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Censored , to news in Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

Fuck Trump.

ChicoSuave , to news in Trump to visit Detroit church as part of Black voter push

Trump’s black voter push sounds he committed assault.

BertramDitore , to world in Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
@BertramDitore@lemmy.world avatar

This makes me sick. Or rather, them sick. Or, whatever, this was a totally fucked up and inexcusable thing to do.

wurzelgummidge ,

Imagine all the bullshit the US spreads about countries who are NOT supposedly their friends.

Zehzin , to worldnews in Spain seeks to avert trade war after China announces pork anti-dumping probe
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My dumb ass read it as anti-pork dumpling

freagle ,

Saaameee

curiousaur , to world in Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

So does that mean the stuff I read about it being ineffective was false?

sunzu , to worldnews in Spain seeks to avert trade war after China announces pork anti-dumping probe

How is Spain making pork cheap enough to not only export to China but to dump it?

WTF IS GOING ON lol

jaspersgroove ,

If it’s anything like what happens in the US they’re dumping “excess” production to keep prices artificially high.

fushuan ,

Accord8ng to what I got from the aeticle, by dumping they mean mass exports.

sunzu , (edited )

That's correct. Dumping is a trade practice when selling priced under COGS, generally to drive competition out of business but there are various reasons.

veganpizza69 ,
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China’s investigation appears mainly targeted at Spain, the Netherlands, France and Denmark, the three biggest EU exporters of pork to China.

All of them are subsidized heavily and very entitled to that and to polluting freely.

The EU is the world’s second biggest producer of pork after China and the biggest exporter of pork and pork products. The EU’s main producer countries are Germany, Spain and France and between them they represent half of the EU’s total production. The EU exports about 13% of its total production. Most of the EU’s pork exports go to East Asia, in particular China. agriculture.ec.europa.eu/farming/…/pork_en

agridata.ec.europa.eu/extensions/…/pigmeat.html

Drusas , to worldnews in Spain seeks to avert trade war after China announces pork anti-dumping probe

I read the article and the link to the other article about China's investigation, and I still don't know what "anti-dumping probe" is even supposed to mean. What dumping?

HobbitFoot ,

China is engaging in tit-for-tat retaliation for the EU restricting Chinese electric vehicles. The anti-dumping probe is a scare tactic to threaten higher pork tariffs.

WatDabney , to worldnews in Kremlin calls NATO chief's nuclear weapons remark an 'escalation of tension'

Even “the pot calling the kettle black” isn’t enough to sum this up.

It’s more like “the pot calling the salad bowl a pot.”

yogthos ,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

a salad bowl is probably a good analogy for the mental capacity of NAFO trolls

MachineFab812 , to worldnews in The Dutchman who gets Nike and Lego into wartime Russia’s stores

Consumer goods not covered by sanctions… and there’s weirdos in here talking about “treason”. 🙄

tal , to news in US suspends avocado, mango inspections in Mexican state on security concerns
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an incident

kagis

bloomberg.com/…/us-suspends-mexico-avocado-shipme…

While the statement didn’t describe the incident, local press reports say two inspectors were held against their will and attacked amid a protest over police pay.

tal ,
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Michoacan

I don’t know if it’s directly related, but it sounds like the election earlier this month apparently saw significant amounts of violence in the state of Michoacan.

insightcrime.org/…/mexico-extreme-election-violen…

By the time voters elected Claudia Sheinbaum as Mexico’s first female president, election observers recorded 129 political violence events targeting officials during local, state, and federal elections, for which more than 20,000 posts were up for grabs when campaigning started in early September 2023, according to data collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).

The scale of violence, which included 102 political assassinations, as well as kidnappings, forced disappearances, attempted murders, and attacks on family members, campaign staff, and official infrastructure like ballot boxes, made this election season particularly concerning, Tiziano Breda, ACLED’s Associate Analysis Coordinator for Latin America, told InSight Crime.

“The violence was due to two main reasons: the magnitude of the election, with it being the biggest in the country’s recent history, and it’s also the consequence of how Mexico’s criminal landscape has evolved into a growing number of fractured groups with diverse economic portfolios competing for influence, and therefore exacerbating violence,” he said.

Past elections have also been marked by extreme violence. The country logged 145 politically motivated murders of individuals directly linked to the electoral process during the 2018 presidential election and 88 during the 2021 gubernatorial elections, according to data compiled by the Mexican think tank Laboratorio Electoral.

Just five states — Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacán, Oaxaca, and Veracruz — accounted for half of all election-related violence logged by ACLED this year, which overwhelmingly targeted those vying for local political office.

BackOnMyBS ,
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kagis

what does that mean?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a search engine. You have to pay for it. Being poor, I have no idea what it’s like.

CyberMonkey404 , to worldnews in Russia's Putin to visit Vietnam, sparking US rebuke of Hanoi

Okay but why do journalists do this? “Russia’s putin”, “China’s Xi” in a nearby post. Why? It sounds stupid. Why not “USA’s Biden” then? “British Sunak”?

Xavienth ,

Just in case you confuse him for all the other heads of state named Putin. There’s hundreds of em /s

PolandIsAStateOfMind ,
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CyberMonkey404 ,

See, I’d understand this illustration if they were talking about idk “invaders” or “nationalists”. But it’s very specifically about the country leader. A country leader with a very particular name, that can’t be mistaken for another

PolandIsAStateOfMind ,
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It’s partially about names too, note how when talking about their own leaders they very often use their title, sometimes even just the title, but when speaking about who they percieve as enemy they do opposite, often omitting title and using just name - it’s to create impression that “ours” is the fully legal democratic leader working within the democratic system, and “other” is rogue despot.

Next, it is to create impession that the “other” is (nearly) entirely responsible for whatever the “others” are doing. It’s not the people, it’s not the system, and certainly not if he got popular support (you can’t ever said that), no, it’s their wicked despot. Purpose of this is to avoid making materialist analysis of current conditions and politics, it’s always Great (mad) Man at the helm. It also allows for smooth propaganda pass in case of the man got removed by the colour revolution - suddenly the country became good (good savages often) when it’s getting subordinated to the west. It also allow to avoid chauvinist connotation for the western lib audience - “hate the leader not the people” (again elephant in the room is question what if said leader have wide popular support).

CyberMonkey404 ,

Now that sounds like a good explanation. Thanks!

CyberMonkey404 , to worldnews in Kremlin calls NATO chief's nuclear weapons remark an 'escalation of tension'

I mean, yeah? That seems to be the point of it. What are they gonna do, write a strong worded letter to pentagon?

lost_faith ,

Last month Putin started nuclear drills, what did he expect the west to do?

Russia begins nuclear drills in an apparent warning to West over …

211 , to worldnews in Kremlin calls NATO chief's nuclear weapons remark an 'escalation of tension'

What doesn’t Kremlin consider an escalation of tension? Spine-removing surgery?

yogthos ,
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Pretty sure removing spines has been US doctrine for the “rules based” world order.

LarkinDePark , to worldnews in Kremlin calls NATO chief's nuclear weapons remark an 'escalation of tension'

Kremlin describes NATO’s purpose.

afraid_of_zombies , to news in US suspends avocado, mango inspections in Mexican state on security concerns

I still don’t get why avocados can’t be grown in Georgia or Florida

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