Original is from a Chinese propaganda series in the Deng era, 1983, I do not know the author of the edit.
"All the people plant trees, to regulate mountains and rivers"
Lucky
You know all the Japanese fascists at the end of ww2? Nothing happened to Japan other than banning them from having an offensive military. The fascists simply started the Liberal Democrat Party (merged from 2 parties in 1955, the liberal party and the democrat party, also both started by fascists).
The LDP has basically ruled Japan uninterrupted ever since. Their opposition from 1955 up until the 1990s was always the socialist party, the CIA collaborated and helped the LDP win for multiple decades.
This is a dangerous comment
Do you never get razor burn? Little bumps or rashes of itchy red skin?
What happened in ireland to cause the poll drop?
lmao they probably know nothing other than reading the party name - Liberal Democratic Party
Why a belt as replacement for rosary beads?
Right I know that much but my point is whether there's actually a meaningful difference between any of them anymore.
Good article, this is a tangential question that i thought while reading it - is there a fundamental difference even worth noting these days between neoliberal and neocon?
Wow some libs actually learned something maybe. This is genuinely surprising.
A small part of me believes this is just actions forced by optics but maybe, just maybe someone learned something about having actual principles. I am always willing to be optimistic and open to it.
Right click and view images in their own tab for higher res. The site makes them a bit smaller on page.
The art in Outlaw Star's ED is by Hicaru Tanaka who is something of a mystery on the internet - he barely exists online.
Because of this I did sleuthing and found a few things. I wanted to put it all in one place so the next person that tries to find stuff about this dude has what I've already found.
Who is Hicaru Tanaka? He's an illustrator from Tokyo who has apprently won the Hayakawa Award for science fiction art three times. He's been on the cover of S.F. Magazine (the most popular scifi literature magazine in Japan), and he did the art in the above ED for Outlaw Star.
On top of that he’s also painted box art for Star Trek and Aliens but I've been unable to find these online.
Here is the art from the Outlaw Star ED, it has literally nothing to do with the show itself. There's probably an artist's reason that they're all specific unique colours but I won't pretend to have a clue why:
The following is "Tea Girl" and was used to promote a 2007 convention. It is also on the cover of this magazine: https://fanac.org/conpubs/Worldcon/Nippon%202007/Nippon%20PR%201.pdf
This last one is from an archive of his website, which apparently no longer exists online. The only archived page is here: https://archive.md/i0ywc
In case that page disappears at some point in the future (very likely), here is a screenshot of it: 
I like his work, I like the themes he has of combining traditions with scifi. It feels very grounded and human. Ok he's also guilty of 
but I don't think any scifi artists aren't guilty of that.
This thread was a pain in the ass to make because of the rate limiting preventing me from uploading more than 6 images in an hour.
EDIT:
There are 3 known book covers here:
The first is Asimov's Pebble in the Sky. The second is called "The 81st Q War". The third is "10,000 Light Years From Home".
Looks like a string of sites have shut down over fears about being unmasked and legal action being taken against fmovies, who were running most of the sites.
https://kaido.to/home is being discussed as an alternative. I am unfamiliar and can't vouch for it at this time though.
https://4anime.gg/ still exists and works too.
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Diaries of Mao's secretary at the center of a legal battle over the history of modern China
(archive.is)
Stanford University is suing the widow of top Chinese official Li Rui for ownership of the diaries, which academics fear would be censored by the Chinese Communist Party.
HONG KONG — The diaries of a top Chinese official and prominent critic of Beijing are at the center of a U.S. legal battle, raising questions about who will write the history of modern China.
Li Rui, who died in 2019 at the age of 101, held a number of important positions within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, including personal secretary to longtime leader Mao Zedong. In detailed handwritten diaries he kept from 1946 to 2018, Li recorded his experiences and observations during seven tumultuous decades of Communist Party rule — a version of events that might conflict with the official party line.
As a high-ranking official, Li was an authoritative witness to parts of history that the party would rather not highlight — from internal disputes and policy missteps to the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown — because they challenge its narrative of uninterrupted prosperity and political unity as China rose from a poor and isolated nation to become the world’s second-largest economy.
A trial that began in California on Monday will decide whether Li’s diaries should remain at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where his daughter donated them, or be returned to his elderly widow, who has been accused of acting as a front for Chinese authorities who would most likely censor them.
“We’ve never had something like this before,” said Joseph Torigian, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
“These are diaries and personal papers that run to dozens and dozens of boxes that talk about everything from the early years of the revolution to Li Rui’s work as a secretary to very powerful individuals, including Chairman Mao.”
Few top Chinese Communist Party officials have kept such detailed diaries, especially after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when they were used as evidence for political persecution.
“It is very hard to study the People’s Republic of China because it is an authoritarian regime that believes that different narratives about its past are very dangerous for regime security, which means that they run a tight ship,” said Torigian, who is also an assistant professor at the School of International Service at American University.
Stanford says Li had directed his daughter, Li Nanyang, to donate the materials to the Hoover Institution, which is known for its large archive of historical materials on modern China, for fear they might otherwise be destroyed by Chinese authorities as part of a crackdown on dissent he saw growing worse under President Xi Jinping.
Li Nanyang, a vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party who lives in the United States, carried most of the diaries out of China in 2017. She made the donation to the Hoover Institution official days before her father’s death in 2019, once she felt he was safe from possible reprisal.
Shortly after that, Li’s second wife, Zhang Yuzhen, sued for the return of the original diaries, which she says are rightfully hers. Her lawyers argue that they contain deeply personal information about her relationship with Li, and that the violation of her privacy has caused her emotional distress.
A Beijing court found in favor of Zhang, a ruling Stanford says cannot be enforced because it was denied the opportunity to appear in court and defend itself. The university has sued Zhang in California in return.
Lawyers for both sides say their claims are buttressed by comments Li made in his diaries and in interviews about what he wanted to happen to his writings and who should represent him.
But given that Zhang is now in her 90s, questions have been raised about whether the lawsuit was her idea.
“She will not be capable of making money or contributing money for a lawsuit or to pursue the return of the diary,” said Feng Chongyi, an associate professor of China studies at the University of Technology Sydney, who met regularly with Li.
Only the Chinese Communist Party, he said, has “the resources, the money and the political will to do that.”
Zhang’s lawyers have said that she is acting alone. The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
Feng and others worry that Chinese authorities would severely restrict access to any diaries by Li, a longtime critic of the party’s leaders and policies, whose writings were banned in China in 2006.
Li joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1937 at the age of 20, rising through the ranks as it defeated the existing government in a civil war to gain power in 1949. By 1958, Li had become Mao’s personal secretary.
But he was expelled from the party the following year over his criticism of the Great Leap Forward, an industrialization program championed by Mao that led an estimated 30 million to 40 million people to die of starvation in three years. During his 20 years in exile, Li was imprisoned in a labor camp and spent eight years in solitary confinement.
He was reinstated to the senior party ranks in 1979, three years after Mao died. In the 1980s, Li worked in the party’s powerful Organization Department, which is responsible for the appointment and promotion of high-ranking officials.
Li was also highly critical of the Chinese government’s deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 1989. From the balcony of his apartment in Beijing, he could see soldiers firing on protesters in and around Tiananmen Square in what he described in English as “Black Weekend.”
His diaries, Torigian said, reveal “his thinking as well as a lot of other very senior revolutionary elders during that crisis,” public discussion of which is suppressed in China.
(Li Rui at age 89 in 2006)
In his later years, Li was a leader of a group of pro-reform elder intellectuals in Beijing, “and there are details about his interactions with that circle as well,” Torigian said.
“So the breadth and the detail are really something that are quite unprecedented for the study of politics and the Chinese Communist Party,” he said.
Though the Hoover Institution has scanned copies of the diaries, archivists and historians say it’s important to retain the original materials as well, both for research purposes and to reinforce the authenticity of the scans.
“The Communist Party of China has a history of altering materials in order to fit what it wants the version of history to be,” said Perry Link, a Sinologist and emeritus professor of East Asian studies at Princeton who testified at the trial last week.
If scholars publish research based on the Hoover copies but the originals are in Beijing, “the government in China can say, ‘No, your conclusions are wrong, you worked from the wrong materials. We have the originals, and that’s not what they say,’” said Link, who is also a professor at the University of California, Riverside.
With the originals in their possession, party elites could release them selectively to support their preferred narratives “and might even change what’s in the diaries,” he said. “They’ve done this before.”
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Since we're on this topic I've seen this fun bait image recently:
The fun bait part is that the labels are wrong and should be flipped.