Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them
Inside a closed Los Angeles courtroom, something wasn’t right. Clerks working for family court Judge Amy Pellman were reviewing routine surrogacy petitions when they spotted an unusual pattern: the same name, again and again. A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more—all through surrogates.
When Pellman called Xu Bo in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023, he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing. The maker of fantasy videogames lived in China and appeared via video, speaking through an interpreter. He said he hoped to have 20 or so U.S.-born children through surrogacy—boys, because they’re superior to girls—to one day take over his business. Several of his kids were being raised by nannies in nearby Irvine as they awaited paperwork to travel to China. He hadn’t yet met them, he told the judge, because work had been busy.
Pellman was alarmed, according to the people who attended the hearing. Surrogacy was a tool to help people build families, but what Xu was describing didn’t seem like parenting, the people said. The judge denied his request for parentage—normally quickly approved for the intended parents of a baby born through surrogacy, experts say. The decision left the children he’d paid for to be born in legal limbo.
The court declined to comment on Xu’s case. Xu, an online megaposter but real-life recluse, has rarely spoken with reporters and hasn’t been photographed in public for nearly a decade. A representative of Xu’s company, Duoyi Network, didn’t respond to specific questions about the hearing or Xu’s use of surrogacy. “The boss does not accept interview requests from anyone for any purpose,” the representative said in an email to The Wall Street Journal, adding that “much of what you described is untrue”. The representative, who didn’t provide a name, didn’t respond to repeated requests to clarify what was inaccurate.
…According to a letter from experts in this field to the Lancet, studies of other wars – most of them far less destructive than Israel’s on the tiny enclave – indicate that between three and 15 times more people are killed by indirect, rather than direct, methods of warfare.
The authors conservatively estimate an indirect death toll four times greater than the direct death toll. That would mean, at a minimum, 350,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza through Israel’s actions.
The reality is likely to be even worse. That is without even mentioning the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been left with horrific injuries and psychological trauma.
Israel’s war planners know exactly how this direct-to-indirect ratio works. Which is why they chose to destroy nearly every home in Gaza, to bomb the power, sanitation and water facilities, to level the hospitals, and to block aid month after month.
They knew this would be the way Israel could carry out a genocide while offering its allies – western governments and its army of lobbyists – a “get out of jail card” for their active complicity.
Donald Trump’s so-called “ceasefire” is just another layer of deception in this endless game of smoke and mirrors. The UN’s child protection agency, Unicef, reports that less than a quarter of aid trucks are getting into Gaza, past Israel’s continuing starvation blockade, despite Israeli commitments agreed as part of the “ceasefire”. Apparently, this doesn’t register as a gross ceasefire violation. It goes unnoticed.
Unicef reports further that in October alone, at the start of the “ceasefire”, nearly 18,000 new mothers and babies had to be hospitalised in Gaza from acute malnutrition.
The genocide isn’t over. Israel may have slowed the rate of direct killings it is committing by bombing Gaza, but the indirect killings continue unabated. And so does the Israeli-engineered “debate” in the West, one designed to obscure and excuse the mass murder of Gaza’s population.
Israeli government officials, along with their state aligned partners, are commissioning the Sunday School literature, shaping the small-group curricula, and guiding the theological education of American evangelicals. Pastors are bribed, congregations are mapped, young believers are digitally targeted, and study materials are packaged as discipleship while promoting the interests of a foreign state. The American church has become a delivery system for narratives conceived in government offices overseas. What began as emotional support for Israel has evolved into a pipeline of influence that reaches straight into the pulpit and the classroom. The deepest scandal is simple. Evangelicals thought they were blessing Jews. Unbelieving Jews, instead, have been discipling them.
The Israeli government has spent years building this disciplined influence system that reaches from cabinet offices in Jerusalem to the Sunday school classrooms of the American church. From curated pastor tours to geofencing campaigns, it’s all because a foreign state has learned how to speak fluent evangelical. Sadly, key Christian leaders have become accomplices.
Ask a typical American evangelical why they support Israel and you will hear the same script every time. It is about the Bible. It is about blessing Abraham. It is about standing with the people of God. They imagine their loyalty rose naturally from their reading of Scripture and from a vague sense of shared morality. They picture it as a grassroots conviction, not as the end product of a coordinated program. In their minds there is no architect. There are only sincere believers, grateful Israelis, and a relationship that just happened.
What I’m about to reveal to you at Insight to Incite is that behind the sentimental language lies a set of institutions that treat evangelical support as a strategic asset. The Israeli state does not look at tens of millions of politically engaged Christians and see only prayer partners. It sees a voting bloc that can make or break policies in Washington. It sees donors, influencers, university boards, and megachurch networks that can normalize whatever Israel needs normalized in American life. They’ve built an influence infrastructure in America that’s astounding, once you see it.
It’s no surprise a foreign government wants to influence us. What’s so astounding is the way that planning reaches directly into American churches. The engine sits inside the government, not on the fringe. The messaging is not primarily run by romantic Christian tourists with a love for the Holy Land. It is guided by cabinet level offices, national ministries, and government aligned entities that track evangelical sentiment and adjust tactics when support starts to slip.
For years the church has been told to think about Israel in prophetic terms. What it has not been told is that Israel thinks about the church in strategic terms. That asymmetry is exactly what this series is meant to expose. To do that honestly, you cannot start with famous pastors or emotional trips to Jerusalem. You have to start at the top. I’ll put the words, names, and titles in bold that you need to remember.
Straight up ad hominem attack on a pioneer journalist producing better work than all of US Big Media combined.
Owens is establishing a new paradigm for journalism; one that draws on crowd-sourcing and direct feedback from the public.
Her podcast is booming because it’s very good and her audience can sense this is the right way to do news in today’s super-connected world.
She is a talented rhetorician to boot.
My guess is her main opponents savaging her are being paid, directly or indirectly, by the real perps; are part of the psyop themselves; are simply envious of her swift rise to global prominence due to her talent and content.
Rational and reasonable speculation is real content in the real-world in real-time.
Actively hunting for the truth is the most fundamental content everyone wants.
Candace has established a new formula, guys — crowd-sourcing, which yields tons of info and is deeply engaging; reasonable, focused content, including speculative content and queries; immediacy, authenticity and talent.
Since Kennedy’s piece is behind a paywall, I was not able to read it, but the headline, which itself is truly evil, is so bad I think it makes my fundamental point vividly:
No one else is producing bold, up-to-date content on Kirk’s murder, and that is what the public wants.
Not government, not Big Media, not TPUSA, not $7,000 podcasters.
Only Owens is doing the real work modern civilization deeply wants and requires. ABN
Erika Kirk has furiously slammed ‘evil’ conspiracy theorists making revolting claims linking Turning Point staff to Charlie Kirk‘s assassination.
The TPUSA CEO, who stepped into the role after her husband’s murder, warned that she would not allow her colleagues to be targeted by online trolls.
Inflammatory claims by provocateurs like Candace Owens have led to threats against TPUSA staff.
Owens, once a friend of Charlie Kirk’s, has told her followers that TPUSA is somehow to blame for his assassination – while carefully avoiding using Erika’s name.
Owens was a prominent TPUSA speaker and director of communications until 2020, when she parted ways amid disagreements.
Since Kirk’s death, she has escalated accusations of internal ‘betrayal’ at TPUSA, challenging the official narrative around the lone shooter and prompting TPUSA to invite her to a public livestream debate.
Erika, who did not name Owens specifically, told Fox News on Wednesday: ‘Come after me, call me names, I don’t care. Call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole, whatever.
‘But … when you go after the people that I love and you’re making hundreds of thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they’re in on this? No.’
I have avoided Erika Kirk’s role in the assassination investigation.
I remember saying only one thing about her, something kind about her words.
I am not going to change my tune except to say Kirk’s assassination belongs to the public now and TPUSA cannot be exempted from analysis because Erika says they are ‘family’.
The larger point is Owens has opened a novel avenue of investigation. She is doing incisive, transparent crowd-sourcing and speculative analysis.
Her work has been way better than the FBI’s.
I hope we see much more of this kind of real-time open discussion of major world events.
Everyone knows the government lies all the time and so does the press. ABN
Most Buddhist practitioners will immediately understand and agree with the results of a study that shows that people feel better when they tell fewer lies. The study (Telling fewer lies linked to better health and relationships) is modest but worth considering.
Notice that the improvements found in the study come from refraining from lying.
“We found that the participants could purposefully and dramatically reduce their everyday lies, and that in turn was associated with significantly improved health,” says lead author Anita Kelly. (Same link as above.)
A good deal of Buddhist practice involves refraining from unwholesome thoughts and behaviors and ultimately eliminating them. Refraining from lying, or “false speech,” is the fourth of the Five Precepts, which are the basis of Buddhist morality. Lies cloud the mind and hinder clear thinking.
Buddhist mindfulness gets us to slow down and question how sure we are of our thoughts, feelings, and judgements. It helps us refrain from willfully lying, and it can help us refrain from unconsciously lying if we have the help of a trusted partner.
Another term for unconscious lying is self-deception. Self-deception may make us feel good for awhile in some circumstances, but in the long-run it is much the same as any other kind of lying. It’s not true. It constitutes inner false speech and causes serious intellectual and emotional contradictions that will almost certainly lead to wrong thoughts, behaviors, and interpretations.
Michael S. Gazzaniga in an online essay has this to say:
The view in neuroscience today is that consciousness does not constitute a single, generalized process. It involves a multitude of widely distributed specialized systems and disunited processes, the products of which are integrated by the interpreter module….Our conscious experience is assembled on the fly as our brains respond to constantly changing inputs, calculate potential courses of action, and execute responses like a streetwise kid. (source)
It is our “interpreter module,” to use Gazzaniga’s words, that can and does unconsciously lie to us or allow us to engage in self-deception.
In the same essay, Gazzaniga also says:
In truth, when we set out to explain our actions, they are all post hoc explanations using post hoc observations with no access to nonconscious processing….The reality is, listening to people’s explanations of their actions is interesting—and in the case of politicians, entertaining—but often a waste of time. (Source: same as above)
FIML practice may not be capable of giving us access to “nonconscious processing,” but it will give us access to what is/was in our working memories while showing us that what we said or heard may have been vague, ambiguous, muddled, or wrong.
With the aid of a trusted partner, FIML helps us catch our minds on the fly. Partners are encouraged to refrain from long explanations and just stick to what they remember having been in their minds during the few seconds in question. This forestalls long, self-deceiving explanations.
Beginning FIML partners will likely be amazed at how often their interpretation of what their partner said is completely wrong.
FIML emphasizes using trivial incidents because partners will be much less likely to self-deceive when the incident is minor. A minor mistake is easier to change than a major one. If partners keep working with minor mistakes and clear them up as soon as they arise, how can major misunderstandings even develop?
In the future, we may have brain scans that can help us separate fact from fiction in our minds, but for now, I know of no better way to do it than with a trusted partner in FIML practice. Your partner will help you see the minutiae of your mind as it actually works and impacts them. This leads to a large reduction in lying and self-deception and an increase in feelings of well-being and mutual understanding.
Anyone claiming that Enoch Burke hasn’t been sentenced to life for refusing to submit to gender ideology, but simply for “contempt of court” is dishonest. Here’s why:
Technically speaking contempt of court is indeed the ground the High Court used to lock him up, but this whole case is about him being a Christian teacher refusing to forsake his beliefs by calling students by the pronouns of a sex that they simply are not.
That was what he was fired for by the school. Wrongfully. And Mr. Burke’s refusal to accept the school’s decision and showing up to work anyway, makes him a hero with a backbone. It makes him someone who refuses to just stand by and let evil be done without putting up a fight. That’s why he keeps showing up and that’s why they are now locking him up till he stops doing that.
They want him to bow down, to submit to something he knows to be wrong. And they want the general public to be confused about what the legal grounds are for locking him up.
This shows you that just because something is “legally” justifiable, like the High Court’s decision to indefinitely imprison Burke, doesn’t meant that it’s right.
Burke should be freed this instance, and I hope the People of Ireland will fight for his cause.
To my eye, this is judicial intellectual corruption or usurpation of powers they do not legally possess. USA has similar problems. It’s always a chore to apply laws well, and discussion is often warranted, but authoritarian rulings that bastardize the law harm society for that reason alone, to say nothing about the many other evil ramifications of a grossly unfair ruling like this. ABN
Kristi Noem has revealed her plans for a ‘full travel ban’ on countries that are sending ‘killers, leeches and entitlement junkies’ to the United States after a meeting with Donald Trump.
The Department of Homeland Security Secretary did not specify which countries she was calling for a ban from in the wake of the attack on two National Guard members in Washington DC last week.
‘I just met with the President. I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies,’ Noem wrote on social media.
‘Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom – not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS. WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.’
Trump has shared Noem’s post to his own Truth Social page in an apparent endorsement.
Her plan comes after Trump announced a halt to all immigration from Afghanistan, including decisions on refugee status in the wake of the attack in the nation’s capital on Wednesday.
Trump has also vowed to ‘permanently pause migration’ from all Third World countries and has announced that immigrants who hail from 19 countries covered by his travel ban will have their cases re-examined.
The countries include Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Haiti, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and Venezuela among others.
It’s full-disclosure in a time of limited warfare against narcoterrorists, whose actions have killed millions of Americans.
Right now, Trump’s focus is on Venezuela for that reason and also because Venezuela was involved in the 2020 election steal in USA and many before that.
Our stupid fake news media is making a big deal out of the two follow-up kills because that is what leftist media always does — super-focus on a detail which obscures the overall good.
Death is inevitable in operations of that sort.
It’s fine to talk about it, but it must simultaneously be recognized that millions of American lives have already been lost due to the actions of narcoterrorists.
Buddhism is largely nonviolent, but not when it comes to personal or national defense.
This same reasoning applies to Noem’s recommendations.
Biden treasonously ushered in, at our expense, some 20 million illegals, most of whom are military-aged men, and many of whom are criminals.
When they are deported, fake new will cry about the wives and anchor-babies being left behind when the real story is nothing is stopping them from leaving with their husbands.
Anyone who spent significant time abroad can appreciate how strict other countries are about their borders and who they allow in. ABN
UPDATE: I feel a bit sorry for people who have not been watching Owens’ videos on the Kirk assassination, which now include a plausible French connection. She may have caught not just one big fish, but a net full of them. She is entertaining, which is no flaw but a bonus. Also, to my eye she appears to be honest and reveling in it, rather than struggling with it as Carlson seems to be. ABN
I have not yet watched this but am posting it because I highly support doubting the holocaust because it is extremely doubtful, and because it is illegal to doubt it, which is so absurd it is a gross affront to any rational mind. ABN
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