TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Map showing Danyang in April-May 1949. In this small town on the Yangtze River, the PLA prepared for taking Shanghai while some five thousand CCP cadres studied the city that they would soon run.

‘He’s Trying to Colonize This Community’: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Take Over This Texas Town Elon Musk gave it a shot in Washington. Now he’s aiming to be the de-facto mayor of a small Texas town.

I wish Elon Musk all the success that Henry Ford had with Fordlandia. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Cartoon featuring a hand marked "rectification" digging out skull-shaped roots marked "capitalism." By Han Xiaoluo

The hand of rectification digging out the roots of capitalism. By Han Xiaoluo.

Sigrid Schmalzer "Red Revolution, Green Revolution" might qualify.

To prevent any confusion: you eat the tadpoles.

Old news: Bleach prevents COVID-19. Old-old news: Tadpoles prevent pregnancy. In 1956, Ye Xichun claimed in Beijing Daily that the method was 90% effective. The Chinese medical authority had learned of the practice "from a friend" who had seen it used in the brothels of Shanghai.

Investors got big tax breaks to turn luxury apartments into affordable housing. In many cases, rents are higher than before The “essential housing” program has been a financial bonanza for the private developers and bankers, who earn millions in fees for each apartment complex bought.

Bay Area developers get tax breaks to build "affordable" housing but the units rent at or above market rates. "Public to private sector wealth transfer" is a very polite term for the scheme. www.siliconvalley.com/2024/12/01/i...

"Rebellion Against Mao Is Justified" Taiwanese psyop leaflet adopting both slogans and visuals from the Cultural Revolution.

"Rebellion Against Mao Is Justified" Taiwanese psyop leaflet adopting both slogans and visuals from the Cultural Revolution. Context and analysis available on Herbert A. Friedman's "psywarrior" website

Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China) Amazon.com: Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China): 9781009382267: Hirata, Koji: Books

My book, “Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism,” finally has a confirmed publication date—December 5, 2024. You can order it via Amazon.
www.amazon.com/Making-Maos-...

Feel so encouraged! So many friends, colleagues, and mentors have helped and supported me throughout this process—my gratitude is beyond words.
(Embarrassingly, the typesetting of öber-ün durabar is still wrong after I corrected it three times on the proof -- it was correct on my proof lol

A tweet from the Berliner Zeitung promoing an article: Historikerstreit, Teil 3: Warum es fatal ist, die DDR als #Diktatur abzutun. Die Etikettierung der #DDR als Diktatur, so unser Autor, blockiert neue historische Erkenntnisgewinnung. Und nicht nur das: Sie befördert den Rechtsradikalismus.

The Berliner Zeitung has been running a number of pieces along these lines attacking the idea that the GDR was a dictatorship and claiming that this is part of some kind of new Historikerstreit. There is a lot of sleight of hand going on here...

Wary of ‘vicious’ events, China makes migrant worker arrears a priority Social harmony takes centre stage after high-profile killings, and China’s cabinet says the unpaid salaries of migrant labourers require political action.

SCMP: "Beijing is stepping up efforts to tackle delayed payments for migrant workers, aiming to maintain social stability in turbulent economic times."
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Taxi dancers from Shanghai's dance halls and nightclubs protest outside of the Guomindang gongshang office in early 1949.

For my first post here: A photo by Jack Birns. Taxi dancers from Shanghai's dance halls and nightclubs protest outside of the Guomindang gongshang office in early 1949.