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@abovetheclouds

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enjoying immortality peaches 🍑🍑🍑

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@abovetheclouds
The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod Swinger
3 years
It's absolutely mindblowing that the claim by Adrian Zenz that "80% of new IUDs in China were fitted in XJ" is still repeated by the media. It's been long debunked as a purposely misleading statistical sleight of hand. Time for a recap #Thread 1/🧵
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@abovetheclouds
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😡"They killed that poor German girl" Turns out she's alive in a Gaza hospital 🤬 "They raped all women" Not a single case could have been confirmed, news outlets redacted their stories 🤬 "They beheaded 40 babies" Israeli army denied the story You are propaganda tools!
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@abovetheclouds
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1 year
Basically this
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@johnnyjmils
Johnny miller
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Liberals aren’t allowed to be racist in public. Unless it’s to wish death on Russians, make up lies about Iranians and pronounce a vague fear of Chinese.
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@IAPonomarenko
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦
3 years
Oh, by the way. Where is this rise of “extreme far right, Neo-Nazi groups” in Ukraine that were supposed to be reaching the point of taking power now? No? Ah, nevermind.
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@abovetheclouds
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2 years
Yeah, what a NOVEL and ORIGINAL idea LMAO A fun thread 🧵
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@abovetheclouds
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3 years
Just a coincidence, really.
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@TheDailyShow
The Daily Show
3 years
What is China doing in Africa? If you don’t know, now you know.
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2 years
How it started. How it's going
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This is absolutely mind-blowing. I was wondering back then how they were able to assign so many targets for dropping 6,000 bombs in the first 6 days. Turns out they used AI for that.
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@RnaudBertrand
Arnaud Bertrand
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WOW, this might be THE most important piece of journalism on the war on Gaza since it began, by Israeli newspaper @972mag : Essentially they confirm, with unimpeachable sourcing, that the killing of civilians was all calculated and intentional. Their
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@abovetheclouds
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2 years
LMAOOOOO THIS IS THE INTERNATIONALE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
@eefjerammeloo
Eva Rammeloo
2 years
Chilling. The national anthem. Especially that phrase ‘qi lai!’ (‘stand up!’). Never seen anything like this. Well, except in #HongKong
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OMG, he's just digging himself in deeper and deeper.
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HOW DARE the Chinese wanting to end BEING HUMILIATED?!!
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@IvoHDaalder
Ivo Daalder
2 years
Macron has China all wrong. The right policy isn’t to chart a middle course between Washington and Beijing but to align the US and Europe on a common path, preventing China from overhauling the global order. My take in ⁦⁦ @POLITICOEurope
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He has no clue…
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They now even print books with the meme lmao 🤣😅
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@DrewPavlou You're too late, bro
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5 years
Finally found it. This is national Chinese CCTV13 news on 31 December 2019, reporting on the rise of pneumonia cases in Wuhan.
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"NATO did not expand; it grew."
@pavel23
Pavel Mayer
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@yanisvaroufakis @Joccck NATO did not expand; it grew. It did not coerce anyone to join. Putin would have never been content with a neutral Ukraine. He antagonized Ukrainians by taking Crimea and removed 5% of pro-russian voters from Ukraine, cut ecomimic ties with Ukraine and pushed it toward the West.
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Depends on the system,I guess
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@helenprejean
Sister Helen Prejean
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The death penalty is fundamentally a poor person’s issue. I have never met a single person with money or resources on death row. Capital punishment means “those without the capital get the punishment.”
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@abovetheclouds
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1 year
Basically Step 5 on the Hog Groomer Scale. cc @bidetmarxman
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@BMarchetich
Branko Marcetic
1 year
Liberal discourse on Russia has moved from "Putin is Hitler" to "When you think about it, even Nazis weren't as bad as Russians":
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Has nobody thought what kind of message sending 14 Leopard-2 and 88 Leopard-1 would deliver?
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@emilyrauhala
Emily Rauhala
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New DC experience: I’m standing outside a CVS in Dupont Circle, waiting for a ride. The surveillance machine above me just came alive to tell me not to loiter. Spent 5 years in mainland China and this is a new one for me.
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I so much want to write a Twitter bot that replies to each post of Noah Smith the picture on the right side.
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@Vinncent Welcome to the German intellectual realm.
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"Hey, someone showed a video of prisons in Xinjiang, that totally proves all the made up stuff by Adrian Zenz"
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@abovetheclouds
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2 years
The hypothesis that the Chinese government is an authoritarian, repressive police state that doesn't allow the unhappy population to protest is completely disproven by this. You inventing ad-hoc explanations doesn't rescue it.
@vivianwubeijing
Vivian Wu
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Scale of the protest tonight in Shanghai. Notice police didn’t do anything but standing calmly watching ppl protest and shouting. It’s not benevolence. My guess: they need to ask for directives from the top authorities. Police might be stunned as nobody dares doing so for decades
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3 years
Russian bombing vs US bombing
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Why is the US Capitol in the background of this photo?
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@HamzaKaroumia
Hamza Karoumia
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@SecondRingSZN I bet you’d love that. You guys working for the CCP take great pleasure in watching people suffer.
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Suddenly a lot of things seem to make a lot of more sense.
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We arrived at the "it's all paid actors" phase of the conspiracy theory.
@moghilemear13
中巴人民❤️🖤友谊万岁
3 years
well hold on, I thought they were being paid to pray
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Isn't it amazing what level of diligence is required for getting a Pulitzer nowadays?
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Don't fall for the atrocity-debunking trap. It takes away all attention from the real suffering in Gaza.
@abovetheclouds
The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod Swinger
1 year
The past days social media spent days arguing about made-up atrocities instead of the real suffering of the people of Gaza. Don't fall for this. Keep talking about Gaza! Even when you debunk a fake atrocity, put a real story from Gaza in the next tweet.
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US trains vs. Chinese trains
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How it started How it's going
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So now in 2022, we have the "Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment" f.k.a. "Build Back Better World" f.k.a. "Blue Dot Network" f.k.a. the "New Silk Road Initiative". Is this some Prince tribute lmao?
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@abovetheclouds
The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod Swinger
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So 8½ months (!) after it's first release, Adrian Zenz finally managed to correct in his report the wrong graph label, as it was highlighted by @MaxBlumenthal at the recent panel he attended together with @DanielDumbrill , @RadDesai and others. A #Thread (READ TO THE END!)
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The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod Swinger
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Share real stories like this:
@BennnyH
Benny Hunter
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A story in two parts. A young woman in Gaza explains what is happening as the bombs fall around her. The second video just posted half an hour ago.
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@benshapiro 22 years after the start of the construction of Notre Dam de Paris, all Jews of France were expelled from the royal domains of France, their synagogues were converted into churches, and their houses and lands were confiscated. Learn some history, Ben! Judeo-Christian my ass.
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@emilyrauhala "The world"
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US minions in overdrive anti-Olympics propaganda mode, Adrian Zenz retweeting even Arslan Hidayat 🥇
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POV you're China correspondent since EIGHT years and can't even tell apart the March of the Volunteers and the Internationale. This is the quality of China correspondents…
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All the propagandists of the "Uyghur genocide" are now shit scared that the visit of Michelle Bachelet to Xinjiang doesn't yield the desired outcome, hence they're pressing her to release her report BEFORE the upcoming visit. Then. Now.
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@DrewPavlou "Chinese students"
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You have literally an imperialist sitting in your show, but you decided to make a segment about China in Africa (full of errors, btw)??
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"Hello fellow ***SCHOLARS***, how do you do?"
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BREAKING: US 🇺🇸 intelligence agencies found irrefutable evidence, present #Coronavirus sample from Wuhan lab to UN security council.
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He did the meme 😂
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@hvgoenka
Harsh Goenka
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Isn’t there a correlation between the care taken with your luggage at airports and the care and manners in society #Japan
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3 years
LMAO
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@nytimes Interesting how you avoid the word "coup" in the headline.
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Hey BBC reporter @JohnSimpsonNews , how do you explain the different accounts of the 1989 events on Tiananmen square you gave in 1998 and 2009 respectively?
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@newleftpress The New American Left citing *checks notes* a Senior Fellow of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Sounds legit.
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Did you ask @BrunoLeMaire about the West Afriacn CFA franc and the Central African CFA franc, both controlled by the French treasury?
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Exclusive photos from #ForcedLabor in #Xinjiang . Inmates of a re-education camp are picking cotton and doing other field work. #Thread
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Exclusive photographic evidence of China taking over Uganda's Entebbe International Airport 😱😱
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@techreview Spoiler: it's Communism ☭.
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How it started. How it's going — Xinjiang Victims Database edition —
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…the Trump administration. This part here is too good to not quote verbatim: "According to American officials, the Blue Dot network is like a “Michelin Guide”, which rates restaurants around the world with stars for excellence" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Tired: China allegedly banning the letter 'N' Wired: German states punishing the use of the letter 'Z'
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Just wondering who all those Wikipedia editors are? 🤔
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This reminds me of something, but I can't really get hold of it... 🤔
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@ipacglobal
Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC)
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@CarlZha Always the most entertaining exchanges lmao 😂
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"failure"
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@tagesschau Der Faktenfinder verwendet 4 Absätze, die Behauptung zu widerlegen, der Sprengstoff wäre in "Pflanzenform" angebracht worden. Nur hat dies Hersh nie so gesagt, sondern beruht auf einer krassen Fehlübersetzung. "plant" ist das VERB hier, "to plant a shaped charge" 😂😂😂😂😂
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@abovetheclouds
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…the Built Back Better World initiative or B3W in 2021. But guess what, the story doesn't start there,…
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We all know that China draws a main bulk of its national pride from the glorious past of its *checksnotes* ice-hockey team.
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Nathan Ruser's Greatest Hits. A compilation. #thread
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So we're in 2022, and as we're gonna see, this project exists for quite some time. It's a big declaration, but actually it's just renamed "Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment", from which what was previously known as…
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You know your anti-communist propaganda is going really good when you have to rely on a professional actress who's also a Falun Gong practitioner
@VoCommunism
Victims of Communism
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It's time to confront the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party.
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China’s tightening grip
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@XuZeyu_Philip The results:
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That's a very unfair block, @jenniferatntd I wasn't even praising the power of makeup and Photoshop yet.
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…since B3W in turn was originating from the Blue Dot Network, founded in 2019 by Australia, Japan and the US under…
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China experts who can't spell. It's 华南, not 湖南 . She probably knows just so much of China that she's aware that there is a province called Hunan, and mixed it up.
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@RudyDrischel These territorial disputes come from pre-PRC times, and are a result from western colonialism. PRC did settle over the years several disputes, so the number of disputes has reduced since the Communists took over.
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Totally normal for Chinese ultra-nationalist account @Shuhui28374106 , created February 2021, to have 12 of the 13 first accounts to follow to be all from New Zealand coincidentally, before starting to follow Chinese ambassadors and then pro-China bloggers. 🤔
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@DrewPavlou Haz was right:
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What's your point even?
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@Lemommeringue
Cadence
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Before you make your high speed rail map, please just stop and take a brief look at a map like this before continuing
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Didn't expect much from Western news correspondents in China, but this is a new low.
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Zenz in 2020: 80% THIS IS GENOCIDE!!!1 Zenz in 2021: -34% … *awkward silence*
@GFPhilosophy
GreyFox
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2020 China Health and Hygiene Stats are out! Let's look at that XJ Net IUD figure again...Holy Smokes! It's gone negative!! What does this mean?? Could it be the calculation makes no sense? Or is there a more sinister explanation? We await your take with bated breath @adrianzenz
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Btw, talking about infrastructure: Does Flint, Michigan have clean drinking water yet?
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Ah, yes. The original islamic inhabitants of Xinjiang, patiently awaiting the first coming of their prophet some 600 years later.
@AsiaReportcom
'DrBen' AsiaReport, travel guide, sat.maps, books.
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We could go on forever: actually the conflict between original islamic inhabitants of Central Asia (redubbed Xinjiang by Chinese colonials) and Han China go over 2000 years. In the last 200 years there have been repeated ethnic cleanings both ways. But the Han outnumber everyone.
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"including one it said" Jfc, when even the sheer existence of an Uyghur athlete must be discredited because this is seen as pinching holes into the propaganda narrative spun by western media
@nytimes
The New York Times
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China chose two athletes — including one it said was of Uyghur heritage — to light the Olympic cauldron at the #OpeningCeremony in Beijing. The country has conducted a mass detention campaign targeting Uyghur Muslims that the U.S. has called genocidal.
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Broke: @Carlzha getting suspended from Twitter by Twitter Woke: @CarlZha getting suspended from Twitter by his wife
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@LRonMexico In case anyone thinks this is exaggerated.
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This is the guy who set up his own "academic" journal, where Adrian Zenz got his articles "peer-reviewed".
@anderscorr
Anders Corr, Ph.D.
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Putin's invasion of Ukraine would be great for China - leaving all of Russia's East, and most of its mineral resources, totally undefended. The lines on the map are troop movements, many from east to west.
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Mic drop 💥
@s_m_marandi
Seyed Mohammad Marandi
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My interview on German state owned DW. I discuss protests & riots in Iran, western media warfare against Iran & western support for terrorism. I remind the host that the German regime helped Saddam gas Iranians & that at the time he worked for a silent BBC
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@Seamus_Malek 2 kids in it, dead, mother in critical condition in hospital
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@MrSeanHaines Get a job.
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The Blue Dot Network grew from reviving two older projects, (meaning they were dead, actually) in 2017…
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…one of which was the New Silk Road Initiative first mentioned by Hillary Clinton during a visit in Chennai in 2011.
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@AP I've questioned the author on his framing of a rising alcohol consumption in Xinjiang, but haven't received an answer so far.
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@dakekang @NuryVittachi Dake, I have another question: why do you portray alcohol consumption in Xinjiang as something that developed just recently as a result of new policies, when it was surprisingly (also to me) widespread before? (57% of male Uyghurs were drinking in 2012)
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@MaitreyaBhakal BREAKING: Ukraine's Azov Battalion nominates US government for Nobel Peace Prize
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@aurorachaang On what theory is your usage of the term "imperialism" based? I'm asking because words have meaning.
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The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod Swinger
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@dakekang @NuryVittachi Dake, I have another question: why do you portray alcohol consumption in Xinjiang as something that developed just recently as a result of new policies, when it was surprisingly (also to me) widespread before? (57% of male Uyghurs were drinking in 2012)
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The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod Swinger
3 years
Daily struggle for PolSci academics
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@SheenaGreitens
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
3 years
OK, one addition today. Ppl asking about Japan. Fair Q: there *is* debate over the alternation rule. If you require it, you risk classifying a few dems (Japan) as non-democracies. But if you don't, you risk classifying autocracies as democracies. Risk of error either way.
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The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod Swinger
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Which, in turn, grew out from plans by Petraeus for Afghanistan's future, well, that never came to actuality. Here's some think tank planning paper along the same lines from 2009.
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The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod Swinger
3 years
"educate"
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@melissakchan
Melissa Chan
3 years
👆🏼 Gu’s comments here sure to grate on Uyghur activists who’ve spent a lot of effort trying to educate people about what’s happening in Xinjiang and working to build empathy for their people.
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@abovetheclouds
The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod Swinger
3 years
Tursunay Ziyawudun is going to go full Nayirah in Congress tomorrow.
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The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod Swinger
3 years
How it started. How it's going
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