To be read as a direct continuation of Part 9; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-2022-winter-olympic-opening.html
Those Damned Doves.
It is one of the more arcane pieces of International Olympic Committee (IOC) Protocol. That each Opening Ceremony includes a section involving the release of white Doves.
White Doves supposedly being an internationally recognised symbol of peace. A reference to the Olympic Truce that all nations are supposed to abide by throughout the games.
Fortunately hosts are given a lot of artistic freedom in how they comply with this piece of IOC Protocol. It has certainly been a long time since anyone has used real Doves.
Here China took it as another opportunity. To remind us all how cute and adorable Chinese children are. In the hope of inspiring Chinese viewers to go off and make some of their own.
So the arena was filled with adorable Chinese children. Carrying illuminated Doves on sticks.
These were supposed to resemble traditional Chinese paper lanterns. In which a candle is placed inside a paper bag. Sometimes with a bamboo or metal frame to help it keep its shape.
Specifically they were intended to be; "Sky Lanterns (Tiandeng)."
In which the paper bag is sealed. So as the heat from the candle warms the air it is trapped inside the paper bag. Allowing the lantern to float.
As this is the Winter Olympics. The children were supposedly playing in the snow. As illustrated by the giant LED screen beneath the arena floor.
Further showcasing China's technological prowess. Artificial Intelligence (AI) was used. To track the children's movements around the arena. Allowing their footprints to be illuminated
The 2018 Winter games were held in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea (RoK/South).
Their Olympic Opening Ceremony used five similarly aged children as a guides or; "Ciphers." A device to allow us to decode the story of the ceremony.
In a specific section of the 2018 Opening Ceremony. Which I entitled; "Beaten Black & Blue."
An intense beam of white light energy rose from a recessed circle in the centre of the arena floor. Travelling up to a corresponding circle in the arena roof.
This was a reference to China's Quantum Experiments at Space-Scale (QUESS) satellite. Which had been successfully launched in 2016.
QUESS is the first and, so far, only communications satellite to use Quantum Cryptography/Encryption Technology.
All electronic communications/expressions. Be they lightbulbs, phonecalls, text messages, videos, photographs etc.
Are all just a pattern or code of either Electronic Current Present/On (I) or Electronic Current Absent/Off (O).
You may recognise that combined (I/O) from the On/Off switch on, really, all of your electronic devices.
What Quantum Cryptography/Encryption does. Is use tiny sub-atomic, quantum particles. Of, technically not even, light. To transmit that pattern of Current Present/Current Absent.
Somewhat like FibreOptic Broadband. Only much, much more complicated.
I think the most widely known form of electronic surveillance is the Classic Wire Tap. Traditional communications transmit that pattern of Current Present/Current Absent along a metal wire.
To intercept the communication. You literally clamp or tap another wire into that wire.
Allowing
you to, typically, hear the message before it reaches its intended
recipient. When they hear the message the recipient has no idea that
you've also heard the message.
With Quantum Cryptography/Encryption the quantum particles forming the pattern of Current Present/Current Absent. Are so unstable that if you try to intercept them you will destroy them.
Meaning that not only don't you get to see/hear the message. The people you are targeting will instantly know you are targeting them. Due to the message not getting through.
So Quantum Encryption is currently considered to be Utterly Unbreakable. 100% Totally Secure. Very few people even have the ability to do Quantum Encryption themselves. Let alone crack other people's.
In this stark contrast between QUESS and the Child-Like Ciphers.
South Korea was trying to warn the US of how far it was behind China in terms of Cryptography/Encryption. Really all forms of modern military intelligence.
Something which is obviously concerning. If like South Korea and Japan. You are militarily allied with the US against China.
In 2021 the US/UK decided to try and hijack my relationship with Miley Cyrus. In what could only have been an attempt to prove to everyone just how far behind they are.
So this also became a major theme of the delayed 2020 Summer games. Held in Tokyo, Japan.
In the section of the 2020 Olympic Opening Ceremony that I entitled; "Ichimatsu Moyo/Harmonised Chequered." Japan took an in depth look that the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Where these quantum particles exist.
In the Olympic Rings section of the Olympic Closing Ceremony. Japan recreated the sequence from the 2018 Olympic Opening Ceremony. In which an intense beam of light energy travelled from the ground to the sky.
This was immediately followed by a section I entitled; "Life Beyond The Wire." In which young women, slightly more advanced than South Korea's Child-Like Ciphers. Were used as Ciphers to guide us around the scenes of a typical Japanese park.
All a detailed Japanese mockery of the US/UK's attempt to hijack my relationship with Miley Cyrus. In an effort to plead with their allies to at least try to catch up.
As China is the only nation currently able to do Quantum Cryptography/Encryption. The celebration of its QUESS satellite was a recurring theme of Opening Ceremony.
So China took a really in depth look at the Sub-Atomic Physics of Light.
How Photons can be created in Light Emitting Diodes (LED's). Along with how they can be manipulated, turning them from Natural Light to Lasers.
Present throughout the Opening Ceremony. Was a column running up the stage-rear arena wall. From the ground up to the sky. In my notes I dubbed this the; "QUESS Column."
The section I entitled; "Dandelion" ended with Light Projected Pollen Spores travelling up the QUESS column.
When they arrived at the top they seemed to trigger fireworks. Spelling out the phrases; "Spring" and; "Lichun (The beginning of spring)" in English/Latin and Chinese characters.
An example of a message being transmitted in the form of light. From the Earth's surface to the heavens. Just like QUESS.
The section I entitled; "A Quantum Of Celebration." Featured data in the form of Augmented Reality (AR) and Light Projected snowflakes bearing the name of each competing nation. Falling from the heavens back to Earth.
As the children played in the snow. Light Projected snowflakes once again fell from the heavens to Earth. Down the QUESS column.
In that context. The balloons/lanterns the children were holding. Were a reference to US Tech companies Facebook/Meta and Google's efforts to provide Internet access to remote areas.
Known as; "Aquila" Facebook/Meta's program uses drones as an Internet antenna. Google's program, known as; "Loon" uses weather balloons as Internet antenna.
Neither Aquila nor Loon are as advanced as the; "Starlink" program of Elon Musk's SpaceX. Which uses a constellation of satellites as Internet antenna.
On May 8th 2021 (8/5/21) the US brought Miley Cyrus and Elon Musk together on the TV show; "Saturday Night Live (SNL).
An effort China spectacularly trolled at the time. Launching its Tiangong Space Station into orbit on April 29th 2021 (29/4/21).
Then letting the Long March rocket used tumble back to Earth. Landing around 45 minutes before that episode of SNL was broadcast live.
There was only one possible reason for the US bringing Miley Cyrus and Elon Musk together. To introduce Miley Cyrus to Elon Musk.
So the three of us could work together. To give the US a chance of catching up to even the Child-Like Ciphers.
Unfortunately the US are now so far behind. They couldn't even succeed in that simplest of simple tasks.
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As the cute and adorable Chinese children played in the snow. They
were accompanied by even more cute and adorable Chinese children. All
aged around 9 years old.
155 youth members of the Beijing Philharmonic Choir. Who sang the official anthem of the 2022 Winter games; "Snowflake."
As with the graphics used in the videos, along with the fireworks. Each line of the song Snowflake is sung in Mandarin Chinese. Then repeated in English. Another attempt to teach, particularly westerners, Chinese.
In keeping with the snowflakes used throughout the Opening Ceremony, featuring the name of each competing nation. The message of the song is all about thousands snowflakes joining together to compete in openness and a sense of family peace.
The choir were all dressed in blue and white outfits adorned with snowflakes. Officially a reference to traditional Chinese Porcelain.
However they also very closely resembled the blue and white National Flag of Israel. Which has an almost snowflake shaped Star of David at its centre.
The 2018 Winter games marked the start of a very long stay for the Olympics/Para-Olympics in Asia. A near decade long stay which these 2022 Winter games mark the end of.
So the South Korean hosts took the opportunity to introduce us to not only aspects of their culture. But also things which are common throughout Asia.
They particularly introduced us to the Wu Xing. The five essential elements which make up everything in the Universe. A concept central to almost all Asian Animist belief systems.
Each of the five Child-Like Ciphers of the 2018 Olympic Opening Ceremony represented an element of the Wu Xing.
Unlike the western Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Asian Animist beliefs are not codified, written down in holy books.
Instead they are a melting pot of philosophies handed down through the oral tradition. Something which can make them very difficult to explain.
While there are many large differences. I find the easiest way to begin to explain Asian Animist beliefs is through the Jewish concept of God and the Universe.
Unlike Christians and Muslims Jews believe that God is made up of two halves. The unseeable, unknowable Godhead. Along with God's body. The entire perceptible Universe.
So God is considered to be the Universe and the Universe is considered to be God. So everything within the Universe, people nature etc are also considered to be God.
Jews also believe that the Godhead is connected to God's body through the; "Tree of Life." A network of 10 nodes and 22 connecting lines this is similar to God's nervous system.
A way for the Godhead to communicate with the Universe. Manifesting God's will within nature to send messages throughout the Universe.
Perhaps betraying its Animist roots. The original symbol for Judaism was not the Star of David but the Pentagram.
The Pentagram is symbol used within European Animist beliefs. The five points of the Pentagram represent the five limbs or essential forces which make up the Universe.
An idea which is shared with the Wu Xing. An idea which seems to have sprung up in two completely different parts of the World. Completely independently of each other.
One possible explanation for why this notion of five essential forces is shared throughout the World. Is that it may actually be true.
Conventional Physics has long insisted that there are just four fundamental or essential forces of nature. Gravity, Electromagnetism, Strong Nuclear Force and Weak Nuclear Force.
However 2021 research out of the Fermilab Particle Accelerator in Chicago, US. On the Muon g-2 particle. Suggests that conventional Physics may soon have to acknowledge the existence of a fifth essential force.
In November 2019 I found myself discussing the Pentagram's role as the original symbol for Judaism with my mothers. Sitting in a restaurant in the British city of Salisbury.
Salisbury became extremely famous in 2018. In that gap between the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2018 Winter Para-Olympics. When Britain carried out a Novichok Nerve Agent attack against the city.
In no small part this was done to promote discussion about one of my mothers being admitted to hospital in the city with Severe, Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). During the 2017 COP23 Climate Change Summit.
Nerve Agents like Novichok attack the Nervous System, which really controls everything in the human body. So Nerve Agent poisoning really causes all the health problems.
However one the most immediate health problems it causes is SARS. It paralyses the chest muscles used to draw breath in and out of the lungs.
As my mothers and I were sitting in this restaurant, on November 14th (14/11/19). The Hong Kong police were raiding the Chinese University of Hong Kong. An effort to quell the months of rioting Britain had inflicted on the city.
In my efforts to explain how the Pentagram had been the original symbol of Judaism. I found myself drawing a rough Pentagram on a napkin.
It was in that very moment. I managed to harness the essential forces of the Universe. To bring forth the SARS Pandemic that we are all now so familiar with.
A claim certainly
no less credible. Than the former US Biden regime's 2013 claim. That it
is the popstar Rihanna's mood swings, rather than Greenhouse Gases
(ghg's), which cause Climate Change.
However the choir weren't really referencing Jews and Judaism in general. With the blue and white colour scheme of their outfits they were referencing the nation of Israel specifically. Both its Jewish and non-Jewish citizens.
In contrast to the choir. The children playing in the snow were wearing red hats and scarves. Like the Malanhua Children's Choir featured in the earlier; "Fun With Flags II" section.
In both instances this red could be viewed as a reference to blood, particularly menstrual blood. However it could also be viewed as a reference to the red of the National Flag of China.
Aside from the Wu Xing. The 2018 Winter games also introduced us to the very cheeky Korean sense of humour.
It is one of the great contradictions of Korean society. That it maintains this very cheeky sense of humour. Alongside a very rigid, very polite, very deferential culture.
At the 2020 Summer games we learned that Japan has an even more rigid, polite, deferential culture. One which makes even the famously manners obsessed British seem like oafs and loudmouths in comparison.
We also learned that Japan still looks back at its Edo Period as its golden age. This was marked by the; "Locked State" or; "Sakoku" policy. In which foreigners were strictly banned from Japan and most Japanese people were forbidden from leaving.
As a result Japanese people still have this deeply ingrained distrust of foreigners. They seem to be particularly distrustful of Black people. Due to the stark cultural differences.
Insofar as "Black Culture" exists. It tends to be dominated by West African culture, nations like Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana. Having been exported to the Caribbean and then to the Americas and Europe through the African Slave Trade.
West African culture seems to involve a lot of pushing, shoving and yelling. Really the polar opposite of Japanese culture.
Israeli culture, amongst its Jewish and non-Jewish citizens. Is another culture which seems to involve an awful lot of pushing, shoving and yelling. Something which can be very shocking for non-Israeli Jews visiting Israel for the first time.
This is one of the key areas where China differs from Korea and Japan.
China most certainly does not share that very rigid, very polite, very deferential culture. As with Israel Chinese culture seems to involve an awful lot of pushing, shoving and yelling.
This has long been something of a sore spot for, particularly the Chinese Communist Party. What is seen as a lack of good manners is also sometimes seen as a lack of education, sophistication and intelligence.
It was certainly something China touched upon. During the section of the 2018 Olympic Closing Ceremony which they produced.
In 2014 there was something of a scandal on Chinese Social Media. A mainland Chinese family were visiting Hong Kong when their two year old daughter needed to use the bathroom.
So the girl's mother did what they would do at home. Got the girl to squat down and urinate in the street.
Something which appalled the more sophisticated, westernised Hong Kong Chinese people. While mainland Chinese people couldn't see the problem.
On the day of the 2018 Closing Ceremony the issue was once again all over Chinese Social Media. The Chinese Ministry of Public Security posted surveillance footage of an elementary school aged boy urinating on the buttons of an elevator. Causing it to break down.
On this occasion mainland Chinese people did seem to be appalled by the public urination. A sign of Chinese Communist Party efforts to educate their population paying off.
Obviously it's not really my place. To tell some 1.4bn Chinese people how they should behave and what sort of culture they should adopt.
However I think there is a
difference between things like public urination and spitting, so much
spitting. Which have obvious public health implications. Compared to
things like how you talk to each other, general manners.
I'm actually of the opinion. That if you have an opinion about someone. Then it would be ruder not to let them know your opinion.
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China is a Socialist country. A Totalitarian Socialist or Communist country.
Provided you are Jewish. Then Israel is also a very left-wing country.
Modern Israel was founded by the Labor Party. Its first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion was born in the Russian Empire and rose through the Labour Zionist movement. Which itself was born out of Russia's 1917 Communist Revolution.
Even the Israeli right-wing is still to the left of what would be considered the centre ground in most western nations.
As with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). Women have always served in the Israeli military. Since before the Israeli military officially existed. Both out of necessity and that core Socialist value of equality between the sexes.
Israel is also extremely tolerant
on a host of social issues. Having decriminalised homosexuality in 1963.
Only 14 years after it became a nation and took control of its own
laws.
Marriage within Judaism is an extremely complicated issue. With there being much religious debate over who can even perform marriage ceremonies. Let alone who can participate in them.
So Israeli doesn't allow same-sex marriage. Just as it doesn't allow many opposite-sex marriages.
However it legally recognises same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. It also recognises couples, both same and opposite sex, as family units without marriage.
Israel also allows gay parenting both through adoption and surrogacy. It's only concerns about surrogacy centre around the very non-Socialist exploitation of the surrogates. Rather than any of the fire and brimstone issues that exist in western nations.
The 2020 Summer games were rather marred by the slower nations; New Zealand, Canada and the US. Their belief that Transgender athletes are still an ongoing debate within the Olympic/Para-Olympic movement.
Israel famously won the Eurovision Song Contest with the Transgender performer Dana International. Way back in 1998.
Obviously Dana International's entry and eventual victory was pushing the boundaries within Israeli society at the time. However not as much as you would think. Certainly not as much as it would push the boundaries in western nations now, nearly 25 years later.
I am not Jewish. Let alone a Jewish scholar.
However it is hard not to wonder. Whether Israel's very inclusive, Socialist attitudes stem from the rather Animist Jewish concepts of God and the Universe.
That God is the Universe and the Universe is God. So to go against things which occur in the Universe such as gay or Transgender people is to also go against God.
As a Totalitarian country China doesn't really have a concept of Human Rights. Let alone gay rights. Although the attitude of the Chinese Communist Party is not as bad as some people might believe.
Homosexuality was decriminalised in 1997. It stopped being considered a mental disorder in 2001. Same-sex partnerships have been recognised in law since 2017.
China doesn't allow same-sex couples to become parents. Nor does it allow foreign same-sex couples to adopt Chinese children or use Chinese women as surrogates.
As was discussed in the previous; "Fun With Flags II"
section. That though is far from the only restriction that the Chinese
Communist Party has placed on parenting.
However, as with the issue of equality between the sexes. There seems to be a conflict between modern Socialist values and traditional Chinese values. With homophobia and discrimination still being widespread within Chinese society.
By pointing to the example of Israel. It's similarities to China.
The hosts seem to be questioning whether that homophobia and discrimination not only conflicts with modern Socialist values. But also traditional Chinese Animist values. That gay and Transgender people are part of the Universe. So, therefore, are also part of God.
Although they seem to share Animist and Socialist values. Along with cultures rather centred around pushing, shoving and yelling. In many ways Israel and China could not be more different.
China is a Totalitarian one party state. Chinese people do not get to choose their government and even if they did. Then there is only one party for them to choose from.
In contrast Israel is a Democracy. In many ways a very extreme Democracy.
In the most basic form Democracies have two political parties. One in government and one in opposition. Every few years the people get to choose which party is in power and which one is in opposition.
In some, more advanced Democracies. Not only are there more than two political parties. It is common for two, sometimes three, political parties to join together to form a Coalition government.
At times it seems as though Israel has more political parties than people. It is extremely common for several Israeli political parties to join together to form a coalition. Then form together with other coalitions to form a multi-dimensional Coalition government.
Even by Israeli standards its current government is an extreme example. Made up of 11 political parties forming an 8 bloc coalition. However it is hardly unusual for an Israeli Coalition government to be made up of 7 or 8 political parties.
A large part of Israeli agriculture is still done on Kibbutz collective farms. These are Anarcho-Syndicalist or; "Anarchist" in their structure.
So not only is Israel Democratically Socialist. It frequently flirts with full on Libertarian Socialism or; "Anarchism."
This comparison between Chinese and Israeli approaches to Socialism. Again highlights the contrast between Totalitarianism and Libertarianism. Which was raised during the earlier; "Fun With Flags I" section.
Be they in support of women's rights, gay rights or environmental protection. The Chinese Communist Party has long tried to suppress this type of Libertarian grassroots activism.
In part this is because the Chinese Communist Party views any idea which isn't their idea. As a challenge to their authority.
It is also because China has endured a long history. Of western nations either hijacking these Libertarian grassroots campaigns or inventing fake, astroturf campaigns. In order to destabilise China. I'm particularly familiar with the opposition to the Three Gorges Dam.
So again. The organisers seem to be posing the question. Of whether the Chinese Communist Party could, perhaps, be more tolerant of this type of Libertarian grassroots activism.
Particularly when it is genuine Chinese activism. In support of both modern Socialist and traditional Animist values.
Although. As always when talking about Israel's tolerant Socialist values. I cannot overstate that; "Provided You Are Jewish" part enough.
It is the great contradictions of Israeli society. How they can have this very tolerant, inclusive Socialist society. Yet still behave the way they do towards the Palestinians.
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I share an interest with China. In increasing economic development. Particularly in the Middle-East and Africa.
As a result. I use the Chinese Xinhua news-site almost daily.
It is the go to place for really dry reports. About fertilizer import tariffs in countries you've probably never heard of.
My use of this Chinese website has become rather central. To the US/UK's efforts to hijack my relationship with Miley Cyrus.
The US/UK have long claimed that Miley Cyrus and I cannot be permitted to speak to each other directly. Using electronic communications such as email or Social Media direct messages.
As that would be a secret.
Initially both the US and the UK genuinely believed that to be true.
I then though used the opportunity to teach my paywall readers Japanese. Along with Reiner Klimke's Cavaletti method of horse training. Causing much hilarity at the delayed 2020 Summer games.
Realising that it wasn't a secret then prompted the US/UK into a panic. To find out how and why it wasn't a secret.
So they could make it a secret and go back to their claim. That Miley Cyrus and I cannot be permitted to speak to each other directly. That thing humans do.
This was The Great American Bell Ringing of October 2021.
I tend to use the Xinhua news-site on my PC. Mainly because when I sit down at my PC to start my day. Then Europe is also sitting down to start its day. While the Americas still haven't woken up.
Whereas Asia has already finished its day.
So the US got it into their heads. That because I use a Chinese website via an outdated browser China is able to access beyond my paywall.
The US/UK really did think that hijacking my relationship with Miley Cyrus would make all of their dreams come true.
However China is a significant strategic rival of the US/UK. So a priority target for their efforts to weaponise Miley Cyrus.
So in October 2021 they blocked my ability to access Instagram via my PC. Only allowing me to access Instagram on my Tablet.
The thinking being that because my Tablet uses a more up-to-date browser and I tend not to use it to access Chinese websites. Then that would prevent China from gaining access to beyond my paywall.
All completely idiotic of course.
I responded by simply deleting Instagram from my Tablet. Something I actually had to do several times. As they kept reloading Instagram onto my Tablet.
I have absolutely no interest in helping the US weaponise Miley Cyrus against China or anyone else. Despite everything I actually still quite like her.
However unless she and I are allowed to speak to each other directly. Then I think the relationship has gone as far as it can.
As part of their preparations for these 2022 Winter games. China responded to the Great American Bell Ringing.
In late December 2021 they updated the Xinhua news-site. Removing the Middle-East section. Or, technically, making an 'error' in the link to the Middle-East section. Rendering it inaccessible.
This was done to serve two main purposes.
China is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). As such it is heavily involved in negotiations over the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA) commonly known as; "The Iran Nuclear Deal."
The JCPOA negotiations were another particular target. Of the US/UK's attempts to hijack my relationship with Miley Cyrus.
The thinking being that there would be a big show of negotiations. Over what Miley Cyrus and I could do together, under what conditions and with what permissions. Talking to each other directly for example.
That would serve as a disruptive metaphor for the JCPOA negotiations. While both Iran and the US are participating in these negotiations. They are not talking to each other directly.
This is something that only intensified after the Great American Bell Ringing.
In both situations the US has done something incredibly stupid. Leaving them in a position where they have no way out. Other than making a humiliating climbdown, completely reversing their mistake.
This is really a universal lesson. One which can be applied to just so many situations.
Xinhua is really the only news-site I use which has covered the JCPOA negotiations in any level of detail. In their Middle-East section.
This put China in the rather uncomfortable position. Of being the ones who brought the US' unwelcome, disruptive attempts at metaphor into the negotiations. Through my comments on it.
As a permanent member of the UNSC China also has to involve itself in The Israel/Palestine Conflict. Really the longest running dispute that the UN has ever had to deal with.
With its government of 8 political blocs made up of 11 political parties. Israel's domestic politics is just next level complicated.
Residents of America's New York City are still proud of the famous showbiz phrase;
"If you can make it in New York. Then you can make it anywhere!"
When it comes to politics. The truth is that if you can make it in Israel. Then you can make it anywhere.
Israel's government has just lost its majority. Following the resignation of a minister. In a dispute over whether products containing yeast can be brought into public buildings like hospitals.
Which must sound utterly incomprehensible. To people unfamiliar with Israeli politics.
So by blocking my access to their coverage of Middle-Eastern affairs. China also seemed to be attempting an elaborate Jedi mind-trick. Getting me to resume my commentary on Israeli coverage of Middle-Eastern affairs.
The reason why I've stopped my commentary on Israeli coverage of Middle-Eastern affairs is itself quite complicated.
The Israeli news-site I prefer to use is Haaretz which is very left-wing. Unfortunately they've moved much of their coverage behind a paywall.
This has forced me to rely more on the Jerusalem Post. Which although centrist is certainly more right-wing than Haaretz.
Particularly at things like the Eurovision Song Contest. I think it is important for westerners to learn that this other very tolerant, very Socialist side of Israeli society exists.
The side you never get to see in their treatment of the Palestinians.
However like that very tolerant, very Socialist side of Israeli society. I know that is not the side of Israeli society which is dominant at the moment.
So while I'm opposed to the destruction of Israel. A nation of 8 million people most of whom have known no other home. Just as I hope I would have opposed the destruction of Palestine in 1948.
I'm not comfortable promoting that other side of Israeli society as normal. Acting as something of their global cheerleader.
So I hope this wasn't a genuine attempt by China to use their magical super-powers. Manipulating my behaviour through an elaborate Jedi mind-trick.
So much as an attempt to mock the US/UK's belief that they have magical super-powers. Such as making sure I only use Instagram on my Tablet.
The US/UK really should know by now that they don't have magical super-powers.
I've actually got a much newer PC, with a much more secure browser sitting in front of me now. It makes for a useful footstool.
The only reason why I don't use it. Is a stubborn attempt to prove to the US/UK that their efforts to use their magical super-powers to get me to use it. Really aren't working.
The fact they're still insisting on thinking they can talk to me like that is just insulting. Hardly the sort of behaviour which is going to get me to do them favours.
China's changes to the Xinhua news-site were accompanied by a sophisticated cyberattack/hacking of the global news conglomerate News Corp.
Within Britain, perhaps, globally. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is famous for publishing the News of the World tabloid.
It was the News of the World which was at the centre of The Rolling Stones drug arrest. Which formed much of the basis for the earlier; "Dandelion" section.
Something which was really considered the birth of tabloid journalism.
News Corp were forced to end publication of the News of the World in 2011.
Following the; "Phone Hacking Scandal." In which its journalists were accused of hacking into the cellphones and private communications of celebrities and other public figures.
It is exactly that type of tabloid intrusion that I was hoping to use my skills to protect Miley Cyrus from.
I don't think even her most ardent fans remember every phonecall, text message and email between her and her ex-husband being simultaneously published on Social Media.
Judging from the backlash against the News of the World. Along with the, still ongoing, Coleen Rooney/Rebekah Vardy libel case.
Britain, along with many of Miley Cyrus' celebrity peers. Seem quite interested to learn what my skills could achieve in that particular field.
Also. While it's not nice to boast. If someone else is saying it. Then it's only right that I agree.
Some of us are entitled to look at Rupert Murdoch's life work and think;
"Well. It's not actually that impressive of a global network now, is it."
Miley Cyrus has actually been back in the news recently.
In no small part due to her plane having to make an emergency landing on March 22nd (22/3/22). After being struck by lightning.
Very much in the style of the song; "Catch-22" by Pink. From her 2001 album; "Misundaztood."
Sadly through that we discovered
That nothing which has been said, no pity which has been shown to the US/UK over the intervening five months. Throughout the 2020 Summer games and these 2022 Winter games. Has registered.
They have learned nothing.
They are still stuck at the point they got stuck at during the Great American Bell Ringing.
Thinking my use of Xinhua has anything to do with China's ability access beyond my paywall. Not that there is a paywall to access beyond any more.
To be continued in Part 11.
18:30 on 12/4/22 (UK date).
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