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That's a pretty selective list of claims they chose to investigate. In the "Gender-Based Violence" section, they list their conclusion "Continuing Research" despite saying "Sexual assault, committed either by m
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Why would someone steal a tower like this? Scrap?
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I suspect that if someone used the death of my son to score political hits on me, I would also be apoplectic.
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3y ago
> Just imagine what is going to happen then to them and their families They'd flee the country because they have the wealth to do so.
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3y ago
> The five firms used as case studies in the investigation are GGV Capital, GSR Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Sequoia Capital China, and Walden International https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/letters
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Real wages have been growing faster than inflation since the beginning of last year. I think it will take a bit of time for everyone to feel the effects. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i
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Money laundering, ransomware, speculation/gambling, purchasing illegal goods and services
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Are there any US allies you don't consider vassals? Is every NATO member a vassal?
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To military conflict? I doubt it. To political and economic conflict? Probably. The same thing would be true of France or Poland. That's generally what happens when an ally country stops being an ally country, but it doesn't imply
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It also is free to amend and revise its constitution, to terminate the US-Japan defense treaty (Article 10), to pursue its own foreign policy goals, etc. "Vassal state" is an old term with specific connotations that fits Japan if
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3y ago
Using a definition of "vassal" that's so broad as to be meaningless, yes
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Meeting his handler
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Crime networks may have laundered $1B+ through Vancouver homes in 2016 (2018)
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> The whistleblower, whom The Bureau is calling D.M., immigrated to Canada as an international student from India, making him a minority among mostly Chinese-Canadian co-workers at the Aurora branch. > “I am going to reveal potential
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It is https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us... https://archive.is/VqSne
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They put books on a "Do Not Promote" list, but it doesn't look like they removed any from sale. I wonder what "Do Not Promote" entails.
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Sure it does: college admissions and air traffic controller hiring are two recent examples. https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...
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3y ago
Ok, but this article is specifically about US energy consumption.
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3y ago
And the ransomware business!
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3y ago
Police, banks, the military, the Fed all provide many more services than bitcoin does and do more than just protect the dollar. What an incredibly dumb comparison.
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> Valor is set to enter service in the mid-2030s That seems like a long time
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I predict every AI disinfo campaign this election will target Joe Biden and not Donald Trump
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A fake recording of a candidate saying he'd rigged the election went viral
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> In the wake of the 2020 election, the president of the far-right network One America News sent a potentially explosive email to former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, with a spreadsheet claiming to contain passwords of employees f
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It was a conspiracy theory in the beginning. The far-right is constantly spamming out conspiracy theories, boosting the ones that are plausible and memory-holing the ones that aren't: Sandy Hook crisis actors, Antifa Jan 6 rioters, a t
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Very common on Twitter too.
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Seems unlikely since China, India et al don’t get along well with each other
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I’m hoping that despite this, the changes they’re making make it easier for third party tools to do the same thing without changing your region
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Well yeah, he was constantly on amphetamines
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Some people say software is eating the world but I prefer to say its infesting it.
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