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

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Untrustworthy Swamp of America

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25-2-21 Europe Should Take Over Ukrainian Skies and War Leadership - gtbt > .
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Thursday, February 6, 2025

Xitonomics 2025

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24-11-14 [Xitonomic Implosion - Xi's Tofu-Dreg Xina Xitting Wall] - gtbt > . skip > .> FikFük >>> HuángXi >>
25-2-7 [Xi's ignorant misunderstanding of investment in innovation] - Digging > .
25-1-22 4 signs of internal struggles costing the Xi dearly - Lei > .
[The Wire China - Barry Naughton on the state of the Xi Jinping Economy]

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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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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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Xina vs Hong Kong

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24-7-23 The Slow, Quiet Death of Hong Kong - Wendover > .
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Monday, January 1, 2024

24-7-13 Schade □

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24-7-13 Shooter dead and attendee killed at tRUMP rally - CBC > .
24-11-4 Security: Air Force One, The Beast, Marine One - AiTelly > . skip > .
24-9-29 [Could Attempted Assassination Have Been Prevented in Butler] - 60 Min > .
24-7-14 How tRUMP's Attempted Assassination Unfolded | WSJ > .24-7-14 Покушение на Трампа | Assassination Attempt - Impacts? (subs) - Katz > .
24-7-15 [Failed] Attempted Assasination illustrated in 3D - Mike Bell > ⏩24-7-16 Mapping the [Failed] Shooting - fern > ⏩24-7-16 Assassination [Attempt]: Konstantin Kisin Not Surprised - Triggernometry > .
24-8-1 How the Secret Service Failed Catastrophically - Real > .
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24-7-25 Replying to Donald Trump Jr's [false equivalence] Nonsense - Betty > .
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24-7-15 ['Murica] - Violence Against Politicians Has Surged | WSJ > .

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Tragically, a bystander was killed and others injured during the shooting mêlée. The 20-year-old shooter was shot and killed by Secret Service snipers. agrtdr

Needless to say, conspiracy theories have sprung up like weeds. "People can be prone to believe in conspiracy theories due to a combination of personality traits and motivations, including relying strongly on their intuition, feeling a sense of antagonism and superiority toward others, and perceiving threats in their environment, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. .... The researchers found that overall, people were motivated to believe in conspiracy theories by a need to understand and feel safe in their environment and a need to feel like the community they identify with is superior to others. .... The researchers also found that people with certain personality traits, such as a sense of antagonism toward others and high levels of paranoia, were more prone to believe conspiracy theories. Those who strongly believed in conspiracy theories were also more likely to be insecure, paranoid, emotionally volatile, impulsive, suspicious, withdrawn, manipulative, egocentric and eccentric." 

[The APA article does not address another likely cause of trips down the rabbit hole ---- social-media algorithms are designed to amplify any tendency toward viewing/reading material that promotes suspicions.]

In 70 years, this prophesy proved accurate: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1956)

24-6-27 Sad! 24-7-21 Better! ..
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24-7-8 Ruscist Atrocities Continue □

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24-7-8 [Kyiv] Children’s hospital comes under [targeted] attack - Kyiv I > .
24-7-9 russian terrorists attacked Ukrainian children | Starsky > .
> Authoritarianism >>  > Axes of Evil >> 

"For Kyiv residents, Monday morning started with loud explosions throughout the city. Russia launched a large-scale missile attack targeting the capital as well as cities in Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk oblasts on the morning of July 8. As of 8 p.m., at least 38 people were killed, and 136 were wounded across Ukraine One of the heaviest strikes hit Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt hospital, Ukraine’s largest children’s medical center."

The war-crime performing Axis of Envious Resentment must NOT be allowed to succeed in their plans for NoXious World Domination.

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24-5-14 Fico Shot

24-5-15 Fico Shot > . 
24-5-17 Assassination Attempt: Slovakia's Prime Minister Fico || PZ > . 

On 15 May 2024, Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Handlová, Slovakia. The shooting occurred in front of the town's House of Culture after a government meeting, and Fico was taken to a hospital where he was stabilised after undergoing emergency surgery. A suspect was detained by police at the scene.

Comment: To explain Fico: he's a bitter former communist who had to "change coats" in the 1990s and become a 'socialist.' He is the worst kind of populist with devilish charisma and extreme political intelligence. His superpower is to be able to give an impromptu speech in almost any venue (in public, on TV debates) and be very coherent and aggressive. His debate skills are unmatched in Slovakia. He is the greatest panderer in European politics to his aged, rural base who is nostalgic for the 'good old days' of communism. He used to hate Viktor Orbán because of the Slovak/Hungarian ethnic politics, but now loves him for creating a blueprint for becoming an autocrat. The playbook: anti-EU, anti-Ukraine, anti-free press. He regularly calls them things like "dirty whores."
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24-3-17 How Dicktators "Win" □

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24-5-25 Why We Cannot [Easily] Stop Dictators - Versed > . 
24-6-6 [Desperation behind Tsar Runt's Empty Threats: Cowardly Bully - Katz > .


How Unpopular Dicktators Secure Election Results
24-3-18 Диктаторский процент Путина | P00's dictatorial percentage (subs) Katz > .
24-3-18 What Happened in the Ruscian Presidential "Elections" | Artur > .
24-3-17 4 Ways that Ruscian elections are rigged - Kyiv Independent > .24-3-16 REAL meaning of P00tin's fake election - Vlad Vexler > .
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24-2-16 Alexei Navalny Murdered □

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24-2-17 Навальный | Navalny | Ushered Russians to Politics (subs) - Katz > .24-2-19 Юлии Навальная: Navalny's Widow Vows to Continue Fight (subs) - Katz > .


Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny (Алексей Анатольевич Навальный) 4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024) was a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist and a political prisoner. He organised anti-government demonstrations and ran for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against President Vladimir P00tin and his government. Navalny was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. He was the leader of the Russia of the Future party and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience, and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights.

On 17 January 2021, Navalny was again arrested as he was returning to Russia, after having had to leave the country for medical treatment in Germany for a poisoning attempt against his life that had recently occurred in Russia. He remained incarcerated (initially in the IK-2 penal colony) and was housed in the IK-6 maximum security prison in Melekhovo, Vladimir Oblast. Navalny was listed by Amnesty International (AI) as a prisoner of conscience in May 2021, meaning that AI held that Navalny's incarceration was primarily due to his political beliefs.

On 16 February 2024, the Federal Penitentiary Service announced that Navalny had "died" in prison.

Yulia Borisovna Navalnaya (Юлия Борисовна Навальная, née Абросимова, born 24 July 1976) is a Russian public figure, economist and the widow of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. She has been described in media as the "First Lady" of the Russian opposition.

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Russian anti-war & anti-P00tin partisan movement Black Bridge released a call to arms for Navalny's supporters. "It is time to fight the system in the same manner that it destroys us. There are partisan organizations that act to liberate the country from tyranny and end the war with Ukraine"

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