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Kissaki , in China's government launched additional "local communication centers" to increase propaganda efforts worldwide

title: … to increase propanda efforts worldwide

A pro panda initiative?

content: propaganda

oh…

0x815 OP ,

Corrected, thanks. It’s no bear initiative :-) 🐼

millie , in Cruelty-based intervention: Russia is set to reintroduce antipsychotic drug as autism treatment

That’s horrible. Haldol is like a punch to the brain. They’re going to turn these poor kids into chemical zombies.

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

I seriously didn’t realize this was meant to be a secret?

Trump still can’t say “China” without saying it in a really weird tone because he’s used to saying “China flu” with emphasis on China.

You can’t help but think that a big component of the depression/doom feeling a lot of the experienced at the time was indirectly related to things Trump did

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

Classic. Wouldn’t expect less from the U.S. foreign policy.

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

Honestly, I have no idea how valid/effective the Chinese vaccine is. But stuff like this is bad for everyone, not just the people they were targeting. Short sighted plan, in my opinion.

Even more disturbing if it caused extra deaths.

Spitzspot , in Taliban assault on women’s rights continues in Afghanistan, UN says
@Spitzspot@lemmings.world avatar

*US GOP…hold my beer

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

Not surprised at all it is something the Trump administration was doing considering his rhetoric on the pandemic in general, and China. Awful all around.

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

Well, that’s embarrassing. I guess it was the Trump era, so I shouldn’t be too surprised.

Zworf ,

Hopefully it will remain the “Trump era” and not the “first Trump era”. This is my main worry right now.

Danterious ,

It says that it continued into the Biden era as well.

The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en

CanadaPlus ,

A bit. It sounds to me like he stopped it as soon as he caught wind of it - there’s a lot of projects the US government is doing at any one time.

Tolookah , in Cruelty-based intervention: Russia is set to reintroduce antipsychotic drug as autism treatment

Ah, “the numbers go down if you stop testing” approach.

That sucks for the kids

remotelove , in Kremlin's top security officials call on Russians to mobilise to inflict 'maximum harm' on West in response to sanctions

Medvedev has been hitting the bottle again, it seems.

Nothing he says is to be taken seriously and it wasn’t worth the time to write article about another one of his bizarre rants.

On the other hand, drunks tend to listen to other drunks and there is no shortage of vodka in Russia…

taanegl ,

The sponsor of this war is VODKA! Here in Russia, we feed it to babies, to make new orcs!

PahassaPaikassa , in Kremlin's top security officials call on Russians to mobilise to inflict 'maximum harm' on West in response to sanctions

Heres an idea for russia: stop being cunts. Thanks.

DmMacniel , in Kremlin's top security officials call on Russians to mobilise to inflict 'maximum harm' on West in response to sanctions

Or… they could stop the invasion of Ukraine?

Melody , in South Australia to legislate 'world leading' electoral donation ban prohibiting donations and gifts to political parties, backed by tough penalties for those who seek to circumvent the law

Godspeed. May this measure succeed with all haste and become the new normal.

For once it overtakes one country; others can choose to follow suit as best as they can.

hydroptic , (edited ) in Protests sweep France against far right threat

I assume that the reich-wingers will use these protests as justification for crackdowns.

Here in Finland we had months of strikes against our current extremely conservative government’s cuts to public services, welfare etc. – naturally their reaction was to refuse to negotiate and make political strikes illegal, and to use the strikes to vilify unions and as scapegoats for poor economic performance

Gloomy ,
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Sounds abut right (wing). This is the kind of shit I see coming for a lot of Europe, including German (where I am located). The funny thing is that they can’t stop talking about “Eco Fashism” here and how the Greens are trying to dictate their every day live (like what to eat and what to fuel their cars with) and how that is a left green dictatorship. And then shit like you bring up here the second they get elected.

pleb_maximus ,

Sadly political strikes have been forbidden here for a long time already.

hydroptic , (edited )

Yeah this is absolutely the most fucking infuriating part about conservatives. They’ll crow about how “leftists” (ie. what seems like anyone left of the Strasserites) want to have a one-party fascist state that controls every aspect of people’s lives, and when they get in power they start doing exactly what they accuse leftists of wanting.

They also have a real habit of blaming all of their own fuckups on the left; our current extremist government got in to power by claiming that our previous leftist government caused some sort of massive debt problem (government debt did increase, but they had COVID to deal with), when the reality is that it has been the previous 20 or so years of right wing governments who have consistently cut taxes for the rich and sold government property to cover for the budget deficits. Conveniently reich-wingers ignored the part where their ideology is the one that wants to cut taxes, leading to higher debt and cut social programs and public services, and somehow they’re stupid enough that they don’t even see it themselves and they believe it when their lying politicians claim it is all the evil leftists’ fault that our public healthcare is now completely broken and the welfare system is among the worst in Europe.

Dagrothus ,

Sounds like youre finnished

hydroptic ,

I did nazi that pun coming 🙄

Five OP , (edited )

At the last family reunion, my mother and I were in charge of making all the food. We spent 3 days getting all of the groceries, and stacked fruits and vegetables in the family room, filled the bathtub with ice to keep the meat, and stacked the drinks in the garage.

We fried the meat, boiled the noodles, mixed the salad, and cooked the chili. The entire counter and range were covered in pots and pans. Most of the intermediate cookware had been rinsed and was in the process of going through the dish cycle while we were setting tables out in the yard, when my Mom realized she hadn’t made any red pea soup. Her brother was flying in from the island for the occasion and she knew it was his favorite. The bag of peas had hid under a couch pillow, and we missed it while making the rest of the meal.

We didn’t have enough time to wait for the cleaning cycle to finish, so I dumped out a shallow stainless steel flower vase and put that over the flame. There was no time to soak the peas, so my mom just mixed them raw with the broth, yams, carrots, milk, and spices, and then transferred them to a clean bowl once the cycle was complete. The soup didn’t look right, though. The peas and broth are supposed to have a full ruddy color, but the result was a much darker red like a beet.

When uncle arrived he was really pleased to see we’d kept him in mind, but after the event was over and everyone had gone home, we found a pile of wet peas dumped behind some bushes. I learned a very important lesson that day: Those who make peas full-red solution in posse bowl, make violet-red solution inedible.

delirious_owl ,
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Link to article about changing laws on strikes in Finland? Thats a big deal, and it never made it into my feed

hydroptic ,

Sure!

sxan , in South Australia to legislate 'world leading' electoral donation ban prohibiting donations and gifts to political parties, backed by tough penalties for those who seek to circumvent the law
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Well, shit. I never thought I’d see the day something like this made progress in a 1st world (economically; I know there are connotations, but I don’t know a better, more PC term) country.

Go (South) Australia!

blindsight ,
sxan ,
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Thank you.

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