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With less than two weeks to go before the Eighteenth Party Congress, speculation on China’s upcoming leadership transition could not be more intense here in Beijing, where insiders are trading lists of potential Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) members which disagree not only on who will be elevated to the highest ranks of China’s leadership, but even how many members will

International cooperation is in decline both in the political and financial spheres. The U.N. has failed to address any of the major conflicts since the end of the cold war; the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference left a sour aftertaste; the World Trade Organization hasn’t concluded a major trade round since 1994. The International Monetary Fund’s legitimacy is

A pamphlet by Mouvement Communiste and Kolektivně proti kapitálu about the wave of strikes that swept the industrialised coast of China in the summer of 2010.

Jackson, FL mayor tries to make lemonade out of… well, some yellow liquid: peple are allowed to be upset that selfish and proudly misinformed people are prolonging a public health crisis. it’s a normal and correct feeling to have. https://t.co/xvUwcOniS9 My kids cant get vaccinated, and were burning through the Greek alphabet. Get vaccinated or fuck off. — Fred Will Not Go To Space Today (@LesserFrederick) August 2, 2021 My son is 11. This is exactly what all vaccinated parents of young c...

Pop star Pink has offered to pay the “sexist” fines handed out to the Norwegian women’s beach handball team after they refused to wear bikini bottoms while playing. The European Handball Federation, the sport’s governing body, fined the team €1,500 (£1,295) last week for “improper clothing” at the European Beach Handball Championships. The American singer voiced her support for the women’s team for refusing to follow the official rules forbidding female beach volleyball players...

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again. I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work. Han shot first. No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while. Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron. Don’t bother to argue with people harriet tubman would have shot. The willow is too close to the house. If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true! There will be lawyers. Since when do we limit our critiq...

So, about the ‘all athletes are vaccinated, probably’… Star American swimmer Michael Andrew says he is standing by his decision to not get the COVID-19 vaccine before the Tokyo Olympics. Andrew, an Olympic gold medal favorite, said in an interview on the Fox Business show “Varney & Co.” on Tuesday that remaining unvaccinated is a “risk” he’s willing to take. “Everything we take and put in our body is very calculated,” he said. “You know, with the period going into Olympic ...

Just a quick comment on this, I can’t hang out and discuss the topic. What I think happened here is that either Carlson was approached by the appropriate* counterintelligence officers regarding a defensive briefing over the people he’s been in contact with to negotiate an “interview with Putin” or his producer was. And that’s how they knew that their communications had been picked up as incidental collection of the actual targets. Carlson, who has a good sense for what will fuel the g...

@zhena gogolia: That’s what the two meteorologists on the local cable provider’s news cast said at 11 PM. They said they think the National Hurricane Center may likely have left it as a hurricane, based apparently on one reading from one sensing buoy west of Sarasota that had a 55 nautical miles per hour reading, and they NHC wants to leave it as a hurricane through the next update just in case it reorganizes and restrengthens so as not to give people still in the path a false sense of secu...

Remember when I was talking about Guo Wengui yesterday? Here he is again. Oh, and he’s also a member of Mar-a-Lago. Go figure. https://t.co/qaNHm6HWAh NEW: "Gettr," the new social media network led by Donald Trump adviser Jason Miller, is backed by a fugitive Chinese billionaire who once invited Steve Bannon to live on his yacht https://t.co/BRfVqYCMwF It used to take longer than 24 hours for a top-level GOP grift to completely collapse, but there’s so much competition & so little pride in ...