Nov. 29, 2022 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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EPISODE 328 - THE WHITE PAPER PROTESTS SPREAD, CRACKDOWN IMMINENT
Jack Posobiec is joined by Editor-in-Chief of the Post Millennial, Libby Emmons, to break down how the White Paper Protests are SPREADING rapidly across China, and what that means for the imminent CRACKDOWN from the CCP. Plus, Apple is the Canary in the CCP coal mine - but will they do anything? Finally, join Jack and Libby as they dive into the TRUTH of the recent Balenciaga accusations. All this and much more in today’s episode of Human Events Daily! Here’s your Daily dose of Human Eve...
The white paper protests spread worldwide as the CCP's crackdown is imminent.
We're going to get into all of that, plus everything that's going on.
The two front war that Apple is facing between the people of China and Elon Musk in the United States, plus Balenciaga.
Yeah, we're going to get into Balenciaga.
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What is the White House's message, the president's message, to people in China who are peacefully protesting COVID lockdowns there?
And then did the topic of China's zero COVID policy come up in the President's bilateral meeting with President Xi when they met in Indonesia a couple weeks ago?
They did talk about COVID and the effect the pandemic had had around the world.
Clearly, that came up inside the conversation.
I don't know if specifically the zero COVID policy was an issue of discussion, but certainly COVID was on the agenda, as you might expect that it would be.
And our message to peaceful protesters around the world It's the same and consistent.
People should be allowed the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates that they take issue with.
Does the White House support their efforts to regain their personal freedoms in light of these lockdowns?
The White House supports the right of peaceful protest.
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Tonight's lead story, of course, for us continues to be the white paper protests that have now spread not just throughout China, but also the rest of the world is starting to see this because overseas Chinese citizens, students, people who are studying abroad in places as far as NYU,
Columbia, Toronto, Tokyo, London, Berkeley, even Berkeley, they're rising up to protest against the CCP with the full knowledge that their families are still back home, full knowledge of what could happen to them.
The tanks are rolling, the protests are spreading, and the president is drooling.
To take a look at this, I want to bring on Libby Emmons, who, the post-millennial, your work over there, you've been tracking how this protest, how it started in China, it's now spreading across the entire world.
We went in and did a full special episode on all of this yesterday to just explain the entire genesis of this, how it got to this point, how the issues with the CCP have brought them to this point.
And the biggest thing for me, Libby, that I've got to point out is, yes, they're protesting the crackdowns when it comes to the COVID lockdowns, when it comes to the Xinjiang massacre.
And that's what it was, a massacre in Xinjiang, this apartment building, the high rise, those horrific and tragic videos that we've seen.
They're not just calling for an end to the measures.
They are calling for an end to the CCP.
Libby Evans.
Yeah, I think that your coverage of this has been exceptional.
I loved the pod yesterday that you did about this.
And just watching these people fight for their freedom is inspiring.
And also it's devastating to see how little attention the West, particularly the Biden administration, is paying to this.
We saw John Kirby come out yesterday, speaking to reporters from the White House, saying that the protesters are speaking for themselves.
Saying that they encourage peaceful protests.
And as we were just looking at the footage that you played, these are not peaceful protests because the police are cracking down on these protesters.
The protesters are standing out there.
They have their white pieces of paper.
They are denouncing censorship.
They are denouncing the treatment they are receiving.
And they are getting absolutely no support from the West, very similarly to what we saw in Hong Kong, when the West just let the pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong get squashed by the CCP.
Well, that's right.
And it was the outbreak of covid and the covid lockdown measures which were used then to be able to crack down on those protests the same way that even in Biden's statements now, the White House statement that came out over the weekend that said, well, we're not necessarily criticizing covid policies because they're very they're caught in a trap.
Right, Libby?
Because they can't criticize lockdown measures because they've supported them in the United States.
They still have covid mandates over the military and much of the federal workforce.
Some states still have lockdown policies.
And then around the world, you have the truckers in Canada, you have the farmers in the Netherlands that they're still going after to this day, by the way.
They're actually caught between a rock and a hard place because as we outlined yesterday, this is a merger.
This is a partnership between the CCP and Western elites, the Western financial markets.
And by the way, Rishi Sunak over there is in the UK saying, oh, well, the golden era of our relations is over.
Oh, shut up.
Oh, stuff it.
Do you really think that this means that this is a lover squabble?
What that is, that's a lover squabble Between elites, because the British elite, they want the West to be the ones who are in charge of the global financial and technological empire that they've constructed called globalism.
They want to be in charge of the relationship.
They want to be senior partner.
They don't want to be junior partner.
But that is where the CCP is trying to relegate them.
Yeah, I think that's exactly right.
And Rishi Sunak, we've seen his ideas.
He has social credit ideas, too.
His whole concept of the central digital currency that could be used to track people and limit their purchases here and there and control what people do.
So it's not like his ideas are spectacularly different from what we're seeing in the CCP.
The CCP just does it.
They just come straight out and do it because they don't have to worry about squashing liberties because they've already stolen What does it mean that the students are protesting across, and final minute, but just across even NYU and Columbia, you're in New York, what does it mean to see that there?
I think that we have an awful lot of international students from China in New York City.
I went to Columbia University.
I was very happy to see the kids getting out there and taking off their masks and putting them on this statue and speaking up for the Chinese people.
I think that that's very important.
I think these movements have to be global.
We are a global culture at this point, and it behooves all of us to stand in solidarity.
We see that as well with, you know, A lot of causes in the U.S., they think about this globally.
This one, I can't actually see the elites getting behind because it doesn't behoove them to do so.
But I'm proud of the students for going out there and speaking their mind and demanding rights for the people in China.
Prayers up for the Laobai Xing.
Prayers up, absolutely, for the Laobai Xing, the people of China.
And turning back to the United States, though, in this fight for freedom, I have to say, it's hard to grasp by anybody.
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There's reports that Apple is not allowing the protesters to use this airdrop function where they're trying to communicate.
That obviously is providing aid and comfort to the CCP.
And so you see that report and that's very concerning.
And then when you also hear reports that Apple is threatening to remove Twitter from the App Store, Because Elon Musk is actually opening it up for free speech and is restoring a lot of accounts that were unfairly and illegitimately suspended for putting out accurate information about COVID.
That's like one of the main things that's being reinstated.
So many things these experts were wrong at, and you had people on Twitter that were calling that out.
And Twitter, the old regime in Twitter, their response was to try to just suffocate the dissent.
Governor DeSantis there with a massive statement slamming the CCP, calling Apple a vassal of the CCP, directly targeting the American business relationship between American and Western financial powers and the CCP.
That's what I've been talking about all week at this point.
I've been talking about it for a year.
This is the crux of the matter.
This is what President Trump, when he was running the first time, he was the first person to ever bring this up, this sort of third rail, this topic you're not supposed to talk about, the fact that everybody's making money hand over fist on the backs of Chinese slave labor.
You're seeing a slave revolt, a slave uprising throughout China right now.
And at the same time, Apple is declaring war on Elon Musk.
And so this is interesting because Apple's declaring war on Elon Musk over Twitter and the right to freedom of speech.
The Chinese people are rising up against the CCP, but CCP is in bed with Apple.
Apple is the canary in the CCP's coal mine.
They are the ones that are closest to the source of the problem, and they are the ones that we need to squeeze.
Apple, by the way, was forced by the CCP to sign a $275 billion investment deal.
By the way, that's money that's going from Apple to China for, by the way, the privilege of being able to use Chinese slave labor, that they would invest $300 billion, basically, into China.
Back in 2016, Tim Cook tried to do everything he could to keep this a secret.
He did not want people to know that he was signing secret deals with the CCP.
But at the same time, I gotta say, you know what?
Why don't we treat businesses like that?
Why don't we have leaders that stand up for our country like that?
President Trump was one of them.
He's one of the only ones I've ever seen in my entire life.
That we treat our country with dignity, and that these companies are subservient to our sovereignty, not the other way around.
But Libby Emmons, I want to get your take on this because it's incredible to see this two-front challenge that the CCP and Apple find themselves in.
But I also want to note, and I've said this before so many times, I'm not an Elon Musk fanboy.
I congratulate him when he does well.
I'm willing to criticize him when he does things I don't think are great.
He hasn't said a word about the protests himself.
Ron DeSantis just did, the governor of Florida.
But also, DeSantis goes in and threads the needle of airdrop being shut down for the protesters, freedom of speech being denied by Apple inside of China.
Elon Musk obviously could have said this but he hasn't.
What's going on there?
Yeah, well, Elon Musk has an awful lot of manufacturing, I think, over in China.
He probably doesn't want to disrupt that or disrupt his other businesses that he depends on, you know, Chinese labor and Chinese largess to get that done.
But yeah, I thought it was pretty interesting to hear hear what Rhonda Santos had to say about the airdrop feature.
And this isn't the first time that big tech companies have cowed to the CCP and essentially done the CCP's bidding with their own products.
We also saw recently that the Foxconn factory in China was one of the places that these protests really began.
There were protests there over, I think, working conditions and wages and other things like that, and the government swooped in and imposed lockdown measures.
They were forcing them to work three shifts with no food because, hey, Q4 is coming and those iPhones and iPads, they need to be under Christmas trees in Boca Raton by December 25.
That means they got to be on the ship by the end of November.
By the end of November, they got to be on the ship, which means you got to roll.
People forget I used to work in international business.
So that's how it works.
You know, you have to have all this crackdown from this.
This is China's essential bottleneck.
But it's not just financial, but this is the problem where the covid policies fly in the face of China as the export, the slave labor export center, manufacturing center for globalism.
That if they don't have their exports going, if the workers aren't on the assembly lines, then guess what?
Globalism crashes because all of a sudden you're losing access to the place that you put all your chips into.
Look, I remember Made in the USA when I was a kid.
I even remember Made in Taiwan, you would see that on some toys.
These days, it's just China, China, China, every single consumer good that you can find.
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Yeah, I feel you on that.
It's really hard to find anything that isn't made in China.
I get excited when I do.
When I do look at something, I'm like, oh look, it was made not in China, but usually it wasn't made in the U.S.
either.
It's very hard to find products that are made in the U.S.
You have to sort of just go out of your way and find local businesses that do their own sort of home-fun stuff.
Quick final minute, but that's really what it comes down to, right?
That if we want Made in America again, we have to go back and we have to swallow our medicine of having to pay high prices again.
Isn't that just a fact?
Yeah, I think that that's true.
And I think it's also important to remember that when you look back at our Revolutionary War days, and you had the women of New England and of the colonies, they were used to buying goods from Britain.
And they stopped doing that.
They stopped buying goods from Britain, they started making their own, they called it homespun, they started making their own clothes, weaving their own Folks, Libby Emmons is moving to the country.
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There's no reason we can't do that.
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Go to PublicSquare, PublicSQ, So I gotta ask you, what do you think about the Instagram stuff?
Do you think the sexual exploitation of children is artistic?
No.
That's pretty bad.
Did you see they deleted all the stuff?
Yes.
But that's pretty bad.
They did all that.
They had those children in there and then the Supreme Court novel talking about making sexual exploitation okay.
It's a no comment situation.
Are you okay working for a company that does that?
Are you ashamed?
I said no comment, and I prefer not speaking for them.
Wow.
So what do you guys think about the exploitation?
Do you guys think it's artistic, the sexual exploitation?
I know, but what do you think about that?
You think that's okay?
See, these people are cowards.
They literally exploit children.
They think it's artistic.
It's disgusting.
This is Balenciaga.
They literally have children that they exploit.
And they just sit here and no comment.
You know you saw that.
Why'd y'all delete the Instagram?
They deleted the Instagram because they're disgusting.
So this is Balenciaga.
If you guys think the sexual exploitation of children is okay, come shop here.
Right here.
Balenciaga.
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Disgusting.
Balenciaga, one of the most famous and powerful fashion houses in the entire world, facing a major backlash.
And now we haven't weighed in here on the story yet.
I've been so focused on China, everything that's going on over there.
But to not talk about this, it would be a disservice to the audience here.
And so Libby Emmons, breakdown for everybody, because I'm familiar.
I've seen these photos, these horrific photos of child exploitation.
A fetish teddy bear looks like, you know, they got teddy bears dressed up as Kim Kardashian in this thing.
I put on Twitter, I said, maybe, you know, they should just put out a statement that Kim Kardashian left her teddy bear on set before the kids walked on.
Explain for the audience, though, what happened with Balenciaga, this major, massive fashion house, one of the most powerful ones in all of Paris, and why are they facing such a response today?
So Balenciaga had put out some little handbag accessories for their Spring 2023 line that are cushy teddy bears wearing fetish gear, bondage gear.
They're wearing chains and leather and straps and things like that.
And so as part of the ad campaign, they put together a series of ads where children were holding these teddy bear bag dolls.
So they had little kids holding bondage bears.
That's what they showed.
Yes, little kids holding bondage bears.
The kids did not look particularly happy.
They have sort of sad, weird looks on their faces, like they don't know what's going on, which I'm sure that's what the photographer was going for.
And these ads were shown on Twitter.
Someone posted and said, like, here's some Child exploitation from Balenciaga, which is a Spanish fashion house that's been around since I think 1917.
So they showed these ads and then people started doing some digging.
some of the child safeguarding contingent online started looking into it.
And it turned out that not only were there children holding fetish bears plastered in magazines to advertise the, you know, extremely expensive spring 2023 line, because everything at Balenciaga is ridiculously, ridiculously expensive.
So also in addition, in one of the photographs of some objects on a table, there were documents displayed that were actually from a Supreme Court case that was about child pornography.
And it was a case that looked at the Child Protection Act of 1996.
If I have this right, I believe it was a 2002 case.
And it said that the Child Protection Act went too far in limiting free speech.
And it said that images of child exploitation, if they were not actual children, if they were adults posing as children, or if they were computer generated images What?
Like Blippi.
Blippi.
Adults posing as children.
Adults posing as children.
Blippi is creepy in discussion.
Yeah, I've seen that.
My cousin.
Yeah, I saw that.
Let's cut to the chase.
You and I worked in theater.
You've been in the New York art scene.
I come from, you know, TV background, film background.
Nothing that goes on one of these sets is there by accident, is it?
Everything that's included in this photo is a decision, is it not?
Yes, it is a decision and there has been some squabbling.
So then there was this major backlash.
Everyone got super mad at Balenciaga.
Balenciaga is repped by Kim Kardashian and Bella Hadid and a whole bunch of other very notable, beautiful, skinny people, you know, who go to Met Galas and all of that kind of thing.
So after this backlash, Balenciaga said that they were going to sue the ad company.
The photographer said that all of the props had been provided by Balenciaga.
Balenciaga said, no, you came up with the Supreme Court.
Documentation all on your own.
And then people really started digging into these photographs.
There was one that had a book in it.
You could just see the title of the book, but it was a book about an artist who had created images of castrated toddlers, which honestly is horrifying to me personally, and not particularly artistic, but really just sadistic, in fact.
So yeah, huge backlash, and now there's been pressure on some of these Hollywood people to denounce them.
Kim Kardashian came out with an incredibly weak statement about that.
No, I did see this.
The Kardashian, I mean, Kim Kardashian, it's like, it's like, oh, I'm so sorry, but also, you know, I'm not going to stop working with Balenciaga and I'm going to continue the campaign because they pull up dump trucks full of money to my house every week and You know, we're going to keep working with them as opposed to, uh, how dare you do this?
I'll never work with you again.
This is ridiculous.
I would, you know, I'm, I'm a mother.
How could you put what kind of message are you sending?
Um, we're, we're, we're coming up on just one minute left, but Libby, where can people go to learn more about this saga?
What's the post-millennial, uh, doing in terms of reporting on it?
The Postmillennial was reporting on it today.
One of the creative directors of the company, actually, an award that he was going to receive has been rescinded by the Business and Fashion Association.
Wow.
They didn't rescind the award after the ads came out.
They rescinded the award after the backlash came out.
And I think, of course, it's important to note that no one's ever mad until they get caught.
So that's key to remember.
The Postmillennial's done some reporting on this.
Redux has been doing great reporting on this.
They're the first place that I saw this story a couple of, whenever it was, early November 19th, something like that.
Are we really supposed to believe, by the way, that, I mean, when you're running a campaign like this with that much money behind it, are we really supposed to believe that this just accidentally slipped through with the amount of people and lawyers and approvers that's in the chop chain on this?
They don't care.
Whoopsie daisy!
They don't care.
They think that it's great.
They think that it's artistic.
They wouldn't have published it if they weren't 100% behind this.
Ad campaigns are incredibly expensive.
You have to pay set designers and their agents and literally everybody else who manages to facilitate that.
They like it.
They like exploiting children.
They like showing kids who are unhappy and upset because their teddy bears are in chains.
They like doing it and they are showing us that they like doing it.
Child safeguarding is having a moment publicly.
Eventually it's going to go away in a week or two when something else happens.
But I do think it's important that people remember that this is what the high fashion Hollywood set is about.
Amen.
God bless you Libby Emmons.
God bless your reporting.
Everyone go follow Libby Emmons and the Post Millennial.
