get credit for someone else’s act of heroism on Night. music be the food of love” speech, he almost com- band together to play a prank on Malvolio. The four the battlefield. pletely forgets to mention the woman he claims to forge their Lady’s handwriting and write him a let- be obsessed with. As the story unfolds, Orsino seems ter in which “Olivia” professes her undying love for 4. ‘All the world’s a stage.’ to be more in love with the idea of being in love than Malvolio, telling him, “In my stars I am above thee, This is another line uttered by one of Shakespeare’s anything else. but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, more comical characters. In “As You Like It,” Jaques Nearly every high school graduate in America has some achieve greatness, and some have greatness is a rather pessimistic and unpleasant fellow, often read at least one Shakespeare play. But even those thrust upon ‘em.” going out of his way to throw cold water on his com- who have not are quick to quote Shakespeare, since And yes, when performed, panions’ (sometimes unwarranted) exuberance. doing so is an easy way to instantly sound credible the eavesdropping characters When the exiled Duke, who has decided to make and cultured. The funny thing is, some of Shake- have fun “acting out” that line. the most of his time hiding in the forest, observes speare’s most famous and quoted lines are completely I’ll leave it to your imagination. that they are not alone in their misfortunes, and the taken out of context. “universal theater presents more woeful pageants 3. ‘Discretion is the better than the scene wherein we play,” Jaques responds This post, “Five Famous Shakespeare Quotes part of valor.’ by observing that all the world’s a stage, and then You’re Probably Taking Out of Context,” was Taken from Shake- details the meaningless trajectory of each life on originally published on Intellectual Takeout by SHUTTERSTOCK speare’s “Henry IV, Part I,” that stage. Patience Griswold.

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Medieval Historian: Low Taxes Work Ronald Reagan was a fan of Ibn Khaldun URFIN/SHUTTERSTOCK

JOSHUA CHARLES tural enterprises” he speaks of—the fruit of the ment of low taxation, a position he justifies not but is in fact based on universal truths of the hu- “desert attitude,” which leads to Asabiyyah. merely by appealing to historical experience, but man condition. Ibn Khaldun isn’t exactly a household name—but Let’s now see how Khaldun described the “so- the common-sense psychology of allowing people he should be. Fascinatingly, one great Ameri- phistication” of a decaying civilization, and why to benefit from their own labor: Low Taxes Help Build and Preserve Great can president was a big fan of Khaldun: Ronald it is invariably (partially) caused by, and leads to “If one understands this, he will realize that Civilizations Reagan. “The Gipper” quoted him throughout his even higher taxes: the strongest incentive for cultural activity is So the next time someone criticizes the tradition- Presidency no less than 10 times. “When the dynasty continues in power and to lower as much as possible the amounts of al and time-tested position that lower taxes help A medieval historian from modern-day Tunisia, their rulers follow each other in succession, they individual imposts levied upon persons capable of society prosper and flourish, tell them about Ibn Khaldun wrote “The Muqaddimah” in the 14th become sophisticated. The Bedouin attitude and undertaking cultural enterprises. In this manner, Khaldun. Tell them that this isn’t just an Ameri- century. The work was a monumental, “univer- simplicity lose their significance, and the Bedouin such persons will be psychologically disposed to can thing, but a history thing. sal” history—an attempt to synthesize all known qualities of moderation and restraint disap- undertake them, because they can be confident of history from an Islamic perspective and elucidate pear. Royal authority with its tyranny and seden- making a profit from them.” Joshua Charles is a bestselling author, histo- lessons he hoped would benefit Islamic tary culture that stimulates sophistication, make In other words, low taxes not only help increase rian, researcher, and international speaker. He civilization. their appearance ... Their customs and needs the revenue of the state, but the prosperity of is a passionate defender of America’s founding become more varied because of the prosperity society as a whole. principles, Judeo-Christian civilization, and the On Low Taxes and luxury in which they are immersed. As a re- For those of a more traditional bent, this should Catholic faith, to which he converted in 2018. He What he said about taxes is particularly in- sult, the individual impost and assessments upon come as a surprise. In fact, it should serve as a loves telling, and helping others tell, great stories teresting. In short, Khaldun believed that low the subjects, agricultural laborers, farmers, and confirmation of the low-tax position, one that is that communicate great truths. taxes helped build civilization, and high taxes all the other taxpayers, increase. Every individual not unique to various modern political factions See JoshuaTCharles.com helped destroy civilization. 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(L–R) Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Karen Gillian, the character Rocket Raccoon played by Sean Gunn (via motion capture and voiced by Bradley Cooper), Paul Rudd, and Scarlett Johansson in “Avengers: Endgame.”

Mark Jackson grew up in Spring Val- ley, N.Y., where he attended a Waldorf FILM INSIGHTS school. At Williams College, his pro- fessors all suggested he write pro- fessionally. He acted professionally WITH MARK for 20 years instead. Now he writes professionally about JACKSON acting. In the movies. AVENGERS ENDGAME Scarlett Johansson in “Avengers: It’s Really a Movie About Deities Endgame.”

MARK JACKSON web, and so on. Not to mention the talking tree, and the I’ve never liked the humungous, aaaaall-the- Brooklyn-accented raccoon. It’s a three-ring Marvel-superheroes-in-one-place “Avengers” circus, and there’s never enough time to drill movies. down on any one character. To me, they’re the epitome of our crippled Let’s be clear: This is simply a personal pref- attention spans; everybody gets to do a tiny erence. It’s the same reason I prefer to do a bit of their particular superhero shtick: throw vision quest: to sit in the same 10-foot circle in hammer, throw shield, Hulk-smash, sling the wilderness for four straight days and look,

FILM REVIEW I’d love to see how they came up with that bit and ‘Long Shot’ whether it was rehearsed, and if so, how much. It’s movie magic. Director Furthermore, the movie’s a great example of a man Jonathan Levine who’s probably a female spirit in a man’s physical Starring Charlize Theron and body, paired with a woman who’s got a male soul. Charlize Theron, Seth What am I talking about? See, I believe this is a thing Rogen, June Diane that happens. I have a petite, girly-girl female friend, Raphael, O’Shea who’s inwardly tough as nails and says of her hus- Jackson Jr., Ravi Patel, Seth Rogen Have Serious band, “Yeah, he’s my wife.” Bob Odenkirk, Andy Not to deal in stereotypes, but when, during an Serkis, Randall Park, apparent attack on an embassy, Fred gets hysteri- Alexander Skarsgard cal and starts running around flapping and hyper- Running Time Rom-Com Chemistry ventilating, and Charlotte starts doing Navy SEAL 2 hours, 5 minutes breathing exercises to focus and calms him down as effectively as putting a towel over a parakeet cage to Rated R MARK JACKSON Luckily, Fred and his best-bud Lance (O’Shea Jack- calm the squawking, you know they’ve got excel- son Jr.) have a time-honored ritual of cheering up lent teamwork. Release Date A Jewish, gonzo journalist gets a swastika tattooed whichever of them had a bad-life situation occur, And, conversely—his yin affect on her yang ten- May 32 on his arm in order to infiltrate a white supremacy and so they drink all day and eventually end up at a dencies—he sees to it that she holds fast to her inner group. American History X, Part 2? Nope. It’s the party where Boyz II Men are playing, live, and where moral compass, the one he saw in her when she was attention-grabbing opening scene of the comedic Fred recognizes his former babysitter. his babysitter. Aww! Traditionally, the wife makes hoot “Long Shot,” and it’s been years since I laughed Cue the aforementioned spectacular pratfall. sure the man remains good at heart. this hard at a movie. Charlotte’s reaction? She offers Fred a job as her In terms of the rest of the performances, there It stars Seth Rogen as Fred Flarsky, a fanatical- speechwriter; she needs the personal touch (from are a number of excellent political parodies: Hill- liberal, Brooklyn journalist (more schlub than hip- someone who really knows her) and some humor ary Clinton, Rupert Murdoch, and Canadian Prime ster) and Charlize Theron as WASP-y U.S. Secretary to boost her presidential bid. Minister Justin Trudeau to name a few. And while the of State Charlotte Field, who, it turns out, babysat The two immediately have a ridiculous amount of cast is jam-packed with top-notch comedic actors, young Fred when he was 12. What kind of story chemistry, and it starts getting a little too cozy for the best example is the normally stud-ly Alexander could possibly evolve here? Charlotte’s advisers’ comfort level (Ravi Patel from Skarsgard playing the Trudeau-like character. “Meet the Patels”; and June Diane Raphael), because Handsome Skarsgard has a blast demonstrating First Things First they feel this romance will sabotage her chances. how his character’s publicity team turned his high- If you’ve seen the trailer, you know O’Shea Jackson pitched, slightly freaky girlish giggle into a tight- (Ice Cube’s son) says to Fred, “It’s ‘Pretty Woman,’ Now, About This Romance lipped, staid, toothy, “heh-heh-heh.” And his char- except she (Charlotte) is Richard Gere, and you’re What’s amazing is how perfectly these two seem- acter sucks down oysters with such gross, slurping Julia Roberts.” But before we get to the odd-couple ingly incompatible rom-com puzzle pieces sync up, relish that Charlotte, out on a date with him, knows romance, the movie sets about establishing each both romantically and comedically. for sure she wouldn’t be missing anything by devot- character separately. Here’s a showbiz truth: The best actors all have ing her life to chubby, not-much-to-look-at Fred. Charlotte, the SecState, works for President serious comedic chops. Theron’s one of our best, but The beauty and the Chambers (Bob Odenkirk), a former actor, who’s she’s such a spectacular beauty, she rarely gets to let Romance Over R-Rating schlub: Charlotte Fields fixing to jettison the presidency, to—make it in her clown-flag fly. It’s R-rated and rather raunchy. Let’s just say it has (Charlize Theron) and the movies. Yeah. He likes to replay his TV roles Her foray into comedy kicked off with Seth Mac- a common denominator with “There’s Something Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) privately in the Oval Office. (Emoticon with eyes Farlane’s “A Million Ways to Die in the West,” with About Mary,” and if you don’t get the reference, in “Long Shot.” rolled up.) the most recent being “Tully.” But the scene in “Long that’s quite OK. Fortu- Charlotte jumps at the opportunity to achieve Shot” where she’s under the influence of molly (a nately, these moments HECTOR ALVAREZ/LIONSGATE her childhood dream of becoming the first female “recreational” drug), with party confetti in her hair, highlight the fact that, as POTUS. She’s a hyperdriven, multitasking career crouching under a war-room table, on the phone a nation, we need to get woman whose support team constantly reads out (as uniformed military types gawk in horror) while over ourselves and focus her jam-packed itinerary, and who takes mini- handling a tricky international hostage crisis is a on what’s important. naps, standing up, on her private jet, with her eyes new level of funny for her. Author Tom Wolfe open. So far, this is a Theron power-alley role. She While this is clearly a male fantasy of epic pro- famously equated the can do that in her sleep. portions (beautiful, brainiac, alpha female power- American collective Fred Flarsky is also right smack in Rogen’s power influencer, who stands squarely on the world stage, subconscious to an “old alley; it’s quintessential Rogen, from the unwavering falls for a chubby, sartorially challenged, broke-ity- church lady.” We, the (and loud) confrontational unwillingness to com- broke, flaming liberal, Brooklyn weed-head), Rogen American people, love to promise his moral stance, to having to empty his and Theron make it work to the point where I actually get publicly morally out- recreational-drug-loaded pockets in front of a White want to see it again. raged at the stuff we all House security officer, to getting caught with his And the best part is, at some point they just need to do behind closed doors, pants down, to taking the most spectacular, down- get away and be together, so they leave a party, find a and point fingers and the-stairs pratfall in movies in the last 20 years. deserted room and, to “It Must Have Been Love” (an- blame and shame. “Long When Fred finds out that the paper he writes for other “Pretty Woman” reference), do a slow dance. Shot” is ultimately about has been bought by Andy Serkis’s silver-haired And the adorable, in-their-own-world, little dance following our hearts and Parker Wembley (basically Rupert Murdoch), Fred that Theron and Rogen come up with makes you im- dropping the pretenses. quits on the spot, more or less cutting off his nose to mediately sit up in your seat and go, “Awww! Wow! And having quite a few spite his face; his integrity is intact, but his ability Look at that! They’re soulmates! Totally predestined belly laughs while do- to pay rent will soon not be. for each other!” ing it. THURSDAY,MAY 9-15, 2019 MAY 2, 2019 B11C3

ALL PHOTOS BY MARVEL PICTURES/WALT DISNEY STUDIOS DAXIAO PRODUCTIONS/SHUTTERSTOCK ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Director Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Starring Angela Bassett, Dave Bautista, Chadwick Boseman, Josh Brolin, Don Cheadle, Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Vin Diesel, Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Jon Favreau, Karen Gillian, Danai Gurira, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Holland, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, 1 2 Scarlett Johansson, Pom Klementieff, Brie Larson, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Elizabeth Olsen, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michelle Pfeiffer, Natalie Portman, Chris Pratt, Robert Redford, Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd, Mark Ruffalo, Rene Russo, Zoe Saldana, Cobie Smulders, Tilda Swinton, Tessa Thompson, Marisa Tomei, Benedict Wong, Letitia Wright Running Time 3 hours, 1 minute Rated PG-13 Release Date April 2426 3 4

for a lengthy time, at a little bit of wilderness. “Cheap Sunglasses.” But I’m starting to di- 1. Robert What? Yes, I’m going to start calling Avengers via the quantum universe, they can locate all Rather than hike five miles and see a lot of gress. My attention span is not what it was. Downey Jr. as gods, because that’s really what they are, with the infinity stones before Thanos gets his big wilderness for a short amount of time. Ironman. all their superpowers and such. Only Thor and purple paws on them, then time-hop back to I like to keep things simple. I find in movies What Goes On Loki come out of classic Norse mythology and the present, and use them to undo all the havoc that it also makes for more engrossing story- Writing this review is challenging; the movie is 2. Thundergod are recognized as gods. But they’re all gods. Thanos previously wreaked. Thor (Chris telling. It’s more compelling to get involved in 3:01 long, and packed with tons of things that Maybe not the raccoon from Brooklyn. Or Hemsworth) the character arc of one character. carry spoiler potential. I almost just spoiled Groot. OK, maybe Groot is a tree god. Actually, More About Gods in “Avengers: Most critics despised “Venom.” I’d prefer Thor’s new fun character twist, but it’s already Endgame.” there could be a raccoon god. Have you seen See, I think this tale of gods, this saga, this listening to Tom Hardy’s hilarious dialogue been talked about a lot. that Mesopotamian, winged bull-god with the “Ragnarok,” is happening right now because with his basso-profundo “Venom” alter ego The other twist that’s been talked about and 3. Paul Rudd as ZZ Top beard and the turban? Let’s go with the we are actually living in the time of Ragnarok all day, than watch 50 superheroes mill about available for public consumption is the fact Ant-Man. raccoon being a furry god of small stature. (Norse mythology’s twilight-of-the-gods sto- frenetically. that Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), since we Anyway, I’m digressing again. Where were ry), or as the Chinese call it, “The Time of Last saw him last, appears to have gone on a New 4. Mark Ruffalo we? In “Infinity War,” Thanos disappears half Havoc,” or as the Indians call it, “Kali Yuga,” or I Will Make an Exception Warrior Training Adventure and now refuses as Bruce the beings in the old cosmos. “Endgame” con- as we Westerners call it, “Armageddon.” Every- Banner. I’ll make an exception for “Avengers: End- to hide, repress, and deny his shadow (his giant tinues the saga, five years later. one’s talking about it. All the spiritual paths are game.” I liked it a lot. Maybe because I know green alter ego), and has instead embraced it. The surviving “Avengers” and “Guardians of talking about it. it’s the last of the “Avengers” circuses. Actu- The hilarious result is a cardigan-and-glass- the Galaxy” characters, plus the recently intro- Google “the expanding universe.” Scientists ally, I’m pretty sure that’s not true. As our es-wearing, brainiac Hulk, who takes selfies duced Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), are trying know the universe is expanding rapidly. Like collective attention span continues to shrink, with kiddie fans and is happy and chill. A chill in various ways to cope. As mentioned, Thor’s an overexpanded balloon, it’s about to blow! Hollywood is going to mash-up the Marvel- Hulk! What a dreadful concept. But it works gone on a mead-drinking binge. The prophets foretold it! This old universe and verse and the DC-verse. Because, can you splendidly. Now, if you remember your “Ant-Man” mov- everyone in it is going to disintegrate! Just like imagine how much fun Thor and Aquaman “Avengers: Endgame” is also largely based ies, Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) had been down the in this movie! That is, if they don’t get saved could have together? on the concept of time travel and has lots of ant, er, rabbit hole into the quantum universe. by gods first. That’s apparently what gods do, See, much like splitting the upcoming fun listing many movies that have handled the Time is different in those dimensions made up of among other things—they save humans from “Hobbs and Shaw” off from the “Fast and subject. I found I wanted to know exactly how smaller particles, so he’s confused when he gets disintegration. Furious” franchise, I’d actually enjoy a pared- many there actually are. I googled the topic. back here as to where everybody disappeared to. “Avengers: Endgame” is going to most defi- down thing like, Thor and Aquaman. Let those According to one young lady out there on the In classic Buddhist lore, the saying goes, “Only nitely become the top-grossing superhero movie two bozos have an adventure together. It’d be interwebs, 67 movies have been made about one day in the heavens, but a thousand years of all time. The G.O.A.T. It’s a great ending to the a far richer experience than the whole DC- time travel, not to mention 15 that are still in on earth.” Yes. According to Buddhist and Tao- long run of 22 Marvel movies. This long tale has plus-Marvel kit ’n’ kaboodle. the works, and many, many TV renditions. ist teachings, smaller-particle dimensions are concluded. Especially with the Thor that shows up in Anyway, “Avengers: Infinity War,” as you where the heavens are actually located, and A new tale will soon begin, though. There’s “Avengers: Endgame.” Much like Aquaman, may remember, left off with the big, bald, rub- this is one of the many reasons why “Aveng- much money to be made. What I’m really wait- he’s sporting a giant beard and long hair. 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PUBLIC DOMAIN SU LIN laments: “Death comes to all. Even when they were young. Though the plants and insects are not spared.” family is not well-to-do, the brothers Among the plays of the Yuan Dy- He’s feeling sad when a big butter- are dutiful sons, she says. nasty, one was called “The Dream fly appears and gets the first butterfly The mother feels that the eldest son, of Bao Gong Examining the But- out of the web. Shortly thereafter, an- Jinhe, should not be put to death for terflies Three Times,” written by the other butterfly flies by and gets stuck. the killing. Otherwise, there would famous playwright Guan Hanqing The big butterfly frees that one, too. be no one to provide for her. She (1225–1320). Then a third butterfly gets caught. says the second son, Tiehe, is the In the play, a man surnamed Wang Bao Gong is certain the big butterfly family’s breadwinner and should goes to the market to get some paper will come to its rescue, but alas, it also be spared. However, she agrees and brushes for his three sons. While does not. It just darts from one flower to putting the youngest son, Shihe, taking a rest, he unwittingly offends to another and eventually flies away. to death. Ge Biao, an influential man distantly All humans are born with compas- related to the emperor. Ge Biao beats sion. Bao Gong says: “You’re not going Virtuous Mother, Dutiful Sons Wang to death in a fit of pique. to save it? I will.” At that moment, he Bao Gong is puzzled. Could the Wang’s three sons, Jinhe, Tiehe, wakes up. youngest son be her stepson? Is that and Shihe, burst into tears when why she agreed to his execution? they learn of their father’s death. In Bao Gong feels sad. When he in- ancient China, murderers were put quires, the mother explains that the to death, regardless of their status. It strikes Bao Gong youngest son is actually her biologi- The sons are determined to make Ge that the dream was cal son. The two elder brothers turn Biao pay for his crime. out to be adopted sons. The mother Ge Biao is on his way home and a sign from heaven does not want to be a jealous and completely drunk when he runs for him to save the wicked woman, but a woman of into the brothers. The eldest brother virtue. She pleads for mercy for her pummels him, unwittingly killing third son. adopted sons. him. The brothers meant to capture The mother is as virtuous as Tao Bao Gong, commonly known as Justice Bao, was a leg- him and bring him to the authori - A Dilemma Kan’s mother and Meng Guang, two endary Song Dynasty official who consistently dem- ties. Little did they expect that they Constable Zhang Qian reports for women in Chinese history famous onstrated impartiality, honesty, and uprightness in his would end up being locked up by the work at lunchtime. Bao Gong asks, for their virtue. Her three sons are court decisions. magistrate of Zhongmu County. “Is there a case I must look into?” as dutiful as Zeng Shen and Min Zhang Qian tells him about the Sun, disciples of Confucius famous Caught in a Web case of the Wang brothers killing for their filial piety. Bao Zheng (999–1062), commonly Ge Biao. Bao Gong summons the Bao Gong recalls the dream he known as Bao Gong, or Justice Bao, three brothers and their mother to just had about the three butterflies. was the prefect of Kaifeng, the capital the court. Bao Gong is an impartial It strikes him that the dream was a of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the official and never takes a careless -ap sign from heaven for him to save the play, he has just closed a case of horse proach to a trial, unlike the magis- third son. theft and feels drained. He decides to trate of Zhongmu County. He reports the case to the imperial catch some sleep. If the three brothers are convicted, court. The emperor pardons the three He falls asleep and has a dream. In they will be executed. However, they Wang brothers and even puts them the dream, he mumbles to himself, fight to plead guilty in court. Each in important posts. Jinhe is made an “I’m usually busy with work. How one claims to be the one who had official in the imperial court, Tiehe can I go to sleep?” beaten Ge Biao to death, saying the is also given a position, and Shihe He comes to his garden. It’s spring other two brothers are innocent. Bao is appointed as the magistrate of and the flowers are in full bloom. Gong is caught in a dilemma. Zhongmu County. The title “Lady of He walks to the pavilion and sees a The mother explains that the broth- Virtue” is bestowed on their mother. spider web in it. A butterfly flies by ers studied the classics and were The imperial court respected virtu- and gets caught in the web. Bao Gong taught good manners and behavior ous women and dutiful descendants.

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