Showing posts with label authoritarianism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label authoritarianism. Show all posts

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Xitonomics 2025

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24-11-14 [Xitonomic Implosion - Xi's Tofu-Dreg Xina Xitting Wall] - gtbt > . skip > .> FikFük >>
[The Wire China - Barry Naughton on the state of the Xi Jinping Economy]
25-1-22 [DUH vs Xina's Imploding Economy; US Industrialization] || PZ > .
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24-12-31 [Xina's Terrible 2024 - 30 Trillion Destroyed] - Update > .
24-12-18 [Chip & Resource War] - Update > .

Comment (edited)
Officially the GDP has doubled since 2014. From what I and my friends see: 
  • - Productivity growth in MOST sectors is pretty low since 2014. 
  • - Innovation in the service sector is limited to low productivity services like delivery services (yes they are backed by high productivity digital services but that a small GDP contribution). 
  • - Xi Jinping cracked down or discauraged many innovative sectors because they didn'T fit his vision. 
  • - Money was funneled into whatever he liked. A LOT of infra and housing - but also SELECT high tech sectors, which he pampered with ridiculous amounts of money. 
  • - A lot of money went into foreign investment, which was mostly unprofitable. But this has been scaled down a lot already. 
  • - In the "focus industries" (but also in general) the internal competition is so bad that nobody makes a profit, everybody is just betting to come out on top in the end. 
  • - For workers, even the highly qualified ones, this competition is pure hell. Quality of life is miserable. not in material terms, but psychologically, school pressure, work pressure, "get married and make children" pressure ... 
I see many many similarities to Japan in the 80s. Just on steroids. And we all know how this ended. BTW, I also speak Japanese and know the country well. Don't believe the conspiracies. The Japanese economy was a bubble in the 80s and everybody knew it.
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Saturday, November 2, 2024

Enemy Caliphate Within

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22-9-21 What is Hezbollah? [Iran's Terrorist Militia] - Unpacked > .
>> Iran, XIR >>> > Iran >> > Iran~ >> > Iran - Allies, Enemies >>
25-1-8 How Hezbollah Took Over Lebanon | Explained > .24-9-13 Why the US Navy [doesn't] stop Houthi rebels - Caspian > .
24-7-30 Is Israel-Hezbollah War Inevitable? - gtbt > .
24-7-1 [skip] Israel to launch ground invasion of Lebanon? - CaspianReport > .
24-7-14 "There is No Genocide, No Apartheid, No Occupation" | Triggernometry > .
24-8-30 [Potential Impacts of Iraq-Turkey 'Development Road'] - Caspian > .

N.B. Many Muslims who have immigrated to Western nations have fled Islamist violence and its accompanying socio-economic dysfunction. Wanting only a better life, they continue to suffer the side effects of their host populations' understandable distrust of those associated with socially-dysfunctional, violent Islamist youth.   

Death to America is an anti-American political slogan widely used in North Korea (as Death to the United States imperialists), Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Pakistan. Originally used by North Korea since the Korean War, Ruhollah Khomeini, the first supreme leader of Iran, popularized the term. He opposed the chant for radio and television, but [did] not [oppose the chant] for protests and other occasions.

The literal meaning of the Persian phrase "Marg bar Âmrikâ" is "Death to America." In most official Iranian translations, the phrase is [DIS]translated into English as the less crude "Down with America." The chant "Death to America" has come to be employed by various anti-American groups and protesters worldwide.
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Islamism (also often called political Islam) is a religio-political ideology. The advocates of Islamism, also known as "al-Islamiyyun", are dedicated to realizing their ideological interpretation of Islam within the context of the state or society. The majority of them are affiliated with Islamic institutions or social mobilization movements, often designated as "al-harakat al-Islamiyyah." Islamists emphasize the implementation of sharia, pan-Islamic political unity, the creation of Islamic states, (eventually unified), and rejection of non-Muslim influences—particularly Western or universal economic, military, political, social, or cultural.

In its original formulation, Islamism described an ideology seeking to revive Islam to its 'past assertiveness and glory, purifying it of foreign elements, reasserting its role' into "social and political as well as personal life"; and in particular "reordering government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam" (i.e. Sharia). According to at least one observer (author Robin Wright), Islamist movements have "arguably altered the Middle East more than any trend since the modern states gained independence", redefining "politics and even borders".
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Supporters of Hezbollah, the Shi'a Islamic [Islamist] militant group based in Lebanon that is closely aligned to Iran, regularly chant "Death to America" in street demonstrations. A week before the March 20, 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah declared, "In the past, when the Marines were in Beirut, we screamed, 'Death to America!' Today, when the region is being filled with hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, 'Death to America!' was, is and will stay our slogan."

The slogan of the Houthis, a Shi'a rebel group in Yemen also supported by Iran, is "God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, A curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam."


Iranian officials generally explain claim that the ["Death to America"] slogan in its historical context has been provoked by the U.S. government's hostile policies towards Iran and expresses outrage at those policies, and [LIE that it] does not wish for literal death for American people themselves. In a speech to university students, Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei, interpreted the slogan as "death to the U.S.'s policies, death to arrogance." Following a meeting with Army and Air Force commanders, Khamenei declared prevaricated that the Iranian people are not against American people, but that "Death to America" means down with American leaders, [at the time, DUH (UNpresident)], John Bolton (National Security Advisor), and Mike Pompeo (Secretary of State).

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Rotskiy Mir 2024

24-3-30 Сопротивление режиму (resistance) | Россия и СССР (subs) - Katz > .
Decadent Entitlement  
"Election" March 15-17, 2024 
Internal Oppression 
Orcine Unrest 
R-U 
>> NATO >>>
>> Putin ➾ Ukraine >>>
>> R-U Fronts >>>

Assemble machine guns and then shoot them
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.
Take away from neighbors, snitch on parents
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.
Take away from neighbors, snitch on parents
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.

Sing songs for the Shaman, and watch Skabeeva
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.
Trust Solovyov, read Medinsky’s nonsense
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.
Trust Solovyov, read Medinsky’s nonsense
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.

Saying that the west is rotten and now ISIS is our friend
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.
Hate the word "peace" and go to the toilet in the yard
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.
Hate the word "peace" and go to the toilet in the yard
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.

About the war and the Northern Military District, and that NATO is evil
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.
Blame everyone for Nazism, give your life for Putin
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.
Blame everyone for Nazism, give your life for Putin
They teach at school, they teach at school, they teach at school.

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Taiwan 2024

24-6-9 Kevin Rudd: Xina, USA, Taiwan: Deterrence in Scenarios Short of War > .
24-5-17 Tsai Ing-wen: legacy, Xina, future - BBC > .
24-5-8 [TikTok chaos as XiPaganda tool; microchips & Taiwan] - Feriss > .
24-4-28 Taiwan's Tale of Resilience - Living Free in the Face of Conflict - WELT > .24-4-3 Taiwan Crisis: G7-XiXiP Sanctions & Tools - Update > .
24-4-3 M7.4 Taiwan Quake: Simulation in real time - EarthquakeSim > .
24-3-8 Taiwan v China: A Fragile Democracy - Free Doc > .
24-2-17 Taiwan Question & World Order | X Economy - Update > .24-1-22 Taiwan Strait: Ocean’s Most Contested Place - U.S. Naval Institute > .
24-1-12 How Xina Is Trying to Sabotage Taiwan’s Elections | WSJ > .

24-5-1 Aquilino - urges more action to counter Xina's military power - PBS > .
24-4-9 Aquilino - USN, Philippines, AUKUS, SXS, Indo-Pacific Security - Lowy > .
24-4-3 Taiwan Crisis: G7-XiXiP Sanctions & Tools - Update > .
24-3-27 Deterrence in Defense of Taiwan | Acheson (50-1-12) | Hoover > .
24-1-10 Global Cost of War Over Taiwan - 40% of GDP - Update > .
23-12-2 Xina's Modern Military - Big, Imperialistic, Unproven - Armchair > .
US vs X~T 
24-8-23 [Taiwan Foreign Policy Officials in Washington DC] - Update > .
24-6-17 [Xi's Weasel Accusation: "USA Goading Xina to Attack Taiwan"] | Update > .
24-5-29 Xi's Taiwan Conundrum: Yasuhiro Matsuda's Analysis, Predictions - Dig > .
24-5-23 USAF (bases) vs Xina: Preparing for Day Zero - mah > .
24-5-1 Aquilino - urges more action to counter Xina's military power - PBS > .
24-4-9 Aquilino - USN, Philippines, AUKUS, SXS, Indo-Pacific Security - Lowy > .
24-3-12 Wargaming likeliest PLA attack on Taiwan - WSJ > .
24-1-30 2030 what if? US Marines Eschew Tanks to Defeat Xina - T&P > .
24-9-6 Wargaming in NATO 2024 - NATO ACT > .
> XIR - NoXious - Axis of Evil >>

24-10-11 Former [Taiwanese] President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is set to visit Europe, marking her first international trip since leaving office, according to multiple news reports. The visit will include stops in the Czech Republic, France, and Belgium, where she is expected to engage with both local and European Union (EU) politicians.


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Unrest 2024

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24-1-17 Что происходит в Башкортостане? Bashkortostan protests (subs) - Katz > .
Bolivia 
24-6-27 [Bolivia tries to stage an Erdoğan?] Apparent Coup d'État - CBC > .
> Europe >>   
24-5-18 [Georgians Try to Escape Ruscist Corruption] - gtbt > .
Haiti 
24-1-17 Iran could face collapse if Houthi war escalates | Chip Chapman > .
Netherlands Domestic Politics - Alarming reactive shift to Far Right
Ruscia 
24-4-10 Anti-P00 Opposition & Ukraine: Vladimir Milov c HR McMaster > .
Xina 
24-1-17 Voices of Dissent: Ch/Xina's Struggle for Rights | Undercover > .

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