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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2026-089
Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
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Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Iran) thread …
The 123-year old Chinese cannibalism hoax jointly created and perpetuated by America, Japan, Canada, Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France and the rest of the West
I’ve made an absolutely mind-blowing discovery.
Previously, I’ve written about America supplying the majority of Japan’s war materiel for its genocidal invasion of China, and also about America ensuring that Japanese fascists stayed in power post-WW2. But, I didn’t know that America-Japan collaboration in carving up China started much earlier than that.
Let me introduce you to James W. Davidson (1872-1933):
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Decorated by the Emperor of Japan in 1895 with Order of Rising Sun for services rendered to the Japanese army in capturing the capital of Formosa.
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US Consul to Formosa/Taiwan (1898–1904).
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US Consul at Andong, Manchukuo (Japanese puppet state), and commercial attaché to the American legation, Peking, and special agent of the Department of State in 1904, appointed by President Roosevelt in 1905 as consul general at Shanghai, served in Nanjing.
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Author of The Island of Formosa, Past and Present (1903). The book has gone through several reprints, and remains a central work in the study of the history of Taiwan, with one commentator describing it as “the major English language survey of Taiwan for its days and still the most frequently consulted English language source”.
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Wrote about alleged Chinese cannibalism: “One horrible feature of the campaign against the savages was the sale by the Chinese in open market of savage flesh.”
Hu Shih 胡适 (1891-1962):
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Advocated that the world adopt Western-style democracy.
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Claimed that India conquered China culturally for 2000 years via religion.
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Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1932 and the American Philosophical Society in 1936.
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Republic of China’s ambassador to the United States from 1938 to 1942.
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Wrote many essays questioning the political legitimacy of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party.
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Said that the autocratic dictatorship system of the CCP was “un-Chinese” and against history.
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Compiler and editor of《台湾日记与禀启》Taiwan Diary and Report, which contained, in Section 197, a report of alleged Chinese cannibalism witnessed during the administration of Taiwan under Hu Chuan, Hu Shih’s father, between 1892-1895: 民殺番，卽屠而賣其肉；每肉一兩值錢二十文，買者爭先恐後，頃刻而盡；煎熬其骨為膏，謂之番膏，價極貴。官示禁，而民亦不從也。“When the people killed the barbarians, they slaughtered them and sold their flesh; each ounce of meat cost twenty coins, and buyers rushed to buy it, selling out in no time; the bones were boiled into a paste, called barbarian paste, which was extremely expensive. The officials issued a ban, but the people did not comply.”
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Compiling and editing《台湾日记与禀启》Taiwan Diary and Report began in 1930, about 35 years after the death of his father and also the end of Qing rule of Taiwan. The book was published in 1951, or 56 years after.
Hu Chuan 胡传 (1841-1895):
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Father of Hu Shih.
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Chinese patriot who was ordered by the Qing government to go to Taiwan in 1891.
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Appointed Acting Prefect in 1893 and vigorously eradicated opium in the army.
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Served in Taiwan for three years and six months (March 22, 1892 – August 15, 1895), until the cession of Taiwan to Japan, at which point he was ordered to return to the mainland. He died in Xiamen on August 22, 1895, at the age of 55.
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Alleged author of《台湾日记与禀启》Taiwan Diary and Report.
And, P. Steven Sangren (1946-present):
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Hu Shih Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies and Anthropology at Cornell University.
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After Princeton, he joined the Navy and attended the U.S. Naval Officer Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island. Subsequently, Sangren was commissioned as a LTJG and served in the Underwater Demolition Team Eleven from 1969 to 1972.
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Conducted fieldwork on the Mazu’s cult in Taiwan between 1974 and 1977.
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Author of History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community (1987), which cites James W. Davidson as a source for the existence of Chinese cannibalism in Taiwan and affirms the practice through oral accounts with Hakka elders, according to a Reddit post of someone who has access to the P. Steven Sangren’s book.
If you haven’t pieced the whole story together by now, let me help.
An American spy who managed to be awarded the Order of Rising Sun by Japan for helping the Japanese carve Taiwan away from China wrote a book lying about the Chinese practicing cannibalism against the indigenous people of the island in 1903. This lie was corroborated by a supposedly “independent” source, a Chinese patriot’s diary and report of his days as an administrator in Taiwan between 1892-1895.
However, when one checks the authorship book, one can’t help but question the book’s veracity. The book wasn’t published when the Chinese patriot was still alive. Instead, the book was compiled and edited in the 1930s, about 35 years after the Chinese patriot’s death, by the patriot’s son. The son is a Chinese traitor who desperately wants the West to colonize China, hates Mao and communism, and has such deep ties to America that he might as well be an American spy. It’s clearly the traitorous son laundering a fake narrative through the sterling reputation of the father.
In 1987, an American in Cornell with a professorship bearing the traitorous son’s name published a book that cites the 1903 American spy’s account of Chinese cannibalism, completing the incestuous circle. This American professor also happens to have been a lieutenant (junior grade) of the U.S. Navy and a member of the predecessor to the Navy’s SEAL team. In other words, the professor is functionally another American spy.
Asian Studies and China Studies are basically entire departments filled with frauds who write fiction. It’s a bunch of American spies quoting each other as sources to demonize China.
When I searched for English sources on Chinese cannibalism, a lot of Hong Kong people and/or people with ties to Hong Kong universities turned up. Some American, Canadian, British and Taiwanese ones did too, like Christian missionaries with strong sympathies for Tibet’s secession from China. The usual suspects, like RFA and RFI, also disseminate the Chinese cannibalism hoax. Some of these traitors come up with really creative and convoluted ways to associate “China” and “Chinese” with “cannibalism,” like saying how the return of Hong Kong and Taiwan to China can be symbolized as China cannibalizing itself. There’s an entire industry for slandering China. I might write more about these people and institutions later.
I am so thankful that the 1776 Declaration of Independence from America exists. It’s not because of the liberal ideals it embodied. No. It’s because it’s written proof of one of the earliest instances of American mendacity, where the Americans accuse others of what they themselves did (accusation in a mirror)—the Americans accused the Native Americans of attempting a genocide on the Americans when the truth was that the Americans were responsible for exterminating the Native Americans.
The Americans is using the same strategy against China. An American fabricated a story of Chinese cannibalism in 1903, and the Americans and their usual proxies are still repeating this lie virtually unchallenged for almost 125 years.
When I said Americans are some of the best habitual liars, I wasn’t exaggerating. They lie so often and so convincingly that 100+ years later, the world is still working on debunking their lies. It’s a fearsome ability.
I wouldn’t be surprised if further research in the future reveals an even more sordid history of America’s factory of lies.
Death to America
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Posted by: All Under Heaven | May 3 2026 14:25 utc | 4
Forward:
Israel just quadrupled its PR budget to $730M. Experts say it won’t work.
By Asaf Elia-Shaled
April 29, 2026
Israel is betting nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars that it can talk its way out of a reputation crisis.
Lawmakers in Jerusalem approved a 2026 national budget last month that includes roughly $730 million for public diplomacy — the broad category known in Hebrew as hasbara — more than four times the $150 million they allocated the year before. That earlier sum was itself about 20 times what Israel had spent on such efforts before the war in Gaza broke out in 2023.
The unprecedented expenditure comes as survey after survey show declining support for Israel in the United States, its most important ally. A Pew Research Center poll released earlier this month found 60% of Americans now view Israel unfavorably, up seven points in a single year, with only 37% viewing it favorably.
Most striking for a country long accustomed to bipartisan American support: 57% of Republicans under 50 hold negative views of Israel. Support has cratered among the religiously unaffiliated, Black Protestants and Catholics. Among American Jews, support has slipped below two-thirds.
On social media, the Hebrew word “hasbara” has become a dismissive shorthand for pro-Israel advocacy, indicating how widely known Israel’s uphill efforts to shape its image have become.
(…) Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, says the country is engaged in a global war for hearts and minds and it must spend accordingly.
“We had a major breakthrough this year, but we must as a country invest much much more,” Sa’ar said in December as the government entered budget deliberations. “It should be like investing in jets, bombs and missile interceptors. In the face of what’s arrayed against us and what’s invested against us, it’s far from enough. This is an existential issue.”
(…) A $50 million international social-media ad buy was split across Google, YouTube, X and Outbrain. Roughly $40 million went to hosting 400 foreign delegations — lawmakers, pastors, influencers, university presidents. A “media war room” was erected to monitor 250 outlets and 10,000 daily Israel-related items.
The Foreign Ministry also signed a $1.5-million-a-month contract with former Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale’s firm to deploy AI tools against antisemitism online, a $4.1 million campaign aimed at evangelical churches, and the “Esther Project,” a paid influencer network running up to $900,000 through a PR firm called Bridges Partners.
(…) Ask the people who study public diplomacy for a living whether any of this will work, and the answer is, overwhelmingly, skeptical.
Their central objection is that no amount of messaging can outrun entrenched rejection by its target audiences of Israel’s armed response to conflicts with its neighbors.
(…) Israel was one of the first countries in the world to build a global digital-diplomacy operation, [Ilan] Manor, [a senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University] said. Before Oct. 7, he said, its accounts reached roughly a billion people, a scale rivaled only by the United States.
“The problem is not that we lack infrastructure. The problem is not that we lack skill,” Manor said. “The problem is that people don’t believe the state anymore. And that’s a much, much deeper problem that no amount of money is going to repair.”
https://forward.com/fast-forward/821680/israel-just-quadrupled-its-pr-budget-to-730m-experts-say-it-wont-work/
Posted by: Leuk | May 3 2026 17:50 utc | 31
Over the weekend, Palantir released a 22-point summary of Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s 320-page book, “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West,” that the billionaire tech CEO co-wrote and published in early 2025.
“Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief,” the company wrote on X.
The ideas reflect Karp’s long-held worldviews, including the view that the tech industry has been insufficiently supportive of US national security.
Shaun Maguire, the Sequoia partner who made headlines last July when he called now-New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani a secret “Islamist,” called Karp’s bullet points “brilliant.”
“Despite what the extremes preach on social media and Ivy League campuses Palantir represents the ideological center with a rarely articulated moral clarity,” Maguire wrote on X.
Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalist site Bellingcat, wrote that Palantir’s continued growth relies on a world that aligns with Karp’s views.
“Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies,” Higgins wrote on Blue Sky. “These 22 points aren’t philosophy floating in space, they’re the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it’s advocating.”
Palantir’s 22-point summary of Karp’s book:
1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
19 more https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-manifesto-alex-karp-technological-republic-summary-2026-4
Technofascism: Palantir’s Manifesto
Professor Castets-Renard’s research focuses on the regulation and governance of digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) from an international and comparative law perspective.
“By posting his “Manifesto”—comprising twenty-two principles drawn from the book *The Technological Republic* (2025)—on the X platform, Palantir CEO Alex Karp reaffirms his dystopian, techno-fascist vision of the world and the role played by AI as an operational system for the U.S. military and ICE in a fusion of powers with the Trump Administration: far-right ideologies and the anti-humanist economic interests they espouse are outrageous and should spur us to resist.”
Professor Murakami Wood is an interdisciplinary specialist in surveillance, security and technology around the world. His research focuses on the rise of AI-based “smart cities”, the regulation of Artificial Intelligence, private surveillance companies, and the relationship between surveillance and the response to the climate crisis.
“My view is that the open fascism of Trump’s second term has created an environment in which the leaders of big tech firms like Palantir can openly advocate for white supremacy and what they think of as European civilizational values. It’s not just a marketing tactic; they believe in this and it is common amongst the richest men in the world (see also: Elon Musk). The problem is that Palantir is deeply embedded in many countries’ data governance infrastructures, not just in defence, but in health, welfare and energy systems. Any country which values democracy, equity, multiculturalism and a common future for humanity should reject their products and services along with their technofascism and authoritarianism.”
and more https://www.uottawa.ca/en/news-all/academic-expertise-technofascism-palantirs-manifesto
Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 4 2026 6:47 utc | 94
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