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The roles played by Australia, Sweden and Britain under pressure from America to persecute the founder of WikiLeaks is well-known. However, Ecuador and its domestic politics in the past decade may be even more relevant, but little understoo
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Just imagine if Julian Assange was Chinese(scmp.com)
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As pointed out by at least one British pundit, the founder of WikiLeaks would have been celebrated and hailed as a hero by the West, instead of facing extradition to the US. Unfortunately, he exposed Western, especially American crimes, rat
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GPT-3 face the same issues as GPT-2. Tried a few queries not quite there yet(twitter.com)
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Chinese antibody cocktail a potential game changer in fight against Covid-19(youtube.com)
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An antibody treatment for Covid-19 that reportedly cuts hospitalisations and deaths by 78 per cent in clinical trials is expected to be approved for use in China within weeks. Chinese viral immunologist Zhang Linqi is the driving force behi
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I do understand why "people" do not recommend Lenin to you, and they recommend Kropotkin. Since they belong to a layers of classes that benefit from the interests resulting from imperialist force of your homeland. Lenin will analy
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Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert(nature.com)
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Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading variant in South Africa poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.
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The source of main problems (including rearmament, hunger and wars) are systemic problems in Marxian sense. That is, while humanity as a species have the technical and material conditions of solving most of the problems (hunger, most of dis
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f-strings in Python are not just a way to easily substitute variables inside strings, they come with a wide array of conversion, formatting, and debugging options which we give examples of in this video. Note: I'm trying a more informa
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Python f-strings can do more than you thought. f'{val=}', f'{dt:%Y-%m-%d}'(youtube.com)
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Documentary: Birth of Civilization (2008) [YouTube](youtube.com)
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Google Workshop on Scalable Algorithms for Semi- and Unsupervised Learning(events.withgoogle.com)
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In this website people can send public messages to authorities of China(liuyan.people.com.cn)
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Speculations abound about how SARS-CoV-2 came to be, but a few studies now raise an important question: Could the coronavirus have been spreading internationally much earlier than December 2019?
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SARS-CoV-2's spread: Was the virus circulating in Europe before found in China?(medicalnewstoday.com)
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Just like the times before World Wars.
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From the text: Amid the recent chip shortage, triggered by the pandemic’s economic shock waves, ASML’s products have become central to a geopolitical struggle between the US and China, with Washington making it a high priority to block Chin
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Unearthing Manchester's Victorian slums (2009)(theguardian.com)
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"This is our archaeological handbook," says Chris Wild, brandishing The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844, a muddy, thumbed paperback. "Engels." This, though, is far from being the only contemporary accou
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by abbassi 5y ago
Julian Assange is in solitary confinement in Belmarsh prison to disclose the war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan!
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I'm happy she is dismissed. No student should be a propaganda tool, especially in a continent that Julian Assange is in jail in worse conditions (like those of Stalin) for doing journalism and revealing the war crimes of so-called demo
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Exactly, I think it is obvious that even Chinese officials doesn't believe in this scenario, like the US officials does not believe in Wuhan leak story. It is just a psychological war! But I read somewhere from Edmund Burke saying if I
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Is Obama not worried about his birthday party becoming a super spreader event?(globaltimes.cn)
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As fresh global concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant mount, former US president Barack Obama will reportedly host about 700 guests for his 60th birthday party this weekend at Martha's Vineyard, where he has a home. Ho
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Suspicions hover over Covid-19 origins search in US(globaltimes.cn)
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A growing number of questions linger over the US, including unexplained pneumonia outbreaks in the country: Why is the US reluctant to conduct mass testing on its early cases? What happened with its mysterious Fort Detrick and worrisome bio
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Covid-19 in Germany and China: mitigation versus elimination strategy(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Results: China and several neighbours (e.g. Australia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Thailand) have achieved COVID-19 elimination or sustained low case numbers. This can be attributed to: (1) experience with previous coronavirus outbreak

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