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This story about 'pandemic law' violators being paraded through the streets in Baise City in Guangxi's Jingxi County is interesting for two reasons.

1. The obvious - it's a frightening Brave New World style humiliation of dissenters re the new normal bio-state.

2. There were adverse reactions to it in China.

Beijing News: It is clear that it has gone far beyond the scope of discipline in accordance with the law. Even for the purpose of epidemic prevention, measures that seriously violate the spirit of ruling the country by law cannot be allowed to reappear, and relevant targeted punishments cannot be separated from the scope of the rule of law.

Netizens also criticized the parade as harking back the Cultural Revolution. Shows that even in China, there's not unquestioning support for bio-state enforcement.

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I wasn't sure where to post this, but here seems about the most relevant thread.

I'm in the middle of this video which looks at all kinds of China coercion, but the one that strikes me the most is that levied on the Australian swimmer.

The extent to which the CCP came down on this family for a relatively minor, what, infraction? Oh, wait, I mean the exercising of one's right to speak freely, in their own country, in this case Australia, is bizarre.

But here's my point. Flip this. If they come down this hard on this sort of thing, consider how they treat those 'subjects' that please them and who they want to promote, such as our western expert doctors.

They must make them feel like absolute gods, masters of the universe, invincible.

I've had some correspondence with the academic from that video, Clive Hamilton. He's the guy who's probably done the most to map out the United Front Work Department. To understand how the CCP's coercion operates around the world, the UFWD is key. Their simple goal is to influence the influencers through a combination of money and flattery - and isolate/punish those who fail to comply.

This model is especially prevalent in academic institutions. As you point out, it explains the extraordinary betrayal of all scientific principles that we've seen from academics around the world when it comes to Covid.

Virtually all Australian unis have fallen under this influence. Two of them have brazenly flaunted their pro-CCP activism. University of Sydney (home of Eddie Holmes) was on record early as saying questioning the origin of Covid was racism, while Uni of Qld actually expelled one its students (Drew Pavlou) for organizing pro-HK/anti-CCP protests.

My analysis suggests that it's more than nefarious CCP operatives duping nice western scientists though. Apart from pure greed, many of these academics are on the same ideological page as the CCP. The key alignment is control of centralized data and a self-surety that they, as elites, know what's best for the common-people.

This surety gives them a self-appointed license to lie about whatever because they've told themselves they're doing it for a higher-purpose - which always, 100% of the time, coincides with what's best for their own financial/power interests.

The consequences of that are incredible. A global network of powerful academics/institutions actively lying to the masses (which they see as some kind of single, soulless entity) in order to entrench their unaccountable power.

For me, this is WW3.

That's a brilliant synopsis. Incredibly frightening too.

... many of these academics are on the same ideological page as the CCP. The key alignment is control of centralized data and a self-surety that they, as elites, know what's best for the common-people.

This surety gives them a self-appointed license to lie about whatever because they've told themselves they're doing it for a higher-purpose - which always, 100% of the time, coincides with what's best for their own financial/power interests.

I see an analogy of this happening in the US.

For me, this is WW3.

It does appear to be so. With more and more countries moving towards extremism, the question is, how do they pull back from that? How do they pull back from moving into either authoritarianism or a failed state?

Has that ever happened in history without war? One could argue that Taiwan does serve as an example of how a country moved peacefully from authoritarianism to a full democracy, but that was during a period of extreme economic growth and external support. We're now in a world economy teetering on collapse with multiple influences pushing it over the edge.

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