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Today I heard someone talking about creating a "empty buffer zone" in that area. From that alone it was obvious their intentions were to steal Lebanon land.
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Hilarious
In 2022 (I think) I saw this meme that someone that works for Chinese gov posted. The title was something like "What countries think the US does". Then, for each country that the US bombed there was an image of the US bombing the country / a war image in the country. The second last image had a title like "What you think you do" and was the image of superman flying. The last image had a title like "What you really do" and was an image of the WTC being demolished. I downloaded the image, but I didn't name it and I don't know where it is in the labyrinth of my computer folders and files. I tried finding it on internet; a while ago I was able to find it, but now I can't anymore. Does anyone here have it?
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If it's Warmerican and well known, then it's full of Warmerican propaganda. Maybe try a Russian or Chinese game.
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Maybe some info got leaked, it got attention in Asia, and then the USA had to say something. But even if this was the case, it would still be strange that they admited it.
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I believe the USA has "astroturfing squads" for this kind of work. This is one more evidence of it. Social media is likely flooded with astroturfing activity from the USA government. They also likely manipulate the social media software to help in this. For example, YouTube has a comment filter that automatically deletes comments that contain certain words; because of this filter, if you say certain things, the comment gets deleted, and you don't know it unless you look for the comment. Most comments I make on YouTube about geopolitics get deleted. A way to get the comment delivered is to hide likely banned words or expressions by inserting a space in the middle of the word. For example, the comment "China wages developement. America wages wars." will likely get deleted. To deliver it, you could write "Chi na wa ges developement. Ame rica wa ges wa rs.".
The narration is polluted with some anti-communist propaganda, as expected from a western MSM, but there are some great footage. DW deleted it from their channel, probably because the video portrayed a too positive image of NK, even with the anti-communist propaganda in the narration. Maybe some or most of you already knew this doc, but I'm posting here anyway.
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Classical guitar. I bought a digital piano and learned some easy to intermediary pieces, but I have been focusing only on guitar. I made a classical guitar arrangement for the soviet anthem, but I don't have a set up apropriate to make a nice video. I also compose music for these instruments.
Deutschland translated to different English accents: British: "Germany" Australian: "Germany" American: "GerMine"
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The animal I talked about is called "onça-pintada". It's not necessarily black. It's the third biggest feline, being smaller than the tiger and the lion. It's the most powerful predator in Amazon rainforest. People often say it's the most powerful in the Americas, but they are wrong, then. I didn't know the english words for "onça-pintada" and "jacaré" and just put them in translator.
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The jaguar (onça-pintada) should be higher. They are arguably the most powerful predators of the Americas. They can run up to 80 Km/h; they can climb trees; they have jaws strong enough to crush bones; they are proficient swimmers, being able to hunt prey in the water, including alligators; their roar is bone-shivering; they are stunning and iconic; they are important for the ecosystem balance. Note that while the jaguar may be phisically similar to the African leopard, the jaguar is faster and stronger, and a better swimmer.
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Note that this is about the association between height and income. It is possible that a confuser variable or set of variables is/are influencing both income and height, thus producing the observed correlation between income and height. In this case, the association would not imply causation. But even if this is just association and not causation, its a significant fact, because then there is some unkown set of factors making taller individuals having higher probabilities of earn more.
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Some Bolsonarists in Brazil believe in funny things about Brazilian universities, like students having sex everywhere, people smooking so much weed that there is green smoke in the air (no kidding, a famous Bolsonarist really said there is green smoke in Brazilian universities), students forcing others to use drugs etc. I believe the hidden sources of the Bolsonarist propaganda tried or are trying to reduce the credibility of universities in Brazil, probably because they see the universities as a threat to the far-right and liberal ideologies (they believe Brazilian universities are full of communists (it's true that there is some amount of communists in the public universities in Brazil, but they are mostly concentrated in a few courses, while there is almost none of them in most courses primarily unrelated to politics)).
During a visit to queen Elizabeth, Biden asks: "How is your parliament so effective?" "Because I pick very smart people for their positions", the queen answers. She then phones Boris Johnson. "Boris, answer me. If your mother has a child, and it's not your brother nor sister, who is it?" "It's me", says Boris. Back in the US, Biden calls Kamala and asks her the same question. "I have to think about it and I'll give you my answer soon", she says after thinking for a minute. At evening, Kamala asks her husband the question. "That's easy. It's me", he answers. The following day, Kamala goes confident to the White House. "Mr. President, I have the answer to your question. The child of my mother who is not my brother nor my sister is... My husband!" Biden goes mad and, while shaking her shoulders, shouts: "You idiot! It's Boris Johnson!"
I heard in an [analysis by Pepe Escobar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpX_rovrf_o) (in Portuguese) that Nazisrael is destroying Gaza's North and removing Palestinians from there because of the fossil fuel resources that exist there. As I understood, supposedly they want to divide Gaza on a line that coincides exactly with the southern border of a gas reserve found in Gaza (not sure if he said gas or oil). Nazisrael would export this gas to Europe, supporting Warmerican plan to have a response to China's BRI which would include Nazisrael, the "Middle East", Europe and India. Edit: what I wrote suggests that they are doing this only for the gas reserves. But that was not my intention; while I was writting I forgot to make some changes. To be more accurate, the hypothesis is that Israel decided to run the operation and chose to prioritize the occupation of the Gaza's North having as one of the main motivations the gas reserve. Also, as you pointed out, it's off the coast, so "line that coincides exactly with the southern border" is also not very accurate.
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It's insane what propaganda can do.
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@ArtBot@lemmygrad.ml 911 World Trade Center controlled demolition
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@ArtBot@lemmygrad.ml Biden as a cursed marionette, 8K surrealist hyperrealistic
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@ArtBot@lemmygrad.ml Arab world storming Israel, art in the style of Junji Ito
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China is already first in GDP PPP, which is arguably better than nominal GDP as a measure of living standards and economy size.
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Perplexity summary: The article from Bloomberg[1] reports that Huawei's latest smartphone, the Mate 60 Pro, is powered by a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC). This chip is the first to utilize SMIC's most advanced 7nm technology, which suggests that the Chinese government is making some headway in attempts to build a domestic chip ecosystem. The article also notes that Huawei is reportedly developing its own Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and power management chips. Other sources, such as Swarajya[2], ThinkChina[3], TechHQ[4], and The Verge[5], speculate on how Huawei was able to develop its own chips despite US sanctions. Some sources suggest that Huawei may have used its inventory from 2020, while others speculate that the chips were manufactured by SMIC or even Huawei itself. Chinese benchmarking website AnTuTu has identified the Mate 60 Pro's CPU as the HiSilicon-designed Kirin 9000s, which supports 5G[6]. Overall, the article and other sources suggest that Huawei's use of domestically produced chips in the Mate 60 Pro is a significant development in China's efforts to build a domestic chip ecosystem and circumvent US sanctions.
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That's in part because of all the anti-China propaganda on big media and youtube. In youtube, anti-China content, specially content from big media (BBC, sky news and the likes) and CIA-backed content, is recommended to much more users than pro-China content. Just look at the number of views of anti-China videos vs neutral or pro-China channels. Anti-China videos easily get millons of views, while the best of the best pro-China videos only reach tens or hundreads of thousands of views (one or another may reach millions by using a super catch thumbnail and title). The pro-China videos are mostly recommended to people that already watches pro-China videos, while anti-China videos get recommended for everyone on youtube. The result is that a huge amount of youtube users believe anti-China crap.
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It's so toxic how they always talk about efforts to keep America the best this or the best that. They talk as if for them the priority is to do everything (even moraly wrong things) to make America be the best at everything, being human progress only a byproduct of this competition. They also talk as if America be the best at everything is necessary for the world to be "right"; as if this is something inherently good.
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Not-so-fun fact: Rick Sanchez was possibly created with the same name as the news anchor Rick Sanchez (from CNN and RT) deliberately to hide him in the internet. Rick Sanchez himself made a video about this. He found a video made by an RM creator before RM creation in which there is a news transmission with an anchor called Rick Sanchez, showing that the creators of RM knew who him was before creating RM.
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weCIApedia
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Artisanal burgers are much tastier than McDonald's. In fact, it's not hard for a real burger to be tastier than a McDonald's one, at least in my country (I'm not sure if McDonald's quality is the same in all countries). Here, McDonald's isn't very good, and even so it's quite expensive. Even the most affordable option on the menu is pricey, and it barely has anything inside. Not to mention that these fast food burgers are tiny.
Hambúrgueres artesanais são muito mais gostosos que McDonald's. Na verdade não é difícil um hambúrguer de verdade ser mais gostoso que um McDonald's, pelo menos no meu país (não tenho certeza se a qualidade do McDonald's é a mesma em todos os países). Aqui McDonald's não é muito bom e ainda é bem caro; a opção mais acessível do menu já é cara, e não têm quase nada dentro. Sem falar que esses hambúrgueres de fast food são bem pequenos.
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[There is also him nibbling and sniffing a little girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbZFdq_WJG8)
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, also known as GtG (abbreviation for "Greta the Great"), is a Swedish revolutionary communist leader. She was one of the main figures in the movement for neutralizing imperialism (MNI), and is one of the leading politicians in the multipolar world order (MWO). She had a key role in the partial recovery of Europe's sovereignty after decades of vassalage to the United States of America. Greta is also an environmentalist, and is known for the creation of the "Program for sustainable and just society". She is the author of the books "We need red to protect the green" and "Why we need to overthrow capitalism to save the Earth". GtG is known for her direct and impactful statements in public speeches, addresses and summits. One of the most notable one is "How dare you tell us how to rule our countries when your own country has the highest debt and one of the highest inflation in the world". This was said to American president John Dickanhaughty during the third Euro-American summit. She said the phrase after the American president tell in a way that she considered "annoyingly condescending" that the socialist countries in Europe are, in John's words, "dangerously moving away from the correct form of democracy". Greta started her career as an environmental activist. But she gradually moved to the sphere of politics. Her political ascension was initially aided by the empire, which saw her as a suitable ally in its agenda. But when she became a very successful and established politician in Europe, she broke up with the empire and revealed that she was actually a communist from the beginning. Trevis Tuckerson synthesized this cleverly: "GtG tricked the imperialists into believing that they were using her, when in reality she was using them to get funding and popularity". GtG's successful socialist system applied in Sweden was used as a model for other European countries, such as Serbia and Greece. A remarkable curiosity is that Greta almost always uses red clothes. She considers red "the leader of all colors" and "the optimal complement for the green of nature".
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, also known as GtG (abbreviation for "Greta the Great"), is a Swedish revolutionary communist leader. She was one of the main figures in the movement for neutralizing imperialism (MNI), and is one of the leading politicians in the multipolar world order (MWO). She had a key role in the partial recovery of Europe's sovereignty after decades of vassalage to the United States of America. Greta is also an environmentalist, and is known for the creation of the "Program for sustainable and just society". She is the author of the books "We need red to protect the green" and "Why we need to overthrow capitalism to save the Earth". GtG is known for her direct and impactful statements in public speeches, addresses and summits. One of the most notable one is "How dare you tell us how to rule our countries when your own country has the highest debt and one of the highest inflation in the world". This was said to American president John Dickanhaughty during the third Euro-American summit. She said the phrase after the American president tell in a way that she considered "annoyingly condescending" that the socialist countries in Europe are, in John's words, "dangerously moving away from the correct form of democracy". Greta started her career as an environmental activist. But she gradually moved to the sphere of politics. Her political ascension was initially aided by the empire, which saw her as a suitable ally in its agenda. But when she became a very successful and established politician in Europe, she broke up with the empire and revealed that she was actually a communist from the beginning. Trevis Tuckisson synthesized this cleverly: "GtG tricked the imperialists into believing that they were using her, when in reality she was using them to get funding and popularity". GtG's successful socialist system applied in Sweden was used as a model for other European countries, such as Serbia and Greece. A remarkable curiosity is that Greta almost always uses red clothes. She considers red "the leader of all colors" and "the best complement for the green of nature".
Summary made with perplexity.ai: The CIA played a key role in spreading Abstract Expressionism and its ideology worldwide to combat the opposing style of Socialist Realism and, by extension, communist culture at large. The CIA saw Abstract Expressionism as an opportunity to promote American culture and values worldwide. The agency employed covert methods to make Abstract Expressionism so popular that it became quite difficult for an artist to find success working in any other style. The Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization funded by the CIA, gave the agency the ideal front to promote its covert interest in Abstract Expressionism. Some links from which this summary comes from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html https://www.thecollector.com/abstract-expressionism-waging-a-cultural-cold-war-2/ https://www.theartstory.org/movement/socialist-realism/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artcurious-cia-art-excerpt-1909623 https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-did-the-cia-sponsor-jackson-pollock/ It's crazy to think how much CIA shaped the path of art, if all that is true. They may also have influenced in the popularization of avant-garde American classical music composers, like [John Cage](https://ihatemusic.noquam.com/viewtopic.php?t=6229). I wonder to which extent CIA is responsible for the widespread of American-made cultural products, like pop music, rock and fast foods, and which artistic or cultural movements became influential throught artifficial means (instead of organically become succesful due to artistic merit). An additional note: a similar thing may have happened internally in Brazil. I once heard that the Brazilian musical genre "Sertanejo Universitário", that skyrocketed in popularity during the 2000s and early 2010s to become one of the most popular Brazilian musical genres, may have owe part of this success to a funding from the big agribusiness players, which aimed to strengthen their monopoly over small poducers, or smothing like that.
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I don't know the year of this ad, but I believe Brazil was the sixth economy at the time; that would explain why they also put Brazil on it. It's funny how the lady uses meditation, which neither has European origin nor is stereotypically associated with European culture.