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Can NATO continue without the US?
Or am I getting ahead of myself? In four years the pendulum could swing right back to another Russian stand-off and a reversal of Trump’s foreign policy.
Again, after an apparently reluctant Germany and rest of the EU was forced by Biden’s USA to break with Russian gas, now the EU is the party moaning about the US stand-off with Russia coming to an end, and would prefer it to continue. What gives?
Reincarnation. Coming back as a restaurant entrée.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/30/tails-of-manhattan
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“Frank Dikötter is a historian who has written about the atrocities of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China. His work includes Mao’s Great Famine, which documents the famine that killed millions of people during the Great Leap Forward. Dikötter’s other books include The Tragedy of Liberation and The Cultural Revolution.
Mao’s Great Famine
Estimates that at least 45 million people died from starvation, overwork, and violence during the Great Leap Forward
Documents how the party knew it was starving its people, but did nothing
Shows how local communist cadres withheld food from people they disapproved of
Accuses top party leaders of doing nothing to help
Shows how the country exported food, economic aid, and loans while the famine raged
Combines the experiences of ordinary people with the actions of those in power
The Tragedy of Liberation
Documents the impact of the Communist Revolution on the lives of ordinary people from 1945–1957.”The famines were manufactured by Mao, and the CPC confiscated food on a massive scale, leaving millions to starve. Kang Sheng, Mao’s hatchet man, also presided over kill quotas each year for each province. The people were regularly culled, and local officials had to satisfy the quotas and make their reports.
With leprosy rampant, lepers were rounded up and burned alive.
AI Google:
Mao and homosexuality:
” Homosexual people were largely invisible and persecuted during the Mao era in China (1949-1976).
Persecution
Homosexuals were considered “disgraceful” and “undesirable”
They were subjected to electric shock therapy and other attempts to change their sexual orientation
They were arrested, imprisoned, and some lost their jobs for life
They were subjected to varying forms of moral and often extra-legal sanctions
Government policy
The official media rarely discussed homosexuality from the 1950s to the 1970s
It was believed that the only legitimate sexual intercourse was between a man and a woman within government-sanctioned marriage
Mao Zedong reportedly believed in the sexual castration of “sexual deviants” ”This too was Mao’s T’aip’ing legacy. The T’aip’ings were the only pre-Mao regime in China to kill and victimise homosexuals.
