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Historian's Perspective on Vulcan Time Zones

This was supposed to be a quick response to something on a Discord. As you can see it turned into 750 words on the history of Earth time measurement, time zones, and my opinion of how and why Vulcans would use time zones. If you're into Vulcan vs Human cultural minutia, enjoy diving down this rabbit hole with me!

Vulcans, with their canon innate sense of time, would in fact still have time zones - but they wouldn’t use them the way we do today.

Here on Earth, time zones were a secondary effect of trains. Before trains, people had a lot of different means of telling time, but they mostly revolved around dawn and dusk. You can still see that today in Jewish and Muslim timekeeping. We’re in the month of Ramadan right now. Fasting is from LOCAL dawn to local dusk, not the time of those events in Mecca. Shabbat starts at local dusk on Friday night. The whole idea of tying human time to precise minutes would be nonsensical for pretty much everyone living before the industrial revolution.

Hours also used to be variable in length, based around good old dawn and dusk. So for the Romans the “first hour” was literally the first hour after dawn. They divided the daylight into 12 hours (because Sumerian math is persistent AF). During summer, one “hour” was about 75 modern minutes long, while during winter, one hour was 45 minutes long. An hour was a division of daylight, not a collection of minutes.

Up until the industrial revolution this was fine. If you needed precise timing for a chemical reaction there were surprisingly accurate measuring devices, but those weren’t applied to everyday life. 

Christian church bells and Muslim Adhan calls to prayer followed the dawn to dusk modified hour system to let people know what time it was. In Christian literature, you find a ton of references to different churches hourly bells tolling for a solid 3-5 minutes back to back. 

It was part of the rhythm of the day. Many church clocks didn’t even have minute hands, because yo didn’t need them. In daily life, you honestly didn’t need to know anything more precise than “half” or maybe “quarter” past a specific hour.

Time zones as we know them were literally invented by train companies. It was the only way to ensure the trains ran on time. You can find tons of contemporary writing about how “two of the clock” could mean damn near anything. If you’re trying to get meat butchered this morning in Chicago to New York city on quickly melting slabs of ice so it’ll arrive in time to be taken to shops and sold before it spoils, you really need your trains to run on a dependable schedule. 

So I say:

1) Vulcans would have time zones because they are the most logical means of scheduling long distance transportation and distribution. 

2) Local time has little to do with time zones. Vulcans in canon have an innate sense of time in a way we humans do not, so really, the point of time zones is just ensuring transportation and distribution networks are efficient.

3) Nimoy infused a lot of Judaism into the lore of Vulcans. As such I think their innate time sense would also be tied to a dawn-to-dusk schedule. (The modern idea of starting a new “day” in the middle of a late night sleep cycle is very weird and totally ahistorical.)  Therefore Local time is still linked to dawn and dusk. It’s also useful to know what time dawn and dusk are for people halfway around the world. That way you can efficiently schedule meetings with them at mutually convenient times. Once more, we come back to time zones. 

If you want a real world example of how No Time Zones fucks you up, look at China. There is officially One Time Zone in all of China, even though geographically it would be cut into 9 if you followed the same lines everyone else uses. That means a normal meeting at 10 am for someone in Bejing is at what we would consider 1 am at the furthest point west. But 1 am is legally “10 am” for them. If you don’t have to deal with Bejing on the regular, then the clock numbers have zero correlation with the way people in those places actually live their lives. 

I suspect what a lot of people really object to is daylight savings time. 

Vulcans who use local dawn and dusk to define their days would find this equally nonsensical. 

Now if you want to get weird with it, you could make all VSA starships use ShiKhar Central Time, regardless of where the crew is from. 

[remyfire]

I think the funniest thing about Hawk being Like That is that Alan Alda has writers credits on the show. This man voluntarily made his character the most touch starved needy desperate person on the planet and that's so fucking insane of him. But also Mr Alda I would like to give you a little hug and a kiss for giving him to us because I love him with my whole heart. And don't even get me started on the fact that Hawkeye yelled to a general "I want to have your baby!" In literally the first season. Like Hawkeye my love not everyone needs to know you want to be pregnant 😂 And truly he deserves to be absolutely smothered with cuddles, everyone loves him and he loves everyone and I think it could help fix him.

Listen my Trap brain is always on, he's my man, I am thinking about him quite literally daily. And now that you reminded me of the priest line I'm gonna think of that too! Like Trapper my love what happened in your past? Did your parents give you that many names in hopes you'd be a priest? Did you pick one yourself for confirmation? Why did you keep all of the names despite seemingly abandoning the religion? I am peering at him like a bug under a microscope and there's nothing he can do about it.

That little coffee through line with Margret is so cute! Even though I'm sure it was unintentional on the show's part I definitely couldn't help but think of it and flash back to The Nurses in both the scenes in Temporary Duty and CAVE. Margaret and cups of coffee representing her character growth is honestly so sweet and I love it. Also ooohhhh self proclaimed Military Brat Margaret Houlihan realizing that the Army Way isn't the only way or even the best way, and the things that would DO to her. The realization that what she's learned her whole life isn't necessarily good, and having to contend with what that means for her and her career and her personality. And also having to face her father after that, because we see in Are You Now, Margaret? that she cares very much about disappointing him and even affecting his career. Would such a realization maybe help her become more of her own person that isn't living only to make her father proud and keep up the Houlihan name? Or is her desire to be a point of pride for her family more important to her than her personal development? Truly she's so fascinating to me. And it's definitely an interesting parallel with Mulcahy, both of them having something so deeply ingrained in them that it h u r t s when it's finally inevitably broken out.

Everyone in this show suffered enough in the narrative for several lifetimes but damn if I don't wanna give them a little bit more hardship to really crack them open and wrap up their character development in the way they deserve. I'll definitely give them softness and love but first they need a little bit of pain I think 😂

(Also I am officially onto season 8! I finished Goodbye Radar last night and was a Wreck. Man I love this show)

Okay hi again anon, sorry for making this sit while thinking too hard about Hawk and Beje and Trap things.

I swear that Alan did more to break and attempt to breed Hawk than any of us fanfic authors have ever done. I am not entirely convinced that this man didn't start getting the bends once he couldn't whump Hawk anymore and instead pivoted to writing fanfics for the old distant zines that popped up in the '80s. He probably has multiple AO3 accounts right now just churning out agonizing pain. Alan we know what you are.

I do hate that we got so little development for Trap compared to Beej but it's also delightful because it means all of us get to sit here and rotate him on a merry-go-round that goes faster and faster and never stops. Anything is possible. He's so INTERESTING!!! He's like half a guy! No matter what anyone says, they could probably make it work! And that means I am in fact slam dunking the religious trauma into him at breakneck speeds. Sorry, bud (lie).

I'm so glad you mentioned Are You Now Margaret because that's one of those underrated episodes that always has its teeth so deep in me. We learn so much about her so fast. Her big friend group!! She had so many people who loved her and who she loves enough that she refuses to endanger them even though she hasn't spoken to make in years!! The fact that she will give her father that kind of deference even though we all know in our bones that he doesn't deserve it! God, Margaret.

I love people like you who run in with a wrecking ball just absolute decimating all these characters that we know and love so that I can come in after in my little clown car with hot chocolate and blankets. I am a simple author. I know what my duty is here. And it's getting everybody laid by everybody else but ALSO giving them extreme amounts of aftercare and pillow nests ;v; We all share such a vital role in this ecosystem.

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olympic update: 2/6

hi everyone! if you didn’t already know, i’m a huge fan of the olympics (notice that my friendly kraken icon has some funky glasses now...) i love the sports and the spectacle, and it’s basically the only time you’ll catch me being a very patriotic american (lol). since the 2018 winter olympics, i’ve been making what is essentially a text newsletter for my friends, recapping what happened the day before. i’m doing the same this year, but i also remembered that i now have a tumblr blog where i post about sports, so why not share my updates with y’all? 

for the rest of the games, i’ll be sharing my daily recap of what happened in bejing, with medalists, event explanations, what to watch, and an updated medal count. it’ll mostly be about the bigger events, so if there’s a more niche sport you like and want to see covered (like my friend who wants curling updates), let me know and i’ll do my best to include it. these updates will also be pretty US-centric, so same deal, just let me know if there’s another country you want to see specifically. without further ado, let’s get to it!

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Yesterday was a busy day in Beijing, so here’s what happened:

Women’s snowboard slopestyle was quite eventful. Zoi Sadowski-Synott of New Zealand took gold with a set of jumps her opponents couldn’t match, earning the first ever medal for New Zealand at the Winter Olympics. Sadowski-Synott is also the only other woman to win Olympic slopestyle gold, after American Jamie Anderson had a disappointing set of runs and missed out on the three-peat. The Americans were not left off the podium, though. Julia Marino took silver, earning the US its first medal of these games. Australian Tess Coady earned bronze. And if you weren’t watching it last night, be sure to look up the clip of all the snowboarders piling into a group hug to congratulate each other!

The other big event last night was figure skating, with women’s short program and men’s free skate took the ice in the team event. The story of the night was 15 year old Russian Kamila Valiyeva, who had a performance as close to perfect as you could get, earning a remarkable score of 90.18 that blew past her nearest challenger’s 74.73. Her performance also helped Russia overtake the US in the team standings, especially as Americans Karen Chen and Vincent Zhou faltered in their skates. The US is mathematically guaranteed at least a medal, but it will be up to Madison Chock and Evan Bates’ free dance, Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier’s pairs free skate, and Karen Chen’s free skate to determine what that medal is.

Once again, the US routed Switzerland in women’s hockey. The 8-0 final score came off a shutout from Alex Cavallini and two goals each for Hilary Knight, Kelly Panek, and Jesse Compher.

Aleksander Bolshunov of Russia won gold in the men’s 30km skiathlon, earning the Russian Olympic Committee its first gold.

Johannes Ludwig of Germany won gold in men’s single luge. American Chris Mazdzer landed in eighth.

Kobayashi Ryoyu of Japan won gold in men’s normal hill ski jumping.

Jakara Anthony of Australia won gold in women’s freestyle skiing moguls. American Jaelin Kauf earned silver.

Nils van der Poel of Sweden won speed skating gold in the men’s 5000, coming from behind in his last two laps to defeat Patrick Roest of the Netherlands and setting a new Olympic record in the process. But his speed is probably the least interesting thing about van der Poel- he’s a speedskater who hates speedskating. After finishing 14th at the 2018 Olympics, van der Poel stopped skating, joined the Swedish army, and started running ultramarathons. As he said post-win, “When you are a professional athlete in a sport that sucks as much as speedskating sucks, you’ve got to find a way to make it suck a little less.” And here’s another sound bite. When asked if this was his last season, van der Poel said, “I’ve been trying to quit two times and I haven’t succeeded. I don’t think I’ll succeed this time either. Maybe.” If that isn’t a vibe.

Australia is making its first ever appearance in curling, and they got their first win yesterday, with the mixed doubles pair of Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt defeating Switzerland 9-6.

Meanwhile, also in curling, the US lost to Switzerland but takes on Great Britain later today in more mixed doubles round robin.

The men’s downhill event in alpine skiing was postponed to tonight after high winds stopped it from happening yesterday. Now we’ve got a skiing double header, with men’s downhill followed by women’s giant slalom (and the first appearance for Mikaela Shiffrin).

In other news, Elana Meyers Taylor, the gold medal favorite bobsledder, is out of quarantine, allowing her to get back to training for the two-woman and monobob events she will be competing in later.

Here’s today’s watch list (all times in EST): 

Mixed doubles curling- US vs Great Britain (8:05pm)

Figure skating team event- pairs free skate (8:15 pm)

Alpine skiing women’s giant slalom (8:30 pm)

Freestyle skiing women’s big air qualifying (8:30 pm)

Figure skating team event- free dance (9:30 pm)

Figure skating team event- women’s free skate (10:35 pm)

Alpine skiing men’s downhill (11 pm)

Men’s slopestyle finals (11 pm)

And medal count as of this morning:

Have a great day everyone!

(also gonna tag some friends who might find this interesting: @washyourdamnhands @sonnymilano​ @18minutemajor​ )

[zoti-arush]

How can I be more organised and get work done cause I'm SOO MESSY and unorganised and can't seem to complete anything i I start doing

Edhe un ashtu jam, which means qe je goxha imagjinative dhe je e aft po thjesht nuk ke the right motivation anymore for anything.

But, per fatin tend te mir un kam gjetur nje sitem qe funksionojn per mua dhe i will share it with you.

Mbaj notes ne celular dhe fillo perddore perdit notesin si aplikacion.

Esht shum me mir ti kesh idet e organizuara diku se sa ti kesh te hallakatura neper mendje.

Se kur ke shum mendime perton even t mendosh nga sasia e mendimeve qe te hallakaten neper kok.

Ato gjerat qe perton ti besh, futi ne nji list dhe beje si daily personal achievement.

Gjera qe do te permirsosh ne te ardhmen te vetja ose te punet qe ke esht gjithashtu nji good advancement method qe e perdor perdit.

Axhenda ditore esht prap super gje se e ke diten e organizuar dhe nuk rri tee mendosh ca te besh me perpara se lodhesh dhe e le per her tjeter.

Perdore imagjinaten e shfrenuar qe ke qe ta besh si loj me veten tende esht fun, te clirosh misione qe te rritesh ne nivel si njeri.

Try this.

No need to thank me just doing my job.

Klqr.

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  Down goes Jesus, up goes Xi. Twitter from lvv.com

  Eight is perfect harmony in Chinese tradition. If you ascend to live on the 8th Floor, you are especially blessed. So, learn these eight truths to rise above the ordinary crowd of news-followers.

1 The age of managerial imperialism in China.

We listened to President Xi Jinping’s entire speech to the Communist Party annual gathering. It was like listening to a managerial report. His game plan is managerial competence in aggressive suppression of domestic opponents and the attainment of international supremacy. He picked his internal circle for their managerial abilities and loyalty, not for their charisma. Don’t mistake this group as a bunch of ideologues. They use ideology to manage their people. But they could come to believe their own rhetoric resulting in an era of increasingly harsh treatment of religion..

Chinese Communist managers must adapt–“Sinicize”–religion to support the Chinese socialist society. At a recent meeting, the heads of the officially approved religious associations all vowed to fight “desinicization” in their religions. This means to fight the infiltration of any foreign ideas into Chinese religion.

2 The Xi personality cult is growing. He is being hailed as the “core leader,” which means that he can over-rule other leaders in the inner circle. Xi Jinping thought was recently enshrined along with Mao Zedong’s Thought in the Communist Party constitution. Mao was the founding leader of the People’s Republic of China.

Mao took on a god-like appearance in Chinese propaganda. The “Great Helmsman,” as he was called, thought that Chinese people were like sacks of potatoes who needed someone godlike to inspire them to action. In the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976, the Red Guards made Mao and Mao Thought the absolute touchstone of hope and judgment. Although that terrible episode soured Xi’s generation on such outlandish absolutist leaders, there is a constant temptation of dictatorial Chinese leaders to fall into the arms of popular adulation as a means of securing power. Mao is still counted as a “mystical presence” by many ordinary people. Taxi cab drivers sport Mao portraits hanging from their mirrors and tales of how his presence saved them in car wrecks. There are even Mao Temples and gargantuan icons scattered around the countryside areas of special significance in Mao’s biography.

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Although in the past Xi has denounced “personality cults” around Mao, the wave of tens of thousands of public portraits shouting his hosannas and other activities like teaching every school child about The Leader’s thought seems like a massive revival of a state-promoted religious cult. His and associates’ speeches have shown an inclination to the miraculous, at least in this-worldly terms:  in Hong Kong he predicted “new miracles” were possible and in Pakistan, his vice premier also called for the creation of “new miracles.” Worldly rhetoric, surely; verging on the divine, maybe some local officials will start to promote this trend.

Bob Fu, president of China Aid, which documents religious policy in China, is alarmed, He says that the Communist Party is seeking to “exert total control over all areas of life” of Chinese citizens. The official ideology of this total control will include an eradication of alternatives to atheism.

3 Big drive in some areas to replace Jesus with Xi as savior of the Chinese people. (see #4)

4 Blame for poverty is being put on religion, particularly Christianity, as an “opium of the people.”

Communists claim religion perpetuates poverty while Xi’s Thought will end it.

A Chinese social media account acclaimed Yugan’s Huangjinbu township Party cadres for their house-to-house visits with Christians to melt “the hard ice in their hearts” so that they were “transformed them from believing in religion to believing in the party.” The township is located in an area of the poor southeastern province of Jiangxi that is about ten percent or more Christian. After some warnings that their share of the poverty relief fund would be cut, they “voluntarily” got rid of their Bible verses and portraits of Jesus or of the Cross and put up Leader Xi’s portraits in their living rooms.

Qi Yan, the local Communist leader, told the South China Morning Post, “Many poor households have plunged into poverty because of illness in the family. Some resorted to believing in Jesus to cure their illnesses. But we tried to tell them that getting ill is a physical thing and that the people who can really help them are the Communist Party and General Secretary [of the Communist Party] Xi.” Qi added, “Many rural people are ignorant. They think God is their savior —After our cadres’ work, they’ll realize their mistakes and think: we should no longer rely on Jesus, but on the party for help.”

At the next Chinese New Year’s celebrations, party leaders hope that no more gospel couplets will be hung on the front doors. They plan on putting Leader Xi everywhere.

  5 Christianity is the religious movement most feared by the Chinese government.

“Appeal to a Higher Power” means Communism is an ersatz religion.

Dictionary definition of ersatz: being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation, i.e. ersatz turf or ersatz intellectuals. First used in 1871. Mirriam-Webster Dictionary

6 Communist apologetic for government corruption: religion did it!

Beijing Daily warns that “feudalistic superstitious activities” lead to corruption.  “Superstition is thought pollution and spiritual anesthesia that cannot be underestimated and must be thoroughly purged…As an official, if you spend all your time on crooked ways, sooner or later you’ll come to grief.”

Li Chuncheng, former deputy party honcho in Sichuan, used feng shui (pronounced feng swey) to find the crooked path. Feng shui is a traditional method of divining the good and bad influences of one’s environment. Li used it to guide him in his corrupt career of bribery and abuse of power for which he was jailed for 13 years in 2015.

Security chief Zhou Yongkang, who made all other officials quake in their boots, used occult sources for his power. He was jailed for life for leaking state secrets to qi-gong expert, fortune-teller and healer Cao Yongzheng, known as the “Xinjiang Sage” of far western China. In the 1990s, a People’s Daily article claimed that with a single look at the face he could tell a person’s future and with a single touch could heal incurable illnesses.

Chinese courts say that Cao was also able to pocket several billion dollars in “illegal profits.” He very well might be the highest paid fortune teller in world history. Supposedly, he is in custody of the Chinese government after testifying against the security chief Zhou.

7 In sheer numbers and ferocity, the Chinese government has become the leader of an international atheist movement. Renewed effort to teach and demand atheism.

“Communism begins from the outset with atheism,” said an article this Fall in People’s Daily.

Beijing Daily, the official voice of the government, warned Communist Party officials this Fall not to “pry to god or worship Buddha” because good Communists are atheists.

8 Religion is “soaking into China” from outside influences, claims the government.

In an editorial in the People’s Daily, Wang Zuoan, the head of China’s religious affairs bureau, approved the new rules approved last winter to restrict religion because of “The foreign use of religion to infiltrate [China] intensifies by the day and religious extremist thought is spreading in some areas.”

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  8 things you need to know about current oppression of religion by the Chinese government

Eight is perfect harmony in Chinese tradition. If you ascend to live on the 8th Floor, you are especially blessed.

8 things you need to know about current oppression of religion by the Chinese government Eight is perfect harmony in Chinese tradition. If you ascend to live on the 8th Floor, you are especially blessed.

[squarwell-breakingnews]

Coronavirus: China extends lockdowns as Covid outbreak worsens - Times of India

Coronavirus: China extends lockdowns as Covid outbreak worsens – Times of India

BEJING: China’s daily local Covid infection rate soared to its highest level since early May, with lockdowns sweeping across the nation. There were 3,800 new cases reported for Thursday, a 22% jump from the day before and the highest since the country emerged from its biggest outbreak in the spring, according to the National Health Commission. A flareup in the southern factory hub Guangzhou…

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Coronavirus: China extends lockdowns as Covid outbreak worsens - Times of India

Coronavirus: China extends lockdowns as Covid outbreak worsens – Times of India

BEJING: China’s daily local Covid infection rate soared to its highest level since early May, with lockdowns sweeping across the nation. There were 3,800 new cases reported for Thursday, a 22% jump from the day before and the highest since the country emerged from its biggest outbreak in the spring, according to the National Health Commission. A flareup in the southern factory hub Guangzhou…

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China Reports First Omicron Covid Case In Lead Up To Bejing Winter Olympics

China Reports First Omicron Covid Case In Lead Up To Bejing Winter Olympics

The Omicron case in Tianjin in the first in China’s mainland. (File) Beijing: China has reported its first case of the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant, state media said Monday. Authorities in the northern city of Tianjin confirmed the case in an individual who entered the country from an undisclosed overseas location, according to the Tianjin Daily newspaper. The asymptomatic patient…

[starzec]

My Becva Interiors zine is among other photobooks/zines shortlisted for Polish Photo Publication of The Year award, together with three other zines co-published with our small collective Azimuth Press – Krzysiek Sienkiewicz “The Pistol”, Piotrek Bekas “Tuja” and Jan Rogalo “The Pros and Cons of Daily Commute When Living in Bejing, China”. Rad!

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H&M and Nike are facing a boycott in China

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H&M and Nike are facing a boycott in China

H&M and Nike said months ago that they were concerned about allegations that forced labor has been used to produce cotton in Xinjiang, but they’ve now been caught in an escalating firestorm that has erupted on Chinese social media over the past day.

Swedish multinational H&M, the world’s second-largest clothing retailer, has been pulled from major e-commerce stores in China, and a prominent celebrity has cut ties with the brand. Nike (NKE) and Adidas, among other brands, have also faced heavy criticism.

The outrage comes after a group linked to the ruling Communist Party posted a statement from H&M about Xinjiang on the Chinese social media site Weibo. In the statement, which was released in September, H&M said that it was “deeply concerned” over reports of forced labor in the production of cotton in Xinjiang.

Human rights groups have repeatedly accused Beijing of detaining Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in the region in “re-education” camps and using them as forced labor, which they claim is part of global tech and retail supply chains, either directly or indirectly.

Recent sanctions from the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union over Xinjiang have sparked a renewed pushback from the Chinese government, which calls the camps “vocational training centers” designed to combat poverty and religious extremism.

In the viral social media post about H&M, China’s Communist Youth League denounced the company’s stance.

“Spreading rumors to boycott Xinjiang cotton, while trying to make a profit in China? Wishful thinking!” the post said.

The comments sparked a flood of criticism directed at H&M from Chinese social media users, including a viral hashtag which was read more than 1 billion times: “I support Xinjiang cotton.”

“H&M clothes are rags,” one of the most-liked Weibo comments said. “They don’t deserve our Xinjiang cotton!”

Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba (BABA) and JD.com (JD) even removed all H&M products from sale following the backlash.

China’s Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily voiced its outrage at H&M, saying on its official Weibo account that “China’s Xinjiang cotton is white and flawless.” State broadcaster CCTV accused foreign brands of “earning big profits in China but attacking the country with lies at the same time.”

Actor Huang Xuan, who had been a brand ambassador for H&M since last April, publicly said he would no longer work with the company.

In a statement posted Wednesday night on Weibo, H&M said that it has always maintained high standards, as well as transparency, in its global supply chain.

“[This] does not represent any political position … H&M Group always respects Chinese consumers. We are committed to long-term investment and development in China,” the statement said. The company added it was working with “more than 350 manufacturers” in China. H&M declined a request from Appradab Business for additional comment.

Within hours, the criticism directed at H&M had spread to Nike. The company had said nearly a year ago that it was “concerned about reports of forced labor in, and connected to, Xinjiang.”

“Nike does not source products from [Xinjiang] and we have confirmed with our contract suppliers that they are not using textiles or spun yarn from the region,” the statement said.

Soon after the Nike statement appeared on Weibo, Chinese singer and actor Wang Yibo said that he had cut ties with Nike and “firmly opposes any remarks and actions that smear China.” Nike did not immediately respond to a request from Appradab Business for comment.

Over the past year, a number of Western companies have publicly announced they will examine their global supply chains to ensure they are free from Xinjiang cotton products after allegations of forced labor involving the region’s Muslim Uyghur people.

In December, the US government announced it would block all imports of cotton from Xinjiang over concerns they “may have been made by slave labor in some of the most egregious human rights violations existing today.”

Concerns about Xinjiang have also exacerbated tensions between China and many major Western powers. In the past week, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union have all put in place new sanctions on officials in Xinjiang over their role in alleged human rights abuses there. Bejing responded with its own sanctions on EU politicians and entities, saying they were “maliciously spreading lies.”

Meanwhile, as the social media backlash now spreads to other major Western brands, some companies in China have begun to prominently advertise their use of cotton made in Xinjiang. Chinese brand Anta Sports said in a statement that it would continue to use cotton from Xinjiang, while Japanese retailer Muji began to advertise products made with “Xinjiang cotton.”

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  Down goes Jesus, up goes Xi. Twitter from lvv.com

  Eight is perfect harmony in Chinese tradition. If you ascend to live on the 8th Floor, you are especially blessed. So, learn these eight truths to rise above the ordinary crowd of news-followers.

1 The age of managerial imperialism in China.

We listened to President Xi Jinping’s entire speech to the Communist Party annual gathering. It was like listening to a managerial report. His game plan is managerial competence in aggressive suppression of domestic opponents and the attainment of international supremacy. He picked his internal circle for their managerial abilities and loyalty, not for their charisma. Don’t mistake this group as a bunch of ideologues. They use ideology to manage their people. But they could come to believe their own rhetoric resulting in an era of increasingly harsh treatment of religion..

Chinese Communist managers must adapt–“Sinicize”–religion to support the Chinese socialist society. At a recent meeting, the heads of the officially approved religious associations all vowed to fight “desinicization” in their religions. This means to fight the infiltration of any foreign ideas into Chinese religion.

2 The Xi personality cult is growing. He is being hailed as the “core leader,” which means that he can over-rule other leaders in the inner circle. Xi Jinping thought was recently enshrined along with Mao Zedong’s Thought in the Communist Party constitution. Mao was the founding leader of the People’s Republic of China.

Mao took on a god-like appearance in Chinese propaganda. The “Great Helmsman,” as he was called, thought that Chinese people were like sacks of potatoes who needed someone godlike to inspire them to action. In the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976, the Red Guards made Mao and Mao Thought the absolute touchstone of hope and judgment. Although that terrible episode soured Xi’s generation on such outlandish absolutist leaders, there is a constant temptation of dictatorial Chinese leaders to fall into the arms of popular adulation as a means of securing power. Mao is still counted as a “mystical presence” by many ordinary people. Taxi cab drivers sport Mao portraits hanging from their mirrors and tales of how his presence saved them in car wrecks. There are even Mao Temples and gargantuan icons scattered around the countryside areas of special significance in Mao’s biography.

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Although in the past Xi has denounced “personality cults” around Mao, the wave of tens of thousands of public portraits shouting his hosannas and other activities like teaching every school child about The Leader’s thought seems like a massive revival of a state-promoted religious cult. His and associates’ speeches have shown an inclination to the miraculous, at least in this-worldly terms:  in Hong Kong he predicted “new miracles” were possible and in Pakistan, his vice premier also called for the creation of “new miracles.” Worldly rhetoric, surely; verging on the divine, maybe some local officials will start to promote this trend.

Bob Fu, president of China Aid, which documents religious policy in China, is alarmed, He says that the Communist Party is seeking to “exert total control over all areas of life” of Chinese citizens. The official ideology of this total control will include an eradication of alternatives to atheism.

3 Big drive in some areas to replace Jesus with Xi as savior of the Chinese people. (see #4)

4 Blame for poverty is being put on religion, particularly Christianity, as an “opium of the people.”

Communists claim religion perpetuates poverty while Xi’s Thought will end it.

A Chinese social media account acclaimed Yugan’s Huangjinbu township Party cadres for their house-to-house visits with Christians to melt “the hard ice in their hearts” so that they were “transformed them from believing in religion to believing in the party.” The township is located in an area of the poor southeastern province of Jiangxi that is about ten percent or more Christian. After some warnings that their share of the poverty relief fund would be cut, they “voluntarily” got rid of their Bible verses and portraits of Jesus or of the Cross and put up Leader Xi’s portraits in their living rooms.

Qi Yan, the local Communist leader, told the South China Morning Post, “Many poor households have plunged into poverty because of illness in the family. Some resorted to believing in Jesus to cure their illnesses. But we tried to tell them that getting ill is a physical thing and that the people who can really help them are the Communist Party and General Secretary [of the Communist Party] Xi.” Qi added, “Many rural people are ignorant. They think God is their savior —After our cadres’ work, they’ll realize their mistakes and think: we should no longer rely on Jesus, but on the party for help.”

At the next Chinese New Year’s celebrations, party leaders hope that no more gospel couplets will be hung on the front doors. They plan on putting Leader Xi everywhere.

  5 Christianity is the religious movement most feared by the Chinese government.

“Appeal to a Higher Power” means Communism is an ersatz religion.

Dictionary definition of ersatz: being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation, i.e. ersatz turf or ersatz intellectuals. First used in 1871. Mirriam-Webster Dictionary

6 Communist apologetic for government corruption: religion did it!

Beijing Daily warns that “feudalistic superstitious activities” lead to corruption.  “Superstition is thought pollution and spiritual anesthesia that cannot be underestimated and must be thoroughly purged…As an official, if you spend all your time on crooked ways, sooner or later you’ll come to grief.”

Li Chuncheng, former deputy party honcho in Sichuan, used feng shui (pronounced feng swey) to find the crooked path. Feng shui is a traditional method of divining the good and bad influences of one’s environment. Li used it to guide him in his corrupt career of bribery and abuse of power for which he was jailed for 13 years in 2015.

Security chief Zhou Yongkang, who made all other officials quake in their boots, used occult sources for his power. He was jailed for life for leaking state secrets to qi-gong expert, fortune-teller and healer Cao Yongzheng, known as the “Xinjiang Sage” of far western China. In the 1990s, a People’s Daily article claimed that with a single look at the face he could tell a person’s future and with a single touch could heal incurable illnesses.

Chinese courts say that Cao was also able to pocket several billion dollars in “illegal profits.” He very well might be the highest paid fortune teller in world history. Supposedly, he is in custody of the Chinese government after testifying against the security chief Zhou.

7 In sheer numbers and ferocity, the Chinese government has become the leader of an international atheist movement. Renewed effort to teach and demand atheism.

“Communism begins from the outset with atheism,” said an article this Fall in People’s Daily.

Beijing Daily, the official voice of the government, warned Communist Party officials this Fall not to “pry to god or worship Buddha” because good Communists are atheists.

8 Religion is “soaking into China” from outside influences, claims the government.

In an editorial in the People’s Daily, Wang Zuoan, the head of China’s religious affairs bureau, approved the new rules approved last winter to restrict religion because of “The foreign use of religion to infiltrate [China] intensifies by the day and religious extremist thought is spreading in some areas.”

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Hong Kong Arrests Billionaire Jimmy Lai

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com),j Aug. 9, 2020.--China’s 67-year-old Communist Party Leader Xi Jinping promised to uphold “one nation, two systems” approach in the once British Crown Colony of Hong Kong.  Xi got heavy handed watching 23-year-old pro-Democracy protester Joseph Wong lead a band of pro-Democracy activists resisting Beijing’s attempt to strip Hong Kong or its civil and human rights. When the Chinese Communist government took back its 99-year lease of Hong Kong July 1, 1997, former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin promised that Hong Kong would enjoy the same freedom enjoyed under British rule.  Twenty-three years later, with growing protests led by Wong and others, have now seen Beijing’s puppet government led by 53-year-old Carrie Lam crack down on protesters.  While Lam backed down Sept. 3, 2019 from implementing a controversial extradition law, it was only a matter to time for Beijing to step in.      

       Xi watched as Wong and other pro-Democracy protesters fought like tigers to preserve Hong Kong’s civil rights, only to watch Xi get more heavy-handed. While Wong has been arrested often since joining the pro-Democracy movement, it’s unprecedented when 71-year-old media mogul Jimmy Lai got arrested.  Lai was arrested Aug. 8 on Hong Kong’s new pro-Beijing National Security Law, banning protesters from interfering with Beijing’s communist government.  “Jimmy Lai is being arrested for collusion with foreign powers at this time,” Mr. Simon, an executive at Mr. Lai’s New Digital media firm.  Local Hong Kong police entered Lai’s building, searching offices for evidence of subversion and insurrection.  Hong Kong authorities confirmed that seven others in Lai’s firm were also arrested.  Lai is the highest profile Hong Kong citizen  arrested under the new law.      

       With Hong Kong unique language-and-culture AKA Cantonese, Mandarins on the mainland looks down the Cantonese society.  Mainland China’s dominant Mandarin disparages Hong Kong for its Mandarin superiority.  Lai’s arrest fires a warning shot to Hong Kong’s pro-Democracy movement that Beijing has run out of patience. Xi waited patiently over the last year watching Hong Kong become a lawless protest zone, with Hong Kong authorities doing little to stop the street violence.  U.S. and British officials warned Beijing to back off, reminding the communist government about its commitment to “one nation, two systems” rule.  Lam walked a tightrope placating Beijing, at the same time, tolerating violent pro-Democracy protests, always with the backdrop of the April 9 to June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre where Chinese tanks rolled over peaceful protesters in a bloodbath.    

         Watching Lai, a former billionaire clothing manufacturer and pro-Democracy newspaper publisher, get arrested represents a new level of Beijing’s crackdown in Hong Kong.   When riots got out of hand last year, the CCP branded Lai the “riot’s mastermind” who “has spread waves of hatred and negative information about the Chinese mainland day and night.”  It was only a matter of time before Lai was arrested and charged with subversion, fomenting riots and insurrection.  Lai warned, June 30 after the new security law passed in his Apple Daily newspaper, that Hong Kong would become just as corrupt as Beijing.  “Spells the death knell for Hong Kong,” Lai said about Beijing’s new security law.  “Without the rule of law, people who do business here will have no protection,” Lai warned, telling foreign investors to stay clear of Hong Kong with the new security law in force.    

          Lai told the French AFP new service that he was prepared to go to prison.  “I’m prepared for prison, if it comes.  I will have the opportunity to read books I haven’t read.  The only thing I can do is to be positive,” Lai said, continuing the fight against Beijing’s crack down on Hong Kong.  Hong Kong’s news security law includes crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, punishable by life in prison. Charging pro-Democracy activists with secession, subversion, terrorism and colluion, leaves little room for activists like Wong.  Instead of the past extradition treaty, Hong Kong’s new law enables authorities to arrest, prosecute, try and incarcerate agitators in Hong Hong without extradition.  Lam conspired with Xi’s government to undermine the pro-Democracy movement, even though she exercised restraint when it came to protesters.    

         Lai’s arrest sends a loud message to Hong Kong’s elite that there are no sacred cows immune to the government crack down on pro-Democracy agitators.  “The new security law punishes anything China considers subversion, secession, terrorism and colluion,” warning pro-Democracy protesters that the crackdown’s in force.  “Jimmy Lai is being arrested for collusion with foreign powers at this time,” Mark Simon said.  While releasing Lai on bail, Hong Kong no longer has the tolerance for free speech it once had before Bejing rule.  Lai wants to continue the fight against’ Beijing’s heavy-handed authority but knows it’s a losing proposition.  Lai has resigned himself to either serving a lengthy prison sentence or continuing the fight for democracy, something Beijing sees as foreign interference.   Lai s sees the sacrifices made by young Joseph Wong and wants to do his part for Hong Kong’s freedom.

 About the Author  

 John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnsit.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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Highways on Fire. Semesters Cut Short. A Recession. Can Hong Kong Heal?

Under a 1997 agreement, Hong Kong is part of China but residents have many liberties denied to citizens on the mainland, including free speech, unrestricted internet access and the right to free assembly. University students in Hong Kong have led protests against the city’s leadership for becoming too closely aligned the Bejing’s authoritarian political system, including a ban on face masks hiding student identities. A minority of protesters have turned violent and this has generated violent excessive force by police, including firing tear gas and rubber bullets into the grounds of Hong Kong universities, which breached the perceived inviolability of educational institutions, setting off some of the most violent confrontations. If you were a university president, what would you do: (1) cancel the last weeks of the semester or (2) continue to hold classes? Why? What are the ethics underlying your decision?

Storefronts closed for weekend demonstrations are now shuttered, for weeks or even permanently. Protesters are occupying major roads, rail tracks, bridges and tunnels, cutting off critical thoroughfares for commuters and commerce on a daily basis. Universities are telling students not to come back for the rest of the semester.

Nearly six months into the antigovernment protests, life in Hong Kong has dramatically changed, pushing the economy into recession, fraying faith in the authorities and pitting neighbors against one another. The turmoil has upended a city long known for its world-class transport, gleaming towers of global finance and cosmopolitan aura, with the potential to alter Hong Kong’s character.

Some of the wounds may be lasting.

Violent confrontations with the police and mass arrests of protesters have eroded faith in the government and the legal system. Those have been hallmarks of the city’s distinct status under the “one country, two systems” policy, Beijing’s pledge when it reclaimed the city from Britain in 1997.

Decisions by the city’s leadership, like an extradition bill that set off the protests and a face mask ban, have cemented fears that Beijing’s authoritarian reach stretches to Hong Kong. They are stark reminders that Hong Kong could become just another Chinese city when the pledge expires in 2047.

Other scars are likely to fade over time.

Students and teachers will sit together in classrooms again. Vandalized malls, smashed subway stations and destroyed sidewalks will be repaired. Shoppers from mainland China will eventually return to buy Tiffany rings and Chanel bags, lured by low taxes.

The economy will slowly recover, too. While multinational companies have drawn up exit strategies, few have plans to move. As the bridge to China, Hong Kong is hard to leave and even harder to replace.

The healing process, though, cannot begin until the protests end. And with each escalation, both sides seem further apart and a peaceful outcome less likely.

“Nobody wants blood on his or her hands,” said Regina Ip, a member of Hong Kong’s cabinet. “But because no decisive action is taken, Hong Kong is being destroyed.”

As the distrust deepens, the demonstrations, once largely peaceful and confined to the weekends, are now spilling over into weekdays. Activists speak of the police as a brutal tool of the Hong Kong government rather than blaming the Chinese Communist Party.

The narrative of an out-of-control police force is reinforced by footage and photographs in chat groups of officers beating protesters, and using pepper spray and tear gas on bystanders. A cellphone video of a policeman shooting an unarmed young protester on Monday spread wildly on social media.

In recent days, bankers and lawyers in suits and ties have gathered with black-clad protesters outside their high-rise offices at lunchtime to heckle and yell at the police. One skirmish this week between a man and a group of riot police officers happened just feet from Hong Kong’s stock exchange. In another, a banker from Citigroup was arrested.

“People are just expressing their opinions, and people in the government and the police force are using excessive force to suppress the opinions,” Marcus Lee, 26, a lawyer, said at a lunchtime rally after officers had just fired tear gas. “The police are especially aggressive toward students and teenagers.”

China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, on Thursday made his toughest public comments so far about protests, pointedly giving his backing to the city’s police.

“The continued radical violent criminal actions in Hong Kong have gravely trampled on rule of law and social order, seriously damaging the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong,” Mr. Xi said in Brasília at a summit meeting of developing countries, according to an online report from People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.

China, Mr. Xi said, “staunchly supports the Hong Kong police in sternly enforcing the law, and the Hong Kong judicial authorities in punishing violent criminals.”

When the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the grounds of Hong Kong universities this week, they breached the perceived inviolability of educational institutions, setting off some of the most violent confrontations. Administrators and professors now say they are bracing for a long-term hit.

Universities could struggle to recruit foreign and mainland Chinese students. Many mainland students fled across the border to Shenzhen this week as the police and students activists fought at the borders of some campuses, and foreign universities have been canceling exchange programs. In the coming years, foreign students could be dissuaded by the perception that the government might try to stifle academic and speech freedoms.

This week, hundreds of university scholars worldwide joined local peers in signing a petition calling on the police to halt campus attacks and warning they might reconsider academic partnerships in Hong Kong “if student’s safety is at risk and such blatant violation of academic and intellectual freedom continues.”

William Hayward, dean of social sciences at the University of Hong Kong, said the school’s president, Xiang Zhang, had reassured the faculty and students that “we remain a global university where we engage in a kind of academic discourse wherever it leads, where our colleagues think it should go.”

“So any of my colleagues can feel free to teach what they want, teach a class to pursue questions of scholarship that they want to pursue,” he said. “And nothing about the current environment has changed that in any way.”

The protests have created major gridlock in a city that runs on efficient logistics.

On the campus of Chinese University of Hong Kong, students in recent days fanned out to block the city’s oldest train line and one of its largest highways. The barricades have created a choke point, making it difficult for one million Hong Kong residents to reach the rest of the city. Trucks traverse the road, ferrying goods made in southeastern China like air-conditioners, cellphones, costume jewelry and shirts.

Efforts to turn Hong Kong into an Asian cultural capital have been dented by the protests. Events and shows have been canceled, including an appearance by the “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah and the Hong Kong Tennis Open. People are asking whether the annual Art Basel event will be held in March.

The performing arts venues that make up the ambitious West Kowloon Cultural District are still running. But they have had to cancel, postpone and adjust performances in recent weeks.

“We had nearly 15,000 people come to our inaugural Jazz Fest this past weekend,” said Alison Friedman, the district’s artistic director of performing arts. “While ticket sales are down, attendance is staying strong. We need the arts more than ever.”

It all threatens to make a bad economy even worse. The turmoil has pushed Hong Kong’s economy into a recession — the weakest since the depths of the global financial crisis. Daily headlines about violence have scared off tourists and business travelers.

On a recent Sunday afternoon, protesters and riot police officers faced off outside the Peninsula, one of Hong Kong’s oldest hotels. Employees quickly shut the front door, closed the blinds and rolled down the shutters, but they weren’t fast enough to prevent tear gas from floating into high tea, and while a lone violin played, guests wheezed.

Although the protests have hurt growth, the city’s economic core is also one of its greatest strengths for enduring the tumult. Multinational companies use Hong Kong as a gateway to China, and Beijing uses the city as a gateway to the world. There are few alternatives that also offer the free flow of capital and information.

“As long as Hong Kong maintains these two distinct characteristics, it will have an advantage,” said Weijian Shan, chief executive of the private equity firm PAG.

Hong Kong has its currency pegged to the United States dollar, making it reliable and stable. China, which has a tight hold on its currency, also uses Hong Kong as the first financial stop to transact and trade with the rest of the world.

China can’t afford to risk Hong Kong’s role.

Chinese financial institutions have hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of assets in the city, while state-owned companies own as much as 30 percent of assets in Hong Kong, according to an analysis by Global Source Partners, a research firm. Chinese companies, top Chinese Communist officials and rich businesspeople have parked their wealth in the city, which would be under threat if Beijing changed its policy.

In a vote of confidence for the city, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is expected to raise $13 billion this month by selling shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Hong Kong is also still an important entry point for multinational companies into China. The city’s laws are based on British legal tradition. In China, the rule of law is weaker.

“I have not heard from one person that they are pulling out of Hong Kong,” said Rick Helfenbein, president of the American Apparel and Footwear Association, which has 335 corporate members with brands like Jimmy Choo, Versace and Gap.

“They may be pulling their hair,” he added. “Safety is a topic of conversation. Leaving is not.”