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Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz.
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“A lot of native speakers are happy that English has become the world’s global language. They feel they don’t have to spend time learning another language,” says Chong.
“But… often you have a boardroom full of people from different countries communicating in English and all understanding each other and then suddenly the American or Brit walks into the room and nobody can understand them.”
The non-native speakers, it turns out, speak more purposefully and carefully, typical of someone speaking a second or third language. Anglophones, on the other hand, often talk too fast for others to follow, and use jokes, slang and references specific to their own culture, says Chong. In emails, they use baffling abbreviations such as ‘OOO’, instead of simply saying that they will be out of the office.
“The native English speaker… is the only one who might not feel the need to accommodate or adapt to the others,” she adds.
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goddamn boycott them all. completely BDS the USA. the USA is directly complicit in crimes against humanity.
BOYCOTT every single god damn US product GENERAL STRIKE NOW.
and don’t tell me this if you don’t live in one of these countries, don’t tell me americans cars and trucks and goods are not being  imported into your country, don’t tell me a mcdonald’s or starbucks or dominos pizza hut or KFC or burger kind tgif or costco is not on every corner street in yourr country, dont tell me that coke and pepsi and marlboro and american fake foods are not in every one of your local stores. don’t tell me US films and movies are not being forced imported into your country. don’t tell me US tv programs and media are not on all your channels stations. don’t tell me companies are not buying advertisements on these tv programs in your country.  don’t tell me all these US products and fake poison foods are being forced imported all in unfair trade deals. these all fucking cancers to you country.
BOYCOTT IT ALL. BDS everything and everyone supporting genocide.
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the crap bulletin is featuring a newsganda op-ed by hack journo nicholas wade. this one seems to be going viral, trending on twitter.
i keep asking myself, why are they pushing this origin story so hard?
and funny, there’s no mention of USAMRIID or fort detrick anywhere. no mention of the US’s crazy history of lab accidents and leaks and bioweapons and GOF research. there’s not even a mention of the evidence that this virus was around long before patient zero/index case was discovered in asia. 
i wonder why? what are they trying to hide?
either way, this story is serving its purpose.
if you’re asian american and you are not armed right now, i strongly suggest you prepare yourself and get armed now.
or if you can get the hell out of the US.
things are going to get worse and worse.
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(eff.org)(2021/03/08) The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption and Tell Congress About All the Encrypted Phones It’s Already Hacking Into
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# The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption and Tell Congress About All the Encrypted Phones It’s Already Hacking Into
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lol blue trump biden. fucking racist rapist sex predator pedophile corrupt as fuck mass murderer war criminal monster fucker. LOL! w we fucking have 2 far right wing corrupt as fuck war mongering war profiteering corporate owned parties in the US. they don’t give a fuck about you. republicrats demoblicans. we’re all fucking out of our minds.
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demoblicans vs republicrats
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gee, I wonder why Obama is saying this about the internet? “the single biggest threat to our democracy?”
could it be because the internet exposed his massive crimes? exposed his mass surveillance and spying on the entire world?
his gross mass crimes against humanity? exposed his kill lists? exposed that he’s a brutal mass murderer war criminal monster responsible for countless deaths of innocent people?
idk. i don’t know what democracy is anymore… especially when nobody is able to hold power accountable, when nobody is able to check massive abuse of power… the US the most powerful most brutal “democratic” or non-democratic country on the entire planet, in the history of history. idk.
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i wonder what’s going to happen if the Democrats fail in their noble quest to save Democracy™ in the US? holy shit. too horrific to think about.
what’s plan B though? maybe we all can get together and make a plea to the entire world and beg anyone out there to bring Democracy™ (back) to america?
they’ll need come here with bombers and bombs and missiles and drones and stuff though… idk.
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hilarious even the Zod-elect Biden is e-begging for money. LOL. elite media and the gatekeepers and pundits and cult followers left and right are going nuts over some corrupt politician and his sweating, do nothing congress is about go on another long vacation… while 50 million people going food insecure and millions more of americans out of work and funds and struggling…  fucking they’re ALL fucking corrupt as hell.
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bombshell? is anyone surprised? how about investigate all the crimes and sexual abuses that don’t get “documented.” there’s another bombshell.
even another bombshell… investigate all the crimes and mass epidemic of sexual abuse by teachers and educators in this country. yes, bombshell…
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America under Capitalist Oligarchy:
140 million are poor or low-income
92 million are underinsured or uninsured
50 million are facing food insecurity
40 million are facing eviction
30 million are unemployed
2 billionaires are now hoarding more wealth than half of the nation
via https://twitter.com/ProudSocialist/status/1329505783269113857
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These examples are just a few of many that demonstrate why the U.S. is the chief human rights violator in the world. However, it is important to note that how the United States conducts itself abroad is a reflection of the myriad of ways that it violates the human rights of people living in the United States. Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Sandra Bland, and Michael Brown are just a few of hundreds of examples of Black Americans that have been killed by police officers without redress. An average of 1,000 people in the United States are killed by police officers each year. Unlike the U.S.-led Xinjiang narrative, it is well-documented that over 2 million people reside in U.S. prisons and that nearly three-quarters of that prison population is Black, Latino, or Native American.
The U.S. is home to a quarter of all prisoners in the world. Around 80,000 of these prisoners are held in solitary confinement, a practice of prolonged isolation that the U.N. has firmly declared to be an act of torture. Research suggests that solitary confinement is directly linked to a host of psychological maladies from psychosis to suicide. Solitary confinement also causes lasting structural damage to the brain, especially in the hippocampus region responsible for memory and spatial awareness. Widespread use of solitary confinement in the U.S. is not a benign practice but one that specifically targets racial groups. Over forty percent of all male prisoners in solitary confinement are Black American. The world has long known that the U.S. engages in torture abroad at CIA black sites and Guantanamo Bay Prison but fewer are aware of how torture is commonplace in the U.S.’ numerous prisons.
More: https://ahtribune.com/human-rights/american-human-rights/4426-top-human-rights-violator.html
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Around three-quarters (78%) place a great deal or fair amount of the blame for the global spread of the coronavirus on the Chinese government’s initial handling of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan.
interesting, 78% of americans blame china. lol. damn racist trumper fuckers.
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Julian Assange’s Prosecution Is a Dangerous Precedent
From Jacobin’s original series Weekends,  Nando does a deep dive into the Julian Assange case, why it’s so important for journalists to support the Wikileaks Publisher, and why both the Liberal and Conservative cases against Assange are wrong. 
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