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Let It Xi: Former Beatles Manager Paid Millions to Boost Chinese Regime in U.S.

The Beatles manager who orchestrated the ill-advised wedding between John Lennon and Yoko Ono is now the Chinese government's pointman to build ties between Beijing and American journalists and officials.

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Peter Brown, who managed the world-famous band until its disbandment in 1970, now uses his public relations skills to advance the interests of the Chinese regime. Brown, through his firm BLJ Worldwide, has arranged dozens of American reporters to visit China on all-expenses-paid trips and placed pro-Chinese op-eds in top U.S. outlets.

The Chinese embassy in the United States and the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF)—a registered foreign agent with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party—have paid nearly $4 million to Brown's firm since 2016. As part of the contract with the embassy, Brown's team provided media training to Chinese diplomats, monitored news reports about China, and assisted "crisis communications" on key issues such as the trade war and the annual Communist Party Congress.

"The protectionist and economically nationalist approach leads to no solution. A trade war is absolutely a wrong choice, which will only destroy trade itself," read a 2018 Time magazine op-ed written by Chinese ambassador Cui Tiankai. Brown's firm helped place that op-ed in the magazine.

Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), who sits on the GOP China Task Force, blasted Brown's decision to work with Beijing as "shameful."

"Peter Brown profited off of America's openness and now does the bidding of totalitarian communists who never would have tolerated a band like the Beatles. It's shameful," Banks told the Washington Free Beacon. "Maybe he took songs like ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.' a little too seriously, but the song ‘Money' probably gets closer to his motivations."

This is not Brown's first rodeo with an authoritarian government. He has rubbed shoulders with the leaders of dictatorial regimes worldwide, working with controversial clients, including the family of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad and Libya's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Brown has embraced the notoriety—and the millions—that comes with aiding dictators abroad. "I would love to take on Iran as a client," he once told the Financial Times in 2011. "There are areas of commonality that ought to be exploited."

Brown, who took over as the Beatles manager after his predecessor's untimely death in 1967, was intimately involved in the personal life of its members, serving as the best man for Lennon and Ono's wedding. The former manager continued to capitalize on the band's fame after it disbanded, publishing an explosive tell-all book in 1983 that People magazine said was teeming with "malodorous spirit." In the book, Brown revealed many dark secrets about the band—such as the existence of Paul McCartney's illegitimate 19-year-old son—enraging the band members.

Let It Xi: Former Beatles Manager Paid Millions to Boost Chinese Regime in U.S. - Washington Free Beacon
 
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The interest in the Chinese flu seems to have waned.

Having Sex With Someone You Don’t Already Live With Now Illegal In Britain Under Coronavirus Laws

The government has effectively made it illegal for people who don’t already live together to have sex, as that would be considered a “gathering”, and against the coronavirus lockdown social distancing laws.

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New amendments to the lockdown law loosen most of the major restrictions than had been put in place in March, including easing restrictions on senior citizens and those with underlying health conditions. Schools can reopen on Monday, and people can gather outside, including in gardens, in numbers of up to six as long as social distancing is still maintained.

But a new line to the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Bill adds on Monday: “No person may participate in a gathering which takes place in a public or private place indoors, and consists of two or more persons.”

It says elsewhere, according to The Mirror, that “no person may, without reasonable excuse, stay overnight at any place other than the place where they are living”.

Coronavirus: Sex With People You Don't Already Live With Banned in UK
 
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joevol33 said:
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The very ones that screamed everybody was gonna die for republicans opening up too early, are the very ones defending the mass gatherings of riots. So is corona gone, or can only be spread by republicans? I'm sincerely curious for an answer as to how it's not an issue now. Anybody?
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Where are all the people calling those who opted to not to mask up or isolate selfish? You’d think they’d be screaming about how the rioters are going to kill unsuspecting grandparents. Crickets on that front.
 
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DC_Vol said:
Where are all the people calling those who opted to not to mask up or isolate selfish? You’d think they’d be screaming about how the rioters are going to kill unsuspecting grandparents. Crickets on that front.
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It is not the current shyte storm they are supporting therefore previous opinions are null and void. I think I'm getting whiplash.
 
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DC_Vol said:
Where are all the people calling those who opted to not to mask up or isolate selfish? You’d think they’d be screaming about how the rioters are going to kill unsuspecting grandparents. Crickets on that front.
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The coronavirus is a socially woke virus and stands in solidarity with the looters. It's gonna spare them.
 
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Where are all the people calling those who opted to not to mask up or isolate selfish? You’d think they’d be screaming about how the rioters are going to kill unsuspecting grandparents. Crickets on that front.
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Still here. They’re selfish too. In fact, destroying other people’s property makes them more selfish. If any of them post here, I’ll be happy to tell them.

I try not to ridicule people who will never read it. Seems like a tremendous waste of time.
 
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Where are all the people calling those who opted to not to mask up or isolate selfish? You’d think they’d be screaming about how the rioters are going to kill unsuspecting grandparents. Crickets on that front.
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Lets ask LG. @lawgator1 are all these protestors going to have a special place in hell?
 
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It was a sarcastic comment to the folks on here who wanted the virus to get worse so they could say see see told you so
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The answer I predicted from you. No one WANTED the virus to get worse. You may foolishly believe that to satisfy a predetermined opinion.
Post an example of someone's post that backs your opinion

Almost all the experts have said the summer heat should help.
 
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