There is a list composed by ASPI about the degrees of "danger" of chinese universities. I know that there are universities in europe that use this list to ban collaborations with chinese scholars.
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·2 months agoYesterday, around noon, the students of the universities of Amsterdam started an encampment. Already last night the riot police emptied the encampment and arrested a number of the protestors. https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/05/police-clear-pro-palestine-protestors-from-amsterdam-university/
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·2 months agoTo be honest I haven't really followed it, I check from time to time some of Greenwald's articles and read about the shelter some years back.
Edit: Decided to google a bit, seems like Greenwald posted a video 5 months ago with an update, here if you are interested.
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I think he with his late husband started a shelter for rescue dogs in Brazil, which employed homeless people: https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/glenn-greenwald-shelter-brazil
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The US budget is much higher anyway: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/05/07/getting-the-defense-budget-right-a-real-grand-total-over-1-4-trillion/
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Assange tried to coordinate with Clinton to make sure people's lives won't be put to risk. Source.
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·3 months agoThe full readout (here) is somehow even worse:
Q Did you threaten to stop military aid to Israel, Mr. President?
THE PRESIDENT: Pardon me?
Q Did you threaten to stop military aid to Israel?
THE PRESIDENT: I asked them to do what they’re doing.
(Cross-talk.)
Q Are you abandoning Israel?
THE PRESIDENT: Where you from, man?
Q Are you abandoning Israel?
THE PRESIDENT: Is that a serious question?
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It's because that's the core of the message the western media is trying to propagate. The point of the original reports of babies, rapes, etc, are not that people will continue to believe them as such, but just that they believe them "in the abstract" (to say "I am not saying that this incidence happened, but something bad must have happened"). The same applies to reports about every official enemy of the US empire (and it's most common for propaganda against china). These events and these places are not real for most people, so the media promotes fake reports that will later be proven wrong or retracted because what they offer is painting a picture of these events and places. The aim is to create a general feeling to the western audience that bad things happen on both sides.
"Hamas is bad" is the consequence of these stories, and that is the most important goal of the western media. For the western powers it is fine for people in the west to feel sad or bad or empathize with the ills and suffering of Palestinians. The important thing is that they do not support any political vehicle for the actual liberation of Palestinian people: in this case, armed struggle.
It's also worth noting that the event that escalated the protests and led to the government fleeing was a massacre of civilians which was blamed on the police and the government. The evidence seems to indicate that this was a false-flag attack since the civilians were killed by snipers that were in a building that was occupied by the ultra right wing parties involved in the protesters. For an in-depth discussion on the matter I would recommend this article. The author is a Ukrainian political scientist.
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People noticed from the start that ChatGPT is horrible at long additions and it would essentially produce random answers, and it's surprisingly simple why it fails: The way this works it cuts the sentences we input into strings of symbols from left to right and then passes these chunks of text through the neural network. When it comes to addition this fails because to add numbers we have to do it "from right to left".
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I edited my message with a direct link to their sources webpage. I think the book by Bruce Cumings and the book by Suzy Kim should be very interesting and close to what you are looking for based on my listening of the show.
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Have you listened to Blowback season 3? It's about the Korean war, and the bonus episodes have also some info on the post-war situation. In their list of references on the website they also have lots of sources with a number of book recommendations. Here is the website with their sources.
Recently I watched "Triangle of Sadness". It's a black comedy with strong anti-capitalist themes, and honestly it was pretty funny.
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It feels to me that the leak is deliberate and the documents could be fake. This also seems to be the opinion of this guy who is usually reasonable and knowledgeable.
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talk about saying the quiet part out loud
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watching the start of the video, where he shows the clip from Rubio, it's bizarre seeing Rubio so causally saying "[Macron says] EU shouldn't be picking sides in Taiwan between the United States and China". Not even pretending this has anything to do with the "self-determination" of people in Taiwan.
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·1 year agogot COVID :( I managed to avoid getting it for 3 years while having to travel so much for my job and some friend comes to visit and just gets me infected. I am pretty pissed at them. At least I have had 4 jabs, and so far symptoms are mild.
Is this not satire? "I am just here to data harvest!"?