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What a concept

Submitted by QMS on Fri, 08/22/2025 - 7:49am

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This from China Daily

Investment in social welfare to facilitate growth

Investment in public welfare is in line with the Government Work Report's emphasis
that "more funds and resources will be used to serve the people and meet their needs".

https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/27/WS67e4a4f4a3101d4e4dc2b168....

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 08/22/2025 - 8:20am

Somehow the Chinese figured out

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By efficiently investing in housing, health care, water and sewage
domestically, there are improvements in the general economy.
It would be a hard sell here.

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Zionism is a social disease

Submitted by QMS on Fri, 08/22/2025 - 8:29am

On another note

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FBI raids home of former Trump national security adviser John Bolton

What, ya think he may be dirty?

https://turnto10.com/news/nation-world/fbi-raids-john-bolton-maryland-be...

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 08/22/2025 - 8:57am

I'm sure he is dirty

@QMS
but when you're that high up the food chain nothing ever happens. I do hope I'm wrong on this one.

On another note
https://www.commondreams.org/news/alligator-alcatraz-shut-down

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 08/22/2025 - 9:12am

Yay, that is good news

@Socialprogressive
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Kudos to the environmental groups suing to
protect the wetlands. Stop the madness already.

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Zionism is a social disease

Submitted by usefewersyllables on Fri, 08/22/2025 - 10:40am

At this point,

I suspect that any new effort by the US government to provide for the needs of the common folk of the US would be limited to the establishment of a chain of budget assisted-suicide boutiques.

Anything other than "wholesale death" appears to be completely beyond them.

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

Submitted by soryang on Fri, 08/22/2025 - 10:54am

Morning QMS

I had written a comment on Jane Hayward's discussion of the Hukou system in China 1958 but lost it- (my mistake) I'll try again:

Reorganizing Chinese Labour: The Establishment of the Household
Registration System

It appears in Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour

The Hukou system restricts the ability of Chinese labor and rural workers to move between and among prefectures. Anyway she is center-right to right in bias, but I still think the chronology is worthwhile. People here are smart enough to discount that or reject her views outright. This one below in the same collection of essays is also worthwhile on Wuhan politics 1969 as the cultural revolution cooled off. The dynamics of labor, party cadre, bureaucracy, and PLA on labor politics.

‘Oppose Restoring the Old!’: The Culmination of the Rebel Workers’
Movement in Wuhan during the Cultural Revolution
Joel ANDREAS

I discount the right wing and cultural bias in Anglo-American histories. I want to know the chronology and basic facts. The scholars who are promoted in England and the US typically present an anti-China view. But in contemporary China the uplifting of 170 million "migrant" workers (among others uplifted) out of 270 million "migrants" from their home areas more or less is proof of the remarkable momentum of progress in China, and their concern for social welfare. Nothing succeeds like success. The authors share a faux concern for Chinese labor, but I still think their chronologies and accounts are still worthwhile. I wish scholars shared such a concern for labor in their own countries.

萬葉千聲 Sound of Leaves Teresa Teng

From Wikipedia track 8

"Sounds of Leaves" (萬葉千聲; Wan ye qian sheng) – 3:06
Music by Liu Jiachang (劉家昌), arranged by Lu Dongni (盧東尼)
Poem: "Jade House in Spring" (玉樓春 yu lou chun) by Ouyang Xiu (歐陽脩) from Song era

別後不知君遠近，觸目淒涼多少悶。

Since we parted, I don't know how far away you're going; imagining some desolate place makes me so sad.

As you travel further away, the letters are few; why do I ask of the fish hidden in vast seas.

Late at night, wind in the bamboo drum the rythym of autumn. Ten thousand leaves, each cry in bitterness.

So laying alone in bed, searching in my dreams; again the dream is not realized, the light extinguished.

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語必忠信行必正直

Submitted by QMS on Fri, 08/22/2025 - 11:35am

A beautiful poem

@soryang
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melancholy suits the present mood
thanks soryang

I had written a comment on Jane Hayward's discussion of the Hukou system in China 1958 but lost it- (my mistake) I'll try again: Reorganizing Chinese Labour: The Establishment of the Household Registration System It appears in Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour The Hukou system restricts the ability of Chinese labor and rural workers to move between and among prefectures. Anyway she is center-right to right in bias, but I still think the chronology is worthwhile. People here are smart enough to discount that or reject her views outright. This one below in the same collection of essays is also worthwhile on Wuhan politics 1969 as the cultural revolution cooled off. The dynamics of labor, party cadre, bureaucracy, and PLA on labor politics. ‘Oppose Restoring the Old!’: The Culmination of the Rebel Workers’ Movement in Wuhan during the Cultural Revolution Joel ANDREAS I discount the right wing and cultural bias in Anglo-American histories. I want to know the chronology and basic facts. The scholars who are promoted in England and the US typically present an anti-China view. But in contemporary China the uplifting of 170 million "migrant" workers (among others uplifted) out of 270 million "migrants" from their home areas more or less is proof of the remarkable momentum of progress in China, and their concern for social welfare. Nothing succeeds like success. The authors share a faux concern for Chinese labor, but I still think their chronologies and accounts are still worthwhile. I wish scholars shared such a concern for labor in their own countries. 萬葉千聲 Sound of Leaves Teresa Teng From Wikipedia track 8 "Sounds of Leaves" (萬葉千聲; Wan ye qian sheng) – 3:06 Music by Liu Jiachang (劉家昌), arranged by Lu Dongni (盧東尼) Poem: "Jade House in Spring" (玉樓春 yu lou chun) by Ouyang Xiu (歐陽脩) from Song era 別後不知君遠近，觸目淒涼多少悶。 Since we parted, I don't know how far away you're going; imagining some desolate place makes me so sad. As you travel further away, the letters are few; why do I ask of the fish hidden in vast seas. Late at night, wind in the bamboo drum the rythym of autumn. Ten thousand leaves, each cry in bitterness. So laying alone in bed, searching in my dreams; again the dream is not realized, the light extinguished.

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Zionism is a social disease