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T-U-P · Mar 31, 2023

Bellum_Romanum said:
Toronto's TTC ranked higher than anything on China's tier one cities is one of the biggest joke of them all. TTC's ride the rocket slogan is more like ride the snail train service: always late, never on time.

TTC has (probably) the only subway system that has traffic jams on a daily basis in the world. That must account for something.

Chevalier · Mar 31, 2023

Temstar said:
View attachment 110175Head of ROSCOSMOS paying a quiet visit to Hainan apparently.
That coordination after Xi's Moscow visit is really underway it seems.

Better for Russians to launch their rockets from hainan, closer to the equator means less fuel and power needed to launch objects into space.

TK3600 said:
Based China. Actively instigating problem where enemy is weak.

The anglos kick people when they’re down and indulge in narcissistic moral grandstanding. It would be impolite not to reciprocate.

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This is a terrible precedent. Now elections are a matter of life and death and this will only intensify the already existing bad blood between both parties.

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Good filial daughter.

Power comes out of the barrel of a gun - Mao Zedong

in much the same way North Korea keeps the anglos at bay with nukes; an armed militia IS supposed to prevent this sort of tyranny. But did the founding fathers account for the cowardice of modern Americans to wager the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants and patriots?

India has become more religious in the past few decades which makes them susceptible to CIA instigated religious jihads

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1641738041474842624

ficker22 · Mar 31, 2023

pmc said:
once you look at trend line of Finish-China trade data . The imports accelerated from China around 2021. this Ukraine conflict masked the true post covid impact. factories in Europe if closed much later in 2022 as Gas was flowing to Germany through summer of 2022 and still flowing through Ukraine and South Stream on long term contracts. that energy impacts will come much later if any. i am sure there is reason when Israeli clinic in Moscow was banned from importing vaccine from Israel.

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Trade is already one sided. there is little prospect more deals that will be favorable to China.
Europe is increasingly exporting inflation not physical volume of goods. This thing is forcing so many countries to flock to China. I am sure even Saudis knows if they keep importing European made automobiles they are going to pay through nose on replacement parts and tires dealing with desert heat.

if you go much granular level. This person videos were previously watched by City Mayor and The newspaper of the city as he was pointing out the decline and he came back 7 months later and not much improvement. This place near dusseldorf. underlying demographic change will not support standard of living.

Krefeld is the single biggest Shithole in the region maybe only after Duisburg Marxloh. Seriously just avoid those two cities.

tokenanalyst · Mar 31, 2023

He erased her smug smile like a champ.
US hawks politicians think that the rest of the world live in the same fictional Tom Clancy - cold war novel that they live. They need to get out of their bubble.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1641520597506072578

siegecrossbow · Mar 31, 2023

Feima · Mar 31, 2023

siegecrossbow said:

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In Beijing, Prime Minister Lee will meet President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping. He will meet Premier Li, who will host a Welcome Ceremony and a Lunch Banquet. Prime Minister Lee will also have meetings with Chairman of the National People’s Congress Zhao Leji, Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Wang Huning, and Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee Yin Li.

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Zambry said Anwar is scheduled to pay a courtesy call on President Xi on Friday, where discussions will focus on new steps that can be taken in various fields to boost and strengthen bilateral relations.

This will be followed by a meeting with the Chairman of the National People’s Congress Zhao Leji where the discussion will focus on cooperation at the parliamentarian level of both countries.

On Saturday evening, Anwar will be accorded an official welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People by Chinese Premier Li Qiang, which will be followed by a bilateral meeting.

siegecrossbow · Mar 31, 2023

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And what did Biden do to address this problem?

solarz · Mar 31, 2023

supersnoop said:
Not really corruption, I mean, who's getting rich off TTC/Transit contracts? It's just a bloated process.

Look at the Canada Line, those people protesting over the trees Metrolinx wants to cut down. This will probably take months to resolve... Meanwhile you can't really do anything until it is. All the engineers sit there and say "above my pay grade...", but if you lay them off, then they are gone.

Typical project in Toronto:

All the engineering is done.
Someone complains that the construction will scare away a colony of stray cats.
Everything gets put on hold.
20 public consultations are held.
All the engineering is redone.

... in a nutshell from what I've heard from people who worked for TTC (I assume Metrolinx is similar)

Sounds to me the firms that do the construction, planning, consulting, etc. are making a ton of money here.

siegecrossbow · Mar 31, 2023

siegecrossbow said:
Speak for yourself. Last time I checked there are still several popular Chinese apps that they can ban for national security concerns.

Temu: delaying Sino-American decoupling by peddling cheap Chinese crap.
Shein: undergarment uses spy chips to send classified information on size of government official genitals to the SeeSeePee.
WeChat: people actually post Xi Jinping Thoughts on there.

Please stop... I was just joking... Don't take it seriously…

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A new group has launched in the US called "Shut Down SHEIN" to educate relevant US government officials and the American public to the ways in which SHEIN is alleged to be committing human rights abuses, exploiting import laws and making its unwitting American consumers accomplices in the process.

In a harshly worded press statement, the group says that SHEIN has “significant ties” to TikTok and the CCP, and “has been operating below the radar with no regard for US law or ethical business practices”. It added that SHEIN's “questionable and anticompetitive business practices allow it to sell below market products”.

The emergence of the group comes amidst TikTok facing scrutiny from congress in the US where CEO, Chew Shou Zi, fought for his app's life in an almost five-hour congressional hearing. In the hearing, Chew worked hard to convince US lawmakers that TikTok does not sell data to the Chinese government, uses controls to protect younger users from harmful or inappropriate content, and takes sufficient steps to protect the mental health of the young with controls.

I guess reality really is stranger sometimes...

FairAndUnbiased · Mar 31, 2023

supersnoop said:
She didn't lose her seat.
She also was retiring from her position as House Leader (of course they lost control to the Republicans in any case)

I enjoy the Potemkin level news coverage of the event in any case.

Not really corruption, I mean, who's getting rich off TTC/Transit contracts? It's just a bloated process.

Look at the Canada Line, those people protesting over the trees Metrolinx wants to cut down. This will probably take months to resolve... Meanwhile you can't really do anything until it is. All the engineers sit there and say "above my pay grade...", but if you lay them off, then they are gone.

Typical project in Toronto:

All the engineering is done.
Someone complains that the construction will scare away a colony of stray cats.
Everything gets put on hold.
20 public consultations are held.
All the engineering is redone.

... in a nutshell from what I've heard from people who worked for TTC (I assume Metrolinx is similar)

it has gone beyond NIMBY, it is now BANANA: build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything.

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