Apr. 28 (M,) 2025 Are we there, yet? / 路需多遙, 方知馬力?

坐忘齋
The Hoover Institute is widely described as a conservative thnik tank, but its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan. Having said so, I found the interview interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goEU7C1xmis


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Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower | Uncommon Knowledge
Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower | Uncommon Knowledge

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Dr. Frank Dikotter's books relevant to the above topic:



坐忘齋
https://www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/1238710054567790

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The power of espionage/all dimensional infiltrations (兵不血刃) of the CCP regime has been into many countries (particularly, Taiwan, the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and the rest.) Now, Taiwan is going through a Great Removal movement to recall elected representatives/officials who have not only disturbed the democratic functions of government, but openly expressed to support the CCP-regime, and encourage Taiwanese to surrender to it if the PLA (People's Liberation Army of the CCP regime) invaded Taiwan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWGQkTilnA8  

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【LIVE】0419 罷免舔共立委！「拒絕統戰守護台灣」419大遊行｜民視快新聞｜

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The well-informed insiders say that the most effective tools of the CCP-regime are money/birbary, sex/females, food/espinage, and "plenty of the Harvested Human Organs for the rich-n-powerful." Ya, these soft weapons as Lenin said, "The strongest fortress must be conquered from within." It works in Taiwan, so as in the US...

Apr. 26 (Sa,) 2025 Weekly fb fun pics sharing

Apr. 25 (F,) 2025 Is the entropy phenomenon delayable in human conditions?

Apr. 25 (F,) 2025 Conatus

Apr. 21 (M,) 2025 Set a high bar for the power structure

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Marcie Br
“Pope John Paul II made him a Cardinal in 2001 and "he asked the faithful not to come to Rome to celebrate his creation as Cardinal but rather to donate to the poor what they would have spent on the journey," according to his biography.”

坐忘齋
The only "People's Humble Pope" - ever.

Marcie Br
Yes indeed. I am afraid it won’t happen again.

坐忘齋
Also, we know that why the Pope chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi who was known as in religion pop culture with brown habits, birdbaths and the blessing of animals on his feast day. But beyond pets, Francis is also known as the patron saint of ecology.

坐忘齋
A couple of friends are curious about the brown habit - wearing the brown color rope. It symbolizes humility, simplicity, and a connection to the earth. It represents their commitment to poverty, both materially and spiritually. The brown color can also be seen as a reminder of the humble origins of the religious orders, such as their connection to the peasant life of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Mary S
He was so good. I worry who will be next.

坐忘齋
Ya, he set a high bar for the power structure.

坐忘齋
I received a couple of friends' sharing, who called Pope Francis as a Satan!
Well, if he were a Satan, then the rest of humans, - angels ?!
You know where they come from.
This reminds me about 8 movies/documentaries/books, so far as I know, relating to Pope Francis from different perspectives - theologies, ethics,, politics, ideologies, to the relevant controversies. Here are some of them for reference:
2024, Conclave; 2019 The Two Popes; Documentry - The Francis Effect
I am not a catholic, but I respect this Pope.

Apr. 17 (Th,) 2025 Weekly fb fun pics sharing / 2025 Earth Day

 

Apr. 17 (Th,) 2025 The Coleus' Love / 有情錦紫蘇

Apr. 16 (W,) 2025 The Comfy Lifestyle vs. Eating-grass Survival amid the Tariff War

Apr. 15 (T,) 2025 A pre-post, for the 55th Earth Day

  Two relevant old posts:

April 12 (Sa,) 2025 Why is Taiwan/Formosa so important to the world peace?

Krystal Huang
The biggest threat is not from the military intimidation but the infiltrations/espionages through activities of media, cultural/academic exchange, travel, businesses, religion, particularly, marriage/sex - from the CCP regime invading into important institutions of Taiwan. The severtiy is no less than that of the US.

Krystal Huang
A couple of individuals on my fb friend list (from Taiwan,) are constantly expressing their Pro-CCP regime sentiments. Surely, free expression is protected by Taiwan Constitution. I respect that. But taking advantage of Taiwan's hard-earned freedom and then supporting an autocratic regime (interestingly, they have no interests whatsoever to be members of that country,) aren't they smarties and render their cognitive dissonances - if they have- pretty well? 

養老鼠咬布袋，不是好事。
內鬥內行，外鬥外行，權利擺不平就作怪，耐人尋味。
一些自稱有高學歷的聰明人, 卻是敵我不分, 為西朝鮮國加油添火站臺幫腔,
以為挨著歪邪大樹, 會有柴燒, 真是匪夷所思...
終究誰是受益者？

自古至今, 跪舔求榮求存者, 難有好下場.
愛家愛鄉愛國的臺灣人, 不會效仿對方自古 - 貪財怕死愛做官 - 的習性.
風雨同舟頂天立地, 天助自助, 才是共存自尊人敬之道.

Krystal Huang
One of their explanations is that keeping a nice distance between the CCP-regime and the US. is a good leverage for a strategic concern. It sounds smart and easy, doesn't it?

Krystal Huang

Some detailed info for reference:

Another perspective.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMhle4o0uk0

Krystal Huang
快來欣賞 一曲抒情歌, 包您聽得柔情萬意:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkddveTQWD8

頂天立地 United We Stand (Standing Tall! Standing Strong!)

作曲/ Composer- 李健 

作詞/Lyricist - 鄧鎮湘 

Singer: Zena LCH #193 

頭頂著青天　腳踏著實地 Up-lifting the sky, striding on the solid land, 

我站在硬漢嶺上, I am standing tall and strong on the top of the Tough Hill. 

堅決地堅決地向天立誓 making a vow determinedly, 

做一個捍衛臺灣的好國民 defending my beloved homeland, 

創一番轟轟烈烈的大事業 accomplishing a great task. 

高山擋不住建國的雄心 The mountains cannot block my will to build my country, 

大海阻不了護國的壯志 The ocean cannot stop my conviction to defend my nation. 

烈火燒不掉正義的信念 The wild fire cannot burn off my faith to preside justice. 

寒冰凍不僵自由的活力 The icy snow cannot freeze my strength to fight for freedom of Taiwan. 

頂天立地奮鬥到底 Standing tall, standing strong. Be resolute! 

頂天立地奮鬥到底 Standing tall, standing strong. Be perseverant! 頭頂著青天　

腳踏著實地 Up-lifting the sky, striding on the solid land, 

我站在硬漢嶺上 I am standing tall and strong on the top of the Tough Hill. 

堅決地堅決地向天立誓 making a vow determinedly, 

做一個捍衛臺灣的好國民 defending my beloved homeland, 

創一番轟轟烈烈的大事業 and accomplishing a great task!

Apr. 11 (F,) 2025 The "nicer" one wins the game...? 小邪勝大邪?

Apr. 11 (F,) 2025 Weekly fb fun pic picks

Apr. 11 (F,) 2025 The Happy "Coincidences" Amid the Stock Market Violence

Krystal Huang
Celebration.... https://www.facebook.com/feministnews.us/videos/1206809614386824

Krystal Huang

Memes from China's propagadic machine...
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1198449337798957
Quite offensive, isn't it?

Krystal Huang
The tariff war inlfation begins?

April 9 (W,) 2025 Wow, perpenticularly up.... What's going on?

Krystal Huang
Wowwww, almost 3000 points perpendicularly up!
The rest of idexes are all with big green ups.
What's going on behind the scene?
Who were those that came in to harvest?
A few days ago, I wrote about a well-known mind-control tactic - the Stockholm Syndrome, but I did not expect to see it in this way.... Perhpas, this up and down, twists-n-turns journey may meander till right before the Midterm election, then with a big sweet treat?

April 6, 2025 #115

Krystal Huang
Let's play wishy-washy, hide-and-seek game.... So much fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TRbpuexEE


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Trump pauses tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises taxes on Chinese imports
Trump pauses tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises taxes on Chinese imports

Krystal Huang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCF6qowEBs


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Wall Street's euphoria sends US stocks to historic gains after Trump pauses most of his tariffs
Wall Street's euphoria sends US stocks to historic gains after Trump pauses most of his tariffs

Krystal Huang

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/donald-trump-ignites-insider-trading-accusations-after-global-tariffs-u-turn

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-told-investors-to-buy-on-social-media-hours-before-his-tariff-pause-rose-stocks-raising-questions-about-manipulation

April 9 (W,) 2025 The power of a kingdom and a nation

Krystal Huang

Krystal Huang
Ya, the 3 nations - the maga kingdom, the eligible inactive-voters-nation, the eligible voters-who-vote-nation: a big problem of the 2-dominant party system that can function the same as the One-Party condition.

Apri. 7 (T,) 2025 Eating Grass vs. Imposing Pressure - which regime: a super-capitalism vs. a fake capitalist-communism, can withstand longer?

Wang Q. S., a former leader of China says, ”Chinese eating grass 3 years, will still survive well.” 104% tariffs, so what?

Krystal Huang
Wang Qishxn/王岐X, is the former vice “president” of the ccp regime.
Now the issue is -
eating grass vs. imposing pressure -
which regime: a super capitalism vs. a fake capitalism, can withstand longer?
In this game of saving face, who are those that suffer the most?

Krystal Huang
Origins:
美國前財長亨利鮑爾森，在他的與中國打交道20年的自傳中，對當年交手的朱鎔x和王岐x讚譽有加。書中他提到，王岐x有一次對他說，我們中國人只需要吃草就可以活三年，你們美國人吃草可以活多久？這是王在威脅美國政府，"你們美國人省省吧，別企圖掐我們中國人的脖子，先死的一定是美國."
Translation : In his autobiography of his 20 years of dealings with China, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson praised Zhu Rxxgji and Wxng Qishxn, with whom he dealt at the time. In the book, he mentioned that Wxng Qishxn once said to him, "We Chinese only need to eat grass to survive for three years. How long can you Americans survive by eating grass?" This is Wxng Qishxn threatening the US government, - "You Americans, please stop trying to strangle us Chinese. The first to die will be the US."

Krystal Huang
Don't move my cheese! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aho2kXg1o-k


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Elon TURNS on Trump, wants "ZERO TARIFFS"
Elon TURNS on Trump, wants "ZERO TARIFFS"

Krystal Huang

He called him - the trade advisor "Moron" who was the one pointing to the CCP's foul play during the king's first term. Then, he talked back, "you, are, merely a Car Assembler/Dealer!" Meanwhile, he owns the biggest factories in the CCP regime with all the unbelievable benefits - cheap laborers, lands, raw materials, easy regulations at the cost of human rights and environment damages.... 54% of his cars, particularly, batteries, come from such "wornderful" conditions.

And then the CCP subsidizes its own car manufacturing business to copy Txslx's recipe to build its own.  Now its BYD is dumping into the world with cheap cars.

Thus, levy tariffs on others, but not on all his businesses! What a generous, empathic guy to serve the masses' interests....

Krystal Huang
Big leverage - big borrowing, big buying, enjoying big fame, and big excitment - having much fun in the US. than in South Africa.

Krystal Huang
Anotherdie-hard smartie .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpBc_Dfv58Q


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China threatens ‘total war’ with US if Trump doesn’t realise he’s made a mistake | Victor Gao
China threatens ‘total war’ with US if Trump doesn’t realise he’s made a mistake | Victor Gao

Krystal Huang
Tariff Show, including penquins/seals.... https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=2243605736085745

Krystal Huang
Hit hard. Thou shall not be richer than the king... His royal highnesses will come to harvest this huge wave of stock market profits...

Krystal Huang
This is a meme from the ccp regime foreseeing the future of the maga world....
Quite offensive, isn't it? https://www.facebook.com/TheOther98/videos/9854406537912938

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2jTztojVnRU 

Krystal Huang

Over four decades. China has experienced a remarkable rise in living standards, alongside a tremendous increase in inequalities. China now has the 2nd-largest number of billionaires globally, with the top 10% owning 68% of the country’s wealth, compared to 70% in the USA. These two big countries compete everything, particularly the scale of money and power concentration.

Personally, I hope the majority working population in China can enjoy their hard earned outcome, but in reality, the social class and regional inequality are exponetionally widening.

Over four decades. China has experienced a remarkable rise in living standards, alongside a tremendous increase in inequalities. China now has the 2nd-largest number of billionaires globally, with the top 10% owning 68% of the country’s wealth, compared to 70% in the USA. These two big countries compete everything, particularly the scale of money and power concentration.

One major difference is that one dominates the national wealth in a small group of the One Party CCP regime's high rank-n-file/corrupt bureaucrats of the publiburo, who eagerly transport/hide money, valuable assets/wealth in other advanced countries. Heavily spending on military expansion is another cause, so as to feed the Silk Road Initiative creating the global hegemony is another big investment. Thus, more than one billion average people share 6% of the national wealth. That is the main reason why the internal consumption rate is constantly in low condition. Meanwhile, the other one with the world highest income/wealth inequality seems tolerating the dire condition when the masses are fed with forced oversoncumption via media control and the political manipulation of the super-capitalists ... A relevant article for reference:  https://wid.world/.../chinas-contemporary-paradox-rising.../


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China’s contemporary paradox: rising inequality, falling support for redistribution - WID - World Inequality Database
China’s contemporary paradox: rising inequality, falling support for redistribution - WID - World Inequality Database

April 6 (Sn,) 2025 Learning from sayings #115 Will this be a created Stockholm Syndrome tactic? 先痛揍, 再憐憫, 感激涕零如謝神...