Cassie & Nina

Forgot how I was completely blown away by this movie. Among all of my favorites, this one stands out, well, like all of my favorites. 

Watched again with S, and I could anytime watch it again 10x with any of my girls. First time only to be taken by how the story would go, being poured by that heavy rain all of a sudden. Then a second time, you can see how the filthy ugliness of society and human kind unfolds vividly in front of your face.   

After Nina, there was no sanity left anymore, isn't it? We all have our own Nina inside of us, isn't it? 

Or let me say this, we all have our own Cassie inside of us, isn't it? 

Uh, is it just me then?

They shot you down, twist your wings, unplugged your feathers, you returned back into life out of pure luck and stubbornness, even started growing feathers again. 

Does anyone, except myself, get to judge my own way of my regained ability to fly? 

Who do they think they are? 

Who the fuck do they think they are?

I do not long for being heard, I do not wish to be seen. 

I only live for my liberty and freedom. 

And my liberty and freedom, doesn't fall from sky like the others. 

Not all are that lucky, some of us are born "ugly". 

Some of us are born chained and caged, even though flying is all they could think and dream of.

Version 10.0?

Work makes me feel so happy. I think two things pulled me out of the dark cloud of China falling into the abyss: 1. Hindu festivals and friends' gatherings; 2. Work. Actually my family too, Leena is with me being part of the resistance and we are partners for wild dancing and other wild things. Oh, that too, the dashing of unrealized daydream for a red wave, because of women's rights. Red wave against women's rights, how sarcastic. I think the result put me into a few days' ecstasy. Felt relieved, felt blissful, regained some hope, restored some confidence.

Showed my team how Leena and I look when we go silent protest in the Free Speech Square in UC Berkeley; told them never to come close and talk to us if they bump into us. Received heartfelt appreciations to Leena from them, who are all freedom fighters for China, for democracy and for free speech for years and for decades. 

Now you think, most of us young ones have been in this for more than a decade now. That's why once I decided to come back this summer, same pure-hearted people, same smiles, we right away picked up the jokes we left almost a decade ago. They are the people I could trust my live with, literally. They know they could trust their lives with me too. So different from some of Raj's business partners, lol. What can I say, when you are in it together for money making, it's a complete alienated universe compared to when you are in it together for fighting for others' rights and freedom. 

With newly developed work progress, I think I am upgrading again, into Momo version 10.0. Obviously I am extremely smart, intelligent, well-informed, hard-working plus social, helpful and trustworthy all that leadership skills, who doesn't want to have me in their team? Was I like this before? I think 10 years back I was definitely not this assertive. Much more shy and introverted, self-doubt would play out once a while. Now my mind is as hard as steel, as I blink, I brush aside any possibility of generating thoughts that could contain self-doubt; I affirm myself through calm and in-depth analysis and dissection, in pure objective manner. 

I have truly become the comedian of our group. So many things to share with them, some stories I have told uncountable times so when again I am vividly describing, it's immense fun to watch. Never felt comfortable to be the center of attention, always tried to avoid it, but now I found my sweet spot of being the louder one who can make the whole table laugh. If this is not upgrade, then what is?

Over the years, I have earned my place, my own place within myself. 

Now I feel it, the social roles you are in determine the level of respect you will get. As a housewife or mother, the level of respect your husband's family and friends are able to provide is ultimately limited. Get that, I have no original family or friends here, every relationship, I earned. Fortunately I have been in serious business before, not only respectful, also earned a lot to help his family getting out of huge debt. Therefore my husband learnt to respect me, in the level which satisfied me. But a 8-year pause is about the right amount of time to exhaust that respect. Not saying it's running thin, at all, but it's really good that I got back. Got back to my own circle, to the people I build partnership with, to the experience that I earn my respect through hard work. And this level of satisfaction can never be replaced by the pride of a mother or the indulgence to a wife from a husband or a lover. Because I am a complete independent entity here, my valid existence does not pertain to someone else, most likely someone who shines in the spotlight and you only belong behind the curtains.    

Something to be sure, this upgrade makes me even more open, more brave, more straight-forward, and more confident and assertive. At this point of my life, I can't stop feeling how lucky I am, was, actually. The most important people I made into my life, more than a decade ago, all turned out to be the most open and kind. My husband, my prof, my close teammates, they are all like skies that can stretch to endless, like oceans that disappear into the horizon, for me. The skies and oceans for me to fly and sail. No matter what forms I change into, no matter what degree of emotions I want to explore, they standby, quietly observe, support and love me in their own way. 

So version 10.0 it is then. Something worth celebration.

Soul

 

中印恋人-辛格莫默：继续用中文讲印度的故事

大家好，我是“中印恋人-辛格莫默”。2009-2021年曾在新浪博客、微博、微信等国内平台以“嫁印度的中国女孩”身份介绍印度人文历史等种种。2021年被全网封杀，并遭受剧烈网暴（我称此经历为“WG2.0”）。如今已走出恐怖阴霾，重新定义自我，并500%满血，愿与中文圈朋友继续探讨印度之奥秘。 

印度在中文圈里一直非常冷门。无论是对印度这个国家，还是对印度人或者印度裔，大多华人都有一种骨子里的说不清一二的鄙夷不屑。因为印度国穷？因为印度人黑皮肤？因为长期受负面印度新闻的轰炸？ 

能够生成客观的评价，最核心的前提是对事实或真理的认知。可惜以我十几年在网络上作为“印度窗口”的经历，我认为在中文圈可汲取的与印度相关的事实或真理少之又少，相对客观的分析与评论更是寥寥无几。

我理解为什么民间倾向于把目光聚焦于经济发达的欧美，也理解为什么知识圈倾向于探寻以欧洲文化为中心的社会进程的推演。

但是 -- 

1. 印度半岛各处富饶、历史悠久、多民族多文化，自古就是七大洲五大洋各族外来人口的移民终点站，被称为“世界人种博物馆”，“世界人种大杂烩”；

2. “印度教”是全世界范围内尚存至今的最古老的宗教。与其说是“宗教”，不如说是一种精神层面的思考与存在方式，一种生活方式。在这种生活方式下，鼓励个人寻求其独立的对精神世界的追求；

3. 正是因为“印度教”只是一种生活方式，而不是一个特定的固化的信仰体系，所以在印度半岛，追求精神升华的独立个体自古就被赋予了极大的自由。印度人想信什么就信什么，想怎么信就怎么信。每个人的冥想和瑜珈是他/她在自我世界里的舞蹈，与他/她自己想象的神灵对话。几千年下来印度民间创造了无数的女神、男神、动物神和圣贤人，你把一块石头、一颗树当成自己一生最大的信仰也无妨。多民族多人种多信仰，纷繁交错、共存共生，所以印度文化的至深精髓是多样性与包容性，可谓是全球难得的精神自由之圣土；

4. 中印同是东方文化古国，可比性强。中印自古交流甚多，中国受印度文化极大影响，佛教源自印度等等。

华人应该去了解印度吗？当然应该！了解印度，有助于了解华人自身的历史，上下沉浮几千年，多多少少有一大部分和印度缠绕着；了解印度文化DNA里的多样性和包容性，有助于反观自身文化里的多样性和包容性，无论是去探究中华大地原生文化的多样性，还是去研习后来受到印度文化影响的进程前后；从根子里了解自身文化的多样性有助于不迷失在各式以欧洲文化为中心的社会推演论里，并能够想像出适合东方文明尤其是中华文明的社会推演蓝图。

所以我决定回来，继续用中文写作，分享自己的学习和思考。人生本就是一个神秘的探索之旅，遇见印度是命运使然，但对真理真知的追求，对陌生世界的探求，需要勇气与不灭的热情。共勉。

分享几张今年家里庆祝杜迦女神节、财富女神节以及排灯节时的照片

在自己家里向财富女神 Lakshmi 祈福，这是排灯节那天的习俗

东南西北印度人庆祝的节日纷繁复杂、不尽相同，排灯节可谓是大部分印度家庭都有庆祝的“印度之节”。这是我们家里周末举办的排灯节聚会

周末排灯节聚会上，大家一起向财富女神 Lakshmi 祈福

周末排灯节聚会上女人们的合影。其中几位是嫁给印度男人的外国女人

杜迦女神节是孟加拉文化下最重要的节日，十几天时间向代表着权力和力量的杜迦女神祈福。我的印度老公虽不是孟加拉人，但家里有孟加拉文化，比如奶奶是孟加拉人，姑妈、表哥是孟加拉人，所以我印度婆家最重要的节日也是杜迦女神节。这是我们与孟加拉好友一家一起参加湾区的庆祝活动

孩子们的背后是杜迦女神庆祝活动上的杜迦女神以及其他几位女神和象神的神像

这是和小妹妹小妹夫一起参加的另外一个杜迦女神节的庆典活动，背后是杜迦女神以及其他女神和象神的神像

这是另外一个杜迦女神节庆典时期我们参加的舞会，由古吉拉特人举办，遵循的是古吉拉特人庆祝杜迦女神节的传统 - 跳嘎巴舞

孩子们参加古吉拉特邦特色嘎巴舞会的样子

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The Iron Curtain Has Fallen - China 2022 October

1. The return of the Iron Curtain 

Recently, I often receive phone calls from some old friends in China who have not been in contact with me for many years, telling me that he has finally recovered, and I deeply sighed and sighed. This is a typical scene during this special period. After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the situation in the country drastically deteriorated. At present, China has become an insane madhouse for the Xi family, isolated and unreasonable. In particular, at the conference, Xi Jinping forcibly took away his predecessor and mentor Hu Jintao in full view of the public. Afterward, he led all Xi's cronies to appear in China in full satisfaction, and all kinds of scandals made the world stunned. In our homeland, turbulent currents are rampant now, barbarism is in power, everything went silent, and there are many prisons erected because of the Zero COVID policy. 

In view of this, people can't help but think of Germany in 1933, Central and Eastern Europe in 1946, China in 1949, 1962 and 1989, East and West Berlin after the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961, and Hong Kong in 2020, after the National Security Law. 

The former British Prime Minister Churchill delivered a speech entitled "Pillar of Peace" at Westminster College in the United States on March 5, 1946, which resounded in Chinese ears: "From Szczecin in the Baltic Sea to Adriatic Trieste, on the Asian Sea, an Iron Curtain across Europe has fallen." 

 1) Germany: 1933 

Familiar scenes flashed across the screen of history: On January 30, 1933, Hitler officially took office as Chancellor of Germany, and Germany entered the Nazi era. On the same day, Einstein and his wife Elsa successfully escaped from Germany and embarked on a trip to visit the United States. Einstein's escape was a major landmark event for the scientific community around the world. As we all know, Germany used to be the most scientifically developed country in the world. In 1933, the year Einstein fled, there were only five people in the United States who won the Nobel Prize in Natural Science. Thirty-one people have won the Nobel Prize, six times as many as in the United States. But after that? The appearance of geotechnical technology is no longer the same.

German philosopher Cassler was equally aware of the Nazis as Einstein. In the spring of 1933, shortly after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Cassiller said: "I suppose this regime will last ten years, but the evil it inspires may last a hundred and fifty years." On May 2, 1933, the fourth month after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Cassiller resigned from the position of President of the University of Hamburg and fled Germany in time. He first taught at Oxford University in England, and then went to Sweden and the United States to teach. Died in New York in 1945. 

Freud, the founder and thinker of psychoanalysis, lived in Vienna, Austria. When news of the book burning in the Third Reich reached his ears, he said, "They've come a long way! In the Middle Ages, I'd be the one they'd burn, and now they're satisfied with just burning my books." Freud believed that the Nazis would only burn books, not people. But soon, Hitler shattered his illusions. On March 11, 1938, German troops invaded Austria. Fortunately, the international community reached out to him. The U.S. embassy sent a car parked near his home, and once Floyd's life was threatened, the car would intervene and save in the name of the United States. Under international pressure, Nazi Germany agreed to Freud's departure, but he had to pay more than 30,000 marks of "reich evasion tax". On June 4, Freud and his family left Vienna by train and settled in London, England. 

Of course, a large number of German citizens and intellectuals were not as lucky as Einstein, Cassiller, and Freud. They stayed in Germany with a bleak fate, many Jews went to concentration camps, and many died, including Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Fritz. Haber et al. 

2) China: 1949, 1962, 1989 

In 1949, on the eve of the CCP's entry into mainland China, should we leave or stay? China's intellectual elites face a fate similar to that of the German intellectuals in 1933. Hu Shi, Fu Sinian, Qian Mu, Zhang Ailing, Zhang Junmai, Mou Zongsan... left the country. And most of the intellectuals—Chen Yinke, Chen Yuanchu, Anping, Luo Longji, Zhang Bojun, Fu Lei, Laoshe, Zhang Dongsun, Pan Guangdan, Wu Wenzao, Fei Xiaotong, Liang Shuming, Shen Congwen...with a little unease and fear—stayed behind. They never thought that there was blood and tears in front of them, parting life and death, madhouse! Once you slip up, it becomes an eternal regret, and when you look back, it is already a hundred years away. This is especially true for Chen Yinke, Chu Anping, Luo Longji, Zhang Bojun, Fu Lei, Lao She, Zhang Dongsun, Pan Guangdan, and Wu Wenzao. As Pan Guangdan summed up, the fate of intellectuals in communist China has four steps: surrender, give in, live, and die. 

The Chinese sages said that "a gentleman does not stand under a wall of danger". Now that the dark night in China has come again, the compatriots and friends on the other side of the ocean, what kind of wisdom will they gain from the bloody history? Is it to do everything possible to flee, over the ocean to a different continent, or bet on a fluke, repeating the mistakes of Chu Anping and Luo Longji, and trapped in death? 

1962: Thousands of hungry people in mainland China fled to Hong Kong 

1989: The fleeing after the June 4 massacre 

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[Translated by Google from Chinese]

Zhang Jie: Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - The Great Escape in Xi Jinping's New Era

張傑：飞跃疯人院—习近平新时代的大逃亡

 一、 铁幕再临 

最近，我常收到 一些多年未曾联系的国内老朋友从美国打来的电话，告诉我他终于润出来了，唏嘘感叹不已。这是这段特殊时期典型景象。中共二十大后，国是日非。当下，中国变成一座孤绝于世不可理喻的习家疯人院。特别是在大会场上习近平前恭后倨竟在众目睽睽之下强行架走其前任与恩师胡锦涛，之后志得意满率领清一色习氏亲信粉墨登场君临中国后，丑行种种，令全球瞠目结舌。我们的故国，现在浊流横行，野蛮当道，鸦雀无声，清零式的监狱遍地。有鉴于此，人们不由想起了1933年的德国，1946年的中欧和东欧，1949年，1962年和1989年的中国，1961年柏林墙矗立后的东西柏林，以及2020年后被国安法凌驾的香港。 

此时，英国前首相丘吉尔1946年3月5日在美国威斯敏斯特学院发表了题为“和平砥柱”的演说响彻中国人耳边：“从波罗的海的什切青到亚得里亚海边的的里雅斯特，一幅横贯欧洲大陆的铁幕已经降落下来”。 

 1）德国：1933 

似曾相识，一幕幕场景闪过历史的荧屏：

1933年1月30日，希特勒正式就任德国总理，德国进入纳粹时代。就在同一天，爱因斯坦携妻子爱尔莎一道，成功逃离德国，踏上了去美国访问的旅途。 

爱因斯坦的逃离对全世界的科学界来讲是一个重大标志性事件。大家知道，之前德国是全世界科学最发达的国家，在1933年，也就是爱因斯坦逃离的那一年，美国总共才有五个人获得过诺贝尔奖的自然科学奖，而德国这时候已经有三十一个人得过诺贝尔奖了，是美国的六倍。然而此后呢？地缘科技之貌，已不可同日而语了。 

与爱因斯坦同样对纳粹有清醒认识的人还有德国的哲学家卡西勒。1933年春天，希特勒当上德国总理不久，卡西勒说：“我猜想这个政权将持续十年，但是它激起的邪恶可能持续一百五十年。” 

1933年5月2日，希特勒当上德国总理后的第四个月，卡西勒辞去汉堡大学校长职务，及时逃离了德国，他先是在英国牛津大学讲学，后又去了瑞典和美国授课，1945年在纽约逝世。 

2）中国：1949， 1962， 1989 

1949年，中共入主中国大陆前夕，走还是留？中国的知识精英面临与1933年德国知识人相似的命运抉择。 

胡适 傅斯年 钱穆 张爱玲 张君劢 牟宗三……离开了这个国家。 

而多数知识人——陈寅恪 陈垣 储安平 罗隆基 章伯钧 傅雷 老舍 张东荪 潘光旦 吴文藻 费孝通 梁漱溟 沈从文……带着略微不安和惶恐——留下来了， 他们何曾想到，前面竟是是血泪交织，生离死别的疯人院！一失足成千古恨，再回头已是百年身。特别是对陈寅恪 储安平 罗隆基 章伯钧 傅雷 老舍 张东荪 潘光旦 吴文藻而言，更是如此。诚如潘光旦所总结的，知识人命运在共产中国有四步曲: 投降、屈服、活命、死亡。 

先贤云，君子不立危墙之下。如今，中国暗夜又一次降临，大洋对岸的同胞朋友们，不知会从血雨腥风的历史中获得何种智慧？是千方百计飞越疯人院，还是心存侥幸，重蹈储安平、罗隆基们覆辙，困于死地？

1962年： 中国大陆千千万万饥民的逃港潮，灾民饥民的大逃亡

1989年：六四大屠杀后的逃亡潮

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Foresight: Xi Jinping's Socialist Utopia

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Capital Market Background

The concept of domestic supply and marketing cooperatives continues to ferment. The concept stocks of supply and marketing cooperatives continued to rise. The concept stocks of A-share supply and marketing cooperatives rose for five consecutive days, an increase of 10%. The shareholders after the skyrocketing listed company are all supply and marketing cooperatives: Anhui Supply and Marketing Cooperative, Zhejiang Supply and Marketing Cooperative Association, Shandong Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and China National Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

Supply and Marketing Cooperative

The operating platform of "All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives" is "China Supply and Marketing Group". "China Supply and Marketing Group" was established with the approval of the State Council in January 2010, with total assets of 150 billion RMB, 11 holding companies, and 3 listed companies. In 2021, the revenue will be 96 billion RMB, ranking 83rd among China's top 500 companies and 31st among China's top 500 service companies.

On January 23, 2022, the "All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives" held the seventh council. The council mentioned the data in 2021: the supply and marketing system has reached a record high, and the sales in 2021 will be 62.6k billion RMB, an increase of 19% over the same period. , the products are agricultural products, daily necessities, logistics, etc. This sales is equivalent to 7% of total retail sales nationwide in 2021. The total retail sales in Beijing in 2021 is 15k billion RMB, and the sales volume of supply and marketing cooperatives is 4.2 times that.

The business of supply and marketing cooperatives across the country has been launched on a large scale, which is the basis for Xi Jinping to pursue socialism.

The Hubei Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative Headquarters has launched a "basic-level cooperative restoration and reconstruction project" - "basic-level cooperatives" are the supply and marketing cooperatives directly facing farmers below the county, and the supply and marketing cooperatives built directly in the villages. At present, there are 450k members of Hubei grass-roots supply and marketing cooperatives, which has increased by 5 times in 5 years.

The current supply and marketing cooperative is no longer a concept in the past. The current supply and marketing cooperative: 1. Sufficient capital and strong strength; 2. Cross-border operation and monopoly; 3. Lay the foundation for unified purchase and sales.

Supply and marketing cooperatives are one of the foundations of the planned economy. China's planning system absolutely divides the country into urban and rural areas: the cities are the state-owned economy and state-owned enterprises; the countryside is the collective economy. Among them, there are two major parts of the collective economy in rural areas, one is collectively owned by land and means of production, and the other is called production materials, living materials and agricultural products, which are purchased and sold in a unified manner. The executive department of "unified purchase and sales" is called the supply and marketing cooperative, referred to as the supply and marketing cooperative, which is responsible for the purchase, production and living materials of agricultural products in the entire rural area. That is, not only pesticides and fertilizers, but also the entire living materials for food and clothing are responsible for it. The supply and marketing cooperative is a very core and very mainstream supply channel.

After the reform and opening up in 1980, supply and marketing cooperatives lost their monopoly on distribution channels and were gradually replaced by grain merchants and canteens. In 1982, the organization reformed, the National Supply and Marketing Cooperative Association and the Ministry of Commerce merged, but the brand "National Supply and Marketing Cooperative Association" and the original team were retained.

At the end of 2012, Xi Jinping came to power, and the No. 1 Central Document in 2013 clearly stated: the important role of supporting supply and marketing cooperatives in the circulation of agricultural products. So supply and marketing cooperatives are not just starting to happen now, Xi Jinping has already started doing them. The supply and marketing cooperatives have been written into the government work report of the Central No. 1 document for many times, and have received a large and continuous investment of government funds.

The 2018 Central Document No. 1 clearly stated: comprehensively deepen the comprehensive reform of supply and marketing cooperatives, and support supply and marketing, postal services and various enterprises to extend service outlets to rural areas.

The No. 1 Central Document in 2021 clearly stated that the comprehensive reform of supply and marketing cooperatives should integrate production, supply and marketing, and credit. Not only engage in production, but also engage in supply and marketing and credit, credit is finance. Beginning in July 2021, in Northeast China, North China, East China, Central South, Northwest China, Southwest China, and various districts across the country will select Nuogan Province as a pilot project for the trinity of production, supply, marketing and credit for a period of two years.

In January 2022, the seventh council said: In 2021, the National Supply and Marketing Federation will have a development fund, 30 million RMB, to transform 60 grass-roots societies, transform 2,892 weak grass-roots societies, and rural comprehensive service societies have developed Arrived at 470k home. In 2022, it will focus on building 100 counties with strong circulation services, building 1,000 comprehensive supermarkets in townships and villages, transforming 10k comprehensive service cooperatives in rural areas, transforming 2,000 weak grass-roots cooperatives, and building 1,000 grass-roots demonstration cooperatives with sound systems.

Rural Cooperative

At the same time as the supply and marketing cooperatives, agricultural cooperatives are also recovering on a large scale, but the actual results are not so many. Together, the supply and marketing cooperatives and agricultural cooperatives, Xi Jinping's socialist transformation in the countryside has completed 70-80%.

Urban Socialist Transformation / Big Canteen

In cities, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Civil Affairs jointly issued a notice to the provinces on October 31, 2022: Notice on Launching "Complete Community Construction Pilot Work". Every city in every province in the country is required to take three to five communities to carry out a "complete community construction pilot", starting in October 2022 for a period of two years. What is a "complete community"? That is, community comprehensive service facilities, providing one-stop services for local residents. Services include: kindergarten, elderly service, convenience store, vegetable market, canteen, mail, barber shop, laundry, pharmacy, maintenance shop, housekeeping service, etc., a very complete community service. Then coordinate several "complete communities" to build a block, which is equipped with primary and secondary schools, nursing homes, and community hospitals, and provides public services within the scope of a 15-minute living circle.

After the entire community service is completed, a complete internal cycle can be realized. As soon as the gate of the community is closed, the Chinese return to the previous "unit" system. In the past, units were divided according to workplaces, but now they are divided according to living quarters. China's market-oriented reform is to eliminate the social services of units, because each unit provides social services by itself, which is costly, inefficient and costly. Now use the complete community as a package to restore social services to the previous model: before, the work unit provided social services by itself, and now the government provides social services in a unified manner. This is the return of the planned economic system that matches the supply and marketing cooperatives.

But the current so-called reversion is not a simple repetition, because the government now holds the wealth accumulated by the Chinese people in the past 40 years, plus digital totalitarian tools, plus the resources of the modern enterprise management system and the modern capital market , so the CCP is more confident in socialism than it was forty years ago.

This is why Xi Jinping is engaged in socialism, because the economic conditions were not enough 40 years ago, but now he has whatever he wants and there are abundant resources. But he forgot one of the most fundamental economic laws: the essence of society is to eliminate the generation mechanism of wealth. Socialism does not generate wealth. In the end, it can only be deceitful and cannot last. After the wealth on hand is exhausted, it will start to starve.

Hebei requires cities to build at least 50 "nutritious and healthy restaurants" this year, state-run "nutritious and healthy restaurants." It also requires that by 2025, at least 500 restaurants should be built in each city and no less than 5,000 restaurants in the whole province. This is the people's commune canteen. When the people's commune canteen came, the great famine was not far away.

Elimination of Private Enterprise / "Mixed Ownership Reform"

In addition to supply and marketing cooperatives, canteens, private enterprises can not escape. Latest news: On October 18, the Second Division of Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement of the State Administration of Market Supervision approved China Unicom and Tencent to establish a joint venture to engage in content distribution network and edge computing business: China Unicom holds 48%, Tencent holds 42%, and employees hold 10% %, which is basically China Unicom Holdings. Stimulated by the news, China Unicom's shares rose 1.2%, while Tencent's shares rose 1.4%. Why should the anti-monopoly department approve the joint venture between China Unicom and Tencent? In the content distribution network, China Unicom has only 5% of the market share, Tencent has only 10% of the market share, and edge computing Tencent has only 5% of the market share, which is far from a market monopoly. Neither is involved in monopolistic behavior, and there is no reason for approval. Approval means attaching importance to it, and it also means that no one can participate in this field, only this one can.

The official media previously defined this joint venture project as a "mixed reform", but later someone came out to explain that it was not a "mixed reform". What is "mixed ownership reform", the full name is "mixed ownership reform", that is, an advanced form of state-owned enterprise reform. The reform of state-owned enterprises is part of the reform of China's economic system, and it was pushed to a climax by Zhu Rongji, but Zhu Rongji later found that state-owned enterprises could not be reformed because state-owned enterprises were neither birds nor beasts. If it is simply an enterprise, it is not difficult to reform according to the characteristics of the enterprise, even if it is simply a government department to carry out institutional reform. SOEs are neither government agencies nor corporations, but a hybrid. Zhu Rongji saw that the state-owned enterprises could not be changed, so what should we do? In Wen Jiabao's hands, he couldn't change it, because Wen Jiabao had no idea.

During the period of Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping did not think that state-owned enterprises had any problems and did not need reform at all, so the content of the reform of state-owned enterprises became to solve the problems of other enterprises. Other enterprises include foreign-funded enterprises. Foreign enterprises cannot move, and the rest are private enterprises. Therefore, the reform of state-owned enterprises has become a "mixed ownership reform" in Xi Jinping's hands, that is, a mixture of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, and private enterprises are mixed with state-owned enterprises. If private companies have money but no technology, let private companies invest in state-owned companies. A typical example: Huiyuan Juice invested in a company of PetroChina. The owner of Huiyuan Juice felt that there was a bargain and invested 3 billion RMB to PetroChina. Huiyuan Juice's profit is very thin, but its cash flow is huge. Previously, Coca-Cola wanted to buy Huiyuan Juice, but the government did not allow Huiyuan Juice to sell, so it failed to sell. I voted for PetroChina, thinking that PetroChina could go public, but it couldn't be listed, and Huiyuan Juice was dragged down like this.

Therefore, mixing private enterprises with state-owned enterprises is basically killing them. China Unicom and Tencent are cooperating, but Tencent has no choice. It can be said that the purpose of the "mixed-ownership reform" is, first, to seize the money of private enterprises. Private enterprises themselves do not have much money. If the money is invested in state-owned enterprises, it is very difficult for private enterprises to expand themselves; second, to seize the boss. The end result is that the bosses of private companies cannot escape.

Therefore, "mixed-ownership reform" is the "public-private partnership" in the new era. Times have changed, and the form has changed, but the goal has not changed, that is, to eliminate private enterprises through transformation.

Socialist Utopia

Briefly summarize Xi Jinping's vision of a socialist utopia:

1. Rural areas: Supply and marketing cooperatives and agricultural cooperatives become the basic framework of the collective economy, and then carry out the reform of intensive production. Combining these three things, the socialist restoration of the countryside will be basically completed. Xi Jinping has completed 70-80%, and only 20-30% needs to be done.

2. Cities: The most important in cities is the primary industry, which includes raw materials and infrastructure. As soon as Xi Jinping came to power, Liu He helped him implement "supply-side reforms". The "supply-side reform" was initiated by Wen Jiabao's 4k billion RMB stimulus plan. At that time, after the 4k billion RMB economic stimulus came up, the demand soared, so various places built raw material supply production - steel mills, cement plants, non-ferrous metal plants, etc. After Xi Jinping came to power, the demand waned because the 4k billion RMB was almost spent. As demand declines, what about the previously built raw material supply factories? Therefore, Liu He's "supply-side reform" began to eliminate backward production capacity. What is backward production capacity? All private enterprises are classified as backward production capacity and eliminated in the "supply-side reform". Therefore, in the primary industry, there are very few private enterprises, accounting for a very small proportion, which is basically a monopoly of state-owned enterprises. State-owned enterprises monopolize the supply of raw materials for the primary industry and monopolize infrastructure, including energy, transportation, water and electricity.

In the financial industry and capital market, foreign capital has always been restricted to a very small space, and the financial industry and capital market have always been basically dominated by state-owned enterprises. In the real estate industry, after this macro-control, basically there are only state-owned enterprises left, which is the world of state-owned enterprises.

Therefore, the primary industry, the real estate market, the financial industry, and the capital market are all owned by state-owned enterprises, while private enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises only have a small share.

Let’s look at the tertiary industry, namely small and medium-sized enterprises, catering, various social services, etc. Through the social transformation of “complete community building”, private enterprises in the tertiary industry will be completely eliminated and replaced by state-owned enterprises.

The core of the rest is the manufacturing industry. The manufacturing industry is mainly export. The marketing of export is maintained by private enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises. However, the upstream of the manufacturing industry is the raw materials, and the raw materials are all controlled by the state-owned enterprises, so the manufacturing industry can be easily controlled.

3. Regime: Using guns, pens, knives, and digital totalitarian tools, the regime is highly concentrated in the hands of the CCP, and the regime of the CCP is highly concentrated in the hands of Xi Jinping.

4. Internal and external policies: conduct comprehensive ideological confrontation with foreign countries, but open up capital markets and industrial markets conditionally, allowing Western capital, technology and management to come in. Complete personal control within.

This utopia is essentially a dictator's paradise, a people's hell, and will eventually evolve into a great famine.

Keep in mind that the essence of socialism is to eliminate the generation mechanism of social wealth. Failure to produce wealth will inevitably lead to poverty. The essence of socialist utopia is to spend all the wealth created and saved in the past forty years, and then there is no wealth generation mechanism. In the old cafeteria, there was no money to eat. Everyone was happy at first, but after all the food in the commune was eaten up, the result was a great famine.

前瞻：習近平餞行的社會主義烏托邦

資本市場背景

國內供銷社概念持續發酵。供銷社概念股持續走高。A股供銷社概念股連漲五天，漲幅10%。暴漲的上市公司之後的股東全是供銷合作社：安徽供銷合作社，浙江供銷合作社聯合社，山東供銷合作社，中華全國供銷合作總社。

供銷合作社

“中華全國供銷合作總社”的運營平台是“中國供銷集團”。“中國供銷集團” 2010年1月國務院批准成立，總資產 150 billion RMB，11家控股公司，控制3家上市公司。2021年營收為 96 billion RMB，在中國500強企業排第83，在中國服務業500強企業排第31。

2022年1月23日“中華全國供銷合作總社”開第七屆理事會，理事會提到2021年的數據：供銷全系統創歷史新高，2021年銷售額 62.6k billion RMB，同期增長19%，產品為農產品、日用品、物流等。此銷售額相當於2021年全國零售總額的 7%。北京市2021年零售總額為 15k billion RMB，供銷社銷售量為其 4.2 倍。

全國範圍內供銷合作社的業務已經大規模展開，這是習近平要搞社會主義的底氣。

湖北省供銷合作總社搞了一個“基層社恢復重建工程” - “基層社”即縣以下直接面對農民的供銷社，直接建在村里的供銷社。目前湖北基層供銷社成員 450k，5年漲了5倍。

現在的供銷社已經不是過去的概念，現在的供銷社：1.資本充足，實力強大；2.跨界運營，壟斷地位；3.為統購統銷奠定基礎。

供銷合作社是計劃經濟的基礎之一。中國的計劃體制把國家絕對劃分成城市和農村兩塊：城市是國有經濟，國有企業；農村是集體經濟。其中農村的集體經濟有兩大塊，一塊叫土地和生產資料集體所有，另一塊叫生產物資、生活物資農產品，統購統銷。“統購統銷”的執行部門叫供銷合作社，簡稱供銷社，負責整個農村的農產品收購、生產和生活物資。即不僅僅是農藥化肥，包括吃穿用著的整個生活物資都由其負責。供銷社是一個非常核心非常主流的供應渠道。

1980年改革開放之後，供銷社失去了流通渠道的壟斷地位，慢慢被糧商、小賣部取代。1982年機構改革，全國供銷合作總社和商業部合併，但保留了牌子“全國供銷合作總社”和原班人馬。

2012年底習近平上台，2013年中央一號文件明確提出：支持供銷合作社開展農產品流通的重要作用。所以供銷合作社並不是現在才開始發生，習近平早就開始幹了。供銷合作社多次被寫入中央一號文件的政府工作報告，並收到大量的、不斷的政府資金投入。

2018年中央一號文件明確提出：全面深化供銷合作社的綜合改革，支持供銷、郵政和各類企業把服務網點延伸到農村。

2021年中央一號文件明確提出：供銷合作社的綜合改革要把生產、供銷以及信用三位一體。不僅僅搞生產，還要搞供銷和信用，信用即金融。2021年7月開始，在東北、華北、華東、中南、西北、西南，全國各區選諾幹省作生產、供銷和信用三位一體的試點，為期兩年。

2022年1月第七屆理事會上說到：2021年全國供銷總社有一個發展基金，30 millon RMB，對60個基層社的改造，改造各地薄弱基層社 2892 家，農村綜合服務社已經發展到了 470k 家。2022年重點打造 100 個流通服務強縣，建設鄉鎮綜合超市 1000 家，改造農村綜合服務社 10k 家， 改造 2000 家薄弱的基層社，打造 1000 家制度健全的基層示範社。

農村合作社

與供銷合作社同時進行的是農業合作社，也在大規模地恢復，只不過實際成果沒有那麼多。供銷合作社和農業合作社加在一起，習近平在農村的社會主義改造已經完成了七、八成。

城市社會主義改造 / 大食堂

在城市，住建部和民政部2022年10月31日聯合給各省發通知：關於開展“完整社區建設試點工作”的通知。要求全國各省每一個城市，拿三到五個社區開展“完整社區建設試點”，從2022年10月開始，為期兩年。什麼叫“完整社區”？即社區綜合服務設施，為當地居民提供一站式服務。服務內容包括：幼兒園、老人服務、便利店、菜市場、食堂、郵件、理髮室、洗衣店、藥店、維修店、家政服務等等，非常完整的社區服務。再統籌幾個“完整社區”，建成一個街區，街區配套中小學、養老院、社區醫院，以15分鐘生活圈為範圍，提供公共服務。

整個社區服務建成之後，即可實現完整的內循環。把小區大門一關，中國人又回到了以前的“單位”制度。以前的單位按照工作場所劃分，現在按照生活小區劃分。中國的市場化改革就是破除單位的社會服務，因為每個單位自己提供社會服務，成本高、效率低，代價巨大。現在用完整社區作為一種包裝，重新把社會服務恢復到以前的模式：以前是工作單位自己提供社會服務，現在是政府統一提供社會服務。這就是和供銷社相匹配的計劃經濟體制的復歸。

但現在的所謂復歸並不是簡單的重複，因為現在政府手裡握著過去四十年中國人苦幹積累起來的財富，加上數字極權工具，再加上現代企業經營體制和現代資本市場的資源，因此中共比四十年前更有信心搞社會主義。

這就是習近平為什麼搞社會主義，因為四十年前經濟條件不夠，但現在要啥有啥，資源充沛。但是他忘記了一條最根本的經濟規律：社會的本質是消滅財富的生成機制，社會主義不產生財富，最後只能弄虛作假，無法持久，等手上的財富消耗完之後，就開始餓肚子了。

河北要求今年各個市至少要建 50 家“營養健康餐廳”，國營的“營養健康餐廳”。並要求到2025年每個城市至少要建不少於 500 家，全省不少於 5000 家大食堂。這就是人民公社大食堂。當人民公社大食堂來的時候，大飢荒就不遠了。

消滅私營企業 / “混合所有制改革”

除了供銷社、大食堂，私營企業也逃不過。最新消息：國家市場監督總局反壟斷執法二司10月18號批准聯通和騰訊成立一家合資公司，從事內容分發網絡和邊緣計算業務：聯通持股48%，騰訊持股42%，員工持股10%，基本上就是聯通控股。受消息刺激，聯通股價升 1.2%，騰訊股價升 1.4%。聯通和騰訊合資，為什麼要反壟斷部門審批？在內容分發網絡，聯通只占5%的市場份額，騰訊只占 10%的市場份額，邊緣計算騰訊只占 5%市場份額，離市場壟斷差得遠了。兩家都不涉及壟斷行為，沒有理由審批。審批即表示重視，也表示這個領域誰都無法參與，只有這家可以。

官媒之前把這個合資項目定義為“混改”，後來又有人出來解釋不是“混改”。什麼是“混改”，全稱為“混合所有制改革”，即國企改革的高級形式。國企改革是中國經濟體制改革的一部分，在朱鎔基手上推到高潮，但朱鎔基後來發現國企沒法改革，因為國企非鳥非獸。如果單純是企業，針對企業特徵進行改革其實不難，即便單純是政府部門進行機構改革也不難。國企既不是政府機構，又不是企業，而是一個混合體。朱鎔基一看，國企沒法改，改不了，那怎麼辦，拖吧，拖著不改。到了溫家寶手裡，更是沒法改，因為溫家寶想法都沒有。

等到了習近平時期，習近平根本不覺得國企有任何問題，根本不需要改革，所以國企改革的內容就變成了解決其它企業的問題。其它企業包括外資企業，外國人的企業那動不了，剩下的就是私營企業。於是國企改革在習近平手裡就變成了“混合所有制改革”，也就是讓國企和私企混合，私企跟著國企混。如果私企有錢沒技術，就讓私企投資給國企。典型的例子：匯源果汁投資給中石油的一家企業，匯源果汁的老闆覺得有便宜可撿，投了3 billion RMB給中石油。匯源果汁其實利潤很薄，但其現金流很大。之前可口可樂想收購匯源果汁，但是政府不讓匯源果汁賣，所以沒賣成。投給中石油，以為中石油可以上市，後來上不了市，匯源果汁就這樣被拖垮。

所以私企和國企混，基本就是作死。聯通和騰訊合營，騰訊也是沒有辦法。可以說“混改”的目的，第一，抓住私企的錢，私企本身錢不多，把錢投入國企，私企自身的擴張就非常難實現；第二，抓住老闆這個人。最終的結果就是，私營企業的老闆走不掉逃不開。

所以“混改”就是新時代的“公私合營”，時代不同了，形式發生變化，但是目標沒有變，即通過改造消滅私營企業。

社會主義烏托邦

大致歸納一下習近平的社會主義烏托邦構想：

1. 農村：供銷社與農業合作社成為集體經濟的基本框架，再進行集約化生產的改革。這三樣東西結合起來，農村的社會主義復歸就基本完成。習近平已經完成七、八成，只剩下二、三成需要去做。

2. 城市：城市裡最重要的為第一產業，第一產業包括原材料和基礎設施。習近平一上台，劉鶴就幫他推行了“供給側改革”。“供給側改革”起因為溫家寶推行的 4k billion RMB 刺激經濟計劃。當時 4k billion RMB 經濟刺激上來之後，需求暴漲，於是各地興建原材料供應產 - 鋼廠、水泥廠、有色金屬廠等等。到了習近平上台之後，需求減退，因為 4k billion RMB 基本快花完了。需求減退，那之前興建的原材料供應廠廠怎麼辦？於是就開始劉鶴的“供給側改革”，開始淘汰落後產能。什麼是落後產能，所有私營企業都被劃歸為落後產能，在“供給側改革”中被淘汰掉了。 所以在第一產業裡，私營企業非常少，占比極小，基本上是國企壟斷。國企壟斷了第一產業的原材料供應，壟斷了基礎設施，包括能源、交通、水電。

在金融行業和資本市場，外資一直被限制在非常狹小的空間，金融行業和資本市場一直以來基本上全是國企的天下。房地產行業的話，經過這次宏觀調控下來，基本上現在就只剩下國企，是國企的天下。

所以第一產業、房地產市場、金融行業、資本市場，全是國有企業占有天下，私營企業、外資企業只分到一點小湯小水。

再來看第三產業，即中小企業，餐飲、各種社會服務等等，通過“完整社區建設”的社會改造，第三產業裡的私營企業就會被完全滅掉，全部被國有企業取代。

剩下最核心的就是製造業，製造業主要是出口，出口的營銷維持私營企業和外資企業。但是製造業的上游是原材料，原材料全部被國企掌控，所以可以輕易控制製造業。

3. 政權：利用槍桿子、筆桿子、刀把子，加上數字極權工具，政權高度集中在中共手裡，而中共的政權高度集中在習近平手裡。

4. 內外政策：對外國進行意識形態全面對抗，但在資本市場和產業市場進行有條件開放，讓西方的資本、技術和管理進來。對內進行完整的人身控制。

這個烏托邦本質上就是獨裁者的天堂，人民的地獄，最終必定會演化成一場大飢荒。

請記住，社會主義的本質是消滅社會財富的生成機制，不能生產財富，就必然導致貧困。社會主義烏托邦的本質就是把過去四十年創造的財富和攢下的家底全部花光，之後卻沒有財富生成機制。以前的大食堂吃飯不要錢，最開始誰都高興，但是把公社裡的糧食全部吃光之後，結果就是大飢荒。

[文字內容由 王劍每日觀察：習近平餞行的社會主義烏托邦/20221102 視頻內容整理所得]

Tooth Fairy

My daughter lost her 2nd tooth yesterday, which set her into a fever pitch, excited about if the tooth fairy would come. I had no idea about this tooth fairy deal, hence I placed an orange and some plastic cutlery under their pillows for their first teeth. Then I asked around to find out the kids usually get money. 

She didn't allow me to sleep with her last night because that could stop the fairy from coming. Usually, she cries and cries and cries so she could get me to lie down with her while falling asleep. Then midnight she screamed for me because she needed to use the toilet. When done, she asked me to Not stay with her, that definitely never happened before because she's extremely scared of dark. I kept reminding myself to put the stuff under her pillow and then went back to my bed. 

At 6:30am, my son woke up to use the toilet, he yelled and woke me up too. At first, I was not sure what dimensions I was at, but then I ran, luckily I had my robe on. I ran downstairs to get a 5-dollar note and a candy, then ran up to slide them under my daughter's pillow, right before my son finished his business in the bathroom and back in the room to help his sister check. When my daughter got to know the stuff the tooth fairy gave her, she jumped into our bed to tell us this news, at 6:40am. My son verified that the note was not a toy note but a real one issued by Federal Reserve Bank. 

Then my children brushed their teeth, and quietly cleaned up their room, folding beddings and arranging pillows. As I was reminding them: "See, some being is indeed watching you closely the whole time, knowing exactly what's happening to you. I can't believe the money is real. Why is no one giving mommy some cash under mommy pillow. You better do your own chores, no arguing and fighting but help each other out, or else..." "But I lost 4 teeth already." "Oh, is it because you fought with your sister so the fairy didn't give you money? Or is it because you are always playing around instead of cleaning up?" "No, it's because I never put my teeth under my pillow." "Oh, then you put them all out tonight, but remember to tell fairy about it, just like how we talk to Goddess Durga, Goddess Lakshmi, Goddess Saraswati, Goddess Kali and all. Then fairy will come and make it up to you." "Okay..." Then they went ahead to breakfast and school in ecstasy and delirium..... 

Ain't kids the best gifts parents could get?! 🥰 

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So my son did tell the tooth fairy that he's gonna put all 4 of his lost teeth tonight under his pillow, and both my son and daughter really believe in the tooth fairy. I mean kids are so strange, we indeed do puja for all the Goddesses and Gods during festivals, and we indeed go to the temple once or twice a year, but we also told them all religions are merely science fictions, people imagined all of them up. Different people in different geographic and cultural backgrounds, at different times, imagined different kinds of stories. But they still would believe the tooth fairy really came and gave them money and stuff! Duh! 

I'm only gonna give my son 15 dollars for his 4 teeth because guess what, that first one I already dealt with. No double sales. When he asks tomorrow morning, I will say: "Well, I guess your fairy was an accountant before..." I asked my daughter today, "Where is your tooth then?" She told me the fairy took it. I was right away discreetly putting my arm under her pillows, trying to find that little tooth of her. Most probably it fell under the bed... 

So I took my son's 4 teeth out after placing 15 dollars and a big candy bar under his pillow. I was holding the teeth in my palm and asking my husband:" What we gonna do with these?!" "Throw them in the trash." "What?! NO! He kept so well for so long, in that little blue teeth box from the dentist, even took them out for our guests to see!" Eventually, we dug a hold in our strawberry field, buried all 4 in the soil, and hoped to see a teeth tree grow out of it. We are still trying to locate my daughter's missing tooth...