China:  A Country Where Digital Totalitarianism Reigns

China:  A Country Where Digital Totalitarianism Reigns

We Have Been Harmonized:  Life In China's Surveillance State
by Kai Strittmatter
HarperCollins
September 2020

We Have Been Harmonized is a must-read for those who want to comprehend the totalitarian state that China's President Xi Jinping has created since assuming power in 2012. Former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), who had suffered grievously under Mao Zedong, was a pragmatist and opened up China; Xi Jinping is a harsh dictator like Mao.

Man Protests Possible Tree Removal … By Sitting In One
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Man Protests Possible Tree Removal … By Sitting In One

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A man is protesting the possibility a town board will remove two 100-year-old oak trees on Ashfield Town Beach … by sitting on them.

Ashfield town resident Mark Leue tied a beach chair to a limb on one of the trees and sat on it.

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