This is Public Occurrences

"And I am convinced that from the head of all ponderous

profound beings, such as Plato, Pyrrho, the Devil, Jupiter,

Dante, and so on, there always goes up a certain semi-visible

steam, while in the act of thinking deep thoughts."


-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

China's Great Wall of Silence: The Murder of Bian Zhongyun

Link to video in Chinese language on the murder and on Song Binbin (nom de guerre, Song Yaowu; American name Yan Song) and Deng Rong (daughter of Deng Xiaoping).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aDeUA52hngQ

Link posted at http://ht251.blogspot.com/search?q=song+binbin

Happiness

"Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man!"
...

"Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden

thee;"


-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

Homer yea! Plato and progeny nay!

"So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over

that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you

come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for


ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these

thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and

right."


-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.


Plato. Aristotle. Descartes. Locke. Kant. They produced

Rationalism which produced World War I which killed

Rationalism.

Cursed Plato

"Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled--the delicious

death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the

crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that

leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died

embalmed. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into

Plao's honey head, and sweetly perished there?"


-Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Melville,Kuhn, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Rorty.

"There is no steady unretracing progress in this life;"
...

"Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe."
...

"Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy..."

-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

This is Public Occurrences

"We simply lack the capacity to protect New Orleans," Robert Giegengack, University of Pennsylvania, in the August, 2007 National Geographic.

This is Public Occurrences

"If you want peace, prepare for war."

Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Roman general.

On the Islamic Enemy

"...the irreparable and fatal course of hoping and to a certain extent attempting to reach agreement with the Beast, whereas in dealing with apocalyptic beasts there is only one way to safety: unswerving firmness from the first minute to the last."

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

On France

At the height of the Silicon Valley transformation of the American economy The Economist published an article about the visit of two French economic officials to see what they could learn and take back to France. Their hopes were high: "How do we create a Silicon Valley in France?," they asked their hosts. "Well, you have to ease your bankruptcy laws which discourage risk-taking entrepreneurs. You have to cut back on your social safety net, you have to make it easier for companies to fire workers, you have to get workers to work harder and longer into life, you have to privatize more and you have to cut back on the union influence." All sage advice, to which the French replied "We can't do that."

America's first and longest-lasting friend is France. Voltaire wrote that the "golden age of which men speak so much and never before has existed" was created in the colony of Pennsylvania. The French ardently supported America's War of Independence and Lafayette remains an American hero. Tocqueville spent nine months travelling the new republic and produced the most astute commentary ever written on the country. The Statue of Liberty was a gift of the French people to America.

More than any other European country France has been protective of its national identity. With Italy and Germany it was once one of the giants of opera in Europe but then resisted the influence of those others in favor of its homegrown version which has long since been eclipsed but exists still in all its idiosyncrasy. Likewise the French have resisted the Americanization of its culture in television, movies, fast food and theme parks.

In world affairs too France has been keen on preserving its independence and this is what has most rankled. De Gaulle, visiting Quebec, impertinently concluded a speech with "Viva a free Quebec!" France was the only NATO member to refuse to be bound by the military decisions of the alliance as a whole. More recently France incensed Americans by opposing the war in Iraq and refusing to participate. It may have broken the European Union, of which it was a founding member, by refusing to ratify the E.U.'s constitution.

France never recovered from World War I. Exhausted and depressed it lost its ambition and will and with them its prominent place in the world. France has never wanted to fight for anything since, not even Paris when Hitler marched in. French, once the language of international diplomacy, has been supplanted there and everywhere by English. The French economy has muddled along burdened by the characteristics mentioned by the Silicon Valley executive and long eclipsed by the American, German, and Japanese. Last year's production problems at Air Bus have become a symbol of French inability to win in the economic big leagues.

The result of all of this however has been the preservation of most things French and for that the world should be thankful. France remains first in attracting world tourism a sure indication that if most people don't want to live there it's still the greatest country to visit. Its slower-paced work life makes for a more relaxed daily pace that is immediately apparent and welcome to visitors from go-go America. We are awed by the art, charmed by the preservation of the architecture, made voracious by its cuisine, calmed by the beauty of the countryside, and seduced by the sound of the language.

France is not in any immediate danger of becoming as irrelevant as once-great powers like Egypt, Greece, and Rome are. There you go only to see the fossils of what once was great. In France you see great history too but in a living, functioning society, not a great nation as it once was but still a major, relevant and vital one, one that has always been distinctive and which, it is hoped, always will remain distinctive. The world doesn't need France to make computer chips. It just needs it to remain France. This is Public Occurrences.

This is Public Occurrences

"What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast,

when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any

medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants."
...

"What to that redoubted harpooneer, John Bull, is poor

Ireland, but a Fast-Fish?"
...

"What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish..."
...
"What are the Rights of Man andthe Liberties of the World but

Loose-Fish?"
...

"And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish,

too?


-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

The Beginning of the End of Europe

The end of continental Europe's world preeminence began this month in 1914.

China's Great Wall of Silence: The Murderers of Bian Zhongyun

China's Great Wall of Silence:

The Murderers of Bian Zhongyun.

Yan Song, aka Song Waowu, nee Song Binbin, has "retired" and is living in Beijing.

Anyone with information on the identity of those involved in the actions that led to Bian Zongyun's murder please send to PUBLOCC@gmail.com

China's Great Wall of Silence, The Murder of Bian Zhongyun. Current Photos of Song Binbin

This is the complete photograph from which the head shot of Yan Song, nee Song Binbin, published below was cropped. Jiang Zemin, former President of the People's Republic of China (1991-2003) and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (1989-2002) pays his condolences to Song's mother at the funeral for Song's father. Song is in glasses standing between her mother and Jiang. Song's sister is behind the mother. Note the black mourning armbands on Jiang and Song. This is Public Occurrences.

(First published June 9, 2007)

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China's Great Wall of Silence: American Complicity

Here is a Maoist website based in the United States that glorifies the Red Guard murderers and the entire Chinese Holocaust that was the Cultural Revolution. Last year they had a convention in the Pacific Northwest where they proclaimed the C.R. the greatest movement in mankind's history. I am told that the webmaster is a professor at Duke university.

Why doesn't Google shut this site down?
Why doesn't the U.S. government label this organization what it is, a terrorist group?

www.wengewang.org

China's Great Wall of Silence: The Murder of Bian Zhongyun

"Born with a dream, died of a

dream."

-Wang Jingyao, husband of Bian Zhongyun, on what he wants engraved on his cremation box.

China's Great Wall of Silence: Fruit of the Poisonous Tree

At right is the late William Hinton, Maoist. Along with Edgar Snow and Anna Louise Strong, Mr. Hinton was one of the most prominent of Mao's useful western fools.

According to his obituary in the Marxist journal Monthly Review, which he did so much to aid and vice-versa, Hinton read Snow's fiction-written-as-nonfiction Red Star Over China and the great man's chronicle "changed his life." It changed his life says Monthly Review "from that of a pacifist to that of a Marxist." The observant will notice M.R.'s dichotomy: pacifist at one end, Marxist on the other.

M.R. was accurate in making that dichotomy, both in general and in Mr. Hinton's case in particular, for the latter praised Maoist murder from the state's founding in 1949 through the Great Leap Forward, which cost perhaps 30,000,000 lives, through the Cultural Revolution, a pup by Mao's body count standards at only perhaps 3,000,000.

In 1972 Hinton wrote Turning Point in China praising the C.R., regretting only that it did not meet all of its goals, and blithely predicting that China would need many more cultural revolutions in the future.

When the Great Henchman died, and Deng Xiaoping began the process of stopping the Chinese Holocaust and putting China on the path to its current astonishing economic recovery, Mr. Hinton wrote an article in the worthy Monthly Review, issuing the most damning accusation he could think of, that Deng had shifted "from the socialist road to the capitalist road."

In 1993, on the 100th anniversary of Mao's birth, Hinton and some of the old gang got together in Beijing for a celebration. Hinton, according to his obit in The Guardian, leaped onto the stage and began singing a song to the good old days. Bet there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China today? Above left is

Carma Hinton, William's issue, who following in the family tradition of fiction masquerading as nonfiction, produced the propa-docu film Morning Sun, partly funded with my and your tax dollars through the National Endowment for the (In)Humanities with additional funding by PBS.

What kind of quality controls are in place at NEH and PBS? How obvious was it that this was going to be a film of propaganda? Carma must have had on her resume or somewhere that her father was William Hinton. If not a .4 second search on Google would have provided the link. The Chinese village that Mr. Hinton lived in and

wrote about was called Longbow. The name of Carma Hinton's production

company is Longbow. William Hinton wrote glowingly about the most psychotic and murderous regime in mankind's history; now his daughter comes hat-in-hand wanting tax dollars to make a film on the Cultural Revolution. What?

Did NEH or PBS notice that the faces of some of the interviewees--all former Red Guards--were blacked out, a la mafia informers? Did they ask why that was necessary and if the interviewees had something to hide?

What did Margo Adler, a real, like journalist, think when she read the script and saw that Song Binbin was allowed to talk and talk and talk and issue laughingly preposterous denials of everything? Her journalist's head didn't go "Hmm, something's fishy here,"? How could it not?

Who in Congress is responsible for oversight of NEH and PBS? Do they know about the outrage that is Morning Sun?

Didn't anybody think before giving approval for funding that maybe the end product would be a little...slanted... when produced by Carma Hinton?

Next up from NEH and PBS: Allesandra Mussolini's documentary The Trains Ran on Time, a moving examination of life in fascist Italy. This is Public Occurrences.

PUBLIC OCCURRENCES

China's Great Wall of Silence: American Dereliction

I care about the coverup of those responsible for Bian Zhongyun's murder because Song Binbin used the United States as her sanctuary, got her degree from one of the most elite universities in this country, and settled in comfort in the suburbs of the birthplace of the American Revolution, Boston.

I care because Liu Tingting is now a sophisticated, wealthy, jet-setting consultant with a residence on Central Park.

I care because of all the Red Guards who are packed into the faculties at elite institutions like Stanford.

I care because the Red Guards to this day continue to threaten and censor Chinese-Americans in the United States whenever they get too close to the truth.

I care because what good is having a Republican president if he doesn't pay attention to immigration as President Reagan self-evidently did not when so many of these wrongdoers immigrated here?

I care because my tax dollars helped fund Morning Sun, the Red Guards Triumph of the Will.

I care because my tax dollars help fund National Public Radio, which did a fawning interview of Carma Hinton and whose correspondent Margo Addled was narrator of Morning Sun.

My great-great-great-great grandfather did not fight in the Battle of Trenton in 1776 for this.
My great-great grandfather did not die at Fredericksburg in 1862 for this.
My grandfather did not fight in France in 1918 for this.
My uncle did not die in the Italian Apennines in 1945 for this.
My brother did not live through Tet in 1968 for this.

And I have not spent twenty-two years prosecuting murderers for this. I am Benjamin Harris and this is Public Occurrences.

China's Great Wall of Silence: The Murder of Bian Zhongyun. Current Photos of Song Binbin

This photograph shows Chinese President Hu Jintao offering warm condolences to Song Binbin's mother on the death of Song's father. Song in center bending slightly to hear President Hu. Photo taken at memorial service.

China's Great Wall of Silence: Cracks

Who you gonna believe, me or

your lyin' eyes?

We have been sent the above. It is a Red Guard flier addressed to Red Guards at the schools and universities around Beijing. The first signator at the bottom, the one encircled, is that of Song Yaowu, nee Song Binbin, now Yan Song. The date is September 6, 1966.

Carma Hinton allowed this reddest of guards to say unchallenged in Morning Sun that her name had been "hijacked" without her knowledge, that she had never assumed the name of Song Yaowu. Hinton allowed Song to cry that someone else had written the famous August 20 article in People's Daily about her pinning of Mao Zedong and then signed her name, again without her knowledge.

The claim is laughable and Hinton's abetment clumsy and puerile.

Anyone with information on the identity of those involved in the actions that resulted in Bian Zhongyun's murder please email PUBLOCC@gmail.com

China's Great Wall of Silence, The Murder of Bian Zhongyun: Liu Tingting

"It was glorious to beat people to death at that time. So I exaggerated and said that I had beaten three people to death."*

*Liu Tingting, in early 1967 when asked by a schoolmate if she had beaten three people to death in the summer of 1966 as rumored (Wang Youqin, Student Attacks Against Teachers.)

Liu was a student at the school where Bian Zhongyun was murdered. She was one of those who beat Bian.

Liu was the daughter of the then President of China, Liu Shaoqi. She uses the name Liu Ting now and is a wealthy and well-connected consultant in New York with an apartment near Central Park in Manhattan. This is Public Occurrences.

China's Great Wall of Silence: Hu Jie, a Courageous Voice for Truth

Hu Jie is a brave, young film maker living in China. In 2005 he made a documentary on the murder of Bian Zhongyun. Originally available only in Chinese Though I am Gone was recently dubbed into English and has received very, very positive reviews in England. It is now available on YouTube here: http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:0dTc4kX6OM0J:www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dcm1Fe1BjYyI+%22THOUGH+I+AM+GONE%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&ie=UTF-8

Hu is the anti-Carma Hinton and Though I am Gone is the anti-Morning Sun.

Red Guards, you are the Old Guard now. A new generation of courageous people like Hu have taken your place and they are not going to let the sins of their mothers be forgotten.

Liu Ting, Song Binbin, Liu Jin, Red Guards in general, do not get too comfortable in your dotage. We will never forget. This is Public Occurrences.

Anyone with information on the identity of those involved in the actions that resulted in the murder of Bian Zhongyun please email PUBLOCC@gmail.com

Ward Churchill=Clair Hull="Mistress Kenis," Dominatrix?

We have uncovered evidence that

supports our preliminary conclusion

that Dr. Ward Churchill did

misrepresent himself as an American Indian as alleged by the

University of Colorado.

As in our last post we here offer evidence that as regards being trans gendered Dr. Churchill did not misrepresent and that his name as a woman may have been "Clair Hull." At top left is the infamous photo of the militarist male Churchill brandishing an

assault rifle. Next to it is a photo that we believe shows Churchill in his previous life as a 6'5"female dominatrix. Note the similarity in facial structure, the chin, and the eye

glasses as well as the Indian-like body painting. We believe that the name Churchill went by in his fetish was "Mistress Kenis."

The third newly-published photograph purports to be Churchill as a woman. Again note the similarities in facial structure and glasses as well as the large pendant breasts

which would be difficult to remove in their entirety, leading to the photograph at bottom which seems to show breast remnants.

Allegedly, Churchill's female name was "Clair Hull," all the letters of which are contained in the male name "Ward Churchill."

On this evidence we believe that the University

of Colorado was wrong in concluding that

Churchill misrepresented. This is Public

Occurrences.

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Dr. Ward Churchill Transgendered? The Photographic Evidence

Dr. Ward Churchill, recently

fired by the University of

Colorado for various alleged

misrepresentations, has

claimed to be an American

Indian. Many people have

disputed that claim not least

because of his stereotypical

Anglo name and because he does

not share any of the physical

attributes of American Indians.

In our last post we examined that

claim through the photographic

evidence. That evidence strongly

suggested that Dr. Churchill had

misrepresented himself as an

American Indian.

Above is the photographic evidence

on Dr. Churchill's alleged trans-sexuality.

At top is a recent photograph that seems

to show the remnants of breasts, presumably

from the sex change operation. The photo

at bottom left was published here previously

and shows an older photograph in which Dr.

Churchill has the soft facial features of a

woman. Photograph number three is also

old and again shows Dr. Churchill with

very feminine facial characteristics and

shoulder-length hair that obviously has

been coiffed into a stylish flip. The eye-

glasses are also a popular female style

from the 1970's. The older photographs

are important because as men and women

age they often take on uni-sexual features

while in comparative youth the gender

differences are more pronounced.

These evidence in these photographs

clearly would be inconsistent with any

allegation by the University of Colorado

that Dr.Churchill's trans-sexuality was

misrepresented. This is Public Occurrences.

"WARD CHURCHILL"

Ward Churchill an American Indian? The Photographic Evidence

The issue before

the University of Colorado Regents was whether militarist academic Ward Churchill

had misrepresented his work and himself. Dr. Churchill

claims to be an American Indian but that claim has come

under increasing scrutiny. Many writers on the Internet

say flatly that he is not. In the absence of a genetic test, if

such a thing exists,we have admittedly circumstantial

photographic evidence. As we posted yesterday,

Dr. Churchill certainly doesn't have the physical

features typical--or stereotypical--of American

Indians, and he couldn't have a more non-Indian,

Anglo name. The above photos were taken from

Google Images by entering the search terms

"American Indian," "Native American" and

"American Indian Movement," of which Dr.

Churchill is a member.

Pick the non-Indian. I defy anyone to look at

this group of photographs and not pick Dr.

Churchill. The photo of the bikini-clad girl is not

intended to be prurient or disrespectful of

Indians or Dr. Churchill. It is included simply to

have an example of a female since Dr. Churchill

is supposedly transgendered also. The widely-

known photograph of Dr. Churchill holding

an assault rifle can be offered to support his

contention that he is an Indian given the

historical evidence of the American Indians

war-like culture. However that is not enough

in the face of the evidence presented here.

In the absence of any other evidence this

photographic contrast is compelling that Dr.

Churchill did misrepresent himself as an

American Indian. This is Public Occurrences.

"WARD CHURCHILL"

Ward Churchill With A.I.M. Body Guards

A picture of militarist Dr. Ward

Churchill from Google Images. The

caption to the photo identifies the

armed, black-clad men in back of

Churchill as security guards from

the American Indian Movement.

The rostrum indicates that the site of

this--I presume speech--as some university.

There is no way that a private security force

should have been allowed at a speech by a university-

employeed professor on a public university campus

site. This is like Hell's Angels providing security for

The Rolling Stones. If Dr. Churchill feared violence

then he should have requested and most importantly

the university, should have provided him with campus

police protection.

The focus of the posts here on the Churchill firing has

been on the conduct and lack of action taken by

the University of Colorado in the face of compelling

evidence that they negligently hired Dr. Churchill

and then compounding that error retained him and

did nothing in the face of compelling evidence that

Churchill was psychologically unbalanced and

potentially dangerous. In a previous post we

published a photo of Dr. Churchill carrying an

assault rifle and dressed in combat fatigues and

a beret. The photo above is more evidence that

Dr. Churchill's flagrant militarism was flagrantly

ignored by the University. This is Public Occurrences.

"WARD CHURCHILL"

Is Ward Churchill Really an American Indian?

He doesn't have the physical features. And the name,

Ward Churchill?


"WARD CHURCHILL"

The Ward Churchill Scandal Gets Worse

This is Ward Churchill holding an assault

rifle. Churchill, a tenured professor and

department head, was recently fired by

the University of Colorado over allegations

of misrepresentation. In a post yesterday

we criticized the university for hiring him

in the first place and linked this scandal to

others there as evincing what in the sports

field would be termed a "lack of institutional

control."

The State of Colorado will be forever linked

with the Columbine High School massacre.

Now we have a militarist tenured professor

and department head at the state's flagship

university posing with an assault rifle wearing

a beret and dressed in fatigues. In yesterday's

post we did not criticize the university for hiring

a trans-sexual. Universities should be tolerant,

we said. But they must not be ignorant. Trans-

sexuality can be seen as a sign of psychological

unbalance. Trans-sexuality together with a fetish

for assault rifles are surely signs of a potentially

dangerous individual who the university might

not want holding forth in front of a "captive"

audience of students.

What if anything did the university admini-

strators do about Prof. Churchill when they

saw this photograph? They did see this

photograph didn't they?

"WARD CHURCHILL"

Professor Fired by University of Colorado for Misrepresentation

Professor Ward Churchill, above, has been fired

by the University of Colorado for various mis-

representations. Not only was Churchill a
tenured professor but he was the head of an

entire department, the Ethnic Studies program.

Of course Churchill, supposedly a transgen-

dered American Indian, should not have been

denied employment because of his ethnic

identity and gender choice. Universities

should be tolerant. More importantly how-

ever they must be wise in their faculty hiring

decisions.

Whether the allegations against Professor

Churchill are true or not, the University's

administration obviously believes that they

are and that is a damning condemnation of

their own hiring judgment.

Perhaps for other universities this scandal

would not have gotten the publicity that it

has. But this is merely the latest at Colorado.

In the 1990's the university was embarrassed

when it was revealed that the daughter of the

football team's deeply religious head coach

was pregnant by the team's starting quarter-

back. The coach subsequently resigned to

spend more time with his family.



More recently a successor head coach, Gary

Barnett, left the university amid allegations

of sexual harassment by players of co-eds and

the use of girls as sex lures in recruiting,

although none of those allegations were

ever proven.

C.U. is the face of the state's higher education

system. Yet time and again it has embarrassed

its state. This is Public Occurrences.

"WARD CHURCHILL"

Michael Vick

I do not believe that Michael Vick, a human

being, should be jailed for doing this, even this,

to a dog or any sub-human species.

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