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 ...
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.)
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.
Boy! That was uplifting! /s
Humiliating is more like it.
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.
***** 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
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.
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.
oops I meant to say “body odor.”
Washington, heck - he’s in the White House.
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
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.
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.
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