Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - November 29, 2022


EPISODE 328 - THE WHITE PAPER PROTESTS SPREAD, CRACKDOWN IMMINENT


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Pro-democracy protesters in China are spreading across the globe, and the Chinese government is getting ready to crack down on them. What does the White House have to say about it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world?

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00:00:00.000 The white paper protests spread worldwide as the CCP's crackdown is imminent.
00:00:05.740 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.
00:00:16.960 Yeah, we're going to get into Balenciaga.
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00:00:53.940 Let's get into it.
00:00:59.420 I was hoping, what is the White House's message, the President's message to people in China who are peacefully protesting COVID lockdowns there?
00:01:12.420 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?
00:01:21.300 They did talk about COVID and the effect that the pandemic had had around the world.
00:01:25.540 Clearly, that came up inside the conversation.
00:01:29.460 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.
00:01:38.640 And our message to peaceful protesters around the world is the same and consistent.
00:01:46.040 People should be allowed the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates that they take issue with.
00:01:54.620 Does the White House support their effort to sort of regain personal freedoms in light of these lockdowns?
00:02:00.920 The White House supports the right of peaceful protest.
00:02:03.640 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily, powered by Turning Point USA.
00:02:19.480 Today is November 29th, 2022, Anno Domine.
00:02:23.460 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.
00:02:51.920 Even Berkeley, they're rising up to protest against the CCP with the full knowledge that their families are still back home.
00:03:00.840 Full knowledge of what could happen to them.
00:03:04.400 The tanks are rolling.
00:03:06.720 The protests are spreading and the president is drooling.
00:03:11.060 So 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. 0.98
00:03:22.820 It's now spreading across the entire world.
00:03:25.920 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.
00:03:37.340 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.
00:03:47.700 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.
00:03:54.480 They're not just calling for an end to the to the measures.
00:03:57.340 They're calling for an end to the CCP.
00:03:59.880 Libby Emmons.
00:04:01.460 Yeah, I think that your coverage of this has been exceptional.
00:04:04.160 I loved the pod yesterday that you did about this.
00:04:07.340 And just watching these people fight for their freedom is inspiring.
00:04:11.960 And also, it's devastating to see how little attention the West, particularly the Biden administration, is paying for this.
00:04:18.280 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.
00:04:28.540 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.
00:04:36.180 The protesters are standing out there.
00:04:37.900 They have their white pieces of paper.
00:04:40.000 They are denouncing censorship.
00:04:41.320 They are denouncing the treatment they are receiving.
00:04:42.940 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.
00:04:55.640 Well, that's right.
00:04:56.920 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 statements.
00:05:06.400 Now, the White House, the 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.
00:05:15.920 Right, Libby, because they can't criticize lockdown measures because they've supported them in the United States.
00:05:21.300 They still have covid mandates over the military and much of the federal workforce.
00:05:25.880 Some states still have lockdown policies.
00:05:28.340 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.
00:05:36.400 And they're actually caught between a rock and a hard place, because as we outlined yesterday, this is a merger.
00:05:42.760 This is a partnership between the CCP and Western elites, the Western financial markets markets.
00:05:48.560 And by the way, Rishi Sunak over there is in the UK saying, oh, well, the golden era of our relations is over. 0.96
00:05:55.120 Oh, shut up. Oh, stuff it. 0.98
00:05:57.100 Do you really think that that this means that this is a lover squabble?
00:06:01.120 What that is, that's a lover squabble between elites because the British elite,
00:06:05.660 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.
00:06:15.960 They want to be in charge of the relationship.
00:06:17.940 They want to be senior partner.
00:06:19.120 They don't want to be junior partner.
00:06:20.400 But that is where the CCP is trying to relegate them.
00:06:24.660 Yeah, I think that's exactly right.
00:06:26.260 And Rishi Sunak, we've seen his ideas.
00:06:28.240 He has social credit ideas, too.
00:06:30.400 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.
00:06:38.640 So it's not like his ideas are spectacularly different from what we're seeing in the CCP.
00:06:43.460 The CCP just does it.
00:06:45.260 They just come straight out and do it because they don't have to worry about squashing liberties because they've already stolen the freedoms of all of their citizens.
00:06:52.480 So it's not particularly a big deal for them.
00:06:55.500 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.
00:07:02.540 What does it mean to see that there?
00:07:04.620 I think that we have an awful lot of international students from China and New York City.
00:07:09.580 I went to Columbia University.
00:07:11.260 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.
00:07:20.300 I think that that's very important.
00:07:22.060 I think these movements have to be global.
00:07:24.280 We are a global culture at this point, and it behooves all of us to stand in solidarity.
00:07:30.400 We see that as well with, you know, a lot of causes in the U.S.
00:07:34.540 They think about this globally.
00:07:35.980 This one, I can't actually see the elites getting behind because it doesn't behoove them to do so.
00:07:41.380 But I'm proud of the students for going out there and speaking their mind and, you know, demanding rights for the people in China.
00:07:50.100 Prayers up for the Lao Baixing. 1.00
00:07:51.740 Prayers up, absolutely, for the Lao Baixing, the people of China. 0.97
00:07:56.100 And turning back to the United States, though, in this fight for freedom, I have to say it's hard to grasp why anybody would keep voting for record inflation, skyrocketing crime, an open border.
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00:09:03.880 There's reports that Apple is not allowing the protesters to use this airdrop function where they're trying to communicate.
00:09:13.620 That obviously is providing aid and comfort to the CCP.
00:09:17.940 And so you see that report, and that's very concerning.
00:09:20.740 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.
00:09:44.520 That's like one of the main things that's being reinstated.
00:09:48.260 So many things these experts were wrong at, and you had people on Twitter that were calling that out.
00:09:53.320 And Twitter, the old regime and Twitter, their response was to try to just suffocate the dissent.
00:10:00.060 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.
00:10:18.620 And this is what I've been talking about all week at this point.
00:10:21.040 I've been talking about it for a year.
00:10:23.420 This is the crux of the matter.
00:10:25.860 This is what President Trump, when he was running the first time, this was the he was the first person to ever bring this up.
00:10:33.280 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. 0.61
00:10:42.760 You're seeing a slave revolt, a slave uprising throughout China right now.
00:10:47.620 And at the same time, Apple is declaring war on Elon Musk.
00:10:52.880 And so this is interesting because Apple is declaring war on Elon Musk over Twitter and the right to freedom of speech.
00:10:59.500 The Chinese people are rising up against the CCP, but CCP is in bed with Apple.
00:11:06.180 Apple is the canary in the CCP's coal mine.
00:11:10.400 They are the ones that are closest to the source of the problem.
00:11:14.840 And they are the ones that we need to squeeze.
00:11:17.900 Apple, by the way, was forced to sign forced by the CCP to sign a two hundred seventy five billion dollar investment deal.
00:11:27.380 They demand, 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 three hundred billion dollars basically into China.
00:11:40.940 Back in 2016, Tim Cook tried to do everything he could to keep this a secret.
00:11:44.420 He did not want people to know that he was signing secret deals with the CCP.
00:11:48.400 But at the same time, I got to say, you know what?
00:11:50.640 Why don't we treat businesses like that? 0.97
00:11:52.400 Why don't we why don't we have leaders that stand up for our country like that?
00:11:56.280 President Trump was one of them.
00:11:57.560 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.
00:12:09.180 But Libby Emmons, I want to get your take on this, because it's it's incredible to see this two front challenge that the CCP and Apple find themselves in.
00:12:18.780 But I also want to note, and I've said this before so many times, I'm not an Elon Musk fanboy.
00:12:23.000 I congratulate him when he does well.
00:12:24.920 I'm willing to criticize him when he does things I don't think are great.
00:12:27.740 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. 0.62
00:12:44.560 Elon Musk obviously could have said this, but he hasn't.
00:12:48.300 What's going on there?
00:12:49.080 Yeah, well, Elon Musk has an awful lot of manufacturing, I think, over in China.
00:12:54.860 He probably doesn't want to disrupt that or disrupt his other businesses that he depends on, you know, Chinese labor and Chinese largesse to get that done.
00:13:05.180 But, yeah, I thought it was pretty interesting to hear what Ron DeSantis had to say about the airdrop feature.
00:13:11.600 And this isn't the first time that big tech companies have kowtowed to the CCP and essentially done the CCP's bidding with their own products.
00:13:21.560 We also saw recently that the Foxconn factory in China was one of the places that these protests really began.
00:13:29.740 There were protests there over, I think, working conditions and wages and other things like that.
00:13:35.580 And the government swooped in and imposed lockdown measures on the Foxconn facility.
00:13:42.340 And they were forcing them to work.
00:13:44.220 They were forcing them to work three shifts with no food because, hey, Q4 is coming.
00:13:48.320 And those iPhones and iPads, they need to be under Christmas trees in, you know, in Boca Raton by December 25.
00:13:56.380 That means they got to be on the ship by the end of November.
00:13:59.400 By the end of November, they got to be on the ship, which means you got to roll.
00:14:02.840 You got to like people forget I used to work in international business.
00:14:05.720 So that's that's how it works.
00:14:07.060 So, you know, you have to have all this crackdown from and this this is China's essential bottleneck. 0.78
00:14:13.860 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. 0.83
00:14:23.440 That if they don't have their exports going, if the workers aren't on the assembly lines, then guess what?
00:14:29.120 Globalism crashes because all of a sudden you're losing access to the place that you put all your chips into.
00:14:34.900 Look, I remember made in the USA when I was a kid.
00:14:37.420 I remember made in Taiwan.
00:14:38.960 You would see that on some toys these days.
00:14:40.820 It's just China, China, China. 0.85
00:14:42.260 Every single consumer good that you can find literally everything.
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00:14:52.440 Yeah, it's I feel you on that.
00:14:55.240 It's really hard to find anything that isn't made in China.
00:14:57.560 I get excited when I do when I do look at something.
00:15:00.480 I'm like, oh, look, it was made not in China, but usually it wasn't made in the U.S. either.
00:15:05.100 It's very hard to find products that are made in the U.S.
00:15:07.400 You have to sort of just go out of your way and find local businesses that do their own sort of home fun stuff.
00:15:14.380 Quick, quick final minute.
00:15:15.940 But that's really what it comes down to, right?
00:15:17.840 That if we want made in America again, we have to go back and we have to to swallow our medicine of having to pay high prices again.
00:15:25.360 Isn't that just a fact?
00:15:26.840 Yeah, I think that that's true.
00:15:28.220 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.
00:15:40.780 They stopped buying goods from Britain.
00:15:42.340 They started making their own.
00:15:44.240 We called they called it home spun.
00:15:46.020 They started making their own clothes, weaving their own fabrics and all of this kind of stuff.
00:15:50.800 And I think, you know, we have to get back to something like that where we believe in our own ingenuity and our own ability to make what we need.
00:15:58.660 There's no reason we can't do that.
00:16:00.640 You know, we're found that Libby Emmons is Libby Emmons is moving to the country. 0.99
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00:17:24.000 So I got to ask you, what do you think about the Instagram stuff?
00:17:26.800 Do you think the sexual exploitation of children is artistic?
00:17:31.080 No.
00:17:31.940 It's pretty bad.
00:17:32.640 You just need to delete it all this stuff.
00:17:34.320 Yes.
00:17:34.580 Yeah, but that's pretty bad.
00:17:38.520 They did all that.
00:17:39.380 They had their children in there and in the Supreme Court novel talking about making sexual exploitation okay? 0.62
00:17:45.200 It's a no comment situation.
00:17:47.580 So are you okay working for a company that does that?
00:17:50.560 Are you ashamed?
00:17:51.520 I said no comment.
00:17:52.780 And I prefer it not to be prepared.
00:17:54.360 Wow.
00:17:54.800 So what do you guys think about the exploitation?
00:17:57.620 Do you guys think it's artistic, the sexual exploitation of children?
00:18:00.700 I know, but what do you think about that?
00:18:02.800 You know, you think that's okay? 1.00
00:18:05.220 See, these people are cowards. 1.00
00:18:06.680 They literally exploit children. 0.99
00:18:07.920 They think it's artistic. 0.98
00:18:09.160 It's disgusting.
00:18:09.960 This is Balenciaga. 0.98
00:18:11.060 They literally have children that they exploit.
00:18:13.300 And they just sit here and no comment.
00:18:14.640 You know you saw that.
00:18:15.480 Why did y'all delete Instagram? 0.99
00:18:17.460 They deleted Instagram because they're disgusting.
00:18:19.580 So this is Balenciaga. 0.97
00:18:20.700 If you guys think the sexual exploitation of children is okay, come shop here.
00:18:24.860 Right here.
00:18:25.920 Balenciaga.
00:18:27.380 Right here. 1.00
00:18:28.460 Disgusting. 0.96
00:18:29.660 Balenciaga, one of the most famous and powerful fashion houses in the entire world, 0.97
00:18:36.340 facing a major backlash.
00:18:38.140 And now we haven't weighed in here on the story yet.
00:18:40.720 I've been so focused on China, everything that's going on over there.
00:18:44.800 But to not talk about this, it would be a disservice to the audience here.
00:18:48.860 And so Libby Emmons, breakdown for everybody, because I'm familiar.
00:18:52.740 I've seen these photos, these horrific photos of child exploitation, a fetish teddy bear
00:18:58.360 looks like, you know, they got teddy bears dressed up as Kim Kardashian in this thing.
00:19:02.540 I was, I put on Twitter, I said, maybe, you know, they should just put out a statement
00:19:05.820 that Kim Kardashian left her teddy bear on set before the kids walked on.
00:19:10.140 Explain for the audience, though, what happened with Balenciaga, this major, massive fashion
00:19:15.620 house, one of the most powerful ones in all of Paris, and why are they facing such a response
00:19:20.720 today?
00:19:22.060 So Balenciaga had put out some little handbag accessories for their spring 2023 lines that
00:19:29.940 are cushy teddy bears wearing fetish gear, bondage gear.
00:19:35.480 They're wearing chains and leather and straps and things like that.
00:19:39.480 And so as part of the ad campaign, they put together a series of ads where children were
00:19:47.220 holding these teddy bear bag dolls.
00:19:51.380 And so they were little kids holding, they had little kids holding bondage bears.
00:19:56.440 That's what they showed.
00:19:57.360 Yeah, little kids holding bondage bears.
00:19:59.820 The kids did not look particularly happy.
00:20:02.160 They have sort of sad, weird looks on their faces, like they don't know what's going on,
00:20:06.740 which I'm sure that's what the photographer was going for.
00:20:10.680 And these ads were shown on Twitter.
00:20:13.840 Someone posted and said, like, here's some child exploitation from Balenciaga, which is
00:20:19.280 a Spanish fashion house that's been around since, I think, 1917.
00:20:23.420 So they showed these ads.
00:20:25.340 And then people started doing some digging.
00:20:27.500 Some of the child safeguarding contingent online started looking into it.
00:20:32.920 And it turned out that not only were there children holding fetish bears plastered in
00:20:39.080 magazines to advertise the, you know, extremely expensive spring 2023 line, because everything
00:20:45.120 at Balenciaga is ridiculously, ridiculously expensive.
00:20:49.000 So also, in addition, in one of the photographs of some objects on a table, there were documents
00:20:55.360 displayed that were actually from a Supreme Court case that was about child pornography.
00:21:01.700 And it was a case that looked at the Child Protection Act of 1996, if I have this right,
00:21:07.360 I believe it was a 2002 case.
00:21:09.040 And it said that the Child Protection Act went too far in limiting free speech.
00:21:16.300 And it said that images of child exploitation, if they were not actual children, if they were
00:21:23.340 adults posing as children, or if they were computer-generated images, what?
00:21:29.340 Like Blippi. 1.00
00:21:30.700 Blippi.
00:21:31.700 Yeah, adults posing as children.
00:21:34.140 Adults posing as children.
00:21:36.080 Blippi is creepy in discussion.
00:21:37.580 Yeah, I've seen that.
00:21:38.840 My cousin, yeah, I saw that.
00:21:40.440 But let me, let's cut to the chase.
00:21:41.700 You and I worked in, you've worked in theater, you've been in the New York art scene.
00:21:46.640 I come from, you know, TV background, film background.
00:21:50.340 Nothing that goes on one of these sets is there by accident, is it?
00:21:53.580 Everything that's included in this photo is a decision, is it not?
00:21:56.820 Yes, it is a decision.
00:21:58.820 And there has been some squabbling.
00:22:00.720 So then there was this major backlash.
00:22:03.080 Everyone got super mad at Balenciaga.
00:22:04.880 Balenciaga is repped by Kim Kardashian and Bella Hadid and a whole bunch of other very notable,
00:22:11.260 beautiful, skinny people, you know, who go to Met Galas and all of that kind of thing.
00:22:14.900 So after this backlash, Balenciaga said that they were going to sue the ad company.
00:22:19.500 The photographer said that all of the props had been provided by Balenciaga.
00:22:24.300 Balenciaga said, no, you came up with the Supreme Court documentation all on your own.
00:22:29.660 And then people really started digging into these photographs.
00:22:32.740 There was one that had a book in it.
00:22:35.460 You could just see the title of the book.
00:22:36.900 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.
00:22:52.840 So, yeah, huge backlash.
00:22:54.800 And now there's been pressure on some of these Hollywood people to denounce them.
00:22:58.700 Kim Kardashian came out with an incredibly weak statement about this.
00:23:02.420 You know, I did see this, the Kardashian, I mean, Kim Kardashian, it's like it's like, oh, I'm so sorry.
00:23:07.600 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.
00:23:17.660 And, you know, we're going to keep working with them as opposed to how dare you do this?
00:23:22.140 I'll never work with you again. 0.99
00:23:23.440 This is ridiculous. 0.99
00:23:24.500 I would you know, I'm a mother. 0.99
00:23:25.940 How could you quit with me?
00:23:27.620 Right.
00:23:28.120 What kind of message are you sending?
00:23:29.420 We're coming up on just one minute left.
00:23:31.820 But, Libby, where can people go to learn more about this saga?
00:23:34.900 What's the Postmillennial doing in terms of reporting on it?
00:23:37.920 The Postmillennial was reporting on it today.
00:23:40.380 One of the creative directors of the company, actually an award that he was going to receive has been rescinded by the Business of Fashion Association.
00:23:49.640 Wow.
00:23:49.780 They didn't rescind the award after the ads came out.
00:23:52.160 They rescinded the award after the backlash came out.
00:23:54.560 And I think, of course, it's important to note that no one's ever mad until they get caught.
00:23:58.340 So that's key to remember.
00:24:01.260 The Postmillennial has done some reporting on this.
00:24:03.320 Redux has been doing great reporting on this.
00:24:05.780 They're the first place that I saw this story a couple of whenever it was early.
00:24:09.920 And do you 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?
00:24:22.580 Well, here's the thing.
00:24:23.600 That's in the chop chain on this?
00:24:24.880 They don't care.
00:24:25.960 Whoopsie daisy.
00:24:27.040 They don't care.
00:24:27.480 They think that it's great.
00:24:28.800 They think that it's artistic.
00:24:29.940 They wouldn't have published it if they weren't 100% behind this.
00:24:33.200 That's right.
00:24:33.480 Ad campaigns are incredibly expensive.
00:24:35.360 You have to pay set designers and their agents and literally everybody else who manages to facilitate that.
00:24:41.980 They like it.
00:24:43.000 They like exploiting children.
00:24:44.220 They like showing kids who are unhappy and upset because their teddy bears are in chains.
00:24:49.260 They like doing it.
00:24:50.700 And they are showing us that they like doing it.
00:24:53.180 Child safeguarding is having a moment publicly.
00:24:55.840 Eventually, it's going to go away in a week or two when something else happens.
00:24:59.440 But I do think it's important that people remember that this is what the high fashion Hollywood set is about.
00:25:04.920 Amen.
00:25:05.300 God bless you, Libby Emmons.
00:25:06.360 God bless your reporting.
00:25:07.180 Everyone go follow Libby Emmons and the Post Millennial. 0.83
00:25:09.500 I'm Jack Posobiec.
00:25:10.120 Remember, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.
00:25:14.220 God bless you.