[lbo-talk] "Shadow of cyber-Mao falls on Shanghai" - Murdoch

[John Mage]

<http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2382660,00.html>

<blockquote> "To some analysts, this dramatic return to the days of
detentions and purges is merely a powerplay by Hu ahead of a central
committee meeting next month and a big party congress next year. To
others it means the president has struck an alliance with the old guard,
whose doctrines of state control have been reasserted in a stream of
recent edicts.

If that is the case, then the purge in Shanghai heralds a fundamental
shift back to the left in China."<end>

A delicious article reporting some stuckpig squealing from bigtime rich
and powerful Chinese suddenly in police custody. Also reports that the
arrest of the Shanghai biggies coincided with a visit from John Major
(!) on behalf of the superevil Carlyle Corporation (where a leading
player was/is Richard Armitage, unindicted leaker and leading
Nationalsecuritystate Reichsmarschall), upsetting their "plans for a big
takeover in China."

I'm sceptical of whether the CCP leadership can navigate over a long
haul a turn-to-the-right then turn-to-the -left course, but even our most
antistatepower anarchisti here should enjoy a chuckle when statepower is
used against the rich (how could anyone have had so little human feeling
at the intense human drama of the tragic personal crises that befell
Lay, Skilling and Fastow not to have laughed out loud?).

john mage