China, the NBA, and the massive face of Globalism

Support the Hong Kong protestors against the brutal mainland Chinese regime

by Jon Rappoport

October 14, 2019

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Let’s get one thing straight. The Chinese people, whether they appear happy or sad, support their government because they’re controlled. After generations of being beaten down, the population bows the head and bends the knee to slave masters. Call that freedom if you want to.

And if you really believe the situation in America is no better than the system in China, even with the amount of censorship alive and well in America, even with the rigging of this economy, try an experiment. Move to China and start publishing articles relentlessly critical of the government there. See what happens. Be sure to leave a copy of your last Will and Testament at home.

When the NBA commissioner and several players talk about loving their Chinese fans, they’re referring to victims of long-term terrorism. And if you press the NBA people on that point, they say, “We just want to play basketball, we just want the games.”

And they want the money. The Nike money, the Chinese money, the television money, the other merchandise money. More Chinese people than Americans watch the NBA playoffs on TV.

When, in a momentary fit of sanity, the General Manager of the Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey, retweeted FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, STAND WITH HONG KONG, the Chinese government launched a shit storm. Blacked out pre-season games, canceled press conferences, attacked NBA Commissioner Adam Silver for (partially and weakly) defending free speech. Now, calls are going out for Daryl Morey to resign from his job, to appease the Chinese government.

The big fear? A few global NBA stars would decide to step up and defend the million Hong Kong protestors, who want to knock down a bill that would allow China to extradite “criminal suspects” from Hong Kong to the mainland, where they can be charged, imprisoned, tortured, murdered. Those number one Hong Kong suspects would be persons who oppose the mainland Chinese regime.

The NBA stars, speaking out, could ignite a worldwide conflagration of public outrage aimed at the brutal government of China.

So far, that fear is unfounded. Social justice warriors LeBron James, (coaches) Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich are silent on the specific issue of Hong Kong vs. China. No one connected to the NBA is addressing it.

We have what George Washington warned about: an entangling foreign alliance. The US, China, money.

You have to wonder at the curious timing of all this now. The Chinese government, seizing on one little tweet, blows sky high, just when NBA players, coaches, and the commissioner happen to be in China on a good will money-pumping tour. It’s as if the Chinese government wanted an excuse to attack the US, because Trump has been stirring the pot on US-China trade relations. Obliquely, the Communist dictatorship wants to demonstrate how far they’ll go to crack down against any outside criticism, and against readjustment of trade that currently favors China. Grossly favors China. (We’ll see just how good or bad the new Trump trade deal with China is.)

Who is in charge of keeping NBA players in a state of silence and compliance with the wishes of the Chinese leadership? The NBA, yes. But more importantly, the shoe companies. Nike, Adidas. They have enormous business in China. Mustn’t disturb THAT. Every famous NBA player has a big $$ shoe deal. Mustn’t endanger THAT money, either. So shut up. Play ball. Stay ignorant of politics.

Entangling alliances.

The Chinese leadership is, in effect, daring the NBA to cut ties with China and lose billions. “If your balls are made of money, we have you by the balls.”

Why did the Rockefellers want to open up China trade with the West those many years ago? Why not, say, populous India instead? After all, India had some budding semblance of a representative government. Contrasted against China, India was Thomas Paine. The Rockefellers favored China because they LIKED China’s system. Massive top-down control. Absolute censorship. Violent repression. Mind control. Thus, a way to own and direct huge numbers of people and pacify them through fear and terror. Decade after decade. A GOOD MODEL FOR THE WORLD.

An American friend described an incident he witnessed years ago when he was sitting on a tour bus in China. He and his buddy were the only Americans on board. An argument broke out between two Chinese tour guides at the front of the bus. At that moment, all the Chinese passengers bowed their heads and stared at the floor. This was their reflex reaction to a dispute between two low-level officials.

So you can imagine their responses to leadership at the top. Total submission.

These are the NBA fans who have a love affair with US players. And vice versa.

Orwell, 1984: “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

Orwell: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”

Or perhaps a shoe, manufactured by Nike, in China.

Suppose MANY customers of Nike stop buying their shoes.

Suppose MANY NBA fans stop going to the games.

Suppose MANY viewers stop watching the games on TV.

Suppose MANY more social media users relentlessly spread messages supporting the Hong Kong protestors and exposing the brutal Chinese regime.

Suppose independent researchers begin publishing lists of products made in China and bought in the US, so consumers can avoid them.

Suppose many more people wake up to the fact that the economic glue that holds Globalism together is insane—domestic manufacturers abandon their home country and set up shop in places (like China) where they make their products far more cheaply; where wages are very low and environmental concerns are nil; and then, export those products for sale back home, thereby putting competing domestic companies out of business. Suppose many more people come to see this as economic suicide. Suppose they see Globalism itself as planned suicide. Planned to raise up certain countries ruled by brutal dictators, and sink other countries where some semblance of freedom still exists. And suppose they see this plan as a strategy for bringing about planet-wide repression under any label you care to use, but turns out to be Rule by Giant Corporations and Banks Colluding with Governments over All of Earth. No exceptions permitted.

And suppose the 7.7 billion targets of this plan realize they’re all the real Deplorables, and consequently say NO.

With the many avenues of communication available to us, that could be a tidal wave of NO.

If you want to dig still further down, into the basics of economics, consider: relatively free markets can only function within a context where the playing field is level for competitors—the costs of manufacturing, marketing, and selling products are the same for everyone. Once you permit the massive import of goods from places where those costs are radically lower, you are rigging the game. The home country suffers. Companies shut down. Workers have no jobs. The general level of prosperity, whatever it was, keeps decaying. No matter how you slant and massage the numbers, no matter how many cockeyed theories you spawn, the outcome is unavoidable.

Compound this engineered tragedy by permitting those massive imports to come from a country where the citizens are rigidly controlled by a criminal regime; enter into a huge number of economic agreements with that regime; turn a blind eye to what that regime has been doing to its people; and you have a sacrifice of freedom on all fronts.

Then there is a chokehold. And then, on any occasion, for any reason, the brutal regime will issue a command:

Don’t dare criticize us;

We’re in this together;

We have no principles and neither do you.


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The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

12 comments on “China, the NBA, and the massive face of Globalism

  1. Low Voltage says:

    Are you saying that the Chinese people would be better off if China were still a colony of Japan or the western powers?

    The Chinese government has reduced poverty in China to close to zero. I imagine that would take a little force? The US is prosperous, but our colonies are mostly shitholes. In fact, we have a drone assassination program that we implement in any land that can’t stop it. Millions of our pseudo colonial subjects try to immigrate here.

    But hey, anyone can call Trump an idiot anytime he wants. Let freedom ring!

    • IMNAHA says:

      To quote a man from another time who lost his battle with the powers of his day: ” It’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees”
      The question you ask is good though. Asked another way: which is more important the material or the spiritual?

      Is it possible to have material prosperity without total information, mind and body control of a people?

      Are we the “non chosen” people/ goyim just cattle as the Talmudists would have it or are we at the core spiritual beings having a human experience? I bring up this “loaded” question because if you study non official(yet well documented) versions of history you’ll find that Marx was married into one of the wealthiest industrialist families in Europe and was along with Hess heavily influenced by the Talmudist belief system which is the root of communism in the world today.

    • Knutars says:

      China has since the 90’s made a miracolous jump in living standard and economic growth. The claim here isn’t regarding the well being of the people, but the fact that the elite financial powers inject money where they expect maximum obediance and compliance with government autocracy.

      The working class in China may live long and proper, but under total surveillance, like in a 24/7/365 panopticon. Anyone who strays off from the approved behaviour is being corrected or sentenced to jail. It’s beyond 1984 and Brave New World. Chinese citizens may live in relative abundance but when it comes to freedom, they are among the most controlled and limited humans om this planet.

      When North America developed into a world leader in industry and science, it became so without the need for mental slavery. China could have done so too, but Big Banks prefer Big Governments.

    • Greg C. says:

      What kind of question is “Are they better off?” If someone gave you a large sum of money to surrender your will to theirs would you do it to be better off? Would you do it knowing that he has a habit of killing people who stand up to him?

      Many of us living in prosperity don’t really understand freedom. But to get a taste of what it’s all about, you could go to downtown Portland or almost any other major city and put on a MAGA hat and see how far you get before you are attacked in some way. Doesn’t matter if you are well off or not.

      Freedom is inversely proportional to our willingness to tolerate being bullied, and proportional to our willingness to defend ourselves from attack. By extension, when we tolerate other people being bullied and do not come to their defense, we become less free. If you put on a phony smile for your neighbor who beats his kids or wife, you are in effect his victim because you are afraid to speak your mind. Free speech is the litmus test of freedom.

      Why is Trump more admired than Obama? Because he is never afraid to speak his mind. He violates all the unspoken rules, and the rules that his critics make up just for him.

  2. paschn says:

    To me, the most insidious point to be made here is the one made PERFECTLY CLEAR by Rabbi Stephen Wise;

    “Some may call it Communism, but I call it what it is:
    Judaism”.
    (The American Bulletin, may 5, 1935)

    Most troglodytes in this sty have either NEVER known or don’t care
    But thanks to the dual world stys of this sewer and BritSTAIN, the kosher central banks have been forced down the throats of nearly all of humanity except +/-three;
    N. Korea
    Cuba
    and (SURPRISE!)
    The “evil” nation of Iran.

    Which means the Chinese are under the same brand JACK BOOT
    the people of this sty are under;
    ***
    “Thanks to the terrible power of our international banks, we have forced the Christians into wars without number. Wars have a special value for Jews, Since Christians massacre each other and make more room for us Jews. Wars are the Jews’ Harvest, The Jew banks grow fat on Christian wars. Over 100 million Christians have been swept off the face of the earth by wars and the end is not yet.”
    Rabbi Reichorn 1869 http://www.truedemocracy.net/hj32/28.html

    Notice the date of the good pharisee’s boast? Here we are now, 2 kosher world wars, 2 “opium wars” in which the kosher East India Tea Company “sicced” their british dogs on China and, (as can be expected), made MASSIVE “killings” – both figurative and literal.

    Re-posting as usual Mr. Rappaport, thanks.

    • Greg C. says:

      Reducing everything to an “ism” is not an achievement of a thinker. It’s intellectual laziness.

  3. Justin Psencik says:

    Good article Mr Rappoport that comes up on duckduckgo! Funny that it doesn’t come up at all on Google. Imagine that.

  4. Theo says:

    NBA Security Forcefully Removes Peaceful Protester For Calling Out Chinese Communist Oppression

    https://banned.video/watch?id=5da4ce86ac8aa20019b269c7

  5. MARY TITUS says:

    Carrie Lam cannot even speak at her parliament – she ran away after being shouted down.
    It would be heartening if the same thing happened in the US.
    https://flyingcuttlefish.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/hong-kong-3/#comment-41082

  6. Larry C says:

    “And suppose the 7.7 billion targets of this plan realize they’re all the real Deplorables, and consequently say NO.”
    I’ve been thinking roughly along the same lines, Jon, although I didn’t amp it up as in your suggestion…I was thinking only of the American consumer. It would be tricky, and we’d be making a few sacrifices by not buying Chinese, but nothing akin to what the folks in Hong Kong are going through right now. This ugly situation in H.K. has me wondering, just how exactly one becomes a power-hungry entitled S.O.B. (I refer here to the Chinese elitists.)

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