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intelshill

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  • Russian soldier describes being "sent to slaughter" after minimal training

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  • There's two rational positions on this: allow all propaganda, or block all propaganda. Selectively allowing propaganda is just exposing the mods' political opinions and pushing it on everyone else.

    Fact is, nobody really knows what's going on. Fog of war is in play and everyone has an incentive to lie.

  • Russian soldier describes being "sent to slaughter" after minimal training

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  • Not if the mods take down propaganda from the other side, leaving the community entirely propagandized by one perspective.

  • Canada blocks citizenship for Russian blogger who criticised Ukraine war. [update: Canada reverses course, will grant citizenship says Minister of Immigration]

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  • Canadian immigration has been increasingly trigger-happy recently.

  • Saudi Arabia interested in Israel normalisation deal after war

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  • I guess both sides really don't like Yemen lol

  • In the race for AI supremacy, China and the US are travelling on entirely different tracks

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  • L5? No. L4? Of course. IIRC it's even been exported to the UAE.

    Edit: London has more security cameras per capita than Beijing. I'm not sure what your point is?

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    Hamas Fighting With Top-Grade Chinese Weapons in Gaza, Says Israel

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  • Good to see China didn't entirely abandon Palestine. Their foreign policy in this conflict has been a disgrace.

  • Russian soldier describes being "sent to slaughter" after minimal training

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  • Ukrainian internal affairs adviser Anton Gerashchenko posted the clip on X (formerly Twitter) of the unnamed Russian serviceman describing how he had been "sent to slaughter" in the war.

    Are we also listening to the videos posted by Russian soldiers on X of Ukrainian soldiers saying they're completely outmatched on every front? No?

    Well then why do we care what a Ukrainian government official posts? Both sides are dumping propaganda into the void and we're just eating up whichever side we like more.

  • Woman in her 90s pulled alive from rubble 124 hours after Japan quake

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  • Would've been helped earlier if Japan had actually accepted disaster aid from Taiwan and/or China. They both offered. Fuck.

  • China starts detaining petitioners ahead of regional congresses

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  • Go home RFA propagandist

  • Extreme heat is pushing India to the brink of ‘survivability.’ One obvious solution is also a big part of the problem | CNN

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  • China is also blasting through their Paris commitments like they're nothing. It's actually absurd how much they're going to beat their Paris commitments by.

    Even as China builds new supercritical coal plants, they're tanking utilization of existing coal plants to the point where peak fossil fuel use (according to the IEA) could happen THIS YEAR.

  • Extreme heat is pushing India to the brink of ‘survivability.’ One obvious solution is also a big part of the problem | CNN

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  • Meanwhile the US has hit record oil extraction and natural gas exports this year. Big load of good developed nations are doing.

  • China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’

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  • Yeah. China's speed running to true communism at a pace I wasn't expecting. There's a legitimate chance for the elimination of scarcity of basic goods in China "soon", which would lead to a flourishing of the arts.

  • In the race for AI supremacy, China and the US are travelling on entirely different tracks

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  • There's a real question about how much use general-purpose generative AI actually has. The jobs it's taking are mostly creative and busywork-type jobs, which benefit a service-based economy like the US. Automation and data processing instead benefit an industrial-based economy like China.

  • In the race for AI supremacy, China and the US are travelling on entirely different tracks

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  • Lack of effective deployment, mostly.

  • Israel is using a notorious military tool to arrest its own Palestinian citizens

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  • But but but IDF propagandists told me that Palestinians living in Israel are treated as equals!

  • MI6 spy detained in China, authorities claim

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  • The comment was about China arbitrarily arresting people for "espionage." In fact, China has a better track record of finding spies than the Canadian government has of recognizing that their spies were detained.

  • MI6 spy detained in China, authorities claim

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  • Of particular concern to the government is a potential lawsuit from Mr. Spavor that has put a spotlight on Canada’s Global Security Reporting Program, the sources say. Mr. Kovrig, during his time as a Canadian diplomat, worked for the GSRP, a special unit within the intelligence branch of Global Affairs Canada that sends foreign service officers to hot spots to collect security-related information for Ottawa. Mr. Spavor alleges that China arrested and imprisoned him and Mr. Kovrig because he unwittingly provided information to Mr. Kovrig that was shared with Canadian and other Western spy services. Mr. Kovrig has told The Globe that he followed the “standard of laws, rules and regulations governing diplomats.” Mr. Spavor alleges Chinese security forces arrested him because Mr. Kovrig and two other GSRP officers were careless in discussions about him. Mr. Spavor was charged by Chinese prosecutors with spying for a foreign entity and illegally procuring state secrets. Mr. Kovrig was charged with illegally receiving state secrets and intelligence in collaboration with Mr. Spavor.

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  • It's interesting how much news on this comm. comes from news agencies in the same few countries. Looking through the recent few posts, this is what I see:

    Israel: Haaretz, Ynet, Times of Israel, JPost

    United States: NYT, AP, CNN, VOA, RFA, Newsweek, NBC, WaPo, WSJ, Axios, Semafor

    United Kingdom: The Guardian, BBC, Reuters

    Ukraine: Pravda, Ukrinform, Kyiv Independent, Kyiv Post

    Other Europe: france24, DW, notesfrompoland, El Pais

    Other (often only one article from each): straitstimes, SCMP, Al Jazeera, JapanToday, Buenos Aires Herald

    This reflects a heavily American-centric lean, an Anglo-centric lean, and a Euro-centric lean. These biases are inherent based on where news is being drawn from. It's showing only one side of the picture. People like to argue that this is because the US (and the West at large) protects media freedoms, but to that I point to:

    1. The claims of Iraqi WMDs used to justify the invasion of Iraq
    2. The claims of Ukrainian/NATO-backed technical superiority allowing Ukraine to push to the Sea of Azov
    3. The "unlawful detention" of the two Canadian Michaels in China, when it was later revealed that they were participating in "security reporting operations in China" and the Canadian government is paying $3m each as compensation

    Even if these media freedoms are so strong, they're still consistently failing to capture the truth... And the truth is what news should be about.

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  • There's a few people in the current batch of mods who are letting mod powers get to their head.

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    Liberian Fuel Tanker Blast: At least 40 killed in Liberian fuel tanker blast, says official

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    'Almost naked' party in Moscow nightclub triggers backlash and Putin's displeasure

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    Israeli embassy pulls video imagining Hamas attack in Seoul

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    Russia Oil Exports: Russia exports almost all its oil to China and India: Alexander Novak

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    Ukraine gets ready to deploy US-made 'game-changing' weapon against Russia

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    UAE's Sharjah bans New Year's eve fireworks over Gaza war

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    Russian drone and artillery attack kills 6 in Ukraine; knocks out power in major city

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    Right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy

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    Pakistan media criticises government for crackdown on Baloch long march protesters

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    Former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif will seek a fourth term in office, his party says

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    Russian President Putin to receive Jaishankar today: Kremlin

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    Covid-19: Delhi reports first case of Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1

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    Reports Israeli forces blocked ambulances after deadly West Bank drone strike

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    Ukraine’s allies fall short of Russia’s on arms help, raising 2024 risks

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    Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission approves Sweden’s NATO bid

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    Russia confirms Ukraine destroyed its warship in Crimea attack

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    Houthis say they carried out drone attack on Israeli port of Eilat

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2023/12/26/uk-maritime-group-reports-drones-explosion-off-yemen-coast
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    New constitution, old playbook: Chad’s Deby continues power play in Sahel

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    UNSC resolution ‘to no avail’, says Palestinian envoy

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    Israel issues India travel warning for citizens after blast

    www.aljazeera.com /news/liveblog/2023/12/26/israel-hamas-war-live-no-respite-for-gaza-as-israeli-attacks-continue