"The loud part is harmless-ish; the dangerous part is rare and quiet; and the thing that ties the room together is a funded, coherent push to make Bitcoin a platform rather than money."
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"The warfare weapons identified by the research funded by this NATO branch include testing of repetition of what were once called big and little lies, re-formulated as rhetorical patterns, memes, headlines, tweets, and fake news across the internet and social media."
I don't know how sick you have to be to write and print such an article...
"Israel sure knows how to mark ‘Pride Month’. Tel Aviv’s annual celebration of gayness has once again turned into an opportunity to bomb one of the world’s most viciously anti-gay regimes, the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has a dreadful record of abuse not only of homosexuals but also of women, non-Muslims, and of course Jews."
All you need to know about China's EV industry and China's industrial policy in general. Very interesting and highly informative.
"This article challenges the prevailing view that China’s electric vehicle (EV) boom is primarily the result of top-down industrial policy."
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741394
"The tragic transformation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from a Russian-speaking advocate of coexistence to a president honoring figures linked to antisemitism, ethnic violence, and Nazi collaboration."
"Members of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) Faculty Union are facing legal charges after supporting student demands for dignified dormitory housing. AUTh’s president, Elias Kondilis, and board members Dimitris Raptakis and Sotiris Sotiropoulos are facing charges for alleged disruption of public service and unlawful violence."
One would think that this is a major story, but didn't make any headlines...
"India is working to ensure "not a single drop of water" will flow into neighbouring Pakistan, the water minister has said, after New Delhi suspended a major treaty last year."
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"India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
Pakistan's dependence on water from India is close to total: the country is essentially built around the Indus river system, all of whose rivers flow through India before entering Pakistan. Essentially this means, no water from India, no Pakistan. As a reminder, both countries have nuclear weapons...
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"The greatest ever winner of the FIFA Peace Prize, Donald Trump, has kicked off the World Cup by bombing Iran’s water supply. This has left 20,000 civilians without water. Outrageously, the Iranians are repairing the damage far quicker than the US fixed lead pipes in Flint Michigan. This is clearly an Iranian war crime."