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billion to manufacturers. ...A3
Manufacturing can be re-
located to Latin America in
lieu of the United States as a
way to speed up the process
of decoupling from China,
Rep. Mark Green says. ... A5
Homeland Security Sec-
retary Alejandro Mayorkas
says that the Biden admin-
istration will work to reunite
families of illegal immigrants,
possibly flying to the United
States the parents of unac-
companied minors caught at
the border. ... A7
A CPAC poll shows that
55 percent of respondents
would vote for President Don-
ald Trump in a hypothetical
primary. ... A3
The head of the union repre-
senting Capitol Police officers
says that “many” are consid-
ering retiring or quitting fol-
lowing the Jan. 6 breach of the
U.S. Capitol. ... A2
The Biden administration
will not release the names
of those attending its White
House virtual meetings, a
White House official says. ...A7
Former French President
Nicolas Sarkozy has been
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CHINA
Calls are mounting from
around the globe for coun-
tries to boycott the Winter
Olympic Games over the Chi-
nese regime’s ongoing abuses
of human rights. ... A1
An internal CCP document
recently leaked to The Epoch
Times exposes an ongoing in-
ternal struggle between the
Chinese leader and the pre-
mier. ... A1
BUSINESS
The World Economic Forum
has taken down a Twitter post
that claimed lockdowns dur-
ing the CCP virus pandemic
“improved” cities around the
globe. ...A17
The February Purchasing
Managers’ Index shows that
the Chinese economy is in-
consistent with the 6 percent
GDP growth optimistically es-
timated. ... A17
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Kimberly Ells: Are We Ready
for Globalized, Socialized,
Sexualized Education?... A13
Star Parker: Reparations
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CHINA
Pressure Piles on US to Boycott
2022 Beijing Olympics
Lawmakers cite Chinese communist regime’s repression of religious
believers, ethnic minorities, and dissidents as reason to boycott the games
BY CATHY HE
W
ith less than a year
until the Winter
Olympics in Beijing,
calls are growing
from around the globe for coun-
tries to boycott the Games over the
Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)
ongoing abuse of human rights.
In the United States, Republican
lawmakers have called for the Games
to be moved out of Beijing, or fail- Continued on A9
WHITE HOUSE
Senior Adviser
Says White
House Will
Start Acting on
Reparations
Without
Congress
BY JACK PHILLIPS
A senior adviser to President Joe
Biden said the White House will
act without Congress to develop
proposals for reparations, or direct
payments to African Americans.
White House senior adviser Ce-
dric Richmond told Axios on Feb.
28:  “We don’t want to wait on a
study. We’re going to start acting
now.”
“We have to start breaking down
systemic racism and barriers that
have held people of color back and
especially African Americans,”
Richmond said. “We have to do
stuff now.”
“If you start talking about free
college tuition to [historically black
colleges and universities] and you
SUPREME COURT
SCOTUS Rejects Lawsuits Challenging Election Results in Wisconsin, Arizona
BY JACK PHILLIPS
The Supreme Court on March 1
formally rejected two of Sidney
Powell’s lawsuits that challenged
the results of the Nov. 3 election.
The Supreme Court didn’t offer
any comment about dismissing the
lawsuits. One lawsuit was filed in
Wisconsin and the other in Arizona.
“The petitions for writs of manda-
mus are denied,” the court stated.
Continued on A5
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
LINTAO ZHANG/GETTY IMAGES
The logo for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is featured in decorations
at the Yanqing Ice Festival in Beijing on Feb. 26, 2021.
ERIN SCOTT-POOL/GETTY IMAGES
ing that, a boycott of the event. They
point to the Chinese regime’s sweep-
ing campaign of repression against
ethnic minorities, religious believ-
ers, and dissidents, with particular
emphasis on its atrocities against
Uyghur Muslims in the autonomous
region of Xinjiang, which the Trump
administration declared a genocide.
Similar calls have been made by
legislators in Canada and the Unit- Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) speaks during
ed Kingdom, as well as more than a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington
on Feb. 23, 2021.
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SUPREME COURT
Advocates for Democratic China Tell
Supreme Court That Protecting Donors’
Identities Is ‘Life and Death Issue’
BY MARK TAPSCOTT
A nonprofit U.S. group seeking
democratic reforms in China asked
the Supreme Court on March 1 to
protect the identities of its members
and donors because actions by the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
could have lethal consequences.
“The liberties that the First
Then-Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) in
NY AG Rejects Cuomo’s Proposal for Probe
Washington on June 17, 2020. BY ISABEL VAN BRUGEN
start talking about free communi- The office of New York At-
ty college in Title I and all of those torney General Letitia
things, I think that you are well on James said on Feb. 28 that
your way,” he said, noting that a she rejected a proposal
timeline for Congress’s commission from  New York Gov. An-
to study reparations wasn’t known. drew Cuomo that she and
Legislation for reparations was the chief judge of the state’s New York
first introduced by Rep. John Cony- Court of Appeals would ap-
Attorney
ers (D-Mich.) in 1989. In recent point an independent inves- General Letitia York’s Court of Appeals, to
years, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D- tigator to review the sexual James.
Texas) has repeatedly introduced harassment claims against
the measure. the governor.
Continued on A4 “To clarify, I do not accept the gov- Continued on A6
CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON/THE EPOCH TIMES
Attorney
Sidney
Powell speak
to media
at a press
conference
at Republican
National
Committee
headquarters
in Washington
on Nov.
19, 2020.
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CHINESE REGIME
Signs of
Infighting
Surface Among
Chinese
Leadership
in Leaked
Document
BY DOROTHY LI
An ongoing internal struggle ex-
ists within the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) between Xi Jinping, the
head of the regime, and Premier Li
Keqiang over their different visions
for the Party’s management of the
nation’s economy, according to an
internal document recently leaked
to The Epoch Times.
The CCDI has been a tool
to consolidate Xi’s control
since he came to power.
The confidential circular, issued
by the Shijiazhuang City Com-
mission for Discipline Inspection
(CDI)—a branch of the CCP’s an-
ti-corruption agency, the Central
Commission for Discipline Inspec-
tion (CCDI)—on May 25, 2020, men-
tioned that the CCDI’s investigation
team conducted research earlier
that month to “coordinate epidemic
prevention and control with eco-
nomic and social development.”
The document shows the CCDI
getting involved in State Council
affairs, giving guidance to local au-
thorities on “resumption of work
and production.” Li, who has the
reins of China’s economy, is the
chair of the State Council.
Under Xi, the CCDI has become the
CCP’s main watchdog. It has been
Continued on A9
Amendment expressly guarantees
depend on a vigorous protection of
the auxiliary freedom of association.
Blanket donor-disclosure regimes
like California’s create an intolerable
risk of exposure and thus severely
abridge that freedom,” First Liberty
Institute FLI) attorneys representing
Washington-based Citizen Power
Continued on A3
NEW YORK
ernor’s proposal,” James said in a
statement. “The state’s Executive
Law clearly gives my office
the authority to investigate
this matter once the gover-
nor provides a referral.”
Cuomo’s office released
a statement earlier on Feb.
28 asking James and Janet
DiFiore, chief judge of New
jointly appoint an indepen-
dent lawyer to investigate the
harassment allegations from Lindsey
CHINESE REGIME
PERRY: CCP IS
TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL
ORGANIZATION
“We need to
designate
them as
that which
recognizes
who and what
they are,” Rep.
Scott Perry said.
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Kash Patel: Former CIA Director Slow-Walked
Declassification of Crossfire Hurricane Documents
ISABEL VAN BRUGEN
& JOSHUA PHILIPP
The release of critical documents
related to “Crossfire Hurricane,”
the FBI’s investigation of former
President Donald Trump’s 2016
campaign, was slow-walked and,
in some cases, blocked by CIA Di-
rector Gina Haspel, former Depu-
ty National Security Adviser Kash
Patel said in an interview Sunday.
Trump, on his last night in of-
fice, ordered the declassifica-
tion of previously confidential
documents related to the flawed
counterintelligence investigation
launched by the FBI in July 2016
to investigate allegations of Rus-
sian interference in the 2016 U.S.
presidential election.
Patel, who assisted the House In-
telligence Committee in uncover-
ing wrongdoing within U.S. intel-
ligence in the probe, said Haspel
worked to prevent key documents
from being declassified. Haspel
resigned from the agency on Jan.
19 without explanation.
“The institutional heads of plac-
es like the CIA and the FBI were
always fighting the release of any
documents, and they would claim
national security issues—you’re
going to harm a source or you’re
going to destroy your relation-
ship,” Patel told The Epoch Times’
“Crossroads” at the  Conserva-
tive Political Action Conference
(CPAC) in Orlando, Florida.
“As Richard Grenell and I
showed, when he was DNI [act-
ing director of U.S. National In-
telligence], there’s ways to do it
to reveal to the American public
the information while protecting
those things,” he said.
“What we can’t have happen
is allow the CIA and the FBI to
cover mistakes of a few selected
Capitol Police Union Head: ‘Many’ Officers
Want to Retire or Quit After Jan. 6
JACK PHILLIPS
The head of the union represent-
ing Capitol Police officers said
that “many” of them are con-
sidering retiring or quitting fol-
lowing the Jan. 6 breach of the
Capitol.
Since January 6th,
several Officers have
retired as a result.
Gus Papathanasiou,
chairman, U.S. Capitol Police
Labor Committee
“Many officers that are retire-
ment eligible are seriously look-
ing at turning in their retirement
papers. Since January 6th, several
Officers have retired as a result,”
Gus Papathanasiou, chairman of
the United States Capitol Police
Labor Committee, said in a state-
ment last week.
“I cannot tell you the number of
younger officers who have con-
fided in me” since the breach at
the Capitol.
Papathanasiou said the nega-
tive sentiment was triggered by “a
lack of trust in our leadership who
clearly failed us on January 6th”
and said other police agencies
elsewhere “offer better working
conditions and better retirement
benefits.”
“If Congress wants to recruit
and retain officers to meet the
heightened security threat, they
are going to have address both
the leadership and quality of life
issues driving officers to leave
this department,” he stated.
Following the incident on Jan. 6,
which occurred during the Joint
Session of Congress to certify the
election, more than 300 people
have been charged in connec-
tion to it.
Former Capitol Police Chief
Steven Sund resigned following
the breach and six Capitol Police
SCREENSHOT VIA THE EPOCH TIMES
Kash Patel at the 2021 Conserva-
tive Political Action Conference in
Orlando on Feb. 28, 2021.
individuals, just because they’re
going to be embarrassed when
they’re revealed,” Patel said. “And
that’s what we proved over and
over again, when we did our dis-
closures.”
He added: “We didn’t get all the
documents we wanted—there’s
one specific report we did that
still remains classified that Gina
[Haspel] prevented from being
declassified while we were there.
So, you know, that’s unfortunate,
and hopefully one day, people will
get to see it all.”
Patel didn’t elaborate on which
specific report Haspel blocked
from being declassified.
Late last year, top Republicans in
a letter expressed frustrations over
Haspel’s failure to produce critical
documents they requested per-
taining to the FBI’s probe.
The CIA didn’t immediately re-
spond to a request for comment
by The Epoch Times.
The Crossfire Hurricane investi-
gation was taken over in May 2017
by then-special counsel and for-
mer FBI Director Robert Mueller.
By April 2019, he concluded that
there was no collusion between
the Trump campaign and Russia
during the 2016 campaign, and
found no evidence of a criminal
conspiracy.
Police officers attempt to push back protesters trying to enter the U.S. Capi-
tol on Jan. 6, 2021.
officers have been suspended.
Another 35 officers are currently
under investigation, officials said
on Feb. 19.
“Our Office of Professional Re-
sponsibility is investigating the
actions of 35 police officers from
that day. We currently have sus-
pended six of those officers with
pay. Acting Chief Yogananda Pit-
tman has directed that any mem-
ber of her department whose be-
havior is not in keeping with the
Department’s Rules of Conduct
will face appropriate discipline,”
the U.S. Capitol Police said in a
statement to local news outlets,
without elaborating.
One officer, U.S. Capitol Police
Officer Brian Sicknick, died fol-
lowing the breach, according to
his family members. A week ago,
his mother, Gladys Sicknick, told
the Daily Mail she doesn’t believe
he was hit in the head with a fire
extinguisher during the fracas,
as some media reports initially
had indicated.
Gina Haspel, then-nominee for CIA director, on Capitol Hill in Washington on
May 9, 2018.
What we can’t have
happen is allow the
CIA and the FBI to
cover mistakes of
a few selected indi-
viduals just because
they’re going to be
embarrassed when
they’re revealed.
Kash Patel, former deputy na-
tional security adviser
SAMUEL CORUM/GETTY IMAGES
“He wasn’t hit on the head, no.
We think he had a stroke, but we
don’t know anything for sure,”
she said on Feb. 22. “We’d love to
know what happened.”
After the breach, The New York
Times, CNN, and other main-
stream outlets reported that Sick-
nick was killed as a result, but in
recent days, they updated reports
saying that his cause of death
hasn’t been determined. The NY
Times was the first to report—cit-
ing anonymous sources—that he
was killed by a fire extinguisher.
The Associated Press, which
cited “two people familiar with
the matter,” reported on Feb. 27
that federal investigators proving
Sicknick’s death have “zeroed in
on a suspect” who appeared to
spray a chemical substance on
the officer before his death.
Capitol Police officials didn’t
immediately respond to a request
by The Epoch Times for comment
regarding Papathanasiou’s state-
ment.
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
One FBI official so far, Kevin
Clinesmith, has been indicted
in a probe by U.S. Attorney John
Durham into the counterintelli-
gence investigation. Clinesmith,
a former lawyer for the law en-
forcement agency, was charged
with altering an email that was
used in the surveillance of former
Trump aide Carter Page. He was
sentenced last month to one year
of probation, a $100 fine, and 400
hours of community service.
A part of the problem, Patel
said, was that the same people
running the investigations and
determining what documents
could be declassified, were some
of the same people who poten-
Democratic Rep. Gonzalez: Biden’s
Immigration Policy ‘Catastrophic’
ZACHARY STIEBER
A Democratic lawmaker has
joined the chorus of Republicans
upset with President Joe Biden’s
immigration policies, saying his
Texas district would be severely
affected.
“We’re in the middle of a pan-
demic, but for thousands of people
to be reaching our border in the
middle of a pandemic in a disor-
derly fashion would be catastroph-
ic to my district,” Rep. Vicente
Gonzalez (D-Texas) said on March
1 during an appearance on CNN,
as border arrivals have spiked af-
ter dropping precipitously during
the Trump administration.
“I have lost over 3,000 citizens
to COVID in my southern border
district. I still have over 1,000 Bor-
der Patrol officers, 500 Customs
agents, and a lot of front-line work-
ers who still haven’t been vacci-
nated who are dealing with this
population when they’re coming.
We need to have a humane, com-
passionate way for people to ask
for asylum in their home countries
or their neighboring countries.
“And if they get the document,
they can get on a plane for $400
and fly in. I think this policy forces
them to make a 2,000-mile walk
that is very dangerous, and they’re
getting raped and pillaged along
the way.”
Gonzalez was responding to a
question about the Biden adminis-
tration choosing not to expel unac-
companied minors that reach the
border, in contrast to the Trump
administration’s stance. He said
he hopes there will be a policy in
place to properly address asylum-
seekers, who were made to wait in
Mexico as their claims were pro-
cessed during the Trump era, but
are now being allowed to wait in
the United States for their claims
to be adjudicated.
Gonzalez has been advocating
for a policy that would enable
asylum-seekers to file claims at
embassies or consulates in their
home county.
tially could have been called out,
incriminated, or were part of the
scandal themselves.
“This is the perfect example
of what congressional oversight
should look like—Congress is a
different branch of government
overseeing the executive branch.
So that’s what we were doing in
the Russiagate investigation,”
Patel said.
“We were looking at the FBI and
DOJ and CIA, but the problem is
Congress doesn’t have tremen-
dous powers like the DOJ or FBI
have. So they are able to institu-
tionally protect themselves by
just putting the guys in charge
and saying, ‘well, you’re not read
into this, and you can’t be a part
of the declassification or the re-
view of this material, because it’s
outside your lane,’” he added. “So
it’s very easy for them to neck it
down and close it off, which is
what they did.”
“Hopefully they go after more
than just Kevin Clinesmith,” Pa-
tel said, adding, “he’s just a small
piece of it.”
“It went all the way to the top,”
Patel said. “And I think we’re not
able to show that because we
don’t have the ability to indict
people.
“But we what we do have is the
following facts: Over 13 high rank-
ing FBI and DOJ officials were
fired, resigned, or retired early
as a result of our investigation.
Now, that doesn’t happen if you
didn’t do anything wrong—you
don’t just leave the department
that you are a member of or lead
for decades, unless you were able
to prove enough abuse, which is
what we successfully did. And I
feel as a former prosecutor that
some of that abuse was criminal,”
he added.
JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES
Asylum seekers register for rapid
COVID-19 tests in an isolation area
at a bus station in Brownsville, Texas,
on Feb. 26, 2021.
“We need to have a policy in place
to prevent children and adults from
making this 2,000-mile walk to our
border. And when we send the
wrong message to Central America,
that if you make it to our southern
border, you’re going to be pro-
cessed and released, you’re going
to—you could pretty much assure
that you’re going to have tens of
thousands of people coming up to
make this very dangerous trek. We
need to find a safer solution to deal
with asylum seekers,” he added.
“I can assure you it won’t be long
before we have tens of thousands
of people showing up to our bor-
der, and it will be catastrophic for
our party, for our country, for my
region, for my district.”
The criticism occurred before
Biden’s Homeland Security secre-
tary told reporters during a brief-
ing that the administration was
rebuilding the immigration sys-
tem “virtually from scratch,” and
might fly parents of unaccompa-
nied minors that reach the border
to the United States for reunifica-
tion purposes.
“We have though, already be-
gun, and to design and in fact,
have begun to implement a new
innovative way to address the
needs of the population that was
forced to remain in Mexico during
the prior administration,” Alejan-
dro Mayorkas said. “For example,
we’ve also begun to rebuild a pro-
cess for young people to be able
to access avenues of protection
without having to take the peril-
ous journey.”
 TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
Human rights activist Yang Jianli speaks at a candlelight vigil to commemorate the victims of the June 4th Tianan-
men Square massacre, at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on June 4, 2018.
Advocates for Democratic China Tell
Supreme Court That Protecting Donors’
Identities Is ‘Life and Death Issue’
CONTINUED FROM A1
Initiatives of China told the high
court in an amicus curiae brief
made available to The Epoch
Times.
“Exposure of a group’s mem-
bers and donors can subject
them to significant reprisals by
the public and therefore dissuade
further membership and dona-
tions, a fact that this Court has
acknowledged when marking
the freedom of association’s con-
tours,” the group said in its brief.
“For our client and its sup-
porters, maintaining privacy is
a matter of life and death,” Kelly
Shackelford, FLI’s president,
CEO, and chief counsel, said
in a statement announcing the
brief. “In today’s ‘Cancel Culture,’
people know it’s unwise to trust
our own government with their
private information, let alone
China. It is vital that the justices
protect donors’ privacy to shield
them from threats, harassment,
and worse.”
The brief was filed in connec-
tion with two cases challenging
a California law requiring pub-
lic disclosure of members and
donors to nonprofit advocacy
groups that receive contributions
Trump Wins CPAC Straw Poll for 2024 Presidential Nominee
JANITA KAN
Former President Donald Trump
is still the most popular candi-
date for the Republican Party’s
2024 presidential nomination,
according to a CPAC straw poll,
with 55 percent of respondents
saying they would vote for him
in a hypothetical primary.
The poll, conducted at the Con-
servative Political Action Confer-
ence (CPAC) from Feb. 25 to 28,
pitted Trump against 20 other
potential GOP primary candi-
dates, including Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis and South Dakota Gov.
Kristi Noem. The results demon-
strate that the former president
still holds a solid grip on the
party, with DeSantis trailing well
behind at 21 percent and Noem
in third place with 4 percent.
Meanwhile, 68 percent of re-
spondents said that they would
like to see Trump run for presi-
dent again in 2024. That com-
pares to 15 percent who said
they wouldn’t, and 17 percent
who said they were unsure.
Respondents also were asked
who they would vote for if Trump
was not a candidate. Polling data
found that DeSantis would then
become the frontrunner with 43
percent support, with Noem and
Donald Trump Jr. trailing at 11
percent and eight percent, re-
spectively.
from residents of the state.
The two cases are Americans for
Prosperity v. Becerra and Thomas
More Law Center v. Becerra.
Former California Attorney
General Xavier Becerra has
been nominated by President Joe
Biden to be Secretary of the De-
partment of Health and Human
Services. First Liberty Institute is
a Plano, Texas-based public in-
terest law firm that specializes in
First Amendment litigation.
“In adjudicating this case, this
Court also should account for the
modern rise of ‘cancel culture,’
and for the reprisals that domes-
tic and foreign governments di-
rect against those who contribute
to groups that dare speak against
their orthodoxy,” the brief stated.
“Among the victims of such
reprisals are donors to religious
ministries and charities and do-
nors to organizations that hold
foreign governments accountable
for their human-rights abuses.
California’s regime—and the
Ninth Circuit’s mistaken ap-
proach upholding it—are insuffi-
cient to protect groups from these
kinds of reprisals, just as they are
insufficient to protect them from
reprisals by the public.”
The issue of donor disclosure
Former President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political
Action Conference, held at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando on Feb. 28, 2021.
“So again, you see how im-
portant to everybody here—the
grassroots, the base of the con-
servative movement, the base of
the Republican Party—it is ei-
ther President Trump or a Trump
candidate,” said pollster Jim
McLaughlin, who announced
the results on Feb. 28. His firm
conducted the poll for CPAC and
The Washington Times.
Ninety-seven percent of the re-
spondents said they approved
of Trump’s job performance as
president, with 87 percent say-
ing that they strongly approved.
“Look at it, probably no one in
SAMIRA BOUAOU/THE EPOCH TIMES
and retaliation first came to the
fore in contemporary politics
in 2014, when then-Mozilla co-
founder Brendan Eich resigned as
chief executive officer after it was
disclosed that he had contributed
$1,000 to a California proposition
campaign on behalf of traditional
marriage between a man and a
woman.
In the brief, FLI argued that
“the First Amendment expressly
guarantees the free exercise of
religion, the freedoms of speech
and of the press, and the right
of peaceful assembly and peti-
tion, but these cherished liberties
necessarily imply the freedom of
association.
“As this Court has recognized,
‘effective advocacy of both public
and private points of view, par-
ticularly controversial ones, is
undeniably enhanced by group
association,’ and ‘it is beyond de-
bate that freedom to engage in as-
sociation for the advancement of
beliefs and ideas’ is protected by
the Constitution,” citing the land-
mark 1958 decision in NAACP v.
Alabama.
In the 1958 case, the Court
upheld the right of donors and
members to the NAACP to main-
tain their anonymity in order to
JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES
the history of the conservative
movement has earned your sup-
port the way this president has,”
McLaughlin said.
The poll also found that 95
percent of the respondents
would like Republicans to con-
tinue with Trump’s America
First agenda, with only 3 percent
saying they would like to see a
change in direction.
This comes as Republicans as-
sess the path forward in a post-
Trump presidency. While some
Republicans, including Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McCon-
nell (R-Ky.), have called for the
insulate them from reprisals by
Democratic officials in the highly
segregated state.
The liberties that
the First Amend-
ment expressly
guarantees de-
pend on a vigorous
protection of the
auxiliary freedom
of association.
First Liberty Institute
“Likewise, group association
is vital to—and an implicit com-
ponent of—the free exercise of
religion,” the brief continued,
citing Gibson v. Fla. Legislative
Investigative Commission in
1963. “Registering as a student
in a school or joining a faculty is
as vital to freedom of expression
as joining a church is to the free
exercise of religion.”
First Amendment freedom of
association, the brief argued,
“would mean little if the gov-
ernment had carte blanche to
compel the disclosure of an as-
sociation’s members or donors,
and this Court, therefore, has
subjected such disclosures to
‘exacting scrutiny,’” citing the
1976 decision in Buckley v. Valeo.
The brief argued that retaliation
can take the form of harassment,
economic reprisals such as loss of
jobs, physical threats, and other
forms of public hostility.
Citizen Power’s founder and
president, Dr. Yang Jianli, nar-
rowly escaped capture as he wit-
nessed the Tiananmen Square
Massacre.
Following his return to China,
he was imprisoned until diplo-
matic efforts by the international
community—including the Unit-
ed States—procured his release.
Immediately following his return
to the United States, he formed
Citizen Power Initiatives, which
has seen at least one of its major
donors imprisoned in China.
Jianli has two doctorate de-
grees, in mathematics from the
University of California at Berke-
ley and in political economics
from the Harvard Kennedy
School of Government.
China Power’s chairman is Da-
vid King, who is the senior lectur-
er in public policy at The Harvard
Kennedy School and faculty chair
of the Master in Public Adminis-
tration program.
Contact Mark Tapscott at
Mark.Tapscott@epochtimes.nyc
party to move away from Trump,
most support the former presi-
dent and his agenda.
The polling results were re-
leased just before Trump was
scheduled to address the audi-
ence at the annual conservative
event. His speech at CPAC was
the former president’s first major
public appearance since leaving
office.
During that speech, Trump
said that his “Make America
Great Again” movement, which
has been his vision these past
four years, is “far from over.”
“We all knew that the Biden
Administration was going to be
bad—but none of us imagined
just how bad they would be,
and how far left they would go,”
he said. “Joe Biden has had the
most disastrous first month of
any president in modern history.
“I stand before you today to de-
clare that the incredible journey
we began together four years ago
is far from over.”
He also shared his assessment
of where he thinks Biden’s ad-
ministration is headed, spoke
out against the Chinese com-
munist regime and socialism,
and criticized Big Tech for its
censorship of conservatives.
The poll was conducted among
1,007 attendees at CPAC, which
was held at the Hyatt Regency
hotel in Orlando.
NATION | A3
DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) attends
the State of the Union address in the
chamber of the House of Representa-
tives in Washington on Feb. 4, 2020.
Manchin,
Stabenow Unveil
Bill to Incentivize
US Clean
Energy Jobs
ZACHARY STIEBER
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and
Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) are
seeking to drive investment in ru-
ral America by proposing legisla-
tion that would allocate $8 billion
to manufacturers and other indus-
trial companies to retool, expand,
or build new facilities that make or
recycle energy-related products.
Possible products include equip-
ment needed for alternative energy
and energy efficiency efforts, such as
geothermal drills, and products or
technologies that capture, remove,
use, or store carbon dioxide.
The bill would amend the tax code
to enhance an existing advanced
energy credit.
“The downturn of the coal indus-
try has left many Americans with-
out the good-paying jobs they once
relied on and, more often than not,
a lack of new opportunity. The neg-
ative impact is felt by local econo-
mies across the country. I believe
that tax credits to help incentivize
the transition to a cleaner energy
future should be targeted to drive
reinvestment in the communities
who are the most impacted by that
transition, and that’s exactly what
the American Jobs in Energy Manu-
facturing Act of 2021 will do,” Man-
chin, who chairs the Senate Energy
and Natural Resources Committee,
said in a statement.
The legislation will bring jobs
back to the United States and spur
economic growth, the Democrat
asserted, calling on Republicans
to support it.
According to the U.S. Energy In-
formation Administration, the to-
tal annual coal production in the
country fell to 706 million short tons
in 2019, a 7 percent decrease from
a year earlier and the lowest level
since 1978, when production was
crippled by a mining strike.
“Transitioning to a clean energy
economy creates significant oppor-
tunities for Michigan to put people
to work in good-paying jobs in in-
dustries that are key to combatting
the climate crisis,” Stabenow added.
“Unfortunately, we have fallen be-
hind countries like China, and the
COVID-19 crisis has exposed gaps
in our domestic manufacturing. The
good news is, we can do something
about it. I introduced the American
Jobs in Energy Manufacturing Act
to address our supply chain short-
ages and drive investment in clean
energy, automotive, and battery
manufacturing. This bill ensures
that America—not China—will lead
the way in the clean energy revolu-
tion.”
The proposal has drawn support
from the Third Way, which describes
itself as a centrist think tank, the
BlueGreen Alliance, and the Na-
tional Wildlife Federation, among
other groups.
A previous version of this tax credit
helped accelerate the nation’s re-
covery from the last recession, Ryan
Fitzpatrick, director of the Climate
and Energy Program at Third Way,
said in a statement.
The legislation would modernize
“his proven economy-boosting tool
to meet today’s needs, keep U.S. in-
dustries and workers ahead of the
curve in clean energy technologies,
help facilities significantly reduce
their pollution, and spur investment
in communities impacted by global
shifts in energy and manufactur-
ing,” he said, adding that it would
“boost American competitiveness
against other manufacturing pow-
erhouses like China.”
A4 | NATION TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021

Adviser to Florida’s Governor Touts State’s

Success Against COVID-19
CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
ZACHARY STIEBER &
JAN JEKIELEK

A free-market advocate who

helped advise Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis on how to combat CO-
VID-19 said on Feb. 28 that the
state’s success navigating the
pandemic stemmed from a flex-
ible approach.

There was no
way that the gov-
ernor could have
kind of this top-
down, one-size-
fits-all response
to this issue.
Robert McClure, CEO,
James Madison Institute

“When the virus initially hit,

no one knew what to do, really,
anywhere in the country. All of
the ‘experts’ were wrong initially.
And so after the initial two-week
lockdown, if you remember ‘two
weeks to slow the spread,’ Gov.
Ron DeSantis decided to do really
three things,” Robert McClure,
president and CEO of the James
Madison Institute, told The Ep-
och Times’ “American Thought
Leaders” program during CPAC
21 in Florida.
“He said, first we’re going to pro-
tect the most vulnerable, which
were the elderly—Florida has the
second-largest elderly popula-
tion in the country. We were go-
ing to protect the immunocom-
promised, those with issues all
around the state. And then third,
we’re not going to close down our
state’s economy; we are going to
socially distance, we’re going to
wear masks where appropriate,
but we are going to trust the peo-
ple of Florida to make the deci-
sions that were best for them.”
McClure’s think tank, based in
People walk on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Fla., on June 26, 2020.
Tallahassee, was part of a reopen-
ing task force that DeSantis took
advice from when deciding which
rules to issue in 2020.
DeSantis, like the overwhelm-
ing majority of governors in the
country, forced many businesses
to close down in March 2020 and
enacted restrictions on individ-
uals. But he was among the first
governors to ease rules, as state of-
ficials chose to focus on protecting
the elderly and others with serious
underlying illnesses while keep-
ing statewide restrictions light for
the general population.
“Every Floridian has a right to
earn a living and all businesses
have a right to operate,” DeSan-
tis, a Republican, told a crowd at
CPAC. “Florida got it right and the
lockdown states got it wrong.”
According to federal data, Flor-
ida has seen 144 deaths involving
COVID-19 per 100,000 residents
since the beginning of the pan-
demic. That compares favorably
with large states that enacted
stricter measures. New York, for
instance, has seen 245 deaths per
100,000 residents.
McClure noted that Florida is a
diverse state, comparing Miami-
Dade County’s 2.7 million people
with the state’s smallest county,
Liberty County, which has just
10,000 residents.
“There was no way that the gov-
ernor could have kind of this top-
down, one-size-fits-all response
to this issue. So he allowed each
municipality, each county to make
their own decisions. And he said
we are not going to close down the
state of Florida. And so that’s how
you had the genesis of keeping
our economy open, unlike a lot of
other states around the country,”
he told The Epoch Times.
Lockdowns as a result of the CCP
(Chinese Communist Party) virus,
which causes COVID-19, have
wreaked devastation across the
country, but Florida has done
well to date protecting its sizable
elderly population with focused
measures.
“You have the second-largest
senior population in the coun-
try, and many of them are vibrant
and healthy and still work, and
yet, they’re more at risk than, say,
you or I. And so there was a level of
quarantining if you had been ex-
posed, contact tracing and those
kinds of things,” he said.
“Those are all perfectly logical
responses to a virus that has been
devastating across the country. ...
But we never closed our economy.
Small businesses stayed open;
small businesses represent 40
percent of the state’s economy.
Now tourism is the biggest driver
of the state’s economy. Agricul-
ture, tourism, and small business
are kind of the three-legged stool
for Florida. And so closing down
those businesses would have been
devastating.”

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Senior Biden Adviser Says White House Will

Start Acting on Reparations Without Congress
CONTINUED FROM A1
White House press secretary Jen
Psaki last month told reporters that
Biden is open to creating a com-
mission to study the proposal.
“He certainly would support a
study of reparations,” she said.
“He understands we don’t need a
study to take action right now on
systemic racism, so he wants to
take actions within his own gov-
ernment in the meantime.”
The idea of reparations has been
flagged as problematic for a vari-
ety of reasons, including how re-
cipients of reparations would be
We don’t want to
wait on a study.
We’re going to
start acting now.
Cedric Richmond,
White House senior adviser
selected, how much would be doled
out, who would foot the bill, and
how much it would actually cost.
House Majority Whip Jim Cly-
burn (D-S.C.) said in 2019 to the
Post and Courier that “pure repa-
rations would be impossible to im-
plement, but we can deal with the
issue [of racial inequality] if we just
admit, first of all, that it exists and
then come up with some straight-
forward ways to deal with it.”
In the interview, Clyburn said a
debate about reparations would
lead to a debate about who would
be eligible due to extensive family
trees that have come about since
the abolition of slavery more than
150 years ago. Clyburn said that
some white people could make
claims to reparations, saying they
have family ties to former slaves.
“Is that a fair way to do it?” Cly- Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Wash-
burn asked. “I say not.” ington on Oct. 2, 2020.

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 TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
Biden Still
Committed to
Raising Minimum
Wage: White House
Press Secretary
ZACHARY STIEBER
President Joe Biden is committed
to raising the minimum wage after
a Senate rules expert declared the
provision ineligible for the current
form of the latest COVID-19 relief
package, his press secretary said.
“He can’t do it on his own, but he
is absolutely committed to raising
the minimum wage to $15 an hour,”
White House press secretary Jen
Psaki said on Feb. 28.
He is absolutely
committed to
raising the mini-
mum wage to $15
an hour.
Jen Psaki,
White House press secretary
“He thinks it’s long overdue. He
believes that men and women who
are working hard, trying to make
ends meet, should have—should
not be living at the poverty level.
And we’re going to spend the next
few days and weeks looking for the
best path forward, working with
Democrats and Republicans, hope-
Rep. Green Suggests Latin America as
Manufacturing Option to Decouple From China
ZACHARY STIEBER
Manufacturing can be relocated to
Latin America in lieu of the United
States as a way to speed up the pro-
cess of decoupling from China, Rep.
Mark Green (R-Tenn.) says.
Green was recently named
the ranking member of the Western
Hemisphere Subcommittee in the
House of Representatives.
“So, as as I contemplate what’s go-
ing on in Latin America, because of
China’s commodity boom—they
came in and got the oil and the
metals—I realized that that cre-
ated currency issues over the last
15 years for South America, Central
America. And because their cur-
rency suddenly became very valu-
able to the Chinese, it became very
inexpensive for them to buy Chi-
nese manufactured goods,” Green
told The Epoch Times’ “American
Thought Leaders” program.
“So instead of developing their
own manufacturing base, they
bought stuff from China. And that’s
hurt their employment in the man-
ufacturing sector in Latin America,
Central America,” said Green, who
spoke on the sidelines of the Con-
servative Political Action Confer-
ence in Florida over the weekend.
With the increasing recognition
during the COVID-19 pandemic
that the United States should de-
couple or pare its dependency on
China-based manufacturing, the
Latin America situation presents
an opportunity, Green says.
“We can use and direct some of
the development dollars to Latin
America to increase manufactur-
ing there. Companies—especially
American companies—that their
business model doesn’t support
them coming back to America for
the cost of labor, let’s send them
to Latin America. We’ll create a
manufacturing base that will cre-
ate jobs there, which will work
with our immigration issue, and
help our immigration; whenever
you create jobs in Latin America,
you decrease the flow across our
southern border,” he said.
“So this is a win-win-win. De-
coupling from China, helping our
friends to the south, and helping
fully, to do exactly that.”
Congressional Democrats, with
Biden’s backing, are pushing his
relief bill through both chambers
with no apparent Republican sup-
port by utilizing a budget process
that’s been used for various propos-
als in the past.
Budget reconciliation requires a
simple majority in the Senate, as op-
posed to the normal 60-vote thresh-
old. That enables Democrats to pass
it with no Republican votes, as they
hold 50 seats and the tiebreaking
vote that the vice president can cast.
But the body’s chief parliamentar-
ian ruled last week that a minimum
wage hike couldn’t be included in
the bill because of rules governing
the budget process. House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) kept the pro-
vision in the version the chamber
later passed, but the White House
has said Vice President Kamala
Harris, the president of the Senate,
will not try to overrule the rules
expert.
Senate Democrats are now work-
ing on alternatives, including a pen-
alty on large corporations that don’t
pay their workers a certain amount.
Psaki said the White House hasn’t
yet reviewed a proposal from Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that would
both penalize corporations and
Employees work at the Colombian brand Arequipe’s clothing factory in
Bogotá, Colombia, on July 2, 2020.
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) (R) confers with an aide during a House Oversight
And Reform Committee hearing, in the Rayburn House Office Building on Cap-
itol Hill in Washington, on March 11, 2020.
our southern border immigration
issue.”
Several Democrats have indi-
cated their support for that view-
point, Green said, adding that he
hopes to bring up the issue on the
House floor.
Green has also worked on leg-
islation that would fully fund a
U.S.-based company returning
operations to the United States by
allowing firms a tax write-off for the
cost of the move.
“There are also a lot of other things
we have to do and in that national
security manufacturing piece, but
that’s one of my bills,” he said.
President Joe Biden signs an executive order on the economy, with Vice President Kamala Harris looking on, in the
State Dining Room of the White House on Feb. 24, 2021.
give incentives to small businesses
to pay their workers more.
“The president supports exactly
what Sen. Sanders does, which is
increasing the minimum wage for
the American people, for workers
who are just trying to make ends
meet,” she said. “We’re going to
have to spend the next several days
or even weeks figuring out what the
best path forward is, but he’s com-
mitted to doing that.”
The federal minimum wage is
currently $7.25 an hour. It was last
raised in 2009. But 27 states have
higher minimum wages. If states
have a higher wage floor than the
federal minimum wage, then em-
ployees are entitled to the higher
of the two.
Even before the parliamentarian
ruled against including the wage in
the new package, Sen. Joe Manchin
GUILLERMO LEGARIA/GETTY IMAGES
DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
In a letter last year to congressio-
nal leadership, Green urged them
to include incentives for U.S. com-
panies to reshore from China.
“We should temporarily allow
American companies that move
back from China to expense 100%
of the moving costs. And, while,
I’m personally no fan of tariffs, we
should pay for it with the existing
tariffs President Trump levied on
China, as long as they remain. The
American people have suffered
enough—and the American tax-
payer has paid enough—for a vi-
rus they had no part in causing. It’s
time to let China pay for it,” he said.
(D-W.Va.) signaled that he didn’t
want it increased so much, putting
the provision in peril. He proposed
increasing it to $11 across two years.
Republicans have argued that
the hike doesn’t belong in a relief
package and should be dealt with
separately. Two GOP senators re-
cently introduced a bill that would
increase the wage to $10 an hour
by 2025 while another announced
legislation that would force big
companies to pay their workers at
least $15 an hour.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on
Feb. 28 said the relief package in-
cludes a number of measures that
have nothing to do with relief.
“There’s $100 million for an un-
derground transit system in the Sili-
con Valley. There’s a bridge in New
York. There’s hundreds of millions
of dollars for the arts and so on.
Supreme Court Rejects Sidney Powell’s
Lawsuits Challenging Election Results
in Wisconsin, Arizona
CONTINUED FROM A1
One of Powell’s mandamus
petitions stated: “A submission
directly to this Court seeking an
extraordinary writ of mandamus
is unusual, but it has its founda-
tion. While such relief is rare, this
Court will grant it ‘where a ques-
tion of public importance is in-
volved, or where the question is of
such a nature that it is peculiarly
appropriate that such action by
this Court should be taken.’”
The Supreme
Court didn’t offer
any comment
about dismissing
the lawsuits. One
lawsuit was filed
in Wisconsin and
the other in
Arizona.
Powell didn’t post any comment
on the decision on her Telegram
account, nor respond to a request
by The Epoch Times for comment,
by press time.
A day before President Joe
Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20,
Powell withdrew another lawsuit
in the Supreme Court challenging
Georgia’s election results.
Powell also announced that she
launched a super PAC dedicated
to freedom of speech, constitu-
tional rights, and “the sacred right
of free and fair elections.”
Powell in late January said she
created the Restore the Republic
Super PAC, which is an indepen-
dent expenditure-only political
action committee that may re-
ceive unlimited contributions and
may engage in unlimited political
spending on initiatives, provided
it doesn’t coordinate directly with
campaigns or candidates.
“The American people deserve
a voice that exposes and rejects
the self-interest of political par-
ties, the control of tech giants, and
the lies of the fake news,” she said.
NATION | A5
DOUG MILLS-POOL/GETTY IMAGES
There are things that have nothing
to do with COVID that are unre-
lated. Minimum wage was one, of
course,” he said.
But Democrats have said it’s re-
lated to helping people amid the
pandemic.
“I basically support raising the
minimum wage in the COVID bill
because that is a huge part of eco-
nomic recovery,” Sen. Mazie Hirono
(D-Hawaii) said. “The people who
are suffering most from the mini-
mum wage and what’s happening
in the pandemic are the essential
workers, many of them are women,
and many of them are getting paid
very low wages.”
Psaki was speaking during ap-
pearances on “Fox News Sunday”
and CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Portman and Hirono appeared on
ABC’s “This Week.”
Meanwhile, after the Jan. 6 Capi-
tol breach, Twitter suspended the
accounts belonging to a number
of conservatives, including Pow-
ell. Powell, in a statement to The
Epoch Times at the time, said
there “was no warning at all”
about her Twitter account being
deleted, adding that “it is stun-
ning.”
“Twitter’s actions and those of
banks who shut down accounts
of people who went to DC are fas-
cism in its purest form. ... It is a
communist coup that has been
long and well-planned,” she said
in a January email.
Powell, who successfully de-
fended retired Army Lt. Gen.
Michael Flynn, was introduced
by the Trump legal team in No-
vember 2020, although the team
later distanced themselves from
her and said she was now working
independently.
Separately, Dominion Voting
Systems filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit
against Powell as well as similar
lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani
and Mike Lindell. Powell’s lawyer,
Lin Wood, implied in statements
last month that she did nothing
wrong.
“Sidney and I will not be intim-
idated,” Wood said, adding that
he and Powell “will not go quietly
into the night.”
Tom Ozimek contributed
to this report.
LYNN LIN/THE EPOCH TIMES
Attorney Sidney Powell speaks dur-
ing a press conference in Alpharetta,
Ga., on Dec. 2, 2020.
A6 | NATION
New York AG Rejects
Cuomo’s Proposal
for Independent
Probe Into Sexual
Harassment Claims
CONTINUED FROM A1
Boylan, the former deputy secre-
tary for economic development
and special adviser to Cuomo, and
Charlotte Bennett, another former
aide to the governor.
James and DiFiore should jointly
select “an independent and quali-
fied lawyer in private practice
without political affiliation to
conduct a thorough review of the
matter and issue a public report,”
said Beth Garvey, special counsel
to the governor.
That public report would be
exclusively controlled by the at-
torney conducting the review,
Garvey said.
James on Feb. 28 called on Cuo-
mo, a third-term Democrat, to is-
sue an executive order putting
her exclusively in charge of the
probe, saying it would empower
her to issue subpoenas, enforce-
able in court.
“While I have deep respect for
Chief Judge DiFiore, I am the duly
elected attorney general and it
is my responsibility to carry out
this task, per Executive Law,”
James said in a statement. “The
governor must provide this refer-
ral so an independent investiga-
tion with subpoena power can be
conducted.”
Boylan, a Democrat running for
Manhattan borough president, in a
post published on the website Me-
dium last week, accused Cuomo
of making inappropriate remarks,
and allegedly touching and kissing
her without consent. She said he
would go out of his way to “touch
me on my lower back, arms, and
legs,” compare her to one of his
rumored former girlfriends, and
Rudy Giuliani speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on
Jan. 6, 2021.
YouTube Suspends Rudy
Giuliani Over ‘Election
Integrity Policy,’ Nicotine Use
JACK PHILLIPS
Google-owned YouTube suspend-
ed former New York City Mayor
Rudy Giuliani’s channel for a sec-
ond time, claiming that he violated
the platform’s policies surround-
ing the election.
YouTube confirmed to news out-
lets that the ban isn’t permanent.
Giuliani won’t be able to upload
videos for two weeks.
“We removed content from the
Rudy W. Giuliani channel for vio-
lating our sale of regulated goods
policy, which prohibits content fa-
cilitating the use of nicotine, and
our presidential election integrity
policy,” a YouTube spokeswoman
said in a statement to Bloomberg
and other outlets.
“Additionally, in accordance
with our long standing strikes sys-
tem, we issued a strike against the
Rudy W. Giuliani channel, which
once suggested that they should
“play strip poker” on a flight from
an event in October 2017.
Bennett, a former executive as-
sistant and health policy adviser
to Cuomo, accused the governor of
sexually harassing her, including
asking inappropriate questions.
“I understood that the gover-
nor wanted to sleep with me, and
felt horribly uncomfortable and
scared,” Bennett told The New
York Times. “And was wondering
how I was going to get out of it and
assumed it was the end of my job.”
Cuomo’s office has denied the
allegations from both Boylan and
Bennett. However, the Democratic
governor released a statement on
Feb. 28 acknowledging that some
of his interactions with women
“may have been insensitive or too
personal.”
The statement maintained that
Cuomo has “never inappropriately
touched anybody” and said the
office would cooperate with an
investigation.
“I now understand that my inter-
actions may have been insensitive
or too personal and that some of
my comments, given my position,
made others feel in ways I never
intended. I acknowledge some of
the things I have said have been
misinterpreted as an unwanted
flirtation. To the extent anyone felt
that way, I am truly sorry about
that,” Cuomo said.
“To be clear, I never inappro-
priately touched anybody and I
never propositioned anybody and
I never intended to make anyone
feel uncomfortable, but these are
allegations that New Yorkers de-
serve answers to.”
James said on Twitter that her
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temporarily restricts uploading or
live-streaming.”
The “nicotine use” portion could
be in reference to Giuliani’s pro-
motion of cigars and cigar com-
panies during his YouTube videos.
The Epoch Times reached out
to YouTube and Giuliani for com-
ment.
Giuliani, a former prosecutor,
served as former President Don-
ald Trump’s lawyer as his team
unsuccessfully challenged the
results of the election in several
states. Giuliani and lawyer Jenna
Ellis also held hearings with sev-
eral state lawmakers about elec-
tion integrity.
YouTube previously suspended
Giuliani’s account in January,
citing his content about the 2020
election. If he is suspended again
for a third time, the account will
be permanently banned.
The move is certain to trigger
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a news conference in New York on Aug. 6, 2020.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference in Brooklyn,
N.Y., on Feb. 22, 2021.
office expects “to receive a re-
ferral with subpoena power to
investigate allegations of sexual
harassment against the governor,
in line with our demands and
New York state law. The referral
would be made solely to the at-
torney general’s office.”
“This is not a responsibility we
take lightly,” James added. “We
will hire a law firm, deputize
them as attorneys of our office,
and oversee a rigorous and inde-
pendent investigation.”
The White House has called on
YouTube previ-
ously suspended
Giuliani’s account
in January.
criticism over Big Tech’s censor-
ship of dissenting viewpoints.
YouTube drew condemnation
last week when it removed a News-
max video that included an inter-
view with Trump.
A Google spokesperson told
The Epoch Times via email: “We
have clear Community Guidelines
that govern what videos may stay
on YouTube, and we enforce our
Community Guidelines consis-
tently, regardless of speaker and
without regard to political view-
points.”
Around the same time, the firm
removed a video of an attorney
testifying to the Ohio legislature
and claimed it included COVID-19
misinformation. In a similar move,
YouTube also removed testimony
given by a lawyer for Trump dur-
ing a U.S. congressional hearing.
During his Feb. 28 speech at
CPAC in Florida, Trump told a
crowd that Big Tech firms such as
Google, Twitter, Facebook, and
Amazon should be punished by
states if those firms “silence con-
servative voices.”
“The time has come to break up
Big Tech monopolies and restore
fair competition,” he said, adding
that Section 230—a law that is part
of the Communications Decency
Act of 1996—must be repealed or
changed.
“All of the election integrity mea-
sures in the world will mean noth-
ing if we don’t have free speech,”
Trump said. “If Republicans can
be censored for speaking the truth
and calling out corruption, we will
not have democracy and we will
only have left-wing tyranny.”
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
SETH WENIG/POOL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Cuomo to face an “independent re-
view” over the sexual harassment
allegations. White House press
secretary Jen Psaki described the
allegations as “serious.”
“It was hard to read that story,
as a woman,” Psaki said during
an appearance on CNN’s “State
of the Union.”
The 63-year-old governor is fac-
ing increasing calls to resign fol-
lowing the sexual harassment al-
legations, which come at a time
when he’s facing intense scrutiny
over how his state handled the
CA Teachers’ Union Head Seen
Taking Daughter to In-person Preschool
Amid School Closures
JACK PHILLIPS
The head of a local California teach-
ers’ union has come under fire in
recent days after a video showed
him taking his 2-year-old daughter
to a private preschool for in-person
instruction—as public schools re-
main closed in many cities across
the state.
A group of Berkeley-area parents
known as Guerrilla Momz posted
the video on YouTube on Feb. 27
and wrote: “Matt Meyer Berkeley
Federation of Teachers president
blocks opening public schools in-
person, yet has had his own child
in in-person school since June 2020.
Stop the hypocrisy. Our children
are suffering. Open schools full-
time Now.”
Meyer appeared to confirm the
incident to Fox News and other
news outlets. He  told Fox News
that the video of his child, who
was blurred out, was “very inap-
propriate” and an intrusion on her
privacy.
There are currently “no public op-
tions for kids her age,” he said.
“There are major differences in
running a small preschool and a
10,000-student public school dis-
trict in terms of size, facilities, pub-
lic health guidance, and services
that legally have to be provided,”
Meyer said.
“We all want a safe return to
school. The Berkeley Federation of
Teachers is excited that Berkeley
Unified will be reopening soon with
a plan, supported by our members
and the district, to get our students
back in classrooms starting later
this month.”
Union officials didn’t immedi-
ately respond to a request by The
REUTERS/BRENDAN MCDERMID
COVID-19 pandemic.
New York state Sen. Alessandra
Biaggi, a Democrat, called for
Cuomo’s resignation in a Twitter
post on Feb. 27.
“As a New Yorker, a legislator,
Chair of the Senate Ethics and
Internal Governance Committee,
and a survivor of sexual abuse, I
am calling for Governor Cuomo
to resign,” Biaggi wrote.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on
Feb. 27 said the governor should
“immediately resign,” calling him
a “criminal sexual predator.”
Bennett’s account of “Cuomo’s
sickening workplace sexual ha-
rassment and grooming” is “so
horrific it makes your skin crawl,”
she said in a statement.
U.S. House Judiciary Commit-
tee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-
N.Y.) called on Cuomo to refer the
probe to James, as is tradition in
the state.
“As has become standard prac-
tice in the State of New York
when allegations relate directly
to the Executive, Governor Cuo-
mo should refer the matter to the
Attorney General, who should,
in turn, appoint an independent
investigator,” Nadler said Feb. 27.
Cuomo’s office didn’t immedi-
ately respond to a request by The
Epoch Times for comment.
Epoch Times for comment.
The Berkeley Unified School Dis-
trict reached an agreement with the
Berkeley Federation of Teachers in
February to reopen public schools
in March and April, according to a
statement. It depends on whether
staff members get COVID-19 vac-
cinations.
Jonathan Zachreson, with a Gue-
rilla Momz-affiliated group called
Reopen California Schools, told
KNTV in the Bay Area that the
video suggests that parents are
becoming increasingly frustrated
with schools being locked down
amid the CCP virus pandemic.
“It’s really a message of hypocrisy
where we see this union represen-
tative saying it’s not safe to go back,
yet he feels safe enough to take his
daughter to an in-person institu-
tion,” he said.
In recent days, there have been
protests by parents and students
in other parts of California calling
for public schools to be reopened.
Parents have said that in-person
learning is necessary for a child’s
development, saying that virtual
learning, which has been pushed
since the start of the pandemic, is
insufficient.
Mara Kolesas, a former PTA
Berkeley Council president, told
KQED that the video of Meyer’s
daughter went too far.
“For me, you don’t need to attack
people personally, you need to ad-
dress it politically. When you start
getting personal, you mix up di-
mensions, and you don’t get to dis-
cuss the real thing,” Kolesas stated.
“Here, the real thing is [Meyer] put
fear before science, and the right
of teachers before the right of kids.
That’s the issue.”
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Biden Won’t Release Virtual Visitor

Logs Amid Calls for Transparency President Joe Biden leaves the Oval Office prior to
boarding Marine One on Feb. 12, 2021.

ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES

BOWEN XIAO

The Biden administration isn’t

releasing the names of those at-
tending its White House virtual
meetings, despite recent calls
from political groups calling for
more transparency.
While the White House has pre-
viously committed to releasing in-
person visitor logs, virtual meet-
ings have since become the main
mode of interaction amid the CCP
(Chinese Communist Party) virus
pandemic.
An unidentified White House
official confirmed to Politico that
the Biden administration wouldn’t
release the virtual logs.
“Virtual meetings will not be
subject to release—in the same
way that previous administrations
didn’t release phone logs—but
we’re planning on regularly releas-
ing the attendee lists for in-person
meetings at the White House,” the
official told the outlet on March 1.
Biden administration officials
didn’t immediately respond to a
request by The Epoch Times for
comment.
There have been other critiques
related to transparency: The sched- vowed to be transparent. Psaki said information. affiliation of each visitor, the date of ered to White House legal counsel
ules for Biden and Vice President on Jan. 20 that Biden plans to “bring One such group, called “Open the the visit, the name of the person be- Dana Remus.
Kamala Harris aren’t posted on- transparency and truth back to the Government,” sent a letter to the ing visited, and a general descrip- Open the Government also
line, the White House comment government to share the truth, even White House in February calling tion of the reason for the visit,” the requested a meeting with the
line is shut down, and there are when it’s hard to hear.” Psaki also on the administration to “change letter states. administration “to discuss ad-
no citizen petitions on the White told reporters in her first briefing course and immediately begin pre- “The issue of virtual visits also ditional presidential records-
House’s website, Politico reported. that she has a “deep respect for the paring virtual visitor logs for public raises important records man- related recommendations many
When asked if the details of vir- role of a free and independent press release.” agement questions, as materials of our organizations made in our
tual meetings would be disclosed, in our democracy.” “All visitor logs—whether for in- associated with virtual meetings Accountability 2021 agenda and
White House press secretary Jen In recent months, more than a person visits or the virtual meet- clearly constitute presidential re- elsewhere.”
Psaki told reporters during a Feb. 2 dozen organizations and political ings that have replaced them cords according to the Presidential Some of the recommendations
briefing, “At this point, there’s not a transparency groups have been during the pandemic—should be Records Act,” the letter said. include restricting the use of disap-
discussion of making virtual meet- putting pressure on the admin- made available online in a search- More than a dozen other trans- pearing message apps for govern-
ings a part of what’s released.” istration to disclose information able, sortable, downloadable data- parency and ethics organizations ment business, and of modernizing
The Biden administration has relating to its virtual logs and other base that includes the name and signed the letter, which was deliv- records management systems.

US Focused on Reuniting Illegal Immigrant Gab CEO Responds After Hackers

Families, DHS’s Mayorkas Says Target Social Media Site
HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES ZACHARY STIEBER
ZACHARY STIEBER
Gab’s CEO on Feb. 28 said his ac- The entire com-
The top official at the Department count was among those compro- pany is all hands
of Homeland Security said on mised in a hack of the social media investigating what
March 1 that the Biden admin- website.
istration believes it is a “moral “The same people behind this happened.
imperative” to reunite families of attack targeted law enforcement Andrew Torba,
illegal immigrants, as he blamed officers and their family members CEO, Gab
the previous administration for last summer. The feds are treating
the waves of people that agents them as a criminal hacker organi- leased hacked law enforcement
have encountered at the southern zation. We are working with our data, information from compa-
border in recent weeks. partners in law enforcement on nies in Burma, and data from dark
Homeland Security Secretary this issue,” Andrew Torba, founder websites. The group’s account is
Alejandro Mayorkas, who is head- and CEO of Gab, wrote. currently suspended on Twitter,
ing a task force dedicated to fam- He said his account and one which has policies against pub-
ily reunification at the direction of linked to former President Donald lishing hacked materials. Its web-
President Joe Biden, said options Trump, which isn’t directly used site was offline on March 1.
include flying to the United States by Trump, were compromised Torba in a previous blog post
the parents of unaccompanied mi- Families of migrants registered under the Migrant Protection Protocols, cross just before Trump took the stage said that, after inquiries from re-
nors caught at the border. into the United States accompanied by staff from the U.N. International Orga- at the Conservative Political Ac- porters, workers had “searched
nization for Migration, through the Paso del Norte-Santa Fe international
“We are hoping to reunite the bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Feb. 26, 2021. tion Conference in Florida. high and low for chatter on the
families either here or in the coun- “The entire company is all hands breach on the Internet and can
try of origin; we hope to be in a po- investigating what happened and find nothing.”
sition to give them the selection,” false narratives about migration.” they think they’re going to get here working to trace and patch the “We can only presume the re-
he told reporters during a briefing The Biden administration is and get amnesty, and a rush to our problem,” Torba said, promising porters, who write for a publica-
at the White House in Washington. working with the countries, non- border,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) to keep users posted. tion that has written many hit
“And if, in fact, they seek to re- governmental groups, and Con- told The Epoch Times over the Gab is a competitor to larger pieces on Gab in the past, are in
unite here in the United States, we gress to reunite minors with their weekend. companies such as Twitter and direct contact with the hacker and
will explore lawful pathways for families, Mayorkas told reporters. “And that endangers the lives Facebook, along with upstarts are essentially assisting the hacker
them to remain in the United States “This is not only an all-of-govern- of American citizens, but impor- such as Parler. Gab shifted to its in his efforts to smear our business
and to address the family needs. So ment but all-of-society effort to do tantly, it endangers the lives of im- own servers several years ago after and hurt you, our users,” he wrote.
we are acting as restoratively what is right,” he said. migrants who are seeking to come being removed by GoDaddy. Torba said Gab collects “very
as possible.” The United States is see- to our country.” The group Distributed Denial little” personal information.
Mayorkas shared calls ing a rise in illegal bor- But  Mayorkas on March 1 of Secrets (DDoSecrets) told “In our subscriber records we
with top officials of der crossings in recent claimed the past administration Wired magazine that the hack do not collect health or financial
Honduras, Guatema- weeks as the new ad- engaged in “cruelty” and blamed was perpetrated by a hacker information; we do not collect
la, and El Salvador— ministration rolls back its policies for the situation at the who describes him or herself as dates of birth; we do not collect
three major sources of some of former Presi- border. “JaXpArO and My Little Anony- social security numbers; we do not
people illegally enter- dent Donald Trump’s “To put it succinctly, the prior mous Revival Project.” The hacker collect telephone numbers; we do
ing the United States— signature policies, such administration dismantled our collected more than 70 gigabytes not track user searches, queries or
on Feb. 26, according as requiring asylum- nation’s immigration system in its of data. browsing history; we do not check
to summaries released seekers to wait outside entirety,” he said. “It contains pretty much ev- who owns an e-mail address be-
by the White House on Homeland Security the country. “We are dedicated to achiev- erything on Gab, including user fore setting up an account (and, in
March 1. Secretary Alejandro Critics of the Biden ing and quite frankly are working data and private posts, everything this instance, we have no indica-
The DHS secretary Mayorkas. administration say around the clock to replace the someone needs to run a nearly tion that e-mail addresses were
spoke with the three those rollbacks, along cruelty of the past administration complete analysis on Gab users compromised.),” he said.
officials about the Biden adminis- with new rules, are driving the with an orderly, humane, and safe and content,” said Emma Best, “Every major tech company—
tration’s “comprehensive approach increase. immigration process. It is hard and co-founder of DDoSecrets, add- from Facebook to Twitter—has
to addressing irregular migration, “The president is basically not, as it will take time. But rest assured we ing that DDoSecrets would release been the target of multiple and
including through a regional strat- the Constitution suggests or orders, are going to get it done.” data to a select group of reporters, continued data breaches. We
egy to address its root causes and taking care to faithfully execute The Biden administration must scientists, and researchers. collect very little personal data so
improve migration management,” laws of the United States or secure rebuild the immigration system “Journalists and researchers can that, in the event of a data breach,
according to the summaries. the borders of the United States. “virtually from scratch,” the newly now access the data on our pri- the effect on our users will be min-
He also spoke about combating And what is that doing? It’s caus- confirmed official added. vate .onion,” Best wrote on Twitter, imized. As we learn more about
trafficking, working on “additional ing an empowerment of cartels. where she identifies as a journalist this alleged breach, we will notify
options for legal pathways for mi- And it is causing an attraction of Jan Jekielek contributed and activist. the community publicly with our
gration,” and “the need to counter human beings to come here where to this report. DDoSecrets has previously re- findings as required by law.”
A8 | NATION
Rep. Perry:
Designate CCP
a Transnational
Criminal
Organization
ISABEL VAN BRUGEN &
JOSHUA PHILIPP
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) says the
Biden administration must des-
ignate the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) a “transnational
criminal organization,” to allow
Americans to understand the re-
gime’s vision for not only China,
but also the United States.
“We’re making a differentiation
between the people of China and
the Communist Party of China,”
the lawmaker told The Epoch
Times on Feb. 28 at the Conser-
vative Political Action Conference
(CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. “We
need to designate them as that
which recognizes who and what
they are.”
In October 2020, Perry intro-
duced legislation to designate
the CCP as such, and to eliminate
sovereign immunity for Chinese
officials—which would allow
them to be tried in U.S. court for
criminal prosecution.
“They claim they have sover-
eignty, because they are a gov-
ernment of a country, but I think
that’s very specious. They’re a
criminal organization involved in
criminal acts. It’s not a matter of
conjecture,” Perry said. “It’s easily
proven fact, whether it’s the dis-
tribution or the allowance of the
distribution of fentanyl across our
borders and right into the United
States, or whether it’s the human
rights violations.
“So we’re somehow giving them
a pass, because they say we have
sovereign immunity as a govern-
ment.”
“Sovereign immunity as a gov-
Fauci: People
Who Get
COVID-19
Vaccines Can
‘Start Doing
Some of the
Things That You
Weren’t Able to
Do Before’
ZACHARY STIEBER
One of President Joe Biden’s top
medical advisers on Feb. 28 said
people who get COVID-19 shots
can do things they couldn’t do
before being vaccinated.
“One of the things that I think is
going to become clear, that, if you
have individuals, adults who are
vaccinated, two people that are
doubly vaccinated and are protect-
ed, then you can do things that we
weren’t talking about before. You
can have dinner in a home without
masks on,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci,
longtime director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases.
“You can have friends who you
know are doubly vaccinated and
are protected together with you.
So you can start doing things es-
sentially in the home, in a setting
where you’re not out in the com-
munity, where there are 70,000
new infections per day. And you
can start doing some of the things
that you weren’t able to do before.”
Fauci said during a press briefing
last week that even after people
are vaccinated against the CCP vi-
rus, there are things “that you’re
not going to be able to do,” such as
indoor dining.
ernment doesn’t allow you to
commit horrific acts of violence
against your own citizenry, or
anybody else, whether it’s in your
borders or not—the world has not
allowed that,” he said.
Perry introduced the legislation
with Reps. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.)
and Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.) last
year that would add the CCP to
the Department of Justice’s Top
International Criminal Organiza-
tions Target (TICOT) list, which
seeks to identify and eliminate
international criminal organiza-
tions that pose the gravest threat
to U.S. national interests.
He said on Feb. 28 that the des-
ignation would allow the DOJ to
deal with the Chinese regime and
“prosecute those responsible” for
issues ranging from intellectual
property theft to the regime’s
crimes against humanity.
“That will get the American peo-
ple fully understanding who the
Communist Party of China is and
what their vision is for not only
for China, for the United States
of America,” Perry said.
Transnational organized crime
is defined by the FBI as self-per-
petuating associations of indi-
viduals who operate transnation-
ally for the purpose of obtaining
power, influence, and monetary
and/or commercial gains, wholly
or in part by illegal means, while
protecting their activities through
a pattern of corruption and/or vi-
olence, or while protecting their
illegal activities through a trans-
national organizational structure
and the exploitation of transna-
tional commerce or communica-
tion mechanisms.
Dr. Anthony Fauci arrives at an event commemorating the 50 millionth COVID-
19 vaccine shot, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on
Feb. 25, 2021.
Restaurants are open across the
nation and people have been din-
ing indoors at many of them for
months. Fauci’s guidance struck
some as unrealistic, particularly
as there’s currently no science in-
dicating people who get vaccinated
can still spread the virus.
“The thing is, they don’t prove
that that happens. They just say,
unless you can prove the oppo-
site, you can’t be free and you
have to be huddled in your base-
ment wearing a mask. And I’m
the opposite: You get your vac-
cine, you’ve had your second
dose, you’re two weeks out, throw
away your mask,” Sen. Rand Paul
(R-Ky.), a physician, said during a
recent appearance on Fox News.
“If you’ve had the disease and
you’re a young person, go to res-
taurants, go out and visit with your
friends, do not hunker down in a
basement by yourself, go to school,
by all means, let’s get back to nor-
mal. And let’s treat this with cir-
cumspection the idea that the risks
should be according to the indi-
vidual,” said Paul, who contracted
and recovered from the CCP virus.
Fauci is among the group of of-
ficials who are urging caution be-
Chinese soldiers walk outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2020.
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) during an interview with The Epoch Times at the
Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando on Feb. 28, 2021.
“These are all crimes and
they’re not being dealt with,”
Perry said, referring in part to
the human rights abuses be-
ing committed against Uyghurs
and other ethnic minorities in
China’s northwestern Xinjiang
region, forced organ harvesting,
the Chinese regime’s social credit
program, the intellectual prop-
erty theft on U.S. soil, the distri-
bution of narcotics, and prolif-
eration through China into the
United States through Mexico.
“So I think that it sets every-
DOUG MILLS/POOL/GETTY IMAGES
cause it’s unclear if vaccines pre-
vent transmission, and has called
on people who get vaccinated to
keep wearing masks and continue
social distancing.
“The endpoint of efficacy of the
vaccine is preventing clinically
apparent disease, which means
that you could get infected, have
nasopharynx virus in your nose
and in your mouth. But because
you are vaccinated, you could feel
perfectly well and the issue is now,
can you then transmit it to others?
So until we prove that that’s not the
case, that’s the reason why we’re
recommending that when people
are vaccinated and are in the pres-
ence of unvaccinated people to put
a mask on to prevent them from in-
fecting others,” he said on Feb. 28.
Health officials are working with
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention to publish up-
dated guidelines on what people
can do after getting vaccinated.
That guidance is expected to be re-
leased within the next few weeks,
Fauci said.
Fauci spoke during appearanc-
es on CNN’s “State of the Union,”
CBS’s “Face the Nation,” and ABC’s
“This Week.”
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
THE EPOCH TIMES
body’s frame of mind and espe-
cially businesses, because I don’t
think most businesses want to
be dealing with a criminal orga-
nization, and most businesses
certainly don’t want to deal with
some of this with an organization
that is involved in the concentra-
tion camps and the oppression of
the Uyghurs.”
A day before leaving office,
former Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo designated the Chinese
regime’s persecution of Uyghurs
as genocide and “crimes against
Movieguide Executive: Family-Friendly
Movies Make More Money
JANITA KAN & JAN JEKIELEK
Films that are family-friendly, have
the cleanest content, and seek to
encourage traditional values tend
to be more profitable, according
to an executive of an advocacy
group that seeks to redeem values
in Hollywood according to biblical
principles.
Movieguide co-CEO Robert
Baehr said movies that have less
sexual and violent content do
better at the box office than ones
that contain explicit content. He
referred to a 2019 Movieguide
report  that found a majority of
family-friendly movies averaged
more than $86.93 million per
movie in 2018 in the United States
and Canada, while movies with of-
fensive, obscene, anti-family, or
immoral content averaged about
$23.09 million. R-rated movies av-
eraged $19.30 million per movie
that year, according to that report.
“What we found is that the less
sex you put in a movie, the more
money it makes; the less violence
you put in, the more profitable it
is,” Baehr told The Epoch Times’
“American Thought Leaders” pro-
gram, on the sidelines of the Con-
servative Political Action Confer-
ence.
“We can actually determine how
much every ‘F’ word is going to cost
you at the box office.”
He said that data helps generate
a dialogue with Hollywood and
independent studios, to persuade
them to create more family-friend-
ly content.
“We encourage them to make
films that are more faith and fam-
ily-friendly. So just like how Nike
kind of pushes for Nike shoes and
content, or Microsoft might push for
their computers and stuff, we push
NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
humanity.” While the Biden ad-
ministration has agreed with the
designation, Secretary of State
Anthony Blinken, however, has
said the new administration has
some reservations about former
President Donald Trump’s ap-
proach to China.
“Let me just say that I also be-
lieve that President Trump was
right in taking a tougher approach
to China,” Blinken told the Senate
foreign relations panel during his
confirmation hearing. “I disagree
very much with the way that he
went about it in a number of ar-
eas, but the basic principle was
the right one, and I think that’s
actually helpful to our foreign
policy.”
President Joe Biden has indicat-
ed he would focus on “extreme
competition” with the Chinese
regime, although the administra-
tion has shed little light on con-
crete plans, pending a review of
Trump-era China policies. The
administration also faces pres-
sure from Congress to continue
a hardline stance toward the re-
gime, an area that enjoys bipar-
tisan support.
Cathy He contributed
to this report.
What we found is
that the less sex
you put in a movie,
the more money it
makes; the less vio-
lence you put in, the
more profitable it is.
Robert Baehr, co-CEO,
Movieguide
for faith content in films,” he said.
Movieguide, which was started
in 1985 by Ted Baehr, seeks to
“redeem the values of the enter-
tainment industry, according to
biblical principles, by influencing
industry executives and artists,”
according to its website.
The organization reviews films
for the faith and family market and
judges them based on 150 different
criteria on how the medium affects
kids at different stages of cognitive
development. It then gives potential
moviegoers a rating in language,
violence, sex, and nudity, as well
as details and themes of the film to
help moviegoers decide the film’s
suitability for certain audiences.
Baehr said that Movieguide’s re-
views help parents decide wheth-
er their children would “fall into
things that ... they’re susceptible
to that are bad” after watching a
film. He added that the website
also helps parents pick entertain-
ment content for their children
that would expose them to faith
and traditions.
“We want to help [parents] and
teach them and give them the tools
that they can use so that their kids
want to choose the good and not
the bad,” he said.
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Pressure Mounts on
US to Boycott 2022
Beijing Olympics
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100 rights groups from around
the world. Canada’s Parliament
in February passed a nonbind-
ing motion designating the CCP’s
repression in Xinjiang a genocide
while also urging the Interna-
tional Olympic Committee (IOC)
to move the Games out of China.
Under no circum-
stance should the
global community
give Communist
China an inter-
national platform
to whitewash its
crimes.
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott
Most recently, U.S. Sen. Rick
Scott (R-Fla.) wrote to President
Joe Biden on Feb. 25 seeking a
meeting to discuss efforts to re-
locate the 2022 Winter Olympics.
“Under no circumstance should
the global community give Com-
munist China an international
platform to whitewash its crimes,
which is what will happen if they
are allowed to host the 2022 Olym-
pic Games in Beijing,” Scott wrote
in the letter.
Several other  U.S. lawmakers
have introduced resolutions push-
ing for the Games to be relocated
from Beijing. A House resolution
introduced by Rep. Michael Waltz
(R-Fla.) also cited the CCP’s violent
suppression of democracy protest-
ers in Hong Kong and coverup of
the CCP virus pandemic as rea-
sons why it would be “immoral,
unethical, and wrong” for Beijing
to serve as the host city.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations Nikki Haley, a
potential 2024 Republican presi-
dential candidate, also called for
a boycott in a recent op-ed.
“If the United States boycotts the
Winter Olympics, it will send an
unmistakable message that Chi-
na’s tyranny and threats are unac-
ceptable,” Haley said. “It will show
that actions have consequences.”
White House press secretary
Jen Psaki said on Feb. 25 that
the United States hasn’t made a
Signs of Infighting Within Chinese Leadership Surface in Leaked Document
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taking aim at rampant corruption
in the CCP—a personal mission
of the regime’s leader. Given that
most officials are Party members,
the CCDI has a wide reach, inves-
tigating allegations that include
bribery, money laundering, em-
bezzlement of public funds, and
other corruption concerns.
But it appears from the confiden-
tial circular that the CCDI is no lon-
ger limited to that scope.
The document, entitled “Con-
veying Opinions from the Inves-
tigation Team of Commission for
Discipline Inspection” was pro-
vided to The Epoch Times by an
anonymous insider.
Shijiazhuang city’s CDI requests
local Party committees to “provide
increasing, targeted support” to
enterprises, especially the “small
and micro ones.” Then, depart-
ments of local government are
required to “thoroughly com-
municate the decisions of re-
suming work and production,”
and “shoulder responsibilities in
strengthening safety management
and maintaining product quality
while organizing work resumption
and production.”
The requirements set out in the
circular are a sign that the CCDI is
meddling in the affairs of the State
Council, says Li Linyi, a U.S.-based
“final decision” on the country’s
participation in the Beijing Olym-
pics, adding that it would look for
“guidance from the U.S. Olympic
Committee.” Earlier in the month,
Psaki signaled that there were no
plans to boycott the Games.
The U.S. Olympic Committee,
in response to Psaki’s recent re-
marks, said it opposed a boycott
of the event, a position echoed by
its counterparts in Canada and
the UK.
“We oppose Games boycotts
because they have been shown to
negatively impact athletes while
not effectively addressing global
issues,” a spokesperson for the
committee said in a statement.
“We believe the more effective
course of action is for the govern-
ments of the world and China to
engage directly on human rights
and geopolitical issues.”
Haley, in her op-ed, disagreed
with those saying that boycotts
don’t work, saying such arguments
reveal a “lack of understanding
about diplomacy.”
“When you let your counterpart
get away with genocide, which
is literally true of China, you’re
negotiating from a position of
weakness. If you stand strong on
non-negotiable issues, you’re in a
position of strength,” she wrote.
“Ignoring China’s evil actions is
no way to stop those actions in the
future, much less make progress
on other critical security and eco-
nomic issues.”
The Chinese regime hasn’t react-
ed kindly to the boycott campaign,
accusing countries of politicizing
the Games. Hu Xijin, editor-in-
chief of China’s hawkish state
mouthpiece Global Times, has
also taken to Twitter to threaten
trade sanctions against countries
that decide to boycott the Beijing
Olympics.
The IOC, in a statement to The Ep-
och Times in early February, said
that by choosing Beijing to host the
Olympics, its evaluation commis-
sion had “considered the views of
independent NGOs with respect
to a number of issues, including
human rights” and raised the con-
cerns with government authorities.
“We received assurances that the
principles of the Olympic Charter
will be respected in the context
of the Games,” the IOC said, say-
ing it would continue to discuss
China affairs expert.
Li said issues related to “product
quality” and “safety management,”
and the investigation of the work
on the “resumption of work and
production” are supposed to be the
job of the State Council, or more
specifically, the local government,
rather than that of the CCDI.
Even though the CCP dominates
the Chinese political system, “to
direct and administer economic
affairs and urban and rural devel-
opment” are the areas of the State
Council’s power, according to the
website of the chief administrative
organ.
A Sign of Ambition in CCDI
On Jan. 22, the CCDI held its fifth
plenary session in Beijing. Xi ad-
dressed in the session with a
speech that stressed the impor-
tance of “ensuring the develop-
ment goals and tasks of the 14th
Five-Year Plan Period (2021–2025)
are fulfilled,” according to Xinhua,
the CCP’s mouthpiece.
Li pointed out that the “14th Five-
Year Plan” focusing on the econ-
omy became the priority of the
CCDI. The implication is that it has
assumed supervision for economic
officials, or even state councilors.
Xi’s remark hints that the division
of labor between China’s two most
powerful men has become blurred.
The CCDI has been a tool to con-
Supporters of China’s Muslim Uyghur minority hold torches and placards of people killed in China’s death camps, in
Istanbul on Dec. 20, 2019.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley at Fox News Channel Studios
in New York on Nov. 12, 2019.
“Games-related issues” with the
organizers.
Repeating History
Despite Beijing’s insistence that
sports and politics should be sepa-
rated, the regime actually views
politics and sports as essentially
the same thing, according to Miles
Yu, who worked as the principal
China adviser for former U.S. Sec-
retary of State Mike Pompeo.
Beijing uses “international
sporting events like the Olympics
to propagandize the Communist
Party’s all-around greatness—to
demonstrate to the world China
is a country that nobody could be
critical of, no matter what it does,”
Yu told The Epoch Times in a re-
cent interview.
“So, it is the Chinese Communist
Party that has politicized inter-
national sporting events like the
solidate Xi’s control since he came
to power.
“Since its inception in 2012, the
[anit-corruption] campaign [led
by CCDI] has found over 1.5 mil-
lion government officials guilty
of a variety of corruption-related
charges.”
Five former deputy CCDI secre-
taries were appointed as ministers,
or members of the State Council,
between November 2016 to January
2017: the Minister of State Security
Chen Wenqing, the former Minis-
ter of Civil Affairs Huang Shuxian,
the former Minister of Supervision
Yang Xiaodu, and the former Min-
JOHN LAMPARSKI/GETTY IMAGES
Olympics all along.”
Yu said the world should learn a
lesson from what happened after it
awarded Beijing the 2008 Summer
Olympics.
“The International Committee
went along, with the sincere hope
that such international sporting
events being held in Beijing would
force China—at least the reform-
ers within the Communist Party—
to reform and to change,” he said.
“That didn’t happen.”
Instead, the 2008 Olympics had
the effect of enhancing the image
of the CCP both inside and outside
the country.
“It gave China enormous pres-
tige, but also gave the Chinese
Communist Party a great oppor-
tunity to fancy itself as the ulti-
mate representative of Chinese
nationalism,” Yu said.
In the lead-up to the 2008 Olym-
THE EPOCH TIMES
The
confidential
circular,
issued by the
Shijiazhuang
City
Commission
for Discipline
Inspection, a
branch of the
CCP’s anti-
corruption
agency,
on May
25, 2020.
ister of Justice Zhang Jun.
In December 2020, another dep-
uty secretary moved into the State
Council. Chen Xiaojiang was ap-
pointed head of the National Ethnic
Affairs Commission, a cabinet-level
executive department of the State
Council.
In addition, Liu He and He Lifeng,
both top-ranking members of the
State Council, have a long-term
connection with Xi.
He Lifeng, the minister in charge
of the National Development and
Reform Commission, which is
the State Council’s top economic
planning agency, is a regular in
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pics, the regime stepped up its
suppression of activists, report-
ers, and faith groups, fearing that
they would use the international
media presence during the Games
to draw attention to their plight.
Activists calling for a boycott of
the Olympics or drawing atten-
tion to the regime’s human rights
violations were detained. The
CCP also escalated its detention
of Falun Gong practitioners, par-
ticularly those who lived in areas
near Olympic venues, in the run-
up to the event. Petitioners pro-
testing Beijing’s forced evictions
and demolition of people’s homes
for Olympic-related construction
were also detained.
Gordon Chang, author of “The
Coming Collapse of China,” rec-
ommended that the IOC also ban
Chinese athletes from competing
in the 2022 Games, on the same
grounds that it barred South Af-
rica from participating in the
1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
because of its apartheid policies,
which only allowed white athletes
to represent the country.
China should be similarly barred
because “a significant population
in China are not allowed to par-
ticipate in sport” because they are
either being persecuted or being
held in internment camps, Chang
recently told The Epoch Times.
“We do not need another 1936
Olympics,” Chang said, referring
to when Nazi Germany hosted the
Games.
“We don’t need another 2008
Olympics, which basically pro-
moted totalitarianism with those
ghastly displays. We do not need
to do this again.”
Xi’s inner circle. His connection
with Xi can be traced back to the
mid-1980s, when he worked with
Xi in the Xiamen municipal gov-
ernment.
Vice Premier  Liu He  went to
school with Xi during the 1960s
and is now his closest economic
adviser. He’s in charge of China’s
economic policies and financial
issues as the director of the office
serving the Central Financial and
Economic Affairs Commission of
the CCP.
Li seems to be eclipsed by Xi’s
amassing of great power.
The political infighting has sur-
faced several times since May
2020, when Li said at the annual
National People’s Congress that at
least 600 million Chinese people
were living on an income of 1,000
yuan ($155) per month. The revela-
tion was an affront to Xi’s goal of
developing China into “a moder-
ately prosperous society.”
Li proposed a “street-stall econo-
my” as a way to spur consumption
amid the fallout of the COVID-19
epidemic. It was a policy proposal
that triggered a backlash from the
party’s mouthpieces.
Authorities in Beijing city, led
by Cai Qi, who is close to Xi,
cleared away street vendors. It was
again a widely recognized sign of
discord spilling into the open be-
tween Xi and Li.
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Former French
President Convicted
of Corruption,
Sentenced to Jail
PARIS—A Paris court on March
1 found former French President
Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of cor-
ruption and influence-peddling
and sentenced him to one year in
prison and a two-year suspended
sentence.
The 66-year-old politician, who
was president from 2007 to 2012,
was convicted for having tried to
illegally obtain information from a
senior magistrate in 2014 about a le-
gal action in which he was involved.
The court said Sarkozy is entitled
to request to be detained at home
with an electronic bracelet.
The court said that
the president used
his status to help
a magistrate who
had served his
personal interest.
This is the first time in France’s
modern history that a former
president has been convicted of
corruption.
Sarkozy’s co-defendants—his
lawyer and longtime friend Thierry
Herzog, 65, and now-retired magis-
trate Gilbert Azibert, 74—were also
found guilty and given the same
sentence as the politician.
The court found that Sarkozy and
his co-defendants sealed a “pact of
corruption,” based on “consistent
UK Seeks Missing Patient With Brazilian COVID
Variant as PM Defends Border Measures
ALEXANDER ZHANG
British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson has defended England’s
COVID-19 border measures after
the government revealed that it
couldn’t identify a person who
had tested positive for the Brazil-
ian variant of the CCP (Chinese
Communist Party) virus.
Authorities said on Feb. 28 that
six cases of the Brazilian variant
had been found in the UK: three
in England and three in Scotland.
But one of the three infected peo-
ple in England so far hasn’t been
identified, as the person didn’t
complete a test registration card.
The government has begun an
appeal for the person to come
forward.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock
wrote on Twitter: “If you had a CO-
VID test on the 12th or 13th of Feb
& didn’t get your result, please call
119 in England, Wales or North-
ern Ireland, or 0300 303 2713 in
Scotland.”
Facing criticism from the op-
position, Johnson said: “We’ve
got one of the toughest border re-
gimes anywhere in the world for
stopping people coming into this
country who may have variants
of concern.”
“If you look at what we’ve done
in the case of the South African
variant, massive effort went in
there. The same is going on now
to contain any spread of the Bra-
zilian variant,” he said on March 1
during a visit to a school in Stoke-
on-Trent.
“We have no reason not to think
that our vaccines are effective
against these variants of concern
at the present time,” he said, add-
ing that Public Health England
said the risk to the wider com-
munity is considered low.
The main opposition Labour
Party has called for “urgent an-
swers” from the government on
“what risk the British public has
been placed under as a result of
the failed quarantine system.”
“People will be appalled to hear
and serious evidence.”
The court said the facts were “par-
ticularly serious” given that they
were committed by a former presi-
dent who used his status to help
a magistrate who had served his
personal interest. In addition, as
a lawyer by training, he was “per-
fectly informed” about committing
an illegal action, the court said.
Sarkozy had firmly denied all the
allegations against him during the
10-day trial that took place at the
end of 2020.
The corruption trial focused on
phone conversations that took
place in February 2014.
At the time, investigative judges
had launched an inquiry into the
financing of the 2007 presidential
campaign. During the investiga-
tion, they incidentally discovered
that Sarkozy and Herzog were
communicating via secret mo-
bile phones registered to the alias
“Paul Bismuth.”
Conversations wiretapped on
these phones led prosecutors to
suspect Sarkozy and Herzog of
promising Azibert a job in Mona-
co in exchange for leaking infor-
mation about another legal case,
known by the name of France’s
richest woman, L’Oreal heiress
Liliane Bettencourt.
In one of these phone calls with
Herzog, Sarkozy said of Azibert: “I’ll
make him move up ... I’ll help him.”
In another, Herzog reminded
Sarkozy to “say a word” for Azibert
during a trip to Monaco.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits St. Mary’s C.E. Primary School in
Stoke-on-Trent, England, on March 1, 2021.
A man walks in the street in London on Feb. 8, 2021.
someone with the Brazilian vari-
ant cannot be identified, raising
questions about how many others
may have been missed by quaran-
tine measures,” said Nick Thomas
Symonds, Labour’s shadow home
secretary.
“There is no excuse for continu-
ing to ignore Labour’s call for a
comprehensive hotel quarantine
system,” he said on March 1 in a
letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel.
Under England’s quarantine
rules, people arriving from places
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at court to hear the final verdict in his corruption trial, in Paris on
March 1, 2021.
Legal proceedings against Sar-
kozy have been dropped in the Bet-
tencourt case. Azibert never got the
Monaco job.
Prosecutors have concluded,
however, that the “clearly stated
promise” constitutes in itself a cor-
ruption offense under French law,
even if the promise wasn’t fulfilled.
Sarkozy vigorously denied any
malicious intention.
He told the court that his political
life was all about “giving (people)
a little help.”
“That’s all it is, a little help,” he
said during the trial.
The confidentiality of communi-
cations between a lawyer and his
client was a major point of conten-
tion in the trial.
“You have in front of you a man of
whom more that 3,700 private con-
versations have been wiretapped
... What did I do to deserve that?”
Sarkozy said during the trial.
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on the UK’s “red list,” including
southern Africa, South America,
Portugal, and the United Arab
Emirates (UAE), must quarantine
at designated facilities managed
by the government. But Labour
has called for all international pas-
sengers arriving in England to be
put into hotel quarantine.
In Scotland, the administration
is enforcing stricter measures than
in England, requiring travelers
from all countries except Ireland
to quarantine in hotels.
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
Sarkozy’s defense lawyer, Jacque-
line Laffont, argued the whole case
was based on “small talk” between
a lawyer and his client.
The court concluded that the
use of wiretapped conversations
was legal as long as they helped
show evidence of corruption-
related offenses.
Sarkozy withdrew from active
politics after failing to be chosen as
his conservative party’s presiden-
tial candidate for France’s 2017 elec-
tion, won by Emmanuel Macron.
He remains very popular amid
conservative voters, however,
and plays a major role behind the
scenes, including through main-
taining a relationship with Macron,
whom he is said to advise on cer-
tain topics. His memoirs published
last year, “The Time of Storms,” was
a bestseller for weeks.
Sarkozy will face another trial
later this month along with 13
Italy’s Draghi Fires COVID
Commissioner, With Vaccination
Drive in Spotlight
ROME—Prime Minister Mario
Draghi on March 1 fired Italy’s
special COVID-19 commissioner
Domenico Arcuri and replaced
him with an army logistics expert,
in a signal the government wanted
to speed up vaccinations.
The move followed growing com-
plaints about Arcuri’s handling of
the crisis and concern that the an-
ti-COVID vaccine campaign was
moving forward too slowly.
It’s one of Draghi’s first major de-
cisions since becoming premier in
February and follows his firing last
week of the chief of the civil protec-
tion agency. That step was also seen
as an attempt to improve Italy’s re-
sponse to the COVID crisis.
The new coronavirus commis-
sioner is General Francesco Paolo
Figliuolo, a former commander of
NATO forces in Kosovo and head
of army logistics since 2018.
Draghi told parliament in Febru-
ary that he wanted to involve the
military in the nationwide vaccine
roll-out plan.
Italy launched its inoculation
campaign at the end of December
and has so far administered 4.3
million vaccines, including sec-
ond shots.
In all, it has received 6.3 million
vaccine doses from manufacturers,
but supply delays, which have also
affected other European Union
states, have hampered efforts.
The country is due to receive
millions of more doses this month,
but critics have said there’s no co-
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other people on charges of illegal
financing of his 2012 presidential
campaign.
His conservative party is sus-
pected of having spent 42.8 mil-
lion euros ($50.7 million), almost
twice the maximum authorized,
to finance the campaign, which
ended in victory for Socialist rival
Francois Hollande.
In another investigation opened
in 2013, Sarkozy is accused of
having taken millions from then-
Libyan dictator Moammar Gad-
hafi to illegally finance his 2007
campaign.
He was handed preliminary
charges of passive corruption, il-
legal campaign financing, conceal-
ment of stolen assets from Libya,
and criminal association. He has
denied wrongdoing.
By Sylvie Corbet
From The Associated Press
herent plan in place to allow for
the sort of massive vaccination
programs that Britain and Israel
instigated.
Draghi said in February that
there was a growing case for Italy to
follow the British example of mak-
ing it a priority to give first shots to
as many people as possible.
At present, many EU countries,
including Italy, are following drug-
maker recommendations to give
people two separate vaccinations
and are holding back doses as a
result.
Arcuri, who also heads the na-
tional investments agency Invita-
lia, was appointed special COVID
commissioner in 2019 by the then-
prime minister Giuseppe Conte.
He has come under pressure
in recent months after a judicial
investigation alleged that one of
his longtime acquaintances had
received 12 million euros from a
Chinese consortium after it won a
major contract from the commis-
sioner’s office.
Magistrates have placed the
friend under investigation for al-
leged corruption. Arcuri is not un-
der investigation himself and has
denied any wrongdoing.
In its statement on March 1,
Draghi’s office thanked Arcuri for
his “commitment and dedication
... in a moment of particular emer-
gency for the country.”
By Crispian Balmer
From Reuters
Special
commissioner
Domenico
Arcuri speaks
during a news
conference
at the
Spallanzani
hospital in
Rome on Dec.
27, 2020.
 TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
Europeans Push IAEA Iran Resolution Despite
Warnings by Russia, Tehran
VIENNA—Britain, France, and
Germany are pressing ahead with
a U.S.-backed plan for a resolution
by the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s
board criticizing Iran for curbing
cooperation with the agency, de-
spite Russian and Iranian warn-
ings of serious consequences.
The International Atomic Energy
Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation Board
of Governors is holding a quar-
terly meeting this week against
the backdrop of faltering efforts
to revive Iran’s nuclear deal with
major powers now that U.S. Presi-
dent Joe Biden is in office.
Iran has recently accelerated
its violations of the 2015 deal in
an apparent bid to raise pressure
on Biden, as each side insists the
other must move first.
Tehran’s breaches are a response
to the U.S. withdrawal from the
deal in 2018 and the reimposition
of U.S. sanctions that had been
lifted under it.
The latest breach was to scale
back cooperation with the IAEA
last week, ending extra inspection
and monitoring measures intro-
duced by the deal, including the
power given to the IAEA to carry
out snap inspections at facilities
not declared by Iran.
The three European powers, all
parties to the 2015 deal, circulated
a draft resolution for the Vienna
meeting voicing “serious concern”
at Iran’s reduced cooperation and
urging Iran to reverse its steps.
The draft, sent to IAEA board
members and obtained by Re-
uters, also expresses “deep con-
cern” at Iran’s failure to explain
uranium particles found at three
old sites, including two that the
IAEA first reported on last week.
Iran has bristled at the prospect
Iran Insists US Lift Sanctions First to Revive Nuclear Deal Talks
DUBAI—Iran said on March 1 the
United States should lift sanctions
first if it wants to hold talks with
Tehran to salvage the 2015 nuclear
deal with world powers that for-
mer President Donald Trump
abandoned.
President Joe Biden has said
Washington is ready for talks about
both nations resuming compliance
with the pact, under which Tehran
secured an easing of sanctions by
limiting its nuclear work. But each
side wants the other to move first.
The West fears Iran wants to build
nuclear weapons, while Tehran
says that has never been its goal.
“President Joe Biden’s admin-
The inspection
work of the IAEA
should not be put
in the middle
of a negotiating
table as a bargain-
ing chip.
Rafael Grossi,
director general, Internation-
al Atomic Energy Agency
istration should change Trump’s
maximum pressure policy towards
Tehran ... If they want talks with
Iran, first they should lift sanc-
tions,” Foreign Ministry spokes-
man Saeed Khatibzadeh said.
Washington said Feb. 28 that it
was disappointed by Tehran’s re-
fusal to hold talks but was ready
to “re-engage in meaningful di-
plomacy” and would consult with
major powers.
While Iran has been demanding
the lifting of U.S. sanctions first,
Washington says Tehran must re-
turn to compliance with the deal,
which Iran has been progressively
breaching since 2019.
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of such criticism, threatening to
cancel a deal struck a week ago
with the IAEA to temporarily
continue many of the monitoring
measures it had decided to end—a
black-box-type arrangement valid
for up to three months and aimed
to create a window for diplomacy.
Diplomacy, however, is mak-
ing limited progress. Iran said
on Feb. 28 it wouldn’t take up a
European Union proposal to hold
a meeting with other parties to
the deal and the United States.
It’s unclear how many countries
would support a resolution. In a
position paper obtained by Reuters
“The new U.S. administration’s re-
fusal to return to the deal is a historic
mistake,” Khatibzadeh said, saying
Tehran would continue to work with
the U.N. nuclear watchdog despite
scaling back cooperation.
Iran’s foreign minister urged
the International Atomic Energy
Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation Board of
Governors not to “create a mess” by
endorsing a U.S.-led push to adopt
a resolution against Tehran’s deci-
sion to scale back its cooperation
with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
“Europeans, with the backing of
the United States, have initiated a
wrong path in the IAEA’s board.
... We believe this move will lead
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before Iran’s announcement, Rus-
sia warned that a resolution could
hurt efforts to revive the deal, for-
mally known as the Joint Compre-
hensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),
and that it would oppose it.
“Adoption of the resolution will
not help the political process of re-
turning to the normal comprehen-
sive implementation of the JCPOA,”
Russia’s note to member states said.
“On the contrary, it will hugely
complicate those efforts under-
mining the prospects for the
restoration of the JCPOA and for
normal cooperation between Iran
and the Agency.”
to a mess,” Iranian media quoted
Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying
on March 1. “We have solutions for
all scenarios.”
In a position paper seen by Re-
uters and sent to other IAEA mem-
ber states before the board’s quar-
terly meeting this week, Tehran
threatens to end a deal struck with
the IAEA a week ago temporarily
maintaining some monitoring of
its activities.
However, diplomats said it was
unclear whether the board would
adopt a resolution.
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Asked about the tussle, IAEA
Director-General Rafael Grossi
said he didn’t want anything to
jeopardize his inspectors’ work
in the Islamic Republic.
“What I hope is that the work of
the agency will be preserved. This
is essential,” he told a news confer-
ence, before taking an apparent
swipe at Iran over its threat.
“The inspection work of the
IAEA should not be put in the
middle of a negotiating table as a
bargaining chip.”
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conference in Tehran, Iran, on Feb.
22, 2021.
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Are We Ready for Globalized,
Socialized, Sexualized Education?
KIMBERLY ELLS
United Nations agen-
cies and their partners
are working to domi-
nate the education
systems of the world,
which will enable them
to deliver children’s sexual
rights ideology in tandem with socialist
and anti-family philosophies to youth
around the globe.
This is problematic for those who value
sexual fidelity, free enterprise, and family.
The Organization for Economic Coop-
eration and Development (OECD) is a
key player in facilitating the global edu-
cation movement that seeks to displace
parents as the primary influencers of
their children.
The OECD was originally established to
help countries recover from World War
II, but today it has other goals. The group
is a member of the U.N. Global Compact
and partners with U.N. entities includ-
ing UNESCO, which champions sexual
rights for children worldwide. The OECD
also collaborates with the International
Planned Parenthood Federation (the
largest promoter of children’s sexual
rights in the world) and the Open Society
Foundation, led by billionaire political
activist George Soros. It has also received
funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation.
The OECD has traditionally claimed
to support democracy and free markets.
However, as it deepens ties with the
United Nations and other partners, its
aims appear to be evolving.
Fostering Socialistic
‘Global Skills and Attitudes’
What positions does the OECD promote?
The OECD’s “The Future of Education
and Skills, Education 2030” document,
published in 2018, says, “Children enter-
ing school in 2018 ... will need to value
common prosperity, sustainability,
and well-being” above other concerns
and that “curricula should continue to
evolve, perhaps in radical ways” that “re-
flect evolving societal requirements.”
The entity says global education efforts
are designed to focus on:
? Environmentalism focusing on “cli-
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021 • A13
mate change and the depletion of
natural resources [which] require
urgent action and adaptation.”
? Economic change requiring “new
economic, social and institutional
models.”
? Social evolution arising from “cultural
diversity.”
Encapsulated in these three points are
the seeds of the global takeover of energy
resources, a transition from capitalism
to more “equitable” economic models
(i.e., socialism), and the intentional rise
of diverse family structures and sexually
diverse culture.
In its “Global Competency for an
Inclusive World” document, the OECD
reveals its decidedly anti-family position.
It says, “The skills, attitudes, and values
that shape human behavior should be
rethought, to counter the discrimina-
tory behaviors picked up at school and
in the family” in order to teach young
people “to challenge cultural and gender
stereotypes” and to “help create tolerant,
integrated societies.”
By its own admission, the OECD
intends to foster widespread rethinking
of the values that children learn in their
families.
What we can’t accomplish
in public policy, we must
undertake to accomplish in
our homes and communities.
The OECD uses testing tools such as the
Programme for International Student As-
sessment (PISA) and the Study on Social
and Emotional Skills (SSES) to advance
this agenda. The OECD says of the SSES
assessment:
“Apart from examining the level of chil-
dren’s socio-emotional skills, the study
will gather information on their family,
school, and community learning con-
texts, thus aiming to provide information
about the conditions and practices that
foster or hinder the development of these
critical skills.”
The OECD intends to question chil-
dren to uncover information about their
private family life. This data can then be
ERIC PIERMONT/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
A participant stands at the OECD headquar-
ters in Paris, in this file photo.
used to help global education monitors
dissect how elements of a child’s family
life foster or hinder the development of
the socialistic “global skills and atti-
tudes” the U.N. and the OECD wish to
foster in children.
This tactic of asking students probing
questions to assess their family life is a
classic socialist-communist technique
often used to pit children against their
families, fracture cultural alliances, and
expose religious loyalties.
To Measure Attitudes
or to Change Them?
In 2012, OECD Director of Education
and Skills Andreas Schleicher offered an
example of how the OECD not only seeks
to measure attitudes but to change them
through data collection:
“Data transformed some of the beliefs
and paradigms underlying German
education. For example, traditionally, the
education of the very young children was
seen as the business of families, and you
would have cases where women were
seen as neglecting their family responsi-
bilities when they sent their children to
[preschool]. PISA has transformed that
debate and pushed early childhood edu-
cation right at the center of public policy
in Germany,” he said in a 2012 TED talk.
Consider that carefully. Schleicher
gives PISA and the OECD credit for
changing Germany’s attitudes and
policies regarding the education of very
young children. Education of young chil-
dren was previously seen as the purview
of families, especially mothers. Now,
thanks largely to PISA, the education of
the very young in Germany is seen as a
state responsibility. The OECD holds this
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
up as a shining example of the funda-
mental change their assessments can
bring to pass. And they’re right.
This is a perilous course. If we wish to
protect our nations, our children, and
our families from the global ideological
onslaught, we must swiftly adjust our
trajectory. We must:
? Disengage from federal and global
educational funding;
? Re-localize control of school curricula;
? Expose the destructive and deadly
legacy of socialist principles;
? Reassert nations’ rights to drive their
own economic and environmental
policies;
? Teach sexual fidelity and responsibility
in the context of family formation;
? Promote family-based solutions to
world problems.
If we don’t take these actions—and
the current U.S. administration seems
determined not to take them—we will
increasingly see the social, emotional,
moral, and economic vitality of the world
reduced to wreckage.
Therefore, what we can’t accomplish
in public policy, we must undertake to
accomplish in our homes and communi-
ties. In doing so, over time we will raise
up a generation of patriots who under-
stand history, value individual rights,
prize economic autonomy, and embrace
the family as the core of civilization.
These rising patriots will be prepared
to defend the pillars of prosperous living
and rebuild our society on truly sustain-
able grounds.
Kimberly Ells is a policy adviser for Fam-
ily Watch International and the author
of “The Invincible Family: Why the Global
Campaign to Crush Motherhood and
Fatherhood Can’t Win,” which exposes
U.N. agencies’ widespread promotion of
sexual rights for children and frames the
family as the most powerful organization
in the world.
A14 | OPINION
Reparations
Don’t Buy
Justice, Dignity,
or Freedom
STAR PARKER
The issue of reparations to black
Americans as payment for
damage done as a result of
years of legal slavery and sub-
sequent discrimination is back
on the table.
The House Judiciary Commit-
tee just held hearings on H.R. 40, which
would establish a commission to look
into ways in which African Americans
could be compensated, including
possible payments of trillions of dollars
to individuals.
The commission would examine the
role of government in supporting the
institution of slavery, “discrimination
in the public and private sectors against
freed African slaves and their descen-
dants” and “lingering negative effects
of the institution of slavery ... on living
African Americans and on society.”
My ancestors were slaves. And my life
as a young woman was a mess.
Was my life a mess because my ances-
tors were slaves? I don’t think so.
My life was a mess because I lived a
wanton, irresponsible existence, de-
fined by promiscuity, petty crimes, and
scamming the nation’s well-meaning
but totally confused welfare system to
the greatest extent of my ability.
Did I need reparations to turn things
around for me? Certainly not. I needed
a wake-up call, which, to my great
gratitude, I got, from a few church-
DILBERT
PEANUTS
RED AND ROVER
GRAND AVENUE
MUTT & JEFF
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
(D-Texas) speaks at a Con-
gressional Black Caucus
press conference in Wash-
ington on July 1, 2020. The
CBC pushed for H.R. 40,
also known as the Commis-
sion to Study and Develop
Reparation Proposals for
African-Americans Act
was introduced in the U.S.
House of Representatives
on Jan. 3, 2019.
The problem with
the idea of repara-
tions is it redirects
attention away
from exactly where
attention is needed:
on individuals’
personal responsi-
bility for their own
unique lives.
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TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY IMAGES
going black Christians who told me the
way I was living was unacceptable.
I went to church, took back responsi-
bility for my life, and turned my cir-
cumstances around.
The problem with the idea of repara-
tions is it redirects attention away from
exactly where attention is needed: on
individuals’ personal responsibility for
their own unique lives.
And it redirects attention in such a
way to encourage individuals to believe
that some abstract, collective entity
from the past is the cause of all their
individual problems in the present.
Compensation for damages is a basic
legal principle.
It’s about personal responsibility.
Individual A sues individual B for dam-
ages caused. Exactly what the damages
were and exactly how B injured A must
be shown in a court of law.
Today, only a small fraction of our
population has ancestors who were
around before 1865 when slavery was
legal. The idea of collective guilt, with
no specific individual identified as
causing the damage and no specific
individual showing how he or she was
damaged, doesn’t fly.
If there is any legitimate claim of
collective guilt, it’s the guilt of origi-
nal sin, which we learn in the book
of Genesis. Every man and woman is
GARFIELD
GINGER MEGGS
BIG NATE
DRABBLE
FRANK AND ERNEST
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
imperfect and responsible for fixing
themselves—and, by doing so, helping
to fix the world.
There is no word more frequently used
in political discussions than “free-
dom.” But rarely discussed is what gives
meaning to the word “freedom,” and
that is understanding that individu-
als have free choice—the power and
responsibility to choose how to live.
Only when we understand that there
is good and evil, that there is sin, does
free choice have meaning. It means
individuals have the power and respon-
sibility to choose how to live—that their
individual choices matter.
Driving the push for reparations are
policies on race that obliterate this key
idea that every individual, regardless
of circumstance and history, is unique
and has free choice. The political idea
of freedom becomes irrelevant because
free choice becomes irrelevant.
So-called critical race theory says
everything is about culture. Because,
per their claim, the USA is about what
they define as white culture, the cultur-
al script needs to be rewritten to make
things fair for those who aren’t white.
Put politicians in charge of making
things fair.
No, I am sorry; I always thought the
problem with racism is it denies the
uniqueness, dignity, and personal re-
sponsibility of each individual.
If the ideal we seek is a free country
with free citizens, then commissions
such as that proposed in H.R. 40, which
pretend to be about justice but are
really about a left-wing agenda to put
government in charge of our lives, are
not the way to go.
Star Parker is the founder and president
of the Center for Urban Renewal and
Education (CURE).
 TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
SPECIAL SERIES: HOW THE SPECTER OF COMMUNISM IS RULING OUR WORLD
Chapter Fourteen:
Popular Culture—A Decadent Indulgence
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.”
1. Communist Party Culture
Manifestations of Communist
Party Culture (cont.)
Shanzhai behavior not only counter-
feits products, but also entire stores.
Fake Apple stores have been document-
ed repeatedly in China. The stores are
carefully furnished with all the trap-
pings of real Apple stores: glass front-
age, light-wood display tables, a wind-
ing staircase, posters of Apple products,
neatly arranged accessory walls, and
white Apple logos. Staff wear the char-
acteristic dark-blue T-shirts with the
Apple logo and even appear to believe
they work in a real Apple store. [5]
In a social atmosphere character-
ized by such deception, some Chinese
stop at nothing to further their own
interests, fearing neither heaven nor
man. Lying and falsification have
become part of mainstream culture.
Those who refuse to counterfeit are
considered the odd ones out.
Party culture also has ruined the
Chinese language, as can be seen in
the constant use of hyperbolic words
and phrases. Restaurants are given
names like Heaven Beyond Heaven,
Emperor Above All Emperors, or King
of Kings. Literary styles and propa-
ganda have also become pompous.
Official propaganda regularly uses
phrases like “the world’s first,” “the
most formidable in history,” “the Unit-
ed States is afraid,” “Japan is aghast,”
“Europe regrets,” and the like.
News stories are full of headlines such
as “China’s scientific and technological
strength surpasses the United States
and ranks first in the world,” “China
has won the world’s first place again,
personally defeating US blue chips and
utterly routing Apple,” “Something big
will happen. A magic weapon in China
again makes the US afraid, the world
stunned, Japan completely scared,”
“China is the world’s No. 1 in yet anoth-
er field! Completing a historical great
change in just thirty years, leaving the
US, Japan, and South Korea amazed,”
and “Huawei announced that it has
created the world’s first 5G chip, which
shocked the world!”
The propaganda movie “Awe-
some, My Country!” and the special
series of television programs called
“Great, My Country!” are also full
of exaggerations in tone and mean-
ing. They make it seem as though
the whole world is surrendering to
China, conveying an attitude redolent
of the propaganda used during the
Great Leap Forward, when the Party
claimed China would surpass Britain
and catch up with the United States.
The new wave of exaggeration is
the concrete manifestation of the
“fake, exaggerated, empty ethos” (as
it’s known in China) of Party culture
in the online age. The fundamen-
tal question is still one of integrity.
Reform and opening up through the
1980s and 1990s brought change to
China in the form of the worst aspects
of contemporary Western culture,
such as sexual liberation, drug abuse,
homosexuality, computer games, and
Workers make the like. The entertainment programs
pods for e-ciga- on television have become vulgar. The
rettes at a fac- entire society has become a pleasure
tory in Shenz- palace for the indulgence of material
hen, China, on
and carnal desires.
Sept. 24, 2019.
Communism has turned China, a
country that was once civilized, mag-
nificent, and beautiful, into an uncivi-
lized nation.
2. Communism’s Subversion
of Western Mass Culture
Western countries of the free world
historically have been known for their
civilized societies, where men are gen-
teel and women virtuous and grace-
ful, and where people treat each other
with honesty and friendship. Commu-
nism has implemented arrangements
in Western countries to subvert and
sabotage this civilization. Although it
can’t readily use violence and totali-
tarianism to directly damage Western
civilization in the same way it did
in China, it has provoked people’s
negative and rebellious thoughts and
behaviors in order to undermine tra-
dition, destroy public morals, and ruin
individual morality.
As the public rejoiced over the Al-
lies’ triumph in World War II, some
were already hard at work in the fields
of ideology and culture. While reflect-
ing on the war and the new waves of
ideology to come, they helped to bring
about a systematic departure from
the traditions that connect humanity
to the divine.
In the United States, the post-war
American writers of the Beat Genera-
tion, which appeared in the 1950s,
were the progenitors of an art and
literary movement whose goal was to
redefine culture. While they rightly
despised some of the hypocrisy of
moral corruption in society at the
time, their response was to cynically
reject and overturn all traditional mo-
rality. They advocated unrestrained
freedom; delved into pseudo-mysti-
cism, drugs, and crime; and pursued
undisciplined, willful lifestyles. Their
attempt at a radical critique of bour-
Woodstock geois, capitalist society coincided with
Music Festival in the ideological thrust of communism
Bethel, N.Y., on in the West, making them a natural
Aug. 15, 1969. tool for the leftist movement.
Many members of the Beat Genera-
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tion were indeed deeply influenced
by communist and socialist ideology.
For example, before the movement’s
co-founder Jack Kerouac became
famous, he wrote the short story “The
Birth of a Socialist” about his rebellion
against capitalist society. [6] Another
representative of the movement, Allen
Ginsberg, said he had no regrets about
the communist beliefs he once held.
He also supported pedophilia (see
Chapter Eleven). In their work, these
writers rejected traditional conven-
tions, were deliberately disorganized,
and used vulgar language. They repre-
sented the counterculture movement
that would later engulf the West—the
first major departure from the rules
and principles of tradition.
The hippie, punk, goth, and other sub-
cultures that arose in the 1960s were
all extensions of the Beat Generation’s
ideas. These countercultural trends
found an eager audience in the urban
areas of the West, tempting one genera-
tion after another toward violence, drug
abuse, sexual liberation, nonconform-
ist attire, and cultural alienation, and
ultimately giving them an inclination
toward darkness and self-destruction.
In what is known as the Summer of
Love, in 1967, thousands of hippies
gathered in San Francisco’s Haight-
Ashbury Park and Golden Gate Park
for several days, expressing their resis-
tance to society with bizarre behavior,
drug use, nudity, singalongs, poetry,
and rock ‘n’ roll. The hippie movement
reached its climax in the time shortly
after the assassinations of Martin
Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy
and the escalation of the Vietnam War.
In the summer of 1969, more than
400,000 people gathered at the Wood-
stock festival, held on a farm northwest
of New York City. Attendees indulged
in debauchery while shouting about
“love,” “freedom,” and “peace.” New
York’s Central Park, San Francisco’s
Golden Gate Park, and Woodstock all
became symbols of the movement.
Just as the counterculture in the
United States was taking off, tur-
moil involving millions broke out in
France, in what are now known as the
events of May ‘68. It began with angry
students rebelling against traditional
morality and culture. At that time,
schools enforced the strict separation
of male and female dormitories, and
the two sexes were forbidden from
freely coming and going from each
others’ bedrooms. The abolition of
this provision and the right to sexual
activity in student dorms were the
major goals of the initial protests. The
students’ rebellion then found support
among both the socialist and commu-
nist parties in France.
Notes
5. Loretta Chao, “The Ultimate Knock-
Off: A Fake Apple Store,” The Wall Street
Journal, July 21, 2011.
6. Jack Kerouac, “The Birth of a Socialist,”
in “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and
Other Writings,” ed. Paul Marion (New
York: Penguin, 2000).
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A16 | OPINION
CPAC Grand Finale: If Not Trump, Who?
ROGER L. SIMON
It’s clear that Donald Trump
wants to run again, at
least at this time, particu-
larly after his grand finale
Conservative Political
Action Conference address
on Feb. 28, delivered under
tightened security at a presidential level.
As he put it himself in the speech: “I
stand before you today to declare that
the incredible journey we began together
four years ago is far from over …”
What did he mean by that? Well, we
know.
But things happen to a man of a “cer-
tain age,” even though we don’t want
them to … or they can change their
minds, unlikely as that seems.
So let’s play a game. If not Trump, who?
(Beyond being academic, it might tell us
who will be his vice presidential pick as
well. We can forget about Mike Pence.)
For starters, like it or not, the Republi-
can Party is Trump’s now. The old Bush
party, already a faint and diminishing
speck on the horizon, can only dream of
resuscitation. Further, Trump’s critics in
the monumentally misnamed Lincoln
Project have imploded spectacularly.
A staggering 95 percent of CPAC at-
tendees supported all of Trump’s poli-
cies, according to the Washington Times
straw poll. His job-approval level was
even higher—97 percent. Who does that?
(Only Stalin, but this was a free election.)
If you’re not “Trumpy,” forget about the
nomination—for just about anything.
Republican officials not on Trump’s team
and upholding his policies should therefore
beware; those who waffled also. Primaries
are coming and on the minds of many.
Again in Trump’s words from his speech:
“The Republican Party is united. The only
division is between a handful of Washing-
ton, D.C., establishment political hacks,
and everybody else all over the country.”
CPAC itself was a ratification of this,
but also an audition of sorts for a possible
replacement for the former [sic] presi-
dent, if necessary, or, looking far ahead,
probably too far, the election of 2028.
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(Left) South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference held
in the Hyatt Regency in Orlando on Feb. 27, 2021. (Right) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis leaves
after holding a press conference in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Jan. 6, 2021.
What follows are my reactions to this
audition, but my sense of the room is
that they aren’t that far from the view
of many attendees. (Overall, the CPAC
atmosphere was surprisingly optimistic
considering the very much still-festering
wound of the dubious 2020 election.)
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The three most obvious favorites in no
particular order (so ladies first) are South
Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis, and former Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo.
None of these people have made previ-
ous runs at the presidency, at least in any
obvious manner. To have done so would,
to some degree unfairly, have made them
damaged goods, having come under as-
sault by Trump’s take-no-prisoners style
during the 2016 primary season.
Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, both
with eyes on the prize for some time,
have undergone that, so are, in essence,
disqualified. (Cruz’s unfortunate jetaway
to Cancun, while his state power grid was
down, hasn’t helped him either.)
The only Trump opponent who really
escaped his opprobrium was Ben Carson,
who became an enduring part of the Cabi-
net, gave the keynote at the Reagan Dinner
on Feb. 27, but seems to be headed in a
think tank direction. (Still, you never know.)
So, Noem. She was possibly the sur-
prise of CPAC.
That her policies were firmly conser-
vative/libertarian and that she kept
South Dakota open in the pandemic in a
manner that left her state with the lowest
unemployment in the nation was ac-
knowledged. But what really wowed was
her ability as a public speaker.
Noem skillfully went from sly humor
(mocking the man who was seemingly
Public Enemy No. 1 at CPAC—Dr. Anthony
Fauci) to a heart-tugging tale of, at the age
of 22, finding the recordings of her recently
deceased farmer father in his pickup and
how that nurtured her patriotic spirit of
self-reliance.
The latter may have been a well-re-
hearsed part of her stump speech, but
even so, it worked. In a way, she has the
makings of a female Reagan, who had
similar public speaking skills that clearly
stood him in good stead.
Noem could also be a good vice presi-
dential candidate for Trump should he run
again in 2024, checking the female “diver-
sity” box, nauseating and—let’s be hon-
est—completely reactionary as the concept
of “diversity” of all sorts is. (Goodbye, Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. and his “old-fashioned”
idea of judging people by their character.)
Further in Noem’s favor is she is a
governor, thus with plenty of executive
experience. Governors have historically
been more sought-after for the presi-
dency than senators or, further down the
list, congressmen and women. And then,
more recently, there are businessmen,
but that’s another matter.
Because of this general preference for
governors (or businessmen) over sena-
tors, I have omitted Sen. Josh Hawley of
Missouri from this shortlist. He is doing
an excellent and courageous job in the
Senate, but probably needs more time. He
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
Former President
Donald Trump
addresses the
Conservative
Political Action
Conference held at
the Hyatt Regency
in Orlando, Fla., on
Feb. 28, 2021.
If you’re not
‘Trumpy,’
forget
about the
nomination—
for just about
anything.
could, however, be a 2028 contender.
Noem’s governorship is of a small state
that she referred to in a wry self-deprecat-
ing manner in her speech, which segues
to that governor of a big state—DeSantis.
DeSantis can stake a claim to being
Governor of the Year or, more specifically,
Governor of the Plague Year, if there were
such a thing. Against the tide, he kept the
state of Florida open—schools and all—
and proved to be correct in what many
assumed to be the riskiest of propositions.
He also stood firm against the immigra-
tion nonsense of the current administra-
tion, while governing a genuinely multi-
cultural state.
Coming to Florida, even from my own
home state of Tennessee, which isn’t so
bad, is like visiting another country where
the pandemic never happened. I can’t tell
you how refreshing it is. Imagine if I’d come
from New York or California. (Of course, it’s
not quite that simple. You’re supposed to
wear a mask at CPAC, but the vast majority
of the several hundred people sitting with
me in the conference room, listening to the
speakers, sure aren’t.)
DeSantis, moreover, looks like a presi-
dent. He has what JFK had, what they
called during that brief period “vigah.”
(He might not really have had it, but at
least he looked like he did.)
Although I, like Trump, am of a “certain
age,” I admit there’s a strong argument
for having a younger man, like DeSantis,
in the presidency with its 24/7 demands.
He’s also clearly bright and has no issues
mixing it up with the sneering reactionar-
ies of the mainstream media, aka the “nat-
tering nabobs of negativism.” He’s more
prepared and more educated than they are.
In this cancel culture era, that is more
necessary than ever, even imperative.
DeSantis was the second choice to Trump
in the straw poll, doing surprisingly, or per-
haps not so surprisingly, well at 21 percent.
(He was almost as popular as Orlando
itself, which won by acclimation as the
site of CPAC. If that’s its future, it wouldn’t
be a bad idea to keep it out of D.C.)
Pompeo also has experience handling
the rapacious press. By now, the former
secretary of state has seen it all—Con-
gress, the CIA, and the State Department.
You would think with all this, he would
have been infected by the Deep State,
and, I must admit, I do detect a whiff. But
only sometimes.
He’s a good speaker, too, and deserves
more than a small merit badge, maybe a
platinum trophy encrusted with dia-
monds and sapphires, for overseeing the
epochal Abraham Accords, arguably the
greatest achievement, among the many,
of the Trump administration. Let’s pray it
endures.
So those are my three. I believe they
are all electable, Pompeo perhaps a
smidge less. You may have others. Feel
free to have at it. If there’s anything we’ve
learned in the past year or two, it’s that
the wheel turns more quickly than any
hamster could spin it.
No matter how good they are, however,
none of these prospective candidates have
anywhere near the remarkable charisma
of Trump. Nobody has in my lifetime and
I dare say, yours. He has that ability to at-
tract (and, in some cases, repel) others the
Spaniards call “duende”—the ghost.
Roger L. Simon is an award-winning
novelist, Oscar-nominated screenwriter,
co-founder of PJ Media, and now a col-
umnist of The Epoch Times.
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China Recovery Stalls
DANIEL LACALLE
Commentary
One of the key pillars of
the consensus bullish
view about 2021 is the
Chinese recovery, sup-
ported by optimistic esti-
mates of growth in services and exports.
The details in the official February
Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) show
a different picture. It seems that the data
for the Chinese economy, especially in
services and exports, is inconsistent with
6 percent GDP growth, as most analysts
expect for 2021.
February’s figures were surprisingly
weak, especially because the majority of
World Economic Forum Retracts Statement Suggesting Lockdowns
‘Improved’ Cities Worldwide
GQ PAN
Following intense backlash, the World
Economic Forum (WEF) has taken down
a Twitter post that claimed lockdowns dur-
ing the CCP virus pandemic are “quietly
improving cities” across the globe.
A champion of “environmental justice”
and the “Great Reset” of capitalism, the
WEF on Feb. 26 posted on Twitter a video
featuring quiet, depopulated urban life
and stalled industrial activities, noting that
air pollution and carbon emissions have
dipped to historical lows as governments
around the world enforced lockdowns to
curb the spread of the CCP (Chinese Com-
munist Party) virus.
“There were record falls in air pollution,
clearing city skies from Asia to America.
But by late 2020, it had returned to pre-
pandemic levels,” the organization said in
the now-deleted video. “Carbon emissions
were also down 7 percent last year, but the
drop won’t slow climate change unless we
lock in emissions cuts.”
The video, which sparked a social media
firestorm, ended with a question asking
the audience “how quiet your area was”
during the lockdown. Twitter users across
the political spectrum criticized the group
for the out-of-touch post, citing millions of
lives lost to the pandemic and businesses
that didn’t survive the lockdowns.
On Feb. 27, the organization deleted the
post, admitting that the pandemic lock-
downs weren’t actually “quietly improving
cities,” but offered no apology.
economists already expected a slowdown
due to the holidays. The consensus mes-
sage is that we shouldn’t worry about this,
because the PMIs reflect an expected
seasonal weakness and the effects of the
increase in cases before the Lunar New
Year. However, those two factors were al-
ready embedded in consensus estimates.
The official manufacturing PMI fell in
February from 51.3 to 50.6 in January. A
figure above 50 means expansion, and
below that, contraction. To see the manu-
facturing sector, the key driver of the re-
covery in 2020, close to contraction even
in the official figure, is a concern. This is a
very large drop, significantly worse than
the consensus average forecast of 51.0, at
the lower end of economists’ forecasts.
The non-manufacturing PMI, which
“We’re deleting this tweet. Lockdowns
aren’t ‘quietly improving cities’ around the
world,” it explained. “But they are an im-
portant part of the public health response
to COVID-19.”
The WEF drew criticism last year when
its founder and Executive Chairman Klaus
Schwab said he believes that the CCP virus
pandemic is a “narrow window of oppor-
tunity to reflect, reimagine and reset our
world.”
According to Schwab, humanity must
“build entirely new foundations for our
economic and social systems” in order to
create a healthier, more sustainable, and
prosperous world. He argued that this
massive, long-overdue reset has become
feasible because of the “changes we have
already seen in response to COVID-19,”
which have forced people around the world
to radically change their ways of life and
give up what was considered essential prior
to the pandemic.
Schwab’s remark sparked concerns that
the actual goal of the lockdowns was to ac-
custom people to a life in which government
can shut down economies and restrict per-
sonal freedoms in the name of public health
or addressing climate change. The WEF’s
Twitter post has rekindled those concerns.
“Isn’t it lovely to see all these quiet, dead
cities, closed factories and grounded air-
craft,” British lawyer Francis Hoar wrote
on Twitter. “Take this as a warning that if
lockdowns are accepted in any circum-
stance, they will be imposed for climate
reasons before long.”
DAN KITWOOD/GETTY IMAGES
A woman
walks
through the
Square Mile
at sunrise
in London
on April 10,
2020.
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includes construction and services,
dropped to 51.4, below the consensus
forecast of 52.0 and the lowest since
March 2020 after the economy reopened
from the lockdown.
What caused this slump? A drop in
construction and a very poor reading of
new export orders. The weak manufactur-
ing and construction figures show that the
“virtual” celebration of this year’s Lunar
New Year holiday had a more negative ef-
fect than estimated.
Something is wrong when an export-
led economy shows a massive slump in
orders in the middle of a global recovery.
The new export orders index fell into con-
traction territory for the first time since
September 2020.
Two factors have affected the export
orders’ weakness. The relative strength of
the yuan, which has reduced orders for
the lower added-value products, and the
rise in the input and output price PMIs,
show that inflationary pressures remain
elevated. We could also conclude that the
European economy double-dip recession
risk has affected orders.
Even if we assume that some of these fac-
tors are temporary, one data point should
cause alarm. Both the manufacturing and
non-manufacturing employment com-
ponents are in contraction, indicating job
losses. An economy that sees a temporary
and allegedly irrelevant slump in PMIs
shouldn’t reflect employment destruction.
The jobless recovery is an important risk
all over the world. We’re seeing a signifi-
Shipping containers cant bounce in gross domestic product
stacked at a port in Lian- (GDP) in many economies, but the figures
yungang, Jiangsu Province, of job creation and real wage growth
China, on Jan. 14, 2021. aren’t just disappointing but concern-
ing. Why? Because if jobs and disposable
income don’t recover faster, it will be dif-
ficult to see the big boom in consumption
that so many economists rely on to justify
the solid rise in economic growth for 2021.
China’s weakness is much more than
Something is wrong a Lunar New Year celebration slump. It’s
evidence that the 2020 recovery was more
when an export-led fragile than most commentators suggested.
economy shows a
massive slump in Daniel Lacalle, Ph.D., is chief economist at
hedge fund Tressis and author of “Freedom
orders in the middle or Equality,” “Escape from the Central Bank
of a global recovery. Trap,” and “Life in the Financial Markets.”
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Remington’s lifetime work
included more than 3,000
sketches, illustrations, and
watercolors, with dozens of oil
paintings and 22 sculptures.
“The Rattlesnake,” at Yale, but he also played football. An
1905, revised 1908, artist’s eye combined with rough-and-
by Frederic Remington. tumble experiences married within his
Bronze sculpture. The personality. The West called to him. He
Metropolitan Museum found work as an illustrator for Harper’s
of Art. 
Weekly but was also a field correspondent.
The public’s desire for Western stories was
insatiable.
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TRUTH AND TRADITION
Ying and Yang by Sandra Kuck
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A Book of Hope
in a Bad Season:
‘That Hideous
Strength’
One of 12 Great Books
JEFF MINICK
I
n a recent article about Sir Walter
Scott’s “Ivanhoe,” I made a New
Year’s resolution to read old books
unfamiliar to me. Having selected
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Devils”
as my next conquest, I had just com-
menced that story of Russian radicals
when another book, not quite so old but
still important, snared my attention and
lured me temporarily away.
Let me explain. During the past
month, my daily online explorations
revealed that for several years George
Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” had of-
ten made the bestseller lists at Amazon
and Barnes and Noble. Readers were
also buying Aldous Huxley’s “Brave
New World,” and Penguin had reprinted
Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here,”
a novel about fascism swallowing up
American democracy.
All these novels are over 70 years old,
and it gladdened my heart to see readers
turning to these modern classics to get
a take on our current politics.
Some online articles also cited C.S.
Lewis’s “That Hideous Strength” as a
novel suited to our unsettled times. Much
of Lewis’s work is familiar to me. My chil-
dren and I shared the “Narnia” series;
“Mere Christianity” and “The Screwtape
Letters” helped me explore my faith; and
my all-time favorite, “Till We Have Faces,”
a retelling of the tale of Cupid and Psyche,
I taught to my students.
But I’d never read Lewis’s space tril-
ogy, of which “That Hideous Strength”
is the capstone.
Inspired by the recommendations and
hoping to find some light in our dark
times, I checked out the book from the
library, temporarily said goodbye to
Russia, and began reading.
‘That Hideous Strength’
Set in England, “That Hideous Strength”
is a tale of the struggle between power-
hungry utopians who wish to create a
totalitarian government and those who
resist them. The utopian crew belong
to an organization called the National
Institute of Coordinated Experiments,
or N.I.C.E., innocuous enough in name.
Like some of our organizations and
political proposals today, the elites of
N.I.C.E. set out to retool society, culture,
and even human nature.
Opposing them is a handful of people led
by an otherworldly director. Though they
seem without resources, cosmic forces—
including a resurrected Merlin—come to
their rescue. N.I.C.E. and those associated
with that institution are destroyed, and
Britain and the world are saved.
Throughout the book, we find similari-
ties to our own time. Here, for example,
a young man being groomed for N.I.C.E.
asks Miss Hardcastle, the head of police
for the organization, why educated peo-
ple would ever believe the propaganda
she has proposed he write for the news-
papers. Her reply drips with contempt:
“Why you fool, it’s the educated reader
who can be gulled. All our difficulty
comes from the others. When did you
A copy of George Orwell’s novel “1984” sits on a bookstore shelf. The 72-year-old
dystopian novel has regained popularity in recent years.
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
meet a workman who believes the pa-
pers? He takes it for granted that they’re
all propaganda and skips the leading
articles … He is our problem. We have to
recondition him. But the educated public,
the people who read the high-brow week-
lies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all
right already. They’ll believe anything.”
Here, too, we find several key differences
that distinguish “That Hideous Strength”
from “Brave New World” and “1984.”
In the Beginning
The novels by Huxley and Orwell drop
the reader into a world where a totali-
tarian government has already taken
power. In “Brave New World,” a small
group rules the rest of the people for
their common good, controlling them
by propaganda, “sleep learning,” drugs,
sex, and entertainment.
The totalitarians in “1984” control their
subjects through fear, a widespread sys-
tem of hidden cameras and microphones,
the implementation of “doublethink,”
and like their equivalents in “Brave New
World,” by the erasure of the past.
In “That Hideous Strength,” we are
at the beginning of this drive for total
control. Lewis introduces us to a cabal of
scientists, police officers, intellectuals,
and journalists intent on domination
and greedy for power.
When they attempt to recruit Mark
Studdock, who is a sociologist, into their
ranks, Lord Feverstone shares a part of
this vision with him:
“It does really look as if we now have the
power to dig ourselves in as a species
for a pretty staggering period, to take
control of our own destiny. If Science is
really given a free hand it can now take
over the human race and re-condition
it: make man a really efficient animal.
If it doesn’t—well, we’re done.”
Here again are sentiments we hear from
some public officials today.
A Fairy Tale for Grownups
In his “Preface,” Lewis describes “That
Hideous Strength” as a fairy tale.
Compared to “1984” and “Brave New
World,” that description is apt. Neither
of these two books contains any element
of the magical or the supernatural.
In “That Hideous Strength,” however,
we find heavenly creatures coming to
aid human beings, the magician Merlin
brought back to life, and interference
from interplanetary beings in the af-
fairs of Earth.
At first, the appearances of Merlin, the
goddess Venus, the visitors from space,
and other such characters put me off a
bit. To be fair to the story, I have not read
the two earlier volumes—“Out of the
Silent Planet” and “Perelandra”—where
we meet some of these beings and the
heroic Elwin Ransom, who plays a key
role in “That Hideous Strength.” None-
theless, these strange creatures at first
seemed intrusions into the story, un-
necessary and even false.
And then the scales fell from my eyes,
and I understood.
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Darkness Versus Light
As I read more of the story and reflected
on the philosophy driving it, I came to
see that Lewis is describing the struggle
between good and evil. His novel re-
minds us that we  are not striving so much
against flesh-and-blood enemies but in-
stead against dark ideas aimed at degrad-
ing us, powers intended to diminish our
ideals of liberty and individualism.
While some of the characters in “That
Hideous Strength” are indeed wicked in
and of themselves—Miss Hardcastle, is
a sadist less interested in creating a new
world order than in personal power—
most of them are either chasing after
power and advancement, or are deluded
by grand thoughts of utopia. “The King-
dom of God is to be realized here—in
this world,” says the fanatical Mr. Straik,
and he means that literally.
Most of us forget at times, or else refuse
to recognize, the existence of a struggle
between good and evil. Those words are
unfashionable these days, yet Lewis is
telling us that this battle is real. We may
be blind to this warfare, in part because
of our obsession with material goods, but
behind the scenes the struggle goes on.
“Ideas have consequences,” philoso-
pher Richard Weaver once wrote. As
Lewis demonstrates, those ideas have
led men to create gulags and concentra-
tion camps, to silence opponents, and to
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destroy the real—good, truth, beauty—
for the illusions of utopia.
Love and Marriage
Finally, unlike his contemporaries Huxley
and Orwell, Lewis includes as a second-
ary theme in “That Hideous Strength,” an
examination of the meaning of love and
its place in marriage. Using the troubled
marriage of Jane and Mark Suddock as his
vehicle, he explores what one character
calls “companionship.”
During a conversation with the direc-
tor, who eventually reveals himself as
the heroic Ransom, Jane opens up and
speaks with him about her failing mar-
riage. He then offers her some gentle
suggestions and ideas.
Jane prides herself on being a mod-
ern woman, what we would today call
a feminist, and the director’s advice
seems quaint and old-fashioned. When
she says, “I thought it was in their souls
that people were equal,” the director
replies: “That is the last place where
they are equal …Equality guards life; it
doesn’t make it. It is medicine, not food.”
And when she speaks of equality in mar-
riage, he says to her: “No one has ever
told you that obedience—humility—
is an erotic necessity. You are putting
equality just where it ought not to be.”
Never had I considered obedience or
humility as erotic necessities, but I will
THE BODLEY HEAD
C.S. Lewis’s lesser-
known Space Trilogy has
as its final installment
an important tale for our
times.
The first edition of “That
Hideous Strength,”
subtitled “A Modern
Fairy-Tale for Grown-
Ups.”
B3
ponder those words and Lewis’s many
other comments on companionship for
a long time. Unlike Aldous
Huxley and
A Story for Our Time
Many parallels between “That Hideous George Orwell,
Strength” and our own age exist: a riot
engineered by those in power and the
C.S. Lewis
story twisted in the press, the smear- ends his story
ing of political opponents, the murder
of a man who tries to leave N.I.C.E, the with the
use of blackmail, the religious strains triumph of
of ideology, and the arrogant emphasis
on the self. good over evil.
Like “1984” and “Brave New World,”
Lewis’s tale of totalitarianism is a warn-
ing to us. “Those who call for Nonsense,”
says a leader of the resistance near the
end of the story, “will find that it comes.”
Our present Nonsense reveals the
truth of her words.
But unlike Huxley and Orwell, Lew-
is ends his story with the triumph of
good over evil, and with the restora-
tion of love and hope. After a long ab-
sence and a struggle to return to his
wife, Mark fi nally makes his way to
St. Anne’s Manor, the headquarters
of the resistance and where Jane has
taken up residence.
There Mark encounters an apparition
by a doorway in a wall, “a woman di-
vinely tall, part naked, part wrapped
in a flame-colored robe … It was open-
ing the door for him. He did not dare
disobey (“Surely,” he thought, “I must
have died”), and he went in: found him-
self in some place of sweet smells and
bright fires, with food and wine and a
rich bed.”
Here in this chamber of warmth,
beauty, and light, and not in the cold
corridors of power and dominion or in
a laboratory, is where we become more
fully human.
Jeff Minick has four children and a
growing platoon of grandchildren. For
20 years, he taught history, literature,
and Latin to seminars of homeschool-
ing students in Asheville, N.C. He is
the author of two novels, “Amanda
Bell” and “Dust On Their Wings,” and
two works of non-fiction, “Learning
As I Go” and “Movies Make The Man.”
Today, he lives and writes in Front
Royal, Va. See Jeff Minick.com to follow
his blog.
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TAKING YOU THERE
Frederic Remington Hurls
You Into the Wild West With
‘The Rattlesnake’
Continued from B1
His drawings went from merely accompa-
nying his articles to paintings that gained
a level of maturity so that even art critics
placed his work on a unique pedestal. Al-
bert Bierstadt was covering massive can-
vases with “Rocky Mountains” (1863) and
“Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Cali-
fornia” (1868), which played well back East
and introduced Europeans to our glorious
scenery. In the foreground of almost all of
his paintings were miniature settings with
daily life among teepees, wagon trains, or
pioneer encampments. It was those tiny
figures that Remington enlarged and
which became the center of his attention.
He brought drama and adventure—the ac-
tion—of the West to East Coast civilization,
and they ate it up.
Few noteworthy artists worked both in
painting and sculpture. Perhaps Michelan-
gelo is the best known with his painting of
the massive ceiling in the Sistine Chapel and
his neoclassical sculptures of “David” and
“La Pietà.” Almost 400 years later, Reming-
ton was an artist on his own terms—draw-
ing, painting, sculpting—and all the while,
writing about it. This additional dimension
gave a play-by-play quality to the many ad-
ventures he re-created on canvas: cowboys,
trappers, scouts, the Lakota and Navajo Na-
tions, and even up San Juan Hill to chronicle
Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders in
turn-of-the-century Cuba. Remington’s life,
and his portrayal of so many scenes display-
ing true grit, was quite extraordinary.
While his forefathers in art, and even his
contemporaries, sculpted impressive im-
ages, almost all of them memorialized a
moment of stillness—a kiss, a tranquil hu-
man form in pose, another merely thinking.
Those sculptures remain as still today as the
moments they were created. But Remington
did something quite different, even auda-
cious. His subjects were not graceful and
relaxed, but rather, they were rugged folk,
rough and ready.
He prided himself in capturing move-
ment, an often-violent instant, sometimes
death-defying, that would be gone in the
blink of an eye. That would be almost ev-
eryone’s eye but Remington’s, for he held
the image in his mind, later to draw and
then mold into clay.
Observers of his sculptures could stand,
staring at each piece, feeling the motion—
and the emotion—of the subject, the angst,
the surprise, sometimes the terror and the
passion within it. They could feel it, again
and again, because Remington took them
down this path.
(Above)
The rider is lifted off his saddle, his Colt
revolver flung away from his body.
(Left)
The horse is going out of his mind with fear, but
can’t take his eyes off it.
(Right)
“The Rattlesnake,” 1905, by Frederic
Remington. Bronze sculpture.
“Cheyenne Scout,” 1901, In 1895, “The Bronco Buster” was his
by Frederic Remington. first endeavor at sculpture after 20 years
Lithograph; 20 inches by of drawing and painting. With a strong
17 inches.  following, the piece was an immediate hit.
His popularity surged. Even the Rough
Riders gathered to present one to Lieuten-
ant Colonel Teddy Roosevelt.
Remington’s lifetime work included
more than 3,000 sketches, illustrations,
and watercolors, with dozens of oil paint-
ings and 22 sculptures. He also penned
two books and over a hundred magazine
The agony in articles and stories. But in 1909, at the age
of only 48, Remington passed away from
the equine is an infection following an appendectomy.
He had been at the peak of his career. The
so great that art world and much of society mourned the
nothing can man who almost singlehandedly shaped
how Americans pictured the West.
restrain his
Meeting a Remington
turbulent In the 1990s at an antiques show in San
motion. Diego, a friend who knew my propensity
regarding art, tugged at my elbow to tell
me there was something I simply had to
see, and at a reasonable price. Wary of his
admonition, I trekked across the conven-
tion hall until I saw it.
When the most exquisite piece of its kind
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021
you have ever seen speaks to you, and the
price is manageable, you drive home with
a chunk of bronze in your car that will be
with you till the end of your days.
‘The Rattlesnake’
After Remington produced “The Bronco
Buster,” it would be 10 years before he re-
turned to a similar subject. It could have
been the very same mount and rider, but
the psychological viewpoints are dramati-
cally different.
“The Bronco Buster” portrays a planned
action, one the cowboy even looked for-
ward to. In breaking the wildness from a
wilderness beast, taming it for work on the
ranch, separating cattle or roping a run-
away calf, the work is exciting but normal.
“The Rattlesnake” is the opposite.
The subject was not a mount and rider
going slowly down a slope, or even tak-
ing a planned ride on a wild mustang,
everyday Western activities. No, this was
from a unique incident on the trail that the
rider could not anticipate and simply steer
his horse around. When the rattlesnake
commenced its rattling and the horse
had a hissy fit—to the great surprise of
the rider—that was the moment Reming-
ton captured. There was no photograph
to take and review in his studio, and no
horse could hold such an impossible pose
to model for him. This required detailed
knowledge of equine anatomy and was
all birthed from memory.
The rider has a slender, sinewy body, with
an aquiline nose. A bushy mustache cov-
ers most of the lower half of his face. It is
thick and wide, but a popular style at the
time among chaps-wearing, derring-do
cowboys. Holding on for dear life, his up-
per body careens forward, and he still has
to deal with the rattling reptile.
What must have gone through his mind?
A broken leg for himself or his steed could
have deadly consequences. A snake bite
would be even worse, and with no one to
come to the rescue.
Let’s go down the path with this cowboy
and his trusty steed.
Taking You There
In the sounds of nature, animals aren’t
taught which ones mean danger. Millennia
of time tells them when to stay and when
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to go, when to relax and when to respond,
and to do it immediately.
Act, and act quickly! Move! Get away!
This was going through the mind of the
rattlesnake.
Coiling provides the leverage for its V-
shaped head to stand erect, several inches
above its body—the pose of a viper strike.
A forked tongue shoots out and withdraws;
then its mouth holds open, baring fangs
as deadly as a wolf or bear, with venom to
back them up.
Some say the high-speed shaking of the
rattle is a defense mechanism, but it is really
announcing: “Because you have entered
my territory, my safe space, uninvited, I am
going to attack you. If you do not withdraw,
you will face the consequences of your poor
decision, and this is your only warning.”
All of this was conveyed instantaneously
by the whipping back and forth of the snake’s
tail, its response to more than half a ton of un-
stoppable, four-legged bulk trampling its way.
The rider was unaware of the danger un-
til it was already beneath him. He realized
that he was about to be thrown right onto
the cause of the trauma. He had to think fast,
calm down, and gain control of his mount,
even with an overdose of adrenaline speed-
ing to both of their hearts.
In a flash, the horse is bucking up, nearly
spilling over. The core of his body whips into
a deep curve and his eyes are transfixed by
those of the serpent, almost paralyzing him.
He is going out of his mind with fear, but can’t
take his eyes off it.
Neighing begins and then becomes a
screaming whinnying the rider has never
heard before.
The snake shakes its rattle in a frenzy, un-
nerving all within earshot to preserve its
ground-bound life. A horse’s legs are long
and fragile: up from his hooves, his pastern,
fetlock, and cannon, to his knees, tender
open areas within the viper’s reach.
The ruckus continues, a visceral reaction,
a brash braying, a horrifying whinnying,
breath sucked in, nostrils flaring, air whip-
ping in and out through his lungs, stomping,
kicking every which way, trying to escape the
dread of the here-and-now, the horror of the
creature at his feet.
Through all the bucking, almost turning
over, the rider is thrown back then violently
forward. Head bent down, exasperated, his
  B5
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF WAYNE A. BARNES
ALL PHOTOS BY ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM
“Portrait of a Young Woman,” 1632, by Rembrandt van Rijn, prior to its
conservation (L), and after (R), with a close-up of the woman’s lips, also
before and after. Oil on panel; 29 1/2 inches by 22 3/4 inches. Samuel H.
Kress Collection, 1961. Allentown Art Museum.
Unmistakably
Rembrandt: ‘Portrait
of a Young Woman’
LORRAINE FERRIER
An age-old artwork can sometimes distort the truth. This
was certainly the case for Rembrandt’s “Portrait of a Young
Woman” at the Allentown Art Museum, in Pennsylva-
nia. For more than four decades, visitors to the museum
viewed the portrait not as a work by Rembrandt but by
his workshop.
In the 1970s, art experts mistakenly deattributed the
portrait because conservators over the centuries had
altered it to such an extent that it was deemed unrecog-
nizable as a Rembrandt original.
Today, the portrait has been restored and is back on
display—as a painting by Rembrandt—in the museum’s
exhibition “Rembrandt Revealed.” The exhibition reveals
why the portrait was deattributed and how it was reattrib-
uted to Rembrandt. The exhibition also gives interesting
insights into the process and challenges of art attribution.
left hand grasps the base of his horse’s mane.
His right darts up to hold onto his hat, a re- Not Rembrandt
flexive but futile action. In the early 1920s, art scholars began to question whether
The saddle horn crushes into his gut and he the artwork had actually been painted by the Dutch mas-
flings forward again. Erratic jerking slings the ter. In the 1970s, art experts deemed it an important work
belt with his Colt revolver away from his body. by the “Workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn.”
All hell has broken loose in the corpus of The painting’s lack of clarity in the clothing and jewelry
the horse, and the rider foresees the worst. was one of the reasons for the demotion; another was that
The agony in the equine is so great that noth- the lady’s head showed “indistinct brushwork.”
ing can restrain his turbulent motion. His Conservator Shan Kuang, who restored the painting
forelegs pull up tightly, close to his body, between 2018 and 2019, said in the museum’s member
as far from the danger as possible. Grav- magazine that anyone who saw the portrait prior to its
ity brings him hurling back down before restoration would have viewed the young lady through
he goes, again, immediately skyward. All “a dirty windshield.”
the while, the viper’s fangs and the buzz- Over the centuries, various conservators—with a genu-
ing, beating, vibrating, dizzying, and gut- ine heart to enhance the portrait and in line with the
wrenching sound on the ground has nearly fashions of their time—varnished the painting to such an
driven the steed insane. Hooves kick up a extent that it created a thick, dark buildup. For example,
cloud of dust, sown with the smell of grime restorers in the early 20th century used varnish to hide the
and panic. texture of the painted surface, as was the taste at the time.
In this moment of madness, the snake’s tail The portrait’s numerous varnished layers concealed
end continues it heart-stopping drumming. Rembrandt’s characteristic delicate brushstrokes, obscur-
Then, without notice, a serpentine shadow ing the lady’s porcelain skin. In addition, conservators
slithers off through the woods. had overpainted parts of the portrait, muting details such
When the danger is finally gone, there is no as her hair ornaments, glistening gold necklace, and the
quick return to calm, so high had been the touches of lace on her dress.
adrenaline rush for mount and rider. These
are moments you relive, that will bring night- Revealing Rembrandt, by Chance
mares to both man and beast. And if snakes Kuang’s first task, at the Conservation Center of the Insti-
do dream, this one will curl up in its hole, tute of Fine Arts, at New York University, was to remove the
recalling two enormous hooves crashing different layers of overpaint and varnish. She differenti-
down, so close to ending its rattling days in ated the various layers, using an electron microscope and
the underbrush. digital photography, and carefully removed any added
In the split-second image of the sculpture, elements. It was during this routine work that Kuang
we don’t know if the viper struck. That was made the exciting discovery: The original brushwork was
likely Remington’s plan—an action shot like by Rembrandt’s hand.
no other—no time for hesitation; act now, as A fresh analysis of Rembrandt’s signature was also
fast as you can! carried out. In the past, there had been confusion as to
But then what? whether the signature was genuine, but the conservation
I wrote the ending I saw, but we don’t know. center confirmed it was indeed his.
That is the eternal beauty of the piece. The restoration was not limited to the portrait. Prior
to its restoration, the portrait was displayed in a 19th-
Some pieces of art move me so that I am century reproduction of a heavily carved 18th-century
compelled to write about them—what they gilt frame. A new frame was commissioned to reflect how
look like, but more often, how I see the scene the portrait may have been displayed in a 17th-century
in its own history. This is what the series Dutch home. Frame historian and framemaker Timothy
“Taking You There” is about. Newbery made the eight-sided ebonized pearwood frame
in his workshop in Scotland.
Wayne A. Barnes was an FBI agent for 29 Now, visitors to the museum can see the painting truly
years working counterintelligence. He had attributed to Rembrandt and nearer to how the portrait
many undercover assignments, including left his studio, nearly 490 years ago.
as a member of the Black Panthers. His first
spy stories were from debriefing Soviet KGB The Allentown Art Museum’s exhibition “Rembrandt
defectors. He now investigates privately in Revealed” runs until May 2. To find out more, visit
South Florida. AllentownArtMuseum.org
B6
TRADITIONAL CULTURE
Truth and Her Twin, Part 2:
Mendacium Writ Large
JAMES SALE
W
e looked in Part 1 at the
mythological origins of
Truth (Veritas) and Lies
(Mendacium). We estab-
lished that they were like
twins: sometimes very difficult to distin-
guish between one and the other. And we
made the point, too, that Mendacium, be-
cause she was footless, was immobile and
also unbalanced. If we think through what
this imagery means—keeping in mind that
the myths tell us deep psychological or even
spiritual truths—we realize that being foot-
less, being immobile, means that we are not
free. The essence of being free is that we are
free to move, wherever and whenever we
want. If at any point in our lives we cannot
move, we cannot truly be said to be free.
At a religious level, for example, Christ said
that in knowing the truth, the truth would
set us free, and this idea was matched by
his healing of the physically infirm—some
of whom could not even move. By healing,
not just curing their bodies, he set them free.
Truth has this remarkable quality: It frees us.
But not just at a spiritual level—this is also
true at a political one. If we cannot move, for
example, as during a lockdown, a curfew,
an embargo, and so on, then we are not free
politically. Not to be misunderstood: There
may be good reasons for curtailing freedom
in a lockdown—such as public health, but
nevertheless, the restriction denies one’s
freedom.
This issue, then, is really important. In
a way, what I am saying is that the accep-
tance of Mendacium—Lies or Error—is the
precursor to loss of freedom. It is neither
Scholar necessarily nor immediately apparent that
Camille Paglia we lose our freedom, but if enough people
in 2015. collectively subscribe to Mendacium, then
as sure as night follows day, our freedoms
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(Above left) While truth
and lies can look the
same, they are like iden-
tical twins, who can be
very different indeed, as
the painting “The Twins,
Kate and Grace Hoare”
(1876), by John Everett
Millais, suggests. Kate (L)
holds a riding crop and
her demure sister, a hat.
The Fitzwilliam Museum.
(Top right) In healing the
lame, Jesus made man-
ifest the dictum that
the truth sets one free.
“Christ Healing the Lame
at the Pool of Bethesda,”
1640s, by Pieter van Lint.
Oil on panel. Kunsthis-
torisches Museum.
(Above right) Art inspired
by the divine, as it was
in the past, can affect
us in profound ways.
John Habgood, the for-
mer Archbishop of York,
believed that the fact that
art today is divorced from
religion might reflect the
“trivialization and diso-
rientation of art itself.”
“Praying Hands,” circa
1508, by Albrecht Dürer.
Albertina art museum in
Vienna, Austria.
Truth is inside,
is internal,
and is the only
twin who can
really stand.
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are eroded and we become enslaved by
false and lying ideologies.
Mendacium Rules
Today we are assaulted on all sides by just
such a lying ideology, Mendacium threaten-
ing to undermine all our freedoms. In terms
of identifying it, English writer Theodore
Dalrymple perhaps caught its very essence
when he wrote: “He [Stefan Zweig] would
have viewed with horror the cacophony of
monomanias—sexual, racial, social, egali-
tarian—that marks the intellectual life of
our societies, each monomaniac demand-
ing legislative restriction on the freedom of
others in the name of a supposed greater,
collective good.”
Notice the strength of feeling in that
statement: not people, but monomaniacs
demanding what? Our freedom for some
“supposed greater, collective good.”
And lest we think that the danger can only
come from self-evident monomaniacs (and
self-confessed communists)—as visible as
some of them are, aggressively protesting
on our streets—yet the danger of Menda-
cium can be much subtler. It can be a lie
generated by an internal contradiction that
is difficult to spot.
Camille Paglia comments, in her book “Sex-
ual Personae,” on modern liberalism and its
connection to feminism: “Modern liberalism
suffers unresolved contradictions. It exalts in-
dividualism and freedom and, on its radical
wing, condemns social orders as oppressive.
On the other hand, it expects government to
provide materially for all, a feat manageable
only by an expansion of authority and a swol-
len bureaucracy ... In other words, liberalism
defines government as tyrant father but de-
mands that it behaves as nurturant mother
... Feminism has exceeded its proper mis-
sion of seeking political equality for women
and has ended by rejecting contingency,
that is, human limitation by nature or fate.”
Isn’t this the essence of Mendacium? It’s so
close to Veritas. Surely, we can all agree that it
is right that women should be treated equally
with men, but along the way, this “truth” has
morphed—via modern liberalism—into a
lie. It’s a lie that denies “human limitation,”
which is the actual difference between men
and women, or their nature.
Modern feminism has also denied fate.
We may wish to use another word for this—
destiny, providence, the Tao. But whatever
word we use, we’d realize if we understood
it, that outcomes in life never have been,
never will be, equal. The striving for equal-
ity of outcomes is utopian, futile, and ulti-
mately anti-freedom.
For what does it mean to be free? It means
we take self-responsibility, and as a conse-
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quence, we each achieve different results
for ourselves. On an individual level this is
obviously true, but we have seen in history
plenty of collective efforts to reverse this situ-
ation. As Jordan B. Peterson put it, “If there
was any excuse to be a Marxist in 1917, there
is absolutely and finally no excuse now.”
The encroachment of Mendacium onto
the domain of Veritas often seems to start
with small things. In the UK, for example,
politician and military historian Robert
Oulds, in his book “Moralitis,” comments
on student unions which “ensure freedom
from speech through ‘no-platforming’
and ‘safe spaces.’” Notice the rather witty,
“freedom from speech,” not “of speech.” It
almost seems funny until one reflects that
we are talking about the young university
generation whom we once thought went to
college—like we once did—to broaden and
expand their minds.
Weren’t universities places that had fa-
mous debating chambers? No more it
seems. Most students today cannot abide
an idea that contradicts their uninformed
prejudices. Worse, this intolerance is like
an insidious cancer, which spreads so that
soon the whole body is riddled with it.
Quoting Dalrymple again, we end up with
“a society of ‘emasculated liars’ who are
very easy to control.”
Our Way Back to Truth
How do we resist this insidious under-
mining of all that we hold dear? Clearly,
there is no easy answer, for if there were,
we wouldn’t have the problem. But I make
two suggestions that seem relevant.
One is honest journalism of the type that
The Epoch Times espouses. There has to be
resistance to the fake news and social media
control that currently now appertains. In a
way, this is immediate and frontline stuff.
But the deeper, longer-term stuff is related
to the kind of culture we live in and the val-
ues it espouses, or claims to espouse, for
frequently actions belie espoused values. In
particular, I feel that our arts are of primary
importance in this battle for the hearts and
souls of the people, especially the younger
generation. Why is this? Because it is the
arts—literature, drama, music, and visual
art—that most affect our emotions. In the
absence of any pervasive spiritual or reli-
gious tradition, our sense of the creative can
only derive from these sources.
The trouble is, so much of “art” today is
either entirely nihilistic or not art at all! John
Habgood (former Archbishop of York) some
while ago observed: “The fact that not much
art these days seems to be inspired by ex-
plicitly religious themes may, however, be
a reflection of the trivialization and disori-
entation of art itself.”
The problem is that people no longer be-
lieve in anything, including something
as basic as form itself. In poetry, we now
have “free verse,” meaning, usually, poetry
with no structure at all. And without form,
very little beauty—or truth. What is true of
today’s poetry is also true of the other art
forms. We all know this about the arts but,
as with the emperor’s new clothes, like to
pretend otherwise.
Thus, we need to press for art that redis-
covers the myths of old, but for a contem-
porary generation. The great critic Northrop
Frye said: “A myth is designed not to de-
scribe a specific situation but to contain it in
a way that does not restrict its significance
to that one situation. Its truth is inside its
structure, not outside.”
This is the real twin, Veritas, which compels
assent because her truth is inside, is internal,
and is the only one that can really stand.
To see Part 1 of “Truth and Her Twin,”
visit ept.ms/Veritas-1
James Sale has had over 50 books pub-
lished, most recently, “Mapping Motiva-
tion for Top Performing Teams” (Rout-
ledge, 2021). He won first prize in The
Society of Classical Poets 2017 annual
competition, performing in New York in
2019. His most recent poetry collection is
“HellWard.” For more information about
the author, and about his Dante project,
visit TheWiderCircle.webs.com
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FILM INSIGHTS
Mark Jackson grew up in Spring Val-
ley, N.Y., where he attended a Waldorf
WITH MARK
school. At Williams College, his pro-
fessors all suggested he write pro-
JACKSON
Making a Case for Bringing Back Sacredness to Art
MARK JACKSON
Director Darren Aronofsky resurrected
Mickey Rourke’s career with “The Wres-
tler,” and worked a similar boon of blessings
for Natalie Portman in “Black Swan.”  She
won the Oscar for her performance, and she
seemed in 2010 to have blossomed into the
Meryl Streep of her generation.
The role of elite ballerina Nina Sayers
checked off many of the things on the list that
attract Mr. Oscar—dramatic weight loss, all-
consuming immersion in a demanding skill
set (ballet), and shape-shifting disappearance
into a character. Indeed, her brief transforma-
tion at the end, into the actual Black Swan of
the title, is as bona fide a shape-shift as one
will ever see in cinema—that moment alone
was almost worth the price of admission.
The Attainment of Perfection
The film is a dark tale of obsession with ar-
tistic technique: the ruthless ambition, the
sacrifice, the obsessive compulsiveness. It
tells of how a dancer manages to capture
two out of the three main ingredients that,
according to Socrates, constitute great art:
truth and beauty. What’s missing to a cer-
tain extent is goodness.
The plot is straightforward: Mousey, intro-
verted good girl wants and wins lead role,
has the technical chops, but would appear
to lack the requisite personality to play the
entire role, which contains two extremes.
She’s inherently the white swan—chaste,
demure, perfect—but can Nina summon
up the Dionysian as well as the Apollonian,
and also inhabit the Black Swan believably?
Can an artist embody an extreme range? If
not, can the issue be forced; and if so, what’s
the cost? These are the questions “Black
Swan” poses.
Erica Sayers (Barbara Hershey) is the
ballet version of the overprotective horror-
mom in “Carrie,” vicariously living dreams
of success through her daughter. Thomas
Leroy is one of Vincent Cassel’s stock-in-
trade charismatic creeps, this time in the
form of a tyrant choreographer.
And Lily (Mila Kunis) is seductive as
the dancer with the chaotic, dark fire that
Portman’s Nina lacks. Kunis’s Lily draws
Portman’s character into her world of hook-
ups in bars, pill-enhanced mood control,
and laissez-faire attitude toward practice,
ostensibly to become her friend, but we
quickly sense a darker, ruthless competi-
tiveness behind her motives.
Nina allows herself to be drawn in since,
as one theory goes, to be true in art one
should really live it. As Charlie Parker fa-
mously said, “If you don’t live it, it won’t
come out your horn.” However, a lot of what
he lived was heroin addiction, so maybe ...
that doesn’t apply to ballet as much? Direc-
tor Aronofsky says otherwise.
Nina’s apparent above-and-beyond
ambition for gaining recognition for hav-
ing achieved perfection is underscored
throughout the film by self-mutilations that
demonstrate the lengths she’s willing to go
to in order to access her inner Black Swan.
Since our shortened attention spans need
to be held more and more these days by
the shock techniques of the horror genre,
there are many in this film.
The dark grays, blues, and blacks make it a
somber, heavy film. The self-mutilation is dis-
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Lily (Mila Kunis), the dancer with natural Black
Swan energy.
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(Above) Stage-mother Erica
Sayers (Barbara Hershey)
and her ballerina daughter
Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman).
(Left) Nina Sayers
(Natalie Portman) and
choreographer Thomas
Leroy (Vincent Cassel).
‘Black Swan’
Director
Darren Aronofsky
fessionally. He acted professionally Starring
for 20 years instead. Now he Natalie Portman,
writes professionally about Mila Kunis,
acting. In the movies. Winona Ryder,
Barbara Hershey,
Vincent Cassel
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(Above) Natalie Portman turbing, and the pall of horror and creepiness
as the White Swan in her hangs over everything. So what’s redeem-
shape-shifting, Oscar- ing about “Black Swan,” besides the physi-
winning performance cal beauty of Portman and Kunis and the
as obsessive, delusional interesting questions about perfection in art?
prima ballerina Nina Say-
ers in “The Black Swan.”
What’s the Payoff?
(Right) Natalie Portman
as the Black Swan. The issue of artists sacrificing and enduring
pain in order to achieve perfection is a well-
known fact—witness the massive, 60 pound,
life-threatening weight gain that Robert De
Niro ate himself up to for “Raging Bull.”
Any act of creativity leads to a certain
amount of obsession, and any creative per-
son knows that the euphoric state of getting
something exactly right, and honoring their
God-given talent, is their raison d’être.
The secular This ranges from violinists and sitarists
practicing until their fingers bleed, Delta
performance Force operators shooting pistols until their
of Nina Sayers hands bleed, new Harley-Davidson owners
staying up till 3 a.m. with the aftermarket
(Natalie parts catalog and obsessing about which
Portman) is exhaust pipes will express their personalities
better, or ballerinas dancing until their toes
never intended and ankles bleed. They don’t call it blood,
to uplift and sweat, and tears for nothing. The pain of
obsession is a “hurts so good” kind of pain.
inspire the Are there any further payoffs for the per-
audience; she former than perfection for perfection’s sake?
The greatest stage actor of all time, Laurence
dances entirely Olivier, although he was undoubtedly be-
for herself. ing glib, said that he was never conscious
of any motivation to be perfect other than
the desire to show off.
The inherent nature of the performing arts
is such that they can fuel the human attach-
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX ment to showing off easier than in painting,
sculpting, and poetry. Actors, dancers, and
musicians are demonstrating something
they’ve worked hard on in front of a crowd,
and there’s applause.
But people just simply want to show each
other what they accomplished, starting with
“Mommy, mommy, lookit-me lookit-me
jump off the diving board!” Nina achieves
her goal; the audience clearly loves Nina’s
final performance.
So what’s the big deal?
Classical Versus ‘Method’ Acting
We go to see art to experience a degree of
perfection, and as a reminder of what high
levels of attainment humanity is capable
of. However, in the performing arts, and
specifically acting, there was a shift that oc-
curred when acting transitioned from clas-
sical methods to Konstantin Stanislavsky’s
vision of emotional authenticity, which one
of his students, Lee Strasberg, then turned
into the now famous “method acting.”
In the past, the outer, perfect form was
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Rated
R
Running Time
1 hour, 48 minutes
Release Date
Dec. 17, 2010
Ratings
4 out of 5 stars for execution,
1 star for moral content
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king, and the human emotions were left out
of it. This was intended to leave the perform-
er as an empty vessel or conduit through
which the divine could be channeled. Now,
authentic human emotion is paramount;
it’s far more interesting to our modern
tastes. For a fascinating pseudohistorical
depiction of how this shift occurred, see
Claire Danes’s Shakespeare performance
in 2004’s “Stage Beauty.”
We want to see real emotion, not fake. But
in the distant past, when art was meant to
depict the divine, it was with the intention
of uplifting the observer spiritually, and not
to impart a sense of satisfaction in baser hu-
man emotions such as revenge (that exist
throughout Shakespeare’s work). In terms
of the original use of art, even Shakespeare’s
secular poetry, beautiful as it is, was a fallen
art form. The original theater was church
services—wholly in the realm of the sacred.
And so Nina’s secular performance is
never intended to uplift and inspire the
audience. She dances entirely for herself
and willingly drops her spiritual level, al-
lowing the demons to enter, “for the sake
of true art,” as Aronofsky depicts it.
The question that Aronofsky seems to
be posing is whether it is possible to strive
for artistic perfection and authenticity for
reasons other than an ambitious obsessive-
compulsive, narcissistic personality and
needing to show off.
Back to the Sacred
What of healing? If art didn’t have a healing
capacity, the field of art therapy wouldn’t
exist. We know that art can heal, and that
healers are not motivated by a need for
attention.  The dark conclusion of “Black
Swan” (which I won’t give away) is the logi-
cal outcome of art that’s trending further
and further away from art’s origins.
What of goodness? The film shows the
dramatic sacrifice that happens when the
third ingredient—Socrates’s concept of
goodness—goes missing.
Can we in modern times reintroduce the
sacred into art? This is definitely achievable.
Here’s a quote taken from the classical Chi-
nese dance website of Shen Yun: “Almost
every culture looked toward the divine for
inspiration. Art was meant to uplift, bring-
ing joy to both the people who created and
experienced it. It is this principle that drives
Shen Yun performers and their art.”
Professional dancers from around the
globe have agreed that Shen Yun attains a
level of perfection in dance that is rarely seen.
So this positive intention, to display divine
images, with the intent to heal through joy
and beauty is the key to attaining perfection
without the deleterious side effects.
I initially gave “Black Swan” a rating of 4 out
of 5 stars. Now I feel like downgrading it to a
3.5 just because it’s dark, depressing, scary,
and has drugs and gratuitous sex. Wait! I’ll
let the rating stand for technical aspects, but
as I find nowadays that I don’t really want to
see ballet, one of our last remaining pure art
forms, demeaned in that setting anymore,
I’ll give it two ratings (see above).
Nevertheless, director Darren Aronofsky
has actually done an excellent service by
showing how art has reached the extreme
of a downward, demonic trend. Now that
we’ve reached that extreme, perhaps things
will turn around.
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POPCORN AND INSPIRATION
A Rousing Biopic About a Real American Hero
IAN KANE
T
here are many heroes who initially
don’t seem destined for greatness.
This certainly is the case with Al-
vin York, a real-life American hero
who went above and beyond the
call of duty during World War I.
York’s heroics are retold in director How-
ard Hawks’s fascinating “Sergeant York,” a
1941 patriotic war movie. The film opens
in the Valley of the Three Forks of the Wolf,
nestled in the Cumberland Mountains of
Tennessee. The local pastor, Rosier Pile
(Walter Brennan), is leading his parish in
a powerful Christian hymn titled “When
the Roll Is Called Up Yonder.”
When the hymn concludes, the pastor
begins his sermon, which is interrupted by
gunfire that erupts from somewhere out-
side of the church. York (Gary Cooper) and
his fellow booze-swilling cohorts are riding
around town and shooting their pistols off
in a belligerent bout of drunkenness.
Even while drunk and disorderly, York man-
ages to shoot his initials into a tree right out-
side of the church, “A V.” If there’s one thing
that good ol’ country boy York does well, it’s
to hit a target with unnatural accuracy.
York’s mother (Margaret Wycherly) goes
to the settlement’s general store (which is
coincidently owned by Pastor Pile) to make
amends for her son’s transgressions, and it
is here that we learn the widow’s family is
destitute. The only thing the Yorks own is
a small patch of land.
While there, Mrs. York suggests, in a beau-
tiful Southern drawl, that the pastor have a
talk with her older son, Alvin, to tell him that
“A little religion wouldn’t do him no hurt.”
Meanwhile, York and his buddies take
to swilling even more booze at the local
bar and get so soused that they get into
some fisticuffs with other drunken ne’er-
do-wells. His younger brother, George
(Dickie Moore), marches into the place
and tells him that his mother wants him
to come home. York returns home with his
tail tucked between his legs and makes
amends with his stern but fair mother, who
greets him at the door with a bucket of cold
water in an effort to sober him up.
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When York is selected for Army service, a
conundrum arises: Can he serve his coun-
try and go to war, while being against kill-
ing his fellow man?
Focus on the Hero
While the first two acts of the film paint
a beautiful tapestry of York’s upbringing
in the backwoods of Tennessee, the final
act showcases his extraordinary honor
and courage in the face of adversity on
the battlefields and in the trenches of the
Great War.
For a film set in 1941, “Sergeant York” has
an exceptional level of character develop-
ment that enables it to transcend mere
propaganda. Through Hawks’s more-than-
capable guidance, Cooper is set free
York to deliver one of his finest, most
undergoes compelling performances, but-
a total Christian tressed further by Wycherly as
conversion, which his stalwart, ever-supportive
Gary Cooper in “Sergeant York,” in his Oscar-winning performance. compels him to mother. The excellent support-
be a better ing cast carry their own weight
because of his family’s circum- man. without being too obtrusive.
stances. “Sergeant York” is a deeply moving
This motivates York to ditch the film that should inspire even the most
booze and set his sights on a larger patch ardent of pessimists out there. Its sincere
of property called the “bottomland.” Un- dedication to unusual heroism, patriotism,
fortunately, while working his tail off to and selflessness is something that should be
obtain the land, he gets hoodwinked by a witnessed. Be warned: Bring a handkerchief
conniving wheeler-dealer, Nate Tomkins or box of tissues to wipe away all of those
(Erville Alderson). This causes York to re- tears.
turn to the bottle, and in a fit of drunken
fury, he sets off to kill Tomkins. Ian Kane is a filmmaker and author
Pastor Rosier Pile (Walter Brennan), also the Perhaps through divine intervention, a based out of Los Angeles. To learn more,
proprietor of the local general store, talks bolt of lightning strikes him, bending his visit DreamFlightEnt.com
with his parishioner Mrs. York (Margaret rifle’s barrel and thus rendering it useless.
Wycherly), in “Sergeant York.” York views this as a wake-up call and he
begins attending Pastor Pile’s services, ‘Sergeant York’
Trying to make amends, York begins much to the solace of his family, who are
Director
tilling his family’s fields. Pastor Pile then regular attendees. Howard Hawks
travels to the York property and does try York undergoes a total Christian con-
Starring
to persuade the youth to become a man of version, which compels him to be a better Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan,
faith. But York is stubborn and shrugs off man. He makes amends with local folks, Margaret Wycherly, Joan Leslie
the pastor’s endeavors. including Tomkins. Running Time
Later, while out hunting for foxes with his However, World War I intrudes and all of 2 hours, 14 minutes
younger brother and some friends, York falls the local men must register for the draft. Not Rated
under the spell of local country girl Gracie Because of his religious conversion, York
Williams (Joan Leslie). Although she is also has become a pacifist. But Pastor Pile ad- Release Date
Sept. 27, 1941 (USA)
attracted to him (in a shy manner), she fig- vises York to register anyway, and he re-
ures that he isn’t quite marriage material luctantly obliges.