I Am Practicing Self-Censorship in US Now, Something I Didn’t Do Even in the CCP’s Labor Camp 我在中共國勞教所時還什麼都敢說,現在在美國卻不敢了

If someone says that the situation of free speech in the US is worse than in Communist China, perhaps nobody will believe it, including myself. However, after I wrote down the following statement of what I experienced in the US recently for an investigative reporter regarding social media’s censorship, I suddenly realized that I am practicing self-censorship “consciously and voluntarily” now, which I had surely not done before even in the forced labor camp in China!

如果有人說美國的言論環境,已經比不上中共國了,別說你不相信,我也不會相信的。可是,今天在給一位寫調查報告的記者寫下我自己的以下經歷時,我突然發現:我在中共國勞教所時都沒有進行過自我言論審查,現在卻在“自覺自願地”進行了……

After reading what I wrote below, I just want to say, “enough is enough!”

看完我自己寫下的這個情況,我只想說,enough is enough!

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Yes, I’ve been suppressed very badly. What I experienced include:

是的,我一直也被打壓得很厲害,包括:

  1. My Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/jenniferzeng97, which has 284,562 followers was suddenly taken over by an account called “Fb portal” in early August. Since then I can’t post anything and this page became dead for me. I complained many times and Facebook never responded.

1. 我經營了3年,已經積累了284,562個粉絲(follower)的臉書頁(https://www.facebook.com/jenniferzeng97),在今年8月初無端被一個叫Fb portal的帳戶接管,把我的管理權拿走了,我就再也不能發布任何東西,相當於這個頁面就廢掉了。我申訴多次臉書置之不理。

2. My Twitter account (https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd), which had 156,000+ followers about two months ago, has been suppressed ever since, and I’ve been losing 100-1000 followers every day, and now it’s down to 150,900. Some people say they got unfollowed without their knowledge. Some say they can’t see what I post even though they are following me.

2.我的推特帳號(https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd),兩個月前還有15萬6千多粉絲,之後就遭到打壓,每天把粉絲很下減,多則一千,少則一百地減,現在已經減到15萬9千,很多人跟我反映,說並沒有unfollow我,卻發現不知何時無端被取關。還有人說,雖然在follow我,卻看不到我發的東西。

3. I’ve been suppressed by YouTube too. Early this year, during the peak of the COVID 19 pandemic, my entire channel at bit.ly/3b87DPj was once demonetized. Later on, although YouTube reversed this decision, almost all my videos were given a yellow flag, which means “limited for ads”. Now, although there are not as many yellow flags, I am still being suppressed, and my subscriptions are dropping. People told me that they got unsubscribed, or they are not receiving notifications.

3.油管也一直打壓我,疫情期間曾經取消我整個頻道(bit.ly/3b87DPj)的广告資格,後來雖然恢復了,卻幾乎所有視頻都被黃標。現在雖然沒有那麼多黃標了,卻仍然在暗中打壓,訂閱數會往下降,有人反映被自動取消訂閱,有的按了接收通知鍵,卻收不到通知。

Since I started talking about the US election, the views suddenly dropped dramatically. I seriously doubt these videos are being suppressed. Some viewers told me they even couldn’t like my videos, nor could they share them on Facebook.

自我開始談論大選作弊問題後,觀看量明顯下降,我懷疑是人爲被打壓,有觀衆反映想給我按讚都按不了。還有人說,想在臉書轉發不讓轉。

4. I have been forced to censor myself for fear of being censored. For example, in the latest program about US election(https://youtu.be/ju-IxkX1caw), I dared not use “voter fraud”, but only vaguely said “problems in the voting system”, etc. I was afraid that the phrase “voter fraud” would be caught by YouTube’s AI system, so I have been avoiding “voter fraud” throughout the entire show.

4.因擔心被審查,我已經不得不進行自我審查。如最新一期談選舉的節目(https://youtu.be/ju-IxkX1caw),我不敢說voter fraud,只敢含糊地說problems in the voting system。我擔心油管的AI審查會識別voter fraud這個詞,所以一直不敢用。

In the U.S., where freedom of speech is supposed to be guaranteed, the situation is as ridiculous as this! When the Chinese Communist Party was cracking down on Falun Gong at its strongest, I still had the courage to write letters to the CCP leaders with my real name and address, and once planned to go to Tiananmen Square to display a Falun Gong banner (I failed to go because I was arrested before going). At that time, I was willing to risk my life to defend what I believed to be the truth.

在保障言論自由的美國,情況已經可笑到這種程度了。在中共最強力打壓法輪功的時候,我尚有勇氣給中共領導寫信,並曾經計劃到天安門去打橫幅(因提前被抓沒去成),當時是覺得豁出性命也要捍衛我認定的真理。

In the labor camp, which is as evil as a devil’s den, when the vicious police asked me to criticize Falun Gong, I always wrote about how wonderful Falun Gong is, and how it only benefits the nation and the people in an open and upright manner. I didn’t have fear then.

在勞教所那樣的黑窩中,每次警察讓寫法輪功的黑材料,我都是堂堂正正寫上法輪大法的益處,從來沒有怕過。

I never imagined that after 20 years, when I am in the United States, where freedom of speech is supposed to be ensured, I am actually practicing self-censorship-something I even did no in the CCP’s labor camp, as while I did no fear in the labor camp, I have fear now: I was afraid if my accounts get deleted or suppressed, I will lose channels to spread the truth. Although there are alternative platforms, accumulating followers needs time. I don’t want to lose my current channels, which I have worked very hard to develop.

我真的沒有想到,我20年後在本應言論自由的美國,卻開始怕上了,說話要“含糊其詞”,不敢正大光明地說的——因爲我擔心言論被審查,或帳號被封,我更沒有傳播真相的途徑了。

This is the reality of America now. Isn’t it sad?

這就是美國的現實,不悲哀麼?

11/18/2020

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促進宗教自由部長級會議論壇: 中共對法輪大法的迫害(中文同聲翻譯)

【大紀元2020年11月18日訊】美東時間週三(18日)上午9:00,新唐人、大紀元將聯合對「促進宗教自由部長級會議論壇:中共對法輪大法的迫害」進行直播(中文同聲翻譯)。敬請收看。

中共對法輪功(也稱為法輪大法)的迫害已經持續了21年。法輪功是一種基於「真、善、忍」原則的和平冥想活動。法輪大法的修行者將這些原則融入日常生活中,並進行有益於身心的柔和緩慢和冥想的運動。

法輪功的精神信仰在超過八十個國家被人們和平地實踐,但自1999年以來,法輪功在中國為什麼遭到殘酷迫害?本次論壇將進行全面論述,展示中共將多少資源用於迫害法輪功,有助於理解為什麼它被稱為21世紀信仰迫害的最大案例之一。

該論壇演講者包括在中國遭受迫害的法輪功學員。在演講中,他們將展示學校系統在迫害法輪功中的作用、多少孩子已經被洗腦並對法輪功抱有仇恨,以及中共對學生父母施加了什麼壓力。

研討會還將討論610辦公室作為中國的蓋世太保(Gestapo),是一家特殊的法外機構,其成立純粹是為了迫害法輪功學員。

研討會還將介紹中共迫害法輪功的各種洗腦策略、酷刑及其它迫害方法,其目的只是為了要法輪功學員放棄信仰;這個迫害不僅影響到法輪功修煉者,而且影響到他們的家庭乃至中國的每一個角落。

很難理解為什麼這些只想為社會造福的和平民眾受到如此長時間的殘酷迫害,以及為什麼中共將幾乎所有資源都用在與法輪功的狂熱戰爭中。

研討會將觸及這個複雜的話題,討論共產主義的邪惡本質以及為什麼它要如此嚴重地迫害法輪功,並展示如何制止迫害以及為什麼要堅決反對迫害。

演講者包括曾在中國遭受迫害的法輪功學員曾錚(Jennifer Zeng)。當她在2000年被投入勞教所時,處於惡劣條件下身心遭到迫害。她於2001年逃離中國前往澳大利亞。

曾女士是活動家和雙語作家、編輯和新聞記者。她是暢銷書《靜水流深》(英文版:Witnessing History

One woman’s fight for freedom and Falun Gong)的作者,也是屢獲殊榮的紀錄片《自由中國:有勇氣相信》(Free China: the courage to believe)的主角。

第二位演講者是張艷華(Zhang Yanhua,音譯)女士,她也是中共迫害法輪功的受害者。 51歲的張艷華曾在中國工廠當工人。她從1992年開始修煉法輪功。在被捕之前,她的家庭相對富裕,享有和諧的家庭生活。

2001年她被捕,並在中國東北哈爾濱的一家女子監獄中被監禁了7年。在2008年獲釋後,她於2017年再次被捕並被拘留3.5個月,在此期間她進行了近100天的絕食抗議。

第三位發言人是瑞典政治家,溫和聯合黨(Moderate Party)議員安‧索菲‧阿爾姆 (Ann-Sofie Alm),也是中國問題的議會間聯盟(IPAC)成員,將會從自己的角度談中共對法輪功的迫害。

第四位發言者是中華民國(台灣)駐德國代表謝德偉博士。他將向我們介紹台灣的法輪功的發展,與中國大陸的局勢形成鮮明對比,以及台灣政府如何維護全體公民的宗教自由。

演講結束後,將進行問答環節。

論壇發起者說:「如果您想了解我們時代最大的人權悲劇之一,以及它如何影響我們所有人,那麼您就不要錯過本講座。」

議程:

主題演講:法輪大法在中國的迫害:過去和現在— 21年侵犯基本人權

曾女士致辭
張艷華女士致辭
安·索菲·阿爾姆致辭
台灣駐德國大使謝海威博士致辭

時長:1小時30分鐘

週三上午9:00 AM ,促進宗教自由部長級會議論壇: 中共對法輪大法的迫害(Falun Dafa Persecution in China: Then and Now – 21 years of abuse of basic human rights)

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Falun Dafa persecution in China: Then and now – 21 years of abuse of basic human rights

November 18, 2020 at 09:00:00 AM · Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Video available at (Jennifer’s speech starts at 34’)

https://www.bigmarker.com/studium1/Falun-Dafa-persecution-in-China-Then-and-now-21-years-of-abuse-of-basic-human-rights

About This Webinar

Chinese Communist Party is persecuting Falun Gong (know also as Falun Dafa) for already 21 years. Falun Gong is a peaceful meditation practice that is based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. Practitioners of Falun Dafa are incorporating these principles in everyday life and additionally doing gentle exercises and meditation that are good for the body and mind.

Falun Gong is practiced peacefully in more than 80 countries, so why are they brutally persecuted in China since 1999? In this lecture we will give a comprehensive overview and show how much resources the CCP is dedicating for the persecution of Falun Gong, which will help understand why it is called one of the biggest cases of persecution of faith in 21st century. 

In the presentation we will show the school system’s role in the persecution of Falun Gong – how little children are already brainwashed into hatred towards Falun Gong and what pressure is exerted onto their parents.

We will talk about the 610 Office: China’s Gestapo, which is a special extralegal institution that was created solely for the purpose of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. 

We will present various brainwashing tactics, tortures and other methods, whose purpose in only to make Falun Gong practitioners renounce their faith. We will show how the persecution affects not only Falun Gong practitioners, but also their families and in fact every layer of China.

It’s not easy to understand why peaceful people that just want to be good for society are persecuted so brutally for so long and why CCP spend almost all its resources in a fanatical war against Falun Gong. We will touch this complex topic and talk about the evil nature of communism and why it wants to persecute Falun Gong so badly. We will show what can we do to stop the persecution and why it’s important to make a stand against it.

The presentation will feature a talk by Ms. Jennifer Zeng, who is a victim of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. She was held against her will, physically and mentally tortured, and kept in cramped conditions when she was thrown into a labour camp in 2000. Jennifer fled China in 2001 for Australia. 

Jennifer Zeng is a well-known activist and bilingual writer, editor and journalist. She is the author of best seller “Witnessing History: one woman’s fight for freedom and Falun Gong”, as well as the main character of multi-award winning documentary “Free China: the courage to believe”. 

Our second guest will be Ms. Zhang Yanhua, also a victim of Falun Gong persecution in China. Zhang Yanhua, 51, was in China a factory worker. She started practicing Falun Gong in 1992. Before she was arrested, her family was relatively rich and she enjoyed a harmonious family life.

In 2001, she was arrested and then incarcerated in a women’s prison in Harbin, Northeastern China for seven years. After her release in 2008, she was arrested again in 2017 and detained for 3.5 months, during which she went on hunger strike for nearly 100 days.

Our third speaker will be Ms. Ann-Sofie Alm, who is a Swedish politician and Member of Parliament for the Moderate Party. She is also a member of The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). She will talk about the persecution of Falun Gong from her perspective.

Our fourth speaker will be His Excellency Ambassador Prof. Dr. Jhy-Wey Shieh of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to Germany. He will present us the situation of Falun Gong in Taiwan, which stays in contrast to the situation in continental China, and how the Taiwanese government safeguards religious freedom for all citizens.

At the end of the talk we plan a Q&A session.

If you want to understand one of the biggest human right tragedies of our time and how it affects us all, you don’t want to miss this lecture.

Agenda

  • Presentation “Falun Dafa persecution in China: Then and now – 21 years of abuse of basic human rights”

  • Ms. Jennifer Zeng speech

  • Ms. Zhang Yanhua speech

  • Ms. Ann-Sofie Alm speech

  • His Excellency’s Ambassador of Taiwan to Germany, Prof. Dr. Jhy-Wey Shieh speech

Who can view: Everyone

Webinar Price: Free

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A Rigged System and Three Seasons of the Plot to Overturn the Election Result

Hello, everyone, welcome to “Inconvenient Truths”. I am your host Jennifer Zeng.

Today I will continue to talk about the most important US election in history. What President Trump is up against, and what the plot of the dark force is. The reality is more dramatic than any Hollywood movie. So make sure you stick around till the end.

First of all, please make sure you subscribe to my channel and check whether you are still subscribed. It seems YouTube is suppressing my channel, as people told me that they didn’t receive notifications. Some say they can’t like my videos. So I do need your support, especially at such a critical time.

A Slip of the Tongue, or A Disclosure of True Thoughts?

Before I start to talk about my topic today, let’s watch a short video first:

Joe Biden: “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”

I guess you must have watched this video somewhere already. When it first came out before Election Day, people made fun of him by passing it around and saying that he’s got Alzheimer’s disease. I also thought that it was just a slip of the tongue and didn’t take it seriously.

However, after Election Day, when I saw more and more claims and evidence of problems-I will avoid using the word starting with “F” that Biden just used to try to avoid being censored, I am not sure whether this will be effective, but let me try it anyway. When I saw more and more claims and evidence of problems in this election, I started to believe that what Biden just said was not actually a slip of the tongue, but was what was really going through his mind, or his subconscious. It was so heavy, and he had thought about it so much, that he couldn’t hold it back anymore, nor could he help letting it out.

No matter how I slip my tongue, I will never, ever say anything like this, because it is totally out of my realm of thought, knowledge, or imagination.

Long List of “Problems” 

I guess you’ve already seen many claims and evidence of problems in this election. Here is a list of what I saw:

  1. One person voting multiple times, or scanning one ballot multiple times. 

  2. Dead people voting

  3. Discarding Trump’s votes

  4. Illegal votes

  5. Problems with the sharpie markers

  6. Changing the ballots

  7. Stealing the ballots

  8. Backdating mail-in ballots and extending voting deadline

  9. Rejecting poll watchers

  10.  Secret ballot counting

  11.  Software switching Trump’s votes to Biden

  12.  Mistakenly inputting more votes to Biden

  13. Pause in counting

  14. Not counting military votes

  15.  Ghost votes coming in the middle of night

  16. Illegal ballot harvesting

And finally, a huge one: Manipulating the voting system to create a desired result. 

First Hand Account: 100,000 Ballots Arrived at 4:00 am 

Well, this is just an incomplete list I saw on Twitter, with some of my own input.  If you know more, please share it with us by leaving a comment under this video.

Here I will just share two cases revealed by Chinese Americans to the Chinese language division of New Tang Dynasty Television, NTDTV.

Mrs. Schmidt said to NTDTV during an interview that she was volunteering as a poll watcher for the Republicans at the TCF Center in Detroit on election night, although she doesn’t have a party affiliation. 

She said that she found staff members at the No. 84 Table were hand-copying ballots and filling out blank ones there, and thought it was not right, as, in theory, the staff members should not fill in ballots. However, when she and her colleague raised questions, they got intimidated, surrounded, and pushed around by a group of people suddenly appearing out of nowhere. And one person was coordinating this group of people. Whenever someone raised questions or challenged the process, these people went over to intimidate that person. 

She said during only one hour of working there, her team member Edward found 25 abnormal situations, she found 5 or 6. 

She said then the counting suddenly stopped. She had nothing to do and waited until 4:00 am in the morning, hoping that she could leave at 5:00 am, in one hour. 

However, shortly after 4:00 O’clock, there suddenly arrived a van, with 61 boxes of ballots. She felt very strange as all the polls closed at 8:00 pm, why did it take them more than 8 hours to deliver these ballots that came from the same city? Why did they drop off the ballots in a manner that looked like they were doing drug trafficking? 

She felt this was very strange. Then somebody announced that they’ve got over 16,000 new ballots coming. However, these ballots were not distributed to the tables, and she still had nothing to do. Then the same person announced that everybody should leave by 5:00 am, which was only 10 minutes away. 

Then, at 5:00 am, everybody left. She arrived home at around 7:00 am. Then she heard that after she left, over 100,000 ballots were counted. She said, how can this be possible? For the entire night, there were 137 tables in the center, and altogether they only counted 7000 ballots. This is to say, from 10:00 pm to 5:00 am, they were only able to count 7000 ballots. Then, suddenly, only one or two hours later, the number of counted ballots became 130,000. 

She said the normal speed to count one ballot was between 15-20 minutes. How can you finish counting that many ballots so quickly? So she seriously questioned how those ballots were counted.

Notably, another Chinese American, Gary Yang, revealed the same story in a talk show program, “Focus Talk”, on NTDTV. 

Gary Yang was the president of the  Michigan Chinese Conservative Alliance. He also worked as a poll challenger at the TCF Center at Detroit on election night. He also said that only 7000 ballots were counted in the entire night, then suddenly tens of thousands of ballots were dropped off at around 4:00 am in the morning. He also said that he was very surprised to find that Biden’s votes suddenly jumped by over 100,000 in one or two hours.

Dominion Voting Systems: Who’s Behind Them?

Another big problem, you must have also heard about, is Dominion Voting Systems. 

President Trump tweeted on Nov. 12 that “DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE. DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000 PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN. 941,000 TRUMP VOTES DELETED. STATES USING DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS SWITCHED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN.”

I spent quite some time doing my own research on Dominion Voting Systems, as there are so many contradicting reports, and it is hard to figure out which ones are correct, which ones are not. And here is what I found.

During a Fox interview, with federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, Fox host Maria Bartiromo pointed out that there are reports that Senator Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, is a shareholder of Dominion Voting Systems. The software company also has ties to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Her former chief of staff is one of the lobbyists on the company’s first-ever lobbying firm, etc.

There are also reports denying all the above allegations. However, after some investigation of my own, I found allegations are not groundless.

A Bloomberg Government report in 2019 says that “ Dominion Voting Systems…has hired its first, a high-powered firm that includes a longtime aide to Speaker Nancy Pelosi,” and that “Members of Congress have criticized those and other companies for their security methods and business practices.”

A file from “Center for Responsive Politics” shows that the “total lobbying expenditure for Dominion Voting Systems” in 2020 is $150,000. 

So, the voting system does have some ties with Nancy Pelosi.

By the way, for all the important files and evidence I mention today, I will put links to the source so that you can check them out yourselves. I spend quite a lot of time finding original and reliable sources. Go to my website at jenniferzengblog.com, look for the transcript of today’s program, and you’ll find the links.

Also, records from the United States Securities and Exchange Committee show that Senator Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, did own 60% of AVID technology Inc in 2015. In 2020, his share increased to 70%.

Data in 2015

Data in 2015

Data in 2020

Data in 2020

There are also reports saying that AVID technology does not provide election software for Dominion or any other company, and is only a media creator. 

However, a product brochure of Avid LeaderPlus says clearly that “Avid LeaderPlus is a comprehensive, user-friendly election management system. It automates the process of collection election data, organizing it, and publishing the results quickly, efficiently and accurately. Meeting election-night demand ranging from vote collection and analysis updating. Avid LeaderPlus provides fast, automatic election-night headache relief to the newsroom.”

Some of the “Product Highlights” and “Features” are,  “easy to set up races in advance”, “easy pre-election wire race input”, “set up well in advance”, etc. 

Well, “set-up”, does this term sound funny and a little bit alarming here?

I don’t know why some media outright denied that AVID provides election software. Perhaps they are playing games with the names. The company that provides election software is Avid LeaderPlus, not Avid Technology. However, the two companies are all called “Avid” and are using the same logo. So I reasonably assume that they belong to the same system, or are owned by the same owners, or are related to each other. 

So, there is no doubt that Senator Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum owns, or once owned, part of the election software company. 

What I didn’t find, however, is that the Dominion Voting System does use software from Avid LeaderPlus. The reports I read didn’t show any evidence of the relationship between the Dominion Voting System and Avid LeaderPlus, as if it is already a fact that everybody already knows, so there is no need to show evidence.  If you know anything about this, please also leave a comment. 

Feinstein’s “Strong China Connections”

It is well known that both Feinstein and her husband have “strong China Connections”.  A LA Times report as early as 1997 used such a title. Another LA Times report also in 1997 especially mentioned Feistein’’s close relationship with the CCP leader Jiang Zemin. The report says “Feinstein is so close to Jiang (he calls her Dianne; she sometimes calls him Zemin) that she visited him in Beijing four weeks ago to suggest ways to make the state visit a success. Distressed that Jiang was only getting a lukewarm welcome on Capitol Hill, Feinstein organized a reception for him with her fellow senators at the Blair House, the presidential guest house across from the White House.“

It was also reported that a CCP spy had been Feinstein’s staffer and driver for as long as 20 years. 

Clinton Foundation

Public information of the Clinton Foundation shows that Dominion Voting Systems was one of the “commitments ” of the Clinton Foundation to “provide”  “emerging and post-conflict democracies with access to voting technology”, and the “estimated total value” of the project was $2.25 Million. 

More Concerns about Security

Images of Dominion’s Instruction Manual showing how to “purge” the system, how to “discard a batch” are also circulated on the internet; and some people question whether this means some “test stacks” have been pre-fed with only Biden marked, and some batches of Trump votes were purged. 

A Bloomberg article in Jan. this year, that was, way before Election Day, pointed out that America’s voting machines are “hackable”,  “Connecting to the internet, even briefly, could pose hacking risk”, and “Convenience, accessibility sometimes trump security concerns”.

So there is no doubt that problems, and even very serious problems do exist with this voting system. The worse situation is, the result can be manipulated, overriding the results of real people’s votes.  

Scytl’s Server Seized? 

Of course, there is another claim about the US army raiding the Frankfurt office of the Spanish election software company Scytl to seize servers that had evidence of voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 U.S. election. Some say this is true, some say this is false. From what I can gather, the background of Scytl, and the many elections that this system has been involved in, all have very deep things to dig into. But I am afraid that today I don’t have enough time to talk about it. If you are interested, please try to find out the truth yourself, and share with us what you’ve found.

The Plot

So, to sum it up, the plot goes like this:

Season 1: 

Before the election day, spread hatred toward Trump as much as possible, actually, this has been happening for 4 years, non-stop, and then create false poll results to give people an impression that Biden would win big. And also, because people hated Trump, they wouldn’t feel guilty to be involved in things that would throw him out of office.

Season 2: 

On the election night, there were two sets of plans to ensure the desired result. If fake ballots, ballots from dead people and illegal voters, etc, could do the job, great. If fake ballots weren’t enough, then the second set of plans were triggered, which was, to “inject” large amounts of false votes into swing states. In the meantime, use the software to change the results directly. 

That’s why suddenly hundreds of thousands of ballots arrived at 4:00 am in the morning, and that’s why hundreds of thousands of votes were added to Biden in minutes, or within hours. I am sure you’ve already heard about the “Biden curve”, right? 

The most obvious “irregularity” is, how could Biden win so big while Democrats have lost seats, while the Republicans are gaining in the House? It is just very reasonable to assume that when somebody voted for the Republican congressman/congresswoman, he or she would also vote for Trump, right?

So, that’s season 2 of the plot. 

Season 3:

Prematurely announce that Biden has won, give tremendous pressure to Trump, in an attempt to force him to concede. In the meantime, suppress any voices that question the election results. The madness is beyond imagination. Remember that I announced in my last show where you can find me in case I disappear on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter? I really thought I needed to get prepared, seeing what was happening around me. 

I never imagined that I would experience this in America.

Well, I’m afraid that I’ve talked for too long today. So I will stop here. Before you go, please make sure you subscribe to my channel and turn on the notification bell. When you have time,  please also check out my other videos.

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11/17/2020

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A President at War with the Media, Who Can Check the Unrestrained Expansion of the Media’s Power?

Hello, everyone, welcome to “Inconvenient Truths”. I am your host Jennifer Zeng.

Today I will talk about a very important issue: the constitutional crisis in the US and the unrestrained power of the fourth estate, or the fourth power, the media, and how we can deal with it.

Petitioner Trump 

First, let’s watch two funny cartoons created by Chinese netizens. 

This first one shows Trump carrying a child, a family photo, a blanket, and a plastic bag, like many other Chinese petitioners on their way to Beijing to seek justice. The Chinese caption says, “I am on my way to petition. See you at the court!”

Petitioner Trump: “See you at the court!”

Petitioner Trump: “See you at the court!”

Maybe only Chinese people can fully understand and feel the humor and the bitterness behind this cartoon.

In China, because of lack of justice, rule of law, and because of the corruption found with local CCP officials, many Chinese people have to go to Beijing, or the capital cities in their provinces to try to see if they can have their cases heard by higher authorities. Some of them spend years, even decades on their way to seek justice, but still can’t get it. Some become bankrupt and lose their homes. Some even end up in jail. That’s why they need to carry a blanket with them on their way to petition, as they don’t have the money to stay in a hotel, and have to sleep on the street.

So, in some Chinese netizens’ eyes, President Trump’s situation and the treatment he got are very similar to that of the Chinese petitioners. 

Another cartoon looks very similar, only what he holds with his right hand is a piece of paper with a Chinese word “wronged”. The Chinese words on the bag in his left hand are “documents”.  The caption also says,  “I am on my way to petition. See you at the court!”

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I am not sure if you find the cartoons funny and laughable. They are widely circulated among many Chinese netizens to reflect their understanding of President Trump’s situation. 

For me, they do make a lot of sense, as like some of the Chinese petitioners, what Trump is up against is huge.

The First Instance of the “Almighty” Media 

So, what exactly is Trump up against?

First of all, it is the “almighty” media. 

I witnessed the first instance of the “almighty” media in April 2016. I was working as the news director for the Los Angeles branch of New Tang Dynasty Television, NTDTV.  At that time, Trump was very early in his presidential candidacy, not many people took him seriously, or thought that he had any chance to win. He was yet to beat the other 15 Republican candidates, some of them looked far more qualified than him.

Anyway, on April 28, 2016,  Trump went to Orange County in Los Angeles to do a rally, and I sent a crew to the rally to cover the event.

Hours before the rally started, some people, perhaps nearly 100, started to protest outside. Several people jumped onto a police car, trampled all over it, and did a lot of damage.  Several so-called mainstream media sent helicopters to the site and did a live broadcast of the protest. 

Seeing that the helicopters were live-streaming their actions, those protesters became more excited and did more damage.

I watched the live streaming for hours, without knowing what exactly happened inside the venue.

After my reporter came back, I asked him what happened with the rally. He showed me some interviews he did with the supporters, with each of them expressing eagerly why they were there to support.

So, what I saw from my crew’s footage was a totally different story from what I watched from the “mainstream media.”

This instance impressed me so much that I could never forget it. 

Watching the Wrong Media

So, on November 10, 2016, several days after Trump won the election, when many, many people were still feeling very much shocked by the result,  I posted on my Facebook such a post:

Why were so many people so shocked by Trump’s victory? Why were the polls so wrong? Because people have been watching the wrong media.

Here is an example:

For the same event of Trump’s on April 28, 2016 in California, if you watch the typical western ‘mainstream media’, you pretty much only see the violence and turbulence; you fail to see that Trump has a lot of supporters; and why they support him. On that day there were more than 8000 supporters and only 100 plus protesters.

If you watch NTD, you get different and fair coverage.

NTD’s news title: Trump’s rally in orange county attracts 8000 supporters”

And here are some news titles from other media I listed in that Facebook post:

“Trump Rally Protesters Damage Police Cars, Block Roads

Police car smashed during protest outside Trump rally 

Police car smashed during anti-Trump protest outside rally in Orange County; nearly 20 arrested

Protests /ˈprəʊtest Get Violent In Costa Mesa As Trump Rally Draws To A Close

More Than a Dozen Arrested As Protests Turn Violent Outside California Trump Rally

The Latest: Hundreds turned away from Trump rally in OC 

Protesters Swarm Donald Trump Rally In California 

Trump supporters, protesters clash in California, 20 arrested”

From that day on, I knew how wrong, how biased the so-called mainstream media could be, and eventually, I stopped watching or reading them at all. I had been persisting in reading at least one news piece and one commentary every day to learn what was happening, and to improve my English.

No Lesson Learned

Now, the situation is even worse than 4 years ago. After getting it very wrong with the previous election, instead of reflecting on why they got it wrong, the so-called mainstream media have almost become activists or active players in the battleground, and they want to dictate the course of events so that they can turn their wrong reports into right ones.

Yes, that’s what the mainstream media has been doing in the past four years.

Not only the mainstream media but also the major social media platforms. Because they have the power, they started to censor people’s speeches, delete and suspend people’s accounts, including President Trump’s account. They can just willfully flag or censor anybody’s posts or tweets according to what they like or don’t like. They become the standard of what is right and what is wrong, what can be said and spread, and what can not.

Remember in March and April, after having a meeting with the WHO, these social media platforms also censored any views, news, facts about the COVID19 pandemic if what you said didn’t agree with what the WHO said. Almost all my YouTube videos during that period of time were given a yellow flag, which means “limited for ads”.

But what happened a little while later? We all found out that the WHO had been helping the CCP to cover up the pandemic. If it had not, the world would have not been misled so badly, and so many lives could have been saved, instead of being killed by the virus.

And what did we learn from that lesson? It seems that nobody has learned anything. These social media platforms continue to play God and make judgments on everyone. If anyone has something to say about the election that they don’t like, they either delete your post or suppress it.

What will we have to lose this time?

Alarming Similarity 

Yesterday I retweeted a tweet by Chinese dissident Tang Baiqiao. He put three pictures of newspapers from China, Hong Kong, and the US. And his text goes like this, “The style of media on both sides of the Strait is becoming more and more consistent – in this case, both sides refer to the US and the CCP’s China. Who says that the US media can’t learn from the CCP’s media?”

And my retweet says this: “American newspapers are looking like the CCP’s, with similar/uniformed headlines and photos. In CCP’s #China, the propaganda department (sometimes @XHNews) provides the standard scripts/photos to all the media. Who is providing the same stuff to the #US media?”

Frankly speaking, I was a little shocked to see how so many different western newspapers were using exactly the same headlines to report about the US election. I only saw this happen in China before. That’s why both Mr. Tang Baiqiao and myself became very alarmed when seeing this happening right in front of our eyes in a country that is supposed to be “the great beacon of liberty”. 

Three years ago, in 2017, I wrote a Chinese article entitled “The President and The Media Are at War. Who Has the Upper Hand?”

I said, “As far as I can see, the media has a bigger advantage in this war. First, the media has a much larger audience than the President. Second, the media can look very professional and respectful. They can do damage to people without swearing or using dirty words.

“On the other hand, if the President picks up a fight with the media and uses nasty words,  people will say that he is not graceful and generous, and he will be criticized like hell.

“And why do I choose to criticize the media instead of the President? In a democratic country like the US, the media have accumulated a great deal of invisible public power and voice over hundreds of years, thanks to the guarantee of freedom of speech. In the West, journalists are called the ‘uncrowned kings’, and from this perspective, they have even more ‘power’ than the presidents, or at least the same amount of power.

“How does the media use such invisible public power after they gain it? This is a question that every media and journalist with a conscience should ask themselves. ‘Have I become too “arrogant and prejudiced [ˈpredʒədɪst]” because of this power? Can I honestly look at the big picture instead of going off the deep end and getting involved in trivial things endlessly? Can I distinguish between true good and evil? Can I speak out when I see injustice? “

Who Can Check the Unrestrained Expansion of the Media’s Power?

Many people are saying and worrying that the US might sink into a constitutional crisis because of this highly contested and controversial election. 

According to Chinese scholar Zhang Ping, who is a professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel, the West is experiencing four crises including political correctness, racial division, the disappearance of the middle class, and the unrestrained expansion of the media’s power. While the other three powers of the society, legislature, executive, judiciary, can be checked and balanced among themselves, the fourth estate, or the fourth power, the media, has nothing that can check or balance it.

Like in this election, before any state certifies the election results before the lawful institution makes the decision while knowing that lawsuits are still going on, almost all of the media have announced their “winner”.  Sasha Gong, a former Voice of America, VOA journalist posted a “guideline on Joe Biden as the President-elect” of the VOA on Twitter, which says, “If it wasn’t clear previously, VOA is projecting Joe Biden is the President-elect…You can say there are still votes to count and lawsuits to file, but Biden is the election winner.”

Sasha Gong says in Chinese that every reporter has to stick to the guideline, and anyone who disobeys can be punished. 

It is really dangerous if, while we are already in the middle of a constitutional crisis, the fourth power, the power of the media can expand without checks or balances.

Maybe the only power that can check and balance it is “we the people”. While the media can brainwash us by making up stories and control what kind of information we can get, we the people can use our common sense and better judgment to beat them. If we the people, we the reader, we the audience, boycott the biased media, look for and support alternative voices like myself, they will lose their power, or even collapse in no time.

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11/12/2020

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Why Are the Stakes of the US Election Also High for the Chinese People and the World?

Hello, everyone, welcome to “Inconvenient Truths”. I am your host Jennifer Zeng.

The current US election is, no doubt, THE most controversial, most contested, most important, and most-watched one, with the highest stakes in it, not only for America but also for the world. Today I will talk about how the Chinese people, both inside and outside of China, including the Chinese Communist Party, are reacting to the current US election.

Before I start to talk about our topic today, I’d like to make an announcement first, which I have already posted in the “Community” area of my channel. The announcement is, in case I disappear from Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube, please look for me and follow me on other platforms, including my own website at https://www.jenniferzengblog.com, and other social media platforms such as parler and gab. Please search for “Jennifer Zeng” and you will be able to find me there. 

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“Cool” Response from the CCP

Now, let’s go to our topic today. First of all, what are the reactions toward the US election among Chinese people?

Inside China, the CCP’s official media has been keeping a very low key coverage on the US election. On Nov. 4, Xinhua published a report titled “The outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election is a close race and the result is still up in the air” .

Notably, after most American media called the election, and many world leaders have sent their congratulations to Joe Biden, who had declared victory, the CCP’s official media didn’t follow suit, nor has Xi Jinping sent his congratulations to Biden.

The People’s Daily only has one report on Nov 9 saying that “Biden says he will unite and reshape America, while the Trump campaign refuses to concede defeat”. The latest Xinhua report was published on Nov. 7, with a very “neutral ” and “prudent” title saying that,  “According to U.S. media’s projections on the 7th, Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Biden has won more than 270 electoral votes in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The Republican presidential candidate, the current President Trump shortly said that the election is far from over.”  There are no updates after this report.

Why does the CCP keep such a low-key profile with the US election? Is it because it doesn’t care who wins?

Not at all.

According to Chinese commentator, professor Zhang Tianliang of Feitian College in New York, the reason why Xi Jinping hasn’t congratulated Biden is that Biden is Xi Jinping’s puppet and that Biden is more eager to please Xi Jinping, not the other way around.

Another Chinese commentator, professor Frank Tian Xie at University of South Carolina Aiken said in a Tweet that “The Russians are silent, I think because they have enough information to know that Trump will eventually win. The Chinese are silent because they screwed up, and failed in their interference, and are worried that they will be caught eventually red-handed with solid evidence.”

So, the above is the seemingly “cool” response from the CCP.

Unprecedented Passion and Attention from Mainland Chinese Netizens

But on the “unofficial” side, it is a totally different story. The passion and the level of attention among mainland Chinese netizens are unprecedented. On November 5, four topics related to the “U.S. election” were once viewed more than 6.4 billion times on Weibo, a Chinese language social media platform, ranking in the top 10 of Weibo’s hot search list and garnering more than 1.4 million discussions. 

The topic “Trump team has sued in three key swing states” topped the hot search list, getting more than 8 million discussions. As of November 6th, the U.S. election topic still has about 380 million viewers.

A group of netizens from Chongqing City even went so far as to shoot a video to openly express their support for President Trump.

Netizens from Chongqing City: “Trump, Win the re-election! Trump, win the re-election! Trump, win the re-election! End the tyranny! End the tyranny! End the tyranny! “

Why did these people connect the re-election of Trump with the end of the CCP’s tyranny? One of them said to the Epoch Times that “the United States is the most powerful country, and I hope Trump is re-elected so that he can lead the world to clean up and destroy all evil forces.”

Chinese Netizens’ Wish for their “Chuan Da Ye”

As a matter of fact, ever since Trump was elected 4 years ago,  many Chinese netizens fondly gave him a nickname “Chuan Da Ye”, and hoped that he could help Chinese people with ending the CCP.

“Chuan” in Trump’s Chinese nickname “Chuan Da Ye” is the Chinese pronunciation for Trump. “Da” means big or great, and “Ye” means grandfather, grandpa, or more broadly, an elderly male. So “Chuan Da Ye” can be roughly translated as “Powerful Grandpa Trump.”

Some Chinese netizens even created a fake White House account with a photo of Trump shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, and made up this Chinese caption for the photo:

“Reagan said to Trump: ‘Let me get rid of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union first; you find an opportunity to get rid of the CCP in the future.’  And Trump replied: ‘OK! Deal!’”

So, for many Chinese netizens, the main reason that they support President Trump is that they sincerely believe that Trump has the potential to destroy the CCP and help the Chinese people to gain freedom.

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Taiwanese Netizens’ “Biden List”

In the meantime, netizens in Taiwan have summarized some bad things that will happen if Biden is elected, including:

1. The US-China trade war will be over; and the CCP will continue to take advantage of the US. 

2. Hong Kong will become an “internal affair of China” in which the US will not intervene.

3. The US will stop selling arms to Taiwan to maintain its good relationship with the CCP. 

4. The Indo-Pacific strategy and the Asian version of NATO will be ended. 

5. An across-the-board tax increase on Americans.

6. Reinstatement of Obamacare.

7. Return to WHO.

8. Rejoin the Paris climate agreement.

9. Ban fracking in the US.

10. Removal of the entry and immigration ban for members of the CCP. 

11. Lifting the ban or restrictions on Huawei, TikTok, and WeChat.

12. Release Meng Wanzhou of Huawei.

13. ANTIFA and BLM will become formal organizations.

14. Withdraw the South Sea Fleet.

(I will omit a few items here.)

18. Reopening of the Confucius Institute.

19. Ask Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to sell chips to Huawei again. 

20. Assist China to lift itself out of poverty and become rich.

21. Declare that the COVID19, or the CCP virus, has nothing to do with the CCP. 

The above are basically some of the reasons why Chinese Trump fans support him. 

Why Do the Trump Haters Hate Him?

Then how about the Trump haters?

For the Trump haters, no matter whether they are inside or outside of China, they formed their viewpoints about Trump mainly based on what they see or watch in the media. As the media reports about Trump, both inside and outside of China, are overwhelmingly negative, these people’s impression of Trump cannot be positive.

I have a Facebook friend, who was an investigative reporter in China before, but escaped China after he tried to dig out something that the CCP didn’t want him to dig out. He continued to work in the media industry after he came to the US.  

He expressed many times on his Facebook that he likes the Republicans’ policies, but he just doesn’t, or cannot like Trump. He hopes that the Republicans can find another leader to replace Trump.

He also mentioned many times that for him,  the New York Times is THE best media in the world, second to none, and that he admires the New York Times so much, etc.

From this, I understand why he supports the policies of the Republicans, but doesn’t support President Trump: He has consumed too much of the New York Times.

Why are the Stakes So High? 

As far as I am concerned,  why are the stakes of this US election so high for not only America, but also the world?

To put it in simple words, the world now is a battleground between the free world and the specter of Communism, or Communist tyranny. I highly recommend everyone have a read of “How The Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World” published by the Epoch Times. The book says that “Though the communist regimes of Eastern Europe have disintegrated, the specter of communism has not disappeared. On the contrary, this evil specter is already ruling our world, and humanity must not harbor a mistaken sense of optimism.”

The basic idea of the book is that while the specter of Communism adopted violent ways to conquer the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, North Korea and some other Communist countries, it also adopts non-violent ways to “silently” infiltrate and take over societies, which we believe to be free, and it almost succeeded.

“The long march through the institutions”: this is a slogan coined by Communist student activist Rudi Dutschke around 1967, some 53 years ago.

I think the decades of the “long march” of the specter of Communism in the West has been very successful. That’s why we are seeing that so many sectors of the US, including the media, educational institutions, high tech companies, Wall Street, think tanks, and even many governmental bodies, are working so concertedly toward the same goal during this presidential election. 

So, for me, this battle has gone far beyond mere American politics. It’s a battle for mankind to decide which side will win: freedom or tyranny, fairness, integrity or cheating and corruption, uprightness or baseness, constitution or no constitution, democracy or no democracy. And everyone of us is both an actor and an audience member of the grand play that is unfolding. 

That’s all for today. These days, truth is hard to find and recognize. Please subscribe to and share my channel, and check out my other videos.

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