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Who cares about Tate?

Article was published in The Lancet, one of the most prestigious medical journal in the world.

“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who is safe,” says the president, to loud applause.

The Other Gulf of Tonkin Incident: China's Forgotten Maritime Compromise

China and Vietnam have a track record of resolving territorial disputes at the negotiating table. Both parties reached a rather happy compromise with the Gulf of Tonkin, and it's exciting to see China once more shift to a position of compromise with Vietnam. This seems to have been spurred by the increasing economic cooperation between China and Vietnam (and specifically, between tech companies from Guangdong province and Hanoi).

The ROC still claims the entire contested Gulf of Tonkin area.

I'm asking you watch the TV recording, not read the article. You're free to pump it through any of the LLM live translation services out there if you don't speak Hebrew.

Jesus Christ

The total cost of the Lanxin Express is as high as 143.5 billion yuan (US$20 billion), and each suspension may cause losses of hundreds of millions of yuan.

The Lanxin line connects Lanzhou (4.4 million people) with Urumqi (4 million people). The Express line is currently used mostly to relieve freight traffic on the parallel conventional-speed line.

IIRC it was thought to be better to build a high-speed alignment than to build another low-speed one because of the costs inherent in laying 1776km of track in some of the least hospitable conditions on the planet. The marginal cost of building a high-speed line wasn't that much greater than the cost of building another line in the first place.

Section 504’s massive expansion of surveillance. Through an innocuous-seeming change to the definition of “electronic communication service provider,” the bill would vastly expand the universe of entities inside the U.S. that must assist the government in conducting Section 702 surveillance. Going forward, it would not just be entities that have direct access to communications, like email and phone service providers, that could be required to turn over communications. Any business that has access to “equipment” on which communications are stored and transmitted would be fair game. That means hotels, libraries, coffee shops, and other businesses that provide wifi could be compelled to serve as surrogate spies, structuring their systems so that they can give the government access to entire communications streams. Conscripting U.S. business into intelligence agencies’ service was a feature of the 2007 Protect America Act; Congress explicitly and appropriately rejected this feature one year later when it passed Section 702.

This statement is missing context. Under One China policy (the status quo between the CPC and the KMT up until 2016), the Taiwan Strait was considered territorial waters with the median line used to delineate the divide. In the recent years leading up to 2016, neither party crossed this line.

In 2016, the DPP took power and declared that One China policy no longer holds, thus, that the Taiwan Strait is an international waterway.

‘At that point, it was clear to me that our role is to be a human shield between our forces that arrived and them (Hamas),’ says Hadas Dagan

You do realize that this statement was made with respect to the IDF using Dagan as a human shield against Hamas, right?

A recording of the original TV report: https://www.uncaptured.media/p/fresh-testimony-reveals-how-israel

As well as: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231211-survivor-of-kibbutz-beeri-incident-reveals-harrowing-details-of-israeli-forces-assault/

Western media doesn't report on news that isn't in English. I'm not sure why this is surprising to you?

The word "hostage" evokes a stronger emotional reaction in the West, which associates the word with "hostages" taken by ISIS.

That's like

Sort of racist dude

You'd think that the minimum standard for a site that's evaluating media bias and factuality would be that you know what the evaluator looks like.

Terrorists using human shields is always the worst. ISIS did the same thing in Iraq.

Israel is indeed equivalent to ISIS. What a poignant observation.

AA is just translating a Hebrew interview given on Channel 12 in Israel. Channel 12 (Keshet 12) is the most viewed TV channel in Israel.

The statements of the original witness, Yasmin Porat, was first reported on in English by The Electronic Intifada, which translated an interview on the Hebrew Haboker Hazeh.

"Especially during this period, we call on the media to show responsibility in their reporting and base their news only on official sources."

Separately, the Israeli censor unit, affiliated with the army's intelligence department, sent a letter to the press on Oct. 26, imposing restrictions on news related to Gaza.

They said all news and visuals concerning the course of the war in the Gaza Strip and activities of the Israeli army should be sent to their censor unit before publication.

‘At that point, it was clear to me that our role is to be a human shield between our forces that arrived and them (Hamas),’ says Hadas Dagan

"I will never forget the children's screams" Dagan said, with tears falling down her face, as she described the moment of the twins' death.

"Affiliated with Hamas" also seems to include people working in public service (e.g. for the Gaza Health Ministry, the postal service, etc.)