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‘Facebook Memories: 4 Jun 2024’
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Preface.
Suck is gone mad – touched mad – deleting posts throughout Faceplop, anything that presents ideology that he opposes.
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Fear not, Dear Reader. I continue posting current original compositions – I have countless ideas about topics that I have never discussed here or not commented in depth. Posting these recent ‘Memories’ allows me to catch up to what past essays I missed posting here concurrent with Faceplop posts.
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2. Graduation Season
3, 5. NowThis: American Fascists
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(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/3128492787451565/)
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Crooked Drumpf and Republi-cons assert NAZI-ism and Fascism as Amerikan government – how soon you forget about Crooked Drumpf’s scheme for the Republi-con Party to install him as President by August 2021
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A Facebook ‘Memories’ from four years ago.
A video worth re-watching – again – in light of current developments in Crooked Drumpf’s push to overthrow American government.
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(https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/1548260861930699/)
NowThis
14 Aug 2017
The government made an anti-fascism film in 1943 – and it’s horrifyingly relevant in 2017
(https://fb.watch/drcoZGBjrS/)
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Tank Man
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2079995782301276&id=100008726227817)
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Sharon Nichols
4 Jun 2019
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4 Jun 2020
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6 Jun 2021
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Crooked Drumpf and Republi-cons assert NAZI-ism and Fascism as Amerikan government – how soon you forget about Crooked Drumpf’s scheme for the Republi-con Party to install him as President by August 2021
(https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1850069611960562&id=100008726227817)
(https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1850069611960562&id=100008726227817)
Sharon Nichols
4 Jun 2018
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This is You:
– Republi-cons
– Drumpfians
– Deplorables.
Republi-cons, Drumpfians, Deplorables won’t watch this, won’t see themselves portrayed in this film.
The film was three minutes well-spent!
Reverend Martin Niemohller wrote about it.
As the title asked, it can ‘Happen Here’.
(https://fb.watch/kYJRpDVPwF/)
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Crooked Drumpf’s ‘Fine People’: Espousing the destruction of Israel and Judaism – ‘Jews will not replace us!’
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1850030115297845&id=100008726227817)
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1850030115297845&id=100008726227817)
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Sharon Nichols
4 Jun 2018
This is You:
Republi-cons
Drumpfians
Deplorables
Christian Con-servatives
American Taliban
American Fascists.
You previously hid under rocks.
You are now emboldened by Supreme Leader Crooked Drumpf.
You have no shame.
You are quite puzzling. You claim your affinity for all-things Jewish, you present your espousal for Israel, Crooked Drumpf boasted how he moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem, yet you hate Jewish people and hold a religious tenet that requires the destruction of Israel for your Saviour’s Second Coming.
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Sharon Nichols
May 1973 · ·
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Left Pinewood, International School of Thessaloniki, Greece
May 1973
High School
Attended main Pylaia campus for 10th Grade, attended Dasahori campus for 11th Grade. Yasou!
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Sharon Nichols
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Graduated from The Honors College at Grand Canyon University
May 2000
College — Business Administration/Management
Completed more than 150 semester credits throughout my post-secondary education
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Sharon Nichols
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Sharon Nichols
May 1987 · ·
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Continued self-studied in Inter-sex and Transsexualism; completed more than 100 CME credits in medicine and pharmacology.
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College — Medical research
Self-studied various medical concepts, including Inter-sex and Transsexualism; completed more than 300 CME credits in such topics as organ transplantation, embryology, prosection. Also completed ‘Seeds of World Conflict’ (Autumn quarter 1983) conducted by Elie Wiesel.
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Sharon Nichols
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Left Job at USDA Forest Service
May 1985 — Personnel Management
Recruitment and placement (S/STEP and Competitive Service appointments); position classification; payroll; employee benefits. Supervisor initiated termination action against me on the accusation that ‘You are a woman working as a man. We can’t have that here.’ (May 1983); responded to their efforts by enacting a whistle-blower complaint in which the US House of Representatives determined that both the Chief of the Forest Service and the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture committed perjury trying to silence me.
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36 years ago
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Sharon Nichols
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Sharon Nichols
May 1973 · ·
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Left Pinewood, International School of Thessaloniki, Greece
May 1973
High School
Attended main Pylaia campus for 10th Grade, attended Dasahori campus for 11th Grade. Yasou!
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My reason for being taken to Greece was suspect, but I made what I could from my two school years there, tried to make friends, tried to experience what I could of Greece and Europe (history, culture, cuisine), and return home wiser.
Thank you to my TIHI friends. Thank you, Mary G, for coming back into my life.
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My reason for being taken to Greece was suspect, but I made what I could from my two school years there, tried to make friends, tried to experience what I could of Greece and Europe (history, culture, cuisine), and return home wiser.
Thank you to my TIHI friends. Thank you, Mary G, for coming back into my life.
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Sharon Nichols
May 1973 ·
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May 1973
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Attended main Pylaia campus for 10th Grade, attended Dasahori campus for 11th Grade. Yasou!
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My reason for being taken to Greece was suspect, but I made what I could from my two school years there, tried to make friends, tried to experience what I could of Greece and Europe (history, culture, cuisine), and return home wiser.
Thank you to my TIHI friends. Thank you, Mary G, for coming back into my life.
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Sharon Nichols
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A Facebook ‘Memories’
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Sharon Nichols
May 2000 ·
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Graduated from The Honors College at Grand Canyon University
May 2000
College — Business Administration/Management
Completed more than 150 semester credits throughout my post-secondary education
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Sharon Nichols
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May 1987 ·
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Left The University of Arizona
May 1987
College — Medical research
Continued self-studied in Inter-sex and Transsexualism; completed more than 100 CME credits in medicine and pharmacology.
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Sharon Nichols
May 1985 ·
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Left The University of Utah
May 1985
College — Medical research
Self-studied various medical concepts, including Inter-sex and Transsexualism; completed more than 300 CME credits in such topics as organ transplantation, embryology, prosection. Also completed ‘Seeds of World Conflict’ (Autumn quarter 1983) conducted by Elie Wiesel.
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Sharon Nichols
May 1985 ·
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Left Job at USDA Forest Service
May 1985 — Personnel Management
Recruitment and placement (S/STEP and Competitive Service appointments); position classification; payroll; employee benefits. Supervisor initiated termination action against me on the accusation that ‘You are a woman working as a man. We can’t have that here.’ (May 1983); responded to their efforts by enacting a whistle-blower complaint in which the US House of Representatives determined that both the Chief of the Forest Service and the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture committed perjury trying to silence me.
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May 1985 ·
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Sharon Nichols
May 1973
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High School
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Pathetic!
Countless MAGA Drumpfians and Deplorables blathering that the NAZIs and the Fascists of the 1930s and the 1940s are today’s Democratic, Liberal, Left, Progressive, BLM, Anti-Fa.
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(https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ioGZSEt4V7i1NmUJ/?mibextid=oFDknk)
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A video worth re-watching – again – in light of current developments in Crooked Drumpf’s push to overthrow American government.
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(https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1850069611960562&id=100008726227817)
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– Republi-cons
– Drumpfians
– Deplorables.
Republi-cons, Drumpfians, Deplorables won’t watch this, won’t see themselves portrayed in this film.
The film was three minutes well-spent!
Reverend Martin Niemohller wrote about it.
As the title asked, it can ‘Happen Here’.
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(https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lesbians-and-the-third-reich)
(https://wapo.st/2sMEmDM?tid=ss_fb-bottom&utm_term=.ffbfdc83b135)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJzdgZ1lOTA
***presented in historical context and not a modern day domestic terrorism threat. Cant be to careful now a days.
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Who among us will stand heroically when Crooked Drumpf sends his tanks down your city streets?
(https://culturacolectiva.com/photography/tiananmen-massacre-tank-man-photograph/)
This is one of those ‘Where were you when …’ events. Three decades later.
Throughout the weeks during May and June 1989, I remember watching the TV news each night, going to work listening to the radio news. China is really gonna do it – become a free Democracy.
Then bam! It was all gone.
– Forever eliminated from Chinese history.
– Suppressed in international history.
– Ignored in American education. No wonder – Papa Bush – the American inside Chinese politics.
Paying homage to the Democracy students was the reason that I had to make my stop at Beijing, rather than any other stop offered by the airlines, and one reason why I travelled to Thailand.
I knew to keep my eyes open and my mouth shut – to play the dumb tourist. I didn’t need to be arrested and imprisoned.
We know that the Chinese government has identified every person in these photographs.
My curiosity is about each one, three decades later:
– Where are they now?
– How did they escape the tyranny?
– How are their families enduring behind the Bamboo Curtain?
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– How do they deal with the oppression knowing what they witnessed?
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From the CBS News report:
Tiananmen Square survivor reflects 30 years later: “I’m heartbroken”
June 4, 2019 / 7:46 AM / CBS News
On June 4, 1989, Chinese tanks rolled into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to crush a student-led protest movement calling for greater political freedom. To this day, the death toll remains in dispute, but it is believed thousands may have been killed.
CBS News’ senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer returned to Tiananmen Square 30 years later, to find its bloody history erased by modern China.
Wu’er Kaixi, who at the time was 21 and was one of the main student leaders of the protests, managed to escape the violence.
“I am the survivor of a massacre,” he told Palmer. “I have to live with the guilt.”
Although he and the students knew the government was threatened by demands for reform, he said, he thought there was “no way” it would come to “real ammunition and tanks rolling over people.”
“You never dreamed it would come to that?” Palmer asked.
“No, no, no, no,” he responded.
Tiananmen Square is now a tourist attraction under 24/7 surveillance. Clusters of cameras, for example, are disguised as lamp posts. And the square has been completely scrubbed of anything that might recall the events of 1989.
In fact, the government has so successfully written them out of history, that some young people didn’t recognize the most famous Tiananmen picture of a man standing in front of a column of tanks.
“[The] Communist party is extremely nervous about people learning the fact of what happened, which is people stood up and challenged the government,” Wu’er Kaixi said.
To make sure it never happened again, the party introduced sweeping economic changes that transformed China into a dynamic power. But at its core, it remains an authoritarian police state.
“We failed miserably,” he said. “Let’s face it, they are exchanging our economic freedom with our political freedom.”
The young idealist paid a personal price: he spent the next three decades in exile.
“I haven’t been able to see my parents for the last 30 years,” he said, adding “I cannot go back to China and they denied them traveling abroad.”
“That’s quite a price to pay,” Palmer said.
“I’m heartbroken for that,” he responded.
He’s also heartbroken for the reform movement, once so full of hope, that’s now utterly crushed.
First published on June 4, 2019 / 7:46 AM
© 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Tiananmen Square, 30 years later
June 2, 2019 / 10:16 AM / CBS News
The enduring image of a lone man confronting Chinese tanks has come to stand for the bloody showdown between thousands of protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, and hardliners in the Communist Party who ordered in the army.
A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square, June 1989. The Chinese government crushed a student-led demonstration for democratic reform and against government corruption, killing hundreds, or perhaps thousands of demonstrators. AP Photo/Jeff Widener
On June 4, 1989, soldiers surrounding the square started shooting.
Wuerkaixi, one of the student leaders, managed to escape. Thirty years later, banned from China and living in exile, he’s still haunted.
“I am a survivor of a massacre,” he said. “We just thought they were going to send in a group of police with their, you know, batons.”
In fact, they sent in troops and tanks. Hundreds – maybe thousands – died.
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Chinese army tanks break up the protests. CBS News
Posing as tourists, correspondent Elizabeth Palmer and her crew visited Tiananmen Square, still such a sensitive location that visitors have to show ID just to get in.
There is nothing in this vast square to remind anybody of the events of 30 years ago – not a statue, not a monument, not even a tiny plaque. The events of June 4, 1989 have been erased from Chinese history.
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Correspondent Liz Palmer in Tiananmen Square today. CBS News
When Palmer showed some of the Tiananmen photos to random young Chinese passers-by, they did not recognize what country they were taken in.
“Do you recognize this picture,” Palmer asked one man, shown a photo of the single man’s standoff against a cordon of tanks.
“No,” he replied.
Minutes later, the police showed up, then detained and held the CBS News crew for six hours.
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Correspondent Liz Palmer shows a Chinese woman a photo of the 1989 Tiananmen Square, attracting the attention of police. CBS News
Even 30 years on, Tiananmen set a dangerous precedent, that “People stood up and challenged the government [for the first time] in the history of the People’s Republic of China,” said Wuerkaixi.
But they lost.
In the end, the Communist Party didn’t give an inch on democratic reforms.
To Wuerkaixi, the young hunger-striker who risked his life on Tiananmen Square, it hurts.
Palmer asked, “Are you a heartbroken man?”
“Yes, yes,” he replied. “I have to live with the guilt.”
“I suppose there are two ways to see it: You were part of a great and noble cause; you were also part of a great and noble failure,” said Palmer.
“The noble part, I take a great pride,” he said. “And the failure, that’s something the whole country paid a great price for.”
See also:
China still quietly quashing dissent 30 years after bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown (CBS News, 5/31/19)
Remembering Tiananmen Square (CBS News, 6/03/99)
Lessons of Tiananmen Square (“CBS Evening News,” 3/04/05)
Tiananmen Square: “Great Firewall” all but hides anniversary of China massacre (CBS News, 6/4/13)
Story produced by Chris Laible and Agnes Reau.
First published on June 2, 2019 / 10:16 AM
© 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright © 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.
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Looking back at Tiananmen Square
June 4, 2014 / 2:38 PM / CBS NEWS
Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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June 4 marks the anniversary of the Chinese military’s 1989 crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, in which hundreds, possibly thousands, of unarmed pro-democracy protesters and onlookers were killed.
In this file photo, several hundred student protesters stand face-to-face with policemen outside the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square Beijing, as they take part in the funeral ceremony of former Chinese Communist Party leader and liberal reformer Hu Yaobang during an unauthorized demonstration to mourn his death, April 22, 1989.
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Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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Beijing, China
Beijing students put flowers and wreaths in front of a portrait of former Chinese Communist Party leader and liberal reformer Hu Yaobang as thousands of students gathered at the foot of the monument to the People’s Heroes in Tiananmen Square during an unauthorized demonstration to mourn Hu’s death, April 19, 1989.
His death on April 15, 1989 triggered an unprecedented wave of pro-democracy demonstrations culminating in the massacre of demonstrators by the People’s Liberation Army in Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3-4, 1989.
Credit: Catherine Henriette/AFP/Getty Images
Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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Beijing, China
Student display a banner with one of the slogans chanted by the crowd of some 200,000 pouring into Tiananmen Square in Beijing in an attempt to participate in the funeral ceremony of former Chinese Communist Party leader and liberal reformer Hu Yaobang during an unauthorized demonstration to mourn his death, April 22, 1989.
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China Tiananmen March
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Beijing, China
More than seven thousand students from local colleges and universities march to Tiananmen Square, Beijing, May 4, 1989, to demonstrate for government reform.
Credit: Sadayuki Mikami/AP
Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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Beijing, China
Student hunger strikers from Beijing University relax as several hundred students stage a demonstration at Tiananmen Square.
They started an unlimited hunger strike as part of a mass pro-democracy protest against the Chinese government.
Credit: Catherine Henriette/AFP/Getty Images
Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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Several hundred students staged an unlimited hunger strike as part of a mass pro-democracy protest against the Chinese government.
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Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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Beijing, China
A first-aid nurse from a local hospital under the hospital banner to take care of exhausted student hunger strikers from Beijing University at Tiananmen Square as they entered the fifth day of a marathon hunger strike, May 17, 1989.
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Enthusiastic demonstrators are cheered by bystanders as they arrive at Tiananmen Square to show support for the hunger strike by students protesting for government reform, May 18, 1989, in Beijing, China.
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Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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Beijing, China
Beijing magistrates wearing court uniforms join workers demonstrating in Beijing streets in support of student hunger strikers gathered at Tiananmen Square, May 18, 1989.
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Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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At dawn on May 19, 1989, Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Secretary General Zhao Ziyang (center) addresses the student hunger strikers through a megaphone in one of the buses at Tiananmen Square in Beijing where pro-democracy hunger strikers had been sheltered.
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Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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Beijing, China
Armed soldiers of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) hide their faces when they are photographed in Beijing on their way to Tiananmen Square after the Martial Law was proclaimed in the capital, May 20, 1989.
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FILE PHOTO: A military helicopter drops leaflets above Tiananmen Square in Beijing
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Beijing, China
A military helicopter drops leaflets above Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, May 22, 1989, calling for student protesters to leave the Square as soon as possible.
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The famous portrait of Chairman Mao looking out over Tiananmen Square, Beijing, from the Forbidden City, May 23, 1989, was spattered with paint during the continuing demonstration in the square.
Credit: Mark Avery/AP
Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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Unidentified people cover a portrait of China’s Communist founding father Mao Zedong with a khaki canvas after it was defaced with a trail of blue, red and yellow paint at the Tiananmen Square, May 23, 1989. A banner on the bottom can read as “This is not done by students.”
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Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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A student shows off a stick to which is tied a broken bottle with the picture of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping as thousands of demonstrators gathered in Beijing streets near Tiananmen Square during a rally to support the pro-democracy protest against the Chinese government, May 25, 1989. The name “Xiaoping” also means “little bottle.”
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Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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Students waving banners as they march in Beijing streets near Tiananmen Square during a rally to support the pro-democracy protest against the Chinese government, May 25, 1989.
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Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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A student from an art institute plasters the neck of a “Statue of Liberty,” a replica of New York’s Statue of Liberty, in Tiananmen Square. The statue was unveiled in front of the Great Hall of the People and the monument to the People’s Heroes to promote the pro-democracy protest against the Chinese government, May 30, 1989.
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FILE PHOTO: Pro-democracy demonstrators pitch tents in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square
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Pro-democracy demonstrators pitch tents in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, China, May 31, 1989.
Credit: Bobby Yip/REUTERS
Tiananmen Square
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A man tries to pull a Chinese soldier away from his comrades as thousands of Beijing’s citizens turned out to block thousands of troops on their way towards Tiananmen Square early Saturday morning, June 3, 1989.
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China Tiananmen Photo Gallery
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A young woman is caught between civilians and Chinese soldiers, who were trying to remove her from an assembly near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, June 3, 1989.
Credit: Jeff Widener/AP
Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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People Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers leap over a barrier on Tiananmen Square in central Beijing during heavy clashes with people and dissident students.
On the night of June 3rd and 4th, 1989, Tiananmen Square sheltered the last pro-democracy supporters. Chinese troops forcibly marched on the square to end a weeks-long occupation by student protesters, using lethal force to remove opposition it encountered along the way.
Credit: Thomas Cheng/AFP/Getty Images
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Tanks enter Tiananmen Square. The “Beijing Spring” pro-democracy movement was crushed by Chinese troops when soldiers supported by tanks opened fire on demonstrators.
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A girl wounded during the clash between the army and students near Tiananmen Square is carried out by a cart, June 4, 1989. Hundreds of demonstrators were killed in the crackdown as tanks rolled into the environs of the square.
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China Tiananmen Photo Gallery
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A student protester puts barricades in the path of an already-burning armored personnel carrier that rammed through student lines during an army attack on anti-government demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989. A government soldier who escaped the armored vehicle was killed by demonstrators.
Credit: JEFF WIDENER/AP
FILE PHOTO: An armoured personnel carrier crushes one of the tents set up on Tiananmen Square by pro-democracy protesters early Sunday morning in Beijing
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An armored personnel carrier crushes one of the tents set up on Tiananmen Square by pro-democracy protesters early Sunday morning in Beijing, June 4, 1989.
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Archival photos of Tiananmen Square
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A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square, June 5, 1989.
The man, calling for an end to the violence and bloodshed against pro-democracy demonstrators, was pulled away by bystanders, and the tanks continued on their way.
The Chinese government crushed a student-led demonstration for democratic reform and against government corruption, killing hundreds, or perhaps thousands of demonstrators in the strongest anti-government protest since the 1949 revolution.
Ironically, the name Tiananmen means “Gate of Heavenly Peace.”
Credit: Jeff Widener/AP
China Tiananmen Photo Gallery
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Chinese troops and tanks gather in Beijing on June 5, 1989, one day after the military crackdown that ended a seven week pro-democracy demonstration on Tiananmen Square. Hundreds were killed in the early morning hours of June 4.
Credit: Jeff Widener/AP
China Tiananmen A Journalist Remembers
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In this June 5, 1989 photo, Beijing residents inspect a bus that was smashed by an armored personnel carrier when the Chinese army fought its way into Tiananmen Square.
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The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) tanks guard a strategic Chang’an Avenue leading to Tiananmen Square, June 6, 1989.
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China Tiananmen A Journalist Remembers
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In this June 7, 1989 photo,
Chinese troops patrol the street on June 7, 1989, after the army fought its way into Tiananmen Square the night of June 3-4 to reclaim the square from student-led demonstrators.
Credit: Terril Jones/AP
FILE PHOTO: Tens of thousands of people participate in a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park
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Tens of thousands of people participate in a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, China on June 4, 2014, to mark the 25th anniversary of the military crackdown of the pro-democracy movement at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.
The Beijing government heavily censors mention of the military crackdown on protesters – what the government generically refers to as the “June 4th incident.” The results from attempts to search “Tiananmen Square” on China’s heavily-monitored internet, or even keywords like “June 4” or “6-4-89,” are restricted. It is not mentioned in history books. An entire generation does not know its significance.
Credit: Paul Yeung/REUTERS
Taiwan Tiananmen Tank Art
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A Taiwanese man takes a selfie with an inflatable tank man at the Liberty Square of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, June 1, 2019. An artist erected the inflatable display in Taiwan’s capital to mark an iconic moment in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests on the 30th anniversary of the massacre.
Credit: Chiang Ying-ying/AP
Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe salutes at the IISS Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore
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Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe. Reuters reported that on June 2, 2019, Wei said, “Everybody is concerned about Tiananmen after 30 years. Throughout the 30 years, China under the Communist Party has undergone many changes – do you think the government was wrong with the handling of June 4th? There was a conclusion to that incident. That was a political turmoil that the central government needed to quell. The government was decisive in stopping the turbulence. That was the correct policy.”
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Tiananmen Square Today
CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer visited Tiananmen Square 30 years after the crackdown – still such a sensitive location that visitors have to show ID just to get in.
There is nothing in this vast square to remind anybody of the events of 30 years ago – not a statue, not a monument, not even a tiny plaque. The events of June 4, 1989 have been erased from Chinese history.
Credit: CBS News
First published on June 4, 2014 / 2:38 PM
Copyright © 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.
Here’s the URL to these pictures:
(https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/looking-back-at-tiananmen-square/)
And this URL for more pictures from the CBS News archives:
(https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/tiananmen-square-a-look-back/8/)
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These words from a Republi-con at the 20 years mark:
‘Freedom is boring. Tyranny is interesting. China is free. News reporters are evil.’
– Dennis Prager, R (his radio show, Dec 2009)
And this spin from the Drumpfian faux snooze. That same bloviating now at the 30 years mark.
Read how he blames American Democracy and American reporters for China suppressing their history:
Real Press Oppression: CBS Crew Arrested in China, Shared Tiananmen Square Pics
By Nicholas Fondacaro | June 3, 2019 9:09 PM EDT
Tuesday marked the 30-year anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square massacre, when the Chinese government slaughtered upwards of thousands of student protesters demanding democracy. In true Orwellian fashion, the Chinese government had effectively erased it from their history and arrested a CBS News crew for showing pictures of the massacre to young Chinese citizens. Meanwhile, outlets in the U.S. claim President Trump was the Orwellian one and the danger to press freedom.
Standing in Tiananmen Square, CBS correspondent Elizabeth Palmer remarked that, “It is hard to imagine this vast square filled with passionate students demanding more freedoms. 30 years on, the Chinese government has erased every reminder of those events 30 years ago.”
“Pictures like this are banned from television and school textbooks,” she noted as the famous picture of a man staring down tanks flashed on the screen. She described how she spoke with young Chinese citizens she met on the street and they couldn’t identify anything about it.
Seeming to bring George Orwell’s 1984 to life, Chinese police descended upon Palmer and her crew. “Minutes later, the police showed up and we ended up in custody for six hours,” she recalled.
Meanwhile, on Monday morning, CNN legal analyst Jeffery Toobin was busy claiming President Trump’s spin regarding the spat with British royal Meghan Markle signaled we were living a “1984-like scenario.” Last time this author checked, Trump wasn’t locking people up for talking about his “nasty” comment and sending them to be re-educated.
Time magazine named journalists their Person of the Year back in 2018 because according to them: “[The] world is led, in some ways, by a U.S. President whose embrace of despots and attacks on the press has set a troubling tone.”
CNN has been so ludicrous with their hyperbole. Almost two years ago, CNN’s media janitor Brian Stelter suggested Trump was threatening the lives of his co-workers with a mean meme. Stelter had also used his “Reliable Sources” show to suggest the President was leading the world’s dictators on a global press crackdown, and formed a “hate movement” against the press like Stalin and Hitler. Hmm, he didn’t mention China.
Now, unlike communist China, the U.S. doesn’t have a state-run media (as much as CNN likes to claim that’s what Fox News is). Trump using his First Amendment right to criticize the press doesn’t constitute a threat or violence. What happened to CBS, now that was a threat and violence. Learn the difference.
The transcript is below, click “expand” to read:
CBS Evening News
June 3, 2019
6:42:44 p.m. Eastern
DAVID BEGNAUD: It is already Tuesday, June 4th in China, the 30th anniversary of the brutal crackdown on a democratic movement in Tiananmen Square. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people were killed. Today the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, called for a full accounting of what happened, but China appears to be more interested in wiping it from history. Elizabeth Palmer went to Beijing.
[Cuts to video]
ELIZABETH PALMER: On June 4, 1989, weeks of demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square ended in mass murder. [Gunfire] CBS cameras recorded Chinese soldiers shooting unarmed civilians, most of them students. Wu’er Kaixi, one of the student leaders, survived, but had the flee into exile.
WU’ER KAIXI: I am a survivor of a massacre.
PALMER: A massacre no one talks about in China. Posing as tourists, we went to Tiananmen Square, a landmark still so sensitive that even tourists have to show I.D. and there are surveillance cameras everywhere.
It is hard to imagine this vast square filled with passionate students demanding more freedoms. 30 years on, the Chinese government has erased every reminder of those events 30 years ago.
[Shows famous image of a man blocking tanks] Pictures like this are banned from television and school textbooks.
YOUNG WOMAN (Palmer spoke over): I’m not really clear about it.
PALMER: And it’s worked. We showed some of the photographs to young passers-by.
Have you ever heard of these events?
YOUNG MAN 1: I think not.
PALMER: No idea? What country?
YOUNG MAN 2: I have no idea.
PALMER: Minutes later, the police showed up and we ended up in custody for six hours. In today’s China, consumerism and capitalism have eclipsed demands for political freedom. But Wu’er Kaixi, once a young hunger striker who risked his life for the cause, says Tiananmen still makes the Chinese Communist Party very nervous.
WU’ER KAIXI: Freedom is something once you taste, you get hooked on it very easily.
PALMER: Elizabeth Palmer, CBS News, Beijing.
BEGNAUD: Incredible story.
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3 Jun 2019
On this day in 1989, an iconic photo from Tiananmen Square captivated the world. This is the story behind the infamous picture.
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‘Tank Man’
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Who among us will stand heroically when Crooked Drumpf sends his tanks down your city streets?
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
10 Jun 2019
At 27, first-time prosecutor Ben Ferencz prevailed in what was called “the biggest murder trial in history.” He convicted 22 Nazis for the murder of more than 1 million Jews. Learn about the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, whose story is now on #Netflix in #ProsecutingEvil.
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12 Jun 2019
Today would have been Anne Frank’s 90th birthday. Through her diary, she has inspired millions with the message that hope lives even in the darkest moments. Join our historians to discuss Anne’s legacy and view rarely seen photos of her.
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This is You:
– Republi-cons
– Drumpfians
– Deplorables.
Republi-cons, Drumpfians, Deplorables won’t watch this, won’t see themselves portrayed in this film.
The film was three minutes well-spent!
Reverend Martin Niemohller wrote about it.
As the title asked, it can ‘Happen Here’.
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The government made an anti-fascism film in 1943 – and it’s horrifyingly relevant in 2017
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***presented in historical context and not a modern day domestic terrorism threat. Cant be to careful now a days.
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Supreme Leader Crooked Drumpf emboldens his ideologues
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Republi-cons
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Christian Con-servatives
American Taliban
American Fascists.
You previously hid under rocks.
You are now emboldened by Supreme Leader Crooked Drumpf.
You have no shame.
You are quite puzzling. You claim your affinity for all-things Jewish, you present your espousal for Israel, Crooked Drumpf boasted how he moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem, yet you hate Jewish people and hold a religious tenet that requires the destruction of Israel for your Saviour’s Second Coming.
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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.
‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
Lisette Voytko
Forbes Staff
Senior Entertainment Reporter
Sep 11, 2020, 08:53am EDT
Updated Sep 12, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
TOPLINE A New York Daily News scoop published Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has siphoned around $4 million from the New York City Fire Department’s fund for its September 11 first responders, drawing outrage on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, but the U.S. Treasury says the money was diverted because of “delinquent debt” owed by New York City to the federal government.
Attacks World Trade Center
Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, [+]
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KEY FACTS
The funds are part of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, which was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, a bill passed by Congress that provides healthcare to first responders who have suffered a range of illnesses from exposure to dust and smoke at Ground Zero.
“TRUMP DOESN’T ONLY HATE VETERANS, HE HATES FIRST RESPONDER HEROES,” tweeted actress Debra Messing in reaction to the Daily News report.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland school shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, said he was “F—KING P—-ED” about the report, because his brother died of cancer from 9/11.
“From the administration whose identity is built on claims of honoring first responders,” Julie Cohen, director of the RBG documentary, wrote on Twitter.
“This doesn’t surprise me at all,” Army veteran and advocate Paul Rieckoff wrote on Twitter. “Trump did NOTHING to push for the extension of #Zadroga last year.”
“We are also working with Congressman King and others to examine any potential authorities to provide relief in this case to support our nation’s 9/11 heroes,” the Treasury spokesperson. told Forbes, but could not provide any examples of how they would do it, and did not have a timeline.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“Here we have sick World Trade Center-exposed firefighters and EMS workers, at a time when the city is having difficult financial circumstances due to COVID-19, and we’re not getting the money we need to be able to treat these heroes,” FDNY Chief Medical Officer David Prezant told the Daily News.
CHIEF CRITIC
“Pure evil,” tweeted Dr. Dena Grayson, a medical expert who specializes in ebola and other viruses.
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This is Crooked Drumpf’s Amerika.
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