Bill Ryan's personal Question-and-Answer thread. Pile it on. :)

[grapevine]

Having just listened to Pema's interview in Spanish on the Wondergirl thread, I wondered whether you're fluent in Spanish Bill, especially living in Ecuador. Do they speak textbook Spanish in Ecuador, or is it a form of Creole, as spoken by the French speaking Haitians? Also do you speak any other languages than English. I'm guessing you might speak French and/or German as you used to live in Switzerland.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by onawah (here)
Bill, would you please check out this important information about China and make a recommendation as to where you think it should be posted?
Thanks!
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1674714
PS I've also posted it here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1674772

Many thanks, and that's pretty interesting. It's definitely well worth reading carefully. (No problem with you having posted it twice!)

I've usually stepped back from posting about or commenting on China, for these reasons:

Many of the YouTube channels reporting on China are (or seem to be!) straight-up anti-Chinese propaganda. I don't believe the information is necessarily to be trusted, and I prefer to learn about China from experienced journalists with excellent contacts such as Pepe Escobar and Brian Berletic.

It's NOT easy to know the exact truth of all the complexity that's there, which is why I refrain from sharing any strong personal opinions. But for sure, there absolutely does seem to be (and have been) a long-term strategy of China to subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, infiltrate and undermine everything that's American.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by grapevine (here)
Having just listened to Pema's interview in Spanish on the Wondergirl thread, I wondered whether you're fluent in Spanish Bill, especially living in Ecuador. Do they speak textbook Spanish in Ecuador, or is it a form of Creole, as spoken by the French speaking Haitians? Also do you speak any other languages than English. I'm guessing you might speak French and/or German as you used to live in Switzerland.

Ha. My Spanish is very primitive. i can just about make myself understood when I'm doing simple errands in town, and that's the limit of my feeble prowess. (I do have a few academic talents, but languages are way at the very bottom of the list. )

Yes, the Spanish spoken in Ecuador is very 'textbook', though I'm told that the accent is sometimes a little different from that in Spain, which I guess is to be expected. And I can also follow French and German quite well, yes. (Maybe a little better, as I also learned those in school. I learned Latin and Ancient Greek as well, both of which I very much enjoyed — though of course those are not spoken.)

I used to send Mashika messages in carefully-translated Russian, just as a kind of fun game to play. Maybe she was just being kind, but she always told me that she could understand me very well!)

[onawah]

Here's some very credible evidence of the CCP's targeting the USA with stealthy techniques:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0dF4PL3ONE
Full story posted here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1675184

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by onawah (here)
Bill, would you please check out this important information about China and make a recommendation as to where you think it should be posted?
Thanks!
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1674714
PS I've also posted it here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1674772

Many thanks, and that's pretty interesting. It's definitely well worth reading carefully. (No problem with you having posted it twice!)

I've usually stepped back from posting about or commenting on China, for these reasons:

Many of the YouTube channels reporting on China are (or seem to be!) straight-up anti-Chinese propaganda. I don't believe the information is necessarily to be trusted, and I prefer to learn about China from experienced journalists with excellent contacts such as Pepe Escobar and Brian Berletic.

It's NOT easy to know the exact truth of all the complexity that's there, which is why I refrain from sharing any strong personal opinions. But for sure, there absolutely does seem to be (and have been) a long-term strategy of China to subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, infiltrate and undermine everything that's American.

[onawah]

PS I you I think info coming out about China in the MSM is untrustworthy, it's nothing compared to the false propaganda that the CCP is constantly generating, and the lengths they will go to disseminate it as much as possible by whatever means. The case highlighted in the first part of the particular section of the video doesn't point directly to the CCP, but keep going, as it is something they are constantly doing to spread propaganda (much more than Russia, though they've definitely take a page from Russia's M.O. of old).
See 1 hour, 14 minutes into the video here:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i-NvXEMEjGc

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Many thanks, and that's pretty interesting. It's definitely well worth reading carefully. (No problem with you having posted it twice!)
I've usually stepped back from posting about or commenting on China, for these reasons:
Many of the YouTube channels reporting on China are (or seem to be!) straight-up anti-Chinese propaganda. I don't believe the information is necessarily to be trusted, and I prefer to learn about China from experienced journalists with excellent contacts such as Pepe Escobar and Brian Berletic.
It's NOT easy to know the exact truth of all the complexity that's there, which is why I refrain from sharing any strong personal opinions. But for sure, there absolutely does seem to be (and have been) a long-term strategy of China to subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, infiltrate and undermine everything that's American.

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by onawah (here)
PS I you I think info coming out about China in the MSM is untrustworthy, it's nothing compared to the false propaganda that the CCP is constantly generating, and the lengths they will go to disseminate it as much as possible by whatever means. The case highlighted in the first part of the particular section of the video doesn't point directly to the CCP, but keep going, as it is something they are constantly doing to spread propaganda (much more than Russia, though they've definitely take a page from Russia's M.O. of old).
See 1 hour, 14 minutes into the video here:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i-NvXEMEjGc

Many thanks, and that's pretty interesting. It's definitely well worth reading carefully. (No problem with you having posted it twice!)
I've usually stepped back from posting about or commenting on China, for these reasons:
Many of the YouTube channels reporting on China are (or seem to be!) straight-up anti-Chinese propaganda. I don't believe the information is necessarily to be trusted, and I prefer to learn about China from experienced journalists with excellent contacts such as Pepe Escobar and Brian Berletic.
It's NOT easy to know the exact truth of all the complexity that's there, which is why I refrain from sharing any strong personal opinions. But for sure, there absolutely does seem to be (and have been) a long-term strategy of China to subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, infiltrate and undermine everything that's American.

I watched this on live stream this afternoon. A worthy thing to post, but here on Bill’s Q&A thread it feels like spam.

focus ♥️


OK,

Hey Bill, I wonder if you feel an energy effect of your thoughts, meaning anything that affects others for better or worse, and if you have some go-to ways to monitor yourself and to steer your thoughts regarding that. I ask because you always seem very sure of your words, yet have had nothing (?) to say about your daily values in the grind of the daily splendor of daily life. Cheers Sir.

[onawah]

I tend to trust in Bill's discernment, though it may take a while to kick in at times.
The "China Show" guys couch their worthwhile info in a lot of "entertainment" so it may not seem like serious reporting at first glance.
But they do their homework and gather the worthwhile information, which is obvious if you watch regularly.
(Though they do occasionally drift off-course and clown around too much imho, but I think that is because their regular audience likes the mixture).
It may be that they keep the tone light and humorous because so much of the news about dystopian China is scary and depressing as h--l, but in any case, the "entertainment" is easy enough to fast forward through.
Their hearts are in the right place and that counts for a lot in the end.
Having close connections still in China, having married Chinese women, and having spent over a decade each living, working and travelling there, they have gained a unique, genuine, firsthand perspective.
(They both also speak Chinese which also gives them a good understanding of China in general.)
In short, they aren't just drily and impersonally reporting the generic news.
The news about China is personal for them and effects them directly due to their familial connections and their Chinese friends still living in China, and so their perspective is not just intellectual and "professional".
Which I think may mean they can also delineate much of the disinformation and propaganda from the truth, better than many who are reporting on China.

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)
1 hour, 14 minutes into the video here:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i-NvXEMEjGc

I watched this on live stream this afternoon. A worthy thing to post, but here on Bill’s Q&A thread it feels like spam.

focus ♥️


OK,

Hey Bill, I wonder if you feel an energy effect of your thoughts, meaning anything that affects others for better or worse, and if you have some go-to ways to monitor yourself and to steer your thoughts regarding that. I ask because you always seem very sure of your words, yet have had nothing (?) to say about your daily values in the grind of the daily splendor of daily life. Cheers Sir.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by onawah (here)
I tend to trust in Bill's discernment, though it may take a while to kick in at times.

Do mean my discernment takes a while to kick in, or your trust...?

[Bill Ryan]

The problem concerning reports about China is all about propaganda.

We're very familiar with anti-Russian propaganda, and (now!) anti-Iranian propaganda. But in the case of Russia, we have plenty of Telegram and Twitter/X coverage that's pretty much unbiased, as well as lengthy reports from western journalists who have been to Russia themselves, such as Pepe Escobar, Alastair Crooke, Larry Johnson, Judge Napolitano, and (living there earlier for many years, and now with a Russian wife) Scott Ritter.

Moreover. we've been blessed with the forum presence of Mashika, who personally taught us as much about the real Russia as we'd ever want to know. And I've even been to Russia myself a couple of times (which deeply impressed me), and still have Russian friends there.

Concerning Iran, we also have detailed personal reports from Escobar and Crooke. And one of Avalon's longest-standing members, with well over a thousand posts (whose name everyone would recognize!), is an Iranian academic of world-class standing who I've been privileged to spend quality time with myself.

(Long ago, in my early 20s, when I was a schoolteacher for a year in England's most prestigious and expensive private school, the Iranian students there whom I got to know very well were bright, pleasant, courteous, and the very highest quality young people.)

With China, we're in a different position. We have comparatively little direct information that can be trusted. Pepe Escobar, Brian Berletic and Alex Krainer report about China periodically, but that perspective is scanty compared with (e.g.) reliable reports from Russia.

I do have a American friend who lives in Chengdu and very much likes it there. And half an hour ago I also posted about a fascinating personal Chinese experience, from a visiting herbalist friend, on the Interesting Bits and Pieces about China thread. (Do read!)

But the anti-Chinese propaganda in the west is just as intense and virulent as the anti-Russian or anti-Iranian. (Or pro-Israeli, for that matter.) I have to say, I do not trust The China Show, which is relentless in its weekly invective.

One might speculate that they could possibly an agenda! Here are some of their video titles over the last few months:

• TOTAL HAVOC! China’s Buildings Are Falling Down and We Found Out Why
  
• China’s TOTAL COLLAPSE Mega Projects FAIL Across Country
  
• CHINA IS UNDERWATER - Utter MAYHEM + Pandemonium as China Falls Apart
• Hellfire Chaos in China - 70 BILLION LOST Overnight - Chinese People Flood Streets
• Factories Keep Exploding All Over China - Coordinated Attack? Chinese Bioweapon in US
• China is About to Black Out the Entire USA
• China Unable to Cope with Tariffs - Burning Factories Down Instead
• ARSON, EXPLOSIONS, CHAOS - China's Been Hit Harder Than We Thought
• You're About to See China Collapse - In Fact, it's Already Begun
• They’re Lying! China is Losing The Trade War in a BIG Way
• Trade War Reality Hits China Way Harder Than They Thought
• China’s Tariff Response Chaos Homemade Weapons Explode Around Country
• Nightmare - Devastating Earthquake Exposes China's Horrific Building Quality
• Chaos Ensues as China Releases Poison Purple Clouds on Locals
• What China's Hiding Will Blow Your Mind!
• Absolute Anarchy - China Doesn’t Want You To See This!
• CCPs Worst Nightmare Unfolding - China’s Destruction Month
• Chinese People Shocked We Can Read Their Signs - China Embarrassed -Trying to Hide it
• China in 2025 is Rough
• Chinese Streets Exploding Randomly All Over China - DeepSeek Exposed
• 4 Years in Chinese Jail for No Reason - Foreign Prisoners Are Non-Human in China
• China’s Own Jan 6th
• Unrest, Revolt and Pure Destruction - The China They Don't Want You to See
• DEVASTATING - China Military Drone Attacked It’s Own Olympic Stadium!?!
• "RUIN NATION" - Chinese People Are Destroying Everything on Purpose
  

Does anyone think this just might possibly be a CIA-sponsored site?

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)
Hey Bill, I wonder if you feel an energy effect of your thoughts, meaning anything that affects others for better or worse, and if you have some go-to ways to monitor yourself and to steer your thoughts regarding that. I ask because you always seem very sure of your words, yet have had nothing (?) to say about your daily values in the grind of the daily splendor of daily life. Cheers Sir.

That sounds like a fascinating question, but I'm not sure if I understood it completely. Could you expand or rephrase?

Regarding my daily values (again, if I understood you right!), I'd like to think that they come across fairly clearly, if sometimes indirectly, in my many posts in different places about small things that I notice, experience or care about. Those include:

• A deep concern, awareness, and care about everything in nature, even the very tiniest things
• An absolute knowledge that we are eternal beings temporarily having the human experience
• What feels like a fairly clear 'view from orbit' of most aspects of the human condition
• An absolute knowledge that much of current human society is deeply sick and headed for a rather bad place in the next small number of years
• Periodic messages received from a highly advanced non-human source that I do feel I trust and believe
• An increasing disgust about many aspects of social media (which is why I no longer takin appreciative of my friends around the world, including many on this forum, and in particular my super-athletic and super-nice neighbors about whom I share anecdotes on this thread
• Feeling very comfortable, good-humored, healthy and self-sufficient in my own daily isolation here (...a little like Matt Damon in 'The Martian' ).
  
  

[Tintin]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Does anyone think this just might possibly be a CIA-sponsored site?

Ha, yes, a no-brainer I'd suggest. They'll likely have oodles of money coming in from pseudo-NGOs, NED, and other regime change agitators. The Moscow Times, Kyiv Independent, Bellingcat, Snopes, the list is as long as your arm for these types of cut-outs. Low-hanging fruit. I trust them less than I would Bill Gates running my health regimen, and that's a low bar

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by onawah (here)
I tend to trust in Bill's discernment, though it may take a while to kick in at times.

Do mean my discernment takes a while to kick in, or your trust...?

Yes. (inclusive or)

[onawah]

Both, actually. I could make a long list of my own of cases which have worn away at my trust as well my faith in your discernment, as could many other Avalonians', cases of Bill turning a blind eye to troublesome issues that were allowed to fester on the forum for much too long.
But no point in kicking a dead horse.
That long list of titles from "The China Show" are certainly sensationalist, no argument there, but what you fail to note Bill is that there are always plenty of videos with actual, credible evidence backing up the claims, not only from that source but from many other sources as well.
That seems to me to be a matter of much greater importance than the show's hosts lack of "professionalism", to which they make no claims.
I see no credible proof that they are CIA sponsored--in fact, I think they are actually a little too goofy and self-deprecating in their humor for the CIA to want to associate with them, and vice versa.
And they go to such great pains to please their audience which prohibits me from suspecting they are relying on the CIA for funding.
But if it's proof we are talking about here and not just conjecture, where is your actual proof that they are CIA sponsored?
The CCP is all about saving face and I don't think anyone would argue that that is not a prominent characteristic in the Chinese people in general, compared to any other race including the Russians.
So from there it's not taking a huge leap of faith to believe that the CCP spends huge amounts of money on propaganda and goes to great lengths to prevent the truth about the dystopian reality in China from coming out, including committing excessively cruel violence on their own people when they actually have the courage (or enough desperation) to speak out.
...Or that they have taken a page from the Russian Communist Party whose tactics in the past have been similar, and which are a matter of record.
I wonder why it is that you are less concerned about that than you are about CIA propaganda?
It seems strange to me that you would not concern yourself more with the CCP's crimes, particularly since you spent so many lives in Tibet, a nation whose sovereignty has been pretty much obliterated by the CCP.
A fate that will also be Taiwan's if the CCP gets their way.

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by onawah (here)
I tend to trust in Bill's discernment, though it may take a while to kick in at times.

Do mean my discernment takes a while to kick in, or your trust...?

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by onawah (here)
That long list of titles from "The China Show" are certainly sensationalist, no argument there, but what you fail to note Bill is that there are always plenty of videos with actual, credible evidence backing up the claims, not only from that source but from many other sources as well.
That seems to me to be a matter of much greater importance than the show's hosts lack of "professionalism", to which they make no claims.
I see no credible proof that they are CIA sponsored--in fact, I think they are actually a little too goofy and self-deprecating in their humor for the CIA to want to associate with them, and vice versa.
And they go to such great pains to please their audience which prohibits me from suspecting they are relying on the CIA for funding.
But if it's proof we are talking about here and not just conjecture, where is your actual proof that they are CIA sponsored?

Right, we don't know that they're CIA funded. But of course anyone (or any organization) can be an intel asset sometimes without even being aware of it.

The issue is with the agenda. It's completely unbalanced. You can see from their video titles that they go out and hunt for hit piece material against China, whatever the truth/accuracy (or not!) behind it.

They're not trying to inform their audience about China. If they were, they'd include a whole bunch of other information that's far less extreme.

They're trying to influence opinion. That's what propaganda is.

As I posted earlier, we see exactly the same thing happening with hit pieces everywhere in western media against Russia and Iran — and also Palestine, Venezuela, and many other countries, movements, organizations, and people.

All media is an information battlefield. Alex Jones (who himself is as guilty as anyone about this!) was ahead of the game when he called his platform Infowars.

What we try to do on the forum between us — and I think we do quite a good job — is provide balance and truth. Quite often, again between us, we form a consensus that is very clear one way or another: e.g. with Russia, Israel, the previous Biden administration in the US, and more health and wellness issues that can easily be listed. (You do a most excellent and valuable job with that, btw. ).

But I'd argue very strongly that all those conclusions, which most of strongly agree about, are based on documented facts and very well-analyzed information that we work quite hard to collect between us.

[onawah]

Thanks for the compliment, Bill. I do work hard to bring good contributions to the forum on various topics.
However, when it comes to China, there has often been very little reporting done on the forum about what really goes on there and how it affects the rest of the world, which is a problem because the CCP is a very powerful force for destruction in the world today.
The mainstream media has been doing a great job of distributing propaganda from the CCP which paints an ideal and very false picture of the reality there, and of how aggressive and destructive the CCP's agendas are both internally and abroad.
The reason for one agenda of "The China Show", which is largely to expose what is really going on in China, is due to the fact that what goes on there is kept so hidden by the CCP, and because the CCP's policies and agendas are so destructive, not only to the rest of the world, but to their own people.
But another agenda of "The China Show" is to show what life is like for ordinary citizens there and unfortunately, it's quite dystopian due to the CCP, so the two agendas are inseperable.
You wrote: "The issue is with the agenda. It's completely unbalanced. You can see from their video titles that they go out and hunt for hit piece material against China, whatever the truth/accuracy (or not!) behind it."
But inasmuch as there is such a lack of truthful reporting coming out of China, what I have tried to bring to the forum has been intended precisely to address that imbalance, which has also been reflected here on the forum by the very lack of focus on the real China.
What "The China Show" reports is backed up with videos and photos, and the news matches the reports coming from other sources devoted to China as well, also backed by videos and photos, so I don't think truthfulness is a problem with those reports.
The reality is that China is growing more and more dystopian and that should not be ignored since it is a direct threat to the rest of the world, especially the US.
The CCP has been openly declaring their intention to rule the world, which should certainly tell us something...
And since the creators of "The China Show" both lived in China for over a decade, speak the language, and still have connections there who send them reports, including those from family members (still in China) of their Chinese wives, their perspective is both unique and authentic.
You also wrote: "They're not trying to inform their audience about China. If they were, they'd include a whole bunch of other information that's far less extreme.
They're trying to influence opinion. That's what propaganda is."
I would argue that propaganda is misrepresenting and covering up the truth, not just trying to influence opinion.
I think you really have not watched much of "The China Show" because they DO include a whole bunch of information that's far less extreme than their reports about the CCP's crimes, all about the everyday lives of the Chinese people.
But the problem is that conditions for the Chinese people ARE EXTREMELY DYSTOPIAN, NOT BALANCED, and that is precisely what they want the rest of the world to realize, (and why shouldn't they)??!!
Since there is no balance in the mainstream news or even in the alternative news about China due to the CCP going to such great lengths to hide the truth and to spread untruth, the only way to achieve any kind of balance is to expose precisely that!
They do far too much clowning around on "The China Show" to be taken as seriously as they could be, which is unfortunate but at least it helps to keep the news from being so depressing that no one would want to watch it.
And once you see enough of what is actually happening there, it can get quite depressing, especially because China today appears to be representative of the dystopian future the puppet masters would like to create for the rest of the world, where the individual has no rights at all.
My main objection to their perspective on "The China Show" is that they do not yet realize how far the puppet masters have come in realizing that goal, and how dystopian the West has already become.
But possibly if they realized that, they would become too depressed or frightened themselves to continue reporting at all...

[Merkaba360]

I think seeing the videos of actual events happening is helpful. I doubt they are mistranslating. Wouldn't they be getting called out in the comments often?

One major problem is not knowing the scale of certain issues. Whether protests or the kids biking across the country. Can see the videos, but how to know if its 500 bikers or 50,000.

I agree that they should be showing more of the positive accomplishments and stuff. Hard to say if its about more money from negative news or agenda to get people to dislike. Do they want to make money and help to end the regime? Or bring shame to pressure them to stop cutting corners and such which harm the citizens?

Hard mode Question for Bill It more like a line of thinking or question cluster.
Not expecting you to know the answer to this, but maybe you got some intuition/feelings on the matter. Do you think souls (energy body? or whatever souls are) were created, which seems to imply that they terminate? Essentially this question is tied to whether information is permanently saved and history can never be erased or if the Akhashic records exist only until the universe cycle ends like some big orgasm and its resets and new souls born.

What if one just didnt want to play this game anymore, is it possible to shut off the holographic projection and just stop existing or deletion is impossible since energy (or our ground state of being) isnt created or destroyed. And when we reach cosmic consciousness I wonder if seeing how all this works will be absolutely wonderful and perfect or if there will be some sort of disappointment or something which makes us wish we were back in the matrix ignorant again like the guy in the Matrix. lol Hence an endless restlessness of needing to cycle thru levels of reality as boredom sets in.

Its all cyclical from what i can tell, and its pretty horrifying if we gotta cycle thru these 4 yugas forever, or is that a view from ignorance. Maybe your meditation life in the mountains has an inkling on some kind of answer

[rick]

Hey Bill!

Whatever happened to/with Dan Burisch/Crane..?

Dude was pretty interesting.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Merkaba360 (here)
Hard mode Question for Bill. It more like a line of thinking or question cluster.
Not expecting you to know the answer to this, but maybe you got some intuition/feelings on the matter. Do you think souls (energy body? or whatever souls are) were created, which seems to imply that they terminate?

No, according to everything I believe I know and understand (quite well!), souls/spirits cannot be 'terminated' or cease to exist.

But bad things can happen to them under specific circumstances, such as being trapped, infiltrated and/or corrupted, controlled in various ways, and so on — as an analogy, a little like anything that could happen to a flesh-and-blood human being, except for actually dying.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by rick (here)
Hey Bill!

Whatever happened to/with Dan Burisch/Crane..?

Dude was pretty interesting.

Great question, he was indeed (more than!) 'pretty interesting', and we have a whole detailed thread about him:

• Who here knows anything much about Dan Burisch's remarkable story?

[Frankie Pancakes]

Hey Bill
Where are my shoes???