Xi Jinping "Brainwashing" The Chinese People

Xi Jinping is trying to brainwash the Chinese people by claiming a fusion of Communism with Confucianism.

The author is either stupid or deliberately ignoring the role of Chinese Nationalism, and the global rise of nationalism in general. That is the unspoken elephant in the room, and that explains Xi much better than whatever Cold War crap the author is trying to peddle. Yes, America has been trying to sell its version of "Democracy" for almost 200 years now. And an universal vision for "Human Rights" for close to 250. But that vision has been in retreat for a long time now, and the author fails his mission by ignoring the nationalism factor.

The ideological conflict with the #Globohomo is merely a large but minor factor in Xi Jinping’s turn back to Communism. The China of the early 2000's was ultimately a soulless China, due to its eager embrace of materialism, manifesting in the rampant corruption throughout all ranks of the PRC and CCP bureaucracies. The concomitant rise of Falun Gong and Christianity in China was a blatant indicator of Chinese development failures. Despite Western analysts' caricature of the practical materialist soulless Chinese people. It turns out that Chinese people do care about ethics, religions, and ideologies, Western (and Communist) portrayals notwithstanding.

So Xi Jinping faced a spiritual crisis of the CCP. Party members no longer believed in a party or ideology. Nationalism was rising and globalism in retreat throughout the world, evidenced by 2007 financial crisis and the resulting Arab Spring and Colored Revolutions. Xi Jinping was trying to get ahead of the curve and resurrect the CCP as the best and most correct guardian of Chinese Nationalism. By trying to .eld Communism with Chinese Characteristics. Whether he can succeed, of course, is the question of the 21st Century. The answer will also be whether ideologies will ever be relevant again. Or if it is forever subordinated under culture and nationalism.

Myanmar, Civil War, China, and the scam call centers

Information on the criminal personalities and organizations near the China-Myanmar border, the scam call centers plaguing China and Southeast Asia, and their relationships with the governments. And hints on their and the governments' interactions with the ethnic militias and the other insurgents.

And contrary to Indian fevered imaginations, China appears conflicted in the Myanmar Civil War. The Myanmar junta and civilian ex-government both appear to chart a relatively independent course from both India and China. Some of the ethnic-Chinese militias are explicitly Kuomingtan in nature, complicating any PRC sympathies.

This article is a relatively good record on the entity-level information for new analysts.

HIV Drug Diversion and Counterfeiting: Civ Collapse Commences

American counterfeit drug traffickers buy HIV drugs (and other Medicare- and homeless-funded drugs), sanitizes the bottles, sometimes resells the pills and substitute with cheaper drugs, and sell the bottles back into the supply chain.

The collapse of the HIV medication system is one of the first visible signs of the civilization collapse. This is because the drugs are expensive, while the victims are often parasites of the productive class. Therefore there is a lot of subsidies earmarked for a politically vulnerable class. Looks like it has already started.

I had often thought that this collapse would start with the African HIV subsidy scheme. But perhaps this is happening in Africa, too. There almost definitely are people in Africa diverting the HIV medication and selling them on the secondary market. Which accounts for the continuing epidemic. But it is interesting that public awareness is starting with the American scammers.

Charisma and Selfishness: "Vibe Popes"

"Vibe Popes" leverage their charisma to make sure everyone has a good time at parties and other social gatherings. And other people can learn to be more charismatic, too, by knowing what to say.

Typically female, (and typical of most midwits), the author focuses and defines "Charisma" in terms of conversations. However, as the common saying goes, 70% -90% of communication is non-verbal, and similarly for Charisma and other status effects. So right off the bat, we can see that the author is presenting a biased form of Charisma.

Her talk of Selfish Charisma and Selfless Charisma is also silly. Charisma is orthogonal to internal motivation. And an organization headed by selfish Charismatic individuals can still have strong social cohesion, with very satisfied members, compared to selfless charismatic-led organizations. To some extent, most people are at the mercy of the charismatic individuals in their lives. The author seems like she is bitter about that fact of life. Which is silly, and why her study is futile.

Ukraine Leopards now doing indirect fire, too

Ukraine now employing Leopard tanks in indirect fire roles for infantry fire support, instead of Western style fire and maneuver.

Thus completing the Ukrainian evolution back into Soviet tactics. Russia has been doing this all along. And most of the resurrected T-55 and T-62 tanks are used similarly.

A few months ago, Western "analysts" were concern-trolling the Russians, by saying that using tank cannons as artillery will wear out the barrels too fast and cause all kinds of problems. Well, it turns out that tank cannon indirect fire was standard Soviet tactic, which has continued post-Soviet. We know that Russians do know how to regularly replace cannon and howitzer barrels based on battle usage. We don't know if they have enough barrels to keep up regular replacement. (Given the apparent ammunition semi-shortage, they probably don't have enough barrels either. But then, they're not firing as many, so it all kinds of work out.)

And a few months before that, Western analysts were again concern-trolling by talking about barrel failure from over-use. What they didn't realize, was that Russian howitzer barrels (not sure about cannon ones) are made with untensioned steel, whereas Western ones are made with tensioned steel. Therefore, Western howitzers will explosively fail from over-use, whereas Russian ones will simply get less accurate and less range.

So what this story says, more than anything, is that Ukraine is definitively ending their "Counter-Offensive". And that the vaunted "American/NATO" tactics are merely an alternative to Soviet ones, not terribly better or worse. And that, concern-trolling aside, Russian Army does kind of know what they are doing, and are sometimes fairly good at their jobs. This story is manifest evidence that most of what "Western analysts" were telling us is merely propaganda. (Useless propaganda at that, because their opinions have little effect on Russian performance.) And now it seems that the Russian "failures" during 2022 Spring is more a result of a more lethal battlefield (a la Nagorna-Karabakh) than Russian ineptitude or Ukrainian aptitude. (And relearning classic lessons like tanks cannot survive an unsupported attack, that all attacks must be infantry-led.)

Now that Europe has no more tanks to give out. (Nor many more American ones, due to production constraints and Taiwan demands.) So that means Ukraine will not do more armor assaults/exploitations in 2024, probably nor 2025. And Zelensky is complaining that his howitzer shells are going to Israel instead. (Which sounds like giving out excuses for upcoming failures.) This phase of the Ukraine War is likely coming to a close soon. Unless Russia gets some DPRK mercenaries, or many more DPRK rockets and shells, then the frontlineis unlikely to change much for the next few years.

And notice that Business Insider does not know which Ukrainian Leopard is doing the indirect fire, I or II. It cites a Swedish II, but shows a I picture. Can you really trust them for quoting analysts correctly.

San Francisco Chinese name shenanigans

San Francisco now forbid non-Chinese people from using Chinese-type names on ballots, giving them generic transliterated names instead. If they have not been using their Chinese names in public for at least 2 years.

So stupid.

Excuses for the Retail Apocalypse Store Closings

many possible causes for stores closing, other than shoplifting, which does not have definitive proof in official statistics.

Let the Whitewashing begin.

Jews Buying Guns And Taking Classes

More Jews are buying guns and taking gun classes, after the Hamas attack and the pro-Palestinian protests in October.

Only time will tell if they really change their minds. God only knows how stupid the Asians living in America have been with their anti-gun views through the Anti-Asian Hate era.

Mass Psychological Programs Don't Work

mass psyhological programs do not work, and may make the problem worse.

Stuff White People Like are usually stupid.

Single people complain single life is expensive

Single people complain that they have more expenses than married people. The author recommends getting a roommate or turning friends into a sharing community to reduce expenses like married people do.

It is almost like, people need to join and participate in a community, instead of thinking you can lonewolf it like libertarians. Gee, who'da thunk. Duh.

Join a community.

Environmentalists hate democracy and NIMBY.

Environmentalists are upset because Democracy is blocking their Green Energy projects. The tools they had invented, community approval/disapproval as part of the Environmental Impact Studies process to block dirty projects, and the political review process to block dirty projects, are being hijacked by white people to block wind farms, solar farms, new transmission lines, etc.

Of course environmentalists hate Democracy. They are Elites, after all. How else are they going to use fossil fuels to fly to the environmental conferences.

And #EnergyPrivilege.

Gender pay gap persists because, surprise.

Mothers wanting more time with children, is partially why the gender pay gap has barely budged over the past 20 years, even though more women graduate with STEM and law degrees, etc. And other non-pregnancy/childcare reasons such as subtle.

so

Black people hate acting White

Black people have to keep on demonstrating their credentials of belonging to White privileged organizations. This includes always wearing college or company logo clothing, in addition to acting White and always de-escalating. And Affirmative Action have been instrumental in helping Black people that they belong at these White places. But keeping on acting White is very exhausting to Black people.

This article is quite illogical. According to the author, acting White is bad, and Affirmative Action has played a major role in bringing in lots of Black people into White organizations, where they then have to Act White. Therefore, logically, Affirmative Action has been bad in making many more Black people act White. But we still need to keep Affirmative Action, because we need to bring in more Black people. Very illogical, and refuses to address the consequences of Acting White. It is a huge gaping hole in the article, likely because the author knows he should not address that problem.

This article is a great illustration of the psychic cost of Integration, why Diversity is inhumane. A stupid leftist might say that, we just need to fix the company culture so that Black people can be as confrontational as they want, be free to make the company culture more Black. But that is stupid, because there is a White culture, and a more Black-dominant culture would drive away the White employees. [of course some will always remain.] More importantly, a company has to have a unifying culture, because the managers have to think the same so they can make similar decisions. Otherwise the organization ceases to be. And it becomes a flock of random people.

Which further illustrates that Diversity and Affirmative Action is always about money and fame. Black and White peoples alike surrender part of their humanity into the Diversity Machine in the hopes of making some money and/or fame. It is literally a Faustian bargain. And like Faust, they all think they can outwit the Devil. Hubris is indeed one of the deadliest sins.

Israel did not understand Hamas strategy, likely not now either

Israel did not understand Hamas's religious nature, hence intelligence and policy failure.

And Israel likely is screwing up the current strategy, too. The ground campaign in Gaza likely will be very slow and high casualties, without even thinking about the Palestinian "collateral damage". The second Lebanon war shows that Arabs are now capable of conducting highly motivated and dynamic defensive operations.

More fundamentally, Israel cannot conduct an ethnic cleansing. The birth rate is against the Jews, too. They could have given up all of southern Israel earlier on. It is a possible result in the near future.

Minority vs Minority, 2023 Oct Edition

Chicago black community felt left out during the migrant crisis.

No shit. What did they think was going to happen.

Fiji Thwarts Korean Church Invasion

A Korean church (Grace Road Church) went to Fiji from Korea after an "American" member reported physical abuse and passport confiscation. Then it started buying properties and companies in Fiji, boughttoo much. Eventually Fiji is kicking out the top leaders and confiscating the companies and properties.

The Koreans were stupid with how they were trying to control Fiji. And their instinct to form a Chaebol for almost no reason, no strategy behind their Chaebol purchases. And the mad rush to throw money around.

The interesting note on the spiritual hunger in Korea, despite the power of Christianity there, is also interesting. Koreans, slightly more than Japanese and Chinese, are obsessed with buying name-brand status symbols for display. The status display competition in Korea is likely the main reason for that materialism burnout and spiritual hunger in Korea. The materialism hollowed out the mainline churches in Korea, likely infected by forms of Prosperity Gospel.

Jews Discussing Antisemitism in America

Congress's Chief Rabbi discusses how and why American Jews react to the alleged antisemitic manifestations in 2023 America.

The interesting thing here is that she brought up the fact that many American Jews do not understand Judaism and Jewish culture themselves, thus inhibiting them from recognizing and reacting to antisemitism.

So she recognizes that the lack of Jewish ethnic consciousness is a problem. But she consciously did not take the logical next step to argue for a Jewish nationalism revival. This ideological blindspot against nationalism will be the downfall of the American Uniparty.

MSM Attempting to Mainstream Witchcraft

USA Today explains "witchcraft", without explaining how "magicks" work. "It is like prayers."

It is glaring in not explaining how witchcraft magic system works. It is obviously trying to make witchcraft more acceptable.

Democrats Starts Acknowledging Biden Corruption

Hunter Biden exposes Joe Biden corruption, for reals, and also among some American politicians. We should demand better. In the Atlantic.

Democrats are stupid.

Ukraine "Counter-Offensive" 2023 Aug Likely Failing

America apparently thinks Ukraine "counter-offensive" will stall soon.

The news that America is allowing the re-export of "European" F-16 simulators and real F-16s, corroborate this leaked assessment. Any time America changes its mind on a new weapon system,letting it go to Ukraine, is an escalation. And America only escalates if the current course is not working.

Note to analysts, this heuristic, of escalations confirming the failures of status quo, is useful and near-universal. Absent a coup of some sort, leadership will almost always double-down. It is human psychology.

Ukrainian Draftdodgers, BBC Edition

Some Ukrainian men are avoiding the draft. And Ukraine military manpower situation is becoming short.

This and the anti-trans policy are simmering wedge issues. They are chipping away at Western support.

Great News for Transgenic Pig Organ Research

How a family's choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants. The donated brain-dead body is on life support while they monitored the implanted pig kidneys for immune damage. The kidneys have lasted one month by now, going into the critical second month, doing well. The body is on immune suppressants, as usual protocol for xenotransplant experiments. The transgenic pig only had one protein knocked out, as opposed to the other research groups knocking out multiple genes.

Wonder if it was the Alfa-Gal gene they knocked out. Either way, this is wonderful news for the transgenic pig research. More of this type of dead experiments are necessary. Current models are not sophisticated enough for xenotransplant experiments.

Female Childlessness Justification

Woman justifies her desire not to have children, so she'd have time to eat, drink, and work./

So typically female logic.

India Communist Fascism Update

The interethnic pogrom in Manipur focuses attention on the pro-Hindu bias of the BJP, and gives hope to the opposition coalition.

India's Second Partition continues apace. The mixture of ethnicity (Scheduled Tribes) and religion (Hindu vs Christianity) means the Manipur Pogrom will not stop until ethnic cleansing produces a defined border, physically separating the combatants with sustainable territories.

This pogrom contrasts with Iraq, where the tribes often had both Sunni and Shiite members. That served to check the intensity of the Iraqi civil war, staying away (somewhat) from the religious elements. And Al Sadr could credibly take on a Pan-Islamist nationalist mantle, unthinkable elsewhere in the Middle East. It looks like India has no such luck, with mono-religious tribes dominating. Despite the Bollywood happy face and the European Orientalist fascination, India is almost a tragic hell on Earth.

Retards: Stories of Love

A lovely story of people with developmental disabilities, and their lovely families.

As parents, we all hope that we could rise to the challenges, and but for the grace of God.

Church Attendance Decline Symptom of Failing Society

American church attendee population fell 12% over the past 25 years. Likely because Americans increasingly turn to their co-workers for community and identity, rather than their neighborhood churches. So the American future will likely be a bifurcation, with more community groups for some and more intensive church communities for others.

Echoes of de Tocqueville's "voluntary associations" in action. Indeed, in an earlier time of diversity, immigration, and #urbanization (post-Revolution America), there were a lot of voluntary associations, too, as de Tocqueville observed.

One thing the author(s) failed to note, is social trust and the assumptions for it. Communities can only exist, when there is enough intra-group trust to cement the bonds. For without trust, there can be no reciprocity. And we have only thin financial transactions leftover. That, in part, caused the churches to fall apart. (Obviously more importantly, kids keep moving away for colleges and jobs. No community can survive the departing next generations.)

For the new voluntary associations to take over from churches, #diversity has to go down, somehow. As I often noted, Diversity(tm) is always a centrifugal force, requiring a centripetal force to counterbalance.

And more glaringly, the authors failed to address the main problem, posterity geographic mobility. More importantly than the aging demographic, is the mobility demographic. An aging community can gracefully decline if the kids stick around. The authors recognized that mobility is a prime cause, but they gave up addressing the issue.

Ukraine "Counter-Offense" Propaganda Ending

Is Ukraine’s counteroffensive failing? Defense experts say the risks facing Kyiv are growing

The Ukraine counter-offense propaganda is ending. The British propaganda pantheon and the American talking heads were all talking about a "Shaping Phase" to explain the lack of Ukraine progress. For 2 months. Now they admit that, yes, it is stalled.

End of Affirmative Action Will Kill The College Essay

The end of Affirmative Action, means that people will write intersectional narratives in their college essays. Yet these essays easily becomes trite. So college essays will get more boring than ever, killing the essay requirement.

These colleges deserve what they are getting.

The Globetrotting Deflation

Bank of England raising rates. British consumer mortgages index to BoE rates. So many Brits will become delinquent on loans. Banks have agreed to give out 12-month grace periods for loan delinquency. [for now.]

This reminds us all that paying your mortgages on time, during economic crises, is for losers. Given that our materialist Purgatory has no qualms of leaving us to fend ourselves, we have no moral duty to the Economic order, either.

More seriously, we see here that the global elites are shuffling the ongoing Deflation around. Earlier this year, Deflation was going strong in USA with SVB and First Republic devastating the Silicon Valley startup scene, and in Switzerland with UBS. The bank failures are the result of earlier Fed rate raises. Now BoE is raising rates, so there will be some bank failures in England (and maybe some European core or Commonwealth) in Q4CY2024. This pattern will continue, as they keep shifting the global Deflation around. Until the day they can't shift anymore.

Wealth-based Affirmative Action Will Not Help Black People

A wealth-based Affrimative Action program would leave out too many Black people suffering from Systemic Racism.

Rothstein assumes that the Black-White IQ gap results from "Systemic Racism" rather than genetic (and epi-genetic) factors. Thus he, and the rest of the AA crowd, will always be proven wrong.

"Salad Bar" Extremism is Stupid Definition

Recent mass shooters and attackers have unexplainable ideologies, so FBI director calls them "Salad Bar" Extremism.

Or, they're crazy people. Crazy people, by definition, are not rational. It is well past the time that we stop pretending crazy people can function in normal society. The mass shooting phenomenon is, in part, our refusal to admit that crazy people are crazy.

Or, alternatively, some of the "crazy" ideological mixes are actually the truth, and our society refuses to acknowledge them for political reasons.