Updates.

socialism_faq.md

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   - Despite claims of "erasing Uyghur culture", [they stated](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/422970-pakistani-diplomat-narrates-visit-to-chinas-xinjiang): "I did not find any instance of forced labor or cultural and religious repression. The imams we met at the mosques and the students and teachers at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute told us that they enjoy freedom in practicing Islam and that the Chinese government extends support for maintenance of mosques all over Xinjiang. [...]The most visible sign of protection of Uyghur culture by the government is the government-run bilingual kindergarten schools where children learn Putonghua as well as Uyghur language and culture from a very young age."
   - The grandaughters of Rebiya Kadeer (Once the richest woman in Xinjiang, and now a member of the "Uyghur world congress", an org claiming that China is oppressing Uyghurs), [talking about how their grandmother is lying about Xinjiang.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aeEFuGnbV-s)
 - [Egyptian media delegates provide a detailed insight of the situation in Xinjiang](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/430738-egyptian-media-delegates-provide-a-detailed-insight-of-the-situation-in-xinjiang)
-- [A majority of Muslim countries support China's policies in XinJiang](https://i.imgur.com/Cks29xL.jpg), [and don't believe the western lies told about it.](https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/07/278860/arab-muslim-majority-countries-china-mistreatment-uighurs/). [54 Countries in total](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1168522.shtml). [2](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/13/c_138222183.htm), [3](https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/china-thanks-37-countries-including-islamic-states-praising-its), [4](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1159357.shtml) Supporters: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, Kuwait, Laos, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, UAE, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
-- [China's policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region lift 1.85 million people out of poverty from 2014-2017.](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/24/c_137554986.htm?source=post_page---------------------------)
+ - [China's policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region lift 1.85 million people out of poverty from 2014-2017.](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/24/c_137554986.htm?source=post_page---------------------------)
 - [Dan Cohen - Is China committing genocide? Behind the US goverments propaganda campaign.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hjurb61SZgk)
 - [Redsails - The Xinjiang atrocity propaganda blitz](https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/)
 - [RodericDay - A thread about the key sources for Uyghur Genocide (Especially Adrian Zenz).](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1287411708374454273.html)
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 - [Notes for the 30th anniversary of the Tiannment incident.](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/notes-for-30th-anniversary-of-tiananmen-incident-f098ef6efbc2)
 - [It wasn't a massacre of peaceful students, but a skirmish between PLA soldiers and armed detachments from the pro-capitalist / free market reform movement.](https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt/) The protest movement, as evidenced by their own accounts, called for market liberalisation, and free market reforms, rallying around a replica of the statue of liberty. After the movement had been building in the square for seven weeks, unarmed soldiers were sent in to disperse the protesters, after which many soldiers were beaten to death, torched, and lynched. The New York Times death count went from 2600, to many thousands, to 8000, to tens of thousands. In reality only around ~200 (including soldiers) were killed or trampled, in smaller clashes outside the square. The on-scene New York Times reporter disavowed the article, especially about machine-gunning of protesters. [A wikileaks cable](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html) from a US ambassador to the US state department, confirmed that no killings or machine-gunnings took place in the square.
 - [Latin American diplomat eyewitness account of June 3-4 events on Tiananmen Square wikileaks (PDF)](https://peds-ansichten.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1989-07-12_Lilley_Gallo_Tiananmen_WikiLeaks.pdf)
-- [There was a Spanish television crew that covered the entire Tiananmen Square incident as it unfolded. Their footage showed that there was no massacre. A few things worthy of pointing out - Liu Xiaobo and Hou Dejian, both student leaders of the Tiananmen protests, have been recorded as saying that they never saw anyone killed at the protests.](https://vimeo.com/448970787)
+- [There was a Spanish television crew that covered the entire Tiananmen Square incident as it unfolded. Their footage showed that there was no massacre. A few things worthy of pointing out - Liu Xiaobo and Hou Dejian, both student leaders of the Tiananmen protests, have been recorded as saying that they never saw anyone killed at the protests.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMtopY3pcZs)
 - [The protest movement followed the line of "color revolutions", in which the US tried to destabilize and create counter-revolutions in eastern Europe and Latin America after the fall of the USSR. The strategy was to stir division within and without, by inundating the media with news of massacres of "peaceful", pro-capitalist / market reformers.](http://www.fightbacknews.org/2019/6/4/reflections-tiananmen-square-and-attempt-end-chinese-socialism)
 - [The defeat of a counter revolution in China](https://frso.org/main-documents/looking-back-at-tiananmen-square-the-defeat-of-counter-revolution-in-china/).
 - [Interviews from some of the student leaders.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3zmbFGwQA)
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 - [Orwell - "I have never really disliked Hitler."](https://twitter.com/SarahTheHaider/status/1300360063845126144?s=20)
 - [He attempted to rape one of his first courtships: "Previously the young couple had kissed, but now, during a late summer walk, he had wanted more. At only five feet to his six feet and four inches, Jacintha had shouted, screamed and kicked before running home with a torn skirt and bruised hip. It was "this" rather than any gradual parting of the ways that explains why Jacintha broke off all contact with her childhood friend, never to learn that he had transformed himself into George Orwell."](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/17/georgeorwell.biography)
 - [Redsails - On Orwell.](https://redsails.org/on-orwell/)
-- [Rainer Shea - Orwells 1984 - Anti-communist propaganda.](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/orwells-1984-is-a-deeply-paranoid-piece-of-anti-communist-propaganda-15a741c85d9a)
 - [Orwell worked as a British imperial cop in Burma for 5 years](http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Myanmar/sub5_5e/entry-3083.html). His short story, [Shooting an Elephant](http://www.denisedrespling.com/review-shooting-elephant-george-orwell/), uses ethnic slurs and [denigrates burmese people.](http://exiledonline.com/big-brothers-george-orwell-and-christopher-hitchens-exposed/)
 - [A reddit thread on George Orwell](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/797lnl/as_a_communist_how_do_you_feel_the_works_of/), [Thread #2](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/7dhx99/for_those_on_the_right_who_think_orwell_wrote/dpy4zik/).
 

us_atrocities.md

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 ### Black people
 
-- The origins of US police lie in the [slave-catching patrols](https://medium.com/s/story/slavery-and-the-origins-of-the-american-police-state-ec318f5ff05b) of the 1700s.
+- The origins of US police lie in the [slave-catching patrols](https://archive.is/gU4Yh) of the 1700s.
 - The Obama era was one of the greatest decreases in working class and [black wealth](https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-wealth-inequality) in history: home equity decreased by ~$17k between 2007 and 2016. His housing policies led to millions losing their homes. While Wall street banks recieved $29 Trillion in bailouts, $75 Billion in relief was set aside for housing foreclosures and mortgage assistance. Instead of being paid to families, this was paid to mortgage servicers, and the services found ways to pocket the money and continue foreclosures: by the end of the program, less than 20% of the funds were used, and most had dropped out of the program due to foreclosures. The Obama administration refused to prosecute the fraud, or any of those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis.
 
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 ### Women
 
+- In 2022, Facebook turned over chat messages of a Woman helping her daughter get an abortion to Nebraska police, leading to [her conviction and imprisonment](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-turned-chat-messages-mother-daughter-now-charged-abortion-rcna42185). This sets a stunning precedent for collaboration between US corporations and its police, to imprison women for abortion access.
 - In 2022, [the US supreme court overturned Roe V Wade](https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1102305878/supreme-court-abortion-roe-v-wade-decision-overturn), ending a constitutional guarantee to the right to have an abortion, in place for over 50 years. In response, [26 US states are expected to ban abortion in their state.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-24/republican-strongholds-immediately-ban-abortions-post-roe-ruling) Women who become pregnant in red states, [will now have to drive an increased average of over 200 miles to an abortion clinic.](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/22c32c14-c1e8-44f9-9c4b-24f270c251b9.jpeg) [Protests erupted in hundreds of US cities](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62109971), decrying the decision.
 - US police officers routinely commit sexual assault and rapes: most go unreported, but over [1200 incidents, including over 400 rapes were committed over a 9 year period from 2005-2013.](https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html)
 - In the period following WWII, the US capitalist-controlled media, advertising, and consumer products industries propagandized and glorified the ideal of the housewife-consumer, in order to sell products, make labor space for returning soldiers, take advantage of women's unpaid labor in the home, and to help build a new workforce and potential army to combat the soviet union. This sparked an era of regression with respect to the feminist victories of the previous 50 years, and caused psychological damage and demoralization to an uncountable number of women. Women who remained in the labor force were primarily only allowed in subordinate positions such as secretaries, cleaning women, elementary school teachers, saleswomen, waitresses, and nurses. This is chronicled in the [Feminine Mystique](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique).
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 ### Workers and the Poor
 
+- Contrary to popular belief, the US holds many [political prisoners](https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/americas/the-united-states-has-many-political-prisoners-heres-a-list/)
 - [1 out of every 7 US citizens needs to visit food banks to survive](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/hunger-study-food/14195585/), despite having enough food to feed [10 billion people.](https://www.oxfam.ca/there-enough-food-feed-world) Half of all food produced is [thrown away by retailers.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect) [Food waste in 2018 enough to feed world's hungry 4 times over.](https://reliefweb.int/report/world/food-waste-enough-feed-world-s-hungry-four-times-over) [An analysis by the Brookings Institution conducted the summer of 2021 found that, 27.5% of households with children were food insecure — meaning some 13.9 million children lived in a household characterized by child food insecurity. A separate analysis by researchers at Northwestern found insecurity has more than tripled among households with children to 29.5% in late 2020.](https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-the-u-s-by-the-numbers)
 - US federal and state governments have epically mismanaged and failed to mobilize a response to a global pandemic caused by the [Covid 19](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19) virus. Many state governments repeat an endless cycle of refusing to mandate protective measures such as masks and stay-at-home orders, refusing to close super-spreader locations like restaurants, churches, and gyms, then seeing rising death counts, hospital crowding, and a shortage of ventilators. Despite the high death count, many mainstream US news sources continue to call the virus a hoax, and alternatively the "Chinese virus", shifting blame for its mismanagement to the US's new primary enemy. Before many countries developed vaccines, [Trump attempted a backroom deal to buy a German company working on a vaccine, prompting angry reactions from German politicians](https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-confirms-that-donald-trump-tried-to-buy-firm-working-on-coronavirus-vaccine/). The US, along with other OECD nations, [voted in Feb 2021 to block a push by developing nations to waive vaccine patent rights](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-wto-idUSKBN2B21V9) [2](https://i.imgur.com/uNj73qU.png), in an effort to stop developing nations from producing current vaccines, and protect US pharma's intellectual property. As of April 2021, there have been 540k civilian deaths within its borders ( the worst death / capita rates globally of any nation), and an uncountable more outside.
 - An analysis of 2016 data showed that [8 men control as much wealth as half of the world's population](http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/15/news/economy/oxfam-income-inequality-men/). Those 8 men are Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Amancio Ortega, Larry Ellison and Michael Bloomberg, and are collectively worth $426 billion. [1](http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/15/news/economy/oxfam-income-inequality-men/)