Mengsel

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Left: how humans see starlings.

Right: how starlings may see each other - with bolder markings and more colour.

The amazing world of UV vision, seen through the eyes of… birds.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday), this normally never happens.

The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong, the dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, the most prestigious university in China.

Speaking for Israel is a military officer apparently called Elad Shoshan.

Yan Xuetong truly doesn't hold back:
- When the Israeli officer tries to bullshit him around how Israel supposedly protects civilians in Gaza, he replies: "You killed more than 70,000 civilians!... The fact is not decided by you... It is not decided by your government. Your government has no legitimacy or the right to decide or defend what is fact"
- And when told that the war will end when Hamas release hostages he replies: "No, this kind of propaganda have too many. No one believe it! Too many! Too much! No one believe it, except a few Israelis"

[Mengsel @mengsel]

@Pathenederland @nuanced_nl Booooooooooo waarom niet zeker weer allemaal haat en ongenoegen. Toon meer buitenlandse blockbusters!

[ShanghaiPanda （ Account deactivation） @thinking_panda]

You don't often see honest interviews like this in the Western media.
Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg could only answer questions with incoherent nonsense.😂

[Mengsel @mengsel]

En zo is @KLM weer een stapje dichterbij haar ambitie te transformeren in Ryanair door zelfs het schrale bammetje te schrappen. Flag carrier onwaardige verschraling van de reiservaring, imho. https://t.co/9gPyfwbqzb

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Wow, this is huge. We now have confirmation - directly from a Reuters investigation (!) - that a special team was created in the CIA under Trump to create negative news about China and spread them in international media, and in Chinese social media.

Immensely hypocrite given how the US constantly has paranoid panic attacks about how "foreign adversaries" might try to influence their population... Again these days with TikTok... Turns out that, as is often the case, it was projection.

Looking at the details, Reuters reports that "Trump authorized the CIA to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against its government, according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the highly classified operation."

The CIA then "created a small team of operatives who used bogus internet identities to spread negative narratives about Xi Jinping’s government while leaking disparaging intelligence to overseas news outlets."

The operation wasn't confined to China: "the 2019 authorization uncovered by Reuters [...] enabled the CIA to take action not only in China but also in countries around the world where the United States and China are competing for influence. Four former officials said the operation targeted public opinion in Southeast Asia, Africa and the South Pacific."

Which is why you should take any negative "news" about China with a massive pinch of salt: for all you know, it might originate from a CIA operative in Langley, Virginia...

And the program might still be going on as "Reuters was unable to determine whether the administration of President Joe Biden has maintained the CIA program."

Source of the Reuters piece: https://t.co/40RDYzs9h7

[Sostradamus @sostradamuss]

Waarom #Wilders gewonnen heeft?

#PVV #verkiezingen2023 #exitpoll

[DachshundWizard 🧙‍♂️ @dachshundwizard]

@elonmusk Wait I see the resemblance now! 👏

[Mengsel @mengsel]

@SigridKaag Het electoraat heeft gesproken! En Kaag wilt vasthouden aan die farce van een progressieve agenda en de stikstof-milieumaffia... Bord voor de kop of uitbater van een porceleinkast?

[Mengsel @mengsel]

@NickAdamsinUSA Looks like you'd do well to lay off the M&M's for a while, pal. Mr 'Alpha', about as beta as the nightly builds software developers use for smoke testing. Unfit for general release.

[Mengsel @mengsel]

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[Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD (aka Aleksandrs Zavoronkovs) @biogerontology]

IMHO, for the economy to rebound dramatically, the Russian war must stop, and the US-China trade war needs to stop as well. Peace and collaboration are the paths to common prosperity.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Our jobs are safe, fam.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"Babies aren't that profitable"

[Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy]

U.S. just signed an agreement with DRC that gives U.S. industry access to the Congo's immense "green" mineral wealth. Shortly after former Tanzanian president John Magufuli nationalized the worlds largest nickel mine - he died of heart complications.

[Mengsel @mengsel]

The takeaway:

"Vox populi, vox Dei"

> The voice of the people is the voice of God

... #theclownsareincontrol

[Mengsel @mengsel]

The quote:

"Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit."

> Those who usually say, the voice of the people is the voice of God, should not be heared, since the agitation of the people is always close to madness.

[DM of Engineering @dmofengineering]

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