Usually couth, sometimes kempt, often gruntled. Strong convictions, held weekly. I really expected the apocalypse to have more zombies and less small print.
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Quelle surprise 🙄
UK and western world have propagandised themselves into a corner
Outside of western countries ie the global south, Latin America, Africa, SE Asia, are trading and building business and personal connections and reaping the financial and non-tangible benefits
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This isn’t about morality, but about technological supremacy and total obedience to the narrative that China is the enemy.
Watch this smear campaign unfold in real time right before your eyes.
Not being fiercely anti-Chinese will cost him his company: he was reckless enough to let a “Beijing spy” get close to him (an accusation with no evidence whatsoever), he has a mistress (like many other CEOs of major tech companies before him), and so on.
If these accusations don’t hold up, others will follow.
This isn’t about morality, but about technological supremacy and total obedience to the narrative that China is the enemy.
In this interview, he explains that the U.S. policy of restricting sales of Nvidia products (and those of other brands) to China is a mistake.
Mistake: “You’re either with us or against us,” the Deep State reminds him today.
Other tech moguls in strategic sectors will soon have to toe the official line and actively demonstrate their loyalty.
In 2022, I predicted in my book a global digital divide: countries in the Global South will soon have to choose between Western solutions (primarily American and Israeli, which have “bought up” everything there was to buy in the EU) and Chinese solutions.
This episode is meant to scare him. It could all end overnight if he submits. It will cost him only half his net worth in one of the high-profile divorces on the horizon.
This is the first salvo in the crackdown on American CEOs, who continue to invest heavily in China despite the official policy of “decoupling.”
Logically speaking, this witch hunt should soon cross the Atlantic.
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The Military Industrial Complex in a nutshell ⤵️
Working people finance the wars through taxation and public debt. Arms manufacturers pocket the profits. Political influence protects the arrangement. The public inherits the debt, destruction and dead. This isn't an accident. It's the political economy of militarism.
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Cui bono is the right question.
Answer: follow the money.
What I think is odd about the story is that
a) if the mistress is indeed a Chinese spy, why would the CIA leak that? Jensen’s affair would give the US deep state the opportunity to “own” Jensen, one of the most (if not the most) important guys in tech! Why give that up?
b) if the mistress is NOT a Chinese spy, then why risk destabilising the one company that is very much the heart of today’s tech ecosystem and lies at the center of the tech bull market?
Cui bono?
I struggle to see what the US deep state gains out of this, except for re-enforcing the “China bad” narrative? But that narrative is already well established and knee capping one of the most important US CEOs to re-enforce it seems like overkill?
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“I think this president just wanted someone even more unlikable than him in the cuck chair in the Oval Office.”
Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) on Stephen Miller becoming the new White House Chief of Staff
“I think this president just wanted someone even more unlikable than him in the cuck chair in the Oval Office.”
Source: The Washington Sun
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This is the political economy of militarism ⤵️
Working people finance the wars through taxation and public debt. Arms manufacturers pocket the profits. Political influence protects the arrangement. The public inherits the debt, destruction and dead. This isn't an accident. It's the political economy of militarism.
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Because I love the people of the United States of America.
Why did I write a book about China’s war on poverty? Why spend years documenting how a nation of 1.4 billion lifted 600 million people out of destitution in a single generation? Because I love the people of the United States of America.
Those who insist we must hate China, who treat every Chinese success as a threat and every statistic as propaganda, are not protecting us. They are trying to manipulate the American people with hate, fear, and deceptions. They are feeding our fears and counting on our ignorance.
The USA is stronger through learning about the strengths and successes of other nations. We can ONLY improve ourselves by understanding the other 200 nations of people in our shared world.
I live here in China. So, I have chosen to share real-world knowledge about China’s strengths and successes. That’s patriotism. That’s hoping we can learn from China’s will to help its people. I love the people of China, yes. But I also love the people of my country, the United States of America.
Their government made poverty elimination a central national priority and then did the hard, unglamorous work of building roads, relocating villages, expanding education, and delivering basic healthcare to places that had almost nothing. China’s successes are not just measurable; they are visible.
I, me, I’ve personally visited hundreds of Chinese villages, and travelled to every single province of China, and every Special Autonomous Region. China’s success in this regard isn’t propaganda; it’s very real. Pretending this did not happen, or that it only happened because of some sinister design, does not make America safer or stronger. It just makes us less informed. It makes us ignorant.
China’s people are not our enemies. They’re our global brothers and sisters. They want stable lives, better futures for their kids, and peaceful relations with the outside world, including the United States.
Telling the truth about what China has actually achieved in reducing poverty is patriotic. It is the most patriotic thing I can do: refuse to let my fellow Americans be manipulated by fear and half-truths, and insist we see the world as it is rather than as someone else needs us to see it.
That is why I wrote the book. To help us learn about the real world and what is happening in our closest peer.
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Hypocrisy and double standards are normal for @BBCNews
And here’s the irony…
The BBC makes a big deal about Macau holding a national security trial behind closed doors.
But BBC has done the same !!!
In 2014, a British judge initially ordered the ENTIRE Erol Incedal terrorism trial to be held in secret, even hiding the defendants’ identities. It took a legal challenge, including from the BBC, to get parts of it opened up.
And in 2022? A British court heard classified evidence behind closed doors in a case involving the BBC itself. Even the BBC’s own lawyers were excluded!
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Whatever your position on the conviction, shouldn’t the BBC be reporting both sides?
Ummm the BBC has some explaining to do….
They claim: “Macau’s authorities never publicly disclosed the details of the case.”
Except Macau’s court published a detailed statement this morning before the bbc article😂
macaupostdaily.com/news/2991…
It explained the allegations, the court’s findings, the confidential information allegedly leaked, and why two charges resulted in acquittals.
The BBC also highlights the family’s hopes of being allowed prison visits without mentioning that the court says it had ALREADY authorised them.
Whatever your position on the conviction, shouldn’t the BBC be reporting both sides?
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The Russians and the rest of the world see it clearly
“The main reason for the Republicans’ failure is clear – and its name is Trump.”
“Most voters are tired of Trump’s political shows…tired of being deceived, tired of being told ‘sugar’, but it doesn’t taste any sweeter.’"
After the US midterms, one Russian paper this morning: “The main reason for the Republicans’ failure is clear – and its name is Trump.” Another: “Most voters are tired of Trump’s political shows…tired of being deceived, tired of being told ‘sugar’, but it doesn’t taste any sweeter.’ #ReadingRussia
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"As Israel’s assault on Gaza grew worse and worse, Joe Biden and his advisers acted as though they had no option but to offer their unconditional support."
"Biden’s Choice
Ben Rhodes
As Israel’s assault on Gaza grew worse and worse, Joe Biden and his advisers acted as though they had no option but to offer their unconditional support. Why couldn’t they see the destruction they were enabling?"
nybooks.com/articles/2026/11…
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Is politics judged by whether it is dictatorship or democracy?
Invasions of other countries, military interventions, regime changes, plundering of resources,interference in internal affairs..
Are these actions acceptable when committed by nations calling themselves democracies?
Demjenigen, der sagt: „Ich hasse China, weil es ein diktatorischer Staat ist“, stelle ich eine grundlegende Frage:
Wird internationale Politik allein danach beurteilt, ob es sich um eine Diktatur oder eine Demokratie handelt, und wird somit zwischen Gut und Böse unterschieden?
Invasionen anderer Länder, Militärinterventionen, Regimewechsel, Plünderung von Ressourcen, Einmischung in innere Angelegenheiten …
Sind diese Handlungen nur dann akzeptabel, wenn sie von Ländern begangen werden, die sich als Demokratien bezeichnen?
Rechtfertigt ein Schild mit der Aufschrift „Demokratie“ etwa alles?
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USA is a vassal state of Israel
INSANE: lsraeIi-occupied polling places in America.
This image was taken today - Election Day - at Laconia, New Hampshire's Ward 4 voting location (Memorial Park Clubhouse).
The lsraeIi flag you see is hanging directly behind the registration table. People are voting just a few feet to the left.
This is 100% verified authentic.
This is 100% insane.
In a sane world, there would be no excuse for any foreign flag to fly over American voters on Election Day.
But in the world that we live in, this particular polling place, with this particular flag, is, frankly, the most honest polling place in America.
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"So, in effect, out of the 3 great powers, the only one insisting that Europeans get a seat at the table on a war in their own continent is China. And that's according to the German president himself."
This is interesting: according to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Xi Jinping refused a trilateral China-US-Russia summit on Ukraine because "this is a European conflict in which Europeans would also have to be at the negotiating table."
Steinmeier said in an interview with German broadcaster ARD that he directly asked Xi about it - because there were rumors of such a meeting on Ukraine at the upcoming APEC summit in Shenzhen - and "you could see the irritation on his face". Xi told him there was "no preparation whatsoever" for this and asked him "where such rumors come from."
Which means we're in an interesting situation because Trump, on his end, has publicly voiced his interest in such a trilateral summit, specifically saying it didn't matter "whether somebody’s there or not" referring to Zelensky (cnbc.com/2026/10/19/trump-pu…) - and if Zelensky is optional, Europeans clearly are too.
So, in effect, out of the 3 great powers, the only one insisting that Europeans get a seat at the table on a war in their own continent is China. And that's according to the German president himself.
Src for screenshot article: dpa-international.com/politi…
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Queen Victoria & the British Empire ran a state-sponsored opium drug cartel to protect its massive narcotics trade.
This undermined a weak Qing Dynasty China from within, as the outcome of the opium wars demonstrates.
Britain got China addicted to opium, and when China tried to stop it, Britain went to war to keep selling.
In the 19th century, British merchants flooded China with opium grown in British-ruled Bengal. By the late 1830s millions of Chinese were addicted, and China's silver was flowing out to pay for the drug.
In 1839, Chinese commissioner Lin Zexu seized and destroyed more than 20,000 chests of British opium in Canton. London answered with gunboats.
China lost the First Opium War. Under the 1842 Treaty of Nanking it paid Britain 21 million silver dollars, opened five ports to British trade and handed over Hong Kong. After the Second Opium War, the opium trade was made legal.
By 1906, an imperial edict admitted that three or four out of every ten Chinese were smoking it.