Posts Tagged ‘Brendan Kavanagh’

Chinese Commies PianoGate: One Of Them Was A Spy

Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

This story just gets weirder and weirder.

The Chinese commies freak out at being filmed story (and the follow-up) has a new twist that makes that helps explain the freakout: One of them was a known spy.

  • “Christine Lee she was named by the MI5 back in 2022 as an agent of influence…British Security Service issued an alert earlier this year stating that a UK-based lawyer had been engaged in political interference activities for the Chinese state.”
  • This marked a shift in approach “being taken against the security threat posed by China.”
  • “She has personally met with Xi Jinping back in Beijing.”
  • “This is a bunch of people in a conference room. This is called the political consultative conference. They invite a bunch of people living overseas back to China to get greeted by Xi Jinping for to thank them for their effort in conducting influence operations overseas.”
  • “It’s also possible that CH Lee doubles as somebody from one of the intelligence bureaus.”
  • “On the surface she’s a lawyer in the UK, and she is also a political influence campaign, specialist and also she could also be a secret agent doing something even worse.”
  • “The entire thing started because Christine Lee did not want her face to appear on camera, but she was not able to go up directly to confront Dr K [Brendan Kavanagh], being that she’s publicly known by the MI5 as an agent of influence.”
  • “I think Dr K needs to be aware that this was not just against a series of random CCP nationalists, he’s actually against a systematically planned out series of influence operations. And this, in my view,escalates the situation entirely. I think he should do something to protect himself, protect his family, and also be aware of who he dealing with. This is not a regular group of people.”
  • Meanwhile, the Chinese communists are threatening to sue Kavanagh for “defamation.”

    The story started out looking like it was just “Little Pinks” acting like assholes in another country, but the truth appears to be stranger and more sinister.

    Follow-Up: Chinese Commies Can’t Chain Our Pianos

    Saturday, January 27th, 2024

    In a followup to this post, I am happy to report that the St. Pancras station piano has now been freed from Chinese commie oppression.

    And pianist Brendan Kavanagh had a few things to say about the CCP:

  • He displays a Winnie the Pooh doll and picture because “Pooh has been banned by the CCP as being subversive, and apparently if you have Winnie the Pooh, your videos won’t be shown in the Chinese Mainland. This shows the power of the arts to undermine authoritarianism.”
  • The original video has “taken particularly off in Hong Kong, in Taiwan, and anyone who suffered from oppression.”
  • “We all know who [the oppressors] are: They are living Western lifestyles, but having a Communist authoritarian ideology.”
  • “This piano has become a CCP free zone. Yesterday, there was people from Hong Kong here. God bless Hong Kong, glory be to Hong Kong, and the people who put on the Hong Kong video. Their YouTube channel was immediately deleted.”
  • “I completely support the arts to undermine authoritarianism.”
  • “Winnie the Pooh has the ability to undermine authoritarian cultures. It’s not just political activism it’s actually the arts which they are afraid of.
  • “XiXi is frightened of Winnie, can you believe it? The Red Army is frightened of Winnie the Pooh because what they were doing they were comparing XiXi to Winnie. They said he looked a bit similar. XiXi’s feelings were hurt, and so he banned Winnie the Pooh completely from mainland China. So Winnie the Pooh has also become a symbol of free artistic expression in the face of unjust authoritarians.”
  • “It it was the Streisand Effect effects par excellence, this video.”
  • “I totally support Taiwan, and I totally support artistic expression.”
  • “The little pinks tried to shut us down they failed miserably.”
  • “This piano has become a CCP little pink free zone! God bless you all, thank you for supporting the video!”
  • A tiny, technical correction: The Communist Chinese are totalitarians rather than authoritarians, as they seek to control every aspect of life, not just rule an existing social structure. See Jeanne Kirkpatrick’s Dictatorships and Double Standards.

    (Hat tip: Reader Malthus.)

    Chinese Commies Think They Own British Public Spaces

    Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

    And sometimes I post something just because it makes my blood boil. Such is the case with these Communist Chinese tourists traveling in the UK who think they have a right to tell others what they can and can’t do in public spaces.

    Pianist and YouTuber Brendan Kavanagh is livestreaming himself playing in the London St. Pancreas Pancras tube station on a piano specifically given to the station by Elton John to promote live impromptu performances for the public, when Communist Chinese tourists imperiously demand he stop filming because they don’t want to be on camera.

    Does any other nation’s tourists act with such entitlement toward the citizens of the country they’re traveling through? (Maybe French Parisians.)

    But wait! It gets worse! UK police, rather than telling the Communist Chinese to suck lemons, have now cordoned off the piano with two guards to prevent the piano from being played. Because evidently the precious feels of Chinese Communist tourists trump the rights of the British public.

    “You can’t make this stuff up.”

    “Let’s keep ourselves able to play to make free music in the free world.”

    Inexplicable.