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TRUTH AND TRADITION $3.00 MOHD RASFAN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES TRADITIONAL VALUES Growing Secularism Is TRUTH and TRADITION Pushing Religion, Traditional A CURE FOR Values Aside, AG FAKE NEWS Barr Warns

SYNDROME JANITA KAN U.S. Attorney General William Barr GET YOUR raised concerns about the increase in secularism in society in a speech COPY on Oct. 11, speaking about how that has contributed to a number of so- NOW! cial issues plaguing communities across the nation. SUBSCRIBE TODAY Barr, who delivered his remarks to ReadEpoch.com.au students at the University of Notre Dame’s law school, drew attention 02 8988 5600 to the comprehensive effort to drive away religion and traditional moral systems in society and to push secu- In larism in their place. “We see the growing ascendancy the NEWS Hong Kong police detain a man for an unknown reason outside a shopping centre in the Tai Koo area of Hong Kong on Oct. Continued on A6 13, 2019.

See HONG KONG PUZZLES MEDIA EXPOSÉ on B6 Undercover Video Reveals Tension Australian imports of US House Passes Bills Between CNN Staff, RUBBER GLOVES Leadership Over from a Malaysian manuc- Supporting Hong Kong Nonstop Trump Focus faturer are in the spotlight after being frozen by U.S. PETR SVAB Borders and Customs amid concerns of forced Legislation would place economic pressure on HK and CNN President Jeff Zucker has in- labour. sisted the cable news network has China, ban weapons exports to HK police to maximally focus on pushing the AU | A2 EVA FU story of Democrats trying to im- peach President Donald Trump, de- he U.S. House of Representatives export of crowd-control equipment spite objections by staffers that the Skyrocketing unanimously passed a series of mea- to the city, where police have been push is harming the organisation’s sures on Oct. 15 expressing support accused of using excessive force to If America does journalistic integrity, according to PORK PRICES T for the ongoing pro-democracy move- quell demonstrations. not speak up for undercover recordings. ment in Hong Kong against Beijing’s The House also passed a resolu- human rights in Continued on A7 may be a factor behind encroachment. tion that condemns interference in the Beijing’s signing of “If America does not speak up for Hong Kong by the People’s Republic China because of MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES the latest U.S.-China human rights in China because of of China. commercial interests, trade deal, analysts say, commercial interests, then we lose The bills have to be passed in the then we lose all moral with a predicted shortfall all moral authority to speak out for Senate and signed by the president in pork supply in China of human rights anyplace in the world,” before they become law. authority to speak out around 10 million metric Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D- For more than four months, Hong for human rights any tonnes for the 2019-20 Calif.) said. Kong has been rocked by large-scale, place in the world. financial year. Lawmakers passed two bills: the mostly peaceful protests in opposition CHINA | A4 Hong Kong Human Rights and De- to a now-withdrawn extradition bill mocracy Act, which would require that would have allowed people to be Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House the U.S. administration to review each transferred to the mainland for trial Speaker year whether the city should retain in courts controlled by the Chinese The CNN sign is seen outside its head- its trading privileges; and the Protest Communist Party The protests have quarters in New York City, on Nov. 12, “ The cry of Tibetans Hong Kong Act, which would ban the Continued on A6 for freedom should 2002. be heard around the world. That would bring moral pressure ANTHONY KWAN/GETTY IMAGES on China.” SYRIAN CONFLICT S. Venkataraman, trustee of NGO Nandini Voice for SDF Chief: ‘Washington Has Sufficient the Deprived, on the arrests of Tibetan students in India Leverage to Mediate a Sustainable during Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent visit Peace Between US and Turkey’

CHINA | A5 VENUS UPADHAYAYA The commander-in-chief of the Syr- ian Democratic Forces (SDF), Gen. “ Government can’t Mazloum Kobani Abdi, said that he He said ISIS terrorists came love, and families wants the United States to “acknowl- and communities edge” the role it can play in finding from all over the world, and he can’t thrive without a political solution, and in helping to told his soldiers to fight them Mourners hold candles during a candlelight vigil to commemorate a Hong Kong reach a sustainable peace between it.” protestor who committed suicide on June 15, 2019. because they “looted” their Turkey and Kurdish-led forces in Paul Adams, professor Syria. villages, “killed” their children, emeritus of social work at CHINA “But we do want the United States the University of Hawaii, on and “enslaved” their women. the individual duty of charity to acknowledge its important role High ‘Suicide’ Rate of Hong Kong Protesters in achieving a political solution for OPINION | A10 Points to Chinese Regime Syria. We are sure that Washington has sufficient leverage to mediate a terrorists. YUAN BIN fell from a high-rise building in Hong sustainable peace between us and Abdi said after the Kurdish-led Kong’s Sha Tin area. As he was fall- Turkey,” said Abdi in an “argument” Syrian forces aligned with the Unit- INSIDE News Analysis ing, one of his feet detached from his published in The Foreign Policy on ed States, it withdrew its military AU...... A2 Since the Hong Kong pro-democracy body. When the ambulance arrived, Oct. 13. fortification from the border with World...... A3 protests began, the number of suicide medical staff confirmed that he had Abdi is leading the 70,000 strong Turkey. China...... A4 cases reported in the city has soared. already died before the fall. SDF that, according to him, “fought “Turkey would never attack us so US...... A6 The total number has exceeded 100, The police later announced that the against jihadi extremism, ethnic ha- long as the U.S. government was Opinion...... A9 which is an unprecedented record. man, surnamed Lin, 31, did not leave tred, and the oppression of women true to its word with us. We are FEATURES In addition, many of the victims are a suicide note. The police also said his since 2015.” now standing with our chests bare Food...... B1 young protesters, and the details of medical history shows he had suffered He said ISIS terrorists came from to face the Turkish knives,” he said. Life & Tradition...... B2 their deaths look a lot like they were from mood disorders, which might all over the world, and he told his Immediately after the United States murdered. provide an explanation for his motive soldiers to fight them because they withdrew its forces from northeast DON’T DELAY. Another Hong Kong resident was to commit suicide. “looted” their villages, “killed” Syria, Turkish President Recep SUBSCRIBE TODAY. READEPOCH.COM.AU said to have committed suicide in the However, netizens have raised five their children, and “enslaved” their Tayyip Erdogan launched Operation TEL: 02 8988 5600 past week. alarming points based on photos women. He said the SDF lost 11,000 Peace Spring (OPS) on Oct. 9 against On Oct. 10 at around 6 p.m., a man Continued on A4 soldiers while fighting against ISIS Continued on A3

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COURTESY OF THE LOWY INSTITUTE/FACEBOOK ASIO Swamped by Demand for Advice on Espionage and Foreign Interference

Australia’s domestic intelligence agency is struggling to meet demand for advice on espionage and foreign ASIO will need to interference, and cannot easily redi- build new capability rect resources, its former director- and capacity to meet general warns. Heightened levels of espionage and current and future interference, combined with greater demand for our awareness of the twin threats, are stretching resources at the Australian trusted advice and Security and Intelligence Organisa- expertise. tion (ASIO). “Our capacity to provide our part- Duncan Lewis, former ASIO ners with advice is being outstripped director-general by demand,” the spy agency said in its annual report. “The significant growth in demand for our advice will continue to pres- ent a challenge for ASIO, necessitat- Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Director-General Duncan Lewis speaks at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Austra- ing a continued focus on the most lia, on Sept. 4, 2019. valuable activities in collaboration with our strategic partners.” ASIO has limited scope to redirect “harmful espionage, foreign inter- 11,669 Duncan Lewis, who authored the internal resources to address the in- ference, sabotage and malicious • Personal security assessments: agency’s annual report but has since creasing gap between demand for insiders.” 32,887 retired, said ASIO could not easily our counter-espionage and foreign The second area ASIO only “partial- • Foreign Investment Review adjust to keep up with demand. interference advice and our ability ly achieved” its target was in collect- Board assessments: 275 “With the terrorist threat showing to furnish this assistance,” he said. ing foreign intelligence in Australia • Security assessments for access no signs of significantly decreasing, Lewis expects demand to grow. that advances the nation’s security to sensitive sites and materi-

LEIGH SMITH/FACEBOOK “ASIO will need to build new capa- interests. als: 145,114 bility and capacity to meet current The spy agency said the collections • Security products evaluated: 87 and future demand for our trusted operations it conducted in the past • Published counter-terror intel- advice and expertise,” he said. year yielded valuable and unique ligence and security reports: “We will necessarily prioritise our intelligence. 983 finite resources—across our counter- “The ‘partially achieved’ result ac- • Published counter-terror and terrorism, counter-espionage and knowledges that we were unable to foreign interference intelli- foreign interference, border integrity progress other collection operations gence and security products: and protective security advice pro- requested by partners,” it said. 269 grams—towards addressing activi- The annual report also laid out • Zone 5 site inspections and ties of the greatest potential harm to ASIO’s activities for the past finan- reports (security): 81 Australians and Australian interests.” cial year: ASIO measures its performance ASIO has a total of 1,961 employees against eight criteria, but fell short • Counter-terrorism leads re- and an annual operating budget of in two areas. solved or investigated: 12,478 $547.4 million. A placard at a Melbourne rally organised by the local Vietnamese com- The first was in providing advice • Disruptions of planned terror munity warning about the Chinese Communist Party’s encroachment to national security partners, help- attacks: 3 By Daniel McCulloch into Australia on Sept. 30, 2018. ing them disrupt and defend against • Visa security assessments: From AAP

Australia Under Pressure to Follow US Freeze of Rubber Glove Imports Amid Forced Labour Claims

WILLIAM WEST/AFP/GETTY IMAGES ISABEL VAN BRUGEN importers are not required to prove products weren’t manufactured using Australia faces growing calls to freeze forced labour, Australia’s ABC News imports from a leading Malaysian rub- reported. ber glove maker after the Trump ad- Activist Andy Hall, who has advo- ministration blocked shipments from cated on behalf of Southeast Asian the manufacturer over allegations that migrant labourers, said workers for the products were manufactured us- some rubber glove makers aren’t paid ing forced labour. for months, and are housed in un- The Trump administration on Oct. 1 kempt and overcrowded conditions, announced an import freeze on WRP while some have their passports taken Asia Pacific (WRP) goods, along with away from them and aren’t allowed products from four other countries, to quit. amid concerns that people producing A spokesman for the Australian the items might be children or adults Border Force told the news outlet subjected to forced labour. the government has not considered U.S. Customs and Border Protection blocking shipments of products al- (CBP) said it had reason to believe that leged to have been produced under the production chain of the Malaysian such conditions. manufacturer—which produces goods “The extent of modern slavery such as rubber household and surgi- worldwide means there are risks that cal gloves—is exploiting vulnerable this crime may be present in the sup- migrants from Bangladesh, Nepal, A container ship is pushed forced child labour” will be subject and customer-driven CSR audits, with ply chains of many businesses in the and other countries who went into to its berth by a tug in the to exclusion and/or seizure, and may passing grades, and we are working region,” he said. crushing debt from paying exorbitant Port of Melbourne on June trigger a criminal investigation of the for continued improvements.” Ansell said in a statement that it recruitment fees. 6, 2018. importer, according to the CBP. The spokesman told The Epoch would no longer deal with WRP, de- WRP, a leading producer of medical Mark Morgan, the acting CBP com- Times the company is “proud” of the scribing the forced labour allegations rubber gloves, exported $79.5 million missioner, said the blocked shipments working environment it provides its as extremely concerning. worth of the products to the United show that “if we suspect a product is workers. “Ansell takes the labour practices of States last year, VOA News reported. made using forced labour, we’ll take “We are now working closely with these third-party suppliers seriously, Malaysia alone meets more than half that product off U.S. shelves.” our U.S. attorney to provide informa- and any allegations of forced labour of the global demand for the products, Under the rare U.S. WRP importers include some of tion and evidence to CBP immediately among the company’s suppliers are with 65 percent of overall goods ex- detention orders, the the leading medical suppliers such of our compliance with all U.S. regu- of the highest concern,” the company ported to the United States, according products are held as global giant Ansell. lations regarding the forced labour said. to the Malaysian Rubber Glove Manu- WRP spokesman Eng Seng Yeong accusation. Other goods slapped with the U.S. facturers Association (MARGMA). for up to 90 days told The Epoch Times that news of “We are convinced that CBP will detention orders—the most issued in Under the rare U.S. detention or- unless the importers the blocked shipments “came as a agree that WRP gloves are not pro- a single day—include imports of bone ders, the products are held for up to 90 can prove no forced complete surprise” to the company. duced in an environment with forced charcoal from Brazil that firms such days unless the importers can prove “Regretfully, we had no notice from labour of any type.” as Plymouth Technology and Resin- no forced labour was used to produce labour was used to CBP of any issues prior to today, and A CBP spokesperson told The Epoch Tech Inc. use to remove contaminants their goods. If they can’t, they can ei- produce their goods. they have never visited our factory Times that the freeze was not a ban, in U.S. water systems, diamonds ther ship their products to another If they can’t, they to gain any firsthand knowledge of and is issued to importers if “informa- from Zimbabwe, gold from eastern country or surrender them to CBP. the working environment at WRP. tion reasonably, but not conclusively, Democratic Republic of Congo, and A 2016 amendment to the U.S. law can either ship their “WRP takes our CSR [corporate and indicates that merchandise” involves shipments from a Chinese company known as the Tariff Act states that products to another social responsibilities] very seriously, forced labour. making baby pajamas sold at Costco imports of merchandise “mined, pro- country or surrender and we have stringent policies in place Since the ban was imposed in the warehouses. duced, or manufactured, wholly or in to ensure we are in compliance with United States, human rights activists part, in any foreign country by forced them to CBP. all applicable global requirements. We have been urging Australia to follow The Associated Press contributed to or indentured child labour—including have undergone many independent suit. However, under Australian law, this report. OCTOBER 17-23, 2019 WORLD | A3 SDF Chief: ‘Washington Has Sufficient Leverage to Mediate a Sustainable Peace Between US and Turkey’

DELL SOULEIMAN/AFP/GETTY CONTINUED FROM A1

ISIS terrorist forces, including; SDF- led forces; the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), and the People’s Pro- tection Unit (YPG). Turkey said Operation Peace Spring is needed to create a safe zone for millions of Syrian refugees. Abdi wrote in his “argument” that SDF could understand and sympathise with the decision of Gen. Mazloum the United States to withdraw, and Kobani Abdi, President Donald Trump has been commander-in- chief of the Syr- talking about it for a long time. ian Democratic “Fathers want to see their chil- Forces (SDF), dren laughing on their laps. Lov- attends a meet- ers want to hear the voices of their ing with other partners whispering to them. Ev- commanders eryone wants to go back to their and representa- homes,” he said. tives of the U.S.- The general, however, said that the led coalition United States could play a role in fighting ISIS. finding a political solution for Syria and help in building sustainable Fathers want to ‘We Believe in Democracy’ Send in thousands of troops and not doing enough,” he wrote. peace between Turkey and Syria. Abdi said SDF aligned itself with the win Militarily, hit Turkey very hard Trump said in a statement issued On Sunday, the Turkish Defence see their children United States because of its core be- financially and with sanctions, or on Monday that he will impose sanc- Ministry reported that the PKK/ laughing on their laps. lief in the principles of democracy. mediate a deal between Turkey and tions on any Turkish officials—wheth- YPG controlled town of Rasalayn “We are disappointed and frus- the Kurds!” Trump said on Thursday. er current or former—who are linked was captured and 415 “PKK/YPG Lovers want to hear trated by the current crisis. Our In his writeup in The Foreign Pol- to Turkey’s actions in northern Syria. militants were eliminated” since the the voices of their people are under attack, and their icy, Abdi said that the threat of ISIS The President mentioned that the beginning of the operation, accord- partners whispering safety is our paramount concern. still exists because many terrorists United States would immediately ing to a situation report released Two questions remain: How can we still exist in “sleeper cells” waiting halt negotiations with Turkey over by the Turkish think tank, Edam. to them. Everyone best protect our people? And is the to wage an insurgency. a $100 billion trade deal that was Robin Fleming, a researcher at wants to go back to United States still our ally?” he said. “We know that we would have to being hammered out between the Rojava Information Centre based their homes. In an earlier message posted on make painful compromises with two countries. in Qamishli, Syria, told The Epoch Twitter on Friday, Abdi had re- Moscow and Bashar al-Assad if we “This order will enable the United Times on Friday that the Turkish at- Gen. Mazloum Kobani Abdi, quested the United States to prevent go down the road of working with States to impose powerful addition- tack has led to a humanitarian crisis. commander-in-chief of the Turkey from using the airspace for them. But if we have to choose be- al sanctions on those who may be “The conditions of the civilians are Syrian Democratic Forces the attack. tween compromises and the geno- involved in—serious human rights reaching the level of a humanitarian “Our war would last for more than cide of our people, we will surely abuses, obstructing a ceasefire, disaster with the estimated num- a year if the U.S. is unable to lay a choose life for our people,” he said. preventing displaced persons from ber of displaced civilians between peaceful solution with Turkey. We In another message on Twitter on returning home, forcibly repatriating 60,000 and 100,000. Our team on ask it to prevent Turkey from us- Friday, the general had said that the refugees, or threatening the peace, the ground has seen families with ing the airspace, as we can defend SDF doesn’t regret its relationship security, or stability in Syria. The all their possessions in the back of a ourselves,” he said. with the United States. order will authorise a broad range truck; people walking on foot—tak- His Friday message came a day after “We are disappointed, and Mr. of consequences, including financial ing only what they can carry with Trump said he could mediate between Trump is working to reconcile us sanctions, the blocking of property, their hands—all rushing to leave the Turkey and Kurdish-led forces. with Turkey. Our condition for dia- and barring entry into the United cities in the face of attack,” she said. “We have one of three choices: logue is a ceasefire, but @POTUS is States,” Trump said.

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MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES In other words, it is widely believed CONTINUED FROM A1 that among the more than 100 suicide taken on site. cases, only a few individuals actu- First, there were no obvious blood ally committed suicide, whereas the stains on the ground. majority were murders disguised as Second, a lot of bleeding would be suicides. expected if his foot broke off from his leg during the fall, but there was no Chinese Paramilitary Forces blood flowing from the man’s body. Embedded in Hong Kong Police Third, his body was stiff, and based As the world expressed outrage at on the movements of his hands and the increasing use of police violence arms during the fall, netizens sus- against the Hong Kong student pro- pected that his arms were bound or testers, The AI Organisation provided handcuffed when he was still alive. some valuable information to help Fourth, the man hit the ground explain the suspicious suicides in an head first, but there was no brain article titled “Artificial Intelligence matter oozing from his head. with Facial Recognition Hunts Hong Fifth, there was already purple post- Kong Youth for Capture, Rape & So- mortem discolouration on the back of called Suicide.” his body, and his corpse had turned The authors of the article learned partly pale and partly purple-blue, from intelligence agencies that the a sign that the man had been dead mainland Chinese regime has im- for at least a couple of days before the planted their paramilitary forces alleged suicide. within Hong Kong police depart- ments. Hong Kong Suicide Rate Soars According to the article, the regime Since Protests uses facial recognition and AI tech- According to various media reports, Pro-democracy protesters gather against the police brutality and the controversial extradition bill at Hong Kong’s nology to locate student protesters. It since the protests began in June, the international airport on Aug. 12, 2019. states that female student protesters number of reported suicide cases have have been gang raped by the Hong ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES soared. In the two months following Kong police, who are actually main- June 12, the number of suicide cases land Chinese police and security per- reported was about 10 people in ev- ... of the recent death sonnel dispatched and approved by ery ten-day period. Then, from Aug. the Hong Kong government. 21 to Aug. 31, the number suddenly cases declared as It further points out that of the rose to 18. And in the following ten suicides, “some recent death cases declared as sui- days, the number jumped to 49. So of the females are cides, “some of the females are simply far, the total number has exceeded victims of rape in order to scare the 100, and many of the victims were simply victims of rape masses of students.” Those victims young protesters, according to vari- in order to scare the who supposedly jumped off buildings ous media reports. Needless to say, masses of students.” were “coerced or thrown off.” this is extremely abnormal. The article also elucidates that these First of all, having more than 100 tactics are widely used in China when suicide cases in just a few months is the regime aims at tracking and per- unprecedented in Hong Kong’s histo- secuting democracy activists, Falun ry. These so-called suicide cases were Dafa adherents, house Christians, either through jumping off high-rise Tibetans, Uyghurs, and others. buildings or by drowning. A fireboat “The captured are sent to police operator wrote on a social media post stations, detention centres, reeduca- that he had worked on fireboats for tion labor camps, and concentration more than a decade, and the number Mourners place flowers and offer prayers at the site where a protester died, prior camps. Suicides are almost always of corpses he recovered in the past to the start of a rally in Hong Kong on June 16, 2019. the declaration of the Chinese So- several months is as high as the total cialist Regime. They are subject to number from the past ten years. fell from a tall building and it seemed and using pepper spray inside train torture, rape, and organ trafficking In addition, there are many ques- her body had already been severed carriages. Several people were hit on which leads to their murder,” the tionable details in these suicide cases at the waist. the head and bled heavily. article said. as reported by various media outlets. Many believe that these people were Many protesters were reported Thirty years ago, the world wit- For example, several victims who murdered before they were thrown missing after the incident. Ms. Leung, nessed the brutality of the Chinese fell from tall buildings did not bleed into a river or thrown off a building. the director of Kwun Tong commu- Communist Party when Chinese but displayed past injuries on their Most notably, the number of unusual nity, shared on social media that an soldiers opened fire on pro-democ- corpses. One victim who had suppos- suicide cases increased drastically af- employee working at a mortuary racy student protesters at Tianan- edly “drowned” was found with his ter police raided the Prince Edward service revealed that police caused men Square. In the ongoing pro- hands bound together. Another victim station on Aug. 31. at least six deaths at the train station. democracy protests in Hong Kong, whose body was found floating in the Riot police stormed MTR trains The mortuary company handled these the Chinese regime doesn’t dare to bay across Tsuen Wan had his mouth at Prince Edward station and made six corpses, and the employees found deploy its troops openly. However, it covered with tape, and it appeared many arrests that night. Witnesses that they had all died from broken has ordered mainland armed police that he did not die from drowning say the police assaulted passengers necks. Apparently, the police had forc- to hit hard at Hong Kong protesters as his body was not bloated. In an- indiscriminately, chasing and beat- ibly twisted their necks 90 degrees and has committed insidious murders other horrific case, a naked woman ing them with batons on the platform from behind to cause the deaths. while calling them suicides.

Chinese Regime Confirms US Trade Deal as Economic Indicators Bode Hard Times Ahead

officials previously refusing to Tang told The Epoch Times need to import a total of 3.3 Premier’s Admission NICOLE HAO answer reporters’ questions on Oct. 15. million metric tons of pork in Chinese Premier Li Keqiang The Chinese government’s about the trade deal. Mean- 2019 and 4.2 million metric organised an economic fo- latest released economic fig- while, state media gave little Economy in Trouble tons in 2020. rum in Xi’an City, Shaanxi, ures bore more bad news, as coverage of the trade deal. China’s National Bureau of Meanwhile, the United on Oct. 14, in which he asked Chinese Premier Li Keqiang On Oct. 15, Geng provided Statistics released its Consum- States is the world’s second- provincial governors to launch made a speech acknowledging figures on how much U.S. ag- er Price Index (CPI), showing largest pork exporter. But due new policies to stimulate the “significant difficulties” ahead ricultural goods Chinese busi- that in September, the CPI in- to the ongoing trade dispute, economy. for the economy. nesses have bought so far this creased 3.0 percent compared China imposed retaliatory “China’s real economy is Meanwhile, Beijing finally China’s real year, noting that “China will to last year. Food prices in par- tariffs on a slew of U.S. agri- facing significant difficulties. confirmed for the first time economy is speed up buying more Ameri- ticular went up 11.2 percent, cultural products, including Domestic demand is weak ... details of the U.S.–China can agricultural products.” while due to lack of supply, pork. Thus, U.S. pork exports Some regions are lacking in trade deal announced by U.S. facing significant Geng emphasised that China pork prices increased by 69.3 to China fell dramatically. development momentum,” Li President Donald Trump on difficulties. and the United States “have percent compared to last year. In the first eight months of said, according to state-run Oct. 11. Domestic demand no different opinions” on the The African Swine Fever this year, the United States media Xinhua. trade deal. (ASF) epidemic, which first exported 93,245 metric tons Li asked provincial govern- Trade Deal is weak. According to U.S.-based broke out in August 2018, has of pork to China, compared ments “to enhance bottom- “What the U.S. side said is the commentator Tang Jingyuan, decimated China’s hog busi- to 351,774 metric tons in 2018 line awareness,” hinting at the real situation, and is consis- the delay was likely because ness, sending pork prices sky- and 495,637 metric tons the intensity of Beijing’s concerns tent with what we know,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping and rocketing. China is the world’s year prior, according to data about the economy. Geng Shuang, spokesman other top officials had to give largest consumer of pork. from the U.S. Meat Export He added that interna- for China’s foreign ministry, the final O.K. on the deal, after Lin Guofa, research direc- Federation. tional trade was key to the said on Oct. 15 regarding the gauging the U.S. administra- tor at Chinese consultancy Meanwhile, China’s PPI— Chinese regime’s economic phase-one trade deal. tion’s stance. Bric Agri-Info Network, was considered a key barom- policies. The deal was announced at U.S. Secretary of Treasury quoted as saying to Chinese eter for corporate profitabil- “The international trade that the White House on Oct. 11 Steven Mnuchin told media state-run publication Business ity—decreased 1.2 percent in Li talked about includes for- after Chinese Vice Premier Liu on Oct. 14 that the U.S. ad- Network that production in September, compared to the eign investment, imports, and He visited for trade negotia- ministration might proceed 2019 could be 11 million to same period last year. The exports,” Tang said. “Li’s order tions. Trump said that China with the December tariff hike, 12.75 million metric tons less. price of production materi- confirms the importance of had agreed to purchase $40 if the “phase-one” deal isn’t The shortage has forced Chi- als decreased by 2.0 percent, the U.S.–China trade deal. billion to $50 billion worth finalised by then. na to import more pork. New with prices in the business, Suspending the scheduled of U.S. agricultural goods in “Chinese authorities also York headquartered financial oil and gas, coal, and ferrous tariff hike on Chinese prod- exchange for suspending a confirmed the trade deal services company FCStone es- metals categories experiencing ucts could help China increase scheduled U.S. tariff hike on because China really needs timated in August that China the steepest declines. exports.” Chinese goods. the deal to get their hands needed about seven years to PPI deflation indicates that The confirmation came four on American agricultural return to normal hog produc- China’s manufacturing sectors Reuters contributed to this days late, with Geng and other products, especially pork,” tion levels pre-ASF, and would are cooling. report. OCTOBER 17-23, 2019 CHINA | A5

AP PHOTO/KIN CHEUNG Apple Pulls Hong Kong App Amid Chinese Regime’s Pressure

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Apple removed an app from its App Store that provides real-time updates for Hongkongers about police and The majority of user protester movements on Oct. 10, be- review[s] in the App coming the latest international brand that has caved to pressure from the Store … suggest Chinese regime. HKmap IMPROVED The dynamic, crowd-sourced app public safety, not the HKmap.live has become popular for helping people to navigate through opposite. the tear gas-filled streets in Hong HKmap.live developers Kong, a former British colony where pro-democracy protests have erupted since June against Beijing’s creeping interference. The emojis and spon- taneous updates proved handy for A person’s phone shows HKmap.live apps as they join others at a rally to mark Taiwan’s National Day in the Tsim Sha Tsui dis- users to track conditions such as trict in Hong Kong on Oct. 10, 2019. The same day, a Hong Kong government official said that Apple was responsible for train closures and potential clashes. removing the app that allowed activists to report police movements. Apple said in a statement that the app has posed “serious harm” to law information such as crowdsourced Apple’s rejection of the app is Kong protests. enforcement and local residents. reporting of police checkpoints and “clearly a political decision to sup- Apple had recently removed a “We have verified with the Hong protest hotspots is in itself “benign,” press freedom and human right in Quartz news app from its Chinese Kong Cybersecurity and Technology the app was “being used maliciously HongKong,” they added. mobile app store, due to Chinese Crime Bureau that the app has been to target individual officers for vio- “HKmap is used by [sic] passerby, government complaints that it used to target and ambush police, lence and to victimise individuals protesters, journalists, tourists, and “includes content that is illegal in threaten public safety, and criminals and property where no police are even pro-government supporters ... China,” according to The Verge. The have used it to victimise residents in present.” If HKmap is for target and ambush news organisation told The Verge that areas where they know there is no “It is no secret that technology can police or other illegal purpose as they “abhor this kind of government law enforcement,” it said. be used for good or for ill. This case falsely accused, why would I bother censorship of the internet.” Apple’s CEO Tim Cook defended is no different,” Cook wrote. making it available to the public?” Google also suspended a role- the app’s removal on Oct. 10, saying The move came one day after Chi- Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) criticised playing app on Oct. 10 for violating that it was based on “credible infor- nese state media berated the com- Apple’s decision, saying that the com- a company policy “prohibiting devel- mation” from Hong Kong police and pany for aiding Hong Kong protesters pany had just assured him last week opers from capitalising on sensitive Apple’s new iPhone 11 Apple users in Hong Kong. phones are displayed at the by approving the “toxic” app. The that “their initial decision to ban this events, such as attempting to make In an internal memo obtained by Apple Store in IFC, Central app, which is also on Google Play, app was a mistake.” money from serious ongoing conflicts several media outlets and confirmed district, Hong Kong, on Oct. had just gone live on the iPhone shelf “Looks like the Chinese censors or tragedies through a game.” The by Apple, Cook wrote that although 10, 2019. less than a week ago, after initially have had a word with them since. app, titled “The Revolution of Our being rejected by Apple earlier this Who is really running Apple? Tim Times,” allows users to role-play as ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA/REUTERS month. Cook or Beijing?” he said on Oct. 10. Hong Kong protesters. Responding to the app removal, Chinese officials and state media Greater China is Apple’s third- a Chinese foreign ministry spokes- have consistently framed the un- largest market in terms of revenue person in an Oct. 10 press confer- relenting pro-democracy protests and has generated $52 billion—about ence again described the Hong Kong in Hong Kong as “riots” and have a fifth of the company’s total sales— movement as “extremist” and “crimi- derided foreign companies that go during the past year. It’s also where nal activities.” against the Party line for “hurting Apple manufactures most of its prod- The developers of HKmap.live said Chinese feelings.” ucts, including iPhones and iPads. they disagree with claims that the HKmap.live expressed disap- During the Oct. 10 press confer- app is a public safety threat and said pointment to see U.S. brands “such ence, the foreign ministry spokesper- there was zero evidence backing up as Apple, NBA, Blizzard Entertain- son also said that foreign businesses the Hong Kong authorities’ allega- ment, and Tiffany & Co. act against are welcome to invest in China, “but tions. freedom.” the precondition is that they com- “The majority of user review[s] in Those companies, among others, ply with Chinese laws and regula- the App Store ... suggest HKmap have come under fire lately for tak- tions and respect Chinese people’s IMPROVED public safety, not the ing actions to appease the Chinese national feelings. There is no doubt opposite,” they said. regime in connection with the Hong about that.”

Tibetans in India, Nepal Arrested During Chinese Leader’s Visit

FRANK FANG pal and India for religious freedom. about the extradition treaty. It stated, formally signed upon the conclusion The plight of Tibetans in China and On Oct. 13, Nepal’s English-lan- “The Chinese government system- of Xi’s visit on Oct. 13, a joint state- those in exile was highlighted during Indian government guage newspaper The Himalayan atically violates basic human rights, ment during the Nepal and China Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent could have allowed Times reported that in the past three including the right to a fair trial, so trip revealed that steps were made trip to India and Nepal. days, local police have arrested 22 any extradition treaty with China is to make it a reality. Xi arrived in India on Oct. 11 for an them to protest “Free Tibet” movement campaigners highly problematic. According to the Nepalese foreign informal summit with Indian Prime silently. But, it did and human rights activists in the “Such a treaty could also effectively ministry announcement, both coun- Minister Narendra Modi, before leav- not allow the protest, capital of Kathmandu. Among the further jeopardise the situation of tries were “satisfied with signing the ing for Nepal the following day for 22, 11 were Tibetan refugees. Tibetan refugees in Nepal, whose Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance a two-day visit. which is contrary to S. Venkataraman, a social activist status has been precarious for a long in Criminal Matters and expressed Tibetans in both India and Nepal India’s democratic in Chennai and founder trustee of time,” it added. hope for an early conclusion of the were arrested by local authorities traditions and local nonprofit Nandini Voice for the Human Rights Watch also voiced Treaty on Extradition,” the agreement for planning to hold protests dur- Deprived, expressed his concerns concerns in an Oct. 11 statement, on “mutual legal assistance” being ing Xi’s visits. practices. about the recent arrests. saying that the agreement could one of a total of 20 deals signed by In India, at least 15 Tibetans, in- S. Venkataraman, founder “Indian government could have al- threaten Tibetan refugees, activ- the two countries on Oct. 13. cluding 14 students and Gonpo trustee of Chennai nonprofit lowed them to protest silently. But, ists, and journalists in Nepal. They Also among the deals was a mem- Dhundup, the head of India-based Nandini Voice for the Deprived it did not allow the protest, which is could be in danger of facing “unfair orandum of understanding on co- exile group Tibetan Youth Congress contrary to India’s democratic tradi- trials or the risk of torture and other operation between China’s highest (TYC), were arrested throughout the tions and practices,” he wrote, in an ill-treatment.” prosecutor office and the Office of eastern city of Chennai, where Xi and opinion article that first appeared While the extradition treaty wasn’t the Attorney General of Nepal. Modi held their meeting, according on Nepali news site Nepal24hours. to an Oct. 11 report by Radio Free He added: “The cry of Tibetans for STR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Asia (RFA). freedom should be heard around the TYC, in a statement published on its world. That would bring moral pres- website on Oct. 11, called on Indian sure on China.” authorities to release the arrested Prior to Xi’s arrival in Nepal, Nep- Tibetans, and urged Modi to “take alese local media Khabarhub, citing up the issue of Tibet” while meeting unidentified sources, reported that with Xi, for what it called “70 years Beijing was pressuring Kathmandu of oppression and aggression against to sign an extradition treaty, allowing the people of Tibet.” each country to transfer criminal The Chinese Communist Party suspects to the other country. (CCP) invaded Tibet in 1949, declar- In June 2018, following Nepal Prime ing it a part of the Chinese regime’s Minister K.P. Sharmam’s visit to territory. The Party has since enacted China, a joint statement between harsh controls over Tibetans’ way Beijing and Kathmandu announced of life and branded as “separatists” that they agreed to negotiate an ex- any Tibetans who consider the Da- tradition treaty, for the objective of lai Lama to be their spiritual leader. fighting “illegal border crossing and Amid increasing suppression from transnational crimes.” Students are held in a police vehicle after being detained during a protest against Chinese authorities, some Tibetans On Oct. 11, ICT issued a statement the visit of Chinese leader Xi Jinping near the ITC Grand Chola hotel in Chennai, have escaped across the border to Ne- on its website expressing concerns India, on Oct. 11, 2019. A6 | US OCTOBER 17-23, 2019

ZEIN AL RIFAI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Growing Secularism Is Pushing Religion, Traditional Values Aside, AG Barr Warns

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of secularism and the doctrine of moral relativism,” Barr said. He said that the forces of secu- larism are using mass media and popular culture, the promotion of Turkish soldiers and Turkey- greater reliance on government backed Syrian fighters gather on intervention for social problems, the northern outskirts of the Syr- and the use of legal and judicial in- ian city of Manbij near the Turkish stitutions to eliminate traditional border on Oct. 14, 2019, as Turkey moral norms. and its allies continue their assault Barr explored several of the con- on Kurdish-held border towns in sequences of “this moral upheaval,” northeastern Syria. highlighting its effect on all parts of society. “Along with the wreckage of the ABC News family, we are seeing record levels of depression and mental illness, Deletes dispirited young people, soaring suicide rates, increasing numbers Video From of angry and alienated young males, an increase in senseless violence, Kentucky Gun and a deadly drug epidemic,” he BENJAMIN CHASTEEN/THE EPOCH TIMES said. U.S. Attorney General Wil- Range After “Over 70,000 people die a year liam Barr speaks at the from drug overdoses,” he said. “But Securities and Exchange Claiming It I won’t dwell on the bitter results Commission’s Criminal of the new secular age. Suffice it to Coordination Conference Was Footage of say that the campaign to destroy in Washington on Oct. 3, the traditional moral order has 2019. Syrian Conflict coincided, and, as I believe, has brought with it, immense suffer- ing and misery.” Barr said religion has come under IVAN PENTCHOUKOV increasing attack over the past 50 years, underscoring how secular- ABC News on Oct. 14 put out a ists are using society’s institutions correction and took down a video to systematically destroy religion recorded at a Kentucky gun range and stifle opposing views. after falsely claiming it was foot- “Secularists and their allies have age of the armed conflict in Syria. marshaled all the forces of mass Local police, fire department, and deputy sheriffs help a man who is overdosing “We’ve taken down the video communication, popular culture, in the Drexel neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, on Aug. 3, 2017. It’s unclear what he that aired on ‘World News To- overdosed on. the entertainment industry, and night’ Sunday and ‘Good Morn- academia in an unremitting assault ing America’ this morning that on religion and traditional values. addressing the underlying cause, been continually seeking to elimi- appeared to be from the Syrian These instruments are used not only Along with the we have cast the state in the role as nate the laws that reflect traditional border, immediately after ques- to affirmatively promote secular -or wreckage of the the alleviator of bad consequences. moral norms,” he said. tions were raised about its ac- thodoxy but also to drown out and We call on the state to mitigate the Barr also highlighted the role of curacy. ABC News regrets the silence opposing voices,” he said. family, we are social costs of personal conduct and religion in society, saying it pro- error,” ABC News said in an Oct. He said that people are moving seeing record levels irresponsibility. So the reaction to motes moral discipline while it 14 statement. away from “micro-morality” ob- of depression and growing illegitimacy is not sexual influences people’s conduct. ABC News anchor Tom Llamas served by Christians, a system of responsibility but abortion; the “Religion also helps promote showed the erroneous footage morality that seeks to transform mental illness, reaction to drug addiction is safe moral discipline in society. We’re during the opening segment the world by focusing on their own dispirited young injection sites.” all fallen. We don’t automatically of World News Tonight on Oct. 13. personal morality and transforma- “The call comes for more and more conform our conduct to moral rules, “This video right here appear- tion. Instead, he said the modern people, soaring social programs to deal with this even when we know that they’re ing to show Turkey’s military secularists are pushing a “macro- suicide rates, wreckage, and while we think we good for us. But religion helps teach, bombing Kurd civilians in a morality,” which focuses on politi- increasing numbers are resolving problems, we [actu- train, and habituate people to want Syrian border town,” Llamas told cal causes and collective actions to ally] are underwriting them.” what’s good,” he said. viewers. “The Kurds, who fought address social problems. of angry and He also pointed out how the law “It doesn’t do this primarily by alongside the U.S. against ISIS. “In the past, when societies are alienated young has been used to “break down tra- formal laws—that is, by coercive Now, horrific reports of atrocities threatened by moral chaos, the males, an increase ditional moral values and establish power—it does this through moral committed by Turkish-backed overall social costs of licentiousness moral relativism as the new ortho- education and by framing society’s fighters on those very allies.” and irresponsible personal conduct in senseless violence, doxy,” giving the example of how informal rules—the customs and tra- The video ABC News aired become so high that society ulti- and a deadly drug laws have been used to aggressively ditions which reflect the wisdom matched footage recorded in mately recoils and reevaluates the epidemic. force religious people and entities and experience of the ages. In other 2017 during a nighttime shoot- path it is on,” Barr said. to subscribe to practices and policies words, religion helps frame a moral ing event at Knob Creek Gun “But today, in the face of all the William Barr, U.S. Attorney that are antithetical to their faith. culture within society that instills Range in Kentucky. According increasing pathologies, instead of General “The forces of secularism have and reinforces moral discipline.” to Knob Creek’s website, the nighttime machine-gun shoot is a biannual event. It’s attended by nearly 20,000 people, accord- ing to Guns.com. The news anchor prefaced the US House Passes Bills Supporting Hong Kong Protesters video with comments that linked the “horrific report of atrocities” with a decision by President CONTINUED FROM A1 forced confession” while in the The Epoch Times in an email. Kong leader Carrie Lam ruled out Donald Trump to withdraw mainland. He noted that the specific conse- making any concessions to pro- U.S. troops from northern Syria. since morphed into wider calls for Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who quences of the Act would depend democracy protesters in the face Trump has defended the decision democracy and universal suffrage. sponsored the bill, called the Act on how the U.S. administration of escalating violence, while con- and said he will issue sanctions a “blueprint for meaningful action.” wishes to proceed. For instance, demning “rioters” for their actions, against Turkey aimed to restrain Hong Kong Human Rights and “The [people] of Hong Kong de- rather than stripping away trade including throwing petrol bombs the Turks’ assault in Syria. Democracy Act serve better than the brutality so privileges for all businesses in Hong at police vehicles and arson attacks “Big sanctions on Turkey com- Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) said many endure [and] the systematic Kong, it could specifically target on the offices of pro-Beijing law- ing! Do people really think we the Hong Kong Human Rights and violations of their universally rec- companies linked to the Chinese makers. should go to war with NATO Democracy Act would “reflect ognised human rights,” he said on Communist Party and Chinese Randall Schriver, a senior U.S. Member Turkey? Never ending what is happening on the ground Twitter. state-owned enterprises operat- defence official for Asia, said on wars will end!” Trump wrote on today” and show Beijing that “it Sherman said the United States ing in the city, thereby reducing Oct. 15 that while the United States Twitter on Oct. 14. “The same cannot undermine the city’s free- needs to “make sure our policy is the Act’s impact on ordinary Hon- was concerned about some of the people who got us into the Middle dom while expecting America to brought up to date so it can match gkongers, Garrett said. tactics used by protesters, it’s also East mess are the people who still give … preferential trade ar- the challenges of the relationship Gordon Chang, China expert and concerned about the heavier-hand- most want to stay there!” rangements.” today.” author of “The Coming Collapse ed response by Beijing and Hong ABC News played the footage Since Hong Kong reverted to Chi- Earlier in the day, about 130,000 of China,” said passage of the Act Kong authorities. again on Good Morning Amer- nese rule in 1997, the United States Hongkongers poured into the Chat- would be considered by Chinese “Certainly we have some con- ica on Oct. 14, in a segment ti- has treated Hong Kong as a separate er Garden in the city’s downtown, officials as “public humiliation.” cern about some of the tactics tled “Crisis in Syria.” entity to the mainland in areas such urging U.S. congressional lawmak- “[The] enactment would show that that the protesters have been us- “This video obtained by ABC as trade and investments. ers to pass the Act to send a strong Washington does not particularly ing and may use, and I think in News appears to show the fury of The Act would require the U.S. message to Beijing. care what Chinese leaders think,” single instances where that be- the Turkish attack on the border Secretary of State to certify each Dan Garrett, author of “Counter- Chang told The Epoch Times in an comes a real problem, we would town,” correspondent Ian Pan- year if the city is “sufficiently -au hegemonic Resistance in China’s email. “The real story here is China point that out,” he told a confer- nell said in reference to the gun tonomous” to justify such special Hong Kong: Visualising Protest in has lost support in America.” ence organised by the Jamestown range footage. treatment. the City,” said if the Act is passed, it Both Hong Kong and Beijing au- Foundation, a Washington-based Television news networks con- It also contains provisions that could diminish “foreign confidence thorities have objected to the U.S. research institute. tinue to cover the Trump admin- would compel the U.S. administra- in Hong Kong’s ability to remain bills, saying they amount to unac- “But I think in general, we are istration in an overwhelmingly tion to impose sanctions on Chinese or function as an international fi- ceptable foreign influence in the concerned about the heavier hand negative fashion. According to and Hong Kong officials responsible nancial centre.” city’s internal affairs. that Beijing has taken and the the most recent study by the Me- for the extradition of any individual “Uncertainty regarding China’s Hong Kong authorities have taken dia Research Center, 90 percent in Hong Kong to mainland China, and ... [Hong Kong’s] economy will U.S. Concern Over Heavy- with what we regard as legitimate of coverage of the Trump admin- as well as those responsible for their significantly increase as will the Handed Response activities on the part of the people istration by ABC, CBS, and NBC “arbitrary detention, torture, or cost of doing business,” Garrett told Earlier on Oct. 15, embattled Hong of Hong Kong.” is negative. OCTOBER 17-23, 2019 US | A7 Undercover Video Reveals Tension Between CNN Staff, Leadership Over Nonstop Trump Focus

ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES CONTINUED FROM A1 this monster and now, we’re eat- ing him full plate every single day,” “Impeachment is the story,” he said. “Media created the Trump Zucker said during a recent 9 a.m. monster.” rundown call, according to one of Yet, his comments suggested the recordings, which were released CNN’s opposition to Trump goes Oct. 14 by investigative journalism beyond chasing ratings. nonprofit Project Veritas. “You “I think we’re just trying every know, I know we’re going to feel a single way to show that we’re on tendency to think we’re doing too the right side. ... I think whatever much, but this is the story.” tools are to our disposal, then that’s At least some of the recordings what CNN is doing,” he said. were provided by Cary Poarch, a satellite uplink technician who Fox News works as a contractor at CNN’s Zucker seems to have a particular Washington bureau. disdain for Fox News, a major com- “I just want them to own where petitor that is outperforming CNN they’re at,” he said of CNN. “Like, in viewership ratings by more than hey, if we lean left, cool, let’s just two to one. say we lean left, if we lean right, “I think what’s going on in Amer- let it be known.” ica now is really, fundamentally the CNN didn’t respond to multiple result of years of fake news, con- requests by The Epoch Times for spiracy nonsense from Fox News comment. that has taken root in this country,” Zucker said during a 9 a.m. run- ‘Trump Network’ A CNN logo ahead of a debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 13, 2015. down call. “And I’m dead serious Several CNN employees told Poarch about this.” or other undercover reporters about PROJECT VERITAS It didn’t seem to be just a personal their dissatisfaction with Zucker’s observation either. approach. “Fake conspiracy nonsense that “There’s just nothing we can do if Everyone at the Fox has spread for years is now Zucker wants impeachment every network complains deeply embedded in American so- single day to be the top story,” said about it ... They hate ciety and at the highest levels of Christian Sierra, media coordinator the Republican elected officials, as at CNN, in one of the recordings. covering Trump every we’ve seen with [Sen.] Ron John- Sierra said he “[hated] how ev- day. son,” Zucker said. “Frankly, that is erything is like all Trump all the beyond destructive for America and time now. Christian Sierra, CNN Media I do not think we should be scared “Everyone at the network com- Coordinator to say so.” plains about it,” he said. “They hate In what appeared to be another covering Trump every day.” rundown call, Zucker noted that “a Mike Brevna, CNN floor manager, lot of people at CNN” were “friend- expressed a similar sentiment in ly” with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- another recording. S.C.). “It’s the Trump Network, dog. It’s “Time to knock that off,” Zucker like, it’s everything is all Trump. said. “And it’s time to call him out.” They not even thinking about, they Graham, Zucker said, was regu- not even thinking about anybody larly giving interviews to Fox News else,” he said. “They sold themselves CNN Media Coordinator Christian Sierra on Sept. 12, 2019. and it was time to “seriously call to the devil. It’s, it’s sad. Because out what’s going on here.” there’s so much news going on out As Poarch saw it, it was the pot there, but they don’t cover none of ing up there throughout the day.” Neville responded. calling the kettle black. it. All they do is, because of spon- “I don’t care about the MSNBC He added that “Jeff Zucker can’t “He was calling Fox News fake sors and everything.” event, okay?” Zucker responded. really complain” since it was CNN news and a propaganda machine Nick Neville, a news associate at “I don’t care about them. Let’s just that gave Trump extensive air time and, with what I saw, I’m like, CNN, said in the recordings that “a stay very focused on impeachment during his campaign, thus boosting ‘That’s pretty much what CNN lot of people” at CNN are “trying to, and everything that happens today his candidacy. was,’” he told Project Veritas. like, just do what they think is, like, because, look, you’re going to be In Neville’s view, not only CNN, the best of journalistic integrity.” coming on at 3 o’clock. Trump is but other networks have also been Bias “And then you get on the 9 a.m. at two.” stifling people like him, who “want Sierra acknowledged that CNN goes call and big boss, Jeff Zucker, [exple- to do just, like, the truth, like, the easier on Democrats. tive] tells you what to do,” he said. ‘Personal Vendetta’ dogged reporting.” The executives, “Our Democratic interviews are “And it’s like you have to like, to a Neville said that Zucker “has a per- he said, are chasing ratings and like softballs, compared to the Re- certain extent, you have to follow sonal vendetta against Trump,” at think, “If we just talk about Trump publicans,” he said. his verdict.” least partly going back to when all day, people will watch.” Brevna said “it was like a funeral” During one of the morning run- Trump worked with Zucker on “The The executives appear to have a when he came to the CNN offices down calls, one of the call attend- Apprentice” reality show. point: Trump has indeed been an for his night shift on Nov. 8, 2016, ees pitched a story about MSNBC’s “He’s, like, had an ongoing feud eyeball magnet buoying news net- right after Trump’s election victory Oct. 2 gun control town hall with with Trump. It’s no surprise,” Nev- works’ ratings across the board. was announced. Democratic presidential candidates. ille said. “He’s had an ongoing feud Trump has even said that when “People were like, in shock,” he “Guns will be the central topic in with Trump since ‘The Apprentice.’” he eventually leaves office, it will said. “I wouldn’t say they were in the 2020 Democratic nomination “I’m just surprised CNN hasn’t bankrupt the legacy media that have mourning; I would say people were race today,” he said. “The Giffords been able to take down Trump yet,” been near-uniformly critical of him. in shock.” PAC has paired up with MSNBC, one undercover reporter said during Hiram Gonzalez, CNN floor direc- He saw a woman covering her face they’ve got a guns town hall in Las a car trip with other CNN staffers. tor, voiced a similar opinion. sobbing. He didn’t know who she Vegas, 10 candidates will be show- “I mean, I feel like they’re trying,” “Between you and I, we created was, he said.

White House: Trump ‘Strongly Condemns’ Violent Meme

WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES ZACHARY STIEBER tioned events in the article. “The WHCA is horrified by Including our panel con- a video reportedly shown The White House on Oct. 14 versation LITERALLY con- over the weekend at a po- said that President Donald demning political violence litical conference organised Trump “strongly condemns” while claiming to be upset by the President’s support- a violent meme that played at over a meme that was not ers at the Trump National a conference over the week- sanctioned, shown on stage, Doral in Miami. All Ameri- end. or approved,” Phillips said. cans should condemn this “The @POTUS @real- “#AMPFest19 always has and depiction of violence di- DonaldTrump has not yet always will condemn political rected toward journalists seen the video, he will see violence.” and the President’s political it shortly, but based upon American Priority was opponents,” Jonathan Karl, everything he has heard, founded in 2018. “Our Mis- president of the association he strongly condemns this sion is to develop and hold and an ABC reporter, said in video,” White House press educational events that sup- a statement. secretary Stephanie Grisham port the First Amendment, Karl attempted to blame said in a statement. highlight American culture Trump, saying “We have The video took footage and values as well as solutions previously told the President from “Kingsman” and su- to issues we face as a nation. his rhetoric could incite vio- perimposed Trump’s face in Trump was not involved by the #AMPFest19 organis- We support the America First lence.” Karl called on Trump U.S. President Don- place of one of the characters, in the making of the video ers,” Alex Phillips, the con- but not alone agenda as well to denounce the video. ald Trump responds to a who carried out a shooting in question from a reporter and the American Priority ference organiser, said in a as open dialogue, freedom of “The video reportedly a church. Some of the victim’s at an event at the White Conference, where it played, statement. He said New York speech and free association,” played this weekend at a faces were replaced by logos House in Washington on said that the footage was un- Times reporters brought the the group said on its website. conference organised by for media companies. Oct. 9, 2019. authorised and “shown in a footage to their attention. The White House Corre- the President’s supporters at The meme prompted an side room.” “We find it shocking that spondents’ Association said Trump National Doral is vile outcry from the companies “This video was not ap- the New York Times would that it was “horrified” by the and dangerous,” Karl added and a range of reporters. proved, seen, or sanctioned not report on any of the sanc- video. in a personal statement. A8 | WORLD OCTOBER 17-23, 2019 THE WORLD In Pictures GETTY IMAGES; LLUIS GENE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; IAN FORSYTH/GETTY FORSYTH/GETTY IAN IMAGES IMAGES; MEHRI/AFP/GETTY BEHROUZ SUWANRUMPHA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; LILLIAN WILLIAMS/ MAREE IMAGES; LISA IMAGES; GENE/AFP/GETTY LLUIS COURT/GETTY IMAGES; CARL IMAGES; GETTY FONG/AFP/GETTY PHILIP IMAGES; KARA/GETTY BURAK

(From top L–R) People carry a woman out from her home after a mortar fired from Syria struck her house in Akcakale, Turkey on Oct. 13. The military action is part of a campaign to extend Turkish control of more of northern Syria, a large swath of which is currently held by Syrian Kurds, whom Turkey regards as a threat. A high school student is checked by police at a rally to mark Taiwan’s National Day, in the Tsim Sha Tsui district in Hong Kong on Oct. 10. A woman helps to clear up a shop that was flooded during Typhoon Hagibis in Hoyasu near Nagano, Japan, on Oct. 15. The most powerful storm in decades, Hagibis swept across the country killing 66 people and leaving thousands injured and homeless. Members of female traditional dance group ‘Faeni’ rehearse at Ginger Beach in Honiara, Solo- mon Islands, on Oct. 11 for the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Oct. 17-19. A woman holds placards showing jailed Catalan separatist leaders Jordi Turull and Carme Forcadell in Barcelona on Oct. 14 after Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan leaders to prison terms ranging from nine to 13 years for their role in a failed 2017 independence bid. A jockey races a buffalo during the annual Chonburi Buffalo Race in Chonburi, Thailand, on Oct. 12, in a decades-old tradition to celebrate the animals’ hard work in the field. Cooling towers are demolished in Knottingley, England, on Oct. 13 after generating over 2,000 megawatts from four coal fired units, producing electricity for more than 50 years meeting the energy needs of nearly two million people. Japanese chemist and winner of the 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize Akira Yoshino (L) and his wife Kumiko attend a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 10. Three researchers on Oct. 9 won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the development of lithium-ion batteries. THURSDAY,OCTOBER 17-23, OCTOBER 2019 10, 2019 OPINIONOPINION || A15A9

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Attorney Gen- eral William Barr arrives at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washing- ton on Oct. 3, 2019. Attorney General Barr Showing Up in Italy With US Attorney Durham Causes Mass Media Panic

BRIAN CATES 2016 meeting in which Mifsud allegedly and federal agencies by her paid political alerted Papadopoulos that the Russians had operatives at Fusion GPS, it’s considered an Full-blown panic ensued After spending two ‘dirt’ on Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clin- absurd “right-wing talking point” that any in the fake news media ton, in the form of thousands of emails.” of these fake allegations were utilised by when it was announced years relentlessly It’s now standard practice at this point any of these federal agencies to start inves- that U.S. Attorney hawking the now- for legacy media reporters to pretend that tigations of the Trump campaign in 2016. General William Barr debunked ‘Russiagate’ Mifsud is “a murky figure” rather than In fact, because The Epoch Times has was in Italy meeting with someone with a well-known and well- been avidly following the publicly re- government officials about hoax, it’s kind of defined history with Western intelligence vealed evidence of Spygate from the be- the role of Italian intelligence in what has understandable in a agencies. These narrative peddlers seem ginning, legacy outlets have used that as become popularly known as “Russiagate,” way why legacy media to think simply not mentioning Mifsud’s a reason to discount the legitimacy of the the FBI’s investigation into the Trump work at Link Campus or the London Spygate scandal itself. campaign during the 2016 election. reporters don’t feel Centre of International Law Practice If outlets like The New York Times, The That panic only intensified when it was too keen about having somehow makes these inconvenient facts Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC want revealed that not only had Barr been to start digging into disappear. to compare their legitimacy in covering meeting with Italian officials, he had also I’ve been writing for more than a year this scandal with that of The Epoch Times, been in contact with the governments that other ‘-gate’ about how massively damaging it’s going that’s certainly fine with me. of the United Kingdom, Australia, and they’ve been pretty to be to the Trump–Russia collusion hoax Ukraine, and he brought John Durham much ignoring up to narrative when it’s proven it was Western Mifsud Must Be a Russian Agent, Because with him on this latest trip. intelligence services that sent Mifsud to If Not ... You may recall that Durham is the U.S. this point: ‘Spygate.’ Papadopoulos pretending to be a Russian These legacy media reporters insist the Attorney for the District of Connecticut agent to entrap him. real trigger for the Trump campaign in- who was tapped by Barr to investigate After spending two years relentlessly vestigation wasn’t the Steele dossier alle- the origins of the DOJ and FBI’s counter- hawking the now-debunked Russiagate gations but instead Mifsud’s contact with intelligence investigation of the Trump hoax, it’s kind of understandable in a way Papadopoulos in London in March 2016. campaign. why legacy media reporters don’t feel too For this scenario to work, Mifsud must The New York Times quickly put out a keen about having to start digging into be a real Russian agent making a real story decrying Trump’s call with the Aus- that other “-gate” they’ve been pretty overture from the Putin government to tralian prime minister. much ignoring up to this point: “Spygate.” Papadopoulos. If he’s not, then the whole The lede read, “The discussion was I hope they can warm up to the idea Russiagate narrative falls apart. another instance of the president using though, because that’s where things are So it’s pretty easy to see why legacy me- American diplomacy for potential per- headed—whether they like it or not. dia reporters would be concerned if it was sonal gain.” starting to look like Mifsud wasn’t really a Well, excuse me. This president spent the Russiagate Was a Hoax, ‘Spygate’ Is Real Russian agent at all, but instead what’s re- first 2 1/2 years of his first term under a For more than two years, legacy media ferred to in FBI lingo as an “Oconus lure.” dark cloud of suspicion of being a Russian outlets have snidely derided Spygate as a If evidence ends up showing Mifsud was agent and a traitor, and the entire country “wild conspiracy” theory that has no real working for the FBI and reached out to was put through that fiasco based on what evidence to support it. Papadopoulos as part of a Western-run is now known to have been a hoax. Although they have been forced to tacitly intelligence sting, and then U.S. officials How that hoax was created is something admit that Hillary Clinton funded the decided after the fact to throw him under that demands investigation, even if the creation of the Steele dossier and its dis- the bus and claim to the Foreign Intel- mainstream media that spent more than semination across various media outlets ligence Surveillance Court, to the Mueller two years relentlessly hawking that hoax COURTESY OF STEPHAN ROH special counsel, and to the news media doesn’t think so. that he was a real, live Russian spy, imag- ine the implications of that. Lame Damage Control Famed spy novelist John le Carré proba- The Washington Post also quickly pub- bly could’ve written something this good, lished an article that appears to be an but he would have had to really work at it. attempt at damage control. Needless to say, it’s apparent that Barr The article states: and Durham have managed to get hold of “One area that has been of sustained the mainstream media’s attention with interest to Barr and Durham, according this trip to Italy and elsewhere. With to people familiar with the matter who the latest DOJ inspector general report spoke on the condition of anonymity to expected soon, developments in Spygate discuss a sensitive issue, is a murky figure could start coming fast and furiously. named Joseph Mifsud. “Mifsud, a European academic, was Brian Cates is a political pundit and writer publicly linked to Russian interference based in South Texas and the author of efforts in late 2017, when Mueller revealed “Nobody Asked for My Opinion … But Here a guilty plea by former Trump campaign Joseph Mifsud in Zurich It Is Anyway!” staffer George Papadopoulos, who admit- in May 2018. The photo ted he had lied to the FBI about the details shows a signed power of Views expressed in this article are the of his interactions with Mifsud. attorney document dated opinions of the author and do not neces- “Those conversations included an April May 21, 2018. sarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. A10 | OPINION OCTOBER 17-23, 2019

FOX PHOTOS/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGE Doing Right, Helping Others

PAUL ADAMS

Commentary There are two aspects to the traditional way we think Charles Dickens, the about helping those in need. 19th-century One is that we ought to novelist, condemns give of our own time, trea- sure, and talent, and not rely both the refusal entirely on the state and the pay- to give and the wrong ing of taxes. The other is that we must give for the right reasons. kind of giving. We err, in this view, by refusing to He was severely help others—beyond our own fam- critical of those—like ily—who clearly need our help. But we also err by helping them for the wrong his character reasons. For example, we may do it out Ebenezer Scrooge of concern for our own reputation, as in “A a kind of personal or corporate public relations exercise. Or we may do it to Christmas Carol” English actor Albert Finney as Dickensian anti-hero Scrooge in the musical film ‘Scrooge’ on Jan. 16, 1970. build our resume for a college applica- (1843)—who paid tion. their taxes and Today, both the helping—charitable The Charity Organisation Societies of and skill—being prudent in discerning giving of all kinds—and its motivation thought that this took the 19th century and the United Way in what actually helps and what might are under closer scrutiny than ever. care of any obligation the 20th addressed these issues by “or- make matters worse. We can recognise Charles Dickens, the 19th-century to give. ganising charity” and making it “sci- that motives and intentions are seldom novelist, condemns both the refusal entific.” In doing so, they created a gap pure or simple. Or that many of today’s to give and the wrong kind of giving. between donor and recipient, so do- social problems can’t be solved by per- He was severely critical of those—like nors could rely on experts to divide up sonal acts of charity alone, or even by his character Ebenezer Scrooge in “A contributions among what they deter- the corporate charity of faith commu- Christmas Carol” (1843)—who paid mined to be deserving agencies. Under nities and voluntary associations. their taxes and thought that this took such an arrangement, we don’t have to But given all that, do we still not have care of any obligation to give. make such decisions or ever personally a personal duty to give to those in need But he also warns against “telescopic meet a poor or needy person. of our help? We are not autonomous, un- philanthropy.” That’s the term Dickens Governmental tax systems do some- encumbered individual citizens with no applies to one of his most memorable thing similar on a larger scale, remov- obligations that we don’t choose, other and ridiculous characters, Mrs. Jellyby, ing the element of personal choice al- than as citizens who pay taxes. We are in his novel “Bleak House” (1852–53). together. Bureaucrats and professionals fundamentally relational—born into and Mrs. Jellyby throws all her efforts into decide who gets what, swallowing up dependent on relations with others—with advocating for people who live thou- charitable agencies that become almost debts to our parents, family, community, sands of miles away and whom she has entirely dependent on public grants and culture, and nation. Government pro- never met. As she does this, she grossly contracts. Their own missions become grammes may meet some common needs neglects the need in front of her nose, subordinated to the government’s. and may be necessary. But they—and the of her own children. taxes we are legally obliged to pay to sup- Mrs. Jellyby devotes all her energy Masters of Suspicion port them—can’t substitute for personal and attention to helping the natives Since the time of Dickens, we have caring and giving. in a (fictional) colony in Africa by armed ourselves with many more rea- Such giving, out of love, of our own supporting a coffee-growing scheme sons not to give. Those great masters of resources of time, money, and skills, there. She writes letters promoting her suspicion, Darwin, Marx, and Freud, expresses our sense of belonging, of cause from dawn to dusk, while her have taught us in different ways not to gratitude for the many blessings we children suffer various accidents that trust our own motivations or those of enjoy. Public programmes too easily de- she ignores, and are at all times dirty others. feat this sense of personal responsibil- and ill-fed. We start to doubt whether genuine, ity and caring on which community is All is subordinated to her charitable altruistic, disinterested care for others built. It replaces the personal decision project, not least the needs of her own beyond our family is even possible. Is it, to give freely or, as and when we be- family, to whom she has a primary and as “social Darwinists” argued, either a come dependent, to receive gratefully. direct duty to minister. futile or a harmful attempt to defeat the Government can’t love, and families “survival of the fittest” by subsidising and communities can’t thrive without Reasons Not to Give the unfit? it. Today, we are particularly sensitive Marx saw charity as a substitute for to the wrong reasons for giving and justice, gratuitous and condescend- Paul Adams is a professor emeritus of the ways in which even well-meaning ing, or as a “cost of representation,” a social work at the University of Hawaii “helping” can hurt more than it helps. way for rich and powerful capitalists and was a professor and associate dean This readily becomes a rationale for not to show that they really cared for those of academic affairs at Case Western giving at all. they exploited and oppressed. Reserve University. He is the co-author We don’t know whether a beggar will And Freud taught us about the un- of “Social Justice Isn’t What You Think misuse our gift and spend it on drink conscious motives, of which we our- It Is,” and has written extensively on or drugs; or whether one agency will selves are unaware, that drive us to act social welfare policy and professional spend a gift more fruitfully than an- in ways that only appear noble on the and virtue ethics. other; or whether a mission trip to help surface. a poor community in a less-developed Views expressed in this article are the country will create dependency or de- Why We Should Give opinions of the author and do not nec- stroy a local market and the initiative We can and should recognise that essarily reflect the views of The Epoch that built it. Safer not to give at all. helping others requires knowledge Times.

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SPECIAL SERIES How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World

Destruction of the Family

The Epoch Times here serializes a translation from the Chinese of “How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World,” a new book by the Chapter Seven (Cont.) editorial team of the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.”

Results of the Feminist Movement: Wilde was investigated for his sexual “adjustment,” evidenced by such quali- Pandora’s box has been thrown wide Broken Families, Degenerate relationship with another man, the SPD fiers as having earned college degrees. open. According to the adjustment Relationships, Confused Sex Roles was the only group that stood up in his All of these conditions are, neverthe- standard of today’s psychology, various (cont.) defense. SPD leader Eduard Bernstein less, psychological abnormalities as perverted sexual freedoms advocated Traditional society regards childbirth proposed a bill to overturn the law ban- recognized by the scientific commu- by the utopian socialist Charles Fourier, and the education of children to be the ning sodomy. nity. [17] including incest, group marriage, sacred duty of women, ordained by One of the most radical examples of Many studies confirm that homo- and bestiality, can also be considered God or Heaven. In the annals of both sexual liberation in the era followed sexuals have significantly higher rates normal psychological states. The divine the East and the West, behind every the Bolsheviks’ October Revolution in of contracting AIDS, committing union of husband and wife has been great hero is a great mother. Feminism Russia. Soviet sexual policies, which suicide, and abusing drugs than the distorted to include same-sex couples. discards this tradition as patriarchal were discussed earlier in this chapter, general population, even in countries It follows that incestuous families oppression, and holds that expecting abolished legal prohibitions on homo- such as Denmark, where same-sex and “marriage” between humans and women to be responsible for raising sexual relationships, making the Soviet marriages have long been legal and animals can be legalized. The devil is their children is a key example of this Union the most liberal country on earth destigmatized. [18] [19] The prevalence reducing man to a beast, without stan- oppression. by leftist standards. of AIDS and syphilis among homosexu- dards or morals, so that eventually he Contemporary feminist literature is In 1997, the African National Con- als is between 38 and 109 times that of will be destroyed. replete with denunciations of mother- gress (ANC) of South Africa passed the the normal population. [20] Before the The LGBT movement, sexual libera- hood and married life as being mo- world’s first constitution that recog- breakthroughs in AIDS treatment made tion, and feminism have put the family notonous, boring, and unfulfilling. The nized homosexuality as a human right. in the 1990s, the average lifespan of structure and human morality under bias of this dim view is apparent when The ANC, a member of the Socialist homosexuals was eight to twenty years total siege. It is a betrayal of the tradi- considering the personal lives of well- International (formerly a branch of the lower than the average population. [21] tional marriage that God arranged for known feminists. Nearly all of them now-defunct Second International), has These facts do not suggest that homo- mankind. suffer from broken relationships or consistently supported homosexuality. sexuality is normal or healthy. To treat homosexuals as fellow hu- failed marriages, or they are childless. Inspired by Hirschfeld’s WhK, As the LGBT movement continues to man beings is kind and good, but the Feminism has opened the door to all in 1924, Henry Gerber founded the grow, the “politically correct” label of devil has manipulated this kindness to kinds of ridiculous notions. There are Society for Human Rights (SHR), the “homophobia” is used to attack those deceive and destroy people who have those who insist that “the personal is first American LGBT rights organiza- opposed to homosexuality, and experts forgotten that gods created men and political” and see domestic conflicts tion. SHR was short-lived, as several of who present findings that homosexual- women in their image and set the con- as gender wars. Some consider men its members were arrested soon after ity is a mental illness are marginalized. ditions for being human. When man parasites who enslave women’s minds its establishment. In 1950, American A considerable number of homosexuals is no longer man, and woman is no and bodies. Others describe children as communist Harry Hay founded the have obtained degrees in psychology longer woman, when people abandon a hindrance to women looking to reach Mattachine Society in his Los Angeles and psychiatry and have become “ex- divine moral codes and side with the their full potential and claim that the residence. The organization was the first perts” in “queer studies.” devil for the sake of their desires, then roots of oppression are in the family influential LGBT group in the United The supposedly scientific evidence there is no escape from the abyss of structure. States. It released its own publications widely quoted today to support homo- damnation. Modern feminism openly proclaims and expanded to other areas. sexuality as “normal” behavior is the We may kindheartedly say “we that its aim is to destroy the traditional In 1957, zoologist Evelyn Hooker “Report of the Task Force on Appropri- respect your choice” to those who family. Typical statements include the claimed in her research that there was ate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual have gone astray and wandered to following: “The precondition for wom- no mental difference between homo- Orientation,” written by a working the edge of the abyss, but this serves en’s liberation is an end to the marriage sexual and heterosexual men. Her work group appointed by the APA in 2009. only to push them closer to danger. system.” [11] “The choice to serve and then became the main “scientific basis” Kinney has noted that out of the seven True compassion is to tell those who be protected and plan towards being a used to justify homosexuality. Hooker members of the working group, six, are misguided to distinguish between family-maker is a choice that shouldn’t had links to a member of the Matta- including the chairman, were homo- right and wrong, to lead them back be.” [12] “We can’t destroy the inequi- chine Society, who persuaded her to sexual or bisexual. The study cannot be to the upright path, and to help them ties between men and women until we support homosexuality. Her study has considered scientifically neutral. avoid doom—even if it means being destroy marriage.” [13] been criticized for picking all its sub- Joseph Nicolosi, late president of the resented or misunderstood. Feminist movements resolved jects from the ranks of the Mattachine National Institute of Gay and Lesbian supposed social problems by promot- Society. [15] Studies, disclosed that at the time, the Works Cited ing moral degeneracy and destroy- In the 1960s, accompanying the wave most qualified experts had applied to [11] Declaration of Feminism. Original- ing human relations in the name of of sexual liberalization and the hippie join the working group, but because ly distributed in June of 1971 by Nancy “liberation.” According to Sylvia Ann movement, the homosexual cause went these experts belonged to the academic Lehmann and Helen Sullinger of Post Hewlett, an American economist and public. In 1971, the National Organiza- school that supported the use of treat- Office Box 7064, Powderhorn Station, gender specialist, modern feminism is tion for Women, a major American ment to correct homosexuality, none Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407 (Novem- the major contributing factor to a large feminist organization, stated its support were accepted. [22] Nicholas Cum- ber 1971). number of single-mother households, for homosexual rights. mings, a former APA president, said in [12] Vivian Gornick, as quoted in The while no-fault divorce actually provides In 1974, the American Psychiatric As- a public statement that politics trumps Daily Illini (April 25, 1981). a convenient means for men to abandon sociation (APA) cited Hooker’s research science in the association, which has [13] Robin Morgan, Sisterhood Is Power- their responsibilities. Ironically, femi- as the main evidence for taking homo- been taken over by advocates of homo- ful: An Anthology of Writings From the nism’s assault on the existing family sexuality off the list of mental disorders. sexual rights. [23] Women’s Liberation Movement (New structure works to destroy the haven But in the actual vote, this decision Today, the adjustment standard sup- York: Vintage, 1970): 537. that ensures the happiness and security was opposed by 39 percent of the APA’s ported by queer-studies “experts” and [14] Darlena Cunha, “The Divorce Gap,” of most women. members. In other words, the research proponents of the homosexual move- The Atlantic (April 28, 2016). Easy divorce did not emancipate was far from unanimously convincing. ment is also widely used by the APA to [15] Hilary White, “The Mother of the women. Studies found that 27 percent Hooker and her follow-up researchers measure other sexual-psychological Homosexual Movement – Evelyn Hooker, of divorced women were living below chose the so-called adjustment test re- abnormalities, such as pedophilia. Ph.D.,” The Life Site News (July 16, 2007). the poverty line, a percentage three sults as a measure for the psychological According to the APA, a pedophile is [16] Robert L. Kinney, III, “Homosexual- times higher than that of divorced status of homosexuals. To put it plainly, defined as an adult who feels intensely ity and Scientific Evidence: On Suspect men. [14] The specter of communism if a person can adapt to society, main- aroused or has sexual fantasies upon Anecdotes, Antiquated Data, and Broad cares nothing about women’s rights. tain self-esteem and good interpersonal seeing a child, regardless of whether Generalizations,” Linacre Quarterly 82(4) Feminism is merely its tool to destroy relationships, and has no psychological these impulses are acted upon or not. (2015): 364–390. families and corrupt humankind. barriers in his or her regular social life, But as long as he or she is capable of [17] Ibid. he or she can be considered a psycho- demonstrating “adjustment,” then the [18] P. Cameron, W. L. Playfair, and S. c. Perverting the Family Structure logically normal person. pedophile’s sexual orientation should Wellum, “The Longevity of Homosexu- Through Homosexuality In 2015, Dr. Robert L. Kinney III pub- be considered “normal.” Rather, only als: Before and after the AIDS Epidemic,” The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans- lished an article in the medical journal when pedophiles feel shame, inner Omega 29 (1994): 249–272. gender (LGBT) movement has been Lincore that discussed the flaws in the conflict, or other types of debilitating [19] P. Cameron, K. Cameron, W. L. Play- closely associated with communism standard Hooker used to determine the psychological pressure does it count as fair, “Does Homosexual Activity Shorten ever since the first utopians began presence or lack of mental disorder. a disorder. Life?” Psychological Reports 83(3 Pt 1) touting the practice of homosexuality As an example, there is a type of This standard of diagnosis runs (1998): 847–66. as a human right. Since the commu- mental illness called xenomelia, which completely counter to normal human [20] David W. Purcell, Christopher H. nist movement claims to emancipate creates in its sufferers a strong desire to values: According to the APA, a person Johnson, Amy Lansky, Joseph Prejean, people from the bondage of traditional cut off their own healthy, functioning who feels shame and guilt for having Renee Stein, Paul Denning, Zaneta Gau, morality, its ideology naturally calls for limbs. Similarly to how some homosex- unacceptable impulses is mentally ill, Hillard Weinstock, John Su, and Nicole supposed LGBT rights as a part of its uals are convinced they were born with but someone who is comfortable with Crepaz, “Estimating the Population Size program of “sexual liberation.” Many the wrong sex organs, xenomelia pa- these impulses is supposedly healthy. of Men Who Have Sex with Men in the proponents of sexual liberation who tients strongly believe that one or more Homosexual marriage was legalized United States to Obtain HIV and Syphilis staunchly support homosexuality are of their body parts does not belong to following this logic, and acceptance of Rates,” The Open AIDS Journal 6 (2012): communists or share their views. them. This kind of patient is fully ca- pedophilia cannot be long in coming. 98–107. The world’s first major LGBT move- pable of adapting to society, maintain- David Thorstad, a Trotskyite and [21] R. S. Hogg, S. A. Strathdee, K. J. P. ment was started by senior figures of ing self-esteem and good interpersonal member of the American Communist Craib, M.V. O’Shaughnessy, J. S. G. Mon- Germany’s Social Democratic Party relationships, and has no psychological Party, founded the North American taner, M. T. Schechter, “Modelling the (SPD) during the 1890s. Led by Magnus barriers to functioning in society. Pa- Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). Impact of HIV Disease on Mortality in Hirschfeld, this group promoted tients experience satisfaction when the Another important figure in the Ameri- Gay Men,” International Journal of Epi- homosexuality as being “natural” offending limb is amputated and report can LGBT movement and a promoter demiology 26(3) (1997): 657–61. and “moral.” In 1897, the Scientific- that it improves their lives. [16] of pedophilia is Allen Ginsberg, a com- [22] Joseph Nicolosi, “Who Were the APA Humanitarian Committee, known Kinney’s report cited other mental munist and admirer of Fidel Castro. ‘Task Force’ Members?” (June 11, 2015). in German as the “Wissenschaftlich- illnesses. For instance, people with a Aside from NAMBLA, another major pe- [23] Matthew Hoffman, “Former Presi- humanitäres Komitee” (WhK), was certain type of psychological disorder dophile organization is the Childhood dent of APA Says Organization Controlled founded by Hirschfeld to advocate for enjoy eating plastic, nonsuicidal victims Sensuality Circle, founded in California by ‘Gay Rights’ Movement,” The Life Site LGBT causes and began its first public of another illness have a strong desire to in 1971 by disciples of the German com- News (June 4, 2012). campaign that year. hurt themselves physically, and so on. munist and pioneer of sexual liberation In 1895, when British writer Oscar These patients often have good social Wilhelm Reich. See next edition for the next installment. A12 | OPINION OCTOBER 17-23, 2019

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The helicopter-flying Rubin also says that he “had a core league. e-commerce executive has never belief that Amazon and Alibaba NBA players and team leaders very been short on advocating for contro- were going to control e-commerce frequently voice their personal be- versial causes. Just look at his efforts everywhere in the world”—maybe liefs or opinions about social justice, in the Meek Mill saga—as the rap- he should seek out the dissident geopolitics, or matters of personal per became a crusader for criminal Chinese billionnaire Guo Wengui to concern. Very rarely do we ever hear justice reform while seeking to avoid have him explain why the founder from NBA Commissioner Adam Sil- a jail term in a drugs and gun case, and former executive chairman of ver when these issues are discussed Rubin was his advocate. So why is Alibaba, Jack Ma, who retired last outside the arena. Rubin silent on China? 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At the Family Table With "Family: New Vegetarian Comfort Food to Nourish Every Day" by Hetty McKinnon (Prestel, $35). Hetty McKinnon The Australian cook and author dishes on the importance of the family meal—and shares tips for busy weeknights

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n Hetty McKinnon’s house, family meals are sacred. The Australia-born, now Brooklyn-based cook and food writer is plenty busy: Her many hats include founder of salad-delivery business Ar- Ithur Street Kitchen back home in Surry Hills, Sydney; creator and publisher of Peddler Journal, a biannual multicultural food magazine; co-owner of Neighbor- hood Studio, a community kitchen space in Brook- lyn; and beloved cookbook author, with her third and latest book, “Family,” released in the United States this April. Her three kids—9, 11, and 13—don’t sit still much, either. Between school, after school baseball, and music lessons, they “lead full, busy lives, sometimes as busy as my husband [who is a lawyer] and [me],” McKinnon said. But at the end of the day, come dinnertime, they all find their way back together.

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The late Sanjay Kasliwal said, “A piece of jewelry is eternal, it must transcend Samir Kasliwal oversees operations in Jaipur, India. times and trends.”

CRAFTSMANSHIP Jewelers to Kings and Queens The eighth generation of the Kasliwal family continues the Gem Palace’s glittering legacy

The Royal collection exudes lavishness reminiscent of royal courts. Floral enameled bracelet glazed on 22-karat gold set with diamonds.

CATHERINE YANG spite the legacy the family business, because so many of the of passing on the artisans have been with the Gem Palace for f you want to fall in family business generations as well, learning from their fa- love with jewelry, you from father to son, thers. need only peruse the there was never “I used to spend a lot of time to see him handcrafted works of any pressure, and it working,” Samir said. “It’s something you The Gem Palace. Even was never taken for can only learn from experience.” Ithe backs and undersides of each granted that she and her “If you have a bit of creativity, you can really piece are covered with the most brother would need to join accomplish something that you can leave also intricate filigree patterns, because the the family business. to the next generation,” Samir said. He joined artists believe even the parts that touch In fact, Shalini had initially the business 12 years ago and has been think- the body, and go unseen, should be beautiful. struck out on her own—after all, the ing since about what to leave for the future. And in front, every single stone is uniquely business is usually entrusted to the son shaped, hand-polished, and hand-set into its anyway—she had been taking the bar exam Glittering Legacy designated spot. Every piece seems personal, in Italy when her father decided to open the There is something magical that happens and tells a story. New York store. in the workshops of The Gem Palace, where “If you see any imperfections, they’re made You learn He’d told her his plans, and Shalini realized dusty stones are polished into brilliant trea- on purpose,” Shalini Kasliwal said, showing to pass on a what she felt was excitement. She decided that sures. a bracelet inlaid with blue-green stones, no right after her exam, she would make a big When Shalini first set foot in the work - two of which were exactly alike. respect for past move. shops with an eye to learn, she finally re- Shalini, CEO of the Sanjay Kasliwal flagship First, she moved to Jaipur to learn every- alized none of it is machine-made. Every store in New York, is the eighth generation of creations made thing she could from her father. She’d worked setting, every elaborate pattern was crafted The Gem Palace. The Kasliwals are not just with rare and summers at the Gem Palace as a teenager, but by expert hands. a dynasty of jewelers, but an imperial one. that had always been for fun. A few months “We have inherited a glittering legacy,” Their story goes back to the 1700s, when special gems, later, she moved to New York to open the store. Sanjay said in a short film about the brand. they adorned maharajas and royal families At age 26, she became the first woman to head “You learn to pass on a respect for past cre- throughout India, effectively shaping the style transformed a branch of the family business. ations made with rare and special gems, of the imperial jewelry of the culture in the into pieces of “He really trusted me,” Shalini said, remem- transformed into pieces of art by inspired court. bering her father spending not more than a craftsmanship. It is a legacy of excellence.” The Gem Palace was established in 1852, and art by inspired week in New York, entrusting the rest to her. Within the jeweler dynasty, there is an the 1923 Jaipur shop in India has since become craftsmanship. She thrived under the challenge. “It was like, idea of permanence. At any given time, 700 a destination in and of itself. ‘This is your store now,’” she said. different pieces are on display in Gem Pal- Sanjay Kasliwal passed away earlier this Sanjay Kasliwal PR firms, e-commerce, logos, personally ace stores around the world—some may be year. His son Samir oversees operations in advising stylists, and celebrities ahead of the pieces made again from designs centuries Jaipur, and his daughter Shalini heads the Met Gala, working with fashion editors—much ago, originally made for an emperor or em- eponymous boutique in New York. of it was marketing Sanjay had never had to press. Jewelry is significant in Indian cul- The siblings remember their father as a larg- deal with anyway. ture. Some pieces are passed on through the er-than-life figure, passionate from the inside “He was very traditional, he was talking generations; some are given to children to out about the craft, and able to charm people to his customers directly,” Shalini said. As a wear their whole life. Stones are chosen for all around the world because of it. child, she admired his jet-setting lifestyle. He’d their celestial properties. say, “Let’s visit my friends in London,” or he “He could talk to you for hours,” Shalini Family Business would say, “Oh, let’s go to Japan, we’re going said. “He could tell you all the history—it’s “Basically we grew up in the jewelry business, to visit these friends,” and she would be in really, really rich.” me and my brother, because from my dad’s awe that he knew all these people and that Since taking on the family business, she’s side, they were jewelers for generations. From 22-karat gold he had been to all these places. He broadened come to learn the history and story of each my mom’s side, actually they were jewelers as bracelet set with her worldview and taught her to dream big. and every piece as well. well,” Shalini said. pearls, diamonds, Samir, on the other hand, had always had “I have a lot of memories going there and see- Their Italian grandfather used to go to India and rubies. an interest in the family business. He remem- ing him there. He used to tell us a lot about his to buy stones from their Indian grandfather. bers even as a child visiting the shop with his father, when he was going to the store to help “During one of those trips, my mom went father and learning about everything as he his dad, seeing his dad building relationships with my grandfather—so this is how they met,” went along. around the world—royalty, actresses, actors, Shalini said of her parents. The Gem Palace sources stones, designs, and politicians—he was telling us all of these “My father was super, super, super attached and crafts all its jewelry in-house. A team of things about his dad, which is what now I’m to the family business,” Shalini said. But de- about 150 artisans makes up an extension of telling you about my dad,” Shalini said. THURSDAY,OCTOBER 17-23, SEPTEMBER 2019 12, 2019 B5B3

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The Kasliwals are not just a dynasty of jewelers, but an imperial one. Their story goes back to the 1700s, when they adorned maharajas and royal families throughout India.

Kunis drop pendant with a pair Brothers Sanjay and Munnu Kasliwal had of 2.5-carat rose-cut diamonds expanded the collection and global renown and a 65-carat pear-shaped greatly, bringing recognition of the pieces Colombian emerald, suspended on not just as jewelry but as art, with beauti- a line of 12 carats of diamonds. ful exhibitions at top museums. The next generation has dreams of expanding the business footprint. “This is my hope, is to keep expanding the business,” Samir said. “A presence in every major country in the world—this is my vision for the future.” Shalini remembers her father shaking his head at the idea of e-commerce. “How can you sell a $30,000, $20,000 piece online? Who would buy without seeing the piece?” he asked. They partnered with the trunk show on- line retailer Moda Operandi to run the ex- periment. “And they did,” Shalini said. “And we make sales all the time through Instagram. For my dad, this was something he was like ‘What is Shalini Kasliwal heads the New York branch this?’ ... And now the internet is everything.” The siblings know there is a market with People from all over the world would travel younger demographics, but don’t want to Jaipur to talk to Sanjay. to rush; the brand is iconic and has to be “I’m happy because I’m feeling I’m build- treated as such. ing the same kind of relationships,” Shalini “It’s something we have to do step by step,” said. Shalini said. Shalini is expecting, and adds In Jaipur, Samir does everything from that her daughter will inherit an Indian, Ital- Even the undersides hide a designing to taking care of production, to ian, and New York culture. “We’re thinking beautifully crafted surprise. overseeing global retail, where tastes differ of what it will be for her generation as well.” from market to market. It’s a gift to be able to work with the stones he’s so passionate about and translate the India he sees into the pieces their clients will wear. “They’re all inspired by the traditional In- dian motifs, inspiration from nature, from certain animals that have always been part of the Indian culture,” Samir said. “They keep repeating in our jewelry because it’s part of our cultural heritage.” Jacqueline Kennedy visited in 1962. The clientele come from far and wide, counting among them the British royal fam- ily, Hollywood A-listers, heiresses who so prize the piece, they have their wardrobes designed around the jewelry. Some want a piece of history, jewelry that is as tradition- ally Indian as it gets. There are also lines that cater to a more contemporary style, while still drawing from traditional Indian culture and motifs. The family business, big as it is, has always been deeply personal. A visit from actress Gwyneth Paltrow. The Kaliswals moved to Mirza Ismail Road in Jaipur in 1852—it is the flagship store. D4B4 THURSDAY,OCTOBER SEPTEMBER 17-23, 5, 2019

At the Family Table With Hetty McKinnon The Australian cook and author dishes on the importance of the family meal— and shares tips for busy weeknights

Continued fromfrom D1 B1 As for her mother’s bowls of soupy rice, McKinnon realized the dish “Family dinner ... is the one time of was a comfort food of sorts, perhaps the day we can all sit down and re- a relic of childhood meals back in connect,” McKinnon said. “The fam- China. In “Family,” she dedicates a ily table is an anchor, a time to slow recipe for a simple broken rice soup down and take time for one another.” to this memory.

Mealtime Memories New Family Classics McKinnon’s mother, a Chinese im- Now, McKinnon continues the ritual migrant who moved to Australia in with her own kids. her early 20s, took her cooking seri- In place of her mother’s Cantonese ously. Family meals were a big deal. feasts, though, she fills her table with “We woke up with her cooking, multicultural vegetarian dishes her and we went to sleep with her pre- family has grown to love: hearty sal- paring the kitchen for the next day,” ads, soups, pastas, and bakes. These McKinnon said. “She was a force.” family favorites fill the pages of her Dinner each night was a tradi- latest cookbook. tional Cantonese banquet: five or six One of McKinnon’s personal favor- dishes and a medicinal broth, set in ites is a deconstructed falafel salad, the middle of the table with bowls of whose pan-charred leaves of kale rice all around. McKinnon recalled all but disappear under a mountain her mother sometimes going to of crispy chickpeas, roasted with great lengths to source ingredients cumin and paprika—a salad-topper in preparation for a meal, hop- game changer. ping on multiple buses or trains to Another that ranks high on the track down the best brand of tofu or family polls is the halloumi, mint, noodles across town. and kale gozleme, a Turkish street “I remember often wondering why food specialty that tucks oozing, she was so obsessed with cooking,” cheesy insides in a griddled flatbread McKinnon said. “It seemed excessive, wrap. The flatbread is made with especially as I knew this wasn’t the a three-ingredient yogurt dough way my friends ate at dinner time.” simple enough to throw together on a Her mother didn’t even eat much weeknight; it’s an easy blank canvas of what she prepared, McKinnon for other fillings, savory or sweet said. She would join the family at the (McKinnon suggests Nutella and table, exhausted, after everyone else bananas, for one). had already started eating, and after There are plenty of nods to McKin- confirming that the food was good non’s cultural heritage, too, such (it always was), she would prepare as her mother’s recipe for stir-fried her own dinner: the evening’s soup tomato and egg, a Cantonese home ladled over her bowl of rice. cooking classic with a soupy sweet- As McKinnon grew and started a savory-tart sauce that begs to be family of her own, though, she began spooned over rice. McKinnon whips to better understand her mother’s out the dish when she’s in need of a intentions: “For her, cooking was her quick and easy weeknight fix. way of nurturing.” And whatever the menu, she serves “I’ve realized how seminal these the food family-style, as her mother moments around the table were for did, set in the middle of the table for me,” McKinnon said. “[They] gave everyone to help themselves. “It’s me an appreciation of how to express a much more social way of eating,” love—whether it be via food or ver- McKinnon said, and as a bonus, it bally—and how satisfying it can be to encourages her kids to branch out HETTY’S WEEKNIGHT COOKING TIPS nurture others through food.” and try a variety of foods. With all the hustle and Stock the Pantry In “Family,” McKinnon introduces bustle of modern life, A crucial component is the pantry, two midweek “cheat dressings” McKinnon acknowledges which McKinnon calls “the engine that are dead simple but full of the challenge of getting of your kitchen.” Stock the shelves flavor: a versatile herb oil, made regular family meals on with versatile staples, such as with extra-virgin olive oil infused the table. But a key step canned beans and tomatoes, with a generous handful of herbs in overcoming that chal- pasta, rice, and lentils. This can chopped up with a clove of garlic lenge, she said, is a simple be built over time: “If you are and salt; and a zingy citrus tahini mental switch: “It’s about shopping for canned, frozen, or sauce, with a few tablespoons of mentally thinking about dry ingredients, buy two instead tahini and the juice of half a lemon family meals as an every- of one, and stash the spare in the or lime, plus more garlic and salt. day ritual; then we won’t pantry for a rainy day,” McKinnon Mix well and drizzle away on grain feel so flustered about says. bowls, salads, pastas, and roasted cooking.” Canned beans are her secret or grilled vegetables. Home cooks put up powerhouse: instant building blocks Mix It Up obstacles for themselves for a nutritious meal. She’ll pan- Cooking under a time crunch is one when they “feel pressure fry or roast them until crispy for a part of the weeknight equation; to whip up a gourmet snack or topping; smash or puree coming up with dishes the whole meal every night, and them with herbs and spices for a family will actually eat and enjoy that puts them off cook- rustic spread or velvety sauce; or is another. McKinnon encourages ing,” she said. Instead, simply toss them into any pasta, her kids to try everything—and she encourages busy soup, or salad to fortify it with a won’t give up without a few good parents to prioritize healthy dose of plant-based protein. attempts. the heart of the matter: All in the Sauce If they turn their noses up at a “Think of the ritual first, According to McKinnon, the secret particular food, she’ll try presenting and put emphasis on that. to easy and flavorful vegetable- it in a different way (if they won’t What you actually cook is based dishes often lies in the sauce. eat a vegetable raw, how about almost secondary.” A good, herby oil or umami-packed roasting it with a spice?) or pairing dressing does wonders for a simple it with something more familiar bowl of roasted veggies and grains; (she loads her middle son’s favorite top it with a handful of nuts or pesto potato and pasta salad with For Hetty McKinnon and seeds and a fried egg to further up plenty of broccoli and other less- her family, meal times are its staying power. liked greens). a chance to reconnect and strengthen family ties. 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THE DECONSTRUCTED FALAFEL SALAD

Falafels are the perfect plant-based morsel FOR THE LEMON TAHINI and a family favorite. However, in this salad, 1/3 cup tahini I’ve dismantled perfection and discovered a new, delicious way to enjoy the feted flavors of Juice of 1 lemon, plus extra if needed falafels—chickpeas, cumin, parsley, mint, and 1 garlic clove, very finely chopped tahini. The crispy oven-roasted chickpeas are nothing short of incredible, and I encourage you Sea salt and black pepper to try roasting all types of beans in this manner. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

SERVES 4 For the crispy roasted chickpeas, place the drained chickpeas in a small ovenproof dish. Extra-virgin olive oil Cover with olive oil, season well with two big 2 bunches of kale, stems removed and pinches of sea salt and black pepper, and add leaves torn the garlic, cumin, and paprika. Stir to combine. 1 Persian cucumber, sliced into thin rounds Roast for 35–40 minutes, until the chickpeas are crispy. Set aside. 3 cups store-bought pita chips (omit for For the salad, place a large frying pan over a gluten-free) medium heat and drizzle with oil. Add the kale, Handful of flat-leaf parsley leaves, roughly in batches, along with a pinch of salt and cook chopped for 2–3 minutes, until wilted. Handful of mint leaves To make the lemon tahini, pour the tahini into 1 lemon, cut into wedges a small bowl and whisk in the lemon juice and garlic. Gradually add 1 tablespoon of water Sea salt at a time, until the sauce is the consistency FOR THE CRISPY ROASTED CHICKPEAS of thickened cream. If the tahini “seizes” and becomes very thick, add more water; it 18 ounces cooked chickpeas (about 2 will eventually come back together to form a drained cans), patted dry (or substitute cohesive creamy sauce. Season with sea salt white beans or butter beans) and black pepper, and add more lemon juice if Extra-virgin olive oil you like it lemony. Sea salt and black pepper Combine the crispy chickpeas (and their 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped cooking oil) with the kale, cucumber, half the pita chips and herbs. To serve, drizzle over the 2 teaspoons ground cumin lemon tahini and scatter over the remaining pita 1 teaspoon paprika chips. Serve with lemon wedges on the side.

HALLOUMI, KALE, AND MINT GOZLEME

At Australian urban markets FOR THE FILLING pinch of sea salt and black pepper. and street fairs, a familiar aroma Extra-virgin olive oil Cook for 2–3 minutes, until the often imbues the air—the scent kale is wilted. Take the pan off the 1 bunch of kale, stems of sizzling gozleme. Gozleme is a heat and allow to cool. Once cool removed traditional Turkish street food— enough to handle, chop the kale leaves roughly, then add them to these addictive flatbreads are 1 garlic clove, finely chopped the grated Halloumi, scallions, filled with cheese and spinach (or 9 ounces Halloumi cheese, and mint. Season with sea salt meat), sealed, and then cooked grated and black pepper and mix well to over a griddle. They are my market 2 scallions, finely chopped combine. favorite. My gozleme recipe is Handful of mint leaves, torn Divide the dough into four equal made with an extremely simple balls. On a floured surface, roll yogurt dough, which can be used Sea salt and black pepper each ball into a 8–10-inch circle. as a blank canvas for any number Melted butter or extra-virgin Place some filling on one side of of fillings. Melty cheeses with a olive oil, for brushing the circle and fold the dough over. green leafy veg work very well, as 1 lemon, cut into 4 wedges Seal the edges with a fork (or do pan-fried mushrooms with a crimp, if you feel like it!). Repeat fresh soft cheese, such as ricotta For the dough, place the yogurt until you have used all the dough. or chèvre. If you’re after a hearty in a large bowl and stir in the salt. Place a large frying pan over a dessert, fill gozleme with Nutella When combined, gradually add the medium–low heat. Brush both and banana, or sautéed apples flour, a few tablespoons at a time, sides of the gozleme with melted with salted caramel. I like to cook until you have a stiff dough. Bring butter or olive oil and cook on both everything together in the bowl gozleme on the barbecue, but I’ve sides until golden. MY MOTHER’S STIR-FRIED TOMATO before turning it out onto a floured AND EGG also made them in a sandwich To serve, cut each gozleme into work surface. Using your hands, three slices and finish with a good press, on a stove-top griddle, or knead the dough until it is soft and When I ring my mother from New and drop them straight into the ice just in a frying pan. squeeze of lemon juice. (I love lots slightly tacky. Place the dough in of lemon on my gozleme.) York on the landline—and not on the bath. Once the tomatoes are cool, a lightly floured bowl, cover with a SERVES 4 usual FaceTime, which is her time lift them out of the water and peel clean tea towel, and allow to stand TIP to see the kids—she knows that I’m away the skin. Chop the tomato FOR THE YOGURT DOUGH for at least 30 minutes. You can easily make your own self- calling for a recipe. She answers the flesh. 11 ounces Greek yogurt To make the filling, warm a frying rising flour by combining 1 cup phone with glee, as there is nothing Add some oil to a saucepan along pan over a medium heat. Add a of all-purpose flour with 1 1/2 she loves more than telling me how Big pinch of sea salt with the chopped tomatoes and drizzle of olive oil, toss in the kale teaspoons of baking powder and to cook. This is her tomato and egg ginger, and stir well. Cover and 3 cups self-rising flour (see Tip) and garlic, and season with a 1/2 teaspoon of salt. “stew.” In truth, it is weird. First of cook over medium-low heat for 5 all, because Cantonese don’t eat a minutes. Add the brown sugar and lot of tomatoes. And then to team a splash of water, cover again, and it with eggs. And then add sugar. cook for another 2 minutes. The mind boggles. But somehow, Lightly season the beaten egg with amid the discordant flavor profiles, a little sea salt and a small pinch of it works. This dish is the epitome white pepper. of Cantonese home-style cooking, and almost every family has its own Increase the heat for the tomato version. mixture to high and very slowly trickle the beaten egg into the SERVES 4 tomato mixture, allowing the heat to cook the egg. Once the egg has 4 tomatoes (about 1 1/3 set into solid pieces, stir gently to pounds) break them up a little. Taste and Extra-virgin olive oil season with sea salt. 3/4-inch piece of ginger, peeled Top the stir-fried tomato and egg and finely chopped with the chopped scallions and serve with white rice. 3 tablespoons brown sugar TIPS 4 large eggs, lightly beaten If you don’t have fresh tomatoes, Sea salt and white pepper you can use canned peeled 3 scallions, finely chopped tomatoes. Cooked white rice, to serve The more traditional way of preparing this dish is to scramble Set up a large bowl with ice and the eggs in a pan by themselves cold water—this is your ice bath for before mixing with the tomato peeling the tomatoes. Boil a pot of sauce. You can try this if you prefer water. Using a sharp paring knife, the egg to be more “solid.” mark a small “x” at the bottom of All recipes reprinted with each tomato and add them to the permission from “Family: New boiling water. The skin will wrinkle Vegetarian Comfort Food to Nourish and split—this should take 60–90 Every Day,” by Hetty McKinnon. seconds. Remove from the water Published by Prestel. A18B6 | PUZZLES FRIDAY,OCTOBER SEPTEMBER 17-23, 6, 2019 * Use American spelling to enjoy these puzzles made by our parent company in New York.

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Fill in the boxes using numbers from 0 to 9 and letters Fill in the boxes using numbers between 1 and 9 so that each column, each row, and each 3x3 square contain all nine numbers only once. SUPERSUDOKU from A to F so that each column, each row, and each 4x4 SUDOKU CONSTRUCTED BY KANNAN SANKARAN square contain all ten numbers and six letters only once. Hard Easy

Kakuro puzzles are like crosswords that use numbers instead of words. The goal is to fill the blank squares associated with a clue (called a KAKURO “run”) with the numbers 1-9 so that the numbers add up to the corresponding clues. Like Sudoku, digits in a run cannot repeat. When the grid CONSTRUCTED BY EPOCH TIMES STAFF is filled, the puzzle is complete. Easy Hard

EPOCH ESCAPE MAZE CRYPTIC QUOTE Quote by: Aristotle

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CONSTRUCTED EPOCH DOKU BY EPOCH TIMES STAFF KEN KEN 1. Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating. 2. The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. 3. KenKen® is a registered trademark of KenKen Puzzle LLC. ©2019 KenKen Puzzle LLC. All rights reserved. Dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndication www.kenken.com Freebies: Fill6-7-19 in single-box cages with the ● Each row and each column produce the target numbers must contain the numbers 1 in the top-left corners. through 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 ● Freebies: Fill in single-box (challenging) without repeating. numbercages in with thethe number in top-left corner. ● The numbers within the heavily the top-left corner. outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to

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SOLUTIONS SUPERSUDOKU SUDOKU: EASY KENKEN EASY KAKURO HARD KAKURO

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ALL PHOTOS BY SHUTTERSTOCK Staying Socially Active at Age 60 Lowers Risk of Developing Dementia Making time to connect with Later in Life friends and family does more than make you feel good, it could keep you MAT LECOMPTE the more social engagement people have, healthier in your the more they lessen the risk of dementia elder years. or adults aged 50 and older, be - in the future. ing socially active may be the key Senior author of the study, Professor Gill to lowering the risk of developing Livingston (UCL Psychiatry), explained how dementia later in life. A new study there are a few explanations for how social Fled by the University College London (UCL) contact could reduce dementia risk. “People shows how important it is to make changes who are socially engaged are exercising cog- in daily life to ensure we take the time to nitive skills such as memory and language, connect with others. which may help them to develop cognitive The research, published in PLOS Medicine, reserve—while it may not stop their brains reports the most powerful evidence to date from changing, cognitive reserve could help showing the link between how social con- people cope better with the effects of age and tact earlier in life could play an essential role delay any symptoms of dementia.” in keeping dementia at bay. Gill added, “Spending more time with For the study, the team of researchers used friends could also be good for mental well- data from the Whitehall II study, which being, and may correlate with being physi- followed 10,228 participants to track the cally active, both of which can also reduce frequency of social contact with friends the risk of developing dementia.” and relatives. The study lasted from 1985 to No matter what your age, social interac- 2013 and required participants to complete tion has been shown to have many health cognitive testing from 1997 onwards. The benefits, and this new study reinforces researchers continued after the study to use how important it is to see friends and electronic health records up to 2017 to track family daily. With the number of any participants that were diagnosed with cases of dementia rising drasti- dementia. cally, studies such as this are es- They found that increased social contact sential for managing risk and at age 60 is associated with a significantly prevention. lower risk of developing dementia later in Although there are many life. They were able to conclude that par- factors to consider when ticipants who saw friends almost daily at looking at the risk of de- age 60 were 12 percent less likely to develop mentia, this study can dementia than someone who only saw one confirm that social iso- or two friends every few months. lation is a risk factor for The lead author, Dr. Andrew Sommerlad cognitive decline. So, (UCL Psychiatry), spoke about the study: be sure to get out into “Dementia is a major global health chal- the sunshine daily lenge, with one million people expected to and do something have dementia in the UK by 2021, but we also active with friends know that one in three cases are potentially and family. preventable.” “Here we’ve found that social contact, in middle age and late-life, appears to lower the risk of dementia. This finding could feed into strategies to reduce everyone’s risk of developing dementia, adding yet another reason to promote connected communi- ties and find ways to reduce isolation and loneliness.”

Long Follow Up Time While previous studies have found a link Mat between social contact and dementia risk, Lecompte is they did not use such a long follow-up time. a freelance This meant that they were unable to rule out health and well- the possibility that the beginnings of cogni- ness journalist. tive decline may have been causing people to This article was see fewer people, rather than the other way first published around. This long follow-up period in this on Bel Marra new study strengthens the evidence that Health.

Why Do I Sometimes Forget What I Was Just Going to Say? Our brains have a finite ability to multi-task and keep track of what we are planning and doing

PETER WILSON to get better at it as we get older Younger kids have small brains automatic that they don’t need Sometimes, your brain just and learn new skills. and have less mental energy much mental energy to do it, can’t do two complicated things Forgetting something we were But while our brain is a truly available than older kids. In the leaving more for other things. at once. You might not have just about to do or say happens amazing computer—more pow- same way, a teenager’s brain is However, for someone who enough mental energy in that to all of us sometimes. erful than any real computer—it less mature than an adult brain. is just learning, juggling a ball moment. Have you ever walked into can only use so much mental An older (and more expe- may require a lot of mental Forgetting things is normal for a room and realized you can’t energy at one time. rienced) brain means more energy just by itself. There is everyone and can happen when remember what you were look- mental energy to share between not much leftover for holding a you are doing too many things ing for? We tend to do this more Your Brain Is a Power Station tasks. conversation. at once. when we are thinking of a few Think of your brain as a power So, why do I sometimes forget When it happens to you, take a things at once or doing two station, providing electricity to a Practice Makes Perfect to say something before I say it? deep breath and relax! things at the same time. number of cities. The more we practice our skills The answer is you are likely to Perhaps those words will come Some people call this “dual- If some cities cry out for a lot of (like riding a bike, playing a have been “dual-tasking” just back to you later when you clear tasking.” energy (by having all their light sport, or baking a cake), the bet- before speaking. your head and re-energize. Have you ever crossed the road switches on), other cities would ter we are at doing another task It might have been because while chatting to a friend at the have less power to work with. at the same time. you were thinking about the Peter Wilson is a professor same time, or walked across a There’s only so much electricity For a very skilled sportsper- words you wanted to say and of developmental psychology room while tapping away on to go around. son (like a footballer), juggling something else at the same time. at the Australian Catholic a tablet or phone? That’s dual- In the same way, your brain a football while having a chat Or maybe you were concentrat- University. This article was tasking. only has so much energy to with a friend would be easy. ing on listening while trying to first published on Everyone does it and we tend share around at any one time. Their football skills are so think of what to say. The Conversation. MONDAY,OCTOBER SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2019 9, 2019 B9B5

ELEVATE AND INSPIRE Chiara was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, How a Positive Attitude a rare type of pediatric bone cancer when she was Helped Ballerina Fight Cancer 19 years old. Getting her dream job was quickly followed by a diagnosis that threatened her career—and her life

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EW YORK—As a child, Chiara Valle would play in the mud with a white dress. She didn’t act like a princess but she My nurses would Nwanted to look like one. She loved sports, and did gymnastics, always come in, and figure skating, and ballet. Then at age they would always say, 10, she had a moment in ballet when she knew she wanted to dedicate her life to ‘that smile is going the art. to get you through Trained at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York City as a treatment. teenager, she was fortunate to be hand- picked to join The Washington Ballet as a Chiara Valle trainee by its artistic director, Julie Kent, in an audition of 200-plus in 2016. “Dancing was like a whole other world for me,”Valle said in an interview with NTD. “My favorite part is being on stage, that’s the best feeling for me.” After making her professional debut on the grand stage of The Kennedy Center in ballets such as “Les Sylphides” and “The Nutcracker,” Valle’s career was on a strong, promising trajectory—until every- thing changed.

Upside Down In the winter of 2017, Valle began to ex- perience debilitating pain in the femur of her left leg. The doctor initially thought it was a type of benign tumor, and Valle was recom- mended to go through non-invasive sur- gery. However, after one procedure, the pain came back. After a second surgery, the pain came back. The family would go from doctor to doctor to get answers. After a year of this ordeal, Valle finally received the correct diagnosis—Ewing sarcoma, a rare type of pediatric bone cancer. She was just 19 years old. “It was a very difficult thing to hear, but at the same time I know in the back of mind that there was always this possibil- ity,” said Valle’s father, Giovanni Valle. “We both knew, at that moment, that the most important thing was just being sup- portive, and helping her get through it in whatever way we could.” Chiara Valle after it all worked out,” Chiara said. It wasn’t easy for Valle to go from the the 10 months of But things like this are what active life of a dancer to the bed-bound treatment that helped Valle get through the long days of a cancer patient, but she knew she left her with no hospitalization period. had to keep a positive attitude throughout evidence of disease. As chemotherapy went on, nau- treatment. sea became worse. “I was throw- “My nurses would always come in, and ing up constantly, I was losing they would always say, ‘that smile is going weight from no appetite, and my to get you through treatment,’” Valle said. heart rate and pulse would drop Her doctor was confident in Chiara’s down to concerning numbers,” recovery as well. Valle said. “I had no blood counts “[The doctor] made me really happy at times, my immune system was because he said, ‘I think the radiation ap- shot, and somehow, I stayed proach is best for you. And I’m very, very motivated.” confident in it,’” Valle said. Her father said it was hard “see- She would be able to keep her dream. ing her deteriorate, physically los- Valle received 14 rounds of chemo- ing her hair, her eyebrows getting therapy every two weeks for 2–5 days very thin.” continuously, over 10 months, for a total The physical aspect wasn’t the of 63 days. She also underwent 7 weeks, worst thing for Valle. As the treat- or 32 rounds, of radiation treatment for ment went on, it became more of local control. a mental game. The effects of the aggressive treatments Towards the end of a chemo- led to dangerously low blood counts for therapy session, Valle had told Valle, who received more than 50 blood her parents she didn’t know how and platelet transfusions. She was hos- much longer she could do this. pitalized as an inpatient for more than But then she would remind her- 80 days in 2018, often in isolation due to self: “Look at where I came from, being immunocompromised. and look how far I’m coming. Even though it got difficult, she kept I have to use the experience in reminding herself, “Cancer doesn’t a positive way.” define me.” Valle credits her positive outlook Sandra Valle, Chiara’s mother, remem- Chiara Valle started to her family and ballet. bered her daughter’s heart rate dropping to dance at the age “Knowing that [ballet] was some- dio I wasn’t able to make it past the bar,” After a year’s to as low as 35 bpm. A doctor said one of 8 and dedicated thing that I was able to look forward to she said. ordeal, Chiara would have been lying out on the floor her life to ballet. in the future and knowing that this is a But seeing her journey as something Valle received at that point, but Valle was still sitting in In 2016 she was temporary bump in my road ... I will get empowering and in setting little goals, the correct bed talking to them hand-picked by through this,” Valle said. “And in the end, she is now back on pointe. The amazing diagnosis “So she obviously was able to handle it,” The Washington I want to be a big comeback story and get progress has motivated her even more. of Ewing Ballet’s Julie Kent, sarcoma, a said Sandra Valle. back to ballet and be stronger.” Chiara recently started her own non- the artistic director, rare type of in an audition of profit organization to help find funding pediatric bone Birthday Gift 200-plus to join as A Big Comeback for curing Ewing sarcoma, as well as let- cancer when Sandra says the doctors have described a trainee. In November 2018, she received her last ting other cancer patients enjoy the trips she was 19 her daughter as a bit of a rebellious chemo and was told there was no evi- that helped her going through her own years old. patient because she would do things she dence of the disease one month later. treatment. technically wasn’t supposed to but in an “Cancer is one journey—after cancer is “I really wanted to use my voice. And affectionate manner. also a whole other journey,” she said. my main goal is to make everyone a sur- Valle had to spend her 20th birthday Since February 2019, Chiara has vivor,” Valle said. “And that’s what I hope hospitalized, but her parents took the been working hard every day in bal- to do with Wings for Ewing sarcoma.” spirited girl out for a short jet-skiing trip. let classes, physical therapy, and Pilates And guess what: this September she “[It]wasn’t the best idea because I had strengthening. will join her classmates again, back at really low blood, but I had a lot of fun and “When I first got back to the ballet stu- The Washington Ballet. B2B10 WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER SEPTEMBER 17-23, 11, 2019

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There’s magic in the air, and Oh, how times have changed! There Sorrento 5Pce Dining $376 the dry earth-crust cracks, alternating was nothing standing here when I was Alinga Bed in striking Western Australia Marri Timber with rivers of cold muddy lava, are an 8. Perhaps a caretaker’s shack, but I don’t intriguing perspective for the mind of a remember it. Now, it’s a full B&B—or ag- 10-year-old. He blitzes to the top of the ritourism, or pension, as they like to call highest of the modest volcanoes then de- it. And the owners are savvy enough to scends even faster downhill. His laughter entice visitors in with that soup. The meat Subscribe @ challenges some far away clouds, and I is smoked and preserved in a glass jar, find myself forgetting my age. I am sud- then used to prepare this traditional, lo- Now ReadEpoch.com denly barefoot, earthing, feeling the heat cal dish. However, the soup itself is not Now $2699 $999 of the scorched soil beneath me. Granted, served in a jar. Princeton 2RR+R+R Reclining Suite Loki Scandi Swivel Chair it’s hard to explore the mud volcanoes The sausages I mentioned are only pro- wearing high heels—so I had an ulterior duced in this part of Romania. They are Tel：02 6280 0068 motive. called Plescoi sausages—and, naturally, Address：17/337 Canberra Ave, DFO Fyshwick ACT 2609 I run and laugh, yet in my chase for they originated in the village of Plescoi, TRUTH AND TRADITION www.hmff.com.au the forgotten childhood memories, I still just outside Scortoasa, where the mud CHOU0006 have time to notice my father holding volcanoes draw so many nature lovers 35 COUNTRIES • 23 LANGUAGES WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 17-23, SEPTEMBER 2019 11, 2019 B11B3

All PhoTos by Phil buTler unless oTherwise noTed declared a Natural Monument by the Ro- more than an hour exploring the park. manian government in 1924. The entire Besides Vulcanii Noroiosi, Buzau county The mud reservation has three areas—Paclele Mari, has many other attractions. Nearby, in volcanoes in Paclele Mici, and Paclele de la Beciu. The Berca, you will find the Ratesti Monas- Romania’s Mud most easily accessible and largest of them tery, an important Eastern Orthodox eastern Romania is Paclele Mari. Most tourists are happy nunnery and religious landmark dating visiting only this part of the reservation, from 1634. The main church of the mon- were first as it features the highest and most spec- astery has interiors by painters Nicolae discovered by tacular volcanoes. Nature enthusiasts will Teodorescu and Gheorghe Tattarescu. In Volcanoes venture further, to Paclele Mici, where the complex, there’s also a small museum French explorer there are many smaller volcanoes, and exhibiting a collection of Bibles, icons, also ravines, streams, gold and silver thread Henri Cognard ridges, and badlands. embroidery, and other in 1867. Active volcanoes have sacred objects. circular pools filled From the monastery, with bromide-rich, you can reach Sarata- muddy water, often Monteoru in about 35 with traces of crude oil minutes by car—a beau- and other oxidized pe- tiful countryside drive troleum products. that will lead you to a Since the terrain spa resort with healing around the volcanoes waters and salt springs is often difficult, visi- in a splendid natural tors should wear prop- 2 setting. Spending the 1. Visitors exploring an oth- er shoes and mind the night here to relax in a erwordly landscape. mud. The gatekeeper is saltwater pool after see- 2. The author, barefoot. actually right: the mud here is not the ing the mud volcanoes is a perfect ending same used for mud wraps at a spa. to a unique day in Romania. 3. Closeup of a mud bubble. Visiting the reservation after the rain 4. Cracked earth. is not an inspired idea—the ground is un- A former military journalist, Mi- even and slippery. The landscape is void haela Lica-Butler is a senior partner 5. “Ciorba de carne la bor- of trees—there’s no shade, so hiking in the at Argophilia Travel News. Besides her can,” or soup of meat from heat of the summer under the naked skies work as a PR pro and travel journalist, the jar, a local specialty. 1 will also prove challenging. Take a bottle she spends her time writing children’s 6. Plescoi sausages. of water with you if you plan to spend fairy tales and cookbooks.

AlexAndruP 87/shuTTersToCk AndreA_h/shuTTersToCk to see the unexpected. They’re prepared with lamb, beef, garlic, thyme, salt, and a generous amount of spicy and sweet red paprika, then smoked with European beech to get their special flavor. Under the heat of the summer sun, after the walk around the reservation, it’s great to stop at the restaurant for a portion of these spicy local treats and a pint of ice-cold beer. Many people—hikers in particular—pre- fer to stay overnight at Pensiunea Vul- canii Noroiosi. Most visitors, however, arrive a couple of hours before lunch and leave after a copious traditional meal. The parking lot at the entrance of the reserva- tion is often full at this time, but you’ll manage to find a spot on the side of the rustic country road leading here. The mud volcanoes in eastern Romania were first discovered by French explorer 4 3 Henri Cognard in 1867, and they were

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