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Things I am Knowledgeable About

• Clearview AI
• Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
• Fukushima nuclear accident

Ideas for future work

Realistically I will never get to these

• https://academic.oup.com/book/11293/chapter-abstract/159862167?redirectedFrom=fulltext
• Ehsan Lavassani
• Group of Seven Plus (g7+)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DataflowBot/output/Popular_low_quality_articles_(id-2)
• Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al Thani
• Chip 1 Exchange
• Valery Solodchuk
• Salil Parekh
• Saravana Stores
• 1337x
• Thomas Patrick Cavanagh
• Noshir Gowadia

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Government_Efficiency&diff=1293940590&oldid=1293940373

• Jean Destremau

Military Articles Close to Up Ranking

• Project Azorian
• 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron is pretty good but it needs sources to be cleaned up

Future

• Lawrence Korb of the Brooking Institute wrote about aerospace duopolies
• https://www-tandfonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2019.1628471
• In the 1980's he worked as a lobbyist for Raytheon but was fired for not towing the line. One the call R. Gene Shelley. He was contacted by Melvyn R. Paisley and Everett Pyatt from the Navy and Carl Smith, who served on the Republican staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

  You're in a lot of trouble. [Raytheon President D. Brainerd] Holmes says if you criticized Lehman's 600-ship Navy you should be fired." Assistant Secretary Pyatt had warned the chief of Raytheon's missile division that he would "stop assisting Raytheon with certain defense contracts" so long as Korb continued to criticize the defense budget. John Lehman coordinated some of the communication. https://go-gale-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&retrievalId=a7db5002-59f2-40b7-95e2-314558bebf1a&hitCount=1&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&currentPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA6809846&docType=Article&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=ZGPP-MOD1&prodId=ITOF&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA6809846&searchId=R1&userGroupName=wikipedia&inPS=true

• https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/us/new-hampshire/nashua/nashua-telegraph/1997/07-04/page-17/ "From 1989-1992 the annual value of defense mergers never exceeded $3 billion." In 1996 it was $24 billion.
• Defense Secretary William Perry
• LM CEO Norman Augustine
• 1998 defense bill
• https://www.state.gov/new-start/ did the US and Russia stop doing NEW Start inspections? -- yes. Should be a big story when it eventually resumes
• "Fallows asks why military spending keeps going up as the capability delivered goes down. I think a big part of the answer is that the Pentagon is still trying to run its affairs like a centrally planned economy, while our adversaries are increasingly being run as a free market." Interesting claim. Is it even true that adversaries are run as free market? "The only long-term answer I can see is to shift toward more of a free-market approach that gives commanders in specific geographic regions, or perhaps even units preparing to face specific threats, more flexibility to go out and procure systems and capabilities that meet their own needs. Doing so would require breaking the centrally planned budget and delegating more budget authority to lower levels." To what extent to officers feel like they have this control now? ^[1]

• Fallows 1980s book National Defense. The Spoils of War was good too

• How did Total Package Procurement impact the industry?
• Is there a legitimate risk in mixing the government contract industry with the private market? Like the L-1011 example? Is there a benefit in separating them?
• why did rolls royce go bankrupt?
• While the services calculate their own estimates for program costs before soliciting bids, they are required to replace these numbers with the winning contractor's estimate when formulating the fmal contract. According to Sambur, the result is that "the winning number is often too low . . . when, infact, the original DoD estimates are generally within 3 percent of the final cost."
• GAO Director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Michael Sullivan noted in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee this year that GAO's annual studies of MDAPs "have consistently found that the vast majority of programs began system development without mature technologies and moved into system demonstration without design stability.
• Definition and Context:

       Add the source's point that the definition of "rightists" was not always consistent.

       Explain the source's argument that figures like Zhang Bojun and Luo Longji, historically centre-left, were labeled "right-wing" after 1949 due to the changed political landscape, citing the source ([18]/[4]).

   Accusations and Fabrications: This is a major area.

       In the "First wave" section, where it mentions claims like "take turns to rule," incorporate the source's argument that these accusations were fabricated or distorted.

       Detail the source's specific examples:

           The distortion of Ge Peiqi's remark about "killing communists," citing the source.

           The CCP's later admission (according to the source) that the material used to label Zhang Bojun a rightist, including the "taking turns" idea, was "inaccurate" or extended from others, citing the source.

       Explain the actual proposals made by Zhang Bojun (e.g., Political Design Institutes, explicitly stating it wasn't parliamentary politics) and Luo Longji (e.g., rehabilitation commission including non-Party members, CPPCC/NPC/parties as advisory "Political Design Institutes"), citing the source as presenting these as the actual, less radical ideas misrepresented by the campaign.

       Explain the concept of "equal footing" (fen ting kang li) as discussed by Zhang and Luo and interpreted by the source as something far short of wanting to "take turns" or "replace the Party."

   Nature of Democratic Parties:

       Expand on the status of democratic parties before and during the campaign. Use the source to explain the view that they had become "political flower-vases" or puppets lacking real power, citing the source.

       Include Chu Anping's specific criticism (mentioned in the source) about non-Party members losing significant government posts after 1949, citing the source.

   Rule of Law and Legal System:

       While the article states the legal system was targeted, add more detail about why, based on the source. Describe the specific calls for strengthening the rule of law and enacting specific legislation (criminal, civil, etc.) made by figures like Wang Zaoshi, Huang Shaohong, and Huang Shouli, citing the source.

       Include the source's analysis that this advocacy clashed with Mao's view of law as a tool for class struggle rather than a constraint on state power, citing the source.

   Mao's Motives:

       Incorporate the source's critical analysis of Mao's motives – that he launched the campaign to prevent checks and balances, ensure "absolute dictatorship," feared waning power within the Party after the 20th Congress/criticism of personality cults, and used the "rightists" as a target to intimidate potential opponents within the Party ("killing the chicken to show the monkey"), citing the source's interpretation.

       Mention Chen Mingshu's specific criticism of Mao's personality (hot-headed, impatient, partial) and Mao's furious reaction, citing the source.

   Punishments/Experiences:

       The source mentions Zhang and Luo being stripped of posts and relegated, which could be added.

   Legacy:

       Expand or create a new section in "Legacy" to include the source's analysis of the intellectual and political legacy of the "rightists." Discuss the source's argument that the seeds of contemporary Chinese democracy and rights defense movements can be traced back to the ideas and resistance of the 1957 "active rightists," citing the source. Mention the source's point about the suppression of law, politics, and sociology undermining potential democratic forces.

Contradictory Information / Missing Important Details:

   Contradiction: The most significant area of difference is the source's direct challenge to the truthfulness of the accusations made against the "rightists," which the Wikipedia article currently presents without this specific counter-narrative from the source. The article mentions the accusation "take turns to rule," while the source calls this a "fabrication" or "inaccurate material" and provides evidence (CCP's later admission, Zhang's actual proposals). This isn't a factual contradiction (the accusation was made), but a contradiction in the validity of the accusation. The article should include the source's argument that these accusations were false, clearly attributing this view to the source.

   Missing Important Details: As outlined in the "Where it Should Be Used Additionally" section, the most important missing details from the Wikipedia article (relative to this source) are:

       The source's detailed arguments challenging the official accusations as fabrications or distortions.

       The specific content of the "rightists'" proposals for reform, rule of law, and the role of democratic parties, as presented in the source.

       The source's in-depth analysis of Mao's motivations for the campaign.

       The source's analysis connecting the 1957 movement to contemporary calls for democracy and rights defense in China.

       The source's view on the status of democratic parties as lacking real power ("flower-vases").

Billionaires

Most of the pages in Category: American billionaires are puff pieces. I started trying to remedy this only to realize the problem is that mainstream media published these puff pieces and WP follows the sources. Typical example I wonder if the RS guidelines could ever be modified to account for this?

Turns of pharse

• It is difficult for the american people, who have been tricked by the billionaire media to understand the importance of having guns in their own hands.

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1. Korb, Lawrence (2015). "The Conversation: The Tragedy of the American Military". No. March. The Atlantic. Retrieved 28 January 2024.