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by no_exit 2y ago
> Figure about 10-15% of people are innocent in criminal cases Much higher than that in these particular cases, as noted in an article linked in OP: > A recent white paper by a non-partisan organisation of prominent Chinese Americans
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by no_exit 2y ago
positive press side of updating arms posture in Europe, like the B-52 flight Sunday: https://www.newsweek.com/american-b52-bombers-historic-nato-...
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The denialism about how many Palestinians are being killed is pretty disturbing, it doesn't take a whole lot to put 2 and 2 together with the population density and level of destruction. Hopefully some people will read this and sober u
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The very first time I tried to spin up a test deploy the instance never came online, which I thought was pretty funny. This was like 6 months ago.
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by no_exit 2y ago
> they're all on drugs To be fair to the SEALs, this is every US SF unit.
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Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse(theguardian.com)
86 points by no_exit 2y ago|39 comments
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by no_exit 2y ago
A member of the Lee Kuan Yew fanclub milieu is a dickhead? I'm surprised.
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by no_exit 2y ago
Good accompaniment to another article I enjoyed earlier this year, on the history of fire in the US: 'All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States' https://doi.org&#x2
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Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries(bbc.com)
579 points by no_exit 2y ago|318 comments
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by no_exit 2y ago
AI & Society Vol 37, Issue 3 has several articles on the history of cybernetics and computation across Mexico, Brazil, and other Latin American countries, for anyone interested in further reading. https://link.springer.com&#x
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by no_exit 2y ago
> Didn't the FLLF attack Palestinians? Yes, and? > Did it try to assassinate it's ambassador to the UK? See below quotes. It also did try to assassinate US diplomat John Gunther Dean. > Do you have other references to the
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by no_exit 2y ago
Did you know Israelis ran a covert bombing campaign in Lebanon wherein they blew up hundreds of civilians, blamed it on Palestinians, and then used this to justify the 1982 invasion? > [Rise and Kill First] contains several pages devoted
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by no_exit 2y ago
> the wave of suicide bombing attacks by Hamas that came as a response to the peace process The Hamas suicide bombings in 1994 were in response to the massacre committed by Jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein in February. The first bombing
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by no_exit 2y ago
> So yes, antisemites and the mentally ill are loud on the streets and on the university campuses but they haven't won the hearts and the minds of people, and rightfully so. Is that right? > The survey found that 61% of the popul
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by no_exit 2y ago
> However, there is a huge propaganda campaign here in Spain, where TV shows talk constantly about trespassing, and one can only imagine what they get from that (swaying votes to conservative political groups, selling alarms, less rights
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Fentanyl exposure: myths, misconceptions, and the media(justjournalism.org)
3 points by no_exit 2y ago|0 comments
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by no_exit 2y ago
INR was also the source of the concentration camp ("strategic hamlet") strategy in South Vietnam. > The INR director saw the counterinsurgency effort's emphasis on military security as insufficient. Hilsman was much more r
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by no_exit 2y ago
Wild stuff. Kudos to Bensouda for refusing to be intimidated.
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by no_exit 2y ago
https://proteanmag.com/2022/11/28/pruitt-igoe-a-black-commun...
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by no_exit 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act
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by no_exit 2y ago
2000 Camp David Summit [1] > Shlomo Ben-Ami, then Israel's Minister of Foreign Relations who participated in the talks, stated that the Palestinians wanted the immediate withdrawal of the Israelis from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and
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by no_exit 2y ago
> Not quite to the same extent, or nearly as late. China's Four Pests campaign, for instance, ran from 1958 to 1962 and was ecologically disastrous. Operation Ranch Hand ran 1962-1972, so that's a pretty lazy snipe.
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by no_exit 2y ago
> Well, guess what, China is now worlds leading user and producer of eclectic cars, has electric busses and most of USA doesn’t. We are the ones behind now, and in fact neither you nor the media have realised it yet. The media has realiz
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by no_exit 2y ago
Gaza Health Ministry numbers are a reliable floor, as confirmed by numerous organizations like the US State Department. The real count probably above 100k dead so far.
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The limits of foreign propaganda and the foundations of an effective response(tnsr.org)
18 points by no_exit 2y ago|1 comments
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by no_exit 2y ago
I thought the punishment for Congressional perjury was a lucrative think tank sinecure, America's really changed lately.
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by no_exit 2y ago
Chicago PD's budget is ~$2 billion officially, closer to $3 billion when considering accounting trickery. If they want more money, perhaps they should stop illegally brutalizing people? > The city paid out $639 million in police-rel
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by no_exit 2y ago
> what logic leads to this conclusion? Any decent book about Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
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by no_exit 2y ago
> part of the problem is that, unlike in the US, military research does sometimes take place on university campuses. Oddly misleading, military research definitely takes place at US universities.
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by no_exit 2y ago
lmao

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