And if you don't think that bribes have played a role in jamming so called renewable energy down Mainers' throats, I would humbly submit you need to change your information sources and recognize that way too many absurd decisions have been made on the basis of "getting something".

"Democracy and freedom are being crushed there, and China doesn’t want anyone to talk about it. And because so much money is involved, no one does," Maher laments.

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher tore into the “little devil” corporations and celebrities who’ve kowtowed to Communist China in exchange for access to its huge market, declaring that they’re now China’s “bitch.”

“Now, if you’ve been like me over the past few weeks, glued to your TV watching the Olympics, that makes exactly two of us. We knew there were shithole countries, but who knew there was a shithole superpower?” Maher began during his “New Rule” segment on Friday.

After pointing to China’s many human rights abuses, Maher reamed America’s elites for ignoring them in favor of money.

“America is not close to that, and it’s a cynical dodge to pretend that China’s sins should be overlooked because we all do it,” Maher explained. “No. In 1997, Britain returned Hong Kong to China with an agreement…from Beijing that Hong Kong could retain its free press, honest courts, and democratic government. Well, they lied. Democracy and freedom are being crushed there, and China doesn’t want anyone to talk about it. And because so much money is involved, no one does.”

“Two years ago, when the General Manager of the Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey, tweeted, ‘fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.’ He was forced to apologize,” Maher continued. “In America, we’re supposed to root for democratic government, not apologize for it. But the NBA has a television deal with China worth a billion-and-a-half dollars. So, LeBron James said Morey needed to be ‘educated on the situation’. The situation being, I’ve got some shoes to sell.”

“Kowtow is a Chinese word, but boy, Americans have gotten good at it. For years, Google proudly refused to kowtow to Chinese censors, adopting the slogan ‘don’t be evil.’ But the Chinese market proved so lucrative that, well okay, a little evil. That’s the deal China offers American companies and celebrities: We’ll give you access to our billion-plus consumers, as long as you shut up about the whole police state genocide thing.”

Maher then turned his ire to wrestler-turned-actor John Cena, who issued a groveling apology to China after speaking up against its abuses of the Uyghur population.

“And I thought steroids shrunk your balls. Wowee, when a country can make your big, muscly, macho-man action stars grovel in their language, you know you’re somebody’s bitch,” he noted.

“Didn’t Martin Luther King say, an ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’? Can we still quote him? In 2020, NBA players wore jerseys that said, ‘Freedom,’ ‘Speak Up,’ and ‘Justice,’ but I guess those things only matter for home games. Sorry, Uyghurs. Someone has to tell me where we got this rule that you can’t criticize China. Because I suspect we got it from China,” he concluded.

See the video at the following weblink:

https://www.infowars.com/posts/bill-maher-says-companies-celebs-dec...

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“ELITE CAPTURE” – China’s Tool Used to Entice a Country’s Elites with Money and More

“ELITE CAPTURE” – Term Peter Schweizer Uses to Describe China’s Tool Used to Entice a Country’s Elites with Money and More

By Joe Hoft
Published February 20, 2022 at 8:30am

Peter Schweizer coined this phrase as he describes how China influences the elites in a country with gifts and money and more to see that China and the elites have the same goals. 

Peter Schweizer recently coined the term “elite capture”.  This phrase he identified when writing on China’s actions that are taken with a country to entice the country’s elites to see things as China does.  The Gatestone Institute shares an article written by Peter Schweizer.

While researching how Americans having been getting rich by helping the Chinese Communist Party achieve its outspoken aim of replacing the US as the “world’s No.1 power,” I came across the phrase “elite capture” — their term to describe the actions of influential people in the US towards China.

“Elite capture” can refer to different things, but to the Chinese Communist Party, China’s intelligence apparatus, or those involved in quasi-private business ventures, it is a crucial tool of their success. The idea is simple enough: by tempting another country’s elite with money, access and favors, you move them to see their interests and China’s interests as intertwined or even the same.

The Chinese are not subtle about this, and they barely try to hide it. They practice it around the world, most notably in Africa in pursuit of their Belt and Road Initiative. But elites in Western democracies have proved to be a soft touch, particularly among non-governmental elites.

“Red Handed: How American Elites are Helping China Win,” my latest book, centers on this truth and explores how elites in academia, high-finance, sports and entertainment, and the technology sector became apologists for China’s deplorable human rights record, industrial and military espionage, and increasingly aggressive behavior.

What separates this from ordinary diplomacy or even the time-honored business slogan that “the customer is always right” is the power wielded by those who succumb to the temptation. The book investigates the public activities and statements of some of the most powerful people in the US. From the world of Silicon Valley, we explore Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Tim Cook of Apple, and Bill Gates of Microsoft. From the world of Wall Street, we looked at Ray Dalio of Bridgewater, the largest hedge-fund investment company in the world, and Larry Fink of BlackRock. From academia we explored the actions of Harvard and Yale universities. We surveyed the relationship histories of the Bush family, the Trudeau family of Canada, the Pelosi family, and of course, the Biden family.

The article continues at the following weblink:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/elite-capture-term-peter-s...

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Elite Capture: Learn About the Globalist Plan to Topple Governments Through Corruption

The Chinese don't give you all the payoff money unless you put a known Chinese Communist agent in your organization in a position where they can track everything that's done.

Elite Capture: Discover the Globalists' Secret Weapon for Global Do...

The Washington Post: The Voice of the CIA

The United States does not have a media.  It has a propaganda service for the military/security complex, the pharmaceutical industry, and the global elite.

https://dcdirtylaundry.com/the-washington-post-the-voice-of-the-cia/