Friend Gram at Holidarity pulls quotes from the organizer of The Midi Festival—China's biggest each year—to be held in Beijing during the Golden Week holiday next week.
“Before you could never do a big outdoor festival,” writes organizer Zhang Fan. “We're trying to let the government accept that rock ‘n' roll is not dangerous…What I hate most is when there is a line of Public Security Bureau officers standing in front of the stage.”
id:norikku225 at Let's survive the subprime shock! (サブプライムショックを生き残ろう！) [ja] comments on news that the Japanese economy has entered a recession, as reported by national [ja] andinternational [en] media. The blogger says that there is nothing new in this and that the scenario has been the same for the last 15 years or so, during which time Japanese have made an art of overcoming recession; that is why investors were not so disturbed when, in the last trimester of July-September, negative economic growth was announced. Norikku225 draws an analogy between Japanese people and the protagonist in a remake of the movie Groundhog Day[en]: they will live the same day over and over until they mend their way of life.
Wang Ning suggested to liberate Taiwan with sexy PLA like these pictures…
David Bandurski from China Media Project wrote a report on how the CCP manipulated the mass incident happened in Longnan, Gansu through media. Background about Lungnan protest can be found here.
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[...] Hard-up for holiday plans during this year’s Golden Week in China? Skip the “now mundane and boring annual MIDI Festival in Beijing,” says Frances D’Ath Supernaut, and stop by Windflower in Guangzhou this Friday night for a Mini MIDI spinoff concert. [...]