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The South Carolina Re-
publican Party has voted to
formally censure Rep. Tom
Rice, who voted with Demo-
crats to impeach then-Pres-
ident Donald Trump earlier
this month. ... A5
Reps. Jared Huffman and
Jackie Speier have introduced
a bill that would make it illegal
for lawmakers to carry a gun
anywhere on Capitol Hill. ...A2
Federal health officials
have no plans to develop a
database for reporting ad-
verse events that happen af-
ter people receive COVID-19
vaccines, the FDA says. ... A6
Smaller investors have
been winning in the battle
with Wall Street over Game-
Stop, financial analyst Jeff
Carlson says. ... A2
Arizona Attorney General
Mark Brnovich is asking the
federal government to revoke
a 100-day moratorium on
most deportations ordered
by President Joe Biden. ... A7
The CDC has issued a rule
requiring travelers on air-
planes and public transpor-
tation to wear masks. ... A8
A group of 10 GOP sena-
tors has called on Biden to
support their own virus stim-
ulus package and to work with
them on passing the bill. ... A1
Three former homeland
security officials who served
in the Trump administration
are set to join The Heritage
Foundation, with a focus on
countering the threats posed
by the Chinese Communist
Party. ... A6
Pentagon press secretary
John Kirby says that the plan
to vaccinate Guantanamo
prisoners has been “paused,”
after the move was heavily
criticized by Republican rep-
resentatives and survivors of
9/11. ... A3
CHINA
Chinese authorities have
blamed local outbreaks on
imported goods, causing
confusion and panic among
the people and huge losses for
import businesses. ...A9
HNA Group, the acquisi-
tive conglomerate once syn-
onymous with China’s global
ambitions, has entered bank-
ruptcy proceedings. ... A1
BUSINESS
An international debate is
heating up over how countries
should tax big U.S. technology
companies such as Google,
Amazon, and Facebook. ...A17
Wages and benefits for
U.S. workers rose in the last
quarter of 2020, the Labor
Department says. ... A17
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Han Zhou: Cultural Revolu-
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China... A14
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States... A16
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BIG TECH
Media Company Files Antitrust
Lawsuit Against Google, Facebook
Major tech companies are threatening the extinction of local newspaper,
argues the publisher of several West Virginia newspapers, in lawsuit
BY JANITA KAN
A
West Virginia media
company that operates
several newspapers is su-
ing Google and Facebook
for threatening the extinction of lo-
cal newspapers across the country
by their alleged anticompetitive
business practices.
HD Media on Jan. 29 filed a law-
suit asking a federal court to de-
termine whether the two Silicon Continued on A2
INVESTMENT
Reddit Forum
Sparks Physical
Silver Shortage
on Major Dealers’
Websites
BY JACK PHILLIPS
Several major dealers of silver,
gold, and other precious metals
say they’re encountering shortages
of silver, in particular, after some
Reddit users in the popular forum
WallStreetBets called for users to
create a run on the precious metal.
Later, top users on the Red-
dit WallStreetBets forum  called
on others not to purchase silver
stocks, or SLV, saying that it could
benefit Citadel LLC, while calling
on others to purchase and hold
GameStop and similar stocks like
AMC.
On Jan. 31, Bullion dealers wrote
on their respective websites about
shortages of physical coins.
APMEX wrote that “due to un-
precedented demand on physical
silver products, we are unable to
accept any additional orders until
markets open on [Jan. 31] evening.”
VACCINES
Fake News Against Moderna Vaccine Becomes Search Trend in China
BY FRANK YUE
A negative news report on Moderna
vaccines recently set off a debate on
China’s social media.
Moderna is a drug company
based in Cambridge, Massachu-
setts. The firm has developed a CO-
VID-19 vaccine.
On Jan. 27, an article titled “WHO
Does Not Recommend MODERNA
COVID-19 Vaccines” appeared on a A pharmaceutical technician fills a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine,
Continued on A9
Accuracy The Epoch Times was founded in 2000 as an independent newspaper with the goal to restore accuracy and
integrity in media. We have received numerous awards for our reporting, including from the Society of Professional
& Integrity Journalists, the Society for News Design, and the New York Press Association.
Truth & Tradition
Valley companies had violated
antitrust laws. The lawsuit claims
Google has unlawfully exercised
monopoly power of the digital ad-
vertising market, which has pre-
vented newspapers from compet-
ing in the market and losing their
primary source of revenue.
It also claims that Google and
Facebook had “unlawfully con-
spired to engage in anticompetitive
conduct” through an alleged secret Facebook’s “War Room,” in Menlo Park,
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A screenshot shows silver products
offered on the APMEX.com website.
JM Bullion, another major bul-
lion dealer, wrote that due to an
increase in demand, there will be
shipping delays of five to 10 days
“from cleared payment.”
Next was SDBullion, which said
on Jan. 31 that it couldn’t fulfill any
additional orders until the market
opened.
“In the 24 hours proceeding Fri-
day market close, SD Bullion sold
nearly 10x the number of silver
ounces that we normally would sell
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in Magdeburg, Germany, on Jan. 22, 2021.
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Calif., on Oct. 17, 2018.
RELIEF BILL
10 GOP Senators Offer Counterproposal
on Pandemic Relief Package
BY JACK PHILLIPS
A group of 10 GOP senators on Jan.
31 called on President Joe Biden to
support their alternative CCP (Chi-
nese Communist Party) virus stim-
ulus package and asked the presi-
dent to work with them on passing
the measure.
The lawmakers said in a letter to
Biden that they “welcome the op-
CCP Virus Variant From South Africa
Confirmed in Maryland: Authorities
BY SAMUEL ALLEGRI
The B.1.351 variant from
South Africa of the CCP
(Chinese Communist Par-
ty) virus has emerged in a
Maryland resident, Gov.
Larry Hogan confirmed on
Jan. 30.
State health officials con-
firmed the variant’s exis-
tence in Maryland after
consulting with the Centers
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BUSINESS
Once High-
Flying HNA
Group Enters
Bankruptcy
Proceedings
BY FAN YU
News Analysis
HNA Group, the acquisitive con-
glomerate once synonymous with
China’s global ambitions, has suc-
cumbed to its massive debt load
and entered bankruptcy proceed-
ings at the behest of its creditors.
HNA gorged on debt and
bank loans to fund its
overseas asset purchases.
The Hainan-based company
was served by its creditors on
Jan. 29 in the provincial court
to begin bankruptcy restructur-
ing, the company announced on
its WeChat board. Previously, a
government-led effort to restruc-
ture its debts failed to sufficiently
repay HNA’s creditors.
It’s been a precipitous fall for
one of China’s highest-profile
conglomerates. HNA was estab-
lished by Chen Feng, who worked
for the civil aviation authority be-
fore starting Hainan Airlines, the
flag airline of the southern-most
province in China and the crown
jewel of HNA’s assets.
HNA gorged on debt and bank
loans to fund its overseas asset
purchases. At one point in 2017,
the firm owned a sprawling port-
folio of global assets, including a
25 percent stake in Hilton Hotels
& Resorts, a 10 percent stake in
German banking giant Deutsche
Continued on A9
portunity to work with [him] in a
bipartisan manner to combat the
COVID-19 virus and provide contin-
ued support to families struggling
during the pandemic.”
“In the spirit of bipartisanship and
unity, we have developed a COVID-19
relief framework that builds on prior
COVID assistance laws, all of which
passed with bipartisan support,” they
Continued on A7
PANDEMIC
for Disease Control and Preven-
tion. The case involves an adult
residing in the Baltimore
metropolitan area who
hasn’t traveled outside the
country; officials are trac-
ing his potential contacts to
test and/or quarantine.
While the virus strain ap-
Maryland
Gov. Larry pears to be more transmis-
Hogan in sible than other variants, it
Laurel, Md. hasn’t been shown to cause
Continued on A5
CAPITOL HILL
25 GOPS INTRODUCE
REIN PROPOSAL
“Unelected
bureaucrats in
Washington
have far
too much
unaccountable
power over
the American
people,” Sen. Mike
Lee said.
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Analyst: In
GameStop
Battle, ‘The Little
Guy Has Been
Winning’
ZACHARY STIEBER &
JAN JEKIELEK
Smaller investors have been
winning in the battle with
Wall Street over GameStop,
according to a financial
analyst.
“The generic backdrop to
all this is kind of a little guy
against the big [Wall] Street
firms. And, in this case, the
little guy has been winning,”
analyst Jeff Carlson told The
Epoch Times’ “American
Thought Leaders” program.
“This is a very unique
situation, unlike anything
I’ve seen before, at least of
this magnitude, and it is
kind of David versus Goli-
ath. There’s a lot of people
cheering for the retail inves-
tor, and you’re clearly see-
ing these large investors a
bit back on the ropes.”
So-called retail investors
began pouring money into
GameStop, a struggling vid-
eo game company, in Janu-
ary after learning that hedge
funds had bet on its demise.
The purchasing, orches-
trated on Reddit’s Wall-
StreetBets forum, sent the
stock to as high as $347 a
The generic back-
drop to all this is
kind of a little guy
against the big
[Wall] Street firms.
And, in this case,
the little guy has
been winning.
Jeff Carlson,
financial analyst
share from $17, devastating
at least one of the funds and
earning the smaller inves-
tors large chunks of money.
The shocking rise in price
caused consternation
among some veteran Wall
Street players, who have
called for some kind of regu-
lation and seemed to weigh
in with support of the funds.
Carlson said financial
pundits complaining over
what happened “is some-
what ironic,” pointing to the
financial crisis of 2008.
“It was the same hedge
funds that were being pillo-
ried for shorting a lot of these
different companies, and it
People enter a GameStop store in Alhambra, Calif., on Jan. 27, 2021.
was these financial firms
that ended up getting a ton
of bailouts,” said Carlson,
who is a contributor to The
Epoch Times. “Now, we step
forward to the situation we
have today, and suddenly,
it’s the retail investor that’s
being pilloried for driving up
the price of the stock, and it’s
the folks doing the shorting
that are not being called out
as aggressively.”
Carlson says he’s con-
cerned that the situa-
tion will lead to increased
regulation, which he said
shouldn’t happen.
“The situation should be
allowed to play out. One of
the points that I make in my
article is essentially, one of
the big problems here is that
the party that’s to blame is
the hedge funds that were
not engaging in proper risk
management, and these
are big institutional big boy
players to come in and bring
the hammer down on the
small investor, and just say
that where these loads are
trading is ridiculous and you
have no business trading,
and the security here seems
high-handed to me,” he said.
“Effectively, that’s an ex-
ternal force to the market
coming in and dictating
what is appropriate price,
what is appropriate valua-
tion, and what is not.
“That’s something that
I think is alarming. I also
question a little bit the mo-
tives because the hedge
funds who are very well
connected politically and
institutionally, etc., they’re
the ones that are being hurt
in this case.”
Treasury Secretary Ja-
net Yellen received over $1
million in speaking fees
from Wall Street in recent
years,  including some
$800,000 from Citadel, ac-
cording to filings with the
Office of Government Eth-
ics. Citadel money was used
by the hedge fund Melvin
Capital, one of the prima-
ry hedge funds shorting
GameStop.
Yellen said in her ethics
pledge that she wouldn’t
participate “personally and
substantially” in any mat-
ter that involves Citadel or
other entities that paid her
to speak unless she receives
written authorization. The
White House declined to say
whether she should recuse
herself, and the department
didn’t immediately respond
to a request for comment.
The Securities and Ex-
change Commission, the top
U.S. financial regulator, said
on Jan. 29 that it’s reviewing
the recent trading volatility
that led to the rise of Game-
Stop and other stocks.
The agency said it would
protect retail investors and
promised to investigate ac-
tions taken by hedge funds
and brokerages that might
“disadvantage investors or
otherwise unduly inhibit
their ability to trade certain
securities.”
Jack Phillips contributed
to this report.

Democrats Seek to Make Guns Illegal for
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill
IVAN PENTCHOUKOV
Two House Democrats are pushing
a bill that would it make it illegal
for lawmakers to carry a gun any-
where on Capitol Hill.
Reps. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.)
and Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) intro-
duced the No Congressional Gun
Loophole Act on Dec. 28, 2020, and
reintroduced it in the new session
of Congress last week.
“As a survivor of gun violence, I
know what it’s like to [be] shot &
left for dead. Stats show accidents
happen when there are firearms
around. The exemption for U.S.
Reps increases the risk for Mem-
bers, staff & the public,” Speier
wrote on Twitter on Jan. 29.
Firearms are banned on Capitol
grounds and premises, although
an exception has been in place for
lawmakers since 1967, according
to The Hill. Lawmakers on both
sides of the aisle have taken advan-
tage of the carveout for years with
no incident.
But the political fallout from
the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6
has given Democrats an opening
to push for a blanket ban, while
casting a shadow on a handful
of Republicans who have made a
point of taking advantage of the
exception.
Huffman wrote on Twitter on Jan.
28: “You can’t have an honor sys-
tem with dishonorable people. We
now have Members openly calling
for violence & trying to bring guns
on the House Floor. For everyone’s
safety, we must pass my bill with
Rep. Speier to get rid of Members’
special firearms exemption.”
Freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert
(R-Colo.) made headlines before
being sworn into Congress be-
cause she applied for a concealed
carry permit in Washington and
planned to carry her firearm in
D.C. and Congress. Rep. Madison
Cawthorn (R-N.C.) told local media
he was armed when he was being
evacuated from the Capitol during
the breach on Jan. 6.
A number of Democrats now
claim they fear for their safety by
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on
Nov. 19, 2019.
U.S. Capitol Police install a metal detector outside the House of Representa-
tives chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 12, 2021.
equating their colleagues across
the aisle with rioters who breached
the Capitol.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-
Calif.) installed magnetometers in
the Capitol in the wake of Jan. 6,
specifically targeting members
who want to bring guns on the
House floor.
“We will probably need a supple-
mental for more security for mem-
bers when the enemy is within
the House of Representatives—a
threat that the members are con-
cerned about—in addition to what
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is happening outside,” Pelosi said
Jan. 28.
Asked to explain, Pelosi said, “It
means that we have members of
Congress who want to bring guns
on the floor and have threatened
violence on other members of Con-
gress.”
There is no evidence in the pub-
lic realm of any current member
of Congress threatening violence
against his or her colleagues.
Boebert didn’t immediately re-
spond to a request by The Epoch
Times for comment.
Media Company Files Antitrust
Lawsuit Against Google, Facebook
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deal nicknamed “Jedi Blue.” De-
tails of the alleged agreement
were first revealed when 10 state
attorneys general sued Google
for multiple violations of federal
and state antitrust and consum-
er protection laws.
According to a redacted version
of the lawsuit filed in December,
Facebook announced in 2017
that it would try a new method of
selling online advertising called
“header bidding,” which would
act as a threat of competition for
Google. The lawsuit suggested
Facebook eventually “curtailed
its involvement” with the project
after Google gave Facebook “in-
formation, speed, and other ad-
vantages in the [redacted] auctions
that Google runs for publishers’
mobile app advertising inventory
each month in the United States.”
The Wall Street Journal and The
New York Times, which both say
they’ve reviewed an unredacted
version of the complaint, reported
the alleged secret deal referred to
in the lawsuit was code-named
“Jedi Blue” by Google.
HD Media’s lawsuit claims
that as a result of Google and
Facebook’s alleged anticompeti-
tive and monopolistic practices,
newspapers in West Virginia and
across the country are facing “a
very real existential threat to their
existence.”
“Without redress, these newspa-
pers, and hence the citizens of West
Virginia, may well end up in the
‘news desert,’” the lawsuit states.
It claims that Google’s monopoly
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has created an uneven playing
field to compete for online adver-
tising revenue. It says Google had
integrated itself through numer-
ous mergers and acquisitions to
“enable dominion over all sellers,
buyers, and middlemen in the
marketplace.”
“The freedom of the press is not
at stake; the press itself is at stake,”
the filing states.
“As a result of falling revenues,
newspapers are steadily losing
the ability to financially support
their newsrooms, which are costly
to maintain but provide immense
value to their communities. A
robust local newsroom requires
the financial freedom to support
in-depth, sometimes years-long
reporting, as well as the ability to
hire and retain journalists with
expertise in fundamentally local
issues, such as coverage of state
government.”
Google and Facebook didn’t im-
mediately respond to a request by
The Epoch Times for comment.
HD Media is seeking an order
that declares that Google and
Facebook’s actions violated the
law and blocks them from fur-
ther engaging in such conduct. It
also seeks damages for any injury
caused.
HD Media owns and operates
newspapers such as The Herald-
Dispatch in Huntington and
Cabell County, the Charleston
Gazette-Mail, The Wayne County
News, The Putnam Herald, the
Williamson Daily News, The Lo-
gan Banner, the Coal Valley News
in Boone County, and The Inde-
pendent Herald in Pineville.
Google’s New
York offices in
lower Manhat-
tan on Jan.
20, 2021.
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Nonprofit
Fundraiser Sues
Connecticut Over
Burdensome,
Invasive Regulations
MATTHEW VADUM
A West Virginia-based nonprofit
fundraiser has filed a civil rights
lawsuit against Connecticut over
that state’s unusually burdensome
rules that require him to tell state
officials what he’s planning to say
to prospective donors a full 20 days
in advance of donor contact.
The lawsuit, Kissel v. Seagull, was
filed on Jan. 31 in federal court in
Connecticut.
ernment  the name of everyone
who gives any amount. Going off
script could lead to a $5,000 fine
and a year in prison. Connecticut
law also requires fundraisers to
maintain files containing private
information about donors and to
make that information available
to the state on demand.
Kissel’s argument is that under
the First Amendment, the govern-
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, in New Haven, Conn.
ment can’t demand that he tell
them in advance what he is going COURTESY OF PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

The plaintiff is Adam Kissel of
Charleston, West Virginia. The de-
fendant, Michelle H. Seagull, is be-
ing sued in her official capacity as
commissioner of the Connecticut
Department of Consumer Protec-
tion.
Daniel N. Ortner, an attorney
with the Sacramento-based Pacific
Legal Foundation, a public interest
law firm that is representing Kissel
free of charge, said Connecticut is
“restricting the ability of people to
go out and fundraise money for
charities.”
While most states require a paid
solicitor to register, and some re-
quire the posting of a bond, Con-
necticut goes far beyond what most
states require, he told The Epoch
Times in an interview.
“The First Amendment guaran-
tees the right to freedom of speech.
The Supreme Court has made it
very clear that fundraising is a form
of protected speech. It is ultimately
advocacy.”
Connecticut requires indepen-
dent paid solicitors to  inform
the state in advance  when they
plan to talk to  a potential do-
nor  and  what  exactly they will
say, and then report to the gov-
to say and provide it with a script
before he can speak; nor can the
government deprive citizens of
their privacy when they donate to
a nonprofit.
According to PLF, Kissel has ex-
tensive experience in higher edu-
cation policy and philanthropy,
previously serving as deputy assis-
tant secretary for higher education
programs at the U.S. Department of
Education. Before that, he worked
for several charities, including
Foundation for Individual Rights
in Education, the Institute for Hu-
mane Studies, the Charles Koch
Foundation, and Philanthropy
Roundtable. He is now a senior
fellow at the Cardinal Institute
for West Virginia Policy, a non-
profit that researches, develops,
and communicates free-market
economic public policies for West
Virginia.
The Philadelphia-based nonprofit
known as the Jack Miller Center,
which educates students about
America’s founding principles
and history, agreed to pay Kissel
to fundraise as an independent
contractor. Some of the prospective
individual and institutional donors
are located in Connecticut.
Kissel believes the state’s law hin-
ders his ability to do his work.
“Connecticut law imposes signifi-
cant costs and substantially chills
his speech,” according to the legal
complaint. The 20-day-notice re-
quirement “kills the opportunity
for spontaneous expression or out-
reach based on topical events.”
“Fundraisers are not only restrict-
ed from speaking freely, the state
also compels them to speak and
to communicate to each prospec-
tive donor the exact nature of their
Daniel N. Ortner, an attorney with compensation agreement with a
the Sacramento-based Pacific Legal charity,” the complaint continues.
Foundation. “This requirement is directly con-
trary to Supreme Court precedent
and yet remains the law of the State
of Connecticut.”
What Connecticut “Urging others to support chari-
is doing goes well table causes by making financial
contributions is a time-honored
beyond anything tradition that is fully protected
the Supreme Court by the First Amendment to the
has ever upheld for United States Constitution. That is
true whether or not the fundraiser
these kinds of re- receives compensation for his ad-
strictions on fund- vocacy. But the State of Connecticut
raising. imposes a series of barriers which
restrict both the ability of paid
Daniel N. Ortner, attorney, charitable fundraisers to speak
Pacific Legal Foundation freely and the ability of individual
donors to give to these organiza-
tions anonymously.”
Ortner added: “What Connecti-
cut is doing goes well beyond any-
thing the Supreme Court has ever
upheld for these kinds of restric-
tions on fundraising. There is no
precedent for the idea that the state
can require 20-days advance notice
before you can speak or that they
can make you tell them what you’re
going to say before you speak.”
“If there is a problem, some kind
of fraud, or wrongful conduct, the
state can always go after people af-
terward and prosecute people for
violating the law, but they can’t in
advance assume that you’re going
to break the law even before you
speak and make you jump through
all these hoops.”
On Jan. 8, the Supreme Court
agreed to hear an appeal from two
conservative charities that fund-
raise in California, challenging
demands by that state for a list of
financial contributors, which they
argue violate the two tax-exempt
groups’ constitutionally protected
freedom of association, as The Ep-
och Times previously reported. The
case is Americans for Prosperity
Foundation v. Becerra.

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Chicago Mayor Insists on Reopening in a tweet on Jan. 30.

Classrooms as Potential Teachers
Union Strike Looms
GQ PAN
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
is insisting that public school
teachers resume in-person
learning, as the city makes
little progress in an effort to
reach a deal with the Chicago
Teachers Union (CTU) to re-
open schools that have been
closed since last spring.
The Chicago Public Schools
district, which serves over
355,000 students, is aiming to
reopen K-8 schools on Feb. 1
for an estimated 71,000 chil-
dren in those grades who wish
to learn in person, as part of
a phased-in school reopen-
ing plan. The union-backed
teachers, citing safety con-
cerns due to the ongoing CCP
(Chinese Communist Party)
virus pandemic, refuse to
teach classes inside school
buildings and have threat-
ened to go on strike.
“We wish we were here to an-
nounce that a deal has finally
been struck. But sadly, another
day has passed and the CTU
has not agreed to anything,”
Lightfoot said Jan. 29 at a press
conference. “The CTU leader-
ship has failed and left us with
a big bag of nothing.”
“Those teachers need to be
there to greet their students
and teach them in-person,”
Lightfoot said. “If the CTU
continues not to show up and
fails to work toward an agree-
ment in good faith, then we
will have no choice but to take
further action.”
“Let me be clear, none of
us want to go there. And we
shouldn’t have to,” she added.
The CTU pushed back
against the mayor’s claim that
teachers need to return to in-
person work, accusing the city
of ruining the negotiation.
“We were well on our way,
working toward an agree-
ment around all key compo-
nents with the people who
are actually at the bargain-
ing table (much like what’s
happening in other cities),”
the union wrote on Twitter
following the press confer-
ence. “The educators in the
room were working toward
an agreement. The politician
is blowing it all to pieces.”
According to the union, the
school district—the nation’s
third-largest—has balked at
some of their key demands,
such as adopting Centers for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion (CDC) health metrics to
decide when schools should
reopen and be shut again.
Other rejected demands in-
cluding a phased reopening
of schools as teachers receive
vaccinations, rapid testing
of teachers and students on
a weekly basis, and accom-
modations for teachers with
health issues and those with
a family member who has
health issues.
In October 2019, shortly after
Lightfoot took office, the CTU
organized a 14-day strike, the
longest since 1987. More than
300,000 students were kept
out of classrooms before the
union and the school district
settled on the current contract
agreement over issues such as
raises, compensation, and re-
tirement benefits.
AUTHOR
The entrance to Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guanta-
namo Bay, Cuba, on March 5, 2013.
Pentagon Pauses Plan to Give
COVID-19 Vaccines to Guantanamo
Prisoners After GOP Criticism
TOM OZIMEK &
SAMUEL ALLEGRI
The Pentagon has paused
a plan to administer CO-
VID-19 vaccines to pris-
oners held at the Guanta-
namo Bay detention center
in Cuba after the move was
heavily criticized by Re-
publican representatives
and 9/11 survivors.
“No Guantanamo detain-
ees have been vaccinated.
We’re pausing the plan to
move forward, as we review
force protection protocols.
We remain committed to
our obligations to keep
our troops safe,” Pentagon
press secretary John Kirby
wrote on Twitter on Jan. 30.
Republican lawmakers
took aim at reports that
the Pentagon was to offer
COVID-19 vaccines to the
40 detainees at Guanta-
namo Bay, while millions
of vulnerable Americans
wait in line for their turn
to get inoculated. Those
detained at Guantanamo
Bay include Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, the master-
mind behind the 9/11 at-
tacks, which killed 2,977
Americans.
There have been no re-
ported cases of COVID-19
among the detention cen-
ter prisoners. Early in the
pandemic, the U.S. mili-
tary stopped reporting
cases at individual bases
for security reasons.
The move sparked anger
among Republican law-
makers, with some accus-
ing President Joe Biden of
putting the needs of ac-
cused terrorists ahead of
law-abiding Americans.
“It is inexcusable and un-
American that President
Biden is choosing to priori-
tize vaccinations for con-
victed terrorists in Gitmo
over vulnerable American
seniors or veterans,” Rep.
Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said
“Outrageous. The Biden
Administration is giving
vaccines to terrorists at
Guantanamo Bay. What
do they say to American
seniors and veterans still
waiting for theirs?” Rep.
Steve Scalise (R-La.) wrote
in a Jan. 30 tweet.
“Nothing says #unity
like letting the 9/11 mas-
termind & Gitmo detainees
skip in front of millions of
Americans for the COVID
#vaccine,” said Rep. Dan
Bishop (R-N.C.), in a tweet.
The U.S. Naval Station
at Guantanamo began
inoculating its 6,000 resi-
dents earlier this month,
although detainees weren’t
believed to have been in-
cluded.
Biden has made ramping
up vaccinations a priority,
announcing a plan to in-
oculate 100 million Ameri-
cans in his first 100 days in
office.
The move to include the
detainees in the vaccina-
tion rollout also sparked
outrage from New York-
ers who witnessed the
2001 collapse of the World
Trade Center firsthand and
helped respond to the fall-
out.
“You can’t make this up.
The ridiculousness of what
we get from our govern-
ment. They will run the vac-
cine down to those lowlifes
at Guantanamo Bay before
every resident of the United
States of America gets it is
the theater of the absurd,”
said Tom Von Essen, who
was city fire commissioner
during 9/11 and whose de-
partment lost 343 firefight-
ers that day, according to
The New York Post.
A4 | NATION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Sen. Rand Paul, 24 GOP Colleagues Seek to REIN

on Biden’s Regulatory Parade
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
MARK TAPSCOTT

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and 24 of

his Republican colleagues in the
Senate on Jan. 28 introduced a
proposal that could become a huge
obstacle for President Joe Biden’s
ambitious re-regulatory plans.
The “Regulations from the Ex-
ecutive in Need of Scrutiny Act of
2021” (REINS) would require that
any new regulation proposed by an
executive branch department or
agency must be approved by Con-
gress if it’s projected to cost $100
million or more to implement.
“Under the REINS Act, once ma-
jor rules are drafted, they must then
be affirmatively approved by both
chambers of Congress and then
signed by the President, satisfying
the bicameralism and presentment
requirements of the Constitution.
Currently, regulations ultimately
take effect unless Congress specifi-
cally disapproves,” according to a
statement issued by Paul’s office,
with comments by him and Sens.
Mike Lee (R-Utah), Roger Marshall
(R-Kan.), and Marsha Blackburn
(R-Tenn.).
“For too long, an ever-growing
federal bureaucracy has piled regu-
lations and red tape on the backs of
the American people without any
approval by Americans’ elected The U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 22, 2019.
representatives,” Paul said in the STEFANI REYNOLDS/GETTY IMAGES

statement. “This legislation will ensure “advance environmental justice”

“By making Congress more ac-
countable for the most costly and
intrusive federal rules, the REINS
Act would give Kentuckians and
citizens throughout the country
a greater voice in determining
whether these major rules are in
America’s best interests.”
Lee said in the statement: “Un-
elected bureaucrats in Washington
have far too much unaccountable
power over the American people.
The REINS Act would give Con-
gress the authority to reject any
federal government regulation
with costs over $100 million, thus
giving Americans an important
check on federal regulators.”
Marshall said in the statement:
“We’ve already seen this new ad-
ministration is full steam ahead
on enacting their radical agenda
through executive action. The
greater accountability for execu-
tive rulemaking at a time when
agencies are growing especially
emboldened to flex their regula-
tory powers.”
The other co-sponsors include
Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa),
Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Rick Scott
(R-Fla.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Jim
Inhofe (R-Okla.), Todd Young (R-
Ind.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Mike
Rounds (R-S.D.), Kevin Cramer (R-
N.D.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Joni Ernst
(R-Iowa), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska),
Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Ben Sasse (R-
Neb.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Mike
Braun (R-Ind.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas),
Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Risch
(R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho),
and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.).
The Paul proposal follows Biden’s
signing of an executive order on
his first day in office that repealed
and green jobs.
The new president also signed a
second executive order on his first
day in office that, according to fed-
eral regulatory expert Clyde Wayne
Crews of the Competitive Enter-
prise Institute (CEI), is likely to “do
away with cost/benefit analysis by
elevating unquantifiable aims as
benefits ... and deny costs of regula-
tion altogether.”
Crews is the author of an annual
reference compilation and anal-
ysis of federal regulatory costs,
“Ten Thousand Commandments:
An annual snapshot of the federal
regulatory state.”
Paul’s proposal faces tough sled-
ding in Congress, which has Dem-
ocratic majorities in both the Sen- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) walks through the Senate Subway at the U.S. Capitol in
ate and House of Representatives; Washington on Dec. 11, 2020.
the Senate is split 50–50, with ties
broken by Vice President Kamala ANNA MONEYMAKER-POOL/GETTY IMAGES

REINS Act is a common-sense President Donald Trump’s require- Harris.

piece of legislation that would en-
sure Congress has a say in any new
major regulation that would have a
significant economic effect of $100
million or more.
“We must ensure that unac-
countable and unelected regula-
tors do not hamper our economy
with burdensome regulations as
we try to come back from the hard-
ship caused by the outbreak of the
coronavirus.”
Blackburn said in the statement:
“The rise of the administrative state
cannot go unchecked. When agen-
cy rule makers bypass Congressio-
nal review, the agenda of unelected
bureaucrats dominates over the
interests of American businesses
and workers.
ment that for every new regulation
introduced by federal officials there
must be two old ones repealed.
According to the Heritage Foun-
dation, Trump’s approach saved
taxpayers and consumers billions
of dollars, and resulted in the most
extensive deregulation of the U.S.
economy since the 1980s; it’s cred-
ited as a major factor in sparking
the economic boom that began in
2018 and was only short-circuited
by the CCP virus pandemic and
lockdown.
Biden promised during the 2020
presidential campaign to expand
many existing federal programs
such as Obamacare and to intro-
duce multiple new programs such
as a new federal commission to
Several Democratic senators,
including Joe Manchin of West
Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Ari-
zona, and Tom Carper of Delaware
have supported previous efforts to
streamline the federal regulatory
process.
In the lower chamber, where
Speaker of the House Nancy Pe-
losi’s (D-Calif.) majority is barely
more than single-figures, there are
21 Democrats who represent heav-
ily Republican districts that were
carried by Trump in the 2020 elec-
tion. Paul’s proposal could be an
attractive tool for those Democrats
to appeal to Republican voters.
Contact Mark Tapscott at
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 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021 NATION | A5

South Carolina GOP Censures Rep. Rice

Over Trump Impeachment Vote
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JANITA KAN

The South Carolina Republi-

can Party has voted to formally
censure Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.),
who sided with Democrats in
support of the second impeach-
ment of former President Donald
Trump.
Rice was one of 10 Republi-
cans who joined Democrats in
impeaching Trump for a second
time, in a  232–197 vote in the
House on Jan. 13. Trump was
impeached for allegedly inciting
the violence that occurred a week
earlier at the U.S. Capitol. He has
argued that a speech he gave that
day was “totally appropriate.”
In a statement, state GOP Chair-
man Drew McKissick noted that
after the impeachment vote, an
effort to condemn Rice emerged at
the grassroots level from a county
in his district. The resolution ad-
vanced through various commit-
tees before being approved by the
state executive committee.
“We made our disappointment
clear the night of the impeach-
ment vote. Trying to impeach a
president, with a week left in his
term, is never legitimate and is
nothing more than a political kick
on the way out the door,” McKis-
sick said. Then-President Donald Trump and then-First Lady Melania Trump acknowledge supporters before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on
“Congressman Rice’s vote, un- Jan. 20, 2021.
fortunately, played right into the SEAN RAYFORD/GETTY IMAGES CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES

Democrats’ game, and the people

in his district, and ultimately our
State Executive Committee want-
ed him to know they wholeheart-
edly disagree with his decision.”
Rice’s office didn’t respond to
a request for comment by press
time.
The Republicans who voted
to impeach Trump have faced
criticism for their decision, with
some already facing challenges for
their seats. Several Republicans
in South Carolina have said that
they are looking to challenge Rice,
with one state lawmaker saying
that he’s formed an exploratory
committee for a potential run Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) presides over the vote to
against Rice. Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) addresses a crowd at a town hall meeting in Florence, impeach President Donald Trump, in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in
On the day after the vote, Rice S.C., on Feb. 23, 2017. Washington on Jan. 13, 2021.
acknowledged to The Associated
Press that his vote could cost him The media, lawmakers, former the rally. Trump had also been Wyo.), the No. 3-ranking Repub- (R-Ohio).
reelection. But he said that to im- officials, and other critics have posting on Twitter throughout the lican in the House, also is facing The unprecedented nature of
peach Trump was more important focused the blame on Trump for afternoon, urging his supporters a challenger, state Sen. Richard this month’s impeachment trial
to him, because of what he de- the Jan. 6 incident. The president to remain peaceful. He eventually Bouchard, for her Wyoming has raised questions over its con-
scribed as Trump’s inaction dur- had addressed a crowd in Wash- released a video, which was taken seat. In announcing his candida- stitutionality. Lawmakers from
ing the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach. ington, where he reiterated his down by Twitter, that called on cy, Bouchard called Cheney “out- both sides of the aisle are arguing
“I can’t imagine another presi- allegations about election irregu- his supporters to “go home now.” of-touch” with Wyoming, where whether the impeachment trial
dent in my lifetime that would larities and fraud and his dissatis- “You have to go home now. We Trump won about 70 percent of can go ahead given that Trump
not have tried to intervene there, faction with the media and several have to have peace. We have to the votes in 2020. had already left office and is now
would not have tried to say, ‘Hey, lawmakers. have law and order and great peo- Other members facing chal- a private citizen.
this needs to stop, and you need Protestors began their demon- ple in law [enforcement],” Trump lengers include Reps. David Va- Chief Justice John Roberts has
to go home,’” Rice told the news stration at the U.S. Capitol before said in a video address at the time. ladao (R-Calif.), Dan Newhouse decided not to preside over the
service in an interview. Trump completed his address at Similarly, Rep. Liz Cheney (R- (R-Wash.), and Anthony Gonzalez proceedings.

CCP Virus Variant From South Africa
Confirmed in Maryland: Authorities
CONTINUED FROM A1
more severity in the illness or risk
of death.
“State health officials are closely
monitoring the B.1.351 vari-
ant of SARS-CoV-2 in the state,”
Hogan said in a statement. “We
strongly encourage Marylanders
to practice extra caution to limit
the additional risk of transmis-
sion associated with this vari-
ant. Please continue to practice
standard public health and safety
measures, including mask wear-
ing, regular hand washing, and
physical distancing.”
Moderna, Johnson & Johnson,
Pfizer, and Novavax all have said
their vaccines haven’t been as ef-
fective against the B.1.351 strain.
The Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center said in
a Jan. 13 statement that its scien-
tists had also detected a new vari-
ant. The scientists say this variant
“carries a mutation identical to
the UK strain,” but that it plau-
sibly came into existence from a
genus already in existence in the
United States.
Additionally, the document as-
serts that three mutations were
found together for the first time in
another SARS-CoV-2 strain that
evolved in the United States.
“This new Columbus strain
has the same genetic backbone
as earlier cases we’ve studied,
but these three mutations rep-
resent a significant evolution,”
said Dr. Dan Jones, vice chair of
the hospital’s division of molecu-
lar pathology, who led the study.
“We know this shift didn’t come
from the UK or South African
branches of the virus.”
These mutations, the study
indicates, likely make the virus
more transmissible from human
to human.
Another researcher involved in
the study presented a concerning
problem: the vaccines and cur-
rent therapeutic approaches’ ef-
ficacy on the new variants.
“The big question is whether
these mutations will render
vaccines and current therapeu-
tic approaches less effective,”
said Peter Mohler, a co-author
of the study. “At this point, we
have no data to believe that these
mutations will have any impact
on the effectiveness of vaccines
now in use.”
Major Dealers’ Websites Report Silver Shortages
CONTINUED FROM A1
in an entire weekend leading to
Sunday market open,” SDBullion
CEO Tyler Wall wrote on the com-
pany’s website on the morning
of Jan. 31.
“Due to extremely high week-
end volume, we cannot ac-
cept any more new orders until
global markets open on Sunday
night.” MoneyMetals similarly
stated.
A number of popular 1-ounce
silver rounds were out of stock on
the four aforementioned websites
and others.
“In a normal market, we nor-
mally can find at least one sup-
plier/source willing to sell some
ounces over the weekend if we
exceed our long position (the
number of ounces we predict
we will sell over the weekend).
However, everyone we talk to is
afraid of a gap up at Sunday night
market open,” Wall said.
“This is about ready to get really
interesting, as there was very lit-
tle inventory left from suppliers/
mints going into Friday close. Our
direct [silver] supplier informed
us after the close on Friday that
the ‘US Mint will be on alloca-
SCREENSHOT/THE EPOCH TIMES
tion for the remainder of Type
1’ (Current Silver Eagle Design).
Our sales for the month of Janu-
ary exceeded any one-month last
year.”
The silver run was coordinat-
ed via users on WallStreetBets,
4chan’s /biz/ board, Twitter, and
other websites over the weekend.
On WallStreetBets, one user
wrote in a highly upvoted post
that they wanted to push up the
price for an ounce of silver from
around $25 to $1,000 in what they
described as the “biggest short
squeeze in the world.” The post
was later deleted by moderators.
A screenshot
of the
MoneyMetals.
com home
page on Jan.
31, 2021.
A6 | NATION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021

No Plans to Develop Database

for Post-COVID-19 Vaccination Deaths: FDA
JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES

ZACHARY STIEBER spond to a request for com-

Federal health officials
have no plans to develop a
database for adverse events
that happen to people who
receive a COVID-19 vac-
cine, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) told
The Epoch Times.
“At this time there are no
specific plans to develop a
public database of deaths
and adverse events asso-
ciated with vaccination,”
a spokesperson said via
email.
If a link between an ad-
verse event or death to a
vaccination were verified,
the health officials would
communicate the findings
and consider if additional
regulatory actions were
warranted, such as product
labeling, the spokesperson
said.
The number of deaths
post-vaccination submit-
ted to the Vaccine Adverse
Event Reporting System
(VAERS) is up to 288 as of
Jan. 29. The system is pas-
sive and anyone can sub-
mit reports. Health profes-
sionals are encouraged by
public health officials to
use the system.
More than 3,000 patients
have suffered adverse ef-
fects after getting a CO-
VID-19 vaccine, including
106 who have suffered a
permanent disability, ac-
cording to VAERS reports.
Physicians at the Centers
for Disease Control and
A pharmacist at Memorial Healthcare System receives a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine, in Miramar, Fla., on Dec. 14, 2020.
Prevention (CDC) and the
FDA review all reports of
There are no spe- deaths submitted to the
cific plans to de- reporting system, Dr. Tom
velop a public da- Shimabukuro of the CDC’s
COVID-19 Vaccine Task
tabase of deaths Force this week told mem-
and adverse bers of a panel that advises
events associated the CDC.
The physicians then
with vaccination. make an assessment about
Food and Drug
whether any immediate
Administration spokesperson action is necessary and
attempt to obtain death
certificates and autopsy re-
ports to ascertain the cause
of death.
About 65 percent of the
deaths occurred among
long-term care facility
(LTCF) residents, according
to data through Jan. 18 that
was studied for the presen-
tation. Based on the data so
far, physicians expect 11,440
deaths among such resi-
dents,  Shimabukuro told
the Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices.
“Mortality in LTCF resi-
dents is high, and substan-
tial numbers of deaths in
this population will occur
following vaccination as
temporally associated co-
incidental events,” he states
in the presentation.
Officials have cautioned
that a person dying after
being vaccinated doesn’t
mean the vaccine caused
the death. As of now, there
appear to be no deaths
conclusively linked to a
vaccine. The CDC didn’t re-
ment. Officials last month
said an ingredient in the
vaccine could be causing
adverse reactions and later
warned against individuals
who reacted to polyethyl-
ene glycol and polysorbate
getting vaccinated.
Officials are relying on
VAERS and other passive
systems in the early phase
of the U.S. vaccination
program, according to
Dr. Grace Lee, co-chair of
the Advisory Committee
on Immunization Prac-
tices’  COVID-19 Vaccine
Safety Technical Subgroup.
Down the road, they plan
to use data from popula-
tion-based surveillance
systems to examine the
risk of adverse events fol-
lowing vaccination.
The rate of severe life-
threatening adverse reac-
tions was initially occur-
ring at higher rates among
those vaccinated against
COVID-19 than those
who get injected against
influenza. That rate has
climbed even higher, to 45
per million doses admin-
istered, according to data
submitted to VAERS and
presented to the advisory
panel this week.
CDC officials have said
no post-vaccination deaths
related to the life-threaten-
ing reactions have been re-
ported. The most common-
ly reported adverse events
are headache, fatigue, and
dizziness.

ANGELA WEISS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

“This law will require states that

People wait at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles in Brooklyn,
N.Y., on Dec. 18, 2019.
GOP Senators Introduce Bill
to Stop Illegal Immigrants
From Getting Driver’s Licenses
TOM OZIMEK
Republican senators have intro-
duced legislation that would block
certain federal funds flowing to
states that allow illegal aliens to
obtain driver’s licenses.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
said on Jan. 28 that she, along with
a number of GOP senators, includ-
ing Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom
Cotton (R-Ark.), Joni Ernst (R-Io-
wa), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Jim
Inhofe (R-Okla.), and Mike Braun
(R-Ind.), have introduced the Stop
Greenlighting Driver Licenses for
Illegal Immigrants Act. The bill
targets sanctuary states that allow
immigrants to get driver’s licenses
without proof that they legally re-
side in the United States.
“No town in America is secure
from criminals and terrorists if
our borders aren’t policed and
federal immigration laws aren’t
fully enforced,” Blackburn said
in a statement. “This country is
governed by the rule of law. We
should not reward illegal aliens
with driver licenses when they fail
to follow the proper legal process.”
Similar legislation was intro-
duced in both chambers by Black-
burn and Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.)
in February 2020, but it died in the
Democrat-controlled Congress
after it didn’t receive a vote. Buck
said in a Jan. 28 statement that he
plans to reintroduce the bill on
Feb. 1.
“My home state of Colorado
has its own green-light sanctu-
ary laws on the books, which led
to the senseless death of Sean
Buchanan,” Buck said in a state-
ment. “Sean was a loving father of
five from Colorado Springs who
was struck and killed by an ille-
gal immigrant who was driving
under a suspended state-issued
driver license. Sean’s death was
completely preventable, and we
cannot reward criminal behav-
ior by allowing states to provide
sanctuary to illegal immigrants.”
The act halts Department of
Justice grant funding under the
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice
Assistance Grant (JAG) Program
to states that defy federal immi-
gration law.
Blackburn said that in the fiscal
year 2020, states that issued driver
licenses to illegal aliens received
more than $53 million from the
JAG program.
issue driver licenses to illegal
aliens or states that fail to share
immigration enforcement infor-
mation with the DHS to return
unallocated funds to the JAG pro-
gram within 30 days,” she said.
It would also make states that
don’t comply with the driver li-
cense and federal information-
sharing provisions ineligible to
receive future JAG funds.
One sanctuary state that the bill
would target is Oregon, whose
legislature passed the  “Driver
License for All” law that took ef-
fect on Jan. 1, 2021. The law makes
it no longer necessary for people
to provide proof of legal presence
in the United States to obtain an
Oregon driver’s license.
“Individuals must still provide
proof of full legal name and iden-
tity, date of birth, Oregon residen-
cy, and a Social Security Number,”
the Oregon Department of Motor
Vehicles said, KPIC reports. “If an
individual has not been assigned
a Social Security number, they
must sign and submit a written
statement with their application.”
According to the National Con-
ference of State Legislatures, 15
states and the District of Colum-
bia have passed laws to allow
illegal aliens to obtain driver’s
licenses: California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii,
Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and
Washington.
GRAEME JENNINGS/POOL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
speaks during a press conference
on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct.
26, 2020.
3 Trump-Era Homeland Security
Officials Join Heritage Foundation
TOM OZIMEK
Three former homeland security
officials from the Trump adminis-
tration are set to join the Heritage
Foundation, where their focus will
include countering threats posed
by the Chinese Communist Party
(CCP), the conservative think tank
said in a statement.
Chad Wolf, the former acting
secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security, Ken Cuc-
cinelli, the department’s former
deputy secretary, and Mark Mor-
gan, the former acting commis-
sioner of Customs and Border
Protection, will join the Heritage
Foundation as fellows in the Davis
Institute for National Security and
Foreign Policy, starting Feb. 1.
“With the addition of Chad Wolf,
Ken Cuccinelli, and Mark Mor-
gan, Heritage has assembled an
all-star team with significant pol-
icy expertise on issues related to
homeland security, immigration,
and China,” Heritage Foundation
President Kay James said in the
statement.
“Heritage was already a leading
voice to shape these policy issues,”
James said. “We’re now taking
our work to the next level as we
confront an emboldened Biden
administration that seeks to undo
many of the accomplishments of
the past four years.”
Each will do work at the think
tank that reflects their respective
areas of responsibility when they
served under President Donald
Trump, and all three will in some
way be involved in countering the
threat posed by China’s commu-
nist regime.
Wolf will work on projects re-
lated to national security, China,
and cyber policy, and will provide
insights on how the CCP affects
homeland security.
“Chad never flinched in the face
of nationwide riots, increasing
hostility from China, and other
threats America continues to con-
front,” James said.
Cuccinelli will concentrate on
immigration and border security,
and will also “provide insights on
what immigration programs Chi-
nese nationals use and exploit and
recommendations on what the
current administration should do
to check the Chinese Communist
Party,” the Heritage Foundation
said in the statement.
“President Trump tapped Ken
to serve as deputy secretary of
Homeland Security, where he
continued reforming America’s
immigration system; worked to
combat the scourge of human
trafficking; was actively involved
in the vice president’s COVID Task
Force; and oversaw the protection
of federal personnel and facilities
during last year’s civil unrest,”
James said.
Morgan will focus on border,
immigration, and public safety
policies, along with China-related
asylum issues.
“Mark has demonstrated that
common-sense solutions can
reduce illegal immigration and
improve our nation’s safety and
security,” James said.
The trio are among the most
recent Trump-era officials to
join conservative think tanks,
with former Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo joining the Hud-
son Institute.
“I am pleased to be joining Hud-
son Institute and look forward to
contributing to its mission of pro-
moting American leadership and
global engagement,” Pompeo said.
The institute, which is well re-
spected among the conserva-
tive community, said in a state-
ment that Pompeo will come on
as a distinguished fellow.
“From his leadership in promot-
ing peace between Israel and its
Arab neighbors to confronting
strategic threats to the United
States, Secretary Pompeo has
been among the most conse-
quential secretaries of State,” said
John Walters, president and CEO
of Hudson Institute. “It is an honor
to have this outstanding public
servant join Hudson Institute.”
 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Arizona’s Brnovich
Asks DHS to Cancel
Biden’s 100Day Freeze
on Deportations
TOM OZIMEK
Arizona Attorney General Mark
Brnovich is asking the federal gov-
ernment to revoke a 100-day mora-
torium on most deportations that
President Joe Biden announced on
his first day in office.
The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) released a memo
on Jan. 20 that imposed a 100-day
moratorium on most deportations
and outlined the categories of immi-
gration offenders who will continue
to be subject to arrest and eventual
removal, including those who pose
a national security risk or are sus-
pected of terrorism or espionage.
Brnovich, in a letter to the DHS,
asked the agency to comply with an
agreement related to immigration
enforcement, which the letter says
requires the DHS to “provide 180
days’ written notice, consider [the
Arizona Attorney General’s Office’s]
input, and provide a detailed writ-
ten explanation of the reasoning”
behind any changes to immigra-
tion policy.
The agreement,  called the
“Sanctuary for Americans First
Enactment (SAFE) Agreement”
was signed in the final days of the
Trump presidency by Brnovich,
on behalf of the Arizona Attorney
General’s Office, and Ken Cucci-
nelli, then the acting deputy sec-
retary of the DHS. It requires the
agency to “prioritize the protection
of the United States and its existing
communities” by enforcing existing
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Relief Plan, Seek Biden Meeting
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wrote. “We request the opportu-
nity to meet with you to discuss
our proposal in greater detail and
how we can work together to meet
the needs of the American people
during this persistent pandemic.”
The lawmakers said
in a letter to Biden
that they ‘welcome
the opportunity to
work with [him] in
a bipartisan man-
ner to combat the
COVID-19 virus.’
Brian Deese, the director of the
White House’s National Economic
Council, told CNN that the White
House received their letter.
“We’ve received the letter and we
certainly will be reviewing it over
the course of the day,” Deese said.
“What I will say is that the provi-
sions of the President’s plan, the
American Rescue plan, were cali-
brated to the economic crisis that
we face.”
The lawmakers’ proposal came
after Biden said he’s open to pass-
ing portions of his $1.9 trillion
COVID-19 relief proposal via rec-
onciliation if Republicans reject
the measure. That includes $1,400
stimulus checks, unemployment
assistance, and funding for local
and state governments.
“Our proposal also includes eco-
nomic relief for those Americans
with the greatest need, providing
more targeted assistance than in
the Administration’s plan,” the 10
senators wrote. “We propose an
additional round of economic im-
pact payments for those families
who need assistance the most, in-
cluding their dependent children
and adults. Our plan also includes
extending enhanced federal un-
employment benefits at the cur-
Within 6 days of
Biden’s inaugura-
tion, Texas has
HALTED his illegal
deportation freeze.
Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton
immigration laws, including by pri-
oritizing “detention over release of
inadmissible and removable aliens”
and refusing relief from deportation
for illegal immigrants who “pose a
danger to the United States.”
The DHS signed similar deals with
other states and localities, includ-
ing Texas. On Jan. 26, U.S. District
Judge Drew Tipton issued a tempo-
rary restraining order after Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton sued
the Biden administration over the
moratorium, marking the first suit
against immigration policy chang-
es made by the new president.
“Within 6 days of Biden’s inaugu-
ration, Texas has HALTED his illegal
deportation freeze,” Paxton wrote in
a tweet after the order. “*This* was
a seditious left-wing insurrection.
And my team and I stopped it.”
The order is a setback for the
Biden administration, which has
proposed far-reaching changes to
immigration laws and enforcement,
including a plan to legalize about 11
million undocumented immigrants
living in the United States illegally.
President Joe Biden prepares to sign executive orders at the White House on
Jan. 27, 2021.
A customer sits in an outdoor dining area at a restaurant in New York on Jan.
20, 2021.
rent level and fully funding your
request for nutrition assistance to
help struggling families.”
Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Shel-
ley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Todd
Young (R-Ind.), Jerry Moran (R-
Kan.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Thom
Tillis (R-N.C.), Susan Collins (R-
Maine), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Lisa
Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Rob
Portman (R-Ohio) signed the letter.
“Finally, we note that billions
of dollars remain unspent from
the previous COVID relief pack-
Illegal aliens deported from the United States arrive on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight in
Guatemala City, Guatemala, on Feb. 9, 2017.
The Biden administration memo
cites the ongoing global pandemic
and “significant operational chal-
lenges” as the rationale behind the
deportation moratorium.
“Due to limited resources, DHS
cannot respond to all immigration
violations or remove all persons un-
lawfully in the United States,” the
memo states.
“In light of those unique circum-
stances, the department must surge
resources to the border in order to
ensure safe, legal, and orderly pro-
cessing, to rebuild fair and effec-
tive asylum procedures that respect
human rights and due process, to
adopt appropriate public health
guidelines and protocols, and to
prioritize responding to threats to
national security, public safety, and
border security,” the memo states.
ANNA MONEYMAKER-POOL/GETTY IMAGES
CHUNG I HO/THE EPOCH TIMES
ages,” the letter reads. “Just last
month, Congress provided $900
billion in additional resources,
and communities are only now
receiving much of that assistance.
Some of the spending appropri-
ated through the CARES Act,
passed last March, also has yet to
be exhausted.
“The proposal we have outlined
is mindful of these past efforts,
while also acknowledging the
priorities that need additional
support right now.”
GAGE SKIDMORE/CC BY-SA 3.0
Trump, RNC Raise $86 Million
Online for Efforts to Investigate
Election Integrity
GARY DU
Former President Donald Trump
and the Republican National
Committee (RNC) in the last 37
days of 2020 raised $86 million
online, according to a Jan. 29 filing
with the Federal Election Com-
mission (FEC). The president’s le-
gal team at the time was seeking
support for the campaign’s efforts
to investigate the integrity of the
2020 presidential election.
The amount raised was in addi-
tion to the $207.5 million raised by
the Trump Make America Great
Again Committee in the 19 days
after Election Day, according
to Bloomberg. That figure doesn’t
include all contributions made to
various Trump committees or the
RNC.
The Trump Make America Great
Again Committee is a joint fund-
raising committee for small-dol-
lar donors to donate to the Trump
campaign, the RNC, and from
Nov. 18, the Save America PAC—
a political action committee that
was set up to fund Trump’s post-
presidency activities.
Most of the money raised since
Nov. 24—$68 million—was via
WinRed, a Republican online
contribution platform.
The Trump campaign raised
$14.1 million, while the RNC
raised $3.5 million. Save America
raised $501,224 and Trump Vic-
tory, which focuses on big donors,
raised only $24,965.
Fundraising solicitations that
the committee pushed on Jan. 6,
the day some Trump supporters
and others breached the Capitol
building, said that 75 percent of
small-amount donations from
that day would go to Save Amer-
ica, while the rest would go to
the RNC.
Trump to Be ‘Actively Involved’
Rather than parting ways with
the RNC, as some pundits had
suggested, Trump has voiced
his support for helping Republi-
cans take back the House in the
NATION | A7
JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES
Arizona
Attorney
General Mark
Brnovich.
2022 midterms.
Corey Lewandowski, who man-
aged Trump’s 2016 presidential
campaign, has also said that
Trump won’t form a separate
party, after there were reports and
speculation saying that he might
start his own “Patriot Party.”
“I don’t think the president has
any interest in being part of a third
party,” he said.
“The president continues to
have enormous support and
approval among Republican
primary voters. He continues
to have hundreds of millions of
dollars in his campaign account,
which he can utilize. And he will
continue to be actively involved in
recruiting candidates and hold-
ing elected officials accountable
for their votes,” he told Fox News
on Jan. 28.
Trump’s political team last week
disavowed any affiliation with a
newly formed political commit-
tee called the MAGA Patriot Party.
“We are not supportive of this
effort, have nothing to do with it,
and only know about it through
public reporting,” campaign ad-
viser Jason Miller told The Epoch
Times on Jan. 25 via text message.
Zachary Stieber & Jack Phillips
contributed to this report.
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Then-President Donald Trump
waves during a Make America Great
Again rally in Topeka, Kansas, on
Oct. 6, 2018.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) arrives at the Hyatt Regency hotel on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 12, 2020.
‘Yes, There Is an Enemy
Within’: Rep. Marjorie Greene
ALLEN ZHONG
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-
Ga.) said Jan. 30 that America is
facing “an enemy within.”
She singled out what she called
socialists’ “America Last” policies,
apparently referring to those that
oppose former President Donald
Trump’s America First agenda, in
a string of Twitter posts.
“Yes there is an enemy within,”
she wrote. “And that enemy is a
poisonous rot of socialist policies
and America last sell outs who are
pompous hypocrites that believe
they are untouchable elites.”
By using the term “enemy
within,” Greene seemed to be re-
sponding to recent remarks made
by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.).
Pelosi told reporters that the
House needs more money for se-
curity because of an enemy within
the House.
“I have said this all along, that
we will probably need a supple-
mental for more security for
members when the enemy is
within the House of Represen-
tatives, a threat that members are
concerned about, in addition to
what is happening outside,” Pe-
losi said Jan. 28 during a press
conference.
She later elaborated that she
was referring to House members
who want to bring firearms on the
chamber floor.
“It means that we have mem-
bers of Congress who want to
bring guns on the floor and have
threatened violence on other
CDC Requires Face Masks on Airlines, Public Transportation
ATLANTA—Travelers on air-
planes and public transportation
such as buses and subways will be
required to wear face masks start-
ing next week to curb the spread
of COVID-19.
The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention issued a
mask-wearing rule on Jan. 29 that
builds on an order announced
Jan. 21 by President Joe Biden.
The rule “will protect Americans
and provide confidence that we
can once again travel safely even
during this pandemic,” said Dr.
Marty Cetron, director of CDC’s
division of migration and quaran-
tine, who signed the order.
The 11-page CDC order takes ef-
fect just before midnight on Feb. 1.
It makes refusal to wear a mask a
violation of federal law, enforced
by the Transportation Security
Administration and other federal,
state, and local authorities.
The rule applies to passengers
on airplanes, trains, subways,
buses, taxis, and ride-shares. It
says travelers must wear a mask
that covers their nose and mouth
while riding and while getting
on and off rides. The order ex-
tends to waiting areas such as
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021
SARAH SILBIGER/GETTY IMAGES JOSH EDELSON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Workers assess the scene where a section of Highway 1 collapsed into the
Pacific Ocean near Big Sur, Calif., on Jan. 31, 2021.
Piece of California’s Highway
1 Near Big Sur Collapses
JACK PHILLIPS
A large chunk of California’s Locals stated
Highway 1 near Big Sur collapsed that the washout
and  fell into the Pacific Ocean will be bad for
after a winter storm triggered a
mudslide, officials said. business.
A California Department of
Transportation (Caltrans) Fifth
District message warned drivers
of the closure on Jan. 29 from a
infrastructure, flowed across the
highway, and eroded the road,
resulting in the complete loss of
“partial washout.” The washout a segment of Highway 1.”
SAMUEL CORUM/GETTY IMAGES occurred near Rat Creek about Locals stated that the washout
15 miles south of Big Sur, accord- will be bad for business.
ing to Caltrans, which added that “Oh my gosh! All our businesses
Highway 1 remains open from came through the spring, sum-
Carmel to the town of Big Sur. mer, and fall” because people
Photos posted from the scene “were desperate to get out of
showed a significant piece of the their towns,” Mary Ann Carson,
hillside and road missing. Due to executive director of the Cambria
the size of the missing chunk, it Chamber of Commerce, told a lo-
appears that the section of High- cal newspaper. “Then we had the
way 1 will remain impassible for a normal January slow season, were
considerable amount of time. looking forward” to increasing
Toks Omishakin, director of the visitor traffic next month, she said.
California Department of Trans- “We can’t take another year or
portation, wrote that it could be two years of no traffic,” she said. “It
several weeks before the high- would be great if the state would
way is reconstructed. He called build a temporary road, maybe
on people to “avoid this area” of behind that hill, for people to tra-
Monterrey and San Luis Obispo verse while Caltrans rebuilds the
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks during a press conference at counties. damaged section. I’m sure [cham-
the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 15, 2021.
Caltrans told CNN that debris ber board President] Mel McCol-
that fell during the mudslide from loch will be on the job, bugging
breached the building on Jan. 6. above “overwhelmed drainage Caltrans.”
The new measures include metal
That enemy is a detectors near the entrance of the
poisonous rot of House Chambers, controversial CHRIS GRAYTHEN/GETTY IMAGES
socialist policies fences around the Capitol, and the Then-
continued presence of National President
and America last Guard troops. Donald
sell outs who are Lawmakers are permitted to Trump in
carry firearms within the Capitol Daytona
pompous hypo- complex, with proper permits, but Beach, Fla.,
crites that believe are not permitted to do so on the on Feb.
16, 2020.
they are untouch- House or Senate floors.
At least one House member set
able elites. off a metal detector near the en-
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene trance of the House chamber after
its installation.
members of Congress,” she said. Earlier this month, Rep. Andy
Pelosi’s office didn’t respond to Harris (R-Md.) reportedly set off
a request for comment by press a newly installed metal detector
time. while trying to enter the House Ohio Republicans Propose
The authorities enhanced se- chamber and was found to be car-
curity measures at the Capitol rying a concealed weapon, ABC Designating June 14 as ‘President
after some protesters and rioters News reported. Donald J. Trump Day’
ALLEN ZHONG and the Republican Party sub-
Two Ohio state lawmakers sug-
stantially—still maintains sig-
nificant influence at the national
SAMIRA BOUAOU/THE EPOCH TIMES gested designating June 14 as and state level.
airports, train platforms, and President Donald J. Trump Day He agreed with U.S. House Re-
subway stations. to honor the former president. publican leader Kevin McCarthy
Airlines already require masks “Let’s show the 3,154,834 Ohio (R-Calif.) to help the GOP to be-
and have banned more than voters (a record and historic num- come a majority in the House after
2,000 passengers for refusing to ber of votes received for president a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in Palm
wear one. Flight attendant unions in Ohio) who cast their ballot to re- Beach on Jan. 28.
have said a federal rule will make elect Donald J. Trump that we as a “Today, President Trump com-
it easier for crews to enforce the legislature recognize the accom- mitted to helping elect Republicans
requirement. plishments of his administration, in the House and Senate in 2022,”
The order exempts children un- and that the Ohio House believes McCarthy said in a statement. “A
der 2 years of age and people with it is imperative we set aside a day united conservative movement
a disability that makes it unsafe to to celebrate one of the greatest will strengthen the bonds of our
wear a mask. Airlines struggled presidents in American history,” citizens and uphold the freedoms
with an exemption for safety and state Reps. Jon Cross and Reggie our country was founded on.”
stopped allowing it. The CDC said Stoltzfus wrote in a memorandum At the state level, Trump secured
transportation operators can re- Riders exit a subway car in Manhat- to all state House members. one of his allies, Kelli Ward, the po-
quire medical documentation. tan on Nov. 20, 2020 The duo praised Trump, who ac- sition of Arizona GOP chairwom-
Travelers will be allowed to complished many things that led an on Jan. 22 with a last-minute
remove masks while eating or flights within the United States, America to unparalleled prosperity endorsement.
drinking. but the airline industry is fighting “against great odds.” Ward won 51.5 percent of the
The CDC said some face cover- a testing requirement out of fear It’s unclear whether this sugges- vote, to 48.5 percent for challeng-
ings aren’t good enough to comply that fewer people will fly. U.S. air tion will be adopted widely by the er Sergio Arellano in the second
with the rule. The don’t-travel list travel is already down more than Republican-controlled state House. round of voting.
includes face shields, bandanas, 60 percent from a year ago. The Republicans hold a strong ma- “The decision is ours. Are you go-
masks with exhalation valves, and The CDC rule came just over a jority 64–35 over the Ohio Demo- ing to reelect me and show the state,
masks that are too big or other- week after Biden’s executive order, cratic Party in the Ohio House. the country, and the world that we
wise don’t fit properly. which already mandated masks Ohio House Speaker Robert R. are an America first Arizona, or will
The CDC said transportation on certain modes of public trans- Cupp (R-Lima) didn’t respond to a we go back to the dark days before
operators may require a negative portation including planes and request for comment by press time. Trump?” Ward said while present-
COVID-19 test from passengers. trains, and it mandated masks The former president—who ing her case before the vote.
Cetron said this week that the on federal property. launched the Make America Great
health agency is considering re- Again movement in the United Janita Kan contributed
quiring testing of passengers on From The Associated Press States and changed the country to the report.
 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021
China Blames Imported Food for Recent COVID-19 Surges
The claims have led to huge losses for
Chinese businesses, global shipping
ALEX WU
The news of “positive nucleic acid
tests on imported food packag-
ing” has appeared frequently late-
ly on mainland Chinese media.
State-approved “experts” cited
by the media have given differ-
ing opinions on the risk of con-
tracting the virus from imported
goods, causing confusion and
panic among consumers and
huge losses for import businesses.
Faced with an increasingly se-
vere domestic situation, as the
pandemic worsens in various
Chinese provinces amid grow-
ing international scrutiny, the
CCP and its media mouthpieces
in recent months have contin-
ued to publish reports claiming
that local outbreaks of the CCP
(Chinese Communist Party)
virus stemmed from imported
goods or people who recently
traveled abroad.
Contradictory Expert Opinions
While the World Health Orga-
nization has said that there’s no
evidence people can contract
COVID-19 from food or food
packaging, Chinese experts have
offered contradictory opinions as
to whether people can be infect-
ed by virus particles on imported
products.
“The probability is lower than
an air crash,” Zhang Wenhong,
director of the Department of
Infectious Diseases at Huashan
Hospital, which is affiliated with
Fudan University, said last week
in an interview with state-run
CCTV about the likelihood  of
infection in the scenario.
But in December, Zhong Nan-
shan, China’s top virologist, was
Once High-
Flying HNA
Group Enters
Bankruptcy
Proceedings
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Bank AG, CIT Group’s aircraft
leasing arm, and California-
based technology provider
Ingram Micro. The company
also counted financier George
Soros as its largest foreign
shareholder.
The acquisition spree ended in
2017 when Beijing’s financial reg-
ulators cracked down on foreign
acquisitions to stop capital flight
out of China and protect its capi-
tal reserves. The timing of this
roughly coincided with President
Donald Trump’s escalating trade
dispute with China.
A group of companies includ-
ing HNA, Anbang Insurance
Group, Fosun Group, and Dalian
Wanda Group came under
intense scrutiny. In their hey-
day, these Chinese companies
frequently outbid corporations
and private equity firms in M&A
auctions. But their acquisitive
nature ended abruptly in 2017,
when the risky insurer-turned-
asset manager Anbang—famous
for its takeover of the Waldorf
Astoria hotel in New York—was
itself taken over by Chinese
Community Party regulators and
Chairman Wu Xiaohui was im-
prisoned on fraud and embezzle-
ment charges.
Unloading Assets Since 2018
The China Development Bank
(CDB) had been tasked with
supervising HNA Group’s asset
disposals since 2018. At its end
state, HNA is expected to hold a
portfolio of core assets anchored
by its original business, Hainan
Airlines.
The company’s ongoing re-
suggesting the CCP virus might
have been transmitted from im-
ported goods.
He told Chinese media on Dec.
19, 2020, that the CCP virus was
originally transmitted person-
to-person. But now, he asserts
the existence of environmental
transmission (surfaces-to-per-
son) is a “new topic” that “needs
scientists to find patterns and
study on how to prevent it.”
In an interview with CCTV on
Dec. 29, Zhong also claimed that
the increase in local cases in Chi-
na may be related to the environ-
ment and material transmission,
and that imported goods need to
be monitored.
Businesses Suffer Losses
Because of contradicting expert
opinions, coupled with repeated
headlines in mainland media
that imported products have
tested positive for the CCP virus,
many Chinese people are now re-
fusing to buy imported products
to avoid any risk of contracting
the virus, causing huge losses to
import businesses.
For example, after reports that
“the surface of imported cherries
tested positive” for COVID-19, a
sharp drop in the price of im-
ported cherries was seen in many
places across the country.
While the fruit wholesale mar-
ket in Jiaxing usually sells cher-
ries for 60 to 160 yuan ($9 to $ 24)
per kilogram, shop owners are
unable to charge more than 16
yuan ($2.40). In Kunming, mer-
chants have also said that the
price for cherries for them has
dropped to 20 yuan ($3) per kilo
and they’re still hard to sell.
The warnings have put pres-
The logo of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, on a building in Beijing on Feb.
18, 2016.
structuring has been made more
complicated due to the ongoing
CCP virus pandemic. The associ-
ated travel bans and fewer Chi-
nese going on vacations—Hainan
is a popular vacation destina-
tion—has devastated Hainan
Airlines’ fortunes. CDB and the
restructuring managers were
unable to come up with sufficient
funding to adequately satisfy
creditors, resulting in the recent
bankruptcy announcement.
HNA sold its 10 percent stake in
Deutsche Bank in 2018, several
hotel and office buildings around
the world including Radisson
Holdings, and aircraft leasing
companies. Most recently in
December, HNA sold Ingram
Micro to private equity firm
Ingram Holdings for more than
$7 billion.
HNA and other conglomerates
have been speculated to be con-
duits for CCP officials to circum-
vent China’s capital controls to
funnel money abroad on behalf
of top party officials. Companies
such as HNA owned illiquid as-
sets abroad—such as hotels, real
estate, and other businesses—yet
were thinly capitalized and had
little liquidity to service their
high debt load.
They also have complex and
opaque entity structures, seem-
ingly to disguise the true origins
of ownership. Until recently,
A Chinese couple wear plastic coats and protective masks as they shop for groceries at a supermarket in Beijing on
Feb. 11, 2020.
sure on businesses that are al-
ready stocked up with imported
goods for this month’s Chinese
New Year.
The CCP’s practice of testing
imported foods and other com-
modities hasn’t just affected Chi-
nese businesses but also disrupt-
ed global cold chain operations,
with cargo ships waiting in long
lines at major Chinese ports for
testing.
According to a recent report by
Bloomberg News, at least four re-
frigerated ships have been forced
to wait for two months near the
Dalian port. Nine container ships
have been berthed in the port
and at least six more are lined up
in the Yellow Sea. The congestion
has caused freight companies to
transfer their refrigerated con-
tainers to other ports, which,
in turn, has led to congestion
GREG BAKER/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
HNA’s ownership structure is
a complex web of cascading
investment trusts, provincial
and local government agencies,
and small-business ventures.
Thirteen individuals ultimately
controlled 76 percent of the
company through intermediary
companies, while some of the
upper-tier entities are registered
with addresses of obscure, insig-
nificant apartment buildings or
small businesses.
HNA’s Chen Feng, specifically,
has been in the regulators’ cross-
hairs recently. Late last year, he
was barred from taking flights
or going on vacation, according
to a court order in Beijing. He
also was banned from engag-
ing in any luxury spending such
as staying at star-rated hotels,
going to nightclubs or golf clubs,
or buying luxury real estate. His
children were prohibited from
attending private schools.
More critically, he was left
out of senior leadership at the
company he founded. The
nine-member Communist Party
committee that operates HNA
as a de facto board of directors
left out his name, according to a
Jan. 21 report by the South China
Morning Post.
That’s the clearest indication
that the 68-year-old entrepre-
neur has been stripped of power
at the company he founded.
in ports such as Qingdao and
Shanghai.
In the United States, too, com-
panies have been left waiting for
empty containers to ship their
frozen goods to China and else-
where across the Pacific, accord-
ing to the Bloomberg report.
‘Imported Cases’
Local Chinese authorities have
frequently blamed outbreaks on
people who have traveled from
abroad, claiming that they con-
tracted COVID-19 while over-
seas.
In Hebei Province, for example,
authorities claimed many infect-
ed people had a virus strain that
may have originated in Russia.
But The Epoch Times recently
obtained an epidemiological in-
vestigation report from the Shiji-
azhuang city’s center for disease
Fake News About Moderna COVID-19
Vaccines Trends on China’s Social Media
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host of Chinese state media out-
lets, including the Global Times,
Guancha, iFeng Tech, and official
accounts of local governments.
This topic became so heated that
it rocketed to fourth place on the
list of the most searched hashtags
on China’s social media Weibo.
But the news reports turned out
to be misrepresentations of infor-
mation from the World Health Or-
ganization (WHO).
WHO guidance issued on Jan. 25
advised against use of the Mod-
erna vaccine for those under 18 or
who are pregnant.
Some netizens said the false
news reports were an attempt to
cater to xenophobic and national-
ist sentiment among the Chinese.
Some believed China’s state-
run media outlets were smearing
foreign vaccines in order to help
promote domestic ones.
Moderna and  Pfizer are two
major competitors to China’s
Sinovac and Sinopharm in the
global vaccine market. So far, only
Sinopharm has had its vaccine ap-
proved for use by China’s health
regulators.
“They’re playing it up,” one neti-
zen commented.
Some ridiculed: “If they [Chinese
vaccines] had got it right, it couldn’t
have become a hot word,” and
“Smart guys. Doing whatever they
like just to meet their own goals.”
Several hours later, iFeng Tech
changed the headline of its article
to “WHO Does Not Recommend
Pregnant Women to Take Moderna
Vaccines.”
Both the Global Times and Guan-
cha deleted their articles following
the public outrage.
But the search keyword phrase
remained on the Weibo ranking
list long after the news was de-
bunked.
This is not the first time that the
CCP media has tried to discredit
foreign COVID-19 vaccines.
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control and prevention, showing
that the first confirmed patient
didn’t have any recent travel his-
tory.
The first confirmed patient was
a 61-year-old woman who lived in
a village in Shijiazhuang’s Gao-
cheng district. According to the
report, she had no travel history
to virus-hit regions of China, nor
any contact with people who
were infected with the virus or
were symptomatic.
She also hadn’t traveled over-
seas in January and or come into
contact with anyone who had re-
cently traveled overseas.
The woman also didn’t have any
contact with cold chain transport
workers nor purchase any frozen
goods, according to the report.
Mary Hong contributed
to this report.
The Global Times, a tabloid pub-
lished by the People’s Daily, the of-
ficial newspaper of the CCP, had
published more than ten reports
in mid-January critical of vaccines
and inoculation schemes in the
West.
On Jan. 16, Liu Xin, journalist and
anchor of a Chinese English-lan-
guage state TV channel, tweeted
a post that ten people died several
days after they received Pfizer vac-
cines in Germany.
However, Germany has since
said the deaths were determined
not linked to the inoculations.
Brigitte Keller-Stanislawski, head
of the department of safety of me-
dicinal products and medical de-
vices at the Paul Ehrlich Institute
in Germany, defended Moderna
shots.
He said at a press conference that
the ten people died from their own
main diseases, coinciding in time
with the vaccination, according
to a Jan. 15 report on Indian daily
Business Standard.
He also said that the deceased
were aged from 79 to 93, all with
antecedent diseases.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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A doctor prepares a Moderna COVID-
19 vaccine in Ostrava, Czech Repub-
lic, on Jan. 14, 2021.
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Venezuela Hired
Democratic Party
Donor for $6 Million
MIAMI—Venezuela’s socialist
government previously hired a
longtime Democratic Party do-
nor for $6 million at the same
time it was lobbying to discour-
age the U.S. from imposing sanc-
tions on the oil-rich nation, newly
filed lobbying records show.
The documents, which were
disclosed on Jan. 28, indicate that
a U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s
state oil giant PDVSA agreed to
hire Marcia Wiss’s Washington
law firm in March 2017. That’s
the same month it signed a con-
sulting deal for $50 million with
scandal-tainted former Rep. Da-
vid Rivera.
Marcia Wiss, an international
trade lawyer with a history of do-
$6 million in monthly install-
ments of $250,000 before being
instructed, like Rivera, to bill
PDVSA back in Caracas in April
2018, according to the filings. On
one occasion, she traveled to Ca-
racas to meet with then Foreign
Minister Delcy Rodríguez, who
was a PDVSA board member in
charge of international relations,
according to two of the three
people familiar with the deal.
Rodríguez is now Venezuela’s
vice president.
Wiss says her law firm doesn’t
and never has provided lobby-
ing services. She added that the
firm never invoiced or ever re- A mural depicting Venezuela’s late leader Hugo Chávez next to the logo of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, at a
ceived payment from PDVSA or gas station in Caracas on March 2, 2017.
any non-U.S. related party—sug- YURI CORTEZ/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

nations to the Democratic Party, gesting that half of the contract

including a $1,500 contribution
to Joe Biden last year, denies that
she did any lobbying work.
Her former client—now under
new management—said it was
unaware of the full extent of her
work toward determining if it
constituted political activities
benefiting Nicolás Maduro’s gov-
ernment. The PDVSA subsidiary
also took the unusual step of reg-
istering retroactively as a foreign
agent, disclosing the contracts
with Rivera, Wiss, and a third
vendor.
The contracts have come to
light as allies of opposition leader
Juan Guaidó work with the U.S.
Justice Department to uncover
any corrupt dealings at another
wholly-owned PDVSA subsid-
iary, Houston-based Citgo, which
for years operated as a cash cow
for Venezuela’s ruling party. A
Guaidó-appointed board wrested
control of Citgo, the sixth-largest
independent U.S. refiner, after
the Trump administration recog-
nized him as Venezuela’s rightful
leader in 2019.
The same Guaidó-appointed
officials behind the new foreign
lobby filings last year sued Rivera
for allegedly breaking his con-
sulting contract. Federal pros-
ecutors in Miami are also inves-
tigating whether the Republican
broke foreign lobbying rules.
Wiss collected about half of the
went unpaid.
“Wiss was engaged to provide
PDV USA and its affiliates with le-
gal services only,” she wrote in an
e-mailed response to questions.
But the Guaido-appointed
board of PDV USA deemed that
the hiring of Wiss, Rivera, and a
third company, Caribbean Style
Inc., required it to register un-
der foreign lobbying rules. The
Texas-based Caribbean Style
was paid $625,000 to place four
full-page advertisements in The
New York Times and The Wash-
ington Post.
“The pro-Venezuelan and anti-
U.S. sanctions content of these
advertisements suggests they
were intended to influence the
U.S. government or the U.S. pub-
lic’s perspective of the U.S. sanc-
tions regime rating to Venezu-
ela,” PDV USA said in its filing,
which is dated Dec. 31.
In total, PDVSA sent $89 mil-
lion to PDV USA between 2015
and March 2017 to pay U.S.-based
vendors, according to the filing,
which was first reported by For-
eign Lobby Report, an online
news service that tracks the in-
fluence industry.
PDV USA said Wiss provided
updates on disputes involving
PDVSA and advice on immigra-
tion, insurance, and cryptocur-
rency.
But it added that “PDV USA is
Marcia Wiss, an
international
trade lawyer with
a history of do-
nations to the
Democratic Party,
including a $1,500
contribution to
Joe Biden last year,
denies that she
did any lobbying
work.
Venezuelan regime leader Nicolás Maduro delivers a speech during the open-
ing ceremony of the judicial year at the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas
on Jan. 22, 2021.
unaware of the full extent of the racas as part of her work, citing
legal work that Wiss may have lawyer-client privilege.
been performing under the re- “Your information is false and
tainer,” suggesting that what you are being again misled,” she
Guaidó-appointed officials con- added.
sider a high fee may have covered Wiss never registered as a for-
additional services for which it eign agent and there’s no indi-
has no record. The AP could find cation that she herself is under
no record of Wiss appearing on investigation.
behalf of PDV USA or PDVSA in Wiss was a longtime lawyer at
federal court or in the large num- Hogan Lovells, where PDVSA was
ber of commercial claims against a client, before starting her own
Venezuela before a World Bank boutique firm, Wiss & Partners,
arbitration panel. in 2016.
Wiss wouldn’t say what le-
gal services she performed, or By Joshua Goodman
whether she had traveled to Ca- From The Associated Press

GEORG HOCHMUTH/APA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

AUSTRIA few and closing secondary first responders are known
schools, and all restau- as Syrian Civil Defense
Thousands rants and cafes, except for and opposition media
Protest Lockdown takeaway meals. reported..
Measures in — From Reuters — The Association Press
Vienna
SYRIA UK

Thousands of protesters 13 Killed in Car Captain Tom

against COVID-19 lock-
down measures faced off
with police in riot gear in
Vienna.
Vienna police banned
numerous protests
planned for this weekend,
including one by the right-
wing Freedom Party, on
the grounds that protest-
ers have generally failed
to observe rules on social
distancing and often not
worn face masks.
Since Dec. 26, Austria has
been in its third national
lockdown, with nonessen-
tial shops and many other
businesses closed and
their staff unable to work.
The opposition Freedom
Party has denounced vari-
ous restrictions as “corona
madness.”
— From Reuters
UK
Britain Set to
Apply to Join Asia-
Pacific Free Trade
Pact
People take part in a demonstration against the ongoing restrictions related to the CCP virus pan-
demic in Vienna on Jan. 31, 2021.
The UK will make a formal
request to join the Compre-
hensive and Progressive
Trans-Pacific Partnership
(CPTPP), the government
has said.
British International
Trade Secretary Liz Truss
will speak to ministers in
Japan and New Zealand
to request to join the free
trade pact, with formal ne-
gotiations set to start this
year, the government said
in a statement.
CPTPP is a landmark
11-country trade deal that
includes Australia, New
Zealand, Canada, Japan,
Mexico, Singapore, Viet-
nam, Brunei, Chile, Malay-
sia, and Peru.
The UK started exploring
membership of CPTPP in
2018 in the hope of stimu-
lating exports after Brexit.
— By Alexander Zhang
HUNGRY
Hungarians
Protest Against
Lockdown Despite
Gathering Ban
Restaurant workers were
among hundreds of people
protesting against corona-
virus lockdown measures
in Budapest, and at least
100 restaurants planned
to re-open even as the gov-
ernment threatened them
with heavy fines.
Prime Minister Viktor
Orban’s government has
said it could only start
easing the measures if the
number of coronavirus
cases falls sharply, or if
large numbers of Hungar-
ians are inoculated.
Hungary became first in
the EU this week to sign a
deal for Russia’s Sputnik V
COVID vaccine and Chi-
nese Sinopharm’s vaccine.
Current lockdown mea-
sures include a night cur-
Bombs, Shooting
in Northern Syria
One Syrian was killed and
four injured after Kurdish
security forces opened fire
at pro-government demon-
strators in a northeastern
city, state media said.
The state news agency
SANA said the Kurd-
ish forces opened fire at
demonstrators protesting
the siege on their neighbor-
hood in Hassakeh city. The
area is known as the securi-
ty square and is controlled
by government forces.
Separately, two car
bombs went off two hours
apart in the northwestern
town of Azaz and another
village some 50 kilome-
ters (30 miles) away. The
explosions in the areas
controlled by Syrian oppo-
sition fighters allied with
Turkey killed six civilians,
including one child in
Azaz, and six fighters at
a checkpoint in a village
near the town of al-Bab,
Hospitalized After
Testing Positive
for COVID-19
Tom Moore, the 100-year-
old World War II veteran
who captivated the British
public in the early days of
the coronavirus pandemic
with his fundraising ef-
forts, has been hospital-
ized with COVID-19, his
daughter said.
Hannah Ingram-Moore
revealed in a statement
posted on Twitter that her
father, widely known as
Captain Tom, has been
admitted to Bedford Hos-
pital because he needed
“additional help” with his
breathing.
She said that over the
past few weeks her fa-
ther had been treated for
pneumonia and that he
had tested positive for the
coronavirus last week.
She said he is being
treated in a ward, not in an
intensive care unit.
— The Association Press
 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Russia Arrests More Than 5,100 at Pro-Navalny Protests
MOSCOW—Chanting slogans
against President Vladimir Pu-
tin, tens of thousands took to the
streets on Jan. 31 across Russia to
demand the release of jailed op-
position leader Alexei Navalny,
keeping up nationwide protests
that have rattled the Kremlin.
More than 5,100 people were
detained by police, according to a
monitoring group, and some were
beaten.
Russian authorities mounted a
massive effort to stem the tide of
demonstrations after tens of thou-
sands rallied across the country
last weekend in the largest, most
widespread show of discontent
that Russia had seen in years. De-
spite threats of jail terms, warnings
to social media groups, and tight
police cordons, the protests again
engulfed cities across Russia’s 11
time zones.
Navalny’s team quickly called
another protest in Moscow on
Feb. 2, when he is scheduled for a
court hearing that could send him
to prison for years.
The 44-year-old Navalny, an
anti-corruption investigator who
is Putin’s best-known critic, was
arrested on Jan.17 upon returning
from Germany, where he spent five
months recovering from nerve-
agent poisoning that he blames on
the Kremlin. Russian authorities
have rejected the accusations. He
was arrested for allegedly violat-
ing his parole conditions by not
reporting for meetings with law
enforcement while recuperating
in Germany.
The United States urged Russia
to release Navalny and criticized
the crackdown on protests.
“The U.S. condemns the persis-
tent use of harsh tactics against
peaceful protesters and journal-
ists by Russian authorities for a
second week straight,” U.S. Sec-
retary of State Antony Blinken said
on Twitter.
The Russian Foreign Ministry
rejected Blinken’s call as a “crude
interference in Russia’s internal
affairs” and accused Washington
of trying to destabilize the situa-
tion in the country by backing the
protests.
On Jan. 31, police detained more
than 5,100 people in cities nation-
wide, according to OVD-Info, a
group that monitors political ar-
rests, surpassing some 4,000 de-
tentions at the demonstrations
across Russia on Jan. 23.
In Moscow, authorities intro-
duced unprecedented security
measures in the city center, closing
subway stations near the Krem-
lin, cutting bus traffic, and order-
ing restaurants and stores to stay
closed.
Navalny’s team initially called
Police officers detain a man during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in Moscow on Jan.
31, 2021.
for the Jan. 31 protest to be held on
Moscow’s Lubyanka Square, home
to the main headquarters of the
Federal Security Service, which
Navalny claims was responsible
for his poisoning. Facing police
cordons around the square, the
protest then shifted to other cen-
tral squares and streets.
Police were randomly pick-
ing up people and putting them
into police buses, but thousands
of protesters marched across the
city center for hours, chanting “Pu-
tin, resign!” and “Putin, thief!”—a
reference to an opulent Black Sea
estate reportedly built for the Rus-
sian leader that was featured in a
widely popular video released by
Navalny’s team.
“I’m not afraid, because we are
the majority,” said Leonid Mar-
tynov, who took part in the protest.
“We mustn’t be scared by clubs
because the truth is on our side.”
At one point, crowds of dem-
onstrators walked toward the
Matrosskaya Tishina prison,
where Navalny is being held. They
were met by phalanxes of riot po-
lice who pushed the march back
and chased protesters through
courtyards, detaining scores and
beating some with clubs. Still,
demonstrators continued to march
around the Russian capital, zig-
zagging around police cordons.
In Moscow, more than 1,600
people were detained, including
Navalny’s wife, Yulia.
“If we keep silent, they will come
after any of us tomorrow,” she said
on Instagram, before turning out
to protest.
Amnesty International said
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Jan. 18, 2021.
that authorities in Moscow have
arrested so many people that the
city’s detention facilities have run
out of space.
“The Kremlin is waging a war
on the human rights of people in
Russia, stifling protesters’ calls
for freedom and change,” Natalia
Zviagina, the group’s Moscow of-
fice head, said in a statement.
Several thousand people
marched across Russia’s second-
largest city of St. Petersburg, chant-
ing “Down with the czar!” and oc-
casional scuffles erupted as some
demonstrators pushed back police
who tried to make detentions. More
than 1,000 were arrested.
Some of the biggest rallies were
held in Novosibirsk and Kras-
noyarsk in eastern Siberia, and
Yekaterinburg in the Urals.
“I do not want my grandchildren
to live in such a country,” said
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55-year-old Vyacheslav Vorobyov,
who turned out for a rally in Yekat-
erinburg. “I want them to live in a
free country.”
Swedish Foreign Minister Ann
Linde, who currently chairs the
Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe, condemned
“the excessive use of force by au-
thorities and mass detention of
peaceful protesters and journal-
ists” and urged Russia “to release
all those unjustly detained, includ-
ing Navalny.”
As part of a multipronged effort
by authorities to block the protests,
courts have jailed Navalny’s associ-
ates and activists across the coun-
try over the past week. His brother
Oleg, top aide Lyubov Sobol and
three other people on Jan. 29 were
put under a two-month house ar-
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last weekend’s protests.
Prosecutors also demanded that
social media platforms block calls
to join the protests.
The Interior Ministry issued
stern warnings to the public, say-
ing protesters could be charged
with taking part in mass riots,
which carries a prison sentence
of up to eight years.
Protests were fueled by a two-
hour YouTube video released by
Navalny’s team after his arrest
about the Black Sea residence pur-
portedly built for Putin. The video
has been viewed over 100 million
times, inspiring a stream of sar-
castic jokes on the internet amid
an economic downturn.
Russia has seen extensive cor-
ruption during Putin’s time in of-
fice while poverty has remained
widespread.
Demonstrators in Moscow
chanted “Aqua discotheque!”—
a reference to one of the fancy
amenities at the residence that
also features a casino and a hoo-
kah lounge equipped for watching
pole dances.
Putin says neither he nor any of
his close relatives own the prop-
erty. On Jan. 30, construction
magnate Arkady Rotenberg, a
longtime Putin confidant and his
occasional judo sparring partner,
claimed that he himself owned the
property.
Navalny fell into a coma on Aug.
20 while on a flight from Siberia
to Moscow and the pilot diverted
the plane so he could be treated
in the city of Omsk. He was trans-
ferred to a Berlin hospital two days
later. Labs in Germany, France and
Sweden, as well as tests by the Or-
ganization for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons, established
that he was exposed to the Novi-
chok nerve agent.
Russian authorities have refused
to open a full-fledged criminal in-
quiry, claiming lack of evidence
that he was poisoned.
Navalny was arrested imme-
diately upon his return to Russia
earlier this month and jailed for
30 days on the request of Russia’s
prison service, which alleged he
had violated the probation of his
suspended sentence from a 2014
money-laundering conviction that
he’s rejected as political revenge.
On Jan. 28, a Moscow court
rejected Navalny’s appeal to be
released, and the Feb. 2 hearing
could turn his 3 1/2-year suspend-
ed sentence into one he must serve
in prison. Navalny’s team called
for another protest outside the
court building.
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Vladimir Isachenkov
From The Associated Press
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Cultural Revolution 2.0
Is on America’s Doorstep
HAN ZHOU
I
still remember that beautiful
spring afternoon a few years ago
when my friend Rosemary and I
sat on her porch next to a blooming
azalea bush, chatting and waving
to her neighbors. All of a sudden, Rose-
mary said, “You know, I really don’t care
for Trump’s idea of building that border
wall. What do you say?”
I thought for five minutes and said:
“Well, let’s see. How long have you lived in
this neighborhood? Fifteen, 20 years? And
you know most of your neighbors, right?
Why do you still have locks on the doors
and security cameras on the walls? Can’t
you just let them come in your house, eat
in your kitchen, bathe in your shower, and
sleep in your bed whenever they want to?”
“I guess I can’t.”
“Then what’s wrong with building a
wall along the border?”
She looked at me and said, “You have a
point there.”
It’s rare for the two of us to accidentally
touch on a sensitive issue and not argue
fiercely. We decided to continue with this
“friendship-saving” approach to deal
with issues on which we couldn’t see eye
to eye: raising questions to probe, rather
than making statements.
And it has proven its effectiveness,
especially since the onset of 2020.
A few days ago, Rosemary and I were
sitting by the fireplace in my living room
after dinner. I turned to her and said: “You
know, Rose, your president just ordered a
‘pause’ on the border wall. But didn’t he call
thousands of the National Guard to D.C. to
safeguard his own inauguration inside the
barbed wire fence? Do you think it’s odd?”
Rosemary shrugged and said: “Don’t
want to talk about him now. I’m more upset
about the Big Tech censorship. You know,
as much as I don’t like to listen to Trump,
banning him from social media and going
after his supporters don’t sit well with me.
When you told me last spring that a Cul-
tural Revolution 2.0 is coming to America,
and that you were frightened, I didn’t take
your words seriously. What was the biggest
warning sign that you saw back then?”
“Hatred. Hatred on people’s faces, in
people’s words, in people’s actions. I
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021 • A13
PUBLIC DOMAIN
know them too well.”
I grew up during the Cultural Revolu-
tion in China. Most of the people in Chi-
na are of the same ethnic background,
so there is no race card to play. In order
to solidify his grip on power and push for
his political agenda, Mao Zedong and the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) decid-
ed to label people in different categories
to pit them against each other.
There were five red categories, including
CCP members, poor farmers, and low-
class workers, and there were five black
categories: landlords, rich farmers, coun-
terrevolutionaries, bad-influencers, and
rightists. The red side was encouraged to
launch a “class struggle” against the people
of the black categories. The harder you
crushed them, the more glorified you were.
One of my neighbors, a high school
student who joined the Red Guards—a
massive student-led social movement on
the red side—decided to show her loyalty
to Mao and the CCP by turning in her par-
ents. She claimed that she overheard her
parents criticizing Mao’s motivation and
that her mother had hidden a pair of high
heels, a symbol of China’s pre-communist
past (“The Four Olds”), up in the attics. Her
mother was taken away by authorities with
the pair of high heels hanging around her
neck. Her father was taken away directly
from work. We never saw them again.
I paused my story and turned to Rose-
mary: “Remember the video you showed
me last spring where a kid secretly taped
her conversation with her father and up-
loaded it on social media, calling her dad
a racist? I saw another one just recently
where an 18-year-old turned her mother in
by uploading a video of her mother at the
Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, causing her mother
to lose her job.
Communist Party cadres
hang a placard on the neck
of a Chinese man during the
Cultural Revolution in 1966.
The words on the placard
state the man’s name and
accuse him of being a mem-
ber of the “black class.”
It seemed so long
ago, so far away,
and now it’s
looming on the
horizon, right here.
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“Yet, the kid was hailed as a hero on
social media. Did you see a bit of repeat-
ing history there?”
Rosemary shook her head in disbelief.
“I’ll add a personal story,” I said.
My maternal grandfather, who inherit-
ed a small piece of land from his parents,
was labeled a “rich farmer” and over-
night, our lives were turned upside down.
I was quite young then and was liv-
ing with my grandparents so they could
take care of me while my parents worked
full time. The village head, who used
to be the poorest woman in the village,
came with a group of “poor farmers”
and announced that they were taking
two-thirds of my grandparents’ farm-
house for “revolutionary purposes.” The
farmhouse had a barn in the middle and
living quarters on each end. My grand-
parents, two of my aunts, and I were
forced to live in the west quarter. The east
quarter became the village’s warehouse
and the barn a day care center.
Several months later, my grandfather’s
nephew came and asked if he could get
some wood from my grandparents so he
could make some furniture for his upcom-
ing wedding. My grandfather decided to
cut down the poplar tree he had planted
on the edge of the property when the
house was built and give it to his nephew.
I guess someone told the village head
that we were cutting down the tree. She
came with several poor farmers again
and began yelling at my grandfather. The
tree now belonged to the village and my
grandfather had committed something
counter-revolutionary by cutting it down
without the village’s permission. There
was lots of shouting and fist-pounding,
and one of the farmers tried to twist my
grandfather’s arm behind his back and
take him away. In the end, my grandfa-
ther had to pay a fine and read a self-crit-
icism letter in front of the whole village.
“Rose, it seemed so long ago, so far
away, and now it’s looming on the hori-
zon, right here.”
Han Zhou was born in China and has
lived in the United States for more than
30 years. She uses a pen name to protect
her family in China from possible conse-
quences of her speaking the truth.
A14 | OPINION
It’s Time for American
Impatience With China
AUSTIN BAY
On cue, White House press
secretary Jen Psaki has
signaled that President
Joe Biden’s administra-
tion isn’t prepared to seri-
ously confront the complex
and immediate threat com-
munist China poses to American security
and world peace.
Earlier this month, Secretary of State Ant-
ony Blinken acknowledged during his con-
firmation hearing that communist China
presents a formidable problem and added
that former President Donald Trump’s ad-
ministration “was right in taking a tougher
approach to China.” The tough approach
was “helpful” to U.S. foreign policy.
For a Blinken moment, it looked as if the
Biden administration might get China
right, too.
But in her Jan. 25 press briefing, Psaki
soft-pedaled. The new administration,
she said, starts “from an approach of
patience as it relates to our relationship
with China.” She then unloaded a diction-
ary’s worth of Beltway jargon, promising
consultations galore and an “interagency
process” review “in order to take a multi-
lateral approach to engaging with China.”
Psaki’s telltale word is “patience.” Strate-
gic patience—the diplomatic term—quick-
ly becomes strategic negligence and po-
tentially submissive appeasement. At best,
strategic patience is a reactive response.
Patience plays into Beijing’s hands.
China’s territorial aggression in the South
China Sea is a fact. Beijing exploited 25
years of American patience to expand.
China’s pervasive and interconnected
covert campaign of military and industrial
espionage, intellectual property theft, un-
fair trade practices, and political infiltration
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(often lubricated with economic bribes) is
an immediate threat that exploits patience.
China’s American spy operation has
no historical precedent. For almost two
decades, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
employed a Chinese intelligence source in
her San Francisco-area office. For several
years, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) had
very close ties to alleged Chinese opera-
tive Christine Fang. Both Feinstein and
Swalwell serve on congressional intelli-
gence committees.
In 2015, Chinese cyber-spies penetrated
the U.S. Office of Personnel Management
and acquired personal information on 20
million government workers, to include
military personnel. American military
personnel later received letters confirming
hackers had acquired their detailed per-
sonnel files, including background investi-
gations for security clearances.
Strategic patience quickly
becomes strategic negligence
and potentially, submissive
appeasement. At best, strategic
patience is a reactive response.
StrategyPage.com observed, “Since the
CIA recruits many ... field agents from
former ... Special Operations Command
personnel, many key CIA people were
now much less secret.”
China’s OPM “identify theft” attack
harmed American intelligence opera-
tions, perhaps for a decade.
The administration of then-President
Barack Obama reacted to the attack with
strategic patience.
Patience fails to confront the Chinese
Communist Party’s primary diplomatic
COMICS
Antony Blinken speaks during his confirmation hearing for his appointment as secretary of state,
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in Washington on Jan. 19, 2021.
and gray-area warfare doctrine: a triad of
intimidation, retaliation, and retribution
directed at nations, organizations, and
individuals with the courage to confront
CCP aggression and malign activities.
At the moment, Beijing’s most overt acts
of intimidation are its military probes of
Taiwan. On Jan. 23, at least 12 Chinese
aircraft (a mix of fighters and bombers)
entered Taiwan’s air defense identifica-
tion zone. On Jan. 24, 15 Chinese air force
planes intruded.
China conducted military shows of
force—demonstrations to test Taiwan’s
defenses but also gauge U.S. military and
diplomatic reactions. China’s target: the
Biden administration.
Japan confronts routine Chinese air and
sea space incursions. China claims Japan’s
Senkaku Islands, which are located in
the East China Sea. In a phone call with
Japan’s defense minister, Biden’s new sec-
retary of defense, Lloyd Austin, reaffirmed
the U.S. commitment to helping Japan
defend its islands, to include the Senkaku.
That’s good. Now, Biden should make
the same public commitment—on global
television. He should also affirm Ameri-
ca’s commitment to defend critical Asian
allies and mention Japan, South Korea,
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Australia, and Singapore.
Words, however, must be backed by deeds.
Biden must demonstrate proactive impa-
tience, such as opening U.S. courts to U.S.
corporations and individuals who have suf-
fered economic loss from illegal activities
by Chinese regime and corporate entities.
Another proactive deed: Continue the
Trump administration’s “Clean Network”
initiative, implemented to secure Ameri-
ca’s communication and energy grids by
banning suspect Chinese equipment, like
that manufactured by Huawei.
The most proactive deed: Recognize
Taiwan as the free and independent na-
tion it is.
Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S.
Army Reserve, author, syndicated colum-
nist, and teacher of strategy and strategic
theory at the University of Texas–Austin.
His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell:
Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021
SPECIAL SERIES
How the Specter of Communism
Is Ruling Our World
Sabotaging Education
The Epoch Times here serializes an adaptation from the Chinese of
“How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World,” a new book by
the editorial team of the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.”
2. Communism in Western
Universities (cont.)
In the eyes of the world, the United
States is still a leader in education.
For over a century, the United States
has been a political, economic, and
military superpower. Its education
spending far exceeds that of most
countries. After World War II, Amer-
ican democracy and affluence at-
tracted talented people from around
the world. Its science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM)
graduate programs and professional
schools are second to none.
However, a crisis is unfolding
within. The proportion of foreign
students in graduate STEM pro-
grams far exceeds that of American
students, and the gap is increasing
each year. [59] This reflects the ero-
sion of elementary, secondary, and
post-secondary education across
the United States. Students are
purposefully being dumbed down
and ruined.
It should be emphasized that
nearly all people in the world, espe-
cially those who attended college
after the 1960s, have been exposed
to communist influences. The hu-
manities and social sciences are the
most affected. Only a few individu-
als set out to intentionally promote
communist ideology, but the major-
ity of people in these fields have
been unknowingly indoctrinated.
Here we expose communism’s aims
so that people can identify and dis-
tance themselves from them.
a. The Leftist Slant
of University Faculties
One of the most important causes
of students’ embrace of socialist or
communist ideology, and their ac-
ceptance of radical ideologies such
as feminism and that of the envi-
ronmental movement (see Chapter
16), is that a large proportion of staff
members at American universities
lean to the left. Scholars with differ-
ent ideas have been either margin-
alized in their teaching positions or
barred from voicing their views.
In a 2007 study titled “The Social
and Political Views of American
Professors,” among the 1,417 full-
time college faculty members
surveyed, 44.1 percent considered
themselves liberal, 46.1 percent
moderate, and only 9.2 percent
conservative. At liberal arts colleges,
61 percent of faculty were liberal,
while conservatives made up just
3.9 percent. [60]
Studies after 2007 also confirm
the leftist trend among professors at
four-year universities in the United
States. A study published in Econ
Journal Watch in 2016 surveyed the
voter registration status of profes-
sors in the departments of history
and social sciences at 40 leading
U.S. universities. Among 7,243
professors surveyed, there were
3,623 Democrats and 314 Republi-
cans, or a ratio of 11.5 to 1. Among
the five departments surveyed,
the department of history was the
most uneven, with a 35-to-1 ratio.
Contrast this with a similar study
published in 1968 that found that
among history professors, the ratio
of Democrats to Republicans was
2.7 to 1. [61] Another study of four-
year college and university facul-
ties in 2016 found that the politi-
cal inclination of professors was
particularly uneven in New Eng-
land. Based on 2014 data, the study
found that the ratio of liberal to
conservative professors at colleges
and universities nationwide was 6
to 1. In New England, this ratio was
28 to 1. Panelists at an American
Enterprise Institute seminar in
2016 said that about 18 percent of
social scientists in the United States
considered themselves to be Marx-
ists, while only 5 percent consid-
ered themselves conservative. [62]
The impact can be seen in changes
to students’ views over time. A
2016 study by the Pew Research
Center found that since 1994, the
number of those who had received
graduate-level education and who
held consistently liberal views had
increased significantly. Among
those who had studied in graduate
schools, 31 percent held consistent-
ly liberal views, 23 percent tended
to be mostly liberal, 10 percent held
consistently conservative views,
and 17 percent tended to be mostly
conservative. [63]
Marcuse was regarded as
a ‘spiritual godfather’ by
rebellious Western students.
In 1974, he asserted that the
New Left did not die, ‘and it will
resurrect in the universities.’
Sen. Ted Cruz once commented,
about the law school of a prestigious
university he attended: “There were
more self-declared communists [in
the faculty] than there were Repub-
licans. ... If you asked [them] to vote
on whether this nation should be-
come a socialist nation, 80 percent
of the faculty would vote yes and 10
percent would think that was too
conservative.” [64]
Communism began its penetra-
tion of American education with the
universities at the beginning of the
20th century, when many American
intellectuals began accepting com-
munist ideas or its Fabian socialist
variant. [65]
The 1960s counterculture move-
ment produced a large number of
young anti-traditional students. In
these people’s formative years, they
were influenced greatly by cultural
Marxism and Frankfurt School the-
ory. In 1973, after President Richard
Nixon withdrew American troops
from Vietnam, student groups asso-
ciated with the anti-war movement
began to fade into obscurity, as the
main reason for protest was gone.
But the radicalism brewed by these
large-scale student movements did
not disappear.
Radical students went on to pur-
sue graduate studies in the social
and cultural fields—in journalism,
literature, philosophy, sociology,
education, cultural studies, and the
like. After receiving their degrees,
they began careers in the institu-
tions with the most influence over
society and culture, such as uni-
versities, news media, government
agencies, and non-governmental
organizations. What guided them at
that time was mainly the theory of
Chapter Twelve
“the long march through the institu-
tions” proposed by Italian Marxist
Antonio Gramsci. This “long march”
aimed to alter the most important
traditions of Western civilization.
A large proportion of staff
members at American
universities lean to the left.
Scholars with different ideas
have been either marginalized
in their teaching positions or
barred from voicing their views.
Marcuse was regarded as a “spiri-
tual godfather” by rebellious West-
ern students. In 1974, he asserted
that the New Left did not die, “and
it will resurrect in the universities.”
[66] In fact, the New Left has not
only survived, but its long march
has been wildly successful. As one
radical professor wrote: “After the
Vietnam War, a lot of us didn’t just
crawl back into our literary cubicles;
we stepped into academic positions.
With the war over, our visibility was
lost, and it seemed for a while—to
the unobservant—that we had dis-
appeared. Now we have tenure, and
the work of reshaping the universi-
ties has begun in earnest.” [67]
Notes
59. Elizabeth Redden, “Foreign
Students and Graduate STEM
Enrollment,” Inside Higher Ed,
October 11, 2017.
60. Scott Jaschik, “Professors and
Politics: What the Research Says,”
Inside Higher Ed, Feb. 27, 2017.
61. Mitchell Langbert, Anthony J.
Quain, and Daniel B. Klein, “Fac-
ulty Voter Registration in Econom-
ics, History, Journalism, Law, and
Psychology,” Econ Journal Watch
13, issue 3, Sept. 2016, 422–51.
62. Jaschik, “Professors and Politics.”
63. “The Close-Minded Campus?
The Stifling of Ideas in American
Universities,” American Enter-
prise Institute, June 8, 2016.
64. Ted Cruz, as quoted in Fred
Schwarz and David A. Noebel,
“You Can Still Trust the Commu-
nists ... to Be Communists” (So-
cialists, Statists, and Progressives
Too), revised edition (Manitou
Springs, CO: Christian Anti-
Communism Crusade, 2010), 2–3.
65. Zygmund Dobbs, “Chapter
III: American Fabianism,” in
“Keynes at Harvard: Economic
Deception as a Political Credo”
(Web version, 2009, transcribed
from revised edition 1969),
Keynes at Harvard.
66. Herbert Marcuse, as quoted
in Robin S. Eubanks, “Creden-
tialed to Destroy: How and Why
Education Became a Weapon”
(CreateSpace Independent Pub-
lishing Platform, 2013), 26.
67. Jay Parini, as quoted in Walter E.
Williams, “More Liberty Means
Less Government: Our Founders
Knew This Well” (Stanford, Calif.:
Hoover Press, 1999), 126.
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A16 | OPINION
The Solution Is a Convention of the States
ROB NATELSON
Almost immediately upon
taking office, President
Joe Biden signed a series
of executive orders wip-
ing away the progress of
the Trump era and resur-
recting some of the worst
abuses of the Obama era. In addition, he
proposed massive new spending—and
more national debt—to be added to the
extravagant expenditures of the past few
decades.
For more than 80 years, Americans
who love their country have been fight-
ing a defensive political battle to preserve
the values and traditions that made our
country great. But we have suffered one
defeat after another. Even the incremen-
tal successes of the Reagan and Trump
administrations have been wiped away
in the “progressive” tide, like sandcastles
on the seashore.
This is the lesson we have learned from
participating in federal politics. As I wrote
in an earlier essay in this series, “In the
federal political game, we always have to
start on our own two-yard line and run
the football uphill. The other side starts
on our 20 and runs downhill. The referee
(i.e., the mainstream media) calls every
real or imaged penalty against our side
and rarely calls one on the opposition.”
That’s accurate as far as it goes. But
here’s the rest: If we do happen to get
possession of the ball, we are allowed
one down while the other side gets six.
That’s why in laying out agenda items in
this series, I have limited myself to four
that state legislatures can accomplish
alone, thereby wiring around Congress.
Most state lawmakers remain receptive
to traditional, productive Americans in a
way that Congress is not.
This essay outlines the fourth, and
most important, agenda item. This is to
enshrine corrective reforms in the U.S.
Constitution. Experience shows that
constitutional amendments have lasting
power that other restraints—including
laws and provisions in the original Con-
stitution—don’t possess.
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The American Founders weren’t super-
human, but they were very wise. They un-
derstood that the day might come when
the federal government exceeded and
abused its powers and the electoral sys-
tem had failed to remedy the problems. So
they inserted an additional remedy in the
Constitution: the amendment process.
We usually think of constitutional
amendments as responses to changed
conditions. But the founding generation
recognized that we can use amendments
to cure constitutional drafting defects,
resolve constitutional disputes, over-
rule bad Supreme Court decisions, and
restrain federal power.
And the founding generation did more
than recognize this; they acted on it.
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The goal was to prevent abuses that
might arise in the otherwise-lawful use
of federal powers. At the same time, they
added the Ninth and 10th Amendments
to clarify limits on federal authority. In
early 1795, they ratified the 11th Amend-
ment to reverse an overreaching Supreme
Court decision. Less than a decade later,
they added the 12th Amendment to cor-
rect a constitutional drafting issue.
All of those amendments have had a
major historical impact. Today, all but
the Ninth retain at least some force.
In subsequent years, Americans have
used the constitutional amendment
process to institutionalize other reforms:
abolishing slavery, protecting minori-
ties from state oppression, ensuring that
women can vote, and imposing term
limits on the president.
Each of these amendments was rati-
fied by the requisite three-quarters of the
states. Before they could be ratified, how-
ever, they had to be proposed. In each
case, Congress proposed them. But that
was back when the necessary two-thirds
of each house of Congress still had some
sense of honor.
Today, however, Congress is abusive. It
revels in its power. And as an entity, it’s
mendacious: Despite repeated promises
over many years, Congress still refuses to
propose amendments favored by tower-
ing majorities of the American people.
These include amendments requiring
a balanced budget except in genuine
emergencies, imposing term limits on
members of Congress and on the Su-
preme Court, and curbing undemocratic
and unfair regulations.
Once ratified, these amendments
cannot be reversed by Joe Biden,
Congress, or federal bureaucrats.
Anticipating this, the Founders included
in the Constitution’s Article V a provi-
sion effectively granting state legislatures
equal power with Congress to propose
amendments. Upon the “applications”
(resolutions) of two-thirds of the state leg-
islatures, Congress must call “a Conven-
tion for proposing Amendments.” This is a
task force of state delegations with author-
ity to propose pre-specified amendments
that Congress refuses to propose.
A convention for proposing amend-
ments is a type of “convention of the
states”—a very old mechanism employed
many times for other purposes. However,
special-interest groups have prevented
such a convention from being used to
formally propose constitutional amend-
ments. They have done so primarily
through an effective disinformation cam-
paign that began during the 20th century.
In the 1970s, it appeared that the states
might force a convention to reverse
liberal-activist Supreme Court decisions
on a wide range of subjects. (The most
famous is the abortion case of Roe v.
Wade.) Liberal establishment figures—
academics, politicians, “journalists,” and
others—were determined to prevent the
American people from overriding the
court. So they decided to frighten people
away from the convention route by publi-
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cizing scare stories.
They claimed, for example, that a con-
vention of states would be almost un-
precedented and that its procedures and
composition were unknown. They simul-
taneously argued both that it would be an
uncontrollable “constitutional conven-
tion” and that Congress could control it.
Mainstream media outlets, particularly
The New York Times and The Washing-
ton Post, readily spread these falsehoods.
Today, the campaign continues, largely
carried on by groups funded by progres-
sive financier George Soros. Left-wing
professors, none of whom has ever
published any scholarly research on the
subject, work with these groups. They use
their unique access to the mainstream
media to publicize their disinformation.
A handful of naïve conservatives provide
them political “cover” on the right.
In 2009, I started researching the Con-
stitution’s provision for a “convention for
proposing amendments.” This was part
of my regular academic duties. I received
no grants or compensation for my find-
ings, other than my regular academic
salary. That’s how I learned that the
claims in the disinformation campaign
were false.
I published my conclusions in scholarly
articles, thereby subjecting them to the
review of other academics—several of
whom have confirmed my core findings.
I moderate the Article V Information
Center website, and I continue to counsel
organizations and lawmakers who wish
to promote a convention. I’ve even pub-
lished a legal treatise on the topic, now in
its second edition.
Since I began publishing my research,
more state lawmakers have come to un-
derstand why we need a convention. In-
deed, a majority of state legislatures have
now adopted “applications” (resolutions)
to force Congress to call one. Resolutions
of this kind need not be signed by the
governor.
Perhaps the most prominent conven-
tion-advocacy group today is the “Con-
vention of States” movement. It urges
state legislatures to pass applications for a
convention limited to proposing amend-
ments (1) restraining federal power, (2)
imposing fiscal restraints, and (3) adopt-
ing term limits on federal officials. Of
course, any proposed amendments would
have to be ratified by three-quarters of the
states (38) before they became effective.
But once ratified, these amendments
can’t be reversed by Joe Biden, Congress,
or federal bureaucrats. As explained
above, amendments historically have
very long life expectancies, longer even
than the original Constitution itself.
This is a step we can encourage state
lawmakers to take and that no one in the
federal government can block. By using
the Constitution’s convention procedure,
we can enact the reforms necessary to
save the country—and we can make them
permanent.
Robert G. Natelson is a retired constitu-
tional law professor, prominent originalist
scholar, senior fellow in constitutional juris-
prudence at the Independence Institute in
Denver, and a senior adviser to the Conven-
tion of States movement. He is the author
of “The Law of Article V” (2nd ed., 2020), a
legal treatise on the amendment procedure.
 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021
US Employment
Costs Rose Modestly
in Fourth Quarter
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ILVER SPRING, Md.—Wages and
benefits for U.S. workers rose in
the last quarter of 2020, putting
the entire year in somewhat of a
normal range as the pandemic
continued to rankle the economy.
Debate Heats Up Over How Countries Tax Big Tech Companies
FRANKFURT, Germany—An international
debate over how countries tax big U.S. tech-
nology companies such as Google, Amazon,
and Facebook is heating up, presenting a
challenge for President Joe Biden’s new ad-
ministration.
A mid-year deadline is on the horizon for
talks about a global deal to defuse trade dis-
putes with France and other countries that
are imposing go-it-alone digital taxes that
the United States views as discriminatory.
France imposed a 3 percent tax on digital
revenue for large tech companies, in effect
singling out the U.S. tech giants. The French
government has said it would withdraw the
tax in favor of an international solution be-
ing negotiated under the auspices of the Or-
ganization for Economic Cooperation and
Development, a Paris-based international
organization of 37 advanced economies.
Experts and officials say time is getting
short. Manal Corwin, a tax principal at pro-
fessional services firm KPMG and a former
Treasury Department official in the Obama
administration, said digital taxes multiply-
ing outside the OECD process “are threaten-
ing to trigger a trade war.”
U.S. trade officials have called unilateral
digital taxes unfair and threatened trade
retaliation against French goods, but have
held off imposing sanctions.
Finance officials from more than 130 coun-
tries convened online on Jan. 27 to resume
negotiations over how best to make sure
multinational companies don’t avoid taxa-
tion by shifting their activities and profits
among countries. One key question is how
to appropriately tax companies such as tech
firms that may have no on-the-ground pres-
ence in a country but nonetheless do sub-
stantial digital business there in the form
of online advertising, the sale of user data,
search engines, or social media platforms.
The talks were about how to allocate part
of a company’s revenue to the country where
its services are used so the government there
can benefit from the taxes.
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria
said in an opening speech that it was crucial
to reach a deal by mid-2021.
“The importance of reaching an agreement
is increasing by the day,” Gurria said. Over
40 countries are considering or planning
unilateral digital taxes, and if they impose
them, “there will be this retaliation, we will
turn a tax tension into a trade tension, maybe
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The apps for Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple
with the reflection of a binary code are displayed
on a tablet screen in Paris on April 20, 2018.
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(Above) A waitress takes customers’
orders in the outdoor seating area of a res-
taurant in Los Angeles on Jan. 28, 2021.
(Right) People walk past the New York
State Department of Labor in Brooklyn,
N.Y., on Sept. 28, 2020.
into a trade war ... when we need the oppo-
site,” he said.
The coronavirus pandemic has only put a
sharper edge on the issue of digital taxation.
The pandemic has accelerated digitaliza-
tion through remote work and contactless
activities, and in some cases led to strong
profits for digital companies; meanwhile,
government budgets are strained by added
spending and less tax revenue.
“A lot of the countries have said, ‘We’re
holding for the OECD to get to an agreement,’
but the combination of the politics on the
ground of wanting to impose these taxes, as
well as the fiscal demands of the financial
fallout of the pandemic, is increasing the
pressure for governments to act,” KMPG’s
Corwin said.
Most participants want an international
agreement rather than runaway unilateral
measures, she said, “but the politics and the
fiscal demands are creating an inability to
wait much longer than June.”
There is no agreement in several key areas.
One open question is whether technology
companies should be singled out, since dig-
ital technologies are spreading throughout
the economy? Under U.S. pressure, the talks
expanded to potentially include other kinds
of consumer-facing businesses that also
reap profits across borders, such as luxury
brands.
Barbara Angus, global tax policy leader
for professional services firm EY, said the
question of exactly whom the new digital
tax applies to was “the single biggest political
issue to be resolved” in the talks.
“If you bring in other consumer-facing
businesses, the U.S. as a big market would
gain taxing revenue from some of those for-
eign consumer-facing businesses that serve
the U.S. market while potentially losing some
tax rights over U.S.-headquartered digital
businesses,” she said.
Karan Bhatia, Google’s vice president for
government affairs and public policy, said
in a blog post that the need to update the
international tax system “isn’t limited to the
technology sector. Almost all multinational
companies use data, computers and internet
connectivity to power their products and
services.”
Bhatia said Google “strongly supported”
the OECD’s work and opposed “discrimina-
tory unilateral taxes.”
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has said the
company wants the OECD process to suc-
ceed “so that we have a stable and reliable
system going forward.” Amazon said in a
statement that “we continue to strongly and
consistently support and contribute to the
OECD’s work” and called for a broad interna-
tional agreement that would limit “distortive
unilateral measures.”
Separately, the OECD talks also aim to
establish that multinationals pay at least a
minimum amount of tax. That part of the
talks appears less controversial.
The digital tax might turn over taxing rights
on up to $100 billion on profit to market coun-
tries, leading to a modest increase in tax rev-
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Total U.S. workers’ compensation rose 0.7
percent in the October-December quarter,
an increase over the previous two quar-
ters, the Labor Department said on Jan. 29.
Growth was 0.5 percent in the second and
third quarters, down from 0.8 percent in
the first three months of the year.
For the year, wages and benefits grew 2.5
percent, with wages and salaries up 2.6 per-
cent and benefits, which include Social Se-
curity, grew 2.3 percent.
Wages and salaries grew 0.9 percent in
the final quarter of 2020, while benefits rose
0.6 percent.
Compensation costs for private industry
workers rose 0.5 percent in the quarter and
2.6 percent in 2020.
The data comes from the Labor Depart-
ment’s Employment Cost Index, which
measures pay changes for workers who
keep their jobs. The data isn’t affected by
the mass layoffs in the spring.
While employers are limiting increases
in compensation, most are reluctant to cut
pay outright. Companies generally avoid
slashing pay because it can demoralize
workers and send them looking for new
jobs. The pay raises don’t necessarily mean
employers boosted pay during the pan-
demic, but more likely that many of the
increases were already baked into existing
contracts.
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enues, according to OECD estimates. Taken
together, the digital tax and the global mini-
mum tax could increase global tax revenues
by $60 billion-$100 billion, or a 4 percent in-
crease. Both are part of ongoing international
efforts to reduce incentives for big companies
to shift profits to low-tax countries.
New U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen,
when asked about the talks during her Sen-
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level of unemployment that will
restrain wages.
Rubeela Farooqi, economist,
High Frequency Trading
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and salaries, which make up 70 percent of
employment costs, are generally not threat-
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or movie theaters. Employers shed jobs in
December for the first time in six months,
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tion of 1.4 percent, which is well below the
Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target. Analysts
believe inflation will remain subdued as
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a pandemic-induced downturn.
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ate confirmation hearings, didn’t stake out
a detailed position on the key undecided
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through the OECD and to “stop the race to
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33. Lets go discarded (not best), but when Cy’s queen
won, Cy ruffed his last diamond, East
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36. Short dowel Cynic discarded a heart on dummy’s king
but still lost a heart to East’s king.
37. Racing vessel
NOT BEST
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king and leads another club. Cy pitches a
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still be alive. He could win a heart return with
40. Dorm room staple the ace, discard his last heart on the king of
42. Stick in one’s ___ clubs, take the A-K of trumps and test the
diamonds, winning if the suit broke 3-3 or if
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diamonds and he tries three clubs. What
47. Expend Hard 2 - 1 Solution do you say?
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1. Get by 41. It may be pitched 73. Iniquities 52. Took a shot in the impossible, and his hand may produce
5. Hindu life principle 74. “___ we forget” no tricks unless clubs are trumps.
42. “Bravo!” dark Pass. To bid 3NT (or anything) would
10. Refuse 47. Advocate 75. Acted badly beg for trouble. He may scrape home
53. A form of NACL with nine tricks if he has 3, K 4, 7 6 5,
16. “His exit is our ___” 48. Hair goops 76. Bog fuels
54. Boat contract K Q 9 7 6 5 3, but his hand may be
(Tennyson) 49. “Avis” output 77. Liberal pursuits weaker than that.
17. Jungle climber 55. Most insignificant North dealer
50. Department store N-S vulnerable
18. Zimbabwe’s capital Down 56. Certifies
worker, sometimes
19. Stereotype 1. Asian shrines NORTH
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21. Desk item 2. DNA’s A base ary flower
jA 6 3
54. Bean counter, for iK 5 3
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short 60. Aussie lass
23. Ring master? 4. Directs WEST EAST
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25. Deplorable England. i10 8 7 6 iJ 9
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60. Fastened 7. Shipping tube SOUTH
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9. “Ain’t gonna happen!” 64. Statistics calculation iA Q 4 2
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SOCIETY
The Unhealthy Incentives of
‘Cancel Culture’
One mark of an open and civil society is
not being afraid to share opinions.
See B3
MIND & BODY
WELL-BEING |DIET | FITNESS
MINDSET MATTERS
How to Accept
What We
Really Don’t
Want to Accept
Why acceptance is the hardest
and most important practice
of them all
Acceptance isn’t an act of
passivity, but rather an act of
wisdom. It means agreeing to
start our efforts from where
we actually are what reality
actually is.
NANCY COLIER
R
ight now there’s something go-
ing on in my life that’s very dif-
ficult. I definitely wish it wasn’t
part of my life, and yet it’s clear
my wishing has done nothing
to change it.
As is always the case: Fight with reality,
reality wins.
And so it occurred to me (brilliantly) that
this might be an auspicious time to practice
acceptance.
When investigating an idea or practice,
I like to start with what the thing is not. In
this case, what are the myths and miscon-
ceptions about acceptance that get in the
way of our being able to do it?
MYTH NO. 1 We’re OK with what’s
happening. We can agree with it.
The biggest misunderstanding about ac-
ceptance is that it means that we’re OK
with the thing we’re accepting, that we’ve
somehow gotten on board with this situa-
tion that we don’t want.
REALITY Acceptance does not require
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When we try
to fight against
reality, reality
always wins.
that we’re OK with what we’re accepting. 
Acceptance doesn’t imply that we now
want what we don’t want. It doesn’t include
feeling good or peaceful about what we’re
accepting. It doesn’t mean we now agree
with it.
MYTH NO.2 Acceptance means
we stop trying to change it.
We believe that acceptance is synonymous
with agreeing to be passively surrendering
all efforts to make things different. Accep-
tance is saying we agree that this situation
will go on forever. It’s deciding to pull the
covers over our head.
REALITY Acceptance doesn’t mean
suspending efforts to change what is. 
Acceptance doesn’t imply that we’re giving
up on reality becoming different. Accep-
tance is all about now and has nothing to
do with the future. Furthermore, accep-
tance isn’t an act of passivity, but rather
an act of wisdom. It means agreeing to
start our efforts from where we actually
are and considering what actually is.
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The first meaningful step to resolving any hardship is accepting its existence. We can’t
move forward when we reject where we are.
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What We Really
Don’t Want to Accept
Why acceptance is the hardest
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Continued from B1
MYTH NO. 3 Acceptance is failure.
In our culture, acceptance is for the
meek, for losers. It’s what we do when
we’ve failed at doing everything else. We
see acceptance as a choice-less choice,
a disempowering and depressing end
to a battle lost.
REALITY Acceptance is not
an act of failure.
Acceptance can, with the right under-
standing, be experienced as an act of
courage. It’s for those who have the
strength to face the truth and stop deny-
ing it. It can be the first step in a process
of genuine success and movement.
So if it isn’t these myths, then what is
this thing we call acceptance?
It might help to use a different word.
Rather than asking, “Can I accept this?”
I prefer, “Can I relax with this?” Or, “Can
I be with this as it is?” Or, “Can I agree
that this is the way it is right now?” These
pointers feel more workable given what
we associate with acceptance. Because
the fact is, something inside us will nev-
er fully accept or get OK with what we
don’t want, and that part of us needs to
be included in this process, too.
Acceptance is a
profound and powerful
step in our growth and
development. It requires
courage to be honest
about where we are.
To relax with what is means that we
also relax with the part of ourselves
that’s screaming “no” to the situation.
It means that we make space for the
unacceptance in us. We accept the situ-
ation and also the fierce rejection of it at
the same time. We don’t ask ourselves to
get rid of the resistance; that resistance
is our friend. It’s there to protect us from
what we don’t want. So we accept and
allow the negative situation and also
the hating of it.
Secondly, acceptance is about ac-
knowledging that this particular situ-
ation is indeed happening. It isn’t saying
that we like it, agree with it, or will stop
trying to change it, it simply means that
we’re accepting that it is what is. The pri-
mary element of acceptance is opening
to reality as it is, not how we feel about
it. Acceptance means we’re willing to
tolerate an unpleasant situation.
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In my case, with the situation I have
going on, I’m practicing relaxing with
the reality that I don’t have an answer
to this difficult situation. I accept this
situation, even though I want it to be
different and I don’t know right now how
to make that happen.
What’s comical is that our refusal to
accept a situation usually involves a
fight against reality. We refuse to allow
what’s already been allowed. Seen in
this light, our refusal to accept reality
has a tinge of insanity to it.
When we practice acceptance, we’re
just saying, “Yes, this is happening.”
That’s it. And paradoxically, that frees
us up to start changing the situation or
changing ourselves in relation to it.
As a good friend said, the situation will
change or you will change, but change
will happen.
We waste so much energy fighting
reality that we don’t apply our energy
and intention to what we can do about
it. We’re stuck in an argument with the
universe. Acceptance allows us at least
to begin doing whatever we can do from
where we are.
Acceptance is a profound and pow-
erful step in our growth and develop-
ment. It requires courage to be hon-
est about where we are. Acceptance
requires determination to feel what’s
true. This can be excruciating, but it’s
far more useful than avoiding such feel-
ings by denying reality.
When we practice acceptance, which
includes our initial “no,” we give our-
selves permission to join our life, to ex-
perience the present moment as it is.
We allow ourselves to stop fighting with
reality, which is exhausting and useless.
Acceptance is counterintuitive and yet
supremely wise. When we’re willing to
say, “Yes, this is the way it is whether I
want it or not,” something primal in us
relaxes. We can exhale; the hoax we’ve
been conducting is up at last.
The funny thing is, we nearly always
know what’s true and only trick our-
selves with our non-acceptance. To ac-
cept offers us permission to finally be
authentic with ourselves, to be in our
own company.
When we can say I accept that this is the
way it is—even if I hate it and don’t know
what to do about it—then I can at least be
in the truth, which ultimately, is the most
empowering, brave, and self-loving place
from which to create our life.
Nancy Colier is a psychotherapist,
interfaith minister, public speaker,
workshop leader, and author of “The
Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay
Sane in a Virtual World.” For more
information, visit NancyColier.com
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Psychologist Explains the Unhealthy

Incentives Behind ‘Cancel Culture’
Jonathan Haidt, author of ‘The Righteous Mind,’ says one mark
of an open and civil society is not being afraid to share opinions
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f there was a video documenting every
second of my life, you can bet it would
contain some pretty stupid comments
I’ve made over the years. I would also
probably be reminded of some opin-
ions I no longer believe. If you’re being
honest with yourself, yours likely would
be equally cringeworthy.
The things we’ve said in the past may not
have been outrageously offensive, but we
have all made comments, or held opinions,
we later regret. We are, after all, inherently
flawed creatures.
But imagine if one instance of poor judg-
ment or one “fringe” opinion stuck with you
forever. This is the problem our society is
now facing with the prevalence of cancel
culture.
In 2016, then-high school freshman Mimi
Groves posted a video to Snapchat in which
she used a racial slur. The three-second
video later circulated around her school,
though it wasn’t met with controversy at
the time.
Fellow classmate Jimmy Galligan hadn’t
seen the footage until last year when the
two were seniors—four years after it first
made the rounds at Heritage High School.
By this time, Groves had moved on to focus
on her role as varsity cheer captain with a means of proving to society how “good” The destruction wrought erything other people say—not your pro-
big dreams of attending the University of and “moral” your views are, is only half of by mob-driven can- fessors, your classmates, or your parents.
Tennessee–Knoxville, a school known for the equation, however. Cancel culture is cel culture comes with In fact, you might even find that your own
its nationally ranked cheer squad. also about personal destruction, which is even greater costs than views change as you learn new things and
For Groves, summer 2020 had been a obvious in Groves’s situation, since Gal- individual lives turned grow as a person and adult.
upside down and dreams
time of celebration as she found out she ligan didn’t use this ammunition against But having the freedom to consider all
destroyed.
had been accepted to the university’s cheer her until the time was ripe for maximum opinions and decide what you genuinely
team. But her joy was short-lived when the harm. believe is vital to the human experience
death of George Floyd outraged the nation, “It [cancel culture] has reached a level and civil discourse.
sparking a resurgence of the Black Lives of personal vindictiveness, where people There is a market of choice in all things,
Matter movement. go out of their way to find ways the things from what clothes you wear, products you
Like many teens, Groves used her social other people say could be construed as in- buy, and what ideas you subscribe to.
media platforms to urge people to protest, sensitive,” Haidt said. When you go shopping, you might not
donate, and sign petitions in support of Slurs and inappropriate comments aside, like the first outfit you try. You might not
ending police brutality. It was then that her cancel culture has made people scared even like the second or third. But trying on
unfortunate video came back to haunt her. to share their opinions lest they be con- different looks, or opinions, allows you to
“You have the audacity to post this, af- demned for thinking “incorrectly” about think for yourself and figure out what it is
ter saying the N-word,” one commenter, any given issue. you want, or believe.
unknown to the teen, posted on her Ins- To be truly open-minded, you must be
tagram. The Costs of Cancel Culture able to consider all opinions, instead of
That’s when her phone began ringing We now live in an era where people are We have all condemning any thought contrary to your
nonstop. constantly looking over their shoulders, own. The free exchange of ideas pushes
Galligan had held onto the video made or computer screens, worried that what- made com- individuals to share unique ideas and al-
four years earlier and had chosen to cel- ever opinion they post might make them lows for opinions to evolve.
ebrate Groves’s admission to UT by blasting victims of cancel culture.
ments, or held Dissent is what makes democracy strong.
the footage to every major social media There’s no opportunity to change one’s opinions, we Our Constitution has outlasted so many
platform. mind, nor is there room to defend opinions others because the Founders disagreed
As the video began going viral, public you genuinely believe. And this is a huge later regret. and debated with each other until they
outrage ensued, calling for the university problem for any civil society. crafted a document that fostered “a more
to rescind her acceptance. Haidt spoke of the importance of protect- perfect union” than had ever been seen
Capitulating to the mob, UT removed her ing open dialogue so that we may live in a before. We would be wise not to forget the
from their cheer team, a decision that result- society filled with varying opinions from example they set.
ed in Groves withdrawing from the school which to choose. Put simply, shaming others doesn’t work.
because of what she perceived as pressure “One of the most important [aspects] is It’s purely punitive and self-aggrandizing.
from the school’s admissions office. that people are not afraid to share their It also rarely changes a person’s mind and
Make no mistake, making racial slurs of opinions—they’re not afraid that they’re often further radicalizes their beliefs, wid-
any kind is demeaning and inappropriate going to be shamed socially for disagreeing ening the divide already growing in our
behavior. But is one comment made four with the dominant opinion,” Haidt said. country.
years prior enough to ruin the future of a The odds are high that your opinions Free speech serves as a central tenet of
teen who hadn’t even entered adulthood yet? about certain issues will change over time. innovation, community, and civil society.
The court of public opinion said ‘yes,’ However, some may not, and you shouldn’t Brittany is a writer for How we preserve and protect this funda-
without giving Groves any chance at re- live in fear that your beliefs will be met with the Pacific Legal Foun- mental value is what makes our society
demption. social condemnation and isolation. dation. She is a co-host extraordinary.
We’re no longer given the room to share of “The Way The World Without the ability to speak freely and
Why People ‘Cancel’ our opinions today because we’re no lon- Works,” a Tuttle Twins consider all opinions, civil discourse can-
Groves’s story is just one of many. ger able to disagree with each other re- podcast for families. This not occur. In its absence, society as we
Cancel culture has become more wide- spectfully. article was originally know it will cease to exist, and the divides
spread over the last several years than any- You’re not always going to agree with ev- published on FEE.org between us will continue to grow.
one could have imagined. When I penned SCREENSHOT/YOUTUBE
this article on the topic two years ago, I had
no idea the problem would escalate to the
level it has reached today.
But cancel culture isn’t reserved only for
those who have made distasteful com-
ments in the past.
Today, those espousing any opinion that
goes against “woke” rhetoric are ridiculed A screenshot of the
online, fired from their jobs, and some are three second video
banned from using popular social media Mimi Groves posted
platforms altogether. to friends on Snap-
One University of North Carolina Wilm- chat in 2016 after
ington professor, Mike Adams, even took getting her learner’s
his own life after tweets construed as of- permit. She refers
fensive pushed him into early retirement to her friends using
a racial slur in an-
after years of service to the institution. nouncing that she
Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Righteous could now drive.
Mind” and co-author of “The Coddling of
the American Mind,” has been an outspo-
ken critic of the cancel culture phenom-
enon for some time.
“Part of a call-out culture is you get credit
based on what someone else said if you ‘call
it out,’” he said in a 2018 interview.
This virtue signaling, which is really just
B4
Cultivate Your
Mental Health
This Winter
Gardens allow us to get outside
and connect with nature in a
meaningful way
TANIA WISEMAN
T
his year more than any other
we’ve been reminded that ac-
cess to outdoor private space is
a privilege—not all of us have a
home with a garden. But many of
us have also spent more time outdoors in
nature this year and felt a greater sense of
connection with the trees, plants, and the
natural world.
With this in mind, I’ve pulled together
some tips on how you can nurture your
mental health through nature. These ideas
will work for all gardens (both public and
private)—from the smallest patch to a
stately home.
Reflect
Nature connects us in complex ways. And
stopping to think about this connection
is one way you can get in tune with the
natural world around you. In your garden
or local park, walk a path that has been
walked before, you could choose an an-
cient path and consider all the people that
have walked that way before. Or choose a
route you have walked with someone you
care about.
Nature connects us in
complex ways. And
stopping to think about
this connection is one
way you can get in tune
with the natural world
around you.
If you have a garden, think about peo-
ple who have contributed to it, take a slow,
careful tour, focus on each plant—how did
Self-Controlled Kids Tend to Be Healthier Adults
Researchers found one of the benefits of self control was looking younger
KARL BATES
In a new study, researchers found people
who had higher levels of self-control as
children were aging more slowly than their
peers at age 45.
Their bodies and brains were healthier
and biologically younger, the researchers
report.
Self-control, the ability to contain one’s
own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and
to work toward goals with a plan, is one of the
personality traits that makes a child ready for
school. And, according to the study, which
tracked 1,000 people from birth through age
45 in New Zealand, ready for life as well.
In interviews, the higher self-control group
also showed they may be better equipped
to handle the health, financial, and so-
cial challenges of later life as well. The re-
searchers used structured interviews and
credit checks to assess financial prepared-
ness. High childhood self-control partici-
pants expressed more positive views of
aging and felt more satisfied with life in
middle age.
“Our population is growing older, and
living longer with age-related diseases,”
said Leah Richmond-Rakerd, an assistant
professor of psychology at the University
of Michigan who is the first author of the
study in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
“It’s important to identify ways to help in-
dividuals prepare successfully for later-life
challenges, and live more years free of dis-
ability. We found that self-control in early life
may help set people up for healthy aging.”
The children with better self-control
it come into the garden? Show ap-
preciation for it and its story, send
a mental message of thanks to the
person who gifted it or inspired its
adoption.
The certainty of the rhythmic cycle of
the seasons can also help to connect us to
a better future. Gardening is inherently
related to nature’s cycles. Gardening is
continuous and can be characterized as
“quiet sustainability” or quiet activism.
Through the act of willing things to grow
we are imagining that spring and summer
will come and there will be renewal. Don’t
worry about the look of the garden, just fo-
cus on what it means to you in this season
of bare branches and empty flowerbeds.
Harvest and Tidy
Gardeners often share and gift their sur-
plus vegetables, plants, and seeds with
family, friends, and neighbors. In this
sense then, gardening doesn’t have to be
an expensive hobby—many gardeners
base their acquisition of plants and seeds
on mutual exchange with other gardening
enthusiasts within their community.
If you bear the responsibility of a garden,
then you will also appreciate the pleasure
of a newly cleared patch. So, whether there
is obvious produce or not, get to work. Tidy,
weed, and collect seed pods and cases, use
paper bags or envelopes to store them.
Don’t worry if you are unsure which plant
they came from, take a picture, or draw a
map of the spot. You can return to it in the
spring if your seedlings start to sprout and
you’re still not sure what they are. Allow
your seeds to dry thoroughly and spend
time on rainy afternoons trying to identify
them. Reflect on the wonder that each tiny
speck will become the producer of thou-
sands of new seeds.
Nurture
Gardening is experienced as both a
long-term project—transformations of
the garden may take years to achieve—
tended to come from more financially se-
cure families and have higher IQ. However,
the findings of slower aging at age 45 with
more self-control can be separated from
their childhood socioeconomic status and
IQ. The analyses showed that self-control
was the factor that made a difference.
And childhood isn’t destiny, the research-
ers are quick to point out. Some study
participants had shifted their self-control
levels as adults and had better health out-
comes than their childhood assessments
would have predicted.
Self-control also can be taught, and the
researchers suggest that a societal invest-
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ment in such training could improve life
span and quality of life, not only in child-
hood, but also perhaps in midlife. There is
ample evidence that changing behaviors
in midlife (quitting smoking or taking up
exercise) leads to improved outcomes.
“Everyone fears an old age that’s sickly,
poor, and lonely, so aging well requires
us to get prepared, physically, financially,
and socially,” said Terrie Moffitt, professor
of psychology and neuroscience at Duke
University and last author on the paper.
“We found people who have used self-
control since childhood are far more pre-
pared for aging than their same-age peers.”
RIDO/SHUTTERSTOCK
Children with higher self-
control showed they may
be better equipped to
handle the health, finan-
cial, and social challenges
of later life.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021
and as a spontaneous and intrinsically
rewarding activity. Many gardeners en-
dure chore-like aspects such as weeding
as part of their overall project of caring for
the garden—which reciprocally appears
to care for them.
Nurturing acts can include transforming
pine-cones into bird feeders by squeez-
ing fats and seeds into their spaces and
hanging them where you can see them.
Piles of dry twigs can also be made into ex-
cellent hotels for beneficial garden insects
and bigger piles may attract hedgehogs.
You can also care for the earth by mak-
ing your own Christmas decorations from
garden leaves and other things you find
outdoors.
Play
In a recent study of Danish allotment
gardening, people thought of going to
their garden patch as an “escape”—
and used terms such as “refuge,”
“oasis,” and “haven” to describe
their plot. Many gardeners also high-
lighted the sense of freedom access to
outdoor space gave them—along with
a chance to relax and mentally unwind.
So give yourself permission to play and
disconnect. Get muddy, dig and weed,
move and organize, have fun, get sweaty.
If something catches your eye—a strange
insect or curious seed case—stop and stare.
Be in the moment, allow wonder and child-
like feelings and sensory experiences,
colors and smells, to fill your mind. Even
when it’s not fun, it’s satisfying.
Though many garden tasks can be en-
joyable in their own right, sometimes it can
be a bit of chore-like outdoor housework.
Let your imagination roam while doing
those necessary, but boring jobs and you
can add a layer of meaning to create a sense
of purpose in the overall project of tending
the garden.
For example, you could plan your next
holiday while raking leaves, or imagine
a beautiful spring border when planting
bulbs. Allowing the imagination to roam
allows you to create enjoyment in a mun-
dane task. And this sense of delayed gratifi-
cation is an essential feature of gardening.
It doesn’t matter if the enjoyment is in the
task itself or in the freedom it gives to let
the mind wander—just the fact you’re do-
ing it is enough.
Tania Wiseman is a principal lecturer at
the school of health sciences at the Univer-
sity of Brighton in the United Kingdom.
This article was originally published on
The Conversation. 
Those who garden know some-
thing that others may not: the
act of working with nature to
cultivate something beautiful
is transformative and uplifting.
The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health
and Development Study, based in New
Zealand, has tracked these people since
they were born in 1972 and 1973, putting
them through a battery of psychological
and health assessments at regular intervals
since, the most recent being at age 45.
Teachers, parents, and the children them-
selves assessed childhood self-control at
ages 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11. The children were
measured for impulsive aggression and
other forms of impulsivity, over-activity,
perseverance, and inattention.
From ages 26 to 45, researchers measured
the participants for physiological signs of
aging in several organ systems, including
the brain. In all measures, higher childhood
self-control correlated with slower aging.
The people with the highest self-con-
trol walk faster and have younger-looking
faces at age 45 as well. “But if you aren’t
prepared for aging yet, your 50s is not too
late to get ready,” Moffitt said.
The U.S. National Institute on Aging, the
National Institute of Child Health and Hu-
man Development, the UK Medical Re-
search Council, the Jacobs Foundation, the
U.S. National Science Foundation, and the
Lundbeck Foundation funded the work.
The New Zealand Health Research Council
and the New Zealand Ministry of Business,
Innovation and Employment supports the
Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and De-
velopment Study.
This article was originally published
by Duke University. Republished via
Futurity.org under Creative Commons
License 4.0.
 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Tooth or Consequences
Even during a pandemic, avoiding the dentist can be bad for your oral health
ANDREW J. CORSARO
Dental care remains critical for tens of mil-
lions of Americans, even during the pan-
demic. More than one-quarter of adults in
the United States live with untreated tooth
decay, with nearly half of adults over 30
showing signs of gum disease. And nearly
1 in 4 adults reports having felt pain in or
around their mouth in the past year.
Poor oral health is associated with nu-
merous chronic diseases, including heart
disease and diabetes. These problems pose
an immediate health risk and require ur-
gent care. Yet, less urgent dental conditions
can have long-term negative effects as well.
But how can you visit your dentist dur-
ing a pandemic? As a professor, I can tell
you that dentists have made many changes
to the way your care is provided to im-
prove safety. You should still go, but if you
are high risk, you should discuss it with
your dentist first. Here are some things you
need to know—and do—before visiting.
Home Care: More Critical Than Ever
With dentists worldwide postponing non-
urgent dental treatment, your home care
is your first line of defense. Consuming
carbohydrates and the subsequent secre-
tion of acid by oral bacteria is what causes
tooth decay. Chronic inflammation of the
tissues supporting your teeth is called gum,
or periodontal, disease. Both conditions
are exacerbated by poor diet, tobacco use,
a weakened immune system, and poor oral
hygiene.
COVID-19 has given
us a whole new set of
reasons to feel anxious
about going to the dentist,
but if you have a dental
emergency, you better get
it tended to.
You can battle all of these things by
controlling dental plaque, the soft, sticky
material on teeth and gums consisting of
saliva, food debris, and bacteria. Plaque
that remains on teeth for a period of time
will form tartar (dental calculus), further
promoting bacterial biofilms, ecosystems
of bacteria that cause dental problems.
To remove biofi lms and plaque, and
prevent tartar formation, you must clean
all surfaces of the teeth and gums. That
means brushing teeth for two minutes,
twice a day, using a soft-bristled tooth-
brush. You must also clean the spaces in-
between teeth once a day, typically with
dental floss.
Studies show  an electric tooth-
brush is more effective at cleaning
teeth and gums than a manual
one. An alcohol-free mouth rinse
helps too but isn’t a substitute
for brushing or flossing. Over-
the-counter mouth rinses with
fluoride are available for those at
higher risk for tooth decay.
You can also improve oral health
with your diet. Limit sugar intake,
along with other carbohydrate-con-
taining foods and drinks, such as sodas,
fruit juices, sweetened coffee and tea, and
candy. You don’t have to completely avoid
their consumption, of course, but cutting
back on both can be extremely beneficial.
Avoid hard and sticky foods that can break
teeth and dental work.
COVID-19’s psychological impact has
had many indirect effects on oral health.
Medications prescribed for depression and
anxiety are known to cause dry mouth,
which harms oral health. Increased anxi-
ety is linked to bruxism, the clenching or
grinding of teeth. More tobacco and alco-
hol use aren’t good for your teeth. A poorer
diet can lead to many health problems,
such as gastroesophageal reflux disease
(GERD), which can damage teeth.
When to See Your Dentist
Oral pain may indicate an infection; take
it seriously. Broken teeth and dental work
are other examples of dental emergencies.
In the early weeks of the pandemic, many
states mandated the restriction of all non-
emergency dental procedures. In response,
the University of Florida College of Den-
tistry, along with many other care provid-
ers, instituted teledentistry services. This
remote, virtual consultation with a dental
professional is one way to help you decide
whether to delay care or to visit a dentist.
If you have a loose or failing dental work,
ANDREA PIACQUADIO/PEXELS
Dentist offices have taken try to keep the area clean without further
effective precautions to dislodging it. Usually, it’s helpful to insert
ensure they can take care floss around a loose restoration, then gently
of dental emergencies pull the floss through to the side, to avoid
amid the pandemic. lifting broken dental work out of place. A
completely debonded crown can some-
times be temporarily recemented with
over-the-counter dental cement or even
toothpaste. A teledentistry consultation
can help determine if this is appropriate.
A few rare oral problems can constitute
life-threatening emergencies. If you have
difficulty breathing or swallowing, or
uncontrolled bleeding in or around the
mouth, seek immediate emergency care.
Extreme pain or a high fever associated
with dental problems also requires imme-
diate attention.
Changes at the Dentist’s Office
C H /SH U T T E R S T
For decades, dental professionals have
R A NU OC K
WE E been sterilizing instruments and disinfect-
ing surfaces. Early reports show a lower
COVID-19 prevalence among U.S. den-
tists than in the general public. With
COVID-19, additional precautions
are needed. Patients should ask
their dentists if they are taking
these precautions.
Here’s a brief checklist: First,
your dentist’s office should
screen you and other patients for
COVID-19 symptoms. The office
may call you in the days leading
up to your appointment to make
sure you don’t have symptoms. You
may be asked to come to your appoint-
ment alone, wear a mask, and wash your
hands while at the office.
When you arrive, you may be asked to
wait outside or in your car until your ap-
Poor oral health
is associated with
pointment time. Waiting areas should have
numerous chronic fewer chairs, all properly spaced. All maga-
diseases, including heart zines and toys should be removed.
disease and diabetes. Dental staff should wear appropriate per-
sonal protective equipment (PPE), including
an N95 mask, along with protective gowns,
head coverings, gloves, and face shields. Dis-
posable barriers should cover commonly
touched surfaces. Air quality controls, such as
HEPA filters, single-pass air circulation, and
negative pressure should be in use; they help to
contain any aerosols generated during dental
procedures.
You may be asked to rinse your mouth
with a solution containing diluted hy-
drogen peroxide. Th is will decrease the
viral load prior to your dental procedure.
High-volume evacuation, more com-
monly known as dental suction, should
be used for all procedures that may gen-
erate aerosols.
Andrew J. Corsaro is The good news is this: The new safety
a clinical assistant measures now in place may be sufficient to
professor at the Col- prevent infection in dental settings. Still,
lege of Dentistry at the you must consult with a dental professional
University of Florida. to help determine the need for treatment.
This article was origi- As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, and
nally published on The new research becomes available, expect
Conversation. more changes at your dentist’s office.
B5
FOOD AS MEDICINE
Can Fatty
Acids in Foods
Fight Multiple
Sclerosis?
New study links low levels of oleic acids
to loss of sensors crucial to proper
immune response
BILL HATHAWAY
Dietary change might help treat some
people with multiple sclerosis, new re-
search suggests.
According to a new study, the lack of a
specific fatty acid in fat tissue can trigger
the abnormal immune system response
that causes multiple sclerosis (MS) by
attacking and damaging the central
nervous system.
Fat tissue in patients diagnosed with
MS lack normal levels of oleic acid, a
monounsaturated fatty acid found at high
levels in, for instance, cooking oils, meats
(beef, chicken, and pork), cheese, nuts,
sunflower seeds, eggs, pasta, milk, olives,
and avocados, the researchers report in
the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Obesity triggers
unhealthy levels of
inflammation and is a
known risk factor for MS.
This lack of oleic acids leads to a loss of
the metabolic sensors that activate the
T cells that mediate the immune sys-
tem’s response to infectious disease, the
researchers found. Without the suppress-
ing effects of these regulatory T cells,
the immune system can attack healthy
central nervous system cells and cause
the vision loss, pain, lack of coordination,
and other debilitating symptoms of MS.
When researchers introduced oleic ac-
ids into the fatty tissue of MS patients in
laboratory experiments, levels of regula-
tory T cells increased, they found.
“We’ve known for a while that both
genetics and the environment play a role
in the development of MS,” said senior
author David Hafler, professor of neurol-
ogy and professor of immunobiology and
chair of the neurology department at Yale
University. “This paper suggests that one
of environmental factors involved is diet.”
Obesity triggers unhealthy levels of
inflammation and is a known risk factor
for MS, an observation that Hafler said
led him to study the role of diet in MS. He
stresses, however, that more study is nec-
essary to determine whether eating a
diet high in oleic acid can
help some MS patients.
Saige L. Pompura
of the Yale School
of Medicine is the
study’s lead author.
This article was
originally published
by Yale Univer-
sity. Republished
via Futurity.org
under Creative
Commons
License 4.0.
ANNA KUCHEROVA/SHUTTERSTOCK
Cheese, nuts,
sunflower
seeds, eggs,
pasta, milk, olives,
and avocados are
some of the foods high
in oleic acids.
B6
FOOD AS MEDICINE
Oolong Tea May Help Shed
Pounds While You Sleep
An unknown factor in this healthful beverage is attracting interest from researchers
JOSEPH MERCOLA
D
ata from Japan show drinking
oolong tea may help your body
burn fat, independent of the
effects of caffeine. Around the
world, tea is one of the most
popular beverages, second only to water. In
popularity, 84 percent of tea consumed is
black; 15 percent is green; and the remain-
ing 1 percent is split between oolong, white,
and dark teas.
According to the Tea Association, total
sales in 1990 were $1.84 billion, which
rose to $12 billion by 2016. The market
continues to grow, albeit at a slower rate,
with reported sales of $12.67 billion in
2019. The Tea Association hypothesizes
several trends could be affecting their in-
dustry, including a healthier outlook of
consumers and a greater number of people
who practice alternative nutrition such
as gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, and
keto diet plans.
On any day, nearly half the people in
the United States are drinking tea, with a
greater concentration of tea drinkers found
in the South and Northeast. Although black
tea is the preferred drink, it may be time
to consider the less bitter and flavorful
oolong tea.
Oolong in the Evening
Burns Fat at Night
A recently published study from a team of
researchers at the University of Tsukuba in
Japan found that drinking oolong tea can
help your body burn fat, even while you’re
sleeping. The study took place over 14 days
and engaged 12 non-obese men who drank
either oolong tea, caffeine, or a placebo at
breakfast and lunch each day.
On Day 14, 24-hour measurements were
recorded. The researchers found that
drinking caffeine or oolong tea raised fat
burning by approximately 20 percent with-
out any effect on energy expenditure.
However, they also found a greater de-
crease was experienced by those drinking
the oolong tea suggesting there was an un-
identified ingredient in the tea that has a
greater effect on fat oxidation. Additionally,
it appeared that the effect on fat burning
was suppressed immediately after meals
and occurred during sleep.
The researchers also found drinking two
cups of oolong tea per day didn’t interfere
with the participants’ sleep habits. Past
research has demonstrated caffeine at
greater than 100 milligrams (mg) can in-
crease energy expenditure, but in the pres-
ent study the amount of caffeine ingested
didn’t increase energy expenditure.
This suggested to the researchers that
the participants became tolerant over
the two weeks of routine caffeine inges-
tion. While the researchers did measure
fat burning, they noted two weeks wasn’t
a long enough duration to assess the ef-
fects this intervention could have on body
composition.
“Like all teas, oolong contains caffeine,
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Oolong tea garden in Alishan in Chiayi, Taiwan.
which impacts energy metabolism by in-
creasing our heart rate,” wrote the study
Japanese authors.
adults who The note that studies suggest drinking
tea could increase fat breakdown, inde-
drank 8 pendent of caffeine’s effect.
“We therefore wanted to examine the
ounces or effects of oolong consumption versus caf-
more of feine alone on energy and fat metabolism
among a group of healthy volunteers.”
oolong tea “The stimulatory effects of oolong tea on
fat breakdown during sleep could have
each day real clinical relevance for controlling
significantly body weight. However, we need to de-
termine whether the effects we observed
reduced in the 2-week study translate into actual
their risk of body fat loss over a prolonged period,”
they wrote.
cardiovascular The authors want to test a decaffeinated
oolong tea to figure out how other compo-
disease nents of tea burn fat. They say such a study
mortality. will help them understand how exactly
oolong helps with fat breakdown.
Green, Black, or Oolong?
Although the health benefits of green tea
are well covered, black tea is the most
commonly consumed tea in the United
States. As the health benefits of oolong
tea aren’t as well publicized, one team of
researchers set out to assess how well a
group of dental students understood the
benefits of oolong tea.
Using a set of questionnaires, they drew
data from 100 participants using an on-
line survey. Among the students, only 19
percent had ever heard of oolong tea, and
of those only 55 percent were aware of the
health benefits.
All black, green, oolong, and dark and
white teas are all made from the leaves of
the same tree, an evergreen named Ca-
mellia sinensis. Of course, people make
teas from other herbs and plants, but
technically speaking those are more ac-
curately called “tisanes.” The difference in
the taste and color of actual tea happens
when the leaves are processed. But, no
matter which type of tea it is, or whether
it’s caffeinated or decaf, it’s only 24 hours
from the time tea leaves are picked until
Oolong teas like these they’re packed.
samples from Taiwan
Before processing starts, the tea leaves
represent a middle ground
in the processes that are graded and sorted. The most common
create black tea and green method of processing tea leaves is the or-
tea. All teas (not including thodox method during which the leaves go
herbal teas or tisanes) are through four stages, including withering,
made from the camellia rolling, oxidation, and drying.
sinensis plant. It’s in the oxidation stage that the color,
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taste, and strength of the tea is
determined. The leaves are laid
out and left at 26 degrees Cel-
sius (78.8 degrees Fahrenheit)
for 30 to 120 minutes. During
this time, oxidation occurs,
which changes the color of
the leaves.
The oxidation process is left
out when making green tea,
which gives the tea leaves a
light fresh flavor. Black tea goes
through the longest oxida-
tion and oolong is made
from partially oxidized
leaves. The oxidation
goal for tea leaves des-
tined to become oolong
is 70 percent green and
30 percent brown, enough
to give a delicate color and
fruity aroma.
The shape of the leaves and flavor of
oolong tea can vary depending on where
it’s grown and how it’s processed. For
instance, oolong tea from Taiwan is tra-
ditionally less oxidized and the famous
Chinese teas are grown in a harsh environ-
ment, which gives the leaves a rich flavor.
Oolong Shifts Salivary
and Gut Microbiota
In addition to raising fat metabolism,
oolong tea also has an impact on your
oral and gut microbiota. One study, pub-
lished in the journal Nutrients, evaluated
the oral microbiota of three healthy adults
who drank 1 liter (33 ounces) of tea daily
for eight weeks. Before the intervention,
during the treatment, and after the study,
the participants’ salivary microbiota were
sampled, sequenced, and analyzed.
“Oolong tea consumption reduced sali-
vary bacterial diversity and the population
of some oral disease related bacteria, such
as Streptococcus sp., Prevotella nancei-
ensis, Fusobacterium periodonticum, Al-
loprevotella rava, and Prevotella elanino-
genica,” the authors wrote.
The results suggested that drinking
oolong tea for an extended period of time
could change your salivary microbiota and
have a protective effect on dental health.
Several studies have also evaluated the
effect oolong tea has on modulating hu-
man intestinal microbiota in the lab and
in animal models.
One study published in Food Research
International demonstrated the com-
pounds commonly found in oolong tea,
including epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG),
(-)-gallocatechin gallate (GCG) and epi-
gallocatechin‐3‐(3”‐O‐methyl) gallate
(EGCg3”Me), modulated bacterial growth
in the intestines. They inhibited the growth
of harmful bacteria and helped beneficial
bacteria to proliferate.
A second study evaluated the effect tea
had on gut microbiota in light of the known
anti-obesity properties. The results of this
animal model suggested drinking tea sub-
stantially increases the diversity and struc-
ture of gut microbiota, which may have an
impact on fat burning.
Researchers also demonstrated the poly-
phenols extracted from green tea, oolong
tea, and black tea could modulate intesti-
nal flora and produce a greater number of
short-chain fatty acids, contributing to a
healthy gut microbiome.
More Health Benefits Associated
With Oolong Tea
Oolong tea is also rich in antioxidants—
beneficial compounds that help reduce
the effects of free radicals and reactive
oxygen species. This plays a role in the de-
de
velopment of various diseases,ses, including
diabetes, stroke, cancer, and d rheumatoid
arthritis.
One study evaluated the effect
ffect of oolong
tea on bone mineral densityy in 476 post-
menopausal women. They were ere questioned
about their lifestyle, typess of tea they
drink, demographic features, s, and health
status.
When researchers compared red the tea
drinkers against the non-tea drinkers,
they found those drinking oolong
olong tea
had higher bone-mineral density.
It was significantly higher inn those
who drank 1 to 5 cups of tea per day
but didn’t go up for those drinking
nking
more than five cups per day..
The antioxidants, caffeine, e, and
theanine found in oolong teaa may
also contribute to a lower risk isk of
cognitive impairment and decline
ecline
that researchers have found in com-
munity-living Chinese adults lts 55 years
and older who consistently drank oolong
or black tea.
In a review of the literature,
e, researchers
identified an increase in insulin
nsulin activ-
ity. This occurred with black, k, green, and
oolong teas with an increase se in insulin
activity of at least 15-fold inn laboratory
fat cell assays. Oolong tea also reduced
plasma glucose and is believedved to be an
effective adjunctive treatment ent of Type
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2 diabetes.
Oolong tea has been associ-
ated with a reduction in heart
disease. In one study with
76,979 Japanese adults, those
who drank 8 ounces or more of
oolong tea each day significantly
reduced their risk of cardiovas-
cular disease mortality. In a
separate study, those drink-
ing 1 to 2 cups of green tea
or oolong tea each day sig-
nificantly reduced their
risk of stroke.
EGCG Helps Improve
Zinc Absorption
During flu season and the CO-
VID-19 pandemic, it bears remembering
that the epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG)—
a unique plant compound found in green,
black, and oolong tea—can help improve
absorption of zinc. Zinc is an essential If you are middle aged and not very active, it's
Paper tea bags are mineral and a cofactor for nearly 3,000 time to shape up or your brain may ship out.
treated with epichlo- proteins in the body.
rohydrin, which is a
chemical that prevents
In addition to this, zinc is crucial for MADE TO MOVE
healthy immune functioning. Zinc de-
tears and has been
found to be a probable
human carcinogen.
ficiency has been shown to impair your
immune function as it modulates cell
mediated immunity and acts as an anti-
Get Fit Now,
inflammatory agent and antioxidant.
Although there’s no cure for viral infec-
and You’ll
tions, your body uses a process to fight
viruses that includes zinc. Zinc has also Remember It
demonstrated the ability to reduce the
length of a cold by an average of 33 percent.
One effective treatment for the early
Down the Road
symptoms of COVID-19 has been a com-
bination of hydroxychloroquine and zinc.
Another study has linked
Hydroxychloroquine is routinely used in brain health to long-term
the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, lu-
pus, and other autoimmune diseases.
physical activity levels
The hydroxychloroquine acts as an iono-
phore, driving zinc into the cells where it MOHAN GARIKIPARITHI
can impair the replication of the SARS-
CoV-2 RNA virus. Beyond immune health, Exercise is good for you, but it might do
zinc has an impact on wound healing, more than you think. New research sug-
age-related macular degeneration, sense gests that deciding to get fit today may help
of smell and taste, and blood sugar balance. your brain well into the future.
EGCG is a major polyphenol component Brain age is a growing concern for people
found in tea and has demonstrated the reaching middle age and beyond. You may
ability to act as a zinc ionophore, transport- even be expecting to experience memory loss,
ing zinc across the cell membrane. A study dementia, or other forms of cognitive decline.
published in the Journal of Agricultural It’s entirely possible you believe you’re
and Food Chemistry used a lab model to destined for this outcome and that it is sim-
demonstrate EGCG and quercetin (a flavo- ply a “natural” part of aging.
nol present in many fruits and vegetables) Your brain will go through some natu-
could rapidly increase levels of zinc in cells ral changes with age, just like the rest of
in the laboratory. your body. But by getting fit now, in middle
They hypothesized that the ionophore age, you might be able to keep your brain
activity of the dietary polyphenols tested healthy for decades to come.
may play a significant role in raising the A new study, published in Neurology, sug-
levels of intracellular zinc and thus may gests that getting at least an hour and 15
be responsible for many of the biological minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical
actions attributed to the polyphenols. activity per week or more may help promote
brain health and preserve brain structure.
Get the Most From Your Tea
While drinking oolong tea is healthy, us-
ing tea bags adds a level of toxins you don’t
want. Tea bags may be more convenient, Being active and fit today
but many are made with heat resistant
polypropylene that prevents the bag from doesn’t help you tomorrow
breaking apart in hot water and releases if you aren’t consistent.
minute pieces of plastic in each drink.
Paper tea bags are treated with epichloro-
hydrin, which is a chemical that prevents If you’re able to get more than 2.5 hours
Drinking caffeine or tears and has been found to be a probable of exercise each week, the effects could be
oolong tea raised fat human carcinogen. Instead, seek out loose even more profound.
burning by approx- tea leaves and store them in an airtight con- Researchers in New York collected data
imately 20 percent tainer kept in a dry, dark cabinet away from on more than 1,600 people with an average
without any effect on direct sunlight and heat. age of 53. They went through five physical
energy expenditure. Since the processing techniques used af- exams over 25 years and reported weekly
fect the ideal brewing temperature, look activity levels. After the study period, they
for the directions on the package of tea you underwent brain scans.
buy. However, here are some general tips The correlation between activity and
to consider: brain age was quite strong. Results revealed
that those who didn’t reach an hour and 15
G Use fresh, pure filtered water. Do not minutes per week had a 47 percent greater
use distilled water as it will give your chance of developing brain damage than
tea a flat flavor. those who exercised more.
G In general, the tea should be steeped Researchers suggest that the results could
between 180 degrees and 200 de-
be have something to do with exercise’s ef-
grees Fahrenheit for 1 to 3 minutes.
gre fect on small blood vessels in the brain.
G OOolong teas can be used multiple Moderate-to-vigorous exercise gets the
times. With each cup, the leaves open
ti blood pumping, opening up blood vessels
a little more, which releases more to ensure they are functioning optimally.
flavor. You may be able to get up to
fl Exercise also offers other benefits for
five uses out of a high-quality tea.
fiv brain health. It can increase nitric oxide
G O Oolong tea tastes best after steep- production, reduce the risk of heart dis-
iing for a short time, so it’s a good ease, and help neural pathways remain
iidea to taste it after the recom- open and functional.
mmended time before deciding to Starting an exercise routine today to carry
ssteep it longer. into the future may help you fight against
G Cover the tea while it steeps to memory loss and age-related cognitive de-
keep all the heat in the vessel and cline. There is only a single caveat: consistency.
try drinking it without any ad- Being active and fit today doesn’t help
ditives, such as milk or sugar, to you tomorrow if you aren’t consistent. Once
improve the health benefits and the activity stops, the benefits taper off. So,
appreciate the handcrafted flavor build your healthy habits and keep it going
of the tea. as you age. You won’t be disappointed.
Dr. Joseph
Jos Mercola is the founder of Mer- Mohan Garikiparithi holds a degree in
cola.com. An osteopathic physician, best-
cola.co medicine from Osmania University (Univer-
selling author, and recipient of multiple sity of Health Sciences). He practiced clinical
awards in the field of natural health, his
award medicine for over a decade. During a three-
primary vision is to change the modern
primar year communications program in Ger-
health paradigm by providing people many, he developed an interest in German
with a valuable resource to help them take medicine (homeopathy) and other alterna-
control of their health. This article was
contro tive systems of medicine. This article was
originally published on Mercola.com
origina originally published on Bel Marra Health.
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How Engineering Can Help Reimagine Public Health Care

Health care engineering is a new interdisciplinary field focused on the widest scope of health care delivery
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WOODROW W. WINCHESTER III complex systems over their life cycles.

Of the many things that COVID-19 has
made abundantly clear to us, surely one
of them is a newfound realization that
public health has become increasingly
complex. Understanding the challenges
to public health—that is, the task of
guarding the well-being of the U.S. popu-
lation—is more essential now than ever.
As an engineer, design futurist, and
graduate program director, I have seen
how COVID-19 has transformed how
public health preparedness is viewed
and understood. Some say the pandemic
has made reimagining public health an
urgent matter.
From problems in producing personal
protective equipment that demonstrate
the vulnerabilities in critical supply
chains, to solutions in vaccine distribu-
tion challenges that leverage innovative
public-private partnerships, new per-
spectives and approaches to public
health are necessary.
The time is ripe for
evolving the field of
public health systems
engineering.
One way to accomplish this is by us-
ing health care engineering, or more
specifically, the application of systems
engineering in health care.
“Researchers in health care systems
engineering seek to increase efficiency,
reduce errors, and improve access and
overall quality of health care,” notes a
description on the Mayo Clinic website.
Systems engineering is defined as an in-
terdisciplinary approach and means to en-
able the realization of successful systems.
It is the combination of engineering and
engineering management that focuses
on how to design, integrate, and manage
These could include such complex systems
as aircraft and spacecraft systems.
Already, this concept is flourishing.
Research centers throughout the United
States, including those at the Mayo Clin-
ic and Northeastern University’s Health-
care Systems Engineering, suggest
challenges such as patient safety could
be made better by applying systems
engineering principles and techniques
through more holistic and human-cen-
tered approaches to systems design.
These efforts have proven helpful to
health care delivery in response to CO-
VID-19. But more is required, particu-
larly in the use of systems engineering in
informing public health responses and
interventions. A field of public health
systems engineering is needed.
Its intent: to develop and apply sys-
temic and integrated approaches to
understanding and solving public health
problems. Formalizing a field of public
health systems engineering—focused on
health care at the population level—of-
fers the needed research and educational
pathways to advance this work.
The Systems Engineering Imperative
Examples of systems engineering in-
clude designing and developing personal
protective equipment, repairing the
vulnerabilities in the food supply chain,
and grappling with vaccine logistics.
COVID-19 has made clear the growing
interconnected, interdisciplinary, and
multifaceted nature of public health’s
future. In partnering with public health,
systems engineering can mature mind-
sets (systems thinking) and practices
that can aid in meeting this future.
Illustrating this notion are efforts
by Pinar Keskinocak, the co-founder
and director of the Center for Health and
Humanitarian Systems at Georgia Insti-
tute of Technology, and her colleagues.
In a recent interview, Keskinocak said:
“Whenever there is a complex problem,
it needs serious analysis or technology
and that’s where an engineer comes in.
Effective health care requires a broad overview too often missing from current approaches but
systems engineering may help change that.
This is exactly the situation now, very
complex, dynamic, and uncertain. It’s
difficult to understand what’s going on or
make decisions just by sitting around a
table and discussing. We need expertise
in engineering.”
And it’s not just technical or technolog-
ical concerns. Human systems integra-
tion or human factors considerations
are equally central in systems engineer-
ing approaches. For example, building
trust with black Americans is vital to
the success of contact tracing. Pub-
lic health systems engineering could
advance efforts to develop more equi-
table practices that could improve black
participation. An example is works that
further the development of requirements
elicitation techniques such as storytell-
ing that provide a more comprehensive
understanding of users and their context
of use. These more inclusive practices
would consider historical context and
support more community-led public
health design engagements.
A ‘Test We Cannot Fail’
COVID-19 has often been called a stress
test for public health. COVID-19 will not
be our last or worst pandemic; our emerg-
ing understanding of the public health
implications of climate change further
spotlights this growing need.
As the future of public health is likely
to become increasingly digital, the
technical understanding and holistic
approach offered by systems engineer-
ing will begin to fill this critical public
health knowledge gap. Fortunately,
efforts are emerging in meeting these
needs. Emory University’s Health
DesignED, the Design Institute for
Health at the Dell Medical School,
Vanderbilt’s Medical Innovators De-
velopment Program, and recent initia-
tives such as those at Johns Hopkins are
examples. The time is ripe for evolving
the field of public health systems engi-
neering. It is something the U.S. public
health system desperately needs.
Woodrow W. Winchester III is a graduate
program director of professional engineer-
ing programs at the University of Mary-
land–Baltimore County. This article was
first published on The Conversation.

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