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Mao thriving in Washington
Asia Times ^ | 06/05/2013 | Noureddine Krichene

Posted on 06/05/2013 9:08:43 PM PDT by TexGrill

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled "Reading Hayek in Beijing", in relation to the award of Manhattan Institute's Hayek Prize to Yang Jisheng, a Chinese journalist and author of Tombstone, a painstakingly researched history of famine in China during the period of Mao Zedong.

Prior to the communist revolution, China was a highly advanced economy. With the implementation of Mao's Red Book teachings, China suffered many episodes of starvation, poverty, and economic collapse. Yang lost his father during the famine that took 36 million Chinese lives during 1958-1962. The article noted

that the source of all the suffering was not nature: There were no major droughts or floods in China in the famine years. Rather, the cause was man, and one man in particular: Mao Zedong. Starving peasants were prevented from fleeing their districts to find food; cannibalism, including parents eating their own children, became commonplace.

(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackbook; chinaeconomy; communism; maoistsindc; maotsetung; massstarvation; redchina; redterror; socialism
If you ever visit Beijing, check out the 789 Arts District, some shops sells loads of "Obama is Mao" memorabilia, such as photos of Obama wearing PLA hat and uniforms engraved on T-shirts, coffe mugs, Muslim prayer rugs, wallpaper and even toilet bowls.
1 posted on 06/05/2013 9:08:43 PM PDT by TexGrill
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To: TexGrill
Wasn’t the number of those who starved to death higher than 36 million? Something like 60 million at least, or perhaps even more . . . ?
Starving peasants were prevented from fleeing their districts to find food …
Now imagine an armed peasantry. (You know, of the kind that the Manifesto promised but obviously did the opposite of.)
2 posted on 06/05/2013 9:19:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I read a book on the drought, which claimed it could have been over 100 million were killed. When you take into consideration the large size of China and how many rural towns are so secluded, I think the 100+million figure is accurate.


3 posted on 06/05/2013 9:24:44 PM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: TexGrill

Boy! That was uplifting! /s

Humiliating is more like it.


4 posted on 06/05/2013 9:28:20 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: TexGrill
I lived in Mexico for two years when I was a young woman. I thought that Mexico was the dirtiest place in the whole world.
Then, I got married and we lived in the middle east for five years and I thought that Saudi Arabia made Mexico look CLEAN.
Then we traveled. We went to India for three weeks and I discovered that Saudi Arabia was squeaky clean compared to India.
Well, then we went to China. China wins the award of the most filthy country on the planet. The smell...oh well.

I read stories (Han Su Lin) about China. They care about two things: luck and money. I don't think that they have changed very much.

It isn't Chinese people, as Singapore, 99.9% Chinese, is as clean as can be, so it's the Chinese culture of CHINA that produces God's filthiest earthly hole. Leprosy dates back to 1300 B.C. in India, China and Egypt. It's disease of filth.

As for the bubonic plague: - The bubonic plague first emerged in China more than 2,600 years ago.
- The disease spread towards Western Europe along the Silk Road, starting more than 600 years ago, and then to Africa.
- Plague even came to the United States from China via Hawaii in the late 19th century.
The first outbreak of plague occurred in China more than 2,600 years ago before reaching Europe via Central Asia's "Silk Road" trade route, according to a study of the disease's DNA signature.

In this country Chinese restaurants (run by FOBs and CIAs, NOT, I repeat, NOT by ABCs) get shut down with regularity for health violations. You see, extermination and cleaning cost money. Money is for gambling, keeping up with the WongJones and getting their worthless sons a college degree. Cleanliness in restaurants is a waste of money for them.

Yes, I know that there are exceptions. But, for the most part Obama and China are a matched set....kakas.

5 posted on 06/05/2013 9:46:29 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Olog-hai

***** Starving peasants were prevented from fleeing their districts to find food …

Now imagine an armed peasantry.****

I am constantly reminded of the movie DEEP IMPACT in which a meteor heads for earth, the government builds underground shelters of themselves, various others and “artists’.

Outside the locals, to be left out, can only rattle the fence. I wondered why those locals didn’t grab their guns and take over the caves.

Then I realized it was the future, a black President, and no one had guns.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/?ref_=sr_1


6 posted on 06/05/2013 9:56:59 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The president was played by Morgan Freeman, too. The same fellow who claimed last year that Obama was “not black enough” to be the USA’s first black president, funny enough.


7 posted on 06/05/2013 10:05:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: cloudmountain

Some places in China are dirty, but I would say overall, it’s not so bad. In Beijing, I don’t smell people with body order, however when I visited Malaysia that was a different story.


8 posted on 06/05/2013 10:20:49 PM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: cloudmountain

oops I meant to say “body odor.”


9 posted on 06/05/2013 10:23:46 PM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: TexGrill

Washington, heck - he’s in the White House.


10 posted on 06/06/2013 1:29:54 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: TexGrill
I read a book on the drought, which claimed it could have been over 100 million were killed. When you take into consideration the large size of China and how many rural towns are so secluded, I think the 100+million figure is accurate.


Back in the day, I had the privilege of assisting in the organization of the transfer of the Soviet Archives after the fall of the Soviet Union.

I got to work with some of the scholars from the USSR.

They were outraged by low ball numbers for the number of Russian people who were murdered by the Lenin, Stalin and the Bolsheviks the first draft of history was recording.

Their American counterparts were sympathetic and agreed the numbers feel far short of reality. The problem was that whenever they tried to publish a paper or present at a conference, they were mau-maued by the large number other historians who were sympathetic Fellow Travelers to Communism into reducing the body count down to numbers that were plainly low ball as to be beyond dispute.

They also were of the opinion that the the numbers were so astronomical that the precise difference between 30 million killed and 100 million was not as historically significant as the fact that tens of millions of people were willfully and methodically murdered as part of official Communist policy.

This of course enraged the Russians because it was THEIR families that were murdered and to them every murder was a consequential tragedy.

The number you see in the published literature do not reflect the true magnitude of the murders committed in the name of Communism, they are the absolute low ball numbers mau maued down by Communist apologists in the West and constitute a body count of murdered souls that even the most ardent Fellow Traveler could not dispute and was forced to accept

11 posted on 06/06/2013 2:44:49 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: TexGrill

Don’t put your faith in money...someday it will be worth nothing. Convert your money to the things you will need... food, household supplies, and ammo.


12 posted on 06/06/2013 4:11:51 AM PDT by ez (Muslims do not play well with others.)
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To: cloudmountain
My younger brother and his wife, who is black, visited China a few years ago. They have both traveled widely. They said, without a doubt, China was the worst place they ever visited. Their biggest problem was with rude Chinese. My brother's wife was in line at some fast food place in Beijing to get her order, and some Chinese woman rushed in and literally pushed her out of the way to get ahead of her at the counter. An argument ensued between my brother's wife and the rude Chinese woman which included pushing and shoving back by my sister-in-law.

That was not the only occasion of incidences like that. They also said that when you get off the beaten tourist path, the side streets and places are filthy. And many of the Chinese people have unhygienic practices which they display in public. They're never going back. I'd still like to visit China at some future date, but their story put me and my wife off for the time being. Maybe it's the lateness in which China opened itself to the world.

13 posted on 06/06/2013 4:41:58 AM PDT by driftless2
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