Deng Xiaoping

 https://www.quora.com/How-did-China-surpass-South-Korea-and-Japanese-firms-to-become-the-leader-in-display-panel-manufacturing-industry/answer/Kanthaswamy-Balasubramaniam

In 1983, China had picture tubes made locally and also picture tubes imported from Japan for their State manufactured TV brands

The Japanese imports were top class and the Chinese Picture Tubes were low low quality

Chinese families would save longer to buy Japanese and scoff at the Chinese product

So the Chinese Party members advised to close down the Chinese factory making picture tubes and negotiate with Japan on reducing prices of imports

Deng Xiaoping said they had to better the production of Picture Tubes and match Japanese Quality and beat it

The Chinese party members reacted like how most Indians like Balaji Viswanathan and friends would react

They said:

We have to be Practical

We are an Agrarian Country

We have so many poor people

We can't compare ourselves with Japan

Luckily Deng had power and commanded what he wanted and weeded out most people and retained only those he felt could carry out his vision.

government lies

 

https://www.hoover.org/research/californias-high-speed-rail-was-fantasy-its-inception

California’s HSR is perhaps the greatest infrastructure failure in the history of the country. And the reason it failed is because of a gross failure of state governance, one on such a grand scale that it is nothing short of a betrayal of Californians.

The betrayal dates back to the project’s inception. A report by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) found that the program’s 2008 business plan—which had been legally required to be submitted to the state legislature on September 1, 2008 but was not released until after the bond issue was voted—was deficient. The plan did not present statistics on train capacity, forecasts of segment service levels, how funds would be secured, how costs would be distributed by system segment, an operating break-even point, what analytical methods were used to forecast ridership, expected completion dates for environmental review and construction, and how risks would be mitigated.

Imagine a business plan without discussion of future funding, project capacity, demand at the product (segment) level, how costs would be allocated, or how risks would be mitigated. The 2008 business plan was anything but a business plan. Voters approved $9.95 billion in bond financing for a dream, not a vetted project. And like most dreams, California high-speed rail has turned out to be a fantasy.

If the plan had been submitted by the required date—more than two months before the election—then these deficiencies would have come to light. Instead, voters trusted those whom they elected and voted to tax themselves to fund a project that was never going to be feasible. They trusted that California’s state government was capable of spending their tax dollars effectively. At one time, California governance was among the best in the country. Our state government created and built capital projects efficiently and quickly. In the 1960s, such trust was warranted. It no longer is.

reflections on the need to use physical violence as an African American woman

https://repository.upenn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/6907f0b8-fd01-4525-9bbe-20f6cfc7cd7f/content

Andrea, 25, was harassed by another female student since her freshmen year in college because of her relationship with a male classmate. By Andrea’s junior year she had endured multiple episodes of relational aggression and two verbal altercations with the female student.

While the situation was the typical girlfriend/boyfriend drama, Andrea did not want to fight the female student but got tired of the harassment and decided to fight as she felt she had no other choice. Because the incident was premeditated, the consequence Andrea received was expulsion from the university. Here is a segment of the events that led to the altercation:

…So this was September of my junior year, it was around my birthday weekend, it was my birthday weekend. I had friends come up from Delaware, around this time at the school, it wasn’t a pep rally we had some type of function. I can’t remember exactly what it was but a lot of people were there so you could have your off campus people come in or whatever the case may be. 

As I’m walking, after the party is over, as I’m walking back to one of my friends’ dorm rooms, she’s walking behind me like, swinging behind my head as if she’s going to hit me. What she didn’t know was I had two of my friends behind her, and they didn’t say anything because they wanted to see what exactly it was she was going to do. 

So that was my breaking point at that time because now, I don’t know what you’re thinking and in my mind I’m thinking eventually you’re going to get me, so before you get me, now I’m saying to myself I have to get you first. So we actually were on our way to get something to eat and one of her friends said oh is the party going to be in room 207, so I said okay great, I think that’s where she lives at. 

Mind you by this point in time, I’m not living on campus I’m commuting back and forth between Lincoln University and Delaware. So I said when we come back, I got something for her. We came back from getting something to eat, changed my clothes and everything and this was where I got myself in trouble because by this time everything that I’m doing is premeditated, changed my clothes and everything. 

I say I’m going to go to room 207 and I’m going to see if she’s there, knock on the door, she opened it, my friend hit her first, and we just started fighting and that’s how the fight happened…With that I ended up getting assault charges, battery charges, so I ended up with one count of misdemeanor for assault, they tried to add on some robbing, some robbing, I had to ask my friends, did y’all steal something? 

Because I didn’t understand you see, that’s the thing, not being knowledgeable I didn’t know that it was going to be to that magnitude of us getting in trouble, but because we entered into their room they automatically put that down…

…I actually did talk to one of the administrative officers, somebody that my mom knew and he told me Andrea, he was like, I wish you would have come to me at the beginning when this first was an issue so then that way we could have been able to resolve [this]. Because now you are telling me all these things she’s done to you from your freshmen year until now, it’s not going to matter because you look like the bad guy because you approached her. 

You went to her dorm room…and it didn’t help that all my friends were there, not to jump her, they were there to celebrate my birthday but because they were there, it looked like I called them up to say hey listen, we need to go jump this girl and it wasn’t worth it, I ended up getting kicked out of school…

gallium

  What is gallium?

Gallium is a chemical element with the symbol Ga and atomic number 31. It’s a soft, silvery metal that sits in group 13 of the periodic table, below aluminum.

  Is it a rare earth?

No, gallium is not a rare earth element. It’s a metal in group 13 of the periodic table, classified as a post-transition metal, alongside aluminum and indium. 

  What is it used for?

Electronics: Gallium arsenide and gallium nitride are vital for semiconductors in LEDs, solar cells, 5G telecom, and high-frequency circuits. For example, gallium-based chips power smartphones, satellites, and military radar systems.

  Where does it comes from?

China ~90% (630 metric tons)

Russia ~5% (35 metric tons)

Japan ~3% (21 metric tons)

South Korea ~1% (7 metric tons)

  What kind of ore is it found in?

Bauxite, Primary source (~95%) Aluminum ore; contains 10–50 ppm gallium.

NED fomenting revolutions

 https://www.borderlens.com/2025/10/03/american-hand-in-nepals-gen-z-revolt-following-the-money-and-reading-the-signs/

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an American foundation established by Congress in 1983 to provide funding to democracy-building efforts overseas, steps into the spotlight of this investigation. Its FY2024 Asia Grant Listings provide dazzling details. A $65,000 grant with the title Promoting Youth Civic Engagement and Movement Building was allotted to set up youth centers of civic education and outreach. Another, very much bigger, $135,000 entry funded Strengthening Youth Participation in Advocacy and Reform Campaigns, with specific allocations to training and coordination of young democracy movement activists. A $20,000 grant concentrated on Developing New Media Strategies in Support of Democracy and Human Rights, training young influencers on digital security and platform usage, while connecting global networks across boundaries.

In the meantime, $71,250 was spent on Strengthening Media Coverage of Democracy Issues to widen digital reporting and video coverage of governance and rights. Lastly, another round of $65,000 was aimed at Facilitating Access to Justice for Human Rights Defenders, establishing online legal support centers and documentation mechanisms. In addition to these, the Asia infographic within the FY24 pages of NED showed Nepal’s overall allotment to amount to $1,741,377, a substantial amount within the context of its limited civic space.

None of these entries say “regime change” outright. But when mapped against what unfolded in September, the overlap is striking. Discord-based organizing cells echo the movement building workshops. Viral protest videos mirror the new media strategies grants. Polished livestreams and citizen documentaries recall the strengthened media coverage line items. The digital safety trainings resonate with encrypted messaging groups that sustained protest communication. Taken together, these grants look less like unrelated workshops and more like scaffolding for a movement, quietly assembled and ready to be activated once a crisis broke.

Fauci funded GOF

https://nypost.com/2023/06/14/us-taxpayers-funded-2-million-for-research-in-wuhan-report/

Trade wars

 

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/brazilian-soybeans-and-chinas-food-security/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1910197874693976503.html