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thinktankie commented on CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions   tibetanreview.net/70th-pa... · Posted by u/drocer88
thinktankie · 4 years ago
A reminder of how great life was for Tibetans under the feudal, theocratic serfdom of the lamas [1].

[1] “In old Tibet there were small numbers of farmers who subsisted as a kind of free peasantry, and perhaps an additional 10,000 people who composed the “middle-class” families of merchants, shopkeepers, and small traders. Thousands of others were beggars. There also were slaves, usually domestic servants, who owned nothing. Their offspring were born into slavery. 15 The majority of the rural population were serfs. Treated little better than slaves, the serfs went without schooling or medical care, They were under a lifetime bond to work the lord's land--or the monastery’s land--without pay, to repair the lord's houses, transport his crops, and collect his firewood. They were also expected to provide carrying animals and transportation on demand.16 Their masters told them what crops to grow and what animals to raise. They could not get married without the consent of their lord or lama.”

“ The serfs were taxed upon getting married, taxed for the birth of each child and for every death in the family. They were taxed for planting a tree in their yard and for keeping animals. They were taxed for religious festivals and for public dancing and drumming, for being sent to prison and upon being released. Those who could not find work were taxed for being unemployed, and if they traveled to another village in search of work, they paid a passage tax. When people could not pay, the monasteries lent them money at 20 to 50 percent interest. Some debts were handed down from father to son to grandson. Debtors who could not meet their obligations risked being cast into slavery.20”

“There were handcuffs of all sizes, including small ones for children, and instruments for cutting off noses and ears, gouging out eyes, breaking off hands, and hamstringing legs. There were hot brands, whips, and special implements for disemboweling. The exhibition presented photographs and testimonies of victims who had been blinded or crippled or suffered amputations for thievery. There was the shepherd whose master owed him a reimbursement in yuan and wheat but refused to pay. So he took one of the master’s cows; for this he had his hands severed. Another herdsman, who opposed having his wife taken from him by his lord, had his hands broken off.”

- http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html

thinktankie commented on Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz   theregister.com/2021/08/1... · Posted by u/Dotnaught
trasz · 4 years ago
Given the current state of affairs it’s hard not to assume this is just another piece of anti-Huawei propaganda.
thinktankie · 4 years ago
Couldn’t agree more. The only backdoors ever found in Huawei equipment were those installed by the NSA themselves.

[1] ”… even as the United States made a public case about the dangers of buying from Huawei, classified documents show that the National Security Agency was creating its own back doors — directly into Huawei’s networks.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-c...

[2] “…an even bigger concern is that with the growing ubiquity of Huawei products, the NSA's own surveillance network could grow dark in areas where the equipment is used.

For that reason, as the latest Snowden revelations showed last week, the spy agency reportedly hacked Huawei as part of an operation launched in 2007. The plan involved stealing source code for some of Huawei's products in the hope of finding vulnerabilities. Such security holes could allow the NSA to exploit the products and spy on traffic in countries where Huawei equipment is used -- such as Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya, and Cuba.”

https://www.wired.com/2014/03/how-huawei-became-nsa-nightmar...

thinktankie commented on US unleashes B-52s in bid to stem Taliban advance   thetimes.co.uk/article/us... · Posted by u/drocer88
rich_sasha · 4 years ago
85% of Afghans have “no sympathy for the Taliban”, never mind support them. Not really a strong mandate, democratic or otherwise: https://asiafoundation.org/publication/afghanistan-in-2019-a...
thinktankie · 4 years ago
Ah, The Asia Foundation, a very reliable source of authentic Afghan opinions.

"The Asia Foundation (TAF), a Central Intelligence Agency proprietary, was established in 1954 to undertake cultural and educational activities on behalf of the United States Government in ways not open to official U.S. agencies."[17]

The Asia Foundation is an outgrowth of the Committee for a Free Asia, which was founded by the U.S. government in 1951.[18] CIA funding and support of the Committee for a Free Asia and the Asia Foundation were assigned the CIA code name "Project DTPILLAR".[19]

In 1954, the Committee for a Free Asia was renamed the Asia Foundation (TAF) and incorporated in California[20] as a private, nominally non-governmental organization devoted to promoting democracy, rule of law, and market-based development in post-war Asia.

In the 1950s, the Asia Foundation “clandestinely supported anti-Communist motion picture industry personnel, ranging from producers, directors, and technicians to critics, writers, and general intellectuals in many parts of Asia.”[21]

Among the original founding officers of the board, there were several presidents/chairmen of large companies including T.S. Peterson, CEO of Standard Oil of California (now Chevron), Brayton Wilbur, president of Wilbur-Ellis Co., and J.D. Zellerbach, chairman of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation; four university presidents including Grayson Kirk from Columbia, J.E. Wallace Sterling of Stanford, and Raymond Allen from UCLA; prominent attorneys including Turner McBaine and A. Crawford Greene; Pulitzer Prize-winning writer James Michener; Paul Hoffman, the first administrator of the Marshall Plan in Europe; and several major figures in foreign affairs.

In 1966, Ramparts revealed that the CIA was covertly funding a number of organizations, including the Asia Foundation.[17] A commission authorized by President Johnson and led by Secretary of State Rusk determined that the Asia Foundation should be preserved and overtly funded by the US government. Following this change, The Asia Foundation was classified as a private, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization under the section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.[22] The Foundation began to restructure its programming, shifting away from its earlier goals of "building democratic institutions and encouraging the development of democratic leadership" toward an emphasis on Asian development as a whole (CRS 1983).”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asia_Foundation

thinktankie commented on China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor   spectrum.ieee.org/china-c... · Posted by u/Hoasi
sandworm101 · 4 years ago
Lies about industrial progress? About industrial capacity? That is exactly the sort of thing that China has lied about in the past. There is a great video of Putin laughing as a minister talks about all the pork they export to indonesia. These sorts of lies are normal for such nations. Nobody takes them too seriously, especially those telling them.
thinktankie · 4 years ago
> “These sorts of lies are normal for such nations”

“I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.”

-Mike Pompeo, former CIA director and U.S Secretary of State [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/6RmEsPE7iq0?t=9

thinktankie commented on China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor   spectrum.ieee.org/china-c... · Posted by u/Hoasi
tpmx · 4 years ago
That would be awesome, but unfortunately the CCP have proven to us that we can't trust their word.
thinktankie · 4 years ago
Thank goodness China’s energy policy is not contingent on whether or not tpmx of Hackernews believes them or not.
thinktankie commented on PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter   reddit.com/r/europe/comme... · Posted by u/ChemSpider
ompaLompa · 4 years ago
Nope but nice diversion. Clearly I triggered a filter looking for propaganda keywords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide wikipedia is blocked in china. Please refute the 477 sources at the bottom of the page individually.

The holocaust happened, the Uyghur genocide is still happening.

thinktankie · 4 years ago
I’ve seen all of these sources a million times. They all, without fail, link directly or indirectly back to Adrian Zenz, ASPI, or some other Washington D.C based think tank or “NGO” like NED. They’ll also throw in the occasional victim testimony from the same handful of Uyghur “survivors” whose stories change every other time they tell it.

Just one example. Here [1], an Uyghur survivor said she “did not personally see violence” yet in her book [2], she suddenly describes witnessing everything from gang rapes to organ harvesting to torture. There are countless other examples of inconsistencies like this.

My final word on this is that if there is indeed a genocide going on, it must be the only genocide in history where the allegedly genocided population has actually gone up [3].

Anyways, believe what you will. I wrote this response mainly for the benefit of people who still remember the lies that led up to the invasion of Iraq, not for people like you whose minds are already set.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-everyone-was-s...

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9573113/Survivor-Ch...

[3] https://original.antiwar.com/porter/2021/02/21/us-state-depa...

thinktankie commented on PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter   reddit.com/r/europe/comme... · Posted by u/ChemSpider
thinktankie · 4 years ago
Source: Adrian Zenz or some other US military industrial complex sponsored think-tank like ASPI [1].

Very reliable, trust me, you can trust them.

[1] https://www.aspi.org.au/sponsors

thinktankie commented on One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps   theatlantic.com/the-uyghu... · Posted by u/pseudolus
bsd44 · 4 years ago
I remember watching video footage of fabricated camps in the Balkan wars made by CNN and BCC in the mid 90s (I forgot the name of the video hosting website that was popular back then), following years of similar articles. Nothing changed really, people are as dumb as they ever were and even easier to manipulate nowadays.

Americans and their allies are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Middle East alone in the last twenty years or so, not counting their military orgies since the end of the II. world war. However China bad, Russia bad. Israel kills 66 children in just 4 days. No problem for the US and its allies. China bad. Russia bad.

This sort of media brainwashing will continue until there's nobody sane left to oppose the establishment in their military action against China in the distant future. No proof, no common sense, just..."news". From us, for us. Because nobody else matters. Vietnam fiasco can't happen again.

thinktankie · 4 years ago
Thank you. This is an important comment in a world lacking nuance and cynicism of mainstream media narratives.

I don’t know what it will take for Americans not to be mislead once again by evidence as flimsy as satellite images and vials of washing powder.

thinktankie commented on HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law   reuters.com/world/asia-pa... · Posted by u/awb
arafooo · 4 years ago
The same site also states Xi Jinping to be in an incestuous relationship with his own daughter. This is not credible.
thinktankie · 4 years ago
His employment and family history is a fact and has been reported elsewhere also. Hopefully Financial Times is credible enough for you [1].

Would you mind sharing the link to the article about Xi Jinping’s “incestuous relationship” with his daughter? I couldn’t find it.

[1] “The claims are driven by the fact that Mark Simon, Mr Lai’s right-hand man, is the son of a veteran CIA officer and has worked for US naval intelligence.”

https://www.ft.com/content/f1cb693e-2f44-11e4-a79c-00144feab...

thinktankie commented on HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law   reuters.com/world/asia-pa... · Posted by u/awb
thinktankie · 4 years ago
A reminder that Mark Simon, a senior figure at Next Media (owner of Apple Daily), has literally worked for the CIA and his father was a senior US intelligence officer. [1]

[1] https://www.citizendaily.news/mark-simon-jimmy-lais-right-ha...

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