Saturday, February 26, 2011

Censored Dear Emperor

22-8-1 Mocking Dangerous Deified Dictator - cfc > .
25-1-28 [Great Firewall: How Xina created new internet - Search Party > . skip > .
23-12-16 Censoring negative (accurate) remarks on Xinese economy - Update > .
23-9-29 Decoding P00ti-PooXi blueprint for NoXious World Order | DW > .
23-9-25 Xi's Transforming Xina [for the worse] - Xina's Changing Trajectory - Dig > .
23-1-23 Xina’s Two-Year Tech Crackdown Winds Up | WSJ > .
23-1-20 Xi's Biggest Errors - Kevin Rudd | Update > .
22-12-7 Stories of Chinese leader Jiang Zemin - known not discussed - Lei > .
22-11-29 Censorship in Xina Has Reached New Levels of Ridiculousness! - cfc > .
22-11-19 Splinternet - Xina 1st of 35+ Countries Leaving Global Internet - Tech > .
21-10-14 China exporting Censorship to rest of World? - VisualPol > .


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Central Control or Collapse

22-4-21 Fake data re Chinese economy: GDP, import-export, unemployment - Lei > .
22-4-6 How the world would change if Xina attacked Taiwan - Binkov > .
22-3-31 Breaking - Mass Uprisings Erupt in China - laowhy86 > .
22-3-28 China's Economic Rise—End of the Road - cfr > .
22-1-23 China’s Domestic Drivers | Kevin Rudd - geopop > .
21-12-17 How the World Stopped Fearing Xina - laowhy86 > .
2021 Russia China Alliance | Professor Paul Dibb - geopop > .Russian Federal Subjects Explained - Mad Mac > .

Kotkin > .
10:09 Historical landscape of post-communism > . = xenophobic, ultra-nationalist, authoritarian, wrong-wing regime (Putin's Russia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe)




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Chekism

22-8-21 Special services dragged Russia into a suicidal war (English subtitles) - MK > .
24-5-14 Calder Walton's "Spies": Century-long East-West Espionage War - SiCu > .
24-1-25 NKVD: Worst of the Worst - Hx Sadistic State Security Body - Front > .
23-1-4 Myths about Russia and Russians | We have a chance (subs) - Katz > .
22-10-31 The KGB is not dead, it simply has a new name...(FSB) - Enforcer Matt > .

Autocratic lies, cultural myths, endemic corruption

Chekism ..

Chekism (Чекизм; from Cheka, a colloquial name of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission the first Soviet secret police organization) is a term to describe the situation in the Soviet Union where the secret police strongly controlled all spheres of society. It is also used by critics of the current Kremlin authorities to describe the power enjoyed by law-enforcement agencies in contemporary Russia.

According to former Russian Duma member Konstantin Borovoi, "Putin's appointment is the culmination of the KGB's crusade for power. This is its finale. Now the KGB runs the country." Olga Kryshtanovskaya, director of the Moscow-based Center for the Study of Elites, has found that up to 78% of 1,016 leading political figures in Russia have served previously in organizations affiliated with the KGB or FSB. She said: "If in the Soviet period and the first post-Soviet period, the KGB and FSB people were mainly involved in security issues, now half are still involved in security but the other half are involved in business, political parties, NGOs, regional governments, even culture... They started to use all political institutions."

The KGB or FSB members usually remain in the "acting reserve" even if they formally leave the organization ("acting reserve" members receive a second FSB salary, follow FSB instructions, and remain "above the law" being protected by the organization, according to Kryshtanovskaya). As Vladimir Putin said, "There is no such thing as a former KGB man". Soon after becoming prime minister of Russia, Putin also perhaps somewhat jokingly claimed that "A group of FSB colleagues dispatched to work undercover in the government has successfully completed its first mission." Moreover, the FSB has formal membership, military discipline, and an extensive network of civilian informants, hardcore ideology, and support of population (60% of Russians trust FSB), which according to Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick makes it a perfect totalitarian political party.

Some observers note that the current Russian state security organization FSB is even more powerful than KGB was, because it does not operate under the control of the Communist Party as the KGB in the past. Moreover, the FSB leadership and their partners own the most important economic assets in the country and control the Russian government and the State Duma. According to Ion Mihai Pacepa,
"In the Soviet Union, the KGB was a state within a state. Now former KGB officers are running the state. They have custody of the country’s 6,000 nuclear weapons, entrusted to the KGB in the 1950s, and they now also manage the strategic oil industry renationalized by Putin. The KGB successor, rechristened FSB, still has the right to electronically monitor the population, control political groups, search homes and businesses, infiltrate the federal government, create its own front enterprises, investigate cases, and run its own prison system. The Soviet Union had one KGB officer for every 428 citizens. Putin’s Russia has one FSB-ist for every 297 citizens."
However, the number of FSB staff is a state secret in Russia, and the staff of Russian Strategic Rocket Forces is not officially subordinate to the FSB, although FSB might be interested in monitoring these structures, as they inherently involve state secrets and various degrees of access to them.[20] The Law on the Federal Security Service[21] which defines the FSB's functions and establishes its structure does not specify such tasks as managing strategic branches of national industry, controlling political groups, or infiltrating the federal government.

A political scientist, Stanislav Belkovsky also defines Chekism to be an "imperial ideology" that includes aggressive anti-Americanism.

Andrei Illarionov, a former advisor of Vladimir Putin, describes contemporary Chekism as a new corporatism system, "distinct from any seen in our country before". In this model, members of the Corporation of Intelligence Service Collaborators [Russian abbreviation KSSS] took over the entire body of state power, follow an omerta-like behavior code, and "are given instruments conferring power over others – membership “perks”, such as the right to carry and use weapons". According to Illarionov, this "Corporation has seized key government agencies – the Tax Service, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Parliament, and the government-controlled mass media – which are now used to advance the interests of KSSS members. Through these agencies, every significant resource of the country – security/intelligence, political, economic, informational and financial – is being monopolized in the hands of Corporation members." The ideology of "Chekists" is "Nashism (“ours-ism”), the selective application of rights", he said.

Chekists perceive themselves as a ruling class, with political powers transferred from one generation to another. A source cited that chekism created "mafiocracy" in Russia since it is part of corruption and criminality from the outset. Criminals were able to use the Chekist machinery to expand its power. According to a former FSB general, "A Chekist is a breed. ... A good KGB heritage—a father or grandfather, say, who worked for the service—is highly valued by today's siloviki. Marriages between siloviki clans are also encouraged".

The head of the Russian Drug Enforcement Administration Viktor Cherkesov said that all Russian siloviks must act as a united front: "We [Chekists] must stay together. We did not rush to power, we did not wish to appropriate the role of the ruling class. But the history commanded so that the weight of sustaining the Russian statehood fell to the large extent on our shoulders... There were no alternatives". Cherkesov also emphasized the importance of Chekism as a "hook" that keeps the entire country from falling apart: "Falling into the abyss the post-Soviet society caught the Chekist hook. And hanged on it.”

Political scientist Yevgenia Albats found such attitudes deplorable: "Throughout the country, without investigation or trial, the Chekists [of an earlier generation] raged. They tortured old men and raped schoolgirls and killed parents before the eyes of their children. They impaled people, beat them with an iron glove, put wet leather 'crowns' on their heads, buried them alive, locked them in cells where the floor was covered with corpses. Amazing, isn't it that today's agents do not blanch to call themselves Chekists, and proudly claim Dzerzhinsky's legacy?"


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Combatting Authoritarian Regimes

> PLA >>  
Xina

0:00 Policy analysis 
2:08 Definition
Policy dimensions:
3:40 1. Coercive mechanisms 
4:40 2. Revenue streams (cash flow), where natural resources are optimal
6:52 3. Control over citizens' opportunities ("life chances")
8:50 4. National myths & narratives (humanistic "stories" past glory, traditional enemies) 
10:43 5. International environment (conducive +/- corrosive); anti-Western ideology as convenient scapegoat targeting
13:01 Interplay of policy dimensions
15:27 Role of technology transfer & export controls
17:40 Authoritarian diffusion, indoctrination 
18:39 Xina story
19:29 Successful East Asian economies 
22:27 Mainland Xina 
25:19 Communist ideological trap

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C-r-a-c-k = Socioeconomic Χ-Implosion

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25-1-28 [Great Firewall: How Xina created new internet - Search Party > . skip > .
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23-12-16 Censoring negative (accurate) remarks on Xinese economy - Update > .
23-10-15 [NoXious Suppression of Autocratic Regime's Fodder] - serpentza > .
23-9-29 Decoding P00ti-PooXi blueprint for NoXious World Order | DW > .
23-9-25 Xi's Transforming Xina [for the worse] - Xina's Changing Trajectory - Dig > .
23-9-24 $6.5T Problem: BRI, Unproductive, Decaying Infrastructure | EcEx > .
23-7-11 "Eat Bitterness" - Xina's Hopeless Youth Give Up on Life - laowhy86 > . skip > .
23-4-16 Logan Wright Grasping Shadows X-Ec 1 - Update > . 2 > .
23-3-13 Yi Fuxian: The Chinese Century Is Already Over - Update > .
23-1-23 Xina’s Two-Year Tech Crackdown Winds Up | WSJ > .
23-1-20 Xi's Biggest Errors - Kevin Rudd | Update > .
22-12-7 Stories of Chinese leader Jiang Zemin - known not discussed - Lei > .
22-10-20 Xina’s global police stations: War prep, strategy vs Taiwan - Lei > .
22-11-29 Censorship in Xina Has Reached New Levels of Ridiculousness! - cfc > .
22-11-27 Dragon's Claw: Xina's Next 10 Years - Kamome > . skip > .
22-11-19 Splinternet - Xina 1st of 35+ Countries Leaving Global Internet - Tech > .
22-10-28 How China Is Helping to Reduce Inflation - Patrick Boyle > .
22-10-27 Xina is "Pretty Much Screwed" - laowhy86 > .
22-10-25 Xina's Q3 details - Update > .
22-10-18 Xi absolute power through Party Constitution and XXP princelings - Lei > .
22-10-15 Xina's Economy is in Bad Shape - ColdFusion > .
22-9-29 Fake News - Wishful Thinking Against XiXiPee - laowhy86 > .
22-8-18 Xina's Economic Crisis Worsening (Housing Collapse Explained) - New > .





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