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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Radical_Camp

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In Dutch/Belgian news there seems to be a recent trend of giving figures of the 'enemy' dumb nicknames.

Saw a video about a Chinese arms dealer, who was called 'The Chinese Ghost'. A while ago I saw a video about a Russian arms dealer, called 'Death' (yes really, that's it). Saw some other videos on other people, with guys called 'The Monster of [forgotthename], The Butcher, The Brains' or whatever.

It's just proper weird. Like, these people aren't propably even named like that. And it's always in between quotation marks. Just seems like lazy writing.

The FBI has been looking for him since 2015 and is even offering a reward. On June 24, during the mutiny, the search for "prigozhin" did not return any results. Now the search for him has reappeared.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1519424

https://www.edelman.com/sites/g/files/aatuss191/files/2023-01/2023%20Edelman%20Trust%20Barometer%20Global%20Report.pdf

https://nitter.net/RichardHanania/status/1672631878770368513

Old gem:

As usual no reasoning was provided as to why Russia and China might block such a motion, the implication being that its because they're evil, hate nature and cute animals, and want to destroy the environment. I'm sure there must be sensible reasons why Russia and China don't want these reserves. Are they proposed for areas which China/Russia have interest in in Antarctica which would limit their operations? What do they do down there anyway? Is the Antarctic a useful surveillance/espionage outpost? Are there nuclear weapons in Antarctica? I have no idea, I'd love if anyone can educate me a bit on Antarctic geopolitics.

This is a good followup to the previously shared article over here by the same writer on “Peak China”.

The article gives a much more historical view on the role of US imperialism, in dominating other previously (and still somewhat) productive centres of the capitalist world economy - Germany and Japan, and hindering growth in other parts of Asia as well.

https://tass.ru/politika/18110833