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  • Noah Lyles Wins Bronze in 200 Meters, Then Reveals He Has Covid

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  • Isn't he the guy being medicated for asthma, allergies, and ADHD... For which the medication just coincidentally happens to be performance-enhancing? Yeah forgive me if I have no sympathy for the guy.

  • Athletes undercover? Global and U.S. anti-doping agencies clash over tactics

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  • The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says U.S. agency USADA broke the global code by letting several athletes it had caught between 2011 and 2014 violating drugs rules go undercover and keep on competing without prosecution in exchange for information on other violators.

    US gold medals, 2000 to 2016:

    2000 - 37 (300 events)

    2004 - 36 (301 events)

    2008 - 36 (302 events)

    2012 - 48 (302 events)

    2016 - 46 (306 events)

    On one hand, we have clear US overperformance in gold medals from the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. On the other hand, we have proof that athletes CAUGHT DOPING between 2011 and 2014 were allowed to continue competing for years afterwards.

    If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, maybe it's a duck?

  • China Rejects $1 Trillion Housing Rescue Plan Pitched by IMF

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  • IMF: your housing market is collapsing

    China: yeah we know

    IMF: so how about you bail out those poor housing investors

    China: ...no thanks

    IMF: surprised Pikachu

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    China Rejects $1 Trillion Housing Rescue Plan Pitched by IMF

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2024-08-02/china-rejects-1-trillion-housing-rescue-package-proposed-by-imf

  • US lawmakers threaten cuts to Olympic anti-doping funds

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  • Global positive test rate is 0.67%. 25% of those are "legal" (~250). Of the illegal ones, 25 Chinese, 57 Americans, 135 Russians.

    The Beijing lab reported 25 AAFs, for a 0.23% positive test rate over 10326 tests. The LA and SLC labs together reported 153 AAFs, for a 1.54% positive test rate over 9904 tests. So... Eh? Isn't this the opposite result being claimed? The US is able to run interference for a good proportion of their AAFs by claiming "medical reasons" and other bullshit.

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    US at risk of losing both 2028 and 2034 Olympics, says Pound

    www.reuters.com /sports/olympics/us-risk-losing-both-2028-2034-olympics-says-pound-2024-07-16/

  • Chinese Olympic women's diving gold medal winners’ pose sparks social media jokes about relationship

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  • Hey how about you take your homophobia somewhere else?

    Chen picked up Chang in a bridal carry for a photo after they receiving their gold medals, which led many netizens to joke that Chang and Chen are in a romantic relationship, posting online fan-made edits of their interactions in slow-motion paired with romantic captions

    “If love has miracles, I would be the happiest creating them with you,” wrote one Xiaohongshu user who posted a series of moments between the pair moments during the competition.

    “The most romantic thing is to have your names engraved together in sporting history,” commented another user.

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    Israeli lawmaker defends alleged rape of Hamas prisoner as far-right protesters rage over IDF troops' detention

    www.cbsnews.com /news/israel-hamas-war-idf-palestinian-prisoner-alleged-rape-sde-teinman-abuse-protest/
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    US arrests alleged Sinaloa cartel leader and son of ‘El Chapo’ in Texas sting operation

    www.cnn.com /2024/07/25/us/sinoloa-cartel-ismael-zambada-custody-report/index.html

  • Xiaomi founder Lei Jun said US sanction fears spurred smartphone maker’s EV push

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  • US sanctions going well

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    Xiaomi founder Lei Jun said US sanction fears spurred smartphone maker’s EV push

    www.scmp.com /tech/tech-war/article/3271427/xiaomi-founder-lei-jun-said-us-sanction-fears-spurred-smartphone-makers-ev-push

  • Philippines says reached deal with China to avoid disputed shoal clashes

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  • Odd how this happens just as America's foreign policy talking heads had to turn onwards to deal with Biden's collapse...

    Almost as if the US is the main impediment to peace in the region.

  • Eindhoven University of Technology is near ASML’s hometown. US ambassador questioned why it has so many Chinese students.

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  • Can you spell racism for me?

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    Eindhoven University of Technology is near ASML’s hometown. US ambassador questioned why it has so many Chinese students.

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2024-07-15/us-pressure-on-dutch-china-links-reaches-asml-funded-university

  • Thailand's economy: factory closures due to cheap Chinese imports with job losses jumping by 80% within one year

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  • The CHIPS Act was signed in 2022.

    In 2022, what were the top bleeding-edge node semiconductor fabs? TSMC (Taiwan), Samsung (South Korea), and Intel (USA). Do you see China on that list?

    In 2022, what was the only company with a functioning 28nm DUV lithography machine? ASML (Netherlands).

    US sanctions -- and US sanctions alone -- pushed Chinese investment into semiconductors. If you actually worked in the industry, you'd know that the Chinese government has tried for more than a decade to get Chinese companies to use Chinese semiconductor tech... To no avail. The US stabbed itself in the foot, pushed Chinese private capital into Chinese semiconductor firms (instead of foreign ones), and the rest is history. This is basic capitalist theory.

    I guess you can also ignore the $15 billion bailout for airlines?

    But sure, let's talk about the great backlash to the GM bailout... ignoring the Chrysler bailout. Ignoring the bailouts of JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs... All essential for national security, or so I'm told.

    Let's now talk about companies in China's EV race... WM Motor, which used to outsell Tesla, is gone. Byton, gone. Aiway, gone. Levdeo, gone. Mitsubishi, gone. Honda, Hyundai, and Ford? All desperate to cut out their JVs.

  • Thailand's economy: factory closures due to cheap Chinese imports with job losses jumping by 80% within one year

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  • Western countries support individual companies constantly.

    Intel received $8.5 billion in funding under the CHIPS Act

    The General Motors bailout forced the US government to write off a $11.2 billion loss

    Shell, ExxonMobil, and others have received countless billions in O&G subsidies

    Government sales make up $49.2 billion, or 74.6% of Lockheed Martin's total sales

    The entire principle of US industrial policy is that the government does nothing and everything should be outsourced to a private contractor. Inherently that must mean supporting some private companies more than others.

    Your argument makes literally no sense when considering that Chinese companies consistently and notoriously sell their products in China for a fraction of the cost of the export models. BYD's Atto 3 sells for $20k in China and more than $40k in the EU, for example. Those export prices aren't subsidized. In fact, their margins are absolutely absurd.

    The fact is that China has figured out industrial manufacturing and can build the same class of product for half the price... Or less. Of course, there's no reason to pass those savings onto consumers without competition, and export markets are simply less competitive than China.

  • Thailand's economy: factory closures due to cheap Chinese imports with job losses jumping by 80% within one year

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  • Economics says that Chinese companies are just more efficient as a whole - through sheer competitive advantage, China can produce more per work-hour than everyone else. In fact, this has been a huge problem for China's labour demographics as there's just simply no more manufacturing jobs - an auto factory that would've employed thousands just a decade ago might employ barely a few hundred today. Instead of outsourcing to other countries, most of those jobs have been literally outsourced to robots

  • Thailand's economy: factory closures due to cheap Chinese imports with job losses jumping by 80% within one year

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  • The story not being told is that Chinese factories are absurdly automated compared to the rest of Asia - their competitors are South Korean and Japanese factories, but they're entering markets that are still heavily labour-centric. China is spearheading this new evolution of industrial manufacturing and everyone else is forced to either adapt or die.

  • China's Q2 GDP grows 4.7% y/y, below forecast

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  • 4.7% YoY Q2

    5.3% YoY Q1

    0.7% QoQ Q2

    1.5% QoQ Q1

    Retail sales were the contributor (2.0% YoY growth, vs. 3.3% expected)

    Retail growth is being sandbagged by a few key factors:

    1. Luxury goods demand being beaten to the absolute ground. Eviscerated.

    2. Foreign brands have tanked in China - Apple, foreign cars, etc. and have been replaced by (cheaper) domestic alternatives like Huawei, BYD, etc.

    3. New trade restrictions with the US and Europe have limited Chinese consumption patterns. For example, the RTX 4090 is blocked from being exported to China.

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    China's Q2 GDP grows 4.7% y/y, below forecast

    www.reuters.com /world/china/chinas-q2-gdp-grows-47-yy-below-forecast-2024-07-15/

  • Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after shots fired at his Pennsylvania rally

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  • Alibaba has already gone crazy with it lmao it's so funny

  • Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election

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  • That's a real lemmy.world take lol

  • In Ukraine, Killings of Surrendering Russians Divide an American-Led Unit

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  • Justifying war crimes - the American way

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    Hungarian PM's office demands recognition of all of Ukraine's Zakarpattia as ''traditionally Hungarian''

    www.pravda.com.ua /eng/news/2024/06/27/7462849/
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    China spots US military aircraft deploying submarine detector in South China Sea

    www.globaltimes.cn /page/202406/1314913.shtml

  • New Polling Shows Significant Ukrainian Support for Diplomacy to End the War

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  • US journalism is unreliable? Say it isn't so...

    The entire principle of US journalism is to fill the zone with shit and have everyone sift through the shit to find their own independent nugget of truth.

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    Israel threatens to 'take Lebanon back to the stone age'

    www.telegraph.co.uk /world-news/2024/06/27/israel-threatens-to-take-lebanon-back-to-the-stone-age/

  • Bolivian Government Denounces Attempted Coup D’éTat

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  • Definitely no signs of foreign interference, which the US would never do in South America.

  • 'You can't kill all of us': Kenya protesters vow to march again as authorities kill 22

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  • If anyone wanted more evidence of how IMF loans are not in the best interests of the countries that take them, see here.

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    Graphene find in China’s Chang’e-5 moon samples challenges lunar origin theory

    www.scmp.com /news/china/science/article/3268064/graphene-find-chinas-change-5-moon-samples-challenges-lunar-origin-theory
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    US to Hezbollah: Don’t count on us to stop an Israeli attack

    www.politico.com /news/2024/06/24/us-hezbollah-israel-attack-conflict-00164761
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    Philippines decides against invoking mutual defense treaty with US amid South China Sea dispute

    www.jurist.org /news/2024/06/philippines-decides-against-invoking-mutual-defense-treaty-with-us-amid-south-china-sea-dispute/
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    "There are not and cannot be any "beaches", "tourist zones" and other fictitious signs of "peaceful life" in #Crimea" - Mikhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President

    x.com /Podolyak_M/status/1805171253755412849
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    UAE: Abortion now allowed in rape, incest cases as new law issued

    www.khaleejtimes.com /uae/uae-abortion-now-allowed-in-rape-incest-cases-as-new-law-issued