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Mao’s Famine: I Was There – Surviving the Great Famine in a Village

After the last Great Famine’ article, I received an email from Professor Dongping Han who, as a skinny kid in a poor village, lived through the Great Famine. The last line of his story is the best ‘famine’ debunker I have read. Enjoy. From: Dongping Han <dhan@warren-wilson.edu> Re: starvation in China I studied the great […]

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Mao’s Great Leap Aftermath: Not Quite as We’ve Been Told

Part One of Mao’s Great Leap concluded with the words of economic historian Maurice Meisner, “Indeed, of all the industrial projects China would launch in the next fifteen years, two-thirds were founded during the Great Leap”. But a looming natural catastrophe would overshadow its achievements.   After the growing season in 1960, when villages reported

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Mao’s Great Leap: Was It More Successful Than We Thought?

[In this first of a two-part series, we sketch the pressures leading to the Mao’s Great Leap Forward and its early successes. In Part Two we will examine its failures and Mao’s subsequent disgrace]. After the revolution China’s landlords, the world’s oldest hereditary caste, retained enough land to live on, but their class vanished from

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How China Beat Covid: Was It Four Thousand Years of Experience?

“It seems unavoidable that those advocating the current pandemic and preparedness agenda are intentionally misleading the public in order to achieve their aims. Cost-benefit analyses are essential for any large-scale intervention, and their absence reflects either incompetence or malfeasance”. David Bell. How China Beat Covid: Four Thousand Years of Experience? Our media have always been

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Covid Originated in Italy? Why Patient Zero Remains a State Secret

“The results of that study showed beyond a reasonable doubt that this virus had been spreading in America by at least November 2019. Lockdowns marketed to “slow” or “stop” the “spread” of this virus could not have achieved this objective”. Bill Rice. Covid-19 came from Italy in 2019, spread to France, to both US coasts,

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