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plawolf

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Perhaps our American Chinese can help me out here. Is this representative of the Chinese in America today? If it is I found it quite astonishing that Chinese Americans could find it in them to support a man, in racist himself, is supported by racist .

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Trump and his surging Asian American vote

Trump's tough stance on the Chinese Communist Party is winning him support among a swathe of Asian American communities.

by William Huang
Oct 12, 2020

When a blind Chinese activist named Chen Guangcheng spoke at the Republican National Convention praising Trump for standing up to the Beijing regime in August, many Democrats called him ungrateful, as the Chinese lawyer and pro-life activist who exposed the evils of the one-child policy implemented in his hometown of Linyi was rescued from China and found refuge in America during the Obama administration.

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Probably the FLG/Taiwan/HG rioters vote being massively exaggerated like the few blacks who votes for Trump getting disproportionate media coverage.
 

supercat

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I'm watching this unfold on social media. And I easy wondering where's the condemnation from the west.

Violence from the authority is far more than anything dealt out in hong kong. With arrest of leaders. Etc. Yet not a peep from the west.

Thai protests: Tens of thousands gather again in mass defiance of government
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The current protests in Thailand is just another U.S. instigated color revolution, like the situation in Hong Kong in the past, partially because Thai military's refusal to allow the U.S. to establish military bases in Thailand, and partially because of Thailand's policies that favor China, such as participating in BRI, allowing Huawei to build their 5G infrastructure, and allowing Chinese companies to build their high speed rail system.

In other news, congratulations to the Bolivian people, especially the indigenous people, for their defeat of the right-wing candidates of the military junta who was propped up by the U.S. government agencies such as OAS and multinationals such as Tesla.


Why such a victory is important:
We (the democratically elected, legitimate government of Evo Morales) were beginning to industrialize our natural resources, we wanted to industrialize our lithium, we were taking the first steps to industrialize our gas, and suddenly the transnationals began to organize a coup d’état. The other day one of Tesla’s representatives said it: “We have organized the coup with the United States government, and if we feel like it, we can intervene at any time in any other country.”
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I'm so glad the "lithium coup" has been defeated.
 

Gatekeeper

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Racism is alive and well in America! It's true what they say. Trump didn't make America more racist. He just made it more comfortable for all the racist to air their hatred in public.

Rudy Giuliani Posts Footage of Himself Mocking Asians to YouTube

Justin Baragona

Contributing Editor

Sam Stein

Politics Editor

Updated Oct. 15, 2020 10:05AM ET Published Oct. 14, 2020 9:58PM ET

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emblem21

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The more I heard of this double standard, the more I am going to enjoy watching not only the USA dollar collapse, but I will watch the very society of the USA collapse and with any luck, hopefully the leadership with be introduced to the figurative guillotine so to speak, if only to dispel any argument that the USA is some how blessed by God
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General

To be honest, I think it’s insulting to the Chinese terrorist victims to be compared to the French.

The French literally went out of their way to insult and humiliate Muslims by purposely and deliberately offending one of their belief’s key taboos.

The terrorist response, while obviously not tolerable, was absolutely foreseeable. And it is ridiculous that zero blame is being placed on that shitty publication for their blatant provocative actions.

Basically the French are ranking their ‘freedom‘ to be absolute shits over the clear religious beliefs of a whole religion.

The Chinese victims of terrorist attacked were killed purely for their ethnicity. There is zero comparison.
 

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Australian outback cattle station to house world's largest solar farm, powering Singapore
Electricity from $20bn farm on 10,000 sq km property in Newcastle Waters also planned to feed Northern Territory’s power grid
Solar farm panels

Solar farm panels. A $20bn solar farm, to be the world’s biggest, is planned for Newcastle Waters in the Northern Territory and has the backing of billionaires including Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

A cattle station halfway between Alice Springs and Darwin is set to house the world’s largest solar farm, with energy generated from the project to ultimately power Singapore.

Newcastle Waters, where casino mogul James Packer worked as a jackaroo for a year when his father, Kerry, owned the 10,000 sq km property, has been earmarked for the $20bn solar farm, according to the company responsible for the project, Sun Cable.

The 10 gigawatt solar farm, which will be visible from space if built, was granted major project status from the Morrison government in July and has attracted billionaire investors including Andrew Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes.

Sun Cable’s chief executive, David Griffin, told Guardian Australia the site would take up about 12,000 hectares, and that a referral for the project has been submitted to the Northern Territory’s Environmental Protection Authority – the first stage of a lengthy approvals process that is expected to allow construction to begin in late 2023, energy production by 2026 and export by 2027.

Speaking about the reasons for proposing the Newcastle Waters site, Griffin said its location was “a meeting point of a few key criteria”.

“It’s on the Adelaide to Darwin rail corridor, which is brilliant for our logistics given the enormous amount of material we’ll have to transport to the site,” he said. It was also within 30km of the Stuart highway, the main highway running through the sparsely populated Northern Territory.

“It’s a bit of a balancing act too, because it’s far south enough to get away from the main patch affected by the wet season, so it’s a steady solar resource throughout the year,” he said. “There’s plenty of sun and not many clouds.”

Griffin also said the site was not so far south that it made the costs of transmitting the electricity to Darwin too high, and that the existing land was “really ideal for construction of a solar farm as it’s extremely flat”.

Sun Cable has entered into an agreement with the current owners of Newcastle Waters, Consolidated Pastoral Company, to use the land. However, Griffin said he could not reveal the financial details of the deal.

Overhead transmission lines will send the electricity generated by Sun Cable to Darwin and feed into the state’s power grid, but Griffin said two-thirds of the power would be exported to Singapore by high-voltage direct current undersea cables.

There will be at least two cables, each with a diameter slightly smaller than a soccer ball, with Sun Cable able to provide about a fifth of Singapore’s electricity needs as the country looks to move away from its increasingly expensive gas-fired power system.

Griffin has also said the solar farm could supply power to remote communities in the Northern Territory that currently rely on expensive diesel generators for electricity.

Sun Cable expects the project will generate 1,500 direct jobs and 10,000 indirect jobs during construction, and about 350 permanent jobs once in operation.

Griffin said Sun Cable was working on a training and employment opportunities plan so part of the workforce could be sourced from nearby Indigenous communities, and that supplies would be produced by local businesses.

Exporting solar energy has been flagged as a way Australia can expand its energy production while significantly reducing global emissions. Australia is responsible for about 1.4% of greenhouse gas emissions, which increases by 5% if fossil fuel exports are counted.
 

manqiangrexue

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@Khalij e Fars I lost count for this year. You still counting?
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Navy F/A-18 crashes in California, pilot ejected safely
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October 20, 2020, 5:10 PM

A Navy F/A-18E fighter
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in California on Tuesday, but the pilot was able to eject safely, according to a Navy spokesman.

"An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Naval Air Station Lemoore experienced a mishap at approximately 10:10 a.m. today during a routine training flight near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake," Cmdr. Zachary Harrell, a spokesman for Naval Air Forces, said Tuesday.
 

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@Khalij e Fars I lost count for this year. You still counting?
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Navy F/A-18 crashes in California, pilot ejected safely
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October 20, 2020, 5:10 PM

A Navy F/A-18E fighter
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in California on Tuesday, but the pilot was able to eject safely, according to a Navy spokesman.

"An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Naval Air Station Lemoore experienced a mishap at approximately 10:10 a.m. today during a routine training flight near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake," Cmdr. Zachary Harrell, a spokesman for Naval Air Forces, said Tuesday.
It would be interesting to see if the attrition rates for their aircraft are simply due to the massive size of the air fleet or significantly above the expected rates. But I don't know if we can find info about that sort of thing in the public record. Does feel awfully like the multiple destroyers crashing into civilian ships incidents a couple of years back (USS John McCain comes to mind). If it is far above then one wonders where all that defence money is going....
 
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